USA > New Hampshire > Grafton County > Enfield > Two country cemeteries in New Hampshire : near junction boundary lines of Enfield, Grantham, Lebanon and Plainfield > Part 1
USA > New Hampshire > Grafton County > Lebanon > Two country cemeteries in New Hampshire : near junction boundary lines of Enfield, Grantham, Lebanon and Plainfield > Part 1
USA > New Hampshire > Sullivan County > Grantham > Two country cemeteries in New Hampshire : near junction boundary lines of Enfield, Grantham, Lebanon and Plainfield > Part 1
USA > New Hampshire > Sullivan County > Plainfield > Two country cemeteries in New Hampshire : near junction boundary lines of Enfield, Grantham, Lebanon and Plainfield > Part 1
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org.
Gc 974.202 P69h 1786366
M. L.
REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00056 1057
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015
https://archive.org/details/twocountrycemete00hill
TWO COUNTRY CEMETERIES
IN
N.H.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEAR JUNCTION BOUNDARY LINES OF
ENFIELD, GRANTHAM, LEBANON AND PLAINFIELD.
BY THOMAS HILLS, EsQ.,
OF BOSTON.
Life Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
President of the Hills Family Association.
BOSTON : PRESS OF DAVID CLAPP & SON. 1908.
OFONT
1786366
TWO COUNTRY CEMETERIES IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEAR JUNCTION BOUNDARY LINES OF
ENFIELD, GRANTHAM, LEBANON AND PLAINFIELD.
BY THOMAS HILLS, EsQ., 1
OF BOSTON.
Life Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. President of the Hills Family Association.
BOSTON : PRESS OF DAVID CLAPP & SON. 1908.
00008:1
E
9618
.41
Hills, Thomas, 182S-
Two country cemeteries in New Hampshire, near june- tion boundary lines of Enfield, Grantham, Lebanon and Plainfield. By Thomas Ifills ... Boston, Press of D. Clapp & son, 1908.
18 p. 25em.
OHLLF CARD
1. Epitaphs-Plainfield, N. H. 2. Epitaphs-Enfield, N. H.
8-32959
P 14825 Library of Congress F4-4. P67H6
TWO COUNTRY CEMETERIES IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEAR JUNCTION BOUNDARY LINES OF
ENFIELD, GRANTHAM, LEBANON AND PLAINFIELD.
-
TWO COUNTRY CEMETERIES.
IN western New Hampshire in a region of large farms, some five miles from any large village, at the foot of a hill whose crest is not less than eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, at the crossing of the road leading from East Lebanon in Grafton county to Cornish in the county of Sullivan, with that from Plainfield in the latter, to Enfield in the former shire; there was located near the westerly boundary of the last named township a little church building, unused for some years before its removal and its conver- sion into a dwelling house in Plainfield in 1906. Not many years since, it is said, the corners of four towns, Lebanon, Enfield, Plain- field and Grantham, met at the cross roads ; but if such is the fact, slight changes in lines have removed the boundaries of the first and last named towns short distances west and east of the intersection of the middle of the roads. The Bible long used in the little church, which is still cared for in a neighboring farm house, has this in- scription :
" Enfield and Grantham Union Meeting-house.
This book is presented, for the use of all religious denominations, who may wish to worship the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in this house, according to the Dictates of their own Consciences, by Daniel Stickney, Jonathan Howe and Moses Flanders, the last and only surviving Soldiers of the American Revolution now resident in this vicinity. August 17, 1837."
Some seven hundred feet south of the location of the meeting- house, in what is now a part of Plainfield, there is a little cemetery with an area of about a quarter of an acre. In the summer of 1903 the compiler copied the inscriptions of its gravestones. That part of their markings genealogically valuable follows :
Capt. Jonathan Bosworth, died Dec. 26, 1834, aged 77 years.
Mehitable, wife of Capt. Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield, died Aug. 1, 1832 JE. 77.
Alanson Bosworth, died April 14, 1860, JE. 70. (Stone broken and lying on the ground.)
Betsey, wife of John Burbank, died Feb. 7, 1832, JE. 72.
Dr. Caleb Buswell, died Watertown, N. Y., Aug. 13-1828, in his 34th year.
The history of Warner, N. H., says that he settled in that town in 1820; that he was born in Grantham in 1795 and that his parents were from
- ----
-----
4
Concord. A couplet added to the inscription indicates that he was married and a father ; and two small stones, one marked J. B. the other M. B., are near his grave.
Nathaniel Calef, died' April 28, 1849, JE. 79 yrs. 6 mos.
Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Calef, died Jan. 28. 1819, aged 48 years. Sarah P., wife of Nathaniel Calef, died Dec. 3, 1863, aged 83 yrs. 5 mos.
John, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Calef, d. Feb. 12, 1804, in his 13th year.
John H. Calef, died Dec. 2, 1902, JE. 97.
Esther, wife of Jolin II. Calef, died Sept. 18, 1886, ÆE. 74.
Sarah P., daughter of John HI. and Esther Calef,-(Stone broken and remainder of record lost).
Hiram F., son of John H. and Esther Calef, died Feb. 27,. 1838, aged 14 mos.
John, son of John H. and Esther Calef, died Oct. 5, 1852, aged 4 days.
The settlers of the Calef name who located in the vicinity of the little cemetery are doubtless descended from William or Joseph, sons of Deacon William who was a son of the John Calef who died in Chester, N. H., in 1748. Salisbury, in Merrimack Co., is about twenty-five miles from the quarter acre burial ground. That town was settled about 1750. The two brothers were among its early settlers. From an article by Mr. William S. Harris of Windham, N. H., published in the Granite Monthly of May, 1907, it appears that their ancestor with his wife Mary and six children came to Boston before 1688. After residing there about twenty years he removed to the adjoining town of Roxbury, which since 1868 has been a part of the city of Boston. When at the age of 71, on the 13th of April, 1719, he died in the smaller town, he was one of its selectmen. His gravestone still stands in good condition. The Rev. Cotton Mather of Boston having about 1692 published a book entitled "The Wonders of the Invisible World," in which he recounted with full belief in the delusion that sent both men and women to the gallows, the details of the witchcraft cases ; Calef answered with a work which he caused to be printed in London in 1700. It was reprinted in Salem in 1796 and in 1823, and in Boston in 1828. For many years no Boston bookseller dared offer for sale the London publication, and the president of Harvard College, the father of Cotton Mather, ordered a copy of it to be publicly burned in the college yard; but Upham in "Salem Witcheraft." Drake in " Witchcraft Delu- sions in New England," and Savage in his "Genealogical Dictionary," give its author high praise, and Whittier's poem "Calef in Boston 1692" tells the story of his heroic action.
John, of Chester, N. H., was his third son. He married Deborah, daugh- ter of William King of Boston. The record of the marriage reads " John Calef & Deborah King, married by Mr. Samuel Willard. June 10, 1702." They had nine children; the first seven were born in Newbury, Mass. About 1734 the family removed to that part of Chester which is now the town of Auburn, where the head of it died in the spring of 1748. He was the ancestor of the Chester, Kingston, Hampstead and Salisbury branches of the family. The second son, third child of John and Deborah, was Deacon William Calef, who removed from Newbury to Kingston, N. H., in 1740. Ile was the father of the brothers William and Joseph who
5
were among the early settlers of Salisbury. The history of that town was published in 1890. It shows that the Nathaniel who died April 28, 1849, was born Oct. 26, 1769, the son of a Joseph who died in Salisbury May 16, 1823 ; and claims that he was a grandson of a William of Kingston, N. H., 1706-1784; who was a cousin of the William Calef who in his early married life was also of Kingston, and who was one of the grantees of Salisbury and of its first selectmen. The historian clearly identifies Na- thaniel as " a deacon of Grantham." It is not probable that the author of the article in the Granite Monthly failed to examine this claim and his later conclusions should be accepted as the better authority.
David Clement, died Oct. 14, 1830, aged 67 years 3 days. .
Thankful, wife of David Clement, died Dec. 29, 1807, in the 43ª year of her age.
Mrs. Judith, wife of Mr. John Eaton, died Sept. 3, 1833, ÆE. 70.
Jacob Eaton, born June 10, 1789, died Feb. 28, 1855, JE. 65 yrs. 8 mos.
Miss Lydia Eaton, daughter of John and Judith Eaton, died March 7, 1833, JE. 39.
Miss Phebe Eaton, daughter of John and Judith Eaton, died Jan. 19, 1817, JE. 19.
Moses Flanders, died April 10, 1853, ÆE. 90 yrs. 11 mos.
Anna, wife of Moses Flanders, died Feb. 12, 1816, (remainder of record illegible.)
Nabby, 2ª wife of Moses Flanders, died July 23, 1836, aged 60.
Gertrude, wife of Moses Flanders, former wife of Benjamin Quimby, died Sept. 28, 1865, JE. 84
Seth C (illegible) son of Moses and Anna Flanders, died July 18, 1816, aged 22 years.
Moses Flanders Jr., son of Moses and Anna Flanders, died Jan. 31, 1830, aged 31 years.
William Gage, died June 19, 1837, aged 67 years.
Susannah, wife of William Gage, died Sept. 20, 1827, [stone sunk and remainder of record buried].
Sarah Howe, wife of William Gage, died Oct. 7, 1858, aged 70 [stone broken. She was daughter of Jonathan and Betsey (Stickney ) Howe]. John N. Hodge, died Dec. 30, 1837, in his 28th year.
Sophia, wife of John Hodge, died Nov. 24, 1845, JE. 36. (She was daughter of Philip and Clarissa ( Bosworth ) Sargent.)
Jonathan Howe, died Sept. 21, 1841, aged 80 years.
Betsey, wife of Jonathan Howe, died April 11, 1839, aged 75. (She was daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Gould) Stickney).
Betsey Howe, died Nov. 28, 1872, JE. 82. (She was daughter of Jona- than and Betsey (Stickney) Howe).
David Howe, died Sept. 24, 1865, JE. 73.
Nancy, wife of David Howe, died May 12, 1872, JE. 76.
Capt. Jonathan Howe, died Oct. 26, 1871, JE. 77.
Sally, wife of Capt. Jonathan Howe, died July 11, 1834, ZE. 40.
Ilannah R. Howe, died Dec. 10, 1878, JE. 80. (She was daughter of Jonathan and Betsey (Stickney) Howe.)
Nancy M., wife of Ansel P. Howe, died June 24, 1865, JE. 33.
Ned G., son of Ansel P. and Nancy M. Howe, died Nov. 19, 1877, Æ. 20.
6
Jonathan Howe, born August 27, 1761, was of the sixth generation from John Howe, emigrant ancestor, the line being Jonathan, Jotham,5 Peter,4 Samuel,3 Samuel,2. John.1
John Howe of Sudbury, Mass. in 1639, died at Marlboro, Mass. The history of that town gives the date, 1687. The history of Framingham states that "John How of Sudbury and Marlboro, born England 1602, died Marlboro, 1680. Wife Mary, she died about March 1689." They had twelve children, nine sons ; the second son, second child was
Samuel2 Howe, born Sudbury, Oct. 20, 1642, married June 5, 1663, Martha, daughter of Robert and Agnes (Gosling) Bent, granddaughter of John Bent of the parish of Weyhill, Hants, England, who died in 1588. Samuel and Martha Howe had eight children, four sons ; the second son, fourth child was
Samuel3 Howe, born 1668, was of Sudbury and Framingham, Mass. He died April 13, 1731 ; married Dec. 11, 1690, AAbigail Mixter, daughter of Isaac of Watertown ; second, Sept. 11, 1704. Martha Goodale. Five chil- dren, three sons ; the second son, third child was
Peter4 Howe, who was assessed for taxes in Framingham in 1719. Of the four sons of Samuel2 and Martha ( Bent) Howe, the seventh child, the youngest son was
David3 Howe, born Sudbury Nov. 2, 1674, died Ang. 3, 1759. He mar- ried Dec. 25, 1700, Hepzibah born June 5, 1680, daughter of Jolm and Mary ( Peabody ) Death (modernized Dearth). Mary was daughter of Francis and Mary ( Foster) Peabody and granddaughter of the Emigrant Reginald Foster. About 1702 David Howe built the hostelry known as the Red Horse Tavern, and was succeeded in its proprietorship by his son, grandson and great grandson, the property passing out of the family after the death of his descendant in 1861. It is the " Wayside Inn," made fa- mous by Longfellow, and is still used for the purpose for which it was built. David and Hepzibah had six children, three sons ; the eldest child was
Thankful,4 born Dec. 15, 1703. She married her cousin Peter+ Howe April 9, 1723.
The vital statistics of Sudbury state that at the time of his marriage Peter Howe was of Hopkinton. The record of his death in that town determines approximately the date of his birth. "Peter How dyed No- vember ye 21, 1756 in the 59th year of his age." Five sons and four danghters are recorded as born'to Peter and Thankful in Hopkinton ; the second son, fourth child was
Jotham Howe, born July 23, 1733. The town of Hopkinton. N. II. was granted in 1736 to sixty residents of Hopkinton, Mass., of whom Peter, father of Jotham Howe was one. It was incorporated on 26th of Novem- ber of that year. Peter Howe Jr. born August 20, 1724, was of the new town as early as 1752. Ilis first child of record in that town was born May 24. of that year, and the last so recorded was born Aug. 21. 1773. After that date he is said to have removed to Boscawen. The wife of Jo- tham5 Howe was named Mary. Their first child of record in the New Hampshire town was born Dec. 8, 1759, their youngest August 10. 1776. A third brother, David,5 born May 17, 1744, was also of the new Hopkin- ton, with four sons and one daughter of record, the eldest in 1776 the youngest in 1785. Jotham and Mary Howe had nine children, four sons ; the second son, second child was
Jonathan6 Howe, born Hopkinton, N. II., Ang. 27, 1761 ; died Eufield, N. II., September 21, 1841 ; married Hopkinton, September 22, 1782, Bet
7
sey, daughter of Daniel and Sarah ( Gould) Stickney, born Newbury, Mass., Aug. 27, 1763; died Enfield, N. H., April 11, 1839. Children born Hop- kinton :
Abigail, born Feb. 8, 1783; died Enfield, N. H., Aug. 20, 1796.
Timothy, born Dec. 4, 1784; died Underhill, Vt., March 26, 1835, mar- ried Augusta Aspinwall.
Children born Enfield, N. II.
John, born Nov. 19, 1786, died Lebanon, N. H., Sept. 13, 1873, married Sally Smith.
Sarah, born Sept. 30, 1788, died Plainfield, N. H., Oct. 7, 1858, mar- ried William Gage.
Betsey, born Oct. 22, 1790, died Enfield, N. H., Nov. 28, 1872, unmarried.
David, born Sept. 22, 1792, died Plainfield, N. H., Sept. 24, 1865, mar- ried Nancy Jones.
Jonathan, born Sept. 13, 1794, died Enfield, N. H., Oct. 28, 1871, mar- ried Sally Wier.
Duty S., born Jan. 18, 1796, went west or south when a young man. 110 tidings afterwards.
Hannah R., born July 23, 1798, died North Haverhill, N. H., Dec. 10, 1878, unmarried.
Abigail, born July 23, 1800, died Troy, N. Y., married Caleb Colby.
Alvin, born Aug. 23, 1802, died Windsor, Vt., March 15, 1889, married Mary E. Wait.
Jotham, born Oct. 3, 1805, died North Haverhill, N. H., March 21, 1872, married Anne Child.
David Howe, born Enfield. N. H., Sept. 22, 1792 : died Plainfield, N. H., Sept. 24, 1865; married, Enfield, May 23, 1821, Nancy Jones, born Un- derliill, Vt., Dec. 4, 1796, died Enfield, May 12, 1872. Children :
Matilda, born Enfield, March 15, 1822, died New London, N. H., Nov. 29, 1902, married David Gile.
Jonathan H., born Underhill, Vt., May 4, 1824, died Markesan, Wis., - 1902, married Eunice Worth.
Ansel P., born Underhill, Vt., July 8, 1825, died Enfield, N. H., March 12, 1899, married Nancy N. Howe, 2d Martha J. Goodrich.
Sarah S., born Underhill, Vt., Feb. 14, 1828, died Enfield, N. II.
Abigail J., born Underhill, Vt., Sept. -. 1833, died Enfield, N. II., - married Wallace Putnam.
Helen M., born Enfield, N. II., December 28, 1841, married Henry Cole.
Ansel8 P. Howe, b. Underhill, Vt., July 8, 1825; died Enfield, N. II., March 12, 1899 ; married, Enfield, April 14, 1852, Nancy M., boru En- field, Feb. 6, 1832, daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Sally ( Weir) Howe, died Enfield, June 24, 1865. Married, 2d, Hanover, N. II., Jan. 1, 1867, Martha Jane Goodrich, born New London, N. H. Children :
Charles W., born Enfield, Feb. 11, 1853; married, Lebanon, N. II., Oct. 28, 1879, Isabell Cutting.
Ned G., born Enfield, Dec. 9, 1857 ; died Enfield, Nov. 19, 1877, un- married.
Capt. Jonathan7 Howe, born Enfield, N. H., Sept. 13, 1794: died En- field, Oct. 26, 1871 : married, Enfield, March 14. 1831, Sally Wier, born Walpole, N. H., March 22, 1795 : died Enfield, July 11, 1834. Child :
Nancy M., born Enfield February 6, 1832; married Ausel P., son of David and Nancy (Jones) Howe.
8
In the range of the Calef graves is a stone inscribed :
Mary, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Sally Little, died Nov. 5, 1825, in her 17th year.
The Little Genealogy shows that Capt. Little was at one time resident of Springfield, N. H. He was son of Nathaniel," Samuel,' Tristram,3 Moses,2 George1 Little, Emigrant, "came to Newbury, Mass., about 1640. The house which he built in 1679, and occupied during the remainder of his life, was taken down in 1851." He married Alice Poor, who came to New England with her brothers Samuel and Daniel in the ship Bevis, which sailed from Southampton in May 1638. She died Dec. 1, 1680, aged 62. He died after March 15, 1693, but before Nov. 27, 1694. Their son
Moses2 Little, born March 11, 1657; died March 8, 1691; married Lydia, daughter of Tristram and Judith ( widow of Henry Somerby. daugh- ter of Edmund Greenleaf) Coffin, jr., son of the Emigrant of 1642, who was born at Brixton, near Plymouth, Devonshire, England, in 1605. son of Peter and grandson of Nicholas Coffyn, who was born about 1550. She was born Newbury, April 22, 1662. He served in King Philip's war, and died upon the homestead estate of his father in the town of his birth. Their son
Tristram3 Little, born Dec. 9, 1681; died Nov. 11, 1765 ; married, Oct. 30, 1707, Sarah, daughter of IIenry and Sarah ( Brocklebank) Dole, born Feb. 12, 1690; died about 1780. He was a farmer, born and died in New- bury, Mass. Their son
Samuel Little, born Feb. 18. 1713; died Sept. 29. 1792; married Feb. 18, 1738, Dorothy, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Dole) Noyes, born April 9, 1715; died March 19, 1798. After marriage he lived for a short time at Falmouth (now Portland, Me.) but returned to Newbury. In the fall of 1741 he bought land in Atkinson, N. H., and lived there till his death. Their son
Ensign Nathaniel5 Little, born Nov. 10. 1746; died Hampstead, N. H. Aug. 11, 1827 ; married. - 1768, Mary, daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Susannah (Bartlett) Carleton, born April 21, 1749; died Feb. 13, 1S32. " Ensign Little, like his father, served in the Revolution . . . At the close of the war he sold his farm in Plaistow, N. H., where his older child- ren were born, and removed to Springfield, N. H. Their son
Samuel Little, born May 20. 1778; died April 19, 1814; married Feb. 20, 1805, Sally Pettengill. He lived in Springfield ; had daughter " Mary born June 14. 1809 ; died Nov. 5. 1825."
In the range of the Howe graves is a stone marked :
Nancy Mitchell, died May 8, 1845, aged 38 years.
James A. Mulligan, died Aug. 28. 1869, aged 26-Volt. of 15th N. II. Regt.
Benjamin Quimby, died May 31, 1837, in the 76th year of his age.
Susannah, wife of Benjamin Quimby, died Jan. 30, 1816, aged 53.
Freeman, son of Benjamin and Susannah Quimby, died March 6, 181 0, aged S.
Martha, wife of Jonathan Ring, died March 28, 1808, aged 66 years. Daniel L. Smith, died April 16, 1882, ZE. 78 years.
9
Mary Flanders, wife of Daniel L. Smith, died July 8, 1841, JE. 37 yrs. 6 mos. 15 days.
Sophronia Eastman, wife of Daniel L. Smith, died May 10, 1871, F. 62 yrs. 9 mos. 10 days.
Zibe, son of Daniel and Mary Smith, died Aug. 14, 1831, JE. 1 month. Mary, daughter of Daniel and Mary Smith, died Aug. 28, 1833, JE. 3 days Mary Flanders Smith, died Nov. 18, 1885, ME. 44 years.
Moses F. E. son of D. L. and S. E. Smith, died June 29, 1857, Æ. 7 yrs. 7 mos.
John H. Smith, died May (illegible) 1854, aged 45.
Betsey B., wife of John H. Smith, died April 21, 1854 (stone broken).
Lucy M., wife of William C. Smith, Esq., died Nov. 11, 1845, JE. 46 yrs.
Emily F., daughter of William C. and Lucy M. Smith, died June 9, 1845, Æ. 24 yrs.
Sarah Ann, daughter of William C. and Lucy M. Smith, died Aug. 16, 1842 ÆE. 20 years.
Mary C., wife of Joshua P. Smith, daughter of William C. and Lucy M. Smith, died May 15, 1852, JE. 27 yrs.
Lucy, daughter of William C. and Lucy M. Smith, died June 3, 1851, Æ. 14 years.
Philip Sargent Esq., died March 23, 1845, JE. 66.
Clarissa, wife of Philip Sargent, died Sept. 23, 1833, ÆE. 51.
Lucinda, wife of Philip Sargent, died July 10, 1846, Æ. 59.
The genealogy of this family by Edwin E. Sargent shows that Philip Sargent was of the seventh generation from his emigrant ancestor. He was son of Ebenezer,6 the line being through Philip,5 Philip,+ Philip,8 William .? William1 was born in England, He settled in Massachusetts. In 1633 he was of Ipswich, 1635 of Newbury, 1638 of Hampton, N. H., the same year he was of Salisbury, Mass., probably of that part set off as the town of Amesbury in 1666. He died in the new town in March 1675. He married about 1633, Elizabeth, daughter of John Perkins, born in Eng- land, came with her father in ship Lyon which arrived at Boston 1631. She died before Sept. 18, 1670, the date of William Sargent's marriage to Joanna Rowell, who survived him. Nine children, two sons. The second son, fourth child was
William2 Sargent. born Salisbury, Mass., Nov. 2, 1645; married Sept. 23, 1668, Mary Colby of Amesbury, born Sept. 19, 1647. His estate was probated at Salem March 31, 1712. Five children, four sons. The second son, second child was
Philip3 Sargent, born Amesbury, Mass. Aug. 12. 1672; died 1742; his will probated at Salem in that year; married Dec. 7, 1693, Mary Tewks- bury of Amesbury. Ten children, four sons. The youngest son, the fifth child was
Philip+ Sargent, born in Amesbury, Mass. April 7, 1703 ; married .July 23, 1724, Martha Hadley. Residence Amesbury ; ten children, five sons, five daughters were born there : the eldest son, third child was
Philip® Sargent, born Amesbury, Mass., May 9, 1731 ; died March 3, 1809; married, about 1753, Hannah Hadley of Weare. N. H., born-1738; d. Jan. 25, 1811. A farmer, resided at Amesbury and Acworth, N. HI. Twelve children, five sons ; the eldest child was
Ebenezer6 Sargent, born Weare, N. II., about 1754; died Chateaugay,
10
Franklin Co., N. York, about 1828, married Esther Quimby, who died Oct. 8, 1788 ; married second, Phebe Flanders. He was a farmer, resided at New London, N. H., Orange, Vt., and Chateaugay. Twelve children, ten sons ; the eldest child was
Philip7 Sargent, born New London, N. H., March 13, 1788; died Enfield, N. H., March 23, 1845, married Clarissa Bosworth of Enfield, born Oct. 11, 1782; died Enfield, Sept. 23, 1833. He was a farmer. Children, born at Enfield, Hanover, N. H., and Orange, Vt. :
Fanny, born Feb, 5, 1808; died June 27-1876.
Sophie, " Jan. 13, 1809; - - 1845.
Clarissa, " July 13, 1810;
Jonathan, " Jan. 3, 1812;
" Dec. 22, 1888 ; married Lodice Purmont.
Mehitable B., born April 4, 1813; married May 20, 1829, Avery S. Hodge, a farmer of Orange.
Children-Clarinda A. b. 1830. Orin L. b. 1842.
Philip S. 1832. Arial B. 1845. Elvira M. 1834. Malvina II. " 1848. Sophia, L. 1836. Hattie B. 1853.
John N. 1839.
Eben, born July 27, 1814; died -.
David, " March 14, 1816; "
Eliphalet M., " Sept. 20, 1817; " November 22, 1878; married Al-
mira Purmont. Denison, April 1, 1820-resides Enfield, N. H., 1899; married Rhoda Gove.
The home estate in Enfield of this branch of the Sargent family is a farm of some two hundred acres. Its dwelling house, built early in the nineteenth century, with its farm buildings, was located on the road from East Lebanon to Cornish. About the time that the inscriptions on the stones of the little grave yard below the hill, and those of another cemetery on the hill were copied, the compiler was permitted to transcribe the record contained in an ancient family Bible kept in the farmhouse. The tran- scipt was laid away for future use and might long have remained undis- turbed, but for the fact that the old homestead was destroyed by fire on the night of the 21st of April, 1907 ; the occupants escaped with their lives, but with the loss of nearly all their household effects including the family Bible. That the information it contained may not be lost, and that its re- cords may be compared with those which have been taken from the Genea- logy and the inscriptions on the memorial stones of the two local cemeteries, they are here transferred from the original copy. The earliest birth dates, those of 1727 and 1736, the last possessor of the old Bible believed to relate to the parents of Mehitable, wife of Jonathan Bosworth.
David Curtis, born November-, 1727; died January 23, 1808.
Mary Curtis,
February- , 1736;
" December 11. 1819.
Mehitable Bosworth, 66 March 12, 1755 ;
August 4, 1832.
Jonathan Bosworth, May 20, 1757;
December 26, 1834.
Clarissa Bosworth, 66 October 11, 1782;
" September 23, 1833.
Lucinda Bosworth, June 7, 1787 ;
' July 10, 1846.
Alansou Bosworth, 66 January 5, 1790; April 14, 1860.
Arial Bosworth, June 27, 1793; March 21, 1838.
Philip Sargent, the son of Eben" and Esther Sargent, was born March 13, 1779.
-----
------
-
-
11
Clarissa Sargent, the daughter of Jonathan and Mehitable Bosworth, was born Oct. 11, 1782 ; d. Sept. 23, 1833.
Fanny Sargent our daughter was born Feb. 5, 1808 ; died June 27, 1876.
Sophia Sargent " " June 13, 1809 ; " Nov. 24, 1845.
Clarissa Sargent " " July 13, 1810; " July 17, 1810. Jonathan Bosworth Sargent our son was born Jan. 3, 1812.
Mehitable Sargent our daughter was born April 4, 1813.
Ebenezer Sargent our son was born July 27, 1814; died Aug. 11, 1814. David Curtis Sargent our son was born March 14, 1816; died Nov. 5, 1817.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.