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VI Deacon John, mar. Mrs. Anna Kimball (Nos. 214 and 249).
VHI. Ruth, mar. Samuel Little (see Nos. 201 and 200).
VIH. IX.
Sarah, mar. John Howard (see No. 247).
Rev. Henry, b. May 20, 1770; mar. Mary Barrett. He d. April 17, 1757. He graduated from Dartmouth College 1796. IIis wife was born June 8, 1784; a daughter of Amos Barrett, a captain of minute men at Concord; she d. Feb. 18, 1856. Rev. Henry True was fitted for college at Atkinson Academy, and partly with the Rev. Giles Merrill of North Parish, Haver- hill. He taught school after his graduation from Dartmouth College, for five or six years, in Salisbury, Beverly and Tyngs- borough, and other towns. He studied divinity, partly with the Rev. Mr. Lawrence, with whom he boarded in Tyngs- borough, and partly with Rev. Dr. Chapin of Groton. Hle preached some at Tewksbury and Dracut, Mass., and one summer for the North Parish Church at Plaistow, and during one session of Congress for the Rev. Manassah Cutler, at Hamilton, Mass. Ile was trustee of Warren, Mass., Acade- my for many years; also chaplain of a regiment, justice of the peace and quorum. and town clerk-"none of these offices very profitable." He published a sermon delivered by him in Hampstead Nov. 15, 1807. IIe was called as pastor of the Congregational Church at Union, Me., Sept. 24, 1806, and settled Nov. 11, 1806. The charge at the ordination was
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given by Rev. Manassah Cutler of Hamilton. He resigned April, 1816. In the fall of 1849 he moved with his wife to Marion. Ohio, where he resided with his son. Dr. Henry True, three years. when he returned to Union. Me., where he resided with his daughter. Mrs. Vose, until he died, April 17. 1857. Mrs. Mary Barrett (True), his danghter. writes of her father : " Ife was loving and affectionate to his children, and fond of other children. HIe retained his love of Latin. Hebrew and Greek to his old age. Our minister would come in often to talk with him in Union on some difficult points in theology, and always found help." Nathan Rice of Union said : " I would trust him with any amount of money un- counted, knowing that every cent would be returned." Mrs. Vose says, " He composed this morning prayer for me " :- " Now I awake to see the light, In this my God I take delight ; Guard me this day from every ill, And make me know and do thy will."
Mary (No. 344).
The children of Rev. Henry and Mary (Barrett) True were :--
I. Ilenry Ayer. b. Ang. 10. 1812; d. Dec. 12, 1876. He was a grad- nate from Bowdoin College. 1832, and Ilarvard Medical Col- lege; was a doctor. merchant, and banker in Marion, Ohio. and after retiring from active business was ordained a minis- ter by the Presbytery of Marion. Ohio. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Marion from 1842 to 1876. He married Elizabeth Pierce Reed, daughter of James Reed of Deerfield, Mass. (grand-daughter of Sarah Warren Reed. who was descended from Richard Warren of the Mayflower). They had one child, Henry True, b. Jan. 26, 1848; banker at Marion, Ohio; elder in the Presbyterian Church at Marion. 1891; mar., Sept. 13, 1876, Flora P. Brown. They had chil- dren :-
1. Mary Alice True, b. Sept. 25, 1877; d. Aug. 12, 1879.
2. Henry Ayer True, b. July 26, 1879; was graduated from Princeton University, June 7, 1902.
II. Mary Barrett True, b. in 1818; m. Elijah Vose, May 16, 1843. who was b. March 19, 1807, and d. at Ipswich, Mass., Ang. 4, 1877. They resided at Union. Me., Ipswich, Mass., Marion, O., and at present Mrs. Vose resides at 38 Cary ave., Chelsea, Mass. Their children were :-
1. Ilelen Ayer Vose, b. March 5, 1844.
2. Mary True Vose, b. Dec. 17, 1849; d. March 8, 1855.
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3. Amos Barrett, b. July 22, 1825; d. Aug. 6, 1825. The line upon his little gravestone is as follows :- " Rest here sweet babe till Jesus comes."
(I am indebted to Henry True, Esq., of Marion, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Barrett (True) Vose, of Chelsea, Mass., for many items concerning the family of Rev. Henry and Ruth (Ayer) True.)
(A letter from Rev. Henry True, of Union, Me., to his sis- ter in Hampstead, in 1849, appears on p. 66, Vol. 1).
No. 73.
Jacob Eaton, b. in Lynn, Mass., Jan. 7, 1703, a son of William and Mary (Swain) Eaton, of Reading, Mass. (brother to No. 4). He mar. Mary Breed (No. 74), and removed to Hampstead, near the Kingston line. He was sometimes called of the Kingston parish. He was adm. to the church June 30, 1756, and d. in Hampstead, Dec. 7, 1768, aged 56 years. He with his wife Mary, " owned the Covenant," Jan., 1756 (see list No. 14).
No. 74.
Mary Breed, b. in Lynn, Mass., a daughter of Jacob and Mehitable Breed, of Lynn, mar. Jacob Eaton (No. 73), Oct. 29, 1737, in Lynn. She was received a member of this church June 30, 1756, by letter from the First church in Lynn. She d. in Medford, Mass., Feb. 16, 1775. She had a daughter Mary, b. and bapt. at the New North church in Boston, Mass., Oct. 14, 1744.
No. 75.
Thomas Fellows, b. in Salisbury, Mass., Jan. 20, 1685, a son of Samuel and Abigail (Barnard) Fellows, of Salisbury, grandson of Samuel and Ann Fellows, the emigrant to Newbury, 1646. He was, bapt. and owned the Covenant in Salisbury, Nov. 18, 1705, and was adm. to the church in
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Salisbury, 1719, and mar. Dec. 10, 1713, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Scriven ) Eastman, of Salisbury : they had children in Salisbury : they removed to Sandown early. He was adm. to the church in Hampstead, June 30, 1753.
No. 76.
Ruth Whittaker, b. in Haverhill, Mass., April 28, 1720, a daughter of William, Jr., and Mehitable ( Harriman ) Whit- taker, of North Parish, of Haverhill. She mar. John At- wood, of Hampstead, as his second wife, April 13, 1751. She was adm. to the church June, 1753. They had chil- dren :-
I. David, b. 1752, m. Sarah Clement, Nov. 10, 1774. Settled in Alexandria, and had a large family of children.
II. James, b. June 16, 1754; remained at the Atwood homestead in Hampstead; mar. Polly Lowell. from Me., Nov. 30, 1775. Ile d. in Hampstead, Nov. 21, 1839; his wife d. Feb. 16. 1839. They had thirteen children (see p. 404. Vol. 1).
III. Joseph. b. April 8, 1756, m. Ruth Cross of Methnen, Mass .. 1718; settled in Alexandria; no children.
IV. Mehitable. b. Nov. 12, 1758. m. Moses Williams (see No. 78 and p. 429, Vol. 1).
V. Moses, b. Feb. 25, 1761, m. Judith, daughter of Thomas and Margeret (Rowen) Wadleigh. of Ilampstead, Feb. 2, 1783; they had a large family of children in Hampstead. and later moved to Alexandria.
VI. Merriam, b. June 18, 1763, mar. Thomas Wadleigh of Hamp- stead. and later of Perrytown.
No. 77.
Thomas Williams, b. in Amesbury, Mass., Aug. 9, 1709, a son of Richard and Ruth (Rogers) Williams, of Newbury, before 1684. Hle mar. Deliverance Merrill (No. 78), and moved to Hampstead (near Ellsworth Hladley homestead). He was adm. to the church June 30, 1753 (p. 376, Vol. 1). He mar. second, Lydia (Rideout) Holgate (No. 138). He mar. third, Susannah Johnson, who d. in Hampstead, Dec.
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20, 1790, aged 80 years. Ile d. in Hampstead, Nov. 13, 1789, and was buried in East Hampstead.
No. 78.
Deliverance Merrill, b. in Newbury, Mass., March 15, 1716, a daughter of John Merrill, of Newbury, and his wife Deborah Hazelton, of Haverhill. She mar. Thomas Wil- liams (No. 77), in 1739, and was adm. to the church June 30, 1753. She d. in Hampstead, Jan. 15, 1759. She was the mother of eight children :-
I. Sarah, b. May 26. 1740, mar. Peltish Wilson, in 1761.
II. Ruth, b. March 23, 1742, mar. Daniel Gile, in 1764.
111. Ruhamah, b. August 29, 1743.
IV. Thomas, b. Feb. 20, 1745.
V. Mary, b. July 23, 1749.
VI. Moses, b. July 11, 1751, mar. Mehitable Atwood (see No. 76). Of the eleven children (see p. 429, Vol. 1), James, Ruth and Moses settled and d. in Warren; Dr. Thomas, a graduate of Dartmouth College, mar. Lucinda B. Remington, of Canandaiga, N. Y., where he practised and d. David mar. Sarah Harriman, and lived and d. in Hampstead. Hannah mar. Moses Hoyt of Hampstead (see p. 349, Vol. 1). Jona- than mar. Philena Webster of Hampstead: they removed to Haverhill, Mass., in 1844; d. 1870 and 1873 (four children of Moses and Mehitable (Atwood) d. young).
VII. Hannah, b. Jan. 2, 1755, mar. Phillip Rowell, in 1776.
VIII. John, b. Nov. 30, 1756, mar. first, Alice Stevens; second, Rachel Cheney; (first wife sometimes called Eunice Stevens); they had seven children, b. in Hampstead, of whom Benjamin, b. Aug. 26. 1798. mar. Hannah Rowell, and had family (see pp. 376-377, Vol. 1), and church members (No. 515 and family).
Jonathan and Philena (Webster) Williams had children porn in Hampstead :-
Harrison, b. July 16, 1819, mar. Louisa Perkins Day; and. second, mar. Julia Morse Tarr. He resided in Groveland and Bradford, Mass. He d. Dec. 31, 1891. They had four children. One, II. Parker Williams, d. Feb., 1903; mar. Eleanor T. Randall (No. 564).
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II. Stephen Webster, b. June 21, 1821, mar. Nancy Call Fales; and, second, mar. Mary Ann Fales. They resided in Methuen, Mass., and had five children, four sons and an infant dangh- ter, that d. in infancy. IIe d. Dec. 26, 1898.
III. Julia Woodford, b. June 6, 1823, mar. Benjamin Franklin Sar- gent. They resided in Merrimac, Mass., and had four chil- dren.
IV. Moses, b. June 20, 1825, mar. Eliza Ann Esterbrook. They resided in West Newbury, Mass., and had four children
V. Dolly Ann, b. August 22, 1827, mar. Albert Bartlett. They resided at Reading and Dover, Mass., and had two daughters.
VI. Abigail, b. January 12, 1830, mar. William Sawyer, and lived in Haverhill, Mass. ; no issue.
VII. Hannah Hoyt, b. December 3, 1831, mar. John Edwin Bly. They resided in Plaistow; and had one child.
VIII. William Bell, b. Dec. 6, 1833, mar. Eliza (Thompson) Fish (widow). They have no children, and reside in Redwing, Goodhue County, Minn. He served in the tenth Minn. Reg. in the civil war, from 1861 to 1865.
IX. Joseph, b. Nov. 4, 1835; d. at Baton Rouge, La., April 15, 1863. unmar. He was a member of the 50th Mass. Reg., Co. G.
Mary Bell, b. October 14, 1837, mar. William Clarke Noyes of Atkinson. They have five children.
XI. Philena, b. January 7, 1840; and d. unmar. May 4, 1863. She was a teacher in the public schools of Haverhill.
Of this family four widowed sisters survive. Mrs. Bart- lett was a member of the Cong. Church, at Dover, Mass .; Mrs. Sargent, at present a member of the Cong. Church, at Merrimac, Mass .; Mrs. Sawyer, a member of the Bapt. Church (Portland street), Haverhill, Mass. ; and Mrs. Bly and Mrs. Noyes, of the North Parish Cong. Church of Hav- erhill, Mass.
No. 79.
Obediah Wells, b. in Amesbury, Mass., 1712, a son of Luke and Widow Dorothy (Trull) Wells, of Amesbury. Luke was a son of Rev. Thomas Wells, of Amesbury, and wife Mary Perkins, of the First church of Amesbury. Obediah was adm. a member of the church Nov., 1753, from the First church in Amesbury. He mar. first, Judith Straw, Sept. 6, 1736, and had children.
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I. Dorothy, b. 1738.
II. Lydia, b. 1740.
III. Sarah, b. 1742.
Ile mar. second, Jemima Wiburn, of Salisbury (No. 80). Ile was a resident of Sandown in early years, and d. there. He was called " of Kingston, in 1754."
No. 80.
Jemima Wiburn, b.
She married Obediah Wells (No. 79), in Salisbury, May 25. 1749, and had children, b. in Hampstead : Thomas, b. Feb. 27, 1751, and Jemima, b. Oct. 12, 1755. She was admitted to the church, November, 1753.
No. 81.
John Morrill, b. in Salisbury, Mass., March 28, 1713, a son of Ezekiel and Abigail ( Wadleigh) Morrill of Salisbury. He married Judith Morrill (No. 82), and removed to Lon- donderry. He was received by letter from the Second Church in Salisbury, March, 1756.
No. 82.
Judith Morrill. b. in Amesbury, Mass., July 4, 1719. daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stevens) Morrill of Ames- bury. Married JJohn Morrill ( No. 81). She was admitted to the church by letter from the Second Church of Christ at Kingston, December, 1755.
No. 83.
Prudence Noyes. b. in Newbury, Mass., April 10, 1725. a daughter of Capt. Ephraim and Prudence (Stickney) Noves of Newbury. She married Jacob Bayley (No. 34), Oct. 15, 1745, and was admitted to the church Aug. 26, 1753. She died in Newbury, Vt., June 1, 1809. Her children were :
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I. Ephraim, b. Oct. 5, 1746, in Newbury; d. young.
11. Abigail, b. in Hampstead, Jan. 15, 1748; d. young.
111. Noyes, b. in Ilampstead, Feb. 15, 1750; d. young.
IV. Joshua, b. in Hampstead, June 11, 1753; married, first, Anna Fowler. lle was successively a lieutenant, captain, major and colonel in the Revolutionary war. Ile was representa- tive from Newbury, Vt., in 1791, 1802-3-4, and 1809. They had twelve children, of whom the sons, Jacob, Joshua, John, Noyes and Benjamin settled what is now known as Jefferson Hill.
V. Jacob, b. in Hampstead, Oct. 3, 1755; married, first, Ruth Be- dell, daughter of Col. Moody Bedell of Haverhill; and mar., second, Mary, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Ilutchens) Ladd of Atkinson. The mother was said to be the first white female born in Haverhill. Jacob was the parent of twelve children. Ile spent his life on the Ox-Bow, in Haverhill.
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Ephraim, b. in llampstead, Oct. 1. 1757; married, first, Anna Fowler, and, second, Lucy Hodges. Ile moved to Newbury, Vt., with his father, and in 1790 moved to Littleton, and died in Lyman, N. 11., July 7, 1825. Ile served in the Revolution- ary war. Ile had eleven children, some of whom settled in Stillwater, and Newbury, and Topsham, Vt.
VII. James (twin to Ephraim); married Sarah Bailey. (See Nos. 63 and 64.)
VIII. Amherst, b, in Hampstead, Dee. 10, 1760; mar. Sally Stevens.
IX. Abner, b. in Newbury, Vt., Jan. 16, 1762; d. 1783.
John, b. in Newbury, Vt., May 20, 1765; mar., first, Betsey Bailey; and, second, Hannah Ladd. They had thirteen chil- dren, and resided on Jefferson Hill.
XI. Isaac, b. in Newbury, June 28, 1767; mar. Betsey, daughter of Col. Thomas Johnson of Hampstead, and Newbury, Vt. They had eleven children.
No. 84.
Mehitable Putnam, b. March 26, 1727, in Danvers, Mass., a daughter of Dea. Nathaniel and Hannah ( Roberts) Put- nam. She married Reuben Harriman, in Salem, Mass., June 4, 1747, who was b. in Haverhill, Mass., Nov. 5, 1725, son of Joseph and Lydia ( Eaton ) Harriman of Haverhill. Reuben Harriman was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, having enlisted " in the company to go on an expedition now on foot to the State of Rhode Island." A torn receipt, which
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is preserved in the Record and Pension Bureau at Washing- ton, D. C., shows " that Lieut. Moses Little received 20 pounds for Reuben Harrim- (receipt torn ) and another soldier, who were members of his company."
They removed to llampstead soon after their marriage, to the farm purchased by his grandfather, Nathaniel Harriman, one of the first land-owners in this part of Haverhill. She wa ; admitted to the church by letter from the church at Danvers, Mass., November, 1754. The old farm remained in the family until Jan. 27, 1841, when a grandson, Caleb Har- riman, sold the farm to Johnson Noyes, since owned by Stephen Harris, and deeded to Daniel Aver, April 15, 1861, " excepting and reserving the burial lot at the southerly cor- ner, as walled around, containing fifteen or twenty rods, to myself and heirs forever." In this lot are buried Reuben and Mehitable ( Putnam ) Harriman, and their colored servant Philo. (See inscriptions on tombstones, p. 313, Vol. 1.) The graves were also marked by memorial trees (noble ash ), preserved by the children and grand-children before they left their home, about 1827. Feb. 3, 1902. those family trees, which measured nearly two feet in diameter at the ground and at least fifty feet in height, were felled and removed for lumber by trespassers, and other depredations committed in the burial lot. Prof. F. G. Ilarriman, for many years a teacher in California, and in 1902 a mining engineer in South America, visited the old yard, June 18, 1902, and counted the rings very accurately on the bases of the felled trees, which showed ninety-four rings on the tree out at the head of Mrs. Harriman's grave, eighty-three at Mr. Harriman's grave, and seventy-nine rings for the servant's memorial tree, which date the ages of the trees.
Their children were all born in Hampstead, and nearly all removed to northern New Hampshire or Vermont. They were :-
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I. Mehitable, b. May 8, 1748; d. young.
II. Rufus, b. July 8, 1749; d. young.
III. Laban, b. July 10, 1751; mar. Molly Harriman, and lived for several years at the old homestead in the lane south of the Ayers house; in later years kept a hotel in Hookset. The house in the lane was moved to the street and the present house built of it. Laban Harriman's carpenter shop formed the north portion. The rocks from the old Ilarriman cellar are a part of C. Frank Noyes' house cellar in Atkinson, and the stone door-step is now the street door-step at the home of Joshua F. Noyes. Laban d. Mar. 26, 1830; wife d. 1822, aged 67 years. They had children :-
1. William, whose grand-daughter Elizabeth mar. Samuel Fellows of Sandown, 1835; whose daughter, Mary E., mar. Hon. Oliver Taylor, and son, Croydon Il. Fellows. both of Haverhill, Mass.
2. Sarah, mar. Joseph Merrick of Hampstead, son of Joseph and Judith (Little) Merrick. Ile was a worker in the U. S. navy yard at Boston. They had children : Eliza, mar. Green licks Brutus, New York; Rufus, m. Sarah Robbins; Laban Harriman, twice mar. at Corinth. Vt .. and parents of Hon. George B. Merrick, author of the Merrick Family Genealogy; Joseph, mar. Elizabeth Smart; Silas mar. Fanny Miner, and parents of Mr. Fred B. Merrick, steel and horseshoe nail manufacturer at Brighton, Pa .; George W., m. Lucinda Graves: Sarah, m. Spencer Brown; Abigail, m. Wm. Whitney; Mary L., d. young; Judith. m. William HI. Hutchens; and Byron L., m. and d. early.
3. Mary (No. 206).
4. Putnam, mar., and resided in Vermont: a son, Fred Putnam, now resides in Washington, Vt.
5. Caleb, mar. Lois Knight (widow of Richard. son of Capt. Hezekiah and Mrs. Anne (Swett) Hutchens). and lived at the old Hutchens home, now occupied by Edw. F. Noyes, and kept tavern there many years. Ile was converted in later life, and travelled through the towns preaching the " faith as shown to him." ITis cousins relate hearing him preach. and of his in- variably commencing his talks by relating " how he was converted. " as follows, in a very slow tone and drawling accent : " I see in this congregation a good many small boys. Once I was a small boy. a poor, sinful child, and I caught a blue jay, and I pulled out
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all of his tail feathers. and I pulled out all of his wing feathers, and I laid him on the stone of the door screaming, as he looked up to heaven, 'Caleb, Caleb, son of Laban, have mercy on my soul. Amen.' " Zeniah, b. Dec. 20, 1754; mar. Caleb, son of Capt. William Mar- shall of Hampstead, and soon after moved to Northumber- land. Several forts were built in that section during the Revolutionary war. One of them was located on the farm of Caleb Marshall. "Wild consternation filled the hearts of the settlers, who were scattered. The young wife of Mar- shall had her household goods hidden away, and with one child of two years of age and an infant in her arms less than a month old, mounted a horse and fled to Hampstead, a dis- tance of more than one hundred and fifty miles, arriving in safety." (Hist. Lancaster, N. H.) (See Marshall, Appendix of this Vol.)
Hannah, b. Nov. 30, 1757.
V. VI. Sarah. b. Jan. 30, 1758; m. Nathaniel Noyes, who resided, until their three oldest children were born, in Atkinson, where Joshua A. Richards now resides, and then moved to Bosca- wen a few years, and then to Landaft, where they died. Their children were :-
1. Sarah, m. Joseph Hutchens of Bath.
2. Moses, m. Sally Stone of Landaff.
3. Enoch. m. Hannah Morrill, and resided in Landaff. (See sketch, p. 201, Vol. 1, by Rev. Henry A. Merrill, a grandson.)
4. James, m. Temperance Merrick. (See p. 355, Vol. 1.) They resided in Richford, Vt., and had a large family of children. several living there now.
5. Eunice, mar. Moses Eastman of Landaff. A large fan- ily there; she mar. second, Obediah Eastman.
Henry, mar. Priscilla Carlton; second, Asenath Noyes: 6. third. Amanda Hildrick. They resided in Haverhill. N. II., and Canada.
7. Nathaniel, d., unmarried, in his 18th year, in Landaff. Mary, m. Amos Clark; second, - Evens; resided in Lisbon.
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9. Phebe, m. John George, of Franconia.
10. Rufus, m. Hannah Clark, and had children. Amos C. m. Rebecca Stewart; resided in Pennsylvania; James C. m., first, Betsey Cogswell; second. Maria Bowles: resided in Bath. Rufns II. m. Patience Gordon; re- sided in Landaff. Charles R. m. Mary Homans; re- sided in Pennsylvania. Jane C. m. Willis B. Blandin;
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resided in Bath (a son, Amos Noyes Blandin); and Miss Hannah M., ummarried, of Bath, in 1902.
11. John, mar. Phebe W. Clark. A son, Moses C., resided in Bethlehem (p. 210, Vol. 1). d. Apr. 2, 1903.
VII. Joseph. b. May 7, 1759; m. Eunice, daughter of Enoch and Phebe (Harriman) Noyes of Atkinson. She was said to have been "the strongest woman in the country," and stories of the many pounds which she could lift with ease are told by the older people who remember her.
VIII. Archelaus Putnam, b. Nov. 8, 1760; d. young.
IX. Mehitable, b. Ang. 30, 1762; mar. John Abraham, and went to Vermont.
Mary. b. Oct. 13, 1764; mar. - Iloyt, and resided in northern New Hampshire.
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Rufus, b. Sept. 28. 1766; mar. Judith Merrick, daughter of Joseph and Judith ( Little) Merrick, of Hampstead, Oct. 27, 1786. They kept a tavern in Hooksett for a time, then re- moved to Vermont; in the vicinity of Bradford and Corinth. Their children, as taken from an "old red morocco note- book, along with formulas for liniments for rheumatism," belonging to the fourth son, Reuben, who " was a cripple for thirty years by reason of rheumatism," were :-
1. John.
2. Mary.
3. Abner.
4. Reuben, b. Jan. 1, 1799; mar. Abbie Davis, Jan. 20, 1823, and had children-Hullah, George W., Caro- line, Lydia, Rufus Putnam (who has sons named Lake IIuron and Lake Michigan Harriman, as the father " would have no Bible names in the family "; he called them Lake and Huron, Huron now residing in New York State, John, and Franklin (who mar. Della Lewis), now superintendent of the Milwaukee, Wis., street railway, and has children; Mande, mar. G. V. Leonard of Lawrence, Kansas; Lou B., unmar- ried; Franklin and Hazel, all of Wauwatosa, Wis.
5. Joseph.
6. Nicholas.
7. Noah.
8. Eunice.
9. Rufus Harriman.
10. Dudley.
No. 85.
Elizabeth Lunt, b. March 8. 1709, in Newbury, Mass., a daughter of Henry, Jr., and Sarah ( ) Lunt of New-
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bury, She married John, son of John and Abiah (Shaw) Webster, of Rye. or Hampton, in 1734. He was b. Feb. 10. 1712-3. She was admitted to the church in 1755. They lived nearly opposite the house of George Bragg, and died in Hampstead, and were buried in the Hadley cemetery at East Hampstead. (See gravestone inscription. p. 313. Vol. 1.) They probably came to Hampstead about 1742-3, as the first four of their children were born in Newbury. They had children :-
I. Sarah, b. March 20, 1735: m. Moses Kimball in 1758, a brother of Dea. Benjamin Kimball (No. 21), and resided at Hampstead. Their children. b. in Hampstead, were :-
1. Tamer. b. April 19. 1758.
2. Nanne, b. July 10. 1760; d., unm .. 1794.
3. Abiah. b. Feb. 10. 1762; m. Jesse, son of Bartholomew and Hannah (Kelly) Heath, of Hampstead, and had eight children, b. in Hampstead.
4. Sarah (No. 288).
5. John. b. Jan. 4, 1766; m. Sarah Dearborn of Chester, and were parents of six children.
II. Abiah, b. April 25, 1737; m. Asa Page of Atkinson.
III. Joseph, b. March 19, 1739; m. Mary Sawyer; eight children, b. in Hampstead (see page 420, Vol. 1).
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V. Caleb, b. Dec. 17, 1740; probably d. young.
Elizabeth, b. in Hampstead, Feb. 23, 1743; m., first, Jacob Saw- ver: second. Edmund Worth; lived in Hampstead with her first husband, and in Newbury later.
VI Jolın, b. June 29, 1745.
VII. Mary (No. 187).
VIII. Anna, m. Moody Chase (see list " Owned the Covenant ").
IX. Caleb, b. July 12, 1752; m. Sarah Davis, and had children, b. in Hampstead-Sarah. b. Jan. 18, 1777, and others. Ile mar., second. Joanna Smith; and, third. Mary Smith; and was buried in the Hadley cemetery. (See p. 313, Vol. 1.)
No. 86.
Abiah Gile, b. in Kingston, May 7, 1722, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Heath) Gile (No. 10). She mar. Philip Nelson of Plaistow in 1745. She was admitted to the church in 1757.
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MEMORIAL OF THE CHURCH OF
No. 87.
Mehitable Kimball, b. in Plaistow, Aug. 28, 1739, daugh- ter of Dea. Benjamin and Mary (Emerson) Kimball (sister of No. 21). She married, first, Thomas Hale, in 1755, who was b. in 1731, and d. 1756. She married, second, in 1767, Benjamin Pettengill. She was admitted to full communion in 1757.
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