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11. Charles C., b. July 22, 1849; m. Ada Roundy. They have children : Inez. Caroline, Martha, Eugenia.
12. Henry H., b. Sept. 21, 1855; m. Eliza Flanders; have one daughter, Olive Deborah.
Mrs. Deborah Jenness Hoyt d. Sept., 1876; and Moses Hoyt m., fourth, Mrs. Sarah R. Gordon (No. 575).
LITTLE.
Samuel Little, oldest son of Daniel and Abiah (Clement) Little (No. 13, ch. mem.), married, first, Sarah Sewell, in 1736, and, second, Sarah Follansbee, Dec., 1738. He resided in Atkinson, on the farm of the late Greenleaf Clarke, and later moved to Hampstead, where he died, Jan. 16, 1798. He was a prominent citizen in town, and served as selectman many times, and as moderator twelve times. He was an active patriot, and a member of the Provincial Congress. He also held a magistrate's commission, and did much legal business in town. He was a member of the church at North Parish, having been admitted May 22, 1737. A letter writ- ten by him to his daughter Sarah, when he was over eighty years of age, is of interest: "I, your aged father, have great cause to bless God for giving me so many likely chil- dren, and in so good credit in the world, and granting them so comfortable and affluent circumstances with respect to things of this life, and so virtuously disposed to secure a better life when this life shall end. May the best of bless- ings rest upon them and theirs to the latest posterity is the unceasing prayer of their affectionate father."
The children of Samuel and Sarah ( Follansbee) Little were :-
I. Moses, mar. Mary Noyes (see Nos. 180 and 181).
II. Joshua, b. Sept. 17, 1741; mar., first, Lydia Brown: second, mar. Mrs. Ruhannah (Burnham) Blaisdell. He served in the Revolutionary war as lientenant, at Castine and Crown Point, and as captain in the State militia. He was one of the first settlers in Whitefield, Me .. where he was an extensive lumber merchant. They had five children, all b. in Whitefield.
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III. Mary. b. Aug. 10, 1743; mar. Stephen, son of Deacon Stephen Webster, of Haverhill, Mass. He was an officer in the Rev- olutionary war, and also took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. She was the mother of nine children, three of whom d. young. The oldest, Stephen Peabody Webster, mar. Mary, danghter of Rev. Stephen Peabody, the first minister of At- kinson. She was one of the two first ladies who demanded an equal education at Atkinson Academy, in 1793. The youngest daughter, Lydia, mar. John Vose, Esq., and were grandparents of John Vose Hazen, professor of civic engi- neering and graphies at Dartmouth College.
IV. Abigail, b. Sept. 15, 1745: mar. Gen. Nathaniel Peabody, of At- kinson (see biographical and other sketches by William Cleves Todd, pub. 1901).
V. Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 1747; mar. Enoch, son of Edmund Sawyer (see No. 45). They resided in Hampstead, later in Gotfs- town, and died in Antrim, Dec. 5, 1829. She was the mother of ten children. She has been spoken of as a noble Christian woman. who left her impress upon her children, all of whom were church members, and nearly every one of her many grandchildren.
VI. Daniel, b. March 19, 1750; mar. Hannah Movers, daughter of John, of Hampstead. Ile was a farmer, and died Jan. 13. 1841. Their children were :-
1. John. b. March 24, 1776; mar. Sarah Little, and re- moved to Union, Me., where he was engaged in the manufacture of lime casks. He died there, without issue, Dec. 21. 1855.
2. Moses, b. March 15. 1778; m. Mary JJohnson, of Hamp- stead. Ile was a carpenter and builder, also a farmer, at the homestead of Mr. Tristram Little, his son. He died March 10, 1831. They had children :
1. Abigail Peabody, b. Feb. 17, 1808; mar. Thomas Run- nels Wheeler, of Haverhill. Mass., and later lived in Hampstead, where Edw. F. Noyes now resides. Mr. Wheeler mar., second, Hannah F., daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Susanna (Noyes) Moulton, of Hamp- stead. She resides now (1902) as an inmate of the Old People's Home, in Charles City, Iowa. Abigail (Little) Wheeler had children : 1, Mary Phebe. b. Dec. 24. 1829; m., first, in 1848, John S. McNiel, of Andover and Amesbury, Mass., and had danghter, Emma Estelle, mar. Horatio Dennett, of Lawrence, Mass. ; mar., second. Benjamin G. Currier, of Salem, and had children, Marlon D., Milton and Clinton
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(twins, the latter d. young) ; she now resides in Law- rence, Mass. 2. Laura A., b. in Haverhill, June 15, 1834; mar. Avender Corson (see p. 369, Vol. 1, Cand ch. mem., Nos. 545, 548, and 622).
2. Daniel Hazen, b. Sept. 25, 1813; d., aged two years.
3. Tristram, b. Dec. 12, 1815; mar. Betsey Peaslee, of Newton (No. 604).
3. Sally, b. JJuly 19, 1780; d., unmarried, at the home of her nephew, Mr. Tristram Little, March 26, 1870.
4. Abigail Peabody, b. Nov., 1782; d., aged five years.
5. Tristram, b. May 4, 1785; m. Phebe Heustis, of Mt. Pleasant, N. Y. He was educated at Atkinson and Phillips Academy at Exeter. Was a teacher and trader in White Plains, N. Y., and county superin- tendent of schools many years. He died in 1844. They had seven children, of whom the sixth was Sally Ann. b. April 13, 1827; a graduate from Rut- gers College, in New York city; and married, in 1861, to Dr. Richard Harris. Mrs. Harris was also a graduate from the Women's Medical College, and resides at White Plains.
VII. Elizabeth, b. May 9, 1752; m. Eliphalet Poor, of Hampstead. They lived in Hampstead until their first eight children were born; then at Hopkinton and Dunbarton. He was a farmer, also had a grist mill. He was in the Revolutionary war. They had eleven children.
VIII. Tristram, b. Jan. 20, 1755; d. in 1778, while on his way home from the army. in Rhode Island.
IX. Samuel, b. July 22, 1757 (see No. 200).
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Abiah, b. April 6. 1760; m. Ezra, son of Capt. Joseph French, of Hampstead (No. 100). Ile resided in Sandown, where he was a prominent citizen, and held many town offices. They had five children, b. in Sandown. She died July 9, 1721.
Jonathan and Dorothy ( Little) Little were residents of Hampstead, where he was a large farmer and land owner; also a good military officer. He served in the State Legisla- ture three terms, and was several times selectman. He was born in Newbury, Mass., April 6, 1760, son of Stephen and Judith (Bailey) Little, of Newbury. They had children, b. in Hampstead :-
I. Joseph, b. July 26, 1788; m. Rebecca Webster; resided in Hamp- stead, and later in Atkinson. Their children. b. in Ilamp- stead, were :-
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1. JJohn W., b. Aug. 27, 1812; resided in Haverhill until his death.
2. EIbridge G. (No. 350 ).
3. David Webster, b. Nov. 14. 1829; m. Mary F. Stevens; resided in Atkinson, where they had eight children, most of whom d. young.
4. Laurania Rebecca. b. March 15, 1834; m. John Q. A. Perry, of Atkinson, and have children : Elbridge G., m. Susan O. Ellis, resides in Atkinson; Ella J., m. Samuel French, of Atkinson; Charles E. A., m. in California; and George HI. G., d. young.
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5. Joseph F., b. Aug. 20, 1837; resides in Haverhill, Mass. Stephen, b. April 20, 1792; m .. first, Betsey Greenough; second, Mrs. Mary J. (Pemberton), of Groveland, Mass .; resided in Hampstead, Bradford, and Groveland. Their children, by first wife, were :-
I. Albert A. (No. 378).
2. Mary Jane, b. 1824; d. unmarried.
3. Elizabeth Albina, b. in 1832; m. William R. Little, of Atkinson, whose daughter, Albina M., m. John H. Smith, and has daughter Verta A., of Atkinson.
III. John (No. 369).
IV. Jonathan K. (No. 252).
V. David. b. Ang. 1, 1803; m. Louisa, daughter of Obediah and Hannah Peaslee of Newton. He resided in Hampstead, where John Mills now resides (later in Newburyport, where he d., and was buried in the Hampstead village cemetery.) Their children were .-
1. Hannah B. (No. 606).
2. Jonathan Peaslee, b. May 7, 1839; m. Mary Adelaide Jewell; resided in Amesbury, Mass., an only child : Annie Louisa, b. Oct. 10, 1874; m. George Ashley Woodsum, Dec. 28, 1897. Their children : Helen Jewell, b. Jan. 8, 1899; Jewell Douglass, b. April 8. 1901.
3. Jacob Edward, b. Nov. 15, 1843; d., unmarried, July 30, 1872.
4. Moses Bartlett (No. 526).
Page 353, read. as addition to the Bragg family: Children of George and Almena (Bragg) Page :-
I. Ethel Gertrude, b. Jan. 5, 1876.
II. Charles Sydney, b. May 19, 1884.
111. Willie Forrest, b. March 7, 1886.
IV. Sarah Lydia, b. Aug. 6, 1893.
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DAVID LITTLE.
J. PEASLEE LITTLE AND GRANDDAUGHTER HELEN J. WOODSUM
MRS. ANNIE (LITTLE) WOODSUM.
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Page 354, omit "widow of the late." as Elisha Richardson (m. Mary II. Shannon), and are both living at West Hampstead.
SHANNON.
Thomas Shannon, born near Dublin, in Ireland, or, as some say, near the river Shannon, emigrated to America about 1722, settled at the Isle of Shoals, and later went to Rye, where he married Mary Rand, and soon after moved to lot 38, in Chester, where they resided a short time, and before the incorporation of Hampstead had settled in Hamp- stead, on the farm now called the Ezra W. Foss place, in East Hampstead. They had children, as below, and perhaps others :-
I. . William, mar. Hannah Holmes, widow of Nathan Lane, who had children : Dea. Josiah, who m. Sarah Sargent, and re- sided in Candia: Sarah, wife of Moses Sargent; and Jane, wife of Jona. Worthen,
11. Samuel, m., first, Lydia Taber; second, Lydia (Leavett) Griffin. Ile d. in 1813. They had children : Lydia. m. Josiah Morse; Thomas, m. - Davis; and Sarah. who m. Thomas Chase. Joan, m. JJacob Griffin.
IV. Thomas, b. in 1750, in Hampstead: m .. first. Sally Pillsbury, in 1788; she d. in 1816, as oldest daughter of Joseph and Mary (Kelly) Pillsbury; second, Dolly Locke, widow of Josiah Moore. Their children were :-
1. John, who was a sailor and followed the seas till his death in Roxbury.
2. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 27, 1796; m. Betsey, daughter of Timothy Smith, of Hampstead. They had children, and lived at the farm now John F. Brown's :-
1. Stephen Smith, b. in 1825; m. Lucy T. Baldwin, of Thetford, Vt., March 20, 1850, and who d. in 1862. Children : Edgar Francis, m., first, Lizzie, daughter of Joseph and Orphia (Tuthill) Knight, of Atkinson, and had daughter. Amy: m., second, Lizzie A .. daughter of Jolin and Sarah (Kent) Little, of Atkin- son: Leslie Emerson, m. Miss Jones, and has a son, Bernard, of Lynn, Mass .; Mary Jane, m. John Ben- nett, of Alton, had daughter, Lucy, and son, d. young; Nettie Inez, m. Frank J. Paine, of Plaistow, and has daughter, Alice: Winifred. m. George Mor- rison, of Lynn. Stephen S. Shannon m., second, Harriet Woodbury, of Salem. in 1864, and who d. in
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STEPHEN S. SHANNON.
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1876, and had children : Charles Woodbury, m. Mrs. Arnold; Annie Gordon, who is unmarried; and Bes- sie. d. young. He mar., third, Lois Ann Taylor, of Salem; they reside in Salem.
2. Sarah, b. in 1827; m. Samuel Morse, of Hampstead.
3. Charles Otis, b. in 1829; m. Sarah Brierly, of Wind- ham; resides in Edgerton, Wis., and have several children, residing in the west.
4. Martha, b. in 1831; m. James M. Davis, of Plaistow; no children.
5. George Ebenezer, b. in 1835; wounded on the bat- tle-field of Fredericksburg, Va., after taking part iu sixteen engagements, and lived six months; he was unmarried.
6. Frank Welch, b. in 1839; m. Augusta Wood, of San- flown; had children : Frances; Kate, m. George A. Donacour, of Plaistow; Fred, m. Mrs. Ida F. Hoyt; Ernest, and Pearl.
7. Walter S., b. in 1845; m. -- Flanders; resides in Mal- den, Mass.
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8. Henry M., b. in 1847; resides in Haverhill, Mass.
Joseph Pillsbury, m. Alice Nichols, and had children :-
1. Eunice (No. 616), m. Ebenezer Hoyt (No. 615).
2. Alice, m. Eliphalet Heath (see No. 358).
3. Abby, m. Lewis Hale.
4. Stephen Nichols; unmarried; resides at West Ilamp- stead.
5. Mary HI., m. Elisha Richardson.
6 Perley II. (No. 540).
7. Frank; d. unmarried.
8. Charles; m. Caroline Webster. He was killed in the civil war, and had son, Charles, of Manchester.
V. Mary, m. - Hawes; lived in Roxbury, Mass. In the sketch of Osgood read Francella Eastman for Francena; read Mildred for " Nellie."
Oscoop.
Charles Henry Osgood, b. in Sandown, July 24, 1838, a son of Ephraim and Ruth (Gile) Osgood. Ruth Gile was b. in Haverhill, Mass., June 18, 1793, a daughter of Amos Gile and Ruth Foster. He had children by first marriage :-
1. Mary E., b. March 22, 1862; m. George H. Titcomb (No. 474). Charles Henry, Jr., b. Oct. 18. 1864; unmarried.
II. Ile married, second, Francella Eastman, who was b. in Hamp- stead, Feb. 11, 1863, and d. July 12, 1890. They had children.
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III. Rinda Alice (No. 724).
IV. Sadie Mildred, b. Feb. 4. 1882: d. Dec. 20. 1883.
V. Agnes F. (No. 764).
VI. Mildred B. (No. 765).
VII. Freeman, b. Ang. 18, 1886; d. Sept. 6, 1891.
Page 355, Mary, mar. Samuel Dalton; moved to Northfield, where she d. July 18, 1820.
Page 355, read. Joseph Merrick was of the fourth generation, for " third, " in line fourth.
MERRICK.
James Merrick, b. in Wales, in 1612. in St. David's, Pembrookshire; was in Charlestown, Mass., in 1632. He was a fish packer and cooper by trade,and owned his own place of business in Charlestown, on the water front. He mar. Margaret -, and died in Newbury, Mass., before 1708. His son, Timothy, mar. Mary Lancaster, of Amesbury, in 1696; lived in Newbury, where a son, Timothy, was born in 1704, who mar. Mary Bodwell, who lived in Methuen for some time. where most of their eight children were born, except the seventh, Joseph, b. in Hampstead, Dec. 30, 1749, and mar. Judith Little. (p. 335, Vol. 1).
Page 335, read niece for " sister of Gen. Bailey."
Abner Little, son of Joseph and Judith (Little) Merrick, m. first, Betsey Steele. A son b. in Salem.
I. Abner, b. Dec. 14, 1803; mar. Eliza Nightingale, and resides in Salem. They had children, Eliza, m. Charles E. Bailey; Albert T., m. Louise Goodhne: Porter C., m. Harriet Newell; Caroline JJ., m. George A. Goodhne, and were the parents of Laura A., Emma F. (Mrs. Ford), and Lizzie E .; Mary J. ; JJulia F .. m. David W. Ingalls; Elizabeth M., m. Samuel T. New- ell; Adeline II., and Calvin A. (No. 734).
Abner Little Merrick mar., second, Martha Corliss, and had children :- b. in Hampstead.
II. Jonathan Little. b. Oct. 10. 1807; mar., first, Nancy Morse; see- ond. Marion Watts; third, Cynthia (Cummings) AAyer. Chil- dren, all by first wife, were : Arthur L., m. Selina George; Harriet, m. - Durant, of Derry; John Randolph. m., in Middleboro, Mass .; Laura Ann, m. Aaron H. Davis, of Hampstead; Mary B., m. John K. Mason, of Atkinson; and Ridgeley R., m. Charlotte L. Copp, resides in Derry.
III. :Nancy Pillsbury, b. Aug. 6, 1809; d .. unmarried.
IV. Susan, b. in 1811; d. young.
V. Susan Shannon. b. Sept. 26. 1814; m. Tappan S. Carter (see p. 339, Vol. 1).
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VI. Stephen Little, b. May 6, 1818; m. Harriet Bagley; resided in Hampstead and Danville. Their children were : Harriet E., m. Nathan Webster, of Ilaverhill; Joseph G., m. Rose Brown; Edward N. ; Alice G., d. young; Henry W., m. Jennie Mayley; Andrew B., m .. and resides in Sandown; Merrill B .; Abbie; and Mary, m. John Matavia, of Danville.
VII. Joshua Corliss, b. April 28, 1821: m., April 24, 1845, Nancy Morse Campbell. Children, all b. in Hampstead, were :-
1. Charles Byron, b. Jan. 24, 1846; d. in 1861.
2. Adelia, b. Dec. 16, 1850; d. in 1854.
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3. Delia Ann. b. Dec. 29. 1855; m. Willard W. Merrick.
4. Flora Ada, b. Oct. 5, 1858; m. Orlaton L. Whittaker, of Atkinson. Six children.
5. Charles Beecher. b. Aug. 17, 1862; m. Lora Spaulding; resides in Sandown; three children.
6. Mary Silloway. b. Jan. 15, 1867; m., second, Willard W. Merrick (above).
VIII. Julia Adeline, b. Aug. 21, 1824; m. Allen B. Martin; she resides in East Hampstead. Children :-
1. Ellen Frances, b. Aug. 3, 1854; m. Melvin Cook; she d. in 1876, leaving a son, Allen. d., aged two years.
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2. Hamlin Sumner. b. Oct 10. 1856; unmarried; is post- master at East Hampstead.
Nathaniel and Sarah (Corliss) Merrick. of Hampstead. had children : JJudith; Belinda L. (No. 387); and Francis G., b. April 27. 1835. who mar. Rhoda, daughter of Jonathan and Nancy (Pearson) Stickney, of Hampstead. He d. in Hamp- stead, in 1878. Children were :-
1. Belinda E .. b. Sept. 29, 1855; m. Joseph C. Bridges, of Newton.
2. John Corliss, b. Sept. 29. 1856: d. young.
OLIVE M. AND FLORENCE P. NOVES.
3. Willard W .. b. Nov. 24. 1857; m. Delia A. Merrick; second. Mary S. Merrick.
4. Nancy II .. b. June 28. 1859; m. Edward Hines, of Ha- verhill.
5. James F., b. March 1. 1862; m. Agnes F. Farrington; resides in Newton; m., second,
6. Charles II., b. Dec. 13, 1865; m. Isabel Hunt; resides in Salem.
7. Edith HI .. b. March 4. 1872; m. James Q. Cosgrove; resides in Ilaverhill.
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8. Frank, b. Nov. 3, 1870; m. Edith Gordon; resides in Plaistow.
9. Joseph R. and John J. (twins), b. Nov. 5, 1879; and three that d. young.
Page 356, read Anne (Parker) Noyes for Ane Stephens.
Page 357. read. Lt. Col. James Noyes, b. May 15, 1657.
Joseph Noyes mar .. second. Mary Darling (No. 195, ch. mem.).
Page 359, read Mary E. (Noyes) Hyde, d. in Boston, Nov. 12, 1881.
Page 359. read Henry Noyes, b. April 11, 1854. Daughters : Olive May, b. Dec. 13. 1889; Florence Peabody, b. Nov. 25, 1894. Page 359, read 1886 for 1884.
Children of George A. and Lillie E. (Noyes) Sawyer (twins) : Ralph Alanson and Ruth Lillian, b. Jan. 5, 1895.
Children of Wallace P. and Blanche F. (Calef) Noyes : Clarence Flint, b. Nov. 13. 1898; Earle Calef, b. Sept. 24, 1900; Lena Mae, b. Sept. 19, 1902.
Page 359, read "occupied by Amos Buch, till he moved to the village, and later by JJohn Bond."
Page 362, read Lewis Cass for . Seth Cass."
Page 364. note addition in the George family (Nos. 144, 145. of ch. mem.) Page 365, read John Henry Heath mar. Frances F. Rolfe, for "Christie Rolfe," and Annie L. Merrick for " Annie E."
MILLS.
John Mills, b. in Lebanon, Me., May 7, 1828, a son of Benjamin and Sally ( Guppy) Mills, of Lebanon, son of John and Peggy ( Kensington ) Mills, of Saco, Me. (see No. 59), and wife, Sally W. Cowell, b. in Lebanon, Aug. 21, 1829, a daughter of Edmund C. and Marianna (Wentworth) Cow- ell, of Lebanon, moved to Hampstead, April, 1866. Their children, all b. in Lebanon except the youngest, were :-
I. Elwin C., b. Oct. 24. 1851; m. Sarah M. Davis; resided in San- down, and had children :-
1. Cecil E., m. Bessie E. Grover (see Grover Family).
2. Mabelle E. (No. 753).
3. Arthur E., m. Lillian, daughter of Charles W. and Ruth J. Bailey (p. 566, Vol. 1).
4. Roscoe C., of Sandown. 5. Ilerbert, of Sandown.
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6. Abbie, d., aged 13.
7. Flora, d. young.
8. Willie, d. young.
II. Herbert W., b. Jan. 25, 1855; in. Annie S. Knight (No. 689).
III. Flora E., b. Jan. 22, 1856; m. Daniel W. Knight; resides in Dor- chester. Mass. Children : Howard V., b. July 6, 1883; stu- dent Dartmouth College, 1905: and Lloyd W., b. July 29, 1889.
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IV. Cynthia S., b. Dec. 15, 1860; m. Walter W. Knight, of Dorches- ter. a brother to Daniel W. and Annie S. (see No. 689).
V. John Everett, b. Nov. 25, 1866; m. Annie L. Sawyer (No. 690).
ISAAC HEATH.
Second son of Stephen and Mollie (Chandler) Heath. Born in Sandown, N. H., March 3d, 1798. His early life
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was devoted to the work which usually fell to the lot of the farmer's sons of over a century ago. His education was obtained at the district school in his native town. Remain- ing with his parents until the year of his majority, then en- gaging in several enterprises on his own account, including the management of the well-known " Emerson " farm at Hampstead (afterwards owned by the late Dr. J. C. Eastman.) for nine years, and here acquired a reputation for faithful work, which he retained through life. While engaged in this work he purchased of Josiah Webster, in 1833, the farm on which he spent the remainder of his days. (See eut, Vol. 1.)
On April 9, 1839, he united in marriage with Emma Chase Jaques, of West Newbury, Mass., who died Nov. 2, 1856. Three children, Mary Ellen, Charles Moody, and Isaac William, were born of this union.
In 1857 he married, for a second wife, Susan Jaques, who lived in Hampstead. She died in 1892.
Mr. Heath enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fel- low-citizens to a marked degree, representing the town at the General Court from 1844 to 1846, also other positions of trust in connection with town affairs. Living to the ripe age of 81 years, he passed away, March 15th, 1879.
Mary Ellen Heath, born June 14, 1840, married in 1883 to Ogden H. Smith, of Lynn, Mass. Lived in Leominster, Stoneham, and West Newbury, in which places Mr. Smith was engaged in the manufacture of shoes, in 1898 moving to East Derry, New Hampshire, and in 1902 to West New- bury.
Charles Moody Heath, born October 30. 1842, remaining at home until December, 1861, when he went to Haverhill. Mass., and engaged in the different branches of the shoe industry : also for a short time in Lynn and Marlborough, returning to Haverhill, which place he made his home for about thirty-five years. He is connected with the leading fraternal organizations, having held most of the offices of the
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different bodies, also represented ward four in the board of aldermen. July 11, 1883, he married Elizabeth Ayer New- comb, of Haverhill, who died July 8, 1893. In 1898 he joined his brother-in-law, O. H. Smith, in the purchase of the Calvin Taylor farm, at East Derry, N. H.
Isaac William Heath, born July 3. 1846: left home in 1868 to engage in railroading in the West, settling in Gales- burg, Illinois. He accepted a position on the C., B. & Q. R. R. May 2, 1872, he united in marriage with Laura Lyford Austin, to whom three children were born, Emma Almira, Charles, and Isaac William, the latter living but one year and seven months. In 1883 ill health compelled a relin- quishment of his position on the railroad, and moving to Foster, Pierce county, Neb., purchased a farm, and soon became popular with his fellow-citizens, for soon after his settlement there he was elected sheriff of Pierce county, and re-elected for three terms in succession, but died Sept. 22. 1889, only a few days before the expi ation of his office. Their children: Emma A. is a successful teacher in the public schools of Osmond, Nebraska : Charles remaining on the farm left by his father.
Page 366, the tenth child of Charles W. and Ruth J. (Dustin) Bailey was omitted. Read :
X. Ruth Nancy, b. May 18, 1892. Read : V. Lillian May, mar. Ar- thur E. Mills, of Sandown, 1900.
Page 366, read, Charles Hamilton Grover, for "Charles Henry." as father of Charles Hanson Grover, for " Charles Henry, JJr."
GROVER.
Edmund Grover, b. in England, in 1600, was of Salem, Mass., in 1633. He was made a freeman in 1678. His wife was Margaret They had daughters, Mary, Naomi, and Lydia, bapt. May 17, 1646, and Deborah, 1648, who married John Bennett, 1671 ; a son, Nehemiah, who was administrator of his father's estate in 1683. They lived on
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the Beverly side of the river. The son, Nehemiah, was made a freeman in Beverly in 1678. He married. first, Ruth Haskell ; second. Abigail -. Nehemiah and Ruth ( Has- kell) Grover had children, among them a son, Edmund, who,
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about 1719, moved from Beverly with a family and settled at Sandy Bay, Gloucester, where, upon the organization of the church, he was made a ruling elder. His wife was Mary -, who died in 1757, aged 78 years. He died Feb. 5, 1761, " at an advanced age."
A son, Josiah, b. in 1792, in Beverly; mar., in 1719,
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Hannah, daughter of Richard Dolliver, of Gloucester. Nov. 12, 1724, Elias Elwell, mariner, and wife, Dorcas, of Glou- cester, sold to Richard Dolliver, of Jamestown, in the same county. yeoman, for thirty-seven pounds and sixteen shil- lings, two lots, or parcels of land, in the town of Gloucester, one on the western side of the "Cutt," so called, the other lying below "Salem Path," so called, and June 12, 1736, Richard Dolliver and wife Hannah deeded the same lots of land and others, described as follows : "Two pieces of land on the south side of the way that leads to the house of Wil- liam Davis, deceased, being about five or six acres, bounded northerly by said way, and southerly by Joseph Coward's land. southeasterly where the stone wall stands on the hill, then coming up the hill. as the fence now is, to the said way to the first bounds." A second lot at " the head of the marsh," and a third parcel "containing about five acres, where his house now stands, and also a small garden spot now being improved near Long Rock." It was deeded " for the love and affection which I have and bear for my son-in-law. Josiah Grover, now of Gloucester, and his wife, my daugh- ter Hannah, and to their son Joseph after them, to hold for- ever."'
Josiah and Hannah (Dolliver) Grover owned and lived near the tract called " Norman's Woe Pasture," now the site of the Gloucester Fishery. They had four sons, by one of whom only has the name been perpetuated, and that Joseph, born in Gloucester before 1736. He was a mariner, and married Sarah Page, of Haverhill, May 19, 1757. They resided at Fresh Water Cove until three children were born, then moved to East Haverhill, Mass .. near their uncle Sin- gletary's estate, and on March 5, 1777, purchased of his father-in-law. Nathaniel Page, ninety acres and buildings thereon, for £200. lawful money. in Atkinson. The house was situated a short distance from the present Grover home- stead in Atkinson, and in 1779 Joseph Grover built the house
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