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was at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va .; Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss .; the siege of Knoxville, Tenn. ; the battle of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania.
Wounded at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864.
Taken prisoner at the battle of Pegram Farm, Va., Sept. 30, 1864.
Remained in Salisbury, N. C. prison until Feb. 28, 1865. Died Apr. 3, 1865, aged twenty-seven years. His comrades loved him.
IV. Linus Hale, b. Sept. 28, 1839, m. Tryphena Moores, resides in Haverhill.
v. Adin Taylor, b. Dec. 5, 1841, m. Mary Emma, daughter of Edmond and Emiline (Ela) Moores of Hampstead. Children: Adin Sidney, b. Oct. 12, 1870, m. Fannie C., daughter of A. P. and Francena (Dimond) Emerson; resides in the home Rev. John Kelly built in 1808, since occupied by Mr. Simon Merrill, and later by Mrs. Moores, who also at present resides there with her grand- son. They have children: Adin Edmond, b. Oct. 28, 1898.
VI. Hannah Maria, b. Mar. 28, 1843, m. Frank M. Brown, of Haverhill.
VII. Elizabeth Gordon, b. Feb. 17, 1848, m. Samuel S. Corliss, of Haver- hill.
VIII. William Arthur, b. Jan. 7, 1851; m. Sarah Lizzie, daughter of Hor- ace and Elizabeth M. (Dearborn) Locke. They have a son : Horace Walter, b. Nov. 2, 1878. Graduate of Hampstead High school, IS98; student, French and American college.
WILLIAM CALEF LITTLE, born Feb. 17, 1823 (son of John and Louisa (Calef) Little, a prominent citizen of Hampstead, died in 1852.) Married first, Julia E. (Harris) Haseltine. Children :
I. Orrie Belle, b. Mar. 18, 1858, m. Rev. Edwin S. Pressey.
II. Alice Marion, b. May 16, 1862; resides in Haverhill.
Mr. Little was several years selectman of Hampstead, and held other town offices. Was one of the original trustees of Hampstead High School, and clerk of the board until his re- moval to Haverhill in 1884, where he now resides.
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WILLIAM F. LITTLE, born in Hampstead Dec. 28, 1858, son of John William and Lucy Ann (Hall) Little, and grand- son of Thomas Kendrick Little, of Hampstead. Mr. Little married Mary Lizzie Kelly of Waltham, Mass., May 4, 1890, and they have two children :
I. Marion Isabelle, b. Feb. 10, 1891.
II. Forest Ellsworth, b. June 25, 1894.
He received his education in the District and High Schools of Hampstead. Was appointed ticket clerk for the Nashua and Rochester railroad at Nashua, June 15, 1880, and station agent at Hampstead, May 31, 1889, which position he now holds. He is agent for American Express Company, justice of the peace ; was postmaster from March 1, 1889 to May 1, 1890, and from March 1, 1894 to 1897.
DAVID LITTLE, son of Jonathan, born in Hampstead, and for nearly seventy-five years a resident, married Louisa Peas- lee of Newton. The last part of his life he resided in New- buryport, Mass. They resided at the farm now occupied by John and Herbert W. Mills. Their children were :
I. J. Peaslee, resides in Amesbury, Mass.
II. Hannah, m. first Amos Clark, of Hampstead; second, Capt. William Griffin, who for many years resided at the Gilman House, former- ly known as the " Jacob Kimball house, " and later Griffin House, now owned by Charles B. Gilman and wife, who was Mary, daughter of George W. and Martha (Griffin) Bailey, daughter of Capt. Griffin.
III. Edward J. died at twenty-four.
IV. Moses B., b. Jan. 27, 1849; resided at the Little homestead until he moved to Newburyport, Mass., where he was in care of the Anna Jaques Hospital; d. in Newburyport; m. Sarah A. Hale, of New- buryport, now matron of the hospital.
OLIVER RAND BRAGG, born in Hampton, N. H., Apr. 6, 1821, son of George Randall and Martha ( Rand) Bragg, came to Hampstead in 1824 to the house now the residence of Wallace P. Noyes, later moved to District No. 7, to the house built and occupied by Joshua Corliss in 1812. He married Sarah, daughter of James and Hepsebeth ( Hant Whittier of Hampstead. Their children, born in Hampstead, were:
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I. Charles Henry, b. 1844, d. 1846.
II. Martha A., b. 1846, m. Henry K. Goodwin; daughter, Mary O. m. Charles Shotz.
III. Addie M., b. May 28, 1851, m. Loren M. Chase; a son, Oliver Adel- bert, m. Myra L. Roques, 1899.
IV. Almena, b. Oct. 3, 1855, m. George H. Page; have four children :- Ethel G., Charles S., Willie T., and Sarah E.
v. George Henry, b. May 28, 1859; unmarried.
THE EARLY HOME OF THE SHANNON FAMILY in Hampstead was where Mr. Ezra W. Foss resides at East Hampstead. From this house a son, Thomas Shannon, went to the Revo- lutionary war at the age of sixteen, and some of the family resided there until the occupancy of the " Widow Emerson farm " now known as Miss Brown's farm, where the Shan- nons resided about fifty-five years. Joseph P. Shannon, born at the early home, married Alice Nichols (born on Kent's farm), and settled at the old Shannon place, represented in the cut, in April, 1822. The house was formerly known as Wor- then's hotel, built by Lyman Colby, of Derry, in 1810, now occupied by Stephen Shannon and sister, Mary H., widow of the late Elisha Richardson, of Hampstead, children of Jos- eph and Alice (Nichols) Shannon. A brother was Charles H., who died in the Civil war, and resided at East Hampstead.
THE RESIDENCE OF CHARLES H. OSGOOD is famous in our town's history as marking the location where Hon. John Calfe and his wife Lois, daughter of William Calfe, of Kingston, made their home in town. The old house stood in the yard in front of the present buildings, where a triangular plot is laid out and set with growing young maples, and was removed about fifteen years ago when the present buildings were erected. Mr. Osgood married Francena Eastman, of Hamp- stead (deceased). Children : R. Alice, married Davis ; Agnes Frances, Nellie Blanche, Sadie and Freeman, died young. A daughter Mary married George H. Titcomb, resides in Hamp- stead ; and C. H. Jr. by former marriage.
The ancestry of the family of Merrick is being compiled and arranged from the year 1212, to the present generation,
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by George Byron Merrick of Madison, Wis., a great grandson of Joseph Merrick, whom tradition says " was born in Hamp- stead, Dec. 30, 1749, while his parents were on a visit to the town." Joseph was the third generation from James Mer- rick, the emigrant to Charlestown, Mass., in 1636. He mar- ried Judith, daughter of Stephen and Judith (daughter of Gen. Jacob Bailey) Little, of Hampstead, in 1770. They re- sided on the farm now called the Henry Noyes place, occu- pied by Mr. George Brown. He was a Sergeant in Capt. Jos. Illsley's Company, Col. Cogswell's Regiment of Essex County, from Sept. 30, 1776, to Nov. 1, 1776. He died at Hampstead, Dec. 29, 1823. They had children :
I. Judith, b. Jan. 22, 1771, m. Rufus Harriman, settled in Hampstead.
II. Joseph, b. June 22, 1772, m. Sarah Harriman, settled in Adrian, Mich.
III. Temperance, b. Sept. 5, 1775, m. James Noyes, settled in Corinth, Vt.
IV. Mary, b. Mar. 16, 1778, m. Samuel Dalton of Kingston, N. H.
V. Hannah, b. May 17, 1780, m. John Grimes, resided in Candia, N. H., and Atkinson, and had their names changed to Graham, in later years.
VI. Abner Little, b. June 22, 1782, m. Martha Corliss, resided in Hamp- stead, on the " old Corliss homestead," and parents of Joshua Corliss Merrick and Mrs. Julia A. Martin of East Hampstead, also grandfather of Calvin Merrick, m. Annie E. Heath of Hampstead Center.
VII. Sarah, b. Aug. 3, 1784, m. Edward Noyes of Hampstead.
VIII. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 5, 1785, m. Sarah Corliss; resided in Hamp- stead, and the parents of Francis and Rhoda (Stickney) Merrick, late of Hampstead.
IX. Abigail, b. Oct. 26, 1789, m. Bartholonew Heath, resided in Me- thuen, Mass.
x. Ann, b. Sept. 28, 1791, m. Paul Gardner; resided in Haverhill.
XI. Joshua, b. May 20, 1793, m. Eliza Emery of Suncook, N. H.
XII. Lydia, b. Dec. 28, 1795, m. Oliver Lake of East Haverhill, Mass.
DANIEL KNIGHT STICKNEY, son of Capt. John P. and Lucy Noyes (Knight) Stickney, born Feb. 22, 1857, married Sarah Graham in 1895, has one child, Forrest Charles, born Oct. 10, 1896. His father, John P. Stickney, was Captain of the " Hampstead Light Infantry," whose steadiness of their movements, exactness in their evolutions, and by their gentle-
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manly and soldierly bearing, elicited the praise of all at the Centennial Celebration in 1849. He was born in Kingston, son of Jonathan and Nancy ( Pearsons) Stickney.
Capt. Stickney had children born in Hampstead, Laura Frances and Nancy Jane, deceased in 1864 ; Franklin Pierce of Boston, John Henry of Haverhill, and Daniel Knight of Hampstead.
CHARLES W. PRESSEY, born in Sandown, married Mrs. Cle- mentine (Wood) Sleeper, and removed to Hampstead in 1872. (See illustration, residence.) Their son, Edwin S., attended dis- trict and Hampstead High Schools, graduated from Williams College in 1885, from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1888 ; married Orrie Belle, daughter of William C. and Julia Harris Haseltine (see illustration). They have two sons. He has served as pastor of Congregational churches at Brooklyn, N. Y., Springfield, Vt., Elmwood, Ill., and at present is pastor of St. Anthony Park Congregational church, St. Paul, Minn. The younger son, Charles Park Pressey, graduated from Hampstead High School in 1887, graduated from Williams College in 1893, and is now manager of the Bos- ton Office of the Educational Register Company.
Mr. Pressey was elected a member of the Trustees of Hampstead High School in 1883, and is deacon of the Congre- gational Church. He manufactured wooden boxes about twen- ty years in town, and carried on a general lumber business, but now has partially retired.
The family of Noyes came to America in 1634, and settled in Newbury, Mass. Deacon Nicholas, was son of Rev. William and Anne (Stephens) Noyes, Rector of the Parish of Choulderton, Wiltshire, England. The story was related of him, that he was the first to leap ashore when the emigrants landed in Newbury, from the ship " Mary and John." Cof- fin's history of Newbury says, " From the Conquest, the race have been distinguished for their scholarship and influence," and subsequent study of the family verifies the fact that they
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have, many of them, been first in all their various callings in life to a remarkable degree.
Nicholas Noyes married Mary, daughter of Capt. John Cutting, a ship master of London. They had thirteen chil- dren, of whom Lt. Col. James, born May 11, 16-, married Hannah Knight. The second of their children was Joseph, born Sept. 20, 1686, married Martha Clark, and in later years lived and died in Atkinson, N. H., where their four sons set- tled. They were buried in the village cemetery at Atkinson, in 1771-2.
Joseph, the youngest son, born in Newbury, Nov. 1, 1732, came to Atkinson in 1741 (then Plaistow), and remained (except when in the old French war) until March 26, 1762, when he married Mary, daughter of Edward Flint of Hamp- stead, one of the petitioners for the town's incorporation. He bought a tract of land formerly owned by Gen. Jacob Bailey, of Mr. Ebenezer Gile, fifty acres for £5000 (old tenor), deed dated Feb. 3, 1763. Since then the farm and buildings have been in the possession of the Noyes family by descent. The barn, cider mill and other outbuildings went to decay about thirty years ago, but the house long known as the " Old Noyes House," or "Old Red House," being built of the hewn hard wood timber of the times, with its massive chimney eight feet square, could have withstood the storms of another century. It was burned by an unknown cause about eight o'clock in the evening of Sept. 13, 1897.
Joseph Noyes served in the old French war, also at Bun- ker Hill and in Capt. Jesse Page's Company, in Col. Jacob Gale's Regiment of Volunteers, which marched from New Hampshire and formed the Continental Army at Rhode Island from Aug. 5 to Aug. 28, 1778. From the " Farmers' Cabinet " of July 27, 1807, was printed an item " On Saturday, the 11th, about 4 o'clock P. M., Mr. Joseph Noyes of Hampstead, was found dead in the woods about two miles north of the Henni- ker Meeting house, his horse standing by him. He had made complaint where he dined and rested about three hours before,
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and died of apoplexy, in his seventy-fifth year. He was on his way to Henniker, horseback, to visit his daughter, Mrs. James Heath. His funeral was attended by a large concourse of people when an ingenuous, solemn and pertinent discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Sleighs of Deering."
He had five children, the youngest of whom, Edward, re- ceived the deed of the home farm, March 4th, 1797, " for five dollars and the love and affection I bear for my said son."
Edward, born Feb'y 19, 1776, married Sarah Merrick, daughter of Joseph and Judith (Little) Merrick, and settled at the old house. They had children :
I. Mary Darling, b. Dec. 12, 1803, m. Moses Greenough of Atkinson.
II. Joseph, b. Dec. 3, 1805; resided in Atkinson, unm.
III. James, b. Mar. 26, 1808, m. Sally Stickney ; resided in Hampstead.
IV. Sarah Ann, b. Mar. 19, 1810, m. John H. Clark; resided in Hamp- stead.
V. Susan, b. Nov. 19, 1811; d. y.
VI. Edward Rand, b. Nov. 5, 1813, m. Elvira P. Noyes; resided in Hampstead.
VII. Joshua Flint, b. Jan. 23, 1818, m. Lois Ann Noyes; resided in Hampstead.
VIII. Eunice, b. Feb. 29, 1819, m. Giles Sargent of Amesbury, Mass.
IX. Eliza, b. Sept. 26, 1823, remained at the homestead until her sudden death, Oct. 8, 1894. Perhaps no person was more widely known, not only in Hampstead, but in the surrounding towns, than " Aunt Eliza." Her amusing sayings, and severe lessons of industry and honesty, which she daily administered to her nephews and nieces, who have abundant reason to cherish her memory, are familiar. She is seen at the door of the old home feeding her lone hen, faithful to her work, and happy in doing what she believed to be her duty, in life's great battle. Peace to her memory!
x. Washington, b. Nov. 16, 1825, m. Sabrina D. Corson, resided in Hampstead.
EDWARD RAND and ELVIRA PEABODY, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Peabody) Noyes of Atkinson, settled on the home- stead of the late Stephen Little in 1846, in Hampstead. He was at one time captain of the Hampstead Light Infantry, representative for the town in the Legislature, 1875, and trustee of the Hampstead High School, at the time of his death, 1884. They had children:
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I. Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1848, m. Lorenzo F. Hyde of Hamp- stead; resides in Boston. She was educated in the district schools and Pinkerton academy, Derry, taught school several years in this and surrounding towns, and in Haverhill and Cam- bridge, Mass. She was elected superintendent of schools in town, being the first lady in the county to so serve.
II. Edward Leonard, b. May 28, 1851, m. Emma I. Adams, residence, Hampstead; d. 1881. Children: Harry Adams and Carrie El- vira, residence, Haverhill, attending High school.
III. Henry, b. Apr. 1, 1854, m. Ida A. Thomas; resides in Hampstead on the farm formerly the residence of William C. Little, but en- larged and improved. He is a member of the present Board of Education. They have children: Edward Moody, b. May 27, 1881; Forrest Henry, b. Sept. 29, 1883, student Hampstead High School; Lee Wallace, b. July 7, 1886; Olive May, b. Dec. 13, 188 ; Florence Peabody, b. Dec. 14, 1894.
IV. Lillie Elvira, b. June 11. 1866, m. George A. Sawyer of Atkinson. Children: Ralph Alanson and Ruth Elvira, b. Jan. 4, 1896.
v. Wallace Peabody, b. Oct. 2, 1869, m. Blanche F. Calef; residence, Hampstead. Child: Clarence Flint, b. Nov. 13, 1898.
JOSHUA FLINT and LOIS ANN, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Peabody) Noyes of Atkinson, reside in the homestead built by Paul Stevens about 1780, since occupied by John Bond and later by Amos Buck, until he removed to the vil- lage, where he died. It was purchased by Noyes in 1840. They had children :
I. Elbridge Henry, b. Jan. 22, 1846, m. Ellen F. Little of Atkinson. Children, Ellen Frances, b. Mar. 27, 1881, d. 1881. (All deceased.) They built the residence on the spot where David Dexter of Pembroke once resided, and known as the Dexter farm. Here Lydia Dexter, who married Abraham Richards of Atkinson, the mother of Mrs. Cynthia Alexander of Hampstead was born. She lived to be one hundred years of age.
II. Harriette Eliza, b. Dec. 15, 1848.
III. Rufus King, b. May 24, 1853, graduated Atkinson academy, Dart- mouth Medical college, 1876, Boston city hospital, 1876, physi- cian in Boston twenty-five years.
IV. Albert Peabody, b. Sept. 6, 1857, m. E. Rebecca Mason, resides at the homestead of the late Elbridge H., his brother.
v. Isaac William, b. Feb. 24, 1861, m. Joan A. Patten, died Feb. 22, 1898, resides in Manchester, N. H. Children: Walter Flint, b. Jan. 24, 1892; Carl Patten, b. Sept. 7, 1895.
CORLISS .- Nearly opposite the home of George Bragg in District No. 6, there once stood a house with a small barn
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behind it and a well in front under a willow tree. The cellar and well are still to be seen; the house was taken down in 1843. The home was originally on a farm of about one hun- dred acres, owned and occupied by Joshua and Molly (Wells) Corliss, in 1760. He was born at the old Corliss homestead, known as " Poplar lawn," in West Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 19, 1713, the youngest of thirteen children. (3 John, 2 John, 1 George and Joanna Corliss, the emigrant from Devonshire, England.)
He was familiarly called " Uncle Josh," and was the father of twelve children, born in Hampstead ; among them were the " fairies," as the seven roguish Corliss sisters were called, re- ceiving the name from an incident told by our older people. An incident is also told how Mr. Corliss went to town one day, Feb. 9, 1764, leaving his wife at home. During the day she went to a neighbor's house, where a son was born. Upon the father's return he took the child in his arms and said, " This boy's name shall be Ebenezer, for hereunto hath the Lord helped me." This son settled in Yarmouth, Me.
Joshua Corliss was a soldier in the French and Indian war, muster roll of Captain Edmund Moore's company of men who went to Albany, Feb. 24th, 1756, enlisting Dec. 12, 1755, and discharged Dec. 12, 1755, April 14, 1757, he again appears as a soldier in the Second Foot company in Haverhill, under Captain Richard Saltonstall. He was also a " minute man " in 1775, and served under General Israel Putnam.
He selected a stone from his farm and made a gravestone for himself and cut on it these words, "The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." On the opposite side is the inscription, " Here lyeth the Remains of Joshua Cor- liss Sleeping, who died Jan. 29, 1822, in the 89 year of his age."
From the Corliss family genealogy, compiled by a great grandson, Lieut. Colonel Augustus W. Corliss, U. S. A., also from Joshua Corliss Merrick and Mrs. Julia A. (Mer-
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rick) Martin, grandchildren of Joshua Corliss, both living at East Hampstead, who remember him. "From his universal popularity and social qualities Joshua Corliss was known far and wide, and his kind heart and pleasant ways made for him a host of friends, and filled his pleasant home with troops of rollicking children, who looked up to him as one who was ever their friend and companion. During his prime he was very tall, bony and strong, very muscular, a long, wide face, very dark blue eyes, a fine, pleasant but thoughtful expres- sion of countenance. In later years he moved for a long time on crutches."
JOHN KEAZER of Salem, Mass., was granted a piece of land near where City hall park is situated in Haverhill, and in 1683 a complaint was entered against John Keazer for keeping his tan vats open, by which means some cattle and swine be- longing to his neighbors had been destroyed. "Ye Moderator in ye name of ye town did publickly give s'd Keazer a certain warning and admonished him upon his peril to secure his tan yard and tan vats, that no damage be done by him to other mens, or his own creatures, & in special that no mischief may not come unto children, we may occasion his own life to come to triall." His son John was killed by the Indians Mar. 15, 1697, at his own door, whose son John, b. July 6, 1676, was the pioneer of " Almsbury Peke," and the ancestor of many of the families of that name which are scattered throughout New Hampshire and Maine. It is related of this John that it was his custom to go to Almsbury Peke and pitch his tent on the side of the hill, where he worked shoemaking, and on returning to Haverhill at the break of day on the 28th of August, 1722, he discovered the Indians had passed the gar- rison and intended mischief to the inhabitants. Keazer alarmed the people and in time to prevent a massacre. He was said to have been a jack at all trades and somewhat eccentric, and for a long time lived as a hermit at the Peak. He was also said to have been exceedingly proud of his proficiency in walking
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and leaping. He once walked to Boston and back in one night, and has been known to jump over an ox cart with two large pails of milk in his hands. He married Judith Heath in 1730, and had ten children born in Hampstead.
About the time of the incorporation there were other fam- ilies in town for a time, but the family in direct line have descended from the early settler on what we know as "the Handle." A descendant from that family is William J. Keazer, who married Emma S. Martin. He was one of the aids to the marshal at the 150th celebration, deacon of the Methodist Episcopal church; resides on the original home- stead which Thomas Arnold, the pioneer of the Arnold fam- ily, built. One child :
I. Ralph Leroy, b. Apr. 26, 1897.
THE FAMILY OF MARBLES came from Duxbury, Mass., to Haverhill, at an early date, where John and his son John were born. Giles O. Marble, a son of the latter, came in 1820 to Hampstead. About 1832 he married Martha B. Peaslee of Atkinson. They located on the place bought of Brown, but in later years known as the Luther Chase place, now gone to decay. Here their children were born, who were :-
I. Giles F., b. 1834; m. Clementine H. Hoyt; had children :- Frank G., died at 4 years. Dana Giles, b. 1862, graduate H. H. S., class of 1881; attended Exeter Academy ; graduated Dartmouth College 1884; in three weeks, had he lived, he would have been admitted to the bar. He died of pneumonia while teaching at Hillsboro', N. H., academy, in 1885. Charles E., attended H. H. school, Pinkerton Academy, Derry; entered Dartmouth Medical School in 1897. Mr. Marble has for a residence the house at first owned by John Muzzey, whose name appears in the early annals of the town. The family name was prominent in town for nearly a century. Next the house was owned by Thomas Randlett, who moved to Vermont; then by William Ayer and by Silas Griffin. Mr. Marble has here resided for thirty-eight years.
II. John, m. Emily A. Darling; residence, Hampstead; have children : Edward G., Walter J., and Fred D.
III. Martha Elizabeth, m., first, Seth Cass; second, Thondike P. Lake; residence, Hampstead. Children: George E., graduate H. H. S .; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass .; Dartmouth College, 1896; Theological Seminary, Bangor, Me., 1899; installed pastor of
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Congregational church in Patten, Me., May, 1899; m. Miss Laura F. Davenport of New York city, Sept. 19, 1899. Mary E., attend- ed H. H. S., graduated from Boston Conservatory of Music; m. Charles H. Sweet of Hampstead. Helen, taught school; m. Harry A. Tucker; has daughter, Mildred.
IV. Leonard, m. Melissa McNiel of Atkinson; resided in Hampstead, where he died. Children: Mary Abbie, Eugene and Will.
V. Charles, resides in Haverhill. Children: Frank G., John mn. Maria Danforth, and Alice, m. Clarence Timerans.
DAVIS .- The family of Davis were early in Haverhill, Mass. Thomas Davis, one of the signers of the Indian deed of the territory of Haverhill, in 1640, came from Marlboro', England, in the ship " James and William," and settled in the West Parish of Haverhill, near the old Corliss homestead.
His brother James was one of the first selectmen of Ha- verhill in 1642.
The Davises of Hampstead sprang from this family, of whom there were nineteen families in Haverhill before 1700.
Josiah and Dorothy (Colby) Davis was an early settler here, having (it is supposed ) followed the " twelve rod way " tract from the Davis land at East Haverhill to the land near the eastern shore of the Wash pond. They had nine chil- dren, of whom the youngest, Jesse, born July 8, 1767, mar- ried Lois Worthen, and their oldest child, Ezra, born Sept. 6, 1793, married Mary Garland, and had children :
I. Jesse Brooks, b. Dec. 13, 1818; died Feb., 1888. He worked his own way through college and the theological school in Prince- ton, N. J. His first pastorate was in Bridesburg, Pa., Presby- terian; afterwards he was located at Titusville, N. J., and at Hightstown, N. J., in which place he resided at the time of his death. He resigned October, 1887, on account of ill health. The congregation unanimously voted to make him pastor emer- itus.
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