A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire : historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899, Volume I, Part 30

Author: Noyes, Harriette Eliza, b. 1848, comp
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Boston : G.B. Reed
Number of Pages: 676


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Benjamin W. Clark, son of John and Charlotte A. (Swett) Clark, born in Hampstead, February, 1857 ; married Mary J. Bean. They have nine children : Lillie Josephine, Ora Etta, Ida May, Charles Henry, Alice Mabel, Emma Florence, Annie Cora, Esther and Walter. Mr. Clark has been selectman for 1898-1899.


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ANSON B. KIMBALL, born March 20, 1855, in Danville, son of George F. and Mary D. (Fullington) Kimball, and grand- son of Caleb and Grace (Scribner) Kimball of Raymond, mar- ried Marilla Moulton of Hampstead. They have no children.


Mr. Kimball was selectman in 1894 and 1895; is a grocer and farmer.


ALFRED S. MORGAN, born in Hampstead August 24, 1872, son of Simeon and Clarissa (Hunt) Morgan. She was daugh- ter of Jacob and Ann (Griffin) Hunt, and granddaughter of Reuben and Sally (Eastman) Hunt of Hampstead. Alfred has two brothers : Henry, married Belinda Hackett; resides in Hampstead; children, Eva and Lillie ; Nelson, resides in Nashua, N. H.


PARDON TABOR, born in Chester, N. H., Feb. 21, 1808 ; son of Eben and Abigail (Colby) Tabor, of German ances- try ; married Roxanna Colby, born in Dunbarton, N. H., Sept. 19, 1808. She is now living in Hampstead, where they have lived about sixty years. She has lived to see ninety-eight descendants and five generations. She is now the oldest per- son living in town. Their children were :-


I. Laura, m. George L. Bragdon (deceased young); one child; resi- dence, Hampstead.


II. Eben, m. Lizzie Roundy; residence, Hampstead and Haverhill; thirteen children.


III. Job J., m. Lizzie Randlett; residence, Hampstead; five children.


IV. Susan P., m. Charles H. Randlett; residence, Hampstead; eleven children.


V. Helen, m. Nathaniel Frost; resided, Haverhill; now a widow, car ing for her mother in Hampstead.


VI. Jolın W., b. Mar. 22, 1836; m. Mary A. Little; residence, Hamp- stead. He died November, 1898. Children were: Ida May, b. Sept. 9, 1860; m. Dwelley E. Simpson; residence, Pelham, N. H. Mary Etta, b. Mar. 14, 1862; m. W. Amos Fitts; residence, Hampstead; four children. Edward Ellsworth, b. Apr. 13, 1863; died young. Henry Walter, b. Sept. 9, 1860; m. Abbie Corson; two children; residence, Hampstead. Anna Jewett, b. Apr. 27, 1863; m. - Dennett; two daughters, Haverhill (deceased). Fanny Maria, b. June 27, 1867; m. Oliver Edwards, Chester; four children. John William, b. May 18, 1869; m. Laura A. Bailey residence, Haverhill; Ellery Ellsworth, b. Jan. 16, 1873; m. Josie F. Hyde; residence, Hampstead.


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EBENEZER TABOR, born in Derry, N. H., July 5, 1803; married, in 1831, Sarah Jack of Chester, born April 30, 1807 ; resided in Hampstead for several years, and had children :-


I. Mary A., b. in Chester, Oct. 16, 1834; m. George L. Bragdon, Oct., 1856, b. July 12, 1827; d. in Hampstead, June 4, 1885. Their children are: George L., b. in Hampstead, June 2, 1859; resi- dence, Hampstead. Sarah II., born Sept. 7, 1864; m. Charles M, Woodard of Hampstead. Mary L., b. Aug. 6, 1875; m. Daniel O. Coombs of Derry; residence, Hampstead.


II. Luella S., b. Chester, June 23, 1837; m. George L. Jolinson of Hampstead; d. September, 1861. Children: Georgianna S., b. June 29, 1861. Luella, m. George Parsley; residence in Derry.


III. James E., b. Oct. 2d, 1842; m. Mrs. Laura Z. Dorr of Londonderry. Child: Georgia Emma, b. September, 1893; d. January, 1894.


IV. William L. S., b. June 2, 1844; m. Mrs. Myra Bean of Derry. Chil- dren: Cora E. and Willie.


v. Sarah J., b. June 9, 1840; m. Frank Fitts of Sandown, N. H. Chil- dren: Earl O., Aunie S., Josie, Hattie and Daniel. Mrs. Fitts died 1891.


VI. Harriett M., b. in Hampstead, June[18, 1848; m. Charles Stevens; resides in Hampstead. Children are: Charles L., b. July 23, 1867; m. Mabel Pearson of Haverhill, Sept. 23, 1897, where they reside. Ernest L., b. July 17, 1870; m. Fannie Page of Haver- hill, Apr. 14, 1894; residence, Haverhill. Herbert L., b. June 7, 1877; residence, Hampstead. Howard C., b. Jan. 21, 1SS2.


THOMAS WILLIAMS, born Aug. 9, 1709, in Newbury, Mass., moved to Hampstead soon after his marriage to De- liverance Merrill, in 1739, and settled at the spot where Ellsworth Hadley now resides, known as the old Williams' place. Here their eight children were born, one of whom, Moses, born July 7, 1751, married Mehitable Atwood, an aunt of Harriet Atwood Newell, the first missionary to India. From their son Jonathan, born Sept. 29, 1797, are descended many of the name in the surrounding towns, but from John (son of Thomas and Deliverance Williams), born Nov. 30, 1756, who married Rachel Cheney, whose son Benjamin mar- ried Hannah Rowell, but living within sight of the old home in Plaistow, sprang the families that have lived in town until the present day. Their children were :


I. Lois, m. Jonathan J. Keazer.


II. James T., m. Mary Jane Lovering.


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III. Levi C., m. Mary J. (Williams) Brunet.


IV. Joseph, m. Susanna Short.


v. Mary J., m. William Keazer; second, Moses H. Johnson.


VI. Caleb W., m. Martha H. Gordon.


VII. Margaret B., m. Silas M. Marshall; second, William Russell.


VIII. Charlotte Q., m. Gardner Kimball.


IX. Orra Benjamin, m. Elizabeth Sargent; residence, Plaistow.


James and Mary J. (Lovering) Williams at first resided in West Newbury, where their children were born, but came to Hampstead about forty years ago, lived for several years on the homestead, as represented, formerly known as the home of Watts Emerson, Nathaniel Little and the Davises. He died in 1898. Children :


I. Charles W., resides in Haverhill.


II. Millard F., resides in Salem, N. H.


III. Twin brother, Willard F., m. Annie Batchelder, and resides in Hampstead, and has son Walter.


Caleb W. and Martha H., daughter of George W. and Mary Ann (Sargent) Gordon, of Landaff, N. H., reside in Hampstead. Children :


I. George Gordon, b. in Bath, N. H .; m. Annie (Pettengill) Allen; residence, Haverhill.


II. Nellie Rose, b. in Bath; m. Charles Trow; resides in Haverhill.


III. Mary Ann, b. in Hampstead; m. Otis Masterman; resides in Haver- hill.


IV. Fannie Bell, b. in Hampstead; is a missionary in Diamond Springs, Kansas.


V. Lester Alonzo, b. June 11, 1880; graduate H. H. S., 1898; student at the French and American College at Springfield, Mass.


The family name of SAWYER appears early in town, as Jacob Sawyer lived on the place now owned by Anson B. Kimball, Joshua Sawyer on the place known as the Josiah Davis place, Edmund Sawyer where the Moultons afterwards lived, but about 1820 the first of our present family came from Atkinson, N. H. Their great grandfather, Jonathan, was born on the farm of the late Col. Greenleaf Clarke, where the son Benjamin and grandson Benjamin were also born. The latter bought of the True family the residence seen with the " royal oak " in the yard.


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Benjamin and Priscilla (Gibson) Sawyer had children, born at the homestead :--


I. Horace R., b. 1844; d. 1890; m. Almira W. Bailey. Their children : Clarence L., b. May 25, 1866; m. Annie Graham ; resides in Hamp- stead. Annie L., b. July 7, 1868; m. John E., son of John and Sarah (Cowell) Mills of Hampstead; resides in Hampstead. Ed- ward G., b. 1871; resides in Haverhill.


II. Lizzie, m. James Hunkins. Child: Etta, m. - Tupper; resides in Concord, N. H.


III. Belinda, d. unmarried.


IV. Caroline, d. unmarried.


v. Francis H., resides in the old home. He has held offices of trust in the town, and also for several years been interested in the geo- logical formation of the town, and in searching for the variety of minerals of which Hampstead furnishes ample opportunity and satisfaction for the student. In Mr. Sawyer's collection he has magnetite, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, magnetic iron, pyrites, with traces of copper, mica, tourmaline, garnet, beryl, whose brilliancy resembles diamonds; smoky quartz, fels- par, and from the shores of the Wash pond, soapstone, asbestos and serpentine.


The families of ATWOOD, WORTHEN, FRENCH, STEVENS, TUCKER, JOHNSON, MARSTON, HUNT, BARTLETT, ADAMS and NICHOLS have long been known as residents on Kent's farm. John Bartlett, the ancestor in town of that name, early set- tled here. A grandson, Ezekiel, lived at the Center village, where his children were born : Mrs. George W. Baker, Myra E. (Mrs. Robert Hart), and Nathaniel E., married Lizzie Hart, with their children, Elsie G., Leroy N., and Harold B., live at the West village.


The only place represented by illustration on the farm is the homestead of Mr. Horace Adams, whose home it has been for about sixty years. He was the son of John and Eliza- beth (daughter of Melvin and Anna Farwell) Adams of Londonderry. Horace and Lucy Ann Adams had children :


I. John W., b. 1857.


II. Charles Francis, b. 1864; m. Ella F. Page, daughter of William H. and Hannah Page of Hampstead, who has a brother, Edward L., also a resident in town. They reside at the old home and have chil- dren: Charles William, aged 16 yrs. and 7 mos .; Nellie Frances, aged 13 yrs. and 11 mos .; Lucy Almyra, aged 11 yrs. and 9 mos. ;


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Horace, aged 9 yrs. and 8 mos .; Helen Marion, aged 7 yrs. and 10 mos. ; Florence Jeannette, aged 3 yrs. and 10 mos. ; Carrie Harris, aged 5 mos.


III. George Herbert, b. 1873.


IV. Lucy Jennie, d. aged two and one-half years.


DANIEL NICHOLS came about 1760 to what has long been known as the " old Nichols' place," on the "farm." The old house was removed in 1898. His son Samuel remained at the homestead, and married Elice Kent. Their children were born there : a son. Daniel, born Dec. 6, 1811, married Sally Minot of Hampstead, was a lifelong resident in town, and has children. Helen M. married Rufus C. Smith ; Lucian resides in Haverhill, M. Ianthe and Ida E. at home.


Hiram, a second son of Samuel and Elice (Kent) Nichols, married Louise, daughter of Hazen Hoyt of Hampstead, re- sided in town, and later in Bradford, Mass. ; had children :


I. Abbie L., m. Henry S. Sprague of Haverhill.


II. Mary Eliza, m. Eben H. Little.


III-IV. Estelle Jane and Ella Jeannette (twins); latter m. Eben H. Little.


v. Osa Daniel, m. Adeline C. Bailey; resides in Bradford, Mass.


VI. Horatio Hoyt, deceased.


VII. Samuel Hiram, deceased.


Mr. Flavius Morse Crocker, a descendant of the Morse family of Hampstead, also other members of the Morse fami- ly Association, who have records of the family name, say " Peter Morse, born Oct. 5, 1701, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Merrill) Morse, and grandson of Deacon Benjamin and Ruth (Sawyer) Morse and great grandson of Anthony Morse of Newbury, Mass., was one of the earliest settlers of Hampstead, to take a family there." He was married to Tamosine Hale, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Kelly) Hale, she being a daughter of John and Sarah (Knight) Kelly, of the same family as Rev. John Kelly of Hampstead. Peter and Tamosine were married Sept. 30, 1726, having taken land in town the spring before. The location of their home has been given in the addresses. The cellar of the old place called " Morse Garrison house " in the early records, has now one tree growing in it about a foot and a half in diameter.


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The site of the old Morse mill is near by. The children born in this location were :


I. Edmund, b. Dec. 28, 1726, married first, Rachel Rowell, second, Re- becca Carlton; third, Madora Eaton, widow of Rev. Mr. Eaton. He inherited the old homestead with his brother Benjamin, but he later moved to the street near the present Morse homestead.


II. Judith, born Dec. 1, 1728.


III. Martha, b. Aug. 2, 1738.


IV. Peter, b. July 7, 1739, m. Anna Currier, resides with his family near the present Carter homestead at East Hampstead. Their chil- dren all'married and went to other towns for homes, to the upper country or West Haverhill, Mass., where some of their descend- ants now reside.


v. Benjamin, b. July 17, 1746.


The fourth child of Lt. Edmund and Priscilla (Carlton), was Samuel, born Oct. 28, 1771 and married Sally -; he remained at the old home. Their son, Dr. Samuel Morse, graduated from the College of Physicians and Dentistry and married - Shannon and descended to the homestead, had children :


I. Samuel Hazen, mn. Eva A. Clayton.


II. Clarence B. resides at the old homestead.


III. Moses C., m. Nellie Simpson.


IV. George E.


v. Mary, m. Lucius Darby resides at home.


VI. Mrs. Emery Eaton, resides at Eaton residence, at East Hampstead.


JOHN JOHNSON, the first of the name in Haverhill, Mass., was the son of William, a brickmaker of Charlestown. He came to Haverhill, in 1675, and settled near the corner of Main and Water streets. He was one of the most active and useful citizens, Representative to the General Court in 1691, Deacon of the church and officer in the militia. He was killed by the Indians at his own door, and buried in the old Pentucket burying ground. He was married three times and had ten children. Among his grandchildren were seven of the name set off into New Hampshire when the state line was settled in 1741.


Other families of Johnsons soon followed until we find Michael, and his son, John Johnson, Stephen Sr. and Jr.,


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Thomas, Jesse, Abraham, Caleb, Ebenezer, Daniel, Joseph and Zackeriah were here before 1760, and many of their descend- ants are found in town.


Zackeriah, born in Haverhill, Dec. 20, 1712, son of Joseph and Hannah (Barker) Johnson, built at first a log house, a little east of the present Johnson homestead, but soon after built the present house, now occupied by Mrs. Mary (John- son) Carter; the home which was purchased of Jos. Hadley in 1747, ninety acres for £210, has always been in the direct family. The picture represented was taken many years ago, with the Johnson elm, which was removed about forty years ago. Zackeriah married Susanna Chase, was Justice of the Peace under the King, but notwithstanding that fact, he fully equipped his sons, Noah and Abraham, for the Rev- olutionary war at his own expense, and sent them to West Point to fight for the American cause. Abraham lived for a time on the Clough Place, near the old home. Noah settled on the homestead of his father and married Molly Jeffres of " Jeffres or Darby Hill farm." They had ten children. Lu- ther the fourth, born July 3, 1792, married Dorcas Hardy and lived at the old home. They had children :


I. John, married, and has son Leslie, also married, and resides at East Hampstead, near the home.


II. James, m. Angelia Canny, resides in Hampstead, children: Gideon, m. Ida Vincent, resides in Haverhill, and had child: Walter Alfonzo, b. Mar. 24, 1880. Graduate of Hampstead High School, at present a student at Brewster Academy at Wolfboro, N. H., in preparation for a medieal profession. 2. Addie, m. George H. Hunt, resides in Somersworth, N. H. 3. Willie, m. resides in Hampstead.


III. Mary, m. Tappan Carter, resides at East Hampstead, at the home- stead.


COL. JOHN JOHNSON was an early comer to town ; one of his sons, John Johnson Jr., married Dolly Knight, and lived where Mrs. Cynthia Richards Alexander now resides. A brother, Moses, lived nearly opposite, and had sons in town. Bailey married Mrs. Caroline Follandsbee, with children Leonard, Harlan, and Cora, resides in Haverhill; and Nathan,


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married Serena Brown, with children John F., Abbie H. and Lucy A., resides in Hampstead.


CAPT. WILLIAM JOHNSON was born in Shirley, Mass., and was the son of Lemuel Johnson of Boston. When he was eleven years of age, the family being in moderate circum- stances, he desired to go to sea, and his mother made him a suit of clothes of cotton cloth colored with the juice of a berry. With them he walked from Pepperell, Mass., to Bos- ton, forty miles, without eating or sleeping, and went to work on board a vessel as cabin boy. When he was seventeen years of age, he took out papers from Boston as a shipmaster, and at that time was called the young captain by shipowners and toilers of the sea. He subsequently formed a partnership with Mr. Prince of Boston, in the ownership of sixteen ves- sels, among which was a very fast packet called the " Flash," of which he was commander, and it is related of Mr. Johnson that one fine morning sixty " sail " were passed by him, all bound for the open sea. The chief gunner of the old U. S. Frigate Constitution, at the time of her engagement with, and subsequent capture of the British man-of-war Java, and who sighted the guns that shot away the masts of the Java many times, did work-when an old man-on Mr. Johnson's ves- sels, and was referred to by him many times to our towns- people, mentioning the great pride evidenced by the old gun- ner in giving his description of that great battle, and relating his connection therewith. At the age of twenty-four he mar- ried Elvira Gilbert of New Braintree, Mass., and gave up the life of a sailor in one year after, disposing of his two-thirds in- terest in the packet, one-third interest in a large schooner en- gaged in the Grand Banks fisheries off Newfoundland, and his interest in a sloop. Shortly after he located in West Hampstead, having purchased the Bartlett or Colby estate on Kent's farm. He invented a machine for splitting the leaf for hats, which, until then, had been split by hand, and did a large business preparing the palm leaf for the Ordways and the


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workers for them for a number of years. Later he established a large nursery business in connection with farming. His success in raising trees and shrubs was excellent, and his ship- ments of fruit trees over the state was large. Nearly all the growing trees in our town, as well as in Chester and vicinity, were from his orchard. He once sent five thousand young peach trees to California, shipping from Newburyport, and raised from his home orchard over three hundred bushels of peaches a year.


His son, Frederick A. Johnson, from Denver, Colo., sends the following tribute.


" My father died at the age of sixty-seven, and lies buried in the little cemetery beside my mother, at New Braintree, Mass. My father had weaknesses (and who of us do not pos- sess many), but I am proud to say that he was a kind hearted man, an exceedingly generous one-a man who never turned from his door a needy wayfarer, who had a listening ear for the distressed and disconsolate, and ever prompt to act in their behalf. Although not an open worshipper of the Great Ar- chitect of nature-in fact to the uninitiated he was complete- ly the reverse in some respects, for which I pardon him through extenuating circumstances-yet his heart beat with almost that same tenderness that my dear mother possessed, and however rough his expressions, by many misunderstood and misjudged, I know he inwardly worshipped the Great Ar- tificer at nature's shrine, and I hope to meet them both in the happy hunting grounds of that undiscovered country from which no traveller returns.


My brother, William Henry, gave up his life for his coun- try in the war of the Rebellion at the age of twenty years, six months, and eighteen days."


The children of CAPT. WILLIAM and ELVIRA (Gilbert) JOHNSON were born in Hampstead :


I. Elvira, m. William M. Aldrich of Westboro, Mass. Mail carrier from Boston to Albany many years.


II. William Henry, d. at Memphis, Tenn., while on his way home from the war of the Rebellion.


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III. Edwin G., resides at old home at West Hampstead.


VI. Frederick A.


V. James B.


Frederick A. was educated in our common schools, and later at Comer's Commercial college, where he was graduated at seventeen. Soon after entering the employ of the N. & R. R. R., and when twenty-one years of age, he was Superintendent's head clerk of the N. Y. Air Line R. R., at New Haven, Conn. From the "Sketches of state officers and members of the ninth assembly of Colorado, for years 1893-4," is read the fol- lowing : Frederick A. Johnson, a native of Hampstead, New Hampshire, but for the last ten years a resident of Denver, Colo., has had a varied and successful experience. At the age of seventeen he entered the printing business, and subsequent- ly became identified with that of lumber, coal, iron and rail- roading, in which latter, during a period of fifteen years, he has attained an enviable knowledge of all branches of the service, from all kinds of station work to all grades of general office work, including the handling and dispatching of trains. He has oc- cupied positions of general auditor, local treasurer, and pay- master. For six years he has had charge of the passenger ac- counts for the Denver and Rio Grande R. R. Co., and for over two years chief assistant of general sales agent of the great Colorado Coal and Iron Co. He is vice-president of the Denver Improvement Co., the main property of which is Elmwood place, an addition to the city of Denver. He has been department state treasurer of Colorado, and by special request of the treasurer he compiled the biennial report of the state's finances, covering the years 1893-'94. The Denver Evening Times, of Jan. 19, 1895, commented editorially, as follows : The biennial report of State Treasurer Nance just issued is one of the most consistent and satisfying documents as a re- port that has ever been issued in Colorado. It does not re- quire an expert with diagrams to find the information con- tained therein, nor what the information means. The work will prove exceedingly valuable as a work of reference.


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Mr. Johnson is also making his mark in the literary world. A valued and prominent member of the " Poets and Author's Club of Colorado," composed of fifty of the leading writers of the state. Quoting briefly from Mr. Johnson's verse, from the " Mecca " published in Denver under the auspices of the club :


" The last days of the year draw nigh, The hectic hues of death appear,


Respiring nature leaves a long drawn sigh, Dim burns the lamp of the dying year.


A deep unfathomed stillness fills the heart While wandering through the fields or forest wild,


To view the reaper death's solemn chart, And mark the final path of nature's child."


Again from " A New Year's soliloquy " :-


Again through the cones of the whispering pine Their music falls sweet on my ear,


Again round my heart the tendrils entwine Of the forest's deep voice, soft and clear Again do I rest where the graceful woodbine. Shields my couch of green moss where I hear


The jay and the crow in their calling combine The brains of the forest's winged seer."


JOHN4 GORDON (James3, Thomas2, Alexander1), was born at Brentwood, N. H., November 27, 1749, son of James and Lydia (Leavitt) Gordon, and died at Hampstead, N. H., Feb. 13, 1810. He married, May 17, 1774, at Hampstead, Mary (Polly) Johnson, born April 28, 1759, and died April 20, 1807. They resided at Hampstead.


Their children were :


I. Mary, b. June 14. 1777; m. in August, 1806, Silas Dinsmoor, of Windham, N. H., born September 26, 1766, son of John and Martha (McKeen) Dinsmoor, of Windham. Silas Dinsmoor was a graduate of Dartmouth college, 1791; a lieutenant in the United States army, and U. S. Indian agent for many years in Alabama and Mississippi. He finally settled at Bellevue, Ky., where he died June 17, 1847. His widow d. in 1854. Children: Silas Gordon Dinsmoor, b. Apr. 4, 1807; d. June 28, 1849. John Gordon Dinsmoor, b. May 9, 1809; d. July 25, 1826. Thomas H. W. Dinsmoor, b. Sept. 21, 1813; d. Aug. 26, 1814. Martha Eliza Dinsmoor, b. Mar. 9, 1815; d. Aug. 25, 1825; Thomas H. W. Dins- moor, b. April 21, 1816; residence, Bellevue.


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II. John, b. July 19, 1779; d. 1849, at Portland, Me. A man of large inventive powers and mechanical genius.


III. Jesse, b. March 23, 1786; d. Aug. 18, 1787.


IV. Jesse, b. Oct. 6, 1788. See below.


v. Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1791; d. Oct. 28, 1820.


VI. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 8, 1793; m. September 3, 1815, Stetson Lobdell; and d. in July, 1866.


VII. James, b. May 2, 1796; d. August, 1823.


VIII. Fanny, b. March 18, 1799; m. James Thackara, and d. in Septem- ber, 1864.


JESSE5 GORDON was born at Hampstead, N. H., Oct. 6, 1788, and died there, July 29, 1835. He married at Hamp- stead, Sept. 20, 1810, Harriet Connor, born at Hampstead, Sept. 12, 1790, daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Johnson) Connor, of Hampstead, and died at Lowell, Mass., Feb. 3, 1861. Their children were all born at Hampstead, viz .:


I. Charles, b. June 6, 1811; d. Sept. 15, 1866; m. May 3, 1837, Adeline Olmstead, b. Aug. 29, 1815. Children: Francis A., b. Oct. 27, 1839; m. April 19, 1865, Alphonse Joubert. Ellen L., b. Sept. 8, 1842; m. Oct. 15, 1863, Henry Davis. Emma A., b. March 10, 1849; residence, Boston.


II. John, b. Jan. 21, 1813. See below.


III. James, b. March 14, 1816; d. Nov. 16, 1886; residence, Cincinnati, Ohio.


IV. Angeline, b. July 30, 1820; m. Nov. 20, 1845, Timothy Huse; resi- dence, Haverhill, Mass.


v. Ellen, b. Aug. 11, 1823; residence, Lowell, Mass.


VI. Silas Dinsmoor, b. Aug. 5, 1826. See below.


VII. Stetson Lobdell, b. March 21, 1828. See below.




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