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( VIII) Sarah, third daughter and fourth child of James and Sarah (Fulton) Wilkins, was born in Deering, New Hampshire, January 6, 1829. She was married to Oliver Pillsbury, December 2.4, 1850 (see Pillsbury, VII).
(VI) Hezekiah, son of Bray and Lucy ( Wil- kins) Wilkins, was born in Middleton (formerly a part of Salem) and baptized May 22, 1763. He moved to New Hampshire, and settled in Deering, where he died November 10, 1837, aged seventy- four years. He married Margaret Armor, born 1762, daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Spear) Armor, of Windham, New Hampshire, who died December 26, 1841, aged seventy-nine. Children : Gawn, Polly, Sally, Isaac, Rodney and Andrew.
(VII) Rodney, son of Hezekiah and Margaret (Armor) Wilkins, was born in Deering, New Hampshire, July 26, 1805, and died at Hillsborough Bridge, November 3, 1861. He married, April, 1842, Harriet L. Ellinwood, daughter of David and Alice (Aiken) Ellinwood, born August 28, 1819, died January 16, 1893. They had four children: Har- riet Alice, born September 17, 1843; Charles Taylor, February 15, 1846; Eudora Calista, December 29, 18.47, died January 13, 1857; Clarence Herbert, May 12, 1855, imarried, June 11, 1889, Alice Wade, born October 19, 1860.
( VIII) Charles Taylor, son of Rodney and Harriet L. (Ellinwood) Wilkins, was born on a farm in Deering, February 15, 1846. He resided for a time at Lebanon, and later removed to Man- chester where he has since lived. He learned the trade of woodmoulder, and is an ingenious man and expert workman. He married, December 13, 1871, Emma A. Stewart, born May, 1850. They have one child, George Clarence.
(IX) George Clarence Wilkins, M. D., only
son of Charles Taylor and Emma A. (Stewart) Wilkins, was born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, March 8, 1876, and came with his parents to Man- chester when a boy of four years of age. He acquired his literary education in the schools of Manchester, and graduated from the high school in 1894. As a youth he was fond of athletic sports and popular among his fellows. He was first lieu- tenant of the Manchester High School Cadets, busi- ness manager of the school paper and a manager of the base ball and football teams. He spent a year taking a special course in preparation for the Harvard Medical School, having Dr. William W. Parsons as his medical preceptor. Entering Har- vard in 1895, he graduated M. D. magna cum laude, in 1899, being tenth in a class of one hundred and ten students. After graduation he was house sur- geon to Carney Hospital, Boston, for a year ; then house physician to the Boston Lying-in-Hospital till June, 1901. Taking the position of assistant physician at McLean Hospital he filled that place from June to September, when he became assistant superintendent and resident physician at the Boston Harbor, where he remained till January 1, 1903. Returning to Manchester at the latter date he opened an office and has succeeded in establish- ing a paying practice and an enviable reputation in the profession. He is visiting surgeon to Elliott Hospital, member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, New Hampshire Surgical Club, Manchester Medical Association, of which he is secretary, and of Man- chester Academy of Medicine. He is also a Mason, a member of Washington Lodge, No. 61, Man- chester. He is a political worker, but votes the straight Republican ticket. June 17, 1903, Dr. Wilkins married Sara L. Stuart, daughter of Zach- ariah B. and Rose L. (George) Stuart, born in Manchester, September 20, 1877.
(IV) The first of whom authentic record can be found in this line was Stephen Wilkins, who was born 1712, in Salem, Massachusetts, as shown by his family record. The records of Salem contain no mention of him and it is quite possible that he was born in some town near Salem. He may have been a son of John (2) Wilkins and his wife Abi- gail, who were married April 10, 1710, in Salem. On September 15, 1711, Nehemiah Wilkins, of Box- ford, was married to Susanna Wilkins, of Salem. We have no record of their children. It is pos- sible that Stephen might have been among them. He died April 1, 1742, aged thirty years. He was married, August 24, 1732, at the age of about twenty years, to Hannah Curtis, who was born in 1714. Their children were: Phoebe and Stephen.
(V) Stephen (2), only son of Stephen (1) and Hannah ( Curtis) Wilkins, was born May 17, 1733, in Middleton, Massachusetts. He was a sol- dier in the French and Indian war and participated in the storming of the fort at Ticonderoga under General Abercrombie in 1758. At the beginning of the Revolutionary struggle he was captain of a militia company at Middleton, Massachusetts. On the night of the 16th of June, 1775. he marched with his company to Charlestown arriving there on the morning of the 17th after the British had placed batteries to attack Charlestown Neck. The colonel commanding the regiment of which Captain Wilkins' company was a part, refused to permit his command to pass over the Neck and join their comrades on Bunker Hill in the memorable battle of that day. Soon after this Captain Wilkins was made lieutenant in the Continental army, and was sta- tioned for a period of eight months on Winter Hill
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in Charlestown. He was subsequently commissioned captain and ordered with his company to Ticonder- oga. Returning from the army in the spring of 1777, Captain Wilkins sold his farm in Middleton, Massachusetts, and purchased one in Merrimack, New Hampshire. This was situated on the north bank of the Souhegan river, there and one-half miles above its mouth. His residence on this farm re- mained standing until within a short period of the present time. It was occupied as a residence for more than one hundred years. Previous to the construction of a meetinghouse in Merrimack, re- ligious meetings were held in this house, then owned by Captain Joseph Blanchard. The farm remained in the hands of Captain Wilkin's descendants until 1848, when it was sold. He and his wife were for many years consistent members of Rev. Dr. Bur- nap's church. Both lived to a good old age and were respected and beloved by their contemporaries. Stephen (2) Wilkins was married, April II, 1760, to Anna Berry, at Middleton, Massachusetts. He died at Merrimack, August 27, 1832, having sur- vived his wife more than twelve years. She died April 22, 1820. Their children were: Andrew, Stephen (died young), Hannah, Lucy, Stephen, Levi and James.
(VI) Levi, son of Stephen (2) and Anna (Berry) Wilkins, was born January 23, 1776, in Middleton, Massachusetts, and was a child when taken by his parents to Merrimack, New Hampshire, where he grew up and passed his life. He died there August 14, 1845, in his seventieth year. He was a farmer by occupation and resided on the homestead of his father in Merrimack. He was an active member of the Congregational Church, and his example was entirely consistent with his professions. His nature was pleasant and social, he was kind to both his family and his neighbors and was almost universally beloved and respected in the town. For seven years he was elected to .the office of selectman, which he filled with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. He was married, January 27, 1803, to Ann Mc- Cauley, who was born September 15, 1779, in Merrimack, and survived her husband more than eighteen years, dying at Nashua, November 9, 1863, in her eighty-fifth year. They had seven children, namely: Alexander McC., Roxanna, Levi T. (died young ), Lucy A., Hannah, Levi and one which died unnamed in infancy.
(V11) Alexander McCauley, eldest child of Levi and Ann (McCauley) Wilkins, was born February 25, 1806, and died November 28, 1896, aged ninety years. He obtained in the district school an education that enabled him to teach winters for many years. He spent the remainder of his time in cultivating his farm and in lumbering. He owned a mill on Souhegan river, where he cut considerable lumber. In 1856 he bought the farm on which he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of means and sterling integrity and of much influence in his town. He settled many estates and was a director in the Indian Head Bank of Nashua. In the political affairs of the town he was a central figure. He held the office of justice of the peace thirty years, town clerk, chairman of the board of selectmen five years, and represented the town in the legislature in 1855. He was a mem- ber of the committees which had charge of the Thornton Monument and the Soldiers' Monument. He married, December 2, 1834, Caroline Richmond Stearns, who was born August 13. 1812, daughter of James and (Lydia) (Glover) Stearns, of Am- herst. She died June 13, 1894, aged eighty-three
years. Their children were: Lucy Ann, Frank- lin Addison, James M. and Mary Caroline.
(VIII) Lucy Ann, eldest child of Alexander McC. and Caroline Richmond (Stearns) Wilkins, was born in Merrimack, January 22, 1836, and was educated in the district schools, at Magaw Insti- tute, and at Nashua and Francistown, graduating from the MIcGaw Institute at the age of cighteen. She soon afterward began teaching and made that her vocation in life for several years. She taught successfully in every district in Merrimack, con- tinuing her labors until 1879, when she left the school room to become the housekeeper and com- panion of her father who was then seventy-three years old. She faithfully discharged her duties to him until his death in 1894. December II, 1895, she became the wife of James W. Fosdick, of Mer- rimack.
(I) Aaron Wilkins, son of Uriah and Lydia Wilkins, was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, October 20, 1745, and was killed in Amherst, New Hampshire, by a falling tree, April 23, 1800, aged fifty-five. He settled in Amherst with his family in 1779. He married Lydia Smith, who was born November 9, 1755, and died March 25, 1837, at the age of eighty-two. Their children were: Aaron, Alexander, Lydia (died young), Naomi, Lydia, Uriah, Eliab, Clara Smith and Orpah.
(II) Aaron (2), eldest child of Aaron (I) and Lydia ( Smith) Wilkins, was born in Middle- ton, Massachusetts, February 17, 1778, and died in Amherst, June 3, 1862, aged eighty-four. IIe succeeded to the paternal homestead, and was a substantial, progressive citizen, and an upright and honest man. He married. September 16, 1824, Sarah Flint, widow of Simeon Flint, and daughter of Dea- con Jacob and Saralı ( Lamson ) Kendall, of Amherst. She was a great-granddaughter of Samuel Lam- son, who resided in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1076. She was born January 17, 1784, and died September 14, 1861. They had but one child, Aaron S., wh sc sketeli follows.
(III) Aaron Smith, only child of Aaron (2) and Sarah (Kendall) Wilkins, was born in .Am- herst, January 25, 1827, and died April, 1900. aged seventy-three. He resided on the ancestral acres, and was a man of substance and influence. Ile was selectman in 1875-76-77, was commissioned justice of the peace in 1874, and elected deacon in the Congregational Church, April 9, 1874, serving until his death. He was a skillful farmer of ad- vanced ideas, and a past master of Souhegan Grange, No. 10, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, No- vember 18, 1852, Martha Abigail MeClure, who was born in Merrimack, April 15, 1829, daughter of Asa and Mary (Allen) McClure. They were the parents of seven children : Aaron Milton, George Henry, Frank Edwin, Charles, Lincoln, Bertha Maria, Harry Albert and Lizzie Lawrence.
(IV) Aaron Milton, eldest child of Aaron S. and Martha A. ( McClure) Wilkins, was born in Amherst, January 22. 1854. He was educated in the public schools and at McCollum Institute, Mount Vernon. He was a teamster for a time, and in 1873 began work in the saw mill of Frank Harts- horn. He is now a member of the firm of Wil- kins Brothers, box manufacturers, of Milford. For years he has been a lending man in the business enterprises of Milford. He has been a town super- visor, police judge, chairman of the board of edu- cation, and was senator from the fifteenth district in1 1903. He is a moderator of the town, an office he has filled continuously for eleven years, and is a past master of Souhegan Grange, No. 10, Patrons
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of Husbandry, and of Custos Morem Lodge, No. 42, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a deacon of the Congregational Church at Amherst, and superintendent if its Sunday school for twenty years. He married, September 23, 1880, Lucy A. Hartshorn (sce Hartshorn), who was born in Am- herst, December 10, 1860, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth P. (Knight) Hartshorn, of Amherst. She is a member of the Kings Daughters, and active in church work. They have three children : Harold, born April 25, 1887; Aaron Wallace, Au- gust 5, 1889; Miriam E., September 5, 1894.
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country prior to 1650. Tradition has it that they were brothers, or near relatives, but the only fact in corroboration of this is the circumstantial evidence of similarity of family names, which was maintained for two or three generations, and some of them to the present time. It is said that they came from England, and it is known that Robert, who settled in Windsor, Con- necticut, in 1632, was a bellfounder from London. John owned an estate in Roxbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1638. Thomas was admitted to the church in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1639. Another John was in Hartford, Connecticut, as early as 1644. Nicodemus sailed from England for Vir- ginia in 1635.
(I) John Watson, the ancestor of this line, resided in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and on March 22, 1687-88, married Ruth Griffin. He died April 25, 1710. He and his wife were signers of the Bradford Petition. Their children, born in Salis- bury, were: Abraham, John, Ebenezer, Hannah, Jonathan and Ruth.
(II) Jonathan, son of John and Ruth (Griffin) Watson, was born October 12, 1696. When the town of South Hampton, New Hampshire was incorpor- ated in 1742, it was constituted from a part of Ames- bury and Salisbury, Massachusetts, and in the trans- action Jonathan's estate and that of several others were included in the new town, so that during the remainder of his life he was a citizen of the town of South Hampton, New Hampshire. His occupation was that of a cooper. He saw considerable service as a soldier. In 1724 he served in Captain Samuel Wheelwright's company, in an expedition against the Indians in Maine; in 1745 he served in Captain Ladd's company, Colonel Moore's regiment, in the expedition against Louisburg. He was for many years a prominent citizen of South Hampton, taking an active part in the affairs of the town, particularly in the religious controversies of the time with re- spect to church affairs in that section of the state, as is shown by the nuincrons documents and peti- tions now on file in the state department. He mar- ried, in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Eleanor Flanders, born January 19, 1701-02, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Colby) Flanders. Their children were : Nicodemus, Zebediah, Daniel, Peletialı, Parmenas and John, and it is said by some of their descendants that there were also an Obediah, a Nathaniel, a Ben- jamin, and perhaps others. Of the first six we have authentic records, with their family- histories.
(III) Nicodemus, son of Jonathan and Eleanor (Flanders) Watson, was born about 1725, probably, and died in Weare, New Hampshire, in 1812. He settled in Hampstead, New Hampshire, where he resided until a short time before the Revolution, when he removed to Weare. His occupation was farming, and he was one of the citizens of the town who, in 1776, signed the New Hampshire Declara- tion of Independence, known as the "Association
Test." Evidently he was one of the more prominent citizens of the town. In 1782 he was elected one of a committee of five to report upon a "form of government." He married (published January 16, 1750, marriage recorded, 1754), Elizabeth, born August 8, 1732, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth ( Simonds) Harriman, and a descendant of Leonard Harriman, who emigrated from Rowley, Yorkshire county, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, 1638. The children of Nicodemus and Elizabeth (Harri- man), Watson, all born in Hampstead, New Hamp- shire, were: Daniel, Abijah, Caleb and Ithamar.
(IV) Caleb, son of Nicodemus and Elizabeth (Harriman) Watson, was born December 15, 1761, died April 28, 1832, at Salisbury, New Hampshire. In 1778 he removed with his family from Weare to Salisbury where he built a log house and endured all the hardships incident to pioneer life ; and developed a valuable farm, and became a trusted citizen of the locality. His chief business was farming, but he was a natural mechanic, and was skilled in the mak- ing of cart wheels, ox yokes, barrels, boots and shoes, and other necessaries of life. He was for inany. years a deacon in the Freewill Baptist Church. He served as a soldier in the Revolution, in "Capt. Samuel Runnels' Company of Foot from the State of New Hampshire now in the service of the United States of America Stationed on the Western front- iers under the command of Majr. Whitcomb," and also served as a soldier in 1780 in the Coos country, He married, December 1, 1781, Lydia, daughter of Thomas Howlet, of Hillsborough, New Hamp- shire. She was born November 23, 1761, died March 20, 1842. Thomas Howlet was one of the earlier settlers of Henniker, New Hampshire, having come from Massachusetts in 1766. He was a man of some prominence in town affairs. The children of Caleb and Lydia (Howlet) Watson were: Thomas, Ithamar, Caleb, Lydia, Safford, Moses, Alice, Han- nah and Mark K. (Mention of Caleb (2) and his descendants is given below).
(V) Ithamar, son of Caleb and Elizabeth (How- let) Watson, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, September 7, 1784, died in Salisbury, New Hamp- shire, November 2, 1855. He was a school teacher, mechanic, and later a farmer. He made wool card- ing machines, spinning jennies, etc., and was said to be a master workman. In the War of 1812 he was captain of a company of minute men, and for some years of the Blackwater militia company at Salisbury. His fine physique and military bearing well fitted him for a commander. For many years he was master of the Warner, New Hampshire, Lodge of Masons. On December 25, 1807, he mar- ried Dolly (Dorothy), born October 4, 1784, daugh- ter of Stephen and Keziah (Cheney) Thurston, of Rowley, Massachusetts. She was fifth in descent from Daniel Thurston, who emigrated from England to New England about 1650. She died June 6, 1859.
Their children were :
Henry Lyman, Malinda Cheney, Joseph Warren and Porter Baldwin.
(VI) Porter Baldwin, son of Ithamar and Dolly ( Thurston) Watson, was born in Corinth, Vermont, July 13, 1825, and died in Littleton, New Hamp- shire, January 22, 1894. He settled in Salisbury, New Hampshire, and was a farmer by occupation. He was one of the selectmen of that town in 1858- 60, and representative to the legislature in 1862-63. In 1864 he removed to Newbury, Vermont. and in 1869 to Littleton, New Hampshire, where for a few year he was actively engaged in the manufacture of leather and gloves. In 1883-85 he was treasurer of Graf- ton county, declining a re-nomination. In 1889 he was selectman and overseer of the poor; was an
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Odd Fellow, and a member of the Unitarian Church. Married, October 17, 1848, Luvia Ellen Ladd, of Lunenburg, Vermont, born November 25, 1830, daughter of Pascal P. and Catherine (Rice) Ladd, being seventh in line of descent from Daniel Ladd, who emigrated from England to New England in the "Mary and John of London," and took the oath of allegiance, March 24, 1633-34, and who became one of the original settlers of Haverhill, Massachu- setts. He was a soldier in the Narragansett war. The children of Porter Baldwin and Luvia Ellen (Ladd) Watson were: Irving Allison, Idella, Wal- ter Warren, Fred (died young), Alice May, Fred Alland, Angie Bell, Minnie Candace and Albert Ladd.
(VII) Irvin Allison, son of Porter Baldwin and Luvia Ellen (Ladd) Watson, was born in Salis- bury, New Hampshire, September 6, 1849. He re- ceived a preliminary education in the common schools of New Hampshire, and at the Newbury, (Vermont) Seminary and Collegiate Institute ; com- menced the study of inedicine in 1868; attended lec- tures at Dartmouth Medical College, and at the medical department of the University of Vermont, and was graduated M. D. from the latter institution in 1871, receiving from Dartmouth College the degree A. M. in 1885. Immediately after graduating in medicine, Dr. Watson commenced practice at Groveton (Northumberland) New Hampshire, re- maining there ten years. During his residence in that town he was several years superintendent of schools; was twice, in 1879 and 1881, elected to the state legislature; and was surgeon to the Grand Trunk Railway. He was largely instrumental in securing the passage of the act creating the state board of health, was appointed one of its members, and at its organization in September, 1881, was elected secretary and executive officer of the board. In October of that year he removed to Concord, where he has since resided, still holding the office of secretary and executive officer of the state board of health.
. In ISSo the state board of health was also created a state board of lunacy, and the executive work of the latter board has also devolved upon Dr. Watson. He is registrar of the vital statistics of the state; has been president of the state board of cattle commissioners since its organization in 1891 ; was five times elected secretary of the American Public Health Association, holding the office con- tinuously from 1883 to 1897, when he resigned on account of other duties; was vice-president of the Conference of State and Provincial Board of Health of North America in 1894, and presi- dent of the same in 1903; is a permanent member of the American Medical Associa- tion : honorary member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina de Mexico; was assistant secretary- general of the First Pan-American Medical Con- gress; member of the Société Francaise D'Hygiene of Paris ; of the Medico-Legal Society of New York ; of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of which he was president in 1903; of the Centre District (New Hampshire) Medical Society, and of numer- ous other organizations. He is also a registered pharmacist in the state of New Hampshire.
December 12, 1884, he was appointed surgeon, with rank of major, of the Third Regiment, New Hampshire National Guard; May 20, 1889, was pro- moted medical director, with rank of lieutenant- colonel, of the First Brigade, New Hampshire Guard, resigning the commission in 1894. Dr. Wat- son las compiled and edited the reports of the state board of health, and of the department of vital
statistics since ISSI; the report of the state com- missioners of lunacy since 1890; the reports and papers of the American Public Health Association from 1883 to 1897- a total of over fifty volumes. He is the author of numerous papers and articles pub- lished in these reports and in the various sanitary and medical journals of the country, and editor and compiler of "Physicians and Surgeons of Amer- ica," 850 pages, illustrated, 1896. In 1891-92 Dr. Watson traveled extensively in Mexico and Central America. He is a Knight Templar.
Married, April 17, 1872, Lena Allen, daughter of Gilman and Philena (Allen) Farr, of Littleton, New Hampshire. She was born, January 8, 1849, and died January 30, 1901. Has one child, Bertha May Watson.
(V) Caleb (2), third son and child of Caleb and Lydia (Howlet) Watson, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, February 8, 1787. He moved to War- ner. New Hampshire, where he conducted the car- riage business. In 1820 he removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire, where he died April 12, 1860. He married, November 24, 1814, Rachel, daughter of John and Molly (Gordon) Couch. She died July 9, 1863. Their children were : Harriet Byron, Sophronia Evans, Ithamar Howlet, Louisa Jane, John Couch, Lucinda Hayes and Livonia.
(VI) John Couch, second son and fifth child of Caleb 'and Rachel (Couch) Watson, was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, May 13, 1828. He was educated in the common schools. In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade, and he followed that and farming all his life. In politics he was a Re- publican. He married Hannah A. Morrill, daughter of James Moore and Deborah (Woodman) Morrill, of Warner, New Hampshire. Their children were : Clarence Herbert, a sketch of whose life follows. Mary E., born July 12, 1854. Alma E., June 6, 1861. William W., May 31, 1864. John C. Watson died April 22, 1890, and his wife died March 10, 1902.
(VII) Clarence Herbert, eldest son and child of Jolın Couch and Hannah A. (Morrill) Watson, was born April 27, 1856, in Warner, New Hampshire. He was educated in the common schools of Warner. He first went to farming on his father's farm; in 1893, the year of his marriage, came to the hundred acre farm, where he now lives. He carries on a suc- cessful dairy business, and is also engaged in lum- bering. In politics he is a Republican, and was elec- ted selectman in 1906. He belongs to Warner Grange, No. 90, and attends the Congregational Church. January 26, 1893, he married Mrs. Mary Bates Morrill, daughter of John and Ann Elizabeth (Thompson) Bates, of Wilmot, New Hampshire.
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