Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. I, Part 113

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 858

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Bank at St. Louis, established at Brunswick, at the same time continuing his professional studies. Here he became acquainted with General Sterling Price, who was at heart a Union man and repre- sented the Union party of his district in the con- vention which refused to pass a secession ordinance for Missouri, but was afterwards led away by the "States Rights" doctrine and became the commanding general of the state forces. He took with him two companies to the southern army, the one of which young Douglas had been a member. But his New England blood and training would allow no com- promise with "States Rights," as he believed that the United States was supreme, greater than any of its constituent parts, and was entitled to first support; he therefore withdrew from the state forces and enlisted in the Eighteenth Missouri Vol- unteers, at Brookfield, for the service of his country. His regiment was first stationed at Brookfield, thence moved to Laclede, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Here he laid out and had built earthworks for the protection of troops stationed here. His first military duty was to make a report to General Fremont, commander of the Depart- ment, of a serious railroad disaster caused by the partial burning of a bridge over the Grand river by a band of rebels that infested the country. Thence the regiment was ordered to Weston, Platt county, and in February to Benton Barracks in St. Louis. Mr. Douglas was employed for some time as secre- tary to the colonel of his regiment, and as clerk in the adjutant's office, having full power by written orders to sign any papers for the colonel, and to use his discretion in giving passes and the like. But while he was at Benton Barracks he was given unsolicited, a commission as second lieutenant, he having refused the position of captain, which he was urged to accept. On the 13th of March, 1862. the Eighteenth Regiment was ordered down the river, and was in the siege at Island No. Ten, where they helped to cut the canal which let the gunboats through to a point below the island and led to the capture of that stronghold. From this work the regiment went to Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee river, and was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862. Here he was wounded in the left hip, and carried from the field before noon of the first day. He with his brother was taken to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and later to the Wash- ington Park Hospital in Cincinnati. After his re- covery he joined his regiment at Corinth, Missis- sippi, was appointed adjutant of his regiment, and later acting assistant adjutant general of his brigade. In February following he received an honorable dis- charge from the army and returned to New Eng- land. For eighteen months he was connected with the provost marshal's office in Concord, Massachu- setts. In December, 1864. he married Mary A. Rust, of Orwell, Vermont, and for a time engaged in farming, subsequently residing in Brattleboro. He was a member of the Baptist Church and superin- tendent of the Sunday school, which became the largest of any school in the state. While there he became actively interested in the work of the Young

Men's Christian Association, was the first secretary, and later the president of the local association, and was identified with the work of the organization throughout the state of Vermont. He was the "Father and Founder" of the Vermont Sunday School Association. In 1872 he removed to Spring- field, Massachusetts, and was president of the Y. M. C. A. there.

But he had cherished the purpose of resuming his professional studies, and in 1875 he went to Burlington and entered the medical department of the University of Vermont. In 1876 he continued his studies in the medical department of the Univer- sity of New York, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For twenty-five years lie was actively engaged in the practice of medicine in New York City, and was prominently identified with many of the medical and medico-educational institutions of that city. In 1877 he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon to the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, later was elected a surgeon and director in that institution, and more than three hundred thousand visits were made in his clinic. He is now a consulting surgeon to that very flourish- ing institution. Dr. Douglas is a fellow and for nine years was treasurer of the New York Academy of Medicine; he held various other positions in. the Academy. For twelve years he was professor of diseases of the nose and throat in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. He is a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and was a member of its committee on publications. He was treasurer for eight years, and in 1891 president of the Medical Society of the County of New York, the largest medical society of its character in America. For ten years he was a director of the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. He is a member of the New Hamp- shire State Medical Society, of the New Hamp- shire Society of Military Surgeons, the New Hamp- shire Surgical Society, the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Consumption, and of the American Medical Association. He is vice-president of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, president of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home, of the Concord Young Men's Christian As- sociation, and member and treasurer of the State Executive Committee, Y. M. C. A. of New Hamp- shire. He is an honorary member of the Vermont State Medical Society, member of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Asso- ciation, and of the American Civic Association. For many years he was surgeon to Reno Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of New York City; he is a companion of the first class, Loyal Legion, U. S. A .; and a life member of Corinthian Lodge, Ancient. Free and Accepted Masons, in Concord, Massachu- setts, and a member of Bektash Temple, Ancient, Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Concord, New Hampshire.

These are types of the many activities with which Dr. Douglas was long identified, and his time and energies were so severely taxed by hi, multifold duties that he was obliged to relinquish many of

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them in consideration of his health and strength. large class of pupils, and Jate was made preceptress of that institution. Her health failing, she retired from that position and afterwards married Rev. John Tiddy, who died in 1872 at Springfield, Massa- chusetts. In 1876 she removed with her husband, Dr. Douglas, to New York City, and there she took up the study of medicine, graduating in 1879 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During her life of twenty-five years in New York she gave much time to music, enjoying the friendship of many lovers of the divine art. She traveled with her husband quite extensively in America and Europe, enjoying some special advantages socially. Since her residence in Concord, Mrs. Douglas has been identified with the Science Class of the Woman's Club, with the Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic, with the Woman's Auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian Association, being the president of both the local and state organizations. She is also department president of the National Army Nurses' Associa- tion, and in all her work she is characterized as After taking many vacations, some of which were spent in Florida and the West Indies and some amid the delightful scenes of New Hampshire, he removed permanently to this state, and in No- vember, 1901, located in Concord, where he has since resided. For several years prior to his coming to Concord he spent his summer vacations in Pem- broke, where he lost a valuable library by fire that destroyed the building where his office was located. Dr. Douglas spent two summers in Europe, visiting nearly every capital and principal city, spending con- siderable time in hospitals studying methods of work, and was specially fortunate in seeing nearly every one of the crowned heads of Europe and many dignitaries of the aristocracy. On his removal from New York, Dr. Douglas received many tokens of appreciation and regard from his confreres, and he treasures a handsomely engrossed certificate of po- sitions held by him. He is specially proud of the fact that he never directly or indirectly solicited a position that he has occupied. He never asked a person to nominate him or vote for him for any . an earnest and effective public speaker. She has office he ever held. He is a man of broadest mind given numerous addresses in various parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, upon Y. M. C. A. work for boys and women. and deep culture, of large sympathies and gener- ous nature endearing himself to all with whom he comes in contact and is highly esteemed by every one privileged to know him. He is the author of numerous medical publications, such as "Is the Cure of Chronic Nasal Catarrh as difficult as has been supposed?," "The Upper Air Passages and their Diseases," "Relative Importance of Physical Signs in the Diagnosis of Disease," "The Past and Present of Laryngology," "Oedema of the Larynx," "Modern Methods of treating Nasal Catarrh," etc.

In 1864 Dr. Douglas married Mary A. Rust, a native of Orwell, Vermont, daughter of Edwin and Lucinda (Bush) Rust. She died July 30, IS73, and Dr. Douglas married (second), September 16, 1875. Maria Manson Tiddy, daughter of Rev. A. C. Man- son, for nearly fifty years a minister of the Metho. dist Episcopal Church. She was born in Maine but has spent much of her time in New Hampshire. At the age of fourteen she began teaching school, and continued teaching for many years, specially teaching music. In 1858 she married Dr. Silvester Campbell, who was assistant surgeoir of the Six- teenth New Hampshire Regiment, and died in mili- tary service near New Orleans. After his death she, wishing to continue in some way his service to the country, offered her services and was ap- pointed a nurse under Dorothy Dix. She, with a dear friends of hers, was sent to Fortress Monroe and Chesapeake Hospitals. During this service, until the close of the Civil war, she cared for many distinguished men of both armies. She was among the first to go south after the war as a teacher of the colored people ; and during ten months she, with Mrs. Wildes, taught not only a week-day school, but several hundred colored people, and had a Sun- day school of a hundred pupils at Forest City, Florida. On her return from the south she was ap- pointed music teacher at Pennington Seminary, New Jersey. Here she was very successful, with a

Dr. Douglas has one son by the first marriage, Edwin Rust Douglas, who is now employed by the Adrians-Platt Company, as superintendent of their extensive establishment at Poughkeepsie, New York. Before he had attained his majority he graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, and subsequently was employed for two years by the Howe Scale Company in Rutland, Vermont. He then took a course of three years in the Harvard Scientific School, from which he received the degree of Master of Science in 1896. For ten years he was employed by the Crocker-Wheeler Company in East Orange, New Jersey, where he had charge of vari- ous departments, and has developed the highest quality of skill as a mechanical engineer.

Four generations of this family are GALLOP known to have been residing in Dor- setshire, England. prior to the begin- ning of the emigration period. At that time the name was Gollop, and it is said to have derived its origin from two German words, meaning God and praise (one authority says God and peace). Thomas and Agnes (Watkins) Gollop, of North Bowood and Strode, were people of some account in the reign of Henry VIII, and their son, John Gollop, married a Miss Crabbe. Their descendants still own and occupy the manors of Strode.

(HIJ) John (2), son of the above mentioned John Gollop, was thirty-three years old at the time of the visitation of Dorset in 1623. and resided in the Parish of Mosterne. In the spring of 1630 he sailed from Plymouth in the "Mary and John," which landed its passengers at Nantasket. Boston Harbor, in June of that year, and his wife, whose christian name was Christobel, and his children were with difficulty induced to follow him in 1633. With

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his fellow-passengers he went to Dorchester, but shortly afterwards settled in Boston, where he was admitted to the First Church, January 6, 1634, and his wife was admitted June 26, of the same year. His name appears for the first time in the Boston town records in 1636, as the subject of an entry reading as follows: "It is ordered that John Gallop shall remove his payles (paling) at his yarde ende within 14 days and to rainge them even with the corner of his house, for the preserving of the way upon the 'Sea Bancke.'" This public act prob- ably necessary by the laying-out of Middle street. now Hanover street. In addition to Gallops Island, which he used for farming purposes, he owned a meadow on Long Island, a sheep pasture on Nix Mate, and a house in Boston. Being one of the first settlers to engage in the coastwise trade he was familiar with the navigation of Boston Harbor, and in September, 1633, he achieved considerable dis- tinction by piloting the ship "Griffin" (300 tons) into port through a new and deeper channel. The "Griffin" brought over a famous company, which in- cluded Rev. John Cotton, Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Mr. Stone and several other noted founders. It is supposed that John Gallop's wife and children came over in the "Griffin." Upon one of his trading trips among the Indians of Rhode Island and Con- necticut he located the slayers of Captain John Old- man, an early trader, whose treacherous murder by the savages constituted one of the causes of the Pequot war. John Gallop died in Boston. January II, 1650, and the death of his wife occurred Sep- tember 27, 1655. His children were: John, Joan, Samuel and Nathaniel. ;

(IV) Captain John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Christobel Gallop, was born in England, about the year 1615, and came to New England with his mother in 1633. In 1654 he removed to Connecticut, settling upon land granted him on the east side of the Mystic river in what is now Stonington. He became an Indian interpreter. Although sixty years old at the breaking-out of King Philip's war (1675), he joined Captain Mason's company of New Lon- don County Volunteers. bringing with him a num- ber of friendly Mohegans, and was one of the six captains who were killed in the sanguinary battle at Narragansett, December 19 of that year. In 1665-67 he was representative to the general court. He married, at Boston, in 1643, Hannah Lane, daughter of John and Margaret (Read) Lane. "Madame" Margaret Lane was a daughter of Ed- mund Read, Esq., of Wickford, Essex county, England and a sister of Elizabeth Read, who became the wife of John Winthrop, governor of Connecticut. Mar- garet Lane arrived at Boston in the "Abigail," Octo- ber 6. 1635, and was accompanied by her daughter Hannah, who eight years later married Captain John Gallop, as previously mentioned. She became the mother of ten children, whose names were: Han- nah, John and Esther (twins), Benadam, William, Samuel, Christobel, Elizabeth, Mary and Margery.

(V) John (4). second child and eldest son of Captain John (3) and Hannah (Lane) Gallop. was born in 1646. He served with his father in King

Philip's war, and was a man of prominence in Ston- ington, serving as representative to the general court for the years 1685, 1696, 97 and 98. In 1701 he acted as interpreter for the Indian guides who were em- ployed by the commission formulated to determine the actual boundaries of the Winthrop land purchase. He owned a tract of land in Plainfield, Connecti- cut. but never resided there. He died April 14, 1735. In 1675 he was married in Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth Harris, who was born in that town, February 8, 1654, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Lane) Harris, and a granddaughter of Madame Margaret Lane, previously mentioned. His chil- dren were: John, Thomas, Martha, Samuel, Eliz- abeth, Nathaniel, William and Benjamin.

(VI) Nathaniel, sixth child and fourth son of John (4) and Elizabeth (Harris) Gallop, was born in Stonington, July 4, 1692. He resided in Stonington, and with his wife was admitted to the First Church there July 20, 1718. His death occurred in Ston- ington April 3, 1739. On June 4. 1717, he married Margaret Gallop, daughter of Benadam and Esther (Prentice) Gallop. She died March 2, 1761. Their children were: Nathaniel, John, Thomas, Mercy, Thomas (2d), Margaret, Martha and Benjamin.

(VII) Thomas, fifth child and fourth son of Nathaniel and Margaret Gallop, was born in Ston- ington, August 20, (or 26), 1727. He resided for a number of years in Plainfield, from whence he removed to Plainfield, New Hampshire, where he died in October, 1777. In 1749 he married Hannah Dean, who was born March 24, 1722. She bore him six children, namely: Thomas, Asa, Alma, Mar- garet, Benjamin and Martha.

(VIII) Thomas (2). eldest child and son of Thomas (1) and Hannah (Dean) Gallop, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, May 23, 1750. He settled in Plainfield, New Hampshire, and died there in 1828. November 3, 1774, he married Rebecca Gilky, and his children were: Thomas, Benjamin, Rebecca, Asa and John (twins) and Charles.

(IX) Thomas (3). eldest child and son of Thomas (2) and Rebecca (Gilky) Gallop, was born in Plainfield, New Hampshire, August 25, 1775. He owned and cultivated a large farm located upon the hanks of the Connecticut river, on the regular daily stage line between Hanover, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont, and he also kept a tavern, which in his day was a landmark in that vicinity. He died in Plainfield January 4. 1862. His marriage took place June 22, 1804. to Sally Cutler, who was born June 20, 1780, and their eleven children were named : Thomas F., Benjamin C., Harriet M., Asa, Sarah C., Rebecca C., Charles F., William, Benjamin C. (2d), Tillotston W. and Mary D. The mother of these children died July 4. 1853.

(X) Thomas F., eldest child and son of Thomas and Sally (Cutler) Gallop, was born in Plainfield April 2, 1805, and was an upright, conscientious and useful citizen. He was married March 23, 1834, to Catherine Beal, who was born in Cohassett. Massa- chusetts, February 20, 1804. She survived her hus- hand many years. Thomas F. and Catherine (Beal) Gallop, were the parents of four children, namely:

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John B., born November 19, 1836, died July 6, 1840; Maria T., born July 19, 1838; Elizabeth K., born December 5, 1841 ; and Harriet E., born January 6, 1844. died March 22, 1867.

(XI) Maria T., eldest daughter and second child of Thomas F. and Catherine (Beal) Gallop, became the wife of Alfred Woodman August 16, 1866 (see Woodman VI).

Deed records in England show that per-

KENT sons of the name of Kent were residents of Sherbeck, England, as early as the year 1295. Many mentions of Kents arc found in deed records, church registers and court records from that time forward. The genealogist of the Kent family, L. Vernon Briggs, says of them: "In England the Kents appear to have been the owners of much real estate. In this country we find several as governors of our states; many became lawyers, politicians, judges, divines, state senators and rep- resentatives, and every college of the land has grad- uates from this numerous family. During the dif- ferent wars it would seem that every able-bodied man by the name of Kent was in service, many as officers and several as commanders."

(I) Thomas Kent, yeoman, born in England, emigrated with his wife to Gloucester, Massachu- setts, prior to 1643. He had a house and land near the burying ground in the West Parish, sometimes known as Chebacco, and now as Essex. He may have been connected with Richard, of Newbury, who received grant of land, also near Chebacco river, in 1635. His name appears on a list of eighty-two settlers, all the known proprietors of land in Glou- cester from the time of its settlement to the close of 1650. The date of his death is a matter upon which authorities do not agree, the earliest given is May I, 1656, and the latest May I, 1658. His widow died in Gloucester, October 16, 1671. The children of Thomas Kent and his wife were: Thomas, Sam- uel and Josiah.

(II) Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas Kent (I), was born probably in England, and died there August 14, 1691 or 1696. In the autumn of 1675 a levy was made on all the towns of Massa- chusetts for active service in King Philip's war. November 30, 1675, Thomas Kent was among those drafted to serve for Gloucester. He bought lands of William Meads, which in 1655 he recorded to his brother Samuel. Together they bought of Thomas Price in 1657 eighteen acres of land on the west side of Little river, where a house and land was sit- uated that Thomas Kent, in 1677, sold to Richard Dike. The land which they owned together in West Gloucester has since been known as "Kent's Cove Landing." He was married March 28, 1659, by Rev. Samuel Simpson, to Joan, daughter of Thomas and Ann Penney. Their children were: Josiah, Sarah or Mary, Mercy or Marcy and Joan (twins), died young ; Joan and John.

(III) Captain Josiah, eldest child of Thomas and Joan (Penney) Kent, was born in Gloucester, March 31, 1660, died May 19, 1725. Josiah Kent drew one of thirty-one lots laid out west of the Cut bridge,

in that section of the town comprising West Glou- cester and Magnolia. He rendered considerable mil- itary service, and in document dated January, 1725, he is spoken of as Captain Kent. He was married April 17, 1689, by Rev. Mr. Emerson, at Gloucester, to Mary Lovekin, and they had five children : Mary, Sarah, Josiah, Abigail, and John, whose sketch fol- lows.

(IV) John (1), fifth and youngest child of Jo- siah and Mary (Lovekin) Kent, was born March 29, 1700. He was a "yeoman." The date of his owning the covenant was February 9, 1724. He was married January 10, 1723, by Rev. Samuel Thompson, to Mary, daughter of James and Hannah Godfrey, of West Gloucester ; she was born June 17, 1703. They had ten children : Mary, Jacob, Josiah, Joseph, James, John, Sarah, Jeremiah, Job and Judith.

(V) Colonel Jacob, second child and eldest son of John and Mary (Godfrey) Kent, was born in Chebacco, now Essex, Massachusetts, June 12, 1726, and died in Newbury, Vermont, December 13. 1812, in the eighty-sixth year of his agc. He moved from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, before November 30, 1756, to Plaistow, New Hampshire, where he was highway surveyor in 1756, and was schoolmaster in 1758-60. In 1760 a regiment was raised in New Hampshire under Colonel John Goffe, of Bedford, to aid in the conquest of Canada, tinder General Jeffrey Amherst ; Jacob Bailey, of Newbury, was lieutenant-colonel. and John Hazen was captain of one of the companies in which Jacob Kent and Timothy Bedel were lieu- tenants. At the end of the campaign, Bailey, Hazen, Bedel and Kent came through the woods from Can- ada, striking the great intervals at the Lower Cohos. The location and the fertility of the soil were so attractive that they returned in 1761 to aid the settle- ment, Bailey and Kent, of Newbury, on the west side of the river, and Hazen and Bedel, of Haver- hill, on the eastern side. Lieutenant Kent made sev- eral trips between Newbury. Vermont, and Plain- stow, New Hampshire, his old home, bringing his family in 1763, and making his settlement Novem- ber 4. of that year. Lieutenant Kent was commis- sioned September 6, 1764, captain of an independent company of militia in the towns of Haverhill and Newbury, Vermont. This company expanded into a regiment which existed from about 1775 to about 1845, when the militia was practically disbanded. Jacob Kent was the first colonel of this regiment. and commanded it at Saratoga, at Burgoyne's sur- render, October 17, 1777, as appears by his diary kept during the campaign and official documents. It was later commanded by his eldest son, Jacob Kent, and still later by his son, Colonel Jacob Kent, who was the last of the family to reside on the fam- ily homestead. This farm, comprising five hundred and fifty acres and situated about two miles below the village, extended back from the Connecticut across the plain and over the crest of the ridge to the west. It was divided by Colonel Jacob Kent. the pioneer, among his three sons: Jacob. John and Joseph. Colonel Kent was for many years one of the most conspicuous figures in the military, civic, religious and social life of the community and region

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wherein he lived. He was justice of the peace at various times, was clerk of the proprietors' meeting at Plaistow, New Hampshire, in 1762, town clerk from 1764 to 1789, inclusive, and selectman 1762-66- 67. 1784-86-89, in all six years. He represented the town in the state legislature, 1788-89-91, was judge of probate from 1786 to 1794, inclusive, was county clerk and assistant judge of the common pleas and commissioner to receive the estates of those who had joined the enemy during the Revolutionary period. He was one of the constituent members of the Con- gregational Church, parish clerk for many years, and one of the deacons of the church as long as he lived. Colonel Kent's sword, bearing etched on its blade the date of 1555, carried in all the wars, and the white whalebone patriarchal staff, carried in old age and civic life, are in the possession of Colonel Henry O. Kent, of Lancaster.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. I, Part 113

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 858

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 858