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 13

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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(VII) Lucy J., fifth daughter and eighth child of Sanborn and Nancy A. (Sherburne) Shaw, was born November 22. 1833, and became the second wife of Moses F. Little (see Little. VII).


(VI) Dimond, fifth son and sixth child of Lieutenant Benjamin and Sarah (Sanborn) Shaw, was born November 5, 1798, in Weare, and settled in Salisbury, in 1826. He removed thence to Hill, and died in that town May 13, 1874. He was a


farmer and a good citizen. His place in Salisbury is now occupied by his son. He was married (first) May 21, 1826, to Rachel Dresser. who was born June 9, 1798, in Sutton, and died November 14, 1851, in Salisbury. He married (second), February 26, 1852, Mrs. Sarah Quimby, of Hill. His children, all born of the first wife, were: John, Mary C., Fred- erick C. and Abigail.


(VII) Mary C., elder daughter and second child of Dimond and Rachel (Dresser) Shaw, was born January 6, 1828, and was married February 19, 1852, to Moses F. Little (see Little, VII).


(Second Family.)


No less than thirty-two men by the SHAW name of Shaw were among the pioneer settlers of New England during the sev- enteenth century. The family whose line follows is not descended from any of these; the ancestor of the present branch came direct from Scotland in 1730.


(I) William Shaw came in 1730 from the Scotch Highlands to Charleston, South Carolina, as aid to an English general. Later he settled in North Concord. Massachusetts, where he died July 10, 1808. At the outbreak of the Revolution he en- listed in the Continental army. He married Martha Mills and they had one son, William, Jr., whose sketch follows.


(II) William (2), son of William (1) and Martha (Mills) Shaw, was born in Concord, Mas- sachusetts, February 25. 1778. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and came from Boston, Massa- chusetts, to Milford, New Hampshire, in 1802. His change of location may have been due to his marriage, for on November 7, 1802, he married Asenath, daughter of William and Abigail (Lewis) Hopkins, of Milford. She was born in that town August 19. 1869. They had five children, all born in Milford, New Hampshire: William (3), born January 4. 1803. Benjamin, February 19, 1805. George H., March 20, 1807, married Lydia, daugh- ter of Cyrus and Hannah (Berry) Stiles, of Am- herst, New Hampshire, was a farmer in Amherst where he died November 8, 1895. Abigail, Decem- ber 12. 18II, married George W. Davis, of Prince- ton, Massachusetts, and died February 15, 1860. Olive, June 6, 1813. married Dexter Farwell, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and died October 21, 1857. William Shaw, Jr., died February 25, 1856. on his seventy-eighth birthday.


(III) William (3). third son of William (2) and Asenath (Hopkins) Shaw, was born in Mil- ford, New Hampshire, January 4, 1803. He was a manufacturer of violins, a phrenologist and a bo- tanic physician. On November 20, 1823, he mar- ried Betsey, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Burn- ham) Hutchinson, who was born in Milford, March 21, 1808 (see Hutchinson family), They had four children, one son and three daughters. The chil- dren were: Christopher Columbus, whose sketch follows. Lutheria Adaline, born October 17, 1837, died in Boston, October 4, 1854. Mary Jane, No- vember 13. 1841. died September 29, 1843. Ella Francilla, July 12. 1846, married Fred. H., son of Alfred J. and Ann (Huse) Lynch, of Milford, died February 4, 1872. William Shaw (3), died October 25, 1870. His wife died June 22, 1889. by accident on the railroad.


(IV) Christopher Columbus, only son and cld- est child of William Shaw (3) and Betsey (Hutch- inson) Shaw, was born in Milford. New Hampshire, March 20, 1824, on the place where he now lives. This land was originally granted to the town of Charlestown, Massachusetts, for school purposes.


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It was held in this way from 1659 to 1744, when Charlestown sold it to William Hopkins. of Mil- ford. New Hampshire, the great-grandfather of Mr. Shaw. It did not descend directly, however, for Mr. Hopkins sold it to Nathan Hutchinson, through whom it passed to Jacob and then to Reu- ben Hutchinson, the father of Mr. Shaw's wife. C. C. Shaw was educated in the common schools and at Milford Academy. He first worked on a farm till his health failed; and at about eighteen years of age he began retailing dry goods from house to house. In 1844 he opened a country store at Milford, where he continued till 1848, when he closed out and established himself in the dry goods business at Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1850 he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was similarly engaged for a time on Hanover street. He then connected himself with the large import- ing and jobbing dry goods house of J. W. Blod- gett & Company, in which he has continued either as proprietor or salesman. most of the time since. The firm was burned out during the great fire of 1872. and for nearly eight years Mr. Shaw gave up his business in Boston and retired to his farm in Milford. About this time Mr. Shaw was attract- ed by the Grange movement sweeping over the west. Mr. Shaw was one of the first men in New Hampshire to see the possibilities of this order, and he sent for the first organizer. General Deputy Eben Thompson, to visit him at Milford. In two lays Granite Grange, No. 7. was organized in Milford, with Mr. Shaw as master. A few weeks later the State Grange was organized, and he was elected secretary and appointed general deputy. Subsequently he was made purchasing agent for the state. In January, 1877, the State Mutual Fire Insurance Company was organized with Mr. Shaw as president. He held this position for seven years. In December. 1884. he was chosen secretary of the Patron's Relief Association, of which he became president in January. 1893. From 1873 till 1880, at which time he resumed mercantile business in Boston, Mr. Shaw was largely occupied in organ- izing subordinate granges and otherwise develop- ing the order in the state. He organized thirty-two others in various New Hampshire towns. At pres- ent Mr. Shaw is secretary of the State Grange, and has been chairman of the executive committee for several years (1907). No man in the state has done more for the interests of the order than himself, and no one is held in higher esteem by the older members.


Mr. Shaw has been especially interested in the culture of fruit, and he has sent noteworthy ex- hibits of fruit, fancy poultry, Chester swine and Jersey cattle to the New England and other fairs. He has been a trustee of the New England Agri- cultural Society, and for many years has been a life member of that society. also of the Massa- chusetts Horticultural and American Pomological societies. He was one of the committee in charge of New Hampshire's exhibit at the Columbian Ex- position in Chicago in 1893. Being dissatisfied with the state's display of fruit, he decided to or- ganize the New Hampshire Horticultural Society, of which he has been the continuous president. Be- sides his other interests Mr. Shaw is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and is president of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Milford. In politics he was born a Whig, but he early be- came an Abolitionist, whence he joined the Repub- lican party upon its formation. He represented Mil- ford in the state legislature of 1875 and 1876, and for seven years was a member of the Republican


state committee. At one time he received the un- solicited nomination for state senator. In religion he is a Liberalist, and is president of the Veteran Spiritualist Union of Boston.


Christopher C. Shaw was united in marriage Au- gust 27, 1846, with Rebecca Peabody, eleventh child of Reuben and Lucy (Hutchinson) Hutchinson, of Milford. New Hampshire. Her great-grandfather, Captain Nathan Hutchinson, was a Revolutionary soldier, and one of the first settlers of Milford. (See Hutchinson family). Three children were born of this marriage: Horatio Christopher, born in Milford, July 31, 1847, is a salesman and farm- er at Milford, married, January 26, 1870, Eliza J., daughter of William and Mary (Colby) White. of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. One child, Hattie May, born in Wilton, New Hampshire, July 8, 1870. Charles Jacob, born in Milford, December 15, 1851, was at the time of his death, November 6, 1904, a merchant in Philadelphia, he married (first) Anna M., daughter of Joseph A. and Elizabeth L. ( Plympton) Twitchell of Milford, and (second ), Elizabeth A., daughter of Thomas A. and Sarah A. (Perkins) Worden, of Boston. He had two chil- dren: Ralph Jacob born February 5, 1885, and Adele Louise, born October 21, 1888, who married Emmett E. Boone, of Philadelphia. December 5, 1906. Hattie Lutheria, born in Boston, Massachus- etts, July 14. 1858, died in Milford. New Hamp- shire, January 7, 1861.


SHAW Shaw is an old English name, denoting a grove of small trees, and was first used in reference to persons in the expression "atte shawe," or "at the shaw," and finally adopted as a surname by the person living "at the shaw," and kept by his descendants after all local reference had been lost.


(I) Benjamin Shaw was born in Hampton, New Hampshire. December 25, 1766, and settled in Chichester when a young man, being the first of the Shaw family in that town. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a member of the Congrega- tional Church of Chichester. He married (first ) Abigail Paige, born in 1773. died January 17, 1831. She had two children. John and David P. He mar- ried (second ) Ruth Sherburne. She died May 4. 1849, leaving no issuc.


(II) David P., second son and child of Benja- min and Abigail ( Paige) Shaw, was born May 27. 1797. He was educated in the common schools and at Pembroke Academy. He was much inter- este1 in militia matters, and was appointed April 17, 1826, captain of militia in the Thirty-eighth New Hampshire Regiment. He also served in the War of 1812, and was stationed at Portsmouth. He was like his father a member of the Congregational Church, and a Democrat. He married, October 16, 1823, Clarissa Carpenter. daughter of the Rev. Josiah and Hannah ( Morrill) Carpenter, of Chi- chester (see Carpenter, XV), and they were the parents of John, Josiah C., David C., Charles C. and Benjamin.


(III) Josiah Carpenter Shaw, second son of David and Clarissa (Carpenter) Shaw, was born in Chichester, 1826 and died in Concord, September 29, 1886. He left home when of age or sooner and took up his residence in Concord. From about 1850 to 1870 he was steward in the Insane Asylum at Concord, where by economy and a careful in- vestment of his savings he gained a competency. He was a Democrat in politics, and a constant at- tendant at the Congregational Church. He mar- ried Rosetta R. Danforth, born in the western part


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of Boscawen, now Webster, March II. 1843. daugh- ter of Edmund and Rhoda S. (Clough) Danforth (see Danforth VI). There is one child of this mar- riage, Clarence Eugene Shaw, born September 22. 1875, residing in Concord.


This name originated in Scot- MCCLINTOCK land, and the family now being considered is descended from a worthy Scotch Presbyterian who carly in the eighteenth century joined his compatriots in the north of Ireland, whence he came to New England. Bearers of this name have acquired distinction as scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, notably : Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, an Irish Arctic explorer, and John N. MeClintock, the well known civil engineer and sanitary expert of Boston, who will be again referred to.


(I) William McClintock, a native of Scotland and a devout Presbyterian, went to the north of Ireland early in the eighteenth century in order to participate in the freedom of thought and action in religious matters enjoyed by his fellow-country- men who had previously settled there. After re- siding in Londonderry for a time he emigrated to New England in 1730, and settled in Medford, Massachusetts, near Boston. He was married four times, three times in the old country, was the father of nineteen children, and lived to be ninety years old. His third wife accompanied him to this coun- try.


(II) William (2), son of William (1) McClin- tock and his third wife, was born in Londonderry. Ireland, 1729, and was brought by his parents to New England during his infancy. He was a resi- dent of Medford, Massachusetts, 1757, but later re- moved to Boothbay, Maine. His death occurred June 3, 1779. He married second, Margaret Fuller- ton, who bore him two children: William of Bris- tol, Maine. see forward; John, of Boothbay.


(II) Rev. Dr. Samuel, son of William (1) Mc- Clintock, the immigrant, and his third wife, and brother of William McClintock, abovementioned, was born at Medford, Massachusetts, May 1, 1732, died April 27. 1804, in his seventy-second year. He was a graduate of Princeton College, a resident of Greenland, New Hampshire, and served as chap- lain of a New Hampshire regiment which parti- cipated in the battle of Bunker Hill, commanded by General Starke. He married in Portsmouth, in the fall of 1754, lived with his wife thirty-one years, and they were the parents of fifteen children. Four of their sons engaged in the revolutionary war at the same time, namely: Nathaniel, Samuel, Wil- liam and John. Nathaniel, the eldest of the sons, was born March 21, 1757. He graduated from Har- vard College, 1775. He was offered an ensign's com- mission in the British army, but refused. Soon after the battle of Lexington he joined the Ameri- can army as lieutenant of one of the companies of the New Hampshire line. He was appointed ad- jutant in Colonel Poore's regiment and promoted to the rank of brigade major when Poore was advanced to that of brigadier-general. He was with General Washington at cap-


ture of the Hessians at Trenton in 1776, was at Ticonderoga, and in various engage- ments with Burgoyne's army until its final capturc. In 1780 he was killed in an engagement on board a man-of-war. Samuel, the second son, was born February 21. 1758, was a midshipman on hoard the "Rollo," a frigate in the United States service : was afterward a lieutenant of a frigate ship-of- war, and was lost at sea on a merchant vessel.


William, the third son, born February 4, 1759, was killed at the battle of Trenton. John, the fourth son, born August 28, 1761, was in four dif- ferent private armed ships, in three actions, and was successively mate, prizemaster and lieutenant before he was twenty years of age. He was the only one of the four brothers who survived the war. He resided in Portsmouth. New Hampshire, and served as naval officer for the city for a long period of time, during the administrations of Har- rison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore and Pierce. At the time of his death, November 13, 1855, he was the oldest man residing in Portsmouth.


(III) Hon. William (3), son of William (2) McClintock, was born in Boothbay, Maine, Sep- tember 29. 1778. For a number of years he fol- . lowed the sea as master of a vessel, owned a farm in Bristol, of which town he was a resident the greater part of his life, and served as land sur- veyor. He was quite active in public affairs, hav- ing served as trial justice, in the lower house of legislature of Massachusetts and Maine, and as a member of the first constitutional convention of Maine. He married Fanny Young.


(1V) Captain John. son of William (3) and Fanny (Young) Mcclintock, was born in Bristol, April 9, 1807. Like the majority of the residents of his town, he was a seafaring man, and becom- ing a master mariner visited all parts of the world as captain of a merchantman. The following in- cident will serve to emphasize his ability as a mar- iner. While in the port of Yokohama, Japan, he found it advantageous to accept a cargo for Callao, Peru, and although his chronometer was disabled and he was not in possession of the necessary charts, with the aid of an atlas of the world and his watch he guided his ship accurately across the Pacific ocean and brought her safely into port. He settled in Hallowell, Maine. He married Mary Bailey Shaw, daughter of William Stanley Shaw, and had a family of six children, four of whom are living. namely: John N., see forward. Hon. Wil- liam E., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, chairman of the state highway commission. J. Y., county en- gincer of Monroe county, New York, resides in Rochester. Mary E., who is residing in Read- field, Maine.


(V) John Norris Mcclintock, A. M., C. E .. son of Captain John and Mary Bailey (Shaw) Mc- Clintock, was born in Winthrop, Maine, May 12, 1846. His carly education was acquired in the pub- lic schools of Hallowell, and he was graduated from Bowdoin College, 1867, later receiving the degree of Master of Arts from the same institu- tion. Prior to the completion of his collegiate course he was appointed to the United States coast survey, and immediately after leaving college he entered the government's service in which he was later advanced to the position of sub-assistant. He continued in that service eight years, or until 1875, when he relinquished his government position in order to establish himself as a civil engineer in Concord, New Hampshire, in which city he had lo- cated some four years previous. Ile was, how- over, for some time afterwards connected with the United States engineer corps. At Concord he built up a large and profitable general civil engin- cering business, being employer in several import- and undertakings, including electric railways, etc., and he was also connected with the geological sur- vev of New Hampshire. In 1879 he became owner. publisher and editor of the Granite Monthly at Concord, New Hampshire, and he continued to direct the affairs of that publication until ISot, at


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the same time attending to his professional duties. In the latter named year he found it advisable to transfer his headquarters to Boston, where his rep- utation was such as to enable him to command a large share of general engineering work in that city, and he was subsequently employed by the city, the state and numerous corporations.


For the past twelve years Mr. McClintock has devoted his time and energies to the important mu- nicipal problems of the proper disposal of sewage and the purification of water, with the result that he has succeeded in perfecting an improved sys- tem of filteration based upon a thoroughly scien- tific principle. Having purchased certain patents which he improved through the introduction of in- · ventions of his own, he organized what is known as the American "Sewage Disposal Company of Boston, and also the Water Purification Company, both of which have become successful enterprises of unquestionable sanitary importance. The process for the rapid filteration and neutralization of sew- age. known as the Biological System, can be ap- plied with equal efficacy to the purification of water for domestic purposes, and in all probability con- stitutes the most important advance in the art of filteration yet accomplished. As a sanitary im- provement its value cannot be too highly estimated, and its adoption by the large municipalities of America, Europe, including the city of London, and cities in the Orient, has been attended with ex- cellent results.


Mr. McClintock resides in Dorchester. In addi- tion to his duties as president and manager of the above mentioned enterprises, he has created a large business as a consulting engineer, particularly in ref- erence to sewage purification, in which science he is regarded as one of the leading experts in the United States, and at various conventions of scien- tific bodies he has read papers which have become ' standard authority. He is a member of the Maine and New Hampshire Historical societies, and other organizations. Aside from his professional ability he is widely and favorably known in New Hamp- shire as the author of an excellent history of that state. In his religious belief he is a Congregation- alist.


Mr. McClintock married. October 3, 1871, Jo- sephine Tilton, daughter of Joseph C. Tilton, of Concord, and granddaughter of Dr. Timothy Til- ton, of Canaan. The children of this union are: John Tilton, an architect in Boston. . Edward Pratt, deceased, who was a broker in New York City. Arabella Chandler, resides with her parents.


A time-honored name in Ameri- CHANDLER can annals, among the first in New Hampshire, this has been conspicuous in many states, and is among the most prominent of this commonwealth today. As jurists and legislators, as business men and phil- anthropists, its bearers have done service to New Hampshire and received honor at her hands. It has been said that Roxbury, Massachusetts, re- ceived the best of the English emigrants in Puri- tan days, and this family has furnished since those olden days many of the best pioneers in many states of the Union.


(I) William Chandler, the immigrant ancestor, with his wife, Annis and four children settled at Roxbury in 1637. Annis is supposed to have been a sister of Deacon George Alcock, of Roxbury. One child was born to them at Roxbury. In a list of inhabitants at Roxbury between 1638 and 1640, William Chandler appears as the owner of


twenty-two acres of land. with seven persons in his family. He was charged with the care on the commons of one goat and kid, the least of any of the residents. He took the freeman's oath in 1640, and was at that time stricken with disease which caused his demise November 26, 1641. He was among the proprietors of Andover, with his son Thomas, and tradition says he was the owner of the tannery at the corner of Bartlett street and Shawmut avenue, Roxbury. A chronicler of his time says he "Lived a religious & godly life among 11s & fell into a Consumption to which he had, a long time, heen inclined; he lay near a yeare sick, in all which time his faith, patience & Godli- ness & Contentation So Shined that Christ was much glorified in him-he was a man of Weake parts hut Excellent faith and holiness; he was a Very thankful man, and much magnified God's goodness. He was poor. but God prepared the hearts of his people to him that he never wanted that which was (at least in his Esteem) Very plent- iful and comfortable to him-he died in the year 1641, and left a Sweet memory and Savor behind him." William Chandler's widow was married July 2, 1643, to John Dane, of Barkhampstead. Eng- land, who died in September, 1658, and she married (third) August 9. 1660, John Parmenter of Sud- bury, Massachusetts. The children of William and Annis Chandler were: Hannah. Thomas, William, John and Sarah. (Mention of William and John and descendants forms an important portion of this article. )


(II) Captain Thomas, second child and oldest son of William and Annis (Alcock) Chandler, was born in 1630, and died "15 day, 1703." He came with his parents to New England in 1637, when he was ahout seven years old. He was one of the proprietors and early pioneers in the settlement of Andover, and his name is twenty-third "of the house- holders in order as they came to town." He was employed with George Abbot, senior, and others, to lay out lands granted individuals by the general court. An old record reads: "It is ordered, that Thomas Chandler be leften'nt in ye ffoot Com- pany in Andover, John Stephens. Ensign. under the command of Dudley Bradstreet, Capt." He was representative to the general court in 1678 and 1679, from Andover. Loring's "History of An- dover" says: "Thomas Chandler was a blacksmith, ultimately a rich man, carrying on a considerable iron works." It is a tradition that iron works existed where Marland village now is. Thomas Chandler's son, Captain Joseph, sold, 1718. "one half of ye whole Iron works in Salisbury on ye falls commonly called ve Powwow River." Thomas Chandler married Hannah Brewer, of Andover. She died in Andover, October 25. 1717. aged eighty- seven. Their children were: Thomas (died youing), John, Hannah, William, Sarah, Thomas, IIenry and Joseph.


(III) Captain John. second son and child of Captain Thomas and Hannah (Brewer) Chandler, born March 14, 1655. died in Andover, September 19. 1721, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, was a blacksmith and landholder. His homestead was on the west side of the Shawshin river, in Andover. He was chosen moderator for the day at the an- nual town meeting, March 6, 1710, and on the same date was elected one of the selectman, to which office he was several times re-elected. He was first selectman in 1715. and subsequently highway surveyor. He married Hannah Abbot, third child of George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbot. of An- dover (see Abbott). She was born June 9, 1650,


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and died March 2, 1741, aged ninety, Their chil- dren were: John (died young), John, Zebediah, Abiel. Hannah and Sarah.


(1V) John (2), second son and child of John


(1) and Hannah (Abbot) Chandler, born March 14, 1680, died May 3, 1741, in Andover, was a farmer in West Parish, on "the Chandler Home- stead," where his great-grandson. Captain Joshua Chandler, resided in 1871. He and his wife were admitted to full communion with the church in Andover, July 13. 1712. Sergeant John Chandler was surveyor 1716-20; selectman 1720. Ensign John Chandler was selectman and overseer of the poor in 1725-26-28. He "was chosen a trustee of the town, to take out of the Provence Treasury their aforesaid part of £60.000," and September 19, 1732, Captain John Chandler was moderator of a town meeting in Andover. The Church Records. South Parish, Andover, November 8, 1730, state : "Ensign John Chandler was made choice of as a messenger to the ordination of Rev. Timothy Wal- ker, at Penny Cook, which is to be on the 18th." "The great-grandson of Ensign John Chandler used to relate that on one occasion, when his ancestor Ensign John Chandler, of Andover, went to New- buryport, he was impressed by three of the king's officials, saying to him, as they laid their hands on his shoulder, "the King needs your services." He told them he wished to be excused, as his family needed his care, &c., to which the reply was, 'we can't help that; the King needs your services; you will go with us.' Apparently yielding, he walked quietly along until they reached a spot where a house had been burned and where there was a deep cellar, with ashes and half consumed timbers still burning, then turning round quickly he seized them, one by one, and threw them all into the cel- Iar, where he left them and went his way." His will was dated April 20, and proved June 1, 1741. He married, June 4, 1701, Hannah Frye. born April 12, 1683, died August 1, 1727, aged forty-four years. She was the daughter of Samuel Frye, born 1650, by his wife Mary, daughter of John Aslett or Asle- bee, granddaughter of Robert Frye. who married Ann, who died in Andover, October 23. 1680, and great-granddaughter of John Frye, of Basing, Hants, England. The children of this union were : John, Joshua, Nathan. Hannah. Mary, Phebe, Abiel, Samuel (died young), Lydia, Samuel, Isaac and Dorcas. Hannah became the wife of Timothy Ballard (see Ballard. IV). (Abial and descendants receive extended mention in this, article.)




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