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Mr. Avery married Mary Moody Clark, born August 25, 1795, daughter of Joseph and Comfort (Weeks) Clark, of Greenland, this state. (See Clark V.) She became the mother of three chil- dren. namely: Augustine Decatur, who will be again referred to; Joseph L., who will be again referred to; and Ann Eliza, born November 25,
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ISI9. The latter became the wife of Rev. Leander Thompson, who was for some years a missionary in Syria. Mrs. Mary M. Avery died March 6, 1876. (VII) Augustine Decatur, son of Samuel and Mary M. (Clark) Avery, was born in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, October 16, 1814. He occupied the old homestead of his parents. Though never seeking public office and often declining to be a candidate, he had from time to time filled various positions of public trust. Like many others of his kindred, he was in his younger days interested in military tactics and for some time was lieutenant in a military company. He was town clerk and town treasurer, each time for several years; representa- tive to the legislature for three years; county com- missioner for two terms. Besides his interest, for many years, and in connection with his brother in the village store which his father early established. he was regarded as an enterprising and model farmer, having in company with his brother a large and one of the best conducted farms in New Hamp- shire. The life and business of the brothers, Au- gustine D. and Joseph L. Avery, was always so intimately associated, and to some extent cven identified that much that should be said of one might also be said of the other. They married sis- ters : were connected in their business ; were inter- ested in the same general objects as leaders in the community, as prominent members of the Congrega- tional Society, as friends of education, good morals and good order, and to a considerable extent sus- tained the same municipal and other offices. He married. December 26, 1854, Sarah E. Libby. daugh- ter of Dudley Levitt and Sarah Ann (Wiggin) Libby. Children: Mary Elizabeth, born November 16, 1855, died October 20, 1856. Dudley Libby, Au- gust JI. 1857, died June 24, 1874. Samuel Augus- tine, March 5. 1860. died August 27. 1861. Samuel March 14, 1862. Belle, born March 27, 1866, un- married. He died November 10. 1903.
(VIII) Samuel, son of Augustine D. and Saralı E. (Libby) Avery, was born March 14, 1862, on the old homestead upon which he now resides. He is interested in farming and fruit raising. He was married July 15, 1905. to Mary Chapman Banfield, daughter of Everett H. and Anne S. (Fiske) Ban- field.
(VII) Joseph Lorenzo, second son and child of Samuel and Mary M. (Clark) Avery, was born in Wolfboro. January 12. 1817. He was educated at the old Wolfboro and Tuftonboro Academy. En- tering his father's store as a clerk at an early age, he continued in mercantile business for a number of years, but finally relinquished trade in order to devote his time exclusively to his extensive farm- ing interests. and still owns a valuable agricultural estate. During the construction of the Wolfboro Railroad he acted as treasurer of the corporation which permitted him to serve without furnishing the customary bond, and for many years he has been a trustee of the Wolfhoro Savings Bank, which he assisted in the organizing, a trustee of the old Wolf- boro and Tuftonboro Academy and continued on the board after the reorganization as the Brewster free school. In public affairs he was formerly quite prominent, serving as town clerk and town treas- urer. In his younger days he evinced the same fondness for military affairs which characterized his ancestors. being at one time captain of a cav- alry company, was appointed a member of Gov. ernor Weston's staff with the rank of colonel. His religious affiliations are with the Congregationalists. Politically he is a Democrat. On January 8, 1857, Mr. Avery married Helen Maria Libby, who was
born in Tuftonboro, April 31, 1835. daughter of Dudley Levitt and Sarah Am (Wiggin) Libby. (See Libby.) She bore him two sons: Joseph William, August 14. 1867 (died October 16, of the same year) ; and Joseph Clifton Avery.
(VIII) Joseph Clifton, second son and child of Joseph L. and Helen M. (Libby) Avery, was born in Wolfboro, June 1. 1874. He pursued his pre- liminary studies in the public schools and was graduated from the Brewster Free Academy. He is interested in the dairy industry, for which the homestead farm is admirably adapted, and in addi- tion to conducting a profitable milk route he is en- gaged in the insurance business. He married Mina Hodge, daughter of William P. and Sarah (Mack) Hodge. Mr. and Mrs. Avery have two children : Helen and Howard.
(I) David H., probably son of Benjamin Avery, of Barnstead. was born June 25. 1765. He settled upon farm in Barnstead, New Hampshire, later moved to Rumney, and lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years, his death having occurred August 12, 1852. In 1786 or 1787 he married Susanna Willey, who was born May II. 1764. and died in May, 1853. aged eighty- nine years. They were both buried on the farm where they lived, in Campton. Their children were: Samuel, born September 14, 1788; Thomas, November 13. 1789: Lois, May 20, 1791 : Deborah, September 17, 1702; Betsey, May 3, 1794; Levi. March 27. 1795 Susanna, March 17, 1797; David, May 25, 1800: Elias Smith, the date of whose birth will be recorded presently : Hannah, September I, 1803: and Ezra, August 15, 1805.
(II) Elias Smith, fourth son and ninth child of David H. and Susanna (Willey) Avery, was born August 28, 1801. In carly life he resided in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, from whence he removed in 1834 to Campton, New Hampshire, where he pur- chased a farm located in the eastern part of that town. and he died there July 14. 1877. Ahout the year 1827 he was married in Cambridge to Louisa Sophronia Buckman, who was born February 20, ISOS. She survived her husband some fifteen years.
her death having occurred January 10, 1892, and they were both interred in Campton. They were the parents of eleven children : ' Alfred Augustus, born in Cambridge. August 28, 1828: Charles Hen- rv. horn in Cambridge, February 22. 1831: Louisa Maria, born in Cambridge, July 21, 1833. died Sen- tember 3. 1834: George Edwin, born September 15. 1835. in Campton, which is also the birthplace of the succeeding children: Amariah, who will be re- ferred to at length presently: John Spencer, horn September 22 1830: James Franklin; born Novem- her 27. I&II, died August 25. 1815 : Harriet Augusta. horn April 1. 1841: Franklin Winfield, born July 17. 1806: James Scott, born September 7. 1848; and Mary Holman, born January 26, 1852. Al- fred A., who served in the Civil war. spent several years in Wisconsin, and is now residing in Stone- ham, Massachusetts. His first wife, whom he mar- ried in Wisconsin, died childless. His second wife was before marriage Mary Jane Butterfield, of Stoncham Charles II. Avery, who resided in Wis- consin for upwards of a quarter of a century, died in Manchester, New Hampshire, May 18, 1902. He also served in the Rebellion. He was married in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Mary ITolman, of Dixfield. Maine who bore him three children : Louise Sophronia, who became the wife of Arthur O. Johnson, of Manchester: Ada Frances, wife of Henry Pelton, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin : and George Ilenry, who married Annie L. Derby, of Manchester.
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George Edwin Avery enlisted in Company I, Twelfth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, for service in the Civil war. He was captured by the enemy in the battle of Gettysburg and confined in Libby prison. from which he was at length lib- erated on parole, but was unable to survive the effects of his long period of starvation and exposure suffered while a prisoner of war. He died in Wash- ington. District of Columbia, October 30, 1863, and was buried in the national cemetery at Annapolis, Maryland. John Spencer Avery enlisted in Com- pany E, Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Vol- unteers, with which he served three years in the Civil war, and was honorably discharged at the conclusion of his term of service, returning to Campton. For his first wife he married Adaline Benton, daughter of Zenas Benton, of Campton. She died October 20, 1868, leaving one son Benton Henry. He subsequently removed to Manchester, and on April 17, 1872, married for his second wife Emma Lucinda Rexford, whose parents will be re- ferred to later. She died September 28, 1888, and he afterwards married a third wife, who bore him one daughter, Marion. Harriet A. Avery is the wife of Leonard P. Benton, now a retired shoe manufacturer of Stoneham. Her children are: Edna Alice, wife of W. P. Fletcher, of Stoneham; and Herbert Leonard, who died January 10, 1876. Franklin Avery, who is engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Manchester, married Hannah Quinn, of Hooksett, this state, and had four children: Edith. Edwin, Willis F. and Ben- jamin Harrison. James Scott Avery, tenth child of Elias and Louisa S. (Buckman) Avery, is still residing at the old homestead in Campton. He married Henrietta Rutherford, daughter of Fran- cis A. and Rhoda (Richardson) Rutherford, and has one son, Lester Martin Avery, who is residing with his parents. Mary H. Avery, eleventh child of Elias S. and Louisa S. (Buckman) Avery, is now a resident of Stoneham.
(III) Amariah, fourth son and fifth child of Elias S. and Louisa S. (Buckman) Avery, was born in Campton, September 14, IS37. He was educated in the public schools and resided at home until attaining his majority. With the exception of a short period spent in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Hooksett, New Hampshire, he has been a resident of Manchester from 1859 to the present time, and the active years of his life have been devoted to the wool-spinning industry. For nearly fifty years he has been closely identified with the Manchester Manufacturing Corporation, and has worked his way forward from an apprentice to the responsible position of overseer of the worsted spinning de- partment, having served in that capacity with marked ability and faithfulness for the past thirty- one years. He is a past worshipful master of La- fayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- Iows. In his religious belief he is an Episcopalian.
On July 3, 1863, Mr. Avery married Ellen Ame- lia Golden, who was born in Sutton, Canada, Sep- tember 12. 1838. She died April 12, 1872. His sec- ond wife, whom he married November 14, 1877, was Annie Laurie Rexford, daughter of Myron Newell and Martha ( Boynton) Rexford, of Stan- stead, Province of Quebec. She is a sister of Em- ma L. Rexford, previously mentioned as the second wife of John S. Avery. The children of his first marriage are: Nellie Louisa Jane, wife of Fred D. Bullard, of Manchester, and they have one child, Helen Mary; and Helen Amoretta Margaret Eliza, wife of Maurice Hoffman, also of Manchester, one
child, Maurice Harold Frederick. Those of his second union arc: Laurie May Belle, who resides at home; Earle Rexford, who is in business in Wor- cester, Massachusetts; Ray Longfellow, now a cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and Maude Alice, who has not yet completed her education.
WILMARTH
In early Colonial records in New
England the name of Wilmarth, as now known, is frequently given
as Wilmot and sometimes as Wilmuth, but how- ever mentioned it probably refers to some branch of the Wilmarth family. One eminent authority in treating of the early history of the family in the colony of Massachusetts mentions Thomas Wil- mot, of Braintree, as one of the "petitioners for the grant of a plantation on lands of Pumham, 1645, that the Indian chief had sold to Gorton and his fellow believers, which our rulers for this mischief had confiscated," and also refers to him as "probably the same man who at Rehoboth married, June 7, 1674, Mary Robinson, living there June 27, 1678," etc. The same authority also suggests that Thomas Wilmot "expanded" his name to Wilmarth, recording his name as "senior," and as such was admitted as townsman, 1673, and that his chil- dren then were Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Mehitable and Ann.
Whatever importance may be attached to this somewhat fragmentary record of an ancient family of Massachusetts is uncertain, but the fact remains that the Wilmarths of New Hampshire of the line here considered are descendants from Thomas Wil- mot and his wife Elizabeth, and that Thomas Wil- mot, Jr., whose wife was Mary Robinson, was the grandfather of John Wilmarth, who came from Attleboro, Massachusetts, and settled in Newport, New Hampshire, when only eight families were living in the town.
(I) Thomas Wilmot, the first of the Wilmots or Wilmarths from whom the Wilmarths of New Hampshire trace descent, had a wife Elizabeth, who bore lıim children.
(II) Thomas, Jr., son of Thomas and Eliza- beth Wilmot, married Mary Robinson, a daughter of George Robinson and Joanna Ingraham, his wife. George Robinson served under Major Wil- liam Bradford in the expedition against the Nar- ragansett Indians during the winter of 1675-76, in the early part of King Philip's war.
(III) Samuel, son of Thomas Wilmarth, Jr. (or Wilmot) and Mary Robinson his wife, married Elizabeth Chub, and had children.
(IV) John, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chub) Wilmarth, left his old home in Massachu- setts and came to New Hampshire when all the re- gion was a wilderness, and guided his course to Newport by the means of marked trees. He built one of the first framed houses in Newport and was a man of consequence in the town, although he does not appear to have been particularly promi- nent in public affairs. While living in Massachu- setts he married Phebe Briggs, who came with him to Newport, as also did their eight children, whose names were Daniel, Nathan, Elkanah (who after- ward went to Troy, New York), Hartford (who settled in Vermont), Phebe (who married John Brown), Eunice (who married George Comstock), Mary, and Selah (who married Luther Comstock and settled in Canada).
(V) Daniel, son of John and Phebe (Briggs) Wilmarth, was born March 12, 1768, and died Oc- tober 16, 1835, aged eighty-seven years. His prin-
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cipal occupation was farming, although considerable of his time was given to mechanical work. He married, February 19, 1795, Nancy Munroe, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, born October 5, 1766, and died March 24, 1854, aged eighty-nine years. Their children were: Jonathan M., born May 21, 1790; David, July 7, 1797; Lucretia, February 23, 1798; Daniel, October 13, 1800, and Nancy, August 16, 1806.
(VI) Jonathan Munroe, eldest son and child of Daniel and Nancy ( Munroe) Wilmarth, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, May 21, 1790, and spent the greater part of his active life at his home place near the Oak street bridge in that town, where he engaged in farming and mechanical employments. His thrift and industry secured him a competency, and his understanding of business affairs frequently made him the choice of his fellow townsmen for public office. He was selectman in 1839, 1841 and again in 1803, and treasurer of Sullivan county in 1857-58. He also was one ot the board of directors of the Warner Bank and otherwise was interested in business enterprises in the town and county. During the Civil war he acted as recruiting officer, and by encouragement, advice and material help did much to keep the full quota of Newport men in the service. Mr. Wil- marth died December 12, 1885. He married (first), December 29, 1825, Lucy Cheney, born at Dover, Massachusetts, November 9, ISoo, and died at New- port, March 21, 1851, daughter of Joseph and Su- sannah (Wadsworth) Cheney (see Cheney, VI). Married (second), January 22, 1852, Mrs. Eleanor L. Woodward, born at Pittsfield, Vermont, Sep- tember 2, 1817. His children, by both marriages, were as follows: Ellen C., born July 6, 1827, mar- ried, July 11, 1850, Daniel Nettleton (see Nettle- ton). Ann M., November 3, 1829, married Quincy A. Gilmore. James C., August 24, 1833, died Oc- tober 6, 1834. Henry M., January 25, 1836, died February 27, 1885. Allen M., April 20, 1838, died in 1840. Thomas W., September 3, 1843. Lucy Ella, October 18, 1853 (see Bradley). Mary Emma, March 5, 1856.
STREETER The Streeter family in New Eng- land belonged to the agricultural class of the community during that long period when the owners of farms were the leaders in the affairs of their various states. At the present day the trend of the family is away from the farm in the direction of business and professional life.
(I) Stephen Streeter, the pioneer ancestor of the American branch of the family, was probably born in Goudherst, Kent, England, about 1600, and was a resident thereof until his leaving for America about 1639 or 1640, and he is found of record in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1642. In 1644 he is of record as a householder at Charles- town, Massachusetts, where he took the freeman's oath, May 29, 1644. He and his wife Ursula united with the church, March 21, 1652. His decease quite probably occurred shortly afterward. As shown by his will he was a shoemaker by trade. The family of Stephen and Ursula Streeter consisted of seven children, as follows: Stephen, who died in 1689; Sarah, Samuel, John, who was a soldier in King Philip's war; Hannah, Rebecca, and Mary, who was born subsequent to the death of her father, about 1652.
(II) Stephen (2), eldest child and son of Stephen (1) and Ursula Streeter, resided in Charles- town, Watertown, Muddy River (now Brookline)
and Cambridge. He inherited from his father one- half the Charlestown homestead, which he and his wife Deborah, then residents of Muddy River, sold in 1679. 111 16St they sold land in Charlestown, formerly the property of his father, to Richmond Russell. Nothing more is known of his personal history, and no will or administration is found on record. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1689, and his wife was admitted to the church in full communion at Cambridge, July 13, 1701. Their chil- dren were: Stephen, born June 20, 1667, at Water- town. Sarah, born at Watertown, October 2, 1669. Samuel, born probably at Muddy River. John, born probably at Muddy River. Rebecca, born Septem- ber 3, 1683, at Cambridge. Deboralı, born Septem- ber 25, 1685, died April 7, 1689, at Cambridge. Jo- seph, born September I8, 1687, died October 22, 1736. Benjamin, born November 25, 1689, died April 23, 1690.
(III) Samuel, third child and second son of Stephen (2) and Deboralı Streeter, was probably born at Muddy River, now Brookline. He prob- ably removed from Cambridge to Attleboro about 1706, as the Attleboro town records show pur- chases to have been made by him January 15, 1706- 07; May 19, 1713; January 19, 1716-17; and a sale of land by him there April 1, 1713. On August 30, 1717, he purchased land from T. Williard in Sudbury, and later the records show him to be at Framingham, where he died in 1752. He made his will April 23, 1751, and the same was probated September 16, 1752. Mr. Streeter married (first) Deborahı, who died November 13, 1708. He mar- ried (second) Mercy. His children were: Mary, baptized February 2, 1696-97. Sarah, baptized February 2, 1696-97. Stephen, baptized September 4, 1698. Samuel, baptized January 7, 1099-1700. Mercy, baptized May 14. 1704. Susanna, baptized April 28, 1706. Joseph, born May 10, 1708. Deb- orah. Elizabeth.
(IV) Stephen (3), third child and eldest son of Samuel and Deborah Streeter, was baptized Sep- tember 4, 1698. He resided in Framingham, from whence he removed to Douglass, Massachusetts, where he died September 22, 1756. On December 14, 1744, he purchased of Sutton committee, so called, one hundred and sixty acres. He married Catherine Adams; they covenanted together at' a church in Framingham, February 7, 1725. Their children were: Esther, born January 13, 1724-25. Stephen, born February 14, 1726-27, died January 8, 1812. Abigail, born January 15. 1728-29. Eliza- beth, born January 9, 1729-30. John, born Febru- ary 14, 1731-32, died August 24, 1810. Ursula, born November 9, 1733. Adams, born December 31, 1735, died September 14, 1786. Zebulon, born March 24, 1739, died October 14, 1808. Naphtali, born March 6, 1741. Samuel, born January 16, 1743. Mary, born April 1, 1747.
(V) Rev. Zebulon, eighth child and fourth son of Stephen and Catherine (Adams) Strecter, was born in the town of Douglass, Massachusetts, March 24, 1739. He and his brother Adams were two ot the great lights in the early days of the Universalist Church of New England. Ile resided in Douglass, Massachusetts, where his first three children were born. He also resided in Winchester, New Ilamp- shire, where his other children were born; and his final residence was at Surry, New Hampshire, where he purchased land in May, 1777. Ile married, July 16, 1760, at Oxford, Massachusetts, Tabitha Harvey, born in 1736, and their children were: Benjamin, born April 21, 1762, died January 18, 1844. Daniel, born June 23, 1764. Benoni, born
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June 22, 1766, died September 2, 1793. Hannah. Luey, born January, 1771. Jesse, born October 25, 1773, died May 6, 1835. Eliah, born 1774, died 1806. Elijah, born July 3, 1775. David, born De- cember 2, 1777. Tabitha. Rev. Zebulon Streeter died at Surry, New Hampshire, October 14, .1808; his wife also died in the same town, January 25, 1813, aged seventy-six years.
(VI) Benjamin, eldest child and son of Rev. Zebulon and Tabitha (Harvey) Streeter, was born in Douglass, Massachusetts, April 21, 1762. He removed from Douglass, Massachusetts, to Concord, Vermont about 1782. In 1787, while a resident of Concord, Vermont, he purchased of Zebulon Streeter, of Concord, Vermont, one right of fifty acres of the proprietary lands in that town. Sep- tember 2, 1794, he took the freeman's oath, and February of the same year was chosen selectman and fence viewer. He married, October 18, 1792, Lucy Farnsworth, born February 17, 1764, died in Coneord, Vermont, February 10, 1842. He died at East Charlestown, Vermont, January 18, 1844. Their children were: Hannah, born in Concord, Vermont, October 14, 1797, died February 21, 1814. Daniel, born July 24, 1799, died January 8, 1873.
(VII) Daniel, second child and only son of Benjamin and Luey (Farnsworth) Streeter, was born in Coneord, Vermont, July 24, 1799. He mar- ried Mary Jackson, born in Canterbury, New Hamp- shire, August 30, 1799, died in Island Pond, Ver- mont, March 28, 1872. He died in the same town, January 8, 1873. Their children were : Charles, born in Concord, Vermont, October 2, 1824, died April 7, 1865. Hannah, born in Concord, Vermont, January 18, 1826. George, born March 30, 1828, died in infaney. Daniel, born in Concord, Ver- mont, March 1, 1829. Mary Jane, born in East Charleston, Vermont, September 9, 1831, died May 5, 1853. Samuel C., born in East Charleston, Vermont, April 18, 1834. Norman, born in East Charleston, Vermont, July 18, 1840, died Septent- ber II, 1856. Henry, born in East Charleston, Vermont, July 18, 1842, died August 14, 1842.
(VIII) Daniel, fourth child and third son of Daniel and Mary (Jackson) Streeter, was born in Concord, Vermont, March 1, 1829. He was edu- cated at the publie schools, and worked on the home farm till he was twenty-one years old. He then went to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he learned the brass moulder's trade and worked at that till 1853. Owing to impaired health, he went to East Charleston, Vermont, where he cultivated a farm for ten years. From 1863 till 1871 he was employed at the Fairbank seale works as moulder. Mr. Streeter then engaged in the shoe business till 1879. In 1904 he removed to Concord, New Hamp- shire, and now resides in that city near his chil- dren. He married Julia Wheeler, born August 26, 1831, daughter of Lemuel and Ruth (Clifford) Wheeler. Their children are: Frank Sherwin, born August 5, 1853. Anna May, born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, May 1, 1867. Celia, born in East Charles- ton, Vermont, December 27, 1857, died September 16, 1859.
(IX) Frank Sherwin, eldest child of Daniel and Julia (Wheeler) Streeter, was born in East Charleston, Vermont, August 5, 1853. His youthi was passed in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he attended the publie schools and the St. Johnsbury Academy. He entered Bates Col- lege as a freshman in 1870, but joined the class of 1874 at Dartmouth in sophomore year. Immediately following his graduation in 1874 from Dartmouth, Mr. Streeter served for one year as
principal of the high school at Ottumwa, Iowa, and at the expiration of this period of time he relin- quished teaching for the study of law, the practice of which he chose as his life work. At Bath, New Hampshire, July, 1875, he entered the law office of the late Chief Justice Alonzo P. Carpenter, and in Mareh, 1877, was admitted to the New Hamp- shire bar. After devoting six months to the prac- tice of his profession in Orford, New Hampshire, he removed to Concord and formed a partnership with John H. Albin, which connection continued un- til September, 1879, when he beeame a law partner of William M. Chase under the firm name of Chase & Streeter. This partnership was dissolved in 1891, on the appointment of Mr. Chase as associate jus- tice of the supreme court. In 1892 Mr. Streeter formed another partnership, which since 1894 has been Streeter, Walker & Hollis, and which was succeeded by that of Streeter & Hollis.
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