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 69

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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James Perkins removed from Leominister, Mass- achusetts, and settled in Croydon, New Hampshire, in 1815, and built the grist mill, saw mill and carding machine at the Flat, and was a successful business man. He married Annie French, and they were the parents of four children.


(II) Marshall, son of James and Annie ( French) Perkins, was born in Croydon, May 13, 1823, and died in Marlow, June 17, 1902. aged seventy-nine years. He was educated in the common schools, and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hamp-


. shire, and then went to Dartmouth College, from which he graduated. He studied medicine and graduated from Cambridge Medical College. Soon after he settled at Marlow, where he resided until his death. He was a successful physician, a highly respected and useful citizen, a Republican in politics, active in party affairs, and was superintendent of schools, and served as moderator at town meetings for many years. He entered the United States service


September 23, 1862, as assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer In- fantry, was mustered in the following day. and served until he was mustered out July 8, 1865. He married, December 30, 1852, Harriett Adelaide Fiske, who was born in Marlow, April 8, 1834, daughter of Hon. Amos F. and Eliza (Stone) Fiske, of Marlow


(See Fiske, XVI). They were the parents of nine children : James Marshall, a leading merchant of Marlow. Annie E., who married Hiram D. Upton, banker of Manchester. Ilattie FF., wife of Dr. Abram Mitchell, of Epping, New Hampshire. Waldo H., merchant in Marlow. Mattie, who died young. Daniel, who died young. Kate L. Charles A., men- tioned below. Jessie M., wife of Dr. W. A. Brady, of New York City.


(III) Charles Amos, eighth child and youngest son of Dr. Marshall and Harriett Adelaide (Fiske) Perkins, was born in Marlow, April 24, 1873. IIe was educated in the schools of Marlow, and at Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he was gradu- ated with the class of 1892. After graduating he went to Manchester and entered the office of Hiram D. Upton. He began the study of law, and in 1902 passed his examination and was admitted to the bar. He at once entered upon the practice of law, and has a good and constantly growing practice in the city of Manchester. He is a Republican and takes all active part in political matters. He was elected president of the Calumet Club in 1905, and re-elected in 1906. He is also president of the Ragged Moun- tain Fish and Game Club.


Charles Amos Perkins married, December 31, 1902, Mabelle C. Ardenning, born May 20, 1876, daughter of George L. and Anna (Stevenson) Ar- denning, the former of whom was born in London, England, and was a cotton commission merchant, and the latter was born in Geraldine, Province of Quebec. Mr. and Mrs. Ardenning had five children : Leila R., married Michael D. Nolan, a lawyer, of Troy, New York. Mae C., wife of Charles A. Per- kins. Maude J., married Augustine Gonzalez. Howard E., Florence P. Mr. and Mrs. Ardenning reside in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Per- kins have one child, Arthur Fiske Perkins, born July 22, 1906.


(I) William Perkins, son of Edward Perkins. was born in Newbury, New Hampshire, in 1800. He owned a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in that town. He was a Democrat in politics. and attended the Baptist Church. He was thrice married. His first wife was Myra (Morse) Perkins, daughter of Daniel Morse. She died April 3, 1848. They had two children : Daniel and Myra. William Perkins' second wife was Betsy (Bly) Perkins. daughter of Moses Bly. They had two children : William Francis and Salona B. His third wife was Abigail M. (Cross) Perkins. There were no chiil- dren. William Perkins died June 17, 1873.


(II) William Francis, only son of William and Betsy (Bly) Perkins, was born in Newbury. New Hampshire, December 8. 1849. He was educated in the common schools of Newbury. In 1882 he went to Warner and settled on a fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres, where he carries on a general farming. He also runs a milk business. He is a Democrat 1.1e in politics, and attends the Baptist Church. married, August 17. 1875. Sarah, daughter of Rufus and Harriet (Cross) Page, of Derry, New Hamp- shire. They were married August 17. 1875. They have two children : Susan I, born February 10. 1878; and Rufus, January 30, 1886, who died January 9, I90I.


(VI) Oliver Lowell, son of Abner and Rachel (Ring) Perkins, was born July 22, ISHI, at Pitts- field. On September 5, 1836, he married Abigail Choate Sanborn, daughter of Jesse and Charlotte (Batchelder) Sanborn, who was born January 27. 1816. ( Sce Choate \' and Sanborn V111). To this union were born six children, five daughters and one son : Emily Amanda, Mary Ellen, Clara Ann, Almira


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Lorena, Charlotte Rachel and Edward Oliver. Emily A. Perkins, born September 19, 1839,. was married to Charles Wiggin, of Meredith, New Hampshire, on September 10, 1862, and died October 17, 1887. Mary Ellen Perkins was twice married: (first) to George Minor on June 21, 1870, and after his death, she married, June 29, 1904, Henry J. Perkins, of Hampton, this state, where she now lives. Clara A. Perkins married, January 3, 1868, John Y. Lane, son of Anthony Knapp and Sally (Yeaton) Lane, of Chichester, this state and are now living in Con- cord. They had two children: Eveline, born No- vember 10, 1870, who married William Adams and lived in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Herbert L., born February 28, 1874, and died on August 6th of that year. Almira Lorena Perkins, born August 3, 1845, was married January 2, 1868, to Charles H. Lane, and died February 24, 1897. (See Lane, VII). Charlotte R. Perkins, born August 20, 1847, was married November 21, 1894, to Ira W. Morgan, of Suncook, where she now lives. Edward Oliver Perkins, the youngest child and only son, was born July 20, 1855, and lives on the old home farm first owned by his great-grandfather, Jonathan Per- kins (IV). The latter came from Hampton, this state, about 1785, and took up the land which was heavily covered with timber at that time. On March 4, 1886, Edward O. Perkins married Lucy Young, of Gilmanton.


WALLACE The name of Wallace was one of the most numerous among the im- migrants to this country during the first half of the seventeenth century. George came from London in 1635, and settled at Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, Massachusetts. Robert was in Ips- wich, Massachusetts, in 1638, and William in Charles- town, Massachusetts, in 1642. James Wallace came somewhat later to Warwick township, Pennsylvania, and Peter Wallace to Virginia. There were other early immigrants bearing the name of Wallis. In fact, the two spellings seem interchangeable, but all came from the same Scotch ancestry. The New Hampshire Wallaces did not get here till the eighteenth century, but they were among the pioneers of the state. They came in the Scotch-Irish migra- tion, which founded the town of Londonderry. Among the sturdy settlers there were no less than four men by the name of Wallace. John and Thomas were brothers; another Thomas was their uncle, and the relation of Joseph is undetermined.


(I) Thomas Wallace was born near Burt Mills, county Antrim, in the north of Ireland, in 1673. His parents went from Scotland to Ireland about 1619. He married, in 1704. Barbary Cochran, born in 1677. She lived to the age of ninety-four, dying Septem- ber 2, 1771. Thomas Wallace died at Londonderry, New Hampshire, August 22, 1754.


(II) James, supposed to be the son of Thomas and Barbary (Cochran) Wallace, came to London- derry, New Hampshire, in 1732, and was married December 18, 1742, by Rev. Mr. Davidson, of that town, to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Fulton) Wilson, who were married in Ireland. There is an interesting romance connected with Mary Wilson, or "Ocean-born Mary," as she was usually called, which is one of the cherished tradi- tions of Londonderry and Henniker, New Hamp- shire. In 1720 a company of emigrants on their passage from Ireland to this country were captured by pirates. While the passengers were prisoners, Mrs. Wilson was delivered of her first child, which so moved the pirate band, particularly the captain, who had a wife and family, that he permitted the


emigrants to proceed on their voyage. He asked that the child should be named Mary, after his wife, and he made Mrs. Wilson many valuable presents, mostly articles of wearing apparel. Among them was a handsome silk gown, pieces of which can be seen in Henniker to-day. Mary Wilson's father died soon after they landed in Boston, and the mother brought her baby to Londonderry, New Hampshire, which had been their intended destination. Mrs. Wilson afterwards married James Clark, great-great- grandfather of Horace Greeley. She died in 1732, but Mary continued to live in the family until her marriage in 1742. "Ocean-born Mary" appears to have been a general favorite, and for a whole gen- eration the people of Londonderry held an annual Thanksgiving in commemoration of her delivery from the pirates. Mrs. Mary (Wilson) Wallace lived with her son in Henniker during the last years of her life, and she died there, February 13, 1814. Cogswell's "History of Henniker" speaks of her as "being quite tall, resolute and determined; of strong mind, quick of comprehension, sharp in her conver- sation, with a strong brogue, and full of humor ; was of florid complexion, bright eyes, and elegant in her manners to the last of her life." James and Mary (Wilson) Wallace were the parents of four sons : Thomas, born November 5, 1745; Robert, whose sketch is given in the next paragraph; William, January 17, 1760; and James, May 8, 1762. It is interesting to note that the three younger brothers married three sisters, Jannette, Hannah and Anna Moore, daughters of Robert and Mary Moore, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. These three brothers all became prominent and respected citizens. Wil- liam Wallace lived in Londonderry where he became a stock-raiser, teacher, surveyor and justice of the peace. He was of commanding presence, being six feet, four inches in height, and weighing two hun- dred and forty pounds. It is said that when his brother, Judge Robert Wallace, built his house, he made the rooms unusually high-studded. Upon be- ing asked the reason, he replied that his brother William was very tall. "As I want him to visit me, I have the rooms made high." James Wallace, like his brother William, also settled in Londonderry. He was possessed of the fine mental and moral traits characteristic of the family, and was a valuable citi- zen during his short life. He died December 22, 1794, at the age of thirty-two.


(III) Robert, second son and child of James and Mary (Wilson) Wallace, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, September 5, 1749. Upon his mar- riage in 1776, he moved to Henniker, New Hamp- shire, which became his permanent home. He at once became one of the leading men of the town. His influence during the Revolution was marked, and it was due to him more than to any other one person that the town responded promptly to all demands upon it whether for men or money. In 1782 . he was elected to represent Henniker and Hills- borough for a term of two years in the state legis- lature and in 1784 was re-elected for another term. He was selectman between 1779 and 1791, inclusive, and for ten of these years he was chairman of the board. He was one of the councillors of the state from 1788 to 1803, a period of fifteen years. In 1791 he was a delegate from Henniked to the con- vention to frame a constitution for the state. He was one of the committee of ten chosen to prepare and report at an adjourned session the alterations and amendments to be submitted to the people. As some of the ablest men in the state were members of the convention, and as this committee was the most important one selected, the choice of Mr. Wallace


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shows the esteem in which he was held by his fellow members. In 1803 he was appointed a judge of the court of common pleas for Hillsborough county, which then included Henniker. He held this po- sition for ten years. He owned a large and highly cultivated farm in the southwest part of the town, upon which he built a fine old-time mansion where he exercised unstinted hospitality. Cogswell's "His- tory of Henniker" says of him: "Although in public life continually for nearly a third of a century, his home and its inmates were never forgotten. There his brightest traits of character were shown, and his best humor, with his broad Scotch accent was exhibited. No one was turned from his door, but all alike were welcome. As he rode to church, and upon other occasions, in almost royal style, every- body did him homage, and all received from him a pleasant recognition in return. At his death the whole population of Henniker were sincere mourn- ers, for the town had lost one of its most upright and honored citizens." On February 5, 1776, Robert Wallace married his first wife, Jannette, daughter of Robert and Mary Moore, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. They had eight children, of whom four lived to maturity: James, whose sketch follows : Robert Moore, born January 6, 1779; Mary. March I, 1781, died September 16, 1783: Thomas, March 12, 1783; William, April 19, 1785. died March 20, 1813; John, August 3, 1787, died April 16, 1790; John, April 19, 1790, died April 21, 1799; Mary, August 8, 1792, married Peter Patterson, and lived in Perry, Leicester and Warsaw, New York. Mrs. Jannette (Moore) Wallace died August 1. 1794. Judge Wal- lace subsequently married for his second wife, Mrs. Betsey Eaton, of Weare, New Hampshire. Judge Wallace himself died January 30, 1815, at the age of sixty-five years.


(IV) James, eldest son and child of Judge Robert and Jannette (Moore) Wallace, was horn in Henniker, New Hampshire, November 29, 1776. He was one of the first merchants of the town. He also built a portion of the structure now used as a hotel in which he kept the first public house in the village. He had the same uprightness of character that distinguished his father. He married on March 31, 1799, Susanna, daughter of Captain Jonas and Susanna Bowman, of Henniker. They had seven children : James, born in 1800, died July 16, 1827 ; Robert, May 10, 1802; Jonas, April 20, 1803; John, December 18, 1804, died February 28, 1826; Mary, 1805, married a Mr. Chapin; Jannette, 1807, died April 19, 1829; Susan, July 2.4, 1810, married J. Proctor Darling. James Wallace died March 6, 1812. His widow afterwards married Dr. William Dins- more, of Henniker : she died January II, 1856.


(V) Jonas, third son and child of James and Sus- anna (Bowman) Wallace, was born April 20, 1803, at Henniker, New Hampshire. He was a merchant most of his days, and in 1826 erected the three-story brick block that was burned fifty years later. For several years he was commanding officer of the cav- alry belonging to the Twenty-sixth Regiment. He represented Henniker in the legislature in IS58 to 1859. "He was an upright and valuable citizen, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow- townsmen to a great degree." Jonas Wallace mar- ried, November 26, 1821. Nancy, daughter of Hon. Joshua and Polly (Proctor) Darling, of Henniker. They had six children, four daughters and two sons ; both of the latter died in childhood. The children were: Annette, born May 30, 1822; married Ed- ward Richards, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 17, 1845. James, October 10, 1823, died Scp- tember 20, 1825. Helen Maria, January 12, 1825,


married Cyrus N. Campbell. John, December 22, 1827, died September 26, 1829. Mary Darling, April


16, 1832, became a teacher. Elizabeth Ballantine, January 4, 1836. Mrs. Nancy (Darling) Wallace died April 29, 1841. Jonas Wallace married her sister, Mary Darling, on June 7, 1842. There were two children by the second marriage : Frederick Cleveland, born March II, 1844, died September 1, 18.45. Robert Moore, whose sketch follows. Jonas Wallace died March 21, 1877. Mrs. Mary ( Darling) Wallace died June, 1905. She was born in Henniker, but her father, Joshua Darling, came from Kings- ton, New Hampshire.


(VI) Robert Moore, younger of the two sons of Jonas and Mary (Darling) Wallace, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, May 2, 1847. He was the only one of his father's four sons who lived be- yond the age of two years. He was educated in the common schools and at Henniker Academy. He en- tered Dartmouth at the age of sixteen, and was graduated in the class of 1867. He studied law with Mason W. Tappan, of Bradford, New Hampshire, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He hegan practice in Milford, New Hampshire, with Senator Bainbridge Wadleigh. This partnership continned till 1879, when Senator Wadleigh moved to Boston. Robert W. Wallace was representative from Mil- ford in 1877 and 1878, and a member of the consti- tutional convention in 1889. He was county solicitor for Hillsborough county from 1883 to 1893. In the latter year he was made an associate justice of the su- preme court by Governor Smith's staff, during 1893. In 1901 upon the establishment of the dual court system in New Hampshire, Judge Wallace was made chief justice of the superior court. Judge Wallace sustains the high character of his ancestors. He had attained distinction as a lawyer before he was raised to the bench. "He excelled as an advocate as well as examiner. Diligent preparation rendered him an affective opponent, and a ready mastery of the law obtained by deep study and minute reten- tion, added to his legal equipment." He attends the Congregational Church. He belongs to the Masons, and also to the Odd Fellows. Judge Wallace mar- ried, August 25, 1874, Ella M. Hutchinson, daughter of Abel F. and Deborah H. Hutchinson, of Milford, New Hampshire. They have had five children: Ed- ward Darling, horn June 19, 1875, lives at Kansas City, Missouri. Twins, horn and died January 12, 1878. Robert Burns, born in 188.1, a member of the class of 1907. Dartmouth College, Helen H., horn in June, IS91. Mrs. Wallace is active in church and social life, and has been president of the Woman's Club at Milford.


Mrs. Wallace belongs to one of the old New Eng- land families, being ninth in descent from Richard Hutchinson, who emigrated to Salem. Massachusetts, in 1634. There are several early settlers of this name which was frequently changed to Hutchins by drop- ping the final syllable.


(Second Family.)


On its arrival in America this name


WALLACE was not in the form now chiefly used in New Hampshire. It was at the time spelled Wallis. This form is still used by numerous descendants, although it is more generally employed in the form which appears at the head of this article. It is used in hoth forms by both English and Scotch families. The family hercin traced is first found in Stow, Massachusetts, whence it was brought to New Hampshire.


(I) John Wallis is found of record as a resident of Townsend, Massachusetts, in 1731, at which time he was of middle age. He was born about 1676.


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The first record there is that of a deed of land con- veyed to him by John Kemp, November 12, 1731. In March, 1733, he purchased lands of Thomas Philips and others. His title proved worthless, and in con- sideration of his loss the proprietors of Townsend granted him one hundred and ninety acres near Mount Grace. He served as selectman in 1747 and was one of the sixteen original members of the church of Townsend. He died there, May 20, 1763, aged eighty-seven years. In a deed of land to his son Isaac, dated 1761, he included the conveyance of his pew in the Townsend meeting house "in the south side of the house at the left hand of the south door going in," and providing that possession of the pew should not be given until after his decease. No record of his marriage appears. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth, who died January 25, 1765, aged seventy-two years. She may have been a second wife, and it is certain she was the mother of his younger children. He had nine in all, namely : John, Matthew, Susanna, a daughter whose chris- tian name was not preserved, Jonathan, Isaac, Wil- liam (died young), David and William. (Mention of Jonathan and descendants appears in this article).


(II) Matthew, the second son of John Wallis, was born April 3, 1721, in Stow, Massachusetts, and was about ten years old when his father removed to Townsend. On attaining manhood he settled in Raby, now Brookline, New Hampshire, and was a farmer and a cooper. He served in a Massachusetts regiment as a soldier in the Revolution, and his death occurred in 1778, in Brookline. He was mar- ried in Hollis, May 6, 1755, to Jean Leslie. She survived him and is on record as having paid the taxes on the homestead until the oldest son arrived of age in 1772. They had five children: Jane (who married George Woodward), John (who lived in Brookline and in Vermont), Sybel, Matthew and Jonas.


(III) Matthew (2), second son and fourth child of Matthew (1) and Jean (Leslie) Wallis, was born about 1778, in Brookline, and was a farmer residing in that town. He served as a town officer and was captain of the local militia. He died September 19, 1843. He was married January 15, 1799, to Betsy McIntosh, daughter of James McIntosh, of Brook- line. They had ten children, namely; Clarinda (who married Alpheus Shattuck), Eliza (wife of John Colburn), James, Asha, Jane (who married Asia Shattuck), Grace (wife of Benjamin C. Jakes), WValdo, David, William and Augustus. The last named was the wife of Colonel Otis Wright, of Nashua.


(IV) William, ninth child of Matthew (2) and Betsy (McIntosh) Wallace, was one of the first to adopt the present form of spelling the name. He was born November 29, 1816, in Brookline, and there grew up and passed his life, and died Septem- ber 25, 1885. He was a stone mason by trade, and was also employed as a railroad man in the southern states. He married Catherine McDonald, daughter of Eri and Fanny (Wright) McDonald, and they were the parents of thirteen children only three of whom are now living, namely: Bryant William, the eldest, resides in Nashua. Mary A., is the wife of John David Hobert, of Malden, Massachusetts. A sketch of the third, Elmer W., follows.


(V) Elmer Wright, youngest of the three living children of William and Catherine (McDonald) Wallace, was born in Brookline, New Hampshire, November 14, 1853. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and learned the trade of paint mixing. He continued in that work till 1897, when he bought the farm consisting of one hundred acres on which


he has since lived. He was a member of the state legislature in 1907-08. On November 24, 1878, he mar- ried Jennie E., daughter of Levi and Cynthia (Ho- bart) Rockwood, of Brookline, New Hampshire. She was born March 26, 1856. They had one child, Ellen Augusta, born December 11, 1879, and died when eighteen months old.


(II) Jonathan, third son and fourth child of John Wallis, was born about 1730 and resided in Townsend, Massachusetts, where he was proprietor's clerk for twenty years, selectman eleven years and a representative two years. He was married Oc- tober 7, 1755, to Mary Barstow, of Hollis. She died September 6, 1797, and he was married (second), June 7, 1801, to Milicent (Farrar) Con- ant, widow of Daniel Conant. She died May 3, 1843, aged eighty-seven years. Three of his fourteen children died in infancy. The others were: Eliza- beth, Sarah, Mary, Hannah, Jonathan, Sybel, Jo- seph, Benjamin, Reuben, Rebecca and Asa.


(III) Benjamin, third son of Jonathan and Mary (Barstow) Wallis, resided in Townsend, and mar- ried Rebecca Whitney.


(IV) Sybel, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Whitney) Wallis, was born September 2, 1809, in Townsend, Massachusetts. was married, May 20, 1830, to Edwin Smith, of Medfield, and died De- cember 11, 1893, in Milford, New Hampshire. (See Smith, VII).


(Third Family.)


The people of this family have been WALLACE distinguished in America for nearly two centuries by their sterling worth and successful business careers. The name is among the oldest of those brought to New Hampshire from Northern Ireland, which came originally out of Scotland to that Island. Its bearers were distin- guished in the old country for their bravery, forti- tude, industry and firm adherance to principle.


(I) James Wallis was a weaver and farmer, and was found in the colony of Scotch-Irish emigrants who gathered at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1718, and the years immediately following. His homestead of forty acres was in the adjoining town of Leicester, and is described in an ancient deed as bounding on Worcester. In 1758, while in the possession of his son, this farm was annexed to Worcester. James Wallis died in Leicester in 1746 or early in 1747. His widow, Mary, declined the administration of the estate and requested the appointment of Hugh Thompson. She alleged that he had then no rela- tives in this country. A brother Oliver, who was a wheelwright, lived near him, but died about 1735- His widow resided with her son James in Colerain, where she died in February, 1769, aged seventy years. Their children were : Agnes, James and John.




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