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June 18, 1856, Mr. Webster married Mary J. Cutting, daughter of Gilman and Eliza (Davidson) Cutting, of Concord. She was born September 10, 1837, and died November 23, 1893. The children of this marriage are: Jennie Margaret, born October 20, 1857, married Edward E. Brown, of Concord, superintendent of the William B. Durgin Silverware Manufacturing Company. She died January 16, 1905. Clara H., born July 24, 1850, married Joseph Swett Matthews, a native of Franklin, now an at- torney in Concord. Jessie Marion, born November 13, 1865, single, at home. Frances May, born No- vember 9, 1867, married Frederick I .. Richardson, of Concord, clerk in the Manchester Savings Bank. All the daughters are graduates of the Concord schools. Mr. Webster married (second), February 6, 1897, Stella Hutchinson, of Manchester, daughter of Hubbard and Phebe (Webster) Hutchinson, of Merrimack, New Hampshire. That Mr. Webster has served one corporation and its successors con- tinuously for almost half a century, and has risen step by step to his present place of responsibility and trust, leaves no occasion for comment on his ability as an officer and his integrity as a man.
(IV) Josiah, second son of John and Abiah (Shaw) Webster, was born April 2, 1706. His twin sister died soon after they were horn. He resided in Rye, New Hampshire, where he died March II, 1764, in his fifty-eightlt year. He was married Sep- tember 21, 1738, to Patty Goss, given in the vital records of New Hampshire as Martha Goss. She was born September 9, 1714, daughter of Richard and Martha Goss, one of the first settlers of Green- land, New Hampshire. She died November 18, 1798, having survived her husband nearly thirty- five years. Their children were: Jolin (died young),
Elizabethı, Abiah, Sarah, Josiah (died young), John, Richard, Martha and Josialı.
(V) Richard, fourth son and seventh child of Josiah and Martha or Patty (Goss) Webster, was born January 1, 1754, in Rye, and died in that town, January 16, 1836. He was a soldier of the Revo- lutionary war, and served under Captain Parker at Fort Sullivan, and Captain Parsons in Rhode Island. He was also engaged in several privateer- ing cruises. He was married October 29, 1778, to Elizabeth Randall, who died March 14, 1826, at the age of seventy-one years. Their children were: Betsy, Abigail, Martha, Sarah, Hannah, Olive, Rich- ard and Mark Randall.
(VI) Richard (2), elder son and seventh child of Richard (1) and Elizabeth (Randall) Webster, was born October 6, 1788, in Rye, and resided in Epsom and Rye. He was a shoemaker by occupa- tion, and after working at his trade some time in Epsom returned to Rye, but had taught school in Rye previous to his going to Epsom. He also en- gaged in farming in Rye, in which he was successful and continued until shortly before his death, which occurred November 1, 1856, in Portsmouth. He was married in 1813, to Mary Philbrick, who was born February 5, 1792, in Rye, daughter of Joses and Sarah (Smith) Philbrick, of that town. Their chil- dren were: Daniel, Roswell, Mary, Sarah Ann, Ursula, Benjamin F., David S., Richard, Emily J., John P.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin, third son and sixth child of Richard (2) and Mary or Polly ( Philbrick ) Webster, was born September 7, 1824, in Epsom, New Hampshire, and received his primary edu- cation in the public schools of that town. He was also a student at Pembroke and in Rye. At the age of seventeen years he went to Portsmouth and was employed by Benjamin Norton as an apprentice to the carpenter's trade. He was a ship joiner for several years and since then has been engaged in building operations in Portsmouth. Through his perseverance and great industry, coupled with upright business methods, he has been prosperous down to the present time. His operations have included the erection of the following notable buildings: The Kearsarge house, the Cabot street school house, re- modeled three churches, also built many residences. Mr. Webster partakes of the characteristics for which his long line of ancestry has been noted, and is a progressive and useful citizen of his home town. He is frequently called upon to fill official positions, and has served as ward clerk and assessor. In politics. he is an ardent and enthusiastic Republican. He is a valued member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. He was married, January 2, 1849, to Sarah A. Senter, and they have a son and daughter, Merit V. and Stella C. Webster.
(IV) Jolin (2), third son and fourth child of John (1) and Abialı (Shaw) Webster, was born February 10, 1712, in Hampton, and settled in Hamp- stead, New Hampshire, where he died February II, 1780. His wife was Elizabeth Lunt, who survived him and passed away September 9, 1785, in her seventy-sixth year. Their children were: Elizabetlı, John, Mary, Ann and Caleb.
(V) Mary, second daughter and third child of John and Elizabeth (Lunt) Webster, was born March 20, 1747, and became the wife of Moody Chase. (See Chase, VIII).
(IV) Thomas (3), fourth son and fifth child of John and Abiah (Shaw) Webster, was born July I, 1715, in Hampton, and settled in Haverhill, Mass- achusetts. The poll lists of that town show him to
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have been a resident of the west parish in 1745. He was on the alarm list for the French and Indian war, which was established April 14, 1757, and was deacon of the church from 1771 to 1782.
(V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) Webster, was born in August, 1767, in Haverhill, where he read medicine with Dr. Brickett, and began practice in 1790. Three years later he moved to Warner, New Hampshire, where he continued in practice for a period of seventeen years, with gratifying suc- cess, and endeared himself to the people. In 1810 he removed to Sanbornton, this state, and was noted there for his success in healing, though his career was soon cut off by death. An epidemic of spotted fever raged through the state in 1813. and Dr. Webster was noted as having lost not a single case of the disease treated by him, though he fell a victim to its ravages. While visiting patients at Laconia he was stricken, and died there within forty hours of the attack, August 8, 1813. Thus was a most brilliant career suddenly closed, and the state sustained a great loss. His wife, Sarah West, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, died April 3, 1830, in Claremont, this state. Their children are noted as follows: Thomas, lived and died in Sanbornton. William West, died in Windsor, Vermont. Sarah, became the wife of John Hitchcock, and died in Hanover, New Hampshire. Pamelia, married a man named Marsh, and resided in the West. Edwin, died young. Arthur settled in Minnesota, where he died. Charles Henry, died at Center Harbor, this state. Mary S.
(VI) Mary S., youngest child of Dr. Thomas (4) and Sarah (West) Webster, was born July 20, 1807, in Warner, and was married November 12, 1840, to John Tyler, of Claremont. ( See Tyler, VII).
(Second Family).
WEBSTER Not all the Websters in New Eng- land are of one stock, though all are of good stock. The present line, which descends from John of Ipswich, has furnished many good men of local prominence in pioneer days and later times, several of them being college grad- uates. This line was united with the family of the ancestor of Hon. Daniel, in the seventh generation, by the marriage of Eliphalet K. Webster, of the linc of John and Emily Webster of the progeny of Thomas.
(I) John Webster came from Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, to Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1635. He died about the year 1646, and his family afterward removed to Newbury. His wife was Mary Shatswell. They had four sons and four daughters, as follows : Mary, John, born 1633; Hannah, Abigail, Stephen, Eliza- beth, Israel and Nathan. On October 29, 1650, John Webster's widow married John Emery, of Newbury, and she died April 28, 1694. (Mention of Stephen and Nathan and descendants forms part of this article).
(II) Stephen, second son and fifth child of John and Mary (Shatswell) Webster, was born about 1637-39. in Ipswich, and was a tailor, residing in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he took the free- man's oath, in 1668, and died August 10, 1694. He first settled in Newbury and moved thence to Haver- hill in 1653. He was married, March 24. 1663. in Haverhill, to Hannah Ayer, who died June 2, 1676. He married (second), May 26, 1678, Widow Judith Broad. His children, all born of the first wife, were: Hannah, John, Mary, Stephen, Nathan and Abigail. (Mention of Stephen and descendants appears in this article).
(III) John (2), eldest son and second child of Stephen and Hannah (Ayer) Webster, was born March 15, 1668, in Haverhill, and died in 1742. He was married, June 14, 1693, to Triphena Locke, and the Haverhill records give him ten children.
(IV) Stephen (2), son of John (2) and Tri- phena (Locke) Webster, was born June 1, 1698, and was married February 21, 1722, to Abigail Berry.
(V) Stephen (3), son of Stephen (2) and Abi- gail (Berry) Webster, was born March 3, 1731, was married February 28, 1754, to Susanna Ladd, and died March 2, 1803.
(VI) Stephen (4), son of Stephen (3) and Su- sanna (Ladd) Webster, was born March 15, 1758, and was married April 15, 1779, to Chloe Wheeler, who was born November 28, 1760.
(VII) Atkinson, son of Stephen (4) and Chloe (Wheeler) Webster, receives mention elsewhere (see Wyman, VIII).
(III) Stephen (2). fourth child and second son of Stephen (1) and Hannah (Ayer) Webster, was born in Haverhill, January 1, 1672, and died March 9. 1748, aged seventy-six. He was one of eight men in the garrison of John Webster, March, 1690. He married Widow Mary Cook, and they had six chil- dren: Samuel, John, Stephen, William, Ebenezer and Mary.
(IV) Ebenezer, fifth son and child of Stephen (2) and Mary (Cook) Webster, was born Septem- ber 20, 1711. He married Mehitable Kimball, of Bradford, Massachusetts, and they were the parents of Lydia, Isaac, Mary, Ebenezer, Jonathan. Stephen, Moses and John. (Mention of Ebenezer and descend- ants forms part of this article.)
(V) Isaac, eldest son of Ebenezer (1) and Me- hitable (Kimball) Webster, was born in 1740. He also served in the revolutionary war. He married Lydia Woodbury and had children: Phineas, see forward; Jonathan and Kimball.
(VI) Captain Phineas, son of Isaac and Lydia (Woodbury) Webster, was born March 4, 1775, and died September 11. 1858. He was captain of a company during the war of 1812. He married, 1797, Hannah Hazelton, who died October 4. 1860. Their children were: Jesse, see forward; James, Alfred, Moses, Lydia. Caroline and Isaac.
(VII) Jesse, eldest child of Captain Phineas and Hannah (Hazelton) Webster, was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, February 14, 1798, and died May 18, 1845. He was a carriage builder for many years at Derry, and for twelve years prior to his death was engaged in farming. He was educated in the district school and at Major Dudley's military school at Windham. He became a private in the Sixth Company. Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Mili- tia, commanded by Colonel Samuel Richardson. and was appointed sergeant August 1, 1817; was ad- vanced to a lieutenancy April 25, 1820: to a cap- taincy June 2, 1820, by Governor Samuel Bell. He served until November 18. 1824, and then resigned. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for a number of years served as an elder. He mar- ried. November 28, 1823, Betsy Wilson, born in Pelham. December 16. 1798. died February 4, 1874. She was a daughter of Benjamin Wilson, a lineal de- scendant of John Wilson, the first minister of Bos- ton, Massachusetts. The children of this marriage
George Alfred, died_young. 2. Ann Elizabeth, also died young. 3. Caroline Elizabeth. see forward. 4. Lydia Ann, born August 19, 1831, died February 9, 1862, was a successful school teach- er. 5. Otis B., born January 3. 1834, died in Ches- ter, New Hampshire, January 26, 1862. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1859, entered
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the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1861, and died the following year.
(VIII) Caroline Elizabeth, third child and sec- ond daughter of Captain Jesse and Betsy ( Wilson) Webster, was born in Derry, May 19, 1829. She was educated in the public schools and in Adams Fe- male Academy, from which latter institution she was graduated September 24, 1844. She was engaged in teaching during the following six years, and taught in District No. 9. where her mother had taught, and where her daughter Annie subsequently taught. She married, May 19. 1853, Nathan Spalding Morse, born in Orange, March 30, 1830, died in Chester, October 23, 1902. He was educated in the schools of Chester and at the Pembroke Academy. He was an autc- tioncer and a dealer in real estate and resided in Chester. In politics he was a Democrat, and for twenty years was moderator of the annual town meetings. Mr. and Mrs. Morse had five children : 1. Roger Spalding, born May 23, 1855. died at Fitch- burg. Massachusetts, March 17, 1876. 2. Lawrence L., born July 10, 1856, died March 28, 1906. 3. Car- ric. 4. Morris W., born November 12, 1864. Hle was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. and from the llartford Theological School in 1890. At Ilartford he won the Welt fellowship, which enabled him to attend theological lectures at the University of Leipsic, Germany, for two years, following his graduation. Returning to America, he preached at Hollister, California, two years; Crete, Nebraska, five years; Ferndale, Washington, five years; then at Wilbur; and later at Ilwaco. Washington. He married in Orange, California, July 15, 1890, Laura N. Blasdale, daughter of Dr. Charles and Julia Dick- inson Smith. They have children: Annie Mabel, Marion and Walter. 5. Annie L., born August 12, 1866, was educated in the public schools and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she attended 1883-85. She taught school for two years' in and in the vicinity of Derry. She married, May 7. 1894, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Charles Adams Spragne, of that city, and since 1898 they have resided in Derry. They have children: Daniel L., and Roger Edmund.
(V) Ebenezer (2), fourth child and second son of Ebenezer (1) and Mehitable (Kimball) Webster, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, February 14 1744, and died in Pelham, New Hampshire, March 13. 1823, aged seventy-nine years. He was, like his ancestors, a farmer, and settled first in London- derry, New Hampshire, where he passed most of his life, an industrious and respected citizen. He was married three times, (first) November 29, 1770, to Rebecca Baldwin; whose children were: Sarah. Ebenezer and Rebecca; (second) December 31, 1775. to Martha Barker; (third) to Elizabeth Bradford, of Beverly, Massachusetts, born September 6, 1755, who died in Amherst, New Hampshire, March 27. 1845. They were married in Salem, October 13, 1778. by Rev. Abner Bayley, and had children born to them as follows: Roxana, Betsey, Asa, John, Nancy, Sully, Rebecca, Mary, Catherine, William G., Heriot (or Harriet ) and Benjamin. ( Mention of William G. and descendants forms part of this ar- ticle ).
(VI) Jchın (2), son of Ebenezer (2) and Elizabeth ( Bradford) Webster, was born in Pelham, December 25, 1791, and died March 1, 1883, aged ninety-one years and two months. He lived on the paternal homestead in Pelham, excepting one year in Meredith, and one in Hudson ( formerly Nottingham West ), until 1841, when he sold his farm in Pel- ham and bought one in Amherst, where he resided until 1846, when he returned to Hudson, and buy-
ing a farm on Bush Hill, lived there twenty years ; then resided with his daughters, Sally Titcomb and Lovisa Baker, until his death, which occurred at the residence of the latter in the town of Hudson. Ile was drafted in the war of 1812, and served in Cap- tain Haynes' company of New Hampshire militia at Portsmouth. From February 14, 1871, until his death he received from the United States a pension for his services. Mr. Webster was an energetic and industrious man, a quiet citizen who abided by the law, did his duty in every position, and for many years was universally called "Honest John Web- ster." He married, August 22, 1815, Hannah Cum- mings, of Nottingham West, who was born in Not- tingham, Angust 4, 1794, and died in Hudson, Feb- ruary 3, 1871. She was the daughter of Eleazer and Sarah ( Hale) Cummings and great-granddaughter of Deacon Henry and Mary Hale. Mr. Cummings was a farmer and taught school and singing school. llis wife was born April 20. 1767, and died May 7, 1852, aged eighty-five years. She was a woman re- markable for physical strength and endurance. While her husband was absent engaged in teaching, she performed her household dnties and also took charge of a herd of cattle. She was a member of the Con- gregational Church, and made her christianity a part of her daily life. Mrs. Hannah (Cummings) Web- ster first became a member of the Congregational Church in Pelham, and during her residence at other places was a member of the other churches of the same denomination, in all of which she was a higlily esteemed sister. The thirteen children of John and Hannah (Cummings) Webster were: Eliza- beth B., Moses, Sally Hale, Eleazer C., Lovisa N., Lucy Ann, Kimball, Hannah J., John C., Nathan P .. Willard II., Milton E. and Orrin P.
(VII) Kimball, seventh child and third son of John and Hannah (Cummings ) Webster, was born in Pelham, November 2, 1828, and educated in the common schools of Pelbam and Hudson. He grew up a farmer boy inured by hard work and prepared for the toil and labor that has since befallen him. In April, 1849, six months before attaining his ma- jority, he heard of the great gold discovery at Sut- ter's Fort, now Sacramento. California, and at once set out for the Pacific slope. He left home April 17, 1849, and went to Independence, Missouri, where he outfitted, and with a company of about twenty- eight persons went by horses and pack mules over the trail to California, arriving at Sacramento Val- ley, California, in the month of October, after spend- ing six months on the trail and experiencing what ica. He engaged in mining on the Feather and Yuba it is impossible for any traveler to experience today anywhere in the Union, or hardly in North Amer- rivers, and in June, 1851, went to Oregon City. and was deputy surveyor on government surveys in the Willamette and Umpqua valleys. After passing two years in California and nearly four in Oregon, he returned to the states in the fall of 1854 by the Isthmus of Panama, arriving at home in the fall of 1854. In 1855 he was employed as a surveyor on the line of the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad in Missouri. In 1855 he returned to New Hamp- shire, and in 1858 resided in Vinal Haven, Mainc. Since that time he has been a resident of Hudson, New Hampshire, where he owns and occupies a portion of the land which his great-grandfather, Eleazer Cummings, bought in 1728. He is å surveyor of long experience and has a wide reputation, being one of the most accurate and reliable in the county. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been a leader of the minority party in his town and county for many years, and when a candidate for office has
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usually polled more than the party vote. In 1901-02 he was a member of the legislature and served on the committee on appropriations, and dur- ing the famous Northfield-Tilton case he was a member of the committee having it in charge; the case was an important one, and was long and stub- bornly fought. He was a selectman four years, and three years of that time was chairman of the board. In 1859 he was made justice of the peace, and has held that office ever since. Ilis interest in the past in promoting the use of the best methods of agri- culture, and a desire to see the farmer obtain the greatest possible reward for his toil made him from the time of its establishment an industrious worker for the promotion of the effectiveness of the Grange movement. He was the first petitioner for the establishment of a grange in Hudson, and upon the establishment of lIudson Grange, No. II, of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, December 8, 1873. he was chosen its presiding officer, and filled that place three years. He was one of the few who organized the New Hampshire State Grange, De- cember 23, 1873, and also Hillsborough County Council. March 4, 1874, of which he was master two years, and secretary from December, 1876, until the organization, April 17, 1883, of its successor, Hillsborough County Pomona Grange, when he was made secretary of that body and continued to hold that office until about 1888. His intelligence and ac- tivity have made him a useful and valued member of this order. Mr. Webster is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Nashua, which he joined in 1869.
His interest in historical matters and ancient landmarks is lifelong, and has grown stronger with the lapse of years. He has done much to preserve the latter by carefully drawn and creditable copies of many of the much worn and injured plats of lands, ancient grants, etc., in Old Dunstable. At the present, time (1907) he is at work on a history of Nottingham and Nottingham West, now Hud- son. He has been president of the Cummings fam- ily reunion for the past twenty-six years, and which are held on the Merrimack River banks, opposite his home. Mr. Webster has marked the spots where the Blodgett and Hill's garrisons were locat- ed, with large bowlders, which bear the following inscriptions : "Hill's, the first settlement of Hud- son, was about 1770. Nathaniel Hills, April 12, 1748, aged sixty-five years. Henry Hills, died August 20, 1757, aged sixty-nine ; erected in 1901.' "Blodgett. Joseph and Dorothy Blodgett; their eldest son, Joseph, born here February 9, 1718. being the first white child born in the town; crected 1904.
He is a quiet, mild mannered man, remarkable for his energy and executive ability. These qual- ities have attracted to him many friends who have known him from his youth and now honor him in his age. He has always been regarded as a safe and honest man whose wisdom and judgment were reliable, and a worthy type of the intelligent New England farmer.
He married, January 29, 1857, in Hudson, Abialı Cutter, who was born in Pelham, February 1, 1837, daughter of Seth and Deborah (Gage) Cutter, of Pelham. Ten children have been born to them as follows: Lizzie Jane, January 11, 1858; Ella Frances, August 19, 1859: Kimball C. and James (twins), June 26, 1861; Kimball C. died August 22, 1861, and James on day of birth; Eliza Ball, July 14, 1862; Latina Ray, July 26, 1865, died November 12, 1887; Julia Anna, October 26, 1867; Mary Newton, Au- gust 9, 1869; twins, male and female, who died at birth.
(VI) William G., ninth child and second son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth ( Bradford) Webster, was born in Londonderry, August 20, 1803. He was a tinner and resided in Dover, New Hampshire. Wil- liam G. Webster and Ifannah J. Foss, both of Dover. were married by Rev. Benjamin P. Hoyt, of Dover, May 15, 1828. Their children were: George. Eliza- beth, who married and died in East Boston. llarriet who married Cyrus Littlefield of Dover. Helen, deceased. Olive, deceased. Charles E., who served in the Civil war four years, resided at Boston, and is now deceased. Benjamin K., whose sketch fol- lows.
(V11) Benjamin Kimball, third son of William G. and llannah J. (Foss) Webster, was born in Dover. April 21, 1839, and educated in the public schools. He learned his father's trade and was as- sociated in business for a time with his uncle, Dan- iel K. Webster, in Dover. In 1868, he took charge of the Varney tannery of Dover. He enlisted at Dover as a private August 18, 1862, and was mus- tered into the United States service as a private in Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, September 21, 1862, and was later appoint- ed corporal and subsequently sergeant. He was mus- tered out June 4, 1865, after having campaigned in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ten- nessee. and participated in the battles of Fredericks- burg, Vicksburg, the Wilderness and Cold, Harbor. He participated in seventeen important battles of the war. After his return to New Hampshire he worked at his trade for a time and then engaged in farming on North Main street, Wolfborough, which he car- ried on until 1906, when he sold his one-half inter- est in the farm to his son-in-law, John Frank Good- win, a prominent contractor and builder. Mr. Web- ster's place commands a fine view of Lake Winne- pesaukee and the mountains and has been a favorite with many who have spent summer vacations there. He ran a boarding house several years, accommodat- ing thirty or forty guests from the city of New York, Boston and other cities. Mr. Webster is a member cf James R. Newell Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic, of Wolfborough, of which he was a charter member. He married (first), at Wolfboro, in 1870, Emma C. Libby, who was born in 1840, daughter of Dudley and Sarah A. Libby, of Wolf- boro. She died October 7, 1875. He married (sec- ond) Eliza C. Wiggin, who was born July 15, 1849, daughter of James M. and Caroline (Wiggin) Wig- gin, (see Wiggin IL) of Tuftonborough. They have one daughter. Helen C., who was born in Wolf- borough, January, 1881. She graduated in 1889. from Brewster Free Academy, and June, 1906, mar- ried J. Frank Goodwin. They reside on the old homestead.
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