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Georgie Gumbart. Orrin Nathaniel, born July 19, 1866, married (first), Nellie Bowers, born in Man- chester, New Hampshire, June 2, 1854, died June, 1904, having bore her husband four children : Robert J., Earl, Roy and Ernest. Mr. Sanborn married (second), Mrs. Grace Hallowell. Olive E., born February 1, 1870, in Sanbornton. Wesley David, born April 10, 1872, a business man of Laconia. Mary A., born November 10, 1876, died July 2, 1893.
(VIII) Wesley David Sanborn was born in San- bornton, New Hampshire, April 10, 1872, and re- ceived his education in New Hampton and Tilton seminaries. After leaving school he found employ- ment as machinist in the works of the Huse Machine Company of Laconia, worked there about three years and then entered the service of the Citizens' Tele- phone Company, remaining there only a short time and later engaged with E. M. Bryant & Co. of Man- chester, electrical contractors and furnishors. Still later he served for some time as superintendent of construction for the Citizens' Telephone Company, and in 1899 started in business on his own account as an electrical contractor and dealer in electrical supplies. Mr. Sanborn is an active, energetic and successful business man. He and his wife attend the Free Will Baptist Church of Laconia, and he is a member of Winnepesaukee Lodge No. 59, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He married (first), August 26, 1897, Hattie Grace Lawrence, who was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, April 24, 1872, and died in Laconia, November 16, 1902. He mnar- ried (second), September 1, 1904, Nellie R. Taylor, who was born in Greensboro, Vermont.
(II) Captain Jonathan Sanborn was born in Hampton, May 25, 1672, and afterward was one of the leading men of Kingston, where he took an ac- tive part in public affairs and acquired much fame because of his qualities as an Indian fighter during the wars from 1724 to 1726 and during which time he gained the title of captain. He was one of the grantees of Chester, New Hampshire, and owned a considerable tract of land in that town. He mar- ried, February 4, ' 1691-92, Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Captain Samuel Sherburne, of Hampton, and sister of Henry Sherburne, who married a sister of the first Governor Wentworth and became a provincial councillor. Captain Sanborn died June 20, 1741, but nearly twenty years before his death he made a gift to his son Jonathan of certain property, the memorandum of which reads thus: "June, 1772. Capt. Jona Sambun of Kingston, as a free gift to his son Jonathn Sambun of K. land on ye East side of little River saw mill, it Being one quarter part of sd Mill Grant ye mill yard Exceptd, and joyning to Wm. Longs land on ye Southeast on ye Norwest to ye mill Brook it being twenty-five acres also Eleven acres lying on ye north side of ye above sd land." Children of Captain Jonathan and Elizabeth (Sher- burne) Sanborn: Elizabeth, born December 27, 1692, married (first), April 7, 1714, John Ladd, of Kings- ton ; married (second), Thomas Webster. Samuel, September 7, 1694. Achaicus, 1696. Margaret, bap- tized March 20, 1698, married, January 9, 1714, Moses Sleeper, of Kingston. Jonathan, April 28, 1700. Love, August 30, 1702, married, January 8, 1720, Rev. John Graham. Dorothy, died young. Dorothy, the second child so named, died young. Sarah, April 18, 1708, married Thomas Rollins, of Stratham. John, December 19, 1710, died February, 1711. Ben- jamin, January 22, 1712, died 1718. Mary, December 7, 1713, married Peter Samborne.
(III) Jonathan Sanborn was born in Kingston, April 28, 1700, and afterward lived in that town. He married (first), December 31, 1719, Theodate
Wesley Hanbom.
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Sanborn; married (second), November 8, 1757, Han- nah Griffin. His children: Timothy, born August 15, 1720. Sarah, baptized January 20, 1723, died 1738. Child, unnamed, died 1728. Love, June 10, 1726, married, December 5, 1744, Reuben Clough. Samuel, March 12, 1730. Jonathan, 1732, died 1735. Worcester, June 3, 1734. Joanna, baptized July 3, 1736, married, April 10, 1755. Robert Crawford. Child, unnamed, died 1738. Jonathan, born Novem- ber 23, 1738.
(IV) Jonathan, youngest of the children of Jonathan and Theodate Sanborn, was born in Kings- ton, New Hampshire, November 23, 1738, and died in that town March 20, 1782. He married (first), December 15, 1760, Sarah, daughter of Israel James, of Kingston. She died May 27, 1767, and he married January 26, 1708, Mary Swett, who died June 3, 1817, Two children were born of his first and one of his second marriage : Jonathan, March 8, 1764. Israel, February 3, 1767. Joseph, August 3, 1770.
(V) Jonathan, eldest of the two sons of Jona- than and Sarah (James) Sanborn, was born in Kingston, New Hampshire, March 8, 1764, and died June 28, 1843. He married, April 25, 1787, Mary Morrill, who was born October 9, 1754, and died March 17, 1845. They lived in Gilford. Their chil- dren: Jonathan, born November 1, 1787. John, September 21, 1790, married, July 6, 1820, Joanna Gilman. Joseph, June 28, 1792. Jacob, November 20, 1795.
(V1) Joseph, son of Jonathan and Mary (Mor- rill) Sanborn, was born in Gilford, New Hampshire, June 28, 1792, spent his life in that town and died July 5, 1866. He married, December 17, 1718, Ruth Carter, born April 20, 1795, died in August, 1868. Their children: Lyman, born March 6, 1820, mar- ried Emily Bartlett, who died 1893; he is also de- ceased. Woodbury, born December 20, 1822, died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, June 9, 1888; married Eliza WV. Bartlett, born July 25, 1822, died December 24, 1893. Joseph, born August 6, 1825, deceased, married Eliza Farrer, deceased, has one living daughter, Francina. Jonathan Morrill, born March 6, 1828, deceased, married Betsey Eaton, has one daughter, Cora. Francis Orman, born May 16, 1832, a farmer of Gilford, New Hampshire. Sarah Jane, born March 3, 1835, widow of Langdon Clark.
(VII) Francis Orman, son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Sanborn, was born May 16, 1832, on the farm on which he now lives in the town of Gilford, New Hampshire, and which has been owned and oc- cupied by his ancestors and his own family for more than one hundred years. Mr. Sanborn is a prudent, industrious and successful farmer, and in politics is a Republican. On October 22, 1870, he married Sarah E. Fish, who was born June 27, 1842, and by whom he has one son, Orman Morrill Sanborn.
(VIII) Orman Morrill, only child of Francis Orman and Sarah E. (Fish) Sanborn, was born in Gilford, New Hampshire, April 9, 1874, and received a good education in Tilton Seminary. His occu- pation in business life is farming and dairying and he is looked upon as one of the most thrifty and pro- gressive farmers of the town. He is a member of Belknap Grange, No. 52. Patrons of Husbandry, and a member of the board of trustees of Gilford public library. On November 28, 1898, Mr. Sanborn mar- ried Lizzie A. Wilson, daughter of Herman and Alice (Hazelton) Wilson, of Jackson, New Hamp- shire.
(I) William Sanborne, son of William, of Brimpton, and Anne (Bachiler) Sanborne, was born in Brimpton, England, about 1622, as appears from the records of his death. llis is the earliest San- 1-18
borne record found in Hampton, Massachusetts : "November 27, 1639, Willi: Samborne (wth his con- sent) is appointed to ring the bell before meetings on the Lord's day and other days, for wch he is to have 6d. pr. lott of evry one having a lotte wth in the towne." In June, 1640, a house lot was granted him on the road towards the sea, southwest of his brother John's. He was selectinan of Hampton, 1651-60-67-71-77-83. He was not so prominent as his older brother, but was often chosen on town committees. He served in King Philip's war. At Hampton Court, Sth 8th mo 1651 Win. Samborne took ye freeman's oath, at Salisbury Court 14th 9th mo 1676 Win. Samborne took the oath for a con- stable. He was the owner of considerable land ; and: various conveyances to and from him are on record. Some years before his death he made gifts of land to his son William. He died November 18, 1692. The inventory of his estate amounted to four hun- dred and nine pounds and fifteen shillings. He married Mary, daughter of John Moulton, of Orinsby, Nor- folk, England, and Hampton, New Hampshire. Their children were: Mary, Mehitabel, William .. Josiah, Mercy, Mephibosheth, Sarah and Stephen.
(II) Josialı, second son and fourth child of William and Mary ( Moulton) Sanborne, was born about 1654, and lived at Hampton. He was a well- to-do man; is described in conveyances of land as "planter" and "farmer"; owned part of a saw mill in 1693; was representative from Hampton in 1695, and died in 1728. His will dated November 28, 1727, was proved 1728. He married (first), Au- gust 25, 1687, Hannah Moulton, daughter of Wil- liam of Hampton. She died November 6, 1687. He married (second) Saralı Perkins, widow of Jona- than of Hampton. She died September 1, 1748. The children of the first wife were: William, Hannah and Sarah; and of the second wife: Jabez, Keziah, Rachel, Jonathan, Reuben, Abner and Richard.
(III) William Sanborne, oldest child of Josiah. and Hannah (Moulton) Sanborne, born in Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, March 26, 1682, lived at Hampton Falls, near Exeter, where the record shows he was in 1709. In deeds he is described as "yeo- man." He served in Captain Green's company in the French war of 1712, and died April 3, 1718; per- haps shot by the Indians, for in the records of Rev. Mr. Cotton appears : "Eliz. Sanborn baptized, daugh- ter of William Samborn, just after his awful death." He married, December 20, 1704, Elizabeth Dearborn, daughter of Henry Dearborn, of Hampton, and great-great-aunt of Major General Henry Dearborn, of the Revolution. The children of William and Elizabeth Sanborn were: Ezekiel, Daniel, William, Hannah, Joshua and Elizabeth.
(IV) Joshua, fourth son and fifth child of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Dearborn) Sanborn, was born in Hampton Falls, March 16, 1715, and died in Epping, where he had a long time resided, De- cember, 1764. He married Abigail Sanborn, daugh- ter of Jabez and Abigail (Marston) Sanborn. She. died December 16, ISII. Their children were: Daniel, Phineas, Tristam and Joshua, twins.
(V) Daniel, eldest child of Joshua and Abigail (Sanborn) Sanborn, was born in Epping, May 6, 1742. He lived and died in Epping, where he signed the test. He married (first) Hannah Folsom, of Newmarket; (second) Priscilla Sanborn, born 1768, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Rundlett) San- born, of Epping; (third) Nabby Giles, of Epping. The children of the first wife were: Polly, Isa- bella, Betsey, Daniel, Jonathan R., Tristam and Joshua ; and by the second wife, Priscilla.
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(VI) Tristam, third son and sixth child of Daniel and Hannah (Folsom) Sanborn, was born in Epping, March 12, 1774. He removed to Boscawen his wife and a few household goods on a sled drawn by a yoke of steers, and settled on wild land which he converted into a good farm and made his home for many years. His first house was a log cabin which was later replaced by a frame dwelling. He was afterward a resident of Webster, after the division of Boscawen, where he died April I, 1851. He married, March 17, 1797, Abigail Knight, born May 10, 1776, died February 13, 1861, daugh- ter of Joseph Knight, of Harvard, Massachusetts. Their children were: Jesse D. (died young), John Abidan, Joseph Knight, Heman, Sarah, Nancy Eastman, Joshua, Daniel, Jesse D., Hannah and Lois.
(VII) Heman, fourth child and son of Tristam and Abigail (Knight) Sanborn, was born in Webster, December 13, 1803, and died June 12, 1886, aged eighty-two. He was educated in the public schools and as Boscawen Academy. At the age of twenty- one he walked to Boston, where he worked in a stable one season. Returning to Boscawen he worked on a farm for a time, and later bought a farm in the village of East Concord, where he spent his life. He was a man of influence in his town and was selectman, councilman, and alderman, and for years justice of the peace. He married (first), July 14, 1812, Mary Ann, daughter of Abraham Bean, for many years high sheriff of Merrimack county; (second), September 2, 1839, Clarissa Batch- elder, of Loudon, who was born March I, 1802, and died July 26, 1865; (third), May 8, 1866, Laura Jones, of Warner. The children by the first wife were: John Bean, Sarah Ann, Mary J. Coverly and Abraham B. By the second wife there was one child, Charles Henry.
(VIII) John Bean, eldest child of Heman and Mary Ann (Bean) Sanborn, born in East Concord, April 1, 1831, died September 26, 1901, was edu- cated in the common schools, and at Pembroke Academy. His youth was spent on his father's farm, and at the age of twenty-one he bought a place on East Penacook street, at the summit of "The Mountain," upon which he resided the re- mainder of his life. There he built a handsome brick house, and rebuilt the barns. He was very successful in his undertakings, and at the time of his death owned eight farms containing one thousand acres of land within six miles of the city of Con- cord. He early engaged in the raising of fine stock, making a specialty of Devon cattle, and Shropshire and Southdown sheep. He was well known all over New England, as he had exhibited his stock at all the leading fairs for forty years before his death, and won a large number of premiums. Since his demise his sons have continued the business, and kept up the reputation of their animals for excellence. He was a well known citizen of Concord and promi- nent in town affairs. He was a Democrat, having cast his first vote for Franklin Pierce, in 1852, and served in the city council, and was assessor two terms, and chairman of his ward committee for many years. He married (first), September 4, 1852, Hannah N. Powers, of Alexandria, who died September 23, 1855; (second), April 2, 1857, Hannah A. Stone, born April 12, 1830, daughter of Amos Stone, of Boscawen. She died August 1, 1898, aged sixty- eight years, three months and seventeen days. By the first wife he had two children, Sarah J. and Nancy P., and by the second: John W., George MeClennan, Frank P., Charles H. and Harley H.
(IX) John Warren, eldest child of John B.
and Hannah A. (Stone) Sanborn, born in East Concord, August 19, 1859, was educated in the com- mon schools and at the Normal Institute at Read's Ferry. The four years following his school course he spent in Boston, engaged in teaming. Returning to Concord he has since been successfully engaged in farmning and stock raising. He has a fine farm of two hundred acres and makes a specialty of raising Devon stock, his herd averaging over forty head. These he exhibits with gratifying success at the fairs throughout New England, and in 1906 took numerous premiums at Trenton, New Jersey, York, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland. He is also engaged to some extent in lumbering. He is a democrat, takes a part in political affairs; was a member of the council in 1897; alderman two terms 1901-02 and 1903-04; is also a member of Rumford Grange, No. 109, and attends the East Concord Congregational Church. He married, March 19, 1881, Clara Ames, born July 4, 1861, daughter of Harlow and Julia M. (Ladd) Ames, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They have had two children, Mabel G., the elder, born December 4, 1882, is the wife of Harry B. Sanborn; she has had two children. Louis, deceased and Mildred. Gert- rude. Emma H., the younger, born October 28, 1902, died January II, 1904.
(IX) George McClennan, second son and fourth child of John B. and Hannah A. (Stone) Sanborn, born in East Concord January 9, 1861, was edu- cated in the schools of Concord and at Normal Institute, Reed's Ferry. Brought up a farmer, he naturally adopted that occupation on attaining his majority, and now has a fine farm, keeps fifteen cows and supplies a milk route in Concord. He is a prominent man in matters pertaining to agricul- ture; has been fair director twenty-two years, and is a stockholder in the East Concord Grange Hall Association. He is a member of Rumford Grange, No. 109, in which he has held the office of over- seer. and also of the Merrimack County Pomona Grange, in which he has been many years assistant steward. In politics he is a Democrat, has served as selectman ten years, and held other town offices. He and his family are members of the Congregational Church of East Concord. He married, November 9, 1882, Abbie H. Smith, daughter of Ai Jackson and Laura E. (Colby) Smith, of Canterbury. They have three children : Clarence George, Genella Smith and Percy Heman. The daughter graduated at the Concord high school in 1906 and is now a student at the Plymouth Normal School. Mrs. Sanborn is active in church and grange circles; was president of the Ladies' Benevolent Society, and is Pomona in the County Grange.
(X) Clarence George, eldest child of George McC. and Abbie H. (Smith) Sanborn, born in East Concord, September 21, 1883, married Ora Belle Batchelder, daughter of George L. Batchelder, of Concord. He is overseer of Rumford Grange and gate keeper of the County Grange.
(IX) Charles Henry, fourth son and child of John B. and Hannah A. ( Stone) Sanborn, was born in East Concord, September 8, 1865, and educated in the public schools. In 1888 he went to Los Angeles, California, where he was successfully en- gaged for two years in the livery business. After a short visit to New Hampshire he returned to California, and became the proprietor of a milk route in San Francisco. The following year ( 1891) he came back to New Hampshire, and has since that time been extensively engaged in agricultural pur- suits. He has a valuable farm of four hundred acres and a large timber lot. On his farm he keeps fine
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horses and a herd of twenty-five cows, supplying from the latter a large amount of milk to patrons on his route in Concord. He attends the Congregational Church and votes the Democratic ticket, but does not devote any time to politics. He married, Sep- tember 29, 1894, Harriet Houser, born July 7, 1865, daughter of Marcus K. and Harriet (Richardson ) Houser, of Cornwall, Orange county, New York, and Springfield, New Hampshire, respectively. The Father was of Dutch ancestry and the mother of English.
DRAKE Soon after the conquest of Wessex by
the Saxons, a family or clan called Draco or Drago appears to have taken possession of an old Roman and British encamp- ment in what is now the Manor of Musbury, Ax- minster, Devon county, England, which subsequently became known as Mount Drake. From this family it is probable that all of the name in England and Ireland are descended, as, although the crests of the various families of Drake in later days varied, their arms were the same, thus proving the common origin of the family. That the family is of great antiquity is shown from the fact that before the Norman conquest, 1066, A. D., it was well estab- lished in Devon county. In Domes Day Book six places are mentioned as possessed by persons of the name. We are told that "Honiton", one of them, was well known to the Romans, and was held by Drago, the Saxon, before the conquest. The name Drago or Draco, the Latin for Drake, was in use among the Romans, and signifies "one who draws or leads," a "leader." The Romans obtained the name from the Greeks, among whom it is found as early as 600, B. C., when Draco, the celebrated Athenian legislator, drew up the code of laws for the government of the people, which bore his name.
Ashe, an ancient seat adjoining Mount Drake, was brought into the Drake Family by the inar- riage, in 1420, of John Drake, of Mount Drake and Exmouth (the first from whom lineal descent can be traced), to Christiana, daughter and heiress of John Billett, of Ashe, and remained in the family about four hundred years. Of this family was Sir Francis Drake, the celebrated navigator; also Samuel Drake, D. D., of eminent literary attain- ments, who died in 1673, and whose equally eminent son of the same name edited Archibishop Parker's works, etc .; also Francis Drake, M. D., surgeon of York and F. R. S., a great antiquarian, author of "The History and Antiquities of York;" and Doctor James Drake, F. R. I., whose discoveries in anatomy are not surpassed in importance by those of Hervey. John Drake, of the council of Plymouth, one of the original company established by King James in 1606 for settling New England, was of a branch of the family of Ashe, several of whose sons came to this country, including John who came to Boston in 1630, with two or more sons, and who finally settled in Windsor; and Robert, also two or more sons and one daughter, who settled in Hampton, New Hampshire. From these brothers are descended all of the name in New England, and most if not all of those bearing it in the middle, southern and western states. We, however, meet with some modern emigrants of the name, but they are not numerous. Robert Drake was among the first who, to avoid persecution fled to New England, driven hither from fear of a revival of Popery in a later reign. He was contemporary with Admiral Sir Francis Drake, Knight, and was born the same year that he returned from his great voyage around
the world, and was fifteen years of age when that commander died.
(I) Robert Drake was born in the county of Devon, England, in 1580, the year of the great earthquake, came to New England with a family before 1643, and took up his residence at Exeter, New Hampshire, but removed from that place to Hampton, in the same state in the beginning of 1651. Here he owned and left a considerable estate. When he went to Exeter does not appear, but he may have been of the Rev. John Wheel- wright's company who settled there in 1638. His house, which he bought of Francis Peabody, stood on the same place now occupied by the Baptist meeting house in Hampton. He was a man of eminent piety, was one of the selectmen in 1654, and was highly respected. He was sixty-three years of age when he came to America, and was eighty- eight at the time of his death, January 14, 1668. His will, in which he describes himself as "searge maker," was made in 1663. Two items in the in- ventory taken January 23, 1667, show the difference in values then and now. One hundred acres of land of a second division westward was valued at eight pounds ($40) ; four iron wedges and a pair of beetle rings, ten shillings ($2.50). There is no mention of his wife, and it is not known whether she came to America or not. He had three children, Nathaniel, Susannah and Abraham.
(II) Abraham, second son and third and young- est child of Robert Drake, probably came to New England with his father. He was a prominent in- habitant of Exeter in 1643, and afterward in Hamp- ton, whither he went, probably with his father. "His residence was at a place since called 'Drake's Side,' because at was on the westerly side of a considerable swamp; and his estate has been handed down in the name to this day. (1845), and in the name of Abraham, with a single exception, now over two hundred years," says S. G. Drake, the historian of the family. How long before 1643 Abraham Drake was at Exeter has not been ascertained, but in a petition which with twenty others he signed and presented to the general court of Massachusetts, in that year, against the encroachiments of the neighboring settlers, it is said, those people "know we long since purchased these lands, also quietly possessed them." In the settlement of the Ox- Common at Hampton in 1651 he had one share. In 1663 the town chose him to lay out four thousand acres "west of Hampton bounds, and a way to Great Pond." In 1665 he was appointed to lay out the second division, and in 1668 and 1669 he was chosen to run down the town lines. He was selectman in 1658, and perhaps other years, and in 1673 he had the appointment of marshall of the county of Nor- folk, in which office he probably continued until the separation of New Hampshire from Massachu- setts, in 1679. He was a man capable of any business, a good penman, and forward in all public service. In a tax list of 2d. 9 mo. 1653, of an amount of fifty-three pounds, two shillings, ten pence, his quota was ten shillings, two pence, the whole number of persons taxed being seventy-three. Abraham Drake, like his father, lived to a very advanced age, but the time of his death is not yet discovered. It appears from a pencil note in Mr. Toppans manuscript that he was living in 1712, at the age of eighty-four. His wife Jane died Janu- ary 25, 1676. Abraham had by his wife Jane seven children: Susannah, Abraham, Sarah, Mary, Eliza- beth, Hannah and Robert.
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29, 1654, died in 1714, aged fifty-nine years, appears to have been one of the wealthiest men of Hampton, the inventory of his estate being nine hundred and twenty-six pounds, five shillings. He was a promi- nent man in the town, as his father before him had been, and was selectman in 1696-1703-07-08. His wife was Sarah, and they had five children: Sarah, Abraham, Jane, Mary and Nathaniel. (The last named receives mention, with descendants, in this article).
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