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Dr. Sanders at once became associated in prac- tice with one of the most eminent physicians and surgeons in this state, Dr. Grenville P. Conn. His early and continued success won him the confidence of his professional associates as well as of a large patronage, and he has enjoyed a lucrative general practice. From the first he gave special attention to surgery, in which department he has performed many difficult and skillful operations, and is today considered one of the ablest surgeons of the state. He is one of the attending surgeons on the staff of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital. He is a member of the State Medical Association, of which he was for some years assistant secretary, and for the last eight years has been secretary and treasurer of the Merrimack County Medical Society. Before both of these associations he has read several papers which have been published in their transactions and also in other medical journals. He is a member of the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons and of the New Hampshire Surgical Club.
Dr. Sanders is a member of Eureka Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons, of Concord, and in religious affiliations is a Baptist. He takes an active interest in local political and municipal affairs. While a member of the Board of Health he vigor- ously enforced the vaccination laws throughout the schools. In politics he is a Republican. He has served for two terms in the city common council and is at present a member of the board of aldermen from ward seven.
Dr. Sanders married, September 29, 1898, Mar- garet A. Clough of Warner, New Hampshire, daugh- ter of Reuben and Mary Elizabeth ( Clark) Clough.
The Kendricks are descended from
KENDRICK an early settler in Boston. They were devout Puritans and inter- married with sturdy Puritan families. Included among the latter is the well known Pierce family. and Anna (Kendrick) Pierce, the mother of Presi- dent Franklin Pierce, was a lineal descendant of John Rogers the martyr.
(I) John Kendrick, born in England in 1605, was a member of the church in Boston as early as 1639, and took the freeman's oath in 1640. In 1658 he purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land in Cambridge Village (now Newton), and appears to have settled there. Ile died August 29, 1686. llis first wife, whose christian name was Ann, died in Boston, in 1656, and his second wife, Judith, died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, August 23, 1687.
(11) John (2), son of John and An Kendrick, was born in Boston, October 3. 1641. lle became
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a resident of Cambridge Village, March 1, 1659, and in 1677 he went to England, returning the following year. He died September 30, 1721, and was buried on his eightieth birthday. October 23, 1673, he married Esther Hall, who died September 14, 1723, aged about seventy years. They were the parents of twelve children, whose names are not at hand.
(III) Caleb, son of John and Esther (Hall) Kendrick, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, March 8, 1694, and died there March 31, 1771. He married Abigail Bowen, of Roxbury, September 14, 1721, and her death occurred in Groton, Massachu- setts, September 16, 1775. Their children were: John, Benjamin, Esther, Abigail, Sarah, Caleb (who died in infancy), Daniel, Caleb and Anna.
(IV) Benjamin, second son and child of Caleb and Abigail (Bowen) Kendrick, was born in Newton, January 30, 1723-4. In 1749 he located in Monson, Massachusetts, and resided there until September, 1770, when he removed to Amherst, New Hampshire, where he died November 13, 1812. On March 1, 1750, he married Sarah Harris, of Hollis, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Stephen Har- ris, a granddaughter of Timothy Harris, of Rowley, Massachusetts, and great-granddaughter of John Harris, an English emigrant who settled in Rowley. John Harris married 'a granddaughter of John Rogers, the first martyr of the reign of Queen (Bloody) Mary, that was burned at Smithfield, February 4, 1555. Mrs. Sarah Kendrick died May 27, 1818, at the age of eighty-seven years. She was the mother of six children, two of whom, a son and a daughter, died in infancy. Those who lived to maturity were: Stephen, Sarah, Abigail and Anna. (V) Anna, youngest child of Benjamin and Sarah (Harris) Kendrick, was born in Amherst, October 30, 1768. On February 1, 1790, she became the second wife of General Benjamin Pierce, and was the mother of President Franklin Pierce. She died December 7, 1838. (See Pierce, VI).
The name of Tuck is one of the oldest TUCK in this country, and it has been borne by men eminent in politics, banking and philanthropy. The family has never been a numer- ous one; in fact, the first three generations in Amer- ica hung on a single thread. having but one male representative to continue the line. The ancestral home of the Tucks was at Gorlston, England, a vil- lage of about four thousand inhabitants, immediately adjoining Yarmouth, although the two are in separ- ate counties. The Honorable Amos Tuck, of Exeter, who visited the place in 1872, was struck by its re- semblance to Hampton, New Hampshire, where the first immigrant settled, and thinks that he may have been influenced in his choice of location by that cir- cumstance. He says that "one looks out easterly on the sea, and westerly on marshes, as at Hampton ; and you hear the beach spoken of as at Hampton, with its public houses, in which summer boarders are accommodated. The people live partly by fish- ing and partly by farming. *
* * The fishermen ply their business in larger vessels than at Hampton, and go largely to the 'Dutch Coast,' as they call it, ninety miles distant. May it not be that familiarity with that coast acquired by fishermen, led Robinson with his flock first to Holland? I suggested this to Doctor Palfrey, the historian of New England, who regarded it as highly probable. I observed, on my return from Yarmouth to London, that for genera- tions the people have been damming back the tide- water from the marshy land, with very great ad- vantage and success. Many thousand acres, once salt marshes, have been converted into fertile, arable
land, and the finest south-down cattle were pasturing in large herds upon the richest grass on these mead- ows. I believe it practicable to create immense agri- cultural wealth in New England by similar defences against the sea, and that at some time in the future the work will be done."
(I) Robert Tuck, the first American ancestor, came from Gorlston, Suffolk county, a town one hundred and twenty-five miles northeasterly from London, whose situation has been graphically de- scribed in the preceding paragraph. The date of his birth is not known. With his wife and four chil- dren he came to New England about 1636, and lived a short time in Watertown and Salem, Massachu- setts. In 1638 he was a petitioner, with others, for leave to settle at Winnacunnet, afterwards Hampton, this state. The petition was granted in September, and Robert Tuck, according to tradition, was one of those who began immediate settlement. On Septem- ber 7. 1639, he was made freeman. RobertTuck owned several hundred acres in different parts of Hampton, but his dwelling was located near the meeting-house, about the center of the new settle- ment. Here for many years he kept a tavern or ordinary, as it was known then, being the earliest public house in town. To keep a house of this sort required a license from the county court, and it was stipulated that the landlord, or vintner, as he was styled, should furnish food and lodging for travel- lers, and stabling for horses at reasonable prices ; and in Hampton (then a half-shire town) enter- tainment for the court and juries, and clients attend- ing the court.
After living in Hampton fifteen years or more Goodman Tuck had occasion to visit England on business, and was gone a year. Meanwhile another person was licensed to carry on the tavern. Upon his return to America Robert Tuck re-opened his ordinary without waiting for a new license, and for so doing he was fined five pounds. Three pounds of this was afterwards remitted upon his petition to the general court. stating that he had broken the law through ignorance, and from that time till the close of his life Goodman Tuck kept the ordinary in Hampton. Besides being a vintner, he carried on other occupations. By trade he was a tailor, though it is not known that he worked as such after coming to New England. He was also styled a chiurgeon, the primitive title for one who practiced primitive surgery. The town records, under date of May 15, 1658, mention a "seaman lying in Town under (Goodman) Tuck's hands at surgerie." At a term of court held in Hampton, October 5, 1652, Robert Tuck sned Thomas Davis and Steven Kent, de- fendants, "for refuseing to pay him for the cure of an Indian to ye vallue of twelve pounds." Judgment was awarded in favor of Tuck to the amount of "tenn pound damage and cost of court." Robert Tuck held several town offices. He was selectman in 1648-49-52-57. He held the office of town clerk for three years and two months. or until May 15, 1650. On October 2, 1649, he was appointed "ve clarke of ye writts for the Town of Hampton," which meant clerk of the commissioners for small causes. Although he seems to have been a man of consider- able prominence, Robert Tuck was not a large tax- payer. In 1653 seventy-three persons paid taxes to the amount of fifty-five pounds, five shillings and ten pence, of which Tuck's portion was fourteen shillings and six pence, almost precisely the average.
When he came to this country Robert Tuck had a wife, Joanna, whose maiden name is unknown, and four children, all of whom he brought with him ex- cept the eldest son. There is no record of the dates
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of birth of any of the family. The children were: Robert. Elizabeth, Mary and Edward. Robert re- mained in England, where he married and had a son William, who afterwards settled in Essex, Massa- chusetts, and became the ancestor of the Tucks of that county. Elizabeth Tuck married John Sher- burne, of Portsmouth, this state, and had four chil- dren. Mary Tuck married Lieutenant John Sam- borne, of Hampton, a man of considerable promi- nence, who had ten children .. The sketch of Ed- ward Tuck follows in the succeeding paragraph. Goodman Robert Tuck died intestate, October 4, 1664, and administration upon the estate, which amounted to three hundred and eighty-five pounds, seventeen shillings and two pence, was granted to Joanna Tuck, his widow, and to John Samborne, his son-in-law. About four years later John Samborne was made sole administrator. on consideration that he "doe engage to pay ynto ye aforesaid widdow Johannah Tuck the full sum of fiueteen pounds pr yeare during ye terme of her natturell life & yt she shall enjoy out of ye aforesd Estate the yse of two cowes & three acres of meadow duering her life * * * & other necessary things for her house- keeping." Evidently this contract was too indefinite or was not faithfully carried out, for at the court in Hampton on October 14, 1673, "the aged widow Joanna Tuck complained that she wanted necessary comforts which John Samborn * *
* did not take due care to furnish. though there was sufficient estate in his hands to do it." The court ordered the selectmen to make appropriate relief, the payment to come out of the estate ; but the widow Tuck did not long profit by this decree, for she died just four months later, February 14, 1674. An inventory of the goods and chattels left from her husband's es- tate, after her decease, amounted to twenty-nine pounds and eleven shillings. There remained of his real estate the value of two hundred and four- teen pounds and eighteen shillings, showing that Mrs. Tuck during the more than nine years of her widowhood had absorbed about one hundred and forty-one pounds, not an enormous sum for the sup- port of an elderly woman, even in those times.
(II) Edward, younger son and one of the four children of Robert and Joanna Tuck, was born in England, probably at the family home in Gorlston, and came to this country with his parents and two sisters about 1636. The date of his birth cannot be ascertained, but judging from his marriage, he might have been not far from ten years old upon his ar- rival in America. The record of his life is brief, for he died only four years after his marriage, having lived probably not more than thirty years. By such a slender link was the Tuck name perpetuated in this country. Edward Tuck lived in Hampton, New Hampshire, either with his parents or on some part of his father's estate, and in 1648 married Mary Phil- brick, daughter of Thomas Philbrick (1), who had settled in that town not long before. There were two children: Edward, born September 8, 1648. who died young; and John, whose sketch follows. Ed- ward's death occurred somewhere between his fourth and sixteenth year, because he was living on April 12, 1653, when a decree was made for the distribu- tion of his father's estate, but had died before April II, 1665, when a decree was made in regard to his grandfather's estate. Edward Tuck, the father, died intestate, April 6. 1652, leaving an estate amounting to twenty-seven pounds and ten shillings, according to the inventory. About 1655 his widow married a second husband, James Wall, a widower of Hampton, whose house lot adjoined Robert Tuck's on the north. Like her first husband, he lived only about
four years, dying October 3, 1659; she outlived him more than forty years. By the second marriage there were also two children, both daughters: Mary, born January 8, 1656, who married John Marston; and Hannah, born March 17, 1658, who married Ben- jamin Moulton. The two sons of Edward Tuck ap- pear to have been under their mother's care-the elder until his death and the younger till he was ap- prenticed to a trade. About the time that John Tuck came of age, he had a lawsuit with John Sam- borne, the administrator of his grandfather's estate, which was tried at the Salisbury term of county court, held April 8, 1673. According to the records, Robert Tuck had promised to Mary Philbrick, at the time of her marriage to his son Edward, that he would give the latter half his lands in Hampton, "wch prmise was made as an encouragemt, or Joynture for to moue & prswade ye sd Mary, ye mother of ye sd plaintiff, to marrie wth ye sd Ed- ward, ye plaintiff's father." John Tuck further states that the said marriage took place, but the land has never been received from his grandfather's es- tate, according to agreement, "by ye non-perform- ance whereoff, both ye plaintiff & his mother are much damnified." It is a satisfaction to know that the jury allowed the plaintiff full damages, but the defendant, John Samborne, appealed to the next court, and subsequent records have been lost.
(III) Deacon John, younger of the sons of Ed- ward and Mary (Philbrick) Tuck, was born in 1652, probably at the family home in Hampton, New Hampshire. He lived to be ninety years of age, and filled a considerable place in his day and generation. He owned much land, which he cultivated, but he was by trade a carpenter. He also built and oper- ated two mills, and perhaps this business was his chief occupation. At a meeting held on September 17, 1686, the following vote was passed: "Upon the motion of John Tuck to the Town, the Town have acted hy vote to grant him liberty to set up a grist and fulling mill upon Nilus River." The stream, thus classically designated, has its principal source in Alder Meadow situated in the northly part of Hampton, and flows into a pond caused by an in- undation of the sea in February, 1724. Deacon Tuck dammed the river and built his grist-mill. hut finding the flow of water insufficient for two mills, asked permission in 1689 to build another dam, a mile farther up the Nilus. Even this proved in- sufficient in some seasons, and in 1729 Deacon Tuck obtained permission to build two more dams, one across the outlet of some springs, and the other to confine the waters of "Nook Run," which by ditch- ing could be made tributary to the Nilus. Traces of these dams can be seen to this day.
Mr. Tuck and his wife united with the church on February 28, 1697, about seven weeks after their marriage. On June 19, 1715, he was chosen deacon of the church, which office he held until his death, more than twenty-seven years later. On May 22, 1715, he writes that lie is beginning to read the Bible through for the thirteenth time. Deacon Tuck was highly esteemed both for his ability and in- tegrity, and was often chosen to fill office. He was ten times elected selectman of Hampton-in 1680,-82- 87-88-94-98 and in 1700-11-16-17. On July 5. 1714. he was chosen town clerk, which office he held about fifteen years and eight months. He was twice elected a deputy to represent the town in the general assembly of the Province, which included both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The first time the assembly met at Newcastle, this state, and after adjournment to Hampton, was dissolved by Licuten- ant-Governor Usher. having been in session only five
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days. The second time that Deacon Tuck was a member the assembly met at Portsmouth on May 13. 1717. Governor Samuel Shute. of Boston, pre- sided at the meeting, which lasted seven days, be- ing prorogued to September 24. On the latter date Lieutenant-Governor George Vaughan, of New Hampshire, presided. There arose some contention between the governors as to their respective rights in dealing with matters in New Hampshire, and it is noteworthy that the three Hampton delegates stood out for their own section, even to the extent of being brought before "the Councill board," and giving bonds to keep the peace. Thus early did the name of Tuck stand for the right of private judg- ment.
On February 28, 1659, (Deacon) John Tuck mar- ried Bethia Hobbs, daughter of Morris and Sarah (Eastow) Hobbs, who was born in Hampton, Feb- ruary 28, 1659. There were nine children: Bethia, born July 28, 1682, married John Marston. Mary, born January 27, 1684, married Deacon Samuel Shaw, of Hampton Falls. John, born April 19, 1687, died the next year. Samuel and Sarah (twins), born April 30, 1689. Hannah, born April 10, 1692, married Jonathan Dearborn. Edward, born Febru- ary 7, 1694. Jonathan, whose sketch follows. John, born August 23, 1702, was graduated from Har- vard College in 1723, and was pastor at the Isles of Shoals more than forty years. Mrs. Bethia ( Hobbs) Tuck, the mother of this family, died May 29, 1738, in her eightieth year. Deacon Tuck outlived his wife nearly four years, dying January 4, 1742, aged ninety years.
(IV) Deacon Jonathan, fourth son and eighth child of Deacon John and Bethia (Hobbs) Tuck, was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, September II, 1697. He was a farmer and miller and lived on the paternal homestead. He carried on the grist-mill at Nilus Brook, built by his father, and he used to walk the distance, two and one-half miles from his house, accompanied by an old white horse, which carried the neighbor's bags of corn and grain to be ground. Deacon Tuck was a well informed and influential man, and is said to have been distinguished for his extensive and accurate geographical knowledge. He served as selectman of Hampton for eight years, 1734-39-42-45-48-63-64-65. He was twice chosen to the general assembly-the first time on February 12, 1753, to fill out an unexpired term of somewhat more than two years; and the second time for the regular term of three years. He was a man of mark in the town, though somewhat noted for his eccentricities. He was chosen deacon to succeed his father, and held the office till his death, nearly thirty- nine years later. The office in those days was next in dignity to that of the minister, and the Tucks, . father and son, filled it continuously for a period of sixty-seven years. It is said that Rev. Ward Cotton, who was pastor during part of that time, was a very excitable man, whose fervor sometimes became alarming .. It was then the custom of Deacon Jon- athan Tuck to strike his shoe against the pew in front, which signal never failed to calm the clerical zcał.
On February 22, 1721, (Deacon) Jonathan Tuck married Tabitha Towle, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Borden) Towle, who was born at Hampton, May 1, 1697. There were ten children: John, born December 15, 1721. Bethia, born March 17, 1723, married (first) Anthony Taylor: (second) Jonathan Garland. Benjamin, born July 29, 1724. Mary born July 26, 1727, married James Taylor, brother to Anthony. Jonathan, born May 19, 1729, died young. Sarah, baptized May 16, 1730, died young. Samuel,
born March 20, 1731. Abigail, baptized June 23. 1734, died the next year. Jonathan (2), the subject of the succeeding paragraph. Tabitha, baptized April 15, 1739, married Philemon Blake. Mrs. Tabitha (Towle) Tuck died August 12, 1766, in her sixty-ninth year. Her husband, Deacon Jonathan Tuck, outlived his wife nearly fifteen years, dying February 3, 1781, aged eighty-three.
(V) Jonathan (2), fifth son and ninth child of Deacon Jonathan (1) and Tabitha (Towle) Tuck, was baptized October 10, 1736, at Hampton, New Hampshire. He inherited one-half of the paternal homestead, and occupied the south half of the dwell- ing-house. On October 30, 1766, he married his first wife, Betsey, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Moul- ton) Batchelder. who was born September 1, 1742. She died April 3, 1772, in her thirtieth year, leaving one daughter, Betty, born April 8, 1768. Betty Tuck married (first) Simeon Leavitt, of Kensington, New Hampshire, and (second) John Parker, of Exeter, an Englishman by birth. Jonathan Tuck's second wife was Huldah Moulton, daughter of John and Mary (Marston) Moulton, who was born in Hamp- ton, September II, 1746. There were four children by this marriage: Josiah, born April 19, 1773. Jon- athan, January 30, 1776. Samuel, September 18, 1778. John, a posthumous child, born August 23, 1780, one month and three days after the death of his father. Of these children. Jonathan was thrice married, and lived at the Isles of Shoals, Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, and Parsonfield and Port- land, Maine. He died at Effingham, this state, at the age of eighty-three. Jonathan Tuck, the second son, was by trade a carpenter, but followed the sea the last ten years of his life. He never married, and died at Saint Bartholomew, West Indies. August 2, 1809, in his thirty-fourth year. Captain Samuel Tuck married Abigail Carter, of Exeter, and spent most of his life in Parsonfield, Maine, where he was engaged in farming, dying at the age of eighty-two. The sketch of John Tuck, the youngest child, is given in the following paragraph. Jonathan (2) Tuck, the father of this family, died July 20, 1780, at the early age of forty-three. His widow outlived him nearly forty-five years, removing some time after her husband's death to Parsonfield, Maine, where she died February 6, 1825, in her seventy-ninth year.
(VI) John (2), youngest of the four sons of Jonathan (2) Tuck and his second wife, Huldah ( Moulton) Tuck, was born August 23, 1780, prob- ably at the family home in Hampton, New Hamp- shire. He was a posthumous child, born thirty-four days after the death of his father. John (2) Tuck continued to live in Hampton some years after his marriage, and his two eldest children were born there. In 1807 he removed with his family to Par- sonfield, Maine, where his mother and some of his brothers were already living, and he continued to make that place his home till his death, being principally engaged in farming. About 1800 John (2) Tuck married Betsey Towle, daughter of Amos and Sarah (Nudd) Towle, of Hampton, who was born August 5, 1783. There were six children by this marriage: Jonathan, born September 21. 1801. Sarah, December 1.4, 1804, married John Hodgdon, of Effingham, New Hampshire, and died of con- sumption at the age of twenty-five. Betsey, born at Parsonsfield, August 25, 1807. married John Hodg- don, her deceased sister's husband. Amos, whose sketch follows. Mary, October 12. 1814, married Daniel Wiggin, of Parsonsfield. John, April 8, 1819. The eldest son, Jonathan Tuck, was educated at Hampton Academy, taught school winters, lived at Parsonsfield about twenty years where he was
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representative to the legislature, and about 1846 moved to Biddeford, Maine, where he was the first postmaster, and Mayor of the city at the time of his death, in January, 1861. The youngest son, John Tuck, fitted for college at Hampton Academy, but was unable to continue his studies on account of ill health. He lived for a time in Parsonsfield where he married Harriet A. Wiggin, in 1844, and then followed his eldest brother to Biddeford where he engaged in business and farming. John (2) Tuck, the father of this family, died suddenly at Parsons- field, April 27, 1847, in his sixty-seventh year. His widow, Mrs. Betsey (Towle) Tuck, died at the same place on her seventy-seventh birthday, August 5, 1860.
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