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(11) Colonel John, second child and eldest son of Major Samuel and Deborah ( Butterfield) Moore, was born November 28, 1731. He was early trained in war, a lieutenant in the French and Indian war, a captain in Colonel John Stark's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and promoted to major June 18, 1775. He lived in Manchester, then in Deer- field, and removed, in 1778, to Norridgewock, Maine, where he died in 1809. He was a colonel in the Maine militia. He married (first), September 8. 1754. Margaret Goffe, daughter of Colonel Jolin and Esther (Griggs) Goffe; and (second) Mrs. Weston, of Bloomfield, Maine. The children of Colonel John and Margaret were: Deborah, Benja- min, Goffe. Peggy, John. Abraham, Joseph, Olive and Hannah.
(III) Goffe, third child and second son
of Colonel John and Margaret (Goffe) Moore, was born December 4. 1760 .. He removed to Maine and resided in the town of Anson, where he died in 1850. He married, in Maine, (first) Betsey Fowler, who died in 1793; and (second) Mrs. Betsey (Gray) McKinney.
(IV) Selina. daughter of Goffe and Betsey (Fowler) Moore, born 1797. in Madison, Maine, became the wife of Isaac Savage (see Savage, IF).
MOORS The state of New Hampshire is in- debted for much of the enterprise. in- dependence and industry which have promoted her progress to what is known as the Scotch-Irish blood. The bearers of this blood have been long lived and have reared large families, whose branches are now found in every section of the state as well as of the United States. They have been found thrifty and well settled in their prin- ciples and opinions, contributing much to the main- taining of moral standards as well as to the ma- terial development of the regions in which they have lived. Many of the names of these people have undergone metamorphoses in the course of handling by the American communities, and we find the name under present consideration came to America in a very different form.
(I) James Moore was born in or near Lon- donderry, Ireland, in the latter part of the seven- teenth century, and was a scion of one of the nu- merous Scotch families which had settled in North- ern Ireland, nearly one hundred years before his birth. He was one of the signers of the memorial to Governor Chute in 1718. praying for a suitable encouragement to immigrants to New England. With his wife. Isabel, he settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, about 1720, and was known as "charter James Moore." because he was one of the original proprietors of the township. In 1724 he sold his right in the undivided lands of the town to Hugh Ramsey, and purchased from time to time until his holdings exceeded seven hundred acres in the south part of Londonderry between Ezekiel's and Mitchel ponds. His dwelling house was near the present junction of the railroad in Windham. The last named town was severed from Lon- donderry, in 1742, by a track in the original line of division. In 1778 this line was straightened and all of Mr. Moore's homestead was annexed to Windham. He was a weaver and an extensive dealer in linen wares. Ile was selectman in 1723, and is frequently named in the records of his time. Ile died in 1750, and the inventory of his estate places its value at three thousand five hundred and
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seventy pounds. His widow survived him nearly twenty-five years, and died February 13, 1775, in Pelham, Massachusetts. They had sons: James, Joseph and Sampson, who removed in 1762 to Nova Scotia, and David, who is mentioned below.
(II) David, son of James and Isabel Moore, was born August 26, 1730, in Londonderry, and lived in that town, owning a part of the homestead, until 1759, when he moved to Sharon, New Hampshire. He was a man of unusual mental and physical power, with strong Scotch characteristics, and a rigid Presbyterian. He died July 21, 1820, in Sharon. He married, July 2, 1753, Margaret Tag- gart, born August 23, 1733, in Londonderry, daughter of John and Mary ( McAllister) Taggart. Their sons were: James, John and William. Of these William was the grandfather of Ezra S. Stearns.
(III) John, second son of David and Mary (Taggart) Moore, was born June 20, 1768, in Sharon, and was a farmer in that town, occupying the west part of the paternal homestead. He mar- ried Hannah Fitch, born June 23, 1768, daughter of Paul and Mary (Jackwith) Fitch, and granddaugh- ter of John Fitch, for whom the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, is named. His brother, William Moore, married Mary Fitch, and had nine children. John Moore died December 20, 1840, and was sur- vived nearly fourteen years by his widow, who passed away September 18. 1854. Their children were : David. John, Luke, Paul, Leonard, Pemelia, Cyrus, Hannah and Samuel. Many of the family now write the name Moors.
(IV) Luke Moors. third son and child of John and Hannah (Fitch) Moors, was born March 29, 1796. in Sharon, and lived several years in Jaffrey, whence he removed to Marlboro, New Hampshire, in 1845. He was a farmer, and a man of most exemplary character. He died April 25, 1846, as the ยท result of an injury received at the raising of a building. He married, March IT, 1824, Mary Baker, born June 27, ISO1, in Marlboro, daughter of Bezaleel and Abigail (Wood) Baker. They had two children born in Jaffrey: Loren L. and Cy- rus S.
(V) Cyrus Sidney Moors, second son of Luke and Mary (Baker) Moors, was born July 5, 1832, in Jaffrey, and received his education in the public schools of that town and Marlboro. His first em- ployment was in Athol, Massachusetts, in the Wheeler pail factory, where he continued about two years. Returning to Marlboro he was em- ployed in a similar establishment, and was next em- ployed as a carpenter for two years, at Leomin- ster, Massachusetts. He returned to the pail fac- tory at Marlboro, and subsequently became station agent of the Chesire railroad in Marlboro, be- ginning in 1857, and continuing thirteen years. He then removed to Marlboro, and was in partnership association in the conduct of a general store with George Davis for two years. Returning to the rail- road service, he continued as station agent for a period of fifteen years. Since that time he has en- gaged in the livery and grain husiness in Marlboro Village, and also carries the mail from the station to the village. Mr. Moors served the town as selectman, being chairman of the board and has been fire warden and chief of police for the past forty years. He has been deputy sheriff for the last sixteen years, and represented the town in the state legislature in 1903. He is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been indentified with the Congregational church all
his life, having been a singer in the choir of Marlboro for the past sixty years.
He married, September 7, 1854, Caroline A., daughter of Deacon A. and Roxanna (Frost ) Far- rar. She died March 14, 1866. He married (sec- ond), April 9, 1867, Harrict ( Frost) Harrington, who died January 16, 1885. His third wife, to whom he was married December 29, 1885, was Lorinda (Smith) Blodgett. The children, born of the first wife, are: Fred Sidney. Lizzie C. and Albert Loren. Mrs. Lorinda (Smith) Moors has had a deep interest in the cause of temperance since the days of her girlhood when she identified herself with the Washingtonian movement ; subsequently with the Reform Club. From the crusade day of '73 her association has continued close and active. In 1882 she was a charter member of the local union Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( Marl- boro), being chosen president, an official connection which has continued up to the present time ( 1907). Since 1888 Mrs. Moors has been president of Cheshire County Union, and as such (ex-officio) one of the vice-presidents of the state. She has held membership in the Universalist Church of Marl- boro for more than thirty years. Mrs. Moors in 1882 became identified with the Daughters of Re- bekah, and has been through all of the chairs of the local lodge (Harmony) and is past district deputy.
This family, which is of English
PARKHURST origin, takes its name from the locality in which a remote an- sestor dwelt, a park containing a hurst, or grove. In New England and New York numerous scions of the family have been men of prominence, and it was early identified with the development of New Hampshire.
(I) George Parkhurst, the emigrant ancestor, came from Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, Eng- land, about the year 1640, and settled in Water- town, Massachusetts. He married, about 1645, Susan, widow of John Simpson, of Watertown, and about that time he removed from Watertown to Boston. In 1642 he was proprietor of a homestall of twelve acres and five other parcels of land in Watertown. On October 4, 1645, being then a resi- dent of Boston, he sold to John Coolidge and Thomas Hastings a lot of land which he had pur- chased from Hugh Mason. On December 20, 1648, he sold to his son-in-law, Thomas Arnold, thirty acres of dividend land in Watertown. On March 5, 1649, he sold to William Page ten acres near the great pond. He sold on June 13, 1655, ten acres which had been granted to John Simpson. He was admitted a freeman at Watertown. May IO, 1643. Daniel Parker, who was baptized in the first church of Boston, in 1649, was probably his son. He was the father of seven children.
(II) Joseph, son of George Parkhurst. was a native of England, and accompanied his father on his removal to America. He was married June 26, 1656, to Rebecca Reed, of Concord, Massachu- setts, and went to reside in Chelmsford, that state, whence he removed to Plainfield, Connecticut. about 1690. He had a family of five children. (Mention of Joseph, one of these, and descendants, appears in this article.)
(III) Ebenezer, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Reed) Parkhurst, was born in Watertown, and probably went from there to Chelmsford, as he was residing in the latter place in 1699. His farm, which
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is now known as "The Owls Nest." remained in the possession of his descendants until 1800. The Christian name of his wife was Mary, and she be- came the mother of six children.
(IV) James, son of Ebenezer and Mary Park- hurst, was born in Chelmsford, November 18, 1707. The Christian name of his wife was Abigail, and she bore him eight children.
(V) Philip, son of James and Abigail Park- hurst, was born in Chelmsford, April 17. 1745. He resided there his entire life, which terminated De- cember 14, 1810. March 14, 1771, he married Mary Spalding, and was the father of Andrew, John, Mary, Henry, Ephraim, Silas and Polly.
(VI) Ephraim, fourth son and fifth child of Philip and Mary (Spalding) Parkhurst, was born in Chelmsford, April 11, 1783. He went to Bed- ford, New Hampshire, prior to 1818, settling upon a farm in the west part of the town, and his death occurred October 30, 1819. His farm is now oc- cupied by Henry L. Peaslee. He was married May 3, 1807, to Sarah Proctor, of Chelmsford (sec Proctor). Their children were: Sarah Ann, died young ; Ephraim A .; Rufus; Elijah P .; Sarah Ann; and Nancy C. The mother of these children mar- ried for her second husband, January 21, 1822, Solomon Woods. She died in Bedford, December 6, 1877, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
(VII) Deacon Elijah P., third son and fourth child of Ephraim and Sarah ( Proctor ) Parkhurst, was born January 11, 1814. He resided for many years in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and died in Manchester, June 28, 1892. He was a deacon of the Presbyterian Church. His first wife, whom he married April 18. 1839, was Sally J. Gage, daughter of Isaac and Sally ( Underwood) Gage. She died December 25. 1858. On November 8, 1859, he mar- ried for his second wife Harriet N. Otis, of New Boston, who died October 14, 1893. In his youth Mr. Parkhurst learned the stone-cutter's trade, which he followed in Virginia about five years, and in 1837 was awarded the contract to cut the pillars for the Baltimore (Maryland) court house. His ability as a stone cutter gave him a national repu- tation. His business called him to no less than eleven different states, prior to the advent of rail- ways, and he was one of the first passengers on the first railroad train in this country. Returning to Mer- rimack he engaged in the stone business, also car- ried on lumbering operations, and cultivated a farm. Ile was more or less active in local civic affairs, serving as a selectman four years and as overseer of the poor for some time. The children of his first union arc: George S., who will be referred to presently ; Sally Jane, born December 27, 1842, dicd February 7, 1843; Lucretia D., born May 20. 1744, married Horace Holbrook, of Manchester, and has two children-Grace and Dora D. : and Surviah 11., born April 1, 1847, married Daniel Webster At- wood, of Bedford, and has one child, Gordon P. Atwood. Those of his second union are: Harriet Jane, born October 13. 1800, unmarried. and resides m Bedford, and Carrie E., born May 18, 1865, now a teacher in Talladega College, Alabama.
(VIII) George Spalding, eldest son and child of Deacon Elijah P. and Sally (Gage) Parkhurst. was born in Merrimack, July 4, 1840. Ile studied at the Magaw Institute, and completed his edu- cation in New York. Turning his attention to edu- cational pursuits, he was engaged for four years in teaching school, and at the expiration of that time he returned to the homestead farm, which he subse-
quently purchased of his father. In addition to. farming he is interested quite extensively in lumber- ing, and is one of the successful business men of Merrimack. His religious affiliations are with the Congregationalists, and he has been a deacon of that church for the past twelve years. On September 4, 1889, Mr. Parkhurst married Hannah Agusta Drew, daughter of Joseph and Salome (Bowdwell) Drew, of Chester, New Hampshire.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and Re- becca (Reed) Parkhurst, resided in Plainfield, Connecticut, where he reared a family and died.
(IV) Tilly Parkhurst, son of Joseph (2) Park- hurst, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, in 17229, and died in Royalton, Vermont, July 11, 1802. He lived in Plainfield until some time between 1772 and 1775, when he removed with his family to Royalton, where the remainder of his life was spent, in the valley of White river about two miles below South Royalton. Here he was engaged in sub- duing the wilderness in 1780, when three hundred Indiana savages descended from Canada and burned Royalton and carried away many of its inhabitants captives. They slaughtered his stock and burned his buildings, leaving nothing but a portion of a bucket which contained a quantity of maple sugar, which the Indians probably overlooked. Tilly Park- hurst was an active, energetic and persevering citi- zen, and had done much to make himself and family comfortable before the Indians destroyed all his improvements that fire would consume. He mar- ried Sarah (Shepherd), widow of Elias Stevens. She was born in Connecticut, in 1730, and died in Royalton, December 12, 1816, aged eighty-six. She had one son Elias by her first husband, and by her second she had: Jabez, Ebenezer, Molly and Phineas, whose biography follows.
(V) Dr. Phineas (1), youngest child of Tilly and Sarah (Shepherd) Parkhurst, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, January 6, 1760, and died at Lebanon, New Hampshire, October 16, 1844, aged eighty-five years. He accompanied his parents on their removal to Royalton, Vermont, between 1772 and 1775. Here he grew to manhood on the northern verge of American civilization, in the time of the American Revolution. August 13, 1776, when sixteen years of age, he and his half-brother, Elias Stevens, enlisted at Windsor, Vermont, in Captain Joseph Hatch's company of rangers. and probably scouted in the northern woods, guarded the hastily built forts, and awaited the expected at- tack of British or Indians. On September 20, 1777, Phineas Parkhurst appears as a fifer in Captain William Heaton's company, Colonel Peter Ol- cott's regiment, Northern Department. The ser- vice was for thirty-six days, and he seems to have seen the surrender of Burgoyne. In April, 1778, he was again in service in Captain Solomon Cush- man's company, Colonel Bedel's regiment, as fourth corporal and fifer, and served until March. 1779. When the Indians attacked Royalton, October 16, 1780, burning houses, killing citizens, and carrying away prisoners, Phincas Parkhurst was cating breakfast at the house of a neighbor, but acting instantly, escaped on horseback with the wife and daughter of his host. Leaving his companions in a place of safety, he returned to spread the news and assist others in escaping. Starting to cross the river opposite his father's house, he was shot in the back by an Indian. The ball passed through his body and lodged under the ribs beneath the skin. Turning, he rode down the river and warned
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the settlers of the raid, until he had travelled six- teen miles to Robinson's Ferry, where he stopped and received surgical aid. This wound closed his career as a soldier, and he soon afterward began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Nathaniel Hall, the first doctor in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He began practice and spent the ten years following that event at Robinson's Ferry, New Hampshire. The doctor had a circuit of many miles wide in Vermont and New Hampshire. and traversed roads of all degrees of badness in all kinds of weather, carrying his medicines in his sad- dle bags behind him. All his journeys were per- formed on horseback, his medicines were principally decoctions of herbs, and his fees for a visit were one shilling. In 1794 he was able to buy property two miles from West Lebanon, New Hampshire, on the Mascomia river, which included a dam and mill, a small farm, and a house which stood near Lebanon's first church, and opposite Pine ceme- tery. There he bred mules for the market, and grew rich in the business. Many stories are still told of Dr. Parkhurst and his mules, which were often driven to the coal fields in Pennsylvania: to Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina ; Georgia, and otherwheres: and also sold to parties in Boston, New York, New London, Connecticut, and New Haven, and transported to the West India Islands, and sold there in exchange for the produce of those islands. Dr. Parkhurst used to ship them to sundry places on his own account and receive in return rice, cotton, indigo, and tobacco, which articles opened a heavy trade between him and the country merchants in the adjoining towns. The Doctor practiced day and night, mule raising was profitable, and in a few years he had money to in- vest. He bought farm and timber lands adjoining his homestead, and after 1810 he made so many purchases of real estate in and near Lebanon vil- lage that old people say he owned pretty nearly the whole place. He had over sixty deeds on record. In 1817 he sold the handsome house he built on his farm and moved to Lebanon village and lived in a great house on Carter's corner, surrounded by so many barns, sheds and other outbuildings that it is said that his place looked like a small town. On land adjoining this, which he owned, nearly half the present town of Lebanon is built. In 1817 he bought an interest in the Lebanon grist mill, of which he became sole owner in 1829 and rebuilt it in 1839. He was the first president of the first bank in Lebanon, and encouraged the coming of the railroad to Lebanon while many opposed it.
The record of Dr. Parkhurst's life shows him to have been a man, first of all, of uncommon sound sense and good judgment. He possessed an iron constitution and great energy, a genial disposition, and in his later years, a courtly demeanor. Ile was poor when he started in the practice of medicine. and soon become poorer. The cow and the pig his bride had received as her dowry were sold within six months to pay the Doctor's debts. and her wed- ding dress was cut up to make him shirts, but though reduced to these straits, he never lost heart, and by persevering soon found opportunity to show that skill which made him one of the leading phy- sicians in two states. His good sense and careful observation led him to make changes in his methods of practice that are now approved, and thereby doubtless saved much suffering and some lives. As a physician he was very popular, and had all the practice that he could attend to, and "in his nearly
sixty years of medical practice he is said to have introduce three thousand children into the world, with never a mother lost in childbed." His repu- tation spread abroad, and students flocked to him to study under his direction, and there was almost never a time in his later life that he did not have students about him. Dr. Parkhurst's progress from poverty to wealth and a position of influence in social, professional, and business circles, is a very clear illustration of what good judgment and skill in dealing with his fellowman may do for any man. Dr. Parkhurst was married in March. 1784. by Rev. John Searle, to his cousin Lucy Pierce. daughter of Nathaniel and Priscilla (Shepherd) Pierce. died 1841. They were the parents of seven children : Phineas, Horace, Susan, Lucy, Sarah, Nancy and Harriet. Six of these died of consumption, and only one. Harriet, lived to old age. She was the wife of Rev. Ingersoll. a Unitarian clergyman, and died in Keene, New Hampshire.
(VI) Dr. Phineas (2), son of Dr. Phineas ( 1) and Lucy ( Pierce) Parkhurst, was born in Lebanon, and studied medicine with his father, and subse- quently took the course in medicine at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1805. He settled in Hartford, Vermont, where he practiced a time, and then moved to Templeton. Massachu- setts, where he lived the remainder of his life. His wife's family were prominent and wealthy people in Templeton, and she was heiress to a large amount of farm property which went to her only child. Dr. Parkhurst married Persis Kendall, and they were the parents of Paul Kendall, mentioned below.
(VII) Paul Kendall, son of Phineas (2) and Persis (Kendall) Parkhurst, was born in Strafford, New Hampshire, and at the age of one year was taken by his parents to Templeton. Massachusetts, on their removal to that place, and resided there all his life. He was a man of means, had a valu- able farm, and lived the life of a liberal gentleman farmer. He married Almira J. Partridge, born in Templeton. May 5. 1816, died in Templeton May 12, 1904. aged eighty-eight years. Her parents were : Otis and Unity Partridge. The children of this marriage were: Phineas, who is further mentioned below: Lucy Ann, married Edwin E. Thomas, of Taunton, Massachusetts; James Henry, resides at Baldwinsville. Massachusetts; Charles, died in Templeton, at the age of forty; and Harriet died young.
(VIII) Phineas (3). eldest child of Paul K. and Almira ( Partridge) Parkhurst. was born in Templeton. November 7, 1837, and died while on a visit to that place November 7. 1877. He was edu- . cated in the schools of Templeton, Massachusetts, and Lebanon, New Hampshire, and at an early age showed an aptitude for music, and became a skill- ful performer on the violin and clarionet. He was in Concord. New Hampshire, in 1861, and on Au- gust 7 of that year enlisted as a second class mu- sician in the band of the Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and was mustered into ser- vice August 26. He accompanied his regiment to the front and was stationed at Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he was mustered out August 31, 1862. January 6. 1863. he again enlisted, and was mustered into service February 10 as a first class musician of the Second Brigade band of the Tenth Army Corps, New Hampshire Volunteers. also known as the Post Band. He served until July 4. 1865. and was then mustered out at Hilton Head. After he returned to Concord he made music his
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profession until the time of his death. as far as his health permitted, though he was often obliged to desist on account of ravages made on his system by disease contracted while in the military service. He was a member of the Unitarian Church, and voted the Republican ticket. He married, January 5, 1869, Alice G. Quann, born in Halifax. Nova Scotia, April 23, 1846, daughter of John and Mary A. (Lattey) Quann. Mr. Quann was born and died in Halifax; his wife was born in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and died in Boston, July 20, 1872. They had three children: John, born in Halifax in 1843, died in Boston, 1875; James, born in Italifax, 1844, killed by a railroad train in Indiana in 1878; and Alice G. The children of Phineas and Alice G. (Quann) Parkhurst are: Harriet I., born in Con- cord, March, 1870, at home; and James P., born in Concord, in 1872. now engaged in the manufacture of silverware in Keene, this state.
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HAZARD The family of Hassard. Hassart or Hazard is of Norman extraction. At the time of the Conquest they were living on the borders of Switzerland, and were distinguished by the ancient but long extinct title of Duke de Charante. Two bearing this title visited the Holy Land as crusaders. The coat of arms of the family corroborates this statement, for its principal emblem is three scalloped shells on an ermine field, while the crescent is a closed helmet surmounted by a large scallop shell. These shells were found on the shores of Palestine, and they were the badge of the returning Pilgrims. The motto of the Hazard family is "Sinceritas. The Hazards in this country belong chiefly to Rhode Island, where the original Thomas settled in 1639. Tradition says that Thomas was accompanied by a nephew, the ancestor of the New York and south- ern branches of the family. In R1 Island the name is one of the most numcrou. at the state. Mrs. Mary Hazard, of South Kingston, Rhode Island, grandmother of Governor Hazard, died in 1739, at the age of one hundred years, and could count up five hundred children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, of whom two hundred and five were then living.
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