Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 124

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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(III) Benjamin (2), second son and ninth child of Benjamin (1) and Sarah (Williams) Dean, was born in Taunton, July 31. 1699. and died there Jan- uary 6, 1785. He married Zipporah Dean, who died September 27, 1778. Their children were: Benja- min. Isaac and Eliza.

(IV) Benjamin (3), eldest son and child of Benjamin (2) and Zipporah Dean, was born in Taunton about the year 1725. He married Mary Barrows and was the father of Samuel, Abijah, David and Luther.

(V) Luther. youngest son of Benjamin (3) and Mary (Barrows) Dean, was a lifelong resident of Taunton. He married Margaret Strobridge, a native of that part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, and reared a family of eight children : David, Luther, Abijah, James, Noah, Andrew, Cal- vin and Sophia.

(VI) Luther (2), second child of Luther (1) and Margaret (Strobridge) Dean, was born about the year 1789, and died August 5, 1833. He married Fannie Dean. (Owing to the total destruction by fire of the Taunton records about the year 1838, it is impossible to obtain the correct dates of the births and deaths recorded previous to that time).

(VII) David, son of Luther (2), was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1828. For a period of twenty years he served as deputy sheriff of Bristol county, during which he acquired the reputation of being a faithful and discreet civil offi- cer, and he was subsequently in the service of the state. He is now residing in Taunton, and is a member of the Congregational Church. He married Dordana Macomber, and has reared a family of six children : Gordon, Gertrude F., Luther, Arthur W., Mary S. and Julia. Four are residing in Massa- chusetts, one in South Dakota and the other is a resident of Nashua. Mrs. Dean was born in Taun- ton. February 7, 1834, and died November 5, 1876.

(VIII) Arthur Warren, son of David and Dor- dana (Macomber) Dean, was born in Taunton, March 27, 1870. His early education was acquired in the Taunton public schools, and he pursued the regular course in civil engineering at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, being graduated with the class of 1892. After following his profes- sion for two years in his native city he went to Nashua and has ever since resided in that city. In 1904 he was appointed state engineer by Governor Batchelder, and having given complete satisfaction during his first term in that capacity, he was re-ap- pointed by Governor MeLane. Mr. Dean is a mem- ber of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a Scottish Rite Mason. Ile married Anna M. Hamblett, daughter of J. A. Hamblett, of Nashua, and has two children: Elbra Madeline, born in Nashua, December 8. 1895; and Charline. also born in Nashua, July 5. 1901.

The Scotch-Irish who set-

CLYDE, or CLOYD tled Londonderry, and

later other towns of New Hampshire, were undoubtedly second in no respect to any of those who colonized other parts of New England. They possessed sound bodies. vigorous constitutions, bright intellects, and good morals. Of the Londonderry settlers were the ancestors of the Clydes or Cloyds.

(I) Daniel Clyde, tradition says, was born at Clydesdale, near the river Clyde, in Scotland. in 1683, but that is only tradition. Certain it is that he emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, probably about 1732, and settled in that part of Londonderry, New Hampshire, which is now Windham. He was a shrewd man, and filled the office of selectman of Windham in 1747. He died June 4, 1753, aged seventy years. He married. in Ireland, Esther Rankin. born in Ireland, in 1706, and died in Windham, February 16, 1779, aged seven- ty-three. She was the daughter

of Hugh Rankin, who emigrated from the county of Antrim, Ireland, to Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1722. If she was Daniel Clyde's first wife, which is hardly probable, she must have married him when quite young. She was a woman of many good qualities and of a strongly religious character. Daniel's children. several of whom were born in London- derry, Ireland, were: Joseph, Hugh, John, Daniel, Ann. Samuel. Mary, Naney and Agnes.

(II) Colonel Joseph, eldest child of Daniel and Esther (Rankin) Clyde, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1722, and died in Windham. June 7. 1805, aged eighty-three. He accompanied his father's family to America and shared the hardships of the voyage to Massachusetts and of the following win- ter. At that time he was about ten years old. He learned the brickmaker's trade, and worked for a time in Billerica. After his marriage he settled on what is still known as the Joseph Clyde farm in Windham, where he built a one-story house near the highway, a few rods from the present house. where the ancient cellar is still to be seen. He took a foremost position in the town's affairs, and was seleetman in 1749-50. He was commissioned lieutenant of a military company, May 7, 1764, and captain of the company, which was a part of the Eighth Regiment. May 3, 1770. When the "Lexing- ton Alarm" reached Windham Captain Clyde, who commanded the company of minute men in the town, was plowing in the field. He left his plow in the furrow and started immediately at the head of his company, each man having been notified. The women-wives, mothers and sisters of the soldiers- at once cooked a large amount of food, and sent it to the front to the men. One of Captain Clyde's brothers loaded his horse quite heavily with pro- visions which his mother had cooked, and followed the company. It is not certain how far this com- pany went. nor the length of the time of its service, as the muster-roll is lost, but it is not improbable that they joined the New Hampshire militia near Boston, as Captain Clyde's pay-roll to Cambridge

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for the services of his men was £35 8s. He was commissioned captain of a company of minute-men, with the rank of colonel, February 16, 1787.

He married, in Billerica. Massachusetts, Mar- garet Moffitt, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, and came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, with her father when seven years of age. They were thirteen weeks and three days coming over. and when they arrived at Boston the passengers offered prayers of gratitude before leaving the ship. Her father was a maker of spinning wheels. He lived in Lunen- burg, then a part of Billerica. He accidentally cut his wrist and bled to death. She used often to tell in her later years how plentiful wild animals were when she first settled in Londonderry. Sometimes, while she was spinning, the bears looked in at the windows of her cabin. Colonel Clyde kept two dogs, one to stay at the house with his wife, the other to hunt bears out of the corn. The children of this couple were: Daniel, Ann. Margaret, Mary, John, and Joseph. whose sketch follows.

(III) Joseph (2), youngest child of Colonel Joseph (1) and Margaret (Moffitt) Clyde, was born in Windham, February 12. 1766, and died August 16, 1858, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He resided on the ancestral farm, about a mile and a half southwest of the meeting house. He married, March 17, 1797. Elizabeth Wilson, born April 2, 1766, and died December 27, 1839, aged seventy- three. Her parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Gilmore) Wilson. The children of this marriage were : Joseph, Betsey, Gilmore. Samuel Wilson, Hiram and Margaret.

(IV) Samuel Wilson, third child and second son of Joseph (2) and Elizabeth (Wilson) Clyde, was born in Windham, August 1, 1803. and died October 16, 1882. aged seventy-nine. He resided on the old homestead, which he left in 1851, and re- moved to Dracut. Massachusetts, and afterward to Hudson, where he resided till his death. He was a farmer and lumberer, and also dealt in wood. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. He married, April 22, 1851, Hannah Jane Boles, born in Hudson. September 13, 1825, and is now (1907) living, daugh- ter of Greenleaf and Hannah (Farnum) Boles. Their children were: Hannah Elizabeth. Margaret Jane, and George Wilson, the subject of the next paragraph.

(V) George Wilson, youngest child of Samuel W. and Hannah J. (Boles) Clyde, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, October 23. I865. After finishing with the common schools, he attended Mc- Gaw Institute, at Reed's Ferry, New Hampshire, Dean Academy. Franklin, Massachusetts; Tuft's College, and the Boston University of Law, grad- uating from the latter in 1894. After his admission to the bar he began the practice of law in Nashua, where he has offices, though he resides in Hudson. Mr. Clyde has taken a deep interest in public affairs, and has been active in promoting public utilities. He was one of the incorporators of the Goffs Falls, Litchfield & Hudson Street Railroad. now the Man- chester & Nashua Street Railway, and is one of its

directors. In politics he is a Republican, and has filled various offices. He has been three times elected member of the school board, and served nine years ; April 14, 1896, he was appointed judge of the police court of Hudson, and still holds that office ; he has served as moderator nine years: and was a member of the last constitutional convention. He is an Odd Fellow. and belongs to Lodge No. 94, of Hudson.

He married, in Manchester, February 19. 1902, Anna Bertha Wells, born in Concord, New Hamp- shire. January 11, 1877, daughter of Martin and Ella L. (Colby) Wells. They have two children: Mar- garet Ernestine and Wilson W.

The name of Davignon originated DAVIGNON in the south of France, and mem- bers of the various generations have been prominent in professional life, while others have followed agricultural pursuits.

(I) Alexander C. Davignon, the pioneer ances- tor of the family in America, emigrated from France to Canada prior to its secession to the Brit- ish, and was one of the leading farmers in the province of Quebec.

(II) George, son of Alexander C. Davignon (1). was born at St. Mathias, province of Quebec, and spent his entire life in that section of the country.

(III) Narcisse, son of George Davignon (2), was born in Iberville, province of Quebec, about the year 1822, and was a prosperous farmer during the active period of his life, his death occurring in 1902. He married Martine Gingras. a native of St. Mathias, and was the father of fourteen children, ten of whom are living now (1907), one of his sons being at the present time mayor of Knowlton, in the province of Quebec.

(IV) Rev. I. H. C. Davignon, son of Narcisse (3) and Martine (Gingras) Davignon, was born in Iberville, province of Quebec, April 12, 1848. He was a student at the Normal school, and from there went to the St. Hyacinthe College, from which he was graduated in 1870, then studied theology at the St. Hyacinthe Seminary, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1873. For one year and a half he oc- cupied the presidential chair in Sorel College, and remained in that diocese until 1879. He was adopted by the bishop of Portland, under whom he served in Lewiston and the various Maine missions until 1881. when he was sent to Suncook, New Hamp- shire. Here he organized and built up a parish, remaining in charge for about fourteen years, his labors being productive of much good. At the ex- piration of this period he was appointed rector of St. George's Roman Catholic Church, in Manchester, New Hampshire, taking charge of that parish No- vember 26, 1894, and has filled this office continu- ously up to the present time. His rectorship has been signalized by the introduction of numerous improvements, and may truly be called an era of progress in the history of the parish. for he has not only obliterated a debt of long standing, but has

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erected a new school building and a parochial resi- dence. Father Davignon is a man of pleasing per- sonality, courteous to strangers. and ever vigilant for the spiritual and social betterment of his parish- ioners. His influence is far-reaching among them, and he is extremely popular among his French- Canadian compatriots in the city of Manchester.

St. George's Church has a congregation of five thousand souls, requiring, in addition to the labors of the rector, the services of two assistant clergy- men, and is one of the foremost religious organiza- tions of the city. The church edifice is of brick with brown stone trimmings. The broad facade is relieved by two imposing towers with Roman em- brasures and an abundance of open lattice. Ample granite steps lead to the main entrance, of Romanes- que design, above which is a fine rose window with granite arching. Surmounting this is a niche in which is set a heroic statue of St. George. The auditorium is spacious, and with the surrounding gallery has a seating capacity of one thousand, two hundred and sixty persons. The nave windows are of Roman design, and each transept is pierced by a fine rose window. A series of stained glass win- dows supply light to the chancel, in which is a hand- some marble altar. Roman turrets, open on all sides. and set off by columns, ornament canopies suspended over the figures of angels. The side altars are each set in a chancel alcove, also of mar- ble, containing titulary statues. The church is lighted by gas and electricity, is heated by steam, and is fitted with all modern appliances and im- provements which may tend to the comfort of the worshippers. There is in addition a new building which will cost about thirty-four thousand dollars, and which will be called St. Isidore's Convent. It will be occupied by the Sisters as a residence, and will contain three school rooms, making in all fifteen school rooms in the two buildings, which buildings will be united.

The Doanes of the United States are

DOANE supposed to be descended from the Doanes of Utkinton, near Torporley, in the county of Cheshire, England, where their earliest known settlement was in the time of King John, 1199-1216. The ancient orthography of the name Done is not very clear. It is supposed to be derived from Dun or Dune. meaning a stronghold or hill fortress, but for ages it has been pronounced with the o long. In old manuscripts it appears as Donne, Dourn, Downe, &c. The Doanes of New England have been noted for centuries for their hardihood and daring, and many of the name have been distinguished as seamen.

(I) Deacon John Doane, the founder of the Doane family in America. and the progenitor of a numerous posterity, came from England and settled in Plymouth. Massachusetts. Nothing is known of his antecedents or of the date of his settlement in Plym- outh. One authority says: "Mr. John Doane came over to New England about 1629, when history in- forms us that thirty-five of the Leyden Company,

with their families, arrived in Plymouth. He, no doubt, was one of these, and a member of Mr. Robin's church." John Doane was a prominent man in Plymouth as soon as his arrival there, about 1630. He was one of the few who bore the title of "Mr." The Pilgrims were very careful to give no titles where they were not due. John Doane must have been known to the Pilgrims previous to his coming to Plymouth. There are strong suggestions that he was in partnership with Mr. John Atwood, who was of London until 1635. The Done family are found in London at this period, and in former generations there were not a few Jolin Dones. He was a strong man. His associates and the offices he was bidden to undertake by the governor, the court, and by the suffrages of his townsmen show him to have been a man of superior quality.

He was one of the Councell of Plymouth in 1663. July 1, 1663. it was ordered "That Captain Miles Standish, John Done, Stephen Hopkins, Joshua Prat, Edward Bangs, Jonathan Brewster. and Rob Heeks divide the medow ground in the bay equally according to proporcon of shares formerly devided to the purchasers at or before the last of August, next ensuing." June 4, 1639, Mr. John Done is al- lowed to draw wine until the next court. John Doane served as administrator of a number of estates, and as appraiser. Many entries like the following are found in the records: January 2, 1634, "At this Court Mr. John Donc. being formerly chosen to the office of deacon in the Church at the request of the church and himselfe was freed from the office of an Assistant in the comon Wealc." John Doane preferred to be a Deacon in the church rather than an assistant to the governor in the affairs of the colony. January 5, 1636, John Donc, with six others, "was chosen to assist ye Gove and Councell to sett shuch rates on goods to be sould and labourers for their hire as should be meet and juste." In 1636 Deacon Doane was one of those appointed to assist the governor and council in the preparation of a regular system of laws. In tlte list of 147 in all between the ages of sixteen and sixty years, able to bear arms in August, 1643. John Doane is one of seven who have the honorable pre- fix of "Mr." attached to their names. In 1644 the movement towards the new settlement of Nauset began, one of the leaders of which was Mr. Doane. He sold his homestead in Plymouth for ten pounds and settled in Nauset (later called Eastham) on land north of Town Cove. "He took possession of about two hundred acres of land. and his house stood near the water." At various times after hc became a resident of Eastham he had land granted to him by the court as well as by the town. In Eastham town affairs John Doane was an import- ant man. He was appointed by the court June I, 1663, to solemnize marriages and to administer oaths to witnesses. He was deacon of the First Church there, and served the town as selectman for many years. In 1640-50-51-53-59 he was a deputy to the colony court for Eastham, as he had been in 1642 and 1643 for the town of Plymouth. In his will.

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‹lated May 18, 1678, Mr. Doane declares his age "eighty-eight years or thereabouts." If his own statement is correct he was born not far from 1590. He died February 21, 1685, aged about ninety-five years. His inventory taken by his neighbors, Joseph Snow and Joshua Bangs, says "aged about one hun- dred years." His wife's name was Abigail. They were undoubtedly buried in the old cemetery at Eastham, the first burial ground of the town. The children of Deacon John Doane were: Lydia, Abi- gail. John, Daniel and Ephraim.

(II) Deacon Daniel, fourth child and second son of Deacon John Doane, was born probably at Plymouth, about 1636, and died at Eastham, Decem- ber 20, 1712, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He went from Plymouth to Eastham with his fath- er's family in 1645, and settled in that part of East- ham now known as East Orleans. Like his father he was a prominent man in the affairs of the town and the church. He was a selectman each year from 1691 to 1696; a juryman in 1677-86-87-89; a sur- veyor of highways in 1667-73-79 and 1700-04. He was a deacon of the First Church for many years. probably succeeding his father, Deacon John Doane. He was an extensive landholder, the Eastham rec- ords showing many grants to him, nearly all of which were within the limits of the present town of Orleans. He was buried in the old Town Cove burial ground, where a small slatestone bears the still legible inscription : "Here Lyes ye Body of Deacon Daniel Doane, Decd Decr ye 20th 1712 In The 76 year of His Age." The inventory of his es- tate amounted to £553 16s ogd.

Nothing is known of his first wife, who was probably the mother of all his children except Hep- sibah. He married (second) Hepsibah Crisp, widow of George Crisp, and daughter of Daniel and Mary Cole, of Eastham. She was many years his junior, and survived him. There is no list of Daniel Doane's children on the Eastham records, but the following one, made up from his will and other sources, is correct except perhaps in the order of their birth: A son (drowned), Joseph, Constant, Israel, Daniel, Nathaniel, Constant, Rebecca, Abigail and Ruth. Of the second marriage, Hepzibah.

(III) Deacon Joseph. second son and child of Deacon Daniel Doane, was born in Eastham. June 27, 1669, and died there July 27. 1757, aged eighty- eight. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, and was long prominent in town, church, and judi- cial affairs, exhibiting rare judgment, great aptitude for public business and impartiality in the discharge of his official duties.

He was selectman of Eastham in 1700, and was re-elected until 1705. He was town treasurer in 1703-04-05. and a representative to the general court at Boston in 1702-27-28. In 1729 he was chosen successor of Deacon John Paine as town clerk of Eastham, which office he held until 1743. In 1749 he was commissioned justice of the peace for Barnstable county, and was in commission until his death. In this position he was very popu- lar. His attainments gave him a wide field of labor

and secured him a large amount of legal business. There were but few justices in his time who sur- passed him in a knowledge of the duties of the office, or in the preparation of legal papers. During his long term of office he solemnized many mar- riages in his own town as well as in the towns ad- joining. In Harwich, where he was highly es- teemed, he married sixty-six couples between the years 1710 and 1755. "As one of His Majesty's Jus- tices" he rendered great service to the colonial gov- ernment in securing for trial the survivors of the crew of the noted pirate ship "Whiddah" and her tenders, wrecked on the eastern coast of Eastham, now Wellfleet, in April. 1717. The "Whiddah" and her consorts were wrecked in the night, and the following morning Mr. Doane was informed that seven of the pirates who had escaped from the wrecks, were on their way to Rhode Island. Without delay he started in pursuit, with the deputy sheriff. The pirates were soon overtaken, arrested, examined and orders given for their committal. Soon after Mr. Doane received information that another one of the pirates, who had escaped from the wreck the same night, was preparing to leave. He immediately caused his arrest. and upon examination ordered his committal also. Mr. Doane attended the trial of these men in Boston the following October, at the command of Governor Shute. On April 10, 1712, Mr. Doane was appointed by Governor Dudley, cap- tain of the Foot Company of Indians, living within the several towns of Harwich, Eastham, Manomet, Billingsgate and Truro, belonging to the regiment of militia within the county of Barnstable whereof "John Otis, Esq. is Col." In 1722 he was appointed a special justice of the court of common pleas of Barnstable county. He was a strict colonist, and early became a member of the First Church of Eastham, now the Congregational Church of Or- leans, of which his father and grandfather were prominent members, and about 1717 became its deacon, probably succeeding his father, Deacon Daniel Doane. This office he held until his death. He was one of the number who took an active part in the movement in 1738 to eject the Rev. Samuel Osborn from the pastorate of that church for what was considered heretic sentiments, and which re- sulted in the dismissal of the learned and liberal minister from the pastoral office which he had held for twenty years.

Mr. Doane resided in that part of ancient East- ham, now called Orleans, where he had a large farm, much of which he had disposed of when he made his will, March 5, 1754. He owned a good estate at his death, which he divided among his legal repre- sentatives. Late in life he made a large purchase of land in the south part of Harwich, much of which remains in possession of his descendants.

At his death he left a manuscript journal which was copied by a stepson of his daughter Rebecca. Neither the original nor the copy are now known to exist. The copyist says in his diary under date of March 26, 1760, that "it had fine expressions, meditations and verses." Josepli Doane died in Or-

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leans, and was buried there beside his wife Mary in the old cemetery near the church. He married (first), January 8, 1690, Mary Godfrey, born June 2, 1672, and died at Eastham, January 22, 1725. She was the daughter of George Godfrey, of East- ham. He married (second), February 29, 1728, De- sire Berry, who was many years his junior. The children by the first marriage were: Mary, Joseph, Rebecca, Hannah, Daniel, Phebe, Elisha. Joshua, Lydia. Elizabeth and Sarah; and by the second mar- riage, Desire.

(IV) Elisha, seventh child and third son of Deacon Joseph and Mary (Godfrey) Doane, was born in Eastham, February 3, 1706, and died of fever in Harwich, August 1, 1765. aged sixty-one "much lamented." He lived some years after his marriage in Eastham, and about 1743 moved to the south precinct of Harwich, where he resided till his death. He was a very prominent man in the parish and town of Harwich. He was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the South Precinct with the old town of Harwich, and was the town clerk in 1749-51-52-57-58-59-60-61-62-64-65. He was parish assessor the same year. In 1751 he was chosen selectman, and re-elected each year until 1757. His place of residence in Harwich was near the house of the late Captain Nathaniel Doane. He was buried in the old cemetery at Harwich. He mar- ried, March 14, 1734. Elizabeth Sparrow, of East- ham, who died December 30, 1793. Their children were: Rebecca, Mercy, died young ; Sylvanus, Mercy, Elisha and Sarah.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 124

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874