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 125

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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(V) Elisha (2), youngest son and fifth child of Elisha (1) and Elizabeth (Sparrow) Doane, was born in Eastham, September 9, 1744, and died at Harwich, December 26, 1805. He married, October I8, 1764. Mehetabel Nickerson and settled in Har- wich. Their children were: Elisha, Mercy, Me- hitahel, Benjamin, Joseph, Mary and Nathaniel.

(VI) Captain Nathaniel, seventh and youngest child of Elisha and Mehetabel (Nickerson) Doane. was born at Harwich. August 13, 1781, and died there July 24, 1866. He was a master mariner in early life, engaged in fishing off the Grand Banks, but later was a farmer in Harwich. He was select- man and justice of the peace. He married, Decem- ber 25. 1803. Mary Paine, who died October 18, 1871, aged eighty-eight years, the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Paine. They had four sons and five daughters. All the sons were sea captains, and all the daughters married sea captains. Their names are: Valentine, Mehetable, Nickerson, Sarah Young, Mary, Elbridge Gerry, Nathaniel, Priscilla P., Abiathar and Eglantine.

(VII) Captain Nathaniel (2). sixth child and third son of Nathaniel (1) and Mary (Paine) Doane, was born at the old homestead in Harwich, February 1, 1816, and died there May 28, 1895, aged seventy-nine, and was buried in Ilarwich Port cem- etery. Ile received a public school education, and at the age of fourteen years began to go on fishing voyages with his father. At nineteen he was master of a vessel, and engaged in the coasting trade during

the summer seasons, and taught school in winter for twelve years. In him schools and educational matters found a staunch friend; generations of pu- pils and scores of teachers came under his wise counsel and cheering encouragement during the more than a quarter century which he served his town on the school board. He was a representative in the legislature in 1851-52-53. In 1858 he was elected representative from his district which em- braced the towns of Dennis, Harwich, Yarmouth and Chatham. In 1860 he was defeated for re-election by the late Obed Nickerson, by only one vote. He was an unflinching Republican, but never put party above principle and patriotism. He held the office of commissioner to qualify civil officers; was a jus- tice of the peace fifty years, and a trustee of the Cape Cod Five Cent Savings Bank. At one time he was interested in the tow boat business in Bos- ton, and owned the boat "Camilla." He retired from the sea in 1860, and engaged in farming and in the culture of cranberries, in which latter occu- pation he was one of the pioneers on Cape Cod. He was prominent in educational and religious work, and united with the Congregational Church at Harwich Center in 1836. In 1855 he was one of the organizers of the Pilgrim Church at Harwich Port, which was dedicated on his thirty-ninth birthday an- niversary, and of which he was a faithful and hon- ored member until his death. He was clerk and treasurer of his parish sixteen years; superintendent of Sunday school thirty years, and a deacon from the organization of the church until his death. His life was beautiful in its simplicity and purity. a shining example of an upright christian character, consecrated to all that was lofty in motive and bene- ficial to the highest principles, and is best illustrated by a favorite passage of scripture engraved on his tombstone: "I have kept thy precepts and thy testi- monies ; for all my ways are before thee."

He married, in 1862, at the age of forty-six, Mrs. Zilpha J. Hording, horn at Newberg, Maine, April 17, 1830, widow of Joshua Hording, of Chatham, Massachusetts, and daughter of Nathan and Polly J. Doane, of Newbury, Maine. They had three chil- dren: Mary Louise, born September 10, 1863, mar- ried, January 7, 1891, George B. Nickerson ; Nathan- iel is mentioned in the next paragraph ; Jennie, born October 18, 1868, married William E. Grinnell, of Searsport, Maine.

(VIII) Nathaniel (3), second child and only son of Captain Nathaniel (2) and Zilpha J. (Hard- ing) Doane, was born in Harwich Port, September 25, 1865. He was educated in the common schools and at Chauncey Hall School of Boston, graduating from the latter in 1882. For a year or two he was bookkeeper for B. C. Clark, of Boston, Haytian Consul, and treasurer of the Pearson Cordage Com- pany. He then removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and was in the employ of Swift Broth- ers & Company, packers, from 1884 to 1894, first as bookkeeper, then as a traveling solicitor, and finally as manager of the business at Manchester. In the latter year he engaged in the produce

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business with B. F. Welch, under the firm name of Doane & Welch, and they carried on this business successfully until 1895, when Mr. Doane disposed of his interest. In 1895 he became superintendent of the Robey Concrete Company, filling that position for a year, and retaining an in- terest in the business until 1906. He owns the an- cestral homestead on Cape Cod, and there has a cranberry farm of two hundred acres. Mr. Doane is a successful business man, of pleasing personality, and popular with those who know him. In politics he is a Republican, and has been identified as a worker in his party ever since he settled in Man- chester. In 1896 he was elected sheriff of Hills- borough county, and has been repeatedly re-elected, and is now serving his fifth two-year term in that office. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 61; Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter. No. IT; Adoniram Council, No. 3. Royal and Select Masters, and Ed- ward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua, He is also a member of Golden Rule Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, the Derryfield and Calumet clubs, the Manchester Maennerchor, and the White Mountain Travelers' Association.

Mr. Doane married, June 26, 1889, Ella F. Brig- ham. of Manchester, New Hampshire, born in Bos- ton, 1869, daughter of Eugene W. and Caroline (Stearns) Brigham, of Manchester. Three children have been born to them : Allen Nathaniel, died aged one year; Ray Winslow and Nathaniel.

BALES A desire to escape from the irksome service and cruel treatment which were the lot of all crews on board war ves- sels a century and a half ago, the forbear of the Bales family escaped to the wilds of New Hamp- shire, where he became the ancestor of a large and respected progeny.

(I) William Bales was born in the principality of Wales in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury. When a young man he was impressed on board a British man of war, which soon after sailed for America. He was not fond of naval life and hated the "involuntary servitude" in which he was held so, when opportunity offered, he deserted at Salem, Massachusetts. He is said to have been a very small man and very active. His descrtion was soon known and pursuit instituted. Being hard pressed he rushed into a house where a woman was seated on a bench, spinning on a linen wheel, and implored her to secrete him. She raised one side of the large hoop around the bottom of her dress, which it was then the fashion to wear, and told him to crawl under it. Immediately his pursuers came and asked if a man had entered there; she, still busy with her wheel, replied, "A little fellow rushed through here." They thought he could not be far away, and searched the house but failed to find him. A woman's quickness of thought and kindness of heart had added an active man to the population of the colony. The coast towns were not safe iii-9

dwelling placcs for recent deserters from the Eng- lish navy, and William Bales probably lost no time in making his way to a place inland. It is conjec- tured that lie escaped from British service about the time Jolin Dale, of Salem, Massachusetts, a pioneer of Wilton, then called Salem-Canada, was starting to settle in that wilderness, which was about 1740, and family tradition has it that he helped John Dale to build his first camp in that town. Mr. Bales settled on lot No. 18, in the first range of Wilton. There appears to be no record of his birth, marriage or death. nor is there record or tradition that he had any child but a son William, whose sketch follows.

(II) William (2), son of William (1) Bales, was born on his father's homestead in Wilton, August 22, 1752. He succeeded to his father's farm, and being an industrious and economical man of good judgment, he was successful and thrifty, and made several additions to the ancestral acres. He bought, May 3, 1780, of Josiah Beauchard, twenty acres of the west part of the east half of lot No. 15 in the first range ; and on May 13, 1788, he bought of Margaret Stoddard and others lot No. 14 in the first range, and June 14, 1796, of Samuel Hutch- inson three acres in the north part of lot No. 13 in the first range. On the last mentioned lot he built, in 1799, a house now (1907) owned by his descendants. He and his son William L. were among the first members of the Baptist society.

He married, June 4. 1778, Rhoda Keyes, born in Wilton, March 30, 1759, daughter of John and Abi- gail (Livermore) Keyes. Their children were : Rhoda, Betsey, Sally, William L., Polly, John, Ilan- nah, Chloe, Ezra died young; Ezra, and Abiel, (Mention of Ezra and children appears in this article ).

(III) Captain John Bales, fifth child and second son of William (2) and Rhoda (Keyes) Bales, was born in Wilton, February 26, 1790, and died January 25, 1858, aged sixty-eight. He apprenticed himself to Ephraim Peabody, of whom he learned the black- smith's trade. He afterwards built a shop contain- ing a trip hammer, then considered a notable ad- dition to the machinery of the smith, which enabled him to shape much larger and heavier pieces of iron than he could without its assistance. He was an active inan, full of the military spirit, and after filling several minor offices was made captain of the third company of the Twenty-second Regiment of militia in 1823, and served in that capacity that and the fol- lowing year.

He married, June 29, 1813, Milly Shattuck, born in Temple, August 24, 1792, and died July 23, 1877, aged eighty-four years, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Wallace) Shattuck, of Temple. Their chil- dren were: John, Albert, Milly J., Samuel Brooks, Nancy K., died young; Nancy K., Joanna Mariah, Charles J., died young ; Martha A., and Charles A.

(IV) Charles Albert, ninth child and fourth son of Captain John and Milly (Shattuck) Bales, was born in Wilton, February 24, 1835. He learned his father's trade, and was afterwards engaged in black-

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smithing and carriage making with his brother, S. Brooks, until the death of the latter. From that time until April 1, 1871, he carried on the business alone, and then rented his shop and tools to W. P. Putnam for five years. At the end of that time they formed a partnership under the firm name of Bales & Put- nam, and carried on the business under that style and title until 1901, when Mr. Bales bought his partner's share and in the fall of that year he re- tired from business. Mr. Bales has been an indus- trious and skilled mechanic all his active life, and has devoted his time and energy to the production of good reliable vehicles, and in this he has been successful.

He married (first), June 17, 1859, Frances M. Hardy, of Greenfield, who died at Saratoga, October II, 1873, daughter of Hiram and Maria (Dodge) Hardy. Married (second), September 15, 1874, Sarah A. Brown, of Temple, daughter of Isaac Brown. She died August 1, 1883. Married (third), September, 1884, Mary Campbell, of New Boston, born March 27, 1851, daughter of Daniel and Ma- tilda (Moore) Campbell. He had by the first wife one child George E .; by the second one child Bessie F., born September 16, 1877; and by the third one child Harold Campbell, born April 16, 1887.

(V) George Edward, only child of Charles A. and Frances M. (Hardy) Bales, was born in Wilton, September 14, 1862. He was educated at the public schools, at the Francestown Academy, Exeter, graduating from the latter with the class of ISS3. After taking a special course of one year at Harvard University, he matriculated at the Boston Univer- sity Law School, from which he graduated in 1888. In July of that year he was admitted to the bar, and since that time he has been successfully engaged in the practice of law at Wilton. In politics he is a Democrat, a man of high standing in his party, and for many years the holder of numerous offices of honor and trust. He has been town treasurer and tax collector, and was a member of the school board from 1885 to 1892. He has been trustee of the public library, moderator for fifteen years, and is now police judge. He was elected representative to the general court in 1895, and in 1897 was his party's candidate for speaker in the lower house during that term, and was the only Democrat on the judiciary committee during that session. His able leadership of the minority party during the same session placed him prominently before the people of the state, and he was the nominee of his party for congressman, for which office he made a strong canvass and polled a creditable vote, but the natural strength of the Republican party rendered his elec- tion impossible. June 30, 1899, he was appointed a member of the forestry commission and served one term; was re-appointed, but resigned soon after he was appointed a member of the board of railroad commissioners, which was January 1, 1904, and of which body he is still a member (1907). He has been a member of the Unitarian Church since ISS9, and is one of its executive committee. He is a Mason of high degree; is past master of Clinton

Lodge, No. 52, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Wilton; is past high priest of King Solomon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 17, of Milford; a member of Israel Hunt Council, No. S, Royal and Select Masters of Nashua; and of St. George Command- ery, Knights Templar, of Nashua, and Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Concord. He was district deputy grand lecturer for two years, and district deputy grand master of New Hampshire two years. He is a past grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star. He is also a member of Laurel Lodge, No. 78, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wilton, and of the Prospect Hill Encampment, No. 21, of Mil- ford. Also a member of the New Hampshire Vet- erans' Association.

Mr. Bales married, October 16, 1889, Abbie M. French, born in Wilton, March 16, 1865, daughter of Francis B. and Frances C. (Howard) French, of Wilton. She is prominent in social circles, and is vice-president of the Woman's Alliance and grand conductress of the state, Order of the Eastern Star. They have one child, Milly Frances Bales.

(III) Ezra, ninth child and fourth son of Wil- liam (2) and Rhoda (Keyes) Bales, was born in Wilton, April 16, 1799, and died May 10, 1882, aged eighty-three. For about nineteen years he owned and occupied the original Bales homestead in Wil- ton. In 1842 he moved to a farm near the village where the remainder of his life was passed. A few years before his death he became blind. He was famous as a drummer, and was drum-major in the militia; from this circumstance he was called Major Bales. He was an upright citizen and a good neigh- bor.

He married, June, 1823, Hannah Wilson, who died February 14, 1877. They had seven children : Chloe A., Elsie, Edwin Ezra, Abigail W., Hannah R., Martha A. and Helen 1.

(IV) Chloe A., eldest child of Ezra and Hannah (Wilson) Bales, was born in Wilton, May 16, 1824, and married Samuel N. Center. (See Center II).

Among the men of the Scotch race TOLFORD who peopled the north of Ireland at the time of the siege of Derry and afterwards were the family of Tolford. Like many others they were made disgusted and sick at heart by the course of King William and Queen Anne, and were among the emigrants to New Hampshire in the early part of the eighteenth century.

(I) John Tolford, the immigrant, was born about fifteen miles from Londonderry, Ireland, in May, 1700, and died in Bedford, New Hampshire, May 10, 1790, aged ninety years. Tradition says he came to America with John Aiken, and settled in Chester, New Hampshire, in May, 1724. lle was an enter- prising man, became a large landholder, and built the first saw mill at White Hall, in Hooksett. He held many civil offices, and was also a major in the militia. In the collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society is the following regarding him; "He was selected in 1754, being then major, by the

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government of New Hampshire, as one of the of- ficers to command a party sent to explore the Coos country, which party set out March roth, and in seven days reached the Connecticut river at Pier- mont. They were accompanied by John Stark, who had been the preceding year a prisoner among the Indians, and was well acquainted with that region, as a guide. After passing one night and making such observations as their time would allow, they returned, and on the thirteenth day from the time they left, reached Concord." John Tolford married, Jannary 8, 1734, Jean McMurphy, born in October, 1710 or 1711, and died December 29, 1792, aged about eighty-one. They had nine children: Mary, Susanna, Joshua, Rebecca, died young; Jane, Re- becca, Hugh, John and Anna.

(II) Hugh, seventh child and second son of John and Jean (McMurphy) Tolford, was born in Chester, December 22, 1747, and died April 24, 1823, aged seventy-six. A large part of his life he re- sided in Chester. He married, Elizabeth Patten, born May 27, 1759, daughter of Hon. Matthew and Elizabeth (McMurphy) Patten, and granddaughter of John Patten, who came from Ireland to America in 1728, and settled in Bedford in 1738. A family record says Hugh and Elizabeth were married at . the residence of Squire Patten in Bedford by the Rev. Mr. Pickles. Their four children were: Isaac, William, Jane and Elizabeth.

(III) William, second son and child of Hugh and Elizabeth (Patten) Tolford, was born in Ches- ter, October 2, 1795, and died May 9, 1867, aged seventy-two years. He was married, December 18, 1823, by the Rev. David McGregor, to Sally Patten, who was born November 5, 1797, and died February 10, 1875, aged seventy-eight. She was the daughter of Robert and Jane (Shirley) Patten, of Bedford. Soon after marriage they moved to Bedford, and settled on the Robert Patten homestead, now known as Tolford Hill. They had three children : Eliza, Elbridge Gerry and Dewitt Clinton.

(IV) Elbridge Gerry, second child of William and Sally (Patten) Tolford, was born in Bedford, May 9, 1829, and died February 17, 1899, aged seventy. He resided in Bedford and was a lifelong farmer. He married (first), November 15, 1855, Nancy Jane Stewart, of Amherst, born February 2, 1831, died November 25, 1870. She was the daugh- ter of Moses Stewart. He married (second), Sarah Danforth Leach, who survived him, and afterwards resided in Manchester. The children of the first marriage were: Leona O., George Gerry, Frank Wright and William Moses. The children of the second marriage were: Jennie May and Hattie Grace.

(V) George Gerry, second child and eldest son of Elbridge G. and Nancy Jane (Stewart) Tolford, was born in Bedford, July 17, 1860, and educated in the common schools. After working at farm labor for a time he removed to Wilton, where he was employed in a meat and provision store, which he bought out and has since conducted. He is a Democrat in politics, and has filled the offices

of selectman, 1894 to 1900, member of the board of water commissioners, and member of the New Hampshire house of representatives 1901, where he was one of the committee on labor. He is a member of the Unitarian Church, and of the fol- lowing named organizations: Clinton Lodge, No. 52, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Wilton; King Solomon Chapter, at Milford; Israel Hunt Council; St. George Commandery, Nashua ; Laurel Lodge, No. 78, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wilton.

He married, October 27, 1886, Emma Flynn, of New Boston, who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, October 1, 1863, daughter of Thomas Flynn. Mrs. Tolford is a member of Charity Chapter, No. 25, Order of the Eastern Star, and other social organizations. Their children are: Carl Stewart, Ruth Mildred and Elizabeth Campbell.

HYLAND (II) Ira Hyland, son of Amasa Hy- land, was a lifelong resident of West- moreland, New Hampshire. His wife was before marriage Abigail Miller.

(III) Reuben, son of Ira and Abigail (Miller) Hyland, was born in Westmoreland, January 21, 1829. At the age of nineteen years he left the home- stead farm and worked for a railway contractor for some time. He subsequently entered the service of the Rutland & Bennington Railroad, for which company lie was employed for several years. He then located in Keene, where he was roadmaster for the old Cheshire railway, which was absorbed by the Fitchburg, and the latter by the Boston & Maine rail- road, serving in that capacity for these roads for thirty-seven years. For a number of years, while employed by the Bennington & Rutland road, he re- sided in Arlington, Vermont, but in 1863 he removed to Keene, and his death occurred in that city, March 19, 1900. He married Clarissa Andrew, and of a large family of children the only survivors are: Jesse B., M. D., and Clinton A.

(IV) Jesse Burdette Hyland, M. D., son of Reuben and Clarissa (Andrew) Hyland, was born in Arlington, June 18, 1862. He was graduated from the Keene high school with the class of 1880, was a student at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University during 1880-81, and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Harvard Med- ical School in 1884. His professional practice was inaugurated in Palmer, Massachusetts, but two years later he returned to Keene, where he found an ample field for advancement, and he has ever since resided there, building up and maintaining during the past twenty years an extensive general practice.

Dr. Hyland has served as city physician for three years; was a member of the board of education six years and of the board of health several years; was a member of the city council in 1904 and of the board of aldermen in 1905; and in politics he is a Republican, He is a member of the New Hamp- shire State and the Cheshire County Medical so- cieties; also the New England Electro-Therapeutical Association. He is a past master of the Lodge of

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the Temple, Free and Accepted Masons, and well advanced in that order, being a member of the com- mandery and the Order of the Mystic Shrine; also affiliates with the Odd Fellows and is a past chief patriarch of the encampment.

On September 1, 1885, Dr. Hyland married Anna A. Whitcomb, daughter of Albert S. and Martha A. (Willis) Whitcomb, of Palmer. Their children are: Carl Willis, born October 14, 1890; Winona Clarissa, born December 18, 1893; and Christine Barbara, born July 1, 1900.

This is an old Scotch name, which has had

RAY honorable connection in both the Old World and the New. It is often spelled Rae and that was the form in which the line herein traced came to America. But three generations of this family have thus far participated in American life.

Alexander Hamilton Ray was a native of Glas- gow, and received the excellent education provided by the public schools of that city. At the age of seventeen years he entered the English Military Academy, from which he went into the British Mil- itary Service in the East Indies. Upon his removal thence to the United States, he changed the spelling of his name to the form most in use in this country, viz: R-a-y. The name has been traced to MacRae, one of the oldest and most honorable of the Scotch clans. After residing for a time in Shirley and Palmer, Massachusetts, Mr. Ray again yielded to the spirit of military ardor and joined the regular army of the United States, participating in severe service on the western frontier before the civil war. Upon the outbreak of that trouble he enlisted in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, and lost his life as the result of wounds received in the Battle of the Wilderness. His body was interred in the cemetery at Shirley, Massachusetts. lle married at Palmer, Massachusetts, Sarah J. Maynard, daughter of Elisha Allen and Ann (Trim) Maynard. Elisha Allen Maynard is said to have descended from the Allen family which included the celebrated Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Ray was sur- vived many years by his widow, who died in 1899, at the age of sixty-five years. She was born March 9, 1834, in Jamaica, Vermont. After the death of Mr. Ray she married Person T. Wyman and resided in Peru, Vermont. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Ray are : Robert A., Agnes T., who died in infancy; and Charles W. Ray, a physi- cian of Chester, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Person T. Wyman had two sons: Harry P. and Frank H.

Robert Allen Ray, son of Alexander H. and Sarah J. (Maynard) Ray, was born, April 7, 1851, at l'almer, Massachusetts, and was but a lad when death deprived him of his father. He spent much time at "Maynard llall," the home of his maternal ancestors, about three miles above Jamaica, Ver- mont, and attended school there until he was seven- teen years old. He early began to make efforts toward his own support and was employed at farm labor in the intervals between terms of school. Dur-

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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 125

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