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He married (first), in Hartford, in 1640, Anne, daughter of John Webster, a leading citizen of Hart- ford. who was deputy governor in 1655, and served as governor in 1656. He led the great removal to Hadley, Massachusetts. Anne (Webster) Marsh died June 9, 1662. He married (second), October 7, 1664, Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman, widow of Rich- ard Lyman, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Hart- ford. She died April II. 1683, and John Marsh died September 28, 1688, aged seventy, at Windsor, Connecticut, probably while on a visit to his daugh- ter, Hannah Loomis, living there. The children by the first wife were: John, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah and Grace; and by the second wife: Lydia. John Marsh also had an adopted daughter, Grace (Martin) Marsh.
(II) Samuel, second son and child of John and Anne (Webster) Marsh, was born at Hartford, about 1645. and was taken by his parents to Hadley in 1660. He was a weaver and lived in Hadley, which soon became Hatfield. He became a freeman in 1690, was selectman in 1695-97. 1700-05-06-08-09- II-13, and was made a deacon in 1706. He died September 7, 1728, aged eighty-three. He married, May 6, 1667. Mary Allison, who died October 13, 1726, aged seventy-eight. They had twelve chil- dren : Mary, died young ; Samuel, John, Rachel, Grace, Mary, Thomas. Hannah, Elizabeth, Ruth, Ebenezer and Saralı.
(III) Thomas, third son and seventh child of Samuel and Mary (Allison) Marsh, was born at Hatfield, January 10, 1680. He removed to Ware about 1730, where he died in 1759. He married, 1702. Mary Trumbull, of Suffield, Connecticut. His widow died June 27. 1765. Theit children, all born at Hatfield, were: Thomas, Mary, Samuel, Rachel, Ruth, Judah. Joseph, Ephraim, Daniel and Martha.
(IV) Judah, third son and sixth child of Thomas and Mary (Trumbull) Marsh, was born at Hatfield, July 25, 1712, and after 1730 lived in Ware. He and his father's family were of the very earliest settlers in Ware, at "Marsh Mills." He bought five hundred acres of land in and about Ware village. His death occurred May 7, 1801. He married Han- nah Olmstead. daughter of Captain Jabez Olmstead, who was captain of the Tenth Company, Fourth Regiment, in the expedition against Louisburg un- der General Pepperell in 1744. Their children, eleven in number, were: Elijah, Joel, died young ; Thomas, Rachel. Hannah. Thankful, Dorothy, Jon- athan, Mary, Judah and Joel.
(V) Jonathan, fourth son and eighth child of Judah and Hannah (Olmstead) Marsh, born at Ware, May 7, 1752. died September 16, 1838, aged eighty-six. He was a man of good judgment. and held the office of selectman in 1796-97-99. He mar- ried (first) Anna Pepper, daughter of Jacob Pepper. of New Braintree, and (second), December 1, 1824, Mary (Aiken) Paige, widow of Moses Paige, born January 17, 1769. The children were: Jacob, Jona- than. Sewell. Eunice, Foster and Sophia.
(VI) Jonathan Marsh was a farmer and lived in Sutton, New Hampshire, where he married and raised a family.
(VII) Aaron, son of Jonathan Marsh, born in Sutton, 1812, was a lifelong farmer. He married Mary Warden, born 1813. died 1894, daughter of Augustus Warden, of Epsom. They were the par- ents of twelve children : Addison, Joseph, Emeline, Francena, Sherman, Frank, Hiram O., David K., Augustus, Nathan, Belle and Nora.
(VIII) Hiram Orson, sixth child and fourth son of Aaron and Mary (Warden) Marsh, was born in Epsom. April 20. 1852. He grew up on his father's farm, and was educated in the public schools. He was employed two years on a farm in Barnstead, from which place he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, and learned the machinist's trade, remaining there three years. From that place he went to Salem, and soon after to Dedham, where he was employed a year. In 1876 he took charge of the Asylum farm in Concord. where he remained eight years. He then went into the coal, wood and ice business, in which he has since been engaged with the exception of the year 1895, when he went back to his early trade of machinist. In 1903 the Marsh Coal Company was incorporated with Mr. Marsh as president, and has a large trade in fuel.
Mr. Marsh is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 11. Trinity Royal Arch Chapter. No. 2, Horace Chase Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, Mt. Horeb Commandery.
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Knights Templar, all of Concord; Edward A. Ray- mond Consistory, of Nashua, and Bektash Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is a member of White Mountain Lodge, No. 5, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the Wonolancet Club. He is a consistent member of the Republican party ; he served in the city council, and in 1872 was representative from Ward Six. He and his family are members of the South Church (Congrega- tional).
Hiram O. Marsh married, June 2, 1875, Helen Gilfillan, daughter of John Gilfillan, of Barnet, Ver- mont. a native of that town, son of Scotch parents. Mrs. Marsh is a member of the Woman's Club, of Concord, and active in works of a religious or char- itable character.
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BOND name Bond was first used as a surname in England by some one who was or had been a bondman. The Bonds are not a numerous family, but are widely scattered. Several men of distinction have borne this name, one of them, Dr. Bond, of Massachusetts, who brought out Bond's Genealogies of Watertown Families.
(I) Seth Bond was born in Wales, 1757. died July 20, 1845. In 1779 Seth Bond, accompanied by his wife, came to this country and settled in Fairfax. Vermont, where he followed the occupation of farming. . His wife, Amy Bond, who died Septem- ber 22. 1854, bore him two children: Eastman, born 1781, see forward. Seth, Jr., born in Fairfax, Vermont, 1783, died in Chazy, New York, 1828.
(II) Eastman. eldest son of Seth and Amy Bond, born in Fairfax, Vermont, 1781, died at Ellenburg, New York, 1859. He moved from Fair- fax to Chazy, New York. He was a farmer by oc- cupation, served in the War of 1812, was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, and was a Repub- lican in politics. He married Eliza Hoyt, of Bristol, Vermont, who died 1857.
(III) Seth, son of Eastman and Eliza (Hoyt) Bond, was born in Fairfax, Vermont. 1812. He moved with his parents to Chazy, New York, 1820, and from there to .Ellenburg, New York. He fol- lowed the occupation of farming, and for many years served in the capacity of postmaster. He was a member of the Free Baptist Church, in which he served as deacon and superintendent of the Sabbath school. He was a Republican in politics. He mar- ried Adaline Hayward. also a member of the Free Baptist Church, and their children were: Chester, see forward: Olive, died at the age of sixteen ; Lester, killed in the Civil war; Arvilla, died in Wis- consin : Osgood, died in Libby prison during the Civil war.
(IV) Chester, son of Seth and Adaline (Hay- ward) Bond, was born in Ellenburg, New York, August 17. 1835, died January 25, 1904, in Clinton, Clinton county, New York. IIe farmer throughout the active years of his life. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years was active in works to forward the progress of the church and all moral teachings. He was a leader of the choir and superintendent of the Sunday school. He was a Republican in poli- tics. He married, April 26, 1856, Adelia T. Taylor, born in Ellenburg, New York, July 4. 1836, died in Chateaugay, New York, August 18, 1868. Mrs. Bond united with the church in her girlhood, and was a faithful follower of its precepts. She taught school several years. She was a daughter of Robert and Esther (Shepperd) Taylor, of Peru, New York. Robert Taylor served in the capacity of school teacher with the exception of a few years when he conducted a hotel in Plattsburg. New York. He was a faithful church worker, and cast his vote for the candidates of the Democratic party. He died September 26, 1857. Esther (Shepperd) Taylor was a resident of Keeseville, New York, dicd 1879. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bond: Anna Esther, born June 27, 1857, in Ellenburg, New York, married Lemuel Shutts, and resides in Ellenburg. Ella Adelia, born July 11, 1859, in Ellenburg, New York. died at the age of six years. Herbert Lester, born January 31. 1862, in Ellenburg, New York, died at the age of four months. Frederick Walter, born August 10, 1864, in Ellenburg, New York, resides in Manchester. New Hampshire. Halbert Nelson, born June 10, 1866. see forward.
(V) Halbert Nelson, youngest child of Cliester and Adelia T. (Taylor) Bond, was born in Cha- teaugay, New York, June 10, 1866. IIe acquired sufficient education in the common schools of Chateaugay to enable him to teach, and he taught three terms in Clinton and Ellenburg. In 1884 he removed to Manchester. New Hampshire, where his sister, Mrs. Shutts, then resided. For a time he was employed in the bobbin factory of James Baldwin & Company. From this employment he went to the Amoskeag Mills, where he was suc- cessively employed as warp carrier in the knitting room, oiler in the weave room, and loom fixer. In 1892 he became a member of the Manchester police force and served something more than a year. being promoted to a sergeancy shortly before he resigned. In April, 1894, he started in the real estate and in- surance business. He has probably been one of the most successful men in the city, and risen to a greater ownership of real estate than any man in Manchester in the same length of time. His strict attention to business has been the secret of his suc- cess, and he is today regarded as one of the most successful and progressive business men of Man- chester.
From the beginning Mr. Bond has been fortunate in his deals. IIe has handled a generous share of the real estate business of the city on a commission basis, and has also dealt in real estate on his own account. In January, 1906, he purchased a third in- terest in the Pickering building, one of the best office blocks in the city. Mr. Bond is naturally adapted to the business in which he is engaged. and
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has made it an unqualified success. He is careful in his investments, and has in nearly every instance been on the safe side.
In politics Mr. Bond is a Republican, but de- votes no more attention to it than good citizenship requires. He is a member of various fraternal or- ganizations : In 1899 he was made a Mason in Washington Lodge, No. 61, Manchester. Since that time he has become affiliated with Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. II, in which he is at present (1907) holding office; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Masters; Trinity Com- mandery, Knights Templar, in which he is at pres- ent holding office, all of Manchester. He attained his Thirty-second degree in Edward A. Raymond Consistory of Nashua, in April, 1906. He is a mem- ber of Bektash Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is a charter member of Queen City Lodge, No. 34. Knights of Pythias, and a member of Hillsborough Lodge, No. 2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Passaconoway Tribe, No. 5, Improved Order of Red Men, of which he is a past sachem. He has been representative to the Grand Lodge of the same order. He is also a member of the Calumet Club. of Manchester.
Mr. Bond married, October 22, 1892, Emma Bean, daughter of John D. and Electa C. (White) Bean, of Manchester. She was born in Manchester, in which city her father, now deceased, was for many years engaged in the clothing business, in which he was successful, leaving at his death a large property.
Two explanations are given of the ori- HINDS gin of the ancient English surname, Hinds. One theory derives it from the root which has furnished us with the noun hind, meaning a peasant or tiller of the soil. The other theory refers it to the Anglo-Saxon word hind, meaning the female of the red deer. The surnames Hart and Roe, have a similar origin. The name Hind is spelled in a great variety of ways, both in England and America. The second theory is borne out by the coat-of-arms belonging to the old Eng- lish family of Hynde. This consists of "a hind's head couped, ppr., collared or in the mouth a rose, gules, leaved vert." Other families have entirely different emblem. Hinde of Northumberland has a dove on a rock with an olive branch in its beak. Hynd of London has a hand holding an eagle's claw. Hind has an ensign in full dress, with cocked hat, holding aloft the standard of Britain. It is probably futile to try to disentangle these connec- tions, for the name of the original emigrant to this country, James Hinds, who was admitted as a free- man in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1637, is found to be spelled in nine different ways. Town and church records now in existence give the name of this one man as Hinds, Hindes, Hynds, Hynes, Hines, Heines, Hains, Haines, Haynes. He must have anticipated all the variations of his posterity. This James Hinds was a cooper by trade, was a member
of the First Congregational Church of Salem as early as December 25, 1637, was married in 1638, and had eight children whose baptisms are recorded. He removed to Southold, Long Island, where he died in March, 1652-53. The family whose line fol- lows cannot be traced to the original emigrant, but appears to constitute a branch by itself. The mem- bers of this branch have a pretty legend in connec- tion with the origin of their name. "There was an Englishman named Rogers, who was said to have been a great hunter. At one time, in company with one of the kings of England, he caught an animal called a hind, and beat it to death with a club, by which act he saved the life of the king. For this exploit the English government knighted him, and changed his name from Rogers to Hinds and en- tailed to him and his heirs forever an island called Placentia Island." ,
(I) Ambrose Hinds is said to have been a son of the Rogers who had his name changed. He mar- ried Sarah Mudgett, July 15, 1773. They had thir- teen children, of whom eight are recorded, as fol- lows: Edward, born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, in 1777; Nathaniel, lived in Nashua, New Hamp- shire; Bagley; Barzillai, see forward; Thomas; Orlando, whose sketch follows; Moses; Elisha, born in Tamworth, August 8, 1799. Edward, the eldest son, moved to Portland, Maine, at an early age, married Eunice Merrill, of Falmouth, Maine, by whom he had eight children, and lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years. He was a man of remarkable energy and business capacity. He or- ganized the first water works in Portland, convey- ing the water from the hill by means of an aqueduct. He was one of the original and largest owners in the first steamer sailing from the city, and subse- quently held a large interest in the Portland Steam Packet Company. He was also a successful mer- chant. He was a lifelong Democrat, and voted at every election till a year of his death. He died in Portland, April 10, 1869.
(II) Barzillai, fourth son and child of Ambrose and Sarah (Mudgett) Hinds, was born in 1779, in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and died in Sand- wich. He settled in Nashua and married, January 3, 1802, in Sandwich, New Hampshire, Patience Beede, who was born in 1777 in Sandwich and died in 1846 in Nashua. She was a daughter of Judge Daniel Beede, who was the second son of Eli Beede, a Frenchman of the Isle of Jersey. Eli Beede was born 1699, and was the ancestor of the families of that name in New Hampshire. They had a large family, including the following children : Andrew, Thomas, Edward, Jesse, Elisha, Phoebe and Mary Jane.
(III) Mary Jane, daughter of Barzillai and Pa- tience (Beede) Hinds, was born March 19, 1822, in Sandwich, and was married, October 6, 1854, at Milford, to James G. Haseltine. (See Haseltine II). She died May 5, 1903.
(II) Orlando, sixth son of Ambrose and Sarah (Mudgett) Hinds, was born April 4, 1782, in Sand- wich, New Hampshire. He was one of the old
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circuit riding Methodist ministers, and was licensed to preach in 1809. He joined the Methodist Episco- pal Conference in 1810, and was first appointed on the Portsmouth circuit. He began his labors at Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1829, and is said to have been the first Methodist preacher there. In 1832 he settled in Chichester, New Hampshire, with his family. He was for a long time in feeble health, but he continued in the service of the church, working to the limit of his strength for fifty-nine years. He was a man of great personal dignity and kindness. On April 5, 1806, he married Mary Brackett, who was born near Portland, Maine, Sep- tember 10, 1780. They had eight children : Barzillai, whose sketch follows; Mary Ann, born in Port- land, Maine, April 5, 1809; Alfred M., born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 16, 1811; George Pickett, born in New Salem, New Hampshire, July 27, 1813; Orlando, born in Mansfield, Massachu- setts, February 17, 1816; Ambrose, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, June 17, 1818; Harriet, born in Poplin, now Fremont, New Hampshire, August 5, 1820, died three days later; Johanna Gibbs, born in Poplin, July 5, 1822. Orlando Hinds died in Chichester, New Hampshire, March 1, 1869. His widow survived him three years, and died in Short Falls, New Hampshire, April 26, 1872.
(III) Barzillai, eldest son and child of Orlando and Mary (Brackett) Hinds, was born in Portland, Maine, March 11, 1807. Mr. Hinds was a mason by trade. He lived in Portland the greater part of his life, but in 1871, seven years before his death, he moved to Milford, New Hampshire. He was an active member of the Methodist Church for more than forty years, a man of exemplary domestic life, and an upright and estecmed citizen. His genial and courteous manner made him many friends. On April 12, 1831, he married at Hooksett, New Hamp- shire, Sclura Aldrich, who was born at Bow, New Hampshire, January 26, 1808. They had five chil- dren, all but the youngest born in Chichester, New Hampshire: Alfred Edwin, born January 31, 1832, died in Lowell, Massachusetts, Irom injuries re- ceived on the railroad, November 15, 1855; Wil- liam Henry Weed, whose sketch follows; Harriet Atwood Newell, born August 26, 1837, married (first), in Lowell, Massachusetts, February 26, 1856, William E. Somes, married ( second) in Na- shua, New Ilampshire, November 19, 1881, Edwin Il. Peirce; Selura Adeline Wilson, born February 19, 1842, married (first), June 17, 1862, Norman J. Ray, of Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Regiment, who died in Washington, District of Columbia, June 17, 1862, married ( second), September 7, 1866, Charles T. Jenkins, of Boston; Llewellyn Barzillai, born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 15, 1851, married Hattie Pauline Mixer, of Milford, New Ilamp- shire, February 4, 1880, lives in East Boston, and is superintendent of the Boston Fire and Police Noti- fication Company. Barzillai llinds died in Milford, New Ilampshire, March 25, 1878. Ilis widow dicd in East Boston, Massachusetts, July 25, 1890.
(1V) William Henry Weed, second son and child of Barzillai and Selura (Aldrich) Hinds, was born in Chichester, New Hampshire, August I, 1833. The family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when he was quite young. He was educated in the Brimmer School and was graduated from the Eng- lish High School. He studied his profession at the Harvard Medical School, and was graduated there, March 6, 1861. He held a position at the Tewksbury Almshouse, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, till he left for the seat of war, August 23, 1861. He was first commissioned assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, and later was commissioned full surgeon of the Twelfth Regi- ment, where he served with distinction till the close of its term of service. Among his remarkable oper- ations was one performed on Private Lewis, Com- pany G, May 30, 1864, when three inches of the fibula or small bone of the leg were removed. So skillfully was this done that the regeneration of the bone took place. In January, 1865, Dr. Hinds went to Milford, New Hampshire, where he was emi- nently successful as a skilled surgeon and physician in that and adjoining towns. He took an active in- terest in all good causes, local or national. He was a man of wide reading and retentive memory. He was a member of the board of education, board of health, a trustee of the free library, and frequently served on town committees. He was elected trus- tee of the Milford Savings Bank, August 18, 1884, and was made president of the bank August 26, 1893. In politics he was a stanch Republican, and was a member of the legislature in 1876; a member of the state senate in 1885-86; and served for a time on the Republican state committee. He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity, and had reached the Thirty-second degree. He belonged to Benevolent Lodge, King Solomon Royal Arch Chapter, and Grand Lodge, Grand Chapter, Knights Templar. He was a member of the O. W. Lull Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal Legion, Custos Morum Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Rebekah Degree Lodge, Souhegan Com- mandery of the Golden Cross, and the Knights of Honor. Dr. Hinds was twice married. His first wife was Harriet M. Twiss, daughter of Dimon and Harriet (Parmenter) Twiss, to whom he was united at Boston, Massachusetts, August 23, 1861. She was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, January 29, 1836, and died in Milford, February 7, 1871, leaving two children: Edwin Howard, born July 4, 1865, now living in Winchester, Massachusetts, and William Henry Weed, whose sketch follows. Dr. Ilinds married for his second wife, August 17, 1880, Mrs. A. Margaret Twiss, widow of John W. Twiss, of Amherst, New Hampshire, and daughter of John E. and Mary L. ( Kingsbury) Price. She was born at Plattsburg, New York, June 15, 1837, and died at Milford, New Hampshire, January 12, 1890. Dr. Hinds survived his second wife seven years, and died in Milford, July 29, 1897, lacking three days of sixty-four years.
(V) William Henry Weed, younger of the two
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sons of Dr. William Henry Weed Hinds and his first wife, Harriet M. Twiss, was born in Milford, New Hampshire, July 22, 1867. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and was graduated from Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts. His professional education was gained at the Medical School of Boston Univer- sity, from which he was graduated in 1895. He re- turned to Milford to assist his father, and upon the latter's retirement he succeeded to the practice. Like his father, Dr. Hinds belongs to many societies. He is a Mason, and is a member of Benevolent Lodge No. 7, King Solomon Chapter No. 17, both of Milford, and of Israel Hunt Council, Saint George Commandery, of Nashua, New Hamp- shire. He is a past master of Benevolent Lodge at Milford. He belongs to the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the New Hampshire Institute of Homoeopathy and the Hillsboro County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Board of Health and of the Camera Club of Milford. Dr. Hinds married, January 5, 1897, Kittie Maud, daughter of John and Mary C. (Bullard) Kenney, of Milford. She was born December 12, 1870, at Greenville, New Hampshire. They have one son, William Henry Weed, third, born August 26, 1900. Mrs. Hinds is a member of the Milford Woman's Club and the Unitarian Church.
This name was originally spelled SAMPSON Samson, and it is found thus writ- ten in the early colonial records. The Sampsons of New England are mostly if not all the descendants of two English immigrants, Henry and Abraham, who were probably brothers, but this fact has never been fully verified. De- scendants of both participated in the various wars under the colonial and federal governments, dis- tinguishing themselves on land and sea, and the famous Deborah Sampson, who disguised as a man served in the Revolutionary war, was descended from Abraham. Henry Sampson, the American progenitor of the New Hampshire family, a brief outline of whose history is now in hand, was among the company of Pilgrims who came in the "May- flower" in 1620, and was included in the family of his uncle, Edward Tilley. Being a minor he did not sign the famous compact, formulated November II, of that year, while the vessel was at anchor in Provincetown harbor, but he shared in the allot- ment of land at Plymouth in 1623 and in the divi- sion of cattle in 1627, and in 1637 was made a free- man of the colony. With Captain Miles Standish, John Alden, and others he settled in Duxbury, and although his name appears among the original grantees of the town of Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, in 1645, he did not go there to reside. In 1661 he served as constable at Duxbury, and his death occurred there December 24, 1684. He was married in 1635-6 to Ann Plummer, and those of his chil- dren who survived him were: Elizabeth; Hannah ; a daughter who became the wife of John Ham- mond; John; Mary, wife of John Summers ; Dorcas,
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