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(IV) Benjamin Norris, Jr., son of Benjamin and Mehitable ( Stevens) Norris, was born in Strat- ham, New Hampshire, February 24. 1731, and re- sided there until his twenty-sixth year. He pur- chased property and removed to Bow, New Hamp- shire, January 1, 1758. He was of Pembroke, July 25, 1759, where he afterward resided. He was a surveyor on the Merrimack river, February 3, 1774. He was selectman, 1773; coroner, 1777, and in 1780 was called captain. He was a soldier of the Revolu- tion, being in Captain McConnell's company, May 4, 1777. He married Sarah Wiggin, born October 10, 1736, died in Dorchester, New Hampshire, 1826. He died in Pembroke, January 31, 1799. His chil- dren were: Zebulon, Sarah ( Piper), Benjamin, Eliphalet (a
Revolutionary soldier), Andrew, Thomas, Mehitable ( Mrs. Nathan Wiggin), Jacob, David, Nathaniel, Mary, Joanna (Mrs. John Phil- brook), Mary, and Dolly (Mrs. Jeremiah Doe).
(V) Nathaniel Norris, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Wiggin) Norris, was born in Pembroke, New Hampshire, May 2, 1771. Married, June I, 1794, Lucy Hazelton, and died in Dorchester, New Hampshire, July 24, 1848. Ilis children were: Zebulon, Nathaniel, Farley, Samuel, Eliphalet, Re- becca (Mrs. J. F. A. Peabody), Almira (Mrs. J. Fisk), Jesse, Benjamin, Daniel and Mark.
(V1) Daniel Hazelton Norris, son of Nathaniel and Lucy ( llazelton) Norris, was born in Dorches- ter, New Hampshire, November 11, 1813. Mar- ried (first), June 3, 1837, Caroline Warner ; mar- ried (second) Betsey Piper: married (third) Mrs. Delancy. Children: John W., Sarah (Mrs. Charles E. Canney), (see Canney, II), and Nathaniel.
This family came to America from Eng- SIMIES land very early in the eighteenth cen- tury, and has ever since been identified with the state of New Hampshire in an honorable and worthy manner. Its representatives are now scattered throughout this and other states.
(1) John Simmes came from Exborn, England, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. in or before the year 1718. The records show his marriage October
22, 1718, to Hannah Jackson, of Portsmouth, He died prior to 1740. He built a house in Market street, Portsmouth, which was long used as a store and in which a great deal of traffic took place. His land extended west to High street. A deed dated 1760 conveys to two of his grand-children the house and lot on High street, which was long known as the Parker house. His children were: Hannah, died young; Dorothy, Mary, Joseph, Anna, John and Hannah. The eldest surviving daughter became the wife of Humphrey Fernald, and became the ancestress of a large posterity. Anna became the wife of John Nutter, of Newington, and Hannah married Moses Noble, of Portsmouth.
(II) Joseph, only surviving son of John Simmes, was born 1722, and passed his life in Portsmouth, where he died November 26, 1779. He was a highly esteemed citizen, and occupied the homestead on Market street until his death, and after that event the dry goods business was continued by his wife. He was chairman of the board of selectmen of Portsmouth in 1776-77-78. He married, November 29, 1757, Ann Hart, daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth (Cotton) Hart, and they had a large family of children, namely : John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Ann, Hannah, Joseph, George, William, Mark and Mary.
(III) Thomas, second son of Joseph and Ann (Hart) Simes, was baptized January 20, 1760, in Portsmouth, where he passed his life and died No- vember 5. 1802. He was a land holder. engaged in the livery business and occupied a handsome man- sion in the neighborhood of Court and State streets. He married, June 17, 1792, Sally, daughter of Ste- phen and Rebecca (Muchimore) Hardy.
(IV) Stephen Hardy, son of Thomas Simes, was born December 1, 1799, and died December 3, 1871. He resided in Portsmouth. He married, August 24, 1825, Ann Elizabeth Yeaton, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Yeaton, of Portsmouth. They had three children: Maria Louise, married Martin Parry Jones; William Jones, lost at sea from the ship "Peterhoff;" Nathan Parker Simes.
(V) Nathan Parker, second son and third child of Stephen Hardy and Ann Elizabeth (Yeaton) Simes, was born August 1, 1833, in Portsmouth, and died in that town October 23, 1888. at the age of fifty-five years. Following the course of the youth of his day he sailed before the mast in the ship "Gento" in command of Captain William Par- ker. ' After serving his apprenticeship he advanced in time to be master of the ship "Emily Farnum," owned by William Jones & Son, of Portsmouth, and he continued in command of this vessel until after the Civil war. Ile was afterwards master of the British ship "Black Wall," in the cotton trade, and during his life he circumnavigated the entire world. In 1875 he retired from active ser- vice. He married Mary I. Turner, daughter of William D. Turner, of London and Liverpool, Eng- land. Their children were: William Parker, Frank Turner, Harold Lancaster, Alice Parker and Thomas Hardy.
(VI) Thomas Hardy, youngest son of Nathan
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P. and Mary I. (Turner) Simes, was born Septem- ber 5. 1876, in Portsmouth, and began his education in a private school of that town. He was educated for the bar at the University of Virginia. Hc re- turned to Portsmouth in 1897, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1898. Since that time he has been actively engaged in the practice of law at Portsmouth. He was appointed justice of the mun- icipal court in 1905. He is a member of the Federal Fire Society of Portsmouth. He married, June 5, 1905, Catlierine Murat Tayloc, daughter of Gen- eral George E. Tayloe, of the Confederate States army. He has one son, Stephen Hardy Simes, born May II, 1907.
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TREAT titled to mention among the fore- most of those recorded in the pioneer history of Connecticut. The Treats were among the earliest settlers of the colony, and by their worth and ability took leading positions in the new com- munity. Richard, the first of the name, helped to shape the policy of the infant colony of which his son Robert became governor, and a descendant of Richard in the third generation became noted on account of the part he took in achieving American independence. Many descendants of Richard Treat's sons and daughters have been useful and honored citizens of the nation.
(1) Hon. Richard Treat was born probably in Pitminster, in the hamlet of South Trendle, now the parish of Trull, Somerset county, England, in 1584, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1669. "He is one of the very few early settlers," says Savage, "of whom we can find no trace in Massachusetts, where he may have been a servant or apprentice, yet it is said that he was a representative of the first General Court in 1637. though that is not probable." He first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, and removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1637. He was deputy from 1644 till 1658, gov- ernors' assistant or magistrate from 1658 till 1665, and a patentee of the charter which was granted April 23, 1662, for the junction of the two colonies of Connecticut and New Haven. His estate of about nine hundred acres in what is now Glaston- bury was long known as the Treat farm. He re- moved to Milford about the time of the granting of the charter, probably only to establish his son Robert in that settlement, for he is on the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 1669. He married (first), in England, Joan , the mother of his children. The date of her death is not known. He married ( second) Alice Gaylord, who survived him. His children were probably all born in England. Their names are : Richard, Robert, James, Sarah, Johan- na, a daugliter, Susannah and Honor.
(11) Governor Robert, second son and child of Richard and Joan Treat, was born in Pitminster, near Taunton, Somerset county, Eng- land, in 1622, and died in Milford, Connecticut, July 12, 1710, aged eighty-eight years. He accompanied
his parents in their voyage to Massachusetts and in their further migration to Connecticut. The family inoved in 1639, as above stated, to Milford, where Robert, though only eighteen years of age, was ap- pointed one of the "nine men" to survey and lay out the town lands. He was a deputy to the general assembly of New Haven colony 1653-59, and again in 1665, and was a member of the governor's council 1659-64. He was elected magistrate of Milford, and a substitute for one of the commissioners to the colonial council. He was a member of the commit- tee to settle the difficulties between Massachusetts and New Haven and Connecticut. He actively op- posed the consolidation of Connecticut and New Haven, and when the beaten and dissatisfied element of New Haven colony removed to New Jersey and founded Newark, he accompanied them. He was the first town clerk of this settlement, and was deputy to the first assembly from 1667 to 1672. His grant at that place was a home lot of eighty acres. In 1671 or 1672 he returned to Milford, where he had been made lieutenant in the train band in 1654, and captain in 1661. He was major of a company of Connecticut dragoons, and in 1675 was appointed commander-in-chief of the troops on the outbreak of King Philip's war, and drove the Indians from Northfield and Springfield. He also took part in the Narragansett war, repulsing the Indian attack on Holden, and engaged in the "fort fight," Decem- ber 19. 1675, when the enemy's stronghold was destroyed. Major Treat is said to have been the last to leave the fort. He was appointed deputy gov- ernor, May II, 1676, and served until 1683, when on the death of Governor William Leete, he was made governor. He filled this position until 1698, not in- cluding the two years under Sir Edmund Andross. In 1698 he was again chosen deputy governor and served until 1708. When King James II determined to withdraw the charters of the colonies, Governor Treat took measures to delay the surrender of that of Connecticut Colony as long as possible. To the first demand of Governor Andross for the sur- render of the charter the governor and council returned answer that they could not comply with his request until they had heard from the King. October 31, 1687, Governor Andross appeared in person and took charge of the government. During the long discussion of that day, which lasted until after dark, the candles were suddenly extinguished and when relighted the precious charter had dis- appeared, and been hidden in
the famous "Charter Oak," where it reposed until it could be safely brought away. November 1, 1687. Governor Treat was made one of Governor Andross' council, and within a week colonel of militia in New Haven company. He was a man of much ability, stead- fast principles and devotion to the people whom he ruled, and for whose interests he was ever watchful. He was a man of so much influence that Andross, believing that his support was essential to the suc- cessful administration of the government, sought to win him over by conferring offices upon him. He
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had so much influence with Andross that Connecti- cut suffered less from the tyrannous acts of Andross than any other colony.
Governor Treat married (first) Jane Tapp, only daughter of Edmund Tapp, Esq., one of the first settlers of Milford. She died April 8, 1703. He married (second), October 22, 1705, when above eighty-three years old, Elizabeth Bryan, widow of Bryan, of Milford. She died January 10, 1706. His children, all by his first wife, were: Samuel John, Mary, Robert, Sarah, Hannah, Joseph and Abigail, who survived him, and Jane Ann, who died before him. Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a son of Ann Treat, and grandson of Robert Treat.
(III) Captain Joseph, fourth son of Governor Robert and Jane (Tapp) Treat, was born in Mil- ford, September 17, 1662, and died August 9, 1721, aged fifty-nine years. He was one of the original proprictors of Wiantanuck, afterwards called New Milford. In 1703 he was appointed by the general court one of the commissioners to take charge of the prudential affairs of this township, which had just been incorporated. In 1707-08, he served as deputy for Milford, and was justice of the peace for New Haven Colony from 1702 to 1719. He was a brave and active soldier and rendered good ser- vice in the Indian troubles. In October, 1698, he was promoted from sergeant to ensign of the first train band in Milford, was lieutenant in 1704, and captain in 1708. He married (first), Frances Bryan, born February 13, 1668, and died September 21, 1703, aged thirty-five years. He married his second wife, whose name is not known. The children by the first wife were: Frances, Joseph, Ann, John, Sarah, Jane and James; and by the second wife: Richard, Ed- ward, Elizabeth, Samuel and Stephen, next men- tioned.
(IV) Stephen, youngest son of Captain Joseph Treat was born in Milford, October 10, 1715, and died in Middletown, November 13, 1794, aged seventy- nine. He married (first), June 12, 1746, Miriam Clark, born March 15, 1727, and died July 12, 1754, aged twenty-seven years. Married (second), De- cember 9, 1756, Mrs. Mercy Brown, of Farmington, who died February 28, 1810. The children by the first wife were: Stephen, Miriam, Elizabeth and John; and by the second wife: Amos, Mercy, Han- nah and Annie R.
(V) John, fourth child and second' son of Ste- phen and Miriam (Clark) Treat, was born in Mid- dletown, October 29, 1752, and died November 18, 1822, aged seventy years. Ile served from the be- ginning to the end of the Revolutionary war. He was a private in Captain Abel Braw's company which arrived at New York, August 19, 1776, and was discharged September 19, 1776. He again en- listed January 13, 1777, at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the first company of Captain (afterward Major) Benjamin Talmadge, in the Second Regiment, Con- necticut Light Dragoons, Colonel Elisha Sheldon commanding, and was discharged at Danbury, June 12, 1783. He served generally along the Hudson.
He took part in the battle of the Brandywine, Sep- tember 1I, 1777, and while in the "year service" in 1776 under the command of Colonel Tappan he took part in the engagement preceding the capture of the light house near New York City. He received a pension for his services and a grant of land in the Western Reserve of Ohio, which was lost through the fraud of an agent. He married, Novem- ber 27, 1783, Elizabeth Lancton, born July 4, 1758, and died in Middletown, Connecticut, October 28, 1842, aged eighty-four. Their children were: Ira, Samuel L., George, Emily, Joseph L. and John.
(VI) Samuel Lancton, second son and child of John and Elizabeth (Lancton) Treat, was born in Middletown, November 29, 1788, and died in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, February 3, 1862. At the age of eighteen lie set out to go to his mother's relatives who are said to have lived at Berwick, Maine. At Newburyport, Massachusetts, he met his cousin, Shuball Treat, to whom he ap- prenticed himself and learned the stone cutter's trade. Subsequently the two formed a partnership and carried on the stone cutting business in Ports- mouth. Samuel afterwards conducted the business alone, and was . finaly succeeded by his son Allen. During the War of 1812 he worked on the tem- porary forts in Portsmouth Harbor. He married (first ). in ISI1, Lydia Sheldon, born January 29, 1793, and died November 6, 1821. He married (second), August 29, 1822, Widow Elizabeth A. B. (Tread- well), Sheldon, born January 12, 1797, and died November 18, 1838. She was the widow of his first wife's brother, John Sheldon. The children by the first wife were: Allen, William, Samuel and El- bridge, and by the second wife there was one child, Emily.
(VII) Allen, oldest child of Samuel Lancton and Lydia (Sheldon) Treat, was born in Ports- mouth, February 16, 1812, and died December 31, 1874, aged nearly sixty-three years. He succeeded to his father's business, which he carried on until his son, John Sheldon Treat, took the business. He married, May 15, 1836, Ann Elizabeth Ham, daughter of William and Nancy (Green) Ham. Their children were: John S., Almina B., Frederick WV., Allen, Annie E., Lydia E., James D. and Samuel E.
(VIII) Hon. John Sheldon Treat, eldest child of Allen and Ann Elizabeth (Ham) Treat, was born in Portsmouth, August 14, 1837, and died March 8, 1898, aged sixty-one years. Ile was educated in the common schools of Portsmouth, from which he graduated, and at Phillips Exeter Academy. From school he went into the marble works conducted by his father, and there learned the art of marble- carving. 11 1855, prompted by a desire to see the world, he went south and was employed for a time in Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Caro- lina, and finally settled in Mobile, Alabama, where he established himself in business, and with the energy characteristic of the Yankee in the south be- gan to build up a prosperous business. In 1861, influenced by business interests, local friendships
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and the military spirit inherited from his colonial ancestors, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Second Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery, Confed- crate States army. He was with this battery in act- ive service throughout the war, and during the latter portion of the war he held the office of second lieu- tenant. A few years after the return of peace he removed to Portsmouth and took charge of his father's business, which he conducted until his death. This concern, known as the Portsmouth Marble & Granite Works, is the oldest established institution of the kind in New England, and has existed since 1768, and has been conducted by the family of the present proprietor for ninety years.
On his return to Portsmouth, Mr. Treat acted with the Democratic party, and soon became one of its most active and influential members. He was elected state senator in ISSI, and was chosen mayor of Portsmouth in 1882 and re-elected in 1883. In the second year of his service he presided in his official capacity at the reception of the survivers of the Greeley expedition on their return from the Arctic regions. He also presided officially at the reception tendered the Sons of Portsmouth. Mayor Treat was a man whose honorable methods, genial disposition and pleasant smile made him a favorite and a leader. He was a member of the Massachu- setts Society, the Paul Jones Club, and the Society of the Descendants of Colonial Governors. He was also a Mason and a member of St. John's Lodge; Washington Royal Arch Chapter, Council and DeWitt Clinton Commandery. Knights Templar. Mr. Treat married, in Portsmouth, September 28, 1871, Sarah Williard Odiorne, born in Rye, July 14, 1844, daugliter of Charles B. and Mary Sheaf (Yeaton) Odiorne, of Rye. (See Odiorne, VII).
HART Within less than fifteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the immigrant ancestor of this family had settled in Massachusetts. From the start the Harts were artisans, and by their labor contributed to the progress and development of the country. A very large proportion of the Harts of the New Hampshire branch of the family have followed that most useful trade, blacksmithing.
(I) Thomas Hart embarked at Baddow, Essex county, England, on the ship "Desire," in June, 1635, and landed in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was servant to John Brown, a tailor. In 1639 he was a proprietor of Ipswich; in 1641 he was a commoner; one of Dennison's subscribers in 1648, and town clerk of Ipswich the same year; select- man in 1663; and owned a share and a half in Plum Island in 1664. While at Ipswich he was engaged in tanning. His mill was made February 13, 1673 (O. S.), and probated March 31, 1674 (O. S.). He died March 8, 1673. at the age of sixty-seven years. His wife, whose forename was Alice, survived him, and died June 8, 1682, aged seventy. Both were buried in the old High street cemetery. Their children mentioned in his will, born in Ipswich, were : Thomas, Samuel, Sara and Mary.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (I) and Alice IIart, was born in Ipswich about 1640, and died December 31, 1717, at the age of seventy-seven. He was a tanner by trade, and resided in Ipswich. By the provision of his father's will he received the land about his house, six acres of land on Muddy river, and a third of the tan yard and stock. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and won the title of lieutenant. At a town meeting held in Ipswich, January 18, 1697, it was voted that Thomas Boardman make an acknowledgment or apology for affronting Lieutenant Thomas Hart, or pay a fine of five shillings. In 1698 Thomas was one of twelve men appointed to arrange plans and raise money for a new meeting house- in Ipswich. He was selectman in 1693-94. He married, in Ipswich, October 12, 1664, Mary Norton, born February 28, 1643, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fifth child of George, Jr., and Mary Norton. She died November 29, 1680. Their children were: Mary, Thomas, George, Lydia, Samuel, Nathaniel, John and Joseph.
(III) Captain Samuel, fifth child and third son of Lieutenant Thomas (2) and Mary (Norton) Hart, was born in Ipswich, August 16, 1674, and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1755. He was a blacksmith by trade. In 1702 he bought land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and went there to live. He was elected deacon of the North Con- gregational Church in Portsmouth, February 14, 1714, and served for years. He was selectman the same year. He married (first), at Dover, May 2, 1699, Mary Evens, daughter of Robert and Jane Evens, of Dover. She died June 23, 1714, aged thirty-five years; as is shown by the headstone in the old cemetery at the Point of Pines, Portsmouth. He married (second), July 13, 1715, Mary Booth, of Portsmouth, who died February 1, 1755. His children all by the first wife, were: Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Robert, John, Thomas, George, Nathaniel, and Sarah and Lydia, twins.
(IV) Colonel John, fifth child and third son of Captain Samuel and Mary (Evens) Hart, was born in Dover, July 8, 1706, and died in Newington, Oc- tober 30, 1777, in the seventy-second year of his age. He learned the trade of blacksmith in his father's shop, and was engaged in that industry for years. He lived at Portsmouth and afterwards at Newington. He was ensign in Colonel Samuel Moor's New Hampshire regiment in 1745, and was commissioned lieutenant in March of the same year. In 1756 he took command of the New Hampshire regiment of several hundred men, and marched with them to Lake George to join General Abercrombie. His forces were joined by those of Colonel Goff, who then assumed command. Lieutenant Hart and Colonel Nathaniel Meserve, of Newington, with a force of men, were left at Louisburg as a guard in the fall of 1758, after the capture of that place June 8, of the same year. The following winter small-pox broke out, and many died, among them Colonel Meserve. Lieutenant Hart was promoted to the vacant colonelcy and commanded the regi- ment until it returned home and was disbanded.
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He was the owner of the land now included in the North burying-ground, which he sold in 1753 to the town for one hundred and fifty pounds on con- dition that it be kept for a cemetery. He was buried in the Old North cemetery at Portsmouth, and his second wife lies beside him. He married (first), at Portsmouth, March 23. 1729. Abigail Landale: there is no record of her death. He mar- ried (second), about 1738, Sarah (Savell) Cutt, widow of Samuel Cutt, of Portsmouth. She died April 24, 1757, aged forty-two years. He married (third), Mary (Dennett) Stoodley, widow of Jona- than Stoodley, and daughter of Ephraim Dennett, of Portsmouth. She married, November 12, 1780, Nehemiah Furber, of Newington, and in 1788 was again a widow. His children by the first wife were: George, John, William, Thomas; those by the second wife: Joseph Savill, Henry, Benjamin, Edward, Nathaniel, Mehitable; and by the third wife, one, Oliver.
(V) George, eldest child of Colonel John and Abigail (Landale) Hart, was born in Portsmouth about 1730. Ile died April 14, 1807, aged seventy- seven, and was buried in the old cemetery in Ports- mouth. He was a blacksmith and farmer, and re- sided at Newington. His name is on the Associa- tion Test of 1776. He was appointed to settle several estates, and was one of a committee of 1789 to entertain General George Washington, who vis- ited Portsmouth. He married (first), about 1754, Mary Phebe Brewster, daughter of Joseph Brew- ster, of Portsmouth. She died August 5, 1783, aged fifty-three years, and he married (second). November 6, 1800, -. She married (second) February 6, 1809, Philbrick Bradley, of Concord. The children of George Hart, all by his first wife, were: George, John, William, Thomas and Phebe.
(VI) George (2), eldest child of George (I) and Mary Phebe ( Brewster) Hart, was born in Newington, baptized February 23. 1755, and died July 14, 1792. He was a blacksmith by trade, and resided in Portsmouth. He was selectman in 1773, signed the Association Test in 1777, and was a soldier in Colonel John Landon's expedition to Rhode Island in 1778. He married, in Portsmouth, May 15, 1781, Martha Sumner, who died April 6, 1805, aged fifty. Their children were : George, Wil- liam. Phehe and Mary.
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