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 27

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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(VI) Captain William, son of Colonel William Peirce, was born in 1777, at Gloucester, and fel- lowed a seafaring life in his earlier years. He worked his way upward until he was a commander of a vessel. On retiring from the sea he was ad- mitted as a partner in his father's business, and he was subsequently appointed collector of customs for the port of Gloucester. He was representative to the general court in 1806-07, and at the time of his death. December 14, IS4I, was president of the Gloucester Bank.

(VII) Captain William T., son of Captain Wil- liam Peirce, was a native of Cape Ann, and in early life followed the sea, working his way up to the position of ship master. After retiring from the sea he went to North Yarmouth, . Maine. and en- gaged in lumbering He was a Universalist in re- ligions belief. Captain William T. Peirce was twice married, his first wife being Dorcas York of North Yarmouth, who bore him: Samuel, a seafaring man and farmer; David, a practicing physician. of Bowdoin, Maine; and Charles, who died at age of twenty-one. He married a second wife, Saralı J. True, of Haverhill, New Hampshire, daughter of Major Adams True, who was a member of the Main legislature at the time of his death. The chil- dren of this union were: Adams T., Lucy O .. Ann R., Harriet M., Benjamin Franklin and William B., all deceased except Ann R., and Adams T.

Adams True Peirce, son of Captain William T. and Saralı J. (True) Peirce, was born in North Yarmouth, Maine. May 10, 1834. He was educated in the public schools and at the South Paris ( Maine) Academy. After leaving school young Peirce was employed for several years in the wholesale houses of Portland, Maine. He spent one year as clerk of the "Winthrop House," Winthrop, Maine, after which he owned and operated a grocery at WVest Pownal, Maine, which after one year he sold, and entered the employ of the Portland Gas Light Company, where he remained three years. Mr. Peirce first engaged in the hotel business at Mechanic Falls, Maine, where he ran the Eagle House one year, going thence for another year to the Androscoggin House, Lisbon Falls. Maine. In June, 1867, in company with Lewis P. True, Mr. Peirce purchased the American Hotel at Dover, New Hampshire. Shortly after the purchase he leased the Tontine Hotel at Brunswick, Maine. which he operated two years on his own account,

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and then returned to Dover and gave his personal attention to the management of the "American" for another year, when they sold the good will and hotel personal property to Daniel C. Wiggin. In partner- ship with Thomas K. Cushman. he leased the "Tre- mont House" at Claremont, New Hampshire. This house had previously been managed by that "prince of landlords," Parian Stevens, who later established the fame of The Tremont and The Revere hotels in Boston, and the Continental at Philadelphia. Here Mr. Peirce remained for seven years, doing a suc- cessful business. He then disposed of the Tremont, returned to Dover, and purchased his one-half in- terest in the American Hotel property from his former partner, Mr. True, and with Mr. Cushman as partner, again resumed the management of the "American" under the firm name of A. T. Peirce & Company, and ever since they have successfully managed this well known and best patronized of Dover's hostelries. The house has been enlarged by the addition of wings and otherwise improved to meet modern hotel requirements. Mr. Peirce is interested in other lines of activity. He is a trustee of the Merchants' Saving Bank and of the Dover Co-operation Association. He owns by purchase the Porter Oil Filter, and is the patentee of an inven- tion for reclaiming waste in engine rooms, called the "True Waste Press," both of which are valuable and successful inventions. Mr. Peirce is vigorous and active for a man of his years, and devotes each day to the personal conduct of his business.

In early life Mr. Peirce was a Democrat, and was appointed by President Buchanan, enumerator of North Yarmouth on the census of 1860. While resident of Claremont he was nominated for rail- road commissioner. and although defeated polled one of the largest Democratic votes ever cast in the state. About this time Mr. Peirce originated and organized the License Alliance, an organization favoring the granting of licenses in New Hampshire. The Alli- ance took an active part in the esuing campaign, which resulted in the carrying of the legislature and the election of Hon. James A. Weston, New Hamp- shire's first Democratic governor in many years, and the last. In the first Harrison-Cleveland cam- paign, Mr. Peirce voted for Benjamin Harrison, and has ever since acted with the Republican party. During Governor Weston's term he appointed Mr. Peirce a member of the governor's staff with the rank of colonel. On August 13, 1890. President Har- rison appointed him United States marshall for the district of New Hampshire, an office he held four years. Mr. Peirce represented Dover in the state legislature one term. 1897-08, being elected on the Republican ticket. For several years he was chair- man of the Republican City Committee of Dover.

Mr. Peirce is president of the Universalist So- ciety of Dover. and chairman of the board of trus- tees of the Peirce Memorial Church. Ile is a prom- inent Odd Fellow in both lodge and encampment. I-le belongs to Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 16, and Prescott En- campment, Patriarchs Militant. Ile was a char- ter member of Canton Parker, and has risen through the offices to his present high rank, colonel of the Second Regiment, Patriarchs Militant. He is a life member of the Maine Mechanic‹' Charitable Asso- ciation of Portland, Maine, and belongs to the Royal Arcanum and the Improved Order of Red Men, Wonalancet Tribe. He is an ex-commander of the Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester, with the rank of Major, and has been for several years a member of

the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. In Free Masonry Mr. Peirce has received all the degrees up to and including the thirty- second degree, Scottish Rite. He is a member of Strafford Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Belk- nap Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Orphan Council, Royal and Select Masters, St. Paul's Commandery, Knights Templar ; and New Hampshire Consistory, Ancient, Accepted Scottish Rite.

Adams T. Peirce married, March 23, 1857, Rachel Noyes Cushman, daughter of Major J. E. F. and Olive (Sturdivant) Cushman, from one of the lead- ing families of New Gloucester. Maine. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Adams T. Peirce were three : Ada Wiletta, born March 29, 1866. married, Sep- tember 2. 1880, Henry F. Barnard, who died in Nash- ua, New Hampshire, July 7, 1901. He was a Knight Templar, and a most excellent man. In connection with his father-in-law, Mr. Peirce, he ran the Nar- ragansett House at Fall River, Massachusetts, and at the time of his death Mr. Barnard was proprietor of the Tremont House at Nashua. 2. Hattie May, died in infancy. 3. Dr. Charles Cushman, born March 20, 1870. He fitted himself for the practice of medicine. He attended two years the Harvard College of Medicine. and graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He died September 19, 1893, just after completing his studies.

(I) Elihu Peirce (who spelled the PEIRCE name Pearce) resided for some years in New Salem, Massachusetts, and spent his last days in South Orange, same state. He married Lydia Torrey, who died in Winchester, New Hampshire.

(II) Hosea, son of Elihu and Lydia (Torrey) Peirce, was born in New Salem. April 27, ISOI, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire,

March 24. 1893. He married Verlina Putnam, born in New Salem, July 10. 1806, died on the anniversary of her birth, I886. Besides her three sons : George W., Elihu P. and Joseph W., she reared an adopted daughter, Mary E., who married Edwin Parmenter. of Antrim, New Hampshire.

(III) George W., M. D., eldest son of Hosea and Verlina ( Putnam) Peirce, was born in Win- chester, New Hampshire, April 24, 1833. He ac- quired his primary education in the public schools of Winchester, and this was supplemented by at- tendance at the Townsend (Vermont) Academy, the New England Institute for Young Men, New York City, and the academy in Shelburne Falls, Massa- chusetts. His professional preparations were com- pleted at the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. from which he was graduated with the class of 1854, and he immediately began the general practice of medicine in his native town. A natural capacity for the healing art, together with an enthusiastic ambition to attain a high rank in his profession, made him successful from the be- ginning, and he had built up a large and lucrative practice when. in 1863, he was commissioned sur- geon of the First Regiment, New Ilampshire Vol- unteer Cavalry. During the last two years of the Civil war, made notable by the occurrence in rapid succession of a series of important operations which ultimately decided the conflict, he was, almost con- stantly in active service, and the vast amount of work falling to the lot of the army surgeons, under conditions none too favorable at the best. can only be estimated by the veterans of that struggle. The

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First New Hampshire Cavalry, which rendered im- portant services under Generals Grant and Sheri- dan, in Virginia, participated in the famous battle of the wilderness, the Shenandoah Valley campaign, Wilson's Raid, the exciting operations north of Richmond, the investment of Petersburg together with its final siege and capture, and was present at the surrender of General Lee's army at Appomattox, which determined the fate of the southern Confed- eracy. After being honorably discharged and mus- tered out with his regiment, Dr. Peirce resumed his practice in Winchester, which he has continued without interruption to the present time, and is there- fore one of the oldest physicians in point of service in the state, having been actively identified with the medical profession for more than fifty years.

Dr. Peirce's usefulness has not alone been con- fined to his profession, as he has figured quite con- spicuously and with marked ability in civic affairs. As a Republican he represented his district in the lower branch of the legislature in 1875; in the sen- ate in 1891, during which senatorial incumbency he served as chairman of the committee on railroads, the period being marked by an especial advancement of the railroad interests of the Commonwealth ; has been a member of the Winchester school board for fifty years; the board of health for thirty years; a trustee of the Winchester Public Library for twenty years; has officiated as town moderator for twelve years and acts as a justice of the peace. He is a member of the New Hampshire State. the Cheshire County and the Connecticut River Medical societies. and served as surgeon-general on Governor Cur- rier's staff.

In 1860. Dr. Peirce married Maria C. Follett. born in Winchester, March 24, 1833, daughter of William Follett. She became the mother of four children, namely: Alexander F., born September 2, 1863: Susan P., August 31, 1867; Abbie M .. July 25. 1870; and Philip, Aug. 6. 1876. Mrs. Peirce died March 24, (her birthday anniversary), 1902.

The True family is one of the oldest in TRUE Massachusetts, and has been identified with New Hampshire for several genera- tions. It has contributed some of the leading clergy- men of the early days in this state, and has made an honorable record in the development of the common- wealth.

(I) Henry True, the immigrant ancestor, lived near Huntsford, Yorkshire, England, and came to this country about 1630, settling in Salem, Massa- chusetts. A few years later he removed to Salis- bury, Massachusetts. where he purchased a house and lot in 1657. He died in 1659, or early in the follow- ing year. The invoice of his estate was filed April 10, 1660. He was married about 1644 to Israel Pike,. daughter of John Pike, a pioneer of Newbury and Salisbury. She was married (second) June 18, 1660, in Salisbury, to Joseph Fletcher, of that town. She died March 12, 1699, and was survived only three days by her husband. The children of Henry and Israel True were: Henry, Mary, Lydia, Joseph, Benjamin and Jemima.

(II) Henry (2), eldest child of Henry (I) and Isracl (Pike) True, was horn March 8, 1645, prob- ably in Salisbury, where he was an active and use- ful citizen. He and his wife were members of the Salisbury church, of which he was elected deacon July 25, 1700. He was a town clerk and representa- tive and filled other official positions in the town. He was living in 1723, but no record of his death

appears. He was married March 15, 1668, to Jane Bradbury, who was born May II, 1645, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, of Salisbury. Their children, born in that town, were : Mary, William, Henry, Jane, John, Jemima, Jabez (died young), and Jabez.

(III) John, third son and fifth child of Henry (2) and Jane (Bradbury) True, was born February 23, 1679. in Salisbury, and probably resided through life in that town. He was still living there in 1736, but no further record of him appears. He and his wife were admitted to the Salisbury church July 23. 1710, and on that day their first five children were baptized. He was married June 16, 1702, to Martha Merrill, who was born September 3, 1683, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Clough) Merrill and grand- daughter of Nathaniel (1) Merrill of Salisbury. (See Merrill). She was a twin sister of Moses Merrill of Salisbury, John True and wife had ten children, namely: Jemima, John, Jacob. Ezekiel, Daniel. Ruth, Ann, Moses, Thomas and Mary.

(IV) Ezekiel, third son and fourth child of John and Martha (Merrill) True, was born June 1, 1707, in Salisbury, and baptized at the Salisbury church on the twenty-third of the following month. He was married May 4, 1744, to Mary Morrill, of North Yarmouth, Maine, probably a daughter of William Barnes and Lydia (Pillsbury) Morrill, formerly of Salisbury, and their children, born from 1746 to 1766, were: Sarah, Jacob, Lydia. Martha, Ezekiel. Mary, Jabez. John, William and Paul.

(V) John (2), fourth son and eighth child of Ezekiel and Mary (Morrill) True, was born March II, 1762, in Salisbury and settled when a young man in New Hampshire. He was employed for some time by John Tilton, of Tilton Hill, in Pittsfield New Hampshire, who came to that town from Salis- bury. Subsequently Mr. True engaged in farming for himself, clearing up land in the wilderness and doing his plowing, as was then the custom, with cxen. He was married January 24, 1787, to Mehit- abel Cram, who was born June 29, 1766. Their children, born in Pittsfield, were: Paul, born March 22, 1788: Levi, November 21, 1790; Hannah, Febru- ary 6, 1793: Oliver, November 4, 1796. and Sally, October 18, 1799.

(Il) Paul, eldest child and son of John and Me- hitable (Cram) True, was born in Pittsfield, March 22, 1788. He married Nancy Cram, daughter of Jonathan Cram, of Hampton Falls, December 28, ISI4, by whom he had Emily, born in 1818, Elby, born in 1820, who married Abigail Watson, and Porter Cram.

(III) Porter Cram, youngest son and child of Paul and Nancy (Cram) True, was born in Pitts- field, Angust 7. 1824. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and academy of his native town. He was for a time under the instruction of Dr. Charles C. Berry. His occupation was farming and shoemak- ing until 1893. when he retired for a home in the village. His grandfather, John True, owned three farins, and gave one to each of his three sons. Porter C. True now owns two hundred acres rescued from the wilderness by his grandfather. Mr. True has been a constant reader of good books, and served a number of years as clerk of school district No. 9 when Daniel Watson, grandfather of Professor Watson, of Pittsfield school, was on the board of ed- ucation. He is a Unitarian in his religious belief, of the Emersonian school. The east room of his home in Tilton Hill is notable for the fact that President Franklin Pierce and United States Sen-

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ator Moses Norris, met there once to take deposi- tions in law suits. The home had also an open door for ministers, and Rev. William Colby and others held preaching services there. Mr. True is now the only survivor of his generation, and is en- gaged in preparing the history of his life from a boy, which promises to make an interesting book when completed.

He married, August 11, 1845. Ursula, daughter of Anson Adams, a direct relative of President Ad- ams. She was born in Northfield, Vermont, October 13. 1825. They have no children.

NUDD This family is not a large one, as com- pared with many others scattered over the United States, but has many repre- sentatives in New Hampshire, and all seem to have sprung from one ancestor. Most of the members seem to have been engaged chiefly in agriculture. (I) Roger, son of John Nudd, was born at Ormsby, in the county of Norfolk, England, June II, 1598, died in the same town, and was buried December 24, 1630. He married Joane - -, and had a son Thomas. Soon after the death of Roger his widow married Henry Dow. In the spring of 1637 the family emigrated to New England, and a few years afterwards settled at Hampton, New Hampshire. Mrs. Dow died about 1640.

(II) Thomas, son of Roger and Joane, and grandson of John Nudd, was born at Ormsby, where he was baptized January 6, 1629. He ac- companied his mother and step-father to America, and came with the latter to Hampton in 1643 or 1644. October 3, 1649, when Thomas Nudd had arrived at his majority, Mr. Dow, in fulfillment of a promise made to his wife at the time of their marriage, "that he would treat her son as his own child," conveyed to him by a decd of gift ten acres off the easterly side of his home lot, and some tracts of fresh meadow and of salt marsh, and one share in the cow common. Mr. Nudd built a house and lived upon the first of these tracts, and there has been the home of some of his posterity till the present time, Mrs. Sarah (Nudd) Shaw, the mother of George F. Nudd, the last occupant of the name, who died in 1888, still residing there. Thomas Nudd died January 31, 1713. He married Sarah, daughter of Godfrey Dearborn, and they had six children : John, James, Thomas, Samuel, Mary and Hannah.

(III) Samuel, fourth son and child of Thomas and Sarah (Dearborn) Nudd, born in Hampton, September 13, 1670, died March 26, 1748, lived on the homestead, and divided his time between agri- cultural pursuits and a sea-faring life, owning and commanding a small vessel employed in coasting between Hampton and Boston. He married, Feb- ruary 27, 1701, Sarah Maloon, who died February 14, 1756, aged seventy-seven years. The children were: Mary, James and Thomas, whose sketeli follows.

(IV) Thomas, youngest child of Samuel and Sarah (Maloon) Nudd, born in llampton, October 8. 1708, and died March 17. 1780, remained on the homestead and was through life principally en- gaged in farming. Ile, however, transacted a con- siderable amount of public business as justice of the peace, coroner, and selectman, filling the last named office in the years 1746-51-53-59-62 and 1768. He married, May 23. 1733, Deborah, daughter of Simon Marston. Their children were : Simon, Han- nah. Samuel, Sarah and Molly.

(V) Simon, eldest child of Thomas and De-

borah (Marston) Nudd, was born February 6, 1735, and died October 30, 1818, remained on the home- stead, was a large land owner and farmer, and a cornet in the militia. He married Elizabeth Hook of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who died October 14, 1799, aged fifty-nine years. They had nine children : Thomas, Simon (died young), Mary, Betty, Simon, Moses, Samuel, David and Jacob.

(VI) Thomas, eldest child of Simon and Eliza- beth (Hook) Nudd, was born November 28, 1763. and died April, 1806, settled on the Mill road and spent his life there. He married (first), October 28. 1784, Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Marston; and (second), October 28, 1795, Susanna, daughter of Samuel Brown. They had eight children, named as follows: Josiah, Thomas, James, Samuel, Moses, Daniel, John and Eliza.

(VII) John, fifth son and child of Thomas and Abigail (Marston) Nudd, was born in Hampton, married and had a family of children.

(VIII) In the early part of the last century Joseph Warren Nudd was a resident of Canterbury, where he married Judith Arlin of the same town, and they had children: David, Benjamin, Andrew, Erastus, Mary, who married True Hill, and Almira, who married Luther Rogers. After the death of Joseph W. Nudd his widow married Hiram Kim- ball and had three children: Eliza, who married Jolın Welch; Laura, who married Audrew Grover ; and Charles.

(IX) Erastus, son of Joseph W. and Judith (Arlin) Nudd, was born in Canterbury, January 9, 1825, and died in East Concord, May 29. 1897. He was a farmer in East Concord, and in the seasons when work was slack on the farm he burned char- coal, which he sold in Concord. He was a Protes- tant, but not a church member. Politically he was a Democrat. He served as a soldier in the Civil war, being a member of Company G. Tenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. His brother David Nudd, was a member of the same company. He married, February 18, 1849, Katherine Riordan, born June 5, 1828, in the city of Cork, Ireland, who died in Concord, April 20, 1892. They had six children : Clara J., mentioned below : Otis W., married Annic Carter ; he resided on the home farm until after the death of his wife, and then lived at the home of his sister Clara J., where he died September 17. 1904; Susan F., born 1853. married Sylvester Sargent, who is employed in the needle factory at Laconia ; Mary M., born 1855, married Lucian Sargent, they lived on a farm near Laconia; Martha J., born 1857, married James Willey, liveryman in Lancaster; she died in 1898; Phebe C., born October 15, 1861, died in Concord, 1904, married Charles Rowell, a car- penter in Concord.

Clara J. Nudd married (first), July 4. 1869, Michael Doland, born in 1844, in county Roscom- mon, Ireland. He received the education common to his station and times, and came to America when cighteen years old. He soon after settled in Con- cord and learned the blacksmith's trade and lived ever after in that town, where he died. He was a member of St. John's (Roman Catholic) Churel, and of St. Patrick's Society, and a Democrat. The children of this marriage were: John 11., born May 4. 1870. married Victoria W'cleome; he is a resident of Concord, a Republican, and a member of the Eagles. George E., born December 8. 1871, married Elizabeth W. Berg, and is an electrician. Katherinc. born 1874, married William Sexton, an engineer of the Boston & Maine railroad, and lives in Concord ;

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they have three children-Bertha, Agnes and Ruth. Mary T., born July 27, 1876, married Edward S. George, (q. v.), attorney and railway promoter of Manchester.

Mrs. Clara J. Doland married, July 15, 1879, Patrick MeIntire, born 1852, at Inverness, province of Quebec, died September 15, 1897, in Concord. He settled 'in Concord when a young man, and finally engaged in the livery business, which he carried on successfully many years. He was a member of St. John's Church, and a Democrat. The children of this marriage are: Matthew, born October 5. 1880, now a clerk in a clothing store, and Margaret, born August 2, 1882, a bookkeeper.

It is supposed that the name of Ham- HAMLIN lin is originally of Germanic origin, perhaps derived from the town of Hamlin in Lower Saxony situated at the junction of the river of Hamel with the Weiser. The name Hamelin is still common in France, whence some have emigrated to this country and to Quebec where they have become numerous. In England this name was formerly spelled Hamblen, Hamelyn, Hamelin and Hamlyn. As the name is found in the "Roll of Battle Abbey" it is undoubtedly of French origin, and was brought into England by a follower of the Norman conqueror. Burke's Encyclopedia of Heraldry describes several coats of arms belong- ing to the Hamblens and Hamlyns. Representatives of the distinguished American family of this name participating in the war for National Independence and the Civil war. It has produced a goodly 111111- ber of able men including clergymen, lawyers, phy- sicians and statesmen, and its most distinguished representative of modern times was the Hon. Han- nibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United States during Abraham Lincoln's administration, for many years a member of the national senate from Maine and afterwards minister to Spain (born 1809, died I891).

(I) John Hamelyn, of Cornwall, living in 1570, married Amor, daughter of Robert Knowle, of Sarım.

(II) Giles Hamelin, son of John and Amor (Knowle) Hamelyn, resided in Devonshire. He mar- ried a daughter of Robert Ashay, who bore him at least two sons, Thomas and James.

(11I) James Hamblen, gentleman, son of Giles Hamelin, was residing in London in 1623, and there is some evidence to show that he was born in that city. He emigrated from London to New England, settling at Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1639. He was made. a freeman in 1641-42, served as a constable and as a juryman, and his death oc- curred in 1690. By his wife Ann he had seven chil- dren, but only the names of four appear in the records : James (who died in London in 1633), Sarah, Mary and James, all of whom were born in London.

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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 27

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