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 28

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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(IV) James (2) Hamlin, supposedly the young- est son and child of James and Ann Hamblin, was born in London. April 10, 1636, and came to Amer- ica with his mother prior to 1642. He was a pros- perous farmer of Barnstable for many years, and his name frequently appears in the early records of Plymouth colony. He was a member of the "Grand Enquest" and in 1705 served as representative to the general court. The last years of his life were spent in Tisbury, as in his will, which was made in 1717, he claims to be a resident of that town. He was married in Barnstable, November 20, 1662,

to Mary Dunham, born in 1642. daughter of John and Abigail Dunham. He and his wife were men- bers of the church at Barnstable in 1683. Their children were: Mary, Elizabeth, Eleazer, Exper- ience, Elisha, Hope, Job, John. Benjamin and Elkanah.

(V) Eleazer, third child and eldest son of James and Mary ( Dunham) Hamlin, was born in Barn- stable, April 12, 1668. He went from Barnstable to Harwich or Yarmouth, and according to the pro- bate records he died in the last named town, in 1698. He married Lydia Sears, born October 24, 1666, daughter of Paul and Deborah (Willard) Sears. She survived him and was married for the second time in Harwich, September 30, 1706, to Thomas Snow. The only record of the number of his chil- dren is that contained in the will of his father, who refers in that document to "my four grandchildren, the children of my son Eleazer Hamlin, deceased."

(VI) Benjamin, son of Eleazer and Lydia (Sears) Hamlin, was born in 1692. He was mar- ried October 25, 1716, by John Doane, Esq .. of Eastham, Massachusetts, to Anne Mayo, daughter of Samuel Mayo. The records relative to this an- cestors are meagre, but it is known that he was the father of Cornelius, Joshua, Lydia Isaac, Mary and Major Eleaner. He resided in Wellfleet, Massachu- setts, and died in or prior to 1748.

(VII) Major Eleazer (2), son of Benjamin and Anne (Mayo) Hamlin, was born in July, 1732, probably in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, then a part of Eastham. For a number of years he resided in Pembroke, Massachusetts, where he acquired con- siderable real estate, and was baptized there Feb- ruary 6, 1762. As second lieutenant in Captain James Hatch's company he responded to the Lex- ington Alarm, April 19, 1775, and in 1776 moved to Harvard, Massachusetts. He afterwards re- moved to Westford, Massachusetts. He was mar- ried in the East Parish of Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, by Rev. John Angier, June 30, 1752, to Lydia Bonney, of Pembroke, who died August 12, 1769, and in 1772 married Mrs. Sarah Bryant (nee Lob- dell), who had two daughters by her first husband. He was married for the third time in Westford, June 30, 1789, by Rev. Matthew Sanborn to Mrs. Hannah Fletcher (nee Proctor), born August 4, 1747, daughter of Philip and Phebe (Hildreth) Proctor and widow of Timothy Fletcher. She died at Westford in 1837. Major Eleazer Hamlin was the father of seventeen children. eleven of whom were of the first union, namely: Asia, who died aged seventeen years; Elizabeth, Alice, Africa, Europe. America, Lydia, Eleazer, Mary, Cyrus and Hannibal, the two latter being twins. (N. B. Those named for the four Continents were sons). The children of his second marriage were: another Asia (who died young), Sally. Isaac, a third Asia, Green, and George. Thirteen of his children were born in Pembroke and the others in Harvard. Five of his sons were graduates of Harvard College and some fourteen or fifteen more of his descendants have taken their degrees at the same institution. Several of the sons settled in Oxford county, Maine, includ- ing Cyrus, who was the father of the vice-president previously referred to; and his twin brother Han- nibal, whose son, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., was a prominent Congregational preacher and president of Middlebury College.

(VIII) Hon. Eleazer (3). son of Major Eleazer (2) and Lydia (Bonney) Hamlin, was born in Pem- broke, September 23, 1765. He accompanied his

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father to Harvard and tradition says that as a boy he was a fifer in the Revolutionary war. He served as a private in Captain William Sawyer's company of Bolton, Massachusetts, which was called out to assist in quelling Shays' Rebellion (1787), and dur- ing his service marched from Hadley to Pelham, a distance of thirty miles, in a severe snow storm. He went from Harvard to Waterford, Maine, settling in the southern part of the town, and became one of the most prominent among the early settlers there, being directed by an act of the Massachusetts gen- eral court dated March 27, 1797, to notify the free- holders and inhabitants of Waterford to hold a town meeting at the house of Dr. Stephen Cummings, April S, of that year, for the election of town offi- cers. He served as tythingman, was moderator in 1798, 1801-02, selectman in 1799, and as a National Republican was chosen representative to the legis- lature for the years 1826 and 28. As the result of an accident he was obliged to have one of his legs amputated. He was made a Mason at Bridgeton, Maine, in 1805. He possessed a sound intellect, was familiar with the English poets, and is said to have recited passages from Milton and Shakespeare with taste and expression. In his religious belief he was a Methodist. The date of his death, which occurred in Waterford, is not at hand. He married Sally Bancroft, of Groton, Massachusetts, who was born July 29, 1767, and was a descendant of John and Jane Bancroft, passengers in the ship "James" from London in 1632, and early settlers in Lynn, Massa- chusetts. Sally died Angust, 1842. She was the mother of ten children, namely: Francis. Alice, Sally (who died young), Addison, John, Sally, Wil- liam, David Tilden, Lucy and Eleazer. all of whom were born in Waterford.

(IX) David Tilden, fifth son and eighth child of Hon. Eleazer and Sally (Bancroft) Hamlin, was born in Waterford, January 4, 1807. He was a farmer and resided at the homestead in Waterford until 1851 or 53, when he removed to Milan, New Hampshire. He married Harriet Robbins, born in Waterford, March 16, 1805, daughter of James and Delight (Gilbert) Robbins. Ile died in Milan, May 15, 1869, and his wife died there March 5, 1887. They were the parents of seven children, one of whom died at birth. The others are: David Tilden, born May 23, 1835, deceased; James Gilbert, born September 10, 1839, died in 1844; Ellen Elizabeth, born March 14, 1841, deceased; Charles Gilbert, the date of whose birth will be given presently ; Lydia Maria, born September 25, 1848; and Harriet Frances, born March 4, 1849.

(X) Charles Gilbert, fifth child of David T. and Harriet (Robbins) Hamlin, was born in Waterford, March 26, 1847. His boyhood was spent in at- tending the public schools and assisting his father in carrying on the farm. In August, 1864, when but seventeen years old, he enlisted as a private in the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, and served in the defense of the national capital until the close of the Civil war. In 1869 he went to Cal- ifornia, remaining on the Pacific coast until IS71. and returning to Milan engaged in lumbering. In 1875 he established himself in general mercantile business at Gorham, which he has ever since con- ducted, and in conjunction with this he carries on a large farm in Shelburne. In politics Mr. Hamlin is a Republican. He has served as chairman of the board of selectmen three years, as deputy-sheriff eight years, and in other ways has participated in local public affairs. Ile is a Royal Arch Mason

belonging to the Blue Lodge in Gorham and the chapter in Bethel, Maine. He attends the Congre- gational Church. He was married in Milan, No- vember 20, 1875, to Mrs. Lydia A. Blake, who was born in that town, December 16, 1851. Their chil- dren are: Donald Conrad, born January 5, 1877; Carlie Gertrude, born February 19, 1879; Bernice Hattie, born December 1I, ISSI; Georgia Hortense, born December 15, 1883; Roy Gilbert, born Feb- ruary 15, 1885; Charles Augustus, born November 16, 1888; Arthur Benedict, born November 21, 1889; Helen Beatrice, born December 4, 1890; and Hannibal Homer, born December S, 1892. Donald C. is in business with his father. Bernice H. is a trained nurse. Georgia H. is a student at Wellesley College. Roy G. is a student at University. Charles A. is attending Gould's Academy. Arthur B. is connected with the Lancaster Savings Bank. (Second Family.)

(I) Captain Giles Hamlin, the ancestor of this branch of the family, was born in England about 1622. He settled in Middletown, Connecticut, as early as 1654, and lived there the remainder of his life. His epitaph says that he was "near fifty years crossing the ocean wide," which means that he was a mariner for that period of time. lle was long engaged in foreign commerce, part of the time on his own account; at other times with his brother-in- law, John Crow (2), of Fairfield, Connecticut, with Elder William Goodwin, of Hartford, and with John Pynchon, of Springfield, Massachusetts, son of the founder of the town. Captain Hamlin com- manded "The Desire" in 1665 and "The John and James" in 1679. He was a Puritan. a man of good sense, and soon gained a high standing in the com- munity on account of his probity and ability. He and his descendants acquired a remarkable influence in public affairs, and the family homestead remained in possession of four generations. Captain Hamlin served the town on various committees, and was elected ratemaker, grand levyman and townsman. In 1666 he gave a drum to the town and train-band. Both he and his wife were members of the first church of Middletown, established in 1668. Early in 1655. Giles Hamlin married Hester or Esther Crow, daughter of John Crow, of Ilartford. Con- necticut, who was born about 1628, probably in Eng- land. John Crow was a wealthy man, and Ilester or Esther was the oldest child in a family of seven daughters and four sons. Captain Giles and Hester or Esther (Crow) Hamlin had seven children : Hes- ter, John, Mary, Mchitable, Giles, William. whose sketch follows; and Richard, born in 1670. Captain Giles llamlin died in Middletown, September 1, 1680. His will, executed two days before his death, shows that he had acquired a fortune for those times. The estate amounted to over three thousand pounds, and the hequests contain frequent mention of silver platters, goblets, wine cups and great spoons, besides money, mills, land and negro ser- vants. Mrs. Hamlin outlived her husband eleven years, dying August 23, 1700, at the age of seventy- two. Their remains repose side by side in the Riverside cemetery at Middletown. His grave is surmounted by a massive tomb with a quaint in- scription on the top slab, while a plain brown head- stone marks her burial place nearby.

(II) William (1), third son and sixth child of Captain Giles and Ilester or Esther (Crow) Hamlin, was born at Middletown, Connecticut, Feb- ruary 3. 1668. He was a husbandman and a man of property. Two curious records are found con-

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cerning him, which perhaps have more value as illustrating the spirit of the times than as exhibi- ing the departed gentleman's disposition. "On No- vember 23, 1701, Captain John Hall and William Hamlin did make a public acknowlegment of their falling out; which was accepted by ye church, May 9, 1792, William Hamlin did make a public confes- sion of his sin in quarreling with Joseph Miller, which was accepted by the church." On May 26, 1692, William Hamlin married Susanna, third child of Rev. Nathaniel and Mary (Whiting) Collins, who was born at Middletown, November 26, 1669. Mr. Collins was a graduate of Harvard, the first minister of Middletown, and by consequence the leading man in the place. His eldest daughter Mary had previously married John Hamlin, elder brother of William. William and Susannah ( Collins) Ham- lin had eight children: Richard, born May 17, 1693; William, Giles, Nathaniel, whose sketch follows; Edward, Susannah, Charles and Esther. Mrs. Sus- annah ( Collins) Hamlin died February 24, 1721-22, aged fifty-two years; and her husband died May 22, 1733, aged sixty-six. Both are probably buried in Riverside cemetery, though no gravestone marks William Hamlin's burial place.

(III) Nathaniel, fourth son and child of Wil- liam (1) and Susannah (Collins) Hamlin, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, October 26, 1699. He married Saralı, daughter of Captain Daniel and Mary Harris, on September 16, 1725. They lived in Middletown, where their four children were born: William (2), whose sketch follows; Sarah, born April 24, 1728; Harris, April 14, 1730, who died young; and Susannah, January 27, 1731-32. Na- thaniel Hamlin died in Middletown, September 28, 1731, at the early age of thirty-two; his widow mar- ried Nathaniel Baker.

(IV) Captain William (2), eldest child of Na- thaniel and Sarah ( Harris) Hamlin, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, February 11, 1726. He passed his early life in that town, then lived for a while in Westfield, Connecticut, and in 1818, when he was past ninety, removed to Charlestown, New Hampshire, to make his home with his son William (3), with whom he died. Captain Hamlin derived his title from service in the Revolution. He was ap- pointed ensign of the Tenth Company, Sixth Regi- ment, in October, 1770; was made a lieutenant of the same company in October, 1773; and was made captain of the Fifth Company, Twenty-third Regi- ment, in 1776. He was a Whig in politics, and a Presbyterian in church affiliations. On June 28, 1750, Captain William (2) Hamlin married Hannah, daughter of Deacon Allen, who was born in Middle- town, in 1728. She was a member of the church there, and was dismissed to Westfield. Connecticut. where they then lived, December 19, 1773. Captain William (2) and Hannah ( Allen) Hamlin had thir- teen children, ten daughters and three sons: Lucy, Hannah, William (2), mentioned below. Lucy, Sus- annah, Sarah, Elizabeth, Experience, Mary, Re- becca, Harris, Olive and Oliver. Mrs. Hannalı Hamlin died at Middletown, May 9. 1807, at the age of seventy-eight years. In 1808. when he was eighty-two years of age, Captain Hamlin married his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Wetmore, born in Stow. Ten years later they both went to live with Captain Hamlin's son William (3), at Charles- town, New Hampshire, where they both died, Cap- tain Hamlin, on April 25. 1821, at the advanced age of nintey-five years, and his wife about 181Q.

(V) William (3), eldest son and third child of

Captain William (2) and Hannah (Allen) Hamlin, was born at Middletown, Connecticut, September 14, 1754. He was a farmer and lived in Middletown till 1804, when he moved up the river to Charles- town, New Hampshire, where he carried on a farm and also kept a tavern. He was a Whig in politics, and a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. William (3) Hamlin was thrice married, and had nineteen children in all, some by each wife. His was first united to Hepsybeth, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Kirby) Savage, who was born in Middletown, October 17, 1751. They had two daughters: Lucia, born February 17, 1777 ; and Hepsybeth, August 17, 1779. On October 18, 1781, he married his second wife Lucy, daughter of Thomas and Lucia ( Stock- ing) Kirby, of Middletown, Upper Houses, now Cromwell, Connecticut. They had seven children : Ashbel, Joseph, Roxanna, Cornelia, David, Eliza- beth and Hannah. He married for his third wife Thankful Knowles, who was born in Middletown, July 25, 1769. They had ten children: Seth, born February II, 1795; Mary K., Nancy H., Ashbel, Jerusha, Giles, whose sketch follows; Harriet, Sophia, Sophia D. and Clarissa. The last two children were born in Charlestown, New Hamp- shire, but the other seventeen were born in Middle- town. William (3) Hamlin died at Charlestown, December 29, 1830.

(VI) Giles (2), second son and sixth child of William (3) Hamlin and his third wife, Thankful Knowles, was born at Middletown, Connecticut, February 7, 1801. When about three years old he was brought by his parents to their new home in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He became a farmer and settled three miles north of Charlestown vil- lage. He was a Whig in politics. On November 18, 1831, Giles (2) Hamlin married Mary, daughter of Josiah and Susanna (Fling) Hart, of Charles- town, who were born October 17, 1807. They had twelve children, two of whom died in infancy; the others were: George Washington, whose sketch follows; Maria West, Elmira Louisa, Cornelia Ro- sette, Sylvester Augustus, Susan Sophia, Catherine Elizabeth, Horace Hall and Henry Hubbard (twins), and Emma Riley, born September 11, 1851. Both Giles (2) Hamlin and his wife lived to be eighty-four years of age. He died at Unity, New Hampshire, March 13, 1885, and she died at Spring- field, Massachusetts, February 16, 1891.

(VII) George Washington, eldest child of Giles (2) and Mary (Hart) Hamlin, was born at Charles- town, New Hampshire, October 5. 1833. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and began business as a clerk in the general store of Horace Metcalf at Charlestown village. In a few years he became partner, and his connection with Mr. Metcalf lasted twenty-five years in all. For ten years he conducted a grocery store in Claremont in partnership association with E. W. Prouty. He then had a general store in North Charlestown. He was a Republican, but took no active part in politics except to serve on various committees. He was a justice of the peace, and be- longed to Faithful Lodge, No. 12, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Charlestown, in which he held some offices. Mr. Hamlin was a man of force and character, and was highly respected in the com- munity. On September 18, 1860. George W. Hamlin married Ellen L. White, daughter of Rand and Fannie White, who was born March 14, 1835. in Charlestown. They had five children: Minnie M., born September 9, 1861; Frank W., whose sketch

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follows; Charles L., married Delia L. Iloyt, is en- gaged in the tea and coffee business in Charlestown ; Fannie R., married Frank H. Powers, and lives in Claremont; and A. Lloyd married Ida M. Hutch- ins and lives in Charlestown. George W. Hamlin died at North Charlestown, August 12, 1901, and his widow and eldest daughter continue to live in the old home.

(VIII) Frank Wilbert. eldest son and second child of George W. and Ellen L. ( White) Hamlin, was born in North Charlestown, New Hampshire, June 14, 1863. He attended the common schools of Charlestown, and became a clerk in his father's store where he remained till the age of seventeen, when he went to Charleston village and was em- ployed by W. H. Labarce in a general store. In 1887 hie bought out Mr. Labaree and has since continued the business independently. . He has remodeled the store throughout, doubling the capacity down stairs and opening up the second floor, and now employs four clerks and does a business of thirty-five thou- sand dollars a year. In 1901 he became president and a director in the Connecticut River National Bank of Charlestown. With two others he secured the charter and incorporation of the Charlestown Water and Sewer Company in 1904. Later they sold these rights to the town, and Mr. Hamlin was appointed one of the commission to construct

the system, and in 1906 was chosen water commis- sioner. He was the prime mover in this enterprise. He has been a trustee of the Silsby Free Public Library of Charlestown since its organization. He is a Republican in politics, and has served on the state central committee for four years, and in 1902 was a member of the executive committee for Sul- livan county, receiving the largest vote cast for a Republican candidate for that office in twelve years. Mr. Hamlin served as representative in 1903, and was chairman of the committee of the delegation from Sullivan county. He has been town auditor twice, and for several years was a member of the board of education. He has held the offices of notary public and justice of the peace for years, and has given considerable attention to legal matters. He belongs to Charlestown Lodge, No. SS. Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been through all the chairs, and has held the office of secretary for a number of years. Ile also belongs to the Evening Star Encampment, No. 25, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Claremont, and to the Elmwood Rebekah Lodge, No. 77, of Charles- town. Alr. Hamlin is a member and vestryman of Saint Luke's Episcopal Church at Charlestown, has been its treasurer for several years, and is a liberal supporter of the church in which he is an active worker. In the spring of 1007 the Charlestown vil- lage district was organized for street lighting pur- poses and Mr. Hamlin was elected one of the dis- trict commissioners. On December 26. 1887, Frank Wilbert Hamlin married Ada E., daughter of James E. and Emma L. (Hunt) Petry, who was born in Charlestown, December 26, 1863. There are no chil- dren.

BELLOW'S

In mental gifts and spiritual traits of character the Bellows family. as a clan, may claim precedence in New

Hampshire. Whether as teachers, clergymen, judges, naval officers, scholars, artists, or high bred people of leisure, few names can count more members of distinction and interesting personality. The progeny of old Colonel Benjamin Bellows, the

founder of Walpole. New Hampshire, have gone all over the world. and there is scarcely a city where their name is not known. In early English records the patronymic is given as Belouse, Bellas, Bellos, Belasis, Belows, Bellews, Bellowes, and in other forms. The connection between the Bellows fam- ily of America and England has never been traced ; but at the suggestion of Dr. Henry W. Bellows, the crest and motto of the Bellowes family of Lanca- shire have been informally adopted by the American branch on account of its peculiar appropriateness.

. The symbol consists of a hand grasping a chalice, pouring water (belle can, an allusion to the name) into a basin. Motto, "Tout d'en Haut." Dr. Bel- lows has so beautifully described this emblem that we quote the passage entire: "Type of purity, of truth, of abundance, we adopt the cup of water, taken from our Founder's Falls as the family crest and with it, that beautiful motto, so pious and expres- sive : 'All from on high.' (Tout d'en Haut.) Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above! God gave us our fathers. and while the waters pour over the Great Fall of our river, we will not forget them or him."

(1) The pioneer ancestor of the family, John Bellows, was born in England in 1623, and came to Massachusetts as a child. He embarked April 26, 1635, in the "Hopewell" of London, William Bur- dock, master, and landed on the Massachusetts coast. He resided first at Concord and later at Marlboro. Massachusetts, and died in the latter town in 1683, between June IS and October 2, the respective dates of executing and proving his will. He was married May 9. 1655, to Mary Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Concord, who survived him more than twenty-four years. dying September 16, 1707. Their children were: Mary, Samuel, Ahigail, Isaac, John, Thomas, Eleazer, Daniel, Nathaniel and Benjamin. (Il) Benjamin, youngest of the ten children of John and Mary (Wood) Bellows, was born Janu- ary 18, 1677, in Concord, Massachusetts. He settled in Lancaster, where he remained until about 1728, when he removed to Lunenburg. Massachusetts, and there died March 18, 1750. He was married Janu- ary 5, 1704, to Dorcus ( Cuttler) Willard, widow of Henry Willard, who was a son of Major Simon Willard. By her first marriage she was the mother of Colonel Josiah Willard, of Lunenburg, and later of Winchester, Massachusetts. She died September 8. 1747, having borne one son and three daughters. They were Judith, Joanna, Mary and Benjamin.

(111) Colonel Benjamin (2), only son of Ben- jamin (1) and Dorcus (Cuttler) (Willard) Bellows, was born May 26. 1712, in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He probably lived on his father's farm in Lancaster until the removal of the family to Lunenburg in 1728. It is probable that he received but little educa- tion, and his business career was begun carly. It is related that he purchased a yoke of steers and very early in life began to carn his own living by teaming. His account book, still preserved in Lu- nenburg, shows business transactions as early as 1725. He was the owner of horses and oxen and made a contract to live with Ephraim Weatherby for one year. It is apparent that this arrangement was dissolved, because he began housekeeping in his own house on November 25, of the same year. He was a very active citizen of Lunenburg, taking part in public affairs and conducting a great variety of private business. He was surveyor of highways, school committeeman, constable, town clerk and selectman. He was associated in the conduct of

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public business with such men as Colonel Josiah Willard, Major Edward Hartwell and other promi- nent men of the town. He was actively engaged in farming and employed mien and teams, and kept a house of some sort for public entertainment. Al- though his handwriting was inelegant, and his spell- ing faulty, he was frequently called upon to make out legal papers for men of the town. He saw something of military service, as he was known by the title of major, when he settled in Walpole, New Hampshire. His removal to that town occurred in 1752, and he was very active and efficient in settling and building up the new town in what was then a remote wilderness. Among his other accomplish- ments he had mustered the art of surveying, and 111 1740 was engaged in laying out the township of Rowley, Canada, now Rindge, New Hampshire. His bill for fifteen days' work in the woods was sixteen pounds, seventeen shillings and six pence. At the time of his settlement at Walpole that town was supposed to be within the jurisdiction of Mas- sachusetts. He was among the original grantees of what is now Winchester, New Hampshire, and in the drawing of lots, all the proprietors in 1733, lot number 23 fell to him. In such a busy life as his it is inevitable that under the system of records then in use much that he did should pass without any notice. Four of his sons were also among the grantees of Walpole, and his name appears first on the list of sixty-six to whom the charter was granted by Governor Wentworth, February 13. 1752, and he may well be called the father and founder of that town. Benjamin Bellows was moderator of the first town meeting in Keene, and was voted one hundred and twenty-two Spanish mill dollars for his service and expenses in obtaining the charter of that town. In that same year, he moved his family into Walpole, and fourteen families were settled there until after 1759. One family had pre- ceded his, that of John Kilburn, who had located there under the Massachusetts grant. One of the first duties of Colonel Bellows was the erection of a fort for the protection of his own and other fam- ilies against the Indians. This was his residence until in 1762 he built his house, the first framed building in the town. This is still standing and in a good state of preservation. The town meetings were held in the fort as late as 1761, and Colonel Bellows was the clerk at the first three of these. He continued to fill most of the important offices, such as moderator, selectman or town treasurer until his death. He died at his home in Walpole, July 10, 1777, in his sixty-sixth year. In 1854 his descendants erected a handsome monument to his memory. Colonel Bellows was married (first) in Lunenburg, October 7. 1735, by Rev. David Stearns, a brother of the bride, to Abigail Stearns, who was born June 2, 1708, in Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Abigail (Fiske) Stearns, granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah Stearns, and great-granddaughter of Isaac and Mary Stearns. (See Stearns). She died November 9, 1757, and was the first tenant of the Walpole burying ground. Colonel Bellows was married (second) in Lunen- burg, April 21, 1758, by Rev. David Stearns. to Mrs. Mary (Hubbard) Jennison, widow of John Jenni- son, of Lunenburg. She was born April 12, 1725, in Groton, Massachusetts, and died in Walpole, Feb- rmary 21, 1794, surviving her husband by more than sixteen years. She was a daughter of Major Jona- than and Rebecca (Brown) Hubbard, and great- granddaughter of John Hubbard, the emigrant an-

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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 28

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