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(IV) Benjamin, eighth son and youngest child of John and Elinor (Bray) Whitney. was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 6, 1643. He went to York, Maine, to live, but at what date cannot he determined, as the records of the town were de- stroyed by the Indians in the massacre of 1692. The first record found of Benjamin in Maine is in 1662- 66-68, when he witnessed at York an agreement of John Doves. He was at Cocheco. Maine. near Dover, in 1668; and April 13, 1674. the selectmen of York laid out ten acres of upland to Benjamin Whitney. His father desired that he should return to Watertown and settle with him on the homestead during his lifetime, promising him his land, seven- teen acres, house and barn, if he would do so, and deeded the property to him April 5, 1670. Benjamin and wife, March 9, 1671, sold the land with the con- sent of his father, to Joshua Whitney for forty pounds. Benjamin probably did not go to Water- town, but continued to live at York. Benjamin had from the town of York a grant of ten acres of land in 1680, which with his first grant he sold in 1685. Soon afterward he returned to Watertown and lo- cated in Sherborn. near the Natick town line. In 1695 he lived on land in Marlboro, belonging to Harvard College, which he leased from Governor Danforth. In 1718 he received a legacy of ten shillings per annum from his nephew, Benjamin, a son of his brother Jonathan. He died in 1723. He married (first), probably at York, Maine, Jane -, who died November 14, 1690. He mar- ried (second), April 11, 1695, Mary Poor, of Marl- boro. He was the father of nine children. Those of the first wife were: Jane, Timothy, John, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Benjamin and Joshua; and by the second wife: Mark and Isaac.
(V) Nathaniel, fourth child and third son of Benjamin and Jane Whitney, was born in York, Maine, April 14. 1680. He probably resided at his
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native place until after his marriage, when he re- moved to Gorham. In 1703 he was a member of the military company of York, commanded by Captain Preble, for defense against Indians. In 1708 Na- thaniel Whitney, weaver, of Kittery, bought a cer- tain piece of salt marsh and thatch ground in York commonly known as the Sunken Marsh. November. 1715, Nathaniel Whitney, of York, weaver, and wife Sarah sold for four score pounds one-half the tract of land known as the Sunken Marsh, and all housing, timber, etcetera. In 1717 Nathaniel Whit- ney purchased twenty acres of land and a small or- chard on York river. He died in Gorham, Maine. He married, in York, Maine, Sarah Ford, born in York, daughter of John Ford, of Kittery. They had nine children : Nahum. Nathaniel, Abel, Sarah, Isaac, Amos, Lydia, died young ; Joanna, and Lydia, died young.
(VI) Isaac, fifth child and fourth son of Na- thaniel and Sarah (Ford) Whitney, was born in York, Maine, March 9, 1720, and died in Freeport, Maine, in 1800, aged eighty. He resided in York until 1752. when he purchased a house and lot in Saco. In 1775 he was living in Buxton, Maine, but died at the house of his son, Henry, in Freeport. He married (first), February 25, 1743, Sarah Crosby, daughter of Dr. Crosby. He married two other wives, but their names are not known. His chil- dren were: Lucy, Phineas, Isaac, Hannah, Stephen, Jonathan. Timothy, Barnabas, James, Mary and Henry.
(VII) Isaac (2), third son of Isaac (1) Whit- ney, was born in York, December 28, 1748, and died in Gorham, October 21, 1837. He went to Gorham before marriage, and spent the remainder of his life there. In 1775 he purchased a farm of his wife's father, on which he settled and on which he died. He was in the Revolutionary war, in the Massachu- setts line, and April 18, 1818, was granted a pension. In 1833 he was living in Cumberland county, Maine. He married. in 1771, Mary Crockett, of Gorham, who was born in 1752, and died July 29, 1832. Their children were: Sarah, Edmund, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac L., Adam, Polly and Sophia.
(VIII) Edmund, eldest son and second child of Isaac (2) and Mary (Crockett) Whitney, was born in Gorham, May 4, 1774, and died in Gorham, May 25. 1853, aged seventy-nine. He married, in 1803, Martha Meserve. Their children were: Merrill, Robie and Marshall.
(V) Joseph, fourth son and sixth child of John (2) and Ruth (Runnells) Whitney, was born January 15, 1652, in Watertown, Massachusetts, and lived in that town until his decease, November 4, 1702. He married, January 24, 1675, Martha Beech, born March 10, 1650. daughter of Richard and Martha Beech, of Cambridge.
(VI) John (3), son of Joseph and Martha (Beech) Whitney, was born July 29, 1680, in Water- town, and died November II, 1760, in the portion of that town, which is now Weston, where he lived. He married, February 22, 1704, Sarah Cutting, daughter of Zachariah, Sr., and Sarah Cutting. She died July 10, 1753. He married (second), Novem- ber 28, 1754, Mrs. Beriah Pierce, born June 23, 1681, daughter of John and Mary (Harrington) Bemis, and married (first) Daniel Child, (second) Joseph Pierce, and (third) John Whitney. The children of the latter by his first wife were: Isaac, Zachariah, John, Abraham and Joseph.
(VII) Zachariah, second son and child of John (3) and Sarah (Cutting) Whitney, was born De- 11-13
cember 28, 1711, in Weston, Massachusetts. He be- came a farmer and substantial citizen of Lunen- burg, in that state. He inarried, April II, 1739, Sarah Boynton, and their children were: Sarah Jane, Abigail, Zachariah, Mary and John. Sarah, wife of Zachariah Whitney, was the first daughter and sixth child of Caleb Boynton, who resided in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, and moved, about 1800, to northern New York. His wife was Sarah Fogg. It has been impossible to trace his connec- tion with the Boynton family, which is numerously represented in the United States, but there is no doubt that he came of the same ancestry as other Boyntons mentioned in this work.
(VIII) John (4), youngest child of Zachariah and Sarah (Boynton) Whitney, was born April 16, 1756, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He married. 1775. Priscilla Battles.
(IX) John (5), son of John (4) and Priscilla (Battles) Whitney, was born July 2. 1788, in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, and lived in that town and in Peru, Vermont, and after 1854 in Rindge. New Hampshire, where he died October 15, 1873. He was a liberal-minded citizen. a Methodist in religious belief, and led a most blameless life. He married, December 8, 1812, Sophia Faulkner, born February 28. 1794, daughter of Jonas and Eunice (Stone) Faulkner, of Boxborough, Massachusetts, and Rindge, New Hampshire. Jonas Faulkner was a soldier in the Revolution, and late in life drew a pension for his services. Sophia Whitney died April 16, 1859. Mr. Whitney married (second), April 12. 1860, Fanny Howe Blodgett, daugliter of Abijah and Margaret (Howe) Blodgett. The first wife was the mother of his ten children, namely: Sophia. Zach- ariah, Eunice, John O., Ann, Sarah, died young ; Sarah, Charles A., Susan E. and George A.
(X) John Osborn Whitney, second son and fourth child of Jolin (5) and Sophia (Faulkner ) Whitney, was born January 12, 1821, in Lunenburg, and died in Rindge. New Hampshire, August 24, IS92. In early life he went to sea on a whaling ves- sel. "The Tobacco Plant." and after a four years' voyage was possessed of sixteen dollars. He re- turned to his father's home in Peru, Vermont, and shortly thereafter removed to Rindge, New Hamp- shire, where he lived with little interruption after 1852. For some years he was employed in a wooden ware factory, and part of the time as proprietor of the establishment subsequently operated by O. P. Butler. In 1849 he was one of the California pioneers and remained two years in that state pros- pecting for gold. He then returned to Rindge and remained until 1858, when he returned to California. where he remained until 1870. He went to the Black Hills, during the gold discoveries excitement of 1876 for one season. Returning to Rindge, he was em- ployed by G. A. & C. A. Whitney in the pail manu- facturing business, and continued with them and their successors until the establishment was closed. From that time he was practically retired from ac- tive labor until his death. He was a studious and intelligent man. Mr. Whitney married, March 25. 1854, Abbie L. Lyon, born June 4, 1838, daughter of Freeman and Miranda (Smith) Lyon, of Peru, Ver- mont. Their children were: Charles A., Eva S., Mark A., Fred O. and Herbert M.
(XI) Charles Albert, eldest child of John Os- horn and Abbie (Lyon) Whitney, was born April 29, 1856, in Rindge, New Hampshire, and was edu- cated in the public schools of that town and Wind- hall. Vermont, and Appleton Academy, New Ipswich,
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New Hampshire. His business career had its in- ception in the Whitney pail factory at Rindge, and he continued with that establishment ten years. He was employed in a similar establishment at Winchen- don, Massachusetts, whence he returned to Rindge, and continued about five years with W. F. Sawtelle, wooden ware manufacture. He was employed for some time at Fitzwilliam, by H. O. Taft. in the man- ufacturing of fan handles. He then went to Gard- ner, Massachusetts, where he was employed in the Derby chair factory, and was next employed in a general store at West Swanzey, and was again em- ployed in a chair factory at Fitzwilliam, where he continued ten years. After residing a short time on a farm in Rindge, he was again employed in the chair factory at Fitzwilliam. While employed as station agent of the Chesire railroad at State Line, New Hampshire, he opened a general store, which he conducted for three years. He was appointed while there a county justice. Returning to Fitz- william, he entered into partnership with C. B. Perry and opened a general store. After one year he moved to Marlboro, and conducted a grocery busi- ness with a partner named White. At the end of one year he purchased the interest of his partner, and has continued in the same business to the pres- ent time. In 1904 he entered into a partnership with C. F. Pierce and engaged in the manufacture of toys, continuing eight months. Later he purchased Mr. Pierce's interest in the business. which he is also carrying on with success at the present time. in pres- ent partnership association with his brother, Fred. O. Whitney. Wherever he has lived he has taken an active part in the progress of affairs, and was clerk of the fire wards and member of the prudential school committee while a resident of Fitzwilliam. He is now treasurer of the Marlboro school board for three years. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, affiliating with both Sub- ordinate and Rebekah Orders, and has passed through the principal chairs.
He married. in 1876, Emma C. Hale, born Jan- uary 11, 1857, in Rindge. New Hampshire, and died December 17. 1905, in Marlboro. She was a datighi- ter of Nathan Adams and Myrsylvia (Godding) Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are the parents of two daughters. Florence MJ., and Nettie E., wife of Herbert J. Richardson, of Marlboro, financial secre- tary and past grand master of the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, and master of the local Grange.
HACKETT The origin of this name is veiled in the mists of the past. Mark An- thony Lower thinks the Anglo- Saxon "Hacket" a corruption of Harcourt. The name Ilacket (without a prefix) appears on the Hundred Rolls of Battle Abbey, 1273. and is not unfrequently to be met with in English annals of a still earlier period, as stated by Frank W. Hackett, from whose memoir of William Il. Y. Ilackett the principal part of the following sketch is taken. An ancient branch of the family in Scotland spells the name "Halket" though retaining the pronunciation "Ilacket." Kcating, in his "History of Ireland," enumerates certain families "of the best English stock," who crossed into Ircland in the reign of Henry JJ, in the year 1175, and among them the Hackets. Here they acquired large estates, and many of their descendants today are prominent cit- izens of Dublin and its neighborhood. Their pres- ence accounts for the name of Hackettstown, in
county Carlow, not far from the Irish capital. In 1 384 Peter Hacket was consecrated bishop of Cashel ; David Hacket filled the see of Ossory from 1460 to 1478; and a person of the same name is said to have been the architect of the monastery of Batalha in Portugal in the fifteenth century. Sir John Hacket was the English embassador at Brussels in 1533, and Thomas Hacket, an English scholar, translated "The Amadis of Gaul" previous to 1588. Sir Cuthbert Hacket was lord mayor of London in 1626, and Sir Thomas Hacket was lord mayor of Dublin in 1687. John Hacket, bishop of Lichfield and Canterbury from 1661 to 1670, a descendant of the Scotch Halkets, was born in London in 1592, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. This eminent prel- ate, noted for the gentleness and purity of his char- acter, during his ministrations as bishop, expended no less than twenty thousand pounds of his own private fortune in rebuilding Lichfield Cathedral, where his remains lie under an imposing monument.
(I) William Hacket is the earliest known an- cestor of the Hacketts of New England. During the latter part of his life he resided at Salisbury, Massa- chusetts. He was by occupation a mariner. and ap- pears to have been a man of superior talent and energy. There is good reason for believing this an- cestor to have been identical with the "Will Hacket," who, as the Dover records show, had a grant of land in 1656 "touching Bellemie's bank freshet," and who was taxed at Cocheco the year following. He soon after sold his land to Thomas Hanson, and re- moved to Exeter. Will Hacket took the oath of allegiance at Exeter in 1667, and was rated there in the provincial lists in 1681 and 1682. William Hacket commanded the sloop "Indeavor," of "Salis- bury in the County of Norfolk, in New England," in a voyage to New York in May, 1671. Governor Carteret, it seems, had insisted that payment of duties at the custom-house in New York by vessels entering Sandy Hook gave no right to trade in New Jersey, but that license therefore should be taken out at the custom-house in Elizabeth Town. Cap- tain Hackett, not entertaining this view of provincial sovereignty, undertook to trade on the Jersey side, after having paid the duties at New York only, whereupon the governor seized and confiscated his vessel. He had a farm at Salisbury, where he died March 6. 1713. leaving a good estate. Upon the first leaf of the Salisbury town records is the registration of the marriage of William Ilacket to Sarah Barn- ard. January 31, 1667. Their children were: Sarah, John, Ephraim, William, Judah, Ebenezer and Katherine, all born at Salisbury except John, who was born at Amesbury.
(II) Ehenezer Hackett. youngest son of Will- iam and Sarah ( Barnard) Hacket, was born October 17, 1687. He married Hannah, daughter of Jarves Ring, and they became the parents of twelve children.
(III) Ephraim, eldest son of Ebenczer and Hannah (Ring) Hackett, was born in Salisbury, Oc- tober 3, 1711. Ahout 1749, with his wife and fam- ily of young children, he made his way up the val- ley of the Merrimack to Canterbury, Now Ilamp- shire. then on the farthest northern rim of civiliza- tion in the state. He obtained an extensive tract of land, and erected his domicile near the spot selected for the new meeting house. Ile was a man of re- sources and soon showed his fitness to lead in town and parish affairs. He was repeatedly elected moderator and selectman. He lived on his home- stead to a good old age. He married, in 1734, in
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Salisbury, Massachusetts, Dorothy, daughter of Still- son Allen, of Salisbury, and great-granddaughter of William Allen, a leading man at the settlement of the town in 1638. The children of this union were: Ezra (died young), Hezekiah, Ezra, Jeremiah, Betty, Mary. Ephraim (died young), Miriam, Ephraim, Dorothy, Allen, Charles and Ebenezer, the last six of whom were born in Canterbury.
(IV) Jeremiah, fourth son and child of Ephraim and Dorothy (Allen) Hackett, was born in Canter- bury. He was a farmer and lived in a place which joined the paternal acres. He died in the prime of life, in the summer of 1797. He married Polly Robinson, by whom he had ten children: Sarah, Bradbury, Jeremiah, Allen, Daniel. Polly, Asa, Bet- . sey, Susan and Patty.
(V) Allen, fourth child and third son of Jere- miah and Polly (Robinson) Hackett, was born in Canterbury, July 15, 1777, died 1848. He attended the district schools until the opening of Gilmanton Academy, and then became a student at that then justly esteemed institution. He learned the tan- ner's trade in Concord, and returning to Gilman- ton established himself in business at "the Corner." In 1801 he sold his tannery and removed to a farm situated a mile and a half from what is now Fac- tory Village. Eight years later he purchased in what is now Belmont a piece of land next to Goy- ernor Badger's estate, opposite a valuable tract of land which had been presented to Mrs. Hackett hy her father, and thither he removed his family. On this place he passed the remainder of his life and died in 1848. "He was of striking personal appear- ance, powerful. well-proportioned, and six feet in height. Good natural abilities he had improved by an academic education, and his conversation stamped him as the superior of many around him. He loved to read and had a keen relish for political literature. Constant at primary meetings and conventions, he did much to shape their action, and his reputation for political sagacity made him the oracle of the community where he lived; indeed, Allen Hackett wielded no slight influence in the counsels of his party throughout all that quarter of the state. An earnest Federalist and Whig, his friends year after year found themselves in a minority, which might perhaps have extinguished hope anywhere else than in New Hampshire. The life, however, of this sturdy New England farmer was uneventful. Honorable in his dealings and loyal in his friendships, he was justly esteemed alike for his private worth and pub- lic spirit by all who knew him; and when he died his children mourned the loss of a prudent and af- fectionate parent. He married Mary Young, of Gilmantown, daughter of Joseph Young. They were students together at the academy. She was a young woman of handsome person, quick intelli- gence. a cheerful disposition. and a kindness of heart that knew no bounds. She was endowed with a retentive and accurate memory, and readily as- similated what she had gathered from books, and in spite of the family cares which came to her after marriage she kept herself well-informed of what was going on in the religious, literary and political world. While improving every opportunity to cul- tivate her mind, she neglected no duty of wife or mother, and bestowed on her children the wealth of a warm and affectionate nature; nor, in ministering to their health and comfort did she fail to inculcate the precepts of religion. She died January, 1854. aged seventy-three. Her father. Joseph Young, a native of Exeter, was one of the earliest settlers of
Gilmanton, whither he removed in 1779, and for years a leading citizen of the town. He engaged actively in business enterprises, and accumulated what the country people of that day accounted a handsome fortune. He represented the town nine terms in the general court, served eleven years as selectman. and was a ruling elder in the church. He married Anna Folsom in Exeter in 1771. They had three children: Polly, Nancy and William Henry. Allen and Polly (Young) Hackett had nine chil- dren : William H. Y., Jeremiah Mason, Nancy Young, Hiram Stephen, Mary Jane, Eliza Ann, George Washington, Charles Alfred and Luther Allen.
(VI) William Henry Young, eldest child of Allen and Mary (Young) Hackett, was born in that part of Gilmanton which is now Belmont. Septem- ber 24, 1800. and died in Portsmouth, August 9, 1878. He had no love for farm life, clearing up brush and burning the heaps being, according to his father's statement, "the only mark of a good farmer I ever knew him to have." He had few playmates, and but little desire for out-door sports, preferring the com- pany of books instead. At the age of twelve he be- gan his attendance at Gilmanton Academy, to and from which he walked daily two miles each way. He kept at his studies with a keen relish, was am- bitious, and maintained with facility a high rank among his schoolmates. To defray the expenses of his education he taught school, and achieved gratify- ing success in that vocation. His first venture of consequence was at North Barnstead, when he was only eighteen, and upon returning home after three months' absence paid over his entire salary, thirty dollars, to his father. His attendance at the acad- emy continued until 1818. Before leaving that in- stitution he began to read the hornbooks of law, bor- rowing them from Stephen Moody, Esq., then the only lawyer in active practice at Gilmanton Corner. At twenty he went to Sanbornton Square, and read law with Matthew Perkins, Esq., with whom he re- sided a year and a half, receiving board and lodging in the family of his preceptor in return for such service as he could render in the routine of office practice. He had seen and heard Ichabod Bartlett, then one of the most astute and eloquent members of the New Hampshire bar, and in April, 1822, he realized his long cherished desire of becoming a student in the office of the great lawyer at Ports- mouth. There he entered upon a course of advanced study, and took charge of nearly all the office prac- tice. Upon the fees earned in petty office business, added to something received by teaching private pu- pils at odd hours, he contrived to live respectably and keep out of debt. The next winter he returned to Gilmanton, and after teaching a term of school came back to Portsmouth. During his absence Mr. Bartlett had been elected to congress. and the young man found himself occupying a broader field and receiving more remuneration for his services. About the time Mr. Hackett made Portsmouth his home the schools of the town were so ill-governed and in- efficient that the school committee, composed of the best citizens, insisted on an increased salary and very much better services on the part of the teachers. At this juncture a vacancy occurred in the master- ship of the high school, and Mr. Hackett consented to assume that position for a brief season, devoting his evenings meanwhile to the law. His administra- tion restored perfect order, and the pupils made rapid progress in their studies ; in fact, such general satisfaction attended his method of instruction, that
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upon the eve of retirement, after three months' service, he was urged to consider the situation a permanent one at an annual salary of six hundred dollars. This offer he declined. When his friends in the country heard of it they were sorely exer- cised, and did not hesitate to predict that he had made the mistake of a lifetime. Mr. Hackett's em- ployment as an instructor while a young man, gave him a lifelong interest in the cause of education, and for some years after he laid aside the duties of teacher he performed more than his fair share of labor as a member of the board of education.
In January, 1826, he was admitted to the bar on motion of Nathaniel A. Haven. Jr., who soon after- ward invited him to became a law partner, a proposal he was only too happy to accept. This relation con- tinued until June of that year, when Mr. Haven died. This brief connection, however, had enhanced the reputation of the surviving partner, and his practice took a steady growth. It was not long before he was recognized as a strong man in his profession, and in the course of a few years he came to be em- ployed in many of the most important cases tried in the state. The period of his practice covered a term of fifty-two years-a term longer than that of any predecessor at the Rockingham bar. The earliest reported cause in which he appears of counsel was determined in 1827, and from that time till his death the fifty-three volumes of the New Hampshire re-
ports, together with the decisions of the circuit and supreme courts of the United States testify with what ability, and with what fair measure of success he addressed the bench. He was earnest in his efforts to promote at the bar a feeling of fraternity. The New Hampshire Bar Association, incorporated in 1873, made him its first president-an office he held at the time of his death. Bell's "Bench and Bar of New Hampshire" says of him: "He was punctually in his office, quick of apprehension, full of resources, conversant with human nature. and of great practical sense, he was a wise counsellor. Without being a student, he was usually right in his law. He held briefs against the best practitioners in the state and federal courts, and not to his dis- advantage. He was a ready and fluent speaker, with an apparent fairness that impressed his audience favorably. He was spontaneous, witty, and always interesting." Another authority says of him: "He tried many cases to the jury, was retained of counsel by corporations, and later in life was largely em- ployed in the management of trust estates. He had an instinctive knowledge how to apply legal princi- ples, and a knowledge, too, of human nature. Hc had an excellent memory, and knew what had been decided in the New Hampshire courts and in those of the New England states generally ; but he is not to be termed a learned lawyer. He favored the ex- tension of equity practice in New Hampshire, and he lived long enough to see some of his views in this regard adopted. In 1859 he declined a seat upon the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court."
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