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 43

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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was one of the early planters of the colony of Salem, Massachusetts. His home in England was in the parish of South Petherton, in Somersetshire, near Burlescomb, and his parents. Nicholas and Jane Patch, were of sturdy English stock, of a family chiefly of yeoman, whose ancestors before them were of the same blood for many generations previous to that of either the elder Nicholas or his wife.

(I) Nicholas, son of Nicholas and Jane Patch, was the ancestor of the family of that name in Amer- ica, and at the time of his immigration brought with him his wife and two sons, John and James, when he came to New England and settled among the planters at Salem. At the time he must have been about forty years old, the record of his baptism be- ing dated June 26, 1597. This Nicholas had a grant of ten acres of land in Salem in 1638, and another of four acres in 1639, when he was admitted free- man. He was a farmer and a man of much con- sequence in the town, particularly in the church. to which he bequeathed a portion of his property. He was a member of the first church in Salem, and with his wife was among the founders of the church in Beverly, where the latter part of life was spent, and where he died in November, 1673. Besides his sons John and James, both of whom were born in England and came with their parents in 1636, Nich- olas Patch had other children, born in Salem. John was the progenitor of the Patches of Beverly, while the Patches of New Hampshire or at least a greater portion of them, were descendants of Thomas Patch, a younger son of Nicholas, the immigrant.

(II) Thomas (I), son of Nicholas and Eliza- beth Patch. was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1640. Savage mentions him as Thomas of Wen- ham, and the year of his birth about 1638. He was made freeman in 1670 and representative in 1679. His wife was Mary A. Lovett (Savage says Scott) of Ipswich, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas Lo- vett, and among their children were Thomas, James, Stephen, Isaac, Ephraim, Timothy, Simeon, Sarah and Marah (Mariah). (Timothy and descendents are mentioned at length in this article).

(III) James, second son of Thomas Patch of Salem and Mary A. Lovett his wife, was born in 1677, in Wenham. Massachusetts, and married Re- becca Byles, who bore him children, among them Thomas.

(IV) Thomas (2), son of James and Rebecca (Byles) Patch, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, June 23. 1715. and married Elizabeth Stanley. by whom he had children, among them a son Jonathan. (V) Jonathan, son of Thomas (2), and Eliza- beth (Stanley) Patch, was born probably at Bever- ly. Massachusetts, September 28, 1744. and was the progenitor of the Patches of Francestown, New Hampshire, and his descendants are now scattered throughout the state. He married, while living in Beverly, October 1, 1765, Annie Hull, whose parents were Theophilus and Sara (Williams) Hull. Jon- athan Patch came to New Hampshire and settled on a farm in the extreme eastern part of Francestown, on the place formerly occupied by Peter Christy, sometime between the years 1775 and 1780. Peter Christy had made few improvements to the place and Mr. Patch was practically its first settler. Jon- athan Patch died in Francestown, July 17, 1825. His wife Annie was born April 27, 1747, and died in Francestown, August 3. 1834. Their children were Thomas. Theophilus. John, Benjamin, Isaac. Jona- than. Samuel and Annie. The first four of these children were born in Beverly and the others in Francestown.

(VI) Theophilus, second child and son of Jon- athan and Annie (Hull) Patch, was born in Bev- erly, Massachusetts, January 10. 1769, and died in the town of Greenfield, New Hampshire. May 26, 1829. His home was near the boundary of the towns of Francestown and Greenfield and he lived in both, moving occasionally but not frequently from one to the other. His wife was Rebecca Stanley, of Fran- cestown. She was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, May 1, 1768, and died in Greenfield, New Hampshire, March 21, 1841. Their children were Jonathan, of whom mention is made in the next succeeding par- agraph; Betsey, married Isaac Lowe of Greenfield ; Sally, married Richard Stanley. and lived in Green- field; Hannah, married David Pratt of Reading, New Hampshire; Rebecca; John Lovett; William, who lived in Francestown; Anna, became the wife of Richard Stanley and lived in Greenfield; Uriah, who removed to Wisconsin; and Ira, who settled in Ohio.

(VII) Jonathan (2), eldest son and child of Theophilus and Rebecca (Stanley) Patch, was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire, March 21, 1790, and died in Francestown. August 25, 1864. He removed to Francestown first in 1823, returned to Greenfield in 1840 and later went back to Francestown and died there. He served several terms as selectman, and was a man of considerable influence in the towns in which he lived. He married March 25, 1823, Lucy Burnham, who was born in Greenfield, June 25. 1793, and died in Francestown October 4, 18So. Their children, all of whom were born in Francestown, were Hiram, born April 18, 1824. mar- ried, December 6, 1857, Sarah J. Hardy of Green- field ; Charles Frederic, born in Francestown October 6. 1826, married, June 16, 1855, Maria P. Parker of Francestown; Julia Maria, born January 16, 1831, married, November, 1857, Joseph F. Duncklee ; Car- oline Lucy, born January II, 1833, died March 9, 1869; Albert Henry, born September 6, 1840, died June 22, 186I.

(VIII) Hiram, eldest of the five children of Jon- athan and Lucy (Burnham) Patch. was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, April 18, 1824, and died in that town March 19, 1900, after a long and successful business life. He was educated in com- mon schools and Francestown Academy, and later became an extensive dealer in lumber and cattle, and also carried on farming. At one time he lived in Greenfield, on the old Patch farm, afterward lived a few years in Sharon, Vermont ( 1856-58), where he engaged in the manufacture of bobbins; but the most active years of his life were spent in Frances- town. He filled many town offices, was selectman and representative to the state legislature. He was selectman during the late civil war. when the re- sponsibilities of that office were unusually great, and was representative in 1866-68, when the state was adjusting its finances and making provision for the payment of the war debt. Mr. Patch was a man of great capacity for business, and whatever he under- took to do was done promptly and effectually. For a long time he was president of the Francestown Savings Bank, and at one time a director of the First National Bank of Francestown. On December 6, 1857, he married Sarah J. Hardy, of Greenfield, born August 6. 1826, and died May 23, 1899, daughter of Dean Hardy of that town. They had children : Nellie Jane, born in Sharon, Vermont, October 15, IS58. died in Francestown, November 25,, 1877; Edson Hiram, now a business man of Francestown : Charles Albert, born in Francestown, December IS. 1863.

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(IX) Edson Hiram, second child and elder son of Hiram and Sarah J. (Hardy) Patch, was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, February 5. 1860, and received his education in public schools and Francestown Academy. His principal occupation in business life has been and still is lumbering, al- though he owns several hundred acres of land and does considerable farming. He takes a commendable interest in local and state politics and is regarded as one of the leading Republicans of his town, where he has served several terms as moderator, select- man and represented Francestown in the legislature in 1895-96; and frequently he has been chosen dele- gate to county and state conventions. He is a mem- her of Oak Hill Grange No. 32, having served in all of its offices, and has reached the seventh de- gree in Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. On January 13, 1892, Mr. Patch married Nellie Eunice Fletcher, daughter of Franklin C. and Lucretia (Mer- rill) Fletcher of Greenfield. She was born December 20. 1862, and is a descendant of one of the pioneer settlers of Greenfield. Mr. and Mrs. Patch have three children: Philip Fletcher, born June 7, 1891; Eunice Edna, April 10, 1899; and Hervey Cowell Patch, August 22, 1901.

(III) Timothy, sixth son of Thomas and Mary A. (Lovett) Patch, was married at Beverhill, Mas- sachusetts, November 18, 1705, to Elizabeth Poland, who was a native of Ipswich. He lived in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he died June 24. 1746, and his wife. September 6, 1742. Their children were: Eliz- abeth, Timothy, Hannah, Sarah, Margaret and Sam- 11 el.

(IV) Samuel, youngest child and second son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Poland) Patch, was born, July 14, 1726, in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he resided. He was married, Fehruary 14, 1745, to Abigail Williams, and they had eight children born in Wenham, namely: Reuben (died young), Sam- uel, Ephraim, Abigail, Molly, Reuben, Nathaniel and Stephen.

(V) Reuben, fourth son of Samuel and Abigail (Williams) Patch, was baptized in Wenham Au- gust 13, 1758. He performed long and honorable service in the Revolutionary war, the record of which from the Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls is as follows:

Private, Captain Richard Dodge's (Third) Com- pany, Lieutenant-Colonel Loammi Baldwin's (late Colonel Gerrish's) Thirty-eight Regiment; muster roll dated August 1, 1775: enlisted May 1, 1775; service, thirteen weeks, one day; also, pay abstract dated camp at Chelsea, September 1, 1775: also, company return dated Chelsea camp. October 2, 1775: also, order for bounty coat or its cquivalent in money, dated Chelsea, December 27, 1775; also Captain Dodge's company, list of recruits for the new establishment in Colonel Baldwin's regiment, approved by Brigadier-General W. Heath, in camp at Cambridge. December 30, 1775; also Captain Richard Dodge's company, Colonel Baldwin's (Twenty-sixth) regiment ; abstract for advance pay for January, 1776, etc ; also same company and reg- iment, pay abstract for February-June, 1776; also same company and regiment, pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., on return home at close of campaign in 1776. sworn to in Suffolk coun- ty, May 1777: 6. also _ private. Captain Porter's company, Colonel Tupper's regiment ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from January 1, 1777. to December 31, 1779: residence Wenham: credited to town of Wenham; also Cap-

tain Billy Porter's company, Colonel Ebenezer Fran- cis' regiment : subsistance allowed from date of en- listment, January I, 1777, to time of arrival at Ben- nington ; credited with eighty-three days allowance ; two hundred and forty miles travel allowed said Patch; company to march March 12, 1777; also Captain Porter's company. Colonel Benjamin Tup- per's regiment ; muster roll for January, 1779. dated West Point : reported on command at the Lines ; also corporal, same company and regiment; Conti- nental Army pay accounts for service from January I, 1780, to December 31, 1780; reported as serving six months as private, six months as corporal; also descriptive list dated January 10, 1780 [SI]; Cap- tain Nehemiah Emerson's company: Tenth Mas- sachusetts regiment ; rank corporal ; age twenty-three years : stature five feet, cight inches : complexion light ; hair brown ; residence Wenham ; engaged Jan- uary I, 1777, by Captain Porter; term during war ; also corporal, colonel Benjamin Tupper's (Tenth) regiment ; service from January 1, 1781, twenty-four months.

After the revolution he resided in New Boston, New Hampshire, and soon after, in 1797, removed to Henniker. He married Mary Jane Gregg. who was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and died in Henniker, at the age of eighty-eight years. Their children were: John, Betsy, Sally, Abigail, Nathan- iel and Samuel.

(VI) Nathaniel. second son and fifth child of Reuben and Mary Jane (Gregg) Patch, was born July 9, 1797, in New Boston, and died in Henniker, December 21. 1859. He was by occupation a farmer. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a Universalist. He was married, March 5, 1821, to Betsey Kimball, daughter of Samuel and Betsey Kimball, of Henniker. She was born in that town in 1804, and died there, December 31, 1885. Their children were Mary J., Betsey, William H., George A., Lorinda A., Fanny C. and Parker P. The last resides in Henniker. Each of the other sons died at or about the age of four years. The eldest dangh- ter was the wife of Samuel Page, and died in Henni- ker. The second married Blaisdell Clark and lived and died in the same town. Fanny died at the age of thirty-six. unmarried. The youngest daughter died at the age of thirty-six years, unmarried.

(VII) Lorinda A., third daughter and fifth child of Nathaniel and Betsey (Kimball) Patch, became the wife of Stephen B. Adams and (second) of Nathaniel B. Walker (see Walker, V, second family).

JENNESS In the early colonial times. when the ancestors of the Jenness family cmi- grated to America, the entire country was in its primitive state. Tomahawk, bow and arrow and flintlock muskets were the powers in command, and as far as the needs of the colonists were concerned, the country was a wilderness, with wild animals of all sorts roaming the forests, and game and fish in abundance. Now (1906) the Jen- ness farm, in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, is one of the finest and most picturesque in the entire scc- tion, and is noted for its beautiful surroundings, fine view, and commodious modern buildings. When the Jenness ancestor came to Deerfield. spin- ning wheels were in use in every home; clothes were all made by hand; tallow candles were dipped and moulded: and the colonists were obliged to clear and build roads to the neighboring settlements. They were among the first to build a Congrega-

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tional Church, and were prominent in the colony in every direction.

(I) Francis Jenness, whose name was first spelled Jennings, came from England to New Hampshire, about 1665, and settled in what is now Newcastle, then known as Great Island. He was born about 1634 in Hampton, England, and died August 27, 1716, aged eighty-two years. After 1671 he resided in Hampton, and the territory which he took up was on the seacoast extending from what is now Philbricks Beach to Straws Point. He was married (first) February 15, 1671, to Hannah Swain, of Hampton, who died February 7, 1700, daughter of William and Prudence (Martin) Swain. In the following year, February 4, 1701, Francis Jenness married Salome, widow of John White. His children, born of the first wife, were: Hannah, Hezekiah, John, Ellinor, Mehitable and Richard.

(Il) Richard, youngest child of Francis and Hannah (Swain) Jenness, was born June 8, 1686, in Hampton Falls, and died in 1769, in Rye, at the age of eighty-five years. He settled near his father's homestead and in due time succeeded to the ownership of that property. He was known as Captain Richard, and became an extensive land owner. He was a very sagacious business man, and was influential in the community. When the parish of Rye was cut off from Newcastle in 1726, Captain Richard Jenness was its representative and continued to represent the town for nearly forty years. He was a very useful and influential member of the provincial assembly and was a strong friend of Governor Benning Wentworth. Like many other men of influence in the province, he obtained many valuable grants of land, lying chiefly in the towns of Chester, Barnstead, Barrington, Epsom, Gilman- ton, Canterbury, Chichester, and Nottingham. Two tracts were within the present limits of Deerfield, and one of these consisted of seventy-eight acres, purchased in 1751 from Andrew McCleary, of Ep- som. The other was purchased in 1743, of Joshua Pierce, of Portsmouth, for the nominal considera- tion of fifty pounds old tenor. It contained two hundred twenty acres, and is a part of the lands still held by his descendants.

He was married February 9, 1710, to Mary Dow, daughter of Simon and Sarah (Marston) Dow, of Hampton. She was born November 9, 1686, and died January 7, 1769. They were the parents of ten children, namely : Sarah, Mary, Hannah, Francis, Richard, Ruth, Simon, Jonathan, Samuel, and Joseph. (Samuel and descendants receive mention in this article.)

(III) Richard (2), second son and fifth child of Richard (1) and Mary (Dow) Jenness, was born 1717, in Hampton, and resided in Rye. He suc- ceeded his father as representative from the town of Rye until the revolution, and was for many years magistrate and justice of the peace for the town. He was an attorney and councillor. He was an ardent supporter of the revolutionary movement, but died before its successful fruition in 1782. He was an excellent business man and his investments prospered. eH added largely to the lands given him by his father, which were located in Gilmanton, Canterbury, Barrington, and Nottingham. At his death he possessed nearly a thousand acres of land, much of which were largely improved. He was mar- ried about the year 1745, in his twenty-ninth year and the children of this marriage were: Richard, Thomas, Simon, Elizabeth, Levi and Anna. He was married (second) in 1759 to the widow, Abigail Sleeper, daughter of Tristram Coffin, and she was

the mother of two of his sons, Jonathan and Ben- jamin.

(IV) Richard (3), eldest child of Richard (2), was born 1747, in Rye, New Hampshire, and lived in what is now the town of Deerfield. He was known as Judge Jenness, and held many and re- sponsible offices. Besides minor appointments he was elected delegate to the several state conventions held during the revolution, and was a member of the convention which organized the state govern- ment at its close. He was many times a member of the house of representatives under the state gov- ernment, and served four years as senator for the second district. In 1809 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, where he served with great credit to himself and satisfaction of the pub- lic until 1813. He died July 4, 1819, aged seventy- three years. He was married in 1770 to Betsey Berry, of Greenland, New Hampshire.

(V) Esquire Thomas, eldest son of Richard (3) and Betsey (Berry) Jenness was born in 1772, He was educated at Greenland Academy, and settled in Deerfield, where he conducted an extensive busi- ness in the manufacture of potash, and in 1812 set out hop fields. He undertook the manufacture of saltpetre and of linseed oil, and established a country store in the neighborhood of his dwelling, which was for many years known as the "old red store." He died in 1836, at the age of sixty-four years. He was a man of vigorous and vivacious mind, strongly tinctured with humor and imagination, ardent and brilliant in his theories, but impartial of details and easily wearied of the effort requisite to carry out his own vigorous plans. He was, they say, wholly out of his sphere on a farm. His mind found far more pleasant exercise in the perusal of English literature, in which he was well versed, in the study of such works as Tow Paine's "Age of Rea- son," Voltaire, Locke's "Essay upon the Human Understanding," or in discussing the numerous theo- logical questions which in his day still continued to vex the ingenuity of New England. So deep was his interest in this latter sort of speculation that upon his return from the Lord's day meeting he could, it was said, repeat the sermon from memory without the fault of a word. His remarkable in- tellectual gifts are still vividly remembered by the survivors among his acquaintances. He took par- ticular pleasure in sitting as a magistrate, for he discharged that office many years in the trial of cases that arose in the community, and often in act- ing as counsel in such litigation before other tri- bunals on these latter occasions his ingenuity, prac- tical knowledge and broad intellect rendered him a most dangerous adversary. In those days law suits were much more frequent than now, and seem often to have been resorted to in the country rather as an amusement than for the redress of real grievances. He married, 1794, Deborah, only daughter of Peter and Anna (Scribner) Sanborn, of Deerfield (see Sanborn, V), and began housekeeping nearly oppo- site the south cemetery road in that town. They had six sons and five daughters, namely : John, Peter, Richard, Thomas. Horace, Benning Went- worth, Betsey, Hannah, Matilda, Deborah and Sarah.

(VI) Peter, second son and child of Thomas and Deborah (Sanborn) Jenness, was born March 26, 1797, in Deerfield, and died May 26, 1865, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He began his busi- ness career as an apprentice in the "old red store" maintained by his father, where his brothers were

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also trained to trade. In time he removed to Portsmouth, and engaged extensively in the mer- cantile business in that city. He was an extensive importer in the West India trade. He organized the New Hampshire Bank there and became its first president, and by his energy and good manage- mant accumulated a large estate. He also was state senator. He married, May 7, 1823, Saralı True, of Deerfield. She died January 27, 1884. Their children were: Mary, dicd unmarried. Sarah, mar- ried John J. Pickering. John T., deceased. Annie F., unmarried. J. Horace, married Caroline Sum- ner Deming. of Paris, France.

(III) Samuel C., son of Richard James (2) and Mary ( How) Jenness, was born at Rye, New Hampshire, May 19, 1724. He married (first), No- vember 15. 1748, Abigail Garland, born January II, 1723, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Dearborn) Garland, of Rye, near Breakfast Hill. He married (second) Eliza, widow of Shapeigh, and

their children were : Mary, born 1749; Samuel, 1752, married Mary Locke; Peter, 1755, married Abigail Drake; Levi, 1757, married (first) Sarah Dearborn, married (second) Elizabeth Wallace ; Mary, 1758, married Samuel Drake; Elizabeth, mar- ried Nathaniel Drake: John, see forward.

(IV) John, fourth son and seventh and young- est child of Samuel C. (3) Jenness, was born Febru- ary 26, 1763, died in 1807. He married (first) at Rye Beach, New Hampshire. Abigail Drake, who died leaving one son: Samuel. He married (sec- ond) Anna Page, and had children: John, of whom later, and Abigail Batchelder.

(V) John, only son and eldest child of Jolin (4) and Anna (Page) Jenness, was born in Pitts- field, on the old home farm, in 1790, died June 17, 1851. He was a man of considerable prominence and influence in the community, and filled a number of public offices very acceptably, among them be- ing: Town clerk of Pittsfield, moderator and se- lectman, and representative in the legislature. He married Ann P. Tilton, born in London, England, 1804, died May 19. 1899, daughter of William Til- ton, of London. Their children were: John Jack- son, of whom later ; Charles Doust, born September 25, 1831. died March 28, 1873; Frank William and Eliza Ann (twins), born on the homestead farm, June 30, 1836, where they now (1906) reside, un- married.

(VI) John Jackson, eldest child of John (5) and Ann P. (Tilton) Jenness, was born on the Jenness homestead, April 13, 1829, died April 20, 1899. He received his eductation in the public schools of Pittsfield and in the academy. He com- menced his business career by going to Alabama, where he worked at bridge building, and then traveled in the south for about four years, oc- cupied with the same line of work. He went to California in 1856, and was there engaged in bridge contract work for another four years, when he returned to Pittsfield and settled there. He, in con- junction with his father-in-law, Sylvester H. French, bought the farm on Concord Hill, where he spent the remainder of his days, and which is still in the possession of his family. He was a Democrat and served onc year as a selectman, and was a repre- sentative in the legislature, in 1874-75. He at- tended the Universalist Church where there was one. He marricd, March 29, 1865, Adelaide Sarah French, born in Gilmanton, July 10. 1842, daughter of Sylvester H. and Sarah Jane (Berry) French. The latter was the daughter of John and Sarah

(Drake) Berry, of Chichester, New Hampshire. Sarah (Drake) Berry was the daughter of Major James Drake. The Berrys, three brothers-John, Major William and Thomas-settled on Catamount. Of these three, John Berry, father of Sarah Jane (Berry) French, settled in Chichester and had chil- dren : Abigail, Thomas, Hannah, John Calvin, and Sarah Jane, the latter born September 14, 1818. She joined the Baptist Church at the age of seven- teen years, and is still a member. She is remark- able for the excellent memory she still possesses at her advanced age. She married, April 24. 1839, Slyvester H. French, born January 12, 1812, son of Reuben French, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and they had children: John R., born May 10, 1840, died September 14, 1841; Adelaide Sarah, married John Jackson Jenness, as above stated ; Cora Estelle, born November 7. 1857. married, July IO, 1880, Melvin Z. Caswell, born April 11, 1854, and has children: Cheever French Caswell, born May 7, 1891, and Burton Jenness Caswell, born in Manchester. New Hampshire, January 27, 1894. lives in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. The children of John Jackson and Adelaide Sarah (French) Jen- ness were: Grace Ann French, born February 7, 1866, died April 14, 1879; and John Harris, see forward.

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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 43

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