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 45

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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(II) Seth, son of Josiah and Mary (Robertson) Clark, was born April II, 1797, in Francestown, and died July 16, 1851. He married, March 6, 1821. Betsey Taylor, who was born May 3, 1801, and died September 10, 1885, having outlived her husband many years. Their children were as follows: I. Mary C., born May 20, 1822, died September 3, 1883 ; mar- ried, December 31, 1846, William Merrill. 2. Susan H., born February 20, 1824, died March 27, 1897; married, June 11, 1853, Caleb Slecper. 3. George Horace, born August 24. 1825. 4. Henry J., born May 18, 1828, died September 15, 1897. 5. Leonard L, born October 20, 1829, dicd June 6, 1830. 6. Aura Ann, born July 23, 1833: married, September 21. 1856, Charles W. Taylor ; he died September 30. 1906. 7. Leonora Elizabeth, born September 23, 1837, died November 28, 1881: married (first). January 1, 1872, George W. Conkley, and married (second), Clark W. Sturtevant.


(III) George Horace, eldest son and third child of Seth and Betsey (Taylor) Clark. was born in Hillsborough, August 24, 1825, and for more than fifty years has been engaged in farming pursuits, stock growing and dealing in that town. He lived on the farm where his grandfather settled more than a hundred years ago, and where his father also spent his life Here his own young life was spent. attending school during the winter scasons and working on the farm in the summer. At the age of about eighteen years he left home and went to Nashua to work, and from there went to Boston and engaged in the milk business. In 1851 his


father died, upon which he came back home, and with his brother Henry J. Clark soon afterward purchased the interests of the other heirs in the old family estate. In subsequent years he added considerably to the acreage of the old farm and stocked it extensively with cattle and horses. Mr. Clark had an extended acquaintance among farmers and business men in Hillsborough county, and in times past took an active interest in politics in his own town. He filled various important town of- fices and during the legislative session of 1872-73 represented Hillsborough in the general assembly. He was a Democrat of known quality, and when active in politics was counted among the leaders of his party in the county. Mr. Clark never mar- ried. He died November 4, 1906.


FLINT This old English name is among those early planted in Massachusetts, and is now represented throughout the United States by numerous worthy descendants. It has con- tributed much to the military annals of New Eng- land and has also been known in considerable part in civil development. The Flints of Bedford are descended from sturdy Puritan ancestry, and have preserved intact the sterling integrity and profound religious faith of their forefathers.


(I) Thomas Flint, the emigrant, who is sup- posed to have come from Wales, is mentioned in the town records of Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time in 1650, but it is quite probable that he arrived there prior to that year, and there are reasons for believing that his mother was in New England as early as 1642. He was one of the first to settle in that part of Salem Village which is now the town of Peabody, where he purchased land of one Robert Goodall, January 1, 1662, and this prop- erty has ever since remained in the possession of his descendants. The original deed of conveyance from Goodall is of some historic interest. as it was witnessed by Giles Corey, who was executed for witchcraft in 1602, when eighty years old. Thomas, the emigrant, died April 15, 1663. The Christian name of his wife was Ann, and his children were: Thomas, Elizabeth, George, John, Anna and Joseph. (George and descendants are mentioned at length in this article).


(II) Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas (1) and Ann Flint, followed the carpenter's trade in connection with farming and was the owner of real estate to the amount of nine hundred acres, from which he allotted a farm to each of his three sons. He inherited and occupied the homestead established by his father. Strong in his religious faith, he labored diligently and effectively for the establishment of the first church in Salem Village, and that he was considered the most skillful me- chanic among the settlers is attested by the fact that they selected him to superintend the construc- tion of their first meeting house. In King Philip's war he served in Captain Gardner's company, which participated in the expedition against the Narra- gansett Indians in 1675, and he was wounded. He was afterwards an officer in the Salem Village com- pany. May 22, 1666, he married Hannah Moulton, who died in 1672, leaving two children, Abigail and George. September 22, 1674, he married for his second wife Mary Dounton, and the children of this union were: Thomas, Mary, Ebenezer, William, Elizabeth and Jonathan.


(III) Ebenczer, third child and second son of Thomas and Mary (Dounton) Flint, was born in Salem Village; April 6, 1683. He settled upon a


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farm in North Reading, where his death occurred in 1767. He married Gertrude Page, who was born August 27. 1685. His children were: Nathaniel, ·Ebenezer, Lois, Amos. Nathan and Eunice.


(IV) Nathaniel (1) eldest child of Ebenezer and Gertrude ( Page) Flint, was born November 9. 1708. August 4. 1749. he married Hepzibah Wood- ward. and both died in 1756. Their children were : Nathaniel, Zibah and Lois.


( V) Captain Nathaniel (2). eldest child of Na- thaniel (1) and Hepzibah ( Woodward) Flint, was horn May 29. 1750. He resided for a time in Man- chester, from whence he removed to New Boston. New Hampshire, early in the last century, and re- sided there for the remainder of his life, which term- inated September 8, 1828. In early life he followed the sea, and was master of a vessel. While serving in the revolutionary war he was wounded, and cap- tured by the British, who sent him a prisoner to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but with others he made his escape by digging a hole in the wall with an old bayonet found in their cell, and finally reached home. The hardship and exposure suffered while a prisoner and during the long journey through the wilderness were the direct cause of a rheumatic affection, from which he never recovered, and in his latter years he was a helpless invalid. He was married January 5. 1805, to Abigail Allen, of Wenham, Massachusetts. who was born October 20, 1776, and died January 26. 1865. She was the mother of seven children. whose names were: Hepzibah. Abigail, Nathaniel. William Allen, Lydia Ann. Olive Louise and Joseph Hooper.


(VI) Nathaniel (3), third child and eldest son of Captain Nathaniel (2) and Abigail ( Allen) Flint, was born March 12, ISTO. About the year 1835 he purchased a farm in West Bedford, upon which he resided for the remainder of his life, and he attained prosperity as a farmer. He was also engaged. to some extent, in the construction of high- ways which were then being built in the towns of Bedford and Amherst. In politics he acted with the Democratic party. His religious affilia- tions were with the Presbyterians. He died September 3. 1887. Ilis first wife, whom


married November 20. 1838. was Sarah A. Parkhurst, who was born in Bedford. May II. 1816. daughter of Ephraim and Sarah ( Proctor ) Parkhurst. She died April 28, 1849. and on Octo- ber 3, of that year, he married for his second wife Mary R. Woods, who was born in Bedford. Decem- ber 12, 1822. Her death occurred January 6. 1893. His children, all of his first union were: Anstress Plummer, born December 15, 1840. became the wife of Solomon Manning, a member of a prominent Bedford family. She resides in that town; Albert Lawrence, born December 7, 1842. married first Cor- nelia B. Abbott, daughter of Ezekiel and Phebe ( Morse) Abbott of Bedford: second, February II, 1903, to Mrs. Sarah Stowell (nee Tinker), daughter of Joseph and Mary (Anderson) Tinker. also of Bedford; Julia Ann, born April 19, 1845, is now the widow of Clinton P. Hodgman and will be again referred to; Milton Newell, the date of whose birth will be given presently; and Sarah A. P., born April 2. 1849. died August 31, of the same year.


( VII) Milton Newell, fourth child and second son of Nathaniel and Sarah A. P. ( Parkhurst) Flint. was born in Bedford. April 7. 1847. He grew to manhood in his native town, and after con- cluding his attendance at school he turned his at- tention to farming at the homestead. which eventu- ally came into his possession. He has remodelled


the residence, erected a new barn and otherwise improved the property, which he devotes largely to the dairying industry, and deals quite extensive- ly in milk. He is also interested in the lumber busi- ness. In 1889 he served as selectman ; was highway agent for two years; and in politics he is a Demo- crat. He is a charter-member of the Narrangan- sett Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and has been its treasurer for eight years; he attends the Presby- terian Church. Mr. Flint is unmarried, and his house- hold affairs are efficiently conducted by his sister, Mrs. Hodgman, who since the death of her husband in 1888 has resided with him at the homestead. She has six children, namely: Albert C., born May 24. 1875: Nellie A., born April 30, 1876: Lewis E .. born June 22, 1878, married Ethel French. October 24. 1906: Arthur N., born June 26, 1881 : Sarah A., born October 23. 1882: and Waldo M., born January 29. 1885. All have been carefully educated and fit- ted for useful positions in life, which they are now filling with marked ability.


(II) George, second son of Thomas and Ann Flint, was born 1652. in that part of Salem now Danvers, and died 1720, in Reading, Massachusetts. He appears on the records as Sergeant George Flint, and settled on the land in Reading before the year 1682. This was inherited from his father, and he was the first of the name in the town. He resided in the north precinct, in what is now North Reading. According to tradition his was the first framed house in the north precinct, and it was used as a garrison during the Indian wars. On one occasion. while most of the family was absent at church five miles distant, two of the daughters of Sergeant Flint re- mained at home. One of these took up a pistol and aimed at the other, and said, "Suppose you were an Indian, how easily I could shoot you!" The pistol at that moment was discharged, and its contents lodged in the shoulder of her sister, which made her a cripple for life. Sergeant Flint served as select- man, and was a substantial citizen. He was mar- ried (first) to Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth ( Hutchinson) Putnam. She died in 1697. and he married ( second). Mrs. Susanna Gardner, who died in 1720. His children were: Elizabeth, George. Ann. Ebenezer. Nathaniel (died young, Mary. Mercy. Nathaniel, Hannah and John.


(III) Ebenezer, second son and third child of Sergeant George and Elizabeth ( Putnam) Flint, was born 1689. and lived in the north precinct, near the Andover line. where he died in 1788, aged about eighty-nine years. He was married in 1714 to Ta- batha. daughter of Joseph and Tabatha Burnap. Their children were: Tabatha (died young). Ebe- nezer. Eunace. Tabatha, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hepzi- beth and Ann.


(IV) Captain John, second son and fourth child of Ebenezer and Tabatha ( Burnap) Flint, was born in 1720, and died in 1802. He resided in the north precinct of Reading. on the homestead of his grandfather. Sergeant George Flint. He is said to have been a man of stern aspect and inflexible tem- per. He was married ( first) in 1744 to Joanna Farnham, who died in 1753. Ilis second wife was Tamar Hunt, who died in the same year as her husband. His children were: John, Joanna, James. Levi. Ebenezer and Hepzibeth. The last two were children of the second wife. The eldest son was lieutenant in the revolutionary army, and settled in Lyme. New Hampshire.


(V) Levi, third son and fourth child of Captain John and Joanna (Farnham) Flint, was born in 1753, and resided in North Reading, succeeding


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to the ownership of the paternal homestead. (VI) Levi (2), probably a son of Levi (I), of Reading, residing in that town and later in Deering and Candia, New Hampshire. He was a farmer by occupation, and died in old age at South An- dover, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and was identified with the Republican party from its organization.


(VII) Luther, son of Levi (2) Flint, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, and settled in man- hood in Deering. New Hampshire, where he engaged in farming. Thence he removed to Candia, this state, where he purchased the farm of Thomas An- derson. He engaged in lumbering to some extent, and getting out ship timbers. He died in Candia in 1873. He was a member of the Congregational Church, a Republican, and prominent in town affairs. He was married to Mary Fitz, of Candia. He mar- ried (second) Mary Smith, of Newmarket, who died leaving one son, George HI. Flint. Mr. Flint was married (third) in 1856, to Mary J. Leavitt, daughter of Moses Leavitt, of Candia. She was the mother of three children: Charles L., Warren B. and Mary A.


(VIII) Charles Leavitt, eldest child of Luther and Mary J. (Leavitt) Flint, was born January 13, 1857, in Candia, where he still resides. He was ed . ucated in the public schools of his native town, and of Manchester. In early manhood he went to Rhode Island, where he was engaged for three years in market gardening. For three years he traveled much over the United States, and during part of this time taught school in the west. For ten years he operated an ice wagon in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, during the summer. In 1891 he settled in Candia, and engaged in market gardening, which is still his occupation. He is an attendant of the Congregational Church, and is quite active in the affairs of the town, having served as road surveyor, supervisor and other offices. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was married April 16, 1902, to Mary A. Webster. daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Flathers) Webster, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She is an attendant of the Congregational Church They have one daughter, Madeline E., born April 8, 1904.


MOULTON The Moultons of this country are descended from English progeni- tors. The form of the name varies and at different times it has been written Multon, Muleton, Molton, Moleton, Moulson and Moulton. This similarity becomes apparent in the pronunci- ation of Multon with the open vowel sound, i.c. Moolton. The family is of Norman descent accord- ing to some writers, who claim the earliest of the name found of record is Thomas Multon or De- Multon, who is stated in Domesday Book to have been put in possession of an estate called "Gale- shore." Later another Thomas Multon or Moulton of mixed Norman and Saxon descent, a resident of Gillesland in Cumberland, called also in French De Vaux, was an attendant of Richard I in his crusading wars, and appears prominently in Scott's tale of "The Talisman." The name is common in the counties of Lincoln, York, Gloucester, Kent, Devon, Norfolk and in London. Another account of the origin of the name and perhaps the true ac- count of the name of some of the Moulton families is that in Devonshire, England, are two towns, called North and South Molton, situated on the river Mole. Doubtless the towns derived their name from the river, Moletown. eventually changed to Moulton.


When some citizens assumed the name of his town as part of his name it became a surname, and as such has been transmitted to the present generation.


From what lineage the Moultons of this article are descended is not known. There is a legendary saying that the carly Moultons of Brimfield and Wales, Massachusetts, came from Salem. If it be true that they did migrate from that town, their origin is not clear, as there were at least three families of Moultons in Salem from any one of which the Moultons of ancient Brimfield may be an offshoot. James Moulton joined the church in Salem, December 31, 1637, as did his wife Mary the next year. He was made a freeman March, 1638, and lived at Wenham in 1667, and died there. The children of James and Mary were: James, Samuel and Mary. John Moulton. of Salem, had married a daughter of Giles Cory before the latter was pressed to death for the alleged crime of witchcraft, and was one of the legatees in his will. Robert Moulton, of Salem, a master shipbuilder, came in 1629, in the fleet with Higginson. but went to Charlestown soon. He was a freeman May IS, 1631, was one of the first selectmen, and repre- sentative at the first court, 1634, for Salem, to which he had removed in 1637 ; and was that year disarmed as a friend of Wheelwright. He died in 1655, leay- ing children, Robert and Dorothy. Robert, of Salem, son of the preceding, was born in England. His children were: Robert, Abigail, Samuel, Hannah, John, Joseph, Miriam and Mary. Another Robert Moulton, of Salem. married in 1672, Mary Cook. and had Mary, Robert, Ebenezer and Abigail. He inay have lived in Hampton in 1678, and was prob- ably a son of the preceding.


If a similarity of the christian names in families indicates a common origin, it is probable that the Moultons of Brimfield and Wales are descendants of the Salem stock.


There strong arc reasons for believing that Robert Moulton, Senior, a distinguished in- habitant of Brimfield, and the first representative in the Colonial legislature after the town's incorpor- ation, went from Salem to Brimfield. At the first town meeting in Brimfield, held in 1731, March 16, five selectmen were chosen. Robert Moulton was the moderator of that meeting, and he was also chosen town clerk and first selectman. He was also moderator in 1733, selectman in 1732-33. and assessor in 1732-33. There is good cause to believe that this Robert was the father of four sons who, as report has it, came from Salem. It is not im- probable that all were from Salem. The four men- tioned were: Rey. Ebenezer, an ardent and somewhat enthusiastic advocate and disseminator of the Baptist doctrines, who was in Brimfield in 1728 or earlier. Samuel, who is mentioned below. John. who was a man of some note. Freeborn, who was the fore- father of a numerous race in that part of Monson called Moulton Hill.


Samuel Moulton was in South Brimfield, now Wales, according to the record, some years prior to his marriage. Ile became the proprietor of a tract of land, which he cleared up, and whereon he erected a cabin before taking a wife. Not long after his marriage he exchanged places with his brother Ebenezer, and became owner and occupant of what is termed the "Old Wales Tavern Stand." upon which, as the legend has it, he opened and for some years kept an inn or house of public enter- tainment, the first ever kept in the town. He had eight children; Robert being one of them.


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married Judith Morgan, by whom he had children : Samuel, Patty, Robert, Rosanna, Ilorace, Aye and Solomon.


Horace, son of Robert Moulton, was born in South Brimfield, January 24, 1792, died October 11. 1877. He married Sarah Lombard, born June 16, 1791, died February 15, 1884. Their children were: Horace, Ennice, Maria, Martha, Randolph, Lydia, Absalom, Lizzie. Samuel Jones.


Samuel Jones, third son and ninth child of Hor- ace and Sarah Moulton, was born in Wales. Febru- ary 24. 1834. He was educated in the common schools, and at an early age learned the shoe- maker's trade. He soon acquired a thorough knowl- edge of the business, and was for many years a foreman, and in that capacity served Kimball & Robinson, later H. L. Butterworth & Company, and George 11. Burt & Company, of Brookfield. He retired in 1902. He has been a resident of Brook- field since the age of twenty-one years. He mar- ried Jane Francis Johnson, born in Upton, Massa- chusetts, April 13, 1839, daughter of Ralsa and Lucy (Temple) Johnson, and they have four children : Randolplı Elisha, a resident of Manchester. Samuel Arthur, a resident of Springfield, Massachusetts, en- gaged in the grocery business. William Horace, see forward. Grace, wife of Dr. L. F. Newhall, of Brook- field, where they reside. Children of Ralsa and Lucy Johnson were: Alvah, Elisha, John, Mary Ann and Jane Francis.


William Horace, third son and child of Samuel J. and Jane F. (Johnson) Moulton, was horn in Brookfield, Massachusetts, April 20, 1870. He at- tended school until fifteen years of age. and then took a place in the office of George H. Burt & Com- pany, of Brookfield, shoe manufacturers, where he re- mained nine years, passing through the grades of shipping clerk, paymaster, assistant superintendent, and superintendent, filling the last place two years. He then formed a partnership with Charles O. Tyler under the firm name of The Tyler & Moulton Shoe Company. They carried on business two years at Brookfield. The firm then dissolved. and Mr. Moulton had charge of the manufacture of shoes in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, for Goodbar & Company, six years. From that position he went into the employ of W. H. McElwain & Company, makers of shoes, as superintendent. first at Bridgewater, where he remained one year, and then to Newport, New Hampshire, where he re- mained two years, before coming in 1904 to Man- chester, where he has since had the management of the company's new plant which employs eight hund- dred operatives. Mr. Moulton married, in Nashville, Tennessee, December 19, 1900, Irene Watkins, who was born at Watkins, Tennessee, May 27. 1879. She is the daughter of William and Jennie Griffith Watkins. the latter of whom was born in 1854. Mr. Wat- kins was a confederate officer in the Civil war, and was the grandson of one of the original settlers of Nashville. He was born in 18447, and died in 1892. aged forty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins had children : Griffin, a resident of Eddyville, Kentucky : Horton, a resident of St. Charles, Missouri: Irene. wife of William H. Moulton ; Matilda, Jane, Rachel and May. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Moulton : , Matilda, born January 15. 1902: William Watkins. June 19, 1904; Grace, March 21, 1906.


This name, which is found through- WELLMAN out New England, has been borne by generations of sturdy representatives who have helped to develop the land


the Pilgrims settled, until it has taken a leading part in the business of the world. Former genera- tions were yeomen, tillers of the soil. and manu- facturers in a small way ; the latter generation more often inhabited the cities and directed the work others do.


(I) Tradition says that about the time of the settlement of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1640, three brothers-Isaac, Thomas and Abraham Wellman- sailed from Bristol, England, came to New England, and settled in the north part of Lynn, now Lynn- field. Thomas purchased a farm February 17, 1653. which had before been owned by John Knights, a mason. The deed describes Thomas Wellman as a husbandman. A part of the farm was also bought for eighty pounds, June 10, 1674. Thomas Well- man died October 10, 1672, leaving sons and daughters. He and his wife were among the original members of the first church in South Read- ing, now Wakefield.


(]I) Abraham. son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wellman, was born in Lynn End, probably in 1643, and died there about 1720. He was a large land holder, and owned at one time the whole of what is now called "Little Nahant." He married Elizabeth Coggswell, who died May 10, 1736.


(III) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1) and Elizabeth (Coggswell) Wellman, was born in Lynn End, November 25. 1673. died in the siege of Louis- burg, on Cape Breton Island. under General Pep- perell, in 1745. in the French war. His name is not found on the muster roll of General Pepperell's army, but he may have served as a mechanic. That he was in that expedition and died at the siege of Louisburg there can be no doubt, for such was the repeated information of his two sons, Jacob and Rev. James Wellman. He married in August, 1717, Elizabeth Taylor, who died August 15, 1768.


(IV) Rev. James, son of Abraham (2), and Elizabeth (Taylor) Wellman, was born in Lynn End (now Lynnfield). Massachusetts, May 10. 1723. and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, December 18, 1808, aged eighty-five years. He was fitted for college by his pastor, Rev. Stephen Chase, minister of the Congregational Church in Lynn End, and entered Harvard College in 1740 and graduated in 1744. He was ordained to the Christian ministry and installed pastor of the second church and parish in Sutton, Massachusetts, October 7, 1747. He re- signed this pastorate, and by advice of council was regularly dismissed July 22. 1760. He was in- stalled the first minister of the first church in Cornish. New Hampshire, September 29. 1768, and moved his family from Sutton to Cornish in 1760. In 1792 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College. He was possessed of great ability, was a fine scholar for his time, ex- celling in knowledge of the Hebrew language. He married, November 8, 1750, Sarah Barnard, eldest daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Stearns) Barnard, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, July II. 1729, died in Cornish. January 27, 1814, aged eighty-four years. Their children were: Sarah, James,. Isaac, Solomon, Joshua (died young), Martha, Joshua (2d). Lemuel and Barnard.




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