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 49

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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(III) Hezekiah, fourth son and fifth child of Nathaniel and Mary (French) (Sharp) Duncklce, was baptized, November 21, 1708, in Lexington, Massachusetts, and lived in that town until 1743. when he removed to Billerica, and in 1760, to Souhegan West, in New Hampshire, now Amherst. His will was presented for probate, July 30, 1772. In it he gave his negro servant her liberty at his death. He married, in Lexington, Massachusetts, October 17, 1734, Damaris Wilson, and they became the parents of eleven children, born between 1735 and 1755. They were: Hezekiah, Nathaniel, Dam- aris, John, Mary, Hannah (died young), David, Sarah, Joseph, Thaddeus and Hannah.


(IV) David, eighth child and fourth son of Hezekiah and Damaris (Wilson) Duncklee, was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, August 16, 1746, and died in Amherst, New Hampshire, August 13, 1826, aged eighty. He was brought by his parents to Souhegan West, where he grew up. Prior to 1772 he settled in Amherst on a farm near the Hollis line. He married Phebe Odall, They had who died January 6, 1839, aged eighty-nine thirteen children : David, Jacob, (died young ), Daniel, of Hezekiah, Daniel whom later ; Phebe, Hannah, John, Jesse, Elizabeth, Ebenezer, James and Silas. (Mention of Daniel and descendants appears in this article).


(V) David (2), eldest child of David (I) and Phebe (Odall) Duncklee, was born in Amherst, September 7, 1767, and died in the same town, May I, 1732. He was a farmer, and lived near the sum- mit of Federal (formerly Duncklee) hill, on the road leading to Hollis. He married, May 25, 1790, Sarah Hood, who was born in Topsfield, Massachu- setts, June 23, 1769, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas (Hovey) Hood. She died in Milford, July 13, 1849, aged eighty. They had eleven children : Sally, Phebe, David, Nancy, Asenath, Joseph, Luther, Nel- lie, Porter, Joel Wallingford and Elvira.


(VI) David (3), third child and eldest son of ยท David (2) and Sarah (Hood) Duncklee, was born in Milford, April 6, 1794, and died September 27, 1862, aged sixty-eight. He was a plow maker. He married (first), July 16, 1816, Grissel Burns, who was born in Milford, Massachusetts, May II, 1797, daughter of Jolin and Grissel (Patterson) Burns. She died June 11, 1816, and he married (second), Mrs. Phebe Howard, who was born in Greenfield, and died in Milford, September 7, 1886. The chil- dren of the first wife were: William P., Elvira, David W., John W. and George Wells.


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(VII) Elvira Duncklee, second child and only daughter of David and Grissel (Burns) Duncklee, was born in Milford, August 26, 1819, and married Benjamin Lund, of Milford. (See Lund, V).


(V) Daniel, fifth son and child of David (1) and Phebe (Odall) Duncklee, was born in Amherst, January 25, 1776. He settled upon a farm in Mil- ford, located in the southeastern part of the town, which was more recently owned and occupied by Job Green, and died February 24, 1856. On April I, 1803, he married for his first wife Ruth Boutell, who was born in Amherst, January 21, 1771, dangh- ter of Reuben and Eunice Boutell, and she died in


Milford, December 5, 1820. His second wife, whom he married October 2, 1821, was Lydia Lund, daugh- ter of Daniel Lund. She was born in Merrimack in 1769, and died in Milford, January 24, 1847. He reared five children: "Ruthy," Rebecca, Daniel Parker, Reuben Boutell and Ebenezer Perry, all of whom were of his first union.


(VI) Ebenezer Perry, youngest son and child of Daniel and Ruth (Boutell) Duncklee, was born in Milford, March 18 or 25, 1814. Leaving the home- stead he resided for a time in Pepperell, Massachu- setts, and at the age of about forty years he removed to Hollis. He died June 1, 1859, in Wisconsin. He was a farmer and also followed the cooper's and stone-mason's trades. October 15, 1835, he married Rosanna Keyes, who was born in Ludlow, Ver- mont, August 19, 18II, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Jackson) Keyes. She became the mother of ten children : I. Salome Abigail, born in Milford, October 9, 1837, became the wife of N. A. Lawrence, of Pepperell, Feruary 3, 1857, and died June 25, 1860. 2. Lorenzo P., who will be again referred to. 3. Mary Almira, born in Milford, January 12, 1842, married Albert L. Ellis, of Nashua, May 12, 1867, and resides in Fitzwilliam. 4. Byron Sibley, born in Milford, August 7, 1844, died in Hollis, July 12, 1859. 5. Ellen Augusta, born in Milford, January 25, 1846, married (first), Milan L. Tinker and (second), Alvah G. Tinker, both of Nashua. 6. Charles Eldridge, born in Milford, October 20, 1848, married Flora G. Jones and resides in Graf- ton. 7. Willis Ozro, born in Milford, May 24, 1851. 8. John Henry, born in Pepperell, March 3, 1854, died in Hollis, February 22, 1862. 9. Frederick Harlan, born in Hollis, October 14, 1857, died April 4, 1858. 10. Eugene Bridane, born in Hollis, Feb- ruary II, 1860, married Christine Snyder of Newton, Wisconsin. The mother of these children died in Wisconsin, March 21, 1889.


(VII) Lorenzo Perry, second child and eldest son of Ebenezer Perry and Rosanna ( Keyes) Duncklee, was born in Milford, March 29, 1839. Having pursued the usual studies taught in the country schools, he went to Nashua at the age of seventeen years and entered the employ of Leonard Tinker, whose daughter he subsequently married. In August, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Com- pany C, Fourth Regiment, New Hampshire Volun- teers, for service in the Civil war, and during his three years in the Union army he experienced much arduous campaigning in the land of Dixie, partici- pating in the siege of Port Royal and Morris Is- land; the battles of Deep Bottom, Drewry's Bluff and Hatch's Run; the memorable siege of Peters- burg; and the famous march through Georgia to the sea under General Sherman. For ten years following his return from the army he was engaged in the butchering business at Nashua, but the serious financial panic which occurred in the early seventies compelled him to suspend, owing to the utter im- posibility of collecting large amounts due from cus- tomers whom he had accommodated with provisions solely through a kindly and benevolent disposition. He retired from the butchering business heavily in debt but with honest intentions, and in due time he obliterated every obligation. Mr. Duncklee then established himself in the teaming and contract- ing business, which he has ever since conducted with unabated energy, and although forced to encounter some serious drawbacks, he met them courageously, and came out victorious. The loss of fourteen horses at one time through an epidemic was certainly a


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very serious misfortune, but is in no way to be com- pared to the almost total loss of his eyesight, which beiell him while engaged in removing a ledge by blasting. Although such a mishap was enough to dishearten the majority of men, he managed to preserve his usual complacency, accepted the in- evitable and in spite of the fact that he is deprived oi man's most useful as well as necessary adjunct, the sense of vision, he has courageously and success- fully continued to carry on business. In politics Mr. Durcklee acts with the Republican party and is an ex-member i the city council. He affiliates with the Masonic Order and the Grand Army of the Re- public. and is a number of the Methodis: Episcopal Church. His martinge :> Lydia F. Tinker. daugh- ter ci Leonard Tirker. previ, usly mentioned. tok place September 3. I& t. at the urgent desire of the bride. who tik this manner of proving her sincere devotiun :. her soldier lover. and the love and affection on her part :s as ardent and sincere :- day as i: was during that terra:ble period of strife and uncertainty, when her brave young husband was gallant'y defending the cause of the Umion on the field of battle. Mr. and Mrs. Duncklee have two children : Emna, who became the wife of Allen F. Barker: and Eugene W., who married Mary Scot:, of Stoddard.


MESERVE This surname among the American branches of its representatives is varinusiy spelled, and appears in the records as Mesharvey, Masherve. Meservey and Me- serve. the latter being mos: frequent in New England. The names Messervey and Meserve trace back to the early part of the fourteenth century, when one John Messervy held lands in St Martin's parish in Jersey. 1331. and according to tradition are derived from the Norman verb "messervyr." the meaning of which is "ill used." The ancient seat of the family was in the Isle of Jersey.


Clement Messerve. ancestor and founder ci the family of that surname in this country, came from the Isle of Jersey and was of Portsmouth. New Hampshire, as early as 16;0. His name appeared in the tax list :1 1073, and in it's he took the oath of allegiance. Other than this little is known : Clem- ent excep: that he married, and that the names of his children were Elizabeth. Aaron. Mary. Daniel. Clement and Tamsen. The son Clemer: settled in Scarbrough, Maine. and was the progenitor of the Meserves of that region. and it is probable that some of h's children and other descendants afterward re- turred to this state. The New Hampshire branch of the family is believed to have been founded chiefly by Clement son of Clement of Dover, who had a numerous progeny.


Am rg the representatives of the Meserve sur- narre who attaired jr mirence during the las: century and who were in some manner identified with New Hampshire History. mention may be made of Arthar L. Meserve. vi Bartlett. former member of the legislature, con ! in the staff of Governor Werren, mender f Goverr r Pell's council, chair- man ci the state Doarare committe. ard a man also we'l kr wn in bisness and mercartile life. Captain I pathan Meserve was ap fficer ni militia previous to the Revolution, anh ore : the mos: loyal patri is the: "21 % thd: peri J Ho w.s hom in New Hampshire. as alsy was is , ni C!re: Jonathan Mente a ranking


(l) Sim n Meserve i Burn-wal. N.w Hamp-


shire. was a direct descendant of Clement Meserve, of Dover, and of Clemen :. his father, who came to Portsmouth in Io;o. Simon spent his life in Barnstead and was a farmer. He married a Miss Snell and by her had several children: Frost. mar- ried Priscilla Nute and had seven children : Joseph, whose wife before marriage was Emeline Tasker. of Pittsfield. New Hampshire, and whose children were Ellen. Melvin. Eugene. John T .. Jo- seph. Orrin and Charles: Simon, who served in the American army during the Mexican war and afterward in the Unich army during the civil war, and who was reported missing after the first Bull Run battle James Monroe, of whom mention is made in the next paragraph; and a daughter named Abigail. who married a Captain Tilson, and resided at Renien. Messachusetts.


(II) James Monroe Meserve was born in Barn- stead. New Hampshire, but after he became of fu'l age lived in Chichester. in Merrimack county, where he was a sh c: aker and farmer. In ISog he entered the army with a regimen: of New Hampshire troops. and after leaving the defenses of Washington crossed into Virginia and went with the army of Wilson's raid to Richmond. He was last heard of there. but it is known that he was captured and sent first to Libby prison and later was transferred to Andersonville prisen, where he died. At the timre of his death Mr. Meserve was forty-four years old. He married Abigail F. Towle, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail ( Fellows) Towle, and by her had nine children: 1. Ann. married Isaac Stearns of Concord. New Hampshire, and died there. leav- ing six children: Everett. Arthur, Annette. Chris- tie. Isabelle and Emma Stearns. 2. Sarah C. be- came the wife of Walter Sweatt, and lives in Pena- cook. New Hampshire, having three children: AI- lie. Mamie and Wilbur Sweatt 3. Joseph C., :1 w- ci Concord. New Hampshire, married Miss Harvie. and has two children: Albert and Alice Meserve. 4. John M .. died a: the age of four years. 5. James Leroy. a business man of Laconia, New Hamp- shire. o. David E., died young. .;. John M., now of Penacook. New Hampshire. a pattern maker and wood werker: married Nellie Ladd. and has three children: Leroy, William and Walter Meserve Addie F .. of Everett. Massachusetts, wife of Fred Taylor, by whom she has nine children. o. Vic -. :o: V .. died young.


(III) James Leroy Meserve was born in Chi- chester, New Hampshire. February 5. 1850. and until he was sixteen years old lived a: home on the farm, where he worked and went to public and private schools, and also attended cne term at an academy. At the age of eighteen years he was apprenticed to Alber: Thompson. of Laconia. i) learn the trade of blacksmith. He worked with his Ers: employer a little more than one year and finished his term with Jonathan L. Moore. About 18;3 he bought ou: Mr. Thompson's shop and

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of Newburyport, and his children were: Jonathan, Daniel, Eben, David, Ichabod, Lydia, Mary and Dorset. Jonathan settled in Boston and amassed a fortune. Daniel and Eben settled in New York. David Holland and Ichabod became prosperious farmers in Enfield. Horace Heath engaged in busi- ness west of the Mississippi river, dealing in cattle, sheep and real estate, and resided for intervals in lowa and Kansas City, Missouri. His death, which was untimely, occurred September 12, 1871, and besides his widow he is survived by a daughter, Jennie Maud. The latter was educated at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vermont, and at the New Eng- land Conservatory of Music, Boston. In 1891 she became the wife of Harvey Parker of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Mrs. Heath still resides in Enfield, and is spending the sunset of her life amid the fa- miliar scenes of her childhood.


ROWELL This is among the early names of Massachusetts and among the first found in Chester, New Hampshire. It has been steadily identified with the material, intellectual and moral progress of New Hampshire down to the present day, and includes representa- tive citizens of Manchester and other places in the present generation.


(1) The first of the name in America was Thomas Rowell, who came with his son Valentine prior to 1640. His wife remained in England and died prior to 1650, her name not being of record in this country. The town of Colchester, soon after named Salisbury, Massachusetts, was chartered in 1638, and, in the first division of land there, Thomas Rowell received a house lot and forty acres be- side. He was a large landowner in the town and engaged in making pipe staves. In 16.45 he was fined two and one-half pounds for using more than his share of the common timber for this purpose. On March 25. 1648, he was fined five shillings and two pence for non-attendance at public worship, at the same time that John Bournd was fined for sell- ing strong water, from which it may be inferred that Rowell was somewhat inclined to be convivial, though he must have overcome his appetite later, as we find him a deacon of the church at Andover. He moved to Salem in 1649 and the following year returned to Salisbury and remained two years. From 1652 to 1658 he lived in Ipswich, and went to Andover in 1658, and died there May 8, 1662. He was probably well advanced in life when he left England. Ilis will, proved September 30, following his death, was made February 24, 1651, and on the same day he entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with Margery (Fowler) Osgood, by which he bound himself to bring up properly her two daugh- ter's by a former marriage. She was a remarkable woman, born 1615, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, daughter of Philip Fowler, a clotli worker, who was born 1591 in that place. There she be- came the second wife of Christian Osgood of Ips- wich, with whom she embarked, March 24. 1634, for America. After the death of Thomas Rowell, her second husband, she married Thomas Coleman of Nantucket, who died in 1682. Her fourth hus- band was Rev. Thomas Osmond, a Baptist clergy-


man, who was forced to flee from the Massachu- setts Bay colony by the intolerance of its citizens and took refuge at Nantucket. She survived him, and died at Andover, November 20; 1701. She was administrator and guardian of numerous children, of her own and her several husbands by other


wives, and seems to have been a person of strong mental and physical powers. The records pre- serve the names of two sons of Thomas Rowell, Valentine and Jacob, the latter the son of Margary (Fowler) Rowell.


(II) Valentine Rowell was a carpenter and settled in Salisbury with his father, becoming one of the original proprietors of New Salisbury, now Amesbury. He was granted lands in 1640, the original division, and his name appears on the list of admitted "townsmen" in 1650. Before 1652 he sold his lands and probably gave his attention to his trade rather than farming. He married, No- vember 14, 1643, Joanna, daughter of Henry Pinder of Ipswich, England. The latter was deceased in 1635, when his widow and daughter came in the "Susan and Ellen" to America, the latter being then fourteen years of age. Valentine Rowell's chil- dren were: Thomas; John, died young; Philip, see forward; Mary; Solomon; Hannah; John; Elizabeth and Margaret. The father died May 17, 1662, and his widow administered his estate. She married (second) September 18, 1670, William Sargent, and (third), October 26, 1676, Richard Currier.


(II]) Thomas, eldest child of Valentine and Joanna (Pinder) Rowell, was born September 7, 1644, and married Sarah Barnes. He died in 1681.


(IV) Valentine, son of Thomas and Sarah ( Barnes) Rowell. was born August 5, 1674. He mar- ried Hannah Sargent, of Amesbury, and died Febru- ary 1, 1726.


(V) William, son of Valentine and Hannah (Sargent) Rowell, was born September 5, 1705. He married Elizabeth Challis.


(VI) Christopher, son of William and Eliza- beth (Challis) Rowell, was born May 13, 1732, and married Ruth Morse.


( VII) Moses Rowell, son of Christopher and Ruth ( Morse) Rowell, born June 11, 1766, was a resident of Loudon at the earliest period at which we have knowledge of him. His first wife, Ellice Currier, was born February 9, 1768, and died May 9, 1796. He married (second) Nancy Leavitt, who was born September 9, 1777, and died December 15, 1867. His children were John, Moses, Nancy, Mi- cajah, Ruth, Asa T., Harris, Cyrus, Rufus and Sally. The last was the wife of Theophilus Blake Martin, of Loudon.


(VIII) Asa Tilton, son of Moses and Nancy (Leavitt) Rowell, was born February 13, 1806, in Loudon, and died April 23, 1875. He was married December 2, 1835. to Abigail Sanborn Moulton, who was born August 16, 1809, and died October 28, 1864. Their children were: William H. (died at five years), Edward P., Annie B., William T. Mary J., John A. and Annie B., who married Daniel Yeaton, and resided in Epsom. John A. was a Con- gregational clergyman and resided in Minnesota. Mr. Rowell settled in Chichester where he was a farmer, member of the Congregational Church and an active supporter of the Republican party.


(IX) William Tilton, son of Asa T. and Abi- gail S. (Moulton) Rowell, was born April 6, 1843, in Chichester, and passed his youth on a farm there, receiving his education in the local district school and the high school at Epsom. On attaining his majority he went to Manchester, where he was employed in the Amoskeag Mills one year and sub- sequently in the Manchester Mills. He rose to the position of cverseer in the weaving room, which he


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held for many years until his death on June 12, 1897. He was a member of the First Congregational Church at Manchester, and of Lafayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was long chaplain, and Mount Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. With his wife he was also affiliated with the Eastern Star Chapter, Manchester, in which he filled various offices. He was a member, and filled the principal chairs of Mechanics Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, of that city, and was a member of Mount Washington Encampment of the same order, and both he and his wife were members of Arbutus Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, also a branch of that order. Mr. Rowell was an enthusi- astic Republican, and for several years served as an assessor in Ward Seven, of Manchester. He was married June 17, 1866, in Manchester, to Liz- zie M. Stone, who was born June 19, 1848, in New- field, Maine, a daughter of Simon and Susannah (Dorman) Stone, of Newfield. Simon Stone was the son of Samuel and Philena ( Pease) Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Rowell were the parents of two children : Arthur W. and Myra Lillian, the latter residing with her mother in Manchester, all with subject of sketch.




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