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(1) Thomas Woolson was born in Newton, Mas- sachusetts, in 1626 or 1627. He settled in that part of Watertown now called Weston, and was the own- er of considerable land. As illustrating the laws of the time, it may be mentioned that on December 15. 1685, Thomas Woolson was fined twenty shillings and costs, eight shillings, also one hour in the stocks for selling drink without a license. He soon after obtained his license and kept an inn from 1686 to 1708 He was evidently a man of considerable standing. for he was selectman in 1600. 1700. 1702 and 1703. On November 20, 1660, Thomas Wool- son married Sarah Hyde, daughter of Deacon Sam- uel and Temperance Hyde, of Newton, Massachus- etts, who was born May 19. 1644. They had six children: Sarah. Thomas. Elizabeth. Mary, Joseph, whose sketch follows; and Nathaniel. Thomas Woolson died in Sudbury, Massachusetts. April 5, 1713. and his widow died September 11, 1721. Both are buried in Weston.
(II) Joseph (1). second son and fifth child of Thomas and Sarah (Hyde) Woolson, was born November 16, 1667. He was a farmer in Weston. and had care of the meeting house there. He mar- ried Hannah, and they had six children: Joseph (2), mentioned below: Mary, Hannah, Thankful. Isaac and Benlah. Joseph (1) Woolson died May 16. 1755. at the advanced age of eighty-eight. His wife died April 30. 1721.
(TIT) Joseph (2). eldest child of Joseph (1) and HIannah Woolson, was born December 13. 1699. He probably lived at Weston. Massachusetts, because he was constable there in 1761. He was twice married. In 1726 he was published on March 19 to Eliza- beth Upham, daughter of Thomas Upham. of Read- ing. Massachusetts. There were five children, probably all by this marriage. On November 3, 1761. Joseph (2) Woolson married his second wife, Mrs. Grace (Harrington) Gregory, daughter of Beniamin and Grace (Allen) Gregory, who was born August 1. 1714. The children of Joseph (2) Wool- son were: Asa, mentioned below; Elijah. Thomas, Nathan and Elizabeth. Joseph (2) Woolson died October 15. 1766, at. Weston, Massachusetts.
(IV) Asa, eldest child of Joseph (2) and Eliza- beth (Upham) Woolson. was born in Weston, Mas- sachusetts, August 2, 1727. In 1766 he moved to
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Townsend. Massachusetts, and two years later to the adjoining town of Lunenburg, where he spent the last twenty years of his life. On June 1, 1762, he married Elizabeth Knight, who was born in Wo- burn, Massachusetts, July 3, 1736. They had seven children : Elizabeth, Lois, Asa, Elijah. mentioned below ; Ehenezer, Amos and Joseph. Asa Woolson died at Lunenburg, April 18, 1789.
(V) Elijah, second son and fourth child of Asa and Elizabeth (Knight) Woolson, was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. December 1, 1769. He was a cooper by trade, and was the first of his fam- ily to come to New Hampshire. He lived both at Beth- lehem and Lisbon, and a few years before his death he went to Massena and Hogansburg, New York. where he made his home with his only daughter. He was one of the early settlers of Lisbon, this state, and was the first man to bring a cook stove to town. Elijah Woolson married (first), Septem- ber 7, 1707. Rebecca Batchellor, daughter of Lieu- tenant Nehemiah and Lucy (Hayward) Batchellor, of Bethlehem, who was born November 12, 1776. She died at Lisbon, October 10, 1814, leaving seven children : John. Elijah S .. Amos, whose sketch follows : James. Fra K., Theron W. and Mary. On September 5, 1815. Elijah Woolson married (second) Nancy Little, of Lyman, who was born August 9, 1783. She died, leaving two children: Silas B. and Ezra B. Elijah Woolson died at Massena, New York, in 1836, by accidental poisoning.
(VI) Amos, third son of Elijah and Rebecca ( Batchellor) Woolson, was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, July 4. 1803. His parents removed from Bethlehem to Lisbon when Amos was two years old. After the latter became a young man the fam- ily removed to Hogansburg, New York. After a few years Amos returned to Lisbon, where he married Hannah D. Temple, February 9, 1830, who was horn in Lishon, March 28. 1804. The had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Those who grew to manhood and womanhood were: John, who died in Lisbon, April 3. 1860; Augustus A .. whose sketch follows: Charles E., now living in Lyman. New Hampshire; Mary R., who died at Littleton, New Hampshire. November 24, 1906; and Jennie L., who died in Lisbon, April 12, 1874. Amos Woolson, who was at successive periods in his life a cooper, a shoemaker and a tailor, continued to reside in Lisbon until 1841. when he moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he remained until 1845. when he returned to Lisbon, where he died May 5. 1888. His wife died in Lisbon, April 6, 1891. He was a Meth- odist in religion and a Republican in politics, and one of the original anti-slavery men of the stanch- est type.
Augustus A., third son of Amos and Hannah D. (Temple) Woolson, was born in Lisbon, June 15, 1835. What education he received was obtained in the public schools of his native town and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and at Newbury Seminary. Newbury, Vermont. In 1857, when twenty-one years of age, he went to Minnesota, then a territory. He remained there less than two years when he returned to Lisbon, where he has continued to reside, and where he has held various positions of trust and responsibity. In 1865 he was appointed assistant assessor of in- ternal revenue, which office he held until it ex- pired bv limitation in 1873. He was also deputy sheriff five years. In 1866 he was elected town mod- erator which position he now holds, having served in that capacity practically all the time since his first
clection, excepting during the eight years of Demo- cratic ascendency in the town, from 1878 to 1886. He was elected a representative to the legislature in 1875 and successively re-elected, in 1876-77-78. holding the office of speaker during the last two years. He was a member of the constitutional con- ventions of 1888 and of 1902, and of the Garfield presidential convention at Chicago in 1880. He was town treasurer fifteen years and has been chair- man of the board of supervisors for twenty years. He was one of the promoters of the Lisbon Village Library which was organized in 1864, and has been its president for the last twenty-two years. He was largely instrumental in organizing the Lisbon Sav- ings Bank & Trust Company, of which institution he is president. He has heen the principal pension attorney for Lisbon and vicinity ever since the Civil war. Mr. Woolson was a member of the well known firm of Wells & Woolson, which did a large mercantile business for many years. A few years ago he formed a co-partnership with his nephew, Augustus M. Clough, under the firm name of Woolson & Clough, whose principal business is general insurance and real estate.
NORCROSS This was an early English local surname, and was originally spell- ed Northcross. Wayside crucifixes were once as common in England as they now are in Mexico; and Norcross distinguished a crucifix from another south of it. A dweller "atte Nor- cross" soon became known as Norcross.
(F) Jeremiah Norcross, the immigrant, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1642, where he was a large proprietor, owning a home- stead bounded on the south by the Charles river, and twelve other lots of land. He was selectman 1649, admitted freeman 1653, and died 1657. His high social standing is shown by his being men- tioned as "Mr. Norcross." By his wife Adrean he had two sons. Nathaniel, who was called as a minister to Lancaster: and Richard, whose sketch follows.
(II) Richard. the younger of the two sons of Jeremiah and Adrean Norcross, was born in Eng- land in 1621, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1709, aged eighty-eight. He probably came to America with his parents. He was admitted freeman May 26. 1653. He is the first schoolmaster mentioned in the town records of Watertown, being chosen January 1I, 1651, and is said to have been the only one for twenty years, and was a teacher as late as November. 1687. He taught Latin, English and writ- ing. January 6, 1660. he was hired for one year for £30, and was allowed 2s "a head for keeping the dry herd." He married (first), June 24, 1650, Mary Brooks. She died February 24. 1672, and he mar- ried (second). November 18. 1673, Susanna, widow of William Shattuck. She died December 11, 1686. His will dated April 8, 1708, was proved in October, 1709. The children of Richard and Mary were: Mary (died young), Jeremiah, Sarah, Richard, Mary, Nathaniel and Samuel.
(IFF) Richard (2), fourth child and second son of Richard (1) and Mary (Brooks) Nor- cross, was born August 4, 1660. in Water- town, and died in Weston. He was also a school teacher, and during several of the later years of his life resided in Weston. He married (first), August 10, 1686, Rose Woodward, who was horn in Charlestown. August 18. 1659, daughter of John and Abigail (Benjamin) (Stubbs) Woodward. She died, leaving three children, and he married
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(second), August 6, 1695, Hannah Sanders, who died in Weston, May 14, 1743. The children by the first wife were: Richard, Samuel and Abigail; of the second : Jolin, Hannah. Joseph, Jeremiah, George, Rose, Peter and William.
(IV) Jeremiah (2), seventh child of Richard (2) and fourth child of his second wife, Hannah (Sanders) Norcross, was born July 2, 1703. He settled in Lunenburg, where he was frequently chos- en to positions of trust. Soon after the drawing of lots he became one of the proprietors of Rindge, New Hampshire, and in 1759 was chosen one of a com- mittee to lay out a road from Ashburnham, and an- other from Ipswich, to the center of Rindge; but he never resided in Rindge except. perhaps, the last few years of his life. He married in Groton, June 28, 1731, Faith Page, who was born November 6, 1707, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Page, of Groton, and a relative of President Dunster of Harvard College. The children of this marriage were: Jabez, Mary, Sarah, Page, Hannah, Jeremiah and Elijah.
(V) Jeremiah (3), sixth child and third son of Jeremiah (2) and Faith ( Page) Norcross, was born February 15, 1744, as recorded, but he was baptized February 12, 1744. He settled after marriage on a farm which is still in possession of a descendant. He was a member of Captain Hale's company in 1775, and served in the Rhode Island expedition, 1778. He was constable in 1781, and his name appears in the state archives as paying the large sums of money which the state required of Rindge to meet its pro- portion of the expenses of the war. He died of spotted fever in December, 1811. He married, No- vember 23, 1769. Lucy Chaplin, who was born in Rindge in 1750. third child of Ebenezer and Rebec- ca Chaplin. She died January 5. 1841. aged nine- ty-one. Their children were: David, Daniel, Lucy, Sally, Phebe. Nancy and Jeremiah.
(VI) Captain Daniel, second son and child of Jeremiah (3) and Lucy (Chaplin) Norcross, was born in Rindge, in 1780, and died there August I, 1858. aged seventy-eight. He was a farmer and lived on the old homestead. He was a captain of the militia, and a man of substance and much re- spected. He married (first) Polly Jones, who was born in Rindge, March 30, 1782, daughter of Asa and Mary (Martin) Jones. Asa Jones was a pio- neer in Rindge, was a soldier at the battle of Bun- ker Hill, and served three years in a Massachusetts regiment. Polly (Jones) Norcross dicd July 21, 1834, and Captain Daniel married (second), June 16, IS35. Sally (Hubbard) Rand. widow of Leonard Rand, and daughter of Deacon Hezekiah Hubbard. She was born in Rindge, February 17. 1790. There were fourteen children, all by the first wife: Eliza, Eunice, Nancy, Daniel, Asa Jones (died young), Lucy, Asa Jones, Betsey, Jeremiah, Mary M., Josiah, Joshua, Amasa and Nathan.
(VII) Joshua, twelfth child and sixth son of Captain Danicl and Polly (Jones) Norcross, was born in Rindge, April 6. 1820. and died there. He was a farmer and cultivated the farm owned and occupied by his ancestors for more than one hundred years. He was a man of comfortable estate and a person of influence in the town. He married, December 4. 1844, Calista K. Cooper, who was born in Al- stead, daughter of Horatio and Betscy (Gale) Coop- er, of Alstead. The children born to them were: Darwin J., Herbert IL., Helen M., Otis II., Lizzie O. and Anna C. (twins), and Abby Jane.
(VIII) Anna C., sixth child and third daughter
of Joshua and Calista K. (Cooper) Norcross, was born in Rindge. March 9. 1853, and married. 1875, Henry Walter Fletcher, of Rindge. (See Fletcher IX.)
The Neal family has been long estab- NEAL lished in lower New Hampshire, and numbers among its members many valu- able citizens of the commonwealth. "This family is of English extraction," says the History of Par- sonsfield, Maine. "and was among the earliest settlers of New Hampshire. In a deed dated May 17. 1629, from four Indian sagamores to John Wheelwright and others, recorded in York county records, Wal- ter Neal, one of the witnesses, is styled Governor for the company of Laconia.' In 1631 Captain Wal- ter Neal was agent of Gorges, Mason and others, for their patent including Portsmouth, Newcastle and Rye. He lived at Little Harbor, at the mouth of the Piscataqua. He discovered the White Moun- tains, drove away pirates, hung an Indian, made a survey and map of the territory he governed, and in 1634 returned to England." "In 1683 another Walter Neal was a freeholder in Portsmouth, and signed a petition to the king, which was sent to England by Nathaniel Weare."
(I) Enoch Neal was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1762, and died in Parsonsfield, Maine. June 22, 1817. He and his brother Walter removed in 1785 and settled on the Middle Road, in Parsons- field. He married in 1788, Nancy Towle, who died in Parsonsfield. December 23, 18.40. They had seven children : Betsey, Joshua, Sally, Oliver, Enoch, Nathaniel and Nancy.
(II) Enoch '(2), fifth child and third son of Enoch (1) and Nancy (Towle) Neal, was born in Parsonsfield, December 16, 1803, and died there De- cember 19, 1867. Like his father he was a farmer. He married in 1829, Nancy, daughter of Richard Lord, and they had five sons and one daughter : Lorenzo, Enoch, Edgar, Luther, John, Charles and Lydia Ann.
(III) John, fifth child and fifth son of Enoch (2) and Nancy (Lord) Neal, was born in Parsonsfield. February 12, 1840. He spent his entire life in farm- ing, except a short time he was engaged in the hard- ware business. In his earlier life he was a Demo- crat and held various town offices, and was for nine years assessor : later he affiliated with the Re- publican party. He married April 30, 1861, Sarah J. Lord, who was born in Parsonsfield, April 4, 1844, daughter of Samnel and Miriam ( Boothby) Lord, of Parsonsfield. They had three children: John H., mentioned below: C. Etta, who was born March 7, 1864, and died August 27, 1887; and Melville E., born December 29, 1876, now a contractor at Kittery, Mainc.
(IV) Dr. John H., eldest child of John and Sarah J. (Lord) Neal, was born in Parsonsfield, March 20, 1862. He obtained his literary education in the public schools and at the North Parsonsfield Seminary; and went from the latter school to the Bowdoin Medical School, at Brunswick, where he attended one year, and then took a course of lectures at the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, from which he received his diploma in June, 1886. Immediately afterward he opened an office and began the practice of medicine at Sanford, York county, Maine, where he continued until January, 1895, when he removed to Rochester, New Hamp- shire, where he practiced many years. While yet a young practitioner in Maine, it was written of him :
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"He is energetic, candid, well informed and very successful in his vocation." He has not changed much since then, except to improve. He is an in- telligent and successful physician, a good citizen, and a cultured gentleman. He has been a member of the board of health and of the school board of Ro- chester for a number of years, medical referee for Strafford county, and has been United States examin- ing sergeon since 1896. He is a Republican in politics, and has taken an active part in local political affairs, and was elected to the New Hampshire legislature in 1902, and served during the following term with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his con- stituents. He has been president of the York County (Maine) Medical Association, and of the Strafford County (New Hampshire) Medical Association; is vice-president of the New Hampshire State Medical Association, and a member of the Maine Medical Association, and of the American Medical Associa- tion. He is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, Royal and Select Masters, of Palestine Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, of which he is a charter member; and of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. He married, November 28, 1888, Lula E. Clark, who was born March 30, 1866, daughter of Daniel G. and Frances (Chase) Clark. They have one child, Cecil Morris, born October 26, 1890.
(I) Peter Neal was a resident of Rockingham county where he raised a family.
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(II) Andrew, a son of Peter Neal, removed to Vienna, Maine, where he died, March 23, 1872, aged eighty-seven years. He married Dorothy Hoyt, who was baptized April 29, 1786, one of triplets, the other two being John and Moses. Her parents were John and Dorothy (Glidden) Hoyt, of Poplin, New Hampshire. The children of this union were: Ira, John, Samuel, Andrew and Alvan, whose sketch follows.
(III) Alvan, youngest son of Andrew and Dor- othy (Hoyt) Neal, was born in Vienna, April 3, 1825. He learned carpentry young, and has always followed that occupation. In 1884 he removed to Rochester, New Hampshire, and has since resided there. He married May 26, 1853, Ruth W. Bradley, who was born February 13, 1830, daughter of Alvan and Hannah (Whittier) Bradley, of Vienna, and they have had two children : Wilder B., and Carrie, who died at the age of nine.
(IV) Wilder Bradley, only son of Alvan and Rutlı W. (Bradley) Neal, was born February 4, 1857, in Farmington, Maine, and was educated in the common and high schools of that town. He clerked in a grocery store there twelve years, and in 1884 removed to Rochester, New Hampshire, and opened a crockery store on North Main street, where he has since successfully carried on business. In re- ligious faith he is a Unitarian, and is clerk and a trustee of the Unitarian Church at Rochester. He is a Republican, and has been a member of the school board four years. He is a member of Kennedy Lodge, No. 57, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand, and secretary at the present time, also of Norway Plain Encampment, No. 7, and Canton Parker, No. 3.
He married, December 24, 1880, Lillian E. Bass, who was born November 10, 1859, daughter of George and Mary E. C. ( Potter) Bass, of Wilton, Maine. They have three children : Carroll W., Erlon H., and Lucille R. Carroll W., born December 10, 1882, entered West Point Military Academy at seven- teen, graduated at twenty-one, and was made a second lieutenant of artillery. He has spent two
years in the Philippines, and is now stationed with the Fifth Battery, at the Presidio, California. Erlon H., born October 6, 1884, graduated from the Roch- ester high school in 1902, and from Dartmouth College in 1906. He is now with the Title Guaranty and Trust Company of New York. Lucille, born July 30, 1887, graduated from the Rochester high school in 1906, and is now a student at Bradford Academy.
This name was originally spelled
KEYSER Kezar, and was very early planted in New England. It was also identified with the pioneer periods of central New Hampshire, and has been prominent in the annals of the town of Sutton for nearly one hundred and forty years. It means much when six generations worthily bear the name in one town.
(I) George Kezar, the emigrant ancestor of the family, was born about 1614, and was an early resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1639. He was a tanner by occupation. In 1680 he removed from Lynn to Salem, and at the same time was admitted to the church in Salem by letter from the church in Lynn. He died in 1690, as indicated by the proving of his will on Septem- ber 29 of that year. It was executed February 16, 1687. He married (first), Elizabeth Holyoke, daugh- ter of Edward Holyoke. She died June 24, 1659. His second wife, Rebecca ( surname unknown), sur- vived him. His children all by the first wife, were: Eleazer, John, Benjamin, Hannah, Mary, George and Edward.
(II) John, second son and child of George and Elizabeth (Holyoke) Kezar, was a native of Lynn, whence he went with his father to Salem, and re- moved from that town to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1674. He followed the occupation of his father, and was given a parcel of land to encourage the establishment of the business in Haverhill. In 1683 a complaint was made by the good and cautious men of Haverhill against John Kezar for keeping lis tan vats open, by which a few cattle and swine had been destroyed. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676, and was admitted a freeman in 1677. He was killed by the Indians in the Dustin massa- cre, March 15, 1697. The George Kezar killed at the same time was the son of John, and not his father, as has been stated. His wife, Hannah Davis, was born December 24, 1653. daughter of John Davis and granddaughter of James Davis. Their children, born in Haverhill, were: John, George (died young ), Timothy, Sarah, Mary, Eleazer. Samuel and George. The youngest George was born after the massacre.
(III) John (2), eldest child of John (1) and Hannah (Davis) Kezar, was born July 6, 1678 and resided in Haverhill. He received the tan house and yard from the estate of his father, and con- tinued the business. In 1720 he and his wife deeded property to her mother, Mary Davis. His wife Judith, was born July 23, 1687, in Haverhill, daugh- ter of Stephen and Mary (Tucker) Davis. They had sons, John, George and Ebenezer.
(IV) Ebenezer, youngest son of John (2) and Judith (Davis) Kezar, was born January 16, 1723, in Haverhill, and lived for a short time in Rowley, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Sutton, New Hampshire. He was past fifty years of age when he emigrated to Sutton, but he was a man of great bodily strength as well as of decided character, and was a master spirit among the early settlers. Before coming to Sutton he had been an inn-keeper, tanner
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and blacksmith. He owned the first horse ever brought to the town. He was empowered to call the first town meeting after the incorporation of the town. He was accompanied to Sutton by two children : Simon, who married and had a family, and Ilannah, born in 1750, married Benjamin Wad- leigh, Sr., of Sutton, in 1769, and became the mother of twelve children; she died in 1836, aged eighty-six years. Ebenezer Kezar died in Sutton in 1793. His widow (second wife) afterwards married Ephraim Gile, and died in 1808.
(V) Simon, son of Ebenezer Kezar, came to Sut- ton, as aforementioned, with his father. He had previ- ously married, April 19. 1769, Mehitable Foster, born in 1747, died in 1801, aged fifty-four, of Scotch- Irish origin. They were the parents of twenty chil- dren, some of whom died in infancy and some fell victims to consumption soon after reaching young womanhood. About 1798 six of the children, Simon, Joseph, Amos, Ruth, Dolly and Elizabeth, removed to Hatley, province of Quebec. Some settled near Massawippi Lake. The descendants of the Kezar family are numerous in Stanstead county, Canada, at the present time. Simon Kezar, like his father, was a blacksmith as well as tanner. He died of apoplexy in 1817.
(VI) John, thirteenth child of Simon and Me- hitable (Foster) Kezar, was born December 7, 1785. All of his life was spent in Sutton. He was a man of intellect, of keen perception and an ingenious blacksmith. He married Ellinor, daughter of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Watson) Whitcomb, of Newport. She was born December 8, 1788, and died October 13, 1853. They had nine children, three sons and six daughters, born in Sutton.
(VII) Jonathan Harvey, seventh child and youngest of the three sons of John and Ellinor (Whitcomb) Kezar, was born in Sutton, September 27, 1822. He was educated in the common schools of Sutton. He became interested in the saw mill business and owned a large one. Later he went into the stone-cutting business and also carried on a large farm. He was a Republican in politics and attended the Baptist Church. To the fine taste of J. Harvey Kezar and his sons in improving the shores of Kezar's pond and in building handsome and sub- stantial summer hotels nearby. is due the constantly increasing summer boarding business at North Sut- ton, which is bringing so much money into the town. He married, April 11, 1847, Emily Eliza Snow, of Dublin, New Hampshire, and their seven children, all born in Sutton, were: Emogene, born April 5, 1849, died March 20, 1872; John Henry, born Feb- ruary 14, 1851; Josephine M., born May 5, 1853, died June 16, 1867; Ella S., born October 30, 1855; Carrie S., born August 2, 1857; Fred Harvey, born May IS, 1860; Hattie, born September 10, 1862.
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