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. III, Part 121

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: 876


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Davis. Mary Abigail, Ebenezer Pratt, Susan Pratt. Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Davis.


(V) Nathaniel, second son and child of Ira and Abigail ( Pratt ) Knight, was born in Marlow, June 15, 1813. and died in February, 1889. He was a farmer, and spent his life as a cultivator of the soil in Marlow. He married. July 22. 1833. Zilpha Miller, who was born in Marlow, May 26. 1807, and died July, 1880. Their children were: Lydia E., Lewis A., Alfred Francis and Milan A.


(Vl) Lewis A., eldest son and second child of Nathaniel and Zilpha ( Miller) Knight, was born in Marlow. September 29, 1838. He remained on the home farm assisting his father until he was twenty- one years of age, and then went to Antrim and en- tered the employ of the Goodell Company, where he continued until 1801. He then worked in a tannery at Marlow, in 1862 he moved onto the farm known as the A. Burtt homestead in Bennington. After five years residence on the farm he took employment with the Woods Cutlery Company, of Bennington, where he worked two years While there he made the first forks turned out by that firm. Since the close of his service with this company he has lived on the Burtt farm. In politics he affiliates with the Democrats. He is a member of Waverly Lodge. No. 59, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Antrim, and of Bennington Grange, No. 207. Patrons of Husbandry. He married, April 26, 1864, Martha E. Burtt, born May 30, 1841, daughter of Arnold and Betsey ( Taylor ) Burtt, of Bennington. Their children are: Harry Adolphus and Fred Augustus. Harry A. is mentioned below. Fred A., born Feb- ruary 21, 1860. married Grace Mulhall of Hancock, and lives in Antrim.


(\'11) Harry Adolphus, elder of the two sons of Lewis A. and Martha E. ( Burtt ) Knight, was born in Bennington. July 2. 1865. He got his primary education in the public schools of Bennington, at- tending the high school of Hillsboro, and McCann's Business College in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was first employed a- a clerk by John Smith, of Gilsum. New Hampshire. In 1886 he started in business for himself as a grocer in Bennington, where he re- mained until 1888. when he sold out and entered the employ of the New Hampshire Provision Company of Concord, whence he went into the retail meat business at Bennington, which he carried on until the failing health of his father required him to re- turn to his assistance. Since 1898 he has been in charge of the farm, and besides attending to the usual line of farming, sends considerable milk to the Boston market. and deals quite extensively in stock. Mr. Knight is an active. intelligent, and respected citizen, and in 1895 was elected by the Democratic party to a seat in the New Hampshire legislature. He is a member and person of influence of Bennington Grange. No. 207. Patrons of Hus- bandry. of Bennington. He married, January 28, 1888. Mary Louise Martin, born March 5. 1869. daughter of John E. and Lettie ( Burtt) Martin, of Bennington. Mr. Martin was a soldier in Company E. First Regiment New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, in the war of the Rebellion. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have one son, Morris Edward, born August 8, 1890, now a student in Milford high school.


HILLMAN


Four distinct families of this name are traceable in the records of this country. In the latter part of the


seventeenth century John Hillman settled in Martha's Vineyard. From him have sprung a large number of persons bearing the name in this country. About the same time another John Hillman came


from England and settled in Haddonfield. New Jersey. He too is the ancestor of a numerous pro- geny. The third branch is descended from a Ger- man Jew. and the fourth and last is of Dutch origin.


(1) John Hillman of this sketch came from England about 1670 and settled at Chilmark in Martha's Vineyard. Tradition states that when a lad of sixteen he was stolen from a fishing boat on the river Thames in England. He followed the trade of worsted comber, and after his marriage settled in Chilmark. He married Hannah Cottle, of Tisbury. There were three sons of this couple : Richard, Samuel and Benjamin.


( 11) Benjamin, third and youngest son of John and Hannah ( Cottle ) Hillman, was born in 1670. His will is dated Edgartown, Massachusetts. 1745. He married Susannah Sampson, and had five sons : Benjamin, Seth, James, Henry and Silas.


( 11]) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Benjamin and Susannah ( Sampson ) Hillman, was born in Martha's Vineyard, but no date of birth or death have been found. He was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary war, serving as a private in Captain John Russell's company which marched July 28, 1776, and clid duty at Martha's Vineyard for the defense of the seacoast to September 30, 1776-two months and two days. He married ( first). Love Cathcart; and ( second). Abigail Mentor. His fourteen children were : Robert. Benjamin, Zachariah. Whitten. Owen, Walter, Alexander, Ichabod, Matthew, Love, Han- nah, Elizabeth, Susanna and Mariam.


(IV) Whitten Hillman, was the fourth son of Benjamin ( 2) Hillman. But little more than his name is known of him.


(V) Whitten (2), son of Whitten ( 1) Hillman, was born in Farmington. Maine, May 5, 1806, and clied June 27. 1869. He was a sailor by occupation. and resided at Rockland, Maine. He married Mrs. Harriett Ulmer, of Rockland, born in 1793, and died September 9. 1874. Her father. Isaac Barnard, was a famous physician. Two children of this union : Mary F. and Richard B., whose sketch follows.


(\]) Richard Blaisdell, only son of Whitten ( 2) and Harriett ( Barnard-Ulmer ) Hillman, was born June 19, 1835, in Rockland, Maine. When a young man he followed sea-faring for five years, making voyages on the north Atlantic coast. Quitting the sea he settled in Pelham, New Hampshire, where he has now ( 1907) lived forty-eight years, and has been wheelwright and operator of a mill. For years he was a wheelwright. About 1890 he and his son, Frank H., began to manufacture carriages, both light and heavy, at which Mr. Hillman, though seventy-two years old, is a hale and hearty laborer. In town affairs he has been a conspicuous figure. and has been selectman, and in 1885 represented his town in the legislature. He is a member of Ancient York Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Mount Horeb Chapter. Royal Arch Masons. Na- shua Council, and Pilgrim Commandery, all of Lowell: Merrimack Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Lowell: General Stark Colony of the Pilgrim Fathers. He married Julia A. Spear. who was born in Rockland, Maine, October 6, 1831, (laughter of Harvey A. and Jane J. (Spofford) Spear, of Rockland. Maine. Two children have been born of this union: Frank H., and Gertrude H., who married Henry M. Currier, of Pelham.


(\'Il) Frank Harvey, only son of Richard B. and Julia A. (Spear) Hillman. was born in Pelham. August 4. 1859. He worked at the carpenter's trade in Pelham for years, and then engaged in the busi- ness of carpenter contractor in Lowell, Massachu-


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setts, six years. At the end of that time he returned to Pelham, and is now a partner in business with his father under the firm name of R. B. Hillman & Son, blacksmiths and carriage manufacturers. The firm has a fine reputation for good work and has an established and paying business. Frank FI. Hillman is a Republican in politics, was town treasurer in 1903- 04, and in 1907-08 representative to the state legis- lature. He is prominent in Masonic circles, and is a member of the following Masonic bodies : Ancient York Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Mason-, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and Meridian Sun Chapter, No. 9. Isreal Hunt Council, St. George Commandery of Nashua, and Bektash Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. also a member of General Stark Colony of the Pilgrim Fathers. He is also an Odd Fellow, being a member of Centerville Lodge, Lowell, Mass- achusetts, also a member of Lowell Encampment. and of Pelham Grange. He married, June 18, 1885, Alice M. Greeley, who was born May 23, 1864, in Pelham, daughter of Alonzo D. and Mary ( Wilson ) Greeley, of Pelham. They have five children : Blanch H .. Carl Richard, May S., Fred H., Ralph G. The older children have high school or academic educations.


READ This early English surname is of the class known as complexion names. and signifies red. The person first using it as a surname was probably of ruddy complexion. or auburn haired. The orthography of the name varies in both present day and old time records, and there are those of the same family who spell it differently, and those of different stocks who use the same orthography. Some of the commoner forms are Read, Reade. Reed and Reid. The first of the name in America were very early settlers. Members of the families of this name have held very high and honorable places in both public and private life in England and in America, and intel- lectuality has been a prominent characteristic of people of this cognomen.


(1) Esdras Read, emigrant ancestor of one of the families of Reed or Read, which has been num- erously represented in New Hampshire, was in Salem, Massachusetts. in 1637. later of Wenham, and a representative in 1648 and 1651. and subse- quently one of the founders of Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts. In 1660 he sold his lands in Chelmsford, and removed to Boston, where he died in 1680. His gravestone is still in Copp's Hill Cemetery.


( IF) Obadiah, son of Esdras Read. lived in Bos- ton, where he died about 1718. His gravestone is in Copp's Hill cemetery. He married. August 19. 1004, Anna Swift, who died September. 13. 1680.


(111) Thomas, son of Obadiah Read, was born July, 1665, and settled in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He had by his first wife: Thomas, Jonathan. Wil- liam, Esdras. John: and by his second wife: Han- nah, Benjamin and Timothy.


(IV) John, third son of Thomas Read, was born in 1685. He had a town grant, and settled in Chelmsford. He married in Charlestown, January IO. 1707. Jane Chamberlain, and they had nine chil- dren : Samuel, Thomas, William, Jane. Sarah, Bet- sey. Hannah, Lucy and Jacob.


(V). Samuel, eldest child of John and Jane ( Chamberlain ) Read, was born in Chelmsford, Au- gust II. 1711. He married ( first). November 23, 1732, Abigail Cummings, born in Chelmsford, 1716. daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Adams) Cum- mings. She died March 23. 1743. He married (second), June 22, 1757, Hannah ( Wright) Under-


wood, born in 1730, daughter of Deacon Henry and Esther ( Adams ) Wright, and widow of John Under- wood. She died March 7, 1811, The children of Samuel and Abigail were: Thomas, Samuel ( died aged twenty ), Silas and William; children of Sam- uel and Hannah were: Abigail, Olive, Bridget and Samuel.


(VI) William, fourth son and child of Samuel and Abigail ( Cummings ) Read, was born in West- ford, formerly Chelmsford, September 24. 1739, and died in Hollis, New Hampshire, July 12. 1817. He settled in Hollis, New Hampshire, where he was for years an honored and upright citizen and a cap- tain in the militia. He married, October 7. 1762, Priscilla Emery, and they had eleven children : Samuel, Polly, William, Abel, Silas, Priscilla, Asa, Sarah. Uriah, Samuel and Abigail.


(VII) Asa, seventh child and fifth son of Wil- liam and Priscilla (Emery) Read, was born in Hollis. November 27. 1775, and died in Mason, March 16, 1812, and was buried there. He was a farmer. a Democrat, and a member of the Congre- gational Church. He married Polly Wright, of Hollis. New Hampshire, who died in Manchester, October 25, 1839, aged almost sixty-one years, and was buried in Valley Cemetery. They had seven children : Lucinda, James Gilman, Abigail. Julia, Asa, John L., and Luther Wright, the subject of the next paragraph.


(VIII) Luther Wright, youngest child of Asa and Polly ( Wright ) Read, was born in Mason, March 8, 1812, and died May 30, 1905. in the ninety- fourth year of his age. He was a farmer. He re- sided one year in Warner, and then removed to Merrimack, where he lived the greater portion of his life. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and in politics a Democrat. He married, June 17, 1834, Martha K. Kittredge, born in .Merri- mack, January 16. 1817, and died June 29, 1897. She was a daughter of Eri and Lucretia ( Woods) Kittredge, of Merrimack. They were the parents of four children, all born in Merrimack: Adaline, Lucretia J., Clara K., and Luther, next mentioned.


(1X) Luther, youngest child of Luther W. and Martha K. (Kittredge) Read, was born in Merri- mack, July 4, 1842. He acquired his education in district No. 6, of Merrimack, and at the age of seventeen entered the railroad service, where he has been employed forty-seven years. He is now foreman of Merrimack section No. 68. of the Boston & Maine Railroad, a position he has held since 1860. He is a faithful and trusted employee of the com- pany. By industry and care he has accumulated a good property. He is police officer for his town. In politics he is a Democrat. He married (first ). March 23, 1865, Martha J. Fuller, born in Hudson, March 20. 1847. daughter of Joseph and Belinda ( Steele ) Fuller, of Hudson. She died February 22. 1895. leaving four children : Charles, Belinda, David S. and Clara M., all of whom are married. He married ( second ), October 27, 1900, Mrs. Martha J. French, born in Penacook. September 25. 1857. daughter of Joel A. and Mary A. (Severance) Cushon, of Penacook. She was educated in the Manchester schools, and is a member of the Free- will Baptist Church.


(V) William, third son and child of John and Tane ( Chamberlain ) Read, of Charlestown, was born at Chelmsford, April 2. 1715. He married Thankful Spaulding. of Westford. December 29. 1741, and settled in Westford. Their children were : Thadeus. William, and Oliver, whose sketch follows.


(V1) Oliver Read, youngest child of William and Thankful ( Spaulding) Read. died June 20, 1791.


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He married Abigail -, and they had: Oliver, Abigail, Patty, Lucy and Richard.


(VII) Oliver (2), son of Oliver (1) and Abi- gail Read, was born in 1779.


(VIII) James Oliver (1), son of Oliver (2) Read, was born in Townsend, Massachusetts, 1819, and died May 1, 1905. He removed, in 1872, to Mason and engaged in farming, which he carried on the remainder of his life. He married Caroline J. Hildreth, daughter of Ephraim Hildreth, of Mason. They had two children.


(IX) James Oliver (2), only son of James Oliver (I) and Caroline I. (Hildreth) Read, was born in New Ipswich, March 1, 1858, and was edu- cated in the public schools of that town. He grew up on his father's farm, where he has always resided. After his father's decease he took the farm, and now makes a specialty of raising grapes in large quanti- ties. He is a thrifty, progressive farmer, and has one of the best cultivated places in the town. His judgment and business ability are much relied on by his townsmen, and he has served Mason twenty years as selectman and (1893-4) as representative. (Second Family ).


William Reade (I), supposed to be the


READE son of William and Lucy ( Henage) Reade, was born in 1605, and sailed from Gravesend, in the county of Kent, England, in the "Assurance. de Lo," Isaac Broomwell and George Persey, masters, in 1635. He settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman September 2, 1635. In the year 1636 he bought a house and land of Zachary Binknall for seven pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence, which was an average price for homesteads at that day.


Only one year before the date of William Reade's purchase all the land in Boston proper, with the ex- ception of six acres in and about Charles and Beacon streets, was sold by William Blackstone for thirty pounds. William Reade was among the early set- tlers of Weymouth, which was made a plantation, May 8, 1635, and Rev. Mr. Hall and twenty-one families settled there. William Reade was a repre- sentative from Weymouth in 1636 and 1638. The christian name of his wife, it is supposed, was Ivis. Their children were: William, Esther, Thomas, John, Mary and Margaret.


(11) John, fourth child and third son of Wil- liam and Ivis Reade, was born in Weymouth, 1649, and died in Dighton, January 13, 1720. He was a house carpenter, an extensive dealer in land, and ap- pears to have been a man of considerable property. The records described about a dozen pieces of land bought by him in Taunton, and several pieces sold by him. He was a business man of considerable importance in Taunton, but removed from there to Dighton. His estate was valued at £162 at his decease. He was the ancestor of the Taunton Reeds. He and his wife were buried in Dighton, on Burying Hill, between Upper and Lower Four Corners. Their gravestones are in very good condition. He mar- ried (first), Bashna, who had one child, John. He married ( second), Bethiah Frye. Her children were : William, Thomas, George, Mary, Ruth and Hannah. (III) George, third son and child of John and Bethialı (Frye) Reade, died in Rehoboth, February 8, 1756. Ile married (first), Sarah Whitmarsh. He married (second), January 1, 1730, Abigail Woodward. The children by the first wife were : George, died young ; Avise, Hannah, John, Samuel. Ruth, Rebecca and Sylvester French. Children by the second wife: Isaiah, George, Sarah, died young ; Loved, Mary. Jonathan and Bethiah.


( IV ) Samuel, fifth child and third son of George


and Sarah (Whitmarsh) Reade, was born in Digh- ton, November 29, 1725. He married, in 1748, Rachel Williams, and they were the parents of the follow- ing named children: Rachel, died young; Samuel, Mary, Rachel and Seth, who is next mentioned.


(V) Seth, youngest child of Samuel and Rachel (Williams) Read, was born at Dighton, May 14, 1765. He married, May 18, 1718, Cassandra Dean, who died January 4, 1840. Their children were: Seth, Salmon, Cassandra, Otis and Stephen D.


(VI) Seth (2), eldest child of Seth (I) and Cassandra (Dean) Read, was born in Dighton, October 14, 1790, and died there in 1866. He was by occupation a farmer, was a Republican in politics, and held various town offices. He was a member of the Congregational Church. He married, April 24, 1823, Matilda Smith, daughter of Stephen Smith, of Dighton. They had four children: Alfred W., Benjamin F., Clorinda S. and Joseph B.


(VII) Alfred W., eldest child of Seth (2) and Matilda ( Smith) Read, was born in Dighton, Oc- tober 26, 1823, and died in New Boston, New Hamp- shire, December 17, 1892. He was educated in the common schools and at South Dighton Academy. He was a trader, buying and selling horses and other live stock, and sometimes, before the days of rail- roads, went to New York state, also to Vermont and Canada, and bought and shipped horses him- self for twenty-five years, and during the Civil war bought for the government. He was a very active man, and esteemed by his fellow citizens. He was selectman a number of years in Dighton, also later in New Boston. In 1869 he removed to New Boston, New Hampshire, where he engaged in agriculture, stock dealing and the raising of strawberries. In his early life he was a Democrat, but from the time of the war was a Republican. He enlisted for ser- vice in the war of the Rebellion, but was rejected on account of lameness. In religious faith he was a . Baptist, and took a great interest and an active part in church affairs. He was a man of the highest sense of integrity. He was a member of the lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Somerset. Massachusetts, of which he was a past master. He married in Dighton, June 14, 1846, Eunice E. Paul, who was born in Dighton, March 6, 1826, daughter of Peter and Eunice (Edson) Paul, who was born in Dighton, who is now living ( 1907). They had eight children: Clementine E. R., married Edward A. Hoyden, of Taunton, Massachusetts. Lucy M. M .. died 1903. Laura A. F .. married Daniel A. Stanley. now deceased : she resides in West Medway. Frank A. G., see forward. Charles W. P. Wallace C. D., died in infancy. Harry H. J., a prominent politi- cian in Lowell. Nora B. F., married Harry Nill- son, of New Boston.


(VIII) Frank Alfred Gardener, fourth child and eldest son of Alfred W. and Eunice E. (Paul) Read, was born in Dighton, Massachusetts, June I, 1855, and came to New Boston with his parents in 1869. He was educated in the district schools, and carly learned from his father the arts of farming and trading. For twenty-eight years he has been en- gaged in various branches of agriculture and Ium- bering. He and his brother Charles have been very large land owners and lumber manufacturers. At one time they owned nearly ten thousand acres in Vermont and New Hampshire, and now have forty- five hundred acres of farm land in New Hampshire. They keep one hundred milch cows, and send the milk to Boston. They also speculate in stock, and are engaged in slaughtering to a considerable extent. Frank A. G. Read is a man of energy and a promi- nent citizen of his town, where his business enter-


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prise has furnished much work to other citizens for many years. He is a Republican in politics, and in religion a Baptist. He married, April 11, 1877, in Swanton, Vermont, Georgiana Church, born in Montreal, July 11, 1850, daughter of George A. and Mary ( Streeter) Church, of Montreal, province of Quebec. They have two children: Ethel E. and Chester C. Ethel E., born September 12, 1880, mar- ried Fred Somers, of Aurora, New York, and lives at East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. They have one child, Stanley E., born September 27, 1903. Chester C. Read, born August 5, 1887, lives with his parents. (VIII) Charles Warren Paul, fifth child and second son of Alfred W. and Eunice E. ( Patil) Read, was born in Dighton, Massachusetts, June 17, 1857. and removed with his parents to New Boston, New Hampshire, at the age of twelve years. He was educated in the public schools, and at an early age took an active part in the various enterprises carried on by his father. He has been a farmer, market gardener, butcher, lumber dealer, dairyman, and trader in real estate and live stock. He is jointly interested with his brother Frank in extensive farm- ing, lumbering and dairying enterprises, and has contributed largely in making the name Read sy -. nonomnous with industry and success. They owned at one time upwards of ninety-five hundred acres of land. He is a member of the Baptist Church of New Boston, and has been its organist for thirty years. He married, March 26, 1884, Anna B. Dolly. born in Nova Scotia, February 28, 1868, daughter of James and Eleanor ( Bradrick) Dolly, of New Boston. They have two children: Bell W. born August 7, 1885, a graduate of Rogers Hall School and Cushing Academy; she is considered a fine pianist : she married January 22, 1907, William H. Mitchell, superintendent of the Manchester Mill of Lowell. Paul A., born August 16, 1887. educated in New Boston school. Worcester (Massachusetts) Academy and Lowell Textile School. He is now acquiring a practical experience in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. He has taken a very promi- ment part in athletics.


HILLMAN The Hillmans, though not of the earliest New England stock, nor a family noted for numbers, have, nevertheless, been persons of influence through the vocations they have followed, a large percentage of them having been professional men, principally clergymen.


(I) Rev. Thomas Hillman died in North Paris, Maine. He married Hannah Poindexter, who was born in Barton, New Hampshire, and died at Me- chanics Falls, Maine. They were the parents of two children: Georgia, who resides in the West; and Alfred T., whose sketch follows.


(II) Rev. Alfred Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Hillman, was born in Poland, Maine, December 31, 1853. He was educated in the public schools, at Nichols Latin School, and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, graduating from Bates with the class of 1882. He had his first pastoral charge at East Somerville. Massachusetts. For some twelve years he served as secretary of the New Hampshire Home Mission- ary Society; resigning in 1906, and is now retired from active labor in the ministry.


Mr. Hillman is a man of pronounced Christian character, an energetic and persuasive speaker, and is highly esteemed by his church to which he has added many converts. He married, in 1874, Fannie D. Dolley, who was born in Gray, Maine. April, 1857, daughter of Angus F. and Mary E. ( Young) Dolley. Six children have been born of this mar-


riage: George F., who married Sarah E. Kimball ; Everett C .; Alfred G., who died aged eight years; Ferland D., who died at the age of sixteen; and Mary.


(III) George Thomas, son of Rev. Alfred T. and Fanny D. ( Dolley) Hillman, was born April 21, 1878, in Auburn, New Hampshire, and was educated at the public and high schools of his native town. He is now engaged in the manufacture of bottled closures at Portland, Maine. He was mar- ried on Christmas Day, 1902, to Fannie Kimball, daughter of John and Emma (Staniels) Kimball. Mrs. Hillman is a member of the Congregational Church.




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