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Rev. Aaron Whittemore married, February 2, 1743, Abigail Coffin, of Newbury, Massachusetts. She was born November 18, 1718, and died May 12, 1803, aged eighty-five. She was a worthy help- meet of her husband, and abundantly qualified to meet the trials and vicissitudes of frontier life. In 1747 the Indians made a foray upon the Merrimac
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settlement, and visited Suncook. Here Mrs. Whitte- more displayed great coolness and courage in the face of the enemy. The women and children in the vicinity were safely within the garrison when the alarm was given, but the men were away at work in field or forest. By a thoughtful ruse, displaying rare and heroic daring, she speedily delivered the community of its eminent peril. Donning her hus- band's clothes and taking a sword, she appeared at the window of her house with a stentorian voice, gave a series of seeming orders, as to men ready for the fight, thus giving the Indians the impression it would not be safe for them to make an attack, They beat a hasty retreat, and left the intrepid woman and those with her to enjoy with satisfaction the safety so cleverly secured. The children of Rev. Aaron and Abigail (Coffin) Whittemore were : John, Aaron O., Judith, Benjamin, Esther. Sarah, Ruth, Abigail and Peter. ( Mention of Benjamin and descendants appears in this article.)
(XV) Aaron O., second son and child of Rev. Aaron and Abigail (Coffin) Whittemore, was born April 9, 1746, and died May 1, 1817. He was a resident of Pembroke. In 1774 he was placed on the committee of safety, was a trusted partner in 1776, and selectman in 1779 with Nathaniel Head. His name is among those on the muster and pay roll of Captain Samuel M. Connell's company, be- longing to Colonel Daniel Moore's regiment, mus- tered September 26, 1776, with six pounds advance pay and bounty. His name is on the pay roll of Captain Peter Clark's company, in Colonel Stick- ney's regiment. of General Stark's brigade of New Hampshire militia, which company marched from Lyndeborough in July, 1777, and joined the North- ern Continental army. Ile served two months and six days and received travel allowance for sixty- five miles at three pence per mile, and for travel from Stillwater to Bennington, one hundred and sixty-five miles at two pence, and wages. He was promoted to ensign. and is often mentioned by that title in Pembroke records. He was on the committee of five chosen in Pembroke "to report on the plan of government proposed at the last con- vention,"-1781. He was twice afterward chosen on committees on this question. In 1804 he was one of a committee to draw a plan for a meeting house and to "vendue the pews." He was a man of splendid character and much influence. He married, January II, 1770, Sarah, daughter of Peter Gilman, of Exeter. She was born October 27. 1745, and died October 14, 1823, aged seventy-eight. Their children were : Infant not named, Judith. John, child not named, Aaron, Richard, Sarah. Molly. Lydia. Abigail, Peter and Polly. Aaron O. divided his property between his sons Aaron and Richard.
(XVI) Ilon. Aaron Whittemore. fifth child of Aaron O. and Sarah (Gilman) Whittemore, was born November 28. 1774. and died April 26. 1850, aged seventy-six. He and his brother Richard com- menced trade at the Whittemore place as early as 1797. and continued for many years. Aaron quit trade and built a house on the Whittemore prop- erty which has remained in the Whittemore family, now occupied by Arthur G. Whittemore, and kept tavern, and Richard continued for some years alone in trade. Aaron was town clerk in 1803. and in the same year was elected representative. In 1813 he was chosen to settle the town line between Chiches- ter and Pembroke. In 1899 lie was one of the largest taxpayers, bis tax for that year being twen- ty-three dollars and one cent. He also filled places of responsibility on many important committees. He
married, October 23, 1800, Lydia Fisk, of Derry, who was born February 28. 1776, and died March 9, 1862, aged eighty-six. Their children were Benja- min. Louisa, Mary Fisk, Adaline, Aaron, Hiram, Lydia, Sarah and Dolly Doe.
(XVII) Hon. Aaron Whittemore, fifth child and second son of Hon. Aaron and Lydia ( Fisk) Whittemore, was born in Pembroke, November 4, 1808, and died March 26, 1890, aged eighty-one. He was educated in the common schools and Pem- broke Academy. In carly life he was interested in the militia, and held the offices of captain, lieutenant- colonel, colonel, and was finally promoted to briga- dier-general of the Third Brigade, June 1, 1851. Ife represented Pembroke in the legislature in 1849 and 1850, and was a member of the constitu- tional conventions of 1850 and 1876. July 1, 1853, he was appointed associate justice of the court of common pleas for Merrimack county, and held that position until the courts were changed. He was also interested in the establishment of the People's Literary Institute and Gymnasium, and was chosen secretary of its board of directors, and afterward served as its president. He was elected trustee of Pembroke Academy in 1863. and held the position until his death. He served in every important office within the gift of the town. He was a high- minded, honorable gentleman, dignified, courteous and hospitable, one of those men whose presence gives character and dignity to the community in which they live. Possessed of superior natural in- tellectual powers, with a thorough knowledge of men, his practical experience in the management of local and public affairs, always laboring for judicious economy in public expenditures, his in- Anence was strongly felt, and the fact that Pem- broke has so long been free from public debt at- tests the result of his labors in her behalf, and no man who ever lived in Pembroke has a clearer right to the favorable remembrance of his fellow townsmen. His sound judgment and recognized in- tegrity caused his advice and opinions to be sought, not only by his own townsmen, but by those of neighboring towns. He married. December 13, 1840, Ariannah S. Barstow, of Exeter, who was born February 20, 1821. Their children were: Sophia, Francoise, Ariannah Barstow, Aaron (died young), Aaron, Adaline Geneva, John Cambridge, Charles Barstow. Arthur Gilman, Frederick Brewster, Anna Brewster and Maria Elizabeth.
(XVIII) Ariannah Barstow Whittemore was born April 23. 1844, and married, April 5, 1870, John Henry Sullivan (see Sullivan, I).
(XV) Captain Benjamin (2), third son and fourth child of Rev. Aaron Abigail ( Coffin) Whitte- more, of Pembroke, New Hampshire, was born December 4. 1750. He lived in' several parts of the state, being a resident of Concord at the time of his marriage. On November 29, 1791, he bought a farm in Salisbury, and later removed to Dan- bury. According to the History of Salisbury, Cap- tain Benjamin (2) or "Button Whittemore" was a famous character, and always at law with some- body, even with his own sons, one of whom at one time put the litigons old gentleman in jail. On April 18, 1771, Captain Benjamin (2) Whittemore married his first wife, Abigail Abbott. daughter of Samuel and Miriam (Stevens) Abbott, of Salis- bury (see Abbott, V). There were sixteen chil- dren born of this marriage of whom ten are re- corded, and the others probably died in infancy. The known child is John, whose sketch follows. If the record is correct, Captain Benjamin Whitte-
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more married for his second wife Sarah Sawyer, who died July 15, 1828, aged twenty-nine years, indicating a great though not impossible discrepancy in the ages of the pair. Captain Benjamin Whitte- more died at Concord, New Hampshire.
(XVI) John (4), eldest of the recorded chil- dren of Captain Benjamin and Abigail (Abbott) Whittemore, was born in Pembroke, New Hamp- shire, February 22, 1776. He lived in various places in early life, going to Salisbury, New Hamp- shire, in 1782, to Rumford, Maine, in 1798, and to Danbury, New Hampshire, in 1807. On June I, 1812, Jolin (4) Whittemore, became the first resi- dent of Dixville, where he lived till he died. He went up into this northern wilderness to look after and care for lands in behalf of Daniel Webster, who entrusted him as agent. On January I, 1799, John (4) Whittemore married Betsey Pillsbury, of Rumford, Maine, who died December 15, 1815, leaving seven children: Benjamin, mentioned be- low ; Sarah, Samuel, John, Damel, Mary and Eliza- beth. On December 1, 1834, John (4) Whittemore married his second wife, Olive Brainard, and they had one child, Octavia, whose name indicates her order in her father's family. John (4) Whittemore died January 19, 1846.
(XVII) Benjamin (3), eldest child of John and Bestey ( Pillsbury) Whittemore, was born in Rumford, Maine, January 20, 1800, and died May 11, 1875. About 1820 he moved to Colebrook, New Hampshire, where he became a substantial and influential citizen, repeatedly serving the town as selectman and representative, and owned one of the fine farms of that region. He married, Febru- ary 18, 1824, Almira Chandler, of Colebrook, born in Enfield, Connecticut, July 6, 1803, and died April 9. 1876. They were the parents of the following named children, all of whom were born in Cole- brook, New Hampshire, but two: 1. Infant daughter, born in Dixville, August 31, 1825, died same day. 2. Albert, born August 1, 1826, in Dixville, died September 25, 1859, married, January 1. 1850, Shuah Bean. 3. Harvey, born November 1, 1828, died September 30, 1834. 4. Betsey, born June 1, 1831, died April 2, 1844. 5. Amanda, born August 2, 1833, died April 15, 1844. 6. Infant son, born No- vember 12, 1836, died same day. 7. Sidney B., born July 21, 1839, see forward. 8. Harvey, born De- cember 2, 1841.
(XVIII) Sidney Benjamin, son of Benjamin (3) and Almira (Chandler ) Whittemore, was born at Colebrook, New Hampshire, July 21, 1839. He was educated in the common schools and at Cole- brook Academy, and has devoted himself to agri- culture on the paternal farm since he was fourteen years of age. On this upland of two hundred and fifty acres, which included about seventy-five acres of woodland, he raised extensive crops of hay, oats and potatoes, shipping large quantities of the latter product for the markets at Boston, Worcester and Manchester. lle also makes specialty a breeding cattle, and was one of the first to introduce purebred Short Horn Durhams into the neighborhood. He usually keeps a dozen or more horses. brood mares and colts. Captain Sidney B. Whittemore received his title from service in the state militia, and was for two years deputy sheriff of Coos county, and for two years treasurer of Coos county. He is an influential Democrat, was for many years an active member of the state com- mittee, and has served the town six years as se- lectinan, five years each as school director and tax collector. several times moderator and as representa- tive to the legislature in 1885 and 1886. From ISSI
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to 1884 Captain Whittemore was an efficient member of the state board of agriculture for Coos county ; beginning in 1885 he served for three terms as a member of the board of trustees of the New Ilamp- shire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. and was influential in the removal of the institution from Hanover to Durham. Captain Whittemore was a member of Mohawk Grange, No. 28, when organized, and was its secretary until the grange surrendered its charter. When it was reorganized at East Colebrook in 1891 he was elected master, in which office he served four terms. He was chosen master of Upper Coos Pomona Grange upon its organization, and has served as a district deputy to the State Grange. Captain Whittemore is much interested in fraternal organizations, and belongs to the Blue Lodge of Masons, to the Knights of llonor, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Red Men and to the Order of the Eastern Star.
Captain Sidney Benjamin Whittemore married. May 1, 1861, Emeline Corbett, daughter of Jesse and Ilannah ( Gould) Corbett, of Stewartstown. New Hampshire. They have two sons: Albert F., whose sketch follows, and Everett Sidney, who receives extended mention in this article. Mrs. Whittemore served four terms as lecturer of Mo- hawk Grange, and is past 'grand matron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. They attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cap- tain Whittemore lives on his farm four and a half miles from the village of Colebrook.
(XIX) Albert Frank, elder of the two sons of Captain Sidney B. and Emeline (Corbett ) Whittemore, was born at Colebrook, New Hamp- shire, May 13, 1865. He was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town. He began mer- cantile life as clerk for Charles Colby. of Cole- brook, February 13, 1882, in whose employ he re- mained for eighteen years. At, Mr. Colby's death be bought out the business and has conducted the store on his own responsibility since then. Mr. Whittemore is a Democrat in politics, and is much interested in fraternal organizations. He is a Ma- son, belonging to Evening Star Lodge, North Star Chapter, Evening Star Council, North Star Com- mandery and Lodge of Perfection. He has reached the eighteenth degree in Rose Croix Chapter at Littleton, and the thirty-second degree in Edward A. Raymond Consistory of Nashua. He is secretary of Evening Star Lodge since the death of Hazen Bedel in 1896, is past deputy master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, and is worthy patron of Eureka Chapter, No. 2, Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Whittemore is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisterhood. He is promi- nent in the Patrons of Husbandry, belonging to both the subordinate and the Pomona Granges.
On January 15. 1890, Albert Frank Whittemore married Lizzie L., daughter of Arthur and Jennic ( Atwood) Cowan, of Lisbon, New Hampshire. There are four children: Hollie Leon, horn Dc- cember 13, 1890; Arthur Benjamin, January 10. 1806; John Kenneth, February 17, 1905; and Mabel, April 13, 1907.
(XIX) Everett Sidney, second son of Captain Sidney B. and Emeline ( Corbett ) Whittemore, was born October 29, 1874, in Colebrook. He was graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, June, 1897, and shortly afterward engaged with Rev. Charles S. Hutchins as superintendent of the Punkatasset Farm at Concord, Massachusetts, which position he held for three years. He then accepted a position with
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Rev. Charles Merriman as superintendent of Stone- hurst Farm at Intervale. New Hampshire. In 1906 he built a creamery at North Conway, and is now conducting a large and profitable business. lle is highly interested in grange work, having held the office of master for four years in the grange at North Conway, and is one of the deputies of the state grange, and lecturer of Carroll County Po- mona Grange. He is a Free Mason, holding the of- fice of senior deacon in the lodge at North Conway. lle married, March 7, 1898. Millie E. Little, daughter of John S. and Eleanor (Alls) Little. They have one son, Donald Everett, born September 26. 1900. (XIII) Daniel, fourth son and sixth child of John Whittemore and his second wife, Mary (Mil- Ier) Whittemore, was born in 1691, and was but three years old when his father died. Nothing fur- ther is known about him except that he was the parent of Daniel, mentioned below.
(XIV) Daniel, son of Daniel Whittemore, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, January 18, 1717. He married Eleanor Osborn. September 10, 1739. They had twelve children: Daniel, born January 19. 1742. Joseph, December 19. 1743. married Mary Oaks, November 10, 1776. Clark, August II, 1746. John, November 14. 1748. Samuel, November 8, 1750. Eleanor, March 12, 1752. Jonathan, Febru- ary 12, 1753. Aaron, February 8, 1755. Mary, March 12, 1757. Clark, October 17, 1758. Daniel, Sep- tember 28, 1761. Hannah, August 8, 1764. After several of the children were born, Daniel Whitte- more moved from Danvers, now Peabody, Massa- chusetts, to Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. He was the first settler on the north side of the moun- tain range which divides the town into two parts. The farm has always remained in the family, and is now occupied by Daniel's great-grandson, Daniel B. Whittemore. Daniel Whittemore died in Lynde- borough, March 7, 1776.
XV) Aaron, seventh son and eighth child of Daniel and Eleanor (Osborn) Whittemore, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, February 8, 1755. He was a private in Captain Peter Clark's company, Colonel Stickney's regiment. General John Stark's brigade, which marched from Lyndeborough in July, 1777, and fought at the battle of Benning- ton. He married Elizabeth Downing, of Lynn, Massachusetts.
(XV1) Aaron, son of Aaron and Elizabeth ( Downing) Whittemore, was born in Lynde- borough, New Hampshire, in 1790. Ile was a farmer, wheelwright and shoemaker. He moved to Francestown, New Hampshire, in 1822, where he lived for a short time in the Brewster house at the south part of the village, but he returned to Lyndeborough before his death. He married, April 29, 1817, Betsey Weston, daughter of James Weston, of Francestown. They had seven children, five of whom died in early manhood and womanhood. They were Daniel Boardman, born September 6, 1819, married Ann E. Boutwell, of Lyndeborough, lives on the old homestead in that town, was repre- sentative to the New Hampshire legislature in 1883- 85. Aaron, born February 22, 1821, died October 4, 1841. James, died aged thirteen years. William L., whose sketch follows. Harriet Newall, born March 12, 1826, died June 17, 1858. John Weston, born February 23. 1828, died January 8, 1858. Eliza Ann, born January 24, 1830, died January 23, 1873. Aaron Whittemore died at Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, in 1834, at the early age of forty- four.
(XVI1) William Lewis, fourth son and child of Aaron and Betsey (Weston) Whittemore, was
born at Francestown, New Hampshire, August 21, 1824. His early education was obtained in the common schools, at Francestown Academy, and at Professor William Russell's Normal School at Mer- rimack, New Hampshire. Ile took a year's course in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard Uni- versity, and a special course at Amherst College. During the last ten years of his studies Mr. Whitte- more taught school in various towns in New Hamp- shire. In 1855, the year after his course at Har- vard. he became principal of the high school at Milford, New Hampshire, and held this position for twelve years. He then opened a private normal school at Milford in the buikling where he now lives, and which he at that time bought. It was in this same building that the famous Hutchinson Singers held their rehearsals and first public re- citals; Mr. Whittemore kept this school for four years, and then traveled both in Europe and America for three years. Following this he taught a private school in Boston. In 1896, being then seventy- two years of age, Mr. Whittemore came back to Milford. For several years he was chairman of the board of education in Milford. He was made a Mason in 1862. and is the oldest one in town. Mr. Whittemore is very strong and active for one of his years. During his travels abroad he studied and investigated the school systems of Europe, and he is now engaged in preparing a hook on "The New Education." He remarks that the school sys- tems abroad are in advance of those in America, and the schools in the middle western states are now in advance of those in eastern states.
BEAN The families of Bean, Bain, and Bayne, as the name is variously spelled, are un- doubtedly descended from the old Scotch clan Vean. The letters b and win Gaelic are inter- changeable, so that Vean and Bean are the same name differently spelled. The origin of the name is a matter of conjecture ; by some it is claimed to be derived from the place of residence of the clan, "beann" in Gaelic signifying mountain ; but a better supported opinion is, that it is derived from the fair complexion of the clan's progenitor, "hean" meaning white or fair, and often used by Highlanders to dis- tinguish a man of fair complexion, as "olive." black or swarthy was used to designate one of dark complexion. The clan Vean, or. as it is oftener designated in Scotch history, MacBean. was one of the tribes of the Chatli, or Clan Chaltan, and oc- cupied the Lochaber territory some time before the year 1300. Three distinct families of this blood came to America-the Bains settled in Virginia, the Banes in Main, and the Beans in New Hampshire. In what year or on what ship the progenitor of the Beans reached these shore is not and probably never will be known.
(1) John Bean, the immigrant ancestor of the Beans, first appears as the grantee of land by the town of Exeter. New Hampshire, in 1660. Other grants were made to him October 10. 1664, April I. 1671. and February 21. 1698. John Fed. of Exeter. also conveyed to him, July 22, 1664, land in Exeter, consisting of a house lot of twenty acres, and other lots in Exeter containing ten, five and twenty-six acres respectively. In 1671, he was one of a com- mittee chosen to run the lines between Exeter and adjoining towns ; he took the oath of allegiance No- vember 30, 1677; was pound keeper in 1780: and signed the famous New Hampshire petition of 1680- 90. Tradition, in support of which there is much circumstantial evidence, says that his wife died on the pa -- age, and that he married a girl who came
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over on the same vessel. The name of the first wife is not known. The name of the second, whom he married before 1661, was Margaret. Margaret Bean joined Hampton Church in 1671, and good wife Bean was among those who were dismissed from that church in 1698, "in order to their being incor- porated unto a church state in Exeter." Margaret Bean was one of those who organized the church in Exeter, September 2, 1698; she was a member in 1705, which was the last mention of her. She died before 1718. John Bean died between January 24, and February 8, 1718. He divided his property among his children before his death, and left no will. He had eleven children ; by the first wife, one: Mary; by the second wife, born in Exeter, ten ; John (died young), Henry Daniel, Samuel. John, Margaret, James, Jeremy, Elizabeth and Catherine. (James and descendants receive mention in this ar- ticle. )
(II) John (2), fifth son and child of John (I) and Margaret Bean, was born in Exeter, Octoher 13, 1668, and died in 1718, aged fifty years. He is described in deeds as a carpenter. He signed the New Hampshire Petition of 1690; witnessed Ed- ward Gilman's will. June 2, 1690; was one of the witnesses to prove it, April 12, 1692; and also wit- nessed two instruments, March 15, 1698. Ile had a grant of land from the town of sixty acres, March 28, 1698, and his father had conveyed to him. as be- fore stated ; also Byley Dudley conveyed to him, May 10, 1700, twenty-five acres of land in Exeter. He made various conveyances of land and left a comfortable estate to his heirs. John Bean "stood on his guard" under orders from December 30, 1695, to January 20, 1096; was on a scounting party two days in 1710; was in Captain Gilman's company in 1710, and Cap- tain James Davis's company in 1712. His wife's name was Sarah, and after his death she married a Robinson of Exeter. His children were: Dinah, Jeremiah, Sarah, William, Ehenezer and Joshua, the subject of the next paragraph.
(III) Joshua, youngest son of John (2) and Sarah Bean, was born about 1713, in Exeter. and lived there until 1780, when he removed to Gilman- ton, where several of his sons had preceded him, and died in that town in 1787. Being a Quaker, he re- fused to sign the Association. Test, in 1776, as did his sons Joshua. Simeon and Gideon. He married (first) about 1730, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Robinson. She died in 1757. and he married ( sec- ond), 1758, Lydia Brown, who was born about 1730, and died January 21, 1823, in Weare, New Hamp- shire. The births of a portion of his children are recorded in Exeter, and others in Brentwood, but it is probable that they were all born upon the same homestead. Brentwood having been cut off from Exeter. They were: Hannah. Joshua Simeon, Sa- rah. John, Mchitable, Lydia, Gideon, Deborah, Ra- chel, and one who died at birth. ( Mention of Gid- eon and descendants appears in this article.)
(IV) Simeon, third child and second son of Joshua and Hannah (Robertson) Bean, was born in Brentwood. March 30. 1743; and died September 15. 1810. in his eightieth year. Lancaster's "History of Gilmanton" says he was one of a family of twenty-one children, but names only eighteen, and further states: "He came to Gilmanton in the sum- mer of 1766, selected his lot, No. 51. third range of upper one hundred acres, and cleared some land. Ile was three weeks in the woods alone, without hearing a human voice: and when Judy Smith and another man passed near him one afternoon, fol- lowing a line of spotted trees on their way to Meredith. he heard them talking, and he said it
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