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 135

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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According to the record written in his family Bible by his son, and which is still carefully pre- served, Edward Rawson was born April 16. 1615. and died August 27, 1693. He was married, in Eng- land, to Rachel Perne, a granddaughter of Jolin Hooker, whose wife was a Grindal. sister of Ed- mund Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. John Hooker, grand- father of Rachel Perne, was an uncle of the cele- brated divine, Rev. Thomas Hooker, who founded the colony of Hartford, Connecticut. The first child of Edward Rawson, a daughter was married in England and remained there. The others were Edward, Rachel, David, Mary Perne, Susan, Wil- liam, Rebecca (died young), Rebecca, Elizabeth, John and Grindal.

( II) William, third son and seventh child of Edward and Rachel (Perne) Rawson, was born May 21, 1651. in Newbury, and was educated for a mercantile life. He became a prominent merchant and importer of foreign goods. Up to the time of his marriage he resided with his father in Rawson Lane, now Bromfield street, Boston, where he kept a dry goods store. In 1680 he sold his estate and re-

moved with his family to Dorchester, where he re- sided upon a portion of "Newbury Farm" inherited by his wife. Hle afterwards purchased a tract of land in Braintree, which is now known as the an- cient Rawson Farm. It is situated near Neponset Village and has been passed down from father to son to the fifth generation. The present house is on the same site where William Rawson built his home- stead. Here he lived nearly forty years and died September 20, 1726, in his seventy-fifth year. He was married, in 1673, to Anne Glover, only daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover, of Dor- chester. She died about 1730, aged seventy-four years. In twenty-five years they had twenty chil- dren, namely: Anne (died in infancy), Wilson, Margaret. Edward (died young). Edward (died young), Rachel, Dorothy (died young), William, David, Dorothy, Ebenezer (died young), Thankful, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Edward, Anne, Patience. Peletiah, Grindal and Mary.

(III) David, fifth son and ninth child of Will- iam and Anne (Glover) Rawson, was born Decem- ber 13, 1683, in Boston, and lived on the farm which was occupied by his father near the Neponset bridge. He was a persevering business man, and distin- guished for energy and industry and left to his heirs a valuable estate. His personal property was valued at two hundred and twelve pounds twelve shillings four pence. He died April 20, 1752, in the sixty- ninth year of his age and was buried at Quincy. He married Mary Gulliver. daughter of Captain John Gulliver, who survived him. Their children were: David, Jonathan, Elijah, Mary, Hannah, Silence, Anne, Elizabeth. Josiah, Jerusha, Lydia and Ebenezer.

(IV) Josiah, fourth son and ninth child of David and Mary (Glover) Rawson, was born January 31, 1727, in Braintree, and settled in Groton, Massachu- setts. where he lived several years and removed thence to Warwick, in Franklin county, same state, where he died February 24, 1812. He was married August 28, 1750, to Hannah Bass, of Braintree, and their children were: Josiah, Simeon, Abigail, Mary, Anna B., Jonathan B., Lydia, Betsey, Lemuel, Emelia, Hannalı and Secretary.

(V) Jonathan R., third son and sixth child of Josiah and Hannah (Bass) Rawson, was born 1761, probably in Warwick, Massachusetts, and settled in Alstead, New Hampshire. His wife was Lovinia Robinson. and they were the parents of Orren, El- mon, Jonathan and Alanson.

(VI) Jonathan (2), third son of Jonathan B. and Lovinia (Robinson) Rawson, was born August 22, 1798, in Alstead, New Hampshire, and resided in that town. He married Elizabeth Flint, and they were the parents of Arnold, George B., Harvey E., Alonzo. Henry C. Franklin A., Ellen E., Edmund A., Jonathan A., Martha L. and Julia E.

(VII) Franklin Alanson, sixth son of Jonathan (2) and Elizabeth (Flint) Rawson, was born May 25, 1835, in Alstead, New Hampshire, where he grew up. Ile first attended the common school at East Alstead, and was subsequently a student at West- minster, Vermont. Like his father and grandfather, he was reared in the tannery business and continued to engage in it in early life. In 1856 he went West, locating in Illinois, where he was engaged in the lumber business during the summer and fall for five years, during the winters of which he taught school and music. In 1861 he returned to New llampshire, married in Newport, and went to Michigan to en- gage in lumbering, remaining for one year. For thirty-five years he was engaged in mercantile busi- ness, beginning with a grocery store in Wheeler block, Newport, and has gradually extended until

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he is one of the most prominent business men of Newport. and is identified with nearly every enter- prise that has come into the town. In 1887 he with others built a shoe factory in Newport, which em- ploys a considerable part of the people and adds to the thrift and development of the village. For many years he has been treasurer of the Newport Power and Building Company. He has served several times on the board of selectmen and has held many other offices in the village of Newport. He has been very attractive in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has served as grand master of the grand lodge of the state. He is also prominent in the order of Free Masonry, and has acted as grand high priest of the grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Hampshire. He served also as district deputy grand lecturer and district deputy grand master of his dis- trict, and was for three years master of the local lodge. Since his retirement from active business in 1894 he has been engaged in caring for his invest- ments in and about Newport. He was married, Oc- tober 27, 1861, to Caroline Elizabeth Dean, who was born September 3.

1837. in Goffstown, New Hampshire. She is the eldest child of Solo- mon Dean. a manufacturer of flannels, and operator of mills in Newport, from before 1860 until after 1870, when he sold them to Abiathar Richards. In 1870 he employed fifteen hands, and consumed seven- ty-five thousand pounds of wool and cotton, produc- ing one hundred and forty thousand yards of flan- nel. Solomon Dean was born September 5. 1815, and removed from Gilsum to Newport in an early day. He died in that town July 22, 1874. He was married December 30, 1835. to Angusta Caroline Roby, who was born April 25, 1817. Their children were: Caroline Elizabeth, and Marietta Emroy. The former is the wife of Franklin A. Rawson, as above stated; the latter is the wife of Sylvester S. Ingalls. Mr. and Mrs. Rawson have two children : Morton Otis, March 26, 1868, and Shirley Jonathan, March 9, 1870. Morton Otis has been since attain- ing his majority, in the hotel business and is now in Los Angeles, California : Shirley Jonathan married, February 6, 1899, Mande C. Jenness, of Conway, New Hampshire. They have had two children, one of whom Florence Alma, born at Rochester, March 23, 1900, died May 16, 1900. The other is Franklin Alanson Rawson, Jr., born at Rochester, August 15, 1002. Shirley J. Rawson is a hotel- keeper at Baldwinsville, Massachusetts.

Most authorities agree that the name ROGERS of Roger or Rogers is derived from the word Hrnod in Frank, Brother in North German, and Ruhm in the modern German, meaning fame or glory. The Rogers family is one of the most ancient and numerous in this country; but the early records are very confusing. There were no less than eleven by the name of John Rogers among the seventeenth century immigrants. Savage. in his "Genealogical Dictionary," says that none of these, or in fact, any of the carly settlers of the name, can establish a claim to descent from John Rogers, who suffered martyrdom at Smithfield in 1555. though many of them have traditions to that effect. Considering the number of the martyr's off- spring it is surprising that more trace of them can- not be found. Among the many in this country by the name of John Rogers may be mentioned the president of Harvard College in 1683. Probably the varliest American Rogers was Thomas, who came over in the "Mayflower" with his son Joseph, and (lied early in 1621. It is possible that the present line may be descended from him, but the name of

William does not appear among the sons or grand- sons of Thomas.

(I) William Rogers lived at Huntington, Long Island, about the middle of the seventeenth century. In the records of that town he is thought to be the son of Isaiah, but all efforts to trace Isaiah have proved fruitless. On July 30, 1656, Jonas Wood, William Rogers and Thomas Wilkes secured a deed from Asharoken and eight other Indians, trans- ferring extensive tracts of "medoe, freshe and salte," on the north side of Long Island, "with all the ar- bige that is or shal bee heare after upon the woods" for "2 coates, fore shertes, seven quarts of licker and eleven ounces of powther." This deed was re- corded in New York, October 15, 1666. William Rogers married Ann, whose maiden name is un- known, and they had seven children: Obadiah, John, Samuel, Mary, Jonathan, Noah and Hannah. The date of William's death is not known, but Mrs. Ann Rogers was a widow in 1669.

(II) Noah, fifth son and sixth child of William and Ann Rogers, was born in 1646. On April 8, 1673, he married Elizabeth Taintor, and they had vight children : Mary, John, Josiah. Thomas, Heze- kiah, Noah, Elizabeth and Ann. Noah Rogers died 111 1725.

(Il]) John, second child and eldest son of Noah and Elizabeth (Taintor) Rogers, was born Novem- ber 6, 1677. On June 17, 1713, he married Lydia Bowers, and they had nine children: Lydia, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Daniel, Samuel and Stephen. John Rogers died about 1750 in Bram- ford, Connecticut.

(IV) Joseph, second son and sixth child of John and Lydia (Bowers) Rogers, was baptized April 29, 1725. On August 3, 1748, he married Susan Pardee, and they had five children : Jason, Joel, Abigail, Joseph and Malachi.

(V) Joseph (2), third son and fourth child of Joseph (1) and Susan (Pardee) Rogers, was born April 27, 1755. in Bramford, Connecticut. On De- cember 25, 1779, he married Lois Hall, who was born September 25, 1757, in Wallingford, Connecti- cut. They had six children: Thaddeus, whose sketch follows: Benajah, Lemuel, Abigail, Lois H. and Joseph. Joseph (2) Rogers died April 19, 1833, at Claremont, New Hampshire, and his wife died at the same place, May 30, 1829.

(VI) Thaddeus, eldest child of Joseph (2) and Lois (Hall) Rogers, was born July 20, 1780, at Wallingford, Connecticut. He came to New Hamp- shire, perhaps with his father. and died before him. He married Philena Putnam, and they had nine children : Philena, Elisha, Mary A., Fanny, Melana, Lois, Adeline, Charles and Thomas. Thaddeus Rogers died at Piermont, New Hampshire, at the early age of forty-two.

(VII) Elisha, eldest son and second child of Thaddeus and Philena ( Putnam) Rogers. was born August 31, 1807. On December 23, 1834, he married Mrs. Matilda Lull Hunt, who was born May 28. 1799. They had two children: Albert, whose sketch fol- lows, and Matilda, who died in infancy. Elisha Rogers died March 8, 1883, at Piermont, New Hamp- shire, and his wife died there. November 7, 18,8.

(VIII) Albert, only son and elder child of Elisha and Matilda (Lull) Hunt Rogers, was born March 30, 1836, at Piermont, New Hampshire. He was educated in the schools of his native town, at Bradford, Vermont, and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire. He was a prosperous farmer, and lived in Piermont up to 1893. when he removed to Haverhill Corner, where he spent the last nine years of his life, released from active labor,

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While in Piermont he served as selectman, and was justice of the peace for fifteen years. He was a staunch Republican, and attended the Congregational Church. On March 29, 1866, Albert Rogers married Anna Elizabeth Underhill, the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Ann (Stephens) Underhill, who was born August 29. 1843, in Piermont. They had three children: Albert E., born September 6. 1867; Ed- ward S., born September 28, 1868, both at Piermont ; and Frank R., born May 17, 1879. On September 6, 1893, Albert E. Rogers married Lillian May Evans, and they live in Everett, Massachusetts. On June 20, 1894, Edward S. Rogers married Bessie Maud Evans. and they have one child. Edward Albert, born May 11, 1897. They also live in Everett, Massachu- setts. Mr. Rogers died May 19, 1902, in Los An- geles, California.

SMILEY The Smileys are among the numerous Granite State families of Scotch-Irish origin, and in intellectual attainments and general usefulness they have been equal to their contemporaries of the same race. The family is a prolific one and has numerous representatives in the United States.

(I) Francis Smylie, descended from Scotch Covenanters, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1689, about the close of the famous siege of that place. He married Agnes Wilson, supposed to be of Protestant Scotch-Irish family, and came in 1727 to America with his wife and three children . John, born 1720: Hugh, 1723: and William, 1, 27. He settled first in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where were born: Margaret, 1728: Agnes. 1730; David, 1732. Sixteen years later he moved to the adjoining terri- tory, in New Hampshire, called Windham, after- wards so divided that he lived in Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he died in 1763. Two years after his death his farm was sold to Alexander Park, whose daughter Mary married High Smiley. They removed to Winslow. Maine, and became the an- cestors of a large family of Smileys.

(11) Deacon William Smiley, son of Frances Smyle, was born in the north of Ireland in 1727, and came the same year with his parents to this country. Sometime after his marriage, in 1753, he went to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and was one of the first settlers in that town. He acquired posses- sion of lot No. 13. range 8, located on the eastern border on Gilmore Pond (originally called Smiley Pond ). and clearing a farm resided there for more than fifty years. This farm has been for many years without an occupant. Deacon Smiley was one of the organizers of the town government, serving on its first board of selectmen: was the first town clerk and treasurer: and the first representative to the legislature ( 1784) under the state constitution, which, as a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1781, he assisted in formulating. He was also one of the original members of the first church organized in Jaffrey and acted as a deacon for many years. In I810 he went to reside with his son in Springfield, Vermont, and died there March 24, 1813. He mar- ried Sarah Robinson, of Boston, who died in Springfield, Vermont. November 14, 1815. in the eighty-fifth year of her age. They had a family of ten children, whose names were: John, Agnes, Wil- liam. Francis, David (who died young), Sarah, James, David, Robinson and Hugh. Their two sons. David and Robinson, were the first natives of Jaff- rey to become college graduates. The latter, a Con- gregational minister, settled in Springfield, Ver- mont.

(HI1) David Smiley, sixth son and eighth child

of Deacon William and Sarah ( Robinson) Smiley, was born in Jaffrey, March 26, 1769. He was grad- uated from Harvard College, prepared himself for the legal profession, and opened the first law office in Jaffrey. Early in the last century he removed to Bristol and practiced law there several years, and thence to Plymouth, and was principal of the old Plymouth Academy. From Plymouth he went to Grafton, where he practiced law with success until his death, which occurred May 19, 1845. He mar- ried Mary Harkness, whose mother. Elizabeth ( Put- nam) Harkness, was a relative of General Israel Putnam. Of their five children only two lived to maturity : Mary Harkness Smiley, born July 5. 1806. hecame the wife of Deacon David Fosdick, October 9, 1834. and died June 25. 1864; and James Robinson Smiley.

(IV) James Robinson, son of David and Mary (Harkness) Smiley, was horn in Bristol, June 17. 1808. He was fitted for college at the Kimball Union Academy, and in 1825 entered Dartmouth, but withdrew during his sophomore year in order to be- gin the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Reuben Muzzey, of Hanover. His progress was in- terrupted by ill health, but he finally resumed his studies under Dr. Robert Lane, of Sutton, and took his medical degree at Dartmonth in 1833. He was associated with Dr. Lane for the succeeding four years, during which time he gained much valuable professional experience, and in 1837 he located in Grafton, where with the exception of two short in- tervals spent elsewhere, he resided for nearly thirty years, huilding up and retaining during the whole of that period an extensive and lucrative general prac- tice. Beside Grafton. his field of operation extended into the towns of Danbury. Springfield, Canaan. Orange and Alexandria. Earnestly devoted to his profession, he never ceased to be a student, seeking to discover the causes of every disease coming under his observation, and exercising in his treatment such care and judgment as to generally master them. Realizing the urgent necessity for a respite from his arduous labors in Grafton and vicinity, and respond- ing to the desire of his preceptor, whose daughter Elizabeth he had married in 1837. Dr. Smiley re- moved to Sutton in 1866, and thenceforward devoted himself to the care of the practice and the estate of his father-in-law, whose activity and usefulness were fast nearing their end. He practiced his profession in connection with farming at Sutton for twenty years, or until the termination of his busy life, which occurred in that town October 15. 1886.

Prior to the formation of the Republican party. of which he was a staunch supporter, he voted with the Whigs, and his views upon all the important political issues of his day were both intelligent and pronounced. In early life he served as deputy- sheriff of Grafton county, and was for many years prominently identified with the state militia, retiring with the rank of colonel. He also served with un- questionable ability as superintendent of the public schools in Grafton. He was actively interested in the Sons of Temperance, having helped to organize a division of that order in Sutton: was a charter member of Sutton Grange. Patrons of Husbandry : and a member of the New Hampshire State Medical Society. In 1856 The assisted in establishing the Christian Church at Grafton, and his profound in- terest in matters relative to the moral and religious welfare of the community were frequently em- phasized with far-reaching effect. He was scholarly, accurate, faithful, unselfish, one of the kindest men that ever lived.

Dr. and Mrs. Smiley reared six children: Ade-

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laide Lane, born October 10, IS37; Mary Elizabeth, born November 9, 1839, died September 9, 1856; Frances Farley, born July 8, 1841; Susan Ela, born August 11, 1843; Pamelia Tarbell, born January 19, 1846; and Robert Lane, born April 10, 1849. All were born in Grafton. The daughters, who were all educated at Colby Academy, New London, New Hampshire, have been successful school teachers, notably Miss Adelaide L. Smiley. who has been twice called to Colby Academy, New London, as its lady principal, her two engagements there covering a period of nearly twenty years. Susan E. was mar- ried July 30, 1885, to Charles L. Pulsifer, and died in Lake Village, April 2, 1890. Pamelia T. became the wife of Rev. Benjamin O. True, August 18, 1874. and resided for many years in Rochester, New York. Frances F. Smiley is residing at the old homestead in Sutton, as is also her brother, Robert L., who was formerly a well-known journalist. He married IFarriet E. Keyser, February 29, 1892.

(IV) Paul, eldest son of Nathaniel LADD Ladd and his third wife, Mrs. Mercy Hilton, daughter of Kingsley Hall, of Exeter, New Hampshire, was born in that town March 6, 1719. He settled first in the neighboring township of Stratham, on a farm deeded him by his father, March 28, 1747. After a few years he re- moved to Epping, on the road to Nottingham Square, where he bought a place which afterwards became a part of the Nottingham town farm. Near the be- ginning of the French and Indian war of 1754 he thought it best on account of hostile Indians to move to a more thickly settled neighborhood, and so bought a farm on Red Oak Hill, in Epping. Mr. Ladd. was a thrifty farmer in comfortable circuni- stances, with a good education for his day. He was a man of sound judgment, and was often consulted by his neighbors in time of trouble, and was held in high esteem by the townspeople generally. In re- ligion he was a disciple of Whitefield, whose follow- ers at that time were called "New Lights." This was during the period when the Congregational min- isters all over New England were settled and sup- ported by the town, and Mr. Ladd's refusal to pay his tax toward the prescribed form of public worship caused some trouble. In 1747 Paul Ladd married Martha Folsom, daughter of Nathaniel Folsom, of Exeter, and they had ten children: Paul, born Feb- ruary 26, 1749, died unmarried; Dudley, whose sketch follows; Llis, married John Folsom ; Martha, died at the age of four: Mercy, died at eight years ; Simeon, married Lizzie Hines; Martha, married Steven Smith: Nathaniel, married Polly Smith ; Josiah, married Polly Gale; and Susannalı, born Oc- toher 26, 1768, died unmarried. Paul Ladd died in February, 1783, having nearly completed his sixty- fourth year; and his widow survived him nineteen years, dying July 17, 1804.

(V) Dudley, second son and child of Nathaniel and Martha ( Folsom) Ladd, was born February 26, 1749, probably in Stratham, New Hampshire. His carly life was spent in Epping with his parents, but he made his permanent home in Deerfield, where his descendants, numbering at least five generations, have lived ever since. Dudley Ladd was a man of intelligence and well known in this section of the state. lle taught many terms of school, and served as deputy sheriff of Rockingham county for twenty years. About 1774 Dudley Ladd married Lydia, daughter of Daniel Haines, and three children were born of this union: John F., whose sketch follows : Mercy. born in 1783, who died unmarried; and

Lydia, born April 14, 1785, who married Benjamin Smith, of Epping. Dudley Ladd died July 3, 1818. (VI) John Folsom, eldest child and only son of Dudley and Lydia (Haines) Ladd, was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, April 19, 1775. On De- cember 13, 1798, he married Dorothy Smith, daugh- ter of Samuel and Rachel (Brown) Smith, and of. this union were born ten children: David, who died young ; Lois, who married Mark Wadleigh; David, who married Hariet Hoit; Pulonia, who married Cyrus Mann, of Pembroke, New Hampshire; Dud- who married Harriet Hoit; Pulonia, who married ried Jolin Dunham ; John F. (2), mentioned below ; Lucy, who died unmarried at the age of seventy- three; Sally, married (first) Luther Fuller; (second) Andrew Ladd; Harriet, who married William Treadwell, of Lowell. John Folsom Ladd died May 27, ISI7, at the early age of forty-two, and his widow survived him thirty-five years, living till August 13, 1852.

( VII) John Folsom (2), fourth son and seventh child of John Folsom (1) and Dorothy (Smith) Ladd, was born August 10, 1810, at Deerfield, New Hampshire. He married Mary M. Rollins, daughter of Ebenezer and Betsey (Rollins) Rollins, and they had four children: Mahala E., born January 24. 1839; Alpheus J., born January IS, 1845, married Melissa Langley: George M., born March 14, 1848. married Ann A. Batchelder ; and Mary A., mentioned below. (See Rollins, VII).

(VIII) Mary Adelaide, second daughter and youngest child of John F. (2) and Mary (Rollins) Ladd, was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, June 20, 1854. On July 3, 1873, she married John Moody Hill, of Deerfield. (See Hill, II).

Within seven years after the incorpora-

KING tion of Wilton, New Hampshire, the an- cestor of the first family of King settled in that town. As the most of his descendants for generations were females, many of his progeny bear other names than King.

(1) Richard King is described in a deed given at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, April 21, 1753, as "a cabinet maker & Joyner." He removed to Wil- ton in 1769. and bought of James Maxwell, lot No. 3, of the eighth range. He was an industrious man, and excellent mechanic, and turned out many pieces of furniture, specimens of which, antique and substantial, are still in existence. His foot lathes remained in his shop many years after his death. He was a pious man, of good habits and irreproachable .character. His daughters were dis- tinguished for their industry and household vir- tues, for beauty of person and amiability of dispo- sition. He married (first), Lucy Butterfield, who died in Wilton. September 13, 1783, aged fifty years: second, Sarah Wooley, of Westford, Massa- chusetts, who died in 1808. His children. all by the first wife, were: Lucy, Mary, Betsey, Benning, and Sarah.

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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 135

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

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