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(III) Nathanict (2), eldest child of Nathaniel (I) and Mary ( Bliss) Holcombe, was born June II, 1673. in Springfield, Massachusetts, and resided in what is now Simsbury, which town he represented at the general court in 1748-49-50-51-52 and 53. He was trusted with various prominent appointments, and like his father was deacon in the church. It is said that his character was beyond reproach. His death occurred September 29, 1766, at the close of a well rounded career. He married Martha Buel, daughter of Peter and Martha (Coggins) Buel. Their children were: Nathaniel, Benjamin, Eliza- beth, Martha, Judah, Daniel, Mary, Sarah and Peter. (Mention of Judah and descendants appears in this article ).
(IV) Captain Nathaniel (3), eldest child of Nathaniel (2) and Martha (Buel) Holcombe, was born October 25, 1696, in Simsbury, and was bap- tized on the fifth of December of the following year. He settled in North Granby, where he acquired con- siderable property, and both he and his wife were active members of the church. He was married October 9, 1717, to Thankful Hayes, daughter of
George and Abigail (Dibble) Hayes, of Granby. Their children were: Hannah, Nathaniel, Ephraim, Thankful, Ruth, Joseph, Amos, Elijah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mercy and Rodger.
(V) Elijah, fifth son and eighth child of Captain Nathaniel and Thankful (Hayes) Holcombe, was born May 26, 1734, in Granby, and died June 2, 1789. He was a cooper by trade. and worked at that to some extent in commection with farming. He settled in that part of Granby which is now Southwick, Massachusetts, at what was and still is known as Gillett's Four Corners. He was mar- ried November 15, 1756, to Violet Comiske, daugh- ter of Captain James and Amy (Butler) Comiske. Their children were: Elijah, Violet, Ladoce, Amasa, Jabez, Clymena and Abijah.
(VI) Elijah (2), eldest child of Elijah (I) and Violet (Comiske) Holcombe, was born 1757, in Granby, and died October 5, 1841. He was three times married and reared a large family. His first wife, Lucy, was a daughter of Lieutenant Silas Holcombe (see Silas, V), and bore him eight chil- dren. His second wife, Betsey ( Post) Holcombe, was the mother of two children, and the third wife, Betsey (Ives) Holcombe, bore him five children.
(VII) Amasa, son of Elijah (2) Holcombe, was born June 18, 1787, in Southwick, Massachusetts, and died February 27, 1875. He was a prominent man of his day in Southwick, where his life was passed. He was married (first), November 10, 1808, to Gillette Kendall, who was the mother of his eight children. He was married (second), Jan- uary 23, 1862, to Maria Holcombe, daughter of Lieutenant Daniel and Hepsibah (Griswold) Hol- combe. She was born November 13, 1804, at what is now Tariffville, Connecticut, and died April 29, 1874. His children were: Sophia, Milton, Candace (died young), Alfred C., Candace, Henry C., Amasa and Franklin.
(VIII) Franklin, youngest child of Amasa and Gillette ( Kendall) Holcombe, was born September 22, 1827, in Southwick, Massachusetts, and resided throughout life in that town. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and engaged there in farming. He enlisted in 1861 in a regiment recruited in Springfield, and went to the front. He soon after died in a hospital at Annapolis, Mary- land, of disease brought on while in the service. He married (first) Mary Givens, who was the mother of one son Frank, who was born December 25, 1852. He married (second) Eliza Givens, a sister of his first wife, and died without issue. He was married (third) to Sarah Jane Robinson, and they were the parants of two children: Charles Henry and Newton F. The latter died June 29, 1900.
(IX) Charles Henry Holcombe, M. D., elder of the two sons of Franklin and Sarah Jane (Rob- inson) Holcombe, was born November 12, 1859, and was educated in the local schools of Milford, New Hampshire, and at McCollom Institute at Mont Vernon. He also spent four years at West- field, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard
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University in 1886, taking the medical course. He immediately located in Brookline, New Hampshire, where he has since been actively engaged with his profession, with satisfaction to his patients and him- self. His regular standing is attested by his men- bership in the New Hampshire Medical Association and in other professional societies. He is chair- man of the Brookline board of health, and a deacon in the Congregational Church of that town. He is also identified with the local Grange of the Vet- erans of Husbandry, and is a trustee of the Public Library. He is a genial and cultivated man, and takes a warm interest in all that pertains to the development and welfare of his home community. He was married June 23, ISSS, to Clintina A. Bur- ton, daughter of J. E. and Olive A. (Robinson) Burton, of Temple, New Hampshire. They have one child, Marion C. Holcombe.
(IV) Judah, third son and fifth child of Na- thaniel (2) and Martha (Buel) Holcombe, was born June 12, 1705, in Simsbury, and died January 5, 1802, in his ninety-seventh year. On his tomb- stone at Salmon Brook is inscribed: "Death is a debt to Nature due; this I have paid, and so must you." He married Hannah Buttolf, and at his death he left nine children, fifty-seven grandchildren, one hundred and twenty-nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
(V) Lieutenant Silas, son of Judah and Hannah (Buttolf ) Holcombe, was born November 27, 1734, in Granby, Connecticut, and died October 6, 1806. He married Mary Post, and they were the parents of four children.
(VI) Lucy, daughter of Lieutenant Silas and Mary (Post) Holcombe, was born in 1764, in North Granby, and became the wife of Elijah Holcombe, as hereinbefore noted. She died August 30, 1800.
SPENCER This name is spelled in the Revo- lutionary records, Spancer, Spansor, Spencor, Spencur, Spenr, Spensor, Spincer, and Sponcer. Sixty-eight of the name served in the Revolutionary war. A large number of Spencers were among the pioneer settlers of Massachusetts, One of the earliest was Jared Spen- cer, of Cambridge, 1634, who removed to Lynn, and became a freeman March 9, 1637. He removed to Haddam before 1660, and was propounded for freeman of Connecticut in 1672, and was ensign of militia, and representative 1674-75. By his wife Hannah they had John, Thomas, Samuel, William, Nathaniel, Timothy, Hannah, Mehitable, Alice, Re- becca and Ruth. Not all of their descendants can be traced.
(I) Joseph G. Spencer was born about 1793, in Norwich, Vermont, and died September 1, 1829.
(II) Joseph Gates, son of Joseph G. Spencer, was born in Norwich, Vermont, July 8, 1829, and died in Enfield, New Hampshire, March 28, 1892. He was brought up on a farm from which he re- moved to Enfield, where he was employed in a grist mill a few years. From that he went to the P. C. Cambridge bedstead factory, where he was employed the remainder of his life, filling the position of over-
seer in later years. He was interested in all public enterprises, took a leading part in town affairs, and was chairman of the board of selectmen. He was a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Universalist Church, in whose choir he sang for many years. He married Angeline Boyn- ton Clough, born in Enfield, New Hampshire, May 17. 1830, and died May 16, 1905. She was the daughter of Theophilus Clough, born in Enfield, New Hampshire, June 1, 1803, died April 23, 1849, in Panama, and Hannah G. ( Boynton) Clough, born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, October 2, 1808, died in Enfield, August 30, 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were the parents of two children: Mabel, who was born in 1860, and died in infancy; and Fred A., whose sketch follows.
(III) Fred Ashton, only son of Joseph G. and Angeline Boynton (Clough) Spencer, was born in Enfield, May 25, 1862. He attended school until eighteen years of age, and then took a position in the store of his uncle, W. C. Clough, in Enfield, and later in a dry goods store in Lebanon, filling the latter place about four years. In April, 1885, he went to Bristol, where he is now assistant treasurer and salesman of the Dodge-Davis Manufacturing Company, and a director of the First National Bank of Bristol. In political faith he is a Demo- crat. He is a past master of Union Lodge, No. 79, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a mem- ber of St. Omar Royal Arch Chapter, and Mt. Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Or- der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He married, Feb- ruary 9, 1887, Grace Leone Stanley, who was born in Enfield, January 27, 1862, daughter of Horace Burns and Emeline Almeda (Gates) Stanley, of Enfield. The parents of Mr. Stanley were Joseph Stanley, born 1799, and Hepzibah (Burnham) Stan- ley, born March 20, 1800. Their children were: Joseph B., E. G., Horace B., Marcia A., Ellen F. and Imogene A. Emeline A. Gates was the daugh- ter of Americus and Esther (Hume) Gates. Their children were: Emeline A. and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have one child, Stanley Ashton, born in Bristol, May 11, 1891.
The Fiskes in America are descended FISK from an ancient family of that name which for centuries and until a recent period had its seat and manorial lands in Laxfield, in the county of Suffolk, England. Members of the family in America for centuries have been promi- nent in private and public life as clergymen, lawyers, physicians, financiers, soldiers, merchants, teachers and professors in colleges, farmers, philanthropists and patriots. Rev. Perrin B. Fiske, of Lyndon, Vermont, has written of them :
" Ffische. Fisc, Fiske, Fisk (spell it either way)
Meant true knighthood, freedom, faith, good qualities that stay.
Brethren, let the ancient name mean just the same for aye. "Forward, every youth ! to seek the highest good to-day !' "
(1) Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Daniel, was Lord of the Manor of Standhaugh, parish of
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Laxfield, county of Suffolk, England, lived in the reign of Henry IV and VI ( 1399-1422). He mar- ried Susannah Smyth, and after her death he mar- ried Katherine - -. Simon Fiske, of Laxfield, will dated December 22, 1463, proved at Norwich, February 26, 1463-64, died in February, 1464. He was survived by five children : William, Jaffrey, John, Edmund and Margaret.
(II) William (1), eldest son of Simond Fiske, born at Standhaugh, county of Suffolk, England, married Joann, of Norfolk. He was of Standhaugh, and lived during the reign, of Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII. He died about 1504, was survived by his wife, who died in 1505, and left seven children : William, Augustine, Simon, Robert, John, Margery and Margaret.
(III) Simon (1), fourth son of William and Joann (Lyme) Fiske, was in Laxfield, date un- known. He married Elizabeth -, who died in Halesworth, June, 1558. In his will made July 10, 1536, he desired to be buried at the chancel end of the Church of All Saints, in Laxfield. He died in that town in June, 1538, leaving ( living or dead) ten children : Simon, William, Robert, Joan, Jeffrey, Gelyne, Agnes, Thomas, Elizabeth and John.
(IV) Simon (2), child of Simon (1) and Eliza- beth Fiske, was born in Laxfield. The name of his wife and date of his marriage are not known. He died in 1505. His children were: Robert, John, George, Nicholas, Jeffrey, Jeremy, William, Rich- ard, Joan, Gelyne and Agnes.
(V) Robert Fiske, the eldest of the eleven chil- dren of Simon (2) Fiske, was born in Standhaugh about 1525. He married Mrs. Sybil (Gould) Bar- ber. For some time he was of. the parish of St. James, South Elmham, England. Sybil, his wife, was in great danger in the time of the religious per- secution, 1553-58, as was her sister Isabelle, origin- ally Gould, who was confined in the Castle of Nor- wich, and escaped death only by the power of her brothers, who were men of great influence in the county. Robert Fiske fled from religious perse- cution in the days of Queen Mary to Geneva, but returned later and died in St. James in 1600. His sons were: William, Jeffrey, Thomas and Eleazer. The latter had no issue, but the progeny of the other three sons, in whole or in part, settled in New England. Besides these sons there was a daughter Elizabeth who married Robert Bernard ; their daughter married a Mr. Locke, and was the mother of the celebrated John Locke, the English philosopher.
(VI) William (2), eldest child of Robert and Sybil (Gould) Fiske, was born at Laxfield, in 1566. He married Anna Austye, daughter of Walter, of Fibbenham, Long Row, in Norfolk. After her death he married Alice He is described as of St. James in South Elmham, and it is said of him that he fled with his father from religious perse- cution. He died in 1623. Of the first wife Anna there were children: John, Nathaniel, Eleazer, Eu- nice, Ilannah and Esther (sometimes called Hes- ter). The youngest child, Mary, seems to have been of the second wife, Alice.
(VII) John, eldest child of William (2) and Anna (Austye) Fiske, was born at St. James. He married Anna, daughter of Robert Lautersee. She died on board ship in 1637, which was bound for New England. John Fiske died in 1633. Their children were: John, William, Anna, Martha, Martha and Eleazer.
(VIII) Hon. William (3), second son and child of John and Anne ( Lautersee) Fiske, was born in England about 1613. He married at Salem, Massa- chusetts, in 1643, Bridgett Muskett, of Pelham, Eng- land. After his death she married (second) No- vember, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem, surgeon. Ile came to Salem with his brother, the Rev. John Fiske, in 1637. He had a grant of land the same year, was made freeman May 18, 1642, and mem- ber of Salem Church July 2, 1041. He soon after removed to Wenham, where he was the first town clerk or clerk of the writs from 1643 to 1600 (?). He was elected representative to the general court of the commonwealth in 1647, and continued in that office until the year 1052, being annually re- elected. He enjoyed to a large extent the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He died quite suddenly in 1654, having served his townsmen in all the offices of the town. For several years subse- quent to 1643 he kept an ordinary (public house ). He left five children : William, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin and Martha.
(1X) Deacon William (4), eldest child of Hon. William (3) and Bridgett ( Muskett) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, June (January) 4, 1642-43. Ile married there, January 15, 1662, Sarah Kilham, born 1649. died January 20, 1737, aged ninety-eight years. William Fiske was a weaver by trade. He held a number of town of- fices; was representative in 1701-04-11-13-14; mod- erator in 1702-03, 1712-13-14. He was also called lieutenant. He was elected deacon of the Congre- gational Church in 1769. He died universally es- teemed and lamented. He and his wife were the parents of fourteen children, ten of whom attained years of maturity and had families, and of these seven were sons. The names of the children are as follows: William, born 1063; Samuel, 1670; Joseph, 1672; Benjamin, 1674; Theophilus, 1676; Ebenezer, 1679; Jonathan, 1681; Sarah, 1664; Ruth, 1666; Samuel, 1667; Martha, 1668; Joseph, 1669; Ebenezer, 1677, and Elizabeth, 1684.
(X) William (5), eldest child of Deacon Wil- liam and Sarah ( Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wen- ham, Massachusetts, January 31, 1663. Ile was a grandson of William Fiske, the emigrant, who ar- rived in New England in 1637, and settled in Wen- hamn. In 1710 he removed from Wenham to An- dover, Massachusetts, where he died December 10, 1710. The Christian name of his wife was Marah or Mary, and his children were: William, Joseph, Ebenezer, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth (died young), Lydia, Mary and Ruth.
(XI) Ebenezer, third son and child of Wil- liam (5) and Mary Fiske, was born in Wenham, August 15, 1703. He married in January, 1730, to Susanna Bock, of Woburn. It is quite probable
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that he died in 1737, as his son Ebenezer was ap- pointed guardian of the minor children March 20 of that year. His wife died in Tewksbury, Massa- chusetts, March 28, 1754. She was the mother of Ebenezer, Ephraim, Benjamin, Jonathan, and two others who died in infancy.
(XII) Ephraim, second son and child of Eben- ezer and Susanna (Bock) Fiske, was born about 1732. He resided in Tewksbury for a time, and in 1772-3 went to Concord, New Hampshire, where he died about the year 1825. He married Mehi- table Frost, a miss of twelve years of age, born about 1744, and in connection with this early mar- riage the following unique anecdotes were related. Her first child having been born when she was but thirteen and a half years old, she was in the habit of asking her mother to tend her baby while she went out to play with the children. A person once asked her how old she was when her first child was born. She replied "thirteen and a half years old, and what is that to you?" She became the mother of twelve children: Ephraim, Solomon (died young), Mehitable, Ebenezer, Sarah, Lydia, Daniel, Solomon, Jonathan, Betsey, Rebecca and Joseph. Ephraim Fiske, Sr., and his son Ephraim were both soldiers in the Revolutionary war and participated in the battle of Bennington.
(XIII) Joseph, youngest son and child of Ephraim and Mehitable (Frost) Fiske, was born in Concord about 1779. At the age of nine years he went to Hopkinton, and subsequently learned the blacksmith's trade. He died October 18, 1869. He married Lucy A. Burnham, who was born October 22, 1790, and died April 17, 1871. The children of this union were: William B., Rachel, Lucy M., Daniel and Ella.
(XIV) Daniel, second son and fourth child of Joseph and Lucy A. (Burnham) Fiske, was born in Contoocook, February 3, 1828, and resided there. March 22, 1856, he married Lydia A. Conner, daughter of James and Lydia (Kimball) Conner, of Hopkinton, the former of whom was born in Henniker, and was a farmer. The children of this union are: Jennie, born January 9. 1858 ( married first David Bohannon, and second George Chase of Hopkinton) ; Daniel F., (who will be again referred to) ; Ida M., born December 5, 1861 (died July II, 1879).
(XV) Daniel Frank, only son of Daniel and Lydia A. (Conner) Fisk, was born in Contoocook, October 22, 1859. He was left fatherless at the age of three years and was thus dependent wholly upon the care of his mother. After concluding his at- tendance at the district school he engaged in farm- ing, but later turned his attention to lumbering and has ever since followed that business with success. He is one of the most prominent business men in that section of the state. In politics he is a Republi- can and in 1902 was a member of the lower branch of the state legislature. April 30, 1883, Mr. Fisk married Della E., daughter of Horatio J. and Susan Vilona (Currier) Chandler. Her father followed agriculture in Hopkinton. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk have two children: Mabel, born December 9, 1885 and
Lida, October 23, 1888. Mabel, is the wife of Henry Russell Davis, son of Henry C. Davis, of Davisville, and now a lumber dealer. Both children reside with their parents.
In the carly part of the eighteenth McNEIL century there was a great immigra- tion of the Protestant Scotch-Irish to this country. It was estimated that in the year 1730 at least a thousand people from the north of Ire- land had settled in the province of New Hampshire. Many of them located at Londonderry, this state, which they named after the town in Ireland that sustained the terrible siege of 1689. After a time the Irish settlers began to push up the Merrimack, and as early as 1724 they had built a fort at Pena- cook, now Concord. But when that town was granted the next year to the proprietors from Mass- achusetts, they chose to have their own people from Haverhill and Andover, and the Irish were form- ally excluded. This restricted the latter to a loca- tion farther down the Merrimack. Among those who settled in the neighborhood of what is now Manchester were John McNeil and Archibald Stark. Both were men of strong force of character, whose descendants were destined to win renown in all the future American wars, and whose families were to be joined in marriage one hundred and fifty years later.
(I) John McNeil came from Ireland in 1718, probably from the neighborhood of Hillsborough. He was a lineal descendant of Daniel McNeil. one of the council of the city of Londonderry, who with twenty-one others placarded the resolution on the market-house, which led to the successful de- fence of the city. John McNeil inherited much of the moral and physical courage of this ancestor. Ile settled first in Londonderry. but about 1733 moved to what is now Manchester. He doubtless chose this location on account of the excellent fish- ing at AAmoskeag Falls. At that time the river abounded in salmon, shad, alewives and eels; this fishing was of the greatest importance to the early settlers. It is said that the Rev. Mr. McGregor, the Presbyterian minister at Londonderry, was the first person to visit the Falls, and discover their value as a food supply; and from this fact arose the custom of each person presenting the minister with the first results of the fishing season. John McNeil moved upon the gore known as Harrytown, and is said to have been the first white settler in what is now the thickly populated part of Man- chester. His house stood near McNeil street, about midway between Elm and Canal. John McNeil was a man of great courage and physical strength. He was six feet and six inches in height, and famed for his skill in wrestling. It is said that no man on the border, either red or white, dared risk a hand- to-hand encounter with him. This anecdote illus- trates his bodily vigor. One spring, when attempt- ing to cross the Merrimack. after the ice had be- come thin and weak. he fell in near a rock west of where now stands Amoskeag Mill, No. I. This rock is about four rods from the east bank of the
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river. With great presence of mind McNeil waded toward the shore until he could touch both the bottom and the ice. then bracing his broad shoulders he raised the ice by almost superhuman strength, and succeeded in getting out on the firm ice. For many years the rock near which he fell in was known as "old McNeil," and it was a noted guide for the rivermen. When "old McNeil" was out of siglit, six or eight "shots" of lumber could be run over Merrill's Falls. When he showed his head three inches, four "shots" could be run, and when his read was out of the water six inches, but one "she"" could be run. John McNeil's wife. Christian, seems to have been the equal of her husband in phy- sical vigor and in the qualities fitted to endure pioneer Ffe. In later days John McNeil moved a little farther up the river to Suncook. because his name is found attached to a petition there in 1747. It is probable that he lived there with John Knox. who had married his daughter, and that he died and was buried in Suncook.
( II) Lieutenant Daniel, son of John and Christian McNeil, was born in Derryfield, now Man- chester, New Hampshire. He moved to Hills- borough, New Hampshire, in 1771. The town was incorporated in 1772, and named for Colonel John Hill, of Boston, the original proprietor, who died in 1776. Daniel McNeil was elected one of the selectinen of Ilillsboro at the time of its incorpora- tion. The first bridge over the Contoocook at Hillsboro was built of wood in 1779. Some years later Daniel MeNeil was employed by the town to rebuild this bridge. Daniel McNeil's wife was called Jeanie, but her maiden name is unknown. He died by accidental drowning in 1790.
(III) Lieutenant John, son Lieutenant Daniel and Jeanie McNeil, was born in Derryfield, now Manchester. New Hampshire, in March, 1757, five years after the incorporation of the town. He moved to Hillsboro with his father. Lieutenant John McNeil served several years in the Revolution, and was a private at Bunker Hill in Captain Isaac Baldwin's company under Major Andrew McClary, of Epsom. McNeil helped to carry Captain Bald- win from the field when that officer was mortally wounded, and he also served at the battle of Ben- nington. He married Lucy, eldest daughter of Deacon Isaac and Lucy ( Perkins) Andrews, of Hillsboro. Her father was a leading man of his day. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and for many years held the office of justice of the peace whence he gained his title of 'Squire. He was the first town clerk of Hillsboro, and served on the first board of selectmen. John and Lucy (An- drews) McNeil had four children: Mary, born July 6. 1779, married James Wilson; General Solomon. whose sketch follows: General John, born March 25. 1784: and Lucy, born in April. 1786, who died in infancy. Lieutenant John McNeil died in Hills- boro. September 20, 1836, aged seventy-nine years. General John McNeil, his second son, served with distinction in the War of 1812. He was appointed captain of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment.
March 12 1812 He was soon promoted to major. and he received two brevets in twenty days. July 5 and July 25, 1814, for intrepid behavior at Chip- pewa, and distinguished valor at Lundy's Lane. He was afterwards brevetted brigadier-general. Gen- eral John McNeil remained in the service till 1830. when he retired on being appointed supervisor for the port of Boston. His right leg was badly shat- tered at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was a man of striking appearance and commanding height, be- ing six feet, six inches tall, like his grandfather, the original immigrant. General John McNeil married his cousin, Elizabeth A. Pierce, only daughter of Governor Benjamin and his first wife. Elizabeth ( Andrews) Pierce. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Their elder son. Lieuten- ant John Winfield Scott McNeil. was mortally wounded while leading an attack upon an Indian camp in Florida, and died September II, 1837. aged twenty years and six months. General John Mc- Neil died in Washington, February 23, 1850.
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