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born in Bradford, Massachusetts. October 7, 1724, married Churchill, and died March 2. 1808. Samuel, born in Boxford, Massachusetts, May 7. 1731, drowned in Squaw Harbor in 1750. Noah. whose sketch follows. After a wedded life of fifty- four years Mr. Abigail (Carlton) Worcester died July 25. 1774. aged seventy-eight years. Her hus- band subsequently married a Mrs. Martin. He died October 18, 1783, at Hollis. New Hampshire, where a tombstone records his life.
(V) Noah, fourth son and fifth and youngest child of Francis and Abigail ( Carlton) Worcester, was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, October 4. 1735, moved with his father to Hollis, New Hamp- shire, and succeeded to the possession of the home- stead where he lived until his death at the age of eighty-two. In the winter of 1775-76 he was cap- tain of a company which marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to re-inforce Washington's troops. For forty years he was a justice of the peace, and for sixty years an active member of the church. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of New Hampshire. "His strong mind, sound judgment and strict integrity, gave a valne to his counsels, which was proverbial among his fellow citizens. He was twice married. His first wife was Lydia, daughter of Abraham Taylor, of Hollis, New Hampshire, who was born October II. 1733, married, February 22, 1757, and died July 6, 1772, leaving seven children. In less than three months Captain Worcester married, Sep- tember 29. 1772, Hepzibah Sherwin, who was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, April 30, 1746. She was the mother of nine children. Of Captain Worces- ter's seven sons who lived to maturity, four be- came clergyman: the eldest daughter of his second wife married a clergyman, and another married a deacon.
The eldest of the seven children of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester was Noah, who was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, November 25, 1758. Upon the outbreak of the Revolution he enlisted as fifer in the army, being only, sixteen years old at the time. He served more than a year in all. and was present both at Bunker Hill and Bennington. He was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church at Thornton, New Hampshire, October 18, 1787, where he remained twenty-two years. In May, 1813, he moved to Brighton, Massachusetts, to assume charge of a new periodical, The Christian Disciple. He was the author of several religious essays. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartincuth in 1791, and that of Doctor of Divinity from Harvard in 18IS. Dr. Worcester was twice married. His first wife was Hannah, daugh- ter of Moses Brown, of Newburyport, Massachu- sett .. She was born May 6, 1750. married Novem- her 25, 1772. and died November 16. 1707, just after the birth of her tenth child. Six months later he married Hannah, daughter of Jeremiah Hunting- 101. it Norwich, Connecticut. Dr. Worcester died at Bright o, Massachusetts, October 31. 1838. The other children of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Wor-
cester were : Jesse, whose sketch follows. Lydia, born November 8. 1762. died January 16, 1789. Sarah, born March 24, 1765, married, May 27, 1782, John Fox, of Dracut, Massachusetts, and Hardwick, Vermont, had ten children, and died September 23, 1859. Leonard, born in Hollis. January 1, 1767, became editor and publisher of The Massachusetts Spy at Worcester, Massachusetts, pastor of the Con- gregational Church at Peacham, Vermont, Oeto- ber 30, 1700, preached there thirty-eight years; married (first ) Elizabeth Hopkins, of Hadley, Mas- sachusetts, ( second ) Eunice Woodbury, of Salem, Massachusetts, died at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, May 28, 1846. Thomas, born in Hollis, November 22, 1768, ordained over the Congregational Church at Salisbury, New Hampshire, November 9. 1791, dismissed April 24, 1823: married, March II, 1792, Deborah Lee. of Manchester, Massachusetts, and died at Salisbury, December 24, 1831. Samuel, the youngest of the seven children of Noah and Lydia ( Taylor ) Worcester, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, November 1, 1770. graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795, ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Fitchburg. Ma-sachu- setts, September 27, 1797, and dismissed, September 8 1802. He was installed pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, Massachusetts, April 20, 1803. At the first meeting of the A. B. C. F. M. he was chosen corresponding secretary. He performed the duties of these two offices, receiving the help of an assistant pastor in 1819. until his death, June 7, 1821, at Brainard, East Tennessee. He was honored by the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton College in 18II. He married, October 20, 1797, Zervia, daughter of Dr. Jonathan Fox, of Dracut, Massachusetts, and they had eleven children.
The nine children of Captain Noah Worcester and his second wife, Hepzibah ( Sherwin) Wor- cester were: Hepsibah, born June 12, 1773, married, January I, 1795. Rev. David Smith, of Hollis and Meridith, New Hampshire, died January 14, 1827. William, born December II, 1774, died January 10, 1775. William, born November 29, 1775, died Jan- uary 13, 1776. Abigail, born June 29. 1777, died November 30, 1778. David, born April 30, 1779, died March 22, 1782. Ebenezer, born April 30, 1781, was a master carpenter; married (first ) Mary, daughter of William Punchard, of Salem. (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Gerrish, of Salem. died in Stoneham, Massachusetts, September 18, 1844. Hannah, born March 17, 1783. married (first) Deacon Stephen Thurston, of Bedford, New Hampshire, and (second) Jonathan Ireland, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire. David, born March 25, 1785, died March 13. ISOS. James, born February 23, 1788, lived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and various other places, a teacher and painter ; married (first) Mary, daughter of Daniel Lawrence, of Hollis, New Hampshire, and (second) Prudence, daughter of Joseph Blood. of Harvard, Massachusetts, died May 3, 1833. Captain Noah Worcester died in Hollis, New Hampshire, August 13, 1817. His
widow died July 2, 1831.
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(VI) Jesse, second son and child of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Worcester, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, April 30, 1761. In 1776, at the age of fifteen, he accompanied the expedition to Ticonderoga, and was afterwards repeatedly en- rolled in the Continental army. He moved to Bed- ford, New Hampshire, in 1782, where he spent the first twelve years of his married life. In 1794 he came back to Hollis and succeeded to the homestead. where he lived until his death at the age of seventy- three. In 1802 he and his wife united with the church at Hollis. On the same day they presented their twelve children, six sons and six daughters, for baptism; three sons were subsequently born to them. Jesse Worcester was an occasional con- tributor to the public prints, and an author of an unpublished work, "The Chronicles of Nissitissit." He married in 1782, Sarah, daughter of Josiah Parker, of Hollis. She was born April 24, 1762, and died April 1, 1847, aged eighty-five years. Jesse Hollis died January 20, 1834. Of the fifteen children born to this couple, all but the eldest, who died at the age of twenty-seven, married and lived to mature years. The children were: Jesse, born No- vember 30, 1782, died September 25, 1809. Joseph Emerson, born August 24, 1784. Sarah, born March 12, 1786, married Daniel French, and lived in Hard- wick, Vermont. Lydia, born February 22, 1789, married. January IS, 1809, Deacon Samuel Taylor, and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. Abigail, born December 15, 1790, married Lemuel Snow, and lived in Utica, New York. Hannah, born June 22, 1792, married Francis Fuller, October 11, 1825, lived in Hardwick, Vermont, and died June 6, 1853. Leonard, born March 22, 1794. Deboralı, born May 22, 1796, married Rev. Jacob N. Loomis, September 6, 1822, and lived in Craftsbury, Ver- mont. Martha, born October 24, 1797, married Francis Fuller, February 30, 1819, and died Sep- tember 9, 1824. Taylor Gilman, born April 6. 1799. John Newton, whose sketch follows. Henry Aiken, born September 25, 1802. Samuel Thomas, born August 30, 1804. Frederick Augustus, born Jan- uary 28, 1807. David, born April 13, 1808.
The nine sons of this family present a remark- able record for erudition, which it is believed can- not be equalled by any other family in the state. The eldest died just as he was about to enter Dart- mouth. Of the other eight, six were college men, two belonging to Yale and four to Harvard. The second son, Joseph Emerson, was the author of the world famous Worcester's Dictionary. He was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, was graduated from Yale College in 1811, taught several years at Salem, Massachusetts, and after 1820 lived at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, where he produced the geo- graphies, histories and dictionaries that have made his name a household word. When in his fifty- seventh year, in June, 1841, he married Amy Eliza- beth, daughter of Dr. Joseph Mckean, professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard College. Dr. Worcester died October 27, 1865. Leonard Wor- cester was a machinist and yeoman. He lived in
Rochester, New York, Worcester and Shrew-bury. Massachusetts. He married. June 1. 1823. Sarah Sternes, of Worcester. Taylor Gilman, of the young- er Worcesters, was born in Ilollis, New Hampshire. Hle was graduated from flarvard College in 1823 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1827, was engaged for a few years in teaching and in translating "Swedenborg's True Christian Re- ligion," and in 1833 retired to the farm in Hollis which had been occupied by three earlier genera- tions of the family. He married, February 13, 1837, Lucy S., daughter of James Bell. of Walden, Ver- mont. They had six children: Mary Jane, born December 20, 1837. Lucy E., February 22, 1839, and who now lives on the old Worcester homestead. William, November 7, 1840, father of William W. Worcester, member of the junior class at Dart- mouth (1907). Henry, April 8, 1844. Hariett E., July 14, 1845. Francis J., November 1, 1848 Henry Aiken Worcester, the sixth son of Jesse, was graduated from Yale College in 1828, became a Swedenborgian minister and preached at Abing- ton, Massachusetts, and at Bath, Gardiner and Port- land, Mainc. He married, August 26, 1838, Olive, daughter of Rufus Gay, of Gardiner, Maine, and died at Portland, Maine, May 24, 1841. Samuel Thomas Worcester, the seventh son of Jesse, was graduated from Harvard College in 1830, was a lawyer at Norwalk, Ohio, from 1835 to 1867. when he removed to Nashua, New Hampshire. Ile wa- a member of the Ohio senate in 1849-50, was elected district judge in the tenth Ohio district in 1859. and while holding that office was elected to the United States congress in 1861. He was the author of many text-books and other publications, includ- ing the History of Hollis, New Hampshire, May 12, 1825 He married Mary C. F. Wales daughter of Samuel Wales, of Stoughton, Ma-sa- chusetts. Frederick Augustus, eighth son of lesse Worcester, was graduated from Harvard College in 1831. He practiced law at Townsend, Massachu- setts, and was a member of the Massachusetts legis- lature in 1856. He married, January 21, 1854, Jane M., daughter of Charles Kellogg, of Amherst, Massachusetts. David, ninth son, and youngest of the fifteen children of Jesse and Sarah Worcester, entered Harvard College in 1828, left during the junior year, and taught school in China, Farmington and Bangor, Maine. He was principal of the Bar .- gor high school for about ten years. He married. June 6, 1832, Ellen, daughter of Joseph Sewall, of Farmington.
( VII) Jolin Newton, fifth son and eleventh child of Jesse and Sarah ( Parker) Worcester, was born in Hollis. New Hampshire, February 7, 1801. lle was a farmer and lumberman. He served as select- man of his native town, and was a member of Gov- crnor Berry's council in 1861-62. In politics he was an independent. He married, December 20, 1826. Sarah E., daughter of Phineas Holden, of Charles- town, Massachusetts. She was born July 10. 18), and died January 4. 1874. They had nine children of whom four only are living in 1907. The children
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were Sarah Caroline, born October 10, 1827, married, Septen her 13. 1855. Jabez Augustus Sawyer, and lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Frances Ellen, born July 4. 1830. married August 18, 1852, Charles S. Farrar. of Pepperell, Massachusetts, and lived in Elmira. New York. Martha, born May 12. 1833. married Samuel W. Fletcher. December 6, 1868. Abby Elizabeth, born April 1. 1835. Charles Henry. born January 18, 1837, a soldier in the war of 1861- 65. John Howard, born January IS, 1839, enlisted in Company H. Seventh New Hampshire Volunteer -. was wounded in the assault on Fort Wagner where he was captured, but was soon exchanged and died on the beat coming from Charleston, South Caro- lina, to the North. Samuel Augustus, whose sketch follow -. Frederick, born August 2. 1812. Franklin. whose sketch follows. John Newton Worcester died March 5. 1884.
( VIII) Samuel Augustus, third son and seventh child of John Newton and Sarah E. ( Holden) Wor- cester. was born June 29. 1840, in Hollis, New Hampshire. He attended the public schools and the academy at New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He is a lumberman and farmer. He is also interested. with his brothers, Franklin and Frederick, in the furniture business in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has charge of the large farm which the brothers own in Hollis. In politics he is a Republican. He married Elizabeth B. Day. daughter of Rev. Pliny Butts Day. D. D., a noted divine of Hollis. They have two children: Charles Fred. born September 6. 1872. lives at home; and Carrie, born October IS, 1876. died January 21, 1892.
(VIII) Franklin, youngest of the nine children of John Newton and Sarah E. ( Holden ) Worcester, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, October 27. 1845. He attended the schools in Hollis and fitted for college at the Academy of New Ipswich. New Hampshire. He was graduated from Dartmouth in ISto. He then studied a year in Harvard Law School. taking the two years' course in one. Upon leaving school he was admitted to the bar of Mid- dle-ex county, Massachusetts. He then went to Minneapolis and was about to enter into partner- ship with Judge Atwater and the brother of Gen- eral Joseph Hooker, but he returned home for his books and was persuaded to stay by his parents. He represented his town in the state legislature of 1875, and was state senator in 1887. While in the legislature he was chairman of the railload com- mittee when the flazen-Atherton bill was intro- duced. Mr. Worcester has always been a hard worker for the interests of his section, in the legislature and out. During the sessions of 1895 and 1897 he labored earnestly for a charter for a railroad from Manchester to Milford, New Hamp- shire, but the Boston & Maine corporation defeated the movement. Later they were compelled to build the road through the force of public sentiment. llis opposition to the railroad interests in behalf of the people defeated Mr. Worcester for the nomi- nation by the Republicans for governor in the year 1808. He was practically sure of the nomination until within a week of the convention. Mr. Wor-
cester is a busy man, looking after his own varied enterprises. In partnership with his brothers Frederick and Samuel Augustus, under the firm name of Worcester Brothers, he operates a furni- ture store with an upholstery department employing about forty hands at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The brothers do a large lumbering business in New Hampshire, operating one saw mill of their own, and renting a number of others. They also carry on a large farm at the home place in Hollis.
BIGELOW This is a name found early in the New England records with a great vari- ety of spellings. In some places it is written. Biglo. Another wide variation is Begu- ley, and various forms are given by various writers of the Col nial days. The name has been well repre- sented. both as to numbers and in the character of citizenship throughout the country. It is from the Anglo-Saxon biggan (big) and hlaew. hlaw (a hill, or barrow) : the place of residence of the person who finally took it as a surname.
(I) John Bigelow was baptized in England. Feb- ruary 16. 1617, and came to Watertown, Massachu- setts, very early. He died July 14. 1703. at the age of eighty-six years. He married, in Watertown, October 30. 1042, Mary Warren, who was also a native of England. She died October 19, 1691. He married (second), in 1694, Sarah Benis. He had six sons and six daughters, and was the ancestor of numerous families of the name throughout New England. His sons were: John, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Joshua and James.
(11) Samuel, fourth son of Jolin and Mary ( Warren ) Bigelow, was born October 28. 1653. in Watertown, and was an innkeeper there from 1702 to 1716. He was admitted to full communion March 4, 1688. and was made a freeman April 16. 1690, and represented the town at the general court in 1708-09-IO. He married. June 3. 1674. Mary Flagg who was born June 14, 1657. and died September 7. 1720, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Flagg. They had ten children. nine of whom are given as fol- lows: John, Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Thomas, Martha, Hannah. Isaac and Deliverance. (Mention of Thomas and descendants forms part of this article).
( III) John (2), eldest child of Samuel and Mary ( Flagg) Bigelow, was born May 9, 1075. in Water- tuwn, and settled in Marlboro, Massachusetts. In 1705 he was at the garrison house of Mr. Thomas Sawyer, and with Sawyer and his sons was taken captive by the Indians and conveyed to Canada. Bigelow and Sawyer were both ingenious mechanics and they proposed to the governor of Montreal to ercct a saw mill, and thereby ransom themselves from captivity. This was accepted, and after they had fulfilled their part with some delays, they were permitted to return with their friends. In token of his gratitude for deliverance from captivity, Mr. Bigelow named the daughters born after his return Comfort and Freedom. He died September 28, 1709. more than ninety-four years old. lle married, June 12. 1696. Jerusha Garfield, who died January 16, 1758. Their children were: Jerusha, Thankful,
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Joseph, John, Comfort, Freedom, Anna and Gersh- om (twins), Jotham, Benjamin and Sarah.
(IV) Gershom, third son and eighth child of John (2) and Jerusha (Garfield ) Bigelow, was born November 13. 1714, in Marlboro, and died in that town, January 3, 1812, in his ninety-eighth year. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Howe. She died June 9. 1802, aged eighty-four years. Their children were: Timothy, Ivory, Mary and Anna.
(V) Ivory, second son of Gershom and Mary (Howe) Bigelow, was born October 7, 1741, in Marlboro. Massachusetts. He was a lieutenant of the militia of that town, where he died February 14, 1804. He married, August 13, 1763, Sophia Banister, daughter of John and Abigail Ban- ister. She survived her husband more than twenty-six years, and died August 13, 1830, at the age of eighty-three. Their children were: Wil- liam, Christopher, Solomon. Gershom, Martha, Abi- gail, John, Sophia, Phoebe, Mary, Anna, Ivory and Benjamin.
(VI) William, eldest child of Ivory and Sophia ( Banister) Bigelow, was born, 1764, in Marlboro, and died there December 30, 1807, in his thirty- fourth year. He married, May 14, 1786, Catherine, daughter of Antipas Brigham. She survived him more than twenty-three years, and died February 23, 1831, at the age of sixty-four. Their children were: John. Edward, Asa, Abigail, Jotham, Arti- mus, Levi, Adeline. Luther and William.
(VII) John, eldest child of William and Cather- ine ( Brigham ) Bigelow, was born October 25, 1786, in Marlboro, and died in 1824. He married, Sep- tember 3, 1800, Hepzabeth Barnes, daughter of Col- onel Lovewell Barnes. of Marlboro.
(VIII) Isabella, daughter of John and Hep- zabeth ( Barnes) Bigelow, was born December 28, 1800, in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and married, April 10, 1828, David (2) Trull. ( See Trull V).
(111) Lieutenant Thomas, fifth child and third son of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow, was born in Watertown, October 24, 1683. He married and settled in Marlboro. He afterwards moved to Waltham, where he was selectman 1738-40-41, and representative 1738 and 1741. He died in Waltham, October 6, 1756. His wil! was proved November 15, same year. He married, July 12, 1705, Mary Livermore, born April 11, 1684, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Hannah Livermore, of Watertown. She died August 14, 1753. Their children were: Thomas, Mary, Grace, Urialı, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah and Josiah, whose sketch follows.
(IV) Lieutenant Josiah, sixth son and ninth and youngest child of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary ( Livermore) Bigelow, was born in Waltham, July 3. 1730, and died in Waltham July 15, 1810, aged eighty years. He lived for a time in Waltham, and afterwards in Weston. He was prominent in town affairs and was a military man, being lieutenant of Captain Israel Whittemore's artillery company. He marched with this company on the alarm of April 19, 1775, at which time the company was in service four days. He married, July 27, 1749, Mary Har- rington, born March 8, 1730, daughter of Jonas and
Abigail (Stearns) Harrington of Watertown. Their children were : William, Anna, Uriah (died young), Converse, Eunice, Alpheus. Mary, Uriah, Thomas and Sarah.
(V) Deacon Thomas (2), ninth child and sixth son of Josiah and Mary ( Harrington) Bigelow, was born in Waltham, August 11, 1768, (probably) and died in Weston, January 23, 1856. He lived for several years in Waltham; about 1802 he moved to Weston, where he was deacon of the church for many years. He married, November 3, 1791, Mir- iam Hager, who died in Weston, August 21, 1818. He married (second), 1819, Mrs. Abigail Hastings, who died November 5, 1802. The children, all by the first wife, were:, Thomas, Maria, Orilla, Wash- ington, Isaac, Charles and Marshall.
(VI) Isaac, fifth child and third son of Deacon Thomas (2) and Miriam ( Hager) Bigelow, was born in Weston, Massachusetts. March 19, 1802. and died in Charlestown, May 8, 1849. He mar- ried, October 2, 1823, Harriet Warren of Lincoln, who died February 18, 1852. The children were: Isaac Alonzo, Harriet Maria, Mary Caroline. Susan E. and Thomas Henry. Isaac A., born March 21, 1825, married Nell C. Munroe. Harriet M., Sep- tember 29, 1827; married, January 4. 1848, Henry P. Hall of Chelsea. Mary C .. August 10, 1831; married, December 13, 1853, Hiram Rollins. Susan E., April 20, 1837, married, November 16, 1861, Hon. Joshua G. Hall of Dover, New Hampshire. ( See Hall VI). Thomas H., October. 1839; en- listed May 23, 1861, in the First Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served as ser- geant of Company H, was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, and died from his injuries, June 2, 1863.
This name is first found at Lynn, DIMOND Massachusetts, and is soon trans- ported to New Hampshire, where it has had worthy representatives in various localities down to the present day. It has always been nu- merously represented in southern Maine and along the New Hampshire coast.
(I) Israel Dimond was a resident of Amesbury, Massachusetts, where he married, January 5, 1691, Abiell Prowse, daughter of John and Hannah ( Barnes) Prowse. He is recorded as of Boston in 1000, and died November 13. 1716, in Amesbury. Ilis will was dated nine days previously, and was proven in May following. Ilis widow married, No- vember II, 1718, Richard (3) Bartlett, of Ames- bury. Israel Dimond's children were: Hannah, Reuben and Elizabeth.
(II) Reuben. only son of Israel and Abiell ( Prowse) Dimond, was born February 8, 1695, in Amesbury, and married, December 20, 1721, Dorothy Worthen, daughter of Thomas, and granddaughter of Ezekiel Worthen, of Amesbury. Her mother was Hannah ( Annis) Worthen. She was born October 5, 1700 (Amesbury records say 1090). When the province line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was located in 1741. many residents of Amesbury found themselves in the latter colony. On
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the organization of the town of South Hampton in 1742, Reuben Dimond was elected town clerk, and the records bear frequent repetition of his name. It is not probable that he was a member of the church, as no records appear in the archives of that body pertaining to him or his children. At that date people were growing liberal, and one might be a voter and hold office who was not a church member. In April and May, 1746, he was a soldier in a company of scouts under command of Captain John Goffe. and he served as selectman, as well as clerk, of South Hampton. He died about 1770. His will, on record at Concord, was dated April 1. 1764, and the bond of the executor is dated December 26, 1770. This instrument shows him to have been in posses- sion of large tracts of land. To his son Israel, of Kingston, he gives land in that town; to son Eze- kiel, land in Concord; and son Isaac, of Exeter, received land in that town. There were four daugh- ters living in 1764, namely: Hannah, Dorothy. Ju- dith (wife of Joseph French) and Miriam ( Mrs. Benjamin Tewksbury ).
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