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( III) Ezekiel, second son of Reuben and Dorothy ( Worthen ) Dimond, was born in South Hampton (then Amesbury, Massachusetts), about 1725, and continued to reside there until about 1750. His wife, Miriam (Fowler) Dimond, was born about 1727, and was baptized in the South Hampton Church, January 15, 1740. In the following year Mr. Dimond settled at Concord. He was the first settler on the farm now owned by Isaac N. Abbott, on what has ever since been called Dimond Hill, and became an extensive land owner. He built a log house on the brow of the hill.
During the period of Indian alarms he and lus family often lived in the garrison around the house of Rev. Mr. Walker in the village of Rumferd (Concord). As these alarms were frequent they often moved back and forth between the farm and the fort. Once when alarmed by Indians Mrs Dimond had a web in her loom. and she took out the yarn beam and wound the reed and harness about it and carried it to the fort and wove it there. Ezekiel Dimond was surveyor of highways, 1768 to 1777, inclusive; tyth- ingman, 1772 to 1775; constable, 1778; petit juror, twice in 1779: and selectman in 1779. Mr. Dimond and his wife were well educated for the times, and taught their children so successfully that they could read, write and cipher well. Some of the older children never went to school over six weeks. They learned to write lying on the cabin floor, using pitch pine knots for candles and birch bark instead of pa- per. Ezekiel Dimond and his wife were members of Parson Walker's Church. Mr. Dimond died Feb- ruary 22, 1800, aged seventy-five; and his wife April. 1800, aged eighty-two. The first person bur- ied in the burying ground at Millville is said to have been Mrs. Sally, first wife of John Dimond, about 1797. Ezekiel Dimond was the second.
Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond were the parents of ten children-seven sons and three daughters ; two of whom died in infancy. Four of the sons were in the Revolutionary war; one of them was out three years, and the others out a few months at
a time. All the sons except one lived to be over seventy years of age, and two were between eighty and ninety. Their second child, a daughter, lived to be over seventy-five. The names of eight of the children are given as follows: Ezekiel, Isaac, John, Reuben, Abner, Miriam. Israel and Jacob. ( Mention of Reuben and descendants appears in this article ).
(!\') John, third son of Ezekiel and Mary ( Fowler ) Dimond, was born 1764, in Concord, where he died April 14, IS30. He married (first) Sarah Emerson, who died April 4, 1798, and her body was the first deposited in the cemetery at Millville. Concord. He married ( second ) Mary Quig Stevens. His children, all born of the first wife, were: David, Dolly, Miriam, Sarah, Isaac, John, Samuel, Elizabeth. Children by second wife were Ruth, Abigail, Mary and Benjamin.
(V) Samuel, fourth son and seventh child of John and Sarah (Emerson) Dimond, was born July 29, 1794, in Concord, and was reared on his father's farm in that town. He learned the cooper's trade which he followed for some years, and sub- sequently engaged in merchandising, having a store at West Concord. After a successful year he sold ont and removed to a farm which was long occu- pied by his descendants. He married, August 17, 1822, Susan Blanchard, born March 1, 1795. widow of Samuel Blanchard, and daughter of Reuben and Mary (Currier) Dimond. (See Reuben IV). He died in 1866, and was survived by his widow for eleven years. She passed away December 23, 1877. Their children were: George. Esther ( died young ), Oral, John S .. A. Lucilla, Esther F., Reuben O., Clara A., William R., Mary S., Susan and Ellen 11.
(VI) George, son of Samuel and Susan ( Di- mond) (Blanchard ) Dimond, born at West Con- cord, 1823, married, January, 1851, Mary Chandler, of Saco, Maine. Their children are : I. Thomas C., born January, 1852, died unmar- ried in Brooklyn, New York, 1884. 2. Susan J., born June, 1853, married, April 29, 1885, Howard L. Aiken, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; no family. 3. Samuel G., born October, 1855, unmar- ried. 4. Oral H., born 1857, died December, 1891. 5. Mary Elizabeth, born April 10, 1860, married George S. Lovejoy, of Boston, have two sons, George H., born September, 1885: William M., born November, 1886.
(VD) Oral has not been heard of since 1844, was then in California.
(VI) John S., son of Samuel and Susan (Di- mond ) ( Blanchard) Dimond, born February 25, 1828, married, 1853, Eliza Williams, of Georgetown. Maine. They have one son, William T., born December, 1860, married, in 1888, Jennie Hunkins ; they have one daughter, Ina Esther.
(VI) A. Lucilla, daughter of Samuel and Susan ( Dimond) (Blanchard ) Dimond, born January 25. 1830, married, January 21, 1859, W. W. Hunt, who died 1893. They had one child, Mary S., born February 10. 1860.
(VI) Esther F., daughter of Samuel and Susan ( Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, was born April
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24. 1832, in Concord, and married, November 21, 1806, Albert P. Morrison, of Boston, Massachusetts, whom she survives, and now resides in Salisbury. ( See Morrison ).
(VI) Reuben O., son of Samuel and Susan (Dimond) ( Blanchard) Dimond, born in Concord, May 16, 1834, married (first) Mary Boothby, of Maine. Married (second) Margaret -, and resides in Elmira. New York.
(\'1) William R., son of Samuel and Susan (Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born December 22, 1837, married. November 10, 1869. Emma A. Donger. He served in the Sixteenth New Hamp- shire Volunteers in the Civil war. Died at New- ton, Lower Falls, Massachusetts, September, 1896. No family.
(VI) Mary S., daughter of Samuel and Susan (Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born November 10, 18440, married, March 22. 1865, Charles G. Green- leaf. Their children: Anna L., born March 19, 1868, Carl D., born July 27, 1876.
(VI) Ellen H., daughter of Samuel and Susan (Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born June 29, 1845. married Fred. A. Horr. No family.
(IV) Reuben, son of Ezekiel and Miriam (Fow- ler) Dimond, was born on Dimond Hill. about 1755, and died November 17, 1825. He was a mem- ber of Rev. Mr. McFarland's First Congregational Church, but not at first a supporter of the pastor. He was a quiet citizen, devoting most of his time and attention to his own business; was a farmer and passed the greater part of his life in Concord, on a farm west of Long Pond He married, 1780, Mary Currier, born about 1757, died March, 1846, at Concord, New Hampshire. Their children were : Sarah, Esther. William, Daniel, Hannah, Jacob, Molly, Judith, Susan, Zilpha and Oral. The young- est of these died at the age of fifty, while the others lived to be from seventy to ninety years of age. Susan became the wife of Samuel Dimond (see Samuel).
(V) Jacob, sixth child and third son of Reuben and Mary (Currier) Dimond, was born in Con- cord. September 5, 1789, and died April 15, 1879. aged almost ninety years. He lived on a farm on West Parish road, which contained about seventy acres. After attending the common schools, Jacob Dimond went to Boscawen and learned the trade of wheelwright. For years he had a small shop on his farm where he made wheels for spin- ning flax. until their manufacture by machinery ruined his business, when he turned his attention to the making of carriage wheels. He was indns- trious and thrifty and gradually added to his landed property, till at the time of his death he was the proprietor of a goodly number of acres. In politics he was a Whig, and served one or two terms in the legislature. He was a member of the North Church and a charter member of the West Concord Church. He married Rose Abbot, daughter of Ezra Abbot, of Concord, and they had one child, Elbridge.
(VI) Elbridge, only son of Jacob and Rose (Abbot) Dimond, was horn August 4, 1818. and died on his farm, December 24. 1002. He acquired
a common school education and lived on the farm with his father. which he assisted in cultivating, and also learned the wheelwright's trade from his father. In 1863 he came into possession of the paternal homestead, to which he added by various purchases. There the remainder of his life was spent. He was a life-long member of the Congre- gational Church. He was a Republican after the rise of that party, and was selectman one term; alderman in 1857 and 1858, and represented ward three of Concord in the legislature in 1859-60. He married. April 11, 1843, Jeannette Hoit, daughter of Enoch and Mary ( French) Hoit, born January 24, 1823, died September 23, 1895. Mr. Hoit was the owner of a large farm a short distance from the Dimond farm on "Horse Ilill." The children born of this marriage were: Gilman Hoit, born May 31, 1844. and Frank E.
(VII) Frank Elbridge, son of Elbridge and Jeanette (Hoit) Dimond, was born September 21, 1860, and was educated in the common schools and academy at Penacook. He then returned to the paternal homestead where he has since resided. This farm contains two hundred acres, has good buildings, is well improved and well stocked. The house was built in 1858 and the barn in 1894. Mr. Dimond is an energetic, prosperous farmer, and takes an active part in public matters. He was select- man for his ward for two years, served two years each in the common council and the board of alder- men, for ward three. He is a Republican, and is a member of the Congregational Church. He was one of the constituent members of Penacook Park Grange, No. 84. Patrons of Husbandry, at West Concord, in which he still retains his membership. He was its second master, and many years secretary. He married, June 14, 1883, Mattie E. Carter, daughter of Au- gustine and Sarah E. (Restieaux) Carter. She was born in Hopkinton, March 3, 1861. (See Carter, VID). They have one son: Oliver Carter, born October 1, 1888. graduated in 1906, at Durham, in the two years course.
WIGGIN The frequent appearance of this name in the records of Rockingham county indicates that it was borne hy im- portant and useful citizens, but the meagreness of those records renders it very difficult to follow any line of descent with certainty or satisfaction. The following, however, can be relied upon as accurate, a record of the carcers of worthy people.
(I) Captain Thomas Wiggin, came from Shrewsbury, England, and settled in New Hamp- shire in 1630. He had a large grant of land which lay outside of any organized territory, and was known as Squamscott. an Indian name. From 1656 to 1692, he paid taxes in Hampton, and was regarded as attached to that town. The territory is now a part of Stratham, and the records of this town show that a large portion of the inhabitants bore the name down to a very recent date.
In 1631 he was appointed agent and superintend- ent of the Dover plantation. Whether or not he came over with Winthrop has not been definitely determined,
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but he was very intimate with the Massachusetts Bay governor, who wrote in the highest terms of his ability and worth. That Wiggin was considered a man of more than ordinary account is evidenced by the fact that he was placed in charge of the Up- per Plantation (so called), which embraced Diver, Durham and Stratham, with a portion of Newing- ton and Greenland. In the records he is referred to as governor and evidently exercised the full power of a colonial chief magistrate. In 1632 he was sent to England in the interests of the colony and "did much to avert the evils that threatened it from the enmity of Gorges and Mason." Upon his return he was accompanied by several families, in- cluding people of some account, and, as another record adds, others "of no account." He retained his office until 1636, when he was succeeded by George Burdette, but for a number of years after- wards he was closely identified with the public affairs of the colony, and upon its union with Mas- sachusetts he was appointed a magistrate. In 1645 he was deputy to the general court from Dover, and from 1650 to 1664 was one of the assistants to the governor of Massachusetts, being the only one from New Hampshire. His death occurred about the year 1667. The Christian name of his wife was Catherine, and it was supposed that he married her in England during his visit there in 1632 and 33. They had children baptized September 26, 1641. under the names of Andrew, Mary and Thomas. Descendants of Governor Wiggin are quite numerous in New Hampshire as well as in the other New England states, and not a few of them possess to a more or less degree the strong characteristics of their sturdy Puritan ancestors.
(II) Andrew, the elder son of Governor Thomas and Catherine Wiggin, was born about the year 1635. At the time of his marriage his parents gave him a deed of "all our land called or known by the name of Quamscott, being three miles square or thereabouts," in the neighborhood of Exeter, this state. Andrew does not appear to have been much in public life; in fact the most interesting thing about his career was his marriage, which took place about the year 1659 to Hannah Bradstreet, daughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet, of' Andover, Massa- chusetts. Hannah Bradstreet's mother was Ann Dudley, a daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, who was celebrated for her accomplishments and practical gifts. A small volume of her verse was published. probably one of the first offerings to the mass, issued in this country. The deed of the tract of land called "Quamscott," was given to the newly married couple by Governor Wiggin and his wife, June 4, 1663. Andrew and Hannah ( Bradstreet) Wiggin had nine children: Thomas, Simon, men- tioned below ; Andrew, Jonathan Bradstreet, Abigail, Mary, Dorothy, Sarah, and another daughter whose christian name is unknown, but who became the wife of Samuel Wentworth. ( Mention of Brad- street and descendants appears in this work). An- drew Wiggin died in 1710 at the age of seventy-five, and his wife died about three years earlier.
(III) Simon, second son of Andrew and Han- nah (Bradstreet) Wiggin, was born April 17, 1664.
The name of his first wife, the mother of his three children, is unknown. His second wife, the widow of Robert Tufton, was his first cousin, originally Catherine Wiggin, daughter of Thomas and grand- daughter of Governor Thomas Wiggin. Prior to the second marriage Captain Simon Wiggin made a marriage contract with his cousin Catherine. In this document, dated October 29, 1703, he agrees to take her "out of pure love and without anything be- side her person." This would seem to indicate that her first husband might have left her considerable property, as Catherine Wiggin formally relin- quishes any claim upon it. Mrs. Catherine Wiggin in her will speaks of her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Walter Philbrick, and also of three grandsons, two of whom bore the name of Tufton, indicating that she had a married son. The children of Captain Simon Wiggin were: Ilannah, Deborah, mentioned below, and Lieutenant Simon. Captain Simon died about the year 1720, and his widow, Mrs. Catherine Wiggin. survived him about eighteen years.
(IV) Deborah, second daughter and child of Captain Simon and his first wife, was born about 1700, and married Nathan Goss, of Stratham, New Hampshire. (See Goss I).
(III) Bradstreet, fifth son of Andrew (2) and Hannah (Bradstreet) Wiggin, was born in 1676, in Squamscott and resided in that district. He was married in Hampton, August 25, 1697, to Ann Chase, who was born January 9, 1678, in Hampton. daugh- ter of Joseph and Rachel (Partridge) Chase, and granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Philbrick) Chase, of Hampton (see Chase, V). Their eldest child was born at Exeter, and all are recorded at Hampton, namely: Chase, Thomas, Elizabeth and Joseph.
(IV) Joseph, youngest child of Bradstreet and Ann ( Chase) Wiggin, was born March 30, 1707. in Stratham, and resided in that town. The baptismal name of his first wife was Susanna. and their chil- dren are recorded in Stratham as follows: Joseph, David, Benjamin, Chase and Martha. His second wife was named Patience, and their children were: Paul, Noah, Susanna, Anna, Jonathan, William, Elizabeth, Thomas and Patience. No record of either marriage appears. The first wife died before 1754, (probably before 1753), as the first child of the second wife was born in February, 1754.
(V) Benjamin, third son of Joseph and Sus- anna Wiggin. was born February 14, 1743, in Stratham and made his home in his native town. No record of his marriage can be found but it is shown that his wife was Hannah Parsons. No children are found in public records, but it is a matter of family knowledge that they had a son Mark.
(VI) Mark Wiggin, son of Benjamin and Han- nah ( Parsons ) Wiggin, was born in Stratham. He married, August 5, 1807, Huldah Swett, at Moulton- borough. Both are registered as Tuftonborough. Their children were: Hannah, Zorada, Mary, Charles, Ann, William, John, Julia and Emily. Zoroda married Benjamin Abbott (see Abbott. I]) ; Mary married Charles Edgerly; Charles M. mar- ried a Miss Piper; John T. married Mehitable
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Wiggin : Julia became the wife of Jonathan L. Mor- rison ; and Emily, wife of Augustus McIntyre.
(VII) William, sixth child of Mark and Huldah (Swett) Wiggin, was born in Tuftonborough and was a farmer. William Wiggin and Dolly Snell, of Tuftonborough, were married December 1, 1814, by Rev. Isaac Townsend, of Wolfboro. Their children were: Woodbury, Abigail, Elizabeth. Wil- liam, Polly, John L., Vesta, Isaiah S., George Dana and - (twins), and Joseph A.
(VIII) William (2), fourth child of William (1) and Dolly (Snell) Wiggin, was born in Tufton- borough, and was a lifelong farmer. Like his an- cestors he was a diligent laborer, a good citizen and the father of a goodly family. He married Ann Wiggin, a daughter of Mark and Huldah (Swett) Wiggin. and they had: Edward, deceased: Louise. now Mrs. Benjamin Lucas; Laura, unmarried. a resident of Wolfborough; Rev. Frederick \., pastor of Unity Church. Boston: and Elizabeth, who mar- ried Charles Johnson.
(I) Daniel Wiggin was a native of Stratham where he spent his life in farming. He was mar- ried to Deborah Wiggin by Rev. James Miltimore, of Stratham, August 7. 1794. Their children were: John A., Daniel, Thomas Jefferson. James Madison, Nancy, Maria and Eliza, all of whom are buried in Lakeview cemetery. Wolfborough.
(II) James Madison, fourth son and child of Daniel and Deborah (Wiggin) Wiggin, was born and died in Wolfborough, where he was a successful farmer and a respected citizen. James M. Wiggin. of Wolfborough, and Carolina B. Wiggin. daughter of James and Ruth (Varney ) Wiggin, of Tufton- borough, were married by Thomas Rust, justice of the peace, of Wolfborough, December 15, 1831. They were the parents of George Wiggin, of Tufton- borough. and Eliza C. Wiggin, who married Benja- min K. Webster ( see Webster, HI).
(I) Henry Wiggin was married. March 31. 1765. to Lydia Shute, daughter of Michael Shute, whose wife's maiden name was Welthon. Lydia ( Shute) Wiggin died July 22, 1784. Her children were : Michael, born 1765; Henry, 1767: Lydia ( died young), Welthon, Susanna, Elizabeth and Lydia.
(II) Henry (2), second son of Henry ( 1) and Lydia (Shute ) Wiggin, was born January 5, 1767. He was married June 29, 1797, in Wakefield. New Hampshire, to Betsey Clark, who was born Decem- ber 31, 1770, and died November 25, 1836.
(III) Levi Barker, son of Henry and Betsey (Clark) Wiggin, was born March 10. 1811. in Wakefield, and went from that town to Jackson, where he was an industrious farmer. He was a descendant of Governor Thomas Wiggin through the latter's son Andrew. and therefore belonged to the Stratham branch of the family. The maiden name of his wife is not at hand, neither is a list of his children, of whom there were nine.
(II) Henry, son of Barker Levi Wiggin, was born in Jackson in 1845. Ile was a stone-mason by trade, and followed that occupation in connection with farming for a greater part of his active life. A kind-hearted, generous man, he was a universal favorite in Jackson, and his death, which occurred
there in 1901. was the cause of sincere regret trong his large circle of friends and acquaintance- He married. October 25, 1863, Mary B. Trickey, daugh- ter of Captain Joshua H. Trickey, and reared a family of three children, namely : Martha E .. Alice T. (who is now the wife of Brackett Hurling. manager of the General Wentworth estate), and Henry M., M. D., of Whitefield.
(III) IIenry Mayhew, M. D., youngest child and only son of Henry and Mary B. (Trickey ) Wiggin. was born in Jackson. December 14, 1868. From the public schools of his native town he went to the Bridgton (Maine) Academy, and although forced to earn the sum necessary for his tuition and expenses, thereby being obliged to absent hin- self one term each year. he pursued the regular course in three years. He subsequently pursued a scientific and a commercial course, and decided to enter the medical profession as a homoeopath he became a student in the medical department of the Boston University, graduating in 1895. A few days after graduating he went to Whitefield, where for the ensuing six years he was attached to Dr Mor- rison's Hospital and in connection with the position on the regular staff of that institution he has prac- ticed his profession in that town, doing a general practice. Since leaving the university his profes- sional progress has been both rapid and substantial and in addition to being a skillful operator he has attained a high reputation as an expert in the diag- nosis of diseases. Dr. Wiggin is a member of the New Hampshire State Homoeopathic and the Coos County medical societies, and the American Insti- tute of Homoeopathy. For a period of hve years he lias served as state medical examiner. He affiliates with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Order of Elks. He married, November 6, 1895, Georgiana I. Russell. daughter of George A. Russell, of Dorchester. Massachusetts, and his two sons, Chester Henry and Russell Mor- rison.
WIGGIN This Wiggin family, which is of Fng- lish origin, went to Bedford from East Boston some forty years ago, and has ever since been identified with the dairying industry of that town.
(I) John Thomas Wiggin resided in North Chelsea (now Revere), Massachusetts, He was a farmer. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Ann Hatch. Their children were: Sarah, George H. and John T.
(II) George Hatch, second child and elde -: son of John Thomas and Mary Ann ( Hatch) Wiggin, was born in North Chelsea, May 22, 1830. When a young man he became a section hand on the Grand Junction railway, over which is transported all of the freight from the various lines entering Boston to the East Boston terminal, and he rose to the position of road-master. He was also employed for some time in the warehouse connected with the foreign steamship lines. In 1866 he moved his fam- ily from East Boston to Bedford, where he pur- chased jointly with his brother-in-law, Henry Tay-
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lor, the old Bedford Poor Farm, and was thence forward engaged in the milk business for some years. He lived on the farm until his death, which occurred October 28, 1801, He was quite active in political affairs, serving as a delegate to the Republi- can state convention in 1888, but was best known as an amateur musician, playing the flute with un- usual ability, and sang in the church choir for many years. He was past master of Hammet Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of several other Masonic bodies, and a charter member of Narragansett Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. September 28, 1855, he married Mary Ann Taylor, who was born in England, June 30, 1828, daughter of William and Emily (Harper) Taylor, the former of whom served in the British army for a period of twenty years and participated in the famous battle of Waterloo. She became the mother of seven chil- dren. five of whom were born in East Boston, namely: Sarah Elizabeth, born August 12, 1856; George Henry, the date of whose birth will be given presently : Charles Hatch, born August 12, 1860; William Lawrence, born August 14, 1862 (died September 20, 1863) ; and Walter Cleveland, born June 2, 1865 (died August 21, 1874). The others were Charlotte Taylor, born in Bedford April 6, 1868 (died August 15, 1869) ; and Albert, born in Bedford July 4, 1872 (died January 23, 1873).
(III) George Henry, second child and eldest son of Geogre H. and Mary A. (Taylor) Wiggin, was born in East Boston, June 23, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and Bed- ford. He acquired a knowledge of dairy farming while assisting his father, and still carries on the homestead farm. Some twenty years ago he became associated with his brother, Charles H., in the milk business, which they are now conducting on an ex- tensive scale, owning eight hundred acres of land and handling the product of eighty cows. His po- litical affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of Narragansett Grange, in which latter he has held some of the important offices. He attends the Presbyterian Church. April 30, 1887, he was united in marriage with Mary Florence Minot, who was born in Manchester, September I, 1867, daughter of William Henry and Mary Ella (Walker) Minot. The children of this union are : Alice Elizabeth, born December 14, 1888; Ralph Minot, born July 16, 1890; Charlotte Mary, born November 26, 1892; George Taylor, born July 26, 1895: Charles Arthur, born October 16, 1897; Ruth Louise. born October 27, 1899; and James Walker, born August 23, 1901.
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