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 39

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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Here Palmer became the owner of about twelve hundred aeres of land, part of which lay on the eastern slope of Togwonk. crossing Auguilla brook. Walter Palmer made his will May 19, 1658 (o. s.), which was approved by the general court May 11, 1662. He married ( first ). in 111-22


England. Ann . why is said to be been called Elizabeth, to distinguish her from her mother. 11. married (second), probably in Roxbury, Massachu setts, Rebecca Short. She had been admitted & member of Rev. John Eliot's First Church. She and her husband and his daughter, Grace Palmer, together joined the First Church of Charlestown, in 1632. The children by the first wife were: Grace, John, William, Jonas and Elizabeth. By the sec- ond : Hannah, Elihu, Nehemiah, Moses, Benjamin, Gershom and Rebecca.


(Il) Jonas, fourth child and third son of Wal- ter and Elizabeth (or Ann) Palmer, whose date of birth is unknown, died in Rehoboth, June 22. 1709. By the terms of his father's will he in- herited one-half of the farm in Rehoboth, then in Plymouth county, now in Bristol county, Massacliu- setts. He married (first), in Rehoboth, May 3. 1655, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Grissell ( Gri -- wold), of Charlestown, formerly of Cambridge. Massachusetts. She was buried in Rehoboth. February 11, 1692, and he married (second), No- vember 9, 1692, Abigail ( Carpenter) Titus, widow of John Titus. She died in Rehoboth, March 5. 1700. The children by the first wife were : Hannah, Samuel, Jonas, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha and Grace. (111) Samuel (1), eldest son and second child of Jonas and Elizabeth (Grizzell) Palmer, was born in Rehoboth, November 20, 1659, and died in Wind ham, November 18, 1743, aged eighty-four year -. He served under Major William Bradford in the Narragansett Swamp fight, in 1676. In 1701, witht John Ormsby, Daniel and Nathaniel Fuller, all bi Rehoboth, he bought land in that part of Windham, Connecticut, called "Scotland." March 17. 1702, he sold his house, barn and orchards, home lot, all el forty-three acres, together with six and one-half acres of his west pasture, sixteen acres at Watcha- mocket Neck, two and a half acres of salt marsh. and one acre of swamp land. His will, dated July 11, 1728 (0. s) is on record in Willimantic. Hc married in Rehoboth, December 29, 1680, Elizabeth Kinsley, who was born in Rehoboth, January 20. 1662, daughter of Eldad and Mehitable (Frenchi ) Kinsley: she died in Windham, May 16, 1717; he married (second), December 6, 1727, Ann Durgy, who died February 17, 1761, aged eighty year -. Samuel and Elizabeth had twelve children named as follows: John (died young), Samuel, Jolin (died young), Mehitable, Nehemiah, Benoni, Mary. Seth. Elizabeth, Ebenezer, Merey and Eleazer.


(IV) Samuel (2), second son and child of Samuel (1) and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Palmer, wa- born in Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts. January 4, 1683. December 7, 1741, Samuel Palmer. Jr., with his son. Samuel Palmer (3rd). sold eighty acres of land in Windham. December 17, 1745. Samuel Palmer sold for one hundred and twenty pounds one-half of his lot of land in Windham, to- gether with his dwelling house. to his son, Aaron Palmer. January 9, 1743, Samuel Palmer, 1 ... sold to his father for two hundred pounds th . south half of the land he bought of Daniel Stough- ton. April 7, 1748, he sold for one thousand fiv hundred and fifty pounds one hundred and ten acres of land in Windham and Canterbury. Samuel Palmer married, in Windham, April 8. 1707, Heper- beth Abbe, who was born in Salem village, pun Danvers, Massachusetts, February 14. Hay. Caroline


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of Samuel and Hannah ( Silsby) Abbe. They had eleven children : Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Ebenezer, Ichabod, Zebulon, John, Aaron, Moses, Elizabeth and .\n.


(V) Samuel (3). third child and oldest son of Samuel (2) and Ilepsebeth ( Abbe) Palmer, was born in Windham township, September IS, 1711. On December 7, 1741, he, with his father, sold Lighty acres of land in the township to Philemon Wood, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Together with his father, his unele Seth Palmer, and their many relations who had lived in that part of the town- «lup which had been incorporated as the South or Flird Parish of Windham, he embarked in what- ver projects were advanced for social, political and i.ocial prosperity. When the great colonization Creme was started in the state he seems to have ocen among the foremost in embracing it. Novem- jer 23, 1837, the general assembly of New Haven ordered the sale of the townships bordering on the Housatonie river, in the western part of Connecti- out. In that portion of this territory lying along the banks of the "great river in Kent," where the country was fertile and beautiful, Ebenezer Palmer, on November 9, 1750, bought for one hundred and twenty-two pounds ten shillings, lot thirty-mine, in the First Division of the Remarque Reserve, which was the beginning of the family migration. March 27, 1754, Samuel Palmer, of Mansfield (another strip set off from old Windham township), bought from his brother, Ebenezer, one hundred acres of land in Kent. February 4. 1754, Ichabod Palmer, of Kent, sold to Samuel. of Windham. By 1750 he was settled in Kent, and on January 21, 1761, Samuel Palmer, of Kent, bought land of various per-ons and sold all to Francis Tracy, of Preston. A great deal of his land lay along mountain slopes, and was rich in soil, bearing much timber, and containing various quarries, later opened. Here he spent his last years. Samuel Palmer married, in Windham, January 13, 1739, Lydia Silsby, who was born in Windham, April 11, 1716, and died in Mans- field, 111 1753, aged thirty-seven. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Allen Silsby. Ile married second, probably in Warren, Tabitha The children, all by the first wife, were: Elijah, Nathaniel, Ezekiel. Lydia, Elnathan and Stephen.


(VI) Elnathan, fifth . child and fourth son of Samuel (3) and Lydia ( Silsby) Palmer, was born in Mansfield, Windham county, Connecticut, August 20, 1750, and died August 1. 1823, aged seventy- three. In 1772 he bought a tract of land in Plain- field, Connecticut. January 13, 1789, he bought for three hundred pounds the tract of land where his father, Samuel Palmer, then lived in Warren. El- nathan then lived in Orford, Grafton county, New Hampshire. On the same date Elnathan, for twenty pounds paid by his father, gave a deed of the house where the latter then lived, together with one-half the orchard and of a sixty-acre lot in Warren, and bound himself to leave his father in quiet pos- session thereof during his natural life, and that of luis then wife Tabitha, if she survive hun, and as long as she remained a widow. April 2, 1793, El- nathan Palmer, of Warren, Connecticut, sold lots 4, 24 and 25 of land, reserving two acres for his laughter Luey. He was one of the proprietors of the town of Richmond, New Hampshire, when the general court gave them as an equivalent the town ct Turner, Maine, but he does not seem ever to


have been a resident of either place. April 7, 1803, Elnathan Palmer, of Warren, gave a deed of one- half of his farm to his sons, Jesse and Samuel, "for their settlement in life." He is said to have removed to Ohio. He married, while in New Hamp- shire, Jemima Strong, of Lyme, New Hampshire, who died June 28, 1815. Their children were : Jesse, Samuel, Madison and Luey.


(VII) Samuel (4), second son and child of El- nathan and Jemima ( Strong) Palmer, was born in Deering. February 13, 1799, and died in Grafton, Massachusetts. He carried on farming and stock raising in Deering nearly all his life. A few years before his death he removed to Grafton, Massachu- setts. He married, in Deering, New Hampshire, Rhoda Chase, who was born in London, April 13, 1805. died in Worcester, Massachusetts, March, 1900, aged ninety-five years. Their children were: Isaac D, Alfred, Alvida, Levi, William, Elizabeth, Callista, Louisa M., Amentha C., and Minerva C.


( Vill) Levi, fourth child and third son af Samuel (4) and Rhoda ( Chase) Palmer, was born in Deering, March 5, 1830. He obtained his edu- cation in the common schools, and remained on the farm until he went to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he entered the mills. After three years he began shoemaking, which he followed about fifteen years. He then removed to Manchester, and engaged in the plumbing business in 1808, in which he continued until 1897, when he sold out and retired to a farm it Dunbarton, where he still resides. In polities he is a Democrat. Ile married (first), at Grafton, Frances Hildreth, who died in Manchester, in 1884. lle married (second) Mary Hoyt. By his first wife he had nine children : Edward, deceased ; George, deceased; Frederick, deceased; Jennie ; Charles Edward, deceased; Florence; Walter L .; Frank; and Eva, deceased. These living all reside in Manchester.


(IX) Walter L., seventh child and fifth son of Levi and Frances ( Hildreth) Palmer, was born in Manchester, July 19, 1808. He was educated in the common schools of that city, and at the age of twenty-two took the position of clerk in the Windsor Hotel, which he filled for two years. The following year he was clerk in Clarke's Hotel in Boston, which he left to take a similar position in the Manchester House, Manchester. four years. In 1887 he went to Concord, and for six years was clerk at the Eagle Hotel, from which he returned to Manchester, and took his old place at the Man- chester House. He is a Republican in politics. He 1- a member of the Eureka Lodge. No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons, of Concord, and also of Agawam Tribe, No. 8, Improved Order of Red Men, of Manchester. He married, in Manchester, 11 1805. Katherine Alice Gaffigan, Forn in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, December 20, 1872, and they have one child, Francis, boin February 8, 1896, in Manchester.


APPLIN This name is in all probability of Eng- lish origin, and it has been asserted that it was formerly ilentical with that of Appleton, but this belief seems to have been erroneous. The family has been identified with Swanzey for nearly one hundred and fifty years, and is therefore one of the oldest in that town. Its representatives have been chiefly farmers and me- chanics, and at least one of them sacrificed his life


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111 til defense of the union during the civil (1) The first ancestor in America of whom there is any authentic record was John Applin, but whether he was an immigrant or not has never been ascertained. lle was residing in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1671, in which year he married Bethusa Bartlett, born April 17. 1647, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Ilannah Bartlett, the former of whom was an original proprietor. Ile was a schoolmaster, and therefore a man of prominence. An entry in the records of Groton, Massachusetts, made in April, 1703, states that John Applin was requested by the town to "keep a school" there, but there is no further mention of him in these records. It is known, however, that he went to reside in Littleton, Massachusetts, and an item in the Watertown records states that John Applin, an aged man, arrived there from Littleton in 1725. showing that he was living in that year. His wife died October 8, 1692. Their children were: John, died at the age of eighteen years; Bethusa, Mary, Hannah, Thomas and Edward (twins), Abial, Martha, Mchitabel, and another John.


(II) John (2), youngest child of John (1) and Bethusa ( Bartlett) Applin, was born (probably) in Watertown, May 3, 1692. He was a blacksmith, and in 1727 went from Watertown to Palmer, Mas- sachusetts, where he followed his trade for many years. He was married in Watertown, and the Christian name of his wife was Rebecca. His chil- dren were: Thomas, Edward, John, Ebenezer, Sarah and Rebecca. In January, 1738, three of his sons-Edward, John and Ebenezer-died during an epidemic of throat distemper ( probably diphtheria ) which prevailed in Palmer that winter, and the fatalities were inany.


(III) Thomas, eldest child and only surviving son of John (2) and Rebecca Applin, was born in Watertown, and went with his parents to Palmer. In 1764 he removed to the then newly settled town of Swanzey, New Hampshire, accompanied by his family and his youngest sister Rebecca, and he resided there for the remainder of his life, which terminated June 24, 1804. He was a leading spirit in organizing the town of Swanzey, and also in establishing the first church there, to which he was admitted by letter from the Presbyterian Church in Palmer. Ile was one of the most able, ener- getic and useful among the original settlers. No- vember IO. 1752, he married Mabel Brown, who was born in 1733 (died March 2, 1799), and had a family of five children: John. Anna, Saralı, Thomas and Timothy.


(IV) John (3), eldest child of Thomas and Mabel (Brown) Applin, was born in Palmer, No- vember 27, 1753. He was married February 8, 1776, to Mary Sabin, born in 1754, died February 29, 1812, daughter of Thomas Sabin, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Their children were : Thomas, John, Ephraim, Israel, Mary and Lucy.


(\') Israel, fourth child and youngest son of John (3) and Mary (Sabin) Applin, was born in Swanzey, July 31, 1787. His marriage took place January 24. 1816, to Lucy Fessendon, who was born June 26, 1795, daughter of Nathan Fessendon. He died November 1, 1861, surviving his wife, whose death occurred March 21, 1811. She bore him nine children, namely: Sumner, Celinda ( died young), Benjamin, Henry Sabin, Lucy Ann, Sarah Celinda, John, Mary Sabin and Nancy Maria.


(\1) Henry Sabin, third son and fourth child of Israel and Lucy (Fessendon) Applin, was born in Swanzey, October 27, 1821. In early life he be- came connected with the pail manufacturing in- dustry in Swanzey, and for a number of years was in the employ of G. G. Willis. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company E, Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the civil war with credit for three years, and he lost his life at Fredericksburg, Virginia, August 1, 1864. On February 15, 1847, he married Louisa Alzina Corey, born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, daughter of Abraham Corey, of Marl- borough, this state. She died in Swanzey, leaving but two sons: Charles Henry and Eugene, the lat- ter born July 8, 1851.


(VII) Charles Henry, eldest son of llenry S. and Louisa A. (Corey) Applin, was born in East Swanzey, July IS, IS49. After the conclusion of his studies in the public schools he learned pail- making, and has ever since been identified with that industry, which is an important one in Swanzey. He is now in the employ of Wilder P. Clark, and is, one of the most able and reliable workmen in that locality. He served with ability as constable, and also as foreman of the fire department. Po- litically he is a Republican. His fraternal affilia- tions are with the Masonic order. On December 22, 1871, Mr. Applin married Lucy Ann Woodward, who was born in Swanzey, July 28, 1853, daughter of David and Lucretia ( Alexander ) Woodward. Mr. and Mrs. Applin have two children: Charles Leon, born November 14, 1877; and Leila May, born De- cember 18, 1881.


ALDRICH Among the early names of New England this has contributed no lit- tle to worthy annals in that section, as well as throughout the Union, In divinity, in law, and in all reputable walks of life, it has borne honorable part, and its representatives are still tak- ing share in the promotion of progress and the moral and material welfare of the nation.


(1) George Aldrich, the founder of the family in this country, arrived in 1031, and resided first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Braintree, in the same colony. He was among the pioneer settlers of Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1003. and passed the remainder of his life there. His wife's name was Catherine. The following speech from his own lips was amply verified in his cx- perience : "God brought me to America from Der- byshire, England, November 6, in the year 1631."


(Il) Jacob, son of George and Catherine Ald- rich, was born February 28, 1052, in Braintree, Massachusetts, and was a farmer in Mendon, same colony, where he died December 22, 1695. lle was married, November 3, 1675, to Huldah, daughter of Ferdinando and Huldah ( Hayward) Thayer, of Braintree and Mendon. ( Mention of their son David and descendants appears in this article. )


( III ) Moses, son of Jacob and Huldah (Thayer) Aldrich, was a celebrated preacher of the Friends' denomination. He was born April, 16go, in Mendon, and united with the Friends about the time of his majority. Some four or five years later he entered the work of the ministry, "in which he was well approved." For many years he resided in Smithfield, Rhode Island, where he was a


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preacher to the Friends In 1722 he visited Bar- badoes and in 1730 most of the colonies of the continent, going as far south as the Carolinas. He again visited Barbadoes in 1734 and in 1739 crossed the Atlantic and spent nearly two years in Great Britain and Ireland. He was "A man of cheerful mind, pleasant in conversation, of exemplary life, and endowed with sound understanding as a man. When upon his deathbed he said to his children : "Mourn not for me, but mourn for yourselves; it is well with me, and as well to depart now as to live longer." He retained his senses to the end, and died September 9, 1761, and was interred in the Friends' burying ground at Mendon. His wife was Anna ( White) Aldrich.


(IV) Caleb, son of Rev. Moses and Anna (White) Aldrich, was born January 13, 1725, and died November 8, 18og, in Smithfield, Rhode Island, where lie was a very prominent citizen. He was a ber of the town council from 1769 to 1777, and its president from 1780 to 1784. He was justice of the common pleas from 1784 to 1787, and repre- sentative in the general assembly in 1763. 1769-70- 71, and 1777-78-79. He was married, January I, 1747, to Mary Arnold, who was born 1732 and died 1816. Five of their sons married sisters, named Arnold. Their children were: Susannah, Thomas, William, Hannah, Naaman, Joel, Augustus, Mary, Caleb, Moses, Lydia and Arnold.


(V) Naaman, third son and fifth child of Caleb and Mary ( Arnold) Aldrich, was born May 6, 1756, and passed his life in Smithfield, where he died October 19, 1824. He was a large farmer, and had large real estate holdings in Mendon, which led to the settlement of some of his sons there. He was married, June 6, 1776, to Mary Arnold, daugh- ter of Stephen and Rachel (Arnold) Arnold. She was born August 4, 1757, in Smithfield, and died February 25, 1826. Her children were: Mark, Luke, Lucy, John, Peleg, Alpha, Dan, Lewis, Marie Antoinette, and two sons and a daughter who died in infancy.


(VI) John, third son and fourth child of Naa- man and Mary (Arnold) Aldrich, was born June 20, 1785, in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and become a farmer in Mendon, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Boscawen, this state, in 1830. He pur- chased a farm on High street, near the Salisbury line, and continued to reside there until 1850, when he moved to Concord. There he remained until his death, which occurred March 19, 1865, at the home of his daughter in Concord. He was married, January 18, 1810, in Smithfield, to Harriet, daugh- ter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Doten) Smith, of that town. She was born there February 21, 1795, and survived her husband seven years, passing away Nay 13, 1872, at the home of her daughter in Con- cord. They had two children, Armenia Smith and John. The former is the widow of Nathaniel White, residing in Concord ( see White, VIII), and the latter resides in Vineland, New Jersey. Coffin's History of Boscawen says: "Through life Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich manifested the frank, honest, sincere traits of character which are inculcated by the Friends. They were progressive in their religious views, earnest in their efforts to do good, ever ready to help the poor, guided by a simple faith and trust which ever led them to a higher spiritual life. They were industrious and frugal, simple in all their tastes, and patterns of neatness. They lived quietly


and unostentatiously, beloved and respected by their friends and neighbors."


(III) David, son of Jacob and Huldah (Thayer) Aldrich, was born in Mendon, May 23, 1085, and died March 15, 1771. He married, in 1710, Hannah Capron, of Attleboro, Massachusetts. They had ten children.


(IV) Edward, son of David and Hannah (Capron) Aldrich, was born in Mendon, Septem- ber 7, 1713, and died March, 1800. He married (first), July 17, 1732, Dinah Aldrich, his cousin ; and (second), about 1761, widow Ann Chamberlain. There were nine children by the first wife, and five by the second.


(V) John, son of Edward and Ann (Chamber- lain) Aldrich, was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, 1765, and died in New Hampshire, 1841, aged seven- ty-six years. At the age of fifteen he went from Douglass, Massachusetts, to Lisbon, New Hamp- shire. He drove a pair of oxen hitched to a sled, and found his way by means of spotted trees. His brother Rufus had preceded him a year and the previous summer had felled two acres of the forest. and in this clearing had built a log cabin. John removed to Franconia, where he was one of the pioneer settlers. He married Sally Taylor, who was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1761, and died in Franconia. They had six children: Isra, John, Betsy, Caleb, Sally and Edward.


(V1) John (2), son of John and Sally (Taylor ) Aldrich, was born in Franconia, March 23, 1797, died in Laconia, December, 1859. He married Han- nah Cole.


(VII) John (3), son of John (2) and Hannah (Cole) Aldrich, was born in Franconia, June I, 1824. His education was acquired in ten weeks' attendance in the common schools of his native town. The remainder of his life from the time lie became old enough to work until he was twenty years of age was spent in assisting his father on the farm. In 1844 he removed to Lakeport and was in the employ of the Cole Foundry and Machine Company, and for ten years he filled the position of clerk for this company. In 1853 he became sta- tion agent for the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad Company. He was a clerk and also oper- ated the first telegraph on the road in 1856. About 1857 he formed a partnership with P. J. Cole under the firm name of P. J. Cole & Company, which continued until 1864. In 1862 Alr. Aldrich enlisted in the United States service, and was made captain of Company A of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and was later promoted to major. He served until August, 1865, taking part in the siege of Port Hudson, where he was under fire forty-seven days and nights. During this time he was wounded in the hip by a shell, but continued to perform his duties. On his return home he engaged in the grocery business for six years, and then became one of the founders of the WVardwell Needle Company, of Lakeport, New Hampshire. In 1890 he sold his interest in this con- cern and became treasurer and subsequently presi- dent of the Lake Village Savings Bank, filling those positions until 1902, when he retired from business. Major Aldrich was a business man for fifty-seven years. Wherever he has been he has taken an active part in the business affairs of the towns in which he has resided. His judgment and execu- tive ability have been good, and in his later years


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sc has enjoyed a liberal share of this world's goods. In politics he has been a Republican, and was a member of the legislature in 1855 and 1856 from Gilford. Ile was also selectman of the same town in 1865-66-07 and 1883. He has been a member of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for over fifty years, and is the oldest past master of Mount Lebanon Lodge. He is also a Royal Archi Mason. He has been an Odd Fellow since 1869, and is a member of Choconia Lodge, No. 61. He has been an attendant since early life of the Free Will Baptist Church. He married, April 12. 1846, Mary E. Cole, who was born in Franklin, August 5. 1820, daughter of John A. and Mary ( Ryan) Cole, early settlers of Plymouth. She died March 23, 1907; no family.


This family of Aldrich is descended,


ALDRICH like the others mentioned in this work, from George Aldrich, the immigrant, who landed on American soil in 1631. It has contributed notably to the credit of New Hampshire, both at home and abroad.


(I) Silas Aldrich was born about 1743, and resided in Vermont, where he died November 28. ISII. He performed military service in 1759. in the time of the French and Indian war. He married Alice Collins, who died in 1823. aged seventy-three years.


( If) Ephraim Collins, son of Silas and Alice (Collins) Aldrich, was born probably in Bradford, Vermont, and died in Pittsburg. New Hampshire, October 15. 1859. aged sixty-five years. He settled in what was then the Indian Stream Territory, now Pittsburg, New Hampshire. He married Sarah Hilliard, whose death preceded his several years. They had six children : Jeremiah B. H. Aldrich, Sophronia, Ephraim C. Aldrich, Jr., Diana, Lucy and Saralı H.




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