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(VII) John Ladd, second child and eldest son of Abel and Ruth (Ladd) Bridgman, was born in Hanover, November 2, 1817. At the age of eighteen years he entered the employ of the Boston & Lowell railroad as a clerk in the freight office, and his ability and faithfulness won him rapid advancement in the company's service. He was for a time con- ductor of express trains, but was finally given a very responsible position in the general freight office, his duties including the monthly settlement with sta- tion agents and the preparations of the annual re- port for the stockholders' meeting. At the expira- tion of twenty years service he resigned his position although offered an increase of salary to remain, and returning to Hanover he engaged in farming and stock-raising. For twenty-four years he served with ability as chairman of the board of selectmen ; was selectman in all thirty years; was county com- missioner three years, deputy-sheriff sixteen years, and representative to the legislature in 1876-7. He was not only one of the most prosperous farmers of Hanover, but took an active interest in local finan- cial affairs, being for a number of years vice-presi- dent of the Dartmouth National Bank and a trustee of the Dartmouth Savings Bank. In his latter years he was assisted in his farming operations by his sons. His death occurred February 8, 1898. On October 10, 1844, he married Hortencia A. Wood, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14. 1823, daughter of Augustus and Sophronia ( Smith ) Wood. She became the mother of three children : Emma Hortencia, born July 24. 1847, became the wife of Charles II. Waterman; Don Seavey, the date of whose birth is recorded in the succeeding para- graph; and Adna Augustus, born August 16, 1857,
died May 9, 1889. The latter married Anna Maud Scott, daughter of Wilber and Ann L. (Moulton) Scott, of Glover, Vermont.
(VIII) Don Seavey, second child and eldest son of John L. and Hortencia A. ( Wood) Bridgman, was born in Hanover, April 4, 1856. Having fitted for college at a preparatory school in Norwich, Ver- mont, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1880, but shortly afterward withdrew and going to Mi- nooka, Illinois, he conducted a farm for a short time. Returning to Hanover, he remained at the homestead until 1880, when he again left his native state and entered the employ of J. M. Tilden, a wholesale junk dealer in Watertown, New York. Four years later he again resumed farming at the homestead, and has ever since resided in Hanover. For the succeeding twenty years he devoted his energies to dairy-farming, stock-raising and the breeding of fancy poultry. The Bridgman farm, comprises three hundred and fifty acres of well located land, was. noted for its fine thoroughbred Jersey stock, and its dairy products commanded a high price in the Bos- ton market. Having succeeded to the ownership of the property at his father's death, he continued to carry it on until 1904, when he sold it advantage- ously, and removing to the village is now engaged in the real estate business.
Mr. Bridgman occupies a prominent position among the well-to-do residents of Hanover, and is a director of the Hanover National Bank. Politi- cally he is a Republican, and takes an active part in local civic affairs, having served as a selectman for the past nine years, and as a member of the school board for an equal length of time. He is an ad- vanced Mason, belonging to the lodge, chapter and council at Lebanon, the commandery at Claremont, and the temple of the Mystic Shrine at Concord. He is past noble grand of Good Samaritan Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hanover, also affiliates with the Rebakah Lodge and the Pa- triarchs Militant of that town, and the encampment at Lebanon. In addition to these he is an active member of the Patrons of Husbandry, having twice served as master of Grafton Star Grange, Hanover, was for two years master of the Mascomie Valley Pomona Grange, was for one year Pomona deputy for the southern district of New Hampshire, and has served as general deputy of the state grange. He at- tends the Baptist Churchi.
On October 30, 1882, Mr. Bridgman was married in Norwich, Vermont, to Jennie May Burton, who was born in that town June 25. 1860, daughter of Ira B. and Emily D. (Waterman) Burton. Mrs. Bridgman is past master of the Rebekah Lodge, sec- retary of the Pomona grange, and a member of the Eastern Star.
This unusual name has been found
PURMORT in very few places in New Hamp- shire, and is not very numerously represented. The time of its arrival in this country seems clouded somewhat in mystery, owing to the meager records about Newcastle, and other sections of Rockingham county, where it is found. A dili- gent search of the vital records of the state has given the following information. Its connection with others of the best families of the region would indicate that its members were people in good stand- ing and of some moral and intellectual worth.
(I) The first record supplied by the archives of the state shows that John Purmort, of Newcastle, New Hampshire, was born July 13, 1715, but the
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place of his birth or his parentage does not appear. He was a resident of Newcastle, later of Exeter, and presumably reared a large family there, as was the custom of his time. No record of his marriage appears, but the records of his children's births in- dicate that his wife was Hannah Sinclair. Their children were: Anne. Hannah, Joseph, Richard, Abigail (died young), Mark, Abigail and Mary, the last two being twins.
(II) Joseph, second son and fourth child of John and Hannah ( Sinclair) Purmort, was born July IS, 1749, in Exeter, and resided in that town. He was married, February 28, 1775, to Mercy Dolloff, who was born December 6. 1752. and was a member of an excellent pioneer family. She died October 31, 1784. Their children included: Miriam, Hannah, Abner, and John. The records of the name are very meager, and it is probable that Nathaniel Purmort was their fourth child and third son.
(HI) Nathaniel Purmort was born in 1781, probably the latter part of that year, and became an early settler in Enfield, New Hampshire. He died in 1856, and was survived about seven years by his widow, who died in 1863. He married Phoebe Dol- Joff, who was born in 1785, and they had five chil- dren John. Jaspar. Hiram, Elmira and Dicy.
(IV) John, eldest child of Nathaniel and Phoebe (Dolloff) Purmort, was born in Enfield, New Hamp- shire, about 1801. He had a common school edu- cation, and was a farmer till the age of fifty, when he started a machine shop and foundry at Lebanon, New Hampshire. He conducted this establishment till 1865, when he sold out the business and retired. He attended the Baptist Church, and was a Repub- lican in politics. He married Elizabeth Farnum, and they had four children: Martin Van Buren, whose sketch follows; Polly, Sarah and Lydia. The three daughters are not living.
(V) Martin Van Buren, youngest child and only son of John and Elizabeth (Farnum) Purmort, was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, November 9, 1840. When about nine years of age his parents moved to Lebanon, where the boy was educated in the public schools. When a young man he was engaged in the manufacture of scythes, and in 1869 he began the manufacture of wood-working machinery. He employs a dozen or more men, and the product of the factory is sold largely in New England. He attends the Congregational Church, and belongs to Franklin Lodge, No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Nasons of Lebanon. He is a Republican in politics, and has served in the legislature two terms. In 1863 Martin Van Buren Purmort married Mary Sargent, daughter of John Sargent, of Plainfield, New Hamp- shire. His first wife died soon after marriage. and in 1864 he married Mary Bean, daughter of Alvah and Cynthia Bean, of Plainfield. New Hampshire, who died October. 1894. There are no children.
the name of one of the families, evi- LANDON dently of French extraction, whose membership is mainly confined to New England.
(1) Frank Landon was born in Hinesburg, Ver- mont, July 6, 1816, was educated in the common schools, and afterward worked for a number of years on a farm in Hinesburg. From that place he removed to Essex Junction, where he was employed . as a switchman on the Central Vermont railroad for about twenty-six years. He owned a small farm on which he died October 23, 1900. Ile was a member of the Congregational Church, and a Republican. He
married, April 19, 1840, Fidelia Bettis, born July 21, 1817: died at Essex Junction, August 13, 1875, daughter of John and Eliza ( Vancor) Bettis. The children of this marriage were: Fidelia, died young ; Frank, born November 7, 1842, now on the Central Vermont railroad; Ellen, born August 3, 1844, mar- ried Emily Vancor ; Jed, born March 13, 1846, mar- ried Clara Gilmore; Lewis, born February 6, 1850, conductor on the Boston & Maine railroad, married Mary Culley, and lives in Concord; Clara, born April 6, 1853, married Jarvis Newcomb; and Fred W., the subject of the next paragraph.
(11) Fred Weston Landon, born at Essex Junc- tion, April 13, 1856, was educated in the common schools of his native place. In 1877, after having worked in a paper mill in Bellows Falls one year, he went to Concord. New Hampshire, where he was employed as a telegraph repairer two years, and where he has since made his home. From 1879 to 18SI he was in the telephone business, and put in the first telephone installed in Concord. Since the latter date he has been in the electrical contract and supply business, from doorbell to town system of electric lights, throughout New Hampshire and Ver- mont. Formerly a Democrat, he now abstains from voting. He is a member of the People's Church. He married, May IS, 1876, Cora Rockwood, born in Springfield, Vermont, July 5, 1858, daughter of Dan- icl and Esther Ann (Hoyt) Rockwood. They have three children: Cora, born at North Walpole, New llampshire, December 14, 1877, married Harry Shrieve, and they live on a farm at Bow; Carrey, in Bellows Falls, August 25, 1880, is an electrician ; Gretchen in Concord, March 16, 1894, is at home.
Two brothers, James and John,
BOUTWELL whose surname is variously
spelled Boutell, Boutwell. Bou- telle, or Bowtell, settled in Massachusetts about 1632. By some it is claimed that their ancestors migrated from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror: others. say the French ancestor was a Huguenot. John settled in the New Haven colony in 1636. From James has sprung a large progeny, including several of prominence, among whom were Timothy Boutelle, and George S. Boutwell, former governor of Massachusetts. secretary of the United States treasury, and United States senator.
(1) James Boutell, of Salem and Lynn, 1635, was made a freeman March 14, 1639, and died in 1651. In his will of August 22, proven November 26 of that year, he names "wife Alice." sons James and John and daughter Sarah.
(11) John Boutwell, son of James and Alice Boutell. of Lynn, was born in 1645. and died in 1719, aged seventy-four. He married. in 1609, Hannah, daughter of George Davis. Their children were: John, Ilannah, Sarah, James, Mary, Eliza- beth. Sarah, Susanna and Thomas.
(IH) John (2), eldest child of John (1) and Hannah (Davis) Boutwell. was born February 26, 1070, and was a soldier in the Narragansett war. His wife's name was Sarah, and they had seven children: John, Thomas (died young), Thomas. Sarah. Jacob. Jonathan and Bethiah.
(IV) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Grace (Eaton), or of John and Sarah Boutwell. confused and mutilated records make it difficult to tell which, was born in 1605. He married Rebecca Knight, and lived in Wilmington. One of the sons of this marriage was James.
(V) James (2), son of John (3) and Rebecca
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( rinight) Boutwell, was born in Wilmington, Mas- sachusetts, in 1736, and died in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, February 6, 1804, aged sixty-eight. After his marriage he removed to Amherst and. thence to Salem, Canada, now Lyndeborough, where he settled in 1767 on a farm which has been the homestead of families of his descendants ever since. This farm which is situated on gently rising ground at the south end of what is called the middle of town was probably partly cleared, and upon it a log house may have been already erected at the time of his settlement. There in the forest home James Boutwell, an ambitious and industrious man spent the remainder of his life in preparing for his descendants a homestead whose fertile fields, now shaded in places by beautiful fruit and ornamental trees and fitted with handsome and commodious buildings, commands a view in which natural scenery and human improvements have combined to form one of the handsomest pictures to be seen in the Granite State. From this point of view appear the elevations of Pinnacle. Winn, Peter- borough, Pack Monadnock. and the range of moun- tains to the south, with valleys between, making a picture so fair that once seen it is never forgotten.
James Boutwell soon took a leading place among the pioneer settlers of Lyndeborough. In 1768, the year after his settlement, he was elected a member of the board of selectmen, and again in 1771, and was state senator from the seventeenth district. So far as traced he did no direct military service in the Revolution. I-le was a member of the Lyndeborough committee of safety, its chairman, and he was also custodian of the town's stock of ammunition, which at that day was kept in the meeting-house loft. He was therefore performing duties of great importance to his country's cause, though not personally in the field. He married. probably in Wilmington, Mary Johnson, and they had seven children: Asa, Mary, Abigail. Judith, James, Nehemiah and Alice. The three older chil- dren were probably born in Amherst, and the others in Lyndeborough.
(VI) Nehemiah, sixth child and third son of James and Mary (Johnson) Boutwell, was born November 20, 1774, and died October 3, 1855, aged eighty-one. He was one of the busiest. most active and most ambitious men in the town. He cultivated his farm, carried on potash-making in a factory which stood west of his house, owned and operated a tannery, and even made the nails used in the construction of his new house. In town affairs he was no less energetic. He was for many years moderator, represented the town in the legislature in 1821 and 1828. was town treasurer nineteen years, was on many important committees, and was drum-major in the state militia. In his later years he lived in the enjoyment of the fruits of his early toil. He married, June 28. 1706, Elizabeth Jones, who was born December 18, 1776, and died July 3, 1856, aged eighty. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Cleaves) Jones. of Lyndeborough. In the last years of her life she was blind. Their eleven children were: Nehe- miah, Betsey, Benjamin J. (died young), William Thurston. Clark Crombie, Newton. Benjamin Tones. Rodney Cleaves. James, Mary Ann and Sarah Jones.
(VII) Rodney Cleaves, eighth child and seventh son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth ( Jones) Dentwell, was born in Lyndeborough, July 14. 18IT, and died in Medford. Massachusetts, August, I,
1891. He succeeded to the ancestral acres which he tilled throughout the active portion of his life. giving his entire attention to agriculture. He married, January 31, 1833. Nancy J. Barnes, who was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, October 23, ISII, and died April IQ. 1892, daughter of Na- than and Ann ( Remick) Barnes, of Bedford. She was of a family noted for their acumen and in- fluence, and was herself a person of imposing pres- ence, refined and intellectual. Husband and wife were members of the Congregational Church. and constant in their attendance at divine service. They knew and fully appreciated the value of education and moral training, and gave each child a good edu- cation. Frequently on Sunday they attended church with their family. They were the parents of twelve sons and daughters, all of whom attained adult age, strong, healthy and active. The names of the children of this union are: Clarissa Barnes, Na- than Barnes, Ann Elizabeth, Abigail Jane, Benja- min Jones, William Thurston, Sarah Jones, Charles Rodney, Henry Winslow, George Sumner, Roland. Hill and Roswell Murray.
(VIII) Clarissa Barnes, eldest child of Rod- ney C. and Nancy J. ( Barnes) Boutwell, was born November 20, 1833, married Samuel G. Colley, and removed to Beloit. Wisconsin. He died October 21. 1890. She is a woman of resolute courage, and once while her husband was sheriff and jailor, a jail delivery was attempted. With revolver in hand she held at bay the desperate prisoners until help arrived. Nathan Barnes is mentioned below. Ann Elizabeth was born May 4. 1837, and married, Octo- ber 31. 1858, Daniel B. Whittemore, a prosperous farmer of Lyndeborough. Abigail Jane. born De- cember 13, 1838, married. January 1, 1878, Robert Hawthorne, of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He died April 1. 1892. Sarah Jones, born September 9. 1844, died January 12, 1864. Sketches of each of the sons follow.
(VIII) Nathan Barnes, second child and chest son of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes ) Bout- well, was born July 31. 1835. He enlisted August 29. 1862, in Company B. Thirteenth New Hamp- shire Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac. He was appointed second lien- tenant September 27. 1862: appointed adjutant March 24, 1863: wounded severely June 15, 1864. at Battery Five. Petersburg, Virginia; and was dis- charged for disability May 5, 1865. After his re- turn from the war he entered the employ of E. C Hazard & Company, of New York. In 1876 he re- moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and four years later was appointed to a position in the United States custom house in Boston, where he has ever since been employed and now has charge of the appraiser's stores. His residence is at Winchester. Massachusetts. He married ( first), November 25, 1858, Lizzie Hawkins, who was born in Trov, New Hampshire, June 13, 1836, and died November 3. 1865, daughter of Oliver and Susan (Foster) Hawkins: (second), Emily Beard, who was born in Wilton. July 20, 1846, daughter of Luke and Hannah W. ( Perkins) Beard. He had by the first wife a son, Leslie Barnes, and by the second wife- a son, Horace Keith.
(VIII) Benjamin Jones, fifth child and second son of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Bout- well was born December 25. 1840, and died at. Medford, Massachusetts, January 1. 1896. He en- li-ted in Company B. Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, August 16, 1862, and was dis-
Fry T. Boutures
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charged May 20, 1863. He was engaged in the re- tail grocery business in Boston for a number of years, and afterward at Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1882 he returned to New Hampshire and settled on the old homestead which he had owned for a number of years. . During his residence in Lynde- borough he. took an interest in public affairs and filled several public offices. He was postmaster of Lyndeborough for a time, was a member of the board of selectmen, and of the board of education. He was a leading member of the Congregational Church, and for more than a year, while the church building was being rebuilt, he conducted church services. He married, April, 1882, Louisa Elizabeth Knight, who was born in Milford, June 16, 1854, and died at Amherst, February 2, 1890. She was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Keeley) Knight. of Milford. The children of this union were: Mary Elizabeth, Roswell Knight and Paul W.
(VIII) William Thurston, sixth child and third son of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Boutwell, was born September 13, 1842, and died at Guffy, Colorado, August 2, 1904. August 16, 1862, at the age of twenty, he enlisted in Company B., Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and served until August 4, 1864, when he was trans- ferred to Company F, Thirteenth Veteran Reserve Corps, where he did duty as a private until the end of the war, being discharged June 28, 1865. He returned from the war and lived on the home farm until ISSo, taking an active part in church work and local public affairs. In ISSo he removed to Afton, Minnesota, where lie was engaged in farm- ing for some years, He was married in Lebanon, December 6. 1865. by Rev. J. H. Edwards, to Eliza J. Cummings, of Lebanon, who was born in Nor- wich, Vermont, June 14. 1844, daughter of Francis and E. J. Cummings. She died March 24, 1883, and he married (second), April 12, 1884. Mary E. Haskell, of Afton, Minnesota, who was born May 3, 1851. and died May 28, 1895. To Mr. Boutwell were born eight children-five by the first wife and three by the second-as follows: Sarah Kimball, William R .. George B., Howard P .. Edward B., Joseph H., Mary J. and Philip K.
(VIII) Charles Rodney, eighth child and fourth son of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Boutwell, was born August 1, 1846, and died Janu- ary 18. 1904. For some years he was engaged in the produce business in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Following that he was appointed inspector of cus- toms at Boston, which position he filled for fifteen years. In 1888 he bought of his brother Benjamin J. the old homestead in Lyndeborough, upon which he settled. and lived there the remainder of his life. He remodeled and enlarged the buildings, and made the place one of the most commodious and attrac- tive country residences in southern New Hamp- shire. He married, October 23. 1867, Lucy S. Kim- hall, who was born in Hillsborough, June 4, 1839, dangliter of Leonard M. and Abigail (Kendall) Kimball, of Hillsboro.
(VIII ) Dr. Henry Winslow, fifth son and ninth child of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Boutwell, was born .August 2. 1848. He received his literary education in the common schools and at Francestown Academy. and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1882. In 1882 he settled in Manchester, where he has since success- fully practiced his profession. He is one of the leading physicians of Manchester, is surgeon to
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, und is presi- dent of the medical staff of the Sacred Heart Hos- pital. He is a trustee of the New Hampshire State Industrial School and of the Manchester Public Library: and was surgcon on the staff of Governor N. J. Batchelder. In politics he has been active for years, has served in the constitutional convention, and is now ( 1907) a member of the state senate, and chairman of the judiciary committee. He married ( first), May 3, 1873. Clara L. Gerrish, who was born in Franklin, June 28. 1842, daughter of Milton and Hannah ( Dimmick) Gerrish. She died May 15, 1894. One daughter, Edith Gerrish, born July 16, 1875, married Selwyn B. Clark, of Worces- ter, Massachusetts, July 2, 1901 ; one child Elizabetli Boutwell Clark, born May 4. 1906. He married (second), November 5, 1895, Mary Stanton, who was born in Sandwich, July 7, 1861, daughter of Levi W. and Annie (Burleigh) Stanton.
(VIII) George Sumner, sixth son and tenth child of Rodney C. and Nancy J. ( Barnes) Bout- well, was born August 25, 1850. and is with the firm of Boutwell Brothers, of Boston, Massachu- setts. He resides at Worcester, Massachusetts. Ile married, May 21, 1872, Sophia Melver, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a daughter of Charles Chamberlain.
(\'III) Roland Hill. seventh son and eleventh child of Rodney C. and Nancy J. ( Barnes) Bout- well, was born May 2. 1833. With his brother Ros- well M. he established, September 15, 1876, the firm of Boutwell Brothers, incorporated, of Lowell. Massachusetts, dealers in iron and steel. He has been very successful in business, and is president of the Portland Iron & Steel Company, of Port- land. Maine, manufacturers of iron and steel, and president of the Standard Horse Shoe Company of South Wareham, Massachusetts, manufacturers of horse shoes. He resides in Boston. Mr. Bout- well married (first), October 29, 1879, Minnie E. Butters, of Medford. Massachusetts, who was born November 1, 1853, daughter of Albert H. and Ann (Ager) Butters. She died October 1. 1883, and he married (second), October 28, 1885, Sarah Blake, daughter of George S. and Jane (Skinner ) Blake of Belmont, Massachusetts. She died Feb- ruary 27, 1891. He married (third), November 16, 1904. Jennie Crosbie Gilman, of Exeter.
(VIII) Roswell Murray, twelfth and youngest child of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Bout- well, was born May 22, 1855, and resides in Bos- ton. He is a member of the firm of Boutwell Brothers, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and treasurer of the Portland Iron & Steel Company of Port- land, Maine. He is also treasurer of the Standard Horse Shoe Company of South Wareham, Massa- chusetts. For a number of years he resided in Lowell, where he took a leading part in politics, was a member of the city council from 1886 to 1889. and was chairman of the board of aldermen in 1889. He married, May 22, 1883, Jeannie C. Russell, of Louisville, Kentucky, who was born February 28, 1859. They have three children : Elsie Russell. Roswell Murray and Roland Hill.
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