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(IX) George Washington, son of William and Harriet ( Dudley) Dudley, was born at Barnstead, October 7. 1844, and educated in his native town. He came to Concord in 1870 and engaged in the pro- vision business in which he continued twenty-five years. He is a member of the Republican party, and of the Pleasant Street Baptist Church, in Concord. He married, March 2. 1873, at Barnstead, Sarah Eliz- abeth Locke, daughter of Enoch and Martha B. Locke, and they have had three children: Fred Wharton; Carolyn Augusta, born at Concord, June 23, 1876, educated in the schools of Concord and at Vassar College, at present a teacher : and Arthur Dean, born at Concord, May 21, 1878, educated in Concord and at Brown University, now in the em- pley of the United Gas Improvement Company, of Philadelphia.
(X) Fred Wharton, elder son of George W. and Sarah (Locke) Dudley, was born in Concord, An- gust 27. 1873. After completing his education in the public schools, he took a place in his father's store where he remained until October, 1888, when he was appointed agent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. After five years patient and energetic work he was appointed, May, 1903, super- intendent and general agent of the Concord district which includes the greater part of New Hampshire. This position he continues to fill, and under his ad- ministration the business of the company in this field has steadily increased. He is a Mason, member of Eureka Lodge, of Concord. He married, November. 1895, Sarah Clark, daughter of Charles W. and Clara F. (Brown ) Clark. of Concord.
LOCKE This line comes of one of the pioneer families of New Hampshire, which still affords many useful and worthy citizens of the state. They have been active in clearing and setting the wilderness, and have borne excellent reputations.
(1) John Locke was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, and served his time at the carpenter's trade. He left England about 1630, came into New England and settled at Dover. New Hampshire, and there had a right of land. He left Dover and went to Ports- mouth, and framed the first meeting house in that town. In the year 1640 he went to Newcastle and settled on land called Fort Point. About 1655 he "squatted" on lands claimed by Hampton, where he continued to reside until killed by Indians August 26. 1600, at the age of about seventy years. He had incurred the enmity of the Indians by his activity in frustrating their attempts to murder settlers, and a party of eight made an excursion for the express purpose of taking his life, after which they retired without inflicting further damage. He had been granted eight acres by Portsmouth January 1. 1656, and eight acres more in 1600. He was finally accept- ed as an inhabitant by Hampton on March 8, 1668. His lands in Portsmouth were soll soon after. Hc was a subscriber to the support of the ministry there in 1655. He was married about 1652 to Elizabeth, daughter of William Berry, and their children were:
John, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Alice, Edward, Try- phena, Rebeckah. Mary, William, James and Joseph. (Mention of William and descendants appears in this article ). The place of settlement in Hampton was at Josselyn's Neck, since known as Locke's Neck. The widow was living in February, 1707.
(II) Edward, fifth child and third son of Cap- tain John and Elizabeth (Berry) Locke, lived at Rye, and probably died there at an advanced age. He married Hannah Jenness, who was born March 26, 1673, the daughter of Francis Jenness. Their children were: Francis, Samuel, Edward, Prudence, James and Thomas ( the last named and descendants are mentioned in this article.)
(III) Edward (2), third son of Edward (I) and Hannah ( Jenness) Locke, was born May 28. 1701, and lived at Kensington. He married. December 17, 1724. Hannah Blake, who was born December 18, 1704, daughter of Moses and Abigail ( Smith ) Blake, granddaughter of Timothy and Naomi ( Sleeper ) Blake, of Hampton, and great grand- daughter of Jasper and Deborah ( Dalton) Blake. The children of Edward and Hannah were: Lydia (died young). Abigail ( died young). Moses, Tim- othy. Lydia, Abigail. Edward and Hannah.
(IV) Moses Locke, third child and eldest son of Edward (2) and Hannah ( Blake) Locke, was born at Kensington, July 8, 1733, and died in Epsom. He responded to the first call for troops in the Revolu- tion, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. His name is thirty-first on the roll of Captain Henry Dearborn's company, Colonel John Stark's regiment, August 1, 1775, showing that he enlisted in that com- mand May 3. 1775, and had served three months and six days. In the same year, October 6, Moses Locke, of Deerfield, is found in Colonel James Frye's regiment, and in 1781 Moses Locke is in Colonel Cilley's regiment. Fifty-nine bushels of corn was delivered to the family of Moses Locke "soldier in the Continental Army 1780" "As a supply for the year by the town of Epsom." May 20, 1782, we find the record: "Received the above contents in full. (signed) Moses Locke." He married, March 12, 1755, Mary Organ, by whom he had: Mehitable. Ann. Jonathan, Hannah, Mary and Flijah.
(V) Ann, second daughter and child of Moses and Mary ( Organ) Locke, was baptized February 13, 1760, and married, 1787, Hon. Josiah Sanborn. of Epsom, who was born October 4, 1763, and died June. 1842.
(VI) Captain James Sanborn, son of Hon. Jo- siah and Ann (Locke) Sanborn, was born in 1791, and died in 1874. He married a Miss Parsons, and they had a daughter Sophia, who married, Novem- ber 29, 1830, Moses G. Lane. (Sce Lane VI.)
(III) Thomas, fifth son and youngest child of Edward and Hannah ( Jenness) Locke, was born in Rye, June 10, 1713. He was probably of Rochester, in 1740, and of Barrington in 1740-41, and sold lands at those dates. Benjamin and Levi sons of a Thom- as Locke were baptized at Kensington. August 25. 1745, says one authority ; another states that Thomas was the father of Benjamin: Levi B., born in Kings- ton, 1745: and Thomas, born October 14, 1751.
(IV) Levi Locke, born in 1745. married Rachel Fuller, and they were the parents of Benjamin. Ra- chel and Abigail.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Levi and Rachel (Fuller) Locke, was born in Sandown. April 10, 1770. and died in Bristol, April 0. 1858, aged exact- ly eighty-eight years, the day of his death being in law credited to hi- age. When he was fifteen years
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of age ( 1785) he went to Bristol and resided with his uncle. At eighteen he took his ax and pack of pro- visions, and went into the wilderness seven miles further, and built a hut and cleared land for a home on Bridgewater hill. He lived there two years, con- stantly annoyed by bears and other wild animals. He then sold and located in the neighborhood which subsequently took his name. He married in 1,96, and began life in a log cabin of two rooms, near where the present schoolhouse now stands. He after- ward built a larger house on another site, which with its contents was totally consumed by fire in the ah- sence of the family, May 27, 1822. He immediately erected a fourth domicile, but this was not so com- modious as its predecessor, though it was a home. Mr. Locke was a typical pioneer, a man of marked individuality, energetic, and a leader in thought and influence in the town. He and his wives were prom- inent Methodists, and their home was always a stopping place for itinerant preachers. He was a man of great piety and great lung power, and at a meeting in the schoolhouse when thirteen persons were converted. his shouts were heard more than a mile distant. He married first. November 17. 1796. Hannah Favor, born Angust 6, 1776. daughter of Cutting Favor. She died November 15, 1825, in the fiftieth year of her age: and he married. second. July 23. 1826, Nancy Gurdy, who was born March II, 1788, daughter of Jacob Gurdy. She died April 15. 1866. aged seventy-eight. His children were: Fa- vor, Roxy, Sherburn, Lavina. Joanna, Philena. Benj- amin, Hannah, Sally D., Levi, Dorothy Sargent. Harriet, and Susan, the youngest being the child of the second wife.
(VI) Favor, oldest child of Benjamin and Han- nalı (Cutting) Locke. was born in Bristol August 21, 1797, and died July 10, 1882, aged almost eighty- five years. He was a farmer through life, living first on the farm of his father-in-law, when, after liv- ing for a time on another farm, he removed in 1852 to a place on North Main street, where he died. He was a deacon of the Free Baptist Church. He mar- ried. January 30. 1821, Sally Clough. born May 30, 1798. daughter of Abraham. She died in the family of her son, Favor, May 29, 1894, just completing ninety-six years. Their children were: Jane, Orrin, Abram Dalloff and Favor.
(VII) Orrin, eldest son and second child of Favor and Sally Clough (Dalloff) Locke, was born in Bristol, January 13, 1826, and died in Bristol. Feb- ruary 5. 1898, aged seventy-two. He was a carpen- ter, and workman in a paper mill, and resided on Lake street. In political sentiment he was a Re- publican, in religious faith a Baptist and was a mem- ber of Cardigan Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married. April 19. 1849, Nancy Jane Favor, who was born in Hill, February 26, 1825. daughter of Daniel Favor. M. D. Their children were: Mary Ann and Sarah, born December 31. 1857. who married (first) Hadley B. Fowler, M. D. He died January 13, 1893. and she married (second) C. G. Hodgdon of Grinnell, Iowa.
(VIII) Mary Ann, elder daughter of Orrin and Nancy J. ( Favor) Locke, was born September 21. IS50, in Bristol, and became the wife of Burley M. Ames (see Ames, I\').
(II) William, fourth son of John and Eliza- beth (Berry) Locke married Hannah Knowles. Children : Jonathan, William. Abigail, Hannah, Pa- tience. Sarah, Elijah. Eliphalet. Jemima, Hannah.
(III) Jonathan Locke married Sarah Haines. 111-27
Children : Sarah, Patience, Jonathan. Mary, David, Abigail, William, Margaret, Abner, Sarah, Hannalı, John.
(IV) David Locke married Annah Loverin. Children: Reuben, Simeon, Sarah. Mary, David, Jonathan, Levi, John, Annah, William, Abigail, Benjamin, Nancy.
(V) Simeon Locke married Abigail Blake. Chil- dren : Anna, Samuel B., David. Simeon, John, Jo- siah. James, Sarah, Reuben, Joseph. Abigail.
(VI) Samuel B. Locke married Betsey Philbrick. Children : David, John P., Simeon, Reuben B., Dan- iel P., Samuel M., Elizabeth F., Mary E., born Sep- tember 19, 1830; Margaret A., S. Amanda, Abigail A .. Helen S.
(VII) Mary Emery Locke married William True Cass (see Cass, VII). Children: Alfred L., Mary Addie. Arthur T., William D.
(Second Family.)
This name was early established in New
LOCKE England, and has contributed many val- nable citizens to all parts of the United States. It has been identified with progress in every department and is still borne by worthy and repu- table citizens.
(I) William Locke was born December 13, 1628. in Stepney parish, London, England. He crossed the ocean to Massachusetts. leaving England, in March, 1635, and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts, where he was married, December 27. 1655, to Mary, daughter of William and Marjorie Clarke. He was chosen a deacon of the church about 1700, and lived to be over ninety-one years old, his death occurring in Woburn, June 16, 1720. His wife was born De- cember 20, 1640, in Watertown, Massachusetts, and died in Woburn July 18, 1715. Their children were: William ( died young), William, John. Joseph, Mary, Samuel, Ebenezer. James and Elizabeth.
(II) Joseph, son of William and Mary (Clarke) Locke, was born March 8, 1664, and settled in that part of Cambridge which is now Lexington. Massa- chusetts, and there he died in 1754. aged ninety years. The only record of his first wife is that of her christian name, Mary, and her death in April, 1707. He married (second). Margaret, daughter of Israel Mead of Woburn, and his third wife was Hannah Pierce of Weston, Massachusetts, whom he married November 5. 1743, and who died April 10, 1747. There were seven children of the first marriage and four of the second. They were: Mary. Abigail, Lydia, Sarah. Joseph. Elizabeth, IJuldah, Margaret, Joannah. Ruth and Stephen.
(III) Stephen, youngest child of Joseph and Margaret (Mead) Locke, was born January 26, 1718, and succeeded to his father's homestead in Lexington, where he died April 22, 1772. His wife, Mehitable, daughter of Jonathan Raymond of Lex- ington, died October 29. 1815. aged ninety-four years. Their children were: Mehitable, Reuben, Stephen, Elizabeth and Benjamin.
(IV) Stephen (2) son of Stephen (1) and Me- hitable (Raymond) Locke, was born March 29. 1750, in Lexington, and in 1781, moved from there to Wo- burn. About 1783-84. he removed thence to Deering, New Hampshire, and settled upon a farm there, where he died November 4. 1822. In 1780 he mar- ried Sally Hopkins, who was born in 1756. in Charleston, Massachusetts, and died in Deering May 14. 1839. surviving her husband more than sixteen years. Their children were: Sarah. Stephen (died
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young), Susan, Nancy, Lucy, Stephen and James. (V) Stephen (3) son of Stephen (2) and Sally (Hopkins) Locke, was born 1792, in Deering, New Hampshire, and succeeded his father in the owner- ship of the homestead there. He occupied this un- til his death, which occurred February 13, 1841. He was married February 8. 1815, to Sarah Peaslee, who was born in 1792, in Deering. She moved to Manchester in 1846, and died there. Her children were : Stephen. Irena, Sabra, Lewis N., Ira D., Nancy E .. Lorinda and Lovina.
(VI) Nancy E., daughter of Stephen and Sarah ( Peaslee) Locke. was born March 31, 1827. in Deer- ing, and was married in IS48, to Gilman Clough of Manchester (see Clough VII).
(I) Samuel Packard, wife and child,
PACKARD came from Windham, near Hing- ham, England, in the ship "Dili- gence," of Ipswich, John Martin, master. There were one hundred and thirty-three passengers. He first settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638. and from thence removed to West Brigewater. He was a constable and tavern keeper. Children : Eliza- beth, Samuel. Zaccheus, Thomas. John. Nathaniel, Mary, Hannah, Israel, Joel, Deborah and Deliver- ance.
(II) Zaccheus Packard married Sarah Howard. Children: Israel (1680), Sarah. Jonathan, David, Solomon, James, Zaccheus, John Abiel.
(III) Israel Packard married Hannah Children: Seth (1703), Mehitable, Sarah, Eliphalet, Hannah, Zeruiah, Israel.
(IV) Seth Packard married Mercy Bryant. Chil- dren: Sarah, Lucy, Mehitable, Mercy, Isaac. Mary, Seth, Joshua, Abigail, Abner, Jonathan (1750), Joshua.
(V) Jonathan Packard married Susanna Alger, Children: Israel (1779), Reuel, Othneil, Asa. Albe, Isaac, Betsey.
(VI) Israel Packard married Susanna Edson. Children: Josiah, Melvin, Sidney, Liberty ( 1808). Arrilla, Israel. Alpheus, Henry, died April 4, 1885 ; Susanna. David.
(VII) Liberty Packard married Mary Dodge, of Damariscotta, Maine, October 31, 1830. Children : I. Liberty Dodge, born September 13, 1831, died January 5, 1895. 2. James Wallace, born March 23, 1833, died November 15, 1898. 3. Eliza Mary, born October 25. 1835, died September 30, 1837. 4. Henry Walter, born March 26, 1840, died August 5, 1840. 5. Ruth Mary, born December 22, 1841, deceased. 6. Susie Eliza. born September 30, 1844. 7. Frances Gibbs, born December 21, 1848.
(VIII) Liberty Dodge Packard married Lucy Ann Kingman, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 15, 1853. Children: Ernest Kingman, born June 25. 1856, died July 2. 1877; Lillie Mansfield, horn December 16, 1863; Nellie Hall, born Decem- ber 16, 1863; Mary Wallace, born September 10, 1869.
Lucy Ann Kingman's ancestry is as follows: Lieutenant Kingman of Easton was killed in the Revolutionary war: Henry Kingman, born in Eas- ton, 1791, died February 22, 1874, married Nancy Carpenter, born in Norton, 1700, died January 18. 1870. Children: 1. Henry William, born October 2, 1815. died June 2, 1896. 2. Edward Augustus, born November 27, 1817. 3. Lewis Erastus, born March 13, 1820. died March. 1802. 4. George Fred- erick. born February 17, 1822, died April 4, 1898. 5.
Nancy Carpenter, born February 27, 1824. 6. James Harrison, born February 13, 1826, died 1850, in Cali- fornia. 7. Jane Harrison, twin of James Harrison, born February 13, 1826, died January 25, 1870. 8. Franklin Billings, born July 22, 1828. 9. Lucy Ann, born in Mansfield, November 10, 1830. 10. Gardner Miller, born November 16, 1833.
(IX) Mary Wallace Packard married Arthur True Cass, May 16, 1894 (see Cass, VIII).
This is one of the early New Eng- CROWELL land families, and has been hon- orably identified with Massachusetts
and New Hampshire from a very early period. It has spread over the United States and has contrib- uted its proportion to the development of the na- tion.
( 1) John Crowell was born June 25, 1764. in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and settled in Newport, New Hampshire, in 1800. He was an industrious farmer and was accordingly successful. He mar- ried Annah Corless, of Haverhill, who was born March 9, 1764. Their children were: Betsey, Nancy, John, Samuel, Sally, Jonathan, Peter, Polly, Eleanor, Hazen and Lavina.
(II) Samuel. second son and fourth child of John and Annah (Corless) Crowell, was born De- cember 17. 1789, in Haverhill, and died February 13. 1857, in Newport. He married Hannah Emery, of Newport, New Hampshire, and lived on Coyt Moun- tain in the town of Newport. His children were: Samuel, Amanda, Harriet D., James W., William E., Jonathan. Peter, John B., Hannah E. and Amos E. ( ]][) Peter, fifth son and seventh child of Sam- tiel and Hannah ( Emery ) Crowell, was born Sep- tember 21, 182;, at the homestead on the south slope of Coyt Mountain, and made his home there most of his life. He served nearly three years as a soldier during the Civil war. He was married Sep- tember 21, 1854, to Melita A. Huntoon, who died be- fore 1870. He was married (second) January 2, 1870, to Susan A. Sanborn. His children were: George W .. Fred W., Lois O., Archie F .. John Ralph. Josie MI .. Leanna H., George T., May, Alice Carrie, Jennie, deceased ; Clinton. Irma, Shirley. Roy, Minnie. Eva and Hazel, deceased. Josie M. married Patrick Sullivan. Alice Carrie married Frank H. Reed. George T. married Cora Powell and May married Randolph Moulton.
(IV) Leanna H., third daughter and seventh child of Peter Crowell, and his second wife, Susan A. Sanborn, was born July 28, 1871, in Croydon. and became the wife of Ernest L. Cutting of that town. ( See Cutting, IX.)
The Conant family appears to be
CONANT primarily of Celtic descent. for Conan, or Conon, from which the name is derived, is found at a very early period among va- rions races of Celtic origin, including the Britons, Welsh, Irish. Gaels and Bretons. Records show that the name Conant. in very nearly its present form, has existed in England for over six hundred years. The orthography has varied considerably, the variation being principally due to the ignorance of the clerks. In England thirty-two ways of writing the name have been found, and in America eighteen ways. In Devonshire, the old home of the family, though the name is written Conant; the common pronuncia- tion is Connet, or Cunnet. All the descendants of East Budleigh. however, have generally adhered to
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the form Conant, pronounced Co-nant, with the ac- cent on the first syllable. The signification is thought to be chief, or leader.
(I) John Conant, with whom the first authen- tic genealogy of the family begins, lived in the par- ish of East Budleigh. Devonshire, England, but was probably born about the year 1520, at Gittisham, some ten or twelve miles northeast. The life of Dr. John Conant, written about the year 1700, states that John Conant, of East Budleigh, "was descend- ed from ingenious parents of Gittisham, near Honi- ton, who-e ancestors for many generations had heen fixed here, but were originally of French extraction." In 1577, John Conant was a church warden in East Budleigh. He was buried at this place March 30, 1596.
(II) Richard, son of John Conant, was probably born in the parish of East Budleigh. about the year 1548. In 1588, he was assessed for lands in East Budleigh of the yearly value of £4. Richard Conant was a church warden of the parish in 1606, and in 1616 again filled the office. In the year 1600 he paid a "malt rate" of four shillings. In 1630 he is rated at 28. 6d .. his rating being next to the highest in the parish. The inventory of the estate of Richard Conant was £120. 14s., 4d. Richard Conant married, February 4, 1578, at Colyton. The parish record reads: "Rychard Counnett, the sonne of John Counnett, of East Budlaye, was wedded unto Agnes Clarke, the daughtr of John Clarke, senior, of Colly- ton, the iiij daye of ffebruary 1578." Richard and Agnes Conant were buried on the same day, Septem- ber 22, 1630. The children of Richard and Agnes ( Clarke) Conant were : Joan, Richard, Robert, John and Roger.
(III) Roger, youngest of the eight children of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant, the immi- grant ancestor of most of those bearing the name in America, was baptised at All Saints Church, in the parish of East Burleigh, April 9, 1592. As his father was one of the leading men of his parish and evi- dently in good circumstances, and as his mother's father was the leading merchant of a neighboring parish, and as one of his brothers was educated at Oxford, it would seem reasonable that Roger re- ceived a good education for the times, for he was frequently called upon to survey lands, lay out boun- daries, and transact public business. It seems that Roger Conant went to London about 1600 and served an apprenticeship of seven years with the Salters' Company, and that he was afterwards a salter in the parish of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, and that he remained in London until he emigrated to New England in 1623. He probably came in the "Ann," which arrived at Plymouth July, 1623, and in which his brother Christopher was a passenger. He did not remain long in Plymouth. owing to a difference of religious belief between himself and the Pilgrim Fa- thers, they being Separatists and he a Nonconform- ist, or Puritan, but went to Nantasket (Hull) and joined Oldham and Lyfford. who had started a col- ony there. It was probably while at Nantasket that he made use of the island in Boston harbor, now called Governor's island, but then and for some time after known as Conant's island. Roger Conant be- ing reported as "a pious, sober and prudent Gentle- man," was chosen, in the winter of 1624-25, by the Rev. John White, of Dorchester, and his associates, under the name of the Dorchester Company. to manage or govern their affairs at Cape Ann. Late in the fall of 1625 he took charge of the Cape Ann
settlement, located on the west side of what is now Gloucester harbor, near Stage Ilead. On this point may still be seen the remains of a rude fort, now called Stage Fort, but named Fort Conant by its constructors. In 1625-26 he had charge of about two hundred persons, and very faithfully performed the duties of his office, which, under the circun- stances, was of a very responsible character. In 1626 the colony was removed to a better location at Naumkeag (Salem). Here his influence prevented the abandonment of the settlement, Rev. John Lyf- ford leaving at that time and trying to take the col- ony with him. After Conant had been governor of the colony upward of three years, a new patent was granted, and under changes that followed Conant was superseded by John Endicott. In the troublous times that followed, Conant maintained the rights of the first settlers against the unjust act of the new management, but loyally refused to do anything to retard the prosperity of the colony to further his own ends. preferring to use his influence for har- mony. "Although he is not universally recognized as the first governor of Massachusetts, Roger Conant is fairly entitled to that honor; for the colony of which he was the head made the first permanent set- tlement in the Massachusetts territory, and was the germ from which the Massachusetts Bay Colony sprung," says his biographer.
Mr. Conant became a freeman May IS, 1631. About this time he formed a partnership for trade with the Indians along the coast, he and his part- ners maintaining a station or truck house, as it was called, at Blue Point, near Saco. He was fre- quently called to offices of honor and trust by his fellow townsmen and the general court, as is shown by the records. November 7, 1632, he was one of four appointed to "sett down the bounds between Dorchester and Roxbury." In 1634 he was one of the twenty-four deputies elected by the freemen to the general court which met at Boston on May 14. This was the second representative assembly which met in this country, that of Virginia being the first. Mr. Conant was elected from Salem. He thus as- sisted in laying the foundation of that form of government which remains to-day our noblest heri- tage. In 1637 he was foreman of jury trials. The same year he was chosen by the general court to be one of the justices of the quarterly court at Salem, and held this office three years. November 20. 1637, he and three others were chosen "to certify the bounds between Salem and Saugust." In 1642 he was one of the grand jury; in 1645, he was one of the "ratters" (assessors of taxes) ; and in 1646 he was on the jury of trials and also the grand jury. He was one of the "eleven men," "seven men," or se- lectmen, in each of the following years: 1637-38- 39-40-11-51-52-53-54-57 and 58.
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