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 69

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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Hampshire to reside with Mrs. Bingham's parents in Northwood. There they remained a year; during this time MIr. Bingham was principal of Cole's Acad- emy. He also supplied the pulpit of the Congrega- tional Church, a considerable part of the time. In the fall of 1888 he was elected principal of Pinkerton Academy at Derry, which has ever since been his field of labor. Pinkerton Academy is one of the oldest educational institutions of the state, and has always maintained a good reputation among New Hampshire schools. "When Mr. Bingham took charge its endowment was small, and the school building was ancient in style and accommodations. Soon things began to improve; a member of the Pinkerton family, dying within a few years, left a fund of over $200.000 for an endowment and new buildings. A large and commodious edifice was soon erected, with all modern appliances for doing first-class school work: the corps of teachers en- larged, liberal salaries were secured for all of them, and the institution stepped to the forefront of high grade schools in New Hampshire." This great im- provement in the home of the Academy and the in- crease of the teaching corps from three to ten, had a great effect on the attendance at the school, and within a short time the number of students was doubled.

Mr. Bingham's effort has been to raise young men and women to a higher plane of life. That he has succeeded is amply proved by the course of those who have gone out of his schools into life's work. Mr. Bingham has never been a theorist, has never wasted time on experiments; his ideas have been positive and certain, and his teaching well founded, direct and successful. Since he took charge of Gilmanton Academy, forty-two years ago, he has taught thirty-seven years, and made a flattering record as an instructor. During his term of service at Pinkerton he has declined tempting offers to go elsewhere. among them the presidency of Oahu College, in Honolulu. which was formally tendered him in the summer of 1890.

Mr. Bingham has been an earnest worker in the Sunday school and temperance causes. Elected president of the New Hampshire Sunday School Association in 1888, he represented New Hampshire in the World's Convention in London, England, in July. 1889. In the International Sunday School Con- vention held in Boston in July, 1896, he was elected to a second term of three years as a member for New Hampshire in the international executive con- mittee. Mrs. Bingham accompanied her husband on his trip to Europe in 1889, and together they visited many scenes in England, Scotland, and France with which books had made them familiar. While the great convention was in session in London. Mr. Bingham spoke in a Sabbath service from John Wes- ley's pulpit in the old church in Bunhill Field, London.

After a long and painful illness, Mrs. Bingham died March 4, 1902. Through a large part of the seventeen years she lived in Derry, she was in charge of the Academy Library, where her wide reading, fine literary taste, and exalted character made her service invaluable. Her rare gifts were freely placed at the command of the students, many of whom bear testimony to the fact that their right use and keen enjoyment of books is largely due to her wise, capable, and enthusiastic guidance.

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Prescott, sister of his first wife, and widow of Charles H. Prescott (see Cogswell, IX). She is a woman of high culture and a teacher of experience.

When the first representatives of the

WYMAN Wyman name reached New England is not known. but they were in Charlestown. Massachusetts, in 1640 or before. They were person- of means, and took a leading part in the town of Woburn, where they settled. Their course in religious matters shows that they were in- dependent thinkers and not inclined to be coerced. Most of the men of this family have been of tall stature, with a military air. John Wyman was a lieutenant in the militia ; one of his sons was killed in King Philip's war, and one of the sons of Francis was wounded in that war. Seth. a grandson of John Wyman, was killed in Lovewell's fight at Pequacket in 1725. In the Revolution the Wymans also did their part. Their record in civil life is a long and honorable one.

(I) The first of whom record is found was Francis Wyman, a resident of Westmill. Hertford- shire, England, whose will was made September 15, 1058, and proven February 14 following. One of the items in said will is as follows: "I do give and bequeath unto my two sons, Francis Wyman and John Wyman, which are beyond sea. Io pounds apiece of lawful English money, to be paid unto them by mine executor if they be in want, and come over to demand the same." ( See later paragraph for ac- count of John ).

( II ) The above-mentioned sons of Francis (1) Wyman were among the earliest settlers of Woburn. Massachusetts, then called "Charlestown Village." They resided first in Charlestown, where John ap- pears as a subscriber to town orders for Woburn in December. 1040. lle was taxed at Woburn. Sep- tember 8. 1015. In the year 1605 Francis and John Wyman. of Woburn, purchased for fifty pounds of Joseph Rock, the Coytmore grant of five hundred acres, which with a large adjoining farm they owned made them the largest proprietors of land in the town. This land was laid out to him in the westerly and northwesterly part of what is now Burlington. in 1667. The leather business was followed in Wo- burn from the beginning on a small scale. John and Francis Wyman were tanners, and tradition affirms that their tanyard was in Wyman Lane. During King Phillip's war ( 1665-66) Woburn taxes at one time were paid partly in shoes, manufactured from leather prepared in part probably by the Wymans. In 1671 Francis and John Wyman and eleven other members "in full communion with the church of Christ at Woburne" were prosecuted before the Mid- dlesex county court for publicly manifesting their contempt for the ordinance of infant baptism, as ad- ministered in the church of Woburn; or for with- drawing from the worship or communion of that church and attending the assemblies of the Ana- baptists ( as they were called ), which were not then allowed by law. Francis (2) Wyman appears to have always retained his partiality for the sentiments of the Baptists, and in 1698 bequeathed to the two elders of the Baptist Church in Boston "twenty shillings apiece." He died November 30. 1699, aged eighty-two years. Francis Wyman married (first). January 30, 1645, Judith Peirce, of Woburn, born in Norwich, England, daughter of John Peirce. She ‹lied without issue. He married (second), October 2. 1650. Abigail Reed, daughter of William and Mabel Reed, and sister of George ( I) Reed. Their

children were: Judith, Francis. William, Abigail, Timothy, Joseph, Nathaniel, Samuel. Thomas, Ben- jamin, Stephen and Judith. (Mention of Timothy and descendants appears in this article ).

(JTI) William, second son of Francis (2) and Abigail (Reed) Wyman, was born about 1656, in Woburn. and died 1705, in Billerica, Massachusetts. Like most people of his time, he was undoubtedly engaged in agriculture. Ile married Prudence, daughter of Thomas Putnam, and their children were : William (died young ), Prudence, William, Thomas, Elizabeth ( died young), Francis, Joshua, a daughter unnamed. Edward. Elizabeth, Deliverance and James.

( IV) Thomas, third son of William and Pru- dence ( Putnam ) Wyman, was born August 23, 1687, probably in Billerica, and died in Pelham. New Hampshire. He married Rachel, widow of Samuel Stearns ( maiden name unknown). He disappeared from the tax list in Billerica in 1739, and probably removed at that time to Pelham.

(V) William, undobtedly a son of Thomas and Rachel Wyman, resided in Pelham, New Hampshire, and had a wife whose Christian name was Phebe. Their children, born in Pelham, were: Jonathan, William ( died young ). William. Joshua. Sarah. Jesse ( died young), Joanna and Je-se. The father died in Pelham, April 25. 1785.

(VI) Jonathan, eldest child of William and Phebe Wyman, was born June 25. 1771. in Pelham, and settled in the town of Greenfield, New Hamp- shire, where he cleared up land and reared a family. He married Ruby Richardson, and among their chil- dren was a son Ips Wyman.

(VII) Ips, son of Jonathan and Ruby (Rich- ardson) Wyman, was born in the town of Green- field, New Hampshire, in 1810, and died in the town of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, December 17, 1888, aged seventy-eight years. He married Lydia Ann Ward, of Vergennes, Vermont. born 1816. and died April 22, 1897, aged eighty years and nine months. About 1843 Ips Wyman and his family left Greenfield and lived for a time in Nelson, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, then removed to Antrim, New Hampshire, and lived there until 1867, when he removed to Hillsborough and located at Hillsbor- ough Bridge. Ips and Lydia ( Ward) Wyman had the following children: Amos Austin. Ruby B., Rodney D., Hiram E. Lylia Ann. Amanda O., Sarah C. and one other child who died unnamed.

(VHII) AAmos Au-tin, eldest child of Ips and Lydin A. ( Ward) Wyman, was born at Glenville, April 20. 1840, and was three years old when his parents removed from Greenfield to Hancock, New Hampshire. At the age of nineteen years he left home and went to Woburn, Massachusetts where he was at work when the Civil war began. In 1862 he entered the service, enlisting July 26 as a private in Company 1, Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer In- fantry. On August 25 the regiment left Concord, New Hampshire, for the front, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac. With his company he took part in the battles of South Mountain, An- tietam and Fredericksburg. In the latter engage- ment he received a severe bullet wound in the thigh. which necessitated his removal to the Lincoln Hos- pital in Washington, D. C. All through the follow- ing winter he lay in the hospital, and in February. 1863. was finally discharged for disabilities, After his discharge Mr. Wyman was brought to his home in Hancock, New Ilampshire, by his father, and it was not until the latter part of the year 1863 that he

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recovered sufficiently to undertake any kind of hard work. He afterward went with his parents to Nel- son, thence to Antrim, and from there to Hills- borough, in 1871, where he has since lived. For nearly twenty-five years he was engaged in business as dealer in fancy goods and musical instruments and supplies, and retired from active pursuits in 1895. Mr. Wyman married (first), December 3, 1803, Franceila A. Eaton. of Antrim, daughter of James and Mary H. ( Caldwell) Eaton. She was born July 26, 1846, in Antrini, and died April 30, 1895. The only child of this marriage, Bestie, died aged four months. He married (second ) Mrs. Mina Olive Gray, of Wil- ton, New Hampshire. She was born October 5, 1856, daughter of Dr. William Augustus and Harriette (Chency) Jones. of Wilton, a descendant of an old New Hampshire family of Massachusetts origin. Mr. and Mrs. Wyman have one daughter, Lena, born January 23, 1899.

(III) Timothy (1), third son and fifth child of Francis and Abigail (Reed) Wyman, was born in Woburn, September 15, 1661, and died in 1709. His wife's name was Hannah, and they had twelve chil- dren : Hannah, Timothy, Solomon, Joseph, Eunice, Anne, Judith, Eli, Ebenezer, Hesther, Elizabeth and Prudence.

(IV) Timothy (2), oldest son and second child of Timothy (1) and Hannah Wyman, was born in Woburn, April 5, 1691, and married, about 1716, Hannah (surname unknown). They had thirteen children. The sons who survived infancy were: Timothy, Amos. Solomon, Stephen and Jesse.

(V) Timothy (3), oldest of the sons of Tim- othy (2) and Hannah Wyman, was born in Woburn, September 9, 1721. He lived in Woburn, and from 1759 to 1765 in Billerica. He married, October II, 1744, Sarah Locke, born in Lexington. 1723, daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Locke. Their chil- dren were: Timothy, Ilannah, Jonathan, Stephen and Ebenezer.

(VI) Timothy (4), oldest child of Timothy (3) and Sarah (Locke) Wyman, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1748. He settled first in Hollis, New Hampshire. but about 1777 or 1778 removed to Deering, New Hampshire, and lived about a mile and a quarter from Hillsborough Bridge, where he died October 31, 1830, aged eighty-two years. He was a farmer in comfortable circumstances, and a man of influence in the community of his residence. He served as a private in Captain William Boyes' company of volunteers, Colonel Kelley's regiment, in the expedition to Rhode Island, August, 1778, from August 7 to August 27, at the rate of twelve pounds per month, for which he received three pounds sixteen shillings eight pence, and mileage for one hundred and twenty-nine miles, amounting to eight pounds twelve shillings, making a total of twelve pounds twelve shillings eight pence. He married, December 17. 1772, Elizabeth Shattuck, daughter of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Fiske) Shattuck, of Hollis (see Shattuck. V). She died in Deering, August I. 1800, in her sixtieth year. Their children were : Timothy, Nathan, Elizabeth. Ebenezer. Sybil, Reuben, Abel, Sally and Polly (twins), Hannah and Daniel.

(VII) Ebenezer, third son of Timothy (4) Wyman, was born in Deering, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire. May 23. 1780, and died December 14, 1863. He was a trader and bought anything of any value that was offered which could be handled at a profit, from household and kitchen furniture and farm implements and stock to the farms them-

selves. As a judge of cattle he had no superior in tlie Granite State, and bought, fed, and sold farm animals in large numbers. His deals in lands were considered very large for his day, and he owned seven farms at one time. He had a large number of cows and made much butter and cheese, which he loaded into liis wagon and took to market in the fall, and sold if he could get his price ; if not he took his produce home and kept it until he could get what he thought was its value. He used to send great loads of rye and other grain to Charlestown, Massachusetts, drawn by four or six yoke of fat oxen and sell both the grain and the animals there for much better prices than he could get nearer home. He was a man who always had money enough for his business. At the time of his death he owed a dollar and a half. and when his estate was settled it was valued at nineteen thousand dollars, a large amount for a farmer in those days to possess. He had no education, and could not read, owing to feebleness in childhood, yet he could handle figures mentally with as great rapidity and as much pre- cision as those who used pencil and paper, and seldom made a mistake. He married, September 17, 1820, Betsy Stanley, born in Hopkinton, January 19. 1796, died October 31, 1869. Their children were : Elizabeth S. Mehitable C., wife of Joseph W. Reed. died in Charlestown, Massachusetts. John S. Charles, died in Hillsboro. Daniel, died young. Abi- gail, wife of Samuel Gregg, died in Deering. Dan- iel. Sibyl. Cynthia, wife of Edwin Perley, died in Medford, Massachusetts. Almira. Almena. Moses, residing in Golden City, Colorado. One child died in infancy.

(VH1) Daniel, seventh child and fourth son of Ebenezer and Betsey (Stanley) Wyman, was born in Deering, September 10, 1829. He was educated in the public schools, and after attaining his majority spent four years on the road as a traveling merchant, selling at wholesale from his two-horse wagon cot- ton yarn, twinc, and wicking, covering four times a year a territory including parts of New Hampshire, Vermont. Maine, and Massachusetts, from 1850 to 1854. He owned and lived on the Webster farm in Concord at the foot of Dimond Hill, twelve years. Ile inherited his father's ability to judge. cattle, and bought and sold a great deal of stock. He also owned seven farms. Besides the usual farming operations he carried on dairying to quite an extent all the time, and after his removal to Concord sup- plied fresh meat in large quantities to consumers. Ile sold in two years to St. Paul's school twenty- two thousand dollars' worth of meat. Mr. Wyman has lived in the suburbs of Concord since 1867, when he bought twenty-six acres of land on the heights in the western part of the city, one-half of which he has since sold in small parcels for residence lots, and many handsome houses have been built upon them For eighteen years after moving into Concord, Mr Wyman carried on dairying. In 1882 he went to Leadville, Colorado, where he and his brother Moses conducted a dairy of eighty-five cows. This was a profitable business, but on account of the effect of the altitude on Mr. Wyman's health he was obliged to return to Concord at the end of eight months. Mr. Wyman has always manifested a lively interest in public affairs, civil and political. and represented ward seven in the legislature in 1873-74. He lias been a Free Mason over forty years, having joined Harmony Lodge, No. 38, in Hillsboro, in 1865. He was a charter member of Capitol Grange, No. 113. of Concord, of which he was master one term-1890.

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Ile attends the Episcopal Church, and votes the Republican ticket.

He married, November 30, 1854, at Concord, Ann Rebecca Webster, born in Concord, October 10, 1830, died in Concord, January 3, 1897. She was the daughter of Atkinson Webster, born in Atkinson, Massachusetts, ISO1. who came to Concord when two years old. He was an accomplished carpenter, and is said to have erected the first building in Con- cord framed by "square rule." He married Rebecca Smart, born in Hopkinton, in 1800, and they had three sons and three daughters. Daniel and Ann R. ( Webster) Wyman had six children: I. Clara Louise. born February 18, 1856, married George L. Lincoln, and lives in Concord. Their children are: Wyman F., born December 20. 1882; Robert W., January 4, 1892, died November 11, 1901; and Eleanor Louise, born March 15, 1894, died Decem- bur 18, 1894. 2. Ida Vanette, born October 9, 1858, single. 3. Alice Perley. born August 5, 1860, mar- ried Ford T. Sanborn, of Tilton, and has one daugh- ter, Ethel Sanborn, born January 31, 1886. 4. Lizzie Luella, born August 26, 1862, died in infancy. 5. Lizzie Adella, born April 28, 1866, married Alonzo C. Willis, June, 1905. 6. Aniebec Proctor, born Oc- tober 29, 1868, married Lyman B. Foster, of Farm- ington. All except the youngest child were born at Hillsboro Bridge.

(II) John, son of Francis Wyman, and brother and partner of Francis Wyman, frequently men- tioned as Lieutenant John Wyman, was a man of note in the settlement of Woburn. After his trouble with the council over religious matters, he became reconciled to the church, and took an active part in the settlement of Rev. Jabez Fox as colleague of Rev. Thomas Carter, in 1679; and in his will, dated March 10, 168.4, he left a legacy of forty shillings to each of them, styling them his "Reverend Pas- tors." John Wyman, Jr., of Captain Prentice's troop was killed in the Swamp fight in King Philip's war, and Lieutenant Wyman petitioned the general court in 1676 that his servant, Robert Simpson, a tanner by trade, whom he had "bought on purpose for the management of his tanyard" but who had been long in the war, might come home to him, "so his leather now in the fatts may not be spoyled." He married, November 5, 1644, Sarah Nutt, whom her father, Myles Nutt, had brought with him from England. Their children were : Samuel, John, Sarah, Solomon, David, Elizabeth, Bathslieba, Jona- than, Seth and Jacob. Lieutenant Wyman died May 9, 1684, and his widow married Thomas Fuller, August 25, 1684.

(III) Jonathan, fifth son and eighth child of John and Sarah (Nutt) Wyman, born in Woburn, July 13, 1661, died December 15, 1736. Ile was known as Cornet Jonathan. He married (first), July 29. 1689, Abigail Fowle, daughter of Lieu- tenant James Fowle. She died January 3. 1690, and he married (second), July 13, 1690, Hannah, daughter of Peter Fowle. Their children were : Abigail, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Sarah and Zachary.

(IV) Jonathan (2), oldest son and fifth child of Cornet Jonathan (I) and Hannah (Fowle) Wyman, born in Woburn, September 13, 1704, SLIC- ceeded his grandfather, John, and great uncle, Francis Wyman, in business, and had a tannery in the same vicinity as theirs was. He married Martha Thompson, who was born December 7, 1706, and died November 24, 1785.

(V) Ezra, son of Jonathan (2) and Martha

(Thompson) Wyman, was born February 2, 1736, in Woburn, and died May 28, ISII. He married, May 3, 1758, Eunice Perkins, who was born Oc- tober 14, 1739, and died July 7, 1808.

(VI) Nancy, daughter of Ezra and Eunice (Per- kins) Wyman, became the wife of Asa Holden. ( See Holden, V).

PHELPS There seems to be no available infor- mation on this side of the ocean rela- tive to the English ancestors of this distinguished family. Thus far no Colonial record has been discovered which mentions their place of abode or their position in society, but there is some reason for believing that they were of the gentry. Three emigrants, Henry, Nicholas and Edward Phelps, presumably brothers, came to New England from London in the ship "Hercules" (Captain John Kidder), which arrived April 16, 1634, and as each married and had posterity, three distinct families were therefore established. Several of this name in America, both men and women, have acquired prominence through their intellectual attainments. Those about to be referred to are a branch of the family established by Edward.

(I) Edward Phelps, probably the youngest of the above mentioned emigrants, may have been a resident of Bolton, in England, but there is no posi- tive evidence to verify that supposition. He first located in Newbury, Massachusetts, whence he re- moved to Andover, and his death occurred in the last named town October 3, 1689. The Andover records state that he was made a freeman there in 1678. He was married about the year 1645 to Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp, nee Adams, daughter of Robert Adams, and probably the widow of Samuel Sharp, of Salem, and his children were: Elizabeth, who became the wife of Joseph Ballard. Samuel, men- tioned below. John. Eleanor, became the wife of William Chandler. Edward. All of these were probably born in Newbury.

(II) Samuel, second child and eldest son of Edward and Elizabeth ( Adams-Sharp) Phelps, was born in Newbury in 1651. He took the oath of allegiance in 1678 at Andover, whither he accom- panied his father, and his occupation was that of a weaver. He was among the twenty-one residents of Andover who served in Captain Gardner's com- pany raised for defence against the Indians in 1695, and the same year he, his wife Sarah, his brother Edward and the latter's wife Ruth, conveyed a piece of property to Thomas Abbott. In March, 1682, he married Sarah Chandler, who was born in Andover, December 20, 1661, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Brewer) Chandler. She united with the South Church, Andover, in January, 1713, and died in that town, April 5, 1757, at the advanced age of over ninety-five years, having been the mother of ten children whose names were: Sarah, Samuel, John, Joseph, Hannah, Henry, Thomas, Elizabeth, who became the wife of Jonathan Lover- ing; Deborah, became the wife of Stephen Blanch- ard; and Anna, became the wife of John Stevens.

(IH) John, second son and third child of Samuel and Sarah (Chandler) Phelps, was born in An- dover, April 28, 1686. He was a tailor and acquired considerable property. He died April 23, 1739. His will was made February 14, 1738-9 and the value of his estate according to the inventory was eight hundred pounds, his personal property being reck- oned at three hundred and twenty-two pounds and six shillings. Ile was married November 4, 1714,

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to Sarah .Andrews, and with her joined the South Church, 1716. Their children were: Sarah, who became the wife of Reuben Muzzy. John. Lydia, died young. Jonathan. Hannah and Nathan, twins, the former of whom became the wife of Hezekiah Lovering. Lydia.

(IV) John (2), second child and eldest son of John (1) and Sarah (Andrews) Phelps, was born in Andover, March 12, 1718, and was baptized on March 10. (Another account states that he was born May 12, 1718). Prior to 1751 he and his brother Jonathan went to Hollis, New Hampshire, as pioneers and settled upon adjoining farms. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He spent the remainder of his life in Hollis, but the date of his death is not at hand. The christian name of his wife was Deborah. He had a family of seven children, namely : John, Deborah, Sarah and Nathan, who were born in Andover; Henry, Samuel and Abigail, who were born in Hollis.

(V) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Deborah Phelps, was born September 12, 1743, in Reading, Massachusetts, and accompanied his father and family on their removal to New Hampshire. He resided for sometime in Amherst, where the birth of four of his children are recorded, but removed to Hollis between 1780 and 1783. He mar- ried Mary Lakin and their children were: Polly, Deborah, Sybil, John Lovejoy, born in Amherst; Simeon Lakin, Sarah, Luther and Betsey.

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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 69

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

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