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Mr. Watts married at Londonderry, March 28, 1842, Maria Boyd, who was born August 19, 1819, daughter of Captain William and Martha (Dickey) Boyd, of Londonderry. She died March 28, 1895. They were the parents of four children: Martha B., Daniel M., who died in infancy; Mary Alice, Annie E., Martha B. married, May 31, 1864, Wil- liam F. Holmes, who was later a partner of her father in business. She died February 21, 1877. Annie E. married, December 10, 1885, Rosecrans WV. Pillsbury, of Londonderry (see Pillsbury, V) ..
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Mary Alice received her early education in the public schools of her native place, and the Abbott Academy of Andover, Massachusetts. Subsquently to leaving school she spent a year in travel in Europe where she had exceptional opportunities for observation and self culture, which she thoroughly improved. From her youth she has been fully imbued with the noble spirit that prompted her father to do so much for his church, and for the charitable institutions of the city, and the Woman's Aid Home, the Elliott Hospital, the City Mission and Children's Home have been frequent recipients of her bounty. For nine years she has been a trustee of the Elliott Hospital, and for a portion of that time the principal work of the committee was transacted by her in a manner that manifested her experience in business matters and her executive ability. So zealous and attentive was she to the discharge of her duties in this position, that her health gave way, and she was for some time unable to give the hospital or any of her extensive business interests any of her attention. She is a member of the First Congregational Church, and an unfailing helper in its manifold works of philanthropy and charity. She is a woman of noble character and charming personality, and resides 011 the paternal homestead, where, with the society of her many friends, the entertainment afforded by a well selected library and the labor incident to the care of her property and the duties entailed by her connection with the institutions above men- tioned, she leads a busy and a useful life.
The name Massey and its similar MASSEY forms-Massie, Maas and Masse-is thought to be one of those patro- nymics taken directly from the earth's topography, like Hill, Peake, Craig, Stone, Littlefield, and many others. The name of Massey is better known in England than in America. Readers will recall Gerald Massey, the poet, also Mrs. Gertrude Massey, painter of children and dogs to the royal family. Massey is also the family name of the Baron Clarina. Among Amercans bearing the name are Dr. George B. Massey, a noted physician of Phila- delphia; Chief Justice W. A. Massey, of Ne- vada; and Professor Wilbur Fisk Massey, pro- fessor of horticulture and botany in North Caro- lina. The first American ancestor of this family is not known. Thomas Massey migrated to Pennsyl- vania before 1687, and lived in Marple, that state. Samuel Massey and his family came from Cork, Ireland, to Philadelphia, in 17II. They were mem- bers of the Society of Friends. Owing to the absence of printed records, it has been impossible to trace the remote ancestry of the present line.
(I) Jonas Dennis Massey lived in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He served in the revolution both on land and sea. He was a private in Captain William Harper's company from March 1, 1776, to January 1, 1777. This company was in the artil- lery service. He was seaman on the brigantine "Massachusetts" from March 7 to August 31, 1777. He evidently possessed the sturdy and patriotic qualities characteristic of the men of his sea-faring port. He died at Marblehead in the year 1818.
(II) Information about this generation 1S lacking.
(III) Stephen Decatur, grandson of Jonas Den- nis Massey, was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in the year 1815. He was in the drug business at Marlborough, Massachusetts, about three years, and afterwards went to Boston and engaged in the shoe business as manufacturer and broker. He
continued in the shoe business about forty years, and during the latter part of his life also dealt quite extensively in real estate. In politics he was originally a Whig, and afterwards became a Democrat He married Lucretia Derby Smith, daughter of Andrew Smith, of Salem, Massachusetts. They had three children : Horace A., whose sketch follows; Stephen Decatur (2), and Dudley A. Stephen Decatur Massey died at Danvers, Massachu- setts, about 1872-74.
(IV) Horace Andrew, eldest of the three sons of Stephen Decatur and Lucretia D. (Smith) Massey, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1840. He was educated in the common schools of Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts. In early life he was employed as a clerk by the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Boston. At the out- break of the civil war he enlisted in Company B, First Massachusetts Infantry, and served at Wash- ington, D. C., and at Budd's Ferry, Maryland, about one year. He was afterwards appointed pay clerk in the United States navy, and served on the gun- boat "Anacosti," and later on the ship "Seminole" and on the "Pawtuxent." About 1886 he left the naval service at New York, and came to Ports- mouth. New Hampshire. For a few years after that Mr. Massey was engaged in the hotel business in the White Mountains, but he is now on the retired list. Mr. Massey belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, and is prominent in the Masonic fra- ternity, being a member of Saint John's Lodge, Washington Chapter, Davenport Council, De Witt Clinton Commandery, and has attained the thirty- second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. Horace Andrew Massey married Isabelle Stearns Jones, daughter of Nathan Jones, and niece of Frank Jones, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They have three children : Charlotte L., Horace Andrew (2), and Frank Jones.
COLLINS This family has contributed pioneers and valuable citizens to New Hamp- shire, and is now amiably represented in many sections of the United States by men in the learned professions, in business circles, and all the various activities of modern life. Since it was first planted in Massachusetts many marvelous changes have occurred in the methods of conduct- ing business, and men's ideas and controlling in- fluences have been greatly modified. It is easy to conceive that, when the patriarch of the family settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, the luxuries en- joyed by the people there were few and their methods of progress were extremely primitive as compared with those of to-day.
(I) Benjamin Collins, who was possibly a brother of Robert Collins, is found of record in Salisbury, Massachusetts, November 5, 1668, when he was married to Martha Eaton, daughter of John and Martha (Sowlandson) Eaton, and granddaugh- ter of John Eaton, the pioneer of Salisbury and Haverhill. She was born August 12, 1648, in Salis- bury. Benjamin Collins was a householder of Salis- bury in 1677, and died there December 10, 1683. The inventory of his estate was made January 3, following, and administration was had on March 25. His widow was married November 4, 1686, in Salisbury, to Philip, son of Stephen Flanders. Benjamin Collins' children were : Mary, John, Samuel, Anna, Benjamin and Ephraim.
(II) Samuel, second son and third child of Benjamin and Martha (Eaton) Collins, was born January 18, 1676, in Salisbury, residing in that town. He was a soldier in the campaign against
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the Indians at Wells. Maine, in 1696, and at Haverhill in 1697-98. He was married in Salis- bury, March 16, 1699, to Sarah White. Their chil- dren were: Benjamin, Joseph, John (died young), Merriam, John and Hannah.
(III) Joseph, second son and child Samuel and Sarah ( White) Collins, was born June 27, 1702, in Salisbury, and passed his life in that town. He was married to Ilannah Sargent, the publication of their intentions being made in Ames- bury, July 13, 1723.
(IV) Deacon John, son of Joseph and Hannah (Sargent) Collins, was born February 14, 1740. ( Recorded in Amesbury.) He died. September II, 1844. in Salisbury, New Hampshire. He settled first in Kingston, this state, and removed thence, pre- vious to 1768, to Salisbury, locating south of the south rangeway. He soon became an extensive owner of lands, and was a prominent citizen of the town, identified with the conduct of public af- fairs. He was the first deacon of the Congregational Church, and his life was free from reproach. He was married, October 1, 1761, to Ruth Challis, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. She was born June 10, 1741, in Amesbury, and died July 5, 1832, in Salis- bury. Their children were: Winthrop, Charles, John, Carteret, Joseph, Enoch, Enos, Sarah, Annie and Seth C.
(V) Seth C., youngest child of Deacon John and Ruth ( Challis) Collins, was born February 15, 1785, in Salisbury, and died January 25, 1847, in Springfield, New Hampshire. He cleared up a farm in that town, and was an industrious and useful citizen. He was married, October 1I, 1807, to Marion Sawyer.
(V1) Samuel, son of Seth C. and Marion (Sawyer) Collins, was born in Springfield, 1815. He settled in Bakersfield, Vermont, where he fol- lowed agriculture in connection with the lumber business, and he participated quite actively in local public affairs, holding some of the important town offices. His latter years were spent in Johnson, same state, and he died in 1902, at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. He married Harriet K. Stone, and those of his children now living are: Chellis Oliver, who will be again referred to; Leonard, who is a resident of Johnson, and Mary, who became the wife of George Butler.
(VII) Chellis Oliver, son of Samuel and Har- riet K. (Stone) Collins, was born in Bakersfield, September 22, 1845. He was educated in the public schools, and began the activities of life as a cooper. He subsequently entered mercantile business as a clerk, and still later took a similar position in a hotel at Bakersfield. For nearly forty years he devoted his time and energies exclusively to the textile industry. Entering the employ of the Andros- coggin Cotton Mills Corporation at Lewiston, Maine, in 1869, as "second hand" in the weaving department, he worked his way forward to the position of over- seer. He resided in Lewiston some eighteen years. In 1887 he accepted the position of overseer of the dressing department in the mills of the Nashua Manufacturing Company at Nashna, and was em- ployed in that responsible capacity until his death, which occurred January 17, 1907. Mr. Collins was far advanced in the Masonic Order, Laying attained the thirty-second degree, and was a member of the various bodies from the Blue Lodge to the con- sistory. He occupied all of the important chairs in Knights of Pythias Lodge at Lewiston, and was a member of the Grand Lodge of Maine. In his religious belief he was a Baptist. He married Liz- zie N. Chency, daughter of John and Katherine
(Morse) Cheney, of Island Pond, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have one son, Ernest, principal of the high school at Athol, Massachusetts; and one daughter, Mrs. Leda M. Buttrick, of Nashua.
The Collins family of this article has
COLLINS been represented in the United States about one hundred years, and its
members have been patriotic citizens of the republic where they came to enjoy liberty and have contrib- uted money and shed blood to sustain it.
(1) Patrick Collins was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1810, and when but two months old was brought to America by his parents, who settled in Maine. He worked on a farm while a lad, and at the age of sixteen enlisted in the United States army, and served through two five-year enlistments. After leaving the military service he went into trade at Houlton, Maine, and was actively engaged in busi- ness until his death in 1857. He married Margaret Staples, who bore him children: I. Thomas A., lived in Wisconsin. 2. William A., lived in Wis- consin. 3. Winfield S., was lieutenant of Company E, First Maine Cavalry, and was killed at Boydton Road, October 27, 1864; he had four horses killed under him during the war. 4. Samuel Abbott, see forward. 5. Henry C., who lived at Ft. Fairfield, Maine. 6. Dora, widow of Edwin Davis, of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts.
(II) Samuel Abbott Collins, son of Patrick and Margaret (Staples) Collins, was born in Houl- ton, Maine, December 12, 1845. He was educated in the public schools and by private tutors. At the age of eighteen, August, 1864, he enlisted in Com- pany K of the Twentieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served until July, 1865. He was in seven gen- eral engagements. At the battle of Hatcher's Run he was wounded in two places by an exploding shell, which tore his chest, but he did not leave his company and remained on the field. The day before the battle of Five Forks he was one of a detail of skirmishers which was recalled. Know- ing that a battle was imminent, he and two others attempted to join their regiment, which they suc- ceeded in doing, but too late to be marked present on the company roll. He fell into rank, however, and participated in the battle and received three wounds. He was shot below the knee of the right leg, through the right kneecap, and through the left leg below the knee. 'His right leg was amputated above the knee the next day. The report of his absence with the skirmishers never was corrected, and he never was given credit in the war records for that engagement. After the war he worked at harness making in Houlton until 1869, when he moved to Gorham, New Hampshire. He carried on his trade there ten years, and in 1879 removed to Milan, where he continued in business the fol- lowing ten years and where he now resides. Dur- ing these years he also carried on farming, and lumbering to some extent. Since 1887 he has been retired. He is a Republican and still votes as he shot in the war. He was town treasurer of Milan ten years (1882-92), and chairman of its board of selectmen in Milan, 1892-1901, and was again elected chairman of that body in 1907. He repre- sented Milan in the general court in 1904-05, and was a member of the convention which nominated Charles M. Floyd for governor in 1906. He is a member of Willis Post, Grand Army of the Repub- lic, of Gorham, and of Androscoggin Lodge, No. 76, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which lie was secretary ten years. He has been an in- dustrious citizen, has always taken an active inter-
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est in public affairs, and for years has been one of the most prominent men in his town in politics and public life.
He married, November, 1868, Louise A. Hillman, born in New Brunswick, daughter of John T. IIill- man.
COLLINS Lewis Peter Collins, one of the most higlily valued citizens of Manchester, New Hampshire, prominent in finan- cial and industrial circles, owes his present con- dition and prosperity to his indomitable spirit and unaided efforts.
Peter Collins, father of Lewis Peter Collins, was a native of England and emigrated to this country, where he engaged in farming. He married Sarah Sallaway and had nine children.
Lewis Peter, son of Peter and Sarah (Salla- way) Collins, was born in New Brunswick, June 15, 1851. He was but three years of age when his father died, and was educated in the common schools of the district. He was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and learned that of woodworking at the age of sixteen years. He went to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1879, and entered the employ of the Briggson, Allen Company, manufacturers of sashes, doors, blinds, etc., remained with them for thirty-three years, and in that time passed through all the grades of this kind of work, from the rank of plain carpenter to that of superintendent, and is now interested in this company in Lawrence, Mas- sachusetts. He removed to Manchester in 1903, and since that time has been superintendent of the Derryfield Board and Lumber Company of that city. He has many additional business interests, being a director of the Lawrence National Bank, and trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank. While a resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts, he was a member of the common council, of the board of aldermen, board of trade, and the mayor of the city in 1891-92. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and connected with the following organiza- tions : Calumet Club, Free and Accepted Masons, Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, New England Water Works Association. He is a man of sterling quali- ties and is highly esteemed by his fellow citizens. He married Lavinia E. Hanze, daughter of Daniel Hanze, of Belfast, Maine, and has one child : Frederick Lewis, a resident of the city of New York, who is connected with the Review of Re- vieres.
GAY In ancient times, before surnames were fashionable, men were sometimes dis-
tinguished from one another by reference to their temperament, and in old records men are designated as the lively, the blithe, or the gay; and probably the ancestor of this family took his sur- name from' his disposition to be gay.
(I) John Gay came to America from England about 1630, and first settled at Watertown, Massa- chusetts. He was one of the grantees of lands in the Great Dividends 'and in Beaver Brook plow lands, receiving altogether forty acres. He was made a freeman May 6, 1635, and was subsequently one of the founders of the plantation of Dedham. He was one of the original proprietors of the town, his name appearing on the petition for incorporation September 6, 1636. He was a selectman of Ded- ham in 1654, and died in that town March 4, 1688. His wife Joanna died August 14, 1691. It is a matter of family tradition that she was the widow Bale- wicke when she married John Gay. His will appears in the Suffolk records, being dated December 18,
1686, and was proved December 17, 1689. His wife and son John were the executors, and his estate was valued at ninety-one pounds, five shillings, eight pence. His children were: Samuel, IIezekiah, Na- thanicl, Joanna, Eliezer, Abiel, Judith, John, Jona- than, Hannah and Elizabeth. ( Mention of Na- thaniel and descendants forms a part of this article.)
(II) Samuel, eldest child of John and Joanna Gay, was born March 10, 1639, in Dedham, and al- ways resided in that town. By his father's will he received the lands situated near Medfield line granted to the father by the town. He was select- man in 1698, and died April 15, 1718. He was imarried, November 23, 1661, to Mary, daughter of Edward Bridge, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Their sons were : Samuel, Edward, John, Hezekiah and Timothy.
(III) John (2), third son of Samuel and Mary (Bridge) Gay, was born June 25, 1668, in Ded- ham, where he resided all his life and was a selectman in 1721. He was married, May 24, 1092, to Mary Fisher, who died May 18, 1748. She was survived more than ten years by her husband, who died June 17, 1758. Their children were: Mary, Mercy, John, Samuel, Margaret, Eliphalet and Ebe- nezer.
(IV) Eliphalet, third son and sixth child of John (2) and Mary ( Fisher ) Gay, was born Sep- tember 24, 1706, in Dedham, Massachusetts, and lived a few years in Newton, Massachusetts, where his two eldest children were born. He was married in Newton, April 20, 1732, to Dorothy Hall, daughi- ter of Andrew and Susanna (Capen) Hall, and passed the latter years of his life in Dedham. His children were: Ephraim, Susanna, Lydia, Mehitabel, Ebenezer, Eliphalet and Hepsibah.
(V) Ephraim, eldest child of Eliphalet and Dorothy ( Hall) Gay, was born September 13, 1734, in Newton, Massachusetts, and lived for some time in Attleboro, that state, where ten of his children were born. Soon after 1780 he removed to New London, New Hampshire, where he died March, 1817, at the age of eighty-three years. He was married September 29, 1758, in Dedham, to Lois Fisher who was born March 3, 1736, in Walpole, Massachusetts, daughter of William and Elizabeth Fisher. Their children were: Eliphalet, William, Fisher, Ephraim, Seth, David, Asa, Stephen, Lois, Lydia and Eunice.
(VI) Fisher, third son and child of Ephraim and Lois (Fisher) Gay, was born in 1767, and died September 11. 1853. When he was twenty-one years old his mother made him a "freedom suit" from a bed blanket, probably spun and woven by her own hands. It was colored with hemlock bark, and the buttons were disks cut out of sole leather. With this suit for Sunday wear he started out in life for himself. He went from Springfield to Keene, New Hampshire, performing the journey on foot. After working a year at the tanner's trade he went to Hillsboro, where he was given an acre of land near the brook that flows not far from the present Gay homestead. There he built a house, using the upper portion for a residence and the lower story for a shop, where he made shoes. This building is still standing. After a time his brother David as- sisted him in his work, and for years they had a very busy place, tanning leather and making shoes, the shoes being sent to the Boston market. Fisher Gay married Mehitable Kimball, daughter of Benja- min and Hannah (Parker) Kimball (see Kimball, VI), and they had five children : Gardner, Mehitable, Benjamin, Betsey and Langdon.
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( VII) Benjamin Holton, third child and sec- ond son of Fisher and Mehitable ( Kimball) Gay, was born in Hillsboro, June 24, 1807, and died Janu- ary 9, 1880, aged seventy-three. He was a tanner, and for many years carried on the trade he had learned from his father. He finally gave up this occupation and settled on the farm which is still in the possession of the family, and now known as "Maplewood Farm." It is situated about two and a half miles from Hillsborough Bridge, near what is known as the "Centre," and now embraces about one hundred and sixty acres of land, although a considerable amount of outlying pasture and wood- land is owned in connection with it. He married, September 23, 1834, Ann Duncan Stow, born De- cember 12, 1811, who died February 27, 1896. Their children were: William E., Charles C., Robert D., Margaret Ann, and Ellen Maria.
(VIII) William Edwin, eldest child of Benjamin H. and Ann D. (Stow) Gay, was born July 18, 1835, and resided all his life on the farm where he was born, except two years which he spent as a clerk in Boston. He gave to the cultivation and improvement of his farm the energy and devotion of a tireless, purposeful life, seeking the best re- sults through the application of the most approved methods, dairying and fruit culture being his lead- ing specialties for many years. He kept from twenty to thirty cows, largely Jerseys, and produced for a time upwards of four thousand pounds of butter per annum, which commanded the highest market price, on account of its superior quality. Some two or three years previous to his decease he changed from butter to milk production, finding his market in a milk route at Hillsborough Bridge. Upon making this change he gradually disposed of his Jerseys, substituting Ayrshires in their place, as the most desirable cows for milk alone. Of fruit in the culture of which he took special delight, he raised all kinds in abundance, and numerous varities. Apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots and grapes were grown in profusion, over thirty varieties of grapes being included among his bearing vines. His peaches were of special excellence, and in one season he sold upwards of one hundred dollars worth of them alone. He exercised great care not only in the cultivation but in the harvesting, storing, and mar- keting of his fruits, and was particularly successful in preserving apples in perfect condition for the late winter and spring markets. The annual hay crop on this farm amounts to some seventy-five tons, and this has been supplemented with corn, of which several hundred bushels have been raised annually. Potatoes are raised in considerable quantities, and were at one time quite a specialty. In some years from fifty to sixty head of cattle and horses have been kept on the farm, the latter kind of stock usually including some good animals, which is the case at the present time. The location and surroundings of "Maplewood" are most attractive for summer boarders, and for more than forty years a number of these have been accommodated there. So popular had the place become as a home for those seeking the genuine comforts of country life during the heated term, that in 1892 a separate house, with rooms for the accommodation of thirty or forty people, was erected near the farm house, and has been filled every succeeding season.
Ar. Gay was a Republican in politics, taking much interest in public affairs, but never seeking office, though he was three years a member of the board of selectmen. In religion he was a Methodist, and the family are connected with the Methodist society at the Centre. Mr. Gay was a charter inem-
ber of Valley Grange, of Hillsborough, taking a deep interest in the welfare of the organization from the first, holding many of its offices, including that of lecturer, to which he gave his best efforts for several years, and manifesting his devotion to the principles of the order in all fitting ways up to the time of his death. He was a man of strong moral convictions, careful, methodical, and un- usually energetic and a model farmer. Perhaps no man in the entire history of the town did more for agriculture than he. William E. Gay married, in Hillsborough, March 17, 1861, Mary J. Blanchard, born in Washington, October 27, 1836, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Friend ) Blanchard, of Washington. Six children were born to them : 1. Nellie M., born June 18, 1862, married, November 26, 1881, Charles Morgan, a farmer of Hillsborough, residing near "Maplewood Farm," and has seven children : Frank H., Mary, Marieta A., Annabel, Edith M. and Helen (twins), and Walter E. 2. Frank D., born July 27, 1865, married, May 21, 1896, Mabel Wyman. He remained on the home- stead farm until his marriage, and then removed to the "Bridge" village, where he is engaged in the milk business and is also deputy sheriff. 3. Walter E., mentioned below. 4. Julia M., born December 3, 1868, a graduate of Colby Academy, who con- tinued her studies in special lines in Boston and Chicago universities for two years, is now superin- tendent of schools at the village of Dundee, Illinois.
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