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. IV, Part 115

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: 878


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(III) David (2), third son of John and Lydia (Robinson) Morrison, was born 1732 or 1733, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He resided for a time in Amesbury, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Epping, New Hampshire, about 1762. He returned to Amesbury and from there to Canterbury, New Hampshire, where he is first found on record in 1764 as being taxed fifteen shillings and six pence. ne was tithingman in the Northfield parish of that town as late as 1782, and removed to Sanbornton about 1784, locating on Salmon brook at the place still known as Morrison's Mill. His property was lot number sixty-five in the first division and he was employed in tending grist mills. He was mar- ried (first), about 1753, to Keziah Whittle. daugh- ter of Thomas and Molly (Cole) Whittle. Her father was born on the Isle of Wight and first settled in this country at Amesbury, Massachusetts. She was a noted singer and her descendants have inherited from her a talent in that direction. Two of her older daughter were much distinguished for musical ability. She died July 5, 1800, in Sanborn- ton, and Mr. Morrison married (second), Hulda Page, of East Andover. He died April 6, 1827, aged ninety-four years. His children were: Anna, Molly, David (died young), Lydia, David. Brad- bury, John, Thomas W. and Keziah.


(IV) Thomas Whittle, fifth son and eighth child of David and Keziah (Whittle) Morrison, was born in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and set- tled on Salmon brook just west of Turkey bridge in that town, where he died October 2, 1838. He was married, November 12, 1795, to Betsey Cass. daughter of Moses and Sarah (Wring) Cass, of


Sanbornton. She was born May 26, 1777. Their children were: Sally, Bradbury, Thomas Whit- tle, Samuel, Nancy. David, Miriam P., Hannah, James Simonds and Lydia. The eldest daughter married (first). William Calley, and (second), Ce- phas Smith. (See Smith, IV).


(V) Thomas Whittle (2), second son and third child of Thomas Whittle (I) and Betsy (Cass) Morrison, was born September 12, 1800, in Sanborn- ton, and engaged in farming in New Hampton and Franklin, and a large portion of his life was spent in Weare. From Weare he removed to New Hamp- ton, where he purchased a farm on the Tilton road. About 1874 he sold this farm and removed to Franklin, New Hampshire, where he purchased a dwelling and there spent the autumn of his life. He died in May. 1884, and his wife died in October, 1882. He was married in May, 1825, to Dorothy Gordon, of New Hampton, who was born March 23. 1798, in Brentwood, New Hampshire. Their children were: Ira Edwin, Charles Ewell, and Al- bert Palmer.


(VI) Albert Palmer, youngest child of Thomas WV. and Dorothy (Gordon) Morrison, was born in New Hampton, February 6. 1833, and died January 2, 1873, aged forty years. He obtained his schooling in the common schools and at New Hampton Acad- emy, and at the age of fifteen went to Boston where he entered the employ of a Mr. English and worked in a meat market. In 1858 he engaged in the same business on his own account at Boston, and carried it on four years. Subsequently he leased the Black- stone Hotel, Hanover street, Boston, and later opened the Mystic Hotel and park at Medford, Massachusetts. This he conducted until 1871. He married (first), September, 1856, Sarah C. Gage, who was born in Franklin, New Hampshire. daugh- ter of Jacob Gage, of Franklin. She died July 30, 1863, leaving one child, Thomas Albert, who was born June 7, 1858. and now resides in Somerville, Massachusetts. Thomas Albert Morrison married, May 10, 1884, at Wauseon, Ohio, Cora Jane New- comer, of Wauseon, Ohio. He married (second), in Boston, November 21, 1866, Esther F. Dimond, who was born April 24, 1832, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Dimond) Dimond, of Concord, New Hamp- shire. (See Dimond, V). Seventeen years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Morrison removed from Boston to Salisbury, New Hampshire, and has since resided on the one hundred acre farm in Salisbury village, formerly owned by her father.


(Second Family.)


Among the excellent and exemplary MORISON Scotch who came to Londonderry and settled in the early part of the eighteenth century was the ancestor of this family. His progeny has borne no mean part in the devel- opment of civilization in the New World.


(I) John Morison, tradition states, was born in county of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1628; emigrated to America between 1720 and 1723; and died in Londonderry, New Hampshire, February 16, 1736, at the reputed age of one hundred and eight years. There is scarcely a doubt that he was born in Scot- land and emigrated to Ireland some time before the siege of Londonderry. He certainly lived in Ireland, and had a family in 1688, and resided in or near the city of Londonderry during the war of James the Second for the throne of England. He and his family were at Londonderry during the cele- brated siege and defence of that city, and they were among the number who were driven beneath the walls, and subsequently admitted within the city, remaining there until the city was relieved. He did


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not come to America in the first immigration of 1718, but continued to live in Ireland till about 1720, when he removed to America, with a young family by his last wife, Jane Steele. On December 25, 1723, his sons, James and John, who had preceded him to New Hampshire, deeded him a piece of land in Londonderry, in that portion of the present town of Derry now known as the "Dock." His children were : James, John, Halbert, Martha, Samuel Hannah, Mary and Joseph. All but the youngest were born in Ireland.


(II) Joseph, youngest child of John and Jane (Steele) Morison, was born on the passage of the family to America about 1720, and died in Lon- donderry, February 17, 1806, aged about eighty-six. He was of age and conveyed lands in 1841. He was a carpenter and farmer. In 1769 he was one of the undertakers for building the new church in Londonderry, (now Derry) East Village. He set- tled near the Windham line not far from the Lon- donderry turnpike, on a farm at that time within the limits of Windham, and his name appears on the tax lists of that town for several years. There he lived and died. He married Mary Holmes, of Londonderry, and they had eight children: Joseph, Abraham, Ann, Jane, John, Mary, Hannah and Jonathan.


(III) Mary, sixth child and third daughter of Joseph and Mary (Holmes) Morison, was born May 8, 1751, and died in Londonderry, March 31, 1836, aged eighty-five. She married, December 22, 1779, John Anderson. of Londonderry, who was born May 9, 1754, and died January 8, . 1827. He was a farmer and resided in Londonderry. Their children were: Joseph, James and Nancy (twins), Mary, Jane and Betsey.


(IV) Mary Anderson, fourth child and second daughter of John and Mary (Morison) Anderson, was born in Londonderry, December 20, 1786, and died February 21, 1832. She married Captain Abel Plummer. of Rowley, Massachusetts. He was a farmer, and after 1776 resided in Londonderry, where he died November 3, 1841. Their children were: Mary, Nancy, John A., William, Susan, El- mira and Sarah.


(V) Mary Plummer, eldest child of Captain Abel and Mary (Anderson) Plummer, was born in Londonderry, August 23, 1809, and died March 9. 1873, aged seventy-five years. She married, Octo- ber 25, 1830, Deacon James Nevins (See Nevins, V), of Londonderry, farmer.


TIBBETTS This is the usual spelling of the name in present use, though a part of the family employ the form, Teb- bets, Tibbets or Tibbits. It is among the earliest in New Hampshire, and has been continuously as- sociated with the development of the state in worthy ways. From southeastern New Hampshire it has spread to all parts of the United States and is found in connection with pioneer settlements in many localities.


(I) Henry Tibbetts, the ancestor of nearly all of the name in America, was born in England about the year 1596, and embarked from London, July 13, 1635, in the ship "James," bound for New Eng- land. He was accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, born in the same year as himself, and sons. Jere- miah, born 1631, and Samuel, 1633. He was a shoe- maker by trade, and soon settled in Dover, New Hampshire, where he had a grant of three and one- half acres of land for a house lot, at Dover Neck. At different times he had other grants, including one of twenty acres situated on the west side of


Back river (now called the Bellamy river) and another of one hundred acres adjoining the New- ichawanock river in what is now Rollinsford, then Dover. He held several minor offices in the town, was a hard-working, industrious farmer and, for some years, was the only shoemaker in the place. He died in 1676, at the age of eighty years, having survived his wife, Elizabeth, several years. They had several children born after their arrival in America.


(II) Jeremiah, eldest child of Henry and Eliza- beth Tibbetts, born 1631, in England, died in the suminer of 1677. His will was dated May 5, and proved October 31, of that year. His widow, Mary, survived him and married a Mr. Loomis. He lived at Dover, where he was a farmer and for several years kept the jail or prison of the colony. He had several grants from the town, one embracing one hundred acres of land in what is now Rollins- ford and another of three and one-half acres at Dover Neck for a house lot, on which he built his residence. He inherited the greater part of his father's lands, including the one hundred acres tract in Rollinsford. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Canney, a neighbor who lived but a short distance from the Tibbetts home. She died at Dover, July 2, 1706. They had eight sons and four daughters, namely: Jeremiah, mentioned in next paragraph. Mary, born April 15, 1658, married Ichabod Rawlins. Thomas, February 24, 1659, mar- ried (first) Judith Dame, (second) Elizabeth ,


(third) Sarah Hannah, born February 25, 1661, married Nathaniel Perkins. Joseph, born Au- gust 7, 1663. married (first) Elizabeth -, (sec- ond) Catherine Mason. Samuel, born 1666, married ( first) Dorothy Tuttle, (second) Rebecca Willy, (third) Rachel Benjamin, born about 1668. Ephraim, born about 1669, married Rose Austin. Martha, born born about 1671. Elizabeth,


about 1672, married John Bickford. Na-


thaniel, born about 1674, married Elizabeth


Henry, born about 1676, married (first) Widow


Joyce Otis, (second) Mary Akerman. ( Mention of Thomas and Ephraim and their descendants forms part of this article.)


(III) Jeremiah (2), eldest child of Jeremiah (1) and Mary (Canney) Tibbetts, was born June 5. 1656, and died some time after June 27, 1735, and before December 17, 1743. He lived at Dover, New Hampshire, and was a farmer. He married Mary, daughter of Ralph and Elizabeth Twombly, and they were the parents of a large family of children.


(IV) John, son of Jeremiah (2) and Mary (Twombly) Tibbetts, was born about 1685. He was alive in 1743, and died before May 2, 1756. He resided in Dover, and followed the trade of car- penter. He married (first) Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Meader. of Dover. She died and he married (second) Tamsen (Meserve) Ham, widow of Joseph Ham. He had three children by the first marriage and one by the second.


(V) John (2), eldest child of John (1) and Sarah (Meader) Tibbetts, was born November 14, 17II, the date of his death is unknown. He spent his life in Dover. He married Tamson, daughter of Ephraim Ricker, of the same place.


(VI) Ichabod, son of John (2) and Tamson (Ricker) Tibbetts, was born about 1745, but the date of his death is not known. He resided in Dover, and married Hannah, daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia Tibbetts, of Barrington, New Hampshire. She was born February 10, 1754, and died in 1831. They had twelve children.


(VII) John (3), son of Ichabod and Hannah


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(Tibbetts) Tibbetts, was born July 5, 1784, and died in 1821. He resided in Dover, New Hampshire, and was a farmer. He married Deborah Ham, of Barrington, New Hampshire, who died February 8, 1858. They had four children.


(VIII) Samuel Ham, eldest child of John (3) and Deboralı (Ham) Tibbetts, was born February II, 1807, and died September 23, 1858. He resided at Dover, and married, December 7, 1826, Belinda, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Hayes) Cross, of Rochester, New Hampshire. . She was born April 23, 1808, and died October 29, 1846. He had six children:


(IX) John Winslow, second child of Samuel Ham and Belinda (Cross) Tibbetts, was born Janu- ary 5, 1831, in Dover, New Hampshire. He at- tended the common schools, and at the age of eight- een years apprenticed himself to the carpenter trade, and for two years worked for Woodbury S. Manes, a prominent builder of that day. In 1850 he settled in Rochester, where he became a master carpenter and worked at his trade a part of the time until about 1890, being also employed a large part of that time in lumbering, at which he did a quite extensive business. In 1862 he engaged in the livery business as a member of the firm of Tibbetts & Hays, which existed until 1880. In 1879 he erected the Glendon House at East Rochester, and has since been its proprietor, making the enterprise a success from the start, and never selling a drop of liquor. He has a warm interest in the affairs of the town, and has been a director in the Loan and Banking Company of Rochester for ten years past. In early manhood he was a Whig, and cast his first presidential ballot for General Scott in 1852. When the Republican party rose to power he joined its ranks and has ever since been one of its faithful supporters. He was selectman for two years im- mediately preceding the incorporation of Rochester as a city, and councilman the two following years. In 1873 and 1875 he was a representative in the state legislature. He is a Mason, and a member of Humane Lodge, No. 21, of Rochester ; Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20, and Orphan Council, No. 7, Royal and Select Masters. He is also a member of Cocheco Lodge, No. 39, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of East Rochester, which he helped to organize, and of Norway Plains Encampment, No. 39, same order.


He married (first), in May, 1854, Charlotte F. Chamberlain, who died January 1, 1857, daughter of Amos Chamberlain, of' Lebanon. He married (sec- ond), December, 1857, Clara W. Blaisdell, who was born in Lebanon, Maine, and died in Rochester, April 20, 1896, daughter of Jonathan and Sally Blaisdell. Two children were born of this union : Cora B., born July 12, 1858, married Joseph O. Hayes; and Avie E., born October 13, 1864, died January 14, 1890.


(III) Thomas, second son of Jeremiah (1) and Mary ( Canney) Tebbets, was born February 24, 1659, and resided at Dover Neck, a few rods be- low the site of the old church on the hill, on the westerly side of the highway. For many years he was town clerk of Dover, and to him we are indebted for the collecting and preservation of nearly all of the vital records of early Dover. At the break- ing out of King William's war he entered the Co- lonial army and was promoted from time to time until he became captain. He was also in the service during Queen Anne's war. He was an extensive land owner in Dover and vicinity. He married Ju- dith, daughter of Deacon John Dame, who had for- merly resided on the same farm. Captain Tebbets


had eight children. As will be seen, this branch uses a different spelling from the others.


(IV) Moses, seventh child of Captain Thomas and Judith (Dame) Tebbets, was born January 27, 1701. The date of his death is not known, but he was living in 1748. He was a farmer and shoe- maker and removed to that part of Dover which is now Rollinsford. He married, March 18, 1725, Mary, daughter of John and Grizzel Keay, of Berwick, Maine. She was baptized April 25, 1703, and died May 10, 1788, aged eighty-eight years. They had four children.


(V) Ebenezer, third child of Moses and Grizzel (Keay) Tebbets, was born in July, 1738, and died June 22, 1798, aged fifty-nine' years and eleven months. He removed to Berwick, Maine, where he purchased a large farm. He married Sarah Larey, who died February 18, 1823, aged eighty-three years. They were the parents of five children.


(VI) James, youngest child of Ebenezer and Sarah (Larey) Tebbets, was born May 23, 1781, and resided in Berwick, Maine. He was a farmer and owned one of the best farms in that town, where he died April 20, 1861. He married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Jeremiah and Anna (Pray) Emery, of Shapleigh, Maine. She was born July 20, 1789, and died July 19, 1863. They had eight chil- dren.


(VII) Ebenezer Armstrong, seventh child of James and Elizabeth (Emery) Tebbets, was born August 1, 1824, at Berwick, Maine, and died in December, 1898. He removed to Somersworth, New Hampshire, in 1842, and was a prominent citizen and successful merchant of that place for fifty- six years. He married, September 2, 1852, Jane Amanda, daughter of Captain Daniel and Lydia (Towne) Nason, of Kennebunk, Maine. She died September, 1897. They had five children. He adopted the use of the letter "i" in the first syllable of his name.


(VIII) William Sewall, eldest child of Ebenezer Armstrong and Jane Amanda (Nason) Tibbets, was born March 2, 1854, in Somersworth, and at- tended the public schools of that place. He gradu- ated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1872. From the date of his graduation until 1881, he was a clerk of the hardware firm of Tibbets and Brother, at Somersworth. In I8SI he was taken in as a partner by his father under the firm name of E. A. Tibbets & Son. In 1897 he was offered the position of cashier of the Great Falls National Bank, but not liking national bank work he de- clined. In 1898 he was elected treasurer of the Somersworth Savings Bank, which office he has continuously held until the present time (1907). The bank has increased in size and strength during his incumency, and is today rated as one of the very cleanest and safest savings banks in this state, not only in respect to its investments and securities but also its simple yet carefully guarded methods of doing the business and the bookkeeping of the insti- tution. In 1905 he was elected president of the First National Bank of Somersworth. He married, De- cember 23, 1883, Carrie Russell Perkins, of Somers- worth. She was born there February 26, 1864. They are the parents of three children, namely : Albert Perkins, born November 14, 1884; Jane Nason, December 16, 1888; William Armstrong, De- cember 3, 1891.


(III) Ephraim, sixth son of Jeremiah (I) and Mary (Canney) Tibbetts, was born about 1669. It is not known when he died, but he was living as late as 1751. He resided at Dover Neck, and was by trade a blacksmith. He belonged to the Society


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of Friends. He married Rose, daughter of Thomas and Anne Austin, of Dover. She was born April 3, 1678, and died in 1755, aged seventy-seven years. They were the parents of eleven children. (IV) Aaron, seventh child of Ephraim and Rose (Austin) Tibbetts, was born February 26, 1701. He was a Friend, and resided at Dover for many years, then removed to Rochester, New Hamp- shire, living on what is called the Walnut Grove road. He married Penelope Richardson, of Kittery, Maine, and they had a family of five children.


(V) Stephen, eldest child of Aaron and Pene- lope (Richardson) Tibbetts, was born about 1727, and died in Buxton, Maine, in 1816. He resided in Berwick, Maine, for many years, finally removing to Buxton, that state. He was a Friend, also a hard- working, industrious farmer. His wife's name was Alice, her surname is supposed to have been Haynes. The date of her death is not known. They had eight children.


(VI) Ephraim (2), son of Stephen and Alice Tibbetts, was born September, 1754, and died Oc- tober 21, 1836. He was a farmer, and settled in Lebanon, Maine. He married (first) Eunice Tib- betts, of Rochester, New Hampshire, by whom he had one child. She died and he married (second) his second cousin, Esther Tibbetts, of Rochester, born January 9, 1762, daughter of Elijah, who was a son of Ephraim Tibbetts. She died July 31, 1851. They were the parents of nine children.


(VII) George, son of Ephraim and Esther (Tibbetts) Tibbetts, was born March 12, 1795, and died July 20, 1873. He resided at Lebanon, Maine, where he followed the occupation of farmer. He stood six feet in height and weighed two hundred and five pounds, and was at one time the strongest man in town. He married, July 21, 1821, Mary Foss, of Lebanon, who died April 13, 1888. They had a family of nine children.


(VIII) Orland Harriman, son of George and Mary (Foss) Tibbetts, was born October 19, 1823, and died March 22, 1870. He resided in Lebanon, Maine, his farm being about a half-mile north of Blaisdell's Corner, and was a hard working farmer. He married, November 28, 1844, Lydia Ann, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Abigail Place (Richardson) Clark, of Rochester, New Hampshire. She died February 10, 1872. They were the parents of two children.


(IX) Charles Wesley, eldest child of Orland Harriman and Lydia Ann (Clark) Tibbetts, was 'born July 5, 1846, in Lebanon, Maine, and was reared on his father's farm at that place. He was educated in the public schools of that town, and afterward took an advanced course of study at the West Lebanon Academy. He began teaching school in the fall of 1868, and taught during the winter season for three years, reading law when not teach- ing at the office of William Emery, Esquire, in Lebanon. In the fall of 1871 he removed to Somers- worth, New Hampshire, where his law studies were continued at the office of William J. Copeland, Esquire. In the fall of 1873 he was admitted to the practice of law, and soon settled in Farmington, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in his profession for five years. In January, 1879, he re- moved to Dover, New Hampshire, where he has since resided, and has engaged in buying and selling real estate on his own account, especially beach property. In 1887 he became deeply interested in genealogical research. He was chiefly instrumental in the incorporation and organization of the New Hampshire Genealogical Society, 1903, and since that time has been the financial agent and librarian of


that society. He also edits and publishes for that society a magazine, called the "New Hampshire Genealogical Record." He married, June 4, 1870, Hannah Chandler, daughter of Oliver and Dorcas R. (Blaisdell) Shapleigh, of Lebanon. She was born September 27, 1849. They have two children, namely : Laona Lydia, born August 28, 1871, at Somersworth, New Hampshire, and Rosa Dorcas, March 21, 1873, at Chelsea, Massachusetts.


This name, of remote French origin,


GUERTIN was borne by one of the pioneers of lower Canada, and is traced as far back as 1635 to one Louis Guertin, of Daumeray, France, married to Georgette LeDuc, whose son Louis emigrated to Canada, and was married at Montreal, January 26, 1659, to Elisabeth LeCamus, daughter of Dr. Pierre LeCamus and Jeanne Charles, of Paris. This Louis Guertin was the founder of the Guertin family in America.


(I) One of the descendants, Toussaint Guertin, was married to Adelaide Dupont, at St. Antoine de Chambly, of which place both were natives. They settled on a farm at St. Jude, county of St. Hyacinthe, and eleven children were born of that union.


(II) George Guertin, son of Toussaint Guertin, was born at St. Jude, and served an apprentice- ship at St. Hyacinthe at the trade of harness maker. He married Louise Lefebvre, daughter of Francois Lefebvre, of St. Hugues, Province of Quebec. In 1864 he came to the United States, and establishing himself in business as a harness maker in Nashua, New Hampshire, he acquired through his industrious habits a comfortable prosperity. Ten children were born of that marriage, four of whom are living, namely : Rev. George Albert, of whom later. John, who receives mention in this article. Alida, wife of A. M. Richards, of Nashua. Augustine, married to Adelard Labrecque, resides in Manchester, New Hampshire. George Guertin was a man of keen intelligence, took a deep interest in Republican institutions, became a naturalized American citizen, and served with marked ability on the Nashua board of aldermen. His death occurred in that city in 1902.


(III) Bishop George Albert Guertin, of New Hampshire, son of George and Louise (Lefebvre) Guertin, was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, February 17, 1869. He acquired his early education in the public and parochial schools of Nashua, after which he went to Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, entering St. Charles College as a student, and here took the full commercial course and a part of the classical course. Then going to St. Hyacinthe Col- lege, at St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, he com- pleted his classical studies. He then entered St. John's Seminary at Brighton, Massachusetts, where he took his theological course.


Bishop Guertin was ordained to the holy priest- hood by the Rt. Rev. Denis M. Bradley, December 17, 1892, in St. Louis de Gonzague Church in Nashua, New Hampshire, being the first in that parish to be ordained in the church of his native city. This event was looked forward to with so much interest by the people who had long admired the young student, that on that memorable day the edifice was filled to its utmost capacity. On several solemn occasions he was called upon to preach the word of God in the temple, where as a boy he had worshipped. On such occasions the church would be thronged with the congregation who took such legitimate pride in this Nashua boy, and whose eloquent words they were so eager to hear. With




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