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 127

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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(V) Nathan, third son and child of Phineas and Lydia Fogg, was born December 31, 1768, in Epping New Hampshire, where he passed his life. lle was married about 1798 to Mercy Yuran, who was born July 21, 1773, and died December 14, 1863, aged over ninety years. He died March 20, 1867. in his ninety-ninth year. Following is an ac- count of their children: Sally, born in 1800, mar- ried a McQuillis, and died in Rockland, Maine ; David was a farmer in Center Harbor, New Hamp- shire, where he died : Nancy. born 1804, married a Pierce, and died in Sharon, Vermont; George died in Meredith; Mary became the wife of Henry Wil- son, and died in Manchester, about 1898; Lydia (lied at the age of twenty-two years, unmarried ; Arthur engaged in hotel keeping in the west, where lic died. Sewall is the subject of the succeeding sketch.

(VI) Sewall Leavitt, youngest child of Nathan and Mercy (Yuran) Fogg, was born September 10, 1815, in Center Harbor, this state, and died May 0, 1892, at his home in Manchester. He grew up on the paternal farm in Center Harbor, receiving a limited education in the local district school. On account of ill health he was compelled to leave school at the age of seventeen, and on attaining his majority he went to Concord, where he was em- ployed in a hotel kept by Gustavus Walker, who re-

ceives mention elsewhere in this work. Subse- quently he went to Boston, where he was employed for some time as a coachman by a wealthy family named Wells. Thence he went to Methuen, Massa- chusetts, where he engaged in the dry goods busi- ness in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henry Wilson. Besides operating a store they sent out wagons through the country, and enjoyed an ex- tensive trade. From Methuen he went to Man- chester, in this state, and was for several years proprietor of the City Hotel. Subsequently he en- gaged in the livery business on the Bridge street, and later on Hanover street. on the site now occu- pied by the Opera Ilouse, being a partner of the late Eben James. Upon the expiration of their lease and preparation for the construction of the Op- era House he retired from active business. He was carly in life a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, and in his later years was an attendant of the First Congregational Church of Manchester. Upon the organization of the Republican party he became one of its supporters, but did not mingle extensively in politics. His public services consisted chiefly of two years as representative in the legis- lature from Manchester. He married (first), Sa- rah A. McGuire, who was born in 1821, and died February 12, 1844. He married (second), Susan Evans, who was born April 23. 1816, and died De- cember 14, 1869. He was married (third). October 5. 1871, to Mariah A. Gove, who was born July 24, 1839, in Lynn, Massachusetts, daughter of Ira Gove (see Gove, VII). There was one child of the first marriage, Laroz, and one of the second, Charles H., both of whom died in infancy. Of the third mar- riage, there was a son Edward N., born May 6, 1856, and died August 8, 1891, in Manchester.

(V) David, youngest child of Phineas and Ly- dia (Fogg) Fogg, was born June 5. 1789, in Ep- ping. New Hampshire, and died at Lebanon, same state.

(VI) Caleb Pierce, son of David Fogg, was a native of Epping. and resided in Epping and Franklin, Vermont. He removed from the latter point to Sturbridge, Province of Quebec, and from there to Magog, in the same province. He was a farmer by occupation, and a regular attendant of the Methodist Church. In political principle he was a Republican. He died in Manchester New Hamp- shire, at the age of about sixty-six years. He was married at Franklin, Vermont, to Lavina Cook, who was born there and died at Stanstead, Quebec. They were the parents of three children: Willis Pierce, Ann Elizabeth and Henry H. The last. named was a farmer, and died at Etna, Minnesota. The daughter married Hollis P. Foss, of Mont- gomery, Vermont.

(VII) Willis Pierce, eldest child of Caleb Pierce and Lavina ( Cook) Fogg, was born May 31, 1831, in Franklin, Vermont, and received his edu- cation in the public schools of Canada and of Man- chester, New Hampshire. When fourteen years of age he left his home in Canada and went to Manchester, this state, where he was employed by his uncle, Willis P. Fogg, who conducted a hardware store. During this period he attended school a part of the time, and also subsequently after tak- ing employment in the mills. He was gifted with abundance of Yankee ingenuity, and rapidly worked his way up after entering the mills, until he became superintendent of spinning, dressing, fulling, warp- ing and twisting. His connection with the Amos- keag Mills continued for about forty years, and it was with reluctance that his employers gave up his services. Being apt in the use of tools, he did some building, and erected a beautiful home for himself

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in the city of Manchester. His skill in adapting himself to the needs of his employers is indicated by the fact that he was second hand in the spinning room of the Amoskeag Mills when only sixteen years old. Mr. Fogg is still vigorous and active for one of his years, and devotes considerable time to carpenter work and similar occupations. He is a Methodist in religious faith, and an ardent sup- porter of the Republican principles in governmental affairs. For many years he served as one of the selectmen of Manchester. He married (first), Sa- rah Ann Fletcher, a native of Franklin, Vermont, who died at the end of a year after their marriage, leaving a daughter. Minnie S., who is now the widow of Edward Bumstead, and resides in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. He married (second ), Frances A. Haff, a native of Peru, New York, who has been for many years deceased. There were two children of this second marriage, Ernest Willis and Mabel. The latter died in girlhood.

(VIII) Ernest Willis, only son of Willis Pierce and Frances A. (Haff ) Fogg, was born and died in Manchester, New Hampshire. He married May Robinson, of that city, who survives him, together with their son, Willis Pierce Fogg.

(VI) Stephen and Sally Fogg are the first known of this line.

(VII) Chase Fogg, son of Stephen and Sally Fogg. resided in Meredith, New Hampshire. His wife's name was Sally.

(VIII) William Tailor Fogg, son of Chase and Sally Fogg. was born April 30, 1830, in Meredith and died in Manchester April 30. 1900. He grew up in his native town and attended the district schools and was subsequently a student at New Hampton Literary Institution. At the age of about twenty years he went to Manchester and there learned the trade of butcher, which he followed most of his life. Within a few years he engaged in business for himself and for many years he oper- ated a wagon, supplying meat to customers in and about Manchester. At the age of thirty-five years he became a member of the city police force and so continued for eight years. For a long time he was a member of the Baptist Church and was also a member of Hillsboro Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Manchester. In politics he was a Republican. He was married May, 1877, to Etta M. Wilson, who was born September, 1855. in Man- chester, daughter of Freeman Wilson, a substantial resident of that city. They were the parents of two daughters: Bertha May and Grace Belle. The latter was for some years a teacher and is now the wife of Robert F. Means, of Everett, Massachu- setts. The younger has received a business train- ing and is now employed in an office in Manches- ter.

Freeman Wilson, who was born Oc- WILSON tober 22, 1815, in Edgecomb, Maine. was for many years a well known citizen of Manchester, New Hampshire, where he died in the fall of 1870. He belonged to the Scotch strain which has infused so much of life blood into the development of New Hampshire. His mother lived to the age of more than one hundred years. Very early in life he went to Boston and engaged in the leather business for some time, and was subsequently on the police force of that city. About 1855 he went to Salem, New Hampshire, and purchased a farm. Not long thereafter he removed to Manchester and purchased land between Hall and Wilson streets, lying on both sides of Central. The growth of the city soon brought this land into de- mand for city lots and the great appreciation in its

value gave to Mr. Wilson an important financial po- sition in the city. When he first arrived in the city he began butchering and selling meat and this continued until his death. He was a regular at- tendant of the Baptist Church, of which his wife . was a member and was a steadfast Republican in political principles. He married Mary Leavitt, who was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, and they were the parents of six children, three of whom died in infancy. Of the survivors, the eldest, Eugene Freeman, died in Manchester. in August, 1899, at the age of fifty-four years. The second, Etta, is the widow of William T. Fogg as above mentioned. Nellie, the third. is Mrs. Charles F. Fifield, of Manchester.

(I) William Dudley, born at Rich-

DUDLEY mond, formerly Sheen, in Surrey, England, came to Guilford, Connecti- cutt, from the town of Guilford, some thirty miles southeast of London. in the county of Surrey. He died at Guilford. March 16, 1684. He was married, August 24, 1636, to Miss Jane Lutman, by Rev. Henry Whitfield. Rector at Ockley in Surrey, Eng- land, according to parish register of Ockley. He and his wife came over to America and settled in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639. They came with Rev. Henry Whitfield, as part of the Eaton and Hopkins expedition to Connecticut. This company sailed from London May 20, 1639. Mr. Dudley was a member of Whitfield's church and parish. and readily joined with his clerical friend in the em- igration. When arrived with his young wife at Guilford. they established their home on what is now Fair street. There were distinguished men in the company with whom Mr. Dudley came to America, some of whom were Samuel Disborough, who returned to England, became Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in Scotland. a famous MI. P., etc. : Mr. John Hoadley, who returned and became an eminent clergyman : Thomas Jordan, who returned and became an eminent lawyer of Westminster Hall: Mr. William Leete, who was Governor of Connecticut. Mr. Dudley was a representative to the general court for Guilford, and held other offices. Mr. Dudley was a farmer, as appears by his will and inventory. He made his mark on his will, but that does not prove that he could not write, as he might have been palsied or lame in his hand. or too ill to write. His wife, Jane, died May I, 1674, at Guilford. Their children were: William. Joseph. Ruth, Deborah and another child whose name is not known.

(II) Deacon William (2), eldest child of Wil- liam (1) and Jane (Lutman) Dudley, was born at sea. June 8, 1639, and died May 1701, at Saybrook. Connecticut. He was called a cordwainer by trade. and was admitted freeman at Guilford in 1670, and that year he removed to Saybrook, where he was a deacon of the church, and a representative to the general court many years, and commissioner several years. The town records say: "February 7. 1676, there were given to Deacon William Dudley, by the town of Saybrock, thirty-two and one-half rods of up-land as a plot to build his house on at what is now called Old Saybrook. and other pieces of land in that part of the town." The probate court at New London, Connecticut, April 14, 1719, ap- pointed Mrs. Mary Dudley, widow of Deacon Wil- liam Dudley, administratrix on his estate. Will of Deacon William Dudley: Oldest son William to have a double portion, and to have the home- stead after the decease of his wife. Date of his will, September 2. 1700, proved May 29, 1701. His son William he enjoins to pay his mother, testa-

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tor's widow, twenty shillings a year. and "if my son Daniel live to enter upon building a house for himself, then my will is that my son William do pay to my son Daniel five pounds in Lawful money of New England." He married, November 4, 1661, Mary Stow, who was living in 1702. Their children were: Mary, William, Abigail, Joseph (died young), Deborah, Samuel, Joseph, Sarah, Eliza- beth, Daniel and Mehetabel.

(III) Daniel, fifth son of Deacon William and Mary (Stow) Dudley, was born 1688, in Saybrook, and was a freeman there in 1704. He married, Sep- tember 2, 1714, Deborah Buell, of Killingsworth, Connecticut (marriage recorded at Saybrook). They were the parents of the following children : Lucia, Daniel, Deborah and Lucy.

(IV) Daniel (2), eldest son of Daniel (1) and Deborah (Buell) Dudley, was born July 29, 1719, at Saybrook, Connecticut, and died in Newport. New Hampshire, February I. 18II, aged ninety-two years. He removed to Newport in 1772. He married, November 5, 1741, Susanna Chatfield, of Killings- worth, she died August 6, 1791, aged sixty-seven. Their children were: Susanna, Josiah, Deborah (died young). Chloe, Daniel, John, Elias, Anne and Ezra.

(V) Josiah, eldest son of Daniel (2) and Sus- anna (Chatfield) Dudley, was born December 27, 1745, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and moved to New- port, New Hampshire, in 1772, with his father. He lived nearly a hundred years, says his granddaugh- ter. Mrs. Henry P. Carruthers, daughter of Clarissa (Dudley) Eaton. He married Elizabeth Denison of Saybrook, and they were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Josiah, George, Jeremiah, Betsey, Clarissa, Anna and Minerva.

(VI) Jeremiah, third son of Josiah and Eliza- beth (Denison) Dudley, was a farmer in Newport, New Hampshire. He married, February 4, 1790, at Andover, Mary Robards of Salisbury. Massachu- setts, and they had the following children: Bet- sey, Calvin, Sophia. Fisher, Harvey, Willard and Denison.

(VII) Willard, fourth son of Jeremiah and Mary (Robards) Dudley, was born in Sutton, Mas- sachusetts, February 22, 1800, and died in Calais, Vermont. October 17, 1866. He married Polly Ed- wards, who was born in Montpelier, April 10, 1802, and died at the same place April 12, 1880.

(VIII) D. Willard, son of Willard and Polly (Edwards) Dudley, was born January 26, 1832, at Montpelier. He married Helen Frances Ham- mond, who was born May 10, 1832, at Windsor, Vermont, and died September 6, 1892, at Mont- pelier.

(IX) Fanny Hammond, daughter of D. Willard and Helen Frances (Hammond) Dudley, was born September 22, 1854, at Calais. Vermont, and mar- ried Frank B. Emery (Sce Emery, IX).

FULLER The date upon which the ancestor of the family of Fuller came to Massa- chusetts Bay Colony is prima facie evidence of the fact that he was a Puritan who sought religious freedom in the woods of New England. The original Fuller was doubtless one whose occupation was fulling cloth.

(I) John Fuller, immigrant ancestor of a nu- merous family, was one of the early settlers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died in 1698, aged eighty-seven. He was a farmer and a maltster, and lived on the south side of the Charles river in what is now Newton, where he became an ex- tensive land owner and a prominent townsman. By his wife Elizabeth he had John, Jonathan,

Joseph, Joshua, Jeremiah, Elizabeth and Isaac.

(II) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Eliz- abeth Fuller, was born June 6, 1645, and died Jan- uary 21, 1721, aged seventy-six. He lived in New- ton. He married (first), June 30, 1682, Abigail Boylston ; and (second), October 14, 1714, Margaret Hicks. who was born in Cambridge, July 3, 1668, daughter of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Sill) Hicks. The children of John and Abigail were: Sarah, John, Abigail, James, Hannah, Isaac, Jonathan, and Caleb.

(III) Isaac, sixth child and third son of John (2) and Abigail (Boylston) Fuller, was born No- vember 22, 1695, in Newton, where he always re- sided. He married. July 19, 1721, Abigail Park. Their children were: John, Abigail, Samuel, Pris- cilla, and Richard.

(IV) Abigail, second son and child of Isaac and Abigail (Park) Fuller, was born June 1, 1723, and resided in Newton, where he died March 2, 1798, aged seventy-five. He married, January 16, 1755, Lydia Richardson, who was born about 1727, daughter of David and Remember (Ward) Rich- ardson, of Newton, and great-granddaughter of Samuel Richardson and William Ward. Eight or more children were born of this marriage: Sybel, Rhoda, Lemuel, Esther, Elijah, Ezekiel, Amasa, and Isaac.

(V) Isaac, (probably) the eighth and youngest child of Abijah and Lydia (Richardson) Fuller, was born in Newtown about 1773, and died in 1819, aged forty-six. He lived a few years in Holden, Massachusetts, and in 1797 or 1798 removed to Marlborough, New Hampshire, and lived in that part of that town which was afterward included in Troy. He was a farmer and a carpenter. In the winter of 1819. while returning to his home from the village of Troy, in a severe snow storm, within sight of his house, he perished from cold while thus storm bound. He married, August 7, 1797, Patty Howe, who was born in Holden, Massachu- setts, May 25, 1779, daughter of Jonathan and Dor- othy (Smith) Howe. She died August 16, 1836, aged fifty-seven. Their children were: Amasa, Lucretia, Patty, Nancy, Dorothy, Stillman, Lydia, Isaac, Harriet and Eliza. Amasa was born in Hol- den, the others in Marlboro and Troy.

(VI) Amasa, oldest child of Isaac and Patty (Howe) Fuller, was born December 7. 1797, and died July IS, 1879, aged eighty-two. He grew to manhood in Troy. After learning the carpenter's trade he became a quite prominent builder in Troy and vicinity, and also cleared a farm. He acquired considerable property in Troy, and at the age of sixty years he improved a water power at Marlboro Depot, where he crected a saw and grist mill. He had also been engaged in the manufacture of wooden ware in Marlboro for some time, when, in 1865, he sold his factory to his son Levi. Late in life he removed to Swanzey, where he purchased a small farm. He died at Swanzey about fourteen years later. He married Anna Bemis, who was born in Marlborough, July 5. 1801, and died June 19, 1826; he married (second), January II, 1827, Hannah Jackson, who was born in Wallingford, Vermont, November 5, 1803, a relative of the es- teemed Rev. William Jackson, D. D., a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1790, pastor at Rupert, Vermont, whose son, Rev. Samuel Jackson, D. D., was secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Ed- ucation, and whose daughter Henrietta (Jackson) Hamlin, was the efficient missionary at Constanti- nople. Hannah (Jackson) Fuller died April 5, 1845, aged forty-two. He married (third), Octo- ber 2, 1845, Mary (Knight) Hager, who was born

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February 14. 1802. He married (fourth), 1857, Lovey Kidder, who was born October 6, 1813. The children of the first wife are all dead. By the second wife there were eight children : Elvira, Amasa, Levi A., Erwin J. and four children who died in infancy.

(VII) Levi Aldrich, third son and sixth child of Amasa and Hannah (Jackson) Fuller, was born in Troy, May 4, 1836. His education was obtained in the schools of Troy and Marlboro, after leaving which he was employed for some time in his father's factory. At the age of twenty he went to Fitz- william, where he manufactured clothespins for a number of years. In 1865 he purchased his father's business at Marlboro, which he has since success- fully carried on for forty years. He manufactures lumber. chair stock, pail handles, bale woods, etc. Aside from his home manufacturing business he owns about 1,200 acres of timber land, and em- ploys from ten to twenty men, he has for the past ten years been engaged, in company with Chester L. Lane, in buying timber lands and cutting the timber into lumber with portable steam mills set up on the various lots. They own together more than 1,200 acres at the present time.

For many years Mr. Fuller has been prominent in public affairs in his town and county. He has settled a great many estates, and has been guardian in a large number of cases. In politics he is a Re- publican, and as such has served many years in official life. For more than thirty years he has been a justice of the peace. In 1869 he was made a member of the board of selectmen, serving four years in succession, one year as chairman, and has served at intervals five or six years, and has been chairman two or three times since. He was in the legislature of 1873 and 1874. and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1876. He served four years on the board of commissioners for Ches- hire county, two years as chairman, and in 1903 and 1904 was a senator from the Thirteenth dis- trict. While senator he was chairman of the com- mittee on towns and parishes, and a member of the committees on revision of laws, agriculture, claims, and soldiers' homes. For a number of years he has been a member of the board of education. He is a member of Marlborough Grange, No. 115, Patrons of Husbandry, and of Cheshire County Pomona Grange, No. 6. In 1869 he united with the Congregational Church of his town and in 1874 became one of its deacons, in which capacity he has ever since served. It may be truly said that there is no one in the community who takes a deeper interest in the welfare of his fellow citizens than Senator Fuller, or discharges more faithfully the tasks imposed upon him. He married (first), February 22, 1860, Elvira L. Bemis, of Troy, who was born June 4, 1839. adopted daughter of Joseph Bemis, of Ashburn. She died November 15, 1865, and he married (second), October 30, 1866, Emily L. Adams, daughter of Dr. William Adams, of Swanzey. The children of the first wife were: Cora A., died in infancy; and Elmer A., a resident of Danvers, Massachusetts, married Hattie C. L. Wilson. of Sullivan, New Hamp- shire, and has one son, Julian. The children by the second wife are: Ida E., Walter T., Arthur L., and Cora A. Ida E. is now the wife of Fred Far- rar, of Troy, a well known merchant. Walter T. is a clerk for the Holbrook Grocery Company, Woodsville. He married Charlotte B. Farrar, of Troy. Arthur L. is a graduate from the mechanical engineering department, of the New Hampshire iv-48

College of Agriculture, a graduate of Cornell, class of 1905, and is now engaged in business in Boston. Cora A. is a graduate of the Keene high school, and a student in Boston Kindergarten.

BELL As long as the history of New Hamp- shire exists Londonderry will be regarded as a spot in the wilderness of its Colonial period in which immigrants of Irish nativity, but as Scotch in all their sentiments and feelings, likes and dislikes, as if they had been reared in Argyle- shire, where their forefathers for centuries had their homes and lived their lives, settled and laid the foundations of a community whose members have sustained characters of the highest type. From those immigrants whom toil had made strong and persecution and privations had made virtuous and brave has sprung a progeny, who in the several pro- fessions and in the various walks of public and private life have sustained characters of distin- guished excellence, and filled some of the highest offices-literary, military, civil, and sacred-in the country. Of the descendants of those pioneer set- . tlers some have held seats in the American con- gress, some have presided in our higher seminaries of learning, some have filled places in the state council and senate, some have signalized themselves by military achievements, some have sustained the chief magistracy of the commonwealth, and some have been distinguished as ministers of the Gospel. Among all the families of this remarkable colony none has been more distinguished than the family of John Bell, which supplied to New Hampshire its ninth, thirteenth, and forty-first governors.

(I) John Bell, the immigrant ancestor of the distinguished family of this name in New Hamp- shire, was born in the vicinity of Coleraine, prob- ably in the parish of Ballymony, in county Antrim, Ireland, in 1678, and died in Londonderry, July 8, 1743, aged sixty-four years. He was not of the first company of immigrants who settled London- derry in April, 1716, but must have arrived there in 1720, as the first mention of his name upon the records is in the grant of his homestead, a lot of sixty acres, in Aiken's Range. upon which he spent the remainder of his life, and where his son John always lived. This record bears the date of 1720. Other lands were allotted to him in 1722, and after- wards to the amount of three hundred acres. After commencing a clearing upon a part of his lot and building a cabin there, he returned in 1722 to Ireland for his wife and two surviving daugh- ters, two of his children having died in infancy. He held a respectable position among his towns- men, and for several years held various offices in the town. He married, in Ireland, Elizabeth Todd, a daughter of John and Rachel (Nelson) Todd, and sister of Colonel Andrew Todd. She was a person of much decision and energy of character, and survived until August 30, 1771, when she died. aged eighty-two years. Their children, four of whom were born in Londonderry, were: Samuel, Letitia, Naomi, Elizabeth, Mary and John. The daughters all married men of the name of Duncan.

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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. IV, Part 127

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

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