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 137

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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Mr. Carpenter is identified with Golden Rod Grange of Swanzey, as is his wife, and they have given time and effort to its work. They are also contributors to the support of Mount Caesar Li- brary Association, which occupies the old seminary building. This building was purchased by Mr. Car- penter and donated for the uses of the association. He was married, June 14, 1864, to Lucy Jane, daughter of Colonel Carter and Lucy Baker Whit- comb (see Whitcomb VII).


(Previous Generations on Pages 1083-4. )


(X) Deacon Ebenezer, sixth son of Dea- FISKE con William (4) and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born in 1686, and died August 25. 1732. He married, December 1, 1733. Mrs. Martha Kimball, who died March 28, 1764. He died Sep- tember 30, 1771, aged ninety-three years. He was the sixth son of his parents, executor of his father's will, principal heir of his estate, and lived at Wen- ham, where he was a substantial and quiet-living farmer. He was honored by election to various local offices, but was principally occupied with his private affairs and those of the church in which he was deacon from his election, May 16, 1739, until his resignation "by reason of age." in 1758. He was the father of nine children: Sarah, Jonathan, Eben-


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ezer, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, William, Mercy and Lucy. (XI) William, seventh child of Deacon Eben- ezer and Elizabeth (Fuller) Fiske, was born at Wenham. Massachusetts, November 30, 1720. He married, 1749, Susannah Batchelder, of Wenham, born 1731, died 1810. She married a second time, the last husband being Benjamin Davis. William Fiske was the sole executor of his father's will. After settling the estate and disposing of the home- stead and various tracts of land, he removed in 1773-74 to Amherst, New Hampshire, where he set- tled on a tract of land on the south side of Wal- nut Hill, and became the founder of the Amherst branch of the Fiskes. Of him personally little is known except that in his character and principles he was a staunch Puritan. His father and grand- father were successively deacons in the original Wenham church for upwards of seventy years, the same church of which the Rev. John Fiske was the original pastor. More remotely still the family had been identified with the great reformatory struggle in England. Mr. Fiske died in 1777, in the eighty-second year of his age. He and his wife were the parents of nine children: Jonathan, Eliza- beth, William, David, Mary. Ebenezer, John, Susan- nah and Anne. (Ebenezer and descendants receive mention in this artcle.)


(XII) David, third son of William and Susan- nah (Batchelder) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, June 25, 1757. At the age of eight- een he enlisted for one year in the Revolution. In 1786 he married Edith Tay, of Chelsea, and settled in Merrimack. New Hampshire. In 1801 he moved to Amherst, New Hampshire, which was his home till his death at the age of eighty-six. The five chil- dren of David and Edith (Tay) Fiske were: Bet- sey, born September 12. 1788, died unmarried, Au- gust 25, 1876. Edith, born March I, 1790, married John Sprague, of Bedford, New Hampshire, re- moved to Ohio and died there. David, who is men- tioned below. George, born August 22, 1794, mar- ried Arinda Lane. Ardella, born December 18, 1803. died unmarried, September 30. 1828. David Fiske died at Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1843.


(XIII) Deacon David (2), eldest son and third child of David (1) and Edith (Tay) Fiske, was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, September 20, 1792. He was an enterprising, industrious farmer, and a man of sound integrity. He was deacon of the Congregational Church in Amherst from 1836 till he moved to Nashua in 1859. On January 19, 1823. Deacon Fiske married Abigail Nourse, daughter of Deacon Beniamin Nourse, of Merri- mack, New Hampshire. She was born in 1800, and died in June, 1825. They had two children : Thomas Scott, born November 22, 1823, married Clara Isabel Pittman : and James Porter, born June 5. 1825, married Sarah C. Hill. In 1828, three years after the death of his first wife, Deacon Fiske mar- ried her sister, Harriet Nourse. She was born Au- gust 21, 1799. and died August 22, 1872, the same day as her husband. There were three children: George, born October 22, 1835, married Elmira F. Morrill. Abbie Arinda, born November 24, 1838, married, July 26, 1860, George WV. Ordway, of Brad- ford. Massachusetts, and lived in Chicago. Mary Porter, mentioned below. Deacon David Fiske died in Nashua. New Hampshire, August 22, 1872.


(XIV) Mary Porter, the second daughter and youngest child of Deacon David (2) and Harriet (Nourse) Fiske, was born December 9, 1841, at Amherst, New Hampshire. She was married at Nashua, December 10, 1867, to George A. Marden,


of Lowell, Massachusetts. (See Marden. VI). Mrs. Marden's maternal ancestry is traced back to Francis Nourse, who was born in England, and came to Salem, Massachusetts. His wife. Rebecca Nourse, was one of the victims hanged during the witchcraft craze.


(XII) Deacon Ebenezer, sixth child and fourth son of William and Susannah (Batchelder) Fiske, was born in Wenham, Massachusetts. November II, 1762, and died in Wilmot, New Hampshire, May 8, 1838, aged seventy-six. He removed from Wenham to Amherst with his father when eleven years of age, and resided in the latter place until he attained his majority. Owing to the reduced circumstances of the family caused by the bankruptcies of of his father's brother-in-law, White. for whom the father had largely endorsed, Eben lost the opportunity of enjoying educational advantages. However, he in- herited a remarkably strong physical frame and a strong intellect, and possessed good sterling quali- ties and an unbending will. Many and remarkable . are the feats of strength recorded of him when in the prime of his powers, while his excellent com- mon sense and well-known integrity made him a counselor among his fellow townsmen in Mont Vernon, where he subsequently resided, and for many years filled various local offices. After some years' residence in Mont Vernon he removed to Warner. New Hampshire, where he purchased a farm, and later located on a farm on "Wilmot Flat," in Wilmot, New Hampshire. Later in life he moved to the hills in the northwestern part of the town, called North Wilmot. and near where a meeting house afterward stood. Here he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, their son Calvin caring for them. Ebenezer Fiske was a man a man of decided, conscientious, fixed and ex- emplary principles, and the resolute energy and courage which always rise superior to the difficulties of the occasion. During most of his life he was a member and deacon of the Congregational Church.


He married, at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, in 1782, Abigail Woodbury, who was born in Bev- erly, Massachusetts, March 7, 1766. and died De- cember 9, 1830, aged seventy-three years, second daughter of James Woodbury, of Mont Vernon. She was of an excellent family, and a relative of Judge Levi Woodbury, of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. a farmer of that state, and secretary of the United States treasury under President Jackson. Six sons and six daughters were born of this union, all of whom except a son who died in in- fancy, lived to mature age. All of these except the two youngest were born in Mont Vernon. Their names are: Abigail, John (died young), Ebenezer, James, Hannah, Desdemona, Luther, Calvin, John, Mehitable, Mary and Ploma.


(XIII) Mehitable, tenth child and fourth daugh- ter of Deacon Ebenezer and Abigail (Woodbury) Fiske, was born in Mont Vernon. April 18. 1800. She married, March 14, 1819, James B. Straw. of Salisbury, and was the mother of Governor E. A. Straw (see Straw, V).


(VII) Nathaniel, second son and child of Wil- liam Fiske, was born in South Elmham, and re- sided in Weybred, England. He is named in the wills of his father, uncle Eleazer. and cousin George. He married Mrs. Alice (Henel) Leman. and they had two children: Nathaniel and Saralı.


(VIII) Nathaniel (2). eldest child and only son of Nathaniel (I) and Alice (Henel) Fiske, was born in Weybred, Suffolk county, England, where he resided. There is a tradition in the family that


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he died on the passage to New England. He mar- ried Dorothy Symonds of Wendham, daughter of John. Their children were: John, Nathan, Esther and Martha.


(IX) Nathan, second son and child of Nathaniel (2) and Dorothy (Symonds) Fiske, was born in England, about 1615. He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1642, but his name does not appear on the list of proprietors of that year. He was admitted freeman May 10. 1643, and was selectman in 1673. His will was dated June 19, and he died June 21, 1676, aged forty-four years. In 1644 he was proprietor of one lot of nine acres which was his homestall. In his will he disposes of various pieces of land and a house and farm. His wife's name was Susanna. Their children were: Nathan, John, David, Nathaniel and Sarah.


(X) Lieutenant Nathan (2), eldest son of Na- than (I) and Susanna (Fiske) Fiske, was born in Watertown, October 17, 1642, and died October II, 1694, aged fifty-two. October 1, 1673. he bought of Thomas Underwood and wife 220 acres of farm land in Weston for fio. He was selectman 1684-88-91. His inventory included house and twen- ty-two acres of land, valned at £45; six acres of land in Newton, fo, one hundred and twenty acres about Prospect Hill, £6, seven acres in Thatcher's Meadow, £5, and about two hundred and fifty acres of farm land £15; total £151. He married Eliza- beth Fry, who died May 15, 1696. Their children were : Nathan, died young : Elizabeth, Martha, Na- than, Susanna, Abigail, William (died young), Wil- liam and Anna.


(XI) Deacon Nathan (3), fourth child and sec- ond son of Lieutenant Nathan (2) and Elizabeth (Fry) Fiske, was born in Watertown, January 3, 1672, and died January 26, 1741, aged sixty-nine years. He was a man of note in his town and held office for many years. He was representative in 1727-28-29-32, and much confided in by his towns- men. He was selectman 1711-14-17-19-20-22-23-24- 26-27; town treasurer, 1820-22-23; town clerk 1724- 28-39 ; and was elected deacon as early as 1717. He married, (first), October 14, 1696, Sarah Coolidge, born about 1678. daughter of Ensign John of Wa- tertown. She died November 27, 1723, and he married (second), May 22, 1729, Mrs. Hannah (Coolidge) Smith, born December 7, 1671, daugh- ter of Simon and widow of Daniel Smith, Jr. She died October 4, 1750. The children of Deacon Na- than and Sarah were : Sarah, Elizabeth, Nathan, Josiah, Henry. Daniel, Samuel, Grace G. and Han- nah P.


(XII) Nathan (4), third child and eldest son of Deacon Nathan (3) Fiske, was born in Water- town, February 25, 1701, and died in Weston, Mas- sachusetts, January 4, 1769, aged sixty-eight. He resided in Weston, Massachusetts, and at his death left what in those days was considered a large es- tate. He married, (first), December 9, 1730, Anne Warren, born February, 1711, daughter of Deacon John of Weston. She died October 1, 1736, and he married (second), February 21, 1738, Mary Fiske, baptized June 30, 1712, daughter of Deacon Jona- than Fiske, of Lexington and Sudbury. After the death of her husband she was killed by a fall from a horse while on a visit to Sudbury on horseback. Nathan Fiske had three children by his wife Anne and eight by his wife Mary, viz: Anne, Nathan, Sarah, Jonathan. Ezra, Samuel, Thaddeus, Mary, Oliver, Mary and Hepzibah.


(XIII) Captain Jonathan, eldest child of Na- than (4) and his second wife, Mary (Fiske) Fiske, was born in Weston, December 15, 1739, and


died in Medfield. He was captain of the Weston company in February, 1776, and was in the Revolu- tionary war. His company, with others, was in the regiment commanded by Colonel Eleazer Brooks, of Lincoln, Samuel Lawson, of Weston, inajor. This regiment with other troops was or- dered to take possession of Dorchester Heights. He resided in Weston and Medfield. He married, April 30, 1760, Abigail Fiske, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pierce) Fiske, of Waltham. Their children were; Nathan, Thaddeus, Micah, Eben- ezer, Abigail, Jonathan, (died young), Jonathan, Abijah and Isaac.


(XIV) Major Jonathan (2), seventh child and sixth son of Jonathan (1) and Abigail (Fiske) Fiske, was born in Weston, January 19, 1774, and died in Medfield, June 19, 1864, aged ninety years. He was a tanner and farmer, a man much re- spected, and the holder of various town offices, a deacon in the church, and was at one time major in the Massachusetts Militia. A writer has said: "While none of this branch of the family or imme- diate ancestors have reached high positions of pub- lic honor, the family has been remarkably free from any who have in any way brought reproach or dis- grace on the name. They have been upright and honorable and have been respected in the commun- ity in which they have resided; they have been in- telligent and in several cases have received college educations." Jonathan married, in Weston, April 7, 1799, Sally Flagg, born July 8, 1773, daughter of Isaac Flagg; she died March IS, 1865, aged ninety- three years. He resided in Medfield, and he and his life lived together sixty-five years. Their chil- dren were: Sally, Clarissa, George, Amos Flagg. Abigail Lamson, Isaac and Charles.


(XV) Hon. Amos Flagg, fourth child and sec- ond son of Major Jonathan (2) and Sally (Flagg) Fiske, was born in Medfield, August 1, 1805, and died in Marlow, New Hampshire, January 6, 1873. In early manhood he settled in Marlow and opened a country store at what is known as Marlow Hill, where he conducted a thriving business. until what is now Marlow Village became the principal place in that town; his store and family were then re- moved to that village. There he continued to thrive and prosper and became the foremost citizen of the town, both in wealth and position. He held various town, county and state offices, the princi- pal of which was state senator, to which office he was twice elected and served from 1863 to 1866. He was a man of strong character and sterling in- tegrity. He died in Marlow, respected by all who knew him. He and his wife were both members of the Methodist Church in Marlow, and very active in its support. By his will he endowed this church, and after his decease, his widow contributed largely to its support. He married, in Marlow, Oc- tober 30, 1830, Eliza Stone, of Marlow, who was born October 21. 1809, and died May 15, 1891, aged eighty-two. She was a most estimable lady. Their children were : Eliza (died young), Harriet Adelaide, Charles (died young) and Arthur W., Catherine, Henry and Eliza.


(XVI) Harriett Adelaide, second daughter and child of Amos D. and Eliza (Stone) Fiske, was born in Marlow, April 8, 1834, and married Dr. Marshall Perkins (see Perkins).


(Previous Generations on Pages 1144-5-6).


(VII) Timothy Carter, second son and ROLFE sixth child of Henry and Deborah (Carter) Rolfe, was born May 9, 1817, in the town of Concord, where he resided through-


CHARLES W. MORRILL


SARAH C. (MORRILL) SICKLES


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out his life. He was engaged in farming and was also active during the winter season in lumbering for many years. He remained on the parental homestead many years, and in 1866 removed to Church street, Penacook, where he died, December, 1884. He was married in June, 1844. to Eliza Ann Emery, and their children were: Timothy, Emery and Eliza Jane (twins), Enoch, Henry, George Ed- win, Mary Lydia, Martha Esther and Walter Her- bert.


(VIII) Henry, third son and fourth child of Timothy and Eliza Ann (Emery) Rolfe, was born January 31, 1850, at Penacook, where he now re- sides. He was married, November 27. 1869, to Ly- dia E. Gleason, who was born September 9, 1851, in West Concord, daughter of Henry Shattuck and Lydia Brooks (Gale) Gleason. They are the par- ents of four children, Abbie Eliza, the eldest born April 19, 1870, is the wife of George A. Noyes, of Penacook. Timothy P. resides in Concord. Martha Ellen was born November 4, 1874, and is the wife of Dr. E. U. Sargent, of Penacook (see Sargent, . VIII). Henry resides in Boston.


(For Ancestry, see Page 22). (IV) Nathaniel. son of John and WEBSTER Tryphena (Locke) Webster, was born in Haverhill, and resided there. It is presumable that the adjustment of the province line in 1741 placed his homestead in Sa- lem, New Hampshire, where his descendants long resided. He married Hannah Mitchell.


(V) James, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Mitchell) Webster, resided in Salem, New Hamp- shire. and served from that town as a soldier of the Revolution. He was in a company of minute men under command of Captain Jacob Webster, of Salem, and was mustered in November 23, 1775. He served twenty-three days at Winter Hill, and was paid off February 22, 1776. He was a private in' Captain Bartlett's company of Colonel Drake's regiment of militia, and in October. 1777, received in pay and traveling fees, six pounds and twelve pence. He was in Captain Jesse Page's company of the same regiment as a sergeant, and marched to Bennington, serving three months and eight days. The amount due him for this service was twenty pounds twelve shillings and one pence. Of this the state paid six pounds, twelve shillings, and the Continental congress nine pounds three shillings and four pence, leaving a balance due him of four pounds sixteen shillings and nine pence, all old tenor. He was a lieutenant in Captain John East- man's company of Colonel Thomas Bartlett's regi- ment of militia, raised by the state of New Hamp- shire for the defence of the United States. He en- tered June 29, 1780, was stationed at West Point, and discharged October 24, same year, his service lasting three months and twenty-six days. The ex- traordinary depreciation in value ot Continental money is shown by the fact that his wages were five hundred and thirty-six pounds per month, and this, with his traveling fees for this campaign, amounted to two thousand three hundred and four pounds and ten shillings. He married Mehitable Rollins.


(VI) Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mehita- ble (Rollins) Webster, became the wife of Giles Ordway. (See Ordway, V).


(VII) David, son of Stephen and Chloe (Wheeler) Webster, was born July 4, 1779, and died May 15, 1849, in Rumney, New Hampshire. He was married January 26. 1806, to. Lucy, daughter of Colonel Gordon Hutchins, of Concord, New Hamp- shire. She died April 17, 1877, having survived


her husband nearly twenty-eight years. Their


children were: George (died young) ; George, "Selomy," Dordana, Emeline and Adeline (twins), Elizabeth and Nancy.


(Preceding Generations on Pages 711 and 714-15).


MORRILL There is a sharply-drawn individual-


ity running through the children of Captain David Morrill, which has led them into widely diverging paths of life in lo- calities remote from each other. The greatest sim- ilarity between two members is, perhaps, found in the late Oscar S. Morrill of Chatfield, Minnesota (later of Montalvo, California), and his half- brother, Milo S. Morrill of Canterbury, this state. George P., elder brother of Milo, is most like his half-brother, John P. Kimball, of Canterbury.


(VIII) Sarah Coffin, only daughter and eldest child of Captain David and Comfort (Morrill) Morrill, was born March 12 1827, in Canterbury, and left home at the age of sixteen years to earn her own maintenance, entering the mills at Man- chester, New Hampshire, where she continued to labor four or five years. Soon after attaining the age of twenty years, she was married to N. Welling- ton Towne and, about 1856, settled with him in southern Minnesota. That region was then a wil- derness, and she experienced the life of a pioneer. Here the only child of her first marriage-Ernes- tine Towne-was born. She married (second), William P. Sickles, with whom she made a large part of the journey to Central California in a "prairie schooner." Most of her married life was spent in that region, their home being near a beau- tiful spring of clear water, in Penn Valley. Her second husband lost his life while trying to rescue some papers from their burning home, in recent years. Though her life has been a rather hard one, she has always maintained her cheerfulness. and is now spending a green old age with her eldest daughter in Cedarville, California. She never shrank from any duty, and bore the hardships of pioneer life with the fortitude born of a stout heart. She was given to the study of phrenology, is a firm believer in the claims of woman's rights agitators and in all moral reforms. Her first, and probably only, visit to her native home was made in 1892, but she maintains a continual interest in her relatives and is reckoned among the most val- ued correspondents of many of her nephews and nieces, as well as other members of the family.


(VIII) William Henry, fourth son and fifth child of Captain David and Comfort (Morrill) Morrill, was born July 30, 1835, in Canterbury, and passed his boyhood on the paternal homestead. At an early age he went to Wisconsin and was a resident for a short time at Janesville in that state. At the time of the great migration to Minnesota he was a pioneer there, and resided most of his active life at St. Charles. In recent years he has lived at Huron. South Dakota, and is strong in praise of his new location. He was a soldier of the Civil war, serving in a heavy artillery regiment from Minnesota during the latter part of the strug- gle, chiefly in garrison duty at Chattanooga, Ten- nessee. Mr. Morrill is a man of practical mind, and has borne an important part in the settlement and material and moral development of two states, thuis carrying forward the bent of his sires. After he was well established in Minnesota, he spent the winter of 1859-60 at his native town. In the spring following he was married to Melinda Foster, daugh- ter of Simeon and Polly (Hill) Foster of Canter- bury (see Foster, VI) who is still his helpmeet. (VIII) Charles Willard, sixth son of David


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and Comfort (Morrill) Morrill, was born Decem- ber 30, 1839, in Canterbury, and remained at home until the age of seventeen years. He then went to Ohio, and there pursued a preparatory course in Oberlin College. He subsequently entered Dart- mouth College, from which he graduated in 1863. On August 19 of that year he was mustered in as a member of Company H, Eighth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and proceeded at once with his regiment to the front. He was discharged on ac- count of disability November 26, 1864, at Natchez, Mississippi, and died on his way home, in a hos- pital at Cairo, Illinois, December 8 of the same ycar. Thus a most promising young life was cut off. Mr. Morrill is spoken of by his comrades as a truc and faithful soldier, and by all who knew him, as a young man of most exemplary character.


( Previous Generation on Page 351.)


(II) John Abbot, eldest son and child


ABBOTT of George Abbot, the original immi- grant, and his wife, Hannah (Chand- ler) Abbot, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 2, 1648. He lived with his father in the gar- rison house. He was chosen deacon of the South Parish Church in 1711. In 1673 he married Sarah Barker, daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers of Andover; they had nine children. John Abbot died March 19, 1721.


(III) John, eldest son and child of John and Sarah (Barker) Abbot, was born November 2, 1674, at Andover, Massachusetts. He was selectman and a deacon of the church for thirty-four years. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Harndin, of Wilmington, Massachusetts. He died January 1, 1754, and she died August 9, 1756.


(IV) Captain John, second son and child of John and Elizabeth (Harndin) Abbot, was born August 3, 1704, at Andover, Massachusetts. He was com- missioned a captain in the French and Indian war, and was chosen a member of the committee of safety at Andover, on November 14, 1774. He was seventy years of age at the time, but he lived till nearly ninety. His dwelling was always on the old home- stead at Andover. His wife was Phebe (Fiske) Abbot, who died in December, 1802, aged ninety. He died November 10. 1793.


(V) Jeremiah, fourth son and fifth child of Cap- tain John and Phebe (Fiske) Abbot, was born May 25, 1743. He moved to Wilton, New Hampshire. He married Chloe Abbot, daughter of Zebadiah Abbot, and they had nine children. She died August 21, 1809, aged about seventy-one years. He died November 2, 1825.


(VI) Sarah, seventh daughter and youngest child of Jeremiah and Chloe (Abbot) Abbot, was born December 8, 17SI. On her twenty-second birthday she was married to Stephen Buss, of Wilton, New Hampshire. Sarah. their second daughter and fourth child, married Benjamin Franklin Marden on March 20, 1830 (see Marden, IV).


(Previous Generations on Pages 1658-1665.)


The Foster family of Canterbury FOSTER was conspicuous in the struggle for the abolition of human slavery in the United States and sent numerous citizens to the aid of their country in the Civil war. One of these was for long years an invalid, unable to walk, as a result of wounds received in that struggle.




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