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 18

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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(VII) Daniel, eldest son of Moses and Ann (Follansbee) Chase, was born September 20, 1685, in Newbury, now West Newbury, Massachusetts. He moved to Littleton, Massachusetts in 1725, and thence to Sutton, same state. He was married Jan- uary 6, 1706, to Sarah, daughter of George March, of Groton, same state. Subsequently, he moved to Sutton, where he died April, 1768. His children were: Samuel, Daniel, Anne, Joshua, Judith, Ne- hemiah, Sarah, Caleb, Moody and Moses.

(VIII) Samuel, eldest child of Daniel and Sarah (March) Chase, was born September 28, 1707, in Newbury, now West Newbury, and married Mary Dudley. He settled with his family in Cornish, New Hampshire, being one of the founders of that town. He died August 12, 1800. His children were : Samuel, Jonathan, Dudley, Sarah, Elizabeth, Solo- mon, Anne and Mary.

(IX) Dudley, third son and child of Samuel and Mary (Dudley) Chase, was born August 29, 1730, and died April 13, 1814. He was married August 23, 1753, to Alice Corbett, and had a distinguished family of sons, namely: Salmon, Ithamar, Baruch, Heber, Dudley and Philander. The first was an eminent lawyer of Portland, Maine. The fifth graduated from Dartmouth, with honors in 1791, and was a leader of the Vermont bar, United States senator, and chief justice of Vermont. The youngest was one of the most distinguished members of the Episcopal clergy, Bishop of Ohio from 1818 to 1831, when he resigned; founder and first president of Kenyon College; and Bishop of Illinois in 1835, and founder of Jubilee College. A daughter, Rachel, became the wife of Dr. Joseph A. (I) Denison of Bethel and Royalton, Vermont. (See Denison, VIII).

(X) Ithamar, second son of Dudley and Alice (Corbett) Chase, was born September 27, 1763, in Sutton, and engaged in farming in Cornish, New Hampshire, until 1815, when he removed to Keene. Three years previously he had engaged in the manufacture of glass, which proved his financial un- doing. He died at Keene in 1817. He was married

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June 26, 1792, to Janey Ralston, of Keene, daughter of Alexander and Janey (Balloch) Ralston. She was born July 26, 1773, in Charlestown, Massachu- setts, whither her parents came from Falkirk, Scot- land, about 1772. In 1775 they moved to Keene, where Alexander Ralston died aged sixty-four years, March 29, 1810. His widow passed away in 1883, in Cornish, and was buried in Keene. Mr. Ralston was a distiller and inn-holder, and the "Ralston Tavern" is historic. The Ralston family was one of consequence, its members being handsome, cultured and enterprising. Two of Ithamar Chase's sons, Alexander Ralston, and Salmon Portland, achieved distinction.

(XI) Salmon Portland, son of Ithamar and Janey ( Ralston) Chase, was born January 13, 1808, in Cornish, New Hampshire, and was one of the most noted sons in that state, prolific of brainy men. He inherited from two strong families those traits which made him a leader among men and brought him into prominence in the service of his country, and in the regard of his countrymen. His early life was that of a farmer's son, the district school providing his education until he was nine years old. After the death of his father lie was sent to Windsor, Vermont, where he continued his studies. At the suggestion of his uncle, Bishop Philander Chase, he was sent in 1820 to Worthington, Ohio, where he had a home in the family of the Bishop, and received instructions in a collegiate school under the latter's charge. When Bishop Chase became president of Cincinnati College in 1822, his nephew accompanied the family thither, and continued his studies in the college. In 1823 Salmon returned to his mother's home in Keene, and soon engaged in teaching at Royalton, Vermont. He matriculated at Dartmouth, in 1824, and graduated with the class of 1826. An expedition to the South in hope of finding an engage- ment as tutor in some private family proved unsuc- cessful, and he applied to his uncle Dudley Chase for an appointment in the public service at Wash- ington. That gentleman told him he had seen one nephew ruined by an appointment, and refused to aid him in that way. Young Chase soon found em- ployment in a private school, and shortly became a law student with Attorney-General William Wirt. He was admitted to the bar of the District of Col- umbia in 1829, and continued his school one year longer. He then went to Cincinnati where he was admitted to the Ohio bar. Here he began a codifi- cation of the statutes of the state, and with copious annotations and a sketch of the development of the state made three volumes. This work superseded all previous works of the kind, and made the fame of the author, whose law practice at once assumed impor- tance. His employment by the LaFayette and United States Banks gave him a knowledge of financial matters, and was an excellent preparation for the future United States Treasurer. He became deeply interested in the fugitive slave agitation, and was employed in cases brought under the slave law. His pleadings and writings on this subject became in- fluential and were widely used by the anti-slavery agitators throughout the country. In 1846 he was associated with William H. Seward before the su- preme court of the United States, in the case of Van Zandt, and argued that the question of re- claiming slaves in a free state was an interstate matter and not a federal question. Up to this time Mr. Chase had taken no partisan stand in politics, and he now became a leader of public sentiment toward the formation of a new party. In 1841 he called the convention that organized the Liberty

party in Ohio, and two years later, when the Liberty party met in convention at Baltimore for the nomi- nation of a presidential candidate, he was a member of its committee on resolutions. He opposed the radical proposition to support the third clause of the constitution if applied to the case of a fugitive slave, but it was adopted by the convention, after being rejected by the committee. Mr. Chase was a leader in the movement for a convention of "All who believed that all that is worth preserving in republicanisin can be maintained only by uncompro- mising war against the usurpation of the slave power, and are therefore resolved to use all constitutional means to effect the extinction of slavery within the respective states." At the resultant meeting in Cincinnati in 1845, in June, Mr. Chase was chair- man of the committee on platform, and prepared the address, urging the necessity of a political or- ganization with the overthrow of the slave power as its basic idea. In 1848 he prepared a call for a convention in Ohio which was signed by over three thousand voters, and resulted in the convention at Buffalo in the same year, at which Mr. Chase presided, and nominated VanBuren and Adams on the Free Soil ticket. In 1840 the Democrats and the Federal Whigs united in the election of Mr. Chase to the United States senate. In 1853 he withdrew from the Democratic party on account of its position on the slavery question, and in the same year pre- pared a platform for the independent party at Pitts- burg, which was adopted. In the senate he opposed the compromises with slavery interests and labored diligently for amendments to the fugitive slave law, but he was in advance of his time, and found himself in the minority. He sought to prevent the interven- tion of Federal authorities in the affairs of the states, to uphold individual State rights, and economy in the administration of finances. He favored free homesteads to settle cheap postage and public in- provements. In 1855 Mr. Chase was elected gover- nor of Ohio by the elements opposing the Nebraska Bill and the administration, and two years later he was re-elected by the largest vote ever given for governor in that state. In 1850 his name was pro- posed by Ohio as a presidential candidate, and again in 1860, at the National Republican Convention at Chicago, he received a nomination and forty-nine votes were cast for him on the first ballot. When the votes of Ohio were needed to secure the nomin- ation of Abraham Lincoln they were promptly turned over to him. In that year Mr. Chase was again elected United States senator, and he resigned the position in 1861, to acept a portfolio in President Lincoln's cabinet. As Secretary of the Treasury he rendered conspicuous service in establishing the war loans and a substantial financial system which made a successful prosecution of the Civil war pos- sible. Through the suggestion of Mr. O. B. Potter, of New York, he issued the greenback, which was universally accepted by the people, and secured the ultimate unity of a great nation. Mr Chase left the Treasury department June 30, 1864, at which time the national debt amounted to $1,740,690.489. On December 6 of the same year he was named by the president as chief justice of the national supreme court, and the nomination was immediately con- firmed by the senate. He presided at the impeach- ment trial of President Johnson in March, 1868. In 1855, Dartmouth, from which he had graduated at the age of eighteen, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. His public service was ended by a stroke of paralysis in June, 1870, and he died May 7, 1873, in New York City.

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CHASE Following is the record of the descend-

ants of John Chase, a native of Maine, who was an untraced descendant of that branch of the Chase family of Maine whose ances- tor was the Aquila Chase, of Chesham, England, who settled about 1640 in Hampson, and previous to 1646 in Newbury, Massachusetts.

(I) Enoch, son of John Chase, was born in Portland, Maine, about 1775. When about eight years of age he went to Hopkinton, New Hamp- shire, where he became a farmer when he attained manhood. He was a man of good business ability, well thought of by his townsmen, and was collector of taxes from 1818 to 1820, and again in 1824; and selectman from 1820 to 1823. He married Mary Morse, of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1796, and they were the parents of ten children: Charlotte, Enoch J., Daniel D., Thomas, Hannah, Abner, Ambrose, Jacob, Elbridge G., and Sally.

(II) Enoch J., eldest son and second child of Enoch and Mary Morse Chase, was born in Hop- kinton, June 25, 1801, and died October 17, 1879, aged seventy-eight. He was a farmer and lumber- man, and lived many years in the Blackwater dis- trict. He also lived a number of years in Concord, and for a time in Wilmot. He was selectman in Hopkinton in 1843, 1853, and 1854, and representative in 1862 and 1863. He was a stirring business inan and a prosperous citizen. He married first, Sarah H. Holmes, who was born in Utica, New York, November 26, 1791, and died December 6, 1832, aged forty-one years. She was the daughter of Dr. Joshua Holmes, of Utica, New York. He married second, Nancy Johnson. of Salisbury, who was born in 1797, and died 1875, aged seventy-eight years. The children of the first wife were: Lucinda H., Ho- race J., Mary Jane, and Harvey ; and of the second : Nancy A., George W., and Malinda B.

(III) Harvey, youngest child of Enoch J. and Sarah H. (Holmes) Chase, was born in Hopkin- ton, April 3, 1829. With the exception of nine years in Concord and two in Chichester, he has always lived on the old homestead in Hopkinton, which now contains six hundred acres. He is a farmer and lumber dealer. He has inherited the personal qual- ities that distinguished his father and grandfather, and is a keen trader and a man of good judgment. He was a member of the board of selectmen of Concord in 1852 and 1853, a councilman in 1854, and representative from Hopkinton in 1879. He married, March 17, 1853, Martha R. Bennett, who was born in Freedom, July 9, 1834, daughter of Charles and Olive E. (Crockett) Bennett. They are the parents of children: Mary Jane, Georgia Persis, Fred Harvey, and Mattie Olive.

(IV) Fred Harvey, third child and only son of Harvey and Martha R. (Bennett) Chase, was born in Hopkinton, August 21, 1868. He was brought up to a knowledge of farming and lumber dealing, and obtained his education in the common and high schools of Warner. At the age of twenty he be- came a dealer in lumber, and has ever since been successfully engaged in that line. He is prominent in the industrial, financial and social circles of his native town. He married, March 10, 1897, in Con- cord, Lillian Jackman, born August 29, 1871, daugh- ter of Enoch and Elizabeth (Moody) Jackman, of Concord. They have one child, Martha Elizabeth, born March 26, 1901.

KINGSBURY

Kingsbury. signifying primarily, "King's castle," and later. "King's town," was at first, the designation

of a fortification for defensive purposes. As was common in the days of English castle-building. a town grew up about the kingsburg or bury and took the same designation, the name being spelled in the reign of King Egbert, 800 A. D., Kyngges- berie, Kyngesburg and Kinggesburie. Still later, when some emigrant left the place called Kings- bury, he took that name for his surname, and from him it has been handed down to the latest genera- tions of his descendants. The Kingsburys had among them liberal minded and adventurous men who could not abide the religious oppression of their times in England, and in the hope of enjoy- ing greater liberties in the new world, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony. The ancestors of the family in America are: Joseph, John and Henry. The traits of character of this family, as given by one who knows are: Remarkable attachment to agricultural pursuits; from the first settlement in America they lived in the common, temperate style of New England farmers. yet with patriotic ferver, and love of military tactics. Noble-hearted, indus- trious, ingenuous, intelligent, of the strictest integ- rity, disdaining the low arts of dissimulation, shun- ning the ways of vice and walking in the paths of virtue and piety-'a reticent nature having a per- sonal holy of holies into which few are admitted"- reverent, cherishing love of God, family and coun- try with "the courage of their conviction," the word faithful defines the most marked characteristic of a Kingsbury.

(I) Joseph Kingsbury, the ancestor of many of that name in America, was born in England, where he was also married, but we know the date of neither of these events. He came to New Eng- land, and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts Col- ony, in the year 1628; was made a freeman in 1641, and died about 1676. He, like all citizens of that day, was an owner, and probably a tiller of the soil. In April, 1638, the town took land for a burial place, still in use, from the south end of his hamlet, exchanging other land for it. and soon after took an acre of land from the end of his lot for a church. In the forming of the church in 1638. Joseph was one of the ten men considered most suitable to be "an original member," but through the jealousy of some of the company, he and three others of the ten first mentioned were not in- cluded in the number of constituents. His wife, who is described as "a tender-hearted soule full of fears and temptations, but truly breathing after Christ," was received in the fellowship of the Ded- ham church in the winter of 1638-9 without mak- ing a public recital of her experience ; but by giving good satisfaction in private and by publicly assent- ing to the relation made for her. Joseph, however, became a member April 9, 1641. Joseph Kings- bury married Millicent Ames, in England. She survived him. Their children were: Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth. Joseph. John, Eleazer, and Nathaniel.

(II) Nathaniel, youngest of the seven children of Joseph and Millicent (Ames) Kingsbury, was born in Dedham, March 25, 1650, was a freeman of Massachusetts in 1677, and died October 14, 1694. He married, in Dedham, October 14, 1673, Mary Bacon, daughter of John and Rebeccca (Hall) Ba- con. and they had five sons and one daughter: Na- thaniel, James, Timothy, John Daniel and Millicent.

(III) Deacon Daniel, fifth son and child of Na- thaniel and Mary (Bacon) Kingsbury, born in Dedham, November II, 1688, died in Wrentham. April 27, 1754. He removed to Wrentham, and spent the greater part of his life there. He was chosen the first deacon, March 8. 1739, of the First

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Congregational Church, in that part of Wrentham which was called "Western Precinct," and in 1778 was incorporated under the name of Franklin. He married, December 29, 1713, Elizabeth Stevens (or Stephens) of Dedham, who died July 12, 1764. They were the parents of two sons and two daugh- ters : Daniel, Stephen, Elizabeth and Mary.

(IV) Daniel (2), eldest child of Daniel (1) and Elizabeth (Stevens) Kingsbury, born March II. 1715, and died in Franklin, March 25, 1783. He married (first), November 3, 1737, Beriah Mann, born April 25, 1717, who died May 12, 1755; and (second), October 19. 1755, widow Abigail Adams, who died October 22, 1759. By the first marriage there were eight sons and one daughter: Nathan -. iel, Lydia, Daniel, Samuel, John, Timothy, James, John and Theodore, and by the second marriage : Twins, unnamed ; Peter and Benjamin.

(V) Lieutenant Daniel (3), second son of Dan- iel (2) and Beriah (Mann) Kingsbury. was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, October 6, 1742. In 1759 he settled in Keene, where he became one of the leading citizens, holding many offices of honor and trust, and was a member of the building com- mittee for the first Congregational Church in Keene. He was a member of the provincial congress, New Hampshire, 1775-76, and after the adoption of the state constitution was a member of the state legis- lature for twenty-one consecutive years. He was a member of committee of safety, April 12, 1776 and lieutenant in the Revolutionary war under Captain Howlett, 1777. He died in Keene, New Hampshire, August 10, 1825.

(VI) Daniel (4), son of Daniel (3) and Kingsbury, was a merchant in Plainfield, New Hampshire, where he died June 12, 1819. He mar- ried Hannah Bailey.

(VII) Almira, only child of Daniel (4) and Hannah (Bailey) Kingsbury, was born March 6, 1799, in Keene, and was married March 6. 1814, to Austin Tyler ( see Tyler, VI).

The Welsh custom of adding to

HARRIS name the father's name in posses- sive form to distinguish one from an- other of the same Christian name, was the origin of this patronymic. In the short four centuries that surnames have prevailed in Great Britain time has sufficed to make many changes and modifica- tions in the form of all classes of words, and names are no exception to the rule. In the Welsh vernacular, William was "David's," Harry was "John's," and David was "William's," and thus we have Davy's (Davis), John's (Jones), William and Harris, all among the most common of Welsh names. The Harris family of whom this article gives some account was among the earliest in New England, has contributed much to the advancement of this region and of the nation, and is now found in connection with all worthy endeavor. It has been especially active in the fields of invention and pioneer development. Almost every state has found the name among those of its pioneer settlers, and it has spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (I) Thomas Harris, born in Deal, Kent county, England, died in Providence, Rhode Island, June 7. 1636. He came to America with his brother William in the ship "Lyon," from Bristol, England, December 1. 1630. On August 20, 1637, or a little later, he and twelve others signed the following compact : "We, whose names are hereunder, re- sirous to inhabit in the town of Providence. do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall iv -- 23

be made for public good of the body in an orderly way by the major assent of the present inhabitants, members incorporated together into a town of fel- lowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto themselves, only in civil things."

On July 27, 1640, he and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for a form of governinent. On September 2, 1650, he was taxed fr. In 1652-3- 4-5-6-7, 1661-2-3. he was commissioner; in 1654, lieutenant ; 1655, freeman ; 1656, juryman. Bishop's "New England Judged," published in London, in 1703, has the following with reference to July, 1658: "After these came Thomas Harris from Rhode Island into our colony who Declaring against your Pride and Oppression, as we would have liberty to speak in your meeting place in Boston, after the priest had ended. Warning the people of the Dread- ful, terrible day of the Lord God, which was com- ing upon that Town and Country, him, much unlike to Nineveh, you pulled down and hall'd him by the Hair of his Head out of your meeting, and a hand was put on his mouth to keep him from speaking forth, and then had before your Governor and Deputy, with other Magistrates, and committed to Prison without warrant or mittimus that he saw, and shut up in a close room, none suffered to come to him, nor to have provisions for his money ; and the next day whipped with so cruel stripes without shewing any law that he had broken, tho' he de- sired it of the Jaylor, and then shut up for Eleven Days more, Five of which he was kept without bread (Your Jaylor not suffering him to have any for his Money and threatened the other Prisoners very much for bringing him a lit- tle water on the day of his sore whipping) and all this because he could not work for the Jaylor and let him have Eight Pence in Twelve Pence of what he should earn; And starved he had been in all probability, had not the Lord kept him these Five Days, and ordered it so after that time that food was so conveyed him by night in at a Window, by some tender People, who tho' they came not in the Profession of Truth openly, by reason of your Cruelty, yet felt it secretly moving in theni and so were made Serviceable to keep the Servant of the Lord from Perishing, who shall not go without a reward. And tho' he was in this State of Weak- ness for want of Bread, and by torturing his body with cruel whippings, as aforesaid, and tho' the Day after he was whipped, the Jaylor had told him that he had now suffered the Law, and that if he would hire the Marshall to carry him out of the Country he might be gone when he would; Yet the next Sixth Day in the Morning before the sixth Hour, the Jaylor again required him to Work, which he refusing, gave his weak and fainting body l'wo and Twenty Blows with a pitched rope; and the Nineteenth of the Fifth month following. Fifteen cruel stripes more with a three-fold-corded whip knotted as aforesaid. Now upon his Apprehension, your Governor sought to know of him who came with him (as was their usual manner) that so ye might find out the rest of the company, on whom ye might Execute your Cruelty and Wickedness, and your governor said he would make him do it; but his Cruelties could not. Nevertheless they soon were found out (who hid not themselves but were bold in the Lord) viz: William Brend and William Ledd, etc."

In 1664-66-67, 1670-72-73 he was deputy to the general court ; in 1664-65-66-69 member of the town council, and on February 19, 1665, he drew lot 7, in the division of the town lands. In May, 1667,

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he as surveyor laid out the lands. August 14, 1676, he was on a committee which recommended certain conditions under which the Indian captives, who were to be in servitude for a term of years, should be disposed of by the town. April 27, 1683, he made the statement that about 1661, being then a sur- veyor, he laid out a three acre lot for his son Thomas, at Pauqachance Hill, and a twenty-five acre lot on the south side, etc. June 3, 1686, he made his will, which was proved July 22, 1686, his son Thomas being appointed executor, and his sons-in-law, Thomas Field and Samuel Whipple, overseers. Thomas Harris married Elizabeth

who died in Providence, Rhode Island. Their children were: Thomas, Mary and Martha. (II) Thomas (2), only son and eldest child of Thomas (I) and Elizabeth Harris, died February 27, 17II, always lived in Providence, Rhode Island. February 19, 1665, he had lot 49, in a division of lands. In 1671-79, 1680-81-82-85, 1691-94-97, 1702- 06-07-08 and 1710, he was a deputy of the general court : and in 1684-85-86, member of the town council. July 1, 1679, he was taxed 8s. 9d., and September 1, 1687, 14s. 9d. June 21, 1708, he made his will, which was proved April 16, 1711, the executors being his wife Elanthan and his son Henry. He married, November 3, 1664, Elanthan Tew, born October 15, 1644, died January II, 1718, daughter of Richmond and Mary (Clarke) Tew, , of Newport, Rhode Island, and they had nine chil- dren: Thomas, Richard, Nicholas, William, Henry, Amity, Elanthan, Joab, and Mary. (Mention of Nicholas and descendants appears in this article).

(III) Richard, second son and child of Thomas (2) and Elanthan (Tew) Harris, was born October 14, 1668, in Providence, Rhode Island, and resided in Providence and Smithfield. He deeded to his son Richard, in 1725, one hundred acres of land in the latter town, and died there in 1750. He married (first a daughter of Clement and Elizabeth King, and his second wife Susanna, born in 1665, was the widow of Samuel Gordon, and a daughter of William and Hannah (Wicks) Burton. She died in 1737. His children, all born of the first marriage, were : Uriah, Richard, Amazialı, Jona- than, David, Preserved. Amity, Dinah and Elnathan. (IV) Richard (2), second son and child of Richard (I) and (King) Harris, was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and settled in that town. He was married (first), December 15, 1723, to Lydia Sprague, of Attleboro, Massachusetts. The date of her death does not appear, but the christain name of his second wife was Dorothy. His children of the first marriage were: Mary, Jeremiah, Lydia, Uriah, Richard, Annie, David, Anthony and Amity (twins). One child, Tabitha, born 1738, came of the second marriage.

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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 18

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