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(VI) Reuben, second son and child of Josiah (2) and Prudence (Dodge) Dodge, was born in Wen- ham, January 21, 1721, and died in Lunenburg, June 15, 1762. He probably moved to Lunenburg about 1743, where he resided the remainder of his life. The inventory of his estate was filed November 29, 1762, and his father Josiah was appointed adminis- trator. The estate was reported May 9, 1763, in- solvent. In March, 1768, Josiah Dodge and his wife Prudence for one hundred and twenty-five pounds six shillings, four pence, deeded thirty acres of land in Lunenburg to Jesse, Brewer, Levi, Tabitha, Zadok, John P. and Ruth Dodge, all minors except Jesse. Reuben Dodge married, March 9, 1742, Ruth Perkins. Their children were: Reuben, Jesse, Mary, Tabitha (died young), Brewer, Levi, Tabitha, Zadok, Esther, John Perkins and Ruth.
(VII) Levi, sixth child and fourth son of Reuben and Ruth (Perkins) Dodge, was born in Lunenburg, November 21, 1751, and was a patriot soldier in the Revolution, serving as a private in Captain Josiah Stearn's company, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's regi- ment, as shown by records dated Cambridge, July 10, 1775. and Winter Hill, October 6, 1775. He married Keziah Stanley.
(VIII) Maria, daughter of Levi and Keziah (Stanley) Dodge, was born in Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, and married Hiram Hardy. (See Hardy).
(VI) Eli, third son and child of Josiah (2) and Prudence (Dodge) Dodge, was born January 2, 1723, in Wenham, and probably moved to Lunen- burg the same time as his father. In July, 1767, he deeded thirty acres of land in that town to his father and perhaps moved away. He was married
(intention published July 25, 1741), in Wenham, to Abigail Gillings, of that town, and their children, all born in Lunenburg, were: Eli, Rebecca, Isaac, Abigail and Prudence.
(VII) Isaac, second son and third child of Eli and Abigail (Gillings) Dodge, was born March 17, 1748, in Lunenburg, and lived in that town and Gro- ton, Massachusetts, and died in the latter town in March, 1807. He married Elizabeth Blood, and their children were: James, Asahel, Maria, Nancy, La- vina, Lucy.
(VIII) James, eldest child of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Blood) Dodge, was born February 21, 1795, in Lunenburg, and lived in Keene, New Hampshire. About 1850 he was employed in the cooperage at Keene, where he remained four or five years, and was subsequently a carpenter up to the time when he retired from active life, and died August 28, 1872, in Keene, in his seventy-eighth year. He was married, March 14, 1827, to Randilla Bundy, who was born July 22, 1802, in Westminster, Vermont, and survived her husband nearly twenty years, dying December 30, 1891, in Keene. Her children were: Evaline, Lucy A., Edwin, Charles, Harriet, Freder- ick, James W. and Herbert.
(IX) James William, fourth son and seventh child of James and Randilla (Bundy) Dodge, was born April 13, 1845, in Keene, and was educated in the common and high schools of that town. At an early age he was employed as clerk by the Cheshire Railroad Company and so continued from 1860 to 1873, at which time he was appointed general freight agent of the road. After holding this position for seventeen years this was consolidated with the Fitchburg railroad and he was appointed division superintendent, in which position he continued about one year and a half and then resigned. He was soon invited to become assistant general freight agent of the Fitchburg railroad with headquarters at Boston, which he accepted and held a little less than two years. On account of ill health he was compelled to resign this position and has been on the retired list since that time. He has taken an active part in the management of public affairs in Keene, and was a member of the city council during the first year of its existence as an incorporated city. He is an attendant of the Unitarian Church. Mr. Dodge served as trustee of the Guarantee Savings Bank, and Cheshire Provident Institution. He was one of the initial subscribers to the Electric Light Company, and subsequently was an active factor in causing the merging of that institution with the local Gas Company and was one of the original directors of the Keene Gas & Electric Light Company. He was married April 25, 1865, to Ella E. Perley, who was born May 20, 1848, in Gardner, Massachusetts. She is a daughter of Asa P. Perley, who was born June 4, 1824, in Templeton, Massachusetts, a son of Asa Perley, who was born October 4, 1797, in Gard- ner, Massachusetts, and died September 3, 1867, in Baldwinville, Massachusetts. Mr. Dodge's mother was Lucy Ann Austin, and was born March 4. 1826, in Surrey, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge had two children, Cora Ella, born, in Keene, June 13, 1867, died September II, 1867; and Walter Fred, born in Keene, July 28, 1869, died October 15, 1869.
(V) Thomas, second son and fourth child of Josiah and Lydia or Sarah (Fisk) Dodge, was born November 30, 1700, in Wenham, Massachusetts, and died September 18, 1736, in that town. He was probably a farmer. His estate was valued at £2,005 and 13 shillings. He was married (intention pub- lished March 21, 1724), June 23. 1724. to Sarah Porter, of Wenham. She was born January 6,
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1706, and died 1795, aged eighty-nine years. Her father, John Porter, was born 1668, and died March 8, 1753. He mother, Lydia Herrick, was born 1663, and died February 12, 1738. Thomas Dodge's wife survived him and was granted administration of his estate, November 15, 1736. Ten years later she was appointed guardian of Israel and Benjamin Dodge, minors, and of Thomas Brown, Junior, and of all the children of Thomas Dodge. Her children were: John, Lydia, Benjamin, Israel (died young), Sarah and Israel.
(VI) Israel, youngest child of Thomas and Sarah (Porter) Dodge, was baptized April 14, 1736, and lived in Wenham. He was a soldier of the Revo- lution. He was married in Wenham, March 27, 1758, to Abigail (Elliott) Larcum, and their children were: Israel, Lydia, Francis, Ichabod and probably others whose births are not recorded in Wenhamn.
(VII) Ichabod, third son and fourth child of Israel and Abigail (Elliott) (Larcum) Dodge, was born 1770, and baptized March 31, 1771, in Wenham. He removed to Claremont, New Hampshire, where he died October 31, 1822. He was married in Wen- ham, May 23, 1774, to Mehitable Swett, who was born May 25, 1765, in that town, daughter of Josiah and Prudence (Dodge) Swett, of Wenham, later of Claremont, before 1797.
(VIII) Isaac, son of Ichabod and Meliitable (Swett) Dodge, was born June 13, 1797, in Clare- mont, and lived in that town where he was a farmer. About 1850 he removed to Chester, Vermont, and one of his sons is now living in that state. He was married, December 25, 1822, in Claremont, to Eliza Long, who died July 19, 1830.
(IX) Abraham, son of Isaac and Eliza (Long) Dodge, was born February 18, 1834, in Claremont, New Hampshire, and removed, before attaining his majority, with his father to Chester, Vermont, where he still resides. He has been a lumberman and farmer and is now probably retired in Chester. He was married, March 10, 1857, to Augusta B. Sargent, who was born August 6, 1831, daughter of Edward Dodge and Johanna Atwood Sargent. Their children are: Edward Sargent, Frank O. and Caro- line Augusta.
(X) Frank Oak, second son and child of Abra- ham and Augusta B. (Sargent) Dodge, was born October 15, 1860, in Chester, Vermont, and was edu- cated in the common schools of that town. He worked upon his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age, and then began learning the black- smith trade with E. A. Hall, of Chester, where he continued about two years. In 1882 he removed to East Swanzey, New Hampshire, and opened a black- smith shop which he continued to operate about four years, at the end of which period the shop was burned. Removing to Keene he worked a short time for George Russell, and then returned to West Swanzey, and in company with A. H. Freeman opened a shop which they continued to operate a short time. At the end of a year and a half Mr. Dodge bought the interest of his partner and has continued to the present time in the successful operation of a general blacksmith business. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and takes an intelligent interest in the progress of events about him. For the past eighteen years he has served as constable of the town of Swanzey. He was married (first), to Alma J. Ballou. He married (second), April 14, 1901, Mary R. Stebbins, who was born April 17, 1883, in Keene, New Hamp- shire. His children, born of the first wife, are Guy F. and Ralph.
(IV) Andrew, eighth child and fourth son of
Lieutenant John and Sarah Dodge, was born in Wenhanı. in 1676, and died February 17, 1748, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was buried in the cemetery at Dodge's Row. He was a carpenter and lived at North Beverly. In 1708 he received from his father a deed of about fifty acres of his homestead. He held some town offices, and in 1713 was appointed on the building committee for con- structing the new meeting house at North Beverly for the Second Church there about to be organized. His will was made November 2, 1747, and by it he disposed of over one thousand pounds in money. He had previously given his sons parcels of land. He married (first), May 26, 1686, Hannah Fisk, of Wenham, who died December 2, 1703, in her thirtieth year. He married, in 1704, Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Porter) Andrews or Andrus. She died June 6, 1734, in the sixtieth year of her age. He married (third), June 14, 1736, Ellinor Edwards, of Wenham. His children by the first wife were: Hannah and Andrew; by the second wife, Daniel, Thomas, Sarah, Bartholomew, Hannah and Amos. (The last named is the subject of a later paragraph in this article).
(V) Andrew (2), second son of Andrew (I) and Hannah (Fisk) Dodge, was born in North Beverly, Massachusetts, November 26, 1703; married, January 27, 1725, Lydia Bridgman, of Windham, Connecticut, and settled in that town. His will was proved June 23, 1741. He enlisted in the ill-fated expedition of Admiral Richard Vernon against the Spanish pos- sessions of South America, and was killed at Carta- gena, in March, 1741. He received a gift of a farm at Windham from his father by deed dated May 13, 1725. Children : Andrew, born February, 1726, died young; Hannah, April 12, 1728; Irena, March 29, 1729; Lydia, May 23, 173 -; Andrew, born April 4, 1732, died young; Rufus, March 22, 1734; Andrew, February 21, 1735, died young; Abel, February 9, 1736; Sarah, March 10, 1737; Andrew, February 14, 1738-39; Isaac, February 25, 1739-40, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac, son of Andrew Dodge, was born in Windham, Connecticut, February 25, 1739-40; mar- ried, October 20, 1762, Saralı Utley, born October 25, 1746, daughter of Hon. Jeremiah Utley. From his birth until the close of the Revolutionary war he lived in Windham. He was sergeant in the Wind- ham Company on the Lexington alarm, April, 1775, in Colonel Israel Putnam's regiment. He sold out his property at Windham after the war and removed to Lempster, New Hampshire, then a wilderness, and cleared a farm for himself. He died there October 20, 1806. Children, all born at Windhanı: Abel, emigrated to New York state. Daniel, born July 28, 1767, mentioned below; Isaac, born 1770; Trephenia, married Leonard Dow; Daughter mar- ried Rogers; Daughter married Burn- ham; Eunice, married Cooper.
(VII) Daniel, son of Isaac Dodge, was born in Windham, Connecticut, July 28, 1767, died August 29, 1837, in Hanover, New Hampshire. He married, December 31, 1793, Nabby Wright, of Hanover ; (second), February 20, 1798, Sally Wright, who died June 20, 1797. He left Lempster, New Hamp- shire, and settled on a farm at Hanover, about 1785, where under many difficulties he brought up a family of ten children, meeting the struggles of life, we are told, with great fortitude and courage. Children, born at Hanover: 1. Omri, born January 10, 1795, died December 27, 1826, at Hancock, Vermont; mar- ried Lydia Darling; was an able and successful phy- sician. 2. Daniel, born July 3, 1796, married Judithi Gates; was a physician at West Chazy, New York,
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where he died June 12, 1864. 3. Nabby, born March 19, 1799, died October 1, 1726. 4. Harvey Bingham, born August 10, 1801, married Eliza A. Beckwith; graduate of Colby University in 1827; pastor of Baptist Church in West Plattsburgh, New York; was missionary in the counties of Clinton, Essex and St. Lawrence, New York, in 1831-32; was pastor at Farmersville, New York, in 1833; at Greene, New York, 1834-36; in 1836 .became pastor of a new church at Fort Covington, New York; pastor at Parma, New York, in October, 1839, and at Newton Falls, Ohio, in 1841 ; removed to Garrettsville, Ohio, in 1842, and accepted a call to return to his first church in Plattsburgh in 1844; died at Schuyler's Falls, November 11, 1866; married, January 13, 1830, Ann Eliza Beckwith, a descendant of Roger Wil- liams. 5. Alfred, born September 24, 1803, died October 23, 1880. 6. Sally, born December 6, 1805, married, July, 1839, Laban Chandler ; died at Enfield, New Hampshire, March 1, 1893; "In a marked degree she possessed weight of character, and ex- erted a decided influence in the home, the church, and the community ; at the same time she was of so mild a type, as to win a general esteem and love." 7. Cyrus, born September 13, 1807, died June 4, 1854. 8. Uminos, born August 7, 1809, died August 6, 1858. 9. Isaac, born March 1, 1812, died in Hamilton Col- lege, April 14, 1835. 10. John Wright, born Septem- ber 4, 1815, mentioned below.
(VIII) John Wright, son of Daniel Dodge, was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, September 4, 1815. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and lived until 1847 on the old homestead. Then he became a clerk in a Hanover store, and subsequently engaged in trade on his own account for fifteen years. He then began to manu- facture flannels in Enfield, New Hampshire, and in 1883 became one of the owners of a factory at Bristol, New Hampshire, and this concern became in 1887 the property of a corporation under the name of Dodge-Davis Manufacturing Company with a capital of $150,000, and the manufacture of flannels was continued with great success. A few years be- fore his death, Mr. Dodge retired from active labor and spent his last years at his attractive home in En- field. He died there February 13, 1897. He was essentially a self-made man of the best type. He began life with no capital and some inherited obli- gations to discharge, and built up one of the best woolen mills in New England, acquiring a fortune and conferring great benefits upon the community in which he lived and conducted business. He was a thoroughly public spirited citizen and was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens in town and state. Though a Democrat in politics he was often honored by the Republican district in which he lived by election to the state legislature. He has used his means freely in objects of public benefaction, and at the same time was generous with his less fortunate relatives. Gave $5,000 for a free bed to the town of Hanover, in the Mary Hitchcock Hos- pital. He was kindly, modest and sympathetic in disposition, but characterized by great force and energy, far-sighted sagacity in business, integrity and honest of purpose. Above the average in stat- ure and weight, he had a striking physique.
He married, July 1, 1855, Clementine Chandler Whipple, widow, who was born November 12, 1818, and died March 6, 1893, daughter of Henry H. Chandler. Children : 1. Son, born January 21, 1857, died October 12, 1857. 2. Fannie L., born April 30, 1859, married, January 13, 1886, Rev. Walter Dole, a Universalist clergyman, a native of Northfield, Vermont. Children: Jolin Walter Dole, born at
Enfield; Mary Clementine Dole, born at Enfield; Robert H., born at Revere, Massachusetts.
Rev. Walter Dole, D. D., husband of Fannie Louise Dodge, was born in Northfield, Vermont, August 26, 1851. He graduated at Norwich Uni- versity in 1870, and from Meadville Theological School in 1874, then took a course in The Boston School of Oratory. He has had a pastorate of three years in Bethel, Vermont, including Gaysville and Stockbridge, three years in Barre, Vermont, ten years in Northfield Vermont, and nine years in Enfield, New Hampshire. The basis on which he stands and works is thus stated: "I believe in the One Holy Church Universal, whereby the Children of Men are to realize their oneness with God, the fulness of divine Manhood, and the Spirit of Eternal Brother- hood, by making the Christ the controlling type of life."
(IV) Amos, eighth child and fifth son of An- drew and Sarah (Andrews or Andrus) Dodge, was born in North Beverly, August 20, 1717, and died February 27, 1755. He resided in Beverly and was buried in Dodge Row. He married, October 9, 1751, Hannah Green, of Salem. She was appointed after his death administratrix if his estate, which was valued at eight hundred and forty pounds, ten pence. She married (second), May 30. 1765, Mat- thew Wyman, of Woburn, a blacksmith, and lived in Beverly in 1767. Two children were born to Amos and Hannah : Sarah, and Amos, whose sketch follows next.
(V) Amos (2), only son of Amos (I) and Hannah (Green) Dodge, was born in Beverly, July 11 or 21, 1754, was baptized July 20, 1755, and died May 9, 1792. He was a carpenter in 1776, when he sold his share of his father's estate in Beverly. In the same year he receipted to Mat- thew Eymar for twenty-five pounds. ten shillings, the balance due from his mother as guardian on account of the estate of his father. He appears to have lived in Wenham after his marriage. He married (first), October 29, 1775, Hepzibah Dodge, who died June 19, 1777, in her twenty-first year. He married (second), May 15, 1778, Lydia Batchel- der, of Wenham, who was born April 9, 1756, and died August 23, 1836, aged eighty years. By the first wife there was one child, Stephen; by the sec- ond wife: Zadok, Hepzibah, Amos (died young). Hannah, Lydia, Sally and Stephen.
(VI) Zadok, eldest son of Amos (2) and Lydia (Batchelder) Dodge, was born March 31, 1780, and died June 9, 1860. Zadok and his father, Amos Dodge, went to Antrim, New Hampshire. in 1814, to purchase farms. Zadok bought the place next west of South Village, begun by James Dinsmore in 1779. He settled on this place in the spring of 1815. He married May 1, 1806, Lydia Hadley, of Andover, Massachusetts, who died August 8, 1820, aged fifty-two. He married (second), Sally Lowe, of Greenfield, who died November 10. 1867, aged seventy-six. He had two children by the first wife, Hepzibah and Alvah, whose sketch follows. (VII) Alvah, only son of Zadok and Lydia (Hadley) Dodge, was born in Wenham, Massa chusetts, February 8, 1811, and died in Antrim. He was a carpenter by trade and lived on the old homestead till 1850, when he moved to the South Village of Antrim. He married, in 1836, Lydia Elliott, who died in 1852, aged thirty-five. He mar- ried (second). September 20, 1855, Alice W. Carr, of Antrim. The children of the first wife were: Jennie M., Anna S., Hattie M., Charles H., Hiram D. and Fostina M., and by the second one child, Katie A.
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(VIII) Fostina M., sixth child of Alvah and Lydia (Elliott) Dodge, was born in Antrim, No- vember 17, 1851, and married November 5, 1873, Henry H. Barber (see Barber).
(IV) William. youngest child of Richard (2) and Mary (Eaton) Dodge, was born 1678, in Wen- ham, where he died October 20, 1765, aged eighty- seven years. He spent a long and prosperous life in that and acquired a large amount of land, which he distributed among his sons. In 1703 he received from his father a homestead and land near the north line of Wenham. In January, 1723, he received a deed of six acres from his father- in-law. In 1752 he distributed his lands to four sons, the fifth, Isaac, having been provided for, and removed from the town some years previ- ously. He married Prudence, daughter of Walter Fairfield. Senior, in 1699. She died August 5, 1737, and he subsequently married Mrs. Abigail Gid- dings, of Hamlet Parish. In the record of his death he is called Lieutenant Dodge. His children were: Prudence (died young), Prudence, Richard, William, Isaac, Tabitha, Jacob, Abraham, Skipper and Sarah.
(V) Richard (3), eldest son and third child of William and Prudence (Fairfield) Dodge, was born September 8, 1703, in Wenham, and died there May II, 1778, in his seventy-fifth year. He was a surveyor as well as a farmer, and was a prominent figure in the community. Numerous deeds on rec- ord show that he was an extensive purchaser of lands and that he also sold some. He probably lived until 1750 on a tract of sixty acres of land, which he purchased with the buildings of Joseph Edwards, in 1740. At the time that he sold this, 1750, he bought of John Lowe the homestead, which had formerly been the home of Daniel, father of David Dodge, and the homestead of his grand- father. Richard, inherited by him from Richard (I), the immigrant. In May, 1752. Richard (3) received by deed from his father a homestead and some small pieces of land and three-fourths of his father's interest in the stream and mills of Wen- ham. This was on the Longham side and on lands which had been continuously held by the Dodges from the earliest period. At the time of receiv- ing this deed his father was seventy-four years of age, and it is probable that Richard (3) then took possession of and operated the farm. He subse- quently gave and sold to his brothers and sons ex- tensive tracts of land. Among these was a gift of twenty acres to his brothers, Jacob and Skipper. His will was made April 20, 1778, and proved on the sixth of the following July. His inventory amounted to £5,716 and 18 shillings. The currency in which this was reckoned was at that time very much depreciated and this was an abundant for- tune for those days. In 1724 he married Mary, daughter of Deacon John Thorne, of Ipswich, who probably survived him as she is mentioned in his will. Their children were: Abraham, Tabitha. Richard, (died young, Mary (died young), Mercy, Prudence, Richard, John, Mary, Sarah, Simon or Simeon and Nicholas.
(VI) Simon or Simeon, fifth son and eleventh child of Richard (3) and Mary (Thorne) Dodge, was born January 14. 1749, in Wenham, and died in that town June 25, 1815. It is said of him: "As a husband he was kind, as a father, he was most tender and as a Christian he was one of the most pious of his day. He was happy in his sick- ness. He died in his chair." He had made his will three years before his death, and the inventory of his estate after his death shows its value to be
three thousand dollars. He was married Novem- ber 16, 1769, to Abigail Dodge, of Beverly. Their children were: Obadiah (died young), Mary, Ed- ward, Polly, Sally, Obadiah, Deacon Richard, Ben- jamin and Stillman.
(VII) Stillman, youngest child of Simon or Simeon and Abigail (Dodge) Dodge, was born December 7, 1792, and resided in Wenham during the early part of his life. He was a cabinetmaker by occupation, and came to his death, March 3, 1831, by an accident while assisting in the con- struction of a bridge. He married Sally High- lands, and they were the parents of five children, namely : Sarah, Simon Barnet, Marion, James Stillman and Francis Green Macumber.
(VIII) James Stillman, son of Stillman and Sally (Highlands) Dodge, was born June 15, 1825, went to Blackwater when a small boy and there attended the district school until about nine years of age. At this time he began to work on a farm and was practically self-supporting thereafter. About 1840 he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was employed by the McFarland Broth- ers, dealers in ice, and continued twelve years with them. In 1852 he went to California and engaged in teaming, hauling goods into the mountains for the mines in mule teams. He stayed there two years and then returned to New Hampshire and settled in Webster, where he built a sawmill and operated it fourteen years. At the end of this time he removed to Norwich, Vermont, where he pur- chased a grist mill and this was destroyed by fire after he had operated it two years. He then pur- chased a grist mill at Lebanon. New Hampshire, which he operated two years and sold to go from there to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where he was employed for five years as manager of grist mill. He next removed to Sheldon, Vermont, where he engaged in the lumber and grain business until his death, May 31, 1895. He was married, October 4, 1846, to Huldah M. Brooks, of Lowell, Massa- chusetts, daughter of Amos Dodge and Hannah (Kemp) Brooks, and they became the parents of the following children: Elizabeth. who became the wife of George L. Thompson, and died 1891; Henry Stillman, who died 1863; Frank Everett, mentioned at length below, and Charles Arthur, who died in his fourth year.
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