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(IV) Abraham (2), eldest son and second child of Abraham (1) and Mary (Lovejoy) Foster, was born at Andover, Massachusetts, in November, 1705. He lived at Andover and Lynn, Massachusetts. He was published (married) to Sarah Frost, February 2, 1729. They had seven children. Abraham Foster died September 15, 1743, at the early age of thirty- seven. His widow afterwards married November 29, 1758, her husband's cousin, Andrew Foster. Her eldest son, Abraham, had died in February of that year, leaving to his mother six tracts of land in the heart of the town, which had been bequeathed him by his grandfather, Abraham Foster. Mrs. Sarah (Frost) Foster was admitted to the church in Andover from that in Boxford, September 26, 1760. The date of her death is not recorded. Abra- ham and Sarah (Frost) Foster had seven children : Abraham, born December 1, 1730, died February I, 1758; Joshua, whose sketch follows; Jonathan, born April 24, 1734, became ward of Deacon Joseph Abbott, November 21, 1748, married Lydia Haggett, February 2, 1758; David, born July 31, 1737, married Molly Foster ; Sarah, born September 28, 1739, died unmarried; Daniel, born October 13, 1741, died December 26, 1754; James, a posthumous child, born September 29, 1743, married Hannah.
(V) Joshua, second son and child of Abraham (2) and Sarah (Frost) Foster, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, July 17, 1732. His father died young, and May 14, 1747, when Joshua was fifteen years of age, his uncle Jacob was appointed his guardian. Joshua married, May 26, 1756, Lydia Peabody, born in 1738. About 1764 Mr. Foster moved from Andover to Temple, New Hampshire, being the first of his family to move from Massa- chusetts. Of the five children, three were born in Andover, and the two youngest in Temple. Joshua Foster was a Revolutionary soldier, and is recorded as serving in Captain Drury's company, which was enrolled at Temple, April 19, 1775. In a deed of that period Joshua Foster is recorded as a joiner ; in another deed he is called a yeoman. Joshua and Lydia (Peabody) Foster had five children : Joshua, whose sketch follows; Daniel, born March 10, 1759, married and died without children, was a Revolu- tionary soldier, and was drowned in the Kennebec river in Maine, aged seventy-five years; Lydia, born December 30, 1761, married Ensign John Foster of Hancock, New Hampshire; Betsey, born December 22, 1768, married Samuel Kilham, of Lyndeboro, New Hampshire; Sarah, born February 1, 1765. Joshua Foster, the father, died in August, 1776, aged forty-four. His widow died in 1806.
(VI) Joshua (2), eldest son and child of Joshua (1) and Lydia (Peabody) Foster, was born at Andover, Massachusetts, July 5, 1757. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He served in Captain Jo- seph Parker's company, Colonel Enoch Hale's regi- ment, July 1776; and was a member of Captain Robert Fletcher's company, same regiment, in Au- gust, 1778. He married, is 1806, Lucy Tenney, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth ( Blanchard) Ten- ney; she was born in Temple, New Hampshire, October 26, 1779. They had six children: Sarah, born July 4, 1807, died unmarried, June 29, 1834; Daniel, born July 10, 1809, married Hannah Jones; Joshua, whose sketch follows: Benjamin Tenney, born July 8, 1818, married Abigail Howard; David Peabody, born September 4, 1815, married Mrs. Mary ( Massa) Bartlett; Emily Blanchard, born February 14, 1818, died November 12, 1823. Joshua Foster, Jr., lived at Temple, New Hampshire, where he died October 22, 1823.
(VII) Joshua (3), second son and third child
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of Joshua (2) and Lucy (Tenney) Foster, was born at Temple, New Hampshire, August 6, 1811. He was a successful farmer and stock dealer. He attended the Congregational Church, and sang in the choir for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and served as selectman for several terms, part of the time as chairman. In 1857 he was one of the committee who had charge of the hundredth anniversary celebration of Temple, New Hampshire. He had a local reputation as a vocalist, and took
a lively interest in everything that pertained to the welfare of the town. Joshua Foster, in 1835, mar- ried Mary Heald, daughter of Daniel Heald of Temple, New Hampshire. He died September 4, 1890. They had six children: Emily, born June 30, 1837 ; Hannah A., born October 13, 1840; Oliver Heald, mentioned below; Eugene E., born August 15, 1843, married Francilla Upham; twin children, born February 7, 1845, died in infancy.
(VIII) Oliver Heald, second son and third child of Joshua and Mary (Heald)' Foster, was born in Temple, New Hampshire, January 16, 1842. His boyhood was spent in his native town. He was edu- cated in the common schools and at Appleton Acad- emy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, at Manchester, New Hampshire, in April, 1866. For a short time he was engaged in teaching, then in Carpentering. In 1867 he and his brother, Eugene Edward, established themselves in the pro- vision business at Temple under the firm name of Foster Brothers. In 1872 they removed to Mil- ford, where for twenty-five years they carried on a wholesale and retail business in meats and pro- visions. The brother died May 24, 1897, and Mr. Foster subsequently conducted the business alone, retaining the firm name. He retired in 1903. Like most of his ancestors Mr. Foster has seen military service in defense of his country. He was but nineteen years of age when the Civil war broke out, but towards its close he enlisted for three months in the Lafayette Artillery of Lyndeboro, New Hampshire. He was assigned as a private to garrison duty at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is a Republican by birth and education, and served as one of the selectmen in Temple, New Hampshire, for two years, and in Milford, New Hampshire, for four years. In 1892 he was elected representative to the state legisature. Mr. Foster is prominent in fraternal organizations. He is a member and past commander of Oliver W. Lull Post, No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic, of Milford. In the order of United American Mechanics he is past counsellor ; and he is past sachem in the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a member of Benevolent Lodge, No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, also of King Solomon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 17, of Milford. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and belongs to the Saint George Command- ery, Knights Templar, of Nashua, New Hampshire, and to Edward A. Raymond Consistory. He be- longs to Puritan Chapter, No. 29, Order of the Eastern Star of Milford. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. For seventeen years he was a member of the Milford Cornet Band. He is a trustee of the Milford Savings Bank. He belongs to the Congregational Church, and sang in the choir for many years. He was also a teacher in the Sunday school, and at one time served as super- intendent.
December 31, 1874, Oliver Heald Foster married Hannah Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of Charles R. and Elizabeth R. (Lovejoy) Wallace of Milford. iv-27
She was born February 4, 1853, and was educated in the Milford schools and at Maplewood Academy, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her father was a store keeper, and for eight years was town clerk up to his death in 1857. Mrs. Foster is a descendant of Captain Augustus Blanchard and of Captain Heze- kiah Lovejoy, of New Hampshire, and of Sergeant Benjamin French of Massachusetts, all of them active in the Revolution. Her relatives were in the civil war, and she was active in societies at home dur- ing that time. Mr. and Mrs. Foster are the parents of four sons: Oliver W., born January 28, 1878; Arthur J., born July 23, 1879; Eliner J., born July 8, 1883; George R., born May 21, 1887. Oliver W. graduated from Dartmouth College in 1900, and from the Tuck School of Administration and Finance in 1901. He is now (1907) in charge of the Argentine Department for the American Trading Company, of New York. He married, in June, 1907, Mabel R. Lang, of Brooklyn, New York. Arthur J. mar- ried Emma L. Woodwell, August 3, 1903, and lives at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Elmer J. married Pearl O. Bugbee, August 5, 1903, and lives at Mil- ford, New Hampshire. George R. is a member of the Milford high school.
The name is that of a family, small MELLEN in point of numbers, descended from Scotch ancestor, and well known for the steady habits and good character of its members. It has been well known in mercantile pursuits, and is at present conspicuous in railroad operations.
(I) Simon Mellen, who is supposed to have been a son of Richard Mellen, of Charlestown, was born about 1635, was of Charlestown, 1660, Malden, 1668, Watertown, 1686, and settled, 1687, in Fram- ingham, and built a house at what was afterward called Mellen's Neck. His wife, Mary, died in Framingham, June 1, 1709, aged seventy. Their six children were baptized at one time in Watertown, December 5, 1686.
(II) Thomas, son of Simon and Mary Mellen, was born in Malden, August, 1668. He and Simon, his father, were foundation members of the church of Framingham. His wife's name was Elizabeth. They lived in Framingham. where their seven chil- dren were born.
(III) Richard, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mellen, was born in Framingham, November 10, 1701, and lived on the homestead of his father. In 1771 he sold two hundred acres of land, two houses and two barns. His wife was Abigail, and their children were: Josiah, William, Richard, Samuel and Mary.
(IV) Samuel, fourth son and child of Richard and Abigail Mellen, was born in Framingham, Oc- tober 15, 1732. He lived in Framingham until after 1764, and removed to Warwick before 1770. He married Submit Stone, born in Framingham, June 30, 1738, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Parkhurst) Stone. They had seven children: Martha, Ezra, Gilbert, Samuel, Joseph, Amory and Luther.
(V) Ezra, second child and eldest son of Samuel and Submit (Stone) Mellen, was born in Framingham, May 7, 1752. In his childhood the family removed to Warwick. In the revolution he served in Captain Elihu Lyman's company, of Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, which was raised in 1779 for the defense of Connecticut. The regi- ment was stationed at New London. He married and had a family of six children :
Samuel, Amory, Gilbert, Ezra, Luther and Polly.
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(VI) Amory Mellen, second son and child of Ezra Mellen, born in Warwick, Massachusetts, in 1776, died in Alstead, New Hampshire, April 28, 1858. He was a hatter by trade and spent the most of his life in Alstead and Claremont, where he carried on his business with the assistance of two or three journeymen. He married (first) Lois Woods, and after her death he married (second) Candace Kingsbury, born in Alstead, 1790, died in Claremont, July 2, 1840, daughter of Samuel Kings- bury, of Sanbornton. They had four children : John Franklin; George Kingsbury, Charles Harvey and Louisa Emmeline.
(VII) George Kingsbury, second son of Amory and Candace (Kingsbury) Mellen, born in Alstead, August 10, 1821, was educated in the public schools, which he left at twelve years of age and went to Claremont, where he performed such work as he was able to get until he was seventeen. He then learned the hatter's trade, and went to Boston where he followed his trade from the age of twenty- one till twenty-nine, when he went to Lowell and was employed there five years, and in 1855 removed to Concord, New Hampshire. There he went into partnership with his father-in-law who had a short time before settled in Concord, and under the firm name of C. H. Sanger & Company, dealers in hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishings, they carried on business until 1881, when Mr. Mellen took the business and continued it until he retired from trade in 1893. Mr. Mellen was in business in Concord for thirty-eight years, and was always known as an upright and progressive citizen. He is now (1906) an unusually well preserved man of eighty-five years, with mind and memory better than those of many men much younger than he. He married in Lowell, Massachusetts, November 28, 1850, Hannah Maria Sanger, born in Middlesex, May 2, 1832, died in Concord, April 6, 1904, daugh- ter of Charles H. and Hannah Jaques (Littlehale) Sanger, natives of Watertown and Middlesex, Mas- sachusetts. Five children were born of this mar- riage : Charles Sanger, in Lowell, August 16, 1851, now president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, married Marion B. Foster; Mari- etta, in Lowell, August 20, 1853, married Samuel Butterfield, and died in Concord, November 22, 1904; Walter Amory, in Concord, September II, 1858, died September 22, 1859; Frank Warren, De- cember 5, 1859, died May 18, 1864; Cora Candace, June 27, 1867, married Herbert G. Abbott, and re- sides in Concord.
The report of visitation in the county TUCKER of Kent, England, for the years 1619- 20-21, preserved in the Harlein Man- uscripts, contain the earliest known record of the Tuckers, and mention several ancestors in direct line of the founder of the family in America. The information contained in those manuscripts was verified some twenty years ago by Deacon John A. Tucker. of Milton, Massachusetts, who visited Milton-next-Gravesend, where he was given access to the registry of baptisms by the rector of the ancient Church of St. Peter's and St. Paul's. This registry reaches back as far as the year 1558, and in it Deacon Tucker found the records of the bap- tism of his early ancestors, thus proving that the information obtained from the Harlein Manus- cripts is absolutely correct.
(I) Willielmus Tucker, of Thornley, county of Devon, married "Jona" (or Josea) Ashe, and had sons George, Thomas and John.
(II) George, son of Willielmus and "Jona"
(Ashe) Tucker, married Maria Hunter, of Gaunte, and had five sons : George, Nicholas, Tobias, Mansfield and Daniel.
(III) George (2), gentleman, son of George (I) and Maria (Hunter) Tucker, resided in or near Milton-next-Gravesend, in Kent. He married (first). Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Stoughton, and she bore him one son, George. For his second wife he married Maria Darrett, and had John, Elizabeth, Maria, Robert and Henry Tucker.
(IV) Robert, second son and fourth child of George (2) and Maria (Darrett) Tucker, was born at Milton-next-Gravesend, in 1604. He is supposed to have come from New England with a company of colonists from Weymouth, England, under the guidance of the Rev. Dr. Hall, and was in Wey- mouth, Massachusetts, in 1635. From the latter place he went to Gloucester, where he served as recorder for a time, but returned to Weymouth and held some of the town offices. He finally pur- chased several lots of land on Brush Hill, Milton, Massachusetts, some one hundred and seventeen acres in all, bordering on land which his son James had previously acquired, and it is quite probable that he had settled there permanently prior to the incorporation of the town in 1662. For several years he represented Milton in the general court, was town clerk for many years and as the first town records are in his handwriting, he was doubt- less the first to hold that office. The answer of the general court to the petition for incorporation bears the date May 7, 1662, and is signed Robert Tucker, recorder. He was active in the church and a mem- ber of its committee, and was spoken of as Good- man Tucker. His death occurred in Milton, March II, 1682, and his interment took place on the 13th. He married Elizabeth Allen, and had a family of nine children, namely: Sarah, James, Joseph, Eliza- beth, Benjamin, Ephraim, Mannasseh, Rebecca, and Mary. Sarah became the wife of Peter Warren. Elizabeth became the wife of Ebenezer Clapp. Rebecca married a Fenno, and Mary married Sam- 11el Jones.
(V) Ephraim, fourth son and sixth child of Robert and Elizabeth (Allen) Tucker, was probably born at Weymouth, in 1652. Jointly with his mother he was appointed to settle his father's es- tate. He was admitted a freeman in 1678, served as a selectman and town clerk in Milton, and was chosen a deacon of the church July 31, 1698. Sep- tember 27, 1688, he married Hannah Gulliver, and their children were: Ephraim, Stephen, Lydia and Hannah.
(VI) Stephen, second son and child of Ephraim and Hannah (Gulliver) Tucker, was born in Mil- ton, April 8, 1691. He settled in Preston, Connec- ticut. On August 3, 1716, he married Hannah Belcher. of Milton, and was the father of: Stephen (died young), another Stephen, William, Ephraim and Lydia. The mother of these children died February 28, 1745.
(VII) William, third son and child of Stephen and Hannah (Belcher) Tucker, was born in Pres- ton, May 28, 1737, and died there November 5, 1819. He was married, June 4, 1767, to Esther Morgan. who was born in Preston, March 24, 1744, daughter of Captain Daniel and Elizabeth (Gates) Morgan. She died October 2, 1818. Their children were : Stephen, Susan (died young), Elizabeth, Hannah, Susan and William.
(VIII) William (2), youngest son and child of William and Esther (Morgan) Tucker, was born in Preston, January 26, 1782. For a number of years he was engaged in the cotton manufacturing
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business at Norwich, Connecticut, and his death occurred July II, 1839. On May 5, 1814, he married Sarah Morgan, who was born April 21, 1787, daugh- ter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Lord) Morgan. She died November 4, 1845, having been the mother of seven children, namely: Henry, Mary, Betsey, Daniel M., Sarah, Hannah M. and George.
(IX) Henry, eldest son and child of William and Sarah (Morgan) Tucker, was born in Gris- wold, Connecticut, January 8, or February 16, 1815. He entered Amherst College but did not graduate, preferring to engage in business, and becoming as- sociated with his father in the textile industry at Norwich, he succeeded the latter as proprietor. He continued in the cotton manufacturing business at Norwich until 1885, when he went to Sandusky, Ohio, thence to Chicago and from the latter city to Brooklyn, New York. His last days were spent in Hanover with his daughter, Mrs. D. C. Wells, and he died in that town in 1905. He was in early life a Whig in politics, and later a Republican. In his religious belief he was a Congregationalist. and as a young man he united with the church in Norwich. He was first married, September 4, 1837, to Sarah White Lester, of Griswold, who was born in December, 1817, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Coit) Lester. She died September 20, 1846, and on December 5, 1849, he married Julia H. Doolittle. She was born June 28, 1830, and died in 1860. The children of his first union are: William Jewett. now president of Dartmouth College, who will be again referred to. Elizabeth Coit, born July 28, 1844, died September 29 of that year; and Edward Jewett, born August 28, 1846, died February 22, 1863. Of his second marriage there is one daugh- ter, Sarah Elizabeth, who was born March 18, 1854, and on June 2, 1887, became the wife of Professor D. C. Wells. of Bowdoin College.
(X) William Jewett, D. D., LL. D., eldest child of Henry and Sarah W. (Lester) Tucker, was born in Griswold, July 13, 1839. Upon the death of his mother in 1846 he was taken into the home of her sister, the wife of the Rev. William Reed Jewett, then pastor of the Congregational Church in Plym- outh, New Hampshire,
and was subsequently adopted into the family, receiving the legal right to insert the name of Jewett in his baptismal name. He prepared for college at the Kimball Union Acad- emy at was graduated at Dartmouth with honor in the class of 1861. After devoting two years to teaching at Columbus, Ohio, he entered the Andover, Massa- chusetts Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1866. From 1867 to 1875 he was pas- tor of the Franklin Street Congregational Church, Manchester, and from the latter year to 1879 he occupied the pulpit of the Madison Square Church, New York City, resigning that pastorate in order to accept the chair of sacred rhetoric at the An- dover Theological Seminary, retaining that post un- til 1893, when he was unanimously elected president of Dartmouth College, and has ever since directed the affairs of that well known seat of learning.
While at Andover he founded the Andover Home, a Social Settlement in Boston, now known at the South End House. He was also one of the original editors of the Andover Review, the editorial writings of which Review gave rise to the "An- dover Case." He was the Phi Beta Kappa orator at Harvard, 1892; lecturer in the Lowell Institute, 1894: Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale, 1898; lec- turer on the Morse foundation at Union Theological Seminary, 1902 ; and on the Earle foundation, Berke- ley Divinity School, Berkeley, California, 1904. He is the author of "From Liberty to Unity," 1892; "The Making and Unmaking of the Preacher,"
1899, etc. He received the degree of Doctor of Di- vinity from Dartmouth and the University of Ver- mont, and the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale, Williams, Wesleyan, and Columbia.
Dr. Tucker's first wife, whom he married June 22, 1870, was Charlotte Henry Rogers, and she died September 15, 1882, leaving two daughters: Alice Lester, born June 27, 1873, wife of Professor Frank H. Dixon; and Margaret, born August 22, 1878, wife of Nelson P. Brown, Esq. On June 22, 1887, he married for his second wife Charlotte Barrell Cheever, daughter of Rev. Henry P. Cheever, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Of this union there is one daughter, Elizabeth Washburn, born June 4. 1889.
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is an old English occupative sur-
TUCKER name and means weaver. The an- cient Tucker families of New Eng- land are from several ancestors not known to be related to each other. This family was early planted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
(I) Morris Tucker, whose christian name in ancient records is often writter Maurice, of Salis- bury, Massachusetts, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, is of record as a "cooper." He was a householder in Salisbury in 1659, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity there in 1677, and became a freeman in 1690. He and his wife signed the Bradbury peti- tion in 1692. He was of Salisbury in 1694, and of Tiverton, February, 1700. He probably moved to the latter town in 1699, as he deeded his real prop- erty there to Samuel Joy on February 3 of that year. On May 7, 1694, he deeded ten acres to his son James, for ten pounds. He married (first), October 14. 1661, Elizabeth Stevens, born in Salis- bury, February 4, 1642, and died October 16, 1662, daughter of Sergeant John and Katherine Stevens ; and (second), 1663, Elizabeth Gill, born January 8, 1646, daughter of John Gill. The only child by the first wife was Benoni. Those by the second wife were: John, Mary, James, Sarah. Joseph, Ja- bez, Elizabeth, and Morris. (Mention of Joseph and descendants appears in this article). Some of the descendants of this ancestor were Quakers.
(II) Benoni, eldest child of Morris and Eliza- beth (Stevens) Tucker, was born in Salisbury, Oc- tober 16, 1662, and was a weaver, living in Salis- bury and later in West Amesbury. He signed the Bradbury petition in 1692; and was a "snow shoe man" in Amesbury in 1708. His will was dated January 14, and proven March 17, 1735. He mar- ried Ebenezar Nichols, born August 3, 1664, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary Nichols, and they had seven children, as follows: Ebenezer, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Kathren, Frances, and Ezra.
(III) Ezra, youngest child of Benoni and Ebe- nezar (Nichols) Tucker, was born in Amesbury, March 27, 1706. He married, January 24, 1727, Bathsheba Sargent, born October 10, 1709, daugh- ter of Charles and Hannah (Foot) Sargent. of West Amesbury, near the town of Merrimack, and they had seven children: Ezra, Mary, Callia, Hit- tee, Sarah, and Benoni.
(IV) Ezra (2), eldest child of Ezra (I) and Bathsheba (Sargent) Tucker, settled in Henniker, New Hampshire, as early as 1766, and in 1772 pur- chased a place upon which he moved, and there passed his remaining days. He was a soldier at Crown Point in 1756 and 1758. in the French and Indian war, and was in the Revolution; was com- missioned second lieutenant in Captain Emery's company, Colenel Thomas Stickney's regiment, March 5, 1776, and was at the battle of White Plains,
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October 28. 1776. He was a prominent man in the town for many years. He died October 26, 1804. He married Hepsibah Pressey, daughter of John and Mercy Pressey, of Kingston, New Hampshire. She died September 22, 1801. Their children were: Ezra, Betsey, Hannah, Jonathan, Phebe, Thomas, David. and three other children of whom there is no record.
(V) Nathan, son of Ezra Tucker, was born in Poplin (now Fremont), October 18, 1764. He set- tled in Salisbury, New Hampshire, on the west side of the pond, and his farm was recently owned by his grandson, Levi W. Tucker. On March 14, 1782, he married for his first wife Lydia Stevens, and for his second wife he married Mary Welch of Canaan, this state. The children of the first wife were: Rev. Joseph, Hannah, Polly. Caleb, Ezra and Nathan. Those of his second wife were: Lydia, Eliza and Lucinda. (Nathan and descend- ants are mentioned at length in this article).
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