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(VII) Anson Southard, son of Macaiah and Martha (Southard) Marshall, was born in Lyme, December 3, 1822, and died in Concord, July 5, 1874. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm. In early life he was a child of delicate constitution, but as he grew older he became strong and healthy. At an early age he inclined toward learning and study, and after fitting himself by eighteen months of study at the academy at Thet- ford, he entered Dartmouth College, from which he graduated with the class of 1848. His first em- ployment after graduation was school teaching. About the year 1849, the town of Fitchburg, Massa- chusetts, established a high school, and the com- mittee having the selection of teachers in charge chose Mr. Marshall from a large number of appli- cants. He was a popular and successful teacher, and in after years his pupils spoke of him with enthusiasm and affection. While in Fitchburg he entered the law office of Wood & Torrey, but on account of the duties incumbent on him as a teacher the time he spent in the study of law there was limited. In 1851 he removed to Concord, New Hampshire, where he lived to the day of his death. Entering the law office of President Pierce and Judge Josiah Minot, he made good progress in his studies, and the next year was admitted to the Bar. A partnership was formed with his former college classmate, Henry P. Rolfe, which continued until 1859, and was then dissolved, Mr. Marshall remaining alone until 1863, when William
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M. Chase, Esq., became associated with him under the name of Marshall & Chase. This relation continued until the death of the senior partner. Mr. Marshall possessed in a high degree many of the requisites to success at the bar, and to the law he devoted the best years of his life. He was not a learned nor even an unusually well read lawyer, yet very few excelled him in getting at the gist of a case, or in applying the necessary legal principles. He possessed a confidence and courage which helped him to conquer difficulties that others might have deemed insurmountable, and above all a tact that never failed him. He was uniformly courte- ous not only to the bench and to the bar, but to the witnesses arrayed against him. His knowledge of human nature was large, and he knew almost by intuition which juryman needed his particular attention. But it was as an advocate that Mr. Mar- shall attracted the notice of the public, for he so invested his arguments with wit and humor, that the court room was sure to be filled whenever it became known that he was to address a jury. His manner of speech was quiet, but he never failed to indulge in invective and sarcasm if the case demanded it, and with these weapons he was counted a most dangerous adversary. He rarely if ever wrote out -and committed his speeches, but carefully thought them out as he walked the streets or sat in his home, and this, together with his exceeding readiness both of words and of apt illustrations, often misled his hearers as to the method of his preparation. His law practice con- stantly increased, and at the time of his death was one of the largest in the state.
It was not in the law alone that Mr. Marshall was a power in the land; he was a factor in politics as well. He was a stalwart Democrat, and his associations were with the leading men of that faith in the state, one of them being President Pierce, and another Judge Minot, one of the wisest counselors of the party at that time. He was elected clerk of the house of representatives, and later was appointed district attorney by President Buchanan, which office he held until the Republi- can administration was inaugurated in 1861. In the year 1867 he was chairman of the Democratic state committee. At that time the troubles between President Andrew Johnson and the Republican party were at their height, and the Democrats of New Hampshire hoped to profit by Republican dis- sensions, and elect their candidates. The fight was bitter and hotly contested, but Mr. Marshall and his party were beaten. In the spirited contest between the Northern and the Concord railroads Mr. Marshall was an active factor, and about 1870 was elected clerk of the latter corporation, which position, as well as that of attorney for the com- pany, he held until the time of his death.
He had a great liking for boys and young men, and delighted in giving them advice in regard to their studies and conduct. He was naturally a very bright and witty conversationalist, and in this accomplishment his vast reading was of great ser- vice to him. He had a well selected library and in the perusal of books of literary merit he took great delight. His strong memory enabled him to retain long passages from Shakespeare, Milton and others, and these he not unfrequently quoted while in com- pany of his friends, and so accurately that lie sel- dom halted for a word. His love of nature was very strong, and he often sought rest from his labors, and communion with the things of nature, by driving over the country roads and among thie
woods. It was on one of these outings that he met his death. On July 4, 1874, he drove with his wife and child to the grove at the head of Pena- cook Lake, where they intended to lunch. Some members of a militia company of Concord were shooting at a target nearby. Hearing the bullets whistling over the heads of his party, Mr. Mar- shall shouted to the militiamen to be careful. At that instant a bullet struck him in the abdomen, passing through his body. He exclaimed, "I am shot and fatally wounded," and sank down. All was done that could be done to save his life, but he died a few hours later, July 5, 1874.
Mr. Marshall married, April 9, 1861, Mary Jane Corning, born in Londonderry, March 23, 1829, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Nesmith) Corning (see Corning III), and they had one son, Anson Southard, Jr., born in Concord, March 29, 1863. He attended the public schools of Concord, fitted for college under the instruction of Moses Woolson and Amos Hadley, and entered Dart- mouth College in the class of 1885. He is now practicing law in Concord.
(IV) Joseph, third son and child of Thomas (I) and Ruth Marshall, was born April 3, 1733, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and died January 27, 1805, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, where he was an early settler. He married Susannah Walker, who was born January 23, 1747, and died December 22, 1821. Their children were: Asa, Benjamin, Joseph, Ebenezer, Jonathan, John, Betsa, Rufus, Thomas, Moses, Jesse, Sarah, Hannah, Silas and Walker.
(V) Silas, eleventh son and fourteenth child of Joseph and Susannah (Walker) Marshall, was born August 13, 1780, in Hillsborough, and continued to reside in that town where he was. a carpenter and farmer. He was married (first) April 29, 1806, to Catherine Houston, of Hillsborough, who died April 27, 1819. He married (second) December 6, 1821, Abigail Robbins, who was born May 3, 1765, and died September 15, 1848, in Hillsborough. The children by the first wife, were: Sarah, (died young), Gustine, Emily, Louisa, Catherine Miller and Caroline Susannah. The children of the second wife were: Asa R., and Sarah C.
(VI) Gustine, eldest son and second child of Silas and Catherine (Houston) Marshall, was born May 15, 1806, in Hillsborough Lower Village and died in Concord, New Hampshire, July 30, 1869. He got his education in the common schools and learned the carpenter's trade under the supervision of his father. They worked at building together for some time, until Gustine removed to Nashua, where he was employed several years as overseer in one of the cotton mills. He then engaged in the dry goods business in Nashua and after a few years, disposed of his general stock and was a successful milliner there. This business was pros- perous and was gradually extended until branch stores were opened in three or four of the leading towns of the state. He continued in this line of business until 1861 when he retired from active life. In the fall of 1862 he removed with his family to Concord, where his wife carried on a millinery store for several years thereafter. He was married to Emily Heald, who was born August 16, 18II, in Temple, New Hampshire, and died at Concord, February 26, 1874, in her sixty-third year. She was the daughter of Nathan Heald (see Heald, VI). Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, namely: Sylvester Gustine, Emily Maria, Frances Ellen, and Julia Maria.
(VII) Frances Ellen, second daughter and third
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child of Gustine and Emily (Heald) Marshall, be- came the wife of Edward Stockbridge (see Stock- bridge, VII).
This is a name which has been con-
WALKER spicuous in the entire history of New England and has been especially noted in New Hampshire. It was borne by the first minister of the First Church of Concord, and the line has furnished others equally prominent in jurisprudence, or otherwise honored in both private and public life. The stern virtues which made the early bearers of the name useful and valued citi- zens of the infant colony of Massachusetts are still evidenced in the life of their posterity, showing the the virility and mental force which characterized them.
(I) Captain Richard Walker, founder of this line, is first found of record at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1630, when he was ensign of the local military company. As the settlers of that town were Eng- lish, there is no doubt that he was of the same nativity, but the place of his birth is unknown and its time can only be approximated. The time of his death is indicated by the record which shows that he was buried at Lynn, May 16, 1687, when his age is given as ninety-five years, indicating that his birth occurred about 1592. He was made a freeman in 1634; at Lynn. In 1631 the neighboring Indians threatened the infant settlement, and En- sign Walker was in service on guard. One night he heard a noise in the forest near him and felt an arrow pass through his coat and buff waistcoat. He discharged his gun into the bushes, and it was burst by the heavy charge it contained. He gave the alarm and returned to his post, after which he was again fired at. The next day an assemblage of men made a demonstration which frightened away the marauders for some time. In 1637 Mr. Walker was a member of the committee which made division of the common lands of the com- munity, and in 1638 he received an allotment of two hundred acres, upland and meadow. In 1645 he accompanied Robert Bridges and Thomas Mar- shall in negotiating with Lord de la Tour and Monsieur D'Aulney, governors of French provinces on the north. As reward for his services in this expedition Lieutenant Walker received four pounds sterling. In 1657 he was one of those who deposed as witnesses against the claim to Nahant of Thomas Dexter, who had purchased it from an Indian for a suit of clothes. In 1678 he was one of the select- men, then called "the Seven Prudential Men." The name appears in the muster roll of the Honorable Artillery Company of England in 1620. Upon the petition to the general court made by the new troop of Lynn, formed in 1679, that he be its commander (which petition was granted), he is called "Captain Walker." He was by occupation a farmer. His wife, Sarah, was the administratrix of his estate. He had two sons and two daughters, and may have had others. The elder son, Richard, born in Eng- land in 1611, was at Reading in 1635, and repre- sented that town several times in the general court. The other receives extended mention below. His daughter Tabitha was married March 11, 1662, to Daniel King; and the other, Elizabeth, married Ralph King March 2, 1663.
(II) Samuel, younger son of Richard Walker, was born in England, and came with his father to New England in 1630. He settled first in Reading, which was originally Lynn Village, and moved thence to Woburn (formerly Charlestown Village), where he is found of record in a tax list of 1655, and again February 25, 1662, having been appointed
a surveyor of highways at a town meeting of that date. He was selectman in 1668. He was a maltster, and in 1662 received the first license to sell spirits granted in Woburn. It seems that his good nature at one time overrode his judgment, as it is of record that he was fined ten shillings for sell- ing to a notorious toper, the latter being fined five shillings at the same time for being drunk. That he was a man of character and standing is evi- denced by the fact that he was one of a committee of five appointed at a meeting held March 28, 1667. empowered to divide the public lands. For this service the committee received seven acres for themselves, in addition to the several allotments to them as individuals. He died November 6, 1684, aged about seventy. His first wife, whose name is unknown, bore him seven children, namely: Samuel, Joseph, Hannah (died at four months), Hannah, Israel, John, Benjamin. (Mention of Israel and descendants appears in this article). His second wife, Ann, was the widow of Arthur Alger of Scarborough, and daughter of Giles Roberts of that place. She died in Woburn March 21, 1716. She was the mother of Mr. Walker's two youngest chil- dren, namely: Isaac and Ezekiel.
(III) Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel (1) Walker, is entitled successively in the records of Woburn, corporal, sergeant and deacon, and was evidently a man of importance and influence in the town. He served as selectman in 1679 and re- peatedly afterwards. After the imprisonment of the tyrant Sir Edmund Andros, who sought to cur- tail the liberties of the colonists while governor of New England, Mr. Walker was a delegate to the convention held in Boston in 1689 to form a new system of government, and in 1694 was representa- tive of Woburn in the general court. He was made a deacon of the church in 1692 and continued in that office until his death, which occurred January 18, 1703, at the age of sixty-one years. He was mar- ried September 10, 1662, to Sarah Reed, of Woburn (daughter of William and Mabel Reed), who bore him six sons and a daughter. She died November I, 1681, and he was married April 18, 1692, to Abigail, daughter of Captain John Carter, widow of Lieu- tenant James Fowle of Woburn. His eldest son Edward was killed by Indians in battle at Wheel- wright's Pond, Lee, New Hampshire, July 6, 1690. The others were named John, Samuel, Sarah, Timothy, Isaac and Ezekiel. (Mention of Isaac and descendants appears in this article). The daughter, Saralı, became the wife of Edward John- son, a son of Major William Johnson, and grand- son of Captain Edward Johnson, founder of Wo- burn.
(IV) Samuel (3), third son of Sanmel (2) and Sarah (Reed) Walker, was born January 25, 1668, in Woburn, and was married June 1, 1689, to Judith Howard of Concord, Massachusetts. For several years he lived on Maple Meadow Plain, in that part of Goshen, now Wilmington. In 1725 he moved to the southern part of Burlington (then Woburn) and resided in a house which was still standing in the middle of the last century, and in which he died September 28. 1744. in his seventy-seventh year. He was made a deacon of the First Church of Woburn in 1700, and when the Second Church was formed in what is now Burlington, he aided in its organiza- tion, and was one of the ten signers of the articles of agreement and church covenant made November 10, 1735. He was one of those who ordained Rev. Supply Clapp as its first pastor. October 29, of that year, and was elected one of the first two deacons November 10 following. He continued in that office until his death, and was buried in the old
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Burlington burying ground. His wife, Judith, died November 14, 1724, in her fifty-seventh year, and he subsequently married Mary (Richardson), widow of James Fowle. She survived him four years, passing away October 23, 1748, in her eightieth year. The first wife was the mother of his chil- dren, namely : Sarah (married Samuel Buck), Ju- dith (married, first, Ephraim Kendall and, second, Samuel Johnson), Abigail (died at twenty-one), Samuel, Hannah (married 'Edward Wyman) John (died at two weeks old), John (died one month old), Mary (married Benjamin Johnson), Timothy and Phebe (wife of Noah Richardson).
(V) Rev. Timothy, son of Deacon Samuel (3) and Judith ( Howard) Walker, was born July 27, 1705, in Woburn, and died at Concord September I, 1782. As the first settled pastor of Penacook, later Rumford and now Concord, he exercised a powerful influence upon the community because of his learning and ability and his solicitude for the temporal, as well as the spiritual, welfare of his flock. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1725, at the age of twenty years, and was probably for a time at Penny Cook. That he was known favorably to the people is indicated by the fact that the plantation voted in October, 1729, to raise one hundred pounds for minister's salary and Marchi 31, 1730, to engage Rev. Timothy Walker as pastor. Upon his acceptance it was agreed that the salary should be increased two pounds per year until it reached one hundred and twenty pounds, and a stipulation was made that a reduction should be accepted in proportion to his ability when great age should weaken his powers. It is apparent that the New England fathers were careful, as well as pious * business man. This settlement included his right to a proprietary share set aside for the first minister, and the colony kindly voted him one hundred pounds with which to build a house, and this was increased by a further vote of fifty pounds January 16, 1734. He was ordained as pastor No- vember 18, 1730, and was reckoned among the town proprietors for that time. When the second appro- priation was made for his house a proviso was made that he receipt in full for salary to date, this being deemed prudent because of the depreciation in value of silver in which he had been paid. In 1736 he was granted fifty pounds, to secure the clearing of pasture for his use. At the time of his ordination, Benjamin Rolfe, the newly elected town clerk, also a graduate of Harvard, was the only educated inan in the settlement beside himself, and they naturally took prominent positions in the management of affairs. Mr. Walker being the senior and looked up to on account of his position, was regarded and re- spected as the father of the community, as in truth he was. Many of the petitions and other public papers of the time were drafted by him, and he undertook to defend the rights of the town in its lands, which others sought to obtain. Finding no redress before the general court of New Hamp- shire because of the fact that the grant of Rum- ford was made by the Massachusetts colony (under th supposition that it was within its jurisdiction), Mr. Walker made three trips to England to lay the matter before the King in Council, between 1753 and 1762. He made many acquaintances among ecclesiastics and public men in these visits, and im- pressed them' so favorably that he won his suit on the last trial in the fall of 1762, and the people of what is now Concord enjoyed their possessions little disturbed by white men thereafter. Up to 1739 the Penacook Indians had been friendly to the 'settle- ment, especially regarding Mr. Walker, but the machinations of the French people on the north
stirred up Indian animosity and more distant tribes began to threaten disaster. In 1739 a garrison was established about the house of Mr. Walker and at other points, and these were maintained during the King George war. Just before the battle of Bennington, during the revolution, a messenger approached the church while Mr. Walker was preaching, and upon his entrance the preacher asked him if he had any communication to deliver. Being informed that men were desired to proceed at once to the field of danger, Mr. Walker said: "As many of my hearers as are willing to go had better start immediately."
The first home of Mr. Walker was in a log house in the brow of Horseshoe Pond hill, and his frame house was constructed in 1733-4. After various alterations, it is now occupied by his great- grandson. He was a man of medium stature, of fine figure and dignified and pleasing manners. Though not talkative, he was not austere, and some- times became facetious. Naturally of hasty temper, he held himself under superb control, and never failed to ask pardon if he had injured anyone's feel- ings. Exact in business and daily life, he was held in high regard by all his flock. With mild blue eye and fair complexion, he wore, in accordance with the custom of the time, large powdered wig, with small clothes and large buckle shoes. The "History of Concord," by his third successor, Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, gives many anecdotes of his life, and other interesting matters not permissible in the limitations of a work of this kind, and herewith follow extracts from that work, touching the teach- ings of Mr. Walker: "As a preacher, Mr. Walker was instructive and practical, dwelling more on the duties than the doctrines of religion. * * * His style was good for that period, perspicuous and didactic, with but few illustrations, but well sup- ported with quotations from scripture. In his theological views Mr. Walker was 'orthodox,' ac- cording to existing standards. * *
* In distinction from those preachers who in his day were called 'New Lights,' he was accused of being an Arminian, but called himself a 'moderate Calvanist.' He was highly conservative, as regarded innovations and new measures. * At this time all of Mr. Walker's hearers were of one way of thinking in religious matters, and his object was to keep them together and make them steadfast in the 'religion and church order which was very dear to our forefathers.'" During his ministry of nearly fifty- two years he enjoyed vigorous health, and was able to preach nearly every Sunday down to his death, which occurred immediately after he arose on a Sunday morning. The town of Concord erected at his grave a slate slab, which is still standing in the old cemetery.
Of the children of Rev. Timothy Walker, his namesake receives extended mention hereinafter. His wife, Sarah Burbeen, was a daughter of James Burbeen, of Woburn, Massachusetts. She was born June 17, 1701, was married to Mr. Walker, Novem- ber 12, 1730, and came at once to her wilderness home in New Hampshire, riding on horseback, and accompanied by several other women, wives of settlers. She passed away February 19, 1778, and her body rests beside her husband's. Sarah, their first born died when four years old. Sarah, the third, born August 6, 1739, married Benjamin Rolfe and, after his death, in 1772, Benjamin Thompson, afterward Count Rumford. Their daughter be- came Countess Sarah Rumford. Mary, born De- cember 7. 1742, married Dr. Ebenezer Harnden Goss, of Concord, and who removed to Brunswick, and later to Paris, Maine. Judith, the youngest, born
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December 4, 1744, became the wife of Major Abiel Chandler (see Chandler VI) and lived in Con- cord, and after his decease became the wife of Henry Rolfe, of the same town.
(VI) Timothy (2), only son and second child of Rev. Timothy Walker, was born June 26, 1737, in Concord and reared on the paternal farm. He is said to have been a favorite among the Indians, who often decorated him with paint and feathers and entertained him at their homes. His father gave attention to his education and sent him to Harvard College when he was fifteen years of age, and he completed the regular course at the age of nineteen years, graduating in 1756. For two years thereafter he taught school at Bradford, Massa- chusetts, and meantime and subsequently pursued a theological course, partly presumably with his father. He was examined at an association meet- ing in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and licensed to preach September 11, 1759. During the absence of his father in England, 1762-3, he preached at Rum- ford and other places. He continued preaching about six years, and invited to settle as pastor at Rindge, but had become immersed in business and never settled in that capacity at any point, though frequently filling the pulpit there and elsewhere for a time. He formed a partnership with Colonel Andrew McMillan in the mercantile business No- vember 25, 1765, and continued one year in trade with him at the southern end of the village of Rum- ford, after which he kept a store which he opened near his father's residence (at the upper and of the present Main street) until the time of the revo- lution.
He was zealous in prosecuting the struggle for American liberty and his time was chiefly occupied in the service of his country from the beginning of hostilities. He was a member of the fourth provincial congress which assembled at Exeter, New Hampshire, May 17, 1775. On the third day he was appointed a member of the committee to secure supplies for New Hampshire troops, then in the vicinity of Boston. In August he was sent, with Mr. Ichabod Rawlings, to ascertain the losses sus- tained by New Hampshire men at the battle of Bunker Hill, and make them compensation, as well as to advance a month's pay to those who had en- listed in the Continental service. These duties were performed to the acceptance of the provincial con- gress, and the record makes interesting reading, as found in the seventh volume of New Hampshire State Papers. Mr. Walker was commissioned Sep- tember 5, 1775. as colonel of the third of four regiments of Minute-men raised by New Hamp- shire, and immediately proceeded to drill his troops and prepare for action when needed. From the fourth to the sixteenth of October he was paymaster of troops under Colonels Stark, Poor and Reid, at Winter Hill, and was again appointed to that duty December 27 by the provincial congress. On June II, 1776, he was a member of the committee ap- pointed by the house of representatives which suc- ceeded the provincial congress, under a temporary constitution, to draft a Declaration of Independence. This draft was adopted and at once forwarded to the continental congress in session at Philadelphia. Soon after Colonel Walker was placed upon a com- mittee to devise a systematic plan of finance which should pay the indebtedness of the state and pro- vide for impending obligations. When the associ- ated test was sent out by the continental congress, Colonel Walker was among the first to sign and his influence aided in securing the signature of every one to whom it was presented in Concord- one hundred and fifty-six in all. From July 5, 1776,
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