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 40

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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LEAVITT This somewhat numerous family is descended principally from two very early English immigrants, John and

Thomas Leavitt. Nothing is known of the time of Thomas Leavitt's arrival in America, or from what part of England he came, although it is prob- able that he was from Lincolnshire or its vicinity, as were his connections, the Hutchinsons, the Wheel- wrights and the Wentworths. He may have been a brother of Jolin Leavitt, the immigrant. In 1639 he was not twenty-one years of age.

(I) Thomas Leavitt, one of the first settlers of Exeter, and a signer of the "Combination" in. 1639, removed to Hampton as early as 1644. After his marriage he lived on the Asten homestead, and died November 28, 1696, aged "above eighty." He married Isabella (Bland) Asten, daughter of Joshua and Joanna Bland, of Colchester, England, and widow of Francis Asten, who died a year or two before. She died February 19, 1700. Their children were: Hezron, Aretas, John, Thomas, James (died young), Isabel, Jemima and Heriah, but the order is unknown.

(II) Hezron, son of Thomas and Isabella (Bland) (Asten) Leavitt, who may have been their second child, died November 30, 1712, aged un- known. He married, September 25, 1667, Martha, probably a daughter of Anthony and Philippa Taylor, pioneer settlers, and the first of the name in Hamp- ton. She died in 1716. Their children were: Lydia, John, James, Moses, Thomas, Mary, and perhaps Abigail and Sarah.

(III) Moses, fourth child and third son of Hez- ron and Martha (Taylor) Leavitt, was born in Hampton, January 30, 1674, and died before 1733. He kept a tavern near the Weare Marston place, which his widow conducted after his death. It was burned in 1733 and rebuilt. He married, De- cember II, 1700, Mary Carr, who died in 1747. They had six children : Mary, John, Moses (died young), Sarah, Moses and Anna.

(IV) Captain John, second child and eldest son of Moses and Mary (Carr) Leavitt, was born in Hampton, July 24, 1706, and died May II, 1779. He kept the tavern after his mother, at the old stand till 1751, when by invitation of thirty-six principal inhabitants of North Hampton he removed to "the Hill" and built a tavern near the church. He was a popular landlord, a leading citizen, captain in the militia, and a justice of the peace. He married Abial ( Marston) Hobbs, who was born in Hampton, March 23, 1718, and died January 21, 1781. She was the daughter of Thomas and Deb- orah (Dearborn) Marston, and widow of Benjamin Hobbs. The children of this union were: Benjamin,

John, Moses, Thomas, Mary, Deborah, Carr, Simon and Jeremiah.

(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Captain John and Abial ( Marston) Leavitt, was born August 27, 1737, and died in 1801. Like his ancestors he was an inn-keeper. He married Ruth Sanborn, who was born in Hampton, September 24, 1740, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth ( Sanborn)

Sanborn, of

Hampton. They had eight children.

(VI) Ebenezer, fifth child of Benjamin and Ruth (Sanborn) Leavitt, was born March 2, 1771, and did in 1843. He married, 1792, Sally Jewell, who died in 1851.

(VII) William, youngest son of Ebenezer and Sally (Jewell) Leavitt, was born in 1814, and died 1857. He was a moulder and machinist, and in 1850 went to California, in search of gold. After- ward he went to British Columbia, where he died. He married Louisa Dalton.

(VIII) Daniel Eben, son of William and Louisa (Dalton) Leavitt, was born August 4, 1844, in Chicopee, now Springfield, Massachusetts, and died at Wolfboro, New Hampshire, July 26, 1902. He was educated in the common schools of Rye, New Hampshire, and at an early age engaged in the rural peddling business for Frank Jones, of Ports- mouth. Later he was employed on the estate of

Daniel Pierce, of Portsmouth. Still later he became bookkeeper for Lyman D. Spauld- ing, ironmonger, for whom he worked three years. He then bought the Oren Bragdon shoe store, which he carried on three years, and then became collector for Frank Jones, brewer. He occupied that position twenty years, until failing health compelled him to retire a few years before his death. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a member of Piscataqua Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of St. Johns Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Masons, of Portsmouth, and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua, where he attained the thirty-second degree of Masonry. He married, in Portsmouth, April 21, 1868, Ellen Had- ley, who was born in Portsmouth, daughter of Gen- eral Josiah Gillis and Ann Perley Hadley, of Dun- barton.

This family name under the forms

LEAVITT Leavitt, Levitt, Levett, is among those found on the early records of New

England. Thomas Leavitt was at Exeter, New Hampshire, as early as 1639. John was of Dor- chester, Massachusetts, in 1634.

(1) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Abiah Leavitt, was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, March 14, 1774. He cleared up a farm in Gilford overlooking Lake Winnepesaukec, on which his de- scendants are still living. He married and had children.

(II) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and Leavitt, was born in Gilford, and was drowned in Lake Winnepesaukee, with his son Jonathan. He married Martha Thurston, and they were the parents of nine children : Jonathan. Smith, Benjamin, Daniel, Mary, Roxanna, Abigail, and two who died young.

(III) Daniel Leavitt, fourth son and child of Samuel Leavitt, was born on the farm settled by his grandfather, May 22, 1833. The death of his father when Daniel was only a few years old left him and his two brothers to manage the farm, while they were yet quite young. But they were counseled by a wise mother and succeeded in their efforts as

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young tillers of the soil, and Mr. Leavitt is now one of the foremost farmers in his town and resides on the old homestead. In politics he is a Democrat ; and in religion a Methodist. He married first, Elizabeth Thompson, and ( second), Hannah By the first wife he had two children: Abigail, who married Benjamin Woodman; and Nancy, who mar- ried Frank Wilkerson.

This family, very numerously repre-

CLOUGH sented in New Hampshire, is among the earliest of the state and among the most widely distributed therein. It is among the first established in Massachusetts and has furnished many leading citizens in both states, as well as in other sections of the United States.

(I) John Clough (sometimes spelled Cluff) was a house carpenter, residing in Salisbury, Massachu- setts, and is supposed to have come from England, in the ship "Elizabeth," in 1635. He received land in the first division at Salisbury and again in 1640, and was a commoner and taxpayer in 1650, and he subscribed to the oath of fidelity in that year. Ile was born about 1613, and died July 26, 1691, in Salisbury. His will was made on the third day of the same month, and was proven in the succeeding November. His first wife, Jane, died January 16, 1680, in Salisbury, and he married (second), Jan- uary 15. 1686, Martha Cilley. She survived him and was living in 1692. His children were: Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, John, Thomas, Martha and Samuel. (Mention of Thomas and descendants occurs in this article.)

(II) John (2), eldest son and third child of John (1) and Jane Clough, was born March 9, 1649, in Salisbury, where he was a yeoman, and sub- scribed to the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1677. He was on record as a freeman in 1699, and his death occurred April 19, 1718. His will was made more than three years previously. He was married, November 13, 1674, in Salisbury, to Mercy, daughter of John and Mary (Marsh) Page, pioneers of Hing- ham and Haverhill. She was born April 1, 1655, in Haverhill, and died January 25, 1719, in Salis- bury. She was admitted to the Salisbury church September 6, 1691. Her will was made in May, 1718, and proven in May of the following year. Their children were: Benoni, Mary, John, Cor- nelius, Caleb, Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan, Mercy, Aaron and Tabitha. (Mention of Aaron and de- scendants appears in this article.)

(III) Joseph, fifth son and sixth child of John (2) and Mercy (Page) Clough, was born October 14, 1684, in Salisbury, and died October 12, 1732, in Kingston, New Hampshire. He was a cord- wainer by occupation, and was a resident of Kings- ton as early as 1711. He was of the constituent members of the church there in 1725, when the Rev. Ward Clark took charge, and his wife Mary was admitted March 20, 1726. They lost a child Sep- tember 9, 1727, name not given in the Kingston church records. The inventory of his estate was made November 23, 1732, and it was divided in Janu- ary, 1736, at Concord. He was married, August II, 1708, to Mary Jenness, who died October 11, . and began to be apparent at very early age. At 1732. A memoranda in the church records of Kings- ton indicates that they were the parents of ten chil- dren. The names of the following are found : Ezra, Mazey, Joseph (died young), Joseph, Mary. Obadiah, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Love and Reuben. (The last named receives mention, with descend- ants, in this article.) Enfield he was adjutant and captain in the mili- tia, and at Manchester rose from the ranks to be commander of the City Guard. While at Lowell he was a member of the City Guard, commanded by Benjamin F. Butler. It is easy to believe that the son of such sires would be eager to fly to the defense of his country in the hour of danger. On April 26, 1861, he was enrolled as a private in the

(IV) Joseph (2), second son and third child

of Joseph (1) Clough, was born July 4, 1717, in Kingston, and had a large family.

(V) Jacob, youngest child of Joseph (2) Clough, was born 1753, and settled in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and is supposed to be the father of John Clough.

(VI) John Clough was a soldier and died at Portsmouth, about 1819. He married Polly Boyce, who died in Enfield, about 1858. They resided for a short time in a log house in the Otterville dis- trict of New London, and had two sons. The first, John, was born in New London, January 31, 1801, and became an eminent physician, practicing for half a century in Enfield and Lebanon. Polly Boyce was a daughter of Lieutenant Peggy and Jeanette Boyce, of Scotch-Irish lineage, from Lon- donderry, Ireland. Their family bible printed in Edinburgh in 1728, is now treasured by their great- grandson, General Joseph M. Clough, of New Lon- don. Lieutenant Boyce hield a commission in the war of the revolution, and served at Bunker Hill, and was with Stark at Bennington.

(VII) Hugh Boyce, second son of John and Polly (Boyce) Clough, was born in 1802, in Sun- apee, New Hampshire, and in 1840 became a resi- dent of New London, where he had a farm of three hundred acres. He was strong and active in pro- moting the cause of human liberty, and was an as- sociate in the agitation against slavery of such men as Garrison, Phillips and Pillsbury. He enter- tained Frederick Douglass at his home in 1842. He often served as a town officer, and died at New London, July 27, 1887, at the age of about eighty- five years. He was married, in 1827, to Hannah, daughter of Zaccheus and Hannah (Hutchins) Messer. She was born November 8, 1808, in New London, and died March 14, 1888. Zaccheus Mes- ser was a son of Lieutenant Samuel and Sarah (Howe) Messer, and was born December 6, 1770, and died January 1, 1855, in New London. Zac- cheus and Hannah Messer were the parents of ten children, of whom Hannah was the ninth. Hugh B. Clough and wife were the parents of a son and daughter. Joseph and Hannah A. The last named died before the completion of her fifteenth year.

(VIII) Joseph Mosser, only son of Hugh B. and Hannah (Messer) Clough, was born Jun 15, 1828, in Sunapee, New Hampshire, and was reared from the age of twelve years in New London. His edu- cation was chiefly supplied by the common schools, and he spent six months at Norwich University, Vermont, under John Rawson. For three winters he taught in the district schools. After living a few years in Enfield, New Hampshire, he re- moved in 1848 to Manchester, this state. where he was employed as a machinist, and later was at Sun- cook and Lowell, in the latter place having charge of the spinning room of the Hamilton corporation for three years. In 1854 he returned to Manchester, and held a similar position in the Amoskeag mills. In the hard times of 1857 he took up his residence at New London temporarily, and there engaged in cutting out the lumber for the addition to the meeting house. His fondness for military affairs seemed innate,

GEN. JOSEPH M. CLOUGH.

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First New Hampshire Volunteers, and four days later was appointed lieutenant of Company H. On September 10 of the same year he re-enlisted in the Fourth Regiment, and was appointed captain of Company H. He continued in active service until the close of the war, and was engaged in numerous severe battles, including Pocotaligo, Morris Island, Siege of Forts Wagner and Sumter, Petersburg, Bermuda Hundred, Drewry's Bluff, Weir Bottom Church, Cold Harbor, Hatcher's Run, Deep Run, Petersburg Mine, Fort Stedman, and the capture of Petersburg, in March, 1865. He was wounded in the mine explosion at Petersburg, July 30, 1864, and was discharged September 17 fol- lowing. In less than a month after this discharge he accepted a commission as lieutenant-colonel of the Tenth Regiment, and was the first in command of a regiment until Colonel Livermore was com- missioned in January, 1865. In the night attack of Fort Stedman, March 29, 1865, Colonel Clough was again wounded. but continued in the active dis- charge of his duty until he was mustered out July 29, 1865. Following his wound he was breveted brigadier-general on recommendation by General O. B. Wilcox, then commanding the First Divis- ion, Ninth Army Corps, and received his commis- sion at Washington. He was also recommended by General Wilcox and Senator Daniel Clark for ap- pointment as first lieutenant in the regular army, and passed the required military examination, but his determination to continue in the service was changed because of broken health, and he did not accept the commission. At the close of the war General Clough returned to New London, and for thirteen years was employed in the United States railway service, running out of Boston to Lancas- ter and Saint Albans, Vermont. For seven years from 1877 to 1884 he was commander of the first brigade of the New Hampshire National Guard. He represented the town in the legislature in 1866, and filled the unexpired term of Edwin P. Burpee in 1897. In 1881-2, he represented his district in the state senate. He has a delightful home on Main street, in the village of New London, in which is stored many valuable relics and heirlooms. In the list of interesting and highly treasured of these is the headquarters flag. the second one floated in Petersburg after its capture.

He was married, September 7, 1849, to Abiah Bucklin, who was born October 22, 1828, in Graf- ton, New Hampshire, daughter of Charles and Choice (Cole) Bucklin, and died December 17, 1873, General Clough was married (second), Sep- tember 13, 1874, to Cornelia Goss (Smith) Chase. daughter of William P. and Rhoda (Spooner) Smith. and widow of Henry Chase. Her daughter, Minnie Chase, who was born November 10, 1868, was ten- derly reared in the family of her stepfather, like his own. She was educated at Colby Academy, and taught in the district schools until her marriage to George K. Burleigh, of Tilton. General Clough's children were: Ella A., who died of tyhpoid fever in her second year, Charles B. and William P. The elder son was a resident of Boston, Massachu- setts, where he is held a responsible position, and the younger, William P., born September 13, 1879, married, September 7, 1905, Bertha Roos. daugh- ter of Walter and Harriet (Rice) Roos, of Rox- bury, Massachusetts. William P. studied medicine in the medical department of Dartmouth College. His wife is a graduate of the Emerson School of Oratory.

(IV) Reuben, youngest child of Joseph and Mary iv-28

Clough, resided in that part of Kingston which is now Sandown, and was a voter in the election of September 24, 1764. which resulted in a division of the town. He was married in Kingston, December 5, 1744, to Love Sanborn, born June 10, 1726, in Kingston, a daughter of Jonathan (2) and Theo- date (Sanborn) "Sanborn," of that town. Jona- than (2) Sanborn was a son of Captain Jonathan (I) and Elizabeth (Sherburne) Sanborn, of Kings- ton, and grandson of Lieutenant John Sanborn, of Hampton (see Sanborn). Reuben Clough was among the early residents at Schoodac in the town of Warner, New Hampshire.

(V) Joseph (2), son of Reuben and Love Sanbourn Clough, was born in Sandown, 1751, and removed with his father to Warner, where he resided. He was a patriot soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, and the records show that Joseph Clough, of Warner, aged twenty-six, was a soldier in Captain Gordon Hutching's company, Colonel Stark's regiment, in 1775, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. His name is on the pay roll of Captain Hutching's company, Colonel John Stark's regiment, date August 1, 1775, where it ap- pears that Joseph Clough, of Warner, private. en- listed May 4, 1775, and had served three months and five days. October 4, 1778. Joseph Clough, of Warner, of Captain Hutching's company, Colonel Stark's regiment, received $4 for regimental coat. Joseph Clough acted as company clerk during his term of service. In the later years of his life he drew a pension front the government.

(VI) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Clough, was born in Warner, November 24, 1793. and died there January 15, 1859. He was a farmer. He married Jane Evans, daughter of Benjamin Evans.

(VII) Joseph Augustus, son of Joseph (3) and Jane (Evans) Clough, was born in Warner, July 31, 1834, and died there December 24, 1887. He was a farmer and carpenter, and resided all his life in Warner. He married Julia Ann Edmonds, who was born in Sutton, daughter of John R. and Judith (Harvey) Edmonds of Sutton, who were the par- ents of five other children, namely : Jackson, George, Daniel, Helen and Dussilla. Mr. and Mrs. Clough were the parents of two children: George McClellan, see forward, and Persis J., residing in Boston, Massachusetts, unmarried. Mrs. Clough resides in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a member of the Baptist Church.

(VIII) George McClellan, eldest child and only son of Joseph A. and Julia Ann (Edmonds) Clough, was born in Warner, May 28, 1863. He re- ceived his education in the common schools of Warner, and at the Simond's free high school, sup- plemented by private instruction, and as a student he was diligent and attentive. He gave his atten- tion to surveying and teaching. In the former oc- cupation he performed considerable work in War- ner and adjoining towns, and followed the latter vocation six years, the first two being spent in the common schools of Wagner, the next two at Can- terbury, and the last two at Tilton. In 1888 he be- came an agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and for eighteen years was in busines in Boston, where he achieved signal success. For a dozen or more years he has been interested in Christian Science, as taught by Mary B. G. Eddy, and as a result of his study and proof of its effi- cacy as a healing agent and benefactor to mankind he has abandoned all other business and adopted the profession of a Christian Science practitioner. Ile has prepared a work on life insurance for use

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in public schools and colleges: this has now been incorporated in a commercial arithmetic published by Ginn & Company, which is in use in the public and commercial schools of a number of states. He has also frequently contributed articles on insur- ance for various publications. Mr. Clough early became active in the New Hampshire Patrons of Husbandry, and was for two years president of the Somerville Sons and Daughters of New Hamp- shire. He is the present president of the Simond's Free High School Association of Warner. He re- sides in Somerville, and is a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Mr. Clough married (first), 1887. Anna G. Gale, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, daughter of Eliphalet and Mary J. Gale, and three children were born to them: Gertrude G., Portia E. and Maurice J. Mrs. Clough died in 1903. Mr. Clough married (second), 1905, Fran- cese W. Riley, daughter of James E. and Kathrine Whitney Riley, of Plattsburg, New York, and they are the parents of one daughter, Kathryn.

(III) Aaron Clough, eleventh child and second son of John (2) and Marcy ( Page) Clough, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, December 16, 1695, baptized August 4, 1700, and died January 20, 1781. His wife Abigail died January 26, 1743. aged forty-six years.

(IV) Simon, son of Aaron and Abigail Clough, was born about 1740, and was killed at the battle of Bennington, in August, 1777. He settled in Gil- manton, New Hampshire, in 1775, at or about which time several other members of his family came to the locality. He was one of the four Cloughs who signed the test act passed by congress in 1776, while two others of the same family name were among those who dissented from that affirmation on the ground of consciencious scruples against de- fending their country with arms. Simon Clough was a private in Captain Nathaniel Wilson's com- pany of Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment in General John Stark's brigade from July 22, 1877, and was one of seven men from Gilmanton who were killed in battle at Bennington. He married, and among his children were three sons, Jonathan, Per- ley and Joseph Clough.

(V) Joseph, youngest child of Simon Clough, was born at Seabrook, New Hampshire, 1772. He married and had eleven children, Charles, Simon, Judith, Joseph. Rebecca, Nehemiah, Parmelia, Moses, Mary, Isaiah and Jonathan Clough.

(VI) Nehemiah, sixth child of Joseph Clough, was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and died in that town, 1850. He was a soldier from Gilman- ton in the second war with Great Britain, and af- ter returning from service was a farmer in his na- · tive town. He married Sarah Rowe, who was born, 1796, and died in 1864. Their children were Phebe R., Mary P .. Lewis O., Elvira, John P., Sarah B., Julia and Albert N. Clough.

(VII) John P., fifth child and second son of Nehemiah and Sarah (Rowe) Clough, was born in Gilmanton, November 6, 1824, and died in that town October 12, 1893. During his young man- hood he gave considerable attention to school teach- ing in the winter seasons, but his principal occu- pation was farming. He was a man of influence in town affairs, a consistent member of the Congre- gationalist Church, and was a member of the school board before the town of Belmont was set off from the territory of Gilmanton. He married. February 7. 1850, Tamson Hayes Winckley (see Winckley), who was born April 25. 1824, and died December 24. 1874, daughter of Francis and Sally (Lougee) Winckley of Strafford, New Hampshire, and by

whom he had four children, Elbridge G., Nahum O., Russell W. and Martha Clough. (See Winck- ley, VI).

(VIII) Elbridge G., eldest child of John P. and Tamson Hayes ( Winckley ) Clough, was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, January 13, 1852, and for more than twenty-five years had been numbered with the substantial and influential men of that town. His early education was received in pub- lic schools of Gilmanton and New Hampton Acad- emy, and after leaving school he went to Manches- ter, New Hampshire, and found employment in a mill in that city. At the end of about three years he returned home and took the management of his father's old farm, and also for about ten years car- ried on a meat business in the town. Still later he operated the mail and passenger stage line be- tween Gilmanton and Alton, New Hampshire, and also engaged in lumbering and teaming. Mr. Clough's present farm comprises one hundred and fifty acres and is one of the best cultivated farms in Gilmanton, complete in all its appointments in In respect to buildings, stock and management. addition to farming he is engaged in various other enterprises of a business character, and for many years has been an important factor in the political history of the town, always on the Democratic side. On occasion he has stood as his party candidate for office and in 1896 was defeated for the legisla- ture, the town being generally safely Republican, although the plurality against him at that time was only thirteen votes. However, in 1903 he was again nominated, and was elected to a seat in the lower house of the state legislature. Mr. Clough is a charter member and past master of Crystal Lake Grange of Gilmanton Iron Works and in various other ways is and for many years has been identi- fied with the best interests and history of his town.

He married, December 25, 1873, Emma S. Sar- gent, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 20, 1852, daughter of Albert P. and Hannah Sargent. and has seven children, all sons: John, Page, Guy Sargent, Russell Walton, William Ev- erett, Albert Dexter, Clarence Francis and Carl Grosvernor Clough.

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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 40

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