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(IV) Jabez, second son of Zaccheus and Sarah (Page) Clough, was born about 1722, in Salisbury and was married in Poplin (now Fremont), New Hampshire, September 7. 1749, to Sarah Young. They lived in Fremont, where eight children were born. No record of his death has been found. His wife, Sarah, died in Fremont, March 2, 1807.
(V) Daniel, son of Jabez and Sarah (Young) Clough, was born August 11, 1763, in Fremont. At the age of seventeen years, he enlisted in the Con- tinental army, and served on the quota from, Weare. New Hampshire. He was claimed by the town of Hopkinton, but after a hearing before the commit- tee of safety he was credited to Weare. As soon as this matter was settled lie was able to draw pay for his services from the town of Weare, which had previously refused to allow him anything. He was a blacksmith, and resided in South Weare, and had a family of several children, only one of whom remained in Weare.
(VI) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Clough, was
born 1792, in Weare, and was brought up to his father's trade. He was noted as a player on the violin. He lived in Weare, and died there in 1881. He married Mary Colby, who was born 1791, daughter of Philbrook and Ruth (Lufkin) Colby, of Weare (see Colby V). She died in ISSo. They were the parents of twelve children. One, Julia A. Heath, of Dunbarton, is still living.
(VII) Gilman, son of Daniel (2) and Ruth (Colby) Clough, was born February 24, 1825, in Weare, where his earlier years were spent. Early in life he left his native town and settled in Man- chester, New Hampshire. His educational oppor- tunities were limited, but he possessed a good con- stitution and a spirit of energy and industry, and was ambitious to establish himself in life. Soon after he went to Manchester he engaged in the wood and lumber trade. and developed an exten- sive business. The profits of his trade were judici- ously invested in real estate, and he thus became possessed of a competency from the advancement of values and by his wise and judicious manage- ment of his estate. He was married, 1848, to Miss Nancy E. Locke, who was born March 31, 1827, in Deering, New Hampshire, daughter of Stephen and Sarah ( Peaslee) Locke (see Locke, V). Their only living offspring is Lewis A. Clough, who is now a resident of Manchester.
(VIII) Lewis Augustus, only child of Gilman and Nancy E. (Locke) Clough, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, February 14. 1850. He was edu- cated in the district schools of Weare, and at Pink- erton Academy. The first business he embarked in after attaining his majority was lumbering, and in that business he has ever since remained. He usually owns four of five portable steam sawmills, and with these he prepares for market the timber on large areas which he buys standing. He fre- quently employs two hundred men for long periods of time, and markets millions of feet of lumber annually. He has resided in Manchester since he was two years old, when his father and mother removed to that place. In politics he is a Demi- ocrat, and in religion inclines to Unitarianism, al- though he is not a member of the church of that denomination. He has made life a success by at- tending very industriously to his own business, and has accumulated a handsome property. He mar- ried, in Manchester, 1875, Nora Burke, who was born in Lebanon, in 1852, daughter of Michael Burke, of Canaan. They are the parents of four children: Blanche E., the wife of Dr. L. M. Far- rington, of Brookline, Massachusetts; Harry G., who is mentioned below ; Nora Bernice, married Dr. Frank N. Rogers, of Manchester; and Emma Louise, at home.
(IX) Harry Gilman, second child and only son of Lewis Augustus and Nora (Burke) Clough, was born in Manchester, January 17, 1878. His primary education was obtained in the schools of Manches- ter, his preparatory education at Phillips Andover Academy, and his university course was taken at Harvard, from which he graduated with the class of 1900, when he attained the degree of A. B .. For three years he was engaged in the lumber business, but since 1903 he has devoted himself to caring for his realty holdings in Manchester. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the common council of this city. He is a member of the Ma- sonic Order, and belongs to the following named bodies : Lafayette Lodge, No. 41 ; Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. II; Andoniram Council No. 3; Trinity Commandery Knights Templar of Man-
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chester : and Edward A. Raymond Consistory of Nashua. He is also a member of Wildey Lodge, No. 45, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Mount Washington Encampment No. 16. He married, De- cember 10. 1902, in Manchester, Lucille Weeks El- liott, daughter of Alonzo and Medora (Weeks) Elliott (see Elliott V).
(I) William Clough was born at
CLOUGH Lyman, New Hampshire, in 1795, and followed the carpenter's trade in that town. An attempt to identify his ancestors has thus far proved fruitless, but there is some reason for believing that he was a grandson of William Clough, who served in the French and Indian war, and entering the Revolutionary war without enlistment participated in the battle of Bunker Hill. After the close of the war he went from New Salem to Lyman and located on Clough Hill. He reared six sons, whose names were : Zacheus, Enoch, Bailey, Cyrus, Abner and Jere- miah. William Clough, the cooper, married Betsey Crooks, and she bore him three children, Mary Jane, Mary Ann and William.
(II) William (2), son of William and Betsey (Crooks) Clough, was born in Lyman, April 15, 1824. His boyhood and youth were spent in attend- ing the district school and acquiring a knowledge of agriculture. When a young man he settled upon a farm in Bath, this state, and resided there until 1850, when he went to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and engaged in the trucking business. Selling out his business he became an officer in the Massachu- setts state prison, where he remained some two and one half years, at the expiration of which time he re- turned to his native state. Purchasing a piece of agricultural property in Lancaster known as Pros- pect Farm, he carried it on for a number of years, erecting new buildings, and making other notable improvements. He finally sold the property to George P. Rowell, of New York City, and it is now owned by the Hon. Samuel McCall, a member of congress from Massachusetts. After relinquishing agriculture he engaged in the real estate business in Lancaster. Mr. Clough was one of the organizers of the Lancaster National Bank and formerly served on its board of directors. He was one of the organizers and president of the Lancaster Works Company. In politics he was a Democrat, and in addition to holding some of the town offices, including that of selectman, he represented his dis- trict in the lower branch of the state legislature in 1879. He was highly esteemed both as an upright business man and an able public official, and his death, which occurred October 23, 1896, was the cause of general regret.
Mr. Clough married Elvira Wallace, daughter of Amos P. Wallace, of Franconia, New Hamp- shire, of Scotch descent. She died in 1890. The only child of this union now living is Mary Clough, who resides in Lancaster.
CLOUGH (I) Simon Clough was a native of Gilmanton, where he was engaged in farming. He married Mercy Elkins, and they had six children : Sarah, Jonathan, Dan- icl; Frank, Mary and Martha.
(II) Daniel E., second son and third child of Simon and Mercy (Elkins) Clough, was born in Gilmanton, March 23, 1835. His education was obtained in the common schools and at Gilmanton Academy. He taught a term of school at Gilman- ton, and about 1856 went to Salem, Massachusetts, where he drove a cart and sold tinware for four or
five years. He was an industrious and economical man, and saved a large part of his earnings, with which he purchased a stock of goods and opened a hardware store on his own account in Salem. This he conducted two years, when he became ill of consumption, sold his stock and returned to Alton, New Hampshire, where he died June IS, 1866. He married, at Gilmanton Iron Works, Feb- ruary 4, 1858, Melora S. Avery, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28, 1835, daughter of David and Apphia (Clough) Avery. They were the parents of one child. Herman W. Melora S .. daughter of David Avery, is descended as follows: (1) David Avery was a farmer of Gilmanton, who married. and had a family of children, two of whom were John and Lydia. (2) John Avery, son of David, was a native of Gilmanton, and a farmer in Gilmanton and Alton. He married Temperance Nutter, who lived to the age of one hundred years, and died about 1890. Their children were: Joseph, Isaac. David, Mary, Sarah. Belinda and John. (3) David Avery, third son and child of John and Temper- ance (Nutter) Avery, born in Gilmanton, in 1806, died 1879: he was a farmer in Alton. He married Apphia Clough, born in Alton, August, 1806, daugh- ter of Perley and Mary Clough, and they had seven children : Melora S., Victoria, Gustena, George. a Union soldier who died in New Orleans, in 1862; Myra Elbridge and Emma. Melora S. (Avery) Clough married (second), November 16, 1879, in Concord, Cyrus F. Caswell, who was born in Pitts- field, New Hampshire, February 4, 1816, died Jan- uary 18, 1892. the son of Stephen and Lydia (Rob- erts) Caswell. He was a farmer boy, but not car- ing to till the soil learned the trade of shoemaker, and for many years worked on shoes in his home, having the partly finished portions sent to him from the great shoe factories at Lynn and Haverhill. Later in life he gave up this occupation, and was a switch tender for the Boston & Maine railroad, at Concord. In 1880 he bought a stock of horses and opened a livery stable next to his residence, No. 57 North Spring street, which he conducted till his death, January 18, 1892. He was a man of good habits, steady, honest, industrious, and a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, of Concord. He mar- ried (first), Mary Jane Elkins who died, leaving no offspring. He left to his second wife a very comfortable property which she occupies.
(III) Herman W., only child of Daniel E. and Melora S. (Avery) Clough, was born in Salem, June 20, 1861. He attended the common schools at Alton, where his widowed mother lived, and later took two terms in the high school in Farmington, and after removing to Concord, in 1879, attended a private school in that city one year. In 1881 he entered the employ of the Boston & Maine Rail- road Company as a switchman, which place he has continuously filled since that time. His political affiliation is with the Republican party. He is a inember of the Baker Memorial Church (Metho- dist) of White Mountain Lodge. Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, and of the Order of United American Mechanics. He married, 1891, Annie Johnson, of Farmington, born 1863, daughter of John and Anstress (Varney) Johnson, of Farming- ton, and they have one child: Edith, born October II, 1895.
The name Bullard is found in the
BULLARD Colonial records as early as 1637, when Benjamin Bullard was in Wa- tertown, Massachusetts, at the division of lands in that town. Between that time and the end of the
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century various other Bullards settled in New Eng- land. Among the early planters no less than seven of the name are found of record. There has been a tradition that they were all brothers, but this is without foundation. George Bullard subscribed to the freeman's oath in 1641, and had land signed him in Watertown as early as 1637. John took the freeman's oath, May 16, 1640, and was a signer of Dedham, June 1, 1636. Isaac was another signer of the same compact at the same time. Nathaniel Bullard was admitted townsman there in 1655. Robert Bullard died
at Watertown, April 24, IO39.
(1) William Bullard signed the social compact of Dedham, June 18, 1636. It is quite possible and even probable that the three which signed this document at the same time were brothers or near relatives. William Bullard's wife was received in the church at Dedham in 1639. He took the free- man's oath, May 13, 1640, and was chosen selectman in 1643. He was a respected and prominent citizen, and it is probable that he died not long after 1643. although no record of his death or of the settlement of his estate lias been discovered. He left sons who inherited his estate at Dedham and transmitted it to their descendants, who now point at the location of his first habitation. The numerous Bullards of Dedham and some of the adjacent towns are, with- out doubt, his descendants, but no records have been discovered that afford proof of such descent. Nathaniel Bullard was admitted freeman in 1690, and is supposed to have been a son of Williamn as were also Josiah, Ebenezer and Benjamin.
(II) Isaac, son of William Bullard, resided with his wife, Ann, in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he was admitted to the church June 18, 1665. and died May 11, 1676. His children were: Sarah, Samuel, Judith, Ephraim, Ann, John, Mary and William.
( III) Samuel, eldest son and second child of Isaac and Ann Bullard, was born December 22, 1659, in Dedham, and probably passed his life in that town where his children were born. He was married. January 14, 1683, to Hannah Thorpe, who was born August 19, 1665, daughter of James and Hannah (Newcome) Thorpe. Their children were: Samuel, Hannah, Jolın, Ann, Sarah, Ebenezer, Mary and Abigail.
(IV) Samuel (2), eldest child of Samuel (I) and Hannah (Thorpe) Bullard, was born January 9, 1684, in Dedham, where he died February 10, 1757. His first wife or mother of his children (whose name does not appear of record) died about 1740. He was married (second). September 16, 1742, to Mrs. Rebecca Farmington, who died Au- gust 13, 1745. He married (third), June 5, 1746, Mrs. Hannah Holden.
(V) Benjamin, son of Samuel (2) Bullard, was born about 1730, and settled in Sharon, Massachu- setts, where he died in 1778, aged forty-eight years. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He was married April 15, 1756, to Judith Lewis, daughter of Wil- liam Lewis. She died August, 1810, aged sixty- nine years. Their children were: Mary, Benja- min, Oliver, Judith, Zipporah, Louis and Irene. The youngest son settled in Francestown, New Hampshire.
(VI) Oliver, second son and third child of Ben- jamin and Judith (Lewis) Bullard, was born Sep- tember 15, 1763, in Sharon, and removed thence to Francestown, New Hampshire. About 1805, he removed from Francestown to Stockbridge, Ver- mont, and later to Bethel, Vermont, where he died August 13, 1839. He was married March 16, 1786,
in Sharon, to Abigail Gay, who was born Septem- ber 17, 1762, in that town, and died March 22, 1836, in Bethel, Vermont. Their children were: Oliver, Abigail, Betsey, Fanny, Mark, Luke, John, Azubah, Luther, Andes Tailor, Ambrose and Mulfred Day- ton, Andes T. Bullard, born in Francestown, 1803, was an able and popular Methodist clergyman.
(VII) Mulfred Dayton, youngest child of Oli- ver and Abigail (Gay) Bullard, was born June 6, 1808, in Stockbridge, Vermont, and died May 30, 1872, at Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was a Methodist clergyman for thirty-five years, and was a member of the Vermont conference twenty-three years. He was married January II, 1828, by Ben- jamin Coleman, Esq., to Lydia Fish Whitaker, daughter of David and Anna (Beech) Whitaker (sec Whitaker, III). She was born December 23, 1811, at Windsor, and survived her husband more than fourteen years, dying June 21, 1886, at Mont- pelier, Vermont. They were the parents of four children : Caroline Matilda, Arial Mulfred, Ade- line Dunham and Augusta Jannette.
(VIII) Arial Mulfred, only son and second child of Rev. Mulfred Dayton and Lydia Fish (Whitaker) Bullard, was born December 1, 1830. and died in Lancaster, New Hampshire, October S, 1881. When about twenty years of age he went to Lancaster, New Hampshire, and there learned the trade of iron moulder. He spent his winters in St. Jolinsbury, Vermont, where he was engaged as moulder, until about 1870, and then bought out the iron foundry at Lancaster, which he operated about a year. In 1872 he became a member of the firm of Frank Smith & Company, who carried on milling and dealt in lumber, hay, hardware, etc., and was such until the time of his death. For some years he was a member of the Lancaster Fire company, and a member of the board of fire engineers. He married in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, . March 15, 1854, Eliza Jane Haines, who was born in Pitts- burg, New Hampshire, November 7, 1836, and died May 18, 1907, daughter of Clark and Adaline Bedell Haines, of Pittsburg. Two children were born of this union: Willie E. and Clara E., who married Charles A. Howe.
(IX) Willie Eugene, eldest child of Arial M. and Eliza J. (Haines) Bullard, was born in Lan- caster, December 7, 1855, and was educated in the public schools. In 1876 he became a clerk for Frank Smith & Co., of which firm his father was a mem- ber, and was soon after admitted to a partnership. The Lancaster Trust company, a state bank, was incorporated in 1891, and W. E. Bullard was elected a director and secretary of that institution. 1888 he was elected to the board of fire engineers, and held that position till the close of 1906. In 1882 he was appointed, with George N. Kent and Jared I. Williams, trustee of the Summer Street cemetery, and served until 1890. He has been a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1889. He was a member of Company F, Lancas- ter Rifles, since 1878, and was appointed lieutenant of that organization July 25, 1879, and served three years. He is a member of North Star Lodge, No. 8, Free and Accepted Masons; North Star Royal Arch Chapter, No. 16; North Star Commandery, Knights Templar ; and Edward Raymond Consist- ory, thirty-second degree: Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. He married, at Lancaster, New Hampshire, March 15, 1877, Mary C. Burns, who was born in Whitefield, New Hampshire, June 22, 1856, daughter of Calvin W. and Elvira (Clark) Burns, of Whitefield. They have three children : Grace Burns, IJarold Arial and Mary Claire.
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There is no name mmore numerously
CLARK represented in the pioneer settlement of New England than this, and on account of the great number bearing the name, it has been extremely difficult to trace the ancestral lines. They were numerous in almost every New England town, and the line herein given is the first that we have been able to trace with any satisfac- tory fullness.
(I) Edward Clark is found of record at Haver- hill, Massachusetts, as early as 1650. It seems im- possible to establish his parentage or the place of his origin. He had a house lot at Haverhill in 1650, and on the division of plow lands over four acres were assigned to him. He was appointed to beat the drum on "Lord's days and lecture days." By occupation he was a carpenter, and probably re- moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1663, and died there 1675. He owned a house and barn and an island where he lived at Portsmouth, and also three acres of land in Little Harbor.
(II) There was a second Edward Clark in Haverhill, who is believed to have been a son of the first. He was born about 1622, and subscribed to the oath of allegiance November 28, 1677. He married (first) Dorcas Bosworth, who died Febru- . ary 3, 1681, and was married (second) November I, 1682, to Mary Davis, a widow. They had at least two sons, Hanniel and Matthew. There was a Joseph Clark who took the oath of allegiance in 1073, and is supposed to have been another son of Edward (I).
(III) Hanniel, son of Edward and Dorcas ( Bos- worth) Clark, resided in Haverhill, where admin- istration was granted upon his estate in 1718. He was married August 20, 1678, to Mary Gutterson. Their children were: Mary, Hanniel, Sarah, Wil- liam, Josiah, Edward, Jonathan, Samuel, Timothy and Elizabeth.
(IV) Jonathan, fifth son and seventh child of Hanniel and Mary (Gutterson) Clark, was born April 23, 1696, in Haverhill. He resided in Haver- hill and Amesbury. Administration of his estate was granted to his son Thomas, of Amesbury, May 7, 1753. The inventory amounted to one hundred and thirty pounds. He was married (first) Febru- ary 23, 1715, to Martha Ela, who lived but a short time thereafter. He was married (second) De- cember 4, 1718, to Priscilla Whitticker. It appears that he married a third time, as the name of his widow appears as Elizabeth. His children were: Amos (died young), Martha (died young), Amos, Jonathan, Thomas, Mary, Priscilla, Martha (died young), Sarah and Martha.
(V) Amos, second son and third child of Jona- than Clark and eldest child of his second wife, Priscilla, was born January 12, 1720, in Haverhill, and settled about 1739 in what is now Hampstead, New Hampshire. This was two years before that region was set off from Haverhill as a part of New Hampshire. He married Sarah Kelly, who was born October, 1718, in Newbury, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Emery) Kelly. He died in Hampstead in 1783. Three of his chil- dren are on record in Haverhill. There were eleven altogether. They included : Judithi. Thomas, Moses, Priscilla, Amos (died young), Jonathan ( died young), Elizabeth, Amos and Jonathan.
(VI) Morse. second son and third child of Amos and Sarah (Kelly) Clark, was born March 28, 1746, in Hampstead, New Hampshire, and settled in War- ner, same state. No record of his marriage ap- pears, but the list of his children gives his wife's
11a1110 as Molle. Their children were: Judith, Moses, Amasa (died young), Amasa, Jerusha, Amos, Sarah, Lydia, Stephen Bagley and Johna- than.
(VII) Moses (2), eldest son and second child of Moses and Molle Clark, was born July 21, 1770, in Warner, New Hampshire, and passed his life in that town and in the adjoining town of Hopkinton. He was married in Warner, April 14, 1791, to Sarah Kimball.
(VIII) Moses Kimball, son of Moses (2) and Sarah (Kimball) Clark, was born February 20, 1810, in Warner, and resided in Hopkinton. He married Judith Morrill.
(IX) Alvah Augustus, son of Moses Kimball and Judith ( Morrill) Clark, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, May 3, 1837. He was educated in the common schools, and was a mill owner and farmer. He was a Republican in politics. He mar- ried Harriet Wiggin, daughter of Hemphill Wig- gin. They had three children: Anna, born June 7, 1862; Fred Augustus, born March 10, 1864; and Martha, born December 25, 1865. Mr. Clark died January 4, 1895.
(X) Fred Augustus, only son and second child of Alvah Augustus and Harriet (Wiggin) Clark, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, March 10, 1864. He was educated in the district schools and at the Simonds free high school. He has always been in the mill and the ice business. He owns a large mill and makes many shingles, laths and building material every year. He also carries on a general farm. He is a Republican in politics, and has served three terms as selectman. He is a Blue Lodge Mason. He is a member of the Grange, of which he has been overseer. He attends the Con- gregational church. He married, November II, 1894, Elsie Colby, daughter of James L. and Abbie (Wright) Colby, of Warner. They have two children : Laura, born July 13, 1894, died January 8, 1901; and Alvah Augustus, born June 29, 1896. Mrs. Clark is an active worker in the Congrega- tional church.
(Second Family.)
The many families bearing this name CLARK render distinctions somewhat confus- ing and uncertain. The name is un- doubtedly derived from an occupation, and arose from the variations in pronunciations in early times. There may have been several who took the surname simultaneously, which arose from the oc- cupation of clerk. The name appears very fre- quently in the records of Rockingham county, but the data is so fragmentary that it is very difficult to follow any one continuous line.
(I) About the earliest definite record obtainable on the family herein traced locates Jonathan and Zipporah Clark as residents of Stratham, New Hampshire. On July 6, 1715. William Moore deeded to Jonathan Clark, junior, land in Quamscot (which included parts of the present towns of Exeter and Stratham). From this it is probable that Jonathan was a son of Jonathan. The son received a deed May 17. 1743, of land in Barrington from Hunking Wentworth. Other transactions indicate that he was a large landholder. January 8, 1731. he sold to David Davis land granted to him by the town of Exeter, and probably removed to Barrington soon after. He had children: John, Jonathan, Joanna, and Mary, born in Stratham. (Jonathan and de- scendants are mentioned in this article.)
(II) John, elder son of Jonathan and Zipporah Clark, was born in 1711, in Stratham, New Hamp-
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shire, and lived for a time in Lec, same colony. His wife's name was Roocksby, and they were the parents of John and Roocksby Clark.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) and Roocksby Clark, was born, January 21, 1741, in Stratham, and removed with his parents early in life to Lee. On attaining his majority he set out to seek his fortune in the wilderness, and settled in Barnstead, New Hampshire, as early as 1770, following a trail marked by blazed trees. The deed of his land, the old instrument being now in possession of his great-grandson, bears date in the tenth year of the reign of George III. Indeed, the land itself on which John Clark first settled in Barnstead has ever since remained in the family. Clark Town is a locality in the southeast part of Barnstead, where the settlement was made, and where the Clark fam- ily has always been numerously represented. There the cleared up a farm and passed his life, dying in 1799. Ile was a soldier of the Revolution. He married and had children: Levi, Jonathan, Enoch, Solomon and Ezekiel.
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