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daughters Rebekah and Martha; and by the second wife seven sons: Jesse, Joel, Amos, Eli, Luther, Phineas and Daniel.
(VI) Amos, third son and child of Jesse and Rhoda (Wood) Hardy, was born August 12, 1797, and died in 1881. He was a farmer, and lived in the northern part of town. He commanded the re- spect and confidence of his townsmen, and was a member of the board of selectmen in 1844-45-46. For many years he was a member of the Congre- gationalist Church. He married Mary Cummings, born April 2, 1800, daughter of Thomas and Mary Cummings. They had seven children: Francis A .. Daniel, Harriette, Edward, William, Horrace and George.
(VII) Edward, third son and fourth child of Amos and Mary (Cummings) Hardy, was born in Hollis, August 6, 1825. After attending the com- mon schools for a time he learned the cooper's trade, and worked at that at Hollis, continuing the business until about 1880. He employed from ten to fifteen men and made pork and beef barrels. In 1880 he bought, the farm of one hundred and thirty acres, where he now resides, in the east part of Hollis. Mr. Hardy is a Democrat in politics, and has held the offices of town treasurer and member of the board of selectmen. He is a leading member of Hollis Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he has served as master and twenty-one years as treasurer. He married, November 5, 1850, Louisa M. Wheeler, born in Hollis, March 12, 1827, daughter of James and Dorcas (Moore) Wheeler, of Hollis. She died September 20, 1881. One son was born to them, Charles E., the subject of the next paragraph.
(VIII) Charles E., only child of Edward and Louisa M. (Wheeler) Hardy, was born in Hollis. September 26, 1857, and was educated at Hollis and McGaw Institute, Mont Vernon. He carries on his father's farm and is largely engaged in dairy- ing. He is now a member of the board of educa- tion. He was a member of the legislature, 1897, was master of the Hollis Grange two years, is past grand of Amom Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hollis and secretary and treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, of Hollis. He also has extensive interests in Old Mexico. Mrs. Hardy was one of the organizers of the Anna Keyes Powers Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, of Hollis, and a charter member of the Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic. She joined the Hollis Congregational Church when six- teen years of age and has been active in church work for many years. He married, Feb- ruary 20, 1879, Nellie L. Cameron, of Hol- lis, November 30, 1854, daughter of Henry
G. and Rosanna B. (Willoughby) Cameron, of Hollis. They
had three children : Ed- ward Cameron, born March 14, 1884, died Novem- ber 2, 1885. Harold E., born March 20, 1887, now a student in the New Hampshire College of Agri- culture and Mechanic Arts. Louisa, born Decem- ber 9, 1890, now attending the Hollis high school.
(III) William, son of Thomas and Mary (Ten- ney) Hardy, was born January II, 1669, in Brad- ford. where he made his home. His wife's name was Sarah, but no record of their marriage appears in Bradford. Their children were: Sarah, Wil- liam, Anne, Thomas, Edmund and Susannah.
(IV) Thomas (3), second son and fourth child of William and Sarah Hardy, was born December 14. 1695, in Bradford, and died there "middle aged" December 19, 1736. He was married May 14, 1719, at the First Church in Bradford.
Silas Hardy,
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to Deborah Wallingford, who was born in June, 1701, daughter of James and Deborah Wallingford. Their children included Amos, Jonas, Oliver, Rose, Esther, Ezekiel, James and Deborah. There is a tradition that he married the daughter of an Indian chief, by whom he had two children. but this does not seem to be borne out by the records. It is said that some of his descendants displayed marked Indian characteristics.
(V) Jonas, second son and child of Thomas (3) and Deborah (Wallingford) Hardy, was born Oc- tober 19, 1721, in Bradford, and passed his life in that town, where he died. There is no record in that town of his marriage or death and it is pos- sible that he died in some other place. It appears that his children lived elsewhere, and it is probable that he died at the home of one of these, in New Hampshire.
(VI) Jonas (2), son of Jonas (1) Hardy, was born about 1750 in Bradford, according to family tradition, but no record of his birth appears in that town. He was a private in the Second Foot Company of Bradford, which marched to the de- fence of Cape Ann, November 30, 1775. under com- mand of Captain John Savory. He died May 13, 1833, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in his eighty- third year. He resided for some time in what is now Hudson, in Chester, New Hampshire, whence he perhaps removed to Lebanon. Very little concerning the history of his life can now be dis- covered. He was married in Bradford, August 5, 1773, to Molly Hardy, and was married (second) in February, 1780, in the same town, to Mehitable Hardy.
(VII) Daniel, son of Jonas (2) and Mehitable (Hardy) Hardy, was born in 1782, perhaps in Stoddard, New Hampshire. He lived at Hebron, this state, and at Hyde Park, Vermont, but he is most closely identified with Lebanon, New Hamp- shire, where the greater part of his mature life was spent. He was a merchant and farmer, and was a self made man of great energy of character. He belonged to the Baptist Church in Lebanon, and brought up his large family according to strict re- ligious principles. Daniel Hardy married Betsey Packard, who was born in Enfield. New Hampshire, and they had a family of fifteen children, of whom five died in infancy or early childhood. The ten who lived to grow up were: I. Laura. 2. Orinda, married Solomon Heater. 3. Ichabod P., whose sketch follows. 4. Caroline. 5. Julia. 6. Almeda. 7. Rev. Daniel, married Sarah Page. 8. Matilda, married Gardner Briggs. 9. Edwin, whose twin, Edna, was drowned when three years old. 10. Rev. Anthony Colby, married Eliza Martin. The mother of this family was a great reader, and to her is doubtless due in considerable measure the literary tendencies of her descendants. Of the ten chil- dren just mentioned, two of the sons became clergy- men, Rev. Daniel belonging to the Methodist Church, and Rev. Anthony C., the Methodist and later the Episcopal; and two of the daughters. Laura and Julia, married Methodist ministers. Laura Hardy married Rev. Jonas Scott, an old time exhorter, and was herself gifted in writing and speaking at meetings. Julia Hardy married Rev. Charles Lovejoy, and moved to Kansas, where they endured thrilling experiences in Free-Soil times. She wrote Anti-Slavery articles for the New Hampshire States- man and the Lebanon Free Press, and also for western papers. Some of her statements aroused such bitter feeling that she was forced to hide all night in cornfields at the time of Quantrell's Raid. Almeda. who married Noah Barden Stoddard, and
lived at Hanover, also wrote for the papers; and Caroline married Horace Hoyt, and became the mother of Horace F. Hoyt, for many years com- missioner of Grafton county. Daniel Hardy, the father, died at the home of his son Daniel at Hyde Park, Vermont, during the winter of 1869; and his wife died at the old homestead about 1856.
(VIII) Ichabod Packard, eldest son and third child of Daniel and Betsey ( Packard) Hardy, was born July 5, 1808, in Lebanon. He was educated at the old New Hampton Institution, and lived in Groton, Rumney, Lebanon and Hebron, again at Groton, New Hampshire, and was engaged in farm- ing, lumbering and general mercantile traffic. He was a man active in business, eager to promote the public weal, and always ready to help the needy by giving them employment. He was a member of the Christian Church, and his hospitable home was always open to visiting brethren. Large family parties also were in the habit of driving up with- out warning, and they never failed to find a warm welcome and abundance of good cheer. It was a house where relatives and strangers alike were made to feel at home, and an extra plate at the table was a matter of course. Mr. Hardy was a man of progressive ideas, helped to establish schools in his town, and was one of the carliest members of the Republican party. He died at Groton, New Hampshire, March 17. 1887. On February 2, 1836, at Rumney, Ichabod Packard Hardy married Eme- line Mary Webster, daughter of David and Lucy ( Hutchins) Webster, who was born at Rumney, New Hampshire, May 1, 1815. (See Webster, VI). Mrs. Hardy, who is still living in her ninety-third year. is a woman of remarkable activity, and does needle-work of exquisite fineness without glasses. She is a granddaughter of Captain Gordon Hutch- ins, one of the three men from Concord, New Hamp- shire, who commanded a company at the battle of Bunker Hill. He died the year she was born, and ninety years later she visited his grave at Concord. Emeline (Webster) Hardy was educated at South Parsonfield, Maine, and in early life was a successful teacher, instructing the old-time district schools of fifty or sixty scholars. After her marriage she did all the writing in connection with her husband's business, and became an inspiring companion for her children. The New York Tribune was a weekly visitor to the home for fifty years, and many other papers and magazines were read by the family. The house was always a stopping place for visiting ministers, some of whom stayed six weeks at a time. Mrs. Hardy was a helpful neighbor withal, and though she had the care of a large house- hold, she was always ready to respond when sick people needed a "watcher." or a family in affliction called on her to "lay out" the dead.
Ichabod Packard and Emeline ( Webster ) Hardy had five children : Adeline, David Peabody, Lucy Edwina, Emily Sarah and Ellen Selomy (twins ). Of this family two died in infancy. Adeline, the eldest child, who was born April 27, 1837. lived but eight days, while Emily Sarah. one of the twins, died two weeks after her birth. The thrce children who lived to maturity, not only exhibited unusual intelligence and force of character them- selves, but have reared families in which thesc traits became marked to even greater degree.
(IX) David, son of Ichabod Packard Hardy. was born in Groton. New Hampshire, August 21, 1838. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in his later years engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his trade. He was a Republican in politics,
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held the various local town offices, and a man of excellent judgment, honorable and straightforward, filling the same to the satisfaction of all concerned. He was married, May 1, 1859, in that town to Sarah Diantha Fox, who was born November I, 1840, in Groton, a daughter of David Page and Sally Spaulding (Powers) Fox, and granddaughter of Daniel Fox, who was born April 20, 1774, and died April 13, 1848. David Page Fox was born May 27, ISII, in Hebron, New Hampshire, and died in Orange, same state. October 28, 1865. He was married February 5, 1835, to Sally Spaulding Powers, who was born April 9, 1809, and died in Hill, New Hampshire, July 27, 1899. The chil- dren of David P. and Sarah D. (Fox) Hardy werc: Nettie Aldonna, Edward Dana, Ellen Eme- line, Mary Adeline, Lucy May and Lizzie Webster (twins).
(X) Nettie A., the eldest daughter, graduated from the academy at Monson, Massachusetts, and was a successful teacher. She married Orin Smith of Stowe, Vermont, and with her husband is active in church work.
(X) Edward D. Hardy, the only son, was graduated from the Thayer School of Civil En- gineering, Dartmouth College, and has charge of the filtration plant at Washington, D. C.' He mar- ried Mary Noud of Washington, and they have three children now living.
(X) Ellen Emeline Hardy, the second daughter. married Dr. Clarendon P. Webster, D. D. S., of Franklin, this state. She is a lecturer and writer, and has made a specialty of ornithology, contributing to the New York Times and other journals. She has been president of the Woman's Club at Frank- lin, and has given stereopticon lectures on her travels and other subjects before different clubs in the state.
(X)' Lucy May, daughter of David Peabody and Sarah Diantha (Fox) Hardy, was born August II, 1872 in Hebron, New Hampshire. She was educated in the village school, formerly known as Hebron Academy, New Hampton Literary Institu- tion and Commercial College, from which she was graduated, and the Ladies' Boarding School at Bishop Hopkins Hall, Burlington, Vermont, which she attended one year, receiving one of the Webb and Vanderbilt prizes. She was married in Hebron, October 1, 1902, to Elbert David Currier, of An- clover. New Hampshire (see Currier, III). After marriage she went to Franklin to reside, and with her husband became a member of the Village Con- gregational Church in Franklin, and was also a member of the Missionary Society and the Ladies' Aid Society connected with the church, and has served as soprano singer and chorister in different choirs in the city. In winter of 1906-07 she was prominent in organizing the Franklin Choral Society, and was elected its secretary. Her vocal instruction covered a period of several years, studying with C. S. Conant, of Concord, New Hampshire, and later going to Boston Fortnightly during winters of 1904-1906 to complete her study. She was a prominent and enthusiastic member of the Audubon Society, and served her turn as secretary and ac- quired considerable knowledge in bird-lore. Since 1902 she has been a member of the Franklin Woman's Club, contributing her part in literary and musical work. In 1907 she was elected as its pres- ident.
(X) Lizzie Hardy became the wife of Elihu Sanborn, of Contoocook, this state, and is a leader in musical affairs in churches of that town.
(IX) Lucy Edwina Hardy, second surviving
child of Ichabod P. and Emeline (Webster) Hardy, born July 26, 1840, graduated at the age of fifteen from the classical course at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, this state. She taught school at Tilton Seminary and Meriden, New Hampshire, and was then married to Professor George I. Cummings, of Harvard University, Washington, D. C. Their only daughter, Lucy Webster Cummings, was graduated from Wellesley College in 1897 (June), was educated in music at Washington, D. C., and married Henry Coburn Sanborn, of Webster, New Hampshire, who was graduated from Dartmouth College, studied in Germany and is now superintend- ent of schools at Danvers, Massachusetts.
(IX) Ellen Selomy Hardy, third surviving child of Ichabod P. and Emeline ( Webster) Hardy, was born at Rumney, New Hampshire, March 2, 1844, and married Rcv. Henry P. Lamprey, of Concord, New Hampshire (see Lamprey, VII).
(II) John, son of Thomas (I) and Lydia Hardy, was born 1638, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and spent most of his life in Bradford. He mar- ried, April 2, 1666, Mary Jackman, who died De- cember 2, 1689. The name of his second wife was Martha, but a record of the marriage has not been found.
(III) Joseph, son of John and Mary (Jackman) Hardy, was born February 3, 1674, in Bradford, and lived in that town. He married, April 6, 1698, Mary Burbank, born November 26, 1675, in Rowley, Mas- sachusetts, a daughter of Caleb and Martha (Smith) Burbank (see Burbank, II).
(IV) James, son of Joseph and Mary (Bur- bank) Hardy, was born April 14, 1699, in Brad- ford. His early life was passed in Bradford, and he subsequently spent some time in Tewksbury and late in life removed to Andover, Massachusetts. He married, July 4, 1727, Hannah Bailey.
(V) James (2), son of James (I) and Han- nah (Bailey) Hardy, was born 1742, probably in Bradford, and lived throughout his adult life in Andover, where he built a house. He died there March 7, 1825. He married Jemima Palmer, daugh- ter of Andrew Palmer, of Andover.
(VI) Benjamin, son of James (2) and Jemima (Palmer) Hardy, was born 1768, in Andover, Mas- sachusetts, and died in Greenfield, New Hampshire, in 1852, aged eighty-four years. In 1779 he removed from Andover to Greenfield, where he purchased a farm, still owned and occupied by his descendants. His original home was the usual log cabin of the time, and his clearing was about sixty acres. He married, November 10, 1794, Phoebe Dane, of a prominent Andover family. She was born 1767, a daughter of William and Mary Osgood Dane. Her brother, William Dane, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war. A daughter of the latter mar- ried Samuel Baldwin, of Amherst and Mont Vernon. The children of Benjamin and Phoebe (Dane) Hardy were: John Dane, Benjamin, Hermon, Phoebe, Betsy, Hiram and Hannah.
(VII) Hiram, fourth son and sixth child of Benjamin and Phoebe (Dane) Hardy, was born July 6, 1806, in Greenfield, and died February, 1866, at his native place. He succeeded his father in the occupancy and ownership of the homestead, to which he made additions until it included two hun- dred and seventy acres. He was an extensive fruit ·grower and stock raiser. He was a gold seeker, going to California in 1853 and returning in 1857. He was fond of music, and from the age of twelve years until the disbanding of the militia he played the fife in that organization. He was not a mem- ber, but attended the Congregational Church. Be-
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ing deeply interested in public questions, he became a leader of the Democratic party in his town. Ile held various town offices, was overseer of the poor, selectman a number of times, and representative in the general court in 1865. He married (first) Abigail Dodge, and they had two children: Frances and Charles. He married ( second) Maria Dodge, of Greenfield, sister of his first wife, who was born in 1817, and died October, 1893. They were the daughters of Levi and Keziah (Stanley) Dodge, their father being a Revolutionary soldier, and all aide on General Gates' staff. Their children were : Sidney Hiram, Sarah Abigail and Levi Bradley. Sarah A. married Albert H. Hopkins, of Medford, Massachusetts, and has three children : Berthan A., a physician; George W. and Lilian Gertrude.
(VIII) Sidney Hiram, first son and eldest child of Hiram and Maria (Dodge) Hardy, was born in Greenfield, February, 1840. He prepared for college at Kimball Academy, from which he gradu- ated with the class of 1865, and in the autumn of the same year entered Dartmouth College, in- tending to pursue the scientific course there, but the death of his father obliged him to leave college after he had attended one term. He has always had a fondness for mathematics, in which he excels. Until two years ago he alone carried on the farm, which the brothers now cultivate together. They have two hundred acres of land, raise considerable stock, and do some lumbering. They have an excellent orchard which yields as high as five hun- dred barrels of apples a year. They pay but slight attention to politics, but vote the Democratic ticket. They attend the Congregational Church.
(VIII) Levi Bradley, second child of Hiram and Maria (Dodge) Hardy, was born in Greenfield, August 31, 1850. He attended high school and Francestown Academy, and is a carpenter and electrician by trade. From 1886 to 1902 he worked at carpentering in Medford, Massachusetts. Since the latter date he has resided on the old homestead. He is a member of Mont Vernon Lodge, No. 186, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Medford.
One hundred Hardys are enumerated HARDY among the revolutionary soldiers and sailors of Massachusetts. Persons of this name came early to New Hampshire, and the family was well represented among the sons of the Granite State who fought in the revolution. Dea- con Noah Hardy was a revolutionary soldier, and afterward lived in Hollis, Nelson and Antrim. Ben- jamin Hardy, of Andover, Massachusetts, settled in Greenfield in 1800.
(I) John Hardy was born in Goffstown, and was drowned while attempting to cross the Pis- cataqnog river on a ferry boat. He married Betsy George, who was born in Goffstown and died in Manchester.
(II) Rodney, son of John and Betsy (George) Hardy, was born in Goffstown and died in Hooksett, January, 1876. He was a farmer, but for forty years he was employed as a dyer in the cotton mills. He moved to Hooksett, and spent the remainder of his life there, being employed in the mills for many years, and was sixty-three years old when he died. He married Esther Ayer, who was born in Goffstown, in 1813, and is now (1907) living at the age of ninety-four. They had five children : Ira C., died July, 1905: Rodney; Esta; Elizabeth, who married George Harwood; and John, whose sketch follows.
(III) John, youngest child of Rodney and Esta (Ayer) Hardy, was born in Manchester, March
23, 1845, and has carried on farming for about forty years, and shoemaking fifteen years. He is a Re- publican in politics, and is a member of the Con- gregational Church. He married Lydia E. Dow, who was born in Goffstown, June 23, 1847, daughter of Samuel and Lydia ( Black) Dow, of Goffstown. Four children were born by this union : Helen, Scott E., Louis J. and Bertha D.
SALTMARSHI (I) The name of Saltmarsh is of good old English origin and repute. The first American an- cestor was Captain Thomas Saltmarsh, who was born in England, where he was captain in the royal navy. There is a tradition not positively authenticated that he was the son of Captain Wil- liam Saltmarsh who commanded the ship "Larke," of the royal navy, and who at one time went to the West Indies in the "Jersey." Captain William Salt- marsh died May 28, 1691. Captain Thomas Salt- marsh came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts. He married Mary Hazen, daughter of Richard and Mary ( Peabody) Hazen, of Boxford, Massachusetts. They lived in Charlestown, where their two eldest children were baptized-Mary on June 6, 1731, and Elizabeth on June 10, 1733. About 1734 Thomas Saltmarsh moved to Watertown, Mas- sachusetts, where he was an inn-keeper till 1769. He was constable in 1743; assessor 1741, 1742 and 1745. In 1769 he married a second wife, Mrs. Anne (Stone) Jones, widow of Abijah Stone, and daughter of John Jones of Framingham. He had ten children, all by his first wife. It is probable that the eight younger were born in Watertown. They were : William, born January 20, 1734-35 ; Thomas, mentioned below; John, born November 29, 1738; Abigail, born May 9, 1740; Deborah, born September 18, 1742; Catherine, born November 2. 1744; Seth, born December 4. 1746; Isaac, born July 28, 1748. William Saltmarsh, the eldest son, was a lieutenant under Captain Jonathan Brown at Lake George in 1758. He married, December 9, 1780, Elizabeth Patterson, and settled on the Sus- quehanna river, below Owego, New York, where he died at an advanced age. They had eleven children : Alanson, the fifth of these children, was born Oc- tober 8, 1794. He studied medicine in Vermont, and finally became a wealthy planter at Cahawba, Alabama. He married, May 4. 1826, Mary Ann Beck, eldest daughter of John and Margaret (King) Beck. Mrs. Beck was a sister of Hon. William B. King, vice-president of the United States.
(II) Thomas, second son and fourth child of Captain Thomas and Mary ( Hazen) Saltmarsh, was born March 2, 1736-37. probably in Watertown. He married Betsey Abbott, daughter of Edward and Dorcas (Chandler) Abbott, of Concord, New Hampshire. Edward Abbott was one of the original proprietors of that town, and was a grandson of George, who settled at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1743. Betsey Abbott was born August 25. 1743; she married Thomas Saltmarsh in 1759, and slie died in 1837 at the age of eighty-four. Her husband died in 1827, in his ninetieth year. They lived in Goffs- town. New Hampshire. They had nine children : Melitable, born in 1762, married James Hoit in 1784, and died in 1814; John. born 1764, at Goffs- town, New Hampshire, married Susan Burnham. born 1754; Polly, born 1756, married in 1791, Samuel Vose, born in 1759, at Antrim, New Hampshire; Edward A., mentioned below: Thomas, born 1771, became a physician at Saco, Maine, married Betsey Evans, and died in 1804; Sally, born 1773; Samuel.
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born 1775, married Betscy Burnum, born 1780, wlio died in 1840, he died in 1844 at Goffstown, New Hampshire; Catherine, born 1777, married Thomas Saltmarsh, born 1774, at Gilford, New Hampshire; Isaac, born 1779, married Phebe Stratton, died in 1822, at Antrim, New Hampshire.
(III) Edward Abbott, second son and fourthi child of Thomas and Betsey ( Abbott) Saltmarsh, was born in 1768, probably in Goffstown, New Hampshire. He married, in 1791, Sally Story, born in 1763. Her father, Nehemiah Story, was a sea captain, and at the time of the Revolution went out as a privatcer, and captured several English vessels. He was drowned after the war was over while com- ing from the East Indies with a cargo of molasses. He owned a gold brooch set with topazes, sap- phires and diamonds, probably taken from a cap- tured vessel. This is now in the possession of his great-great-grandson, Rev. Frank N. Saltmarsh, of Alton, New Hampshire. Edward A. and Sally (Story) Saltmarsh had thirteen children : Nehe- miah, born 1792, died in the army at Plattsburg, New York, 1813; Aaron, born at Hooksett, New Hampshire, in 1793, married Joan George, and died in 1842; Abbott, Lucy, Betsey, Thomas, Henry, Hazen, Susan, Gilman, Franklin, Sally, Abigail. Mrs. Sally (Story) Saltmarsh died May 19, 1860, aged ninety-seven years.
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