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 51

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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and Susan (Pengilly) Winters, the former of whom was a native of that city, and his wife came from Devonshire, England. John L. and Mary Ann (Winters) Frost, were the parents of nine children : Jane, Barbara, John (who died young), Charles W., Stephen Alexander, John L., Mary, Annie, and another Mary. The three last named died in early childhood. Jane became the wife of John W. Bartz, of Pepperell, Massachusetts. Barbara, who is no longer living, was the wife of James Stackhouse, of St. John, New Brunswick. Charles W. married Florence Cook, and settled in Fremont, New Hamp- shire. Jolın L. also resides in Fremont. He mar- ried Cora Smith, of Salem, New Hampshire. The mother of these children died in 1880.

(III) Stephen Alexander, third son and fifth child of John L. and Mary Ann (Winters) Frost, was born in Halifax, January 15, 1862. His educa- tion was acquired in the public schools of South Natick and Shirley Village, Massachusetts. He be- gan the activities of life in the leather board mill of Messrs. Hill and Cutler at Shirley, but subse- quently went to Townsend Harbor, where he en- tered the employ of Jonas Spaulding (now de- ceased), a leather board maker and cooperage man- ufacturer, and with the latter he came to Fremont. Six years later he and Mr. Spaulding became asso- ciated in the cooperage business at Gloucester, Mas- sachusetts, under the firm name of Spaulding, Frost & Company, and selling out the plant in that city in 1899 he returned to Fremont, where he or- ganized and incorporated the Spaulding & Frost Company, of which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager. This concern manufactures white pine cooperage of a superior quality, which is used by packers of fish, pickles and other pro- visions, and transacts a business aggregating in value about two hundred thousand dollars annually. They also manufacture lumber and employ an av- erage force of one hundred and fifty workmen. Their plant is the largest in the state, and covers an area of twelve acres.

In politics Mr. Frost acts independently, and while not an aspirant for public office he has served as town auditor and as a member of the school board. He belongs to Ocean Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Gloucester, Alfaretta Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, of Raymond, and Fremont Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Mr. Frost is highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen both as an able business man and public-spirited citizen. In his religious belief he is a Universalist. June 13, 1885, he married Catherine G. Fertig, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 10, 1862, daughter of John and Christina (Lederer) Fertig. Mr. and Mrs. Frost have had four children, namely : Agnes Mary, who died in March, 1892: Lillian Emma, a graduate of Comer's Commercial College, Boston; Lizzie J., and Marion, who died in 1894. Mrs. Frost is a woman of broad intelligence, and a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, and the Grange, and various church societies, and takes an active part in all the affairs of these bodies.

The Newton family. which is one NEWTON the most numerous in New England, is of English origin and was founded in America early in the colonial period. The Goffstown Newtons went there from Worces- ter county, Massachusetts.

(I) Richard Newton, the immigrant ancestor of the family, arrived in Massachusetts prior to 1645, in which year he was admitted a freeman, and he resided for several years in Sudbury. In

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company with John How and others he petitioned for the settlement of Marlborough, the incorpora- tion of which they secured in 1666, and removing thither he located in that part of the town . which was afterwards set off as Southborough. He lived to be nearly one hundred years old, and his death occurred about August 24, 1701. The christian name of his wife was either Anna or Hannah. These names were frequently bungled in many of our early town records, through the carelessness or ignorance of some one, perhaps the town clerks. She became the mother of six children, and her death occurred December 5. 1697.

(II) Moses, son of Richard Newton, was born in 1646, and resided in Marlborough. October 27, 1668, he married Joanna Larkin, who died Decem- ber 25, 1713, and on April 14, 1714, he married for his second wife Sarah Joslin. She died November 4. 1723. Moses was the father of eleven children. He distinguished himself in defending the town against the savages during King Philip's war, and in relation to this incident the Rev. Asa Packard wrote the following account : "The Sabbathı when Mr. Brimsmead was in sermon (March 20, 1676), the worshipping was suddenly dispersed by the outcry of 'Indians at the door.' The confusion of the first moment was instantly increased by a fire from the enemy; but the God whom they were worship- ping shielded their lives and limbs, excepting the arm of one Moses Newton, who was carrying an elderly and infirm woman to a place of safety. In a few moments they were sheltered in their fort. with the mutual feelings peculiar to such a scene. Their meetinghouse, and many dwelling houses left without protection, were burnt. Fruit-trees pilled and hacked, and other valuable effects ren- dered useless perpetuated the barbarity of the sav- ages many years after the inhabitants returned. The enemy retired soon after their first onset, declin- ing to risk the enterprise and martial prowess of the young plantation."

(III) James, son of Moses and Joanna (Larkin) Newton, was born in Marlborough, January 15, 1683. In 1727, when Marlborough was divided, his property was included within the limits of South- borough, and he died in that town November 29, 1762. He was first married, October 5, 1709, to Mary Joslin, who died May 27, of the following year, and his second wife, whom he married Sep- tember 8, 1712, was Rachel Greeley.

(IV) Andrew son of James and Rachel (Gree- ley) Newton, was born in Marlborough August 27, 1713. He settled in the western part of Framing- ham on the shore of the Hopkinton river, where hic operated a forge and a grist-mill for many years or until succeeded by his son. He married Mehit- able Bellows, and was the father of Mehitable, An- drew and James.

(V) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) and Me- hitable (Bellows) Newton. was born in Framing- ham, October 23, 1748. He succeeded his father as the blacksmith and miller of that section, and participated in the exciting scenes common in the villages and hamlets during the Revolutionary war. He married Sarah Marret, daughter of William · and Sarah (How) Marret, of Hopkinton and Fram- ingham. The Newtons were connected with the colonial militia just prior to the war for independ- ence, and some of them were afterwards enrolled in the Continental army. A roster at hand of the Southborough company belonging to Colonel Ar- temas Ward's regiment in 1774 contains the names of Isaac, David, Luke, "Sirus," Eben, Jabez, Ash- ael and another Isaac Newton.

(VI) William, son of Andrew (2) and Sarah (Marret) Newton, was born in Framingham in 1773. He settled in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. where he followed the shoemaker's trade in con- nection with farming and he died in 1850. He mar- ried Abigail Newton, perhaps a distant relative, who was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, March 4, 1779, daughter of Benjamin Newton, and reared a large family. Those of his children whose names are at hand are : Thankful, Elizabeth, William, George, Charles, Sarah and Daniel.

(VII) Daniel, son of William and Abigail New- ton. was born in Shrewsbury. He resided for a time in Boylston Massachusetts, going from there. to Framingham, in 1855, as manager of the town farm, and he subsequently purchased a piece of agricultural property, which he devoted chiefly to the dairying industry. He was also engaged in the lumber business for many years, and attained a comfortable prosperity. In politics he supported the Democratic party and was quite active in civic affairs. He died in Framingham in July, 1898. On April 6, 1837, he married Martha Goddard, who was born in Framingham May 22, 1817, daughter of Captain Nathan and Polly (Bacon) Goddard, and granddaughter of Nathan Goddard. Esq., a well-known lawyer of Shrewsbury, and Framing- ham in his day. Martha died in August, 1892. She became the mother of five children, namely: Mary B., born in 1840, married Christopher Hunt. Na- than G., who will be again referred to. Lorenzo. born in 1845 (died in 1873). Solomon G. and an- other child, both of whom died in infancy. The parents were members of the Baptist Church.

(VIII) Nathan Goddard, second child and eld- est son of Daniel and Martha (Goddard) Newton, was born in Boylston August 6. 1843. From the Framingham high school he entered the Frost Academy, which he left in 1862 to enlist as a pri- vate in Company F, Forty-fifth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteers, for nine months' service in the civil war. He participated in the battles of White Hall, Kingston, Goldsborongh, Deep Gulch, Cross Roads and other engagements. After his re- turn from the army he found employment in a shoe factory in Marlborough, where he remained seven years, and in 1870 he went to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he followed the same occupation continuously for a period of over thirty years. Some five years ago he acquired possession of the Colby farm (so called) in Goffstown, where he now resides, and in addition to a profitable milk business he is engaged quite extensively in lumber- ing. Politically he is a Republican. In his religious faith he is a Methodist. He is a Master Mason, having joined that order in 1868.

On October 16, 1872, Mr. Newton was joined in marriage with Rebecca Chase Hall, daughter of the late Edward and Rebecca Chase (Harvey) Hall, of Worcester, Vermont. As captain of Com- pany E, Eighth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, her father served under General Butler at New Orleans during the rebellion, and was subsequently killed in action under General Sheridan, in the Shenan- doalı Valley. Her mother died when she (Mrs. Newton) was three days old, and she was adopted by her uncle, Samuel Hall, of Manchester. She completed her education at the Manchester high school, and prior to her marriage was a school teacher of recognized ability. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Newton are the parents of five children: I. Maud, R., born October 5. 1874, died January 4, 1878. 2. Walter H., born March 5, 1879, married Ethel

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Cooper, of Massachusetts. 3. Arthur S., born Feb- ruary 24, 1881, married Mae Patten, of Goffstown, and their children were: Dorothy M., born 1902; Arthur W., 1904; Vera E., January 2, 1907. 4. N. N. Lyle, born December 20, 1884. 5. Rachel G., born July 12, 1892.

(Second Family.)

For more than a century and a quar- NEWTON ter the family name of Newton has been closely associated with the his- tory of the town of Newport and the county of Sullivan, and in each succeeding generation from the time of the first settler bearing that surname there have been men of character and action in all that has contributed to the welfare of that part of the state. The learned professiones have claimed some of theni and others have turned to business pursuits, but in whatever vocation in life they all have wrought well in building and enlarging on the foundations laid by their ancestors during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

(I) Christopher Newton, founder of the family of that surname in Newport, was born in Groton, Connecticut, February 26, 1738, and died February 19, 1834, aged almost ninety-six years. He came to Newport about the year 1779 and with his family settled on a farm' on the Unity road, afterward the homestead of his son, Erastus Newton, where he died. He was moderator of the town in 1784- 85-87-89-1800-02-09-II-14-15-20-22 and selectman in 1884-85. He married, February 26. 1766 (on his twenty-eighth birthday), Mary Giles, of Groton, Connecticut, born November 12, 1745, died May 14, 1821, daughter of Benjamin Giles, of Groton and Newport, one of the early settlers of the lat- ter town and one of the foremost men of New Hampshire for several years and until his death in November, 1787.

Family tradition says that Benjamin Giles was an Irishman by birth, and lived many years in Gro- ton before settling in Newport. He was a man of wealth and education, beyond most of the settlers and soon came to be recognized as the leading man among them. He was not one of the original pro- prietors of the town, but one of its earliest settlers, and in 1766 was voted one hundred acres of land on condition that he build and maintain a saw mill and a grist mill. In 1767 he was clerk of the first regular meeting of proprietors, and was modera- tor in 1769 and 1781. He was a thoroughly devoted patriot and during the Revolution was an import- ant member of the provincial councils of the state; and throughout alinost the entire revolutionary struggle he was a delegate to the various "provin- cial congresses" which met to devise means for carrying on the war and forming plans of govern- ment. He was a member of the first constitutional convention of the state and a member of the com- mission appointed to settle the dispute in regard to the boundary between the state of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is said, too, that at one time Benjamin Giles was arrested and imprisoned, by authority of His Majesty the King, for alleged seditious acts, and that when it was evening he was rescued by a party of patriots dressed in female attire. In 1775-76 he was representative of the then six classed towns of which Newport was one, also a member of the state senate and at one time a member of the governor's council. In March, 1781, when Newport seceded from New Hampshire, he was a delegate to the general assembly of Vermont and attended the meeting of that body at Windsor.

Christopher and Mary (Giles) Newton had six children, four daughters and two sons, viz: Martha,

born April 9. 1768, married Aaron Mack. Mary, born November 29, 1770, married Lemuel Church, a tailor. Margery, born November 2, 1772, mar- ried Deacon Jesse Fay, of Alstead. Abigail, born March 13, 1775, married Rev. Orlando Bliss. Eras- tus, born April 4, 1777, died January 4. 1852; lived on the old homestead; was major of militia ; mar- ried, November 22, 1801, Betscy Beckwith and had six children. Hubbard, born January 1, 1780.

(II) Hubbard, youngest child and son of Chris- topher and Mary (Giles) Newton, was born in the town of Newport, New Hampshire, January 1, 1780. His carly life was spent on his father's farm. and in later years while occupied with the practice of law he found recreation and material profit in the personal management of his own farm. After a thorough preparatory education he entered Dart- mouth College and was graduated with honors in the class of 1804. Having finished his college course he turned attention to the study of law in the office of Samuel Bell, Esq., of Francestown, and in 1806 was admitted to practice and began his professional career in Newport. Later on he prac- ticed five years at Amherst and still later for two years was law partner with his son, William F. Newton, at Claremont. At the end of that time he returned to Newport and afterward devoted attention to his law practice, literary pursuits, ed- itorial work and the care of his farm. In politics Mr. Newton was a Whig of undoubted quality, and in 1830-31 with voice and pen ably championed the cause of Henry Clay and vigorously opposed Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party, whose candidate he was for the presidency. During these years Mr. Newton was editor of the Farmers' Ad- v'Ocate and Political Adventurer, a weekly news- paper published at Newport by his son, Charles H. E. Newton, who was a practical printer; and in 1832. at the close of the presidential campaign of that year, he assumed editorial supervision of the Northern Farmer and Horticulturist, a journal de- voted to farming interests and horticulture, and with which he was connected until some time in 1833. Besides his editorial labors, Mr. Newton wrote several lectures on various subjects and left on record several interesting poems. Himself a well educated man, he took an earnest interest in the cause of education and was one of the founders and a trustee of Newport Academy, member of the school committee, and also one of the first ad- vocates of temperance on the foundation of total abstinence, delivering many addresses on that sub- ject in Newport and the towns adjoining. He was moderator of Newport seven years and represented the town in 1814-15.

Hubbard Newton married November 25, 1802, Abigail Lyon, born July 4, 1779, died January 21. 1843. Her father, David Lyon, born at Stoughton, Massachusetts, April II, 1739, settled in Newport in 1790 and kept a store and tavern on the Unity road. He married, in 1777, Abigail Belcher, who bore him two children, Abigail and David. Hub- bard and Abigail (Lyon) Newton had eight chil- dren. viz: Henrietta M., born April 7, 1806, died September 30, 1876; a woman of education and re- finement. Charles H. E., born April 10, 1808, a printer, publisher of the Farmers' Advocate and Political Adventurer and the Northern Farmer and Horticulturist, both edited by his father; went from Newport to Mobile, Alabama, where he fol- lowed his occupation : removed thence to Califor- nia, entered the ministery and became a presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ore- gon. James H., born August 12, 1811, died in

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Michigan, January 2, 1847; prepared for college at Newport Academy, and was a teacher by profes- sion. Mary G., born November 14, 1813, died April 12, 1868. Catherine M., born December 5, 1816, died June 25, 1825. William F., born November 23, 1818, a member of the Sullivan county bar since 1843, but now retired from active practice; married, March 23, 1876, Julia, daughter of Dr. David Mc- Queston, of Washington, New Hampshire. Adelia M., born February 1, 1821. Arthur W., born May 10, 1823, died May 16, 1824.

(Ill) William F., sixth child and third son of Hubbard and Abigail (Lyon) Newton, was born at Newport. November 23, 1818, and has passed al- most his entire life in Sullivan county. In early youth he learned the trade of printing and after- ward worked at it for a few years. He then took up the study of law in the office and under the direction of his father, and in 1843 was admitted to practice. The scene of his professional life was laid in Sullivan county, where he practiced with gratifying success more than fifty years and where for many years he held the office of clerk of courts, besides having frequently been chosen to other posi- tions of trust and honor. In connection with pro- fessional work he also engaged in farming and was one of the earliest growers of strawberries on an extensive scale in his county. During recent years, however, Mr. Newton has retired from the general practice of law and also on account of advanced age has laid aside the cares and responsibilities of public office. He is numbered among the oldest members of the legal profession in New Hampshire, and for many years has enjoyed an extended ac- quaintance throughout the state.

CHAMBERLAIN This family traces its history back to an ancestor who set- tled in the primeval forest of Massachusetts when the oldest settlement in that colony was only twenty-one years old. The self- reliant and energetic spirit of this ancestor is still strong in the Chamberlains of the present time.

(I) Richard Chamberlain was of Branitree, Massachusetts, in 1642, and removed to Roxbury where he was baptized, June 4, 1665, with others, Benjamin and Joseph, who both settled in Sud- bury. The records show that Richard Chamberlain owned a house and half an acre of land in Rox- bury, next to Rev. John Eliot, "The Apostle to the Indians." He died in 1673 and his will was proved on the 15th of April of that year. He left sons, Benjamin and Joseph, and some daughters.

(II) Joseph, son of Richard Chamberlain, born in Roxbury, removed to Oxford with his brother Benjamin and the other settlers in 1713, Joseph then being about sixty-eight years old. He chose his home lot on Bondat Hill, including the "great house." H. 38. In 1712 he sold sixty acres of land, a dwelling house, orchard, and so on, with "all his rights of land or commonages in the town of Sud- bury." He was a member of the first board of selectmen, and was a soldier in the Narragansett war. On February 22, 1731, several of his children conveyed to their brother Joseph of Keekamoochang, all their rights in their father's lots laid out or to be laid out to "Ye soldiers which were in ye fight commonly called ye Narragansett or Swamp Fight." His will dated March 4, 1721, names his sons Benja- min and Simon as executors. Valuation three hun- dred and four pounds, nineteen shillings and six pence. He died August 8, 1721. His wife Hannah had died previously. No record of his family has been found. Nathaniel and Joseph are supposed to

have been among the eldest children; Ebenezer, Hannah, Benjamin, Simon and Rebecca were younger.

(III) Nathaniel, son of Joseph and Hannah Chamberlain, was born in Sudbury, at the present village of Wayland, in 1689, and removed to Ox- ford in 1713. He was one of at least eight chil- dren of his father, of whom Nathaniel, Ebenezer and Joseph were of age and took up house lots with the first proprietors of Sudbury. Nathaniel took up his lot adjoining his uncle Benjamin's on the north H. 240, which he sold in 1722. He was a constituent member of the church. He removed to Hatfield about 1722. He was a soldier in Father Rasle's war and was taken prisoner. After his return from captivity he removed to Northfield, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the Crown Point expedition in 1755 and in Colonel Williams' regiment in 1759. He died November 7, 1780, and the church record of Northfield says "He left a good name behind him." He married, March 31, 1714, Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Hunkins, bap- tized February 24, 1706, at Boxford, being then adult. Their children were: Richard, Moses, Na- thaniel, Elizabeth, Sarah and Mary.

(IV) Deacon Moses, second child and son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hunkins) Chamberlain, was born in Oxford, March 30, 1716. His history for the first thirty-two years of his life is unknown, but in 1748 he bought land in Litchfield, and his name is on the book of the Congregational Church at South Farms, in 1787. The older records have been destroyed. Moses Chamberlain's family set- tled in Newbury, Vermont, as early as 1772. The names of Moses and Asher Chamberlain are on the roll of Minute Men in 1775, and in Captain John G. Bayley's company guarding .and scouting. Re- membrance and Moses were in Captain Steven's company, Moses was a private in Captain Samuel Young's company, at Haverhill, in Redels' regi- ment, also in a "Company raised for the defence of the frontier." He was second lieutenant from June 1, 1778, for one hundred and thirty-eight days, and first lieutenant from December 1, 1778, one hun- dred and twenty-one days. Moses was sergeant major in Young's company in Bedels' regiment "A company raised for the Expedition against Canada." It is understood that both Deacon Moses and his son Moses served in the war, but which of the fore- going records of service was that of the father and which that of the son cannot now be distinguished. Moses and his wife were members of the Congre- gational Church, but his title of deacon was held by him before he went to Newbury. He died June 25, 1796. He married Jemima, daughter of Re- membrance and Elizabeth Wright, who is believed to have been a sister to the wife of Richard Chamberlain. She died July 30, 1801. The chil- dren of this marriage were: Susanna, Azubah, Jemima, Lydia, Remenibrance, Moses, Asher and Wright.

(V) Colonel Remembrance, fifth child and eld- est son of Moses and Jemima (Wright) Chamber- lain, was born December 19, 1747. He owned the farm long known as the Chamberlain farm, north of Bedel's bridge, where he kept a tavern many years. This farm remained in the family three generations. The first record of this branch of the Chamberlain family is the conveyance, November 20, 1772, by Jacob Bayley to Remembrance Cham- berlain of Lot No. 2, in Sleeper's Meadow, with the house lot belonging to it, one fifty-acre, and two one-hundred-acre lots. He served in the Revo- lutionary war in several campaigns, among them

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being a service of nineteen days between May, 1779, and May, 1781, in Captain Steven's company ; in Captain Frye Bayley's company, in 1781-82, guard- ing and scouting. He was made first lieutenant by Governor Chittenden, and the original commission is still owned by a descendant. He was made suc- cessively, captain, major, and colonel in the militia. In town he was prominent, holding offices, and was a substantial citizen. He and his wife were probably members of the church, joining it before the present records began. He was very par- ticular to keep the Sabbath, and brought up his family in strict Puritan principles. He was a kind and generous man. He married Elizabeth Elliott, widow of Haynes Johnson, and daughter of Edmund and Mehitable (Worthen) Elliott, de- scendants of Amesbury (Massachusetts) families. After the death of Mr. Johnson she returned to Chester, for fear of Indians and Tories, but came back to Newbury, bringing her three children with her on a horse, fording streams and sometimes compelled to lodge in the woods. She was born in Chester in 1751, and died February 8, 1829. The children of Colonel Remembrance and Elizabeth (Elliott) Chamberlain were: Moses, Azubah, Eliza- beth, Mehitable, Remembrance (1), Moody, Re- membrance (2) and Olive.

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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 51

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