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 55

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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(V) Edmund, third son and fourth child of Deacon Laurenson and Lucinda (Spofford) Cole, was born in Milton, Maine, October 5, 1845. He attended the public and private schools of Milton and adjoining towns, and fitted for college at Nor- way, and Hebron Academies, Maine. He was a student at Colby University one year, but took the other three at Bowdoin College from which insti- tution he was graduated in 1871 with the degree of A. B. Three years later his alma mater conferred on him the degree of A. M. In the fall of 1871 he became the first principal of the Simonds free high school at Warner, New Hampshire, which po- sition he held for three years. He did excellent work in organizing the courses of study and laying the foundation for the subsequent prosperity of the school. In 1874 Mr. Cole began the study of law and continued it for the next three years, in the course of which time he taught one term in Mar- low Academy, and three terms at Contoocook Academy, both in New Hampshire. In all he has taught thirty-six successful terms of school, a most creditable record. In the fall of 1878 he bought in Portsmouth the equipment of a printing office, and removed it to Warner. He subsequently began the publication of the Kearsarge Independent, whose first issue bears the date of April 4, 1884. The fol- lowing December he bought the subscription list of the Hopkinton Times, published in Contoocook, and changed his paper's name to the Kearsarge Independent and Times. He prints and sends out fifteen hundred copies a week. The bulk of the edition goes to Merrimack county, but there are subscribers in several distant states.

In politics Mr. Cole is a Republican, and has held many of the town offices. He has been on the school board since 1871, has been superintendent of the high school, and has been supervisor. of the check lists for many terms. He was postmaster during the last year of President Arthur's admin- istration. He is a member of the board of health, president of the trustees of the Pillsbury Free Li- brary, and was for a time a local police officer. He represented the town in the state legislature in 1901. He is chairman of the board of water commission- ers. He has been active in establishing the fine water and sewage system and electric light plant for which Warner is noted. He is an efficient mem- ber of the fire department. He is a member of Cen- tral Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and past noble grand ; a member of Welcome Re- bekah Lodge; a member of the Patrons of Hus- bandry, and past master of Warner Grange; a member of Kearsarge Division, Sons of Temper- ance : and a member of the United Order of the Golden Cross, of which he is past commander. He was appointed justice of the Warner police court by Governor McLane and council, and is still act- ing as such. In religious belief he is a Unitarian. He has been twice married. His first wife was Emma B. Quimby, daughter of Asa and Sally (Colby) Pattee, of Warner. They were married in January, 1877, and of this marriage one child, Sarah Adelaide Cole, was born. Mrs. Cole died Septem- ber 28, 1882. Seven years later, August 3, 1889, Mr. Cole married Fanny E. Corey, daughter of

George H. and Mary H. Corey, of Middlebury, Ver- mont. They have had four children, the two younger deceased : Edward E., Mary G., Thomas R. and Nada L. Mrs. Cole is active in the Re- bekah Lodge, and held the office of noble grand in 1907.

This surname is variously spelled in

PATTEE the early records Pettee, Petty, Patty and Pattee. According to family tra- dition the progenitor was a French Huguenot who settled in the Isle of Jersey with many others of his sect when they fled from France. The members of the Pattee family in Massachusetts and New Hampshire generally have been strong and bright men and women. Their record as pioneers is a most creditable one and they have borne their just proportion of the burdens and responsibilities in the development of the commonwealth of New Hamp- shire. It was not one of the first among the New England colonists, but it was planted in Massachu- setts long previous to the Revolution, and was thoroughly assimilated before that struggle.

(I) Sir William Pattee, ancestor of this family, was a prominent physician, being not only physician to Cromwell under the Commonwealth, but also later to King Charles II. He was one of the found- ers of the Royal Society of Physicians, and in 1660 was knighted by the king. He was a copious writer on political economy, and is mentioned as an au- thority in Macaulay's "History of England."

(II) Peter (2), son of Sir William Pattee (1), was born in Landsdown, England, in 1648. In 1669, on account of certain political opinions that he en- tertained, he found it necessary to take a hasty de- parture from his native land, and he settled in Vir- ginia. In 1676 or 1677 he left Virginia, possibly on account of domestic unhappiness, as we find him accused of leaving a wife in Virginia, after he had married in Massachusetts, where he sought a new home. Neither the merits of the case nor its dis- position appear in the records, but he apparently was not disturbed, for he remained where he had made his home, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and lived there the rest of his days. In November, 1677, he took the prescribed oath of fidelity and allegi- ance to the Crown. We are told that he established the first ferry at Haverhill and that the locality still bears his name. Somehow and somewhere he had picked up the trade of cordwainer, as a shoe- maker was then designated, and at the annual meet- ing of Haverhill in the spring of 1677, a year after the application of one William Thompson "to be accepted townsman, to dwell here and follow his trade of shoe-making" had been refused, Pattee made a similar application, and met with a similar refusal. The record of the transaction shows : "Petter Patie making a motion to the town to grant him a piece of land to settle upon, it not being till then known to the town that he was a married man and a stranger, having hitherto accounted of him as a journeyman shoemaker, his motion, according to law, was rejected, and the moderator declared . to him before the public assembly that the town doth not own him or allow of him for an inhabi- tant of Haverhill and that it was the duty of the Grand-jury men to look after him." But this was in line with a general custom in the towns of that period. The very best families, when removing from one town to another, were, according to this custom, "warned out," merely as a precaution, in case of pauperism later, to relieve the town of re- sponsibility, and preventing the acquiring of a legal residence. As a rule no attention was paid to warn-

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ings. Nor did this rude refusal of his polite re- quest discourage Peter Pattec. He stayed in Hav- erhill all his life and held office there later. In 1680 he was presented to the court for being absent from his Virginia wife several years and next year was presented for having another wife in Virginia. But this action seems to have amounted to nothing, for in 1694 he was elected to the then important office of town constable in Haverhill by a "plentiful, clear and legal paper vote." It appears that he was the first shoemaker regularly to follow his trade in a place since famous for the manufacture of boots and shoes. for he made shoes, despite the formal vote of the town. He was undoubtedly of different faith and standards of life from those of the stern old Puritan fathers of Haverhill. The opposition to him had not died out when in 1695 he asked permission of the town to erect a grist mill at East River Meadow, and was refused. The reason given for this action was that the town was under obli- gations to Currier & Greeley, millers. But, if tra- dition is correct, he built a mill just the same, some say the first in the town. He had a tavern there in 1696 when Nathaniel Saltonstall complained that there were too many taverns licensed in the vicinity. His Massachusetts wife, whom he married Novem- ber 8, 1682, had according to family tradition twenty-two children. There is no record of children by the Virginia wife. Certainly eight children were born to him between July 28, 1683, and May 15, 1696, viz: 1. Moses, born 1683; Benjamin (died young ) ; Jeremiah ; Samttel, had a seat in the Hav- erhill meeting house in 1709; Hannah; Mercy : Jemima : Benjamin, born May 15, 1696, mentioned below, and Peter.

(III) Richard, called the eldest son in the will of his father, Peter Pattee, was baptized in 1678, and resided in Haverhill. He was married there to Susanna Beale, who died in Salem, New Hamp- shire, in July, 1748. She was admitted to the church July 31, 1715. They had twelve children. (Mention of Peter and Benjamin and descendants appears in this article).

(IV) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Susanna ( Beale) Pattee, was born September 7, 1720. in Haverhill, and resided in that town. He fought at Bunker Hill, where his son James Paul Pattee was by his side. He was married Febru- ary 17, 1744, in Methuen, to Mary, daughter of Ed- ward Clark, and they had twelve children.

(V) William, son of Richard (2) and Mary (Clark) Pattee, was born December 3, 1754. in Sa- lem, Massachusetts, and died in Alexandria, New Hampshire, where he was buried. His grave is described as located "Up on the hill by Charles Plummer's." He was a pioneer settler in that town on what is still known as the Pattee farm. He was married in Londonderry, New Hampshire, to Mary Hyde, and they had four sons and four daughters. The mother died about 1831, aged nearly ninety years. In the New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls William Pattee is mentioned on a petition dated Northumberland, October 12, 1776, in which Captain Jeremiah Eames' company ask for more pay. In Colonel Bartlett's militia regiment for Colonel Drake's regiment. October, 1777, occurs the name William Pattee, Salem. In Musgrove's "History of Bristol," William Polee occurs in a list of names with the date December 25, 1775. There can be little doubt that this is William Pattee, since as far as can be ascertained there was never a Polee in tow11.

(VI) William (2), son of William (1) and Mary (Hyde) Pattee, was born in 1775, in Salem,

New Hampshire, and resided on the Pattee farm in Alexandria. He was probably a child when his father settled there. He was a man of some note in Alexandria, extensively interested in business and served for some time as justice of the peace. About ISor he was married to Judith Worthen, who was born 1781, and died February 20, 1857. He died July 18. 1820, from injuries received from being thrown from a horse. They had eight chil- dren.

( VII) Moses, son of William (2) and Judith (Worthen) Pattee, was born March 15, 1806, in Alexandria, where he died October 3, 1875. He was a farmer by occupation, and continued to reside near the old homestead, and he was also a stone- mason. He was a Methodist in religious faith. He was married to Jane Gordon, who was born March 7. 1810, and died May 6, 1879, daughter of Jesse Gordon. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Jesse, William, Moses, Lewis F., Henry, Betsy J. (died young), Betsy J. (died young), James. Wilbur, Rosa M.

(VIII) Lewis Franklin, fourth son of Moses and Jane (Gordon) Pattee, was born March 23, . 1834, in Alexandria, and passed the greater part of his life in that town. He was educated in the com- mon schools. In early manhood he went west. set- tled for a time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but re- turned at length to Bristol, New Hampshire, where for some years he resided. In 1867 he bought the farm adjoining that on which lie was born. He learned his father's trade and for many years fol- lowed it in connection with farming. He was mar- ried January 25, 1861, to Mary Philbrick Ingalls, who was born January 3, 1834, in Bristol, New Hampshire. She was a daughter of Gilman and Sarah (Roberts) Ingalls. He died in Bristol Oc- tober 16, 1906. (See Ingalls, V).

(IX) Fred Lewis, eldest child of Lewis F. and Mary P. (Ingalls) Pattee, was born March 22. 1863, in Bristol, New Hampshire, and passed his early life in that town, where his primary education was obtained in the public schools. He fitted for college at the New Hampton Institute, from which he was graduated in 1884, and he was graduated from Dartmouth College with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts, in 1888. Three years later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. From 1888 to 1890 he was principal of high schools in New Jersey and Massachusetts. From 1890 to 1804 he was principal of Coe's Northwood Academy, Northwood, New Hampshire. Since this time he has been professor of the English language and literature in the Pennsylvania State College of Pennsylvania. In 1897 he made a tour of England and Scotland, and in 1902 he made a European trip and spent considerable time in study at the Univer- sity of Goettingen, Germany. Professor Pattee is well known to readers and speakers of America through his books, among which may be mentioned : "The Wine of May and Other Lyrics" (1893) ; "Pasquaney. a Study" (1894) : "A History of Amer- ican Literature" (1896) : "Reading Courses in Amer- ican Literattire" (1897) : "The Foundations of En- glish Literature" (1900) : "Mary Garvin" (1902) ; "The House of the Black Ring" (1905). He is also the editor of Shakespeare's Macbeth (1897) and the Poetical Works of Philip Freneatt (three volumes, 1903). Professor Pattee is a Methodist in religions faith, and takes an independent posi- tion in politics, although he is a Republican in prin- ciple. He was married, March 9, 1889, at Bristol, to Anna Lura Plumer, who was born March 9, 1859, in Alexandria, daughter of Charles N. and

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Louisa P. Plumer (See Plumer). She is a grad- uate of the New Hampshire Institution, and is a most intelligent companion and helpmeet of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Pattee have one daughter, Sara Lewis, born May 13. 1895, at State College, Pennsylvania.

(IV) Peter (2), son of Richard and Susanna ( Beale) Pattee, was born about 1705 in Haverhill. The establishment of the province line in 1741 threw his homestead into the state of New Hampshire, but he continued to reside in the same place. In 1745 this was called Haverhill district, and from this region Atkinson and Plaistow were subse- quently created. On account of the Indian depre- dations a company of scouts were organized for service in the Merrimac Valley and in July, 1745, Captain Peter Pattee was in command of a com- pany of cavalry scouts. They were enlisted August 24 and served three days, during which time no doubt the Indians were frightened away. His to- tal remuneration as captain was five shillings and nine pence, of which three shillinsg and nine pence were for wages and two shillings and three pence for provisions, and the balance for ammunition. He was an active and stirring man and possessed of considerable property, as the records of deeds indicate. He married Elizabeth Scribner, of Kings- ton, New Hampshire. and their children were: Susannah, Muriel, Asa, Rhoda and John.

(V) John, second son and fifth child of Peter (2) and Elizabeth (Scribner) Pattee, was born Jan- tary 10, 1738, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and was among the first settlers of Goffstown, New Hamp- shire, where he passed his life. He was married, October 6, 1763. to Mary Hadley, of Goffstown. At this time there was no church at Goffstown, and their daughter, Martha, was baptized August 5. 1766, in Hampstead. At the same time, Moses, son of Asa Pattee, was baptized.

(VI) Jolını (2), son of John (1) and Mary (Hadley) Pattee, was born February 10, 1771, in Goffstown, where he was a farmer. like his father, and many years justice of the peace. He died March 28, 1829. He married Rebecca Ferren, who died August 3, 1854.

(VII) John (3), son of John (2) and Rebecca ( Ferren) Pattee, was born 1795, in Goffstown, where he was a farmer and large landowner. He died October 30, 1832. He was a Universalist in religious faith, and a Whig in politics. He was prominent in the affairs of the town and took an active part in everything that made for progress. At one time he owned all of what is known as Pattee hill in Goffstown. He married Abigail Burn- ham, and their children were: Jabez B., John C., Sally E., Sabra. Joseph R., Julia and Mitchell.

(VIII) Jabez Burnham, eldest child of John (3) and Abigail ( Burnham) Pattec, was born Novem- ber 5, 1819, in Goffstown, where he continued to reside and conduct a large farm. His education was supplied by the district schools, and he was a ready and observing man and was an active and useful citizen. For two years he was superintend- ent of the poor farm. He engaged in lumbering with success and purchased several tracts of land for a farm in Goffstown, on which he erected sub- stantial buildings and he was one of the first of Goffstown to begin shipping milk to Boston. He attended the Congregational Church, but was a Universalist in belief. He was a Republican in pol- itics, and an active member and one of the charter members of the grange and filled a number of chairs in that organization. He represented the town of Goffstown in the constitutional .convention of 1876.

He died October 18, 1899. He was married, March 28, 1847, to Lorinda Jones, daughter of Amos and Rebecca (Dimond ) Jones, of Goffstown. She died January 21, 1901. She was an attendant of the Congregational Church, and active in grange work. They were the parents of three children: George, Josephine and Loella.

(IX) George, only son of Jabez Burnham and Lorinda (Jones) Pattee, was born September II, 1850, in Goffstown. He was educated in the dis- trict and high schools of his native town, and was from childhood accustomed to the labor of the farm which has been his occupation through life. For one and one-half years in his life he worked in a meat market, and in April, 1874, he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres on which he built a new house and is now engaged in dairy farming and shipping milk to Manchester. He is an attendant of the Congregational Church, and a member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled the principal chairs. He was a charter member and has been active as an officer of the grange, and is a thorough and progressive farmer. With his wife he is affiliated with the Re- bekah branch of the Order of Odd Fellows, and he is also a member of the New England Order of Protection, of which he is past grand warden. For six years he served the town as selectman, during five years of which he was chairman of the board, he has also served eight years as supervisor and seventeen years as a member of the school board. and for three years was road agent of the town, and was its representative in the legislature in 1903. He was married, April 2, 1874, to Mary Louise Hazen, daughter of Cyrus and Louisa (Bartlett) Hazen of South Weare. She was an attendant of the Congregational Church and of the Grange. She died December 13, 1882, leaving two daughters, Bertha M. and Ina L. The latter died at the age of sixteen years. Mr. Pattee was married (sec- ond), October 22, 1883, to Elizabeth H. Rowe, daughter of Azariah and Elvira (Baker) Rowe. of Goffstown. She died August 5, 1889. She was in early life a teacher, and was an active member of the Congregational Church and of the Grange. She left one son, Carl B. Mr. Pattee was married (third), October 29, 1890, to Julina A. Rowe, sister of his previous wife. She is a member of the Con- gregational Church and of the Grange and of the Daughters of Rebekah.

(III) Benjamin, son of Peter Pattee, was born in Haverhill, May 13, 1696, and settled there. In 1745 he was the only one of the Pattee family re- siding and paying taxes in Haverhill.

(IV) Captain Asa, probably son of Benjamin Pattee and certainly grandson of the redoubtable Peter Pattee, was born in Haverhill, in 1738. He settled first at Goffstown, New Hampshire, and at about the close of the Revolution settled in Warner, New Hampshire. He was captain of a company in the old French and Indian war, and was present at the capture of Quebec in 1759 under General Wolfe. Although the town history states that he was a Loyalist, that seems to be a mere assumption because he lived on Tory Hill in Warner after the Revolu- tion, for the Revolutionary Rolls of New Hamp- shire credit him with service in the Revolution, and his sons Asa and one John Pattee were in his com- pany in 1776. Perhaps later in the war he opposed the course of the patriots. He built the first frame house in the town of Warner, New Hampshire, and it is now called the Dr. Hatch house. For several years he kept a hotel there. He owned the largest farm in the town and raised much stock, cattle,

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sheep and horses. He became well-to-do, and had the fullest confidence and esteem of his townsmen. He married twice. Children: I. Asa, Jr., born about 1757, mentioned below. 2. John, born September 2, 1769; succeeded to the homestead at Warner. 3. Daniel, born 1775; settled in Canaan, New Hampshire, father of Mrs. Daniel Bean and Mrs. Jacob Currier. Other children.

(V) Asa (2), son of Captain Asa (I) Pattee, was born about 1757, and settled during the Revo- lution in Enfield, New Hampshire. He signed a petition for an act of incorporation June 3, 1779. The same land had been incorporated the year before under two charters and two names. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Concord, New Hamp- shire. in 1775. He was a lieutenant from Enfield of Captain John Parker's company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's regiment, in the northern division of the Continental Army under General Montgomery. Ac- cording to the census of 1790 two sons under six- teen, and three females were living in his home.

(VI) James, son or nephew of Asa (2) Pattee, was born about 1790 at Enfield, New Hampshire. He settled in that town and was a farmer. Among his children was Wyman, mentioned below.

(VII) Wyman, son of James Pattee, was born at Canaan, New Hampshire, August 28, 1826; died in 1902. He married Mary Jane Burleigh, who was born in Dorchester, New Hampshire, December 10, 1827. He was educated in the common schools of Canaan and at Canaan Academy. He began his busi- ness career in the lumber business. He was then for some years in Ottawa, Canada, associated with the firm of Perley & Brown, but before the Civil war had returned to Enfield and engaged in the grain business. He carried on this business in that town for a period of thirty years with much success. acquiring a handsome competence. He attended the Universalist Church. In politics he was a Republi- can and he was high sheriff of Grafton county, New Hampshire, for eight years; representative to the state legislature from his town and Canaan for several terms; now treasurer of Enfield for a period of twenty years. Child : James Wyman, born July 27, 1864, mentioned below.

(VIII) James Wyman, son of Wyman Pattee (7), was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, July 27, 1864. He was educated in the public schools.

The family of this name carly settled JEWELL in New England to escape the relig- ious persecution they were compelled to suffer in England. Many individuals of sterling character traced their descent to the immigrant ancestor.

(I) Thomas Jewell was of Braintree as early as 1639. His will was dated April 10. and probated July 21, 1654. His widow, Grizell, married (second ), March 9, 1656, Humphrey Griggs, who died in 1657. She survived him. The children of Thomas and Grizell Jewell were: Thomas, Joseph, Nathaniel. Grizell and Marcy. (Joseph and descendants receive extended mention in this article).

(II) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (1) and Grizell Jewell. was of Hingham and Amesbury. He removed to Amesbury, about 1687, and lived in that part of the town now South Hampton. Ile married. October 18. 1672, Susanna Guilford, and they had eight children : Mary, Thomas, Ruth, Ilan- nah (died young), John, Hannah, Samuel and Jo- seph. (Mention of Samuel and descendants forms part of this article).

(III) John, fifth child and second son of Thomas (2) and Susanna (Guilford) Jewell. was born in

Hingham, June 29, 1663, and went with his parents when four years old to Amesbury, where he ever after resided. He married, January 9, 1702, Hannah Prowse, born in Amesbury, March, 1676, daughter of John and Hannah (Barnes) Prowse. They had five children : Abigail, Thomas, Hannah, John and Barnes. Hannah (Prowse) Jewell married ( scc ond), September 19, 1715, Peter Thompson.

(IV) Barnes, youngest child of John and Hannah (Prowse) Jewell, was born in Amesbury, April 12. 1715. He married, May 13, 1740, Dorothy Hoyt, widow of Jones, born April 22, 1714. ( See Hoyt, IV).

(V) Dorothy, daughter of Barnes and Dorothy (Hoyt) Jewell, was born December 20. 1751, and be came the wife of Enos (1) George June 28, 1768. (See George, V).

(III) Samuel, third son and seventh child of Thomas (2) and Susanna (Guilford) Jewell, was born February 19, 1688, and died in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He married, November 6, 1712, Sarah Ring, daughter of Robert and Ruth Ring. of Amesbury. She was born October 7, 1691, in Amesbury, and was still living in 1728. The family tradition says that Samuel had a second wife who was the mother of his youngest child, but there is no record of such a marriage. His children were : David, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Ruth, Susanna, Doro- thy, Thomas and Timothy.

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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 55

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