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 65

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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(I) Captain Nathaniel Howe was a master-mari- ner residing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and died at sea. The name of his wife, whom he married in Marblehead, January 20. 1793, was Mehitable Green.

(II) Captain Nathaniel (2), son of Captain Na- thaniel (I) and Mehitable (Green) Howe, was born in Marblehead in 1804. He settled in Hollis, New Hampshire, where he followed agriculture with pros- perous results, and was a well-known officer in the state militia, commanding a company which ac- quired an enviable distinction for unusual proficiency in military tactics. His death occurred, January, 1879. He married Elmira Rideout, daughter of Jon- athan and Rebecca (Powers) Rideout, of Hollis, and had a family of six children, namely: Eliza- beth R., William, John, Norman. Annie L., and El- len. Norman was a soldier in the Civil war, Com- pany H., Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, and died in the army.

(III) John Prentiss. son of Captain Nathaniel and Elmira (Rideout) Howe, was born in Hollis, June 2, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and reared to agricultural pur- suits. From the time of his majority he has been engaged in farming and lumbering, conducting each of these important industries upon an extensive scale, and furnishing employment to a large num- ber of men. His farm, which contains seven hun- dred acres of fertile land. is one of the largest tracts of agricultural property in Hillsboro county, and its facilities, in the way of improved machinery, ap- pliances, etc., are unsurpassed. As a lumberman he stands foremost among the operators in that section, cutting and hauling a large number of logs annual- ly, and beside furnishing the Nashua Heat, Light and Power Company with its entire supply of poles, he provides the F. D. Cook Lumber Company with large quantities of posts and other material. Po- litically Mr. Howe acts with the Democratic party.

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He takes a profound interest in the moral and re- ligious welfare of the community. He married Olive W. Farwell, daughter of Leonard and Lydia (Williams) Farwell, of Groton, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Howe have one son, William Farwell Howe, who is principal of the Ames public school at East Dedham. Massachusetts; it has an average at- tendance of about five hundred pupils.

HALEY This family is of English origin, and the surname, independent of errors in spelling by uneducated scribes, has been found in various forms in various forms, some of which are: Hale, Halle, Halie, Healey, Hally and Haley. Branches of the family were early settled in Kittery and Biddeford; these, as tradition tells, are descended from two distinct heads, possibly brother.

(I) Andrew Haley had a large fishing business in the Isles of Shoals, where he settled in early Colo- ial days, and from him "Haley's Island" was named. He seems to have been a man of wealth and social standing, and was known as the "King of the Shoals." A sea wall was built by him fourteen rods long, thirteen feet high and fifteen feet wide, to connect two islands and improve his harbor. He bought land in York in 1662 and sold it in 1684. He married Deborah, a daughter of Gowen Wilson, an early and prominent citizen of Exeter and Kittery. She was appointed administratrix of his estate De- cember 2, 1697. They had: Andrew, William, De- liverance, Elizabeth, Deborah, Anna and Rhoda.

(II) Andrew (2), eldest child of Andrew and Deborah (Wilson) Haley, settled on the Haley homestead. He had grants of land in 1692 and 1699. He made his will April 8, 1725, and mentions three sons and three daughters; land and buildings on Spruce creek; reserved orchard for wife Elizabeth. He wrote his name "Hally." He was a wealthy man for his time as is shown by his inventory, returned July 2, 1725, which was £1, 176:16:7, with £4:30:0 returned by the executrix June 9, 1727. He married. July 15, 1697, Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Scam- mon. She seems to have lived a widow until 1742, and August 14 of that year she was published to Nicholas Weeks. The children of Andrew and Elizabeth were : Elizabeth, Andrew, William, Sam- uel, Sarah, John and Rebecca.

(III) John. sixth child and fourth son of An- drew (2) and Elizabeth (Scammon) Haley, was born June 14, 1712. He inherited part of his father's estate at his majority. John Haley and his wife "owned the covenant," September 30, 1744. He mar- ried Margaret, daughter of William and Sarah (Eastman) Bryar, as a deed of Alfred shows. Their children were: Joel, Peletiah, Susannah, Dorothy, Milly, Eunice, Tobias, Sarah, Lucy, Robert and Re- becca.

(IV) Robert, son of John and Margaret (Bryar) Haley, married (first), September 10, 1772, Betsey Parker, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Googin) Parker, who is said to have been his cousin. He married (second), October 15, 1780, Widow Mar- tha (Jones) Hutchings. Four children were born to him: William. Robert, John and Polly. There is no record of his birth or baptism.

(V) Robert (2), second son and child of Rob- ert (1) and Betsey (Parker) Haley, was born in Kittery, Maine, December 22, 1778. He was the founder of the Haley family of Tuftonborough, to which town he removed in 1810. He was killed on the railroad near South Berwick. Maine, February 20, 1845. He married (first), September 5, 1802, Nancy Schillaber, who was born July 25, 1779. and

died January 23, 1832. He married (second) Mrs. Sally (Whitehouse ) Wiggin. His children, all by the first wife, were: Eliza, Schillaber, William, Abel, twin sons (died young), Parker, Nathaniel, John and Nancy.

(VI) Abel, fourth child of Robert (2) and Nancy (Schillaber) Haley, was born in Rochester. New Hampshire, October 23, 1808, and at two years of age was taken by his parents to Tuftonborough. He died August 3, 1880, at Wolfborough, aged seventy- two, and was buried with Masonic honors. He was educated in the common schools and in the Wolf- borough and Tuftonborough Academy. When

between fifteen and sixteen years of age he went to Danvers, Massachusetts, where he

spent a short time and then returned his home. For eighteen successive winters he taught school. He owned and carried on a farm, but also did surveying, and most all of the surveying in his time was done by him. He had a good knowledge of law, though not a lawyer, and his advice was sought by many. He settled various estates in Tuftonborough. and for years was one of the trus- tees of the Wolfborough and Tuftonborough Acad- emy. At eighteen years old he was clerk of the militia company, and later adjutant and inspector. He was a Democrat in politics and held local offices for many years. From 1839 to 1843 he was repre- sentative; collector eight years; selectman, 1839 to 1843; moderator for more than twenty years; dele- gate to the constitutional convention of 1850; state senator in 1850-51; councillor in 1853-54, under the administrations of Governors Noah Martin and M. B. Baker. As further indicative of his business talent and probity it may be observed that while he remained in Tuftonborough he not only almost wholly guided the public affairs of the town, but was the constant advisor of his fellow townsmen in all matter of personal importance, drawing their deeds and their legal documents, and acting as the mutual friend, umpire and peacemaker between many who might be long estranged from each other, but for his kindly and timely mediation. Through all the years of his busy life Mr. Haley was a practical farmer. Enjoying to the full all the com- forts, luxuries and contentment of a well stocked farm home and dispensing the bounties of a gener- ous hospitality that never permitted the poor and needy to go away empty handed from his door. His manner of public speaking was of the ornate and flowery kind, but his strong native common sense, his keen judgment of human nature, his treasury of facts garnered from solid reading, his resolute will. his high veneration of justice, and his great argumentative power invariably won for him the admiration and respect even of his opponents in whatever field of controversy he might happen to engage. In 1854 he removed to a farm in Wolf- borough and took an active and leading part in the financial affairs of that town. He organized the State Bank of Wolfborough and was elected its first Cashier, and filled that offices for eleven years, until it was merged into the Wolfborough National Bank in 1865. Under the administration of Mr. Haley and his associates the bank was excellently managed and besides paying a semi-annual dividend of four per cent it had an undivided surplus of $Io,- 000 when it went into liquidation, October 24. 1855. Mr. Haley was made an entered apprentice in Morn- ing Star Lodge, No. 17. of Wolfborough and on December 19, 1855. he took the degree of Fellow- craft and Master Mason. In 1857 he was made worshipful master, and served in that office until 1861. About 1830 the charter was returned to the

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Grand Lodge, and the lodge remained dormant un- til 1856, when it was reinstated through the efforts of Mr. Ilaley. Past Master Haley revived the in- terest of the members and had its charter restored and he . onferred the degree on all candidates re- ceived thereafter until 1861. This lodge celebrated its centennial, October 24, 1904. in Brewster Memor- ial hall with great pomp and ceremony, and Mr. Hlaley's course was enlogized. He was a member of the Christian Church, and always gave it his strongest support. It was principally through his influence that the church edifice was removed from the country to Wolfboro, where it is now one of the most flourishing religious organizations in the city. Abel Haley married (first), December 25, 1831, Mrs. Edith (Dodge) Tibbetts, who was born in Bev- erly, Massachusetts, March 17, 1799, and died in Tuf- tonborough, June 17. 1850. He married (second) Lucinda C. (Piper) Pinkham, widow of Charles Pinkham, and daughter of John Piper, a revolution- ary soldier, who was born January 17, 1760, and died in Tuftonborough in 1830, a lineal descendant in the fifth generation from Nathaniel (born in England in 1630) and Sarah, his wife. John Piper married (first), January 12, 1783, Jemima Hersey, born 1762, and died February 6, 1803; and (second), January 26, 1804, Anna Young, who was born in Wolfborough, August 25, 1777. By the first mar- riage there were five sons and five daughters. By the second eleven children. Lucinda C., the fifth child of John Piper and Anna Young, born July 24, 1809, died June, 1891. married Abel Haley. Eight children were born to Abel and Edith (Dodge) Haley : Abel (died young). Nancy S., January 6, 1834; Abel S., mentioned below; Lydia C., Novem- ber 4, 1836; Levi T., mentioned below; James D., mentioned below; Edith D., March 30, 1842; Sarah E., June 1, 1845.

(VII) Abel S., son of Abel and Edith (Dodge) Haley, was born March 30, 1835, in Tuftonborough, and died in Somerville, Massachusetts, April 1.4, 1891. At the age of sixteen he went to Boston, and that summer and the next he drove a milk wagon, returning to Tuftonborough and attending school winters. In 1855 he entered the employ of Mr. J. B. Severance in Fanueil Hall Market as a clerk He paid close attention to business and afterward admitted as a partner in the business firm, and after the death of Mr. Severance he became the sole pro- prietor of the business. In 1889, he and R. H. Stur- tevant bought our Bird & Company and formed the firm of Sturtevant & Haley, and carried on the ineat business together until the death of Mr. Haley. In 1882 Mr. Haley removed his residence to Somer- ville, where he had just completed a handsome and commodious house, when he died. He had accu- mulated a property of over one hundred thousand dollars. He was married in 1862. to Laura French, of Newmarket, New Hampshire. He left two chil- dren.

(VII) Levi Tibbetts, third son and fifth child of Abel and Edith (Dodge) Haley, was born in Tuf- tonborough, June 20, 1838, and was educated in the common schools. In 1866 he quit farming, which he had followed to that time, and engaged in the gro- cery business. Subsequently he was engaged in cus- tom tailoring, and still later conducted a livery stable. He has always had a penchant for public affairs and has been much in office. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1868 he was police officer of Wolfborough and filled that office several years. He was next appointed deputy sheriff under Leavitt H. Eastman, of Conway, and served three years, under a Republican administration. In 1874 Governor

James A. Weston appointed him sheriff and he filled that office in 1874-75. In 1878, after the office became elective, he was twice elected and served from 1878 until July 1, 1882. In 1882 he was elected state senator and served full term of two years. Al- though seventy years of age Mr. Haley is still a very active man and looks carefully after his farm- ing interests and other business. He has a retentive memory, and enjoys talking about men and affairs of long years ago. In 1874 he was made a Mason in Morning Star Lodge and was worshipful master 1869-71, 1875-77. He is also a member of Lake Shore Grange, No. 128, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he has been master, and also of Carroll County Pomona Lodge, of which he was the second master. He is also a member of the National Grange. He married, February 15, 1878, Mary L. Evans, who was born in Wolfborough, 1844, daughter of Otis and Shutah M. (Libby) Evans. (See Libby, VIII.) They have one child, Abel, whose sketch follows.

(VIII) Abel, son of Levi T. and Mary L. (Ev- ans) Haley, was born in Wolfboro, April 19, 1880, and was graduated from Brewster Free Academy with the class of '99. For some years he was a clerk, but is now in the employ of the American Express Company. He was made a Mason in Morn- ing Star Lodge, No. 17, 1901, and is now worship- ful master, filing the offices his father and grand- father before him had held, and doubtless there is not another instance in the state where grandfather, fath- er and grandson have all been master of the same lodge. He is also a member of Carroll Royal Arch Chapter. No. 23, Royal Arch Masons, of Wolfboro; Orphan Council, No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, of Dover, New Hampshire; Commandery, Knights Templar, of Laconia ; Bektash Pilgrims Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord; and Warren Chapter, No. 10, Order of the Eastern Star of Wolfboro, also a member of the New Hampshire Club of Boston. He passed through all the above degrees and offices when he arrived at the age of twenty-six years.

(VII) James D., fourth son and sixth child of Abel and Edith (Dodge) Haley, born November 17, 1839, at Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, was educated in the town school and Wolfborough and Tuftonborough Academy. Taught school and clerked in a store until he was abont twenty-three years of age, then went to New York City and clerked for John P. Huggins, proprietor of the Lovejoy Ho- tel, New York City, seven years; then clerked in the Grand Hotel. also Fifth Avenue Hotel, having been a hotel clerk in the city of New York about twenty years. Went to Boston about 1884 and there engaged in the meat business, and now owns the stall in the Boston Market where his brother Abel S., had been engaged in the meat business for about thirty-four years. Mr. Haley has made a success of the meat business and has accumulated handsomely. He is a Republican in politics. and has held sev- eral local offices at Medford. Massachusetts, where he makes his home. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He married Clara Coburn, of Boston, and they have three children.

It is not absolutely proven who were HILTON the first men to make a settlement upon the soil of our state, but that honor, if it does not belong exclusively to the Hiltons, is certainly shared by them. Edward Hil- ton was one of the company sent by the proprietor of Laconia to make settlement on the Piscataqua river. They expected to cultivate the vine, dis-

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cover mines and carry on the fisheries. Edward with his brother William arrived from London in 1623, and settled at Dover Neck, seven miles from Portsmouth. They had a hard time, and Ililton, being a friend of Governor Winthrop, sought the protection of Massachusetts, in 1641. In 1052 he moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, where he had been granted land some years before. He died in 1671. Edward Hliton's eldest son, Edward (2). married Ann Dudley, daughter of Rev. Samnel and Mary ( Winthrop) Dudley, and granddaughter both of Governor Jolin Winthrop and Governor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts. Their eldest son, Colonel Winthrop Hilton, became the leading military man in the Province, and was killed by the Indians, June 23, 1710. The descendants of this family are very mimerous in the southern part of Maine and New Hampshire, and probably all bear- ing the name in those regions could be traced to this line, but no genealogy has been written, and the con- necting links are lacking.

(I) Edward Hilton was of English birth, but the date and place of his nativity are unknown. Edward and William Hilton were brothers, and came from London to Piscataqua in the spring of 1623. They had been members of the guild of fish- mongers, and Edward was selected to take charge of the settlement of Dover which should be sup- ported mainly by fishing. They were sent over by the company of Laconia, and settled at Dover Point. Edward Hilton was from the first a very busy man, and as time passed the amount of his business in- creased. At first the little settlement at Dover was practically a little republic with Edward Hilton, the company's agent, at its head. He was the first of the "Rulers of Dover," and held office from the spring of 1623 to 1631. He was regarded by the Massachusetts government as the principal man in the Dover settlement, and after its annexation by Massachusetts, which was mainly effected by him, he was depended on to assist in maintaining, and was the first named in the list of magistrates of Dover in 1641, but removed to Exeter shortly af- terward. The records of Exeter show that he was settled and had a house in the part of Exeter which is now South Newfields, at least as early as December, 1639. A large grant of land had been made to him by the Exeter authorities, on "4 day of the Ist week of ioth month 1639." In 1653 an- other grant of about two miles square, comprising the whole village of Newfields, was made to him in regard to his charges in setting up a saw mill. A considerable part of this grant has remained to this day the property of his descendants. He be- came a leading man in the place, serving as towns- man and selectman from 1645 nearly every year up to 1652. In 1657 he was one of the committee of two from Exeter who met a company of three from Dover and "settled the bounds" between the two towns by marking the line, and agreed upon the enjoyment that each town should have, of the border land. He was repeatedly chosen by the in- habitants on various important committees to look after their interests, and was in all respects a use- ful and valuable citizen. He was assistant judge of the court of common pleas. He has been styled "The Father of New Hampshire." He died early in 1671. He brought a wife with him to America, or soon after married one, who was the mother of his children, but what her maiden name was is un- known. His second wife was Catherine, daughter of Hon. Alexander Shepley, agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in Maine, widow of James Treworgie, of

Kittery. His children were : Edward, William, Samuel, Charles, Susannah, Sobriety and Mary.

(11) Captain William, second son of Edward Hilton, the settler, is said to be the next in this line of Hilton, but that is not beyond question. He was commander of a company in the militia. He left several children.

(III) Jonathan, son of Captain William Hilton, married his cousin, Sobriety Hilton, daughter of Edward (2), the eldest child of Edward ( 1) Hil- ton, and his wife, Ann Dudley. Aun Dudley was born October 16, 1641, and was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley, of Exeter, and granddaughter of Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massa- chusetts Bay. Her mother was originally Mary Winthrop, daughter of John Winthrop, the first governor. The children of this million were : Charles, Jonathan, John and Mary.

(IV) Charles, eldest child of Jonathan and Sobriety (Hilton ) Hilton, married Hannah Pike, daughter of Robert and Hannah (Gilman) Pike, and they had one child, Charles, the subject of the next paragraph.

(V) Charles (2), only son of Charles (I) and Hannah (Pike) Hilton, was with Benedict Arnold and under the immediate command of Captain Henry Dearborn, for whom he named one of his sons, in the famous march through the woods of Maine to Quebec, and suffered terribly from hunger and cold. The men traversed a country entirely destitute of game, and after eating all their supply of provisions, ate two dogs which accompanied the expedition, and later boiled and ate leather straps and moccasins. Two days after arriving at Quebec, Hilton and others were taken prisoners and suffered from vermin and hunger in captivity. The New- Hampshire state papers of the Revolution contain an account of the allowance of twenty-two pounds, eight shillings to Charles Hilton for "Loss at Que- beck." Charles Hilton, the records state, was in the regiment of militia raised to reinforce the Northern Continental army in 1777, and commanded by Nicholas Gilman, Esq. Also Charles Hilton. private, entered, September 15, 1777, Captain Porter Kimball's company, of Colonel Stephen Evans's regiment, which marched from New Hampshire to join the Continental army at Saratoga in Septem- ber, 1777. He was discharged December 15, 1777, after a service of three months and one day, re- ceiving wages thirteen pounds, thirteen shillings, and an allowance of travel money "out to Bennington home from New Windsor, three hundred iniles. four pounds, thirteen' shillings and three pence." Charles Hilton removed to East Andover where he settled on a farm, kept a tavern, and became a prominent man. His homestead contained two hundred acres. Besides this he owned at different times between twelve hundred and thirteen hundred acres of land, the twenty-three deeds to which his descendant, Charles H. Hilton, now has. He mar- ried Mary Wadleigh, who was the daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Dearborn) Wadleigh. She was born in 1752. Their children were: Dudley, Elijah, Henry D., Polly, Sally and Charles (twins), and Betsey.

(VI) Captain Henry Dearborn, third child and son of Charles and Mary ( Wadleigh) Hilton, was born in Andover, and lived on his father's home- stead for a time, and then sold it and removed to Andover Village, where he dwelt the remainder of his life. He married Deborah Clough, who was the daughter of Lieutenant Moses Clough, a Revo- lutionary soldier, and his wife Molly (Cram)

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Clough. They had five children : Dearborn Henry, Polly, Hannah, Isabel, and Charles B., the subject of the next sketch.

(VII) Charles Burdet, youngest child of Captain Henry and Deborah (Clough) Hilton, was born in Andover, April 15, 1818, and dicd March 30, 1902, aged eighty-four. He attended school and worked at farm labor until he was twenty-one years of age, and then went to Boston, where he was a member of the police force for six or seven years. The two subsequent years he resided in Lowell, and then removed to Concord, where he learned the trade of cabinet maker, and resided about seven years. Returning to his native town, he bought a farm of one hundred acres a mile east of East An- dover and resided there until his death. He was an attendant of the Free Will Baptist Church, but not a member. In politics he was a Republican. He married Mary Jane West, who was born in 1820, and died in 1896, daughter of Noah and Hannah (Webster) West, of Salisbury. They had two chil- dren: One died in infancy; the other, Charles H., is the subject of the next paragraph.

(VIII) Charles Henry, son of Charles B. and Mary Jane (West) Hilton, was born in Andover, April 29, 1852, and was educated in the common schools. He lives on a farm adjoining the one his father owned, containing four hundred acres. He keeps a large flock of sheep. He raises, buys, and sells stock, and does some slaughtering. In agri- cultural and in enterprises of public interest he is a leading citizen. In political faith he is a Re- publican, and has served his town two years, 1891 and 1892, as selectman, has been deputy sheriff of Merrimac county, and for six years was superin- tendant of the county farm. He married, May 12, 1877, at Franklin, Marcia Frances Nelson, who was born in Danbury, November 7, 1858, daughter of Andrew and Louisa (Withington) Nelson, of San- bornton.

(I) Ralph Hilton was born in Wells, Maine. He was a merchant in that town in his younger days and later he was engaged in farming. He accumu- lated quite an amount of land in that region. The latter part of his life he was retired from active duty. He married his cousin, Hannah Hilton. Ralph Hilton died at Wells in 1875.

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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 65

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