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 71

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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accustomed to aid his father in his agricultural and. lumbering operations, and continued with him and carried on the same line of business as his successor, being a large land holder. He was active in pro- moting the general welfare, especially of his native town, and enjoyed the respect and esteem of his townsmen. A Democrat in political principle, he was elected selectman and served with fidelity, thus justifying the support of his political opponents. Both he and his wife were faithful members of the Congregational Church. He was married June 28, 1855, to Lucretia Reed, who was then seventeen years. old, and died in 1865. She was a daughter of Luther WV. and Martha (Kittredge) Read. The last named was born January 16, 1817, a daughter of Eri and Lucretia (Woods) Kittredge, the former of whom was born October 27, 1794, in Reading, Massachu- setts, and was married October 27, 1816, to Miss Woods.

(VIII) David Read, only son of David T. and Lucretia (Reed) Jones, was born in Merrimack, December 27, 1864. His studies in the public schools were supplemented with a commercial course at a business college in Manchester, which he completed at the age of eighteen years, and he shortly after- wards engaged in the grain trade at Merrimack, operating a grist-mill and transacting a profitable business for the succeeding eight years. He then turned his attention to manufacturing, purchasing in company with Henry W. McQuesten, a half in- interest in a water-power privilege at the old Thomas Parker stand, and for the past thirteen years has devoted his energies chiefly to the production of tables, the superior quality of which enables him to find a ready market for their disposal. In addition to his activities in behalf of the industrial interests of Merrimack, he is prominently identified with public affairs, having served as a town clerk for ten years, and in 1905 he represented his district with marked ability in the lower branch of the state legislature. Politically he supports the Democratic party. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and formerly affiliated with the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry. In his religious belief he is a Congregationalist.

On December 4, 1884, Mr. Jones married Alice E. Burgess, of Foster, Rhode Island, born August 4, 1871; they have two children: Nellie E. and Bertha M. Jones.

(VII) James Thornton, third son and child of David and Dorothy (Tewksbury) Jones, was born July 4, 1836, at Thornton's Ferry, and grew up in the town of Merrimack, attending the common schools and Colby Academy, David Crosby's school at Merrimack, and also Barnstable high school. Young Jones worked his way through school by his own labors, and at nineteen began teaching. In April, 1860, he went to California, where he was en- gaged in teaching for more than fifteen years, and again returned to Merrimack, where he taught two winters in the district schools. He was appointed station agent at Merrimack, December 5, 1881, and was also a representative of the express conpany and postmaster. He held the last named position continuously for twenty-six years, but some time since resigned the position of station agent. Both he and his wife were members of the Baptist Church, their membership having been formed in Hudson, which organization they joined in its early day, and now are with the Crown Hill Church of Nashua. Mr. Jones is a member of Thornton Grange and of the Golden Cross, a benefit order. He has always been a steadfast supporter of Republican principles, but his only official position outside that of the

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government service has been that of justice of the peace, which he has held continuously for the last twelve years. He is a highly cultivated and intelli- gent gentleman. Long years of reading and study have made him a most pleasant and agreeable con- versationalist. He was married, May 5, 1864, to Martha Frances Marsh, who was born April 20, 1836, in Hudson, New Hampshire, and died Febru- ary 5, 1906, in Merrimack. She was a daughter of Deacon Enoch S. and Martha ( Whittier) Marsh, natives respectively of Hudson and Londonderry. (See Marsh.) Mr. and Mrs. Jones had two sons born in California, namely, James Ernest and Leslie Egbert. The former is station agent for the Boston and Maine railroad at Tufts College, and the latter is traveling agent and manager of Smith Premier Typewriter Co., and resides at Bangor. Maine. Both have received liberal educations. A daughter, Grace Marsh, born in Merrimack, is the wife of Louis Hoffman, and resides with her parents at Merrimack. She is the mother of two children : Margaret Frances, born March 31, 1900, and Mau- rice Leslie, March 1, 1902.

(Fifth Family.)

The origin of this family in New JONES Hampshire, like many others of the first in what is now Rockingham county, is lost in uncertainty, partly through the destruction of early records upon the accession of Massa- chusetts authority in this region. It is not certain that this family is distinct from the Massachusetts family elsewhere treated in this work.

(I) William Jones was a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1635, and sold out his lands there in 1638. He appears at Portsmouth in 1644, and was at Bloody Point (Dover) in 1644. He is not found in the records of that town after 1618.

(II) Stephen, supposed to have been a son of William Jones, subscribed to the oath of allegiance at Dover in 1665, and was an accepted inhabitant in 1666. He took the freeman's oath May 15, 1672, and was made ensign in 1691. In 1694 he was in command of a garrison at his house, and he was continuously representative at the general court from 1709 to 1715, inclusive. He was taxed at Oyster river from 1709 to 1715, inclusive. He was at Oyster River in 1675, and was among the petitioners for making that a separate town in 1669 and 1695. In 1665 he was paid twenty-five pounds for keeping a pauper woman and child, and in 1669 the town meeting made arrangements to compensate him for work already done in building a meeting house. In 1696 he was selectman. He was married, January 29, 1663, to Elizabeth Field. The Stephen Jones figuring later in the town must have been his son. (Joseph Jones, who is mentioned with descendants in this article, was probably a son of Stephen (I).

(III) Stephen (2), undoubtedly a son of Stephen (I) and Elizabeth (Field) Jones, was a selectman in 1724 in Dover, and captain in 1729. No record of his family can be found, except in the parentage of a son. He resided in that part of Dover which be- came the town of Durham, and was among the petitioners for its separation.

(IV) Major Stephen (3), son of Stephen (2) Jones, was born March 3, 1706, in Durham, and was a citizen of that town. He was married about 1762 to Susannah Millet, who was born March 22, 1740, a daughter of Thomas Millet, her mother being a Bunker. The children were: Stephen Millet, Wil- liam, Susannah, Abigail and Thomas.

(V) William, second son and child of Stephen (3) and Susannah (Millet) Jones, was born May iv-35

23, 1766, in Durham, and settled in New Durham, New Hampshire, where he was accidentally killed while hanling logs. He married Love Smith about i792, and their children were: John, Sally, Susan- nah. Stephen, Ebenezer, Lydia S. and Lewis.

(VI) Lewis, son of William and Love (Smith) Jones, was born in New Durham, 1812, and died February 14, 1887, aged seventy-three years. He moved to Alton while a young man, and was a farmer. In his old age, about 1869, he moved to Farmington, where he died eighteen years later. He married, 1834, Betsey Edgerly, who was born in 1809, and died 1897. aged SS, daughter of Jere- miah and Betsey (Layton) Edgerly. They had eight children : Lewis F., who is mentioned below ; Lucy J., Fannie B., who married Charles Hanson; Sarah, wife of Almon Leavitt; Charles W., of Washington; Oscar E., of New Haven, Connecti- cut : Clara A., who married Frank Gilson, and a child which died young.

(VII) Lewis Freeman, eldest child of Lewis and Betsey (Edgerly) Jones, was born in New Durham, September 9, 1839. At eighteen years of age he began work at the shoemaker's trade, and continued in that industry until August 22, 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Company A, Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, from the town of Alton, and was mustered in August 30, 1862. He was on that part of the battlefield of Gettysburg called the Peach Orchard, July 2, 1863, and was severely wounded, losing his left arm, and was discharged on account of wounds November 9, 1863. After his discharge from the military service he peddled about fifteen years, was engineer in charge of a stationary engine three years and kept a saloon in Farmington two years. He is a member of Carlton Post, No. 24, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a delegate to the National Encampment at Indianapolis in 1906. He married (first), Augusta Taylor, daughter of Rev. Chase Taylor, of Abington, Massachusetts. They had three children born to them: Ada E., who married Orrin N. Blaisdell; Annie, who married Lewis Gould; and Frank J., who died young. He married (second), Georgia A. Lawrence, of Nashua. Three children were born of this mar- riage: Ethel Blanche, who married (first) John Driscoll, and had one child, Gladys Jones, and (second), Harry Wentworth; George F., who re- sides in Somersworth, a veteran of the Spanish- American war: and Alice Maud, wife of Leland J. Smith, of Rochester.

(III) Joseph Jones was undoubtedly a son of Stephen (1), born probably before 1680, and died before January 30, 1744, at which time the inven- tory of his estate was made. This amounted to four thousand four hundred and fifty-six pounds, four shillings and six pence. His estate was di- vided in 1746, the beneficiaries being his widow Ann. his sons Joseph, Benjamin, John, Anthony, Richard, and a daughter of a deceased son Sam- tel.

(IV) Benjamin, second son of Joseph and Ann Jones, was born soon after 1700, in Durham, and probably settled in Lee, New Hampshire. His wife, Hannah Chesley, was born in 1751, in Durham, and they were married about 1767-8. He settled in Can- terbury about 1773-4, and this may have been a sec- ond marriage. His children were: Benjamin (died young), Rosa, Elizabeth, Daniel, Henry and Ben- jamin.

(V) Daniel, second son and fourth child of Ben- jamin and Hannah (Chesley) Jones, was born in

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1776, in Canterbury, in which town he passed the most of his life, engaged in farming on Jones Hill. He died in 1832, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, whither he had removed but a short time before. He was married in Loudon, New Hampshire, Oc- tober 4, 1803. by Rev. Jedediah Tucker, to Sophia, daughter of Henry and Janet (McCurdy) Parkin- son, of Canterbury. (See Parkinson II). Their children were: Abigail, Lucinda, George S., a daughter who died in infancy, and Charles, the sub- ject of the succeeding paragraph.

(VI) Charles, youngest child of Daniel and Sophia (Parkinson) Jones, was born on the home- stead, in Canterbury, August 22, 1817, and died May 14, 1879. His father and his family moved to Dor- chester in 1823. After staying there a year Charles made his home with James Peverley, of Canter- . bury, until he was sixteen years old, working on his farm and attending school. At sixteen Charles went to Quincy, Massachusetts, where he learned stone-cutting, and worked at that trade twelve years. He then bought what was known as the Brown farm in Canterbury, a very stony place with poor buildings. He improved the farm very much, reconstructed the buildings, and planted a large orchard. Until that time orchards in that vicinity had produced only natural fruit, but he grafted his trees, and raised a superior quality of apples. In politics he was a Democrat. He married, Septem- ber 9, 1846. Sarah Pickard, who was born in Can- terbury, May 24, 1826, and died July 18, 1886, aged sixty years. She was the daughter of Daniel and Susan (Harvey) Pickard. Their children were : Frank P .. deceased ; Emily J .; Ellen, deceased ; Edea F., deceased : Paul H., Charles F., Seth W., and Mary S. Emily J. married Charles E. Morrill. Mary S. married John French.

(VII) Charles F., sixth child and third son of Charles and Sarah (Pickard) Jones, was born in Canterbury, September 4, 1858. After leaving the district school he attended Tilton Academy two terms. When about twenty he and his brother, Paul H., took charge of his father's farm and carried it on two years. He subsequently worked in West Acton and Hamilton, Massachusetts, about six months. In 1883 he bought his present place in the northern part of the town of Canterbury, known as the Foster farm, which he carried on until 1891, when he rented it, and went to Green Carbon county, Wyoming, where he had charge of a sheep ranch, until 1896. when he returned to his home- stead, which he has since cultivated. He is en- gaged in dairying and stock raising, and has a large sugar grove. All the buildings on the farm above mentioned were destroyed by fire between one and two a. m., Friday, November 2, 1906, and Mr. Jones and family now reside on the old Brown farm, which his father purchased and of which mention is made in this sketch. He is an influ- ential citizen, a liberal supporter of churches and schools, and has been chairman of the school board and was elected selectman in 1892, and served one year. He married, August 6, 1893. at Saratoga, Carbon county, Wyoming, Mary Emma Rubers- dorf, who was born in Germany, a daughter of John Rubersdorf, of Germany. They have three children : John Paul, born August I8, 1894; Thomas Rubersdorf, born November 2, 1895; Charles Carroll, born June 21, 1897.

The ancestry of Frank P. Jones, as far JONES as known, begins with Joshua Jones, who was a blacksmith, residing at Salis- bury Centre, New Hampshire. His wife was Bet-

sey Waldron, and they were the parents of twelve children. Of these Isaac resides at Danbury, New Hampshire, William, the second, died at Nashua, this state. Ephraim, the third, is a citizen of Am- herst, New Hampshire. Archibald, the fourth, re- ceives further mention below. Hiram was killed by a sawmill accident in North Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts. Joshua was killed in Salisbury, New Hampshire, while a young man. Dalinda, married Schuyler C. Corey, and died in Craftsbury, Ver- mont. Betsey was the wife of James Coburn, and died in North Chelmsford. Others died in infancy.

Archibald, son of Joshua and Betsey ( Waldron) Jones, was born January 29, 1821, in Salisbury, New Hampshire, and died March 3, 1901, in Merrimack, being over eighty years of age. He grew up and passed most of his life in the town of Salisbury. He was a shoemaker and butcher, and could turn his hand to many kinds of labor, and was active almost to the day of his death. His wife was a member of the Baptist Church in Salisbury, and later of the First Baptist Church of Concord. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Salis- bury, and was a steadfast adherent of the Demo- cratic party in political affairs. He was married in August, 1846, to Eunice Carr Roby, daughter of Ezekiel and Naomi (Carr) Roby, natives respect- ively of Warner and Antrim, New Hampshire. The children of Archibald and Eunice C. (Roby) Jones, are noted as follows: Alzira Ann is the widow of John Gordon Sanborn, of Sanbornton, a soldier of the Civil war who died in 1874. She resides in Concord. Frank Pierce is the subject of the follow- ing paragraph. Kate Maria is the wife of Daniel McQuesten, and resides in Litchfield, New Hamp- shire. Isaac Gerrish is a cabinet maker, employed and living in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Bessie Mir- anda is the wife of Louis G. Bryant, residing in Man- chester. George Archibald is also a resident of Manchester. Edwin Freeman resides in Merrimack, and Fannie Grace is the wife of Leonard J. Gordon, with home in Concord, this state.

Frank Pierce Jones, son of Archibald and Eunice (Roby) Jones, was born in Salisbury, New Hamp- shire, March 27, 1847, and educated in the common schools. At the age of seventeen he went to Con- cord, New Hampshire, and in the two following years learned the trade of cabinet maker. From Con- cord he removed to Merrimack where he now lives. He carried on the business incident to his trade until about 1895. He has been attentive to business, and has taken much interest in local public affairs and has filled public offices for many years. For thirteen years he was tax collector. He has always been a consistent member of the Republican party. In 1875 he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, Mechanics Lodge, No. 13, of Manchester. He has been a member of Thornton Grange, No. 31, Patrons of Husbandry, for an equal length of time. He is a member of the Congregational Church at Merrimack. June 7, 1871, Frank P. Jones married Louise Jones, daughter of David and Rosannah (Tewksbury) Jones, born July 31, 1849. They have no children.

JONES This is one of the earliest Welsh names and is derived from John. By the addi- tion of the possessive form it becomes Johns and in time Jones and is equivalent to John's son. This is one of the three great family names among English speaking people. and has numbered among its bearers many persons of distinction in the various walks of life.

(1) Joseph Jones was born March 4, 1774, in

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Bow, and resided for many years in his native town. When well advanced in life he removed to London- derry, where he died. He was a mason by trade but was most of his life a farmer. He suffered the loss of one of his legs through a fall from a load of hay and was thus largely handicapped in the struggle for existence. He reared a large family who grew up to be respectable citizens and he is said to have been a fine looking man. He was mar- ried, September 15, 1796, in Concord, to Sarah Clough, who died June 26, 1827, in Bow. His second wife was a widow, whose name was Wil- kins, at the time of her marriage to him. He had eight children. of whom seven grew to maturity. The eldest, Shubael Tenney, lived and died at Amoskeag, New Hampshire. Philip receives ex- tended mention in the succeeding paragraph. Seth Kendrick died at Concord. Ann was the wife of Dr. Daniel Flagg, who died at Albany, New York. Joseph died at Amoskeag. Walter Bryant lived and died at Hooksett. Sarah married a Griffin and died in Albany. All of the sons were masons by trade and earned by working at it sufficient to establish themselves in business and were prosperous.

(II) Philip, second son and child of Joseph Jones, was born April 3, 1802, in Bow, and died January 26, 1836, in Hooksett. Like all of his fa- thers' sons he became a mason and was an indus- trious and successful workman, and by saving his earnings was in time enabled to engage in business. He embarked in trade in Suncook. and subsequently established an extensive general store at Hooksett, and was a popular and prosperous merchant. He was a leading man in that town, and was elected to nearly every town office and also served as post- master. He was married in Bow, to Sarah Mead Gates, daughter of Rev. Abraham and Judith (Ten- ney) Gates, of Bow (see Gates, XIV). They were the parents of two children: Abraham Gates, who is the subject of the succeeding paragraph, and Augusta A., who is the wife of Charles Haseltine, of Concord. She has one son, George K. Hasel- tine.

(III) Abraham Gates, only son of Philip and Sarah M. (Gates) Jones, was born in Bow. Octo- ber 21, 1827. At the age of nine years he was left by the death of his father to the sole care of his mother. In 1839 she went on a visit to northern New York, leaving her son in the care of his legal guardian. Taking advantage of this opportunity to begin life for himself, the boy, now twelve years old, "ran away" and went to Concord, where he at- tended the town school the following year and the academy in the years 1841 and 1842. Anxious to engage in business he became a newsboy and fol- lowed that vocation during most of all of the years, 1843-44. On the 26th day of May, 1845, he entered the office of Isaac Hill & Sons, editors, publishers and proprietors of Hill's New Hampshire Patriot. At the end of twelve weeks he was enthusiastically discharged. August 18 following he was invited to return and did so. At the end of ten weeks he was uproariously discharged. At the end of twenty- three weeks he was with less excitement again dis- charged. He was again invited to return. He did so. staying with the firm till the two Patriots united. May 15, 1847, a period of forty-eight weeks. Each return was accompanied with a substan- tial increase of wages, and time lost was paid for in each case. Early in June, 1847, Mr. Jones went to Lowell, Massachusetts, and there, in the office of the Vox Populi he performed his first day's work as a full fledged journeyman printer. After a short period of employment he fancied his health

needed attention and he spent the time to little pur- pose till he was tendercd a situation in the office of the Independent Democrat, January 24, 1849. From that time until February 21, 1854, he was constantly employed in the various printing offices in Concord, New Hampshire. April 4, 1854, Mr. Jones, with Parsons B. Cogswell, a fellow crafts- man, purchased the office of the firm of Tripp & Osgood, printers, and commenced business under the firm name of Jones & Cogswell, and continued until the fall of 1858. Mr. Jones then sold his in- terest to Mr Cogswell and entered into business with the firm of Fogg & Hadly, editors and pub- lishers of the Independent Democrat, under the firm name of Fogg, Hadley and Company, having the general care and management of the typo- graphical affairs of the office, and so continued until the Democrat entered what was called the Republican Press Association. During this time Mr. Jones was severally chosen ward clerk, select- man, moderator, councilman, alderman, superintend- ent of repairs of highways and bridges, overseer of the poor, treasurer, and finally in 1870 and 1871 was elected and re-elected mayor of Concord. In the meantime he sold his interest in printing, retiring from that vocation forever, by the advice of his physician, which was as follows: "Get out of office, out of printing offices, and out of doors." in 1860 Mr. Jones built a residence on Orchard street, and in 1871 purchased a small farm on Fruit street and entered into agricultural pursuits, which he still follows. He has always taken a whole-hearted interest in every enterprise he has undertaken. He has been an industrious and enthusiastic worker in private and in public life. His record attests his energy and ability and the confidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens. He is a Republican whose membership dates from the early days of the party. He is a prominent member of the Univer- salist church, and has filled various positions in that society. From his twenty-first birthday. October 21, 1849, he has personally had no use for a physician. Although he has never been a user of intoxicating liquors to excess, he has been, since October 31, 1860, a total abstainer from the use of strong drinks or tobacco in any form. He married, June 10, 1856, Helen Augusta Edmunds, born February 4. 1831, in East Weare, daughter of John and Diantha (Ho- vey ) Edmunds, farmers. They have two chil- dren : Anna E. and Isabelle G. Anna Edmunds, born in Concord, May 14, 1863, married William Durant, of Concord, and they have one son, Anson Rus- sell. Isabelle Gates was born in Concord, January 27, 1872, and married James H. Leighton, local manager for Swift & Company, packers, and resides at Nashua.

The ancient and honorable family of JONES Jones has many branches and many dis- tinguished members, but the multitude bearing the name make kinship for more than three or four generations back a difficult matter to trace without more complete records than are generally found.

(I) Albert Jones was born June 5, 1813. and was a broom manufacturer nine years at North Hadley, Massachusetts, whence he moved to Springfield, same state, where he died January 12, 1850, in his thirty-seventh year. He married, at North Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary Ann Hibbard, who was born September 4, 1814, in that town, and died November 1. 1896, aged eighty-two ycars. Five children were born to them: William, Everett, Philo, George and Frank H. The three older sons enlisted in the

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Union army, and served under Grant in the Civil war.

(II) Frank H., youngest child of Albert and Mary Ann (Hibbard) Jones, was born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, February 1, 1846, and died July II, 1895. He spent the greater part of his life as a traveling salesman. He settled in Rochester, New Hampshire, and resided there some years. The seven years preceding his death he was employed in the United States custom house in Boston. In poli- tics he was a Republican. He married, December 27. 1870, Martha A. Dodge, who was born January 19, 1850, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Han- son) Dodge. Two children were born to them : Charles, who died young; and Albert Dodge, who is mentioned below.

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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 71

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