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At Concord, April 17, 1894, Mr. Hutchins was united in marriage with Edna Whittier, of Calais, Maine, a representative of a highly reputable family of that state. They have one daughter, Madeline Edna, who was born January 27, 1895, and is now an apt scholar well advanced in her studies.
MAYO The Mayo family is one which has one distinction in many directions since its advent in this country. It came from England to America at a very early date, and has been identified with the learned professions and va- rious lines of industry since that time, and has been continuously located in New England. It bore an active part in the development of Manchester, New Hampshire, and in the pioneer period of the northern section of the state.
(I) John Mayo, the first of this family of whom we have any definite record, was brought from Rawling, Kent county, England, by his parents in 1632. He was the first settled pastor of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts, later made famous by Paul Revere. being installed November 9, 1655, and left his pastorate in 1672. He married Hannah Graves in 1654, and died in 1676.
(II) Thomas Mayo, born July 29, 1667, son of John and Hannah (Graves) Mayo, married (first). 1734, Elizabeth Farley; (second), 1749, Mary Heart ; (third), 1763, Catherine Williams. He was the father of seventeen children.
(IIJ) Thomas (2), son of Thomas Mayo, mar- ried Elizabeth Davis.
(IV) Thomas (3) Mayo. son of Thomas (2) and Elizabeth (Davis) Mayo, was born in Rox- bury, and married Lucy Richards ..
(V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) and Lucy (Richards) Mayo, was born in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts. He was the proprietor of the old Mayo Tavern. He married August 29, 1791, Amy Davis, born September 3, 1771, and they had thirteen chil- dren.
(VI) Aaron Davis Mayo, son of Thomas (4) and Amy (Davis) Mayo, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, March 13, 1796, and died October 14, 1880. Like his father he was a hotel keeper in Roxbury. and also in Andover, Massachusetts. He married, April 24, 1820, Saralı Day, born December 13, 1794, died March 7, 1842, and they had children : Sarah Jane, born February 15, 1821 ; Matilda Eliza- beth, born June 4, 1822; Thomas Henry. born June 28, 1824; Thomas Henry (second), see forward; Sarah Augusta, born January 8, 1828; Helen Louisa, born November 1, 1831.
(VII) Thomas Henry Mayo, second son and fourth child of Aaron Davis and Sarah (Day) Mayo, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, June 28, 1826. He was apprenticed to learn the trade of decorating and followed this occupation during the active years of his life. While still a young man he went to Manchester, New Hampshire, and from there to West Stewartstown, New Hampshire, where his entire married life was spent. During the civil war he enlisted in Company I, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. His political
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affiliations were with the Republican party, and his religion was that of the Adventists. He married, in Manchester, New Hampshire. May 30, 1853, (Rev. B. M. Tillotson officiating,) Ellen (Flanders) Rowell, born in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary 16, 1834, died May 2, 1907, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Smith) Rowell, and they were the parents of children: I. Ellen Louisa, died at the age of nine years. 2. Edward, was drowned at the age of eight years. 3. Sadie Helen, mentioned below. 4. Ella Amy, born March 26, 1868; mar- ried Garvin R. Magoon, of Derby Center, Vermont, and has children: Ethel Caroline; Ellen Colby and Mayo Mckinley. 5. Edward Davis, who died at the age of two years. Thomas Henry Mayo departed this life August 29, 1907.
(VIII) Sadie Helen, second daughter of Thomas H. and Ellen F. (Rowell) Mayo, was born June 6, 1866, and is now the wife of John C. Hutchins of Stratford, New Hampshire. (See Hutchins, IV.)
COLBURN This is a name of a family quite numerous in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The race is an energetic one, and its members inclined rather to active than sedentary employment. They are self-reliant and most of them accumulate above the average amount of substance. Many members of the family now spell the name Coburn.
(I) Edward Colburn, the pioneer in America, came from England to Massachusetts about 1635, and died February 17, 1700. He settled in Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, and became the progenitor of a large family which has spread over the land. He had sons, John, Thomas, Robert, Daniel, Ezra and Joseph. (Ezra and descendants are mentioned in this article).
(II) Thomas, son of Edward Colburn, was born 1674, in Chelmsford, and resided in Dunstable. He was a soldier in the second expedition led by Captain John Lovell, and on account of this service he was a grantee of Kingstown, now Manchester. He died November 2, 1770, and his wife died September 7, 1739. Her name has not been preserved. Their chil- dren were: Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, Edward, Sarah, Bridget, Lois and Rachel.
(III) Thomas (2), eldest son and second child of Thomas (1) Colburn, was born April 28, 1702, in Dunstable, and was a farmer, living in the part of that town which is now Hudson. He and his son Thomas were killed by lightning August 30, 1765. His wife's name was Mary. After his death she married Colonel Samuel Moore, of Richfield, and removed to Hudson at the time of the marriage. The children of Thomas and Mary included sons Thomas, Isaac and Zacchens. (Mention of Zaccheus and descendants appears in this article).
(IV) Thomas (3), eldest child of Thomas (2) and Mary Colburn, was born June 2, 1731, in Dra- cut, Massachusetts, and died before 1814. He was married in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1761, to Sarah Eaton, who was born in Reading, Massachusetts, a daughter of Silas and Jerusha (Gould) Eaton. Their children were: Thomas, Sally, Silas (died young), Silas, James (died young), Daniel. Deborah (died young), Deborah, James, Sybel and Jacob.
(V) Jacob, youngest child of Thomas (3) and Sarah (Eaton) Colburn, was born April 1. 1782, in Dracut. Massachusetts, and died in Hollis, New Hampshire, February 22, 1836, aged fifty-four. He was a major in the Massachusetts militia. He mar- ried Lydia Haseltine, of Dracut, who died May 26. IS4I, aged fifty-nine years. Their children were :
Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Jones, Charles Louis, Jacob, Peter and Mary. The last three died young.
(VI) Charles Louis, son of Major Jacob and Lydia (Haseltine) Coburn, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, July 17, 1815, and died in Nashua, New Hampshire, December 28, 1892, aged seventy- seven. He started in life as a clerk in a shoe store in Lowell, where he was employed a year or two. He then learned to make shoes, and opened a shop in that city, where he employed several men. Sub- sequently he removed to Pepperell and carried on the same business with a force of fifteen or more men. finding this employment detrimental to his health he removed in 1841 to Nashua, where he bought a farm which finally came to include two hundred and fifty-six acres, two miles west of the city of Nashua. This land was well timbered, and he cut large quan- tities of lumber from it. He was a thrifty and pros- perous man and before his death he owned besides his farm three houses and lots in Nashua, and other property. In 1871 he removed to Nashua, where he resided seven years, but later returned to the farm where he passed the last nine years of his life, and where his widow now resides. Until the dis- solution of the Whig party he affiliated with it, and afterward with the Republican party. Ile filled the offices of alderman, selectman and road commis- sioner, holding the latter office six years.
He married in Hollis, April 2, 1839, Emeline Wright, who was born in Hollis, May 5, 1821, daughter of Miles Johnson and Betsey (Jewell) Wright, both of Hollis. Miles J. Wright was a blacksmith, and a farmer of ample means. He was born March 13, 1791, and died February 25, 1859, aged sixty-nine. He was a sergeant in a company of cavalry in the militia. His father, Lemuel Wright, son of Captain Joshua Wright, was born December 30, 1752, and died May 13, 1833, aged eighty-two. Lemuel Wright and three brothers were in the Revolution. He was in Colonel Joshua Wingate's Regiment in 1776-77, and was at the battle of White Plains and at Ticonderoga. He was fond of the military, and at one time had a great barbecue at his place at which a large number of militry guests were present, the principal gastronomic . attraction being an ox roasted whole. He married Mary God- frey Johnson, widow of Edward Johnson, of Wo- burn, Massachusetts, and daughter of Captain God- frey, of Greenland, Massachusetts, who was killed and scalped by the Indians, when she was a young child. She died December 30, 1838, aged ninety- one.
Betsey Jewell, wife of Miles Wright, was the daughter of James Jewell, a soldier of the Revolu- tion, who was paid off at the end of his term of ser- vice in Continental money. He received nine hun- dred dollars of this depreciated currency, ali of which he gave for a cow. He died September 24, 1851, aged ninety-eight years, and five months. To Charles L. and Emeline (Wright) Coburn there were born four sons and one daughter: Charles J., Sarah E., George W., John H., Arthur J. Charles J., born January 16, 1840, married Mary Jane Woods of Nashua, July 2, 1865. She died October 1, 1890. He married (second), Ida Louise Casavant of Lynn, Massachusetts, January 3, 1900. Sarah Emeline, born March 8, 1842, married, July 24, 1862, Frank- lin Tyrrell. George William, July 7, 1844. inarried, July 27, 1871, Nancy Poore Kimball. John H., is mentioned below. Arthur Jefferson, December 23, 1850, married, October, 1872. Kate Manning; they had one child, Grace Emma, born May 8, 1874, died October 1, 1880.
(VII) John Henry, fourth child and third son
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of Charles L. and Emeline (Wright) Coburn, was born in Nashua, July 8, 1850. He attended the dis- trict school near his home, the Nashua High School, and Crosby's Institute. He left the last named school at nineteen years of age, after having attended there two years. He then became the proprietor of two milk routes. His business required him to work at half past twelve in the morning and continue until half past seven in the morning, and to drive sixteen miles in the afternoon to collect milk for next day's delivery. The amount of milk delivered daily
was Six hundred quarts. He also dealt in
hay and straw. After seven year's steady
work at this business he found his health
impaired, and he sold out and went to Lynn, where he was employed in a shoe shop three years. Two years of this time he had charge of the shoe burnishing department. After a short stay on Long Island, Boston Harbor, he removed to Con- cord, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in the livery business five years, 1882-87. He then went to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he took a contract to do the buffing, burnishing, inspection, boxing, etc., of all the shoes produced by one of the factories there. He was thus engaged four and one-half years, when his health again broke down, and he removed to Nashua where he was in the loan busi- ness with Franklin Tyrrell two years. In May, 1891, he removed to Concord, and has since resided at the old Lyman Walker place. He does a large truck- ing and hauling business, employing several double teams and from five to fifteen men. He also does grading and supplies mineral building material, in- cluding sand, stone, etc. He married, January 5, 1882, in Concord. Sarah Abby (Walker) Chandler. widow of Horace W. Chandler, and daughter of Lyman Abbott and Lucy Ann (Pratt) Walker, of Concord. She was born October 24, 1847, and died June 10, 1905. She married (first), Horace William Chandler, January 31, 1867, who was born June 4, 1846. He died 1877, leaving one daughter. Mabel Walker Chandler, born December 7, 1868, who lives with Mr. Coburn.
(II) Ezra, sou of Edward Colburn married, 16SI, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Varnum, of Ips- wich, Massachusetts.
(III) Samuel, son of Ezra and Hannah (Var- num) Colburn. married, 1717, Mary Richardson.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Samuel and Mary (Rich- ardson) Colburn, born in 1729, and died in 1803, married 1754, Mercy Hildreth, who died in 1807. They had nine children : Saul and Jonathan, twins ; Mercy, Lealı, Thaddeus, Abi, Sarah, Zachariah and Micah, the subject of the following paragraph.
(V) Micah, youngest child of Jonathan and Mercy (Hildreth) Colburn, born in 1774, was a farmer in Dracut, Massachusetts, where he died. He married Sybil Flint, born in Dracut.
(VI) Heman Flint, son of Micah and Sybil (Flint) Colburn, was born in Dracut, January 28, 1805, and died May 25, 1876, at Lawrence, Massachu- setts. He was educated in the common schools, and on coming of age learned the trade of millwright, at which he worked for half a century. A few years before his death he moved to Lawrence, and dealt in wood and coal. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a Congregationalist. He married Julia Ann Colburn, born in Dracut, October, 19, 1807, died May 28, 1845. She was a daughter of Gideon and Mary Colburn. Their children were: Dimond, Lydia A., Andrew Jackson, Amos, Lucy Jane, Charles Lewis, Maria Lewis, and William F.
(VII) Amos Lincoln, third son and fourth child of Heman and Julia Ann (Colburn) Colburn, was
born in Dracut, June 1I, 1832. After acquiring a common school education he engaged in business with his father as a millwright for three years. Subsequently he was a bridge builder in the employ of the Concord railroad, until the outbreak of the Rebellion. April 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company I, First New Hampshire Regiment, and campaigned in Maryland and Virginia. He was at Williamsport and Martinsburg, Virginia, and under command of General Patterson in the attack on Winchester. August 9, 1861, he was mustered out of service in New Hampshire, as a corporal. He re- enlisted in the same month in Company I, Fourth New Hampshire Regiment, at Concord. Returning to the front via Washington, the regiment took ship at Fortress Monroe to join Sheridan's expedi- tion to Hilton Head, South Carolina. From there after a few months the Fourthi was sent to Florida, where it was stationed at various places the fol- lowing year. He was made first sergeant at muster, and while at Hilton Head, May 17, 1862, was ap- pointed second lieutenant. He was made first lieu- tenant. December 1, 1863, and declined a captain's commission November 9, 1864. Returning to Beau- fort, South Carolina, he assisted in the siege of Charleston. From that place he accompanied his command to join General Butler in Virginia. and was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to Company F. He was in the battle of Drury's Bluff, May II, 1864, and was reported killed there. He was present at the siege of Petersburg, and was wounded twice in a mine explosion, June 30. On August 16, following he was seriously wounded at Deep Bottom by a minie ball entering above his right knee. The next three months he spent in Hampton hospital. While there he was promoted to captain, but did not serve, as he was very soon mustered out.
After returning to New Hampshire, Captain Col- burn entered the employ of the Fairbanks Scale Com- pany, as a salesman, and repair expert and was thus employed from 1866 to 1872. He then established a business for himself in Manchester, New Hamp- shire, repairing and setting up scales, at which he was an expert. In 1876 he opened a shop in the same line of business in Lawrence. Massachusetts, and later, in connection with his already extensive busi- ness, engaged in the sale of coal and wood. Two years later he sold out and engaged in the bundle wood business. Removing to Concord, New Hamp- shire. in 1897, he started the pioneer wood yard, which he operated until the fall of 1895, when ill health compelled him to give it up. Mr. Colburn has had wide experience in making mauls for driv- ing piles and has shipped them to South America, Australia and various parts of the world. He was the first man to make a heel maul for use in shoe shops.
Mr. Colburn has always been a live member of the Grand Army of the Republic, since he joined Louis Bell Post, No. 3, of Manchester, about 1872. On removing to Massachusetts he transferred his membership to Needham Post, No. 39. When he removed to Concord he became a member of E. E. Sturtevant Post. No. 2. One day as he was visiting Blossom Hill cemetery, in Concord, he discovered a marker at a grave bearing his name, and on in- vestigation he learned that the post had been decor- ating his grave for several years; therefore in send- ing in his card for admission to the post he enclosed a check for $25 for services for decorating his grave. Comrade Dan Newhall, commander at the time. said he was entitled to the money, as he did the work, so he kept the check as a joke. Captain
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Colburn is now ruined in health, yet he never regrets that he fought for his country, and no one takes a greater pride in the Grand Army of the Republic than does this worthy, fearless, upright man, who is ever true to his country and the flag. He was married June 8, 1884, to Lydia Ann Dunne, born in Fort Covington, New York, and died February 16, 1888, aged thirty-five years. In 1897 Mr. Colburn married Lydia H. Caldwell, daughter of John and Eunice (Gilman) Osman, and widow of William Caldwell. She has a son by her first marriage, Har- vey Maharg, of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
(IV) Zacchens, youngest son of Thomas (2) and Mary Colburn, was born February 16, 1765, in Hudson, New Hampshire, and died October 10, 1851, aged eighty-six. He married in Hudson, April 29, 1785, Rachel Hills, who was born April ro, 1765. Both were descendants of pioneers of Notting- ham West, now Hudson.
(V) Dr. Elijah, son of Zaccheus and Rachel (Hills) Colburn, was born in Hudson, September 8, 1795, and died 'in Nashua, January 13, 1881, aged eighty-six. After obtaining what education he could in the common schools he attended Harvard Medi- cal College, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1823. He practiced a short time in Hud- son, and soon after, 1823 or 1824, he removed to Nashua, where he was perhaps the first permanently located physician. There is no doubt that he was the first physician who traveled with a horse about Nashua and the then sparsely settled towns ad- jacent. The Nashua Manufacturing Company was at that time starting in business, and from it Dr. Colburn bought the land upon which he erected the house which was his home the remainder of his life. During his early years he had his office on the site of the present Odd Fellows' building, but in his later years it was in an addition which he made to his residence on Main street. Dr. Colburn was a sagacious man, and learned in the ways of his day and time, and as a physician he took a lead- ing place in his profession. He was ambitious to excel, conscientious, a close student, and always in- dustriously employed. Having toiled for his own education, he was deeply interested in schools and anxious to help those who were trying to become better informed. For many years he was one of the trustees of the Nashua Literary Institution, and a member of the school committee before Nashua became a city. He was one of the incorporators of the Nashua Gas Light Company, and one of its early presidents. He was an honorable man, and faithful to the teachings of the Unitarian Church, of which he was a member. He was a member of Rising Sun Lodge No. 39, Free and Accepted Masons, and in 1843 and 1844 he was its worship- ful master.
He married. June 22, 1826, Sarah Belknap, of Framingham, Massachusetts, who was born Octo- ber 16, 1806, and died in Nashua, daughter of Luther and Hepsibah (Brown) Belknap, of Sudbury, Mas- sachusetts. Luther Belknap, a leading citizen in the region about Framingham, Massachusetts, was born November 7. 1789, and died February 16, 1855, aged sixty-six. He was a representative, justice of the peace, selectman twenty-two years, and town clerk seventeen years. Hepsibah Brown was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, July 28, 1769, and died August 5, 1852, aged eighty-three. When a small child she was left an orphan and adopted by her uncle, Adam Howe, who was the proprietor of the tavern at Sudbury, made famous by Longfellow's pocm. "Tales of a Wayside Inn." She was a mem- ber of her uncle's family until her marriage. The
children of Dr. Elijah and Sarah ( Belknap) Col- burn were: Luther B., Edwin A., Sarah M., Bel- knap S. and Susan E.
(VI) Dr. Edwin A., second son and child of Dr. Elijah and Sarah (Belknap) Colburn, was born at Nashua, December 13, 1829, and died in Nashua, March 5, 1892, aged sixty-three. After acquiring his early education in the public schools of Nashua, he attended the Nashua Literary Institution of which Professor David Crosby was then and for many years afterward principal. He was also a student at Derry Academy. He studied medicine in the office of his father. and was carefully in- structed by him. Following this he attended the Medical College at Woodstock, Vermont, two years. He subsequently matriculated at the New York Medical College, in New York City, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1854. After his return to Manchester he was associated in practice with his father until the retirement of the latter, about 1861. Dr. Colburn was a quiet, modest and retiring man, whose greatest pleasure was in the company of those who gathered about his fireside. Public life had no attractions strong enough to allure him from the domestic circle when his professional labors permitted him times of leisure. The only office he ever held was that of city physician, and that in 1861. He never allowed himself to be a candidate for office. Most doctors are excellent judges of horses, and lovers of. fine steeds. Dr. Colburn shared this regard for equine excellence, and owned and drove some of the best stock in the state. After the sale of the family es- tate lie erected a fine dwelling on Concord street, where he intended to spend the evening of life in the enjoyment of domestic tranquility and indulge his love of animals. But he had occupied his new place but a short time when he was found with his skull factured under the feet of an unbroken colt, and lived but a few hours afterward. He had no affiliations with secret societies. He attended the Unitarian Church, but was not a member of any sect. His religion was more in action than pro- fession. He married, June 26, 1861, Anna S. Dodge, of Antrim, who was born September 16. 1838, daughter of Alvah and Lydia (Elliot) Dodge (see Dodge, V), who survives him, and occupies the handsome home he provided for her. She at- tends the Unitarian Church, and is a member of Matthew Thornton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Benevolent Circle.
This is one of the many forms of JENKINS names indicating Johnson. It is de- rived from two ancient words, the second of which indicates small and the literal translation of the name would be "Little John." It has numerous representatives throughout the United States, and has been identified with the pio- neer settlement of Maine and New Hampshire. The records show that Reginald Jenkins, who was per- haps a son of Reginald Jenkins who settled in Dor- chester in 1630, was a resident of Kittery, Maine. He was among those who petitioned in 1652 to be placed under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and subsequent to that period removed to Dover. His wife's name was Ann and they had a daughter Philadelphia, who was married June 14, 1676, at Dover, to Matthew Estes.
(I) William Jenkins, who was probably a de- scendant of Reginald Tenkins, died at Dover. Decem- ber 10, 1785. He, was married at Hampton to Phoebe Hoag, who died at Dover, March 29, 1774. Their children were: Hannah, Elizabeth, Phoebe,
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William, Joseph, John, Jonathan and James. By
the (second) wife Ruth, William Jenkins, who was then residing at Lee, had Sarah, Phoebe, Hannah and Timothy. He and his family were Quakers, and like other poor Quakers of that time were much per- secuted and of course had no opportunity to take part in civil affairs. Hence the only record to be found of this family is in that made by the Dover monthly meeting of the Quakers.
(II) John, third son and sixth child of William and Phoebe (Hoag) Jenkins, was born September 30, 1752, in Lee, New Hampshire, and settled in Barnstead, where he purchased a tract of land near Suncook pond, and settled upon it. He finally be- came the owner of considerable land in Lee, where he died. His children were: John, Joseph, Lois, Hannah, Sally and William. John lived and died in Lee; Joseph is mentioned below; Lois married Sargent Hanson, and lived in Madbury; Hannah married Jacob Odell, of Durham; Sally married John M. Chesley, and lived in Barnstead; William was a manufacturer of starch, and lived in New York (further mention of him appears below).
(III) Joseph, second son and child of John Jenkins, was born February 15, 1794, in Lee, and re- moved to Barnstead when a young man. He was one of the most considerable landowners of the town, and was largely engaged in buying and selling timber lots. He served as selectman many years, and was a representative in the state legislature two years. He died in Barnstead, 1886, at the age of ninety- two years. He married (first) Nancy Walker, born in Portsmouth, died in Barnstead in 1833, aged forty ; and he married (second), Lydia Merrill. The children by the first wife were: Louisa, Wil- liam A., Joseph, John W., and Oran J .; and by the second wife: Charles F., Everett, Lewis C. and Louisa (twins), Calvin, Melvin, and Mary and Lyman H, (twins). (Oran J. and descendants are noticed in this article.)
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