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(IV) David, son of David and Rebecca Putney, born in Dunbarton. September 4, 1801, died Feb- ruary, 1881. He was given a good common school education, and afterward taught several years in Bow and other towns in the vicinity of his home, but his chief business occupation was farming. He was a man of understanding and influence, served as selectman, representative, to the state legislature, and was one of the most intense abolitionists in his town. Originally he was a Democrat and after- ward a firm Republican. Mr. Putney married, 1827, Mary Brown, daughter of Jonathan Brown, of Bow, and of their fourteen children ten grew to maturity, viz .: John B .. of Granville, Vermont. Eliza A., wife of William Doherty, of Danvers, Massachu- setts. George H. (now dead). Charles E., a grad- nate of Dartmouth, class of '70 ; a noted educator, for fifteen years principal of St. Johnsbury (Ver- mont) Academy, and now teaching at Burlington, Vermont. Albert B., a retired Boston merchant. Lucretia C., wife of Charles W. Brown, of Con- cord, New Hampshire. Walter of Bow, New Hamp- shire. representative and state senator. Freeman,
superintendent of schools at Gloucester, Massachu- setts. David N., a graduate of Dartmouth, class of 75, formerly principal of Leicester and Monson academies, Massachusetts. Milton K., of Revere, Massachusetts, for many years teacher and superin- tendent of schools.
(V) Freeman Putney, superintendent of pub- lic schools at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a teacher and educator of wide experience, was born in the town of Bow, Merrimack county, New Hamp- shire, August 23, 1847. His elementary and sec- ondary education was acquired in public schools and academies, and his higher education at Dartmouth College, where he finished the course and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1873. He
worked his way through college and taught school to gain the means with which to pay his tuition and expense of maintenance. Having chosen the pro- fession of teaching, Mr. Putney, after graduation, began his career at South Hadley, Massachusetts, in the high school in that town, and afterward taught in Revere, Massachusetts. His work up to the time of leaving Revere had extended over a period of fifteen years, and gave to him an excellent experience. In 1880 he went to Gloucester, Massa- chusetts, filled a pedagogue's chair there for eight years, and in 1888 was appointed superintendent of schools in that city. On June 17, 1876, Mr. Putney married Alice C. Knight, born February 4, 1858, daughter of Rey. Richard Knight, an Englishman by birth and a clergyman of the Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Putney have three children : Freeman, Jr., born June 24, 1877, Brown University, 1899. Walter K., born May 6, 1879, educated at Brown University and the Massachusetts State Nor- mal School at Salem, Massachusetts. Willis R., born October 31, 1893.
(III) John Putney, progenitor of the Hills- borough and Cheshire Putneys, was a descendant of Joseph Putney, and probably his grandson, for the period of his life was contemporary with that of those who are known to have been the sons of David and Daniel Putney, who were sons of Henry, as has been mentioned. Little is known, however, of this John other than that he had a son, John Tracy Putney.
(IV) John Tracy, son of John Putney, was born in 1780, and settled in Washington, New Hampshire, about 1830, where two of his sons after- ward lived. His wife was Judith Ordway, daugh- ter and third of nine children born to Eleazer and Susan (Dow) Ordway, who lived many years at West Deering and moved from there to Frances- town about 1815, lived there about nine years and then returned to West Deering, where Susan died. Her husband died in Goffstown, New Hampshire. When John and Judith Putney went to Washington they settled on a farm on the southeast slope of Lovewell's mountain, at the place where John Vose is said to have made the first improvement, but later on removed to Bradford, New Hampshire, in which town both of them died.
(V) Andrew Jackson, son of John Tracy and Judith (Ordway) Putney, was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, December 15, 1830, and for about twenty years during the earlier part of his active business life was a farmer in the town of Bradford, New Hampshire. From there he moved to Hooksett, New Hampshire, and carried on lumbering opera- tions for General Samuel Andrews, but after a little more than a year went to Melrose, Massachusetts, and for the next two years engaged in the manu- facture of shoes. He then returned to New Hamp- shire and for the next ten years was connected with the Jones and Gage bobbin works, and afterward for something like a year and a half was half owner of that plant and its business; but soon disposing of his interest in the works he went to Hillsborough Bridge, carried on a farm and did other kinds of work until he was appointed overseer of the town poor farm. This position he held about six years, and during the following five years was connected with his son in the hotel business at Hillsborough Bridge. Now he is living comfortably on a small place in the town of Hillsborough. Mr. Putney married Julia Ann Jones. who was born at Brook- line, Massachusetts, 1833, daughter of Nathaniel G. Jones, and by whom he has two sons: George H.,
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born September, 1856, married Lizzie Duddleson, of Waltham, Massachusetts, and Charles Gordon, now of Keene. New Hampshire. Mrs. Andrew Jackson Putney died May II, 1898.
(VI) Charles Gordon, younger of the two sons of Andrew Jackson and Julia Ann (Jones) Putney, was born in the town of Washington, New Hamp- shire, March 2, 1861, and was educated in public schools. After leaving school he worked with his father, and in the course of about three years found a position as clerk in the Valley Hotel in Hills- borough, and after some three years in that capacity he bought out Childs Bros., the former proprietors, and became himself the landlord. Here he made his real beginning as a practical hotel man and he made a success of the business from the outset. After five years' experience in Hillsborough he went to Boston and became cashier and clerk in the Quincy House. but at the end of six months took the management of the Hotel Eagle at Keene, New Hampshire, and after about seven years there suc- ceeded to the proprietorship of that well-known hostelry, in partnership with J. W. Buckminster. Besides his work in connection with the hotel and its management Mr. Putney deals somewhat exten- sively in real estate, carries on lumbering operations and generally finds his time pretty well occupied with business affairs.
November 23, 1898, Mr. Putney married Mand Russell, born November 21, ISSO, daughter of John J. Russell, born at Stoneham, Massachusetts, July 21. 1841, and Ella F. (Wood) Russell, born at Hartford, Vermont, October 18, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Putney have two children: Russell G., born September 26, 1901; and Olande C., born August 26, 1904.
NETTLETON
The Nettletons of the town of Newport and Sullivan county, New Hampshire, are all descend-
ants of Jeremiah Nettleton, who made a settlement in the town of Newport in the year 1779, lived there about thirty-five years, and at his death left a large family of children from whom in later years has come a numerous line of descendants, and in each succeeding generation from the time of the settler there have been men of prominence in the civil, political and industrial history of the state.
(I) John Nettleton, of Kenilworth, England, is mentioned in history as the founder of this particu- lar branch of the Nettleton family of New England, but of his antecedents contemporary genealogists give little information of value. It is known, however, that he lived about fifty miles west of the city of London, and that after his immigration to America was one of the early colonists of Connec- ticut. He married, and among his children was a son Joseph.
(II) Joseph, son of John the ancestor, married, February 18, 1712, Hannah Bushnell. and had a son Jeremiah.
(III) Jeremiah, son of Joseph and Hannah (Bushnell) Nettleton, and grandson of John the ancestor, was of Killingworth, Connecticut, which appears to have been the principal seat of the family in that state. The family name of his wife is not mentioned by any of the earlier chorniclers of Net- tleton history, but it is known that he married and that one of his sons was Jeremiah Nettleton. progen- itor of the family of that surname in New Hamp- shire.
(IV) Jeremiah Nettleton was a descendant of the fourth generation of John Nettleton, the ances- iv-38
tor, and was born in Connecticut, probably at Kill- ingworth, October 17, 1738, and died in Newport, New Hampshire, in 1815. He settled in Newport in 1779, having come from Connecticut during that year with his wife and eight children, the eldest of whom was then less than seventeen years old. Jeremiah settled on what afterward became known as the Paul farm, and he owned Bald mountain and the land extending thence southward to the river. He married, at Killingworth, Connecticut, Novem- ber 19, 1761, Love Buell, of whose ancestors a brief. mention in this place is appropriate. She was a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Post) Buell, granddaughter of Samuel and Judith Buell, great- granddaughter of Samuel and Deborah (Griswold) Buell, and great-great-granddaughter of William and Mary Buell. Jeremiah and Love (Buell) Net- tleton had nine children, all of whom save the youngest were born in Connecticut. They were as follows: Mabel, born November. 15, 1762, married Aaron Buell. Jr. Charity, July 27, 1764, married a Mr. Story and settled in Goshen, New Hampshire. Aaron, November II, 1766, married Mehitable Dow. Jeremiah, Jr., September 11, 1768, married Lydia Ledoyt. Nathan, June 21, 1770, married Hannah? Wheeler. Rachel, October 4. 1772, married Joshua Heath. Deborah, February II. 1775, married Peter Stow. Joel, February 6, 1778, married Elizabeth Dow. Daniel, born in Newport, New Hampshire, December 1, 1780, married (first) Esther Peck, and (second) Rhoda Ryant.
(V) Joel, eighth child and fourth son of Jere- miah and Love (Buell) Nettleton, was born in Killingworth, Connecticut, February 6, 1778, and was about one year old when he was brought with his father's family to Newport. Having reached his majority he became a farmer in the northeast part of the town, but soon afterward purchased the old Newport House, which he enlarged and turned into one of the most famous taverns in that part of the state, while he himself was one of the most popular landlords in Sullivan county for many years; and in connection with his tavern he was proprietor of a line of stages. His wife, whom he married March 5. 1805, was Elizabeth Dow, daugh- ter of Jeremiah Dow, and who with her brother Nathaniel and her sister Mehitable removed from Salem, New Hampshire, to Newport in 1792 and settled in the eastern part of the town. Mehitable Dow afterward married Aaron Nettleton, older brother of Joel Nettleton. Joel and Elizabeth (Dow) Nettleton had six children, viz .: Joel Parker, born August 21, 1806, succeeded his father as landlord of the Newport House, married Charlotte Lyon, and died in Connecticut. Mary Hendrick, April 9, 1810, married Cyrus Walker. Gilbert, March 24, 1812. Elizabeth, October 7, 1814, married Zepheniah Hut- chinson, a noted singer, and settled in Illinois. Persis D., July 27, 1818, became the second wife of Cyrus Walker. Daniel. February 6, 1821.
(VI) Daniel Nettleton, youngest son and child of Joel and Elizabeth (Dow) Nettleton, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, February 6, 1821, and died in the same town October 1, 1875. His young life was spent at home with his parents, whom he helped with the work about the Newport House. but after he became of age he went to Wilmot, New Hampshire, and for twelve years carried on a tan- ning business. He was a capable and successful business man, and occupied a prominent place in the public affairs of that town. He was selectman in 1860-61-62, and representative of Wilmot in the gen- eral court in 1865-66. and after returning to New-
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port was selectman of that town in 1873-74. He also was actively identified with the state militia. in which at one time he held the rank and commission of colonel, hence the military title by which he was generally addressed-Colonel Nettleton. He was a man of decisive character and sound judgment. whether in official or personal business affairs, and his frank manners and generous disposition won for him many warm friends and made him one of the most popular men in Newport. In July, 1850, he married Ellen C. Wilmarth (see Wilmarth), eldest daughter of Jonathan M. and Lucy (Cheney) Wil- marth, and a descendant of some of the best fam- ilies of New England. Two children were born of the marriage of Daniel and Ellen C. ( Wilmarth) Nettleton, viz. : Lucy E., born May 27, 1851, and Fred. H., February 12. 1861, was graduated at New- port high school, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
(VH) Lucy E., daughter of Daniel and Ellen C. (Wilmarth) Nettleton, and a descendant of the seventh generation of John Nettleton, of Kenil- worth, England, and Killingworth, Connecticut, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, May 27, 1851. She was educated at Colby Academy, New London, New Hampshire. She married Arthur C. Bradley. formerly of Vermont and now of Newport, New Hampshire.
FOLLANSBEE The history of this family be- gins with the early settlement of New England, and covers a wide range of this country. It is represented in New Hampshire in a worthy way by many de- scendants, as well as through all sections of the United States.
(I) Thomas Follansbee, sometimes spelled in the records Follinsby and Follansbury, was a resi- cent of Portsmouth and Newbury. He is supposed to have been born about 1640. His first marriage was before 1672, his wife's Christian name being Mary. His second wife, Sarah, died in Newbury, November 6, 1683, and it appears that he was mar- ried (third), April 4. 1713, in Newbury, to Jane Moseman, of Boston. He was of Portsmouth from 1665 to 1671, and of Newbury in 1677 and subse- quently. He was still living in 1713, and probably in 1726. His children were: Rebecca, Anne, Mary, Thomas, Francis and Hannah.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas (1) Follansbee, was born about 1670. He resided in Newbury, Massachusetts, where he was a house- wright and an inn holder. His will was made July 30. 1753, and proved June 23, 1755, which indicates that he died in the early part of the latter year. He was probably survived by his second wife, Mary, whom he married after 1724. He was married (first), June 19, 1694, to Abigail Roafe, who was probably a daughter of John Bond. of Newbury, and widow of Ezra Roafe. Their children were : Mary, Thomas, Francis, and William.
(III) Thomas (3), eldest son and second child of Thomas (2) and Abigail (Bond) Follansbee. was born March 28, 1697, in Newbury, where he re- sided and was still living in 1753. He was married January 5. 1715, to Hannah March, who was living in 1726. She was a daughter of Captain Hugh and Sarah (Moody) March, and granddaughter of Hugh March. of Newbury, who came from England in the ship "Confidence" in 1638. The records of New- bury give only one child of this marriage, who is mentioned in the succeeding paragraph.
(IV) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) and Hannah (March) Follansbee, was born in 1730. and lived for a time in the town now Danville. He was married there April 19. 1770. to Martha Collins, and subsequently removed to the town of Weare, where he was a pioneer settler.
(V) Samuel, son of Thomas Follansbee, was born in Weare. New Hampshire, in 1760. The his- tory of Weare shows him to have been one of the taxpayers there between 1788 and 1793, inclusive. The Follansbee name is numerous in Weare to this day, and a Samuel Follansbee was frequently men- tioned there during the last generation.
(VI) Levi, son of Samuel Follansbee. was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, February 19, 1794. He married Asenath Goodwin.
(VII) Lucian Augustus, son of Levi and Asenath (Goodwin) Follansbee, was born in Hill, New Hampshire. October 16. 1816. He was edu- cated in the district schools of Hill. He was a suc- cessful carpenter and farmer. He became a colonel in the state militia. He was a Republican in poli- tics, served in the legislature, and held all the town offices: He married Sarah Clark Sargent, daugh- ter of Ephraim Kendall and Lydya Sargent. of Warner, New Hampshire. They had nine children, four of whom grew to maturity. They were : Ephraim K., born April 19, 1840 ; Augustus Damon, horn May II, IS42; Louisa, born September 26, 1844: and Sarah C., born February 3, 1845. Mrs. Sarah (Sargent) Follansbee died August 21. 1874. and her husband survived her eighteen years, dying April 16, 1892. Mrs. Sarah Clark (Sargent) Fol- lansbec was of direct Revolutionary descent. Her father, Ephraim K. Sargent, born in 1791, at Deer- field, New Hampshire, was the son of Barnard Sargent. The name of Barnard Sargent appears on the roll of minute-men organized at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1773. He is described in that record as short of stature, light complexioned, curly haired, a minor. He was in the fight at Lexington and Concord. Massachusetts. He was a member of the Second Company, First Massachusetts Regi- ment, and took part at Bunker Hill. During the retreat from Bunker Hill, while Barnard Sargent was assisting a feeble soldier, a cannon ball struck the soldier, cutting him in two. Barnard Sargent was with Washington's army at Valley Forge, where he contracted smallpox. In 1779 there is a record that the government was owing him eighty- two pounds seven shillings, English money. In 1780 Barnard Sargent married Judith Hanaford, at Con- cord, New Hampshire. The muster rolls show that on March 8. 1781. Barnard Sargent, age twenty- seven. enlisted for three years from Deerfield, New Hampshire. The date of discharge is not given, but the records show that Sargent was owed sixty- five pounds ten shillings at that time. At the pri- vate's usnal rate of pay, not to exceed two pounds a month, this would give him a service of three and a half years for the first enlistment, and two years and nine months the second time.
(VIII) Augustus Damon, second son of Lucian Augustus and Sarah (Sargent) Follansbee, was born in Hill, New Hampshire, May II, 1842. He was educated in the district schools of Danville, New Hampshire. He came to Sutton about 1862, and bought a farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres, making a specialty of raising fine stock. He was a Republican in politics. and was chairman of the board of selectmen in 1894-95-96. He was road surveyor and supervisor. He was greatly interested in temperance, and belonged to several societies for promoting the cause. He attended the Advent
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Church. He married Sarah M. Messer and they had four children. The eldest died young; the others were: Sarah G., Ada Matilda, born January 16, 1866, and Charles Reuben, born April 15, 1870.
(IX) Charles Reuben, son of Augustus and Sarah ( Messer) Follansbee, was born in North Sutton, April 15, 1870. He was educated in the district schools of North Sutton and at New Lon- don Academy. In April, 1891. he was graduated from Bryant & Stratton's well-known business col- lege at Manchester, New Hampshire. He first tried his hand at stonecutting ; but not caring for that, he came back to Sutton in 1897, and went into the hotel business. The Follansbee is a large, convenient hotel, situated at the lower end of Keyser lake, and its popularity is widespread. He also owns two roomy cottages, and in the summer time the accom- modations are not equal to the demand. He also manages a hundred acre farm and does considerable in the dairy line. He is a Republican, and active in politics. He was selectman in 1895-96-97-98. He was on the school board from 1894 to 1900. He
was road agent for two years, and represented his town in the legislature of 1905. He is an Odd Fel- low, and past noble grand of Heidelberg ' Lodge, No. 92. of New London. He attends the Univer- salist Church. He married Nellie Belle Pressey, daughter of John and Betsey R. Pressey, of Sutton, New Hampshire. They were married September 24, 1894, and have two children : Harold John, born August 26, 1895, and Winthrop, born October 27, 1896. Mrs. Follansbee is active in church work.
Sometime within the next half GUNNISON score of years after the planting of the colony at Plymouth in 1620, there came to New England five immigrant families who bore the surnames of Scammon. Frost. Bryar and Raynes, two having the same name. These are said to have been families of English birth and origin, and that with them came one of another nationality-a Swede, young. strong and of good appearance, whose name was Hugh Gunnison, founder of the first family of that name in New England.
It may be said, however, that early New England records are not quite clear in respect to the date of birth, the year of landing and the events of the early life of Hugh Gunnison, or in respect to the date of his first marriage, the family name of his first wife and the precise number of his children; but the best information drawn from all reliable sources. supple- mented with well preserved family tradition, indi- cate that he was born about the year 1610, and came to New England probably in 1630; that the colonists of whose number he was one entered Piscataqua harbor before there was any habitation of man at Portsmouth and when there were only two small huts on Great Island (New Castle ). His later move- ments, so far as the records searched tend to throw light on the matter, cannot be given with any safe degree of accuracy, but generally it may be said that he was first of Vintner, New Hampshire, then of Boston, and later of Kittery, Maine, where he died September 21, 1658.
(I) Hugh Gunnison was in Boston as carly as 1634, and on May 25: 1636, with sixty-eight others subscribed to the test oath and was accepted as a freeman. In the distribution of lands to the freemen of Boston on January 9, 1637, there was allotted to "Brother Hugh Gunnison at the Mount for three heads," indicating that he then had a wife and one child, although "Records of Boston" says that Sarah Gunnison, daughter of Hugh Gunnison
and Elizabeth his wife, was born December 14, 1637. From the same source it is learned that Elizabeth Gunnison, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Gun- nison, was born February 25, 1640, and also that their third child, Deborah Gunnison, was born in August, 1642. It may be well to state in this con- nection that Sarah was not the first born of Hugh and Elizabeth Gunnison, but that their first child died in extreme infancy. Elizabeth, first wife of Hugh Gunnison, died November 25, 1646 (Records of Boston), and after her death he married Sarah Lynn, who bore him two sons, Joseph, born January 31, 1649, and Elihu, born February 12, 1650. In November, 1637, Hugh Gunnison was one of fifty- eight of "the best citizens of Boston" who were charged with complicity in the Hutchinson heresy, and for that offense were deprived of the privilege of bearing arms. He must have gone from Boston to Kittery, in Maine, before 1651, for in that year he was noticed by the grand jury of that town. In 1654 (date of May 3), he was representative of Wells to the general court.
(11) Elihu, sixth child and youngest son of Hugh Gunnison, was born in Boston, February 12, 1650, and died after March 29, 1729. He was a shipwright by business occupation and a man of considerable influence among the townsmen. In 1680 he joined with other inhabitants of York, Kit- tery and Wells in an address to Charles II, praying to be relieved of the Puritan government of Boston, and in the same year he was acting magistrate. His name does not appear in the public records of Kit- tery before the year 1693, when he was chosen se- lectman, in which capacity he continued to serve until 1710. On May 9, 1693, he was appointed with others to give instructions to the deputy of the representatives to the general court at Boston. From 1699 to 1726 he was moderator of the town. Elihu Gunnison married, first, November 10, 1674, at Dover, New Hampshire, Martha Trickee, who died before November 23, 1765. The christian name of his second wife was Elizabeth, but her family name is unknown. By his first wife Elihu Gunnison had four children, and two by his second wife. Mentioned in the order of birth these children were as follows : Elihu, born in Dover, New Hampshire ; a child, born in Dover and afterward killed by the Indians ; Priscilla, born at Kittery, and married Nicholas Weeks: Mary, married Joseph Weeks; Joseph : Elizabeth, married John Walker.
(III) Joseph, son of Elihu Gunnison and Eliza- beth, his wife, was born October 14. 1690, and died September 8. 1748. He was by trade a shipwright. following the occupation of his father ; and he was a pious man, upright in his daily walk, and exer- cised an influence for good in the community in which he lived. He was admitted to the church April 14. 1720, and was elected deacon April 2, 1731. On July 15. 1724, he was made clerk of the parish of Kittery. He married four times: First, Susanna Follett: second, Elizabeth Lewis; third, Margaret Wilson, and fourth. Susanna Ayers. His children, in the order of birth, were: Samuel, John, David, William. Christopher, Benjamin, Margaret, William (the second child so named), Elizabeth and Lydia. (IV) Samuel, eldest son and child of Joseph Gunnison, of whom mention is made in the preced- ing paragraph, and of the fourth generation of the descendants of Hugh Gunnison and Sarah his wife, was born in Kittery, Maine, January 27, 1720-1, and to him is accorded the honor of having founded in New Hampshire that particular branch of the Gun- nison family whose representatives in succeeding generations have been so prominently identified
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