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(IV) Deacon Ebenezer, third son and child of Deacon John (2) and Mary ( Browne) Everett, was born in Dedham, August 5, 1707, and died June 19, 1778, aged seventy-one. In 1731 Ebenezer Everett, of Dedham, bought lot No. 47 in Suncook, New Hampshire, for £55; in 1732, forty acres in Methuen, Massachusetts, for £160; in 1734, twelve acres in Methuen adjoining his previous purchase for £48. In 1738-39 he was called of Methuen, but in 1745-52 he was again called of Dedham, when he sold land in Methuen. He was dismissed from the First Church of Methuen, and his first wife, Joanna, from the First Church of Andover, to the Second Church of Dedham, March 22, 1741. He was chosen deacon of the Second Church, November 30. 1760, and was selectman 1760-64. His will, dated January 10, 1776, was proved July 18, 1778. He married March 9, 1734, at North Andover, Joanna Stevens, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Sprague) Stevens. She was born in September, 1711, and died June 21, 1791, aged eighty. Their children were: Ebenezer, Jolin, Asa, Andrew, Joanna, Phinehas, Aaron, Moses and Oliver.
(V) Phinehas, sixth child and fifth son of Deacon Ebenezer and Joanna ( Stevens) Everett. was born in Dedham, September 1, 1745, and died at Montville, Maine, May 27, 1813, aged sixty-eight. He removed to Rutland, Massachusetts, and about 1805 to Montville, Maine. He died suddenly in his chair after supper. He married, June 6. 1770. Mary Clap, daughter of Seth and Mary (Bullard) Clap, of Walpole. She was born January 28, 1742, and died in April, 1833. in the ninety-first year of her age. They had six children: Mary, Phinehas, Bet- sey, Ebenezer. Cynthia and Sarah.
(VI) Phinehas (2). second child and eldest son of Phinehas ( I) and Mary ( Clap) Everett, was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, April 22, 1776, and died in Bradford, New Hampshire. July 30, 1830, aged sixty-four. He was a farmer at Stockbridge, Ver- mont. and Bradford. New Hampshire. His will, (lated July 29, 1830. was proved the following month. He married ( first). Lydia Bullard, who was born in Oakham, Massachusetts, and died in Deering. New Hampshire: (second), Hannah Sawyer, who was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, February 10, 1773, and died September 27, 1860, aged eighty- seven. She was the daughter of Josiah and Lydia
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Sawyer. The children of this union were: Alice Lydia, Lucius and Horace.
(VII) Lucius, second child of Phinehas (2) and Hannah Sawyer Everett, was born in Stockbridge, Vermont, April 16, 1804, and died at Dover, New Hampshire, April 14, 1878, aged seventy-four. He was a carriagemaker and removed to Dover, New Hampshire, and in partnership with John O. Janes carried on an extensive factory. After the death of Mr. James, he continued the business. He mar- ried, October 15, 1826, at Charlestown, Massachu- setts, Judith Delano, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (White) Delano. She was born in Duxbury, Mas- sachusetts, October 15, 1803. They had seven chil- dren : Charles Edward, Elizabeth Ann, Walter, Clarendon Adams, Helen Frances, Lucius Theodore and Mary Low. All the sons were in the war of the Rebellion .. Charles Edward enlisted in Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in Dover, August 7, 1862; was mustered in September 5, 1862, as a private ; appointed second lieutenant, December 24. 1862; first lieutenant, Sep- tember 1, 1863; captain of Company D, May 15. 1865; mustered out June 4, 1865, as first lieutenant of Company K. He died in Dover, April 26, 1892. Walter was a colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Clarendon A. is mentioned below. Lucius Theodore enlisted in Dover, August 7, 1862, and was mustered in September 2, 1862, as a corporal ; appointed ser- geant ; was transferred to Company E, Seventh Regi- ment Invalid Corps, February 15, 1864; and was dis- charged June 29, 1865, at Washington, D. C.
(VIII) Clarendon Adams, fourth child and third son of Lucius and Judith (Delano) Everett, was born in Dover. New Hampshire, February 21, 1835. and died in Portsmouth, November 28, 1883. He engaged in the carriage business with his father in Dover, and in 1870 established himself in the same business in Portsmouth, continuing until his death. He enlisted at Dover, August 8, 1862. in Company K, Eleventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in September 2, 1862. as first sergeant; and was discharged for disability March 5, 1863, at Newport News, Virginia. He en- listed at Dover, December 10, 1863, in Company A. Thirteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. was mustered in the same day, and was discharged No- vember 17, 1865, at Boston, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, at Dover, Mary Josephine Clark, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Clark. She was born in Dover, February 9. 1841, and died at Dover. September. 1885. Their children were: Horace Delano, Theo- dore, Carrie Ordway and Edith. Of these, Horace D., born June 24. 1860, attended the public schools of Dover, Phillip's Academy, and Harvard Univer- sity, but he did not remain to graduate from the latter. He married Sarah M. Bock, of Boston, Mas- sachusetts, and they have one child, Margaret.
(IX) Theodore, second son and child of Claren- don A. and Mary J. (Clark) Everett, was born in Dover. New Hampshire, October 2, 1862. He re- ceived his primary education in the common schools, his higher education at Phillips Exeter Academy, and his medical education at Harvard University, where he graduated M. D. in 1888. Subsequently he spent a year at New York Medical College, and practiced medicine two years in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. In 1891 he relinquished medicine and be- came a partner with his brother Horace D. in the Everett Press Company of Boston, since incorpor- ated as the Everett Printing and Publishing Com- pany of Boston, of which Horace D. Everett is presi- dent, and Theodore Everett treasurer. They employ
over fifty persons, and do a thriving business. Dr. Everett resides in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he is a member of the First Congregational Church, and a member of its finance committee. He married, September 20, 1888, at New Hartford, Connecticut, Luna E. Vickery, who was born in Unity, Maine, December 10, 1861, daughter of John and Abigail WV. (March) Vickery, of Bedford, Maine. They have two children: Caroline Vickery and Judith Delano.
EVANS This honored Welsh name has been borne by many citizens of New Hamp- shire, and many families not related upon this side of the Atlantic are found often in the same neighborhoods. The stock is good, and the state owes something of its high standing among commonwealths to the moral and intellectual vigor of those of this name.
(I) Henry Evans is believed to be the progenitor of the family herein traced, but little is found of record concerning him. He was probably an old man, coming with a son to America. He settled in that part of Malden, Massachusetts, which subse- quently became a part of Reading.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Henry Evans, came with his father from Wales, and settled in Malden, Mas- sachusetts. His was one of the ten families set off from Malden in 1729 and annexed to Reading, con- stituting the present village of Greenwood. He died in 1710. He was married before 1680, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel (1) Dunton. Tradition says : "her temper was less amiable than her looks," and the neighbors said: "Evans had spoiled his family for the sake of a pretty face." She survived him about thirty years, dying in 1740. They had a son, Nathaniel, and John Evans, who married Sarah Sweetser, in 1719, is supposed to have been also their SO11.
(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) and Elizabeth (Dunton) Evans, was born 1680, and suc- ceeded his father on the original homestead, where he died in 1750. He was married in 1704 to Abigail Townsend, who died in the same year as himself. Their first four children are recorded in Malden, and all in Reading, namely: Abigail, Sarah, Andrew, Elizabeth (died young), David, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Mary.
(IV) Jonathan, seventh child and third son of Nathaniel (2) and Abigail (Townsend) Evans, was born 1722, in Malden, and reared in Reading, though on the same farm. He lived on a farm at the southerly end of Smith's Pond, his residence being near the present Boston & Maine railroad bridge. The track crosses the site of the cellar. He lived to the age of seventy-five years, dying 1797. He was married in 1744 to Eunice, daughter of David and Martha Green. It is said of her: "This woman had more dignity of manners, and was more reserved and discreet in conversation than her husband." Their children were: Jonathan, Thomas, Jonas, Amos, Samuel, Eunice, Timothy, Sarah, Lois and Abigail.
(V) Jonathan (2), eldest child of Jonathan (I) and Eunice (Green) Evans, was born 1746, in Read- ing. and settled in Winchendon, Massachusetts. He enlisted in 1776 as a Revolutionary soldier, and was in the service at Ticonderoga in that year. He was at Cambridge in garrison in 1777.
(VI) Daniel, son of Jonathan Evans, was born in Massachusetts, in 1776. He and his wife were among the earlier settlers of Shelburne, New Hamp- shire, where they made their permanent home.
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Daniel Evans married Phila Clemons, daughter of Benjamin Clemons, who was in the New Hampshire Continental line, and received a government pension during his later years. They had eleven children, but their names are not recorded. Daniel Evans died at Shelburne, New Hampshire, November 29, 1846, and his widow survived him thirty years, dying at Shelburne, April 8, 1876, aged ninety-eight years, four months and twenty-five days.
(VII) Otis, son of Daniel and Phila (Clemons) Evans, was born at Shelburne, New Hampshire March 12, 18II. He was a farmer, born and bred to that vocation, intelligent, prosperous and well informed, and passed all his life on the land where he was born and died. On May 29, 1834, Otis Evans married Martha Pinkham, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Chesley) Pinkham, who was born at Jack- son, New Hampshire, January 15, 1815. Her father's name is imperishably associated with the White Mountains. Daniel Pinkham was born in Madbury, New Hampshire, in 1776, and died in Lancaster, New Hampshire, June 25, 1855. He was a farmer and blacksmith and a licensed Free Baptist preacher. laboring chiefly in Bartlett, Jackson, Randolph, Jef- ferson and Lancaster. Between 1824 and 1834 he built the state road from Adams, now Jackson, to Durand, now Randolph, receiving therefore by special act of the legislature the lands now known as Pinkham's Grant, near the easterly base of Mount Washington, and also other state lands. To Otis and Martha (Pinkham) Evans were born three children : Daniel P .. December 6, 1835, who died April 30, 1889; William W., September 17, 1837, who died November 29, 1861; and Alfred R., whose sketch follows. Otis Evans died in Shelburne, Oc- tober 13, 1886, and his wife died there August 7, 1885.
(VIII) Alfred Randall, youngest of the three sons of Otis and Martha (Pinkham) Evans, was born at Shelburne, New Hampshire, March 21, 1849. He was educated in the common schools of his town. the academy at Lancaster, New Hampshire, the Nichols Latin School at Lewiston. Maine, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, class of 1872. He read law in Gorham, New Hampshire, was ad- mitted to the Coos county bar in the spring of 1875, and has been in active practice at Gorham since that time. In 1889 he was admitted to practice before the United States circuit court. On January I, 1895, he was appointed by the governor and council judge of probate for Coos county, which position hie still holds. Judge Evans is an ardent Republican, and represented Shelburne in the state legislature in 1874-75-78. In 1902 he received the nomination from both political parties, and also received every ballot cast for delegate from Gorham to the state constitutional convention. In January, 1807, Judge Evans was appointed quartermaster-general upon the staff of Governor Charles M. Floyd. He was served his town as chairman of the board of select- men, superintendent of schools, library trustee, is president of the Gorham board of trade, and has served it in various other capacities. Upon the organi- zation of the Berlin National Bank at Berlin, New Hampshire, in 1891, he was chosen president, and held the position for ten years, declining further election. He is now the president of the Gorham Savings Bank at Gorham. Judge Evans is the president of the Berlin-Gorham Bar Association. is an honorary member of the New Hamp- shire Veterans' Association, 1
belongs to the Mason of
New Hampshire Club of Boston, and is
the thirty-second degree, serving for thirty-three years as secretary of Gorham Lodge,
No. 73, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He attends the Congregational Church. On June I, 1880, Alfred R. Evans married Dora J. Briggs.
(Second Family.)
Evan is the Welsh equivalent of John, EVANS therefore Evans is the Welsh Johns, or Johnson. The Evanses of the present day in America are the progeny of various ancestors who came to this country from the British Isles at different times.
(I) David Evans, the progenitor of the Evans family of this article, was of Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, but whether he was the immigrant ancestor of the family cannot now be determined. He mar- ried, September 22, 1729. Abigail Walker, born in Woburn, August 21, 1703, daughter of Timothy Walker of Woburn, and probably a cousin of Rev. Timothy Walker, the first minister of Penacook, later Rumford, now Concord, New Hampshire. David and Abigail lived for a time in Woburn, where one or both of their sons were born; and in 1731 removed to Penacook. Further records of David are wanting. He probably lived and died in Penacook. His two sons were David and John.
(II) David (2), eldest son of David (1) and Abigail (Walker) Evans, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, before 1731, and grew up in Pena- cook, New Hampshire, where he was taken by his parents when an infant. His name is frequently mentioned in the histories of Concord. He and his brother John were members of that famous organi- zation known as "Roger's Rangers," in which John held the rank of sergeant. They participated in that expedition sent by General Amherst against St. Francis Indians, and were among the few survivors of the terrible homeward march through the wilder- ness where the greater part of their number perished from starvation and exposures to the frosts of win- ter. At the time of the settlement of Pigwacket, now Fryeburg. Maine, 1763, David was unmarried and lived with his brother John. It is said that about two years after the first settlement, reckon- ing from the autumn of 1762. when some of the men came through to Pigwacket and made preparations to receive their families in the spring of 1863, David Evans and Nathaniel Merrill, another young bachelor, went away and brought back wives with them. In one of the diaries of Rev. Timothy Walker, of Penacook is the entry: "Aug. 27, 1764. matrimonio Junxi (joined in marriage) David Evans and Catherine Walker." David died in Frye- burg, March 21, 1810, aged about eighty years. Catherine died November 15, 1798. Their children were : Sarah. David, Elizabeth. Timothy and Ruth.
(III) Timothy, fourth child and second son of David and Catherine (Walker) Evans, was born in Pigwacket, July 30, 1772, and moved to Sweden, Maine, in 1812. He married Polly, daughter of Joshua Gamage of Fryeburg, and they had eight children : Peter, Polly. James, Abigail, Sarah Ann, Caroline, David and Eliza.
(IV) James, third child and second son of Timothy and Polly (Gamage) Evans, was born in Fryeburg, June 20. 1805, and died in Sweden, March 24, 1870. He was seven years old when his father removed with his family to Sweden. He married Caroline E. Eastman, of North Conway, New Hampshire, daughter of Abiathar and Susan (Dur- gin) Eastman, by whom he had eight children : Charles, John H., Susan R., Samuel E .. Cavlin E., George Meserve, Susan Isabel and Mary Arabell (twins).
(V) John Henry, second son and child of James and Caroline E. (Eastman) Evans, was born
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in Sweden, April 16, 1834, and died October 2, 1889, in Sweden. Ile settled in Sweden and was a farmer and blacksmith. He married, October 23, 1859. Lydia C. Tucker, who was born in Portland, Maine, April 2, 1837, daughter of Captain Lemuel and Statira Tucker, of Portland, Maine. They had ten children : Ida 1., died in infancy; Henry J., Mary Ellen; Carrie G., died in infancy; Albert Tucker, died at two and one-nalf years; Frank Webster, John Conkey, Charles Maurice, Walter Eastman and Eva Belle.
(VI) Frank Webster Evans, M. D., sixth child and third son of John H. and Lydia C. (Tucker) Evans, was born in Sweden, Maine, August 20, 1868. He attended the common schools and the academy at Bridgton, Maine, and then took a course of lec- tures in the Maine Medical College, from which he went to Dartmouth College, and there received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, November 23, 1897. Soon after graduation he settled in Coos, in the town of Stratford, New Hampshire, where he has since resided, and by care, skill and strict attention to business, has gained the confidence and esteem of the citizens of that region and now has a flourish- ing practice. He is secretary and treasurer of the Coos Medical Society, and a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a Mason of the thirty- second degree, and a member of the following named Masonic bodies : Evening Star Lodge, No. 37. of Colebrook; North Star Royal Arch Chapter, No. 16: Evening Star Council, No. 13, Royal and Select Masters ; North Star Commandery, Knights Templar, of Lancaster ; Edward A. Raymond Con- sistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua; and Mt. Sinai Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Montpelier. Ver- mont. Also of Cumberland Lodge, No. 30, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. of Bridgton, Maine, and Strafford Lodge, No. 30, Knights of Pythias, of Strafford.
He married, at Strafford, June 12, 1901, Olive L. Beecher, who was born in Barnet, Vermont, August 10, 1879, daughter of Victor and Amanda (Mulliken) Beecher. She was a successful school teacher and musical instructor before her marriage, and for eight years was organist of the Baptist Church of Strafford. They have one child, Beatrice L., born September 27. 1905.
This is the name of an extensive family EVANS connection or clan of Celtic or ancient British blood. in Wales. Through in- termarriages with Saxon and Norman families, their descendants have become essentially English. Many of the name emigrated to this country, and their descendants are found in nearly every state in the Union. In the carly days the Welsh had no sur- names, but used the patronymic with the con- junction "ap": thus: Evan, a son of John, would be called "Evan-ap-John": and Thomas, the son of Evan, would be called "Thomas-ap-Evan." When in the time of Queen Elizabeth the British Parlia- ment enacted a law requiring every citizen of the realm to take a surname, it was very common for Welshmen to assume their fathers' names, dropping the use of the "ap." In time this came to be called Evans, and so it has remained.
(I) Elijah Evans' home is supposed to have been near St. Albans or Burlington. Vermont. He kept his own counsel, was quiet and reticent about his own affairs. and it is not known that any of his acquaintances in later life knew where his parents
lived, or where he spent his years of young man- hood. Some time in middle life he settled in the town of Wilmington, Essex county, New York, where he married Abigail Lawrence. By her he had. eight children: George, Sophronia, Oliver, Rhoda Ann, Lucius, William, Henry, and Mary.
(II) Henry, seventh child and fifth son of Elijah and Abigail (Lawrence) Evans, was born in Wilmington, New York, September 2, 1834. He at- tended the common schools until sixteen years of age, and then obtained employment in a chair fac- tory where he worked about eighteen months. At eighteen years of age he went to Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he followed house painting for nine years, and established a furniture business. He. then sold his interests and went to Berlin, Wiscon- sin, where he remained a year. He then removed to South Berwick, Maine, where he carried on the painting and furniture business for nine years more. In 1876 he settled in Rochester, New Hampshire. and engaged in the furniture trade, and has since done a large and lucrative business. About 1900 he took his son William into partnership, and since that time they have done business under the firm names of the Evans Furniture Company. In 1905 Mr. Evans established a hardware business in the Dodge Block, which is conducted under the style of Henry Evans & Company. Mr. Evans is a man of strict integrity and sound business principles, and his success in life comes to him as the reward of well directed energy and industry joined with a proper regard and attention to his rights and duties. He is a member of Libanus Lodge, No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, of Somersworth. He is a Republican in politics. He married, first, Isabel E. Blodgett, daughter of Wilder and Eliza J. (Ellin- wood) Blodgett. She died 1901. He married, sec- ond, Annie E., widow of George Willey. Three children were born of the first wife: William W .. married Emma Ellis, of Rochester: Lillian J., and George H. William W. is with his father in the furniture business; Lillian J. married James B. Young, of Rochester; George H. is a printer in Lynn, Massachusetts.
NIMS This old French name was transplanted to New England at an early date because of the persecution of the Hugenots in France. Their descendants may feel the same pride which is cherished by the offsprings of the Puritans. as in both cases the immigrants left their native land and all their possessions for religion's sake. The French immigrants proved just as earnest and patriotic citizens of the colonies as did their English brothers, and the descendants of this family have been among the most worthy American citizens.
(I) Godfroi De Nismes (Godfrey Nims), a French Huguenot, first appeared in North Hampton, Massachusetts, September 4, 1667. There as a boy he was arrested for stealing fruit. He participated in Turner's fight with the Indians, May 18, 1676, and was also a soldier in King Philip's war. He was married (first) in North Hampton. November 6. 1677, to Mrs. Mary ( Miller) Williams, daughter of William Miller and widow of Zebediah Williams. He removed to Deerfield, Massachusetts, and there his first wife died April 27, 1688. He was married (second), June 27, 1692, to Mehitable (Smead) Hull, the widow of Jeremiah Hull and daughter of William Smead. The house of Godfrey Nims was burned by the Indians on February 20, 1794. and three of his children were slain or burned with the house. His wife was carried away captive by the-
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Indians and killed on the way to Canada. He had eleven children in all.
(II) Ebenezer Nims was captured at the des- truction of Deerfield, February 29, 1704, as was also his future wife, Sarah Hoyt. She was born May 6, 1686, in Deerfield, and died there January II, 1761. She was a daughter of David and Sarah (Wilson) Hoyt. While in Canada, Ebenezer Nims was adopted by a squaw. An Indian chief desired to marry Miss Hoyt, but she refused and was mar- ried, while still a captive, to Ebenezer, in Canada, where their first child was born. After great dif- ficulty Mr. Nims and his wife were redeemed by Stoddard and Williams, in 1814, after having been captives ten years, and they returned to Deerfield, where he lived on his father's farm for many years. He was born March 14, 1687, in Deerfield, and died there in 1762.
(III) David Nims was married June 20, 1742, to Abigail Hawkes, daughter of Eleazer and Abi- gail (Wells) Hawkes. She was born October 17, 1719, in Deerfield, and died July 13, 1799, in Sullivan, New Hampshire. David Nims. went to Keene with the earliest settlers in 1740, and in that year was granted ten acres of uplands in Keene for the hazard- ing of his life and estate by living there in order to bring forward the settling of the place. Later he was granted one hundred four acres in that part of the towni which is now Roxbury, and this has continued in the possession and occupancy of his descendants down to the present time. He was chosen by the proprietors of Keene as their scribe as early as July 25, 1737, and he was also chosen as the town clerk and treasurer of Keene at the first town meeting, May 2, 1753. He held the office almost continually until 1776. A quaint portrait of him was made by the artist, Jeremiah Stiles, as he used to look upon the street, which portrait 110w hangs in the city hall at Keene. One of his de- scendants, the late Colonel F. C. Nims, has placed an elegant monument over his grave in the Wash- ington street Cemetery. He was the father of ten children.
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