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country, who fled from British jurisdiction during the early days of the Revolution because of irrecon- cilable differences with the government as to policies relating to the revolting colonies. They lived at Eaton and at Freedom, in New Hampshire, and at Parsonsfield, Saco, and Standish. in Maine. At Standish he became possessed of an extensive farm, where he and his wife both ended their days, and where their youngest child now lives. Their family numbered six sons and three daughters.
(VIII) The sixth child and fourth son of Cyrus and Eunice Moses was Thomas Gannett Moses, who was born in Eaton, New Hampshire, March 7. 1829. His grandfather died a few months later than this date, and his father removed to Maine not long afterward. His boyhood was spent upon the farm, with limited opportunity for education until the family took residence in Saco, where young Thomas made good use of the advantages of the academy there and is remembered by his fellows as a diligent and brilliant student, quick to assimilate knowledge and securing far more from the limited sources of the old-time academy than most of his mates. He worked for a time at his father's trade of shoe- maker and was also for a short period a carpenter. But as a young man he went into trade and re- mained in mercantile pursuits until about his thir- tieth year, when he embraced religion, and such were his intellectual gifts that it was at once pre- dicted of him that he would become a preacher.
Setting himself to prepare for the ministry, he turned again to his books with new zeal and pur- pose and placed himself, as was the custom of the time, under the tuition of the clergyman of the com- munity for instruction in theology. In December. 1862, he was licensed to preach by the York and Cumberland Christian Conference, and from that time till now has been borne on the rolls of the ministry of the Christian Convention, a sect once numerous in New England, but now chiefly in- fluential in the Middle West, where their churches and colleges are leaders in religions and intellectual life. The repute of the young licentiate had spread through the counties in Maine where his conference had jurisdiction and more than one pulpit was ready to receive him. He was formally ordained, June 15. 1863, at Kittery, Maine, where he had his first pastorate, which lasted till 1866, when he was called from the extreme west to the extreme east of Maine, and became pastor of the Christian Church at Lubec. in Washington county. Here he remained for six years, relinquishing his charge to accept the pastorate of the North Church at Eastport, Maine. Here he entered upon a most fruitful pastorate of nearly twelve years' duration, during which his parish became enlarged in numbers, with material additions to its ecclesiastic plant, while the congre- gations who flocked to hear the preacher were limited only by the size of the church edifice.
In 1883 Mr. Moses accepted a call to the pastor- ate of the Christian Church at Franklin, New Hamp- shire, and remained there for more than ten years. During all this time he served as secretary to the New England Christian Convention, in which are affiliated all the denominational activities of the Christian connection in the territory designated by its name, and his zeal and efficiency in that position of executive responsibility so impressed his col- leagues that, after repeated urgings, he resigned his pastorate to become New England missionary for his church, the funds of the denomination having so increased during his incumbency of the secre- tary's office that it had become possible to establish a permanent salaried field agent.
His resignation was regretfully accepted by his Franklin congregation, and Mr. Moses took up his new duties. He found a peculiar situation con- fronting him. His church had once held a place of commanding influence in the religious life of many a New England community and in many such places. during its time of potency, the Christian Church had erected a fine church structure and had often pro- vided itself with a parsonage. The sect had arisen as a means to express religious liberty in respect to- written creeds, and in many places had done a noble work in freeing the elders ecclesiastical orders from intolerant restraint. With the more general religious. freedom, not only in thought but in action, which has characterized the last quarter century, the Christian Church necessarily found itself brought into wide competition with other beliefs and in many places its spacious meeting-houses sheltered a beg- garly congregation, in point of numbers. As New England missionary Mr. Moses deemed it better de- nominational policy and wiser religious strategy to. reclaim these decadent parishes than to attempt to start new ones, while the economic point of view was plain in the attempt to save to the church in their efficiency the parochial plants which a former gener- ation had provided. To this task, unique as it then was among church activities, Mr. Moses gave him- self ardently, and took up his residence at Skow- hegan, Maine, where conditions presented themselves. in such wise as to sum up the extreme of the prob- lem he had set himself to solve.
For more than two years he remained in this field, seeking to build up a parish to receive and. maintain once more a permanent pastor. But more than thirty years in the active work of some of the- largest parishes which his denomination could offer. together with prolonged labor in the evangelical field, had drained the preacher's powers lower than he thought, and it became necessary for him to seek a less exacting field of activity. Accordingly, he accepted a call to the pulpit of the Christian Church at York, Maine, and from 1895 to 1900 ministered to that people most acceptably. In the latter year the parish to which he had given the strength of his. younger manhood sought once more his guidance. Family ties also drew him back to the former field and he took up a vacant pastorate at Westport, which lasted until 1904, when his retirement from the active ministry became imperative through fail- ing strength.
He now lives in retirement at Eastport, Maine, the guide, counselor and friend of the community, to whom his fruitful years are filled with the odor of blessing. His has been a rich and fruitful life. Blessed with rare natural powers, Mr. Moses has had remarkable success as a preacher and an evange- list. and many are those whom he has led to a better life. The evening of his life is quiet and content, and the leveling shadows of his sunset years are il- lumined and cheered by the affectionate solicitude of his children and those amid whom his life has- been spent in blessing.
He married. December 1. 1850, Ruth Sprague- Smith, at Standish, Maine. She died in 1878. and he married. June 6, 1880, Florence Della Higgins, at Westport, Maine. A daughter and five sons were born to him by his first wife: Luella Adelaide, Frank Elbridge, Charles Thomas, William Herbert, John Winfield, George Higgins. By his second wife- he had one son. Cyrus Arthur, who died in infancy. The other children are all living, except Luella Ade- laide, who married Andrew T. Capen, and died in Palatka, Florida, in January, 1892.
(IX) George Higgins, youngest child of Thomas,
9. J. Moses.
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Gannett and Ruth (Sprague) Moses, was born at Lubec. Washington county, Maine, February 9, 1869. When his father took a new pastorate in Franklin, New Hampshire, the boy entered the public schools at that place, and graduated from Franklin high school in the class of 1885. Two years at the Phil- lips Exeter Academy followed, and in 1887 he grad- tiated with high rank as a scholar. In the fall of the same year he entered the sophomore class in Dartmouth College without conditions, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1890, being elected class day orator by his associates. In 1893 he was made Master of Arts. In 1889 he was appointed private secretary to David H. Goodell, governor of New Hampshire. and served in that capacity during the term of the legislature of that year, which was the last summer session of the general court. In 1890, upon graduation, he became manager of the New Hampshire Republican, and also served as private secretary to the chairman of the Republican state committee during the campaign of 1890. In the fall of the latter year he joined the staff of the Concord Evening Monitor and Independent States- man, and was soon promoted to the position of news editor, and in 1892 to managing editor, which place he still holds. In 1898, upon the organiza- tion of the Monitor and Statesman Company, he became its president. In that same year he helped to organize the Rumford Printing Company, and was elected its treasurer. In 1893, when the law was passed establishing a forestry commission, he was appointed a member of the board and was made its secretary. serving by successive appointments until January, 1907, when he resigned. In 1905, during the session of the Russo-Japanese peace con- ference at Portsmouth, he acted as secretary to the governor of New Hampshire, who was the official host of the plenipotentiaries. In 1902 he was elected member of the board of education for Union school district, and was again elected in 1906, being still a member of the board. A glance at what is above written will show that George H. Moses is in the front rank of New Hampshire men who do things. While yet a boy his native ability and integrity at- tracted attention and won him friends who helped him to positions where he could be useful and re- ceive proper compensation for his services. Leav- ing college equipped to fill a place in the newspaper field. he had no difficulty in finding employment and efficient work brought rapid promotion, so that to- day, while still a young man. he is ranked among the foremost leaders in journalism in New Hamp- shire.
His official life has shown that a pleasing per- sonality and a faithful discharge of the duties of office are recognized by an approving public. As a citizen Mr. Moses has always supported with tongue and pen those measures which benefited his fellow citizens. His labors so far enumerated would prove his life to have been a busy one: but he has done much literary work not yet mentioned. In addition to his newspaper writing he has contributed fre- ยท quently to magazines and other columns, and is the author of "John Stark." published in 1891, and "New Hampshire Men." published in 1893. In 1894 he had editorial supervision of the Granite Monthly, and wrote one sketch for each issue of the maga- zine: during this period the publication had its largest success. Nor is this the limit of his activity. He has been a frequent speaker on forestry and other topics at farmers' institutes, grange meetings, and meetings of scientific associations, including the American Forestry Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, numer-
ous clubs, boards of trade, etc. He has also been a contributor to the arguments of the stump and be- fore legislative committees. He belongs to no secret orders except the Grange and college fraternities. He attends the South Congregational Church.
George Higgins Moses married, October 3, 1893, at Franklin, New Hampshire, Florence Abby Gor- don. who was born May 11, 1870, daughter of Hiram S. and Elberta C. (Martin) Gordon. They have one child, Gordon, born October 5, 1900.
(III) Mark, fourth son of Aaron and Ruth or Mary Moses, was probably born in Portsmouth. He was a cordwainer and also a farmer, and re- sided first in Portsmouth, later in Greenland, and settled in Epsom. New Hampshire, about the year 1760. His residence was about a half mile north- east of the present railroad station. He was mar- ried (first), October 29, 1724, to Martha Williams, and their children recorded at Portsmouth in the church and family records were: Elizabeth, Samuel, Aaron, William, Sylvanus and James. (The last named and descendants are noticed in this article). The seventh child, Jennie, was baptized in the Ep- som Congregational Church, December 18, 1763. at which time she was probably an adult as the record shows that she owned the covenant in the church at that time. He married (second) Jane Wallace.
(IV) Aaron, second son and child of Mark and Martha (Williams) Moses, was born in 1742, prob- ably in Greenland, and died March 20, 1816, in Greenland. He was married about 1765 to Dorothy Sanborn, who died at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, June, 1820. aged seventy-five. Their children were: William, George, Abrathor, Aaron, and probably a daughter Susan.
(V) Abrathor, third son of Aaron and Dorothy (Sanborn) Moses, had sons John, William, and Sanborn, and a daughter Olive.
(VI) William, son of Abrathor Moses, was born in 1808, and for many years had a transporta- tion line between Kensington and Boston, between which points he hauled a great deal of merchandise. He married Abigail Darling, born October 5, 1806. They had children : Stephen T., Thaddeus S., Lydia Almira and Robert T. He died February 14. 1875, at the age of sixty-seven years. His wife died De- cember 14, 1861, aged fifty-five years.
(VII) Thaddeus S., son of William and Abigail Darling (Keniston) Moses, was born at Campton, New Hampshire. January 28. 1835, and was educated in the common schools of Plymouth and the acad- emy at Laconia. When a young man he learned the trade of tinsmith at Plymouth. In 1860 he removed to Meredith, where he bought out a business which he carried on for forty years. He was a prosperous citizen, had the confidence of his fellow townsmen, and in politics was a Democrat. He was one of the selectmen, was town treasurer for ten years, was representative from Meredith one term, in 188S was elected state senator from his district, was a delegate to the constitutional convention, and a mem- ber of the building committee which had charge of the construction of the court house of Belknap county. In his religious faith he was a Baptist, and for many years he was a deacon in the church at Meredith. Mr. Moses married, February 22, 1862, Emily S. Currier. daughter of Aaron and Anna (Hoag) Currier, who was born November 26. 1840. Of this marriage there were four children: William H., Geneva A., now wife of Dr. Hawkins, of Mere- dith ; Chester S., of New York City; and Mina M., wife of Frank H. Shumway, of Somerville, Massa- chusetts. Thaddeus S. Moses died January 13, 1902.
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deus S. and Emily S. (Currier) Moses, was born September 3, 1863, in Meredith. He was educated in the common schools of Meredith and Tilton Sem- inary, graduating from the latter institution in 1886. He learned the business of his father while young, and at the age of twenty-three went into partnership with him. This relation lasted from 1886 to 1890, when he came to Tilton, and began to learn the art and mystery of cloth making in the Tilton Mills. After the death of Mr. J. J. Pillsbury, in 1895, Mr. Moses was elected treasurer of the Tilton Mills, and in 1901 was elected president of the company. Both these offices he now holds. He is also president and treasurer of the Tilton Electric Company, treasurer of the Tilton & Northfield Aqueduct Company, and director in each of them, and in the Concord & Montreal railroad and Manchester National Bank. He is a trustee of the Tilton Seminary, of the Iowa Savings Bank and of the Park Cemetery Associa- tion. He is a member of Doric Lodge, No. 78, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Winnepesaukee Yacht Club. He is a member of the Democratic state committee. Mr. Moses is one
of the leading citizens of Tilton. and well known throughout the state as a manufacturer and finan- cier. William H. Moses married, June 1I, 1890, Mabel T. Pillsbury, daughter of Alpha J. and Eliza S. (Tucker) Pillsbury, of Tilton, born August 27, 1870 (see Pillsbury, VIII). They have two chil- dren. Hazel Pillsbury, born October 2, 1893, and Margery, May 22, 1897.
(IV) Sylvanus, fourth son and fifth child of Mark and second child of his second wife, Jane ( Wallace) Moses, was born August 25, 1754, prob- ably in Greenland, and died in January, 1832. in Epscm, New Hampshire. He was a soldier of the Revolution, serving nine months under Captain Emery at White Plains. After his discharge he set- tled on a farm in Sagamore. He was married Au- giist 22, 1776, to Miriam Young, of Danville, New Hampshire, and their children were: Sarah. John, Joseph. David, Miriam, Joshua, Elijah and Polly. On May 6, 1820, he and his wife deeded the farm, valued at two thousand dollars, to John B. Girard, in consideration of support in old age. The wife survived her husband eight years, and died in 1840. (\') David, third son and fourth child of Sylvanus and Miriam (Young) Moses, was reared in Epsom, and subsequently resided in Concord. Chichester, and Stewartstown, New Hampshire. A decd on record shows that he sold one hundred and ten acres in the northeast corner of Concord, Feb- ruary 14, 1823. The inventory of his estate in Chi- . chester was made October 20, 1828, showing a value of fifteen hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-four cents. He married Mehitable Rand, of Epsom, and the vital records of the state show the birth of three sons: Willard, John and Charles.
(VI) John, second son of David and Mehitable (Rand) Moses, was born July 12, 1817, in Concord. and died October 8, 1894. in Colebrook, New Hamp- shire. He was reared on a farm, and was very fond of hunting, being especially expert in the capture of foxes. On attaining manhood he settled in Cole- brook, where he engaged in agriculture. He was married in 18441, to Fanny Munn, daughter of Dea- con James Munn, of Hereford, province of Quebec. Their children are accounted for as follows: I. Charles Ezra receives extended mention in the fol- lowing paragraph. 2. Emma died in 1900; married (first) Ezra Howard, and (second) Obadiah Call. 3. Flora became the wife of Herbert Penny. 4. Eliza is the widow of Berkley Keazer, and lives in Beecher Falls. 5. Lubian E. is a citizen of Warren,
this state. 6. Willard E, lives in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Fanny (Munn) Moses died March, 1896.
(VII) Charles Ezra, eldest child of John and Fanny (Munn) Moses, was born March 26, 1845, in Hereford, province of Quebec. On leaving home he was employed for two years in making brick, and subsequently worked three years as a carpenter. He began the study of medicine, but abandoned it as uncongenial. He was much employed as a teacher, spending two years thus in Colbrook Academy, and nine years in other towns in the vicinity. For a period of fourteen years he kept the Willard House at North Stratford, and then traded the hotel for a large farm in Lunenburg, Vermont, on which he settled. He made a specialty of dairying, and kept seventy-five head of cattle. In the spring of 1907 he leased the farm and moved to Lancaster to reside. While a resident of Lunenburg he served two years as selectman and five years as lister (assessor). He is a Republican in political principle, and is popular with his contemporaries. He was one of the reor- ganizers and is now vice-president of the Coos and Essex Agricultural Society, is a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and is engaged in spreading the spirit of fraternity among men. Mr. Moses was married December 24, 1871, at Columbia, New Hampshire, to Amanda Melissa Frizzell, daughter of Amasa Frizzell, of South Canaan, Vermont. The children of this union are: Frank E., who is again referred to in the succeeding paragraph; Mertrude G., who is now the wife of Frederick C. Cleaveland, of Lan- caster ; and Lester Ezra, who is now (1907) a student at Dartmouth College.
(VIII) Frank Elmon, eldest son and child of Charles E. and Amanda M. (Frizzell) Moses, was born in Colebrook, January 14, 1873. From the Lewiston (Maine) grammar school, which he at- tended three years, he entered the Portland Business College, remaining there one year, and in 1890 took a position in Wilson's drug store at Groveton. He shortly afterwards entered the employ of C. T. Mc- Nally as a bookkeeper; was still later employed in the same capacity at the Berlin (New Hampshire) National Bank, and returning to Groveton resumed his connection with the drug business. He next be- came associated with his father in the dry goods business in Groveton, but after continuing in trade some eighteen months he sold his interest in 1897, and accepting the position of bookkeeper in the office of the Odell Manufacturing Company at Groveton, paper manufacturers, he has ever since remained in their employ. Here he has worked his way upward to a position of responsibility and trust, being at the present time chief accountant and assistant to gen- eral manager George B. Bearce. In politics Mr. Moses is a Republican. He is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to the North Star Lodge, North Star Chapter and North Star Commandery, of Lancaster, is officially identified with the Knights of Pythias. having occupied all of the important chairs in the local lodge and being at the present time district deputy grand chancellor; and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters. On October 12, 1895, he was united in marriage with Bertha Blanche Hayes, daughter of William Hayes, of Northumberland. Mr. and Mrs. Moses have had two sons: Vernard E., born November 24, 1899, died November 18, 1906: and Kenneth L., born May 5, 1901. Mrs. Moses is active in religious and musical circles, is an accomplished instrumentalist and officiates at the organ in both of the Groveton churches.
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(IV) James, fifth son and sixth child of Mark and Martha ( Williams) Moses, was born in Green- land, February 27, 1758, and died August 17, 1819. He was a farmer and settled on the home place in Epsom. He married, March 9, 1780, Elizabeth Sher- burne, of Northwood, and they had six children: Mark, James, Jane, Betsey S., Mary and Sarah.
(V) Mark, eldest child of James and Elizabeth (Sherburne) Moses, was born January 19, 1781. and died March II, 18II. He married, June 19, 1802. Betsey Cate, and they had three children: Joseph J., Dearborn B. and Mark S.
(VI) Dearborn B., second son and child of Mark and Betsey (Cate) Moses, was born in Ep- som, August 3, 1805, and died August 23, 1881, aged seventy-six years. He married, February 13, 1839, Sally H. Locke, and they had one child: Sarah L.
(VII) Sarah Locke, only child of Dearborn B. and Sally H. (Locke) Moses, was born in Epsom, November 25, 1841, and married, June 19, 1869, James H. Tripp (see Tripp, IV). 1.
The early immigrants to New England
SMITH were mostly artisans and many of them men of little learning. That they were possessed of strong characters is. evidenced in a thousand ways to the student of history. While the pen was an awkward instrument to many of them, they were industrious and conquered the wilder- ness, establishing the foundation of the civilization which we enjoy. Among the most useful men in the colonies were the Smiths who made all the nails used in the construction of buildings and nearly every implement of every sort employed in the rude life of the pioneers. A century previous the country people in England had taken surnames, and it fell out that many who were smiths by occupa- tion took the word for a patronymic. In the midst of these, where christian names were oft repeated, it has been difficult to trace a line of descent in many cases.
(I) John Smith and his wife Isabella resided in Watertown, Massachusetts, and subsequently in Lexington, same colony. Here John died July 12, 1639, at the age of sixty years. His wife survived him three months, dying October 12 of the same year, at the same age. It is deemed probable by authorities on genealogy, that John and Thomas of Lexington and, perhaps. Francis and Daniel were sons of John and Isabella Smith.
(II) Thomas Smith came to America in 1635, and was admitted freeman May 17, 1637. He prob- ably resided in Lexington, and died March 10, 1693, aged ninety-two years. He married Mary, daugh- ter of William Knapp, and their children were: James, John (died young), Thomas, John, Joseph, Mary, Ephraim. Jonathan and Sarah.
(III) Thomas (2) Smith, third son and child of Thomas (1) and Mary (Knapp) Smith, was born August 26, 1640, and died in Lexington, Mas- sachusetts, December 25. 1727, at the age of eighty- eight years. He and his wife were admitted to the church in Lexington, June, 1701, by a letter of dis- mission from Weymouth, from which it is apparent that he had previously resided in Weymouth. He was taxed in Lexington in 1693, and honorable mention of him appears in the records there in 1700. In placing the seats of citizens in the meetinghouse we find that he and John Stone. "were Plast in ye fore seatt of ye body of seats." He married, in 1663. Mary Hosmer, daughter of James Hosmer, of Concord. She died October 1, 1719, aged sixty- four. His children, the first three born in Concord,
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