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VIII. EMILY LUCY, born in Marlborough, July 10, 1865.
PHILIP BEMIS, perhaps grandson of Joseph, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1640, was in Cambridge in 1723, and married, Nov. 21, 1723, Elizabeth Lawrence. In 1738 he moved to Westminster, Mass., being the third settler in that township. He had six children, all born
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in Cambridge. The date of their birth is not recorded, but the church records give the date of baptism as follows:
I. PHILIP, Nov. 13, 1726.
II. WILLIAM, Nov. 13, 1726.
III. DAVID, July 30, 1727.
IV. ABIGAIL, July 25, 1731.
V. EDMUND, Oet. 22, 1732.
VI. ZACHEUS, July 25, 1736; married Elizabeth Lyon, and settled in Westminster.
EDMUND BEMIS, son of Capt. Edmund and Elizabeth (Rand) Bemis, and grandson of Philip and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Bemis, born in Westminster, Mass., in 1765; married Susannah Graves, and settled first in Fitchburg, but came to what is now Troy in 1807, and purchased a farm. Mr. Bemis died Feb. 11, 1857; his wife died Jan. 5, 1848.
I. CLARISSA, married William Whitcomb.
II. ELIJAH, died in infancy.
III. ELIJAH, married Lucy Butler; died Nov. 5, 1852.
IV. SUSANNAII, married William Jackson of Wallingford, Vt .; died Dee. 5, 1826.
JONAS, born Feb. 14, 1809.
VI. MARY, born June 7, 1814; married, 1835, George W. Brown; lives in Troy.
VII. SUMNER, born 1815; married R. Aun Thompson ; died April 19, 1877; killed by an accident in E. Buttrick & Co.'s mill.
JONAS BEMIS, son of Edmund, born Feb. 14, 1809; married, Aug. 25, 1831, Fanny, daughter of William Lawrence of Marlborough, and resided a few years on the farm formerly owned by Levi L. Pierce, but eventually sold the place and went to live with his father, on the farm now owned by J. M. Foster, and became one of the most successful farmers in the westerly part of the town. Mrs. Bemis died April 26, 1870; he died March 21, 1874.
I. WILLIAM L., born Nov. 2, 1834; married, April 3, 1861, Mary J. Holt of Troy; resides in Pawtucket, R. I. Children: 1. Nellie A., born Dee. 10, 1861; 2. Henry Leslie, born Jan. 21, 1873.
II. WARREN B., born March 12, 1839; married, May 20, 1867, Sarah Frances Holt of Alabama, born April 21, 1848. No children; resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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III. MARY E., born Oct. 20, 1840; married, Jan. 11, 1866, Henry C. Almy of South Portsmouth, R. I. Children: 1. Frederic Warren Almy, born Oct. 29, 1866; 2. Fanny Gertrude Almy, born April 28, 1873.
IV. FREDERICK W., born April 28, 1852; died Oct. 18, 1862.
V. FRANK H., born May 3, 1857; married, July 20, 1887, Juliette C. Miller; resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. One child, Mary Adeline, born July 1, 1888.
ELIJAH BEMIS, son of Edmund, married, March 11, 1824, Lucy Butler, and located on the farm formerly owned by Hugh Thompson, but afterwards by Jonathan Law- rence, Jr., where he resided until his death, Nov. 1, 1852.
EDMUND, born Sept. 19, 1824.
II. CAROLINE, born Jan. 13, 1826; married David Robbins of Winchen- don; died May 17, 1849.
III. LORING, born April 6, 1827; married, March 2, 1854, Ellen Hall of Plymouth, Vt.
IV. ELIJAII, born March 2, 1829; married, June 2, 1852, Susan H. Kim- ball of Rindge.
V. GILBERT C., born June 23, 1830; married, Oct. 10, 1854, Ellen Metcalf of Rindge.
VI. SUSANNAH, born March 30, 1832; married, April 1, 1850, Simeon Merrifield; died Oct. 1, 1853.
VII. LUCY ANN, born Sept. 22, 1835; married, July 4, 1859, -Derby of Fitzwilliam.
EDMUND BEMIS, son of Elijah, born Sept. 19, 1824; married, 1st, Aug. 13, 1846, Mary M. Kimball of Rindge. Mrs. Bemis died June 20, 1885, aged 58; and he married, 2d, May 18, 1886, Polly A. Bowen of Richmond. He died June 10, 1892. A few years after his marriage he purchased the Perkins place on East Hill where he lived until about 1887, when he moved to the village and purchased one-half of the brick house formerly owned by Isaac Aldrich. Mr. Bemis was a shrewd business man and a successful farmer, and by industry and economy secured quite a competence. He served as selectman of the town at different times for twenty. five years, and in 1865 and 1866 represented the town in the legislature. He was frequently called upon to act in the settlement of estates and other probate business. Children :
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I. GEORGE WARREN, born Jan. 2, 1852; married, November, 1883, Cecelia Sweezer of New Brunswick; resides in Templeton, Mass. II. MARIANNA, born June 16, 1853; married, Sept. 14, 1871, Henry P. Howe of Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Alta May Howe, born March 14, 1873; died Sept. 1, 1873; 2. Edmund Bemis Howe, born July 7, 1878; 3. Perley Clifton Howe, born Jan. 1, 1882.
III. EMMA JANE, born July 21, 1860; married, June 29, 1886, Alfred F. Haskins. Children: 1. Roger Abbott Haskins, born Ang. 6, 1891; 2. Ernest Pearl Haskins, born April 4, 1893.
EDMUND BEMIS.
IV. ALICE LILLIAN, born April 11, 1862; married, April 27, 1886, Elmer J. Adams. Children: 1. Tracey Addison Adams, born April 3, 1889; 2. Arnold Bemis Adams, born Jan. 27, 1891; resides in Jaffrey.
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GILBERT C. BEMIS, son of Elijah, born June 23, 1830; married, Oct. 19, 1854, Ellen Sarah, born Feb. 18, 1836, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Pratt) Metealf of Rindge. He died Feb. 4, 1892. One child :
I. Charles Gilbert, born Sept. 23, 1864, in Jaffrey.
CALVIN BEMIS was the son of Jonathan Bemis of Marlbor- ough, where he was born Jan. 27, 1798; married, March 14, 1822, Deborah, daughter of Asa and
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Deborah (Sargent) Brewer; after his marriage they resided eight years in Swanzey, one year in Marlbor- ough, twenty years in Rindge, and came to Troy in
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1851, locating on the place now owned by Mrs. Abel Burpee. He was a man of sound judgment and uni- versally respected. Mr. Bemis died in Troy, Aug. 9, 1872; his widow died in Fitzwilliam, July 17, 1882. Children :
I. ELIZA, born Oct. 10, 1823; married, May 8, 1855, Calvin Hastings, born Nov. 25, 1817, son of Calvin and Polly (Baker) of Marl- borough; resides in Keene.
II. MARIA, born Jan. 24, 1826; married, March 31, 1847, Charles Perry of Fitzwilliam.
III. MARY JANE, born April 9, 1835; married, Oct. 23, 1855, Leonard Wright.
JOHN U. BEERS was born April 8, 1829. He settled in Troy, Aug. 10, 1853. His father, John Spencer Beers, was born in Providence, R. I., in 1797, and moved to Orwell, Bradford County, Pa., about the year 1820. He married, Aug. 25, 1822, Sally Howe, and returned to Providence where he resided eight years, when he returned to Orwell. John U. resided with his parents till 1843, when he went to Brooklyn as an apprentice at the tanning business, and remained there until Nov. 27, 1847; the next year he worked at his trade in Ashby, Mass .; he went to Rindge in 1849, and married Marcia A. Woods, a native of that town, in 1850. After coming to Troy, he worked at his trade for Wright & Foster; later he removed to Hinsdale. Died in Whately, Mass., February, 1895. Mrs. Marcia A. Beers died Oet. 27, 1854, and he married, 2d, Myra A., daughter of Dea. Abel Baker, Dec. 10, 1856.
I. JOHN ADDISON, born Dec. 5, 1851.
II. CHARLES A., born Aug. 7, 1863; died Ang. 19, 1863.
III. ARTHUR H., born Aug. 4, 1864.
IV. WALTER S.
AGABUS BISHOP and wife, Rebecca, are said to have come from Wrentham, Mass., and settled here about 1778; he died Dec. 26, 1795. His widow was taxed in Fitz- william until 1802. They had ten children, all born before the family came here.
REBECCA, married William Clark and settled on the farm formerly owned by John Godding, where they lived a few years, when they went West.
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II. DOLLY, married Nathaniel Buckland, Jr. They left town about 1797.
III. HANNAH, married Robert Bowditch; lived in Vermont.
IV. ABIGAIL, married Ezekiel Miles; resides in Wallingford, Vt.
BETSEY, married Aaron Sparks; resides in Springfield, Vt.
VI. Lucy, married Aaron Spofford; resides in Peru, New York or Ver- mont.
VII. POLLY, married James C. Allen ; resides in Wallingford, Vt.
VIII. JESSE, married - Godding, a sister of Timothy and John, and settled near Thomas Clark's. Mrs. Godding died Sept. 6, 1790; he died Oct. 3, 1790.
IX. AGABUS, married Rebecca Sweetland, probably a daughter of John Sweetland. One child, Jesse, born about 1792; married Lueinda, born 1799; died 1837, daughter of Jesse and Rose (Swift) Bal- lou of Richmond. Children: Smith, born Nov. 12, 1814; Betsey, born Aug. 10, 1818; Lois, born April 22, 1823; married Harrison Taft of Richmond. Troy records show that Jesse, son of Agabus and Rebecca Bishop was married Ang. 2, 1860, to Mrs. Prudence Thornton, daughter of Stephen and Olive White of Fitzwilliam ; she was his fourth wife and he was her fourth husband.
x. WILLIAM, died Feb. 6, 1831, aged 57 years; he married Betsey Jes- snp of Warwiek, Mass .; she died Aug. 21, 1830, aged 57 years. Children: 1. Hosea, born July 3, 1803; 2. George, born Feb. 27, 1806; died July 10, 1828.
JOHN HERBERT BIGELOW, son of Charles Bigelow, was born in Fitzwilliam, Feb. 14, 1852; married, June 19, 1877, Mary Abby, born Nov. 27, 1850, daughter of David N. and Abigail R. (Alexander) Putney of Fitz- william. Has been station agent at Troy for about fifteen years.
I. CHARLES IRWIN, born Aug. 20, 1879.
THOMAS A. BIRTWHISTLE was born in Halifax, England, May 29, 1830; married, 1st, June 23, 1852, Susannah Stocks, who died Jan. 16, 1884, aged 53 years; married, 2d, Feb. 17, 1885, Elizabeth Stocks, born Nov. 27, 1827, sister of his first wife. Mr. Birtwhistle came to America in 1854, staying a few months, but returned with his family in the fall of 1856, and settled in Massachusetts; came to Troy in 1869, and entered the employ of Troy Blanket Mills and has continued working for them up to the present time. He has been an industrious, temperate and upright citizen and has been able by these habits to accumulate some property, and has taken a deep interest in the affairs of the
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town. Mrs. Birtwhistle died June 11, 1896, and he married, 3d, July 30, 1897, Mrs. Lucy A. Pike.
THOMAS A. BIRTWHISTLE.
I. ELIZABETH ANN, born in Halifax, England, June 17, 1853; married Charles D. Farrar.
1I. ELLEN, born in Halifax, July 21, 1857; married, Ang. 29, 1881, Charles J. Shaw; resides in Ossipee, N. HI. Children: 1. Walter Jefferson Shaw, born Ang. 14, 1883; 2. Evelyn Elizabeth Shaw, died 1885, aged 11 months; 3. Louis Ethelbert Shaw, born March 16, -: 4. Franklin Aked Shaw: 5. Charles Leonard Shaw.
III. LOUIS WILLIAM, born in Marblehead, Mass., March 30, 1860; died August, 1860.
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IV. HARRIET MARIA, born in Marblehead, April 14, 1861; married, Aug. 20, 1889, Leonard E. Tilden of Marlborough.
v. FREDERICK STOCKS, born in Saugus, Mass., Sept. 24, 1864.
VI. ARTHUR HORSFALL, born in Saugus, May 15, 1867; died July 23, 1867.
VII. ALFRED NEWTON, born in Saugus, August, 1869; died October, 1869. VIII. FRANCES HARTLEY, born in Troy, April 24, 1870; died Aug. 15, 1870.
IX. MARY SUSANNAH, born June 7, 1871; died Aug. 9, 1871.
HARVEY BLANDING, son of Otis and Abigail (Barrus) Blanding, was born in Richmond, May 1, 1809; married, Dec. 3, 1835, Mary Perham, daughter of Zalmon and Phebe (Holt) Howe; died March 23, 1859; Mrs. Blanding died Nov. 6, 1879, aged 68. After coming to Troy, he worked for Charles Coolidge some time in his pail shop, and just before his marriage built the house in which he afterwards resided, and in 1849, built the shop now owned by C. A. Farrar, in which he manufactured pails until his death.
I. MARY JANE, born April 3, 1837; married, April 20, 1858, James Robb.
II. JOEL OSCAR, born Feb. 26, 1842.
III. JANETTE ADELINE, born Nov. 11, 1846.
IRA BOYDEN, son of Eli Boyden, born in Chesterfield, April 18, 1801; married, Jan. 1, 1826, Thirza Coburn, and resided in Chesterfield and Winchester until March, 1839, when he came to Troy and built the house near the line between Troy and Marlborough, now owned by Charles F. Pope. In 1845, he moved to the village and purchased of Nathan Putney the house now owned by J. H. Bigelow, and later, in company with his son, bought the one now owned by W. J. Boyden, where he resided until near the elose of his life. He was a car- penter and one of the most useful citizens. He died July 2, 1884; Mrs. Boyden died 1868.
I. SARAH, born Feb. 9, 1827; died March 14, 1847.
II. PERSIS H., born Jan. 20, 1829; married, Nov. 1, 1852, David E. Cutler of Newark, N. J .; Mr. Cutler died Jan. 6, 1869. Children : 1. Fred Albert Cutler, born July 21, 1855; died April 14, 1856; 2. William P. Cutler, born Dee. 6, 1858; married, June 14, 1886, Adelaide Z. Young; 3. Fred W. Cutler, born Jan. 21, 1864; married, Sept. 29, 1886, Mary G. Gardinier.
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I11. ALFONZO W., born Dec. 2, 1831; died Aug. 12, 1833.
IV. WILLIAM JUDSON, born Jume 7, 1836; married, Oct. 6, 1863, Jane P. Aldrich of Richmond. Children: 1. Lula A., born March 29, 1865; married, Jan. 6, 1892, Ernest H. Gates. One child, Ralph Ernest Gates, born Nov. 7, 1896; 2. Harold E., born April 2, 1880.
CHARLOTTE A., born July 29, 1838; married, Oct. 1, 1861, William Butler.
The Brewer family came from England, but at what time is not known. Their ancestry dates back to John Brewer, who married Anne -; had a son, James, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Rice; he had a son, James, born Sept. 10, 1675, and married: 1st, Elizabeth Grant, 2d, Abigail Smith, widow of Johnanna Singleton; they had a son, James, born July 27, 1703; married, Dec. 8, 1731, Mary Smith.
JAMES BREWER, the son of James, was born Oct. 28, 1746; married, Dec. 11, 1766, Mary Hoar. He came from East Sudbury, now Wayland, Mass., in 1788 or 1789. Mrs. Brewer died Nov. 27, 1826, and he died Nov. 21, 1832. They were buried in Swanzey on a little knoll nearly opposite the residence of Denman Thompson.
1. Asa, born July 24, 1767.
II. PERSIS, born July 22, 1771; married, Aug. 12, 1789, Silas Wheeler.
III. JAMES, born June 10, 1779.
IV. MARY, born Oct. 8, 1782.
ASA BREWER, son of James, became a resident in June, 1797; married, Aug. 25, 1794, Deborah, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Sylvester) Sargent, born April 17, 1772, and settled in Roxbury. On coming here he located on the Enoch Garfield farm and afterwards on the Jonathan Clark farm, and some ten years later re- moved to Barton, Vt., where he died March 11, 1836; his widow died in Rindge, Aug. 2, 1845.
1. POLLY, born Sept. 17, 1796; married, 1st, Jonathan Clark ; married, 2d, Isaae Stowell.
II. ASA, born May 9, 1798.
III. DEBORAII, born April 10, 1800; married, March 14, 1822, Calvin Bemis.
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SILAS, born April 10, 1802; married Lovina Woodward of Swanzey, and moved to Maiden Rock, Wis., where he died Nov. 27, 1880; his widow died in 1881.
V. BETSEY, born March 10, 1807; married Benjamin Garey of Jaffrey. VI .- VI. Twins, infants, died Nov. 14, 1808.
VIII. PERSIS, born Feb. 23, 1810; married Samuel Cross of Salem, N. H .; died July, 1858.
ASA BREWER, son of Asa, born May 9, 1798; died Sept. 4, 1863; married, 1st, June S, 1820, Rachel, born Feb. 22, 1798, daughter of Joel and Betsey (Gibbs) Knight of Sudbury, Mass .; she died Nov. 28, 1828, and he married, 2d, Betsey Knight, born May 4, 1804, a sister of his first wife. After his marriage lie located on the Jonathan Clark place and soon after purchased the farm afterwards owned by William Whitcomb, and a few months after moved to Fitzwilliam. Children born, I, II, in Troy, III, VII, in Fitzwilliam, VIII, IX, in Rindge, -four by 1st marriage, seven by 2d mariage.
1. JOEL K., born Jan. 27, 1822; died Sept. 4, 1863; resided in Charles- town, Mass.
11. JAMES, born Jan. 25, 1825; married Cynthia -, who died in Maine, Nov. 29. Resides in Topeka, Kansas.
III. HARRIET, born March 27, 1827; died June 11, 1827.
IV. GEORGE S., born Nov. 18, 1828; married, Sept. 24, 1851, Rusina, born Nov. 4, 1827; died Nov. 20, 1871, daughter of Reuben and Beatrice (Beard) Tarbell of Rindge; resides in Boston, Mass.
V. GARDNER, born Oet. 11, 1829; married Marinda C., daughter of George W. Bryant; she died April 11, 1856, in Boston, aged 22 years, 9 months; resided in Charlestown, Mass .. Died at Bur- lington, Vt., 1897.
VI. RACHEL, born April 10, 1833; died Oct. 2, 1853, unmarried.
VII. HARRIET R., born June 3, 1835; married William H. Wheeler of Fitzwilliam.
VIII. ELIZABETHI A., born June 21, 1837; married, Dec. 2, 1864, Edwin S. Chase of Royalston; resides in Boston, Mass.
IX. HENRY H., born March 19, 1841; resides in Philadelphia, Pa.
x. CALVIN B., born Sept. 17, 1844; resides in Topeka, Kan.
X1. EMERANCY H., born Dec. 29, 1846; married Thaddeus Cummings, Jan. 14, 1866; resides in Fitchburg, Mass.
HENRY S. BROWN was born in England, July 6, 1849; married, Oct. 7, 1867, Mary A. Weston, born in England. He came to Troy from Salisbury, Mass., in 1869, and was employed as a spinner by Troy Blanket
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Mills until his death, which occurred July 9, 1881; drowned while bathing at Salisbury beach.
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HENRY JAMES, born Feb. 17, 1869; married, 1st, June 29, 1873, Lula A., daughter of Simeon and Nancy (Tupper) Merrifield; she died May 22, 1895; married, 2d, July 26, 1896, Emma J., daughter of Oliver P. and Ellen (Parker) Whitcomb. One child, Hazel Vera, born April 18, 1894; died Aug. 24, 1894.
II. WALTER ELI, born Oct. 19, 1870.
HI. EMMA LOUISE, born March 28, 1872; married Joseph Jarvis.
IV. BESSIE ADELLA, born Jan. 11, 1876; married, July 18, 1894, Fred A. Newton of Fitzwilliam. One child, Robert Stafford Newton, born May 11, 1895.
ETHEL M., born Oct. 5, 1879; married, Nov. 16, 1893, Leon F. Marshall of Fitzwilliam, died March 9, 1895. One child, Ethiel M. Marshall, born March 4, 1895.
LEMUEL BROWN was a native of Sudbury, Mass., and came here in 1823, purchasing the Daniel Cutting farm of Levi Daggett. He was accompanied by his father, Abel Brown, and a younger brother, Geo. WV. Brown. He married Leafy Knight .of Sud- bury, born May 2, 1797; died Oct. 10, 1879. Mr. Brown re- sided on the place for- merly owned by Calvin Barnard, on which he built a new house in 1832. For a short time he lived in an old house which stood southwest of this house.
I. ALMIRA, born Oct. 6, 1818; married, March 27, 1842, Lyman Spooner.
II. EMILY, born April 3, 1820; married, June 5, 1843, Gregory Lawrence.
LEMUEL BROWN.
III. HARRIET, born Jan. 9, 1831; married, Nov. 5, 1850, Warren McClenathan; died Nov. 19, 1854.
IV. CAROLINE, born Oct. 4, 1832; died Oet. 24, 1839.
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LEMUEL W., born October, 1835.
VI. CHARLES W., born Jan. 31, 1839.
LEMUEL WARREN BROWN, son of Lemuel, born October, 1835; married, 1st, July 7, 1857, Sarah T. Bliss of Royalston, Mass., died July 27, 1880; married, 2d, Oct. 19, 1881, Mrs. Sarah Howe. He died August 30, 1890.
I. NELLIE ELVIRA, born July 24, 1858; married, October, 1884, Frank E. Collett of Alston, Mass; died Feb. 14, 1885.
II. SARAHI ABBIE, born April 22, 1860; married in 1883, Wilbur J. Bedell; resides in Hardwick, Vt.
III. WARREN C., born Nov. 13, 1873; married, July 4, 1894, Grace M. Carver of Nova Scotia.
CHARLES W. BROWN.
CHARLES W. BROWN, son of Lemuel, born Jan. 31, 1839; married, 1st, June 21, 1863, Martha J. Dyke of
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Huntington, Vt., born Sept. 15, 1844, died Feb. 4, 1879; married, 2d, Jan. 4, 1882, Alice B. Barnard; she died July 30, 1884, and he married, 3d, May 13, 1891, Mrs. Clara L. Nutting, born August 2, 1854; Mr. Brown died Feb. 22, 1893. He lived on the homestead until about 1871, when he moved into the village, and about 1885, purchased the place now owned by his heirs, previously owned by Barrett Ripley. He was one of the selectmen in 1867, 1868 and 1869; representative in 1882, and served as moderator from 1885 until his death. He entered the employ of the Troy Blanket Mills in 1869, and remained until his death, being for several years assistant superintendent. Was for many years deacon and an honored and influential member of the Baptist church. Children all by first wife.
I. FRANK L., born Sept. 20, 1867.
II. LORETTA J., born Sept. 7, 1870; married, Dec. 21, 1892, Ernest R. Ball; resides in Bellows Falls. Children: 1. Madeline Frances Ball, born Oet. 30, 1893; 2. Ralph Ball, born July 1, 1895; 3. Constance Ernestine Ball. born Jan. 4, 1897.
III. GRACE, born May 23, 1877.
GEORGE W. BROWN, son of Abel, born 1811; married, June 28, 1837, Mary, daughter of Edmund and Susannah (Graves) Bemis, and moved into a house he built the previous year and now owned by his son. Soon after this he built a shop near the house in which he turned bedposts, mortars and faney dishes, later manufac- turing washboards, mop handles and clothespins. Mr. Brown died April 29, 1880.
I. GEORGE, born April 21, 1839.
II. MARY E., born Oct. 17, 1843; married, August, 1866, Daniel Adams Field, born in Leverett, Mass., July 17, 1839; resides in Jaffrey. GEORGE BROWN, son of George W., born April 21, 1839; married, Oct. 29, 1863, Nellie M. Converse of Keene.
I. HENRY E., born Oct. 17, 1864; married, Oct. 25, 1890, Gertrude M., daughter of Webster and Mary (Oaks) Corey. One child, George, born Oct. 6, 1892; died Oet. 14, 1892.
II. EVA M., born Dec. 13, 1866; married, July 14, 1887, George W. Tobias. Children: 1. David Charles Tobias, born Dec. 18, 1891 ; 2. William Ennis Tobias, born Jan. 3, 1893.
III. ELBERTA G., born May 28, 1868; married, Dec. 21, 1886, Edwin B. Forristall; resides in Cambridgeport, Mass.
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ERASTUS BROWN was a son of Asaph and Martha (Wilder), and grandson of Samuel and Lovina (Bruce). He was born in Winehendon, May 2, 1808; married, Sept. 29, 1832, Alfreda, born Sept. 4, 1808, died Feb. 6, 1873, daughter of Ezekiel Thompson of Swanzey. For some time previous to his marriage he resided in Rindge, but from 1830 to 1840, he lived in Fitzwilliam, coming to Troy in 1841. He was a blacksmith by trade and made edge tools in the shop afterwards occupied by A. W. Baker, which was the old curry shop belonging to the tannery. He died Sept. 17, 1845, from injuries received in his mill. The following is from an obituary notice published at the time. "The death of Mr. Brown was occasioned by an injury which he received at his mill. Owing to a defect in the floor, he fell, his arm became entangled in the machinery and was crushed in a shocking manner; amputation at the shoulder joint became necessary. But this did not avail to save his life. After some forty-eight hours of intense suffering, which was borne with patience and Christian fortitude, he died. Mr. Brown was an honest man and a Christian. His life was above reproach."
I. MARIA A., born in Fitzwilliam, Nov. 4, 1833; married Chancy N. Garfield; died April 16, 1866.
Il. MARTIIA J., born in Fitzwilliam, Sept. 10, 1837; died Nov. 4, 1838. III. HENRY J., born in Fitzwilliam, Feb. 25, 1840; married, July 20, 1870, Ann M. Holt; resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Children: 1. Ernest B., born June 7, 1874; 2. Waldo H., born Sept. 27, 1878; died July 24, 1882.
IV. HELEN J., born in Fitzwilliam, Feb. 25, 1840; married Moses E. Wright.
V. MARTHA A., born in Troy, Sept. 11, 1843; married, 1st, David W. Capron; married, 2d, Jan. 19, 1882, Ashel G. Sprague of Keene. IRVING BROOKS, son of Ira and Rebecca E. (Wilder) Brooks, born in Ashburnham, Mass., June 1, 1842; married, June 28, 1882, Mrs. Emma J. Gee, daughter of Harvey S. Gates.
1. ELROSE IRVING, born Sept. 9, 1884.
JOHN BRUCE, with his wife Mary (Joslin) and eight children, came from Sudbury, Mass., about 1775. He died June
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3, 1779, aged 50 years, "killed by logs at sawmill ; lived about thirty hours." But little can be obtained about his family or descendants.
I. Lucy, married Daniel Farrar; died Aug. 20, 1830.
II. POLLY, married John Moore of Warwiek, Mass.
III. LYDIA, married William Nurse, April 27, 1780.
IV. ESTHER, married David White, Ang. 2, 1787; died Sept. 27, 1839. WILLIAM, married, Dee. 11, 1781, Abigail Gonld; he died March 13,
V. 1811, aged 50 years, from boards falling on him; he lived and died on the Franklin Woodward farm.
VI. JOHN, died young.
VII. THOMAS, married a daughter of Iehabod Shaw.
VIII. CYRUS, married Betsey Moore and settled in Vermont.
ABEL J. BURPEE was born in Sterling, Mass., Oct. 3, 1825; married, Sept. 10, 1861, Mrs. Roancy A. (Porter) Piper, who was born in Jaffrey, July 16, 1822. Came to Troy in 1862, and bought of the Calvin Bemis heirs the place where he lived until his death, Feb. 6, 1896.
I. WALTER F., born in Marlborough, April 12, 1862; married, Dee. 31, 1885, Susie M. Perham.
WILLIAM BUTLER was born in Chesterfield, Oct. 10, 1838; married, Oct. 1, 1861, Charlotte A. Boyden. Mr. Butler resided for many years in the house now owned by J. H. Bigelow, and was employed in various capacities as a salesman. A few years since he removed to Arlington, Mass., his present residence.
I. CORA MABEL, born in Troy, June 6, 1862.
II. GERTRUDE AUGUSTA, born in Richmond, April 19, 1864; married, June 6, 1894, Charles H. Swan; resides in Arlington, Mass. WILLIAM HURLBUTT, born in Troy, March 23, 1869.
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