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Bank for several years, taking a prominent part in the management of its affairs. He also served as one of the trustees of the Cheshire Provident Institution, being also a member of the board of investment. He
BARRETT RIPLEY.
had the reputation of being a successful business man- ager, and his counsel and advice were sought and valued by his associates, fellow citizens and employees. He married, Sept. 2, 1852, Mary Colton, born in Springfield, Mass., Jan. 6, 1832, daughter of Zimri and Sophia (Van Horn) Richmond. Mr. Ripley resided where Mrs. C. W. Brown now lives, but removed to Keene in November, 1875; he died Jan. 10, 1888.
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I. FRANKLIN, born Oct. 12, 1853.
II. MARTHA BARRETT, born March 16, 1856; married Francis C. Faulkner.
111. MARY RICHMOND, born May 22, 1858.
IV. HARRIET BUCKMINSTER, born Aug. 6, 1860.
SOPHIA VAN HORN, born Dec. 23, 1862; died Dec. 11, 1865.
VI. JOHN BARRETT, born July 4, 1868; died Jan. 28, 1874.
VII. LOUISA ALLEN, born Jan. 20, 1875; died May 4, 1876.
FRANKLIN RIPLEY, son of Barrett, born Oct. 12, 1853; married, Sept. 8, 1880, Clara I., born June 26, 1854,
FRANKLIN RIPLEY.
daughter of Charles and Elizabeth E. (Richardson) Keyes of Keene. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1872, and from Amherst College in 1876.
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After graduating he entered the employ of Troy Blanket Mills as bookkeeper, serving in that capacity and as assistant to his father until 1888, when he was appointed superintendent, which position he has held until the present time. He has been a member of the Board of Education for several years. Has served as one of the firewards for a number of years, and also as moderator. In 1881, purchased of Moses E. Wright, the place where he now resides.
I. JOHN BARRETT, born Sept. 13, 1881.
II. FRANKLIN, born Dec. 5, 1882.
III. ELIZABETHI, born Feb. 16, 1884.
IV. MARY SOPHIA, born June 23, 1886.
V. GEORGE, born May 8, 1893.
COL. RICHARD ROBERTS was from Bolton, Mass. He married, Feb. 9, 1765, Sybil Goodenough, born May 31, 1747. He died in his chaise, Sept. 10, 1801, while returning from Keene.
I. ZILPHA -; married Col. Joseph Frost of Marlborough ; died April 5, 1822.
II. PHEBE, born April 25, 1772; married, 1st, 1789, Benjamin Frost of Marlborough; he died and she married, 2d, Jan. 4, 1803, Henry Morse of Swanzey; died April 28, 1835.
III. LUCINDA, born Dec. 4, 1776; married, March 7, 1796, Thomas Binney of Westminster, Vt.
IV. An infant son, who died in 1777.
JONAS ROBINSON, or Robeson as the name was first written, was a native of Lexington, Mass. He married, 1st, Sept. 3, 1796, Betsey, born July 10, 1777; died March 2, 1807, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Kendall) Ward; married, 2d, 1815, Susan Bellows of Walpole, who survived him. He died Ang. 24, 1819, aged 49 years.
I. ELIZA ANN, born April 27, 1798; married, Dec. 7, 1820, Dr. Thomas Wells of Columbia, S. C., and died there.
II. JONAS, born May 10, 1800; married Miss Farrell of Maine; resides in Louisiana.
III. MARIA, born Nov. 23, 1802; married D. P. Clark of New York ; removed to New Milford, Ct., where she died.
IV. JOHN WARD, born Jan. 30, 1805; was a physician; died in South Carolina, aged twenty-two years.
V. MARY ANN LOUISA, born April 22, 1816; died March 28, 1822.
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V1. AREL BELLOWS, born April 10, 1817; married Susan Taylor of New Haven, Ct. He was a physician in New York City. He died in 1855; she died in 1857.
JOHN ROGERS was born in Westboro, Mass., Nov. 13, 1747; married, 1769, Esther Ball, born in Grafton, Mass., Dec. 9, 1745. His descendants claim that he was the twelfth generation from John Rogers, the martyr, who was burned at the stake in Smithfield, England. He was a settler here probably before 1773. His wife died Dec. 13, 1811, and he then went to reside with his son- in-law, Capt. Shubael Stone, where he died June 4, 1827. He is represented as being a strong, active man, and withal a great hunter, spending a large proportion of his time in pursuit of game.
I. POLLY, born Jan. 31, 1770; married Shubael Stone.
II. JOHN, born April 1, 1772; died May 18, 1796.
III ELI, born April 25, 1774; died in Watertown, N. Y., in 1817.
IV. THOMAS, born June 15, 1776; died Nov. 17, 1778.
V. JOSIAH, born Aug. 22, 1778; removed to Scio, N. Y.
VI. ESTHER, born Aug. 12, 1780; married Ephraim Keyes; removed to Ohio.
VII. ELIZABETH, born Nov. 26, 1782; married, Aug. 17, 1800, George Goodenough; removed to Pisa, N. Y.
VIII. ARIJAH, born March 9, 1785.
IX. SALLY, born March 12, 1789; married Silas Coffin; removed to Rindge.
JOSIAH RUFFLE, born Oct. 14, 1842; married, Jan. 8, 1868, Mrs. Pauline Buckwold, born in 1840. Mr. Ruffle has been employed as teamster for Troy Blanket Mills sev- eral years and a few years since purchased a lot and erected his present residence.
I. EDWARD SAMUEL, born Dec. 15, 1877.
LOVELL RUGG became a resident of Troy in 1845, when he purchased a part of the Samuel Farrar farm of -- Howard, the place afterward owned by Willard White. He had previously lived in Royalston from which place he removed to Fitzwilliam in 1842. He married Mary Bradley.
I. ALBERT WILLIAMS, born June 22, 1837.
II. JANE ADELIA, born Aug. 1, 1841.
III. LAURA MARIA, born May 19, 1843.
IV. MARTHA ELIZA, born Feb. 22, 1845.
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V. GEORGE N., born July 29, 1846.
VI. MARGARET B., born May 19, 1848.
VII. MARY ANN, born March 11, 1854.
VIII. WRIGHT L., born Ang. 3, 1855.
IX. CHLOE AUGUSTA, born July 25 and died Oct. 21, 1857.
EDWARD RUSSELL was born in Dunkirk, Scotland, 1831; married Ann Conboy, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, 1841. He died in Trov, Dec. 15, 1867. His widow married, 2d, Daniel Casey.
1. GEORGE PERRY, born in Otis, Mass., Feb. 11, 1862.
II. EDWARD JONES, born in Troy, April 22, 1867; died at Asheville, N. C., April 15, 1897.
DAVID SAUNDERS, from Billerica, Mass., came to this region probably in the fall of 1780; married Molly Living- stone, who died June 25, 1822, aged seventy-one years. He died June 19, 1823, aged seventy-seven years.
I. CHIARLES, married, Dec. 22, 1796, Sally, daughter of Silas and Eliz- abeth Angier of Fitzwilliam.
II. ISAAC.
III. EZRA, married Polly, daughter of Abijah and Mary Stowell.
IV. POLLY, married, Feb. 24, 1799, Amos Loeke.
V. SARAH, baptized June 24, 1781; married, Jan. 26, 1801, Luther Knight.
VI. JOSHUA, born June 30, 1782; died March 4, 1790.
VII. JOHN, born Aug. 11, 1784; married, Jan. 26, 1807, Mary, daughter of Nahum and Mary (Taylor) Howe.
VIII. JESSE, born June 1, 1786.
IX. LEVI, born Ang. 23, 1789.
x. LOVINA, born Aug. 23, 1789 (twin) ; married, Jan. 19, 1807, Jesse Livingstone of Unity, N. H., who died, and she married, 2d, Elisha Drury.
XI. JOSHUA, born Nov. 1, 1792; died Nov. 13, 1792.
XII. JOSEPH, born Jan. 30, 1794.
EBENEZER SAUNDERS, a brother of the preceding, was born in Billerica, Jan. 11, 1754, and came to this region about 1789, and located on the farm afterwards owned by Luna Starkey. He lived here until 1813, when he removed to Fitzwilliam. He died in Fitzwilliam, Dec. 7, 1834. Married, Feb. 10, 1786, Martha, daughter of Elezear Stickney of Billerica, who died Oct. 29, 1853.
I. EBENEZER, born Dec. 10, 1786.
II. ASA, born July 4, 1788; died February, 1854, in Moline, Ils.
III. ANNA, born May 23, 1790; married, Feb. 8, 1810, Silas Ballou.
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IV. HOSEA, born March 9, 1792; died August, 1795.
V. JOSHUA STICKNEY, born March 9, 1794; died in 1795.
VI. ROXANA, born in 1796; died in 1799.
VII. ELISHA, born in 1798; died Nov. 10, 1800.
VIII. JOEL, born March 14, 1801; married Mary Bigelow; died March 5, 1870; resided in Keene.
IX. FANNY, born Sept. 15, 1803.
JEREMY S., born July 18, 1805; died Ang. 11, 1834.
XI. ARUNAH ALLEN, born Sept. 9, 1809.
ICHABOD SHAW, a brother of Jonathan Shaw, settled a little northeast of the village, on the road to West Hill. He resided here with his family till 1797, when he sold his farm and removed to Vermont.
I. ZILPAH, born March 2, 1775: married, Aug. 24, 1797, Thomas Bruce of Fitzwilliam.
II. NANCY, born April 12, 1777.
HI. SALLY, born Oct. 15, 1799.
IV. DANIEL, born April 20, 1781.
BENJAMIN, born Nov. 2, 1783.
AMOS SIBLEY, born Oct. 19, 1783; married Prudence Har- ward, who was born July 27, 1793. He was a scythe- maker and learned his trade of his brother in Athol, where he married and settled. Soon after he left Atliol, and after residing a short time at Oxford, Sutton and Dudley, successively, he came to Troy in 1816, and bought the seythe shop built by Aldrich and Barnard, and which was located near C. D. Farrar's pail shop, and commenced the making of scythes. In 1826, he built a new shop in which he carried on business until 1844. At the time he commenced seythe-making here, it was considered a good day's work for one man to make six seythes, and these were worth ten dollars per dozen, but when he closed, by the improvements in machinery, one man could make nine quite as easily in the same time, but they were worth only seven dol- lars and a half per dozen. Mr. Sibley lived in a small house near the shop till 1832, when he built the large house afterward owned by Elliot Whitcomb, now by Charles Goldthwait. In 1856, he sold his seythe shop to Whitcomb and Forristall, who converted it into a pail shop. The next year Capt. Sibley sold his house
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to Elliot Whitcomb and moved to the village into a house which he bought of John J. Wrisley. He died Nov. 22, 1863.
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AMOS SIBLEY.
1. WILLARD, born Sept. 29, 1810; died March 28, 1812.
II. Lucy, born May 6, 1812; died Feb. 2, 1832.
III. HARRINGTON, born June 4, 1814.
IV. ABIGAIL, born Feb. 3, 1818; married, Feb. 5, 1839, Benjamin M. Stanley.
EMILY, born March 13, 1820; married, Oct. 1, 1840, George A. Kendall.
VI. ELVIRA, born March 19, 1822.
VII. AMos W., born Nov. 13, 1824; died June 8, 1826.
VII. CAROLINE M., born Sept. 3, 1827; married, September, 1845, Edwin M. Mann, who was drowned April 29, 1846.
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IX. AMos W., born April 13, 1831; died Sept. 22, 1849. DELANO H., born June 22, 1834; married, Dec. 23, 1857, Martha L. Garfield; died March 4, 1897. Killed by gas explosion in Boston. One child, Leonora, born July 1, 1860.
XI. GIDEON, born Sept. 3, 1839.
HARRINGTON SIBLEY is the son of Amos Sibley and was born in Troy, June 4, 1814. He married Maria R.
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Buttrick, a sister of Edwin Buttrick, Feb. 16, 1837, and has been a resident and influential citizen of Fitch- burg, Mass., for a good many years. His father was a seythe-maker, and he learned the business in the old shop at the North end, now owned by Troy Blanket Mills. After he settled in Fitchburg, he carried on the
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business of scythe-making at West Fitchburg for a time, but later became connected with the firm of Hey- wood, Wilson & Co., in the foundry and machine business, and is at the present time the oldest surviving partner. He has held numerous offices of trust and responsibility, and when once chosen has been continui- ously reelected. Fitchburg was made a city in 1873, and he was elected a member of its first Conimion Council, and again chosen in 1875. He served on the Board of Aldermen in 1877, 1878 and 1879. He was elected a director of the Fitchburg Co-operative Bank in 1878, and a director of the Wachusett Na- tional Bank in 1879, both of which offices he holds at the present time, having been reclected each year since the first. He is one of the trustees of the Burbank Hospital, a position which he has held for several years. He is a member of the First Universalist Society of Fitchburg, in which he has held various offices at different times.
1. FRED H., born Jan. 16, 1838; married, Sept. 27, 1862, Florence F. Smith; died Aug. 17, 1863.
II. MARTHA M., born Sept. 17, 1839; married, Nov. 26, 1857, Clark S. Simonds, who died Sept. 17, 1862. Children: 1. Maria B. Simonds, born June 20, 1859; 2. Louise S. Simonds, born Oct. 7, 1861; died Sept. 20, 1863.
III. MARY P., born June 20, 1842; married, June 14, 1866, William G. Silsby; died Jan. 16, 1871.
IV.
AMos W., born Sept. 6, 1851; died Sept. 8, 1853.
STEPHEN F. SILCOX, born in England, March 25, 1847; married, Oct. 19, 1872. Ellen, daughter of Samuel Mortimer.
I. EDITH, born Feb. 4, 1874; died Nov. 30, 1876.
II. FLORENCE HALLETT, born Ang. 6, 1876.
III. GRACE ELOISE, born Oct. 5, 1886; died Aug. 19, 1891.
FISHER SILSBY, born in Acworth, March 21, 1805; mar- ried, Oct. 13, 1835, Drusilla F. McKcan, born in Salem, Mass., Jan. 7, 1811; died in Troy, June 6, 1888. Mr. Silsby came to Troy from Langdon, N. H., in the spring of 1857 and commenced work in the tannery of Francis Foster. He continued to be employed in the tannery until feeble health compelled him to give it up.
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Francis Foster sold out to Leonard Wright, and he to Putnam & Phelps of Leominster, Mass. His sons,
FISHER SILSBY.
William G. and Robert M., bought the tannery in the spring of 1869. Children all born in Langdon. Mr. Silsby died in Rochester, N. Y., May 26, 1891.
I. WILLIAM GILSON, born May 11, 1838; married, 1st, June 14, 1866. Mary Prudence, daughter of Harrington and Maria K. Sibley; she died Jan. 16, 1871 ; and he married, 2d, March 12, 1874, Ada J., born in Charlestown, N. H., Oct. 12, 1846, daughter of David W. and Jane Parks. Children: 1. Nellie Mary, born Ang. 24, 1868; 2. Bertha Mckean, born July 7, 1875.
II. DAVID B., born Oct. 3, 1841; married, May 30, 1865, Frances MI. French, who was born May 16, 1842. Is a salesman; resides in Fitchburg, Mass. One child, Florence L., born Aug. 2, 1877.
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III. ROBERT. M., born April 24, 1844; married, Oet. 29, 1868, Melissa S. Bucklin, born in Grafton, N. H., Dec. 7, 1850; resides in Rochester, N. Y. One child: Rae Blanche, adopted daughter, born Jan. 11, 1878.
IV. CHARLES M., born Jan. 16, 1849; died Jan. 11, 1879.
OLIVER W. SMITH, son of Royal T., was born Dec. 25, 1831; married, 1st, July 13, 1853, Eunice, born Oct. 29, 1831; died May 7, 1861, daughter of Levi and Nancy Ann (Byam) Harris; married, 2d, Feb. 14, 1862, Hannah, born June 12, 1838, a sister of his former wife.
I. ABEL H., born Ang. 11, 1854; married, May 27, 1878, Alice M., born Feb. 2, 1859, daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Richardson) Bolles of Richmond.
II. LESLIE E., born June 8, 1857; married, Feb. 11, 1879, Ada M., born July 21, 1862; died June 4, 1884, daughter of Nathan and Rosetta (Whiteomb) Smith of Rindge.
III. SIDNEY E., born April 7, 1861; married, Nov. 2, 1885, Etta E., born Oct. 28, 1867, daughter of George B. and Eliza Jane (Bolles) Handy of Richmond. Children: 1. Carrie Louise, born May 9, 1886; 2. Walter Arlon, born June 22, 1887; 3. Eva May, born Feb. 7, 1892; 4. Flossie Geneva, born Nov. 19, 1893; 5. Royal Truman, born May 29, 1896.
IV. EUNICE H., born April 26, 1868; married, Jan. 17, 1887, George T. Lovewell. Children: 1. Mary A. Lovewell, born July 19, 1890; died Dec. 10, 1890; 2. Henrietta F. Lovewell, born Dec. 16, 1891; 3. Ralph H. Lovewell, born Nov. 18, 1895; died Feb. 8, 1896.
V. IDA L., born Dec. 17, 1869; married George F. Maddox.
VI. HERBERT O., born June 5, 1871.
VII. CHARLES S., born May 20, 1877; died June 18, 1893.
VIII. ELWIN, born Dec. 18, 1879.
IX. EDWIN, born Dec. 18, 1879.
x. NELLIE, born April 10, 1883.
ERI J. SPAULDING, son of Abel Spaulding, born in Jaffrey, Oet. 17, 1821; married, 1st, Sept. 3, 1844, Betsey F., daughter of Aaron and Dorothy (Howe) Holt, who died Aug. 8, 1847; married, 2d, May 14, 1848, Lucy Ann, daughter of Capt. John Jones of Dublin, who died Feb. 14, 1861; married, 3d, Jan. 22, 1868, Maria R. Ellis of Springfield, Vt. Mr. Spaulding became a citi- zen of Troy in March, 1841, and was employed in Charles Coolidge's pail shop for two years. He then bought the pottery of Capt. Solomon Goddard and
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was engaged in the manufacture of earthern ware for five years. He resided in the house with his brother, Erastus, a short time, afterwards occupied the Winch house, and in 1850 built the house now owned by H. W. Hutt, which he occupied for several years, until he purchased the Harrington farm, upon which he resided until his death. He was a carpenter by trade and worked at that business when not engaged in farming. He died Jan. 17, 1886. His widow died in Rutland, ยท Vt., March 8, 1889. Children: I and II by first mar- riage; III to VII by second marriage, and VIII by third marriage.
1. DIANTHA R., born Sept. 1, 1845; married, Sept. 25, 1866, George A. Merrifield. Children: 1. Aliee B .; 2. Eva S .; 3. Arthur II. Re- sides in Athol, Mass.
II. MEDORA FRANCES, born April 19, 1847.
III. LUCY ANN, born March 19, 1849; died in Aseutneyville, Vt., June 12, 1862.
IV. LORENZO C., born Sept. 25, 1850; died Sept. 30, 1850.
ELLEN C., born Aug. 16, 1851, in Dublin; married, May 1, 1877, William L. Morse; resides in Marlborough, Mass. One child, Pauline H. Mr. Morse is of the firm of Morse & Bigelow.
VI. ALBERT ERI, born May 9, 1853; married, 1874 or 1875, Carrie L., daughter of Ambrose W. and Elizabeth (Robinson) Spaulding of Jaffrey. Removed to Princeville, Ills., where he was principal of the high school; died there Oet. 5, 1875.
VII. ABBIE C., born Aug. 21, 1857; married, Aug. 24, 1878, Dudley S. Philbrick of Auburn, Me .; resides in Cullison, Pratt County, Kansas. One child, Jessie C.
VIII. EMMA, born Sept. 22, 1870, in Milford, Mass .; died April 8, 1892, in Colorado Springs, Col.
LYMAN SPOONER was a native of Vermont, born Nov. 26, 1814; married, April 27, 1842, Almira, daughter of Lemuel and Leafy (Knight) Brown. He located in Brookline, where he remained a few weeks only; after- wards he resided a short time in Barre and Sudbury, Mass. He returned to Troy in the fall of 1842, and resided here until he enlisted in the War of the Rebel- lion. He was a house painter and devoted most of his time to that occupation. In 1853, he bought the Cutting sawmill of Warren MeClenathan, but sold it the following year to Edwin Mann. He died at
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Savannah, Ga., July 7, 1865, of disease contracted in the service.
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CAROLINE A., born Sept. 9, 1843; married, 1st, Edward C. Sutton, who died; married, 2d, Christopher F. Lawson.
STARKEY. The earliest records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony give, of this surname, first, Robert Starkey of Concord, Mass .; second, George Starkey, or Starke, whom Savage says may have been of Lynn, or Malden; third, Robert Starkey, a mariner, whose house stood on land belonging to Rev. Increase Mather and near his own house. His will was made in 1705, and his only son, Robert, Jr., was a printer and bookseller of Fleet street, Boston; his will was made in 1727, and with him the male line became extinct. Fourth, John Starkey of Boston, 1667. A lineal descendant states that this John Starkey came from Standish, county Lancaster, England, and, though the connection has not yet been established, yet it is rendered probable from the fact that there have been large numbers of this family in Lancaster County for gen- erations, in which the names of John, Thomas, William and George prevail. It is from this John Starkey that those who inhabited this region descended. John Starkey, by wife Sarah, had, born in Boston: John, Jr., born Sept. 23, 1667; Mary; Sarah, born April 1, 1671; Experience, born Feb. 3, 1672; Martha, born March 25, 1674; Andrew. The records show he was a landholder in Malden and Charlestown, Mass., in 1674 and later, and in 1689 that he was an inhabitant of Pemaquid, Me. One authority states that on Aug. 2, 1689, the Penobscot Indians, one hundred in number, headed by Moxas, landed at New Harbor, on the opposite side of the Point from the fort. There they seized an Englishman by the name of John Starkey, who was alone, and compelled him to give them information in regard to the condition of affairs at
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the fort. They surprised the garrison at broad noonday, "no scouts out," and forced Lieut. Weems to surrender ; terms of capitulation were made and kept, as, several years later, Lieut. Weems, then living in New York, presents repeated petitions for pay due himself and to his men for their services at his fort. What John Starkey's fate was, cannot be learned; no record has, as yet, yielded to long and exhaustive search. Of his family, it is probable that, as his lands lay near the fort, they were among those who were embarked "in Mr. Pateshall's sloop" and were carried to Boston. The son, Andrew, was the first of the family to settle in Attleborough, Mass., to which town he moved from Malden, Mass., where he married, 1st, in 1708, Mehitable, daughter of Samuel and Mehitable Waite of Malden, who was born Dec. 22, 1686; died in 1717; he married, 2d, Feb. 2, 1717-18, Katherine, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Woodcock) Balcom, who was born Feb. 7, 1694. Their children were: Mehitable, John, Jason, Jemima, Andrew, Thomas .*
John Starkey, born July, 1712; married, Feb. 2, 1734, at Attleborough, Amy, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Judith (Peck) Capron, who was born July 15, 1715. Their children were: i, John, Jr., born March 6, 1736-7; died Oct. 29, 1739; ii, Loes; iii, Nathan (or Nathaniel) who remained at Attleborough; iv, William, born in 1742; v, Mehitable; vi, John, Jr., born March 13, 1745-6; vii, Enoch; viii, Peter; ix, Chloe; x, Benjamin, who died in Troy, unmarried; xi, Joseph. About 1776, Peter, with his brothers, John, Benjamin, Enoch and Joseph, came to this region and settled.
PETER STARKEY died in February, 1821. His oldest child was born in Attleborough; all the others in New Hampshire.
* " The Starkeys of New England," by Emily Wilder Leavitt, Boston, 1892.
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I. Oris, born Feb. 23, 1774; married Desire Peters. Had children recorded: 1. Otis, born Nov. 27, 1797; 2. Lewis, born July 28, 1801.
11. PETER, born Sept. 25, 1777; married Mary, born April 13, 1769, daughter of Jonathan and Amy (Brown) Sweet of Richimond.
II !. NATHAN, born March 12, 1779; married Esther Briggs. One child, Briggs, born June 23, 1804.
IV. LABAN, born Jan. 30, 1782; married, March 16, 1802, Polly, born Jan. 6, 1781, daughter of Isaac and Ruth Jackson.
V. BENJAMIN, born June 14, 1785; married Sally Smith. Children: 1. Benjamin Proctor, born July 31, 1807; 2. George Washington, born April 30, 1809.
VI. JouN, born April 3, 1788; married, Aug. 20, 1812, Sarah, born Jan. 6, 1789, daughter of John and Lydia (Taft) Cass of Richmond. Had ten children.
VII. CALVIN, born March 17, 1790; married Mary, born June 8, 1793, daughter of Asa and Eunice (Williams) Porter of Marlborough ; removed to Townsend, Vt.
VIII. LONA, born April 25, 1792; died aged 2 years, 6 months.
IX. LUNA, born Sept. 11, 1794.
JOHN STARKEY, son of John, born March 13, 1745-46; married Mary, daughter of John, Sr., and Rebecca (Sweetland) Godding. No family.
ENOCH STARKEY, son of John, born July 29, 1748; married, Oct. 15, 1774, Elizabeth (or Betsey) Blackinton of Attleborough, Mass., who was born Jan. 3, 1751; died Jan. 18, 1823. He lived in that part of Troy, now included in Swanzey, and where he died in 1823.
1. DAVID, born -; married, March 23, 1797, Lavinia Woodcock.
II. GEORGE, born 1775.
III. SAMUEL, born Nov. 30, 1786; married, March 20, 1811, Thankful, daughter of Nathaniel and Thankful Bolles.
IV. LEVI, born March 2, 1790; married Hannah Holman of Fitzwil- liam; she died Dec. 23, 1846; he died June 17, 1848. POLLY, born June 15, 1793; married, June 27, 1819, John Tilden of Keene. She died in Westmoreland, June 10, 1854.
JOSEPH STARKEY, son of John, born in Attleborough, Mass .; married, July 23, 1778, Waitstill, daughter of Henry Morse, and lived in Richmond. He served in Capt. Oliver Capron's company, Col. William Doo- little's regiment, at Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass., Oct. 6, 1775.
I. MARTHA, born March 13, 1779; married, March 4, 1798, Joseph Clark.
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11. ESTHER, born June 3, 1783; married Elijah Davenport.
III. WAITSTILL, born Jan. 17, 1787; married, May 15, 1811, Noah Aldrich.
IV. JOSEPH, born Sept. 27, 1790; married, Feb. 20, 1812, Lydia Aldrich.
V. HENRY, born Sept. 1, 1795; married, Feb. 17, 1818, Lucy Woodward. VI. BETSEY, born May, 1803; married, June 26, 1820, William Wood- ward.
WILLIAM STARKEY came from Attleborough, Mass., and was doubtless a relative of Peter, and came to this region probably before 1793. He died about 1808.
I. SARAH, born Sept. 5, 1794; married Tyler Tenney; died at the homestead.
11. HANNAH, born Oct. 17, 1795.
III. NAOMI, born Sept. 29, 1796; married George Farrar; died Sept. 2, 1842.
IV. WILLIAM, died in childhood.
OLIVE, born Oct. 25, 1801; married Asher Coolidge.
VI. EBENEZER, born Nov. 20, 1803.
VII. RHODA, born Nov. 12, 1805.
VIII. LYDIA, born July 26, 1807; married L. Martin; resides in Keene. LUNA STARKEY, son of Peter, born Sept. 11, 1794; married early in 1812, Hannah, daughter of Stephen White, born May 1, 1793; died Feb. 18, 1866. For a short time he lived in the house with his father, but in 1813, he purchased the Ebenezer Saunders farm, where he lived until his death, Sept. 17, 1850.
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