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He filled many offices, having been civil magistrate and representative of the town. After his third marriage, he resided in Quincy, Mass., where he died, [See Genealogy.] His remains were removed to Bedford, and buried in the family tomb.
HON. JOHN VOSE.
THE following sketch is from the Rev. Wm. Cogswell, D. D. : -
"Hon. John Vose, son of Lieut. Samuel Vose, was born in Bedford, N. H., July 10, 1766. He took degree at Dart- mouth College, 1795, -one of the best scholars of his class, though it contained such men as Heman Allen, Abi- jah Bigelow, Luther Jewett, members of Congress ; Judah Dana, U. S. Senator, Judge Nichols Emery, and Drs. Samuel Worcester and Thomas Snell. His Commencement exercise was a 'Philosophical Oration on Thunder-Storms.' He
excelled in mathematics and philosophy. After leaving College, he immediately became Preceptor of the Academy at Atkinson, N. H. For twenty-one years, he had charge of that Institution, which is one of the oldest, and has been one of the most respectable in the State. In 1820, he removed to Pembroke, and became Principal of the Academy in that place, where he continued eleven years. In 1831, he returned to Atkinson, where he spent the remainder of his days.
" In 1801, Mr. Vose was appointed Justice of Peace, of the Quorum of 1815, and was continued in office till his death. He was Senator in the General Court, from the third sena- torial district, in 1816. He was for many years Deacon of the church in Atkinson, and at his death, was President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy in that place. He was President of the Merrimac County Temperance Society, from its formation until he left the County, in 1831; and, for many years, was one of the Vice-Presidents of the ' American Sunday School Union.' All these trusts, he ful- filled with great propriety, faithfulness and acceptance.
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JOHN WALLACE, ESQ.
" Mr. Vose published an Oration, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of Dartmouth College, in 1805, and an Oration on the 4th of July, delivered at Bedford, N. H., in 1809; also, an Oration before the Rockingham Agricultural Society, at Derry, in 1813. He published, in 1827, a 'Sys- tem of Astronomy,' containing 252 pages of octavo size ; and also, in 1832, a 'Compendium of Astronomy,' for Com- mon-Schools, of 12mo. form. These are not merely compi- lations, but original and valuable works.
" Mr. Vose was devout, modest and exemplary, consistent in all his deportment, as a man and a Christian. His last illness was a gradual decline, and he died, much lamented, April 3d, 1840, at the age of 74, in the peace and hope of the gospel. He has left a wife and five children. At his funeral, a very appropriate discourse was delivered by Rev. John Kelley, of Hampstead, from Acts viii. 2 : 'And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamenta- tion over him.' "
JOHN WALLACE, ESQ.
REMOVED to Bedford, from Londonderry, in 1756, having previously obtained a lot of land in this town, and commenced a settlement on the farm now occupied by Thomas Bursiel. He was a man of firmness and decision, having been called to sustain many important offices in town. Previous to the Revolution, he held a commission under the crown. The instrument is still in possession of the family, and a copy of it is here given for the curiosity of the reader. It is in good penmanship, and bears the great seal of State.
" Province of New Hampshire.
"GEORGE THE THIRD, By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
To John Wallace of Bedford, within our Province [L. S.] aforesaid, Yeoman, Greeting :
" Know you that We, reposing special Trust and Confi- dence in your Loyalty, Skill and Integrity, Have, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and well-beloved John Went- worth, Esq., our Captain-General, Governor and Commander-
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in-Chief in and over our said Province of New Hampshire, thought fit to constitute and appoint, and by these presents Do constitute and appoint you, the said John Wallace, a Coroner within the said Province. To have and to hold the said office of Coroner, together with all Privileges, Fees, Per- quisites and Advantages, to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining, during our Pleasure. In Testimony whereof, We have caused the public Seal of our said Prov- ince to be hereunto affixed. Witness our aforesaid Governor and Commander-in-Chief the 29th day of March, in the ninth year of our Reign, Annoque Domini, 1769.
J. WENTWORTH. " By his Excellency's Command,
T. ATKINSON, Jr., Sec."
" Province of New Hampshire, 12th Dec. 1770.
" Then the above-named John Wallace personally appeared and took oath and subscribed the respective Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament, instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy ; also, the Oaths of Office.
" Before us, THEODORE ATKINSON, JONATHAN WARNER, Comm'rs."
But although Mr. Wallace held an important office under the King, he was among the foremost in sustaining the rights and liberties of the people during the Revolutionary strug- gle. Such was the excitement in the public mind at that trying period, that in some instances, the people, taking the matter into their own hands, administered what is now called "Lynch-Law," to those whom they suspected of being inimical to the cause of the Colonies and favorable to the King.
It is related of Mr. Wallace, (the anecdote shows his influ- ence at the time,) that one of these lawless assemblages being collected at a house on Amherst plain, a house then occupied by the Hon. J. K. Smith, for the purpose of exam- ining suspicious persons, a gentleman of the legal profession was placed upon the hogshead for interrogation, and proving somewhat obstinate, was about to suffer violence, when John Wallace, though a strong Whig, kindly interposed, and, by his influence, saved the person's life.
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AUNT SPRAGUE.
AUNT SPRAGUE.
THERE is a plain and unpretending head-stone in the burying-ground at Stevens' Corner, in the west part of this town, which marks the resting-place of Mrs. Hannah Sprague, wife of Benjamin Sprague. She was the daughter of Thomas Barnes, and grand-daughter of John Barnes, of Hingham, Mass., one of the original grantees of Bedford. She was born in Merrimac. She came to this town with her husband, who was a native of Billerica, Mass. They were among the first settlers here.
They lived for a great many years upon the farm now owned by Leonard C. French, Esq. ; indeed, Mr. Sprague first cleared the woods from off this lot. All his numerous family were born here. Their children have all removed from amongst us. Many of them are, with their respected parents, numbered with the dead. One son, Dr. Alden Sprague, lately died at Little-Rock, Arkansas, where he had resided for a long time, and was highly respected as an able and excellent physician, and an honest and honorable man. The mother was a superior, an extraordinary woman. Nobody, who lived in the " West Parish," or near "Chestnut- hills," forty years ago, can have forgotten her.
The writer of this notice, whose memory of events extends over something more than half a century, and whose lot it has been to have known personally as many men and women as perhaps almost any individual of his age, cannot now call to mind so rare a specimen of active benevolence, of devotion to the welfare of others, of self-sacrificing and unremitting efforts in the cause of humanity, as was daily exhibited in the life of that amiable and excellent woman and relative, whom everybody delighted to call Aunt Sprague.
It is all but impossible to present to the mind of one of this generation the actual condition of those who dwelt in the neighborhood of this woman fifty or sixty years since. The settlers were then in the midst of a forest. There were no roads, no bridges, no carriages. Families lived miles apart. And yet sickness and death often came among them. In the event of any sudden illness or serious accident, even within the memory of him who pens these lines, it was ex- ceedingly difficult to procure the aid of a physician. We could, indeed, get Dr. Goodrich of Merrimac, or Dr. McMul-
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len of New Boston, or even Dr. Gove of Goffstown, if a horse and a rider who knew the way to their respective residences, could be found, to send for one of these worthy gentlemen. But what was to come of the suffering party, while the mes- senger was riding from ten to a dozen miles, through the woods, and hunting, first for the doctor, and then for the doctor's horse ; and while the doctor himself was returning through this long and devious track ? With ordinary good luck, in the most favorable times, when the streams were not so much swollen as to prevent the fording, when no trees had been blown down and across the paths to hinder us, when we found the doctor, and caught his horse readily, it required more time, and more personal labor and exposure, to get these services, than it would now, by the aid of the magnetic tele- graph and steam power, to procure the best skill of the profession from the city of Boston, a distance of fifty miles or more.
But what became of the patient during these dreadful delays? Why, they sent for Aunt Sprague. And she always came. No matter what was the weather, or what the time, - wet or dry, hot or cold, winter or summer, in snow or rain, in sunshine or storm, early or late, night or day, she came. Everybody sent for her, and she always came. She has crossed the dark forest, between her residence and Chestnut-hills, hundreds of times, on foot, upon such errands of mercy. Once she went, at great peril, after a very heavy fall of snow. It was in the night, when she heard of the distress and suffering of a neighboring woman. Nothing could restrain her from making an effort to afford the aid so much and so speedily required. Taking a lantern, and putting on her snow-shoes, she was enabled, with the aid of her husband, to reach the bedside of her friend, and probably to be the means of saving her life. Her manner was so bland, so soft, so quiet, that one felt her soothing influence the moment she entered the door of the sick-room. She knew so well what to say, and when and how to say it, that she at once gained your confidence, and you submitted to all she prescribed. Nobody could reconcile you to your condi- tion, as a patient, half so well as she could. From the hand of no other would you as readily receive the nauseating and sickening, though urgently necessary, apothecary's draught. And she would remain with you after the doctor had left you. She would raise your aching head, cool your excited and
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feverish brow, and watching over you with the vigilance of a mother, she would minister to every want, never leaving you until she could perceive undoubted symptoms of return- ing health. And this service she rendered, and these duties she performed, over and over and over again, for everybody in the vicinity where her lot was cast, for no other earthly compensation or reward, except the gratification of relieving the suffering of her friends, and of doing good in her day and generation. She died at a very advanced age, over eighty, very suddenly, having suffered herself very little from ill health.
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GENEALOGIES OF OLD BEDFORD FAMILIES.
ABBOTT. George Abbott, ancestor of a numerous proge- ny, emigrated, as tradition says, from Yorkshire, England, about 1640, and was among the first settlers in Andover, in 1643, and a proprietor. In 1647, he married Hannah Chand- ler, daughter of Wm. and Annis Chandler, by whom he had eleven children.
John, son of George, married Sarah Barker, by whom he had nine children.
Ephraim, son of John, married Sarah Hunt, and had eleven children.
Ephraim, son of Ephraim, Amherst, N. H., married Mary Abbott, and afterwards Hannah Kneeland, and had seven children.
Ephraim, (Dea .. ) son of the last named, born at Andover, Mass., 1752, married Dorothy Stiles, and had children, Sarah, Dorothy, Samuel, and Ephraim. After residing in Deering, Greenfield, and Mt. Vernon, he removed to Bedford, about 1799. He died in 1828, aged 86.
Sarah, daughter of Dea. Ephraim, married Dea. Jonathan Rand. She was born 1787; died 1848.
Dorothy, daughter of Dea. Ephraim, born 1772, married David Abbott, Windham, N. H. She died in 1822.
Ephraim, son of Dea. Ephraim, born, 1780.
Samuel, son of Dea. Ephraim, born 1777, settled in Mid- dleborough, Mass., 1803, afterwards in Chester, and removed to Bedford, 1827. He now resides in Antrim, having been in the ministry fifty years. He married Sarah Rand, and had nine children, as follows. Samuel, born 1799, died 1800; Ephraim, born 1801; Sally G., born 1804; Mille R., born 1807, died 1848 ; Hepzibah, N., born 1809, died 1841 ; Sam- uel W., born 1812; Dorothy S., born 1813; John R., born 1817 ; S. Gano, born 1819, now in the ministry.
[Note. - All the children, and nearly all the grandchildren of Rev. John Rand, and also those of Dea. Ephraim Abbott, have become hopefully pious.]
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ADAMS. Rev. John Adams was minister in Durham, N. H., and also practised Medicine. Graduated Harvard College. 1745, died 1792. He was at one time, instrumental in saving the life of James Sullivan, afterwards Governor of Massachu- setts, at Saco, when attacked with bilious colic. He moved to Washington Plantation, Newfield, Maine, about the close of the Revolutionary War. He practised medicine and preached, till he died, June 4, 1792, aged 66. His wife, Hannah Chesley, survived him until March, 1814, when she died, aged 75.
John, son of the above, born in Durham, April 20, 1765.
John, son of second John, born in Newfield, Maine, Nov. 11, 1792. Married Mary, daughter of Joshua Small, Esq., of Limington, Maine, June 6, 1821. She died of spotted fever, Oct. 19, 1821. He married Sept. 26, 1822, Sarah Dutch, by whom he had Margaret Ilsley, born Nov. 25, 1825, and Sarah Dutch, born Nov. 11, 1729. His second wife died March 12, 1830, aged 32. He married Catharine, daughter of Samuel Chandler, Esq., of Bedford, Jan 11, 1838, by whom he had Samuel Chandler, born June 16, 1840. He moved to Bed- ford, Feb. 9, 1841. Catharine, his wife, died Feb. 21, 1849, aged 40. April 23, 1850, he married Lavina, daughter of Joseph Patten, Esq., Bedford.
AIKEN. Edward Aiken, with his wife, Barbara, came from the North of Ireland, and settled in Londonderry, at an early period, where they spent the residue of their lives, and died at an advanced age; Barbara, in August, 1744, and Edward in Nov. 1847, and were buried in the old graveyard in Derry, leaving their only child, Nathaniel, who was born, probably in Ireland, May 14, 1696.
Nathaniel, son of Edward, married Margaret Cockran, of Londonderry, Dec. 1, 1726. He died in July, 1782, aged 86, and Margaret, his wife, in 1788, sixty-two years after marriage. They had issue, - Edward, born Sept. 3, 1729, died 1808 ; John, born Nov. 18, 1728; Ellen, born Nov. 1, Nathaniel, born May 31, 1732; Jane, born 1734; Christian, born May 1, 1736; James, born Oct. 4, 1738; Ninian, born March 3, 1741; William, born Feb. 20, 1743 ; Susan- nah, born Feb. 23, 1745; Thomas, born Feb. 27, 1747; Margaret, born Sept. 3, 1750.
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John, second son of Nathaniel, was married in 1758, to Annis Orr, eldest daughter of John and Margaret Orr, born in the North of Ireland, March 28, 1734, whence she removed with her parents, at an early age, to Bedford. They had issue, -John, born Feb. 15, 1759, died Feb. 20, 1811; Phineas, born Dec. 16, 1761, died April, 1836; Margaret, born May 16, 1764, died March, 1840; Susannah, born Feb. 2, 1766; Annis, born March 20, 1769, died, June, 1839; Sarah, born April 28, 1771; Mary, born June 16, 1773; Jane, born Feb. 12, 1776. John and Annis Aiken, the parents, remained in Londonderry, some eight or ten years after marriage, when they removed, with their [four eldest children, to Bedford. John died April 7, 1793, aged 64, and Annis died Sept. 1813, aged 79. He became an elder, prob- ably in Londonderry.
John, eldest son of John and Annis, was married Dec. 25, 1781, to Mary McAffee, of Bedford, who was born May 16, 1763. They resided in Bedford at the time of their marriage, and for about ten years after, when they removed to Merri- mac, where they spent the residue of their days. They had numerous issue, and died, John, Feb. 20, 1811, aged 52, and Mary, April 12, 1828, aged 64.
Phineas, second son of John and Annis, was married Dec. 8, 1789, to Elizabeth Patterson, of Amherst, and had issue, - Nancy P., born Sept. 16, 1790; Lucy, born July 15, 1792, died Nov. 23, 1831; Betsey, born Sept. 28, 1794, died Oct. 21, 1843 ; John, born Jan. 30, 1797; Silas, born May 14, 1799; Charles, born 'March 2, 1802; David, born June 7, 1804; Sarah Annis, born Dec. 31, 1806; Phineas, born April 22, 1809, died Sept. 10, 1813. Phineas, the father, was an elder in the church, and resided in Bedford, from early child- hood, till his death, which occurred April 18, 1836. His widow still survives. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Nancy P., daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth Aiken, was married Nov. 22, 1809, to Jonathan Aiken, of Goffstown, N. H. Their children were, -James, born Nov. 10, 1810; David, born April 10, 1812, died Sept. 1818; Elizabeth, born March 12, 1814; John C., born March 12, 1816; Charles, March 13, 1818 ; Jonathan, Oct. 12, 1819; Nancy, Sept. 14, 1821; Henry M., born Sept. 10, 1823 ; Jane, born April 12, 1826; Silas, June 12, 1829, died 1849 ; Walter H., Septem- ber 28, 1831 ; George Edward, born January 1, 1834.
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Of the children of Jonathan and Nancy P., James married Caroline G. Clark, Brattleborough, Vt. ; Elizabeth married H. D. Pinkerton, Derry, N. H., and has had four children, one having died ; John C. married Sarah A. King, and has one child ; Charles married Cordelia B. Hyde, and has had five children ; Jonathan married Harriet C. Merrill, and has one child; Nancy married Isaac N. Metcalf, and has two children ; Jane married John P. Tenny, and has three children. Jona- than, the father, died in Indiana, Aug. 28, 1839.
Lucy, daughter of Phineas, and Elizabeth, was married in 1816, to Fred. A. Mitchell, M. D., of Bedford ; they had children, - Phineas, born April 7, 1817, died April, 1826 ; Charles F., born Nov. 16, 1818 ; Elizabeth A., born July 29, 1821; John Orr, born Dec. 6, 1824; Martha T., born Oct. 16, 1826; George H., born May 12, 1828; Henry A., born Oct. 8, 1830. Lucy, the mother, died Nov. 23, 1831.
Charles F., son of Dr. Mitchell, married Lucy A. Swan, of Peterborough, N. H., January 13, 1848, and has one child. Charles F. died 1850.
Betsey, third daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth, was mar- ried, Sept 30, 1818, to Isaac Riddle, Bedford. Their children were, Ann Elizabeth, born Feb. 18, 1820, died Jan., 1850; Isaac N., born Aug. 12, 1822; Jane A., born July 6, 1825 ; John A., born Sept 8, 1826 ; Silas A., born July 22, 1831. Betsey, the mother, died at Bedford, Oct. 21, 1843, aged 49. Jane A., daughter of Isaac and Betsey Riddle, was married, Oct. 18, 1849, to B. F. White, of Manchester, N. H.
John, son of Phineas and Elizabeth Aiken, was married Nov. 14, 1826, to Harriet Russell Adams, of Hanover. They had children, - Charles Augustus, born Oct. 30, 1827 ; Har- riet Adams, born Feb. 25, 1829; John, born April 28, 1830, died July, 1831. Harriet, the mother, died at Columbia, S. C., July 30, 1830, aged 35. John next married, May 28, 1832, Mary Means Appleton, of Amherst. Their children are, William A., born April 18, 1833; John F., born Oct. 31, 1835 . Mary E., born Feb. 5, 1838 ; Alfred L., born May 13, 1840 ; Jane A., born Jan 5, 1845. The family of J. Aiken, Esq., reside at Lowell, Mass. Harriet A., the eldest daughter, was married June 1, 1848, to Rev. William H. Lord, Mont- pelier, Vt., and has one child.
Silas, son of Phineas and Elizabeth Aiken, was married March 24, 1829, to Mary Osgood, Salem. Mass. They had children, - Edward, born April 10, 1830; Mary Elizabeth,
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born July 9, 1832 ; Susan Endicott, June 19, 1835. Mary, the mother, died Feb. 8, 1836, aged 32. Silas next married, May 24, 1837, Sophia Parsons, of Amherst, Mass., daughter of Rev. David Parsons, D. D. Their children have been, Henry Homer, born Jan. 26, 1843, died Sept. 1, 1846; Har- riet Sophia, born Jan. 12, 1848. Silas was pastor of the Congregational Church in Amherst, N. H., from March, 1829, to March, 1837 ; of the Park St. Church, Boston, from March, 1837, to July, 1848, and at the present time of the church in Rutland, Vt.
Charles, son of Phineas and Elizabeth, was married, June 1839, to Adaline Willey, of Campton, N. H. Their children have been, Charles Edward, born July, 1840; Adaline E., born March, 1842; William Henry, Oct., 1844; George Franklin, born March, 1848; a daughter, born Jan. 1850. In addition, they had, in 1846 and '47, two children, who severally died on the day of their birth. The family reside in Wisconsin.
David, son of Phineas and Elizabeth, was married Oct. 24, 1844, to Lydia W. Root, Greenfield, Mass., who died, Nov. 13, 1845. He next married, Nov. 28, 1848, Mary E. Adams, of Amherst, Mass. They reside at Greenfield, Mass.
Sarah Annis, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth, was married, Oct. 20, 1829, to William P. Black, of Manchester, Vt. They have had children, - Harriet A., born Feb. 15, 1831, died April 1837 ; James P., born Aug. 26, 1833; Sarah E., born Feb. 19, 1837; Charles E., born Feb. 13, 1840 ; William A., born Dec. 30, 1842; Helen M. born Nov. 6, 1848. They reside at Manchester, Vt.
Margaret, daughter of John and Annis, was married, 1787, to Josiah Chandler, then of Goffstown, N. H. About the year 1799, they removed to Pomfret, Vt. They had seven children. They lived and died in Pomfret, Josiah in 1837, his wife in 1840.
Susannah, second daughter of John and Annis, was mar- ried in 1790, to Jonathan Barron, of Merrimac. They removed soon after marriage, to Rockingham, Vt., where they resided till after the birth of their youngest child. They then removed to Nunda, Livingston Co .. N. Y., where they now reside. They have had eight children.
Annis, third daughter of John and Annis, was married, in 1811, to Abner Campbell, of Londonderry, N. H. She died without children, June, 1839, aged 70.
Sarah, fourth daughter of John and Annis, was married,
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1791, to Samuel Gilchrist, of Goffstown. They had nine children, of whom Sophronia was married to Mark Burnham, Hamilton, U. C., and Margaret A., to Dr. Daniel Little, Goffstown. Samuel, the father, died Aug. 31, 1818. His widow married, April 28, 1822, Capt. John Smith, Goffstown, for her second husband, with whom she still lives.
Mary, daughter of John and Annis, was married, 1814, to William Reed, of Litchfield N. H. They had one son, Phineas, who is married.
Jane, youngest daughter of John and Annis, was married Nov. 17, 1817, to James Aiken of Goffstown. He died with- out children, May 7, 1809. Jane next married, April 11, 1831, Rev. Walter Harris, of Dunbarton, N. H., who died Dec. 25, 1843, leaving her, the second time, a widow.
AIKEN. James, was born in 1745. He came from Lon- donderry, N. H., to Bedford, about 1760. His parents came from Ireland, were of Scotch descent, and settled in Londonderry. His mother became a widow, and married Robert Riddle, who removed to Colrain, Mass. He was a tanner by trade, and settled on the farm of Robert Riddle, now owned by Capt. John McAllister. He was Captain of the Militia Company in Bedford, and drafted the soldiers from this town who served in the Revolutionary war. He married Margaret Waugh, Nov. 17, 1762. He died of a can- cer in his neck, May 13, 1787, aged 42. He left a good estate. Margaret, his wife, was daughter of Robert Waugh, who left Ireland, July 22, 1737, and landed at Boston, Nov. 1, 1727. She was born Sept. 23, 1741. After the death of her husband, she lived upon the homestead, and brought up the family. The children were : Ann, Margaret C., Robert, Sarah, Andrew, Ruhannah, James, Peggy, Hannah, Achsah, Olive. Mrs. Aiken was a woman of great perseverance, possessed an amiable character, and was highly esteemed. For many years, she was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She died, Sept. 1, 1838, aged 97. She was buried in the family tomb of Isaac Riddle, Esq.
Ann, eldest child of James and Margaret Aiken, was born in 1764; married Isaac Riddle, Esq., June 5, 1788; died April 6, 1804.
Margaret C., born June 10, 1766 ; died Jan. 24, 1768. Robert, born Sept 28, 1767 ; died Feb. 22, 1786.
Sarah, born March 28, 1769; she married John Gilchrist, of Goffstown, Aug. 24, 1790.
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Andrew, born Dec. 26, 1770. Settled upon the farm ad- joining that of his father, now owned by Wm. McPherson. In 1797, he married Martha, daughter of Wm. McAllister. They removed to Newport, N. H., where they now reside.
Ruhannah, born Sept. 12, 1772; died Oct. 8, 1778.
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