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James, born Oct. 3, 1774; married Mary Kennedy, and was drowned in Merrimac river, June 12, 1823, aged 49. He left two sons, Benjamin F., and Robert, who reside in Goffs- town.
Peggy, born June 3, 1776 ; married Thomas Parker, Sept. 10, 1795, and settled at Piscataquog Village; afterwards removed to Candia, and died in 1825, aged 49.
Hannah, born March 27, 1778; married Wm. Parker, Esq., of Goffstown, Dec. 17, 1800, and died Sept. 30, 1818, aged 40.
Jane, born Sept. 4, 1780; married Capt. John McAllister, March 13, 1800. They reside on the homestead.
Achsah, born March 27, 1782; died July 26, 1806, aged 26.
Olive, born Sept. 19, 1785 ; died Feb. 15, 1806, aged 21.
ATWOOD. John Atwood emigrated with two brothers, from England to this country, and settled in Plymouth, Mass. He married and had children, - Zaccheus Waite, Isaac, Han- nah and Lydia. He enlisted as a soldier, in the French and Indian War, and was killed in 1754.
Isaac, son of John, was born in Plymouth, June 28, 1747. He came to Bedford, about 1778. He was married in 1770, to Hannah Chubbuck, and had nine children, - Isaac, Han- nah, Lydia, David, John, Submit W., Thomas, Stephen and Zaccheus. He married for his second wife, Lydia Whit- marsh, of Abington, Mass., in 1800, with whom he lived till his death, in 1836.
Isaac, son of Isaac, born in Plymouth, June 11, 1772, was married to Betsey Chandler, Dec. 27, 1799. Had nine chil- dren, - Elijah, Hannah, Eliza, James, Eunice, Lydia, George Orr, Sarah, Harriet, and Philomela.
Hannah, daughter of Isaac, Sen'r, born Nov. 11, 1774, married Samuel Smith, Feb. 15, 1793.
Lydia, born Nov. 12, 1776, married Alexander Patten.
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David, born March 24, 1779, married Mary Bell, Sept. 21, 1702. They had children, - Hannah, Joseph, Mary, Olive, John, Daniel Gordon, David, Jane, Clarinda, and Isaac Brooks. Of these, Hannah, born Dec. 11, 1802, still lives in Bedford. Joseph, born Feb 13, 1804, married Esther M. Weston, Nashua, Feb. 11, 1834. In 1841, he removed to the State of New York, and thence, in 1849, to Peoria Co., Ill., where he now resides. Mary, born July 27, 1805, still lives in Bedford. Olive, born Feb. 8, 1807, married Thomas Bursiel, Jan. 14, 1841. John, born Dec. 23, 1808, married Clarissa Tread way, Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1832 ; he resided in Hamilton, till 1848, when he removed to Albany, where he now resides. Daniel G. born April 12, 1812, married Margaret A. Barr, of Bedford, May 2, 1837, and had five children, Eliza M., Caroline, Julia Ann, Daniel Webster, and Clara ; he still lives in Bedford. David, born Dec. 15, 1815, married Mary Ann Poe, Madison, Wis., Aug. 23, 1849, where he now lives. Jane G., born, Aug. 21, 1819, married Edward Barr, Bedford, where she now lives. Clarinda, born July 12, 1822, died Jan. 22, 1838. Isaac B., born April 19, 1824, died May 28, 1837.
John, son of Isaac, Sen'r, born July, 1781, died Feb. 27, 1804, unmarried.
Submit W., daughter of Isaac, Sen'r, born July 5, 1783, married James Darrah, Sept. 16, 1802.
Thomas, born July 22, 1785, married, in 1808, Miss Susan Holmes, of Londonderry, and had eleven children, - Albert, Elvira, Susan, Harriet, Sarah, Thomas, Martha, Jane, Charles, Catharine, Hannah, Frances, and Ann Elizabeth. He removed to Nunda, New York, in 1840, where he now resides.
Stephen, born May 19, 1790, married Emily S. Lamb, of Shrewsbury, Mass., and had six children. He now resides in Nashua.
Zaccheus, born, August 31, 1792, lives in Bedford, unmarried.
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[Dwelling-House of the late Nathan Barnes, Esq., now owned by Gardner Nevins, Esq.]
BARNES. Thomas, son of Rowland, came from Hing- ham, Norfolk County, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 1637. His son married Anne Canterbury. John, their son, married Elizabeth Vinton. From them sprung nearly all of the name in New England. Thomas, son of John and Elizabeth Vin- ton, came to New Hampshire, and commenced a farm in what is now Merrimac. He married Rachel Barrett for his first wife, and Susannah Cummings for the second. His children were Asa, Thomas, Sarah, Lydia, Hannah, Betsy, John and Cornelius, all by his first wife. Asa settled in this town, on the land now owned by Gardner Nevins, Esq., and married Esther Richardson. Their children were Asa, Nathan, Polly, Anna, Cornelius, Thomas and Josiah. Nathan married Anna Remick, of Newburyport, Mass., and by her had children, -Clarissa, Isaac, Esther Richardson, Enoch,
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Mary West, David Patten, Nancy Jane, Sarah Ann, and Henry Winslow. They have all removed from Bedford, ex- cept Esther, who married Gardner Nevins, Esq., and now resides on the land granted to John Barnes, one of the original grantees of the town. Of the other children of Nathan Barnes, Clarissa married Isaac Parker French, and now resides in Danvers, Mass. Isaac O. married Hannah Trask Woodbury, and resides in Boston. He was for some time Naval Officer of the Customs for the District of Boston and Charlestown, Mass., and afterwards, for several years, U. S. Marshal for Massachusetts. Enoch married Susan Rebecca Ayer, and resides in Mississippi. Mary married William Bradford Tuttle, and resided in Baltimore County until her death, in 1843. David Patten married Sarah Wes- ton, and resides in St. Louis, Mo. Nancy Jane married Rodney G. Boutwell, and Sarah Ann married John Richard- son ; they both live in Lyndeborough, N. H. Henry Winslow married Sarah Lamb, and resides in Wisconsin. Nathan Barnes died, July 9th, 1825; Anne, his widow, died Nov. 30th, 1848.
A member of this family, while making a rapid excursion in England, in the summer of 1850, had the pleasure of visiting Hingham, Norfolk County, for a day or two, where he gathered what was to be learned of the early history of his ancestors in the old country. Upon leaving Hingham, he was kindly presented with the following certificate, which is published verbatim, as prepared by the very venerable and excellent magistrate whose signature it bears.
" Extracts from apparently the oldest Register Book of " the Parish of Hingham, in the County of Norfolk, Eng- " land, commencing in the year 1600."
" Marriages Anno do : 1610.
" ROWLAND BARNES and Alice Coop wer married ye 21st " day of October.
" Baptiseings Anno do : 1612.
" Ellen daughter of Rowland Barnes was bapt. the 14th of " Februarye.
" Buirials Anno do : 1615.
" Alice the wife of Rowland Barnes was buried the sixt. " of Julye.
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" Baptisings Anno do : 1617.
" THOMAS, the son of Rowland Barnes was baptised the " second of November.
" Baptiseings Anno do : 1622.
"Grace the daughter of Peter Barnes, was baptised the " 28th day of April.
" Baptiseings An. do : 1634.
" None.
" Burials in the same year.
" ROWLAND BARNES was buried the eleventh day of Julye.
" I attest that the above are true extracts and true copies. " PH: JAS : CASE, Notary Public, " 82d year of his age." " Hingham, 25th August, 1850."
There is no person of the name of Barnes now living in Hingham, although the name is a very common one in Lon- don and other parts of England. After the most minute and faithful examination of the church records, made by the above aged magistrate, assisted by his accomplished daughter- in-law, Mrs. Gilman, no other notice or memoranda could be found, which seemed to refer to this family. It is, however, exceedingly gratifying to recover even this account, meagre as it is, from authentic records, so very ancient and so liable to have been destroyed.
The writer of this brief family sketch attended divine service in the old village church, standing in the midst of the burying-ground in Hingham. It is very ancient -evi- dently the work of the middle ages - built of stone, and so large, that, with its extensive nave and choir, it seems almost worthy the name of a cathedral. It has resisted the storms and the tempests of centuries, and is now, in its exterior, in a perfect state of preservation. Some very fine pieces of statuary, in the inside, were marred and broken by the army of Cromwell, during the civil war and Revolution, in which he was the successful leader. Indeed this beautiful church was converted into a stable for horses, by the Protector, as was the Old South, in Boston, by the army of George III., during our Revolution.
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Thousands of our New England people trace their origin to this same Hingham, in Norfolk. Among the families well known with us, the Lincolns, the Cushings, and the Gil- mans, are from this place. Our late respected Governor, John Taylor Gilman, was of the Hingham stock. He has two near relatives, who still reside near the old church. Samuel H. L. N. Gilman, Esq., and his brother, Col. Gilman, of the British army. Both of them bear a strong family resemblance to our late Governor, and they are both of them highly educated and true English gentlemen, of whose rela- tionship the Governor might well have been proud in his best days.
BARR. James Barr, born 1704, in Ballymony, County of Antrim, Ireland ; married Ann McPherson, and emigrated to America in 1740, with three uncles of the name of Barr, -John, Samuel and Gabriel. James settled in Londonderry, and had five children, - John, Sarah, James, Samuel and Molly. They removed to Goffstown.
Samuel, son of James, born 1754; married Margaret Boies, and settled in Henniker, whence he removed to Bed- ford. They had children, - James, Thomas, Ann, John, Samuel, William and Robert.
Thomas, son of Samuel, born 1784; married Abigail Palmer, and had eight children, - Edward, Margaret, Ann, Elbridge, George, Caroline, Thomas and Robert Palmer.
John, son of Samuel, born 1789; married Nancy Dunlap for his first wife, Sophia Richardson for his second, and Clarissa Eaton for his third, by which wives he had eleven children, - Nancy, John, Matthew, Samuel, Maria, Julia, Ann, David, Jumes Rufus, Clinton and Mary.
Edward, son of Thomas, born Sept. 14, 1813; married Jane G. Atwood, and had four children, - Emeline, Olive Jane, Harriet Griffin and Lewis Cass.
JOHN BARR, one of the uncles that came over with James, was in the Siege of Londonderry -a soldier under King William -and endured all the sufferings and distress of that memorable time. The following circumstance is related of him : -
After the Siege, he started for home, overcome with weak- ness and faintness. In the evening he came to a house, went
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in, and requested to stay all night. The woman of the house said she could not entertain him. " But," says he, "I have got in, and unless you are stronger than I, I shall stay." He noticed two fowls roasting by the fire. The woman became very pleasant, and full of conversation. She said she wanted to make a rope, and asked if he could assist. He said he could. She got her flax and crank, and they went to work. He twisted and stepped back toward the door. She held the flax and rope. When he got to the door, he asked if it was not long enough. She said no, and he stepped out of the door ; at which she threw the rope out and shut the door, fastened it, and put his gun and pack out of the window. Well, thought he, I am outwitted; but he travelled on, and seeing an old deserted mill, he thought he would turn in there for the night, and he concluded the safest place to sleep would be in the hopper. He had not been there long, before he saw a light approaching the mill, and soon there entered a man and woman, with two cooked fowls and a silver tankard of beer. The man and woman being very familiar, the soldier thought he would like to see what was going on, and raising his head for this purpose, the hopper fell, and came down with a crash. The two persons fled, leaving the fowls and tankard of beer. Our hero got up, made a good supper of the fowls, put the remainder in his pouch, and with morning departed on his journey. The tankard he brought to Londonderry, N. H.
BARRON. Moses Barron, removed from Chelmsford to Bedford, about 1740, and settled on the place now owned by Capt. John Patten. By reference to the early records of the town, we find he occupied a prominent place in society. He was a large land-owner, possessing about 3000 acres in Bed- ford, Merrimac and Amherst. He died in 1770. His estate was the first settled by the Probate Court. He had two wives, by whom he had sixteen children, whose descendants are scattered through different States of the Union. Silas Barron, third child by his first wife, was the first male child born in town. He removed to the then Province of Maine, his occupation being that of surveyor of land. He never married, and died about 1816, aged 76.
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BELL. John Bell, born in Ireland; came to Bedford, about 1736. In 1739, he was followed by his wife, with four children, -John, Joseph, Mary and Susanna. They lived some time in a log-house, in what is now called the " Old Orchard," and then moved to the " Thirds," so called, near where Rodney McLaughlin now resides. His grave- stone is seen in the old graveyard.
John, son of the above, born in Ireland, 1732; came with his mother to this town when seven years old. He married Jane Carr, who soon died, without children. He then mar- ried Sarah Bell, of Londonderry, and had eleven children, - Joseph, John, Rachel, Susanna and Mary, the rest dying in infancy.
Joseph, son of first John, left town and settled in Halifax, Mass.
Mary, daughter of first John, married Gawn Riddle.
Susanna, daughter of first John, was lame, and lived single.
Joseph, son of second John, born April 17, 1757 ; married Mary Houston, June 4th, 1776, and had nine children, - Sarah, John, Mary, Isaac, Susanna, Joseph, David, James and Jacob.
John, son of second John, married Mary Logan, and died early. They had one child, which was drowned.
Rachel and Susanna, daughters of second John, died young and unmarried.
Mary, daughter of second John, married Daniel Gould, and had three children, -John B., Lavina and Daniel G.
Sarah, daughter of second Joseph, born April 4, 1777, and married Daniel Platts, May 11th, 1787, and had three chil- dren, - Susanna, Joseph and Daniel Dodge. Susanna and Daniel D. died young, and Joseph is not supposed to be living. Dec 26th, 1815, she married Oliver Townsend, and had one son, Timothy, and is now a widow, residing with her son, in Bedford.
John, son of second Joseph, born Feb. 23, 1779; married Peggy Brown of Antrim, 1801, where he still resides.
Mary, daughter of second Joseph, born April 12, 1781 ; married David Atwood, Sept. 21, 1802, with whom she still lives.
Isaac, born April 9th, 1783 ; married Susanna Hutchinson, Feb. 3, 1804, and after living in this town a few years, moved to Fishersfield, N. H., and died in 1829.
Susanna, born Sept. 25th, 1785 ; died in infancy.
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Joseph, born March 21st, 1787. Graduated at Dartmouth College, 1807. Studied law and settled in Haverhill, N. H. About 1821, he married Catharine, daughter of Hon. Mills Olcott, of Hanover. In 1840 he removed to Boston, where he now resides. He is an eminent lawyer, and has been President of the Massachusetts Senate.
David, born Oct. 16, 1789; married Polly Houston, Dec., 1808, and settled in Hillsborough. He died in Bedford, Nov. 27th, 1832.
James, born Jan. 15, 1792 ; married Mary Barnett, of Am- herst, N. H., Sept. 21, 1813, and settled in Amherst ; whence he removed, 1831, to Haverhill, N. H., where he now resides. For his second wife, he married Rebecca Weston of Amherst, 1826.
Jacob, born April 30, 1795; married Laura, daughter of Dr. Ezra Bartlett, Haverhill, N. H., where he now resides.
BOYNTON. William Boynton, one of the first settlers of Buxton, Me., by trade a blacksmith. There is now in possession of his great-grandson, in Bedford, a steel trap made by him, very ancient, with his mark on the jaws, W. B., which has been handed down through former generations.
William, son of the above, lived in Buxton.
William, son of second William, born in Buxton; mar- ried Betsey Whitney, of Standish, Me., and moved to Brom- field, in that State.
William, son of third William, born in Buxton, May 14, 1797. He married, May 17, 1820, Jane, daughter of Capt. Andrew Glendinin, of St. Davids, New Brunswick ; her father was born in Londonderry, N. H. William and Jane had eight children, - William J., born at St. Davids, N. B., March 8, 1821; Charlotte A., born at Bow, N. H., June 24, 1824; Mary J., born at Bow, N. H., May 10, 1829; Melissa M., born at Bow, N. H., Jan. 10, 1832 ; Henry P., born at Bow, N. H., Dec. 1, 1833; Andrew A., born at Merrimac, N. H., Jan. 13, 1839; Robert and Stephen, (twins) born at Merrimac, N. H., July 14, 1841. The twins died Sept. 16, 1841; Wm. J. died April 11, 1843 ; his wife, Jane, died Oct. 23, 1849, aged 50. Sept. 10, 1850, he married Hannah, widow of Thomas Gamble, of Manchester, N. H., and daughter of Enoch Goodwin. She was born at Londonderry, Nov. 19, 1810.
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BURNS. John Burns came to America, from London- derry, Ireland, in 1740. He landed first in Boston, where he resided a few years, and married. Immediately after his marriage, he moved to Bedford, and settled on the farm now owned by George W. Way, where he lived and died, March 26, 1788, aged 77. His wife died soon after their removal to Bedford, July 9, 1745, aged 21, leaving no children. She was buried in the old graveyard, and her gravestone bears the oldest inscription in the yard. For his second wife, he married Anna McQuesten, of Litchfield, N. H., by whom he had three sons and five daughters. She died a short time after her husband, and no inscription records her birth, age or death. Burns was the individual who accompanied James McQuaid to Concord, (Suncook) after corn, at the first set- tlement of the town, when McQuaid was killed by the Indians. [See page 105.] Burns was not wounded ; but his shirt, with seven bullet-holes, testified to his danger.
Robert, son of John, married Molly Smith, and settled in Merrimac.
Margaret, daughter of John, married John McGilvray, Merrimac, and lived and died there.
William, son of John, married Molly Miller, and lived in Bedford a few years, on the Gregg place, then moved to Pom- fret, Vt.
Ann, daughter of John, married Elijah Buxton, Merri- mac.
Jane and Sarah, (twins,) daughters of John. Jane mar- ried Wm. Beard, of New Boston; Sarah married James Campbell, of Windham, N. H.
Elizabeth, daughter of John, married James Campbell, of Bedford.
John, son of John, married Elizabeth Moore, and lived in Bedford. He was born Sept. 20, 1759, and died Nov. 30, 1846. Had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. John could say, what few can, - " I had a twin brother and twin sisters, twin children, twin grand-children and twin great- grand-children, twin nieces and twin grand-nieces, and twin grand-nephews; a twin brother-in-law, a twin son-in-law, and am a twin myself."
Esther, daughter of second John, married Benj. Darling, of Shelby, N. Y.
Mary, daughter of second John, married Henry Hale, Merrimac.
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Jane and Sarah, (twins,) daughters of second John. Jane married Elijah Coan, of Shelby, N. Y. ; Sarah married Benj. Darling, of N. Y., as his second wife, after the death of her sister Esther.
Martha, daughter of second John, married John Kenny, New Boston.
Robert, son of second John, married Margaret McClary, Windham.
Ann, daughter of second John, married Daniel McClyde, Windham.
Wyseman C., son of second John, died young.
William, son of second John, died young.
Lucy M., daughter of second John, married Robert F. Chase, and lived in Derry.
David, son of second John, died young.
Wyseman C., 2d, son of second John, married Eliza Har- ris, Windham, and settled in Bedford. Had six children, - Mary E., (died young,) Caleb Pearson, Abby J., Thomas Savage, Wm. Harris, Lucy Ann.
CHANDLER. William Chandler, came to this country from England, about the year 1637, and settled in Roxbury. He brought with him four small children, Thomas, Hannah, John and William. Sarah was born after they came here. He died of consumption, Jan. 19, 1641. This is supposed to be the origin of the name in this country.
Zachariah, one of the grantees of Bedford, then Narragan- sett, No. 5, is supposed to be a descendent of Thomas. He signs his name on the record, in the right of his wife's father, Thomas Bishop. His son Thomas, was among the first set- tlers of the town, and married Hannah, daughter of Col. John Goffe, by whom he had four children, three daughters and one son. He then died. His widow afterwards married Capt. John Bradford, as his second wife, and settled in Am- herst, now Milford. He was grandfather to the late Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford, of New Boston, She lived to be ninety three or four years of age. She had four or five children by her second husband. The eldest daughter by the first hus- band, Peggy, married Dea. Richard Ward. Hannah married Col. Stephen Peabody, and Sally married Enos Bradford ; they all settled in Amherst, now Mount Vernon. Dea. Ward
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left a large family. They removed, about 1793, to Andover, Vt., and scattered over the country ; some into Maine. Of the Peabody family, two, Thomas and John, were doctors. One of the females, Rebecca, was a surgeon doctress, married to Gen. Perley Davis, and settled in Montpelier, Vt. Some of the family settled in Cambridge, on the river Lamoille. Enos Bradford had two daughters and one son, all dead, and family extinct.
Zachariah, only son and youngest child, of Zachariah, was born May 28, 1751. During most of his minority, he resided with his relatives in Roxbury. At a suitable age, he came to reside on, and take the care of his patrimonial estate in Bedford, and before he was twenty-one married Sarah Patten, second daughter of Capt. Samuel Patten, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. He died April 20, 1830, aged almost seventy-nine. Sarah, died Nov. 30, 1842, aged ninety- three years, eight and a half months; She died suddenly, in the full enjoyment of her mental faculties.
Thomas, the oldest son, was born Aug. 10, 1772, and in the fall of 1793, married Susannah, daughter of Matthew McAffee, of Bedford, and settled on the farm he now lives on, and has had four children.
Asenath, daughter of Thomas, married Stephen Kendrick, of Nashville, and has had four children; Franklin, left in March, 1849, for California. Susan, Asenath, and Sarah remain at home.
Sally, daughter of Thomas, married Caleb Kendrick, both dead ; left one son, Caleb Chandler Kendrick, now in the Sophomore class, Dartmouth College.
Hannah married Rufus Kendrick, merchant, of Boston, and had four children, two sons and two daughters, - Thomas and Byron, Frances and Mary Augusta. Frances married a Mr. Freeman, merchant, of Boston. Hannah, the mother, died 1850.
Adam, only son of Thomas, was married to Sally McAl- laster. They have had three sons and one daughter. The two oldest sons, Henry and Byron, are minors, at home. , The youngest, John, is now, Oct. 1850, in the Freshman class in Dartmouth College. The daughter, Sally, died, Feb. 1842, aged two years and eight months.
Samuel, the second son of Zachariah, was born May 28, 1774, and married Margaret Orr, oldest daughter of Hon. John Orr, Nov. 1800. He has always lived on the homestead, part of the original grant of Bedford. He has had seven
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children, one of whom died in infancy. Three daughters and three sons lived to mature age.
Mary Jane married, in 1825, Rev. Cyrus Downs, and set- tled in Canajoharie, N. Y. He died in Feb. 1827. She then married Rev. David P. Smith, in July, 1828, who was settled in Greenfield in this state, and died Oct. 1st, 1850.
Annis married Franklin Moore, Esq., Sept. 2, 1830, and moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Catharine married John Adams, of Newfield, Maine, Dec. 1837. They moved to Bedford, Feb. 1841. She died Feb. 21, 1849, aged forty, leaving one son, now ten years old.
Samuel, jr., was born July 5, 1811; entered Dartmouth College, Sept. 1830. In 1833, he took up his connection, and went to Union College, Schenectady. His appointment for commencement, in 1834, was an English Oration, which he was unable to perform, by reason of sickness. He was taken with a lung fever, in May, 1834, and came home the first of June. In September, he went with his brother and sister to Detroit, in the hope of a better climate, which was delusive. He gradually declined, until March 21, 1835, when he died at Detroit, where his remains now are.
Zacharias, was born Dec. 10, 1813. In September, 1833, he removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he still resides. He married, Dec. 10, 1843, Letitia Grace, daughter of George Douglas, Esq .. of New York City. They have only one child living.
John Orr, was born January 1, 1816 ; entered Dartmouth College, Sept. 1832; graduated in 1836, and entered the Andover Theological Seminary, at the fall term of the same year. He returned home in the Spring of 1837, out of health with weakness of the lungs, and went in September, the same year, to Detroit. Still declining, he left, in November, for Cuba, by way of the Mississippi River, and New Orleans. He stopped a short time at Havana; thence went to Matan- zas; thence to Limonare, about twelve miles from the city, where for a short time, he seemed to revive. But his disorder was too firmly seated to be removed. In the fall of 1838, he began to decline rapidly, and died in January, 1839. Dying in a Catholic country, he was denied Christian burial, and his remains were buried on the plantation. They were disinterred, and removed to Bedford, in the winter of 1842, and kindly offered a resting-place in the tomb of Dr. Wood- bury, where they still remain.
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