History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Part 147

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1200


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KARR .- Samnel Clay married Hannah Karr. They came here from Candia, N. H., and settled on the Colonel Sanborn Hill, so-called. He served as a town officer and was licensed to sell rum, gin and brandy, but cautioned not to mix water with it.


John Karr, of Candia, N. H., married Eliza- beth Murray, of Chester, N. H. They settled at an early date on what is called Colonel Sanborn's Hill. Karr was a large, powerful man and fought wild beasts and witches. Our informant remembers when a small boy, of looking on with fear and see- ing him destroy one with hot irons, but does not remember of seeing the dead witch. Old inhabit- ants claimed that Mr. Karr cleared more acres of land than any other man that settled in town. He had four sons and one daughter, Hannah, who never married, and died in 1822 ; Samuel, married Nancy Greely, of New London, and lived and died there; John, Jr., never married, lived at Concord the last of his life ; Mark lived and died at Epping, N. H. ; Joseph lived and died at Man- chester, N. H.,and has several children living there now. Mr. Karr built where Joseph M. Robie now lives, and died there in 1843. He has no descend- ants living in town.


KINSMAN .- In 1794 Captain Ephraim King- man, Colonel Aaron, Deacon Stephen and Asa Kinsman, Joseph and James Riddle, Jr., lived in that part of the town now called Fowler Town, then Kinsman Corner.


It was about six miles from the centre of the town, and an unbroken foreet lay between them and the small settlement at the centre. The Kinsmans had lived there several years, but it was not known to the people at the centre until


Samuel Robie, Esq., and Captain John Quimby took a compass and went on an exploring expedi- tion, and, much to the surprise of both parties, found their neighbors. This was several years before 1794.


John Morrill married - Kinsman, and settled at an early date in this part of the town. He was a very worthy man, and " Let his moder- ation be known to all men." He had three sons, -Stephen, John, Jr., and Enos ; also two daugh- ters Stephen has been gone from town many years, but has one son living in Wilmot, the Rev. William S. Morrill. Joho Jr., and Enos still live in town, having sons and daughters living near then.


LITTLE .- Nathaniel Little was born in Atkin- son, N. H., November 10, 1746; married Mary Carleton, of Plaistow, N. H. After living a time at Portland, Me., he purchased a farm and resided at Plaistow, N. H. About the year 1790 he removed with his younger children to this town, where he cleared wild lands and settled them upon farms. His daughter, Susan, married Osgood Taylor, who was a tavern-keeper at Springfield, Sandown and Hampstead, where he died.


Samuel married Sally Pettengill, of this town, and built and kept a tavern at the James Calef place, on the turnpike. He died in 1814. Joseph married Sarah Webster, of Salisbury, and lived on a farm near Stockertown. He was a sea-captain, and died away from home, in 1820.


Elizabeth married John Hoyt, and settled on a farm near the old Stickney tavern.


John, at the age of twenty two, left home and was not heard from for thirty years. He was a sea-captain, and died in 1840, unmarried.


Amos, the youngest of thirteen children (the only one born in town), was born February 27, 1796; he lived with his father until he was fifteen years old, when he left home and learn- ed the hatters' trade. In 1818 he commenced the manufacturing of hats at Newport, N. H., and continued in the business until his death, August 17, 1859.


Nathaniel Little (Senior) was in the Revo-


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lutionary War, served as ensign, and was wounded at the battle of Saratoga. After the death of his son Samuel, in 1814, he went to Hampstead, N. H., to live with his oldest son, where he died, August 11, 1827.


LOVERIN .- Eben Loverin and Lydia, his wife, came here about 1780 with six children,-John, Ebenezer, Caleb, Polly, Lydia and Hittey. They walked from Salisbury on snow-shoes, bringing the youngest in their arms. John Loverin mar- ried Betsy Hall, of Croydon, and lived there. Ebenezer Loverin married Polly Bliss, of Leba- non ; lived and died in town. Caleb Loverin mar- ried Mary Keniston, of Stratham. Polly Loverin married Joseph Nichols, father of Dr. Joseph, John, Phineas, Eben and Lydia. John Nichols married Betsy Stevens; they had several children, only one of which, John C., is now living in town. Lydia Nichols married Cutting Greeley, of Salis- bury.


Dr. Joseph Nichols married Hannah Colcord. He was a successful physician in town ; had several children, all away from town now. Eben Nichols married Sarah McDaniel. Phineas Nichols taught over thirty years in the High School at Ports- mouth, N. H.


Lydia Loverin married Dr. Nathaniel Prentis, who was instantly killed, leaving one daughter, now dead. Hittey Loverin married Abraham Philbrick, who came here from Kingston; had nine children,-Sally, Milly, Abram S, Porter K., Jeremiah, John, Hittey, Olive and Lydia. Sally married James Noyes and lived in town. She is now eighty-seven years old, living in Buda, Ill., with her daughter. Milly married David Colcord, who died, leaving two children, James and Ann (now Mrs. H. Hatch), both living in Lebanon. She died in 1882. Abram S. married Lydia Loverin, of Croydon, and had five children, -Henry, Horace, Marietta, Louisa and Betsy Jane. Henry lives in Manchester. Marietta in Croydon ; the others in town-Louisa living with her father, who is eighty-three years old. Porter K. married Nancy Hoyt, of Enfield, and lived in Wilmot. He died a few years ago. Jeremiah


married Lydia Jane Sanborn and had four chil- dren,-James, Martha, Ellen and Orra, who is the only one living in town. His second wife was Mrs. Angie Williams, of Grafton; one child, Leona.


John married, first, Lucinda Heath; four chil- dren now living,-Loren, Elwin, Warren and Milly. All in town but Loren. Second, Sephina Morgan, of New London. He always lived in town, and died in 1880.


Hittey married James McDaniel.


Olive married L. L. Hill. Only three children living,-Porter and Francis in California and Edson with his father in town. She died in 1883.


Lydia married L. F. Hill. Always lived in town and have three sons,-Orin, Cyrus and Charles. Orin lives in Michigan.


Jedediah Philbrick, of Kingston, brother of Abraham, married Hannah Thirston, March 19, 1794. Their children were Betsy, Samuel, Dolly, Lua, Anna, Dinah and Emily B.


Anna married Ezra Pillsbury, and is now liv- ing in town, seventy-nine years old, and Emily is living in the West.


Jonathan Loverin and wife came here from Candia and settled on the old New London road. They had eight sons,-Benjamin went to Vermont and died there; Nathaniel married Nancy Col- lins ; John married Sarah Bowman ; Prescott mar- ried Betsy Sawyer; Daniel married Sarah Russell ; Jonathan, Jr., married - Malone, from Salis- bury ; Ira married Mary A. Brigham, from Ver- ment ; Austin married Susan Kinsman, and after her death married Lovina Morrill. Ouly two of their children now living in town,-Ida L. and Sarah Ann, wife of George H. Morgan.


THORP. - Samuel Thorp, of Beverly, Mass., came here with Ephraim Morgan and helped clear land near Morgan Pond. Said Thorp and wife had five daughters. One married a Cressy, of Bradford ; one a Mr. Ward, of Lebanon; Olive married Josiah Johnson, of Wilmot ; Hannah married John Silver; Almina married Ebenezer Whittemore, of Wilmot. No descendants in town.


MCDANIEL .- James McDaniel we find was in


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town before 1794, with a family of four children,- Mark, Daniel, John and Polly. He lived upon the same farm that is now occupied by Charles Mc- Daniel, but his buildings were upon the top of the hill, near what is known as the Whittemore house. John married Hannah Morse, of Kingston ; they were the parents of five children,-Abigail, Sarah, Daniel, James and Hannah. They moved to the house now occupied by Charles McDaniel, in 1808, from a house about twenty-five rods north of the present buildings. Abigail McDaniel, born 1799, March 25, married Stephen H. Heath. She died in 1834, leaving three boys, who are now dead. Sarah McDaniel, born February 21, 1803, married Eben L. Nichols. They both died in town, having reared a family of four sons,-Alonzo P., Leonard, Lyman L. and Lovell W., only one of whom is known to be living, Alonzo P. Nichols, now of Manchester, N. H. Daniel McDaniel, born March 28, 1804, went to Cherry Valley, Ohio, and married Eliza Greene. Three sons, Lanson, Johu and James survive them ; Lanson, now living in the mining region in Pennsylvania; John, in Iowa ; and James in Rome, Ohio. James McDan- iel, born February 13, 1807, married, Novem- ber 24, 1833, Hittey L. Philbrick. He always lived in town, upon the old homestead, except while teaching a few terms in New York. He died in 1873, leaving four children,-Charles, Ann, George and Ella. Charles married Amanda M. Quimby ; Ann married S. H. Jackman, a graduate of Dart- mouth College, now living in Sacramento, Cal. ; George also lives in Sacramento, Cal .; Ella is at present living on the " McDaniel " farm, with her mother, who is seventy-three years old. Hannah MeDaniel, born April 14, 1813, is now living at Enfield, N. H., as widow of Albert Currier. She has one son, Nathan, a graduate of Tufts College.


three children,-Betsy, who is now living in Wake- field, Mass .; Sally, who married Leonard Heath ; and Rebecca, who died in town. Ephraim Mor- gan married and raised a large family of children ; died in Francestown, N. H. Richard Morgan. died in the West, and Sally died here unmarried. Ebenezer Morgan, born March 14, 1801, married Abigail Rowe, of Candia, had six children,-Mary Ann, who married Charlton Woodbury, and lives in New London ; Sarah Jane, now living in Man- chester ; Richard S., married - Messer, and lives in New London ; Ephraim D., married and living in Manchester; Ellen J. and Frank B., who are now living in town with their mother, who is nearly blind. William Morgan married Mary Ful- ler ; had four children,-Garry ; George H, who married Sarah Ann Loverin, and lives in town ; Laura and Lucy, both living in Sunapee. Laura married Willard Chase, and Lucy, Alfred Mar- tin. Garry Morgan, born October 22, 1806, died in town.


MESSER .- Phineas Messer and wife, of New London, cleared the land where his sons Phineas and Jacob now live (also had one other son, John, died young). Louis married Darius Kidder. Mary died of consumption.


Phineas married Mary A. Bowman, and have three children living,-Melvin, Charles and Syl- vester.


Jacob married Mariett Burpee, of New London ; one child, Herbert H., also living in town.


NOYES .- Daniel Noyes married a Miss Ware, from Andover; had two sons,-Hon. John W. Noyes, now living in Chester, N. H., and is president of Derry Bank; Daniel J. Noyes. of Hanover, who has long been a professor in Dart- mouth College


Ebenezer Noyes, of Kingston, married Lydia Sawyer Plaistow. They settled in this town at an early date, on the place now known as the " Blood place;" afterwards lived on the turn- pike, where Lorenzo Dow now lives. Our inform- ant well remembers him as the "king of good fellows." They had no children of their own, but


MORGAN .- Ephraim Morgan came here before 1795, from Beverly, Mass., and settled in the wil- derness, on land which is now owned by Jeremiah Philbrick and used as a pasture. He had seven chil- dren,- John, Ephraim, Richard, Sally, Ebenezer, William and Garry. John Morgan, born August 31, 1791, married Betsy Richardson. They had | adopted several and gave them good homes. One


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of the number was the late Gilman Sawyer, another Eliza Jane Phelps (now Mrs. Cheney), living in Plaistow, N. H.


John Noyes, brother of Ebenezer Noyes, first came to this town from Kingston, when a boy six- teen years old; he came with Ensign Nathaniel Little and John Heath, in the fall of the year, and stayed some six weeks, cutting timber and clearing land, on the place now known as the " French place," where Little afterward built his tavern and lived. Noyes afterward married Elizabeth Webster, of Plaistow, and came and settled on the farm where Moses Noyes lately died, and now occupied by Charles M. Noyes.


John Noyes drove the first yoke of oxen into town, bringing the first sheep, six in number, on an ox-sled from Plaistow. He followed the business of teaming many years, from this town to Boston, Salem, Haverhill and Newburyport, Mass. He had four sons and three daughters- James, Stephen, Eben, Moses, Polly, Sarah and Eliza,-all being dead but one, Mrs. Sarah Hall, of Lowell, Mass. He died in 1847. James Noyes married Sallie Philbrick, and died, leaving four daughters,-Ursula A., Caroline P., Milly and Sarah J. Milly died and was buried in town ; Ursula married Mr. Durham ; Caroline married M. G. Loverin, formerly of this town ; Sarah mar- ried Cyrus P. Mason. All are now living in Illinois. Stephen Noyes married Mary Jane Brown, and had five children,-John, Eliza, Eben, Mary I. and Jane E. Eben Noyes was married twice and lived in Boston ; his widow and children survive him. Moses Noyes married Susan Whitte- more, and had six children,-Ellen married Mc- Dole, and lives in Bedford ; Lydia married Mc- Dole, and is now dead ; Mary married Horace H. Philbrick, and lives in town; William married and lives in Alexandria ; Charles married Helen Pattee ; he and Mrs. Mary Philbrick are the only descendants living in town ; Florilla married Horace Tilton, and lives in Alexandria ; Polly married Kimball Loverin, of Croydon ; had nine children-Eliza, Mary, Martha, Lucy, Ann, Achsah Jane, John, Hiram and Caleb. Sarah


married Calvin Hall, and had several children. Eliza married John Brown.


PERLEY .- Paul P. Perley, a native of Boxford, Mass., came here from Dunbarton about 1795 or 1796. He married Sally Story, of Dunbarton, and raised several children,-Sally, Betsy, Benja- min, Dolly A., Daniel, Jacob and Mary Ann. Sally married David Perkins, of Dunbarton ; thence moved to Washington, N. H. Betsy married Benjamin Bunker, of New London, and lived in Wilmot. Benjamin first married Han- .nah Adams, of New London, having one daugh- ter, Adelphia, now living in Vermont ; second, Mrs. Eliza Gage Collins. They had two daugh- ters,-Augusta, married Edwin Messer, and Abby, not married, both living in New London. Dolly A. married Thompson Baxter, of Quincy, Mass., had a family of seven children. Daniel married, first, Mahala Gile, of Sutton. They had one daughter, Mary Ann, who is now dead. Second, Mrs. Lucy Morrill Brown, who is now living in New London. Jacob died in infancy. Mary Ann married Samuel Quimby, and still resides here, being the only one of the family now living. Daniel Perley always lived on the original Perley place, and Benjamin on an adjoining farm.


QUIMBY .- Timothy Quimby married Shuah Sanborn, of Hawke. They came here soon after the Revolutionary War, and settled on two seventy-five-acre lots, the house being in what is now a pasture south of where Rev. Lewis Howard now lives. Their daughter Mary was born in December, 1795. In 1807 they bought of John Gould the place where their granddaughter now resides. Mary Quimby married Abner Johnson in 1817, he having located in Springfield as physi- cian prior to this. They had five daughters,- Rosina, Ferona, Peluna, Lorana and Jelana ; only three now living. They left town in March, 1835, and lived in Lowell, Mass .. less than two years ; then settled in Saxonville, a village in Framing- ham, Mass., where he practiced pharmacy. He died in Derry, N. H., aged nearly eighty-nine years, with his daughter Rosina, who married Hon. W. H. Shepard.


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Ferona married Samuel Soden, of Saxonville, and had one son, Arthur, living in Newtonville, Mass. Mr. Soden died in 1844, and in 1848 she married S. H. Clement. They had one daughter, Mary, who recently married Horace Metcalf, of Walpole, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Clement came back to the old homestead, which had remained in the family since 1807, a few years before his death, in 1872. In 1879 she married Rev. Lewis Howard, who has preached here most of the time since.


Captain John Quimby, brother of Timothy Quimby, lived here in early times, having three sons,-John, Samuel and Timothy.


John Quimby, born July 21, 1773, married Mary Bean in 1798 and had five children. Samuel Quimby, born in 1800, married Mary Ann Perley. When a young man he and Sam Colby spent a few years in Kentucky, since which he always lived in town, and served in military and all town offices many years, in the Legislature and as deputy sheriff They had three children,- Amanda M., who married Charles McDaniel ; Daniel P., who married Emily E. Adams, daugh- ter of Hon. D. A. Adams (after her death he married Etta Huntoon, now living in Newport, N. H.) ; Warren S. married Ellen E. Keniston, and live in Andover, N. H. Samuel Quimby died in 1872. Hannah Quimby died in 1806.


Horace Quimby married Nancy Jones, and had several children while living in town; moved to Manchester, where he died.


Eri Quimby married - Mace, of Boston, and went West.


Lucinda S. Quimby married Gilman Loverin, of Loudon, and, after his death, married Amos Copp, of Sanbornton. She is now living in Man- chester with her son, Alberto Loverin.


Mary Quimby, wife of General John Quimby, died May 20, 1820, and, February 4, 1824, he married Mehitable March. They had two daughters,- Mary and Augusta Ann, who mar- ried, and are now living in Illinois.


Samuel, brother of General John Quimby, married Susan Gilman. Had three children,-


Sally and Philinda, now dead, and William H., living in Enfield, N. H.


Lieutenant Timothy, the other brother of General John, married Lydia Robie. They had only one son, Timothy Hendrick, now living in town. He married Eliza Davis, of New London. They had six children, only two living in town,- Henry E. and Timothy H., Jr.


Jeremiah Quimby, of Candia, came here about 1780 and married Margaret Smith, of Candia. Children were Jacob, Maroa, Hannah, Polly, Eliz- abeth, Mehitable, Abraham, Aaron and Jeremiah. All moved from here but Abraham and Jeremiah. Abraham married Marion Jones, of Hawke. Children,-Leify, Enoch, Jones, Ruth, Betsy, Abraham and Jacob H. Abraham married Olive Randall, who died several years since, but he is still in town. Jacob H. married Nancy Russell and lives in Enfield. Jacob married - Bean, of Candia; had three children,-Irene, Joanna and Jacob. Aaron Quimby married Hannah Heath, daughter of Enoch Heath. Children,- Enoch, Louisa, Sarah, John, Maria, Aaron, Jere- miah, Hannah and Peter. Enoch was twice mar- ried and died in Cornish. Louisa is the present wife of Willis Hardy. Aaron now lives in Grant- ham in single blessedness. Jeremiah married Rhoda A. Sanborn ; when a young man he had the small-pox ; afterwards was a local preacher and died here in town, leaving two children,- Lydia Jennie and Harris. Hannah married John T. Weeks. Jeremiah, son of Jeremiah and Margaret Quimby, married Nancy Jones, of Hawke. Their children's names were Charlotte, Nancy, Jeremiah and Irene. Nancy died several years since, Jeremiah married Belinda Hoyt, and Irene is the wife of John F. Hardy. Both fami- lies are now living in town.


RICHARDSON .- Moses Richardson was born in West Newburg, Mass., November 12, 1752. In early life he, with his parents, moved to Chester, N. H .; married, 1778, Sarah Chase, born Novem- ber 28, 1756. In 1788 he, with his family, moved to Protectworth, (now Springfield), N. H. His was the forty-second family then in town. He was


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one of the early school-teachers in town and was chosen deacon of the Congregational Church, which position he held until his death, in 1842, aged ninety years. The following children were born to them in Chester, N. H .: Jacob Chase Richardson, born February 21, 1779, died in Western New York in 1844; Moses D. Richard- son, born May 1, 1781 ; Prudence H. Richardson, born October 12, 1783, died October 23, 1857; Sarah Richardson, born August 31, 1788, married Theophilus Clough (she died October 22, 1863). The following were born in Springfield : Betsy Richardson, born August 2, 1791, married John Morgan of Springfield ; she died January 10, 1857. Daniel Richardson, born September 22, 1793, removed to West Lebanon, N. H., in 1826, and died at West Lebanon, N. H. Lydia Rich- ardson, born February 11, 1796, married Asa Currier, of Raymond, N. H .; she died in 1883. Joseph Richardson, born December 2, 1798, married Rhoda Stevens, November, 1824 ; he died in 1880.


Moses D. Richardson, born in Chester, N. H., May 1, 1781, moved with his parents in 1791, when but ten years of age, to Protectworth (now Springfield), N. H., into the wilderness at what is now called Springfield Four Corners, and always lived on the same farm until his death, February 26, 1861, aged eighty years. He married, in 1809, Sarah Collins, born in Salisbury, July 18, 1787. They lived together in Springfield fifty-two years. She died at North Boscawen, June 11, 1872, aged eighty-five years. To them were born in Spring- field nine children, as follows :


Laura Richardson, born November 10, 1810; married, in 1828, David Flanders ; she now living at Ilion, N, Y.


Amos Richardson, born August 28, 1812; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1837; married, August 25, 1840, Ruth Freeman, of Han- over, N. H .; was principal of Fryeburg, Me., Academy until 1845, when he removed to Free- hold, N. J., and established the young ladies' seminary ; he became totally blind in 1855, but continued the management of the seminary until his death, in 1882.


Moses C. Richardson, born September 24, 1814, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841, attended the Harvard Medical School, and graduated at the University of New York City in 1845. He married, first, Harriet Farnsworth, of Bridgton, Me., August 23, 1846. Married, second, September 10, 1849, Mary S. Wingate, of Hallowell, Me. Married, third, Frances C. Ticknor, of New Marl- boro, Mass .; he practiced medicine twenty-four years in Hallowell, Me., then removed to New Marlborough, Mass., where he died from rupture of a blood-vessel.


Levi Richardson, born June 29, 1816, served as clerk for Shaw & Churchill, and B. & A. Latham, Lyme, N. H., from 1836 to 1840 ; then returned to Springfield ; served as clerk for D. N. Adams for two years ; then became a partner under the firm-name of Adams & Richardson ; married, September 28, 1843, Lucy Ann Gustin, of Croy- don, N. H. She died September 5, 1858. In 1860 removed to Franklin, N. H. ; married, August 2, 1862, Mary A. Currier, of Nashua, N. H .; still living in Franklin, N. H.


Lucinda Richardson, born May 5, 1818, married Calander Rathburn, now living at Dallas Centre, Iowa.


David Richardson, born July 2, 1820, married Mary Hill, of Conway, N. H. ; on account of ill health was obliged to remove South, and located at Knoxville, Tenn .; married, second, Laura Beardem, of Knoxville, Tenn. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, the noted rebel, general Longstreet, sent him an order to report at his headquarters at a late hour one evening, which order he obeyed. On his arrival at the general's quarters, the general told him his object in send- ing for him was to join their army. After listening to the general's proposition he firmly refused to obey. After his many threatenings, the general said that he was in his quarters, that his life was unsafe, and that he was liable to be shot, and made a move for his revolver, which lay on his table. David quickly drew his own revolver and told him to shoot if he dare. The general quieted himself, and said : " You are of good grit, just the man


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we want ; but if we can't get you, we want your lumber," of which he had a large quantity. Terms were made and the lumber delivered.


Shortly after General Burnside's army arrived, and General Harriman, with the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, was stationed in front of David's dwelling. During one of the battles his family were protected by retreating to the cellar. He died at Knoxville, Tenn., October 11, 1870.


Sarah Richardson, born April 11, 1824, died November 24, 1839.


Harriet Richardson, born November 20, 1826, married Marcus K. Houser, now living at North Boscawen, N. H.


Martha Richardson, born September 15, 1828, now living at Dallas Centre, Iowa, married John White, of Franklin, N. H.


ROBIE .- Lieutenant Samuel Robie married Dor- othy Worthen ; came from Chester, N. H., and set- tled in this town at an early date. As the history will show, he was a very prominent man in town offices and in building the fourth New Hampshire turn- pike, being a director in that corporation many years. He also built many miles of the road, and, it is said, lost a large share of his property in the enterprise. He settled and lived on land now owned by Joseph L. Brown, at the Four Corners, and raised a large family of children-Dolly, Reuben, Sally, Samuel, Jr., Lydia, Nabby, Ruth, John, David, Mahala and Anne. Only two are living,-David, a hale old man, lives in Salisbury, aged eighty-one years, and Mahala D. Gay, living in New London, aged seventy nine. He has four grandchildren living in town-Timothy H. Quimby, Joseph M. Robie, John Robie and Mrs. Fifield Sanborn ; also two in New London-John Robie and Mrs. Jonathan George. Lieutenant Samuel Robie died in 1822, and Dorothy, his wife, March 4, 1839.




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