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He was a member of the Congregational church of Chester for more than sixtv-five years and for many years a Trustee and Treasurer of its Ministerial Fund. For many years he was also a trustee of several religious and benevolent societies of the state and a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
GEORGE W. STEVENS
GEORGE WASHINGTON STEVENS (1817-1907) one of the six children of James and Sarah ( Robinson) Stevens was born in Chester in a house which stood near where Horace West now lives. When he was a small boy his father purchased the present Stevens home. His birthplace and the play grounds of his childhood remained dear to him throughout life. Dale's Mill Pond was another place which had pleasant associations for him. In 1832, with fourteen other friends. he was there baptized and united with the Baptist Church whose handsome meeting-house then stood directly opposite his home.
In 1834 at the age of 17 he went to Boston to learn the up-
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holsterer's trade of his brother Frank. He then joined the Hanover Street Baptist Church of Boston. As he became prosperous he helped bear the heavy financial burdens of this church until it was given up. To the end of his life he continued his yearly contributions to the home church in Chester.
From the smallest beginnings he built up an upholstery business which gave him a good share of the best patronage of Boston. Every article that left his workshop was made upon honor. One of the salient characteristics of the man was his scorn for cheap sham work. The hassock under one's foot had to be finished as evenly and carefully as the mahogany sideboard or sofa. His hair mattresses had no layer of cheaper material in the middle, his arm-chairs no weak spring.
Wealthy people soon found this out and put the contracts for furnishing their homes into his hands. Never once was their trust betrayed. He designed almost all of his furnishings and his taste was refined. Nothing showy pleased him. Everything had to be plain but substantial. The pulpit in the Baptist Church of Chester was designed and made by him and given to the church.
He is a good example of many another New England man who, with no renown of ancestry, no special advantage for an education, no great prominence in public life, goes through the years doing his duty with no thought of reward or praise, no scheming to lower unworthy ambitions, no sacrifice of self respect for gain.
For every dollar he received he gave a full equivalent, and he felt it equally proper that for every dollar he spent he should receive a full equivalent. He was a clean man free from vulgarisms, tobacco or liquor. He was an industrious man. Ninety years were filled to the end with labor not leisure.
Chester people will remember him for his generosity in giving to his native town Stevens Memorial Hall which he wished to have built from foundation to turret with thoroughness emblematical of his own character.
WELLS C. UNDERHILL
WELLS CHASE UNDERHILL, was the son of John and Molly (Chase) Underhill, born in Chester, 11 Oct., 1836. In early life he attended the public schools and also a select school in town.
He served the town as selectman from 1875 to 1878 inclusive, and was moderator of town meetings from 1876 to 1887. He was a member of the school committee for three years and town treasurer from 1877 to 1887.
He was representative to the State Legislature from 1879 to 1881, being the first elected from the town under the revised Constitution. For many years he was a justice of the peace and was commissioner for Rockingham County from 1879 to 1885.
He was one of the best informed men of the town and during the later years of his life his advise and counsel was frequently sought by those in charge of town affairs. He resided on the old homestead and was interested in local history.
WILLIAM B. UNDERHILL
WILLIAM BURTON UNDERHILL, county commissioner of Rocking- ham County, was born in Chester, 19 Aug. 1860, a son of Lt. John and Caroline (Southwick) Underhill. His father was a prominent citizen of Chester who was a sergeant in Company I, Eleventh New Hamp- shire Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and later a Lieutenant in
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Company D. of the Eighteenth Regiment. He was sergeant-at-arms of the N. H. House of Representatives for many years and was representative from Chester in 1872-3.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Chester and early in life entered the shoe factory carried on by his father. Subsequently he was associated with Coburn & Fuller and Perkins & Hardy, shoe manufacturers of Derry. About 1895 he pur- chased the Senator Samuel Bell homestead in Chester which he has made very attractive in recent years.
He is a progressive citizen; was representative to the state legis- lature in 1905; has served on the board of selectmen and as a member of the board of education of Chester. In 1912 he was elected on the Republican ticket a member of the Board of County Commissioners and has been re-elected six times, holding office at the present time.
MARION C. WEBSTER
MARION CECILE WEBSTER (1888- ) was educated in the public schools of Chester and graduated from Pinkerton Academy as valedictorian in 1905. She entered Smith College and received the degree B. A. in 1910; was a teacher in the Mary A. Burnham School, Northampton, Mass., 1910-1913; pursued the secretarial course at Simmons College and received the degree S. B. 1915.
Secretary to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, 1914-16; Secretary of the Summer School of Harvard University, 1916-17; Secretary to the Vice President of the National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., 1917; Secretary to the Art and Advertising Editor of Ginn & Company of Boston, 1918; instructor of Secretarial Courses in the Margaret Morrison Division, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1918-19; secretary to William Gilmour, of the firm of Gilmour, Rothery and Company, Boston, 1919 to date.
ARTHUR H. WILCOMB
ARTHUR HENRY WILCOMB (1866- ) was educated in Chester and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He began as a clerk in his brother's store and conducted a school of telegraphy in Springfield, Mass. 1885-6. In 1887 he engaged in the mercantile and fruit evaporating business with his father and still carries on that business. He was appointed postmaster of Chester in 1889 and served till 1894. He was again appointed in 1897 which office he now holds. He is a justice of the peace, a notary public; was tax collector and town treasurer for ten years. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature 1895-97, serving as clerk of the committees on Education and Incorporations and clerk of the Rockingham County delegation. He is manager and treasurer of the Chester and Derry Telephone and Telegraph Co .; director of the Derry Railroad Association; trustee of the Derry Savings Bank and is a member of many fraternal organizations and is president of the New Hampshire branch of the National League of Post masters of the United States.
CHARLES A. WILCOMB
CHARLES ALBERT WILCOMB (1852- ) was educated in Chester and at Colby Academy. He was a member of the first class at the New Hampshire Agricultural College (now the University of New Hamp- shire) in 1869 and was a teacher in Chester and South Hampton. Later he became postmaster and tradesman in Chester. He established
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the fruit evaporating business in Chester, carried on the shoe business in the old Greenough store and was the chief promoter in building the telegraph line to Derry in 1877. He was a leader in all matters pertaining to the welfare of Chester and was a mason and member of the Congregational Church. He was a town officer and member of the legislature in 1883.
CHARLES S. WILCOMB
CHARLES SNELLING WILCOMB (1822-1905) went to Brooklyn, N. Y. and attended high school and studied pharmacy for two years. In 1840 he sailed to St. Croix in the Danish West Indies and was overseer of a sugar plantation under a commission from the Danish government. In 1843 he shipped on a whaling vessel ,the Isaac How- land of New Bedford, Mass. for three years as captain's assistant and the ship's medical officer. He went to Australia, New Zealand, the northwest coast of America and returned by Cape Horn, stopping at the Azores, Cape Verde and Pitcarn's Islands, Cape of Good Hope and the Sandwich Islands. The ship returned to New Bedford in 1845 with a full cargo of oil, having circled the globe.
He then returned to Chester where he served the town as select- man, town clerk and representative to the state legislature in 1877. He was a deacon of the Baptist Church and was engaged in farming and lumbering and mercantile pursuits. He was a man of rare intelli gence and sound common sense.
CHAPTER XVI.
GENEALOGIES.
For the earlier generations see Chase's History of Old Chester.
AIKEN.
SAMUEL3 AIKEN (Samuel2 Samuel1) son of Samuel2 and Isabella (McDole) Aiken, b. at Chester, 10 Jan., 1776; d. there, 30 Mar., 1840. He m. 15 Oct., 1811, Nancy Marston, dau. of Elisha Smith and Judith (Morrill) Marston, b. at Hampton, 3 Apr., 1782 ; d. 6 Aug., 1867, a. 85. Several children d. young.
Children who survived, born at Chester:
i. NANCY,4 b. 3 Apr., 1816. (see Noyes).
ii. JANE MORRILL, b. 16 July, 1818. (see Noyes).
iii. ISABELLE, b. 16 Dec., 1820; d. 24 Dec., 1847. She m. Daniel S. Richardson of Lowell, Mass. Their dau. Mary Adams Richard- son, b. 23 Nov., 1845.
BELL.
The Bells were originally of Norman stock, retainers of Robert de Brus, with whom, in 1066, came, among the invaders of England Robert Le Bel. The family followed the fortunes of De Brus, and migrated with his successors into Scotland where they settled in the Annandale country in the West Marches. Their earliest known homestead was Blacket House, built in 1404, the
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tower of which still stands. They were of the hard fighting clans that kept the Marches, and dwelt thereabouts until the Restoration, when Charles II. laid heavy hands on the Scots who had fought for the Commonwealth.
Matthew Bell, born in Kirkconnel about 1650, as a lad drifted to the Scots in Ireland. There he grew up, fought in the desperate siege of Londonderry, and lived out his adventurous life. His two sons, Matthew and John emigrated to America: the first born about 1677, came about 1710 to New York, the latter, born in 1678 in Ballymoney, near Coleraine, came to Londonderry in 1720. John Bell was granted a homestead in Aiken's Range, built a cabin and in 1722 went back to Ireland and brought his wife, Elizabeth Todd and their two daughters.
JOHN3 BELL (John,2 Matthew1) was born on the London- derry homestead, 15 Aug., 1730; married in 1758, Mary Ann Gilmore, was long in public life and had three sons who settled in Chester, viz. Jonathan Bell, eldest son, removed to Chester about 1800; kept the village store; m. Sarah Wingate Flagg, daughter of Josiah and granddaughter of the redoubtable Rev. Ebenezer Flagg. He d. in 1808.
Gov. JOHN+ BELL, born 20 July, 1765; removed to Chester as early as 1802 : m. 25 Dec., 1803, Persis, daughter of Dr. Isaac Thom of Londonderry and entered upon a career of distinguished activity. He was elected Governor of New Hampshire 1828.
Children, born at Chester :
i. MARY ANNE PERSIS,' b. 2 Sept., 1804.
ii. ELIZA THOM, b 23 Jan., 1806; m. Hon. John Nesmith of Lowell. She d. 22 Sept., 1836, leaving one daughter.
iii. JOHN, b. 15 Nov., 1807; d. New York, N. Y., 26 Jan., 1828.
iv. SUSAN JANE, d. in infancy.
v. HARRIETTE ADELIA, b. II Apr., 1812; d. 29 Aug., 1836.
vi. JANE GIBSON, b. 30 Apr., 1814; d. 4 Aug., 1835.
vii. CAROLINE, d. young.
viii. CHRISTOPHER SARGENT, b. 4 June, 1819; graduated at Dartmouth College 1838; d. unm. in Havana, Cuba, 20 Jan., 1839.
ix. JAMES ISAAC, b. I Mar., 1821; lost on the ship Harold, which was burned at sea, 26 Oct., 1839.
x. CHARLES HENRY, b. 18 Nov., 1823; graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege, 1844; lawyer; governor of New Hampshire 1881-3; author of History of Exeter. He m. 6 May, 1847, Sarah Almira Gilman, daughter of Nicholas Gilman. Children: (1) Helen Bell, b. at Chester, 7 Apr., 1848; m. 23 Dec., 1890, Dr. Harold North Fowler, professor in Phillips Exeter Academy and later of Northwestern Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio. (2) Mary Persis Bell, m. 12 Feb., 1885, Hollis Russell Bailey of Boston.
SENATOR SAMUEL4 BELL (John,3 John,2 Matthew1) was born in Londonderry, 9 Feb., 1770; died at Chester, 23 Dec., 1850. He married 26 May, 1797, Mehitable Bowen Dana, daughter of Hon. Samuel and Anna (Kenrick) Dana of Amherst. She was born 8 Nov., 1780; died 17 Sept., 1810. He married (2) 4 July,
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1828, Lucy Giddings Smith, daughter of . Jonathan and Amelia (Dana) Smith, born at Amherst, 23 Oct., 1794; died at Chester, 8 May, 1880.
Sen. Samuel Bell graduated at Dartmouth in 1793; studied law with Hon. Samuel Dana of Amherst; was president of the New Hampshire Senate 1807 and 1808. He removed to Chester in 1812; member of executive council 1813; justice of the Superior Court 1816-19; governor of New Hampshire 1819-23; United States Senator, 1823-35. He resided in his later years on Walnut Hill in Chester, in his newly built homestead.
Children by his first wife:
i. SAMUEL DANA, b. 9 Oct., 1798.
ii. JOHN, b. 5 Nov., 1800; d. 29 Nov., 1830.
iii. MARY ANN, b. 26 Oct., 1802; m. John Nesmith of Lowell.
iv. JAMES, b. 13 Nov., 1804.
v. LUTHER U., b. 2 Dec., 1806; d. 12 Feb., 1862.
Children by second wife, born at Chester :
vi. GEORGE, b. 24 June, 1829.
vii. JOHN, b. 19 July, 1831.
viii. CHARLES, b. 10 Aug., 1833.
ix. LOUIS, b. 8 Mar., 1836; d. 16 Jany., 1865.
SAMUEL DANA5 BELL (Sen. Samuel,4 John,3 John,2 Mat- thew1) was born 9 Oct., 1798; died 31 July, 1868. He married 8 Aug., 1826, Mary Healey, daughter of Newell Healey. She died in 1864. He graduated at Harvard College in 1816; studied law with Hon. George Sullivan of Exeter; admitted to the bar in 1820; removed to Chester in 1821; lawyer there 1821-30; cashier of the Exeter Bank 1830-36; solicitor of Rockingham County 1823; representative from Chester 1825-6; justice of the Court Common Pleas, 1848; justice of the Superior Court, 1849- 59; chief justice of Superior Court 1859-65. He served three times, 1830, 1842, and 1867 on commissions to revise the statutes of New Hampshire and was well acquainted with the history and antiquities of his native state. In his later years he resided in Manchester.
Children :
i. JOHN JAMES,6 b. 30 Oct., 1827; justice of Police Court in Exeter.
ii. SAMUEL N., b. 25 Mar., 1829; representative in Congress, 1871-2; 1875-6.
iii. MARY W., b. 1835; m. John P. Newell. She d. 29 Aug., 1858.
JOHN5 BELL (Sen. Samuel+), was born 5 Nov., 1800; died on his plantation near Thibodauxville, La., 27 Nov., 1830. He entered Dartmouth College but on account of the famous Dart- mouth College case transferred his membership to Union College where he graduated in 1819. He studied medicine in the office of Dr. Benjamin Kittridge at Chester, and at the Harvard Medical School and finished his medical education in Paris. He took his medical degree from Bowdoin in 1823, and began practice in New York. He was appointed professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Vermont. On account of failing health he
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went South in 1825 and after practicing for three years purchased a sugar plantation in Louisiana. He never married.
LOUIS5 BELL (Sen. Samuel4) was born at Chester, 8 Mar., 1836; died of wounds received in the assault on Ft. Fisher, 16 Jan., 1865. He married at Chester, 8 June, 1859, Mary Ann Persis Bouton, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel and Mary Ann Persis (Bell) Bouton. She was born at Concord, 15 Dec., 1834, and died at Chester, 4 May, 1865. He was educated at Derry (Pinkerton) and Gilford Academies; entered Brown University with the class of 1856; left to study law with Hon. David Cross of Manchester; lawyer at Farmington; justice of Police Court 1859; solicitor for Strafford County 1861. He was commissioned Captain of Co. A, First N. H. Vols., Apr., 1861; lieutenant- colonel of Fourth N. H. V. Aug., 1861 ; colonel 4th N. H. V. Mar. II, 1862; brigade commander against Charleston; took part at Cold Harbor ; commander of 3d brigade, Terry's Division at Fort Fisher where he was fatally wounded; brevetted brigadier general Jan. 15, 1865.
Children :
i. MARIAN,6 b. 5 Sept., 1860; d. I Oct., 1881.
ii. LOUIS, b. 5 Apr., 1862; d. 29 Apr., 1862.
iii. LOUIS, b. 6 Dec., 1864; d. 14 June, 1923. [See Biographies].
LOUIS6 BELL (Brig .- Gen. Louis,5 Sen. Samuel4), was born at Chester, 5 Dec., 1864; died at West Newton, Mass., 14 June, 1923. He married in 1893, Sarah G. Hemenway, daughter of Dr. H. P. Hemenway of Somerville, Mass., who survives. (See Biographies.)
Child :
i. LOUIS HEMENWAY, b. 17 Sept., 1894.
I. WILLIAM1 BELL, born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1739, came to New England in 1775. He settled in Augusta, Me., but soon removed to Greenland. He purchased the Samuel Blunt farm in Chester, 7 Jan., 1783. He purchased land on the opposite side of the road and built a tavern and store in 1785. He died in Chester, 2 July, 1817, aged 78. He married Beatrice Barr of Glasgow, Scotland. She died in Chester, I Mar., 1825, aged 84. They were staunch Presbyterians and worshiped in the Long Meadow meet- ing-house, to which they journeyed on horseback from the lower end of the town.
Children, first three born in Paisley, Scotland, fourth in Greenland :
i. MARY,2 b. in 1772; m. Thomas Dickman of Augusta, Me .; d. there in 1797, leaving a son Thomas Bell Dickman.
ii. ELIZABETH, b. in 1774; m. Gilbert Morse of Chester, who d. in Chester in June, 1813. She d. there in Sept., 1811, a. 37.
iii. WILLIAM, (2) b. in 1775.
iv. GEORGE, b. in 1780; kept a store near Lake Massabesic; d. unm. about 1805.
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2. WILLIAM2 BELL (William1), was born in Paisley, Scot- land, in 1775; married in Augusta, Me., Mary McMaster. (Her father was a Baptist minister and her brother was the founder of McMaster Hall, Toronto University, Can.) He removed from Augusta, Me., to Chester and settled on his father's homestead. He died in Chester, 10 Aug., 1848, a. 76. His widow died 8 Mar., 1861, a. 79. They were among the organizers of the Baptist Church in Chester.
Children, first two born in Augusta, Me., others in Chester :
i. WILLIAM,3 (3) b. 18 June, 1800; m. 1827, Mary Page Webster of Sanford, Me .; resided in Lowell, Mass.
ii. DANIEL, (4) b. 25 Mar., 1802.
iii. MARY JANE, b. 7 Aug., 1812; m. Oliver Freeman of Chester. She d. there, 10 Mar., 1896, a. 84, without issue.
iv. CHILD, b. Apr., 1816; d. the same year.
v. JAMES DUNCAN, (5) b. 7 Aug., 1817.
vi. ELIZABETH, b. 4 Dec., 1820; m. Rev. Philemon R. Russell of Lynn, Mass.
3. WILLIAM3 BELL (William2), was born in Augusta, Me., 18 June, 1800; died in Lowell, Mass., 25 Nov., 1854. He married in Lowell, Mass., in 1827, Mary Page Webster of Sanford, Me. She died in Lowell, Mass., in 1888, aged 85. He was a member of the Baptist Church of Lowell, Mass.
Child, born in Lowell, Mass .:
i. SAMUEL M.4 b. in 1842; m. Mercy Maria Richardson of Dracut, Mass. He d. in Lowell, Mar., 1891; She d. July, 1891. Chil- dren : (1) William Henry Richardson, b. 16 Apr., 1864; d. 16 Apr., 1883. (2) Nellie Maria, b. 23 Sept., 1866. (3) Charles Walter, b. 25 Sept., 1870; m. 1905, Bertha May Mitchell.
4. DANIEL3 BELL (William2), was born in Augusta, Me., 25 Mar., 1802; died in Chester, 28 Oct., 1864. He married in Chester, Jane Aiken Knowles, who died in Wakefield, Mass., in Apr., 1891, aged 87.
Children, born in Chester :
i. SUSAN JANE,4 b. 26 Oct., 1829; m. Josiah Fitz. She d. in Wake- field, Mass., 5 Mar., 1913, without issue; bur. in Chester.
ii. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. II June, 1834; m. in 1866, Harris L. Gilson. She d. 14 Nov., 1922, in Wakefield, Mass., without issue; bur. in Chester.
iii. GEORGE HENRY, b. 6 Oct., 1837; m. Elizabeth J. Lovett, b. 6 Dec., 1840; d. 26 Aug., 1922. He d. in Derry, 9 June, 1912. Chil- dren, born in Chester : (I) Frank D., b. Mar., 1864; m. Marion Patterson. (2) Harris Thorndyke, b. 1869.
5. JAMES DUNCAN3 BELL (William2), was born in Chester, 7 Aug., 1817; died in the house in which he was born, 10 May, 1901, a. 84. He married in Dec., 1844, Eliza Frances Morse, dau. of John and Judith Morse of Chester. She died in Chester, 3 Jan., 1905. He was Deacon of the Baptist Church of Chester for fifty- five years.
Children, born in Chester :
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i. ANNA ELIZA,4 b. I Sept., 1853; m. in 1871, Charles Albert Wil- comb. She d. in Chester, Apr., 1876. Their child, Anabel Wilcomb, b. in Chester, 17 Nov., 1872; m. Oct., 1893, George F. Hogan of Lynn, Mass. Three children.
ii. JOHN WILLIAM, b. 5 May, 1855; d. 7 Feb., 1857.
iii. AMANDA, b. 4 Aug., 1857; m. in Chester, 14 June, 1881, William E. Jones. Their son William Duncan Jones, b. in Lynn, Mass., S Nov., 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Jones now reside in the house which was built by her grandfather William Bell in 1785, in Chester.
BLAISDELL. (BLASDELL)
ISAAC5 BLAISDELL (David+, Jonathan3, Henry2, Ralph1) was born in Amesbury, Mass. 27 Mar. 1738; died in Chester, 9 Oct. 1791. He married in Amesbury, Mass., 16 Mar. 1758, Mary Currier, daughter of Ebenezer+ and Anna (Jones) Currier. Her father Ebenezer+ was of the line of William3, Thomas?, Richard1. She was born in Amesbury, 25 May 1741; died 6 Dec., 1795. She married (2) 21 Nov. 1793, Jonathan Swain of Raymond. Mr. Blasidell was in the Old French and Indian War at Fort William Henry on Lake George in 1756 and after his return removed to Chester about 1762. By occupation he was a silver- smith and a clockmaker.
Children, first two born in Amesbury, Mass., others in Chester :
i. HANNAH6, b. 6 Aug., 1758; m. I Jan., 1780, Dea. Amos Morse; d. in Chester, 6 Feb., 1795.
ii. ISAAC, b. 2 June 1760; settled in Salisbury.
iii. RICHARD, b. 22 Nov., 1762; d. in Chester, 20 July, 1790, unm. He was a clockmaker.
iv. MOLLY, b. 1I May, 1765; int. in Amesbury, Mass., Mar., 1786, with William Wadleigh; removed to Canada.
v. DAVID, b. 19 May, 1767; m. 25 Nov., 1790, Hannah Frye; settled as a blacksmith in Peacham, Vt.
vi ANNA, b. 13 July, 1769; m. 7 Oct., 1792, Benjamin Pike Chase of Chester ; d. 22 Feb., 1808 in Chester. [See Chase].
vii. ABNER, b. 18 Apr., 1771; m. 9 Feb., 1792, Jemima Melcher.
viii. LYDIA, b. 5 July, 1773; m. 16 Nov., 1791, Josiah Chase. They removed to Boscawen, 28 June , 1817 and to Grantham in 1819; he d. 27 June, 1846; she d. I Apr., 1857.
ix. ABIGAIL, b. 19 July, 1775; d. 19 May, 1803, unm.
x. EBENEZER, b. 5 Oct, 1778; m. 31 Dec., 1799, Nancy Noyes.
ABNER6 BLAISDELL (Isaac5,) was born in Chester, 18 Apr. 1771. He enlisted in the Second War with Great Britain in 1813 and went to the Canadian frontier from which he never returned. He married 9 Feb., 1792, Jemima Melcher of Kensington. She was born 8 Mar., 1771; died in Chester, 27 Dec., 1856. By occupation he was a cabinet maker.
Children, born in Chester :
i. JOHN', b. 13 May, 1792.
ii. EDWARD, b. 20 May, 1795; d. in Kensington in 1839.
iii. BETSY, b. 20 Oct., 1801 ; m Leatch; moved West.
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iv. ABNER, b. 20 Jan., 1803, d. unm.
v. POLLY, b. 2 2Feb., 1807; d. 24 Jan., 1826.
vi. TAPPAN, b. 28 July, 1809; lived in Loudon.
vii. NANCY, b. 15 Aug., 1812; m. Asa Robie of Chester. [See Robie].
JOHN7 BLAISDELL (Abner6) was born in Chester 13 May, 1792. He married Abigail Sanborn, dau. of James and Abigail (Weare) Sanborn of Kensington. She was baptized 9 July 1790 and died in Feb., 1858. They resided in Kensington. He was a stone mason and a designer of fine work.
Child, born in Kensington :
i. ALBERT®, b. about 1825; m. Lydia Marden of Portsmouth. He was stone mason and contractor and built the first Minot's Light near Boston Harbor and constructed the foundations of Trinity Church, Boston, the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, Mass., the Custom House in Bangor, Me., and other public buildings. Children: (1) James Albert, d. in Lynn, Mass., 1923. (2) Florence, m. (1) 18 Nov., 1862. Joseph Moulton (2) James Hartshorn. (3) Francis Henry, b. 16 Feb., 1843; d. in Lynn, Mass., 18 Nov., 1905. (4) John Edward, b. 19 Apr., 1845; living in Everett, Mass.
EBENEZER6 BLAISDELL (John4, Henry3, Henry2, Ralph1) 1778; died in the army at Acworth, 12 Apr. 1813 on his way to the frontier. He married 31 Dec., 1799, Nancy Noyes. She died 17 Nov., 1844.
Children, born in Chester :
i. MARY7, b. 3 Aug., 1800; m. and lived in Boston, Mass.
ii. ISAAC, b. 19 Oct., 1802.
iii. LYDIA, b. 3 Nov., 1804; m. 25 Nov., 1830, Israel Hunting. He d. 22 Oct., 1844; she d. 22 May 1875.
iv. JAMES WASON, b. 13 Jan., 1807; m. 8 Mar., 1827, Mary Hanson ; lived in Rochester. He d. 29 Jan., 1882.
v. LOWELL, b. 14 Mar., 1809; lost on a whaling voyage.
vi. NANCY, b. 15 June, 1811; d. 22 Oct., 1811.
vii. SAMUEL HEAD, b. 8 Aug., 1812; d., probably in New Jersey.
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