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tion was dismissed; petitions for a bridge at Newfields, 1766; and signed the Association Test, 1776.
64. Joseph Smith, son of John and Susannah (Chesley), and grandson of Joseph Smith, was born September 7, 1701; bap- tized Feb. 28, 1720; and married November 10, 1729, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Glidden, by whom he had eleven children. He received of his father the property at the lower falls of Lamprey River where he built the three-story brick house, since known as the Dr. George W. Kittredge place, and became one of the largest land owners in New Hampshire; was on the parish committee June 29, 1730, which conveyed to Mr. Moody twelve of the twenty acres voted him in settlement; was justice of the peace; sold part of the 600 acres granted to Moses Gilman to Samuel Brackett of Exeter, 1730; conveyed to Abraham Ben- nick, Jr., all his right and title to the mill dam and falls, and land granted to John Goddard at Packer's Falls, May 10, 1739; bought of John Burleigh, 1740, land granted by Exeter, 1681; was an inhabitant of Chester, 1744; petitioned the general court for a grant of land in favor of Durham, viz: New Durham; "having endured the brunt and hardships of the late war," peti- tioned "for a township anywhere" January 3, 1754; was an in- habitant of Exeter, 1755; petitioned for a bridge at Newfields, November 21, 1755; favored the location of the bridge at New- fields rather than at the lower ferry, January 7, 1766 ; was repre- sentative to the general assembly, 1755-56, 1758, 1762 and 1775; served on several important committees, among them one to purchase the Archibald McPhaedris mansion for a provincial house, March 18, 1767 ; one to prepare an address "to his Majesty in Council praying a reimbursement of the expense incurred to the Province in supplying provisions and warlike stores for the Troops raised and sent out for the several expeditions against Crown Point," 1776, and signed the celebrated Association Test, July 12, 1776. He died March 29, 1781, and his wife, Novem- ber 26, 1785.
65. Walter Neal of the fifth generation through Samuel, Samuel, Walter, Walter, enlisted from Captain Week's company into the scout of Capt. James Davis, 1712; was surveyor and fence viewer of Newmarket, 1723; received thirty acres of land, 1725; constable, 1732; gave land for a highway from Newfields
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to Nottingham, 1733; is mentioned in 1738 and 1741; petitioned for a bridge over Exeter River, November 21, 1746. He married Anna Matoon, daughter of Richard, who was a widow in 1758, and died September 25, 1766. His son, Walter, signed the Asso- ciation Test, July 12, 1776.
66. Robert Gilman was "assessor of the Parish of new-mar- ket," in 1734.
67. Jonathan Hilton, son of William, and brother of Richard Hilton, married his cousin Sobriety, daughter of Edward and Mary (Dudley) Hilton. He had a son, Jonathan, and it is dif- ficult to distinguish between them in the records. Charles Hilton, son of Jonathan, was baptized December 10, 1727, "in minority." Fifty acres of land were assigned Jonathan Hilton, April 17, 1710; also a grant of fifty acres "on the south side of Lam- pereel river at a place called Dudley wigwam"; he was with Capt. Nicholas Gilman's scout for two days, July 5, 1710; pre- sented a claim against the estate of Col. Winthrop Hilton, for his wife's portion given her by her father's will. Fifty acres of land were apportioned to Jonathan Hilton, father and son, each, April 12, 1725. There were reserved for Jonathan Hilton twelve acres out of 284 sold to Joseph Jacob in 1728 by Mrs. Mary Brown, "lately Plaisted." The parish committee purchased of him twelve acres which they deeded to Mr. Moody, August 7, 1730; and ten acres were assigned him August 9, 1738. He petitioned for bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746; and having "endured the brunt and hardship of the late war," for a township, 1754.
68. Joseph Jacob, son of Joseph and Susannah (Symonds), and grandson of Richard and Martha (Appleton) Jacob, was one of the arms-bearing families of Ipswich, Mass. He had a wife, Mary, and daughter, Susannah, who married July 5, 1716, Philip Fowler; sold, July 23, 1716, "to our brother Joseph Jacob all right in the farm that was our honored father's, Mr. Joseph Jacob"; bought in 1728, 248 acres of land, reserving twelve acres for Jonathan Hilton, as in preceding sketch. He was witness to the deed conveying to Rev. John Moody twelve acres purchased by the parish of Jonathan Hilton, August 7, 1730; quitclaimed, March 26, 1734, the same land to Mr. Moody; and the same day sold to the parish one acre of "land on which ye meeting house
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standeth," now the burying ground at the old center; was a "joiner" in Newfields, 1733. He sold to his son-in-law, Philip Fowler, December 26, 1735, "one Narragansett right Derived unto me by my Hon. Uncle Richard Jacob, who was actually a soldier in ye Narragansett War"; and to the same, February 14, 1738, for 2,000 pounds, 236 acres of land with two houses and two barns.
69. Thomas Tash, son of Maj. Thomas, and grandson of Maj. Thomas and Ann Tash, was born in 1722; captain to Forts Ed- ward and William Henry, 1755; acting major at No. 4, in 1757, his battalion being the first New Hampshire soldiers to occupy the post; captain against Crown Point, 1758; petitioned for bridge, 1760 and 1766; authorized to call the first town meeting at New Durham, 1762; chairman of the committee of safety at Newmarket to assist soldiers' families, June 5, 1775; built fire rafts at Newington, 1775; delegate from Newmarket to the fifth Provincial Congress, December 21, 1775; on committee of Con- gress to draft an oath for members of the House, December 25, 1775; on committee of the House, January 23-24, 1776; carried to the president of council the account of the committee of safety for fire rafts, £39 6s 3d; representative from Newmarket, 1776; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; was recom- mended by the Provincial Congress as candidate for field officer, January 24, 1776; nominated lieutenant-colonel of the Conti- nental Battalion, June 12, and appointed June 19, 1776; ap- pointed colonel of the First Regiment of reinforcements, Septem- ber 4, 1776; writes to the New Hampshire committee of safety, October 26, 1776; receives letter from Colonel Welch, October 31, 1776; on committee of the parish to request the resignation of Rev. Mr. Moody, 1777; representative for New Durham, the Gore and Wolfborough, though still residing in Newmarket, December 17, 1777; justice at the trial of Elisha Thomas, 1778; representative for Barnstead, New Durham Gore and New Dur- ham, and on frequent committees of the House, 1784-86; and for New Durham and New Durham Gore, 1791-92; selectman of New Durham, 1783; petitioned in behalf of the inhabitants of New Durham, April 7, 1784; licensed taverner and retailer of New Durham, 1785; delegate from New Durham to the conven- tion at Concord to revise the state constitution, September 7,
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1791, and September 15, 1792; petitioned for the incorporation of New Durham Library Association, May 25, 1797; removed to New Durham at the close of the Revolution and died, 1809.
70. Thomas Bennet petitioned for Newfield's bridge, Novem- ber 21, 1746; was innholder, and bought land in Nottingham, December 9, 1771; credited with labor on fire rafts at Newing- ton, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776 ; committee of parish for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777; joined the West Society, January 10, 1778; and died March 13, 1789. He probably had a son, Thomas, who was born January 14, 1761; married Sarah Davis in 1780, and prob- ably died before his father ; his widow died August 26, 1826.
71. Caleb Clark, brother of Richard, petitioned for bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746; was captain in the French War, 1757-60; cornet in the company of Capt. Anthony Towle and battalion of Maj. Thomas Tash from August 24 to December 17, 1757, for the defense of Fort Edward; petitioned for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1760; was on the muster rolls for the expedition under General Amherst from January 29 to February 14, 1760; committee of parish to settle arrearage of sal- ary with Rev. Mr. Moody, August 31, 1761; bought land of Samuel Tilton and wife, Jemima, 1764; petitioned for a bridge at Newfields, 1766 and 1772; enlisted February 13, 1777, from the Fourth Regiment of militia, for three years or during the war, and mustered with Capt. James Norris' company, receiving twenty pounds state bounty; justice of the peace for Grafton County, April 3, 1779, and settled in Canaan.
72. Joseph Young, son of Thomas and Sarah (Folsom) Young, was born August 24, 1726, and married (1) about 1753, Ann, daughter of Jeremy Folsom, who was born August, 1731, and died October, 1763; and (2) 1764, Mary, daughter of Zechariah and Sarah (Gains) Foss, who was born November 25, 1739, and became the mother of thirteen children. He bought of John Mason of Durham all his "Right, title Interest unto a certen tract or parsel of Land containing six miles Square or thirty six Square miles, which was granted by the purchers of Mason's claims to Jonathan Chester, Ebenezer Smith, my Self and others," March 26, 1750; paid, February 21, 1753, to John Palmer of Newmarket, blacksmith, eighty pounds
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old tenor, for "my dwelling house in newmarket, it being the house in which I now dwell together with the strip of Land on which sª house stands"; was connected with the Western Parish of Dover in 1753 ; petitioned for a bridge at Newfields, November 25, 1755 and 1766; was first lieutenant in Lieut .- Col. John Hart's company under Col. Nathaniel Meserve in the Crown Point expedition ; captain, January 1, 1757; wounded August, 1757; paid 2,600 pounds in bills of credit of the old tenor, April 19, 1758, to Benjamin York of Newmarket, for land, "being all my homestead Estate in said Newmarket and Containing by Estima- tion about thirty-two acres and Three Quarters of an acre"; petitioned for a lottery in aid of bridge and its location at New- fields, 1760; on committee of parish to settle arrearages of salary with Rev. John Moody, August 31, 1761; paid Daniel Mason of Newmarket, December 23, 1762, 550 pounds old tenor for seven acres and a half, adjoining land of Nathan Keniston, John Tash and Ebenezer Smith; paid Eliphalet Wiggin of Durham, May 1, 1766, sixty-five pounds for one-half acre of land "near to. Lampereal River Lower falls"; received by his father's will about 140 acres "now in his possession on ye north side of Pis- cassick River," with one half of the sawmill and mill privilege on both sides of the river, and "one half the Grist mills after his mother's Decease and one acre of Salt marsh and thatch Bed Laying on the South west Side thereof"; was made sole executor of his father's will, dated May 2, 1767; paid George Dutch of Newmarket, December 28, 1767, ten pounds for two and one-half acres of land "at the Bottom of the Long hill so called" on the south side of "Wadleys Road," his wife, Hannah, surrendering her right of dower, January 8, 1768; on committee to manage lottery, 1768; paid forty-six pounds, January 28, 1768, "to the administrator on the Estate of John Willey late of Durham millwright," for twenty-nine acres and twenty-six rods of land in Durham; bought of William Willey of Durham, weaver, two and three-quarters acres of land in Durham, May 8, 1770; paid Walter and Jeremy Bryent, both of Newmarket, 250 pounds "for all their right and title to the falls at Wadley's falls with two thirds of fulling mill thereon and one half the grist mill on the north side of the river, as also two thirds of the utensils belonging to said fulling mill, and all the Island joining to and
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below the dam, except one rod round the Griss mill, and also land to run down the river and all our land on the north side of the river"; received for $300, of Jonathan Chesley of Durham, deed of land in Durham, adjoining land of Samuel Joy, and east of the road from Lamprey River landing to Packer's Falls; had an interest in "the third Class of the Lottery" and an account with the directors of the bridge, July 16, 1769, to May 28, 1770; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; and died April 11, 1806.
73. Bradstreet Doe was ensign in Capt. Somersbee Gilman's company, Col. John Hart's regiment, against Crown Point, 1758 ; petitioned for road from Lamprey River to Durham, February 11, 1768, and for lottery in aid of bridge, 1768; allowed for labor on fire rafts built at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Asso- ciation Test, July 12, 1776; and on committee of parish for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777.
74. John Mead was a sea captain in his early days, and his large sea-chest is still in the possession of the Plumer family at Epping; was of Stratham, 1709, and later Newmarket; remon- strated against the gathering of a township at Squamscot, Decem- ber 5, 1709; united with the church in Stratham, 1746; received an order from Walter Bryent, one of the proprietors of Bow, January 27, 1749; petitioned for a lottery in aid of Squamscot bridge and its removal to Newfields, 1760; was ensign in Capt. Somersbee Gilman's company, Col. John Hart's regiment, against Crown Point, 1758; petitioned for a road from Lamprey River to Durham, February 11, 1768, and for lottery in aid of bridge, 1768; allowed for labor on fire rafts built at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; and was on committee of parish for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777. He was connected with the Congrega- tional parish, 1803.
75. Dea. Stephen Bordman of Stratham, blacksmith, was born in Ipswich, Mass., 1718; bought of Samuel Doe of New- market, for 7,000 pounds old tenor, March 1, 1754, land in New- market with edifices, at Doe's Neck, including marsh and thatch land at the Boathouse Creek on "Lamperil river"; was dismissed, September 8, 1764, from the church in Gloucester, Mass., to the church in Stratham; petitioned for a lottery in aid of Newfields
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bridge, 1760, and was appointed on a committee to manage said lottery, 1768; bought, November 28, 1769, 132 rods of land in Stratham of John Hill, of Stratham; also, January 11, 1772, of Mary Hill, thirteen acres of the estate of her father, John Hill, deceased; was representative from Stratham, April 8, 1774; was an ardent patriot and died before June 9, 1788.
76. Walter Bryent married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy and Elizabeth Folsom; was a resident of Lamprey River, 1735- 90, and an enterprising, capable and highly useful citizen; lot- layer and land surveyor; commissioned by Gov. Jonathan Belcher, March 12, 1741, to run the boundary between New Hampshire and the district of Maine, which line was in dispute, 1735-36; appointed by the council to provide two good chain- men, all under oath, to run the southern line and make a plan of the town of Kingston, April 15, 1742; made his return June 11, and the boundary was fixed June 12, 1742; was soldier, 1746-47; on committee to locate the meeting house in Bow, October 12, 1759, and of Newmarket parish August 31, 1761, to settle arrearage of salary with Rev. John Moody; selectman, 1765; manager of the lottery for building Squamscot bridge, 1765 and 1768; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; sur- veyed the town of Londonderry, 1742; was surveyor of a com- pany in the intended expedition against Canada, 1747, and passed over the ground where Lovell's sanguinary fight with the Indians took place in which Lovell was killed, discovering Indian camps large enough to hold thirty men, and trees full of bullet holes, having also imitations of men's faces cut upon them. Major Davis was in command of this company, marching by compass and chain, raised by act of the General Assembly, June 4, 1746, as a portion of the 1,000 men who were designed for the immediate reduction of Canada.
Walter Bryent made a survey of Bow in 1749, employing five men for twelve days, from September 18, making return October 31; was authorized to call the first meeting of the inhabitants of Pembroke, November 1, 1759; was on a committee, October 12, 1759, to locate the meeting house in Bow; petitioned for a lot- tery in aid of Newfields bridge, 1760; received land in Bow, 1760; surveyed the boundary line of Chester, 1761 ; petitioned, January 18, 1765, in behalf of Daniel Ames for bringing Mary Flood
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from Canterbury, who had been tried for her life and acquitted; appointed, 1765 and 1768, one of the managers of the lottery to build a bridge over Exeter River; petitions for a bridge at New- fields, 1766; with William Pottle, made return August 26, 1767, of the inventory of Philip Fowler's estate ; as one of his Majesty's justices of the peace, warned a meeting of the inhabitants of Hampton Falls to be held January 30, 1770; with others, re- ceived from Gov. Benning Wentworth, February 7, 1767, grant of the town of Chatham; selectman and lot-layer of Bow, 1774; credited, October 22, 1775, with labor on rafts built at Newing- ton; interested in the business settlement of Bow affairs; Asso- ciation Test, July 12, 1776; justice of the peace and quorum, 1776; committee of parish for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777; joined the West Society, January 10, 1778; with his wife joined the church at Durham, October 31, 1780 ; non-resident land owner in Pembroke, February 22, 1784; moderator, 1785-86; administrator on estate of Jeremiah Bryent of Newmarket, October 17, 1786; also on the estate of his sons, Walter and Jeremy, 1786; bid off pew No. 32 in the new meeting house, October 24, 1791; and was still active in the parish, 1798-99.
77. Wentworth Cheswell, son of Hopestill and - (Kenni- son) Cheswell, was born, 1746; educated at Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass .; is mentioned in the records, 1768-69; justice of the peace; executor of the will of Dea. Joseph Judkins, 1770; credited with labor on rafts at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; clerk of committee for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28 to June 13, 1777; on committee to petition the Legislature for the formation of the West Society, November 7, 1777; selectman, 1783, 1785 and 1795; assessor, 1784, 1786-87, 1791, 1797-99; auditor, 1786, 1799, 1801, 1804-12, and 1814-16; coroner, 1786-87; active in parish affairs 1791, 1794, 1796-98, 1800-01, 1806 and 1816; bid off pew No. 9 in new meeting house, October 24, 1791; representa- tive, 1801; moderator, 1801, 1804-07, 1809-11, and 1813-16; and retailer, 1813. He died March 8, 1817, and his wife, Mary, June 22, 1829, aged 79.
78. James Folsom, son of William and Hannah (Gilman), and grandson of Ephraim Folsom, was a cousin of Dea. Joseph
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Judkins, and an executor of his will in 1770; moved to Gilman- ton in 1772, and died there in 1776. He married Margaret Firnal Cotton, and his estate was divided among six children in 1787.
79. William Cario was the Newfields silversmith, and lived in the Dr. Phineas Trull house; made the Joseph Judkins' com- munion cup in 1770, which bears his mark, "W. Cario"; with Rev. Arthur Brown and others, petitioned against theatrical amusements, January 13, 1773; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; bought land in Newfields of Stephen Hardy of Ports- mouth, January, 1790; active in parish affairs, 1794-1800 and 1809 ; and was among the last of our townsmen to wear the gen- tleman's short clothes with knee buckles. He died April, 1831, and his wife, November, 1831.
80. Joseph Merrill was baptized at Stratham in 1719; mar- ried Mercy, daughter of Dea. Edward Hall, and settled on Pis- cassic Road; petitioned for a road, 1765; sold land and buildings, March 4, 1771, to his brother-in-law, Rev. John Moody, and also June 23, 1772; selectman, South Hampton, 1773 and 1775-76; signed the Association Test at Stratham, September 3, 1776, and returned it.
81. Benjamin Smith, son of Capt. John and Susannah (Ches- ley) Smith, was born March 22, 1709, and baptized February 28, 1720 ; lived at Lamprey River, Durham side; was selectman, and one of the committee of safety; joined the church in Durham, October 31, 1780; received of his father the eastern portion of the property at Lubberland containing 280 acres; had also a farm adjoining the first falls of Lamprey River, and built the large house on the Durham side as the road turns down the hill towards Lubberland, and owned here a mill. He died October 12, 1791.
82. Winthrop Smith, son of Col. Joseph and Sarah (Glidden) Smith, was born May 5, 1732. He married Mary, daughter of Rev. John Moody, November 9, 1756, and had seven children. He bore the military titles of "cornet" and "lieutenant," and was credited with labor of men and oxen on fire rafts at New- ington, October 22, 1775; was on committee of parish, 1791; bid off pews No. 44, and Nos. 7 and 9, in the new meeting house, October 24, 1791; active in parish affairs in 1797, 1804 and
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1809; and died June 11, 1811. Mrs. Smith, a woman of strong intellectual powers and great amiability of character, was born March 4, 1732, and died February 13, 1815.
83. Hubartus Neal, of the fifth generation through Walter, Samuel, Walter, Walter, was born October 22, 1719. He was a shipwright of Stratham, where he united with others in calling Rev. Joseph Adams, February 14, 1745; bought his farm on the south of Pine Hill of Rev. John Moody, April 22, 1747; had land bordering on that of Philip Fowler, May 22, 1754; received a quitclaim deed of land from the heirs of Richard Matoon, March 7, 1758; was selectman, 1760-61 and 1770; on committee of parish to settle arrearage of salary with Mr. Moody, August 31, 1761; petitioned respecting Hall's mill road July 3, 1765, and for lottery in aid of bridge, 1768; bought five acres of land of John Bartlett and son, Joseph, 1773; was delegate to the Pro- ·vincial Congress, April 21, 1775; coroner, 1776; signed the Asso- ciation Test, July 12, 1776; on committee of the parish for the dismission of Mr. Moody, April 28, 1777; moderator, 1778 and 1788; auditor, 1784-85 and 1787; committee of parish, 1789; lot-layer, 1791, 1793 and 1795; bid off pew No. 24 in the new meeting house, October 24, 1791; was member of the church, 1797-99; active in parish, 1799; and died December 13, 1806. He married Mary Perkins, March 24, 1742. She died June 18, 1806, aged 91.
84. Nicholas Doe, son of Sampson Doe, was baptized June 7, 1719; petitioned for lottery in aid of bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746, and 1760; was soldier in the French War, 1754; petitioned for a township for hard service rendered in the war, and for bridge, 1760; and signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776.
85. Israel Gilman, son of Capt. Jeremiah, was apportioned fifty acres of land, 1725; commissioned lieutenant, 1731, and captain 1741-42 and 1744-47; bought thirty acres of land granted to James Sinkler, August 30, 1734; protested against the proceedings of a town meeting as illegal, June 17, 1738; sold 100 acres of land to Robert Barber above Coffin's grant by Dudley's wigwam, August 9, 1738; petitioned to be joined to Massachusetts in 1739; representative, 1744-46, 1752 and 1754; on committee of the House, 1744; at a hearing before the Legis-
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lature, August 22, 1744, seceders from the first parish of Exeter particularly objected against Capt. Israel Gilman and asked for his withdrawal as having prejudiced the cause against them, but their objection was overruled. The inhabitants of Epping, March 9, 1747, "Voted that Cap" Israel Gilman shall be the man to undertake in the behalf of the 3ª parish to cary in a petition to the General Court in order to get the wild land rated"; an- swered objections to the building of a bridge over Squamscot River, 1747; was delegate to the convention at Portsmouth, 1754; ran line for Bow proprietors, 1759; petitioned for bridge at Newfields, 1766; lived on Bald Hill Road, and died about 1768.
86. Col. Israel Gilman, son of Capt. Israel and Abigail (Thing) Gilman, was appointed one of a committee of the General Court on a road in Newington, 1755; petitioned for a road, 1765, and bridge at Newfields, 1766; was selectman, 1765 and 1773; representative, 1773; justice and made return of the census, February, 1773; wrote home from Charlestown, Mass., to the committee of safety, June 16, 1775, and was lieutenant- colonel in Col. James Reed's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He was a man of many parts and discharged his duties with great faithfulness, and to the general satisfac- tion. He died February 20, 1777, aged 47.
87. Jonathan Colcord, son of Samuel and Mary (Ayer) Col- cord, was born March 4, 1684; was a grantee of Kingston, Aug- ust 6, 1694, and settled there, but for fear of the Indians in 1707, left and settled in Newfields; was hay ward and field-driver of Exeter, 1720-21; apportioned forty acres of common land, April 12, 1725; gave land for a road from Newfields Landing to Nottingham, March, 1733; was surveyor of highways, 1735; and petitioned for bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746, and for lottery, 1760-61. He married Sarah Burleigh.
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