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ABRA ANN BROWN, b. Feb. 3, 1823, in Gilmanton. She m. Daniel Clemence and still resides at Providence at 82.
(All went to Providence.)
HARRIET BROWN, b. Oct. 24, 1826, in Gilmanton; m. Christopher Morey.
MARY BROWN, b. Feb. 28, 1828; m. - Capron of Providence, R. I., a silversmith.
FRANCES BROWN, b. at N., Jan. 24, 1831; m. N. B. Horton of the Arm of Horton & Son, now Horton & Heminway. They had two children. MKHITABLE BROWN, b. March 28. 1833, in N .; m. - - Heath. She now resides with her dau. at Greenwood, Mass.
ABBIE BROWN, b. at N., May 24, 1835; m. - - Capron, brother of her sister's husband and is associated with the latter as silver re- finers in Providence.
BRYANT.
CHARLES D. BRYANT, b. at Dover, 1822; m., Nov. 27, 1842, Meriba Cotton, who was b. at Cotton Hill, Belmont, in 1822. He was a farmer and came to East N. in 1870 and resided on the Miles Cate farm until his death, Dec. 28, 1891. Mrs. Bryant now resides at Tilton with her son. They had seven children.
Second Generation.
CHARLES A. BRYANT, b. at Dover, Nov. 11, 1843; m. Sarah Willey, and has two children; resides at Belmont.
EMMA F. BRYANT, b. at Laconia, Nov. 15, 1846; m. (first), George Dow, b. at Ashland. They had one dau., Etta B. She m. (second) Reuben Hoyt of Lowell and resides at Belmont.
JOHN FRED BRYANT, b. at Laconia, Feb. 5, 1850, was for 17 years the popular landlord of Loverin hotel at Tilton and later traveling salesman for E. W. Hoyt & Co. and C. I. Hood of Lowell, Mass. He is now of the firm of Bryant Bros., dealers in meat and provisions at Tilton, where he resides.
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GEORGE BRYANT, b. at Belmont; m. Belinda Bean of Belmont, where they reside. They have seven children.
WILLIE BRYANT, b. at Belmont, Oct. 9, 1855; m. Lora Smith of Bos- cawen. They reside at Belmont and have one child.
EDWIN H. BRYANT, b. at Belmont, June 30, 1857; m. Flora Dow of Moultonborough, July 12, 1876. Mr. Bryant was in the meat business at Belmont and is now of the firm of Bryant Bros. at Tilton. They have two children, Helen R. and Maurice. The former is a member of the senior class of 1905 at Tilton Seminary.
MABY ETTA BRYANT, b. July 14, 1859; d. at Belmont at the age of four years.
BUELL I.
CHARLES F. BUELL, b. at Newport, Oct. 28, 1842; m., Sept. 16, 1863, Emma J. Colby, and had two children. She d., 1880. He m. (second) Julia Tucker of Andover. He was with his brother in the hosiery business many years at N. and had previously been employed in the Aiken Mills at Franklin as an overseer.
He served in the Civil War in First Regiment N. H. Vols. (see Boys in Blue), and was active in G. A. R. circles, being once commander. He d., Feb. 3, 1904, falling of heart trouble on the street near his home.
BUELL II.
ANNIE SPAULDING BUELL was a native of Sutton. Her husband, David Elmer Buell, was b. in Lempster. He enlisted at the beginning of the Civil War for three years (see Boys in Blue). They were m. at Frank- lin, Nov. 24, 1868, and had two dau. b. there. He d. July 25, 1888. She now resides on Howard Avenue.
Second Generation.
BERNICE MAUD BUELL, b. Sept. 10, 1874; m., Sept. 13, 1899, Josiah David Burley, a graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, and lives at Methuen, Mass. Mrs. Burley graduated from the Tilton Seminary music department and went abroad to pursue the same study in Ger- many.
MILDRED PEAVEY BUELL, b. July 24, 1879; resided in N. until her mar- riage, Jan. 1, 1905, to William R. Brown of Plymouth. They reside in Bristol. She was a graduate of Plymouth Normal School and taught several years.
BURLEIGH.
GEORGE K. BURLEIGH was b. at Webster Place, Franklin, May 15, 1864. He m., Aug. 4, 1889, Minnie, dau. of Gen. J. M. Clough of New London, b. at Greenfield, Mass., Nov. 10, 1868. He was for several years a
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jeweler at Tilton, with home in N. He is now a machinist at the Tilton Optical Works.
Second Generation.
ELIZABETH CORNELIA BURLEIGH, b. at Tilton, April 27, 1890. She is a student of Tilton Seminary.
BULLOCK.
ELISHA BULLOCK and family came to N. from Alexandria June 30, 1887. He conducted a large boarding house on Elm Street until Jan. 1, 1894, when he bought the residence of the late Archibald Clark, where he d. three years later. Mrs. Bullock, with her dau., still resides there.
Second Generation.
ABBIE BULLOCK, b. at Alexandria, Sept. 1, 1871, is a popular dress- maker and seamstress.
GEORGIA A. BULLOCK, b. at Alexandria, Dec. 29, 1873; graduated at New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College, class of 1892. She took later a post-graduate course at New Hampshire Normal School, and passed the state teachers' examinations in Aug., 1897. She has been since 1893 a teacher in Union graded school.
BUSWELL.
JAMES BUSWELL came to N. from Plainfield about 1810. He was b. in Bow, where he m. Mary Clough. He d. in 1835, and was buried on the farm. His wife survived him twenty-five years. They had a family of eleven girls, nine of whom grew to womanhood and all but one married. Their first home was near the Bay Hill schoolhouse; later they removed near the home of their daughter, Mrs. Abbott, at the foot of the Kezar Hills on the Bean Hill Road.
Second Generation.
ABAGAIL BUSWELL, b. 1813; m. Rufus Sargent of Newburyport, Mass., and had two children.
ZILPHA BUBWELL, b. at N., 1815; d. of consumption in early woman- hood, Sept. 16, 1840.
PHEBE BUBWELL, b. at N., 1817; m. Gardner S. Abbott. (See Abbott gen.)
LYDIA BUSWELL, b. 1820; m. George French, 2d, familiarly known as "Little George," and had a son, James. (See French gen.)
NANCY BUSWELL, b. Sept., 1822; m. George French, 1st, of Oak Hill, always called "Big George." (See French gen.)
ELIZABETH BUSWELL, b. Dec., 1824; m. Frank Phelps of N., and re- moved to Danvers, Mass. (See Phelps gen.)
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SARAH JANE, b. 1826; was second wife of Dea. Gardner S. Abbott. (See Abbott gen.) .
HARRIET BUSWELL, b. June 26, 1828; m. Amos Frye of Hopkinton, and d. there in 189 -. She was a friend to all in trouble, especially to her kindred and many of them shared her home when health failed them, to whom she gave the most loving care. Her husband also shared in all her good works, as she in his. Not one of the Buswell name re- mains in town.
BUZZELL.
WALKER BUZZELL's name appears on the tax lists in 1793 and drops from it in 1824. I am unable to locate the old home. He m. Betsey Gilman, March 15, 1792.
Second Generation. (B. at N.)
GILMAN BUZZELL, b. May 18, 1795.
STEPHEN BUZZELL, b. June 20, 1797.
CHARLES GILMAN BUZZELL, b. Nov. 14, 1801; m. Harriet Gilman of N. They erected the present residence of Dea. G. S. Abbott, but later went West, where he d. She survives at the age of 91 (1905) in Chi- cago, Il1.
CALEF.
JEREMIAH CALEF, b. May 5, 1772; was son of Jeremiah Calef of Exeter, In 1841 he settled on the Batchelder place in N. on the Shaker Road, and d. there Feb. 23, 1855; m., Sept. 13, 1805, Nancy Osgood, who d. March 10, 1824. He m. (second) Sally Eastman, Sept. 2, 1829; she d. Aug. 26, 1850, at N.
Second Generation.
Infant, who d. Sept. 4, 1814.
JAMES OSGOOD CALEF, b. Aug. 5, 1806; d. in Loudon, April 24, 1835.
SAMUEL PRESCOTT CALEF, b. June 5, 1808; learned the tanner's and currier's trade, carrying on the same in Charlestown, Mass. Later was a farmer at Loudon Ridge, where he m. Oct. 18, 1835, Mehitable Drew; m. (second), Mrs. Martha Coburn, May 31, 1877, and took up his abode at Sanbornton Square. Was chosen town treasurer in 1879, and d. suddenly at New Hampton, July, 1885.
MARY ANN CALEF, b. Sept., 1812; d., Aug. 31, 1816.
ARTILUR BENJAMIN, b. June 30, 1825; son of second wife; graduated at Wesleyan University in 1851, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was clerk of all the courts of Middlesex County, Conn., for seven years; state treasurer, 1855-'56, then postmaster of Middletown, Conn., 1861-'69. He was recorder, city attorney, councilman and alderman of
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the city; a trustee of Wesleyan University from 1862 to his death, Ang. 17, 1900. He was also delegate to the Republican conventions of 1860 and 1864. He m. March 21, 1853, Hannah Woodman of Canterbury, b. at Nashua, Dec. 31, 1827; she d. in 1891.
ABAGAIL EASTMAN CALET, b. at N., Feb. 26, 1827; d. July 4, 1829. JEREMIAH CALET, JR., b. Dec. 13, 1830; d. Nov. 18, 1892.
EBENEZER BARKER CALEF, b. Aug. 11, 1832; m., April 16, 1853, Urania Dalton of N., b. Dec. 18, 1833. He was a farmer on the homestead where she now resides.
Third Generation.
(Children of Arthur B. and Hannah Woodman Calef, b. at Mid- dletown, Conn.)
JEREMIAH FRANCIS CALET, b. Oct. 14, 1855; graduate of Wesleyan Uni- versity. He received the degree of M. D. from Yale College in 1880. ARTHUR BENJAMIN CALET, JR., b. Feb. 20, 1859; member of Wesleyan University, class of 1882; now Judge Calef of Middletown, Conn. SAMUEL PRESCOTT CALET, b. Jan. 25, 1862. EDWARD BAKER CALET, b. Nov. 8, 1864.
(Children of Ebenezer and Urania Dalton Calef.)
SARAH ANN CALEF, b. Nov. 28, 1854; m., Aug. 5, 1875, George W. Cor- liss. (See Corliss gen.)
MARY ELDORA CALEF, b. July 15, 1857; d. Oct. 3, 1895. CHARLES HENRY CALEF, b. Dec. 22, 1864; d. Aug. 15, 1880.
CANFIELD.
ABEL CANFIELD Was b. in England and his wife, Mary, in Scotland. They came to America soon after their marriage and settled near St. Albans. Here Asel, Jr., was b. in 1795. The father later went to a place, which now bears his name, in Ontario, Canada. He served in the British Army in the 1812 war. His son left home on peace being declared and worked on the Erie Canal. He m. in 1823, Sophronia Jones of Woodstock, and after a stay at Broomfield, N. Y., came to Woodstock, where she d. He m. (second) Nancy Blake of Thornton, dau. of Isaac Blake, a Revolutionary soldier. Later they removed to Littleton and, in 1849, to N. She d. there Sept., 1869. He returned and d. at Thornton, March 10, 1881.
Second Generation.
SOPHRONIA A. CANFIELD (first wife), b. at Broomfield, N. Y .; m. Allan Hart at Lowell, Mass. She d. at Pittsfield, Me., Sept. 6, 1854, leaving two children, who have since d.
. JEBUSHA W. CANFIELD, b. June 5, 1831, at Littleton; m., March 27, 1850, Daniel Sewall of N., where two children were b. (See Sewall gen.) She m. (second) Smith Hancock of N., and had three children. (See Hancock gen.) She resides in Franklin.
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MARY H. CANFIELD, b. Aug. 13, 1833, at Littleton; m., Feb., 1848, Waite Brown of Boscawen, and had three children. They resided at N., ยท where both d.
JOHN W. CANFIELD, b. May 7, 1836, at Littleton; m. Abbie Willis of Franklin, April 4, 1854, and had one dau., Emma, now m. and living in Washington, D. C. Mr. Canfield d. in N., 1859.
ASEL N. CANFIELD, b. July 7, 1839, at Littleton; m. Harriet Bartlett in N. in 1861, and had two children, Rev. Edward J., b. May, 1864; is pastor of the M. E. church of Piermont and has two sons, Nelson and William. Harriet Canfield d. in 1896, and he m. (second) Mrs. Ellen Butterfield of Thornton. They now live in Sutton, Vt.
WILLIAM A. CANFIELD, b. in Thornton, June 10, 1841; m. Miranda Stewart, 1860. Enlisted in Ninth Regiment (see Boys in Blue). They had one son, William, now deceased. He m. (second) Fannie Wood, and now lives in Rochester, N. Y.
CARLTON.
JOHN G. CARLTON was b. at Derry; m., 1839, Almira French of N., b., 1818, Feb. 4, and went to the Factory Village to reside, where they spent the remainder of their lives and both d., he in 1887, she, 1886. He went to learn the trade of blacksmith at 13 years of age and served seven years. He then spent a while at Wilton (Mass.) Academy.
She was educated at a young ladies' school at Claremont and taught three years at the Center. She was a fine needlewoman and excellent singer.
Second Generation.
CHARLES HENRY CARLTON, b. at Tilton and d. at five years.
HELEN MARIA CARLTON, b. at Factory Village, July 13, 1845; m. (first), Hiram Ingalls, and had a dau. now the wife of Oliver George of Pitts- field; m. (second), Henry W. Lowe of Colebrook, who entered the regular army as lieutenant and was killed on board a man-of-war in southern waters during the Civil War. She m. (third) Henry P. Newton of Portland, Me., where they have resided since 1875. She inherited musical talent and became a fine concert singer.
CHARLES HENRY CARLTON, b. 1850; attended Franklin Academy and New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He later took a course of in- struction at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College at Boston. He d. April 27, 1896, at N. (See Boys in Blue.)
EMMA J. CARLTON, b. 1854, inherited musical talent and had a thor- ough education in both vocal and instrumental music. She has been for forty years a singer in church choirs and a member of several ladies' quartettes. She m., 1894, Fred Parker of Taunton, Mass., and has one dau., Marion, now a member of the Franklin High School.
ARABELLA FLORENCE CARLTON, b. 1857; m. James T. Ayles of Frank- lin. She has sung much in churches and clubs. They have a son, Harry A., shipper for the Emerson Piano Co. He and his mother
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are connected with Trinity Church branch choir of South Boston, where they reside.
CARR.
JESSE CARE lived on Bean Hill. The place was later owned by Rev. Benjamin Bishop and Jacob Webber. Mr. Joseph Kimball bought the place and removed the buildings. Mr. Carr was in the Continental army in the Revolution and was put on the pension roll under act of June 7, 1832, and drew $96 a year. He m. Jane Dustin and had four children.
Second Generation.
JAMES CARE, b. 1800; m., April 5, 1837, Jane Dinsmore of N. (See Dinsmore gen.) They had one dau., Clarinda, b. April 11, 1833. She m. (first) (pub. May 5, 1851), Jeremiah Lock; m. (second), James Raith, who d. March 26, 1891. She resides on Danforth Hill.
Moszs CARE, b. 1802; m. Phebe Ann Chapman of Sanbornton, Jan. 22, 1827. They had two children.
RUTH CARE, b. 1804; m., Nov. 4, 1838, Philip Keniston of N., and re- moved to Campton, where both d.
MABY CARE, b. 1806; m., Sept. 16, 1839, Moses Evans of N. (See Evans gen.) She d., Aug. 12, 1851. He d. Jan. 15, 1855.
SAMUEL CARE, b. at N .; m. Hannah Foster of Canterbury. They had two sons, Foster and French and an adopted dau., Drusilla, who m. Isaiah Akely. Mr. Carr d. at Concord. She m. (second) Thomas Simonds. (See Simonds gen.)
CATE I.
SIMEON CATE was b. in Sanbornton, July 23, 1790. He was the grandson of James, who came from Epping before Jan., 1768, and built a log house in the Wyatt district, now Franklin. He m. Lydia, dau. of Lieut. John Durgin. Mr. Cate bought what was known as the Gilman Hotel, then on the site of the present home of Josiah Dear- born, of Ebenezer Blanchard, which he sold to Dr. Hoyt.
He resided at the Clisby place, near the old meeting-house, until 1820, when he bought the place at the entrance of the Colony road of Dr. Isaac Glines, removed the buildings to the Colony and erected a new home, where he lived until his death, Nov. 13, 1835. She d. March 22, 1881. They had nine children. Mr. Cate was colonel of militia and was deputy sheriff at the time of his death.
Second Generation. (All b. at N. )
ABA PIPER CATE (see portrait and sketch).
CAROLINE NELSON CATE, b. Feb. 14, 1815; m., June 2, 1842, Rev. Charles Smith of the Methodist Conference. He filled many important
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charges, in which she was his ever-devoted assistant. She d. at Great Falls, Nov. 22, 1853, leaving two sons, Charles and George. The former served in the Civil War, was taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va, sent to Andersonville, became insane and d. there. The latter was a graduate of Wesleyan University and a lawyer in Boston, but d. in early manhood.
ABBY PIPER CATE, b. Nov. 17, 1818; m., July 4, 1844, Jeremiah Chad- wick of Boscawen, and d. there, March 18, 1859. They had two sons, George and Asa Cate, the latter now living in Franklin.
DANIEL ROGERS CATE, b. 1820; m. and removed to California, where he was a farmer. He had two sons.
EASTMAN, b. 1822, and LAFAYETTE, b. 1825, d. in childhood on the same day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON CATE, b. 1827; m., July 11, 1853, Laura Hoyt of Lakeport. He d. at Lakeport ten days later. She d., Nov. 25, 1854.
LAFAYETTE CATE, b. 1830, was educated at New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He read medicine with Dr. Mark R. Woodbury and began practice with Dr. Tolman, a fellow student, in California. He m. (first) Abby Edmonds of California and had one son; m. (second) Martha Ann Smith of Sanbornton Bridge, in 1863. They were many years at Quincy but now reside at Adin, Modoc Co., Cal., and had four children; but two survive.
LYDIA CATE, b. 1833; m. (first) John Root and resided in American Valley, Cal .; m. (second) William Schlatter and has recently d. there.
CATE II.
JONATHAN CATE, b. in Loudon, 1786, came to N. from Vermont in Feb., 1822, after having resided in Canterbury two years, and pur- chased a farm on the south side of the road over Oak Hill, a short distance above the brook and the ancient sawmill that stood close to the road. They moved into a dilapidated one-story two-room cot- tage and occupied it eight or ten years. A new house was then erected, the farm furnishing the timber for it, it being sawed out at the little mill below. It took nearly a score of men to put it into shape for occupancy and must have been quite a pretentious affair. Here he resided more than 25 years. He m. (first) (pub Sept. 4, 1808), Char- lotte Blanchard, b. 1793 and d., Feb. 3, 1847, and was buried at the Hodgdon cemetery. He m. (second), 1848, Hannah Foster, widow of the late Samuel Carr of N. He d. May 2, 1850, and was buried in his father's burial lot at Loudon.
Second Generation.
ALICE CATE, b. Feb., 1809, and d. at N., Nov. 25, 1834.
SUSAN CATE, m. John Bachelder of Warren and d. 1884. She had two sons, Charles, who d. 1902, and John Wesley.
MARY ANN CATE. m. Samuel Lees of Chicopee, Mass., Aug. 2, 1846. After his death she m. Amasa Holden of Billerica, Mass., and d. 1899.
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NANOY CATE m. Albert Dunning. They lived and d. in West Spring- field, Mass., and were buried in Chicopee, he in 1886, she in 1890. A son d. at four years of age and a dau. at seven.
JOHN WESLEY CATE d. Oct. 8, 1850.
MESCHECK CATE, b. March 12, 1812; m. Mrs. Hannah Noyes Parker, who d. June 15, 1888. They had three dau. of whom but one sur- vives.
Mr. Cate m. (second) Mary Wallace Holt, who d. at Manchester, where he now resides, in 1897. He says: "At my father's death I sold out the farm to William Hannaford, Benjamin Kennison, Joseph Dearborn and others, and I now reside on Webster St., Manchester. Am almost 92 years old and am about to start on a ten-days' trip to Alton Bay camp-meeting."
Mr. Cate was well educated and was one of the popular teachers of his time. He d. at Manchester, April, 1905.
CATE III.
MILES H. CATE came to East N. from Loudon about 1842. He was b. 1809; m. Dolly Sargent of Loudon and had a family of four chil- dren, all b. in N. They were farmers, but after Mr. Cate's death, Dec. 6, 1857, they removed to Tilton, where the sons conducted a livery stable. He collected the N .. taxes in 1847. Mrs. Cate removed to Ne- braska.
Second Generation.
SUSAN CATE, m., Nov., 1859, Horace Gilman of N. They removed to Pierce, Neb.
JOHN CATE, m., May 1, 1873, Mary Eliza Conner, b. at Sanbornton Bridge, Sept. 16, 1845. After her death, May 27, 1875, and the de- struction of their stable by fire he removed to the West.
BENJAMIN C. CATE, b. 1853; m., July 6, 1873, Ella Robinson of Gil- ford, b. 1856. They also removed West.
SAMUEL CATE removed to the West with his mother and brothers.
CATE IV.
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ALBERT JOHN CATE (called Jerusalem) was a farmer in N. from 1850 till his death, Oct. 24, 1887. He lived on a part of the old Kezar farm on the Shaker road. He was b. Dec. 3, 1813, and m., Aug. 23, 1839, Sally A. Cawley, and had five children. One, Sarah L., d. in infancy, Feb. 19, 1852.
Second Generation.
ERWIN GIRARD CATE, b. March 14, 1841; m. Harriet Hale Whitney of New London and is a farmer in Boscawen.
MARTHA JANE CATE, b. May 3, 1843; m. William Blaisdell Smith, a farmer of Loudon.
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ISMENA EATON CATE, b. Dec. 6, 1847; m. Henry Cram, May 17, 1870. (See Cram gen.) MARY ELLA CATE, b. Jan. 4, 1858; d. Nov. 1, 1901.
COFRAN.
JOHN COFRAN and his wife, Eliza Gilman, came from Pembroke to Canterbury and took up their abode near the Shakers, where she had a twin sister.
His stay, it is said, was cut short by the great desire of his wife to become a Shakeress. He, greatly disgusted, "pulled up stakes" and went to Nottingham. After several years, deeming it safe to return, he bought land on Bean Hill and built his house on one of the most sightly spots in town. His deed bears the date 1787 and the consider- ation is given in pounds, shillings and pence.
They had five children.
Second Generation. (B. in Pembroke.)
SALLY COFBAN, b. -; m., March 20, 1805, John Rogers, a neigh- bor, and had a family of four. (See Rogers gen.)
JAMES COFRAN, b. May 24, 1782; m., Dec., 1806, Ruth Hersey, b. Dec. 2, 1788. Mr. Cofran was a thrifty farmer on the homestead till past middle life and raised fatted steers in his mountain pastures for the Brighton market. Later in life he removed to Sanbornton Bridge and resided near the railroad station. He soon after erected a new home on the site occupied by his son, B. F. Cofran, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was interested in all public matters and especially interested in the erection of the first seminary, for which he burned the brick. He also dealt largely in wool. He d. April 27, 1861. She d. Dec. 25, 1873. They had eight children. He represented N. in the Legislatures of 1822-'23.
ISRAEL COFRAN, b. April 3, 1780; m., March 2, 1806, Betsey Hersey of Sanbornton, and resided on the Maloney place near the Hodgdon Schoolhouse. They had eight children. He d. Sept. 21, 1844. She d. March 5, 1824.
Third Generation. (Children of James and Ruth Hersey Cofran.) (All b. at N.)
JEREMIAH COFRAN, b. Feb. 18, 1807; m., Feb. 26, 1835, Phebe Morrill, b. at Canterbury, July 20, 1813, and lived on the place now owned by the Smith Morrill heirs, where he d. Oct. 27, 1863. She d. June 23, 1891. They had four children.
'SALLY H. COFRAN, b. May 9, 1808; m., Dec. 31, 1834, Capt. Winthrop Young of Meredith. They had two dau., Lizzie and Fannie. Mrs. Young m. (second) Joseph Bartlett of Nottingham. She d. March 29, 1894.
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JOSEPH ALBERT COFRAN, b. Sept. 28, 1814, resided on the homestead; m., Sept. 14, 1836, Almira Cofran, who d. Feb. 6, 1870. He d. Feb. 1, 1896. They had four children.
MARY DEARBORN COFRAN, b. April 21, 1816; m. Frank Way of Derby, Vt., and lived in Missouri, where he d., leaving one son, Clarence Way, who resides in Andover, Mass., where Mrs. Way resides.
CHARLES CBOBBY COFRAN, b. Sept. 16, 1819; d. at five years.
JAMES HERSEY COFRAN, b. June 21, 1823; d. by drowning at Bos- cawen, Aug. 18, 1841.
JOHN L. COFRAN, b. Dec. 17, 1810; m. - - of Baltimore, Md., where he lived, and d., March, 1862. He had six children, Ruth, Henrietta, James, Frank, Leroy and George.
ELIZABETH A. COFRAN, b. Aug. 18, 1812; m., Dec. 21, 1833, Benjamin Hills of N. (See Hills gen.) She d. June 9, 1871.
ALMIRA COFRAN, b. May 11, 1814; m. Joseph Cofran. He inherited the homestead and both d. there, he, Jan. 30, 1896, she, Feb. 6, 1870. They had four children.
JAMES H. COFRAN, b. Jan. 3, 1818; m., May 28, 1840, Eliza B. Hall, b. at N., July 12, 1817. They remained many years on the home- stead, where he d., Feb. 16, 1868. She removed later near Tilton, where she d. July 11, 1898. Mr. Cofran dealt largely in cattle and held the office of selectman at the time of his death. They had four children.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COFRAN, b. Dec. 9, 1819. (See portrait and sketch.)
LABOY COFRAN, b. Jan. 9, 1826; went to Baltimore, Md., and helped survey the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was station agent at Grafton, W. Va. Later he dealt extensively in lumber. He m. Mar- celina Boone Keyes, who survived him some years. He d. Aug. 16, 1892.
(Children of Israel and Nancy Hersey Cofran.)
(All b. at N.)
ELIZA GILMAN COFBAN, b. Oct. 4, 1807; m. John L. Hall of N., d. Dec. 14, 1849, leaving six children. (See Hall gen.)
MARTHA COFRAN, b. April 29, 1808, resided with friends in Not- tingham and later with her niece near Tilton, where she d., 1901.
CYRENE COFRAN, b. Jan. 5, 1811; m. Joseph Sanborn of Ashland and d., Dec. 15, 1869, in Ashland. They had six children.
MARIA SILVIA, b. Nov. 9, 1812; d., Aug. 28, 1861, at N.
PETER COFRAN, m. Rebecca Hoagg (pub.), Oct. 20, 1798. He lived and d. in Wheelock, Vt., and had a large family.
JOSEPH COFRAN, m. Pamelia Whitcher and resided in Concord. They had eight children.
Fourth Generation. (Children of Jeremiah and Phebe Morrill Cofran.) (All b. at N.) CAROLINE AUGUSTA COFBAN, b. April 24, 1836; m., Oct. 13, 1860,
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GENEALOGIES.
Joseph Hunkins of Sanbornton, and they have three children (see Hunkins gen.). Mr. Hunkins is a farmer and a trusted officer of the town, having been tax collector for many years. He is a deacon of the Congregational Church and has served the Sunday-school as its superintendent.
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