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DEMERITT FAMILY.
Joseph Demeritt came from Madbury, settled near where Plumer Bennett resides. His children were: (1) Moses, (2) Paul, (3) Joseph, (4) John, (5) Betsey, (6) Louisa, (7) Hannah, and (8) Lydia. Moses married a Miss Odell of Durham, whose son Gordon lives in Nottingham ; Paul mar- ried Martha Woodman of Deerfield, one of whose daugh- ters became the wife of the Hon. Alfred Hoitt of Durham ; and another married a Mr. Seward ; another married John Woodman of Newton; Joseph died in the war of 1812; John, the father of Joseph Demeritt, Esq., of Nottingham, was born January 30, 1777, lived in Nottingham, married Abigail, daughter of Robert Hill of Nottingham, born May
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13, 1781; they died within ten days of each other ; he was aged about eighty-seven. Their children were : Jacob, born July 8, 1800 ; Joseph, born November 11, 1801; Sophia, born January 8, 1803 ; John, born April 20, 1806 ; Timo- thy, born March 23, 1808; Mehitable F., born March 18, 1810; Daniel, born July 12, 1812; Samuel D., born May 22, 1814 ; Andrew J., Sally, Mary Ann, and Abigail.
Joseph Demeritt married Sally, daughter of Benjamin Colcord of Northwood. She was born March 10, 1799, and died September 27, 1767. Their children were: (1) Ben- jamin Willard, born April 5, 1827, married Eleanor A. Mills of Nova Scotia, having one daughter, Hannah Maria; (2) Eliza Ann, born August 16, 1832; she married Byron D. Hoitt, died April 1, 1861 ; (3) Joseph Edward, born May 9, 1836, married Nancy B. Tuttle, daughter of Ebenezer S. Tuttle of Nottingham, and they have three children, Eliza Ann, Sally A., and John L .; (4) Jane, born April 11, 1838, died May 28, 1868 ; (5) John Seward, born October 10, 1840, died January 14, 1873.
Mr. Demeritt has represented his town three years in the state legislature, been selectman and assistant postmaster for many years, and has been engaged in mercantile busi- ness since 1825.
GERRISH FAMILY.
Paul Gerrish came from Gerrish Island, near Portsmouth, to Durham, thence to Nottingham in early manhood, and died there in 1817, aged sixty-three. He married Ruth Chesley, daughter of Philip, and she died a few years after her husband. Their children were (1) Paul, (2) Samuel, (3) George, (4) Sally, (5) Polly, (6) Susan, (7) Thomas.
Paul married a Miss Gove, and they moved into Madbury, where they died childless.
Samuel married Sally Knowlton of Northwood, and died there, they having children, Benjamin, Samuel, David, Eben K., and Betsey.
George married a daughter of Capt. John Ford, and their
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children were John, Eliza, and Rutlı. His second wife was Lizzie Emerson, by whom he had two children : Daniel Harvey of Madbury, who died, leaving one daughter ; Han- nah, who married Asa Sanborn of Newmarket, and their children are John, Jane, and Frank.
Polly married Joseph Langley, and they died, leaving children, Joseph, Ruth, Mary, Samuel, and Freeman, the last two having served in the late war of the Rebellion.
Susan died unmarried.
Thomas, born October 15, 1788, married Sarah For, and died August 3, 1853 ; she was born January 27, 1789, and is still living. Their children : (1) Edward F., born Sep- tember 9, 1809 ; (2) Andrew Guy, born January 25, 1812, died December 21, 1838 ; (3) Permelia Jane, born July 16, 1814 ; (4) Joanna, born November 22, 1816; (5) Paul, born December 1, 1818; (6) Ruth, born July 29. 1821; (7) Charles F., born August 2, 1824; (8) George G., born August 26, 1827, died May 22, 1858; (9) Daniel W., born July 5, 1830 ; (10) Susan, born August 7, 1833.
Edward married Fanny L., daughter of Nicholas Tuttle. She was born January 12, 1812, and died October 24, 1844, and they had one son, Aura L., born September 10, 1837 ; and, May 15, 1859, he married Lizzie V. Holbrook, and they had one child, Lizzie V., who died March 12, 1862. This wife dying at the age of twenty-five, he married Lu- cinda A. Rundlett of Exeter, March 14, 1863, and they have one son, Roswell D.
Edward married for his second wife Arvilla H. Lucy, July 4, 1845, and their children are : Fanny L., born Octo- ber 23, 1854; Luella F., born May 20, 1857, and died March 11, 1864 ; E. Frank, born January 10, 1862.
Permelia, daughter of Thomas, married Thomas Johnson of Epping, whose children are Andrew Gilman and Benja- min.
Joanna married George O. Davis of Newmarket, who has recently died, and they had one son, George Richmond,
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who married Hattie Ellison of Portsmouth, and died, leav- ing one son, Herbert.
Paul married Mary Winslow, and they live in Newmar- ket, having one son, Edwin C.
Ruth married Hiram Bryant of Effingham, and they have two children, Sarah and John.
George A. married Martha Langley, and he died May 22, 1858 ; she died not long after, leaving one child.
Daniel W. married Louisa Demeritt of Lee, and they have one son, Warren M.
Susan married Hendrick S. Tuttle, and after his death John A. Randell of Lee, and they live in Madbury, with- out children.
This Edward Gerrish has been a deacon in the Freewill Baptist Church in Nottingham thirty-five years. His son, Aura L., is a Baptist preacher, being now president of the trustees of Maine Central Institute. He now resides in Olneyville, R. I. This Deacon Edward has held a justice's commission some twenty years, been justice of quorum for ten years, been captain of militia for a term of years.
GILE FAMILY.
John Gile came from Haverhill, Mass., settled near Lee line, married Mary, daughter of William Nealley, and had ten children : (1) Anna, (2) John, (3) Mary, (4) Sally, (5) William, (6) Abigail, (7) Betsey, (8) Joanna, (9) Mark, (10) Susanna. Anna married Samuel Gault of Bow, and had thirteen children, the eldest, Mary, married a Bap- tist clergyman, named Thomas Waterman, an Englishman, who died in Woburn, Mass. ; John married Catherine Tut- tle of Lee, who died in Effingham ; Sally married George Tuttle of Lee, one of whose daughters, Abigail, became the wife of Capt. John Sherburn of Northwood; William mar- ried a Miss Philbrick of Deerfield, and lived in Mount Ver- non, Me., died, leaving children ; Abigail became the wife of John Simpson of Nottingham; Betsey married Capt. Asa
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Folsom of Strathiam ; Joanna married Samuel Weymouth, and lived in Maine ; Mark lived on the homestead in Not- tingham, married Sarah McCrillis of Nottingham, and had three sons, one of whom, Jacob, lives in Northwood, marry- ing a daughter of the late Capt. John Sherburn ; Mark had also five daughters ; Susanna married a Dearborn of Ossi- pee, and had daughters, Nancy and Mahala; the latter became the wife of Maj. W. Ballard Willey of Northwood.
GOODRICH FAMILY.
The Goodrich families descended from three Welshmen who landed at Newburyport about the year 1640. From one of these, the Goodrich family in Nottingham descended. Barnard Goodrich married Sally Carr; he lived and died in West Newbury ; Barnard Goodrich, their son, married Eunice Cheney ; he afterward married Sally Gove; he moved from Newbury to the south-west corner of Notting- ham, in the Pawtuckaway Mountains, where he died ; Bar- nard Goodrich, born February 27, 1769, died February 23, 1834 ; his first wife, Eunice Cheney, born March 4, 1777, died February 17, 1807; his second wife, Sally Gove, was born October 8, 1782; the children of Barnard and Eunice Goodrich were : Moses C., born May 19, 1793, died January 17, 1858, lived in East Kingston ; Jeremiah, born September 21, 1796, died March 1, 1837; he removed to Fundy ; Gilman, born December 4, 1798, died October 19, 1874; he lived at Corinth, Me., and afterwards at Janes- ville, Wis .; Barnard, born April 2, 1800, now resides in Gardner, Me .; Betsey C., born October 20, 1802, died September 23, 1823; John, born January 9, 1805; now lives at Canaan, Me.
The children of Barnard and Sally Goodrich were : Sam- uel G., born March 21, 1808, died April 19, 1839; Natlian G. T., born February 27, 1810; Perley C., born March 9, 1812, died February 11, 1834 ; Henry O., born August 26, 1814, died March 25, 1834 ; David A., born March 8, 1817,
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died November 3, 1834; Jacob T., born June 13, 1820, died November 3, 1834; Delia Jane, born February 5, 1823, died July 31, 1825.
The children of Moses C. are Jackson, Evander A., and Doratha Melissa.
The children of Jeremiah are Barnard and Samuel B.
The children of Gilman are James Munroe, Lydia, Eliz- abeth, and George W.
The children of Barnard are Samuel, George, and Eleanor. The children of John are Eleanor and others.
The son of Samuel G. was Arthur D., who married Almira F. Bean of Nottingham, and died July 20, 1861; they had two children : Jay M., who now lives in Deerfield ; Mary F., who married Charles G. Harvey ; she died June 13, 1853, aged seventeen years, ten months.
Nathan G. T. married Betsey A. Cate of Deerfield, June 17, 1840 ; they have one son, George W., born August 23, 1844 ; Betsey A., his wife, died June 23, 1877.
THE GOVE FAMILY.
John Gove paid rent to the British crown in 1646 and 1647 ; shortly after the above date he came to New Eng- land and settled in Cambridge, Mass. He was the father of Edward Gove of Hampton (now Seabrook) ; died April 28,1679.
Edward, son of John Gove, born 1635. We find him in Hampton, 1666 ; married Hannah Titcomb ; died July 29, 1691.
John, son of Edward, born September 19, 1661.
Jonathan, son of John, born May 2, 1695 ; married Mary Lancaster.
Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Mary Lancaster, born July 18, 1742, died May 29, 1832 ; married, first, Sarah Sweatt ; second wife, Ruth Philbrick ; settled in Notting- ham about 1765 or 1766. Children by first wife : Jane, born May 28, 1767 ; Hannah, born May 23, 1769 ; Sarah,
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born March 20, 1771, married Gideon Bickford of North- wood, and settled there, liaving children. Children by second wife : Jonathan, born August 17, 1772, settled in Loudon ; Elijah, born January 25, 1774, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Elias, born October 21, 1775, married Betsey Johnson, daughter of Moses Johnson of Northwood, settled in Readfield, Me. ; Olive, born May 14, 1777, died April 28, 1781 ; Mary, born February 16, 1779, married Jesse Bickford, settled in Northwood ; Samuel, born Febru- ary 18, 1780, married Sarah Norris, settled on the home- stead in Nottingham, died February 17, 1852 ; Olive, born February 13, 1782, married John Morrill, settled in Win- throp, Me. ; Nancy, born February 18, 1783, married Dudley Fogg, settled in Readfield, Me. ; Bradbury, born October 29, 1785, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Eleanor, born August 22, 1787, married, first, Blake ; second, Brown ; settled in Mon- mouth, Me. ; Dolly, born December 20, 1789, married Brown, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Caleb Philbrick, born July 12, 1792, settled in Litchfield, Me. ; Sherburn, born January 8, 1795, married Jane Norris in 1819, settled in Northwood, removed to Raymond, 1831, died October 25, 1874. Their children, born in Northwood, are : Julia Ann, born August 14, 1819, died November 5, 1824; Samuel B., born May 9, 1822, with whom the mother resides; Julia Ann, born April 13, 1829. Born in Raymond : James F., born No- vember 23, 1832 ; George S., born January 11, 1841.
Samuel, son of Jonathan and Ruth, married Sarah Nor- ris, and settled on the old homestead in Nottingham, their children being as follows : Jonathan, born October 3, 1809 ; Sally Ann, born February 7, 1826, died August 24, 1837. Jonathan married, first, Lydia Norris, who died July 8, 1853 ; second wife, Cena Tucker ; third, Mercy E. Holman ; fourth, Abbie Osgood ; was selectman four years in Nottingham, and representative two years. Children : by first wife, Samuel S., born October 25, 1837 ; by third wife, Frank W., born April 21, 1868. Samuel S. married Saralı E.
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Fogg, lives on a part of the old Gove homestead. Their children are : Charles W., born November 30, 1860; Clara M., born August 29, 1864 ; Freddie L., born December 14, 1870.
Samuel, son of Jonathan Gove and Mary Lancaster, born September 2, 1746, married Rachel Adams of Londonderry, February 8, 1770. He is supposed to have been in Notting- ham in 1767 ; died in Deerfield, September 20, 1825. His farm in Nottingham was about one mile south of the Square, what is now the "Lane farm," where Stephen Locke resides. Mr. Gove's wife was born March 21, 1750, and she died in Deerfield, June 12, 1826. Their children were : (1) Hannah, born September 11, 1770, married Paul Gerrish, September 7, 1800, died March 20, 1801; (2) Polly, born October 10, 1772, married, April 11, 1818, Asa Folsom, an officer in Gen. Stark's army, who fought at Bennington ; he lived at Deerfield Parade, and died Sep- tember 12, 1855 ; (3) David A., born February 5, 1775, married, September 29, 1815, Olive Knight of Maine, moved to Trivoli, Ill., and died February, 1855; (4) Nathan B., born February 27, 1777, dicd April 6, 1826 ; (5) Samuel, born March 7, 1789, died June 2, 1789; (6) Rachel A., born March 7, 1789, twin with Samuel, married Samuel Badger of Deerfield, September 21, 1822, died September 7, 1862; (7) Sally, born October 8, 1782, married Barnard Good- rich, November 16, 1807 ; (8) Isabella, born January 2, 1785, died June 17, 1786 ; (9) Delia, born December 20, 1786, died at Deerfield February 3, 1862.
In 1683, Edward Gove of Hampton, son of John, was indicted for high treason, and was tried before Richard Waldron, as judge, with Vaughan and Daniel, assistants. The prisoner had been a member of the Assembly, and was hurried on by his violent opposition to Cranfield into some gross irregularities, which no reasonable man could approve or justify. Waldron probably loved the governor no more than the prisoner ; but as a magistrate he was resolved to
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discharge his duty with impartiality and firmness. It was a painful duty, for Gove was convicted, and Waldron wept while pronouncing the sentence, that " he should be carried back to the place from whence he came, and from thence be drawn to the place of execution, and be there hanged by the neck and cut down alive, and that his entrails be taken out and burnt before his face, and his head cut off, and liis body divided into four quarters, and his head and quarters disposed of at the king's pleasure."
It is gratifying to know that this sentence was not car- ried into execution. After several years imprisonment, here and in London, Gove was pardoned, and returned home with an order for the restoration of his estate, which had been seized, as forfeited to the crown .*
HARVEY FAMILY.
Tradition says that all the Harveys in the United States descended from the Earl of Bristol in England, whose name was Harvey. His son came to this country, with other young noblemen, and purchased a tract of land embracing Taunton and Rehoboth, in Massachusetts. This young. Harvey married an American girl, and so was disinherited by his aristocratic father in England. It is also said that French and Scotch blood has been infused into the English stock. It is said that the Harveys have, generally, blue eyes, but occasionally the black eye of the French may be met with.
Thomas Harvey came to this country between 1640 and 1650. It is easy to trace the branch of the Harvey family to whichi Jonathan belonged to South Hampton, thence to Amesbury and Newburyport, Mass. Jonathan Harvey was born in Newburyport, about 1734. He married Susan George of South Hampton, and, a few years after, settled in Nottingham, on a sixteen-acre lot in the mountain district, where he built a log house, and died in 1764, the first
* See Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, Vol. II., p. 44.
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person that died in that district, and was buried in a corner of the Maloon field. He had been a soldier in the French war, and was at Ticonderoga, N. Y. The children of Jona- than Harvey and Susan George were: (1) Levi, who settled in Sutton; (2) Matthew, who also lived in Sutton, became wealthy and influential as a business man and a politician, frequently representing his town in the House, and after- wards became a member of the Senate ; (3) Joseph moved into one of the Western States ; (4) Jonathan settled in the same district with his father; (5) James settled in Deering, and was in the war of 1812, and died in Western New York ; (6) Susan married Thomas Robinson of Deer- field ; (7) Gertrude became the wife of Nathan Philbrick of Dcerfield ; (8) Miriam married Benjamin Critchett, and settled in Deering ; he was a soldier of the Revolution ; (9) Dolly died about 1834, on the homestead, unmarried.
Jonathan, the fourth child of Jonathan the first settler, married Susan Hedlock of South Hampton, and settled farther up between the mountains, where he built a log house with a stone chimney, and there he died, April, 1845 ; his children were : (1) James, who married Lois Ladd, and lived in Epping, moving there in 1810, and died in Jan- uary, 1854, leaving three children, Dudley L., Nathaniel G., and Matthew J., who lives on the old Ladd place, while Nathaniel resides in Illinois, and Dudley L. in Epping, near the homestead ; (2) Jonathan married Betsey Burnham, and removed to Atkinson, Me., about 1807, and there died, leaving one son, Sargent L., and perhaps others; (3) Na- thaniel married Sally Burnham of Nottingham, and moved into Maine, and afterwards into Wisconsin, where he died a Baptist preacher, leaving several children, one of whom was the late Dr. William Harvey of Chicago; (4) David went to Dover, Me., and married a Miss Snow, and died about 1855, leaving children ; (5) Thomas married a Miss Giles of Deerfield, and moved into the western country some sixty years ago; (6) John married Polly Brown of
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Deerfield, and was burned in a coal-camp in Nottingham, about 1815, leaving two children : one, the wife of John Rowe of Deerfield, who moved to Pittsfield ; (7) Levi first married Hannah Young of Deerfield, who died, leaving three children : John S., who lives near Janesville, Wis. ; Mary, who is widow of Dr. Sanborn of South Berwick, Me. ; and Hannah, who married B. Goodrich, and resides in Brentwood ; the second wife of Levi Harvey was Huldah Maloon of Deerfield, who had one son, Moses B., living near Manchester ; (8) Nathan was a lieutenant-colonel in the militia, married Polly Wecks, and died at St. Josephs, Mich., leaving one son ; (9) Matthew married Linda Noyes of Nottingham, and died in Deerfield, in 1854, leaving two sons and one daughter : Paul Ladd was killed in the battle of Fredricksburg, Va .; and the other son lives in Deer- field.
Besides these sons of Jonathan Harvey, there were sev- eral daughters : Sally, who married and died in 1847; Betsey, who married Jesse Burnham of Maine, and moved into Wisconsin ; Hannah married Asa Burnham, lived in Maine, and then at the West; Judith married a Mr. Gree- ley, in Maine ; Susan became the wife of William Chase, and died some years since, leaving one son, E. H. Chase, residing in Nottingham, and one daughter, Sabrina, the wife of Jacob Harvey of Nottingham; Lydia married Gilman Goodrich of Nottingham, and is now living in Janesville, Wis. ; Miriam married Colcord Winslow, and resides on the old Harvey homestead, having two sons, John H., who resides in Deerfield, and Jonathan, who resides in Dover ; Mary, who married Paul Gerrish of Newmarket; one lives in Deerfield ; another married a Rollins of Nottingham ; and another, a Savage of Manchester.
This Jonathan Harvey, first named, was a cousin to the father of the late Hon. John Harvey of Northwood:
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HARVEY FAMILY, - SECOND BRANCH.
The following reeord is authentic : -
" August 7, 1726, James Harvey and Family now sot sail from port Rush in the North of Ireland for New England, and Landed in Boston in October 8th, from thenee came to Haverhill the 26th, where we stayed till April 19th, 1727, and, that day, came to Derry.
" James Harvey, from Ireland, died on the 4th day of May, 1742."
The children of this James Harvey were : (1) Robert, born July 10, 1709; (2) Rachel, born July 15, 1710; (3) Thomas, born October 17, 1713; (4) Margaret, born Oeto- ber 9, 1716; (5) Grezel, born June 26, 1717; (6) Rose, born July 22, 1719; (7) Mary L., born July 9, 1721; (8) Elizabeth, born December 27, 1722.
This Robert married Ann, the daughter of William Max- well, who, with his family, came in the same vessel that brought over James Harvey and his family, also Andrew McClary and his family, who were among the early families of Nottingham. And it was McClary's son that married Elizabeth Harvey, to the great disgust of the Harvey family ; because the McClary's oeeupied in Ireland a position in society inferior to that of the Harvey's. Hence a pro- traeted alienation between the two, which aeeounts for the removal of Andrew McClary from Nottingham to Epsom.
The children of Robert Harvey, son of James and Ann Maxwell, were : (1) Elizabeth, born Deeember 9, 1738, who married James Kelsey of Nottingham ; (2) Rachel, born March 13, 1739, married Andrew Blaek of Boston; (3) Ann, born August 12, 1741, who married Joshua Stevens of Stratham ; (4) James, born January 27, 1742, who mar- ried Miss Scribner of Waterborough, Me. ; (5) John, born October 15, 1744, and married Hannah Hilton ; (6) Mary, born Mareh, 1746, and married Philip Yeaton of Ports- mouth ; (7) Willian Maxwell, born October 8, 1749; (8) Abigail, born July 4, 1751, and married Daniel MeNeill of
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Boston ; (9) Rosanna, born January 29, 1754, and married Levi Dame ; (10) Thomas, born January 27, 1756.
The above John, the fifth child of Robert Harvey and Ann Maxwell, married Hannah Hilton, and their children were : (1) Robert, born August 4, 1773, and married Nancy Stevens ; (2) Anna, born November 30, 1775; (3) Han- nah, born. January 26, 1778; (4) John, born December 26, 1780 ; (5) Mary, born March 17, 1783; (6) Abigail, born July 17, 1785 ; (7) James, born August 28, 1787; (8) Daniel, born December 12, 1789; (9) Elizabeth, born June 4, 1793.
The children of Robert, the son of John Harvey and Hannah Hilton, who married Nancy Stevens, were : John, born September 6, 1805 ; Mary Ann, born November 20, 1807 ; and Hannah, born March 28, 1812; and the chil- dren of John are Lavina, Emily, and Charlotte ; of James, are Nathan, Lavina, Hannah, Charles, and Maria. The children of Daniel are Pike, Abigail, John, William, and Albert; of Nathan, are Hannah, Luella, Mary Abba, and Ida ; of Charles, are James, Anna, and Ernest. The chil- dren of Pike, son of Daniel, are Hannah, Rebecca, David, and Idella; of John, son of Daniel, are Willie and Ada Belle ; of Albert, son of Daniel, Kate, Clara, Ellen, Han- nah, John, Ada Belle, Frank Ben, and William.
KELSEY FAMILY.
The Kelsey family are of Scotch-Irish origin. The name is in some places spelled Kelse, in others Kelso, as in Derry and New Boston.
The Kelsey families in Nottingham are doubtless allied to the Kelsos of Derry.
James settled where James Albert Kelsey resides, build- ing the main part of his house about a half-mile west of Lee line, in the Kelsey district, on the road from Deer- field Parade to Lee Hill.
This James died April 23, 1795. His wife's name was
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Elizabeth Harvey, sister of John Harvey of Nottingham. Their children were : (1) Margaret, born November 3, 1762; (2) William, born October 1, 1764 ; (3) James, jr., born May 6, 1766 ; (4) Jane, born March 10, 1768; (5) Moses, born February 17, 1770 ; (6) John, born October 5, 1771; (7) Hugh, born September 19, 1773.
Margaret married Miles Reynolds, and they lived in Lee, but died in New Durham. Their children were Betsey, Lois, John, and Olive.
William married Hannah, daughter of John Harvey, and they lived where James Albert Kelsey resides, and their children were Daniel, Elizabeth, William, John H., Jane (born April 5, 1814), and James Albert.
Daniel, son of William, born June 27, 1805, married La- vina Harvey, daughter of James Harvey, and they have children : William, Alvin, Medora, Hannah Jane, Maria, James, Charles, Jesse, John M., and Elmo.
Elizabeth, born October 16, 1806, died unmarried ; and William, born March 14, 1809, married Maria, daughter of James Harvey, and they have one son, Elmo ; John H., born May 15, 1811, died aged about twenty-four ; and Jane, born April 5, 1814; married David Chesley of Northwood, whose children are William, George, and Edith.
James Albert, son of William, and brother of the above, born April 5, 1816, married Abbie A., daughter of John Glass of Nottingham, and they live on the old homestead, having no children. He was a member of the convention to revise the Constitution.
James, the son of James and Elizabeth, married Sally Rendal of Durham, and they lived and died in Danville, Vt., having, for children, Harvey, James, John, Robert, Moses, Sally, Hiram, and Hugh.
Jane married Jonathan Thompson of Lee, and their chil- dren are James, Susan, Noah, Hugh, and Mary.
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