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THE DOG AND THE PARSON'S WIG.
Rev. Mr. Upham lived east of the meeting-house, at the foot of the hill, which is so high as to be quite hard of ac- cess. Some one, in respect to it, said that the Lord built two great hills in Dcerfield, and upon these two poised another, and upon the top of this third they built the first meeting-house in Deerfield. Mr. Upham had a negro, named Pete, who was sometimes fond of fun. Mr. Upham had also a large dog, which seemed to enter into the spirit of any joke Pete might attempt to play upon any member
of the household. When Mr. Upham had donned " his Sunday wig," leaving his " every-day one " upon the table, and had gone up to the sanctuary to perform the sacred dutics of the sabbath with devout worshipers, Pete tied the old wig upon the dog's great head. The dog, as if inspired by the wig, starts for the church, ascends the high hill, en- ters the open door of the iceting-house, and, with a meas- ured tread and solemn wagging of his tail, goes straight up the " broad aisle " to the foot of the pulpit, and then, glan- cing back as if to see what impression he had made on the audience, gracefully ascends the stairs and takes a dignified
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position near his venerable master, whose glance at his own wig on the wrong head convinced him that the outward aspect of liis congregation was occasioned by no amusing mistake of his, or want of respect to the truths he was un- folding, but by the sight of an inferior wig upon an inferior head.
CHASE FAMILY.
Thomas Chase and Aquila Chase, brothers, were in Hampton, and had grants of land in 1640.
Aquila had a grant of land from Newbury in 1646, and moved there, and lived on what is now North Atkinson Street, Newburyport. He married Ann Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, and had eleven children, five sons and six daughters; and died December 27, 1670.
His sixth child and second son, Thomas, born July 25, 1654, married, first, November 27, 1677, Rebecca Folansbee ; married, second, Elizabeth Mowers. He was a carpenter, and settled near the road leading from the Amesbury-ferry road to Artichoke River in Newbury. He had eleven chil- dren ; the ninth, Nathan, born 1704, married, first, Novem- ber 29, 1723, Judith Sawyer ; married, second, December 30, 1740, Joanna Cheney; married, third, January 9, 1763, Ruth Davis. Thomas, by will, proved February 25, 1736, gave his son Nathan all his real estate; and Nathan, by will proved January 3, 1785, gave it to his sons Edmund and Jonathan, who lived there till 1798, sold, and went to Maine.
Nathan Chase of Newbury bought of Sarah McFadris a right in Nottingham, 1730. His land was located near the center of Deerfield, and he settled two of his sons, Josiah and Moses, on it. The tradition is, that he intended to settle others there; but those there took him around, and through a swamp, until he concluded that if two could get a living they would do well.
Nathan Chase had four sons and one daughter who set- tled in Deerfield : by first wife, (1) Josiah, born Septem-
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ber, 1735 ; by second wife, (2) Moses, born September 21, 1741; (3) Judith, married Enoch Robie, June 9, 1768; (4) Parker, born February 28, 1745; (5) Stephen, born July 5, 1756.
There have been several contradictory traditions about Josiah's being taken by the Indians. One, that when a lad he and others were taken, and, after several years, he es- caped. Another, that he was a soldier, and captured. There was, no doubt, something in the story. He was chosen tithing-man at the first town meeting held in Deer field, 1766, and hogreeve in 1767, and in 1771 the town voted to set the meeting-house on his land. He enlisted in the army September 7, 1760, was discharged Deeember 7, 1764. He was married, by the chaplain, to Margaret Gill, October 30, 1764. He settled on the hill at the Old Center.
(1) Josiah, son of Josiah and Margaret, was born Au- gust 3, 1769 ; he was apprenticed to a mason, who took him to Charleston, S. C., where he died, aged nineteen.
Margaret soon died, and Josiah married, second, Han- nah Sanborn, daughter of William Sanborn and Mary Dear- born of Exeter ; he died 1782; she died August 22, 1831, aged ninety-two. .
(2) William, son of Josiah and Hannah, was born Jan- uary 9, 1771 ; * William married Betsey Fogg of Deerfield, September 3, 1795, settled in Sandwich; she was born October 3, 1775 ; he died August 3, 1863, aged eighty-one ; she died March 1, 1848, aged seventy-four. Their children were : (1) Hannah Sanborn, born July 11, 1796, died un- married ; (2) Apphia Collins, bori April 14, 1798, mar- ried Eliphalet McGaffey of North Sandwich, March 13, 1823 ; (3) Josiah, born May 26, 1800, married Eliza Mar- den, November 6, 1832; moved to Maine, died July 29, 1867; (4) Mary, born September 2, 1802, married Simon
* As I have learned from Deerfield record; the family record gives the date of his birth June 9, 1774.
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Bennet, September 2, 1824; (5) Betsey, born August 15, 1804, lived with her father, and after liis death carried on the homestead ; died, unmarried, December 7, 1865 ; (6) Jeremiah, born December 6, 1806, married September 28, 1828, Mary Littlefield, resided in Swanville, Me., died June 6, 1868; (7) Abigail, born July 13, 1811, married Luther Tripp, September, 1833, of Swanville, Me .; (8) William, born January 2, 1818, married Sylvinia Munson, October, 1835, lives in Searsport, Me .; (9) Lemuel, born December 17, 1816, married Belinda S. Hall, June 7, 1840 ; (10) Levi, born September 29, 1822, married, first, Dolly M. Elliot, August 11, 1848, died September 12, 1848 ; mar- ried, second, Nancy Bennet of Sandwich, March 7, 1852.
(3) Nathan, son of Josiah, born May 28, 1777, married, first, Abigail Tobey, born March 31, 1778, died July 16, 1811 ; married, sccond, Mehitable Merril, born 1785; lived on the homestead ; she died May 19, 1830, aged forty-five. Their children were : by first wife, (1) Sarah Sanborn, born April 16, 1800, married, August 14, 1822, Joseph M. Silver, born in Haverhill, Mass., January 15, 1800, lived in Deer- field ; by second wife, (2) Abigail Tobey, born September, 1814, married, first, G. M. Smith of Deerfield ; married, second, Emery Currier of Candia ; (3) Robert Merril, born February 10, 1816, married Saloma Smith of Deerfield, December 31, 1846 ; she was born November 29, 1816 ; he died January, 1875; lived on the homestead in Deerfield ; (4) Hannah Jane, born June, 1817, married Hiram Stone of Lunenburg ; (5) Martha, born April 10, 1820, married John Gale of Landaff ; (6) Mary, a twin, born April 10, 1820, died November 6, 1844; (7) Emeline M., born July 23, 1824, married James S. Whidden of Lancaster, Feb- ruary 6, 1849, born July 1, 1826 ; he was a member of Company B, Eleventh New-Hampshire volunteers, and was killed at Fredericksburgh, December 13, 1862 ; she was post- mistress, Deerfield Center ; (8) Catharine M., born July 23, 1824, married her cousin, Samuel P. Chase, son of Jona-
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than of Epsom ; Samuel P. died September 9, 1847 ; Catha- rine married, second, William Goodenough of Barnet, Vt. ; he died in the army ; married, third, Amos Davis of Dan- ville, Vt.
(4) Jonathan, son of Josiah, born December 24, 1778, married, first, February 24, 1800, Polly Prescott, daughter of Samuel of Deerfield ; married, second, Hannah Pulsifer, lived in Epsom, died February 18, 1845. Their children were : (1) Josiah, born June 21, 1800, died, unmarried, June 10, 1842; (2) Samuel Prescott, born May 4, 1808, married his cousin, Catharine Chase, daughter of Nathan, May 16, 1844; he died September 9, 1847; (3) Hannah Weare, born August 7, 1824, married George Fife of Chi- chester, May 11, 1848, born October 24, 1825.
(5) Edmund, son of Josiah, born September 13, 1781, married Lucy, daughter of Enoch Fogg of Kensington, March 18, 1807, born February 3, 1778 ; lived on the home- stead in Deerfield ; he died December 19, 1850 ; she died August 26, 1854 ; their children were: (1) Charles, born January 5, 1808 ; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1832 ; practiced medicine at Chelsea, Mass., and Deerfield ; mar- ried, first, Priscilla Worthen of Deerfield, May 11, 1833, born July 10, 1808, died September 6, 1850 ; married, sec- ond, Elizabeth T. Burbank of Derby, Vt., December 3, 1851, born June 15, 1813 ; he died June 5, 1864 ; (2) Henry, born December 16, 1809, married, first, Lucinda, daughter of John and Catherine Shepard of Deerfield, June 9, 1833, born May 16, 1813, died November 26, 1853 ; married, second, Sarah Barton ; a carpenter in Somerville, Mass. ; (3) Edmund Pike, born October 30, 1813, married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Ezckiel James, of Deerfield, Novem- ber 28, 1836, born October 6, 1818; lives on the home- stead ; (4) Rufus, born January 27, 1816, married Susan, daughter of Enoch James of Deerfield ; they lived in New York; she died there ; he went to California ; died there August 10, 1855 ; no issue alive.
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Moses Chase, son of Nathan, born September 21, 1741, married Susan Kelley of Newbury, June 17, 1759 (New- bury Records) ; was tithing-man, 1767 ; selectman, 1764, 1780, 1781.
(1) Moses, son of Moses and Susan Kelley, born May 10, 1761, married Theodate Sanborn of Wakefield, born Febru- ary 22, 1762; he died March 23, 1824 ; lived in Deerfield ; their children were : (1) Joanna, born June 16, 1783, mar- ried John Steele of Sanbornton ; (2) Sally. born February 14, 1786, married Nathan Steele ; (3) Abigail, born June 4, 1790, married Jacob Libbey of Epsom ; (4) Sukey, born July 29, 1792, married John Steele of Sanbornton, February 21, 1821 ; (5) David, born February 3, 1794, married Polly Phil- brook, died 1870; lived in Wentworth ; (6) Polly, born February 22, 1797, married Joseph Philbrook of Sanbornton ; (7) Theodate, born April 9, 1800, unmarried, alive 1870 ; (8) Elizabeth, born April 2, 1802, unmarried, in Deerfield, 1870 ; (9) Lydia, born February 28, 1806, married Joel Bean of Brentwood, August 12, 1825.
(2) Joseph, son of Moses and Susan Kelley, born June 3, 1763, married Elizabeth Sanborn, daughter of Daniel Sanborn, January 25, 1785, born December 10, 1762 ; lived on the homestead in Deerfield ; he died January 21, 1840 ; she died October 20, 1839 ; their children were : (1) Daniel, born May 14, 1786, married Nancy Graves of Deerfield ; went to Meredith ; (2) Betty, born December 27, 1787, married Josiah S. Rollins of Deerfield ; (3) Lorumah, born October 25, 1789, died November 19, 1789; (4) Hannah, born October 30, 1792 ; (5) Joseph, born October 18, 1795, married Betsy Rollins of Deerfield, born February 24, 1793 ; lived in Deerfield ; (6) Abraham, born August 2, 1797, mar- ried, March 25, 1820, Deborah Rollins, born October 6, 1797 ; a blacksmith in Deerfield ; (7) Josialı, born August 20, 1799, married Deborah Currier of Deerfield, May 23, 1820, born March 10, 1800; he died November 4, 1861; she died May 31, 1875 ; lived in Deerfield; (8) William,
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born July 27, 1801, married Miranda, daughter of Jeremiah Rollins ; she died June 20, 1868; lived in Deerfield ; (9, 10) Isaac and Jacob, twins, born January 30, 1803, died young ; (11) Nathan, born December 4, 1805, married Eliza Chase, his cousin, daughter of John Chase, May 25, 1831; lived in Deerfield.
(3) Parker Chase, son of Moses and Susan Kelley, mar- ried, first, Sarah Evans, she died January 14, 1800 ; mar- ried, second, Mary Hayes of Allenstown, March 11, 1800; he died July, 1851 ; their children were : (1) Parker, born December 31, 1784, married Sarah Langley of Gilford ; lived in Charlestown, Vt. ; (2) Moses, born May 24, 1786, married Lydia Philbrick of Meredith ; lived in Campton ; (3) William, born November 25, 1787, married, 1812, Mary Clark ; she died 1857; (4) Lydia, born July 27, 1789, married Jacob Nute of Northwood, January 14, 1814 ; he died June 16, 1849.
(4) Susan R., daughter of Moses and Susan Kelley.
(5) Ruey, daughter of Moses and Susan Kelley, married Elijah Rollins of Sanbornton.
(6) John, son of Moses and Susan Kelley, born Septem- ber 13, 1769, died young.
(7) John, son of Moses and Susan Kelley, born April 23, 1772, married Hannah Sanborn of Tamworth; he died April, 1853, at Bangor ; she died December, 1817; their children were : (1) Dearborn, married Nancy Clark ; lives in Wakefield; (2) Mary, born October, 1803; (3) Eliza, born November 18, 1806, married, May 5, 1831, her cousin, Nathau Chase of Deerfield, son of Joseph ; (4) Heury, born November 29, 1808, married Ruth Sanborn ; lives in Wake- field ; no children.
(8) Lydia, daughter of Moses and Susan Kelley, died, unmarried, October 2, 1839, in Deerfield.
Parker Chase, son of Nathan, born February 8, 1745, married Ruth Kelly, December, 1774; lived in Deerfield ; their children were : (1) Elizabeth, married Jeremiah Pres-
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cott of Brentwood ; he died 1816 ; (2) Lydia, born, 1776, married John Burril of Newbury, July 1, 1795; lived in Derry Pcak ; she died March 10, 1802; no issue; (3) Thomas, born March, 1778, married, first, 1810, Mehitable Head, who dicd 1812; married, second, 1812, Keziah Ellis, born 1791, and had eleven children ; lived in Monroe, Me .; (4) Sarah, married Jacob Burril, brother of John, Decem- ber 15, 1801 ; lived in Chester ; died 1802.
Stephen Chase, son of Nathan, born July 16, 1756, mar- ried Molly Sanborn of Exeter, sister to Josiah's wife, May, 1773, born May 17, 1745; lived in Deerfield ; their chil- dren were : (1) William Sanborn, born February 12, 1778, married Nancy Sanborn ; lived in Deerfield ; (2) Anna, born May 30, 1780, married Simon Sanborn, November 25, 1804 ; (3) Henry D., born April 8, 1783, married Sally Sanborn of Sanbornton, March, 1809; went to Jackson, Me., in 1807 ; he died November 25, 1864; she died March, 1864, aged seventy-five ; (4) Mary, born February 24, 1786, died, unmarried, 1870 ; (5) Hannah, born June 27, 1788, married -- Avery of Sanbornton.
CHURCHILL FAMILY.
John Churchill, who seems to have been the first settler of the name in Deerfield, was born in Newmarket, May 11, 1776. He married, November 14, 1799, Sally True, born in Deerfield, May 15, 1782. He died August 24, 1846, aged seventy-two ; his wife died May 29, 1830, aged forty- eight. Their children were : (1) William Graves, born July 29, 1809, was captain of a company of infantry ; mar- ried, June 20, 1831, Sally Mead Page, born May 12, 1809, and died August 6, 1868, aged fifty-nine ; he died January 11, 1875, aged sixty-five. Their children were : William Alvah, born June 4, 1832; and Mary Mead, born August 28, 1834. This William Alvah married Martha Folsom Robinson, born in Greenland, January 30, 1831; and their children are : (1) Charlotte Annie, born December 23,
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1853 ; (2) Horace Mann, born August 21, 1855 ; (3) Hat- tie Beecher, born April 18, 1857; (4) Alice Bell, born Oc- tober 6, 1859 ; (5) Winfield Scott, born October 28, 1861; (6) Etta Myrtilla, born September 14, 1864 ; (7) Florence, born June 24, 1867 ; (8) Arthur Leslie, born October 21, 1871; (9) Gracie Edna, born August 31, 1874. Sally Mead, sister of William Alvah, died August 6, 1868, aged fifty-nine.
John T. B. Churchill, second son of John, the first set- tler, and Sally Truc, was born September 23, 1816. Hav- ing completed a term of enlistment in the United-States service, and having been wounded, in Florida, in the war with the Indians, and having come to Washington, D. C., he was seized with fever, and died October 7, 1841, aged twenty-five.
CILLEY FAMILY.
Hon. Horatio Gates Cilley was born December 23, 1777, in Nottingham (see Cilley family in Nottingham). He married, November 17, 1802, Sally Jenness, born in Deer- field, August 4, 1782, and died November, 1865. Mr. Cilley was a man of great energy of character, a safe coun- selor, generous and humane, a man whom Deerfield is proud to remember. He died November 26, 1837.
The children of Horatio Gates Cilley and Sally Jenness were : -
(1) A daughter, born January 30, 1804, and soon died.
(2) Horatio Gates, born November 25, 1805 ; married, May, 1840, Deboralı Jenness ; died March 13, 1874.
(3) Sally Jenness, born November 2, 1807, died April 15, 1826.
(4) Elizabeth Ann, born August 30, 1810; married, February, 1840, Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., state histo- rian of New Hampshire for the last ten or twelve years, and recently deceased, their children being : (1) Saralı Cilley, who became the wife of Gen. J. N. Patterson, who gradu- ated from Dartmouth College, 1859, served four years, nine
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months in the Second New-Hampshire Regiment; they have, Louis M., Julia N., and Allan Bouton ; (2) Martha Cilley, who married J. G. Cilley of Manchester, and had two children ; (3) Jane Louise.
(5) Martha Osgood, born May 24, 1814.
(6) Mary Jane, born June 5, 1816, married, October 5, 1842, Ephraim Eaton, a lawyer of Concord, a graduate of Dartmouth, and they had Mary J. and Henry.
(7) Joseph Bradbury, born January 30, 1819, died Feb- ruary 16, 1823.
(8) Harriet Newell, born October 27, 1822, died January 9, 1838.
(9) Joseph Bradbury, born December 26; 1824 ; married, November, 1847, Elizabeth Jenness, died November 23, 1872.
Horatio Gates Cilley, son of Horatio Gates Cilley, grad- uated from Dartmouth College in 1827, read law with G. Sullivan, Exeter, and practiced in South Deerfield and Lew- iston, Me. The children of H. G. Cilley and Deborah Jen- ness were : (1) Horatio Gates, born November 1, 1841, married, January 16, 1868, Julia A., daughter of Norman S. and E. J. Harrington of Cleveland, O., having gradu- ated from Chandler Seientific School, Dartmouth College, in 1863; he resides in Glenwood, Ia., a merchant; (2) John Jenness, brother of the above Horatio G., son of Ho- ratio Gates Cilley, was born August 31, 1843, and resides in East Boston.
COLLINS FAMILY.
Col. Samuel Collins was son of Samuel, of Salisbury, Mass., who was a son of Benjamin, killed while launching a vessel.
Col. Samuel was born in 1764, his mother being Re- becea Brown of Salisbury. She died September 27, 1812. He married, May 1, 1794, Deborah Goodhue, who died Feb- ruary 15, 1795, leaving one daughter, who became the wife
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of Sherburne Merrill of Deerfield, having, for children : (1) Sarah G., who became the wife of Rev. J. G. Richardson, a Baptist minister, now of Medford, Mass., their children being David Collins and William ; (2) S. Randolph, a phy- sician, living in Paterson, N. J., whose wife was Sarah Fel- lows of Deerfield; (2) Samuel, a merchant, living in Pat- erson, N. J., whose wife was Clara Carpenter of Concord, granddaughter of the late Rev. Josiah Carpenter of Chi- chester ; having, for children, Mary and Mabel.
Col. Collins married, for his second wife, Sarah Haines, November 8, 1798. She was born December 30, 1778, being the daugliter of Deacon David Haines and Mercy James. Their children were : (1) Lydia H., born June 8, 1800; married Joseph Bean of Candia, June 18, 1829, having, for children: Sarah C., born April 8, 1830, now the wife of E. A. J. Sawyer (see sketch) ; Elizabeth G., born June 26, 1832, who became, June 11, 1861, the wife of Rev. A. B. Meservey of New Hampton, and died September 26, 1862, leaving one daughter, Lizzie ; Samuel, a Unitarian clergyman, now of Salem, Mass., born December 19, 1835, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1858, and subsequently at Harvard Divinity School; his first wife was Caroline B. Turner of Stowe, Mass. ; his second, Harriet C. Gray of Salem, Mass., having one son, Samuel ; Mary P., born March 17, 1843 ; (2) Miriam F., born Febru- ary 28, 1804, married Dr. Stephen Brown of Deerfield, Feb- ruary 1, 1843, having had one daughter, Sarah Collins, who graduated in 1867 at Music Vale, Salem, Conn., and died April 4, 1874, aged twenty-eight, greatly beloved for noble qualities of mind and heart ; Mrs. Brown died August 23, 1878; (3) Sarah, born January 3, 1806 ; died at the age of twenty-two years ; (4) Samuel, born March 16, 1808 ; died January 21, 1826, aged eighteen years, a youth of much promise ; (5) David H., born November 9, 1811 ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1835; read law, and prac- ticed, in 1838, at Haverhill ; was appointed register of pro-
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bate, in 1839, for Grafton County ; was clerk of the House in 1839; and died June 24, 1843, aged thirty-four years. Having spent the winter at the South, about the 1st of June, emaeiated, and with physical energies exhausted, he returned to the paternal roof, overjoyed that he might die amid the ministrations and sympathies of friends at home ; possessing a well-balanced mind, enriehed by hard study, a taste refined by niee culture, his early death brought sor- row to many hearts.
Rebeeea M., seventh ehild of Col. Samuel Collins, born February 28, 1814, married E. P. Preseott, merchant in Concord, having one daughter, Susan A., wife of Rev. E. W. Porter, now of Lowell, Mass., whose children are Edith R., Sarah P., and E. Adalaid. This Rebeeea M. had a daughter, Sarah R. C., who married Moses B. Smith of Candia, and died, leaving one daughter, Carrie Orissa.
Col. Collins was stately in his bearing, dignified, and cour- teous. His bearing was that of a soldier, though genial in his manners. He came to Deerfield at the age of fourteen, to reside with his sister, Miriam, the wife of Enoeh French, on Mount Delight. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Revolutionary army, was stationed near West Point at the time Major André was taken, and at various other points of danger during the war. In the war of 1812, he commanded a company of infantry, stationed at Portsmouth. After- wards he commanded the Eighteenth Regiment New-Hamp- shire militia. He was chosen presidential elector at the sec- ond eleetion of Gen. Jackson ; he represented the town in the lower branch of the legislature in 1831 and 1832, and held many town offiees, and was appointed one of the examiners of West Point Military Academy, in 18 -. He died Sep- tember 6, 1852, aged eighty-eight. His accomplished widow survives him, residing at the Parade.
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CRAM FAMILY.
(1) John Cram, the first of the name in this country, whose descendants are Joseph C. Cram, Esq., and Alfred J. Cram, who now reside in Deerfield. He came from Eng- land ; and, in 1639, was among the settlers at Exeter. A combination being formed for the government of the set- tlers, his name appeared, spelled "Cramme." In 1648-49 he was elected selectman. When he came to Exeter he first signed his name by making his mark, but afterwards learned to write. He left Exeter about 1650, and went to Hamp- ton, that part now called Hampton Falls. He and his wife, Esther, became members of the church in Hampton. He was a man of a sound and discriminating mind, judicious and honest. His death was recorded on the town book of Hampton thus : " Died 5 of March 1681 good Old John Cram, one just in his generation." His wife, Esther, died in 1677. Their children were: (1) Benjamin, married Argentine Cromwell, November 28, 1662; it is said she was a relative of Oliver Cromwell, the Protector of Eng- land ; (2) Mary, married Abraham Tilton, January 25, 1655 ; (3) Joseph, was drowned in Exeter, June 24, 1648 ; (4) Lydia ; (5) Thomas, married Elizabeth Weare, Decem- ber 20, 1681.
The children of Benjamin Cram and Argentine Crom- well were : ---
(1) Sarah, born September 19, 1663.
(2) John, born April 6, 1665, married Mary -; had seven children : Argentine, Abigail, Benjamin, Wadleigh, Jonathan, John, and Mary.
(3) Benjamin, born December 30, 1666, married Sarah -; their children were: (1) Samuel, born April 30, 1699, died young ; (2) Lydia, born March 4, 1701; (3) Charity, born March 28, 1703 ; (4) Elizabeth, born Febru- ary 8, 1704-5 ; (5) Hephshebeth, born August 6, 1706 ; (6) Jonathan, born October 8, 1708; (7) Samuel, born October 24, 1710; and (8) Benjamin, born about 1712,
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whose children were : Jonathan of Brentwood, and Ben- jamin of Hampton Falls. The last-named Benjamin is supposed to be the same whose wife was Martha, and whose children were : Mary, wife of Col. Jonathan Cram ; Joseph, Esq., who married Ann Brown, June, 1780; their children being : Benjamin of Exeter, born March 10, 1781; and Jacob of New York, born 1783.
(4) Mary, born August 6, 1669.
(5) Joseph, born April 12, 1671; married Jane Phil- brick, May, 1700. Their children were : (1) Comfort, born April 16, 1701 ; (2) Abigail, born August 7, 1710.
(6) Hannah, born August 22, 1673; married William Fifield, October 26, 1693.
(7) Esther, born October 16, 1675.
(8) Jonathan, born April 26, 1678; died, unmarried, December 3, 1703.
(9) Elizabeth, born January 3, 1780 - 81; married Sam- uel Melcher, May 16, 1700.
The children of John Cram and Mary were : -
(1) Argentine, born December 16, 1693.
(2) Abigail, born September 10, 1695.
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