History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, comprised within the original limits of Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., with records of the centennial proceedings at Northwood, and genealogical sketches, Part 31

Author: Cogswell, Elliott C. (Elliott Colby), 1814-1887; Northwood (N.H.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Manchester [N.H.] : J.B. Clarke
Number of Pages: 936


USA > New Hampshire > Rockingham County > Northwood > History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, comprised within the original limits of Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., with records of the centennial proceedings at Northwood, and genealogical sketches > Part 31
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captain of the cavalry company in the Eighteenth Regiment New-Hampshire militia for a number of years, and died April 25, 1860, aged seventy-six ; she died February 21, 1850, aged sixty-five years.


The children of Sarah Haines and Col. Samuel Collins of Deerfield (see sketch of Col. Collins), were :


(1) Lydia H. Collins, born June 8, 1800, married Joseph Beane, Esq., of Candia ; they have one daughter, who mar- ried E. A. J. Sawyer, Esq., who resides at Deerfield Parade. Mr. Sawyer represented the town in the legislature in 1864 - 65 ; was deputy-sheriff for eight years; has been justice of the peace for fifteen years or more, and held many other offices in town ; Mrs. Beane has one son, the Rev. Samuel C. Beane, who resides at Salem, Mass .; she, with her daughter, resides in Deerfield with her son-in-law, Mr. E. A. J. Sawyer ; (2) Miriam F., born March 16, 1802, died September 27, 1803, aged eighteen months ; (3) Miriam, born February 28, 1804, married Dr. Stephen Brown, who resides at Deerfield Parade; (4) Sarah, born January 3, 1806, died January 1, 1828, aged twenty-two years, unmar- ried ; (5) Samuel, jr., born March 16, 1808, died January 2, 1826, aged eighteen years ; (6) David H., born Novem- ber 9, 1811, was clerk of the New-Hampshire State Senate at Concord two years, and register of probate for the County of Grafton ; died June 24, 1843, aged thirty-one years, un- married ; (7) Rebecca M., born February 28, 1814, married, October 31, 1835, Edward P. Prescott, Esq., born April 14, 1812; he commenced business in Deerfield as a merchant and shoe manufacturer. In 1855-56, he removed to Can- dia, and pursued, successfully, the wholesale business in flour, grain, and groceries, until 1859, when he removed to Concord; he has for many years held the commission of justice of the peace, and for a number of years was elected alderman for ward six in Concord. He is a worthy member of the Freewill Baptist Church in Concord; he takes a great interest in the Young Men's Christian Association,


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and is highly respected as an active, energetic, and upright citizen.


The children of William Haines and Elizabeth Merrill of Deerfield were ; -


(1) William Haines, born August 3, 1806, married Caro- line Wason of Chester ; in 1837, removed to Pardeeville, Wis. ; has two daughters ; (2) Mahalah Haines, born Au- gust 31, 1810, married July 8, 1839, Dudley Ladd ; he was born February 11, 1806 ; a farmer ; resides in Deerfield ; no children ; (3) John O. Haines, born June 4, 1813, mar- ried Hannah M. Eaton of Barnstead ; he is a doctor ; re- sides in Manchester, and has two children ; (4) Robert M. Haines, born April 14, 1816, married May, 1848, Abigail Blaisdell, born 1824; in June, 1848, he, with his family, removed to Pardeeville, Wis. ; they have five children; (5) Judith Jane Haines, born December 27, 1818, married, Feb- ruary 21, 1848, Samuel G. Haines, born November 24, 1819; he is a farmer and carpenter ; resides in Deerfield ; they have two children : Frank G., born January 31, 1853 ; Ella F. V., born February 15, 1855, resides at Deerfield.


The children of Lydia Ladd and Capt. Benjamin Smith of Dcerfield were : -


(1) Dudley L. Smith, born November 12, 1804, died Jan- uary 25, 1815, of spotted fever, agcd eleven years ; (2) Ste- vens Smith, born December 2, 1806, married, December 2, 1840, Mary Robinson, born February 22, 1811; he died March 27, 1863, aged fifty-six years ; lived in Deerfield ; a farmer ; (3) Mercy L. Smith, born December 23, 1810, mar- ried, December, 1837, Andrew Bickford of Concord ; he en- listed in 1862, in Company A, Eighth New-Hampshire Regi- ment, William Barrett, captain, Hawks Ferring, colonel ; died in New Orleans, just before returning home ; (4) Lydia L. Smith, born July 9, 1814, married Charles Smith, born November 4, 1810; resides in Deerfield ; carpenter and farmer ; is twin brother of Hilgard Smith ; (5) Benjamin D. Smith, born July 3, 1819, married, 1843, first, Sarah L.


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Merrill, born June 28, 1818, died July 6, 1844, aged twenty- six years ; second, married Sally Kenny, died 1869; third, married - Bickford, 1871 ; is a farmer and shoemaker ; resides in Deerfield ; (6) Mary J. Smith, born September 2, 1822, died April 14, 1823, aged seven months ; (7) John F. M. Smith, born April 20, 1824, is married and resides in Ohio.


The children of Samuel Haines and Mary Philbrick of Deerfield were : -


(1) Samuel G. Haines, born November 24, 1819, married, February 21, 1848, Judith J. Haines, born December 27, 1818 ; he is a farmer and carpenter ; resides in Deerfield on the farm on which his father lived and died, and which was cleared and settled by Thomas Robie, who came from Hampton in 1765 ; he was captain of the company of artil- lery in the Eighteenth Regiment New-Hampshire militia ; has been justice of the peace since 1860. On his mother's side, he is the seventh generation from John Philbrick, one of the first settlers of Hampton ; (1) John ; (2) Elias, born 1680; (3) Caleb, born 1705; (4) Jonathan, born 1736; (5) Jonathan, jr., born 1771; (6) Mary, born 1799; (7) Samuel G. Haines, born 1819.


(2) David P. Haines, born March 22, 1822, married, March 25, 1857, Mary Jane Silver, born October 31, 1822, daughter of Joseph M. and Sarah S. Silver of Deerfield ; she died July 18, 1857, aged thirty-five years ; his second marriage, July 13, 1867, was with Susan H. Ladd, born August 9, 1842; two children : (1) David H. Haines, born January 5, 1868; (2) Henry P. Haines, born March 30, 1869 ; second wife died January 13, 1871, aged twenty- eight years ; he is a farmer, and resides in Deerfield.


(3) Jonathan Haines, born September 22, 1824, died January 7, 1826, aged one year.


(4) Jonathan P. Haines, born December 5, 1826, married, July 14, 1855, Abigail Maloon, born May 25, 1827 ; a farm- er and machinist ; he resides in Deerfield.


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(5) Mary Haines, born December 22, 1828, died the next day.


(6) Mary Ann Haines, born March 1, 1830, married, May 14, 1857, Joseph S. Sanborn, Esq., born March 17, 1834; overseer in machine-shop in North Andover. Mass. ; two children : Grace May, born November 12, 1864, and An- nie E., born December 23, 1867.


(7) Hannah Haines, born April 4, 1832, died April 2, 1834.


(8) Hannah Haines, born June 13, 1836, died November 1, 1849, aged thirteen years.


(9) Ashley D. Haines, born August 11, 1838 ; insurance agent, Lawrence, Mass. ; unmarried.


(10) Roxanna E. Haines, born February 16, 1841, unmar- ried ; resides in North Andover, Mass.


(11) Martha Janc Haines, born September 12, 1843, died October 16, 1860, aged seventeen years.


The children of John F. Ladd and Dorothy Smith of Deerfield were : -


(1) David Ladd, born March, 1799, died young : (2) Lo- isa Ladd, born February 13, 1801, married Mark Wadleigh of Kensington ; (3) David Ladd, born July 7, 1802, mar- ried, September 7, 1826, Harriet Hoit, born October 5, 1809 ; resides in Deerfield; a farmer ; (4) Paluma Ladd, born February 9, 1804, married Cyrus Mann of Pembroke : removed to Chicago ; thence to California, and died there ; she died in Chicago, March 20, 1865, aged sixty-one years ; (5) Dudley Ladd, born February 11, 1806, married Mahalah Haines, August 8, 1839, born August 30, 1810 ; is a farm- er; resides on the Ridge Road, so called; (6) Lydia Ladd, born October 9, 1808, married John Dunham of Bos_ ton, Mass., where they both died ; (7) John F. Ladd, born August 10, 1810, married Mary Rollins ; resides in Deer- field ; a farmer ; (8) Lucy Ladd, born March 22, 1812; re- sides at Exeter, unmarried ; (9) Sally Ladd, born March 22, 1814, married, first, Luther Fuller ; he died, and she


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married Andrew Ladd of Pembroke; she died December 29, 1862, aged forty-eight years; (10) Harriet M. Ladd, born May, 1816, married William Treadwell of Lowell, Mass. ; she died August, 1847, aged thirty-one years.


The children of Stephen Smith and Mary Robinson of Deerfield were : -


(1) Dyer S. Smith, born March 18, 1850, married, July 4, 1874, Miss Aura J. Ladd, born May 6, 1854, daughter of Lewis A. Ladd, Esq., of Deerfield; they have one child, Edward Guy Smith, born April 1, 1875; is a farmer, and resides in Deerfield.


The children of David Ladd and Harriet Hoit of Deer- field were : -


(1) Mary E. Ladd, born November 2, 1827, resides in Deerfield, unmarried ; (2) Wyman H. Ladd, born June 30, 1831 ; is a farmer in Deerfield ; unmarried ; (3) Susan H. Ladd, born August 9, 1842, married, July 13, 1867, David P. Haines, born March 8, 1822; have two children : David H., born January 5, 1868; Henry P., born March 30, 1869 ; Susan H. died January 13, 1871, aged twenty-eight years.


The children of Capt. Samuel G. Haines and Judith J. Haines of Deerfield were : -


(1) Franklin G. Haines, born January 31, 1853, is a ma- chinist ; resides in Lawrence, Mass. ; (2) Ella F. V. Haines, born February 15, 1855, married, February 15, 1874, Henry A. Rollins, born in Deerfield, January 4, 1851; have one child, Elmer H. Rollins, born in Deerfield, March 22, 1875 ; he is a farmer, and resides in Deerfield.


The children of Jonathan P. Haines and Abigail Maloon of Deerfield were : -


(1) Willis P. Haines, born December 27, 1855; resides with his father at Deerfield; (2) Henrietta S. Haines, born at Manchester, June 20, 1860, died February 26, 1861 ; (3) Emma May Haines, born September 16, 1863, Bedford, died April 4, 1865 ; (4) Samuel J. Haines, born September 11, 1865, Bedford ; (5) Laura Abby Haines, born November 7, 1867, Bedford.


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The following are descended, in direct line, of Samuel G. Haines, from Samuel Haines, born in England : -


Samuel Haines, born in England, 1611.


Samuel Haines, born in New England, 1646, married Mary Fifield.


William Haines, born in Portsmouth, 1679, married Mary Lewis.


David Haines, born in Greenland, 1717, married Lydia Cate.


Deacon David Haines, born in Epping, 1747, married, first, Mercy James ; second, Jemima Pulsifer.


Samuel Haines, born in Deerfield, 1789, married Mary Philbrick.


Samuel G. Haines, born in Deerfield, 1819, married Ju- dith Haines.


Franklin G. Haines, born in Deerfield, 1853, unmarried.


HILTON FAMILY.


Edward Hilton was one of the company sent by the pro- prietors of Laconia to effect a settlement on the Piscataqua River. Not understanding the nature of the climate, they thought to cultivate the vine. They also coveted mines, and proposed to discover them. This Hilton arrived from London in the spring of 1623, accompanied by his brother William. He settled on Dover Neck some seven miles from Portsmouth. The disappointments and hardships of this settlement may be inferred from the fact, that ten years later, the people of that place and of Portsmouth were com- pelled to secure most of their bread from England and Vir- ginia. There was no mill for grain nearer than that at Boston, and even that was a wind-mill ; and women were, if possible, scarcer than bread, and the men were sorely dis- tressed for helpmeets, though wives and maidens were sent over in limited numbers, many of the first settlers leaving their wives in England until they could make ready for them. Edward Hilton was a friend of Gov. Winthrop of


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Massachusetts, and so had influence. Much disorder was occasioned in the Dover settlement by the immoral conduct of Burdet, Knollys, and Larkham ; and Hilton and the bet- ter portion of the community sought the protection of the government of Massachusetts in 1641, and Hilton was made the first magistrate. A grant had been made to him in Exeter in 1639, and he removed thither in 1652. The same year the inhabitants of Exeter, in town-meeting, " Voted that Mr. Hilton be requested to go along with Mr. Dudley to the General Court to assist him." The follow- ing year another grant, of some two miles square, was made to him, " in regard to his charges in setting up a saw-mill." This tract included what is now known as South Newmar- ket, then called Newfields. This Hilton died in 1671.


This Edward Hilton's eldest son was named Edward, and lived in Exeter, and married Ann Dudley, who was born October 16, 1641, daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley of Exeter, and granddaughter of Thomas Dudley, who was the second Governor of Massachusetts Colony ; her mother was Mary Winthrop, a daughter of John Winthrop, the first governor of that colony ; this second Edward Hilton died April 28, 1699, and his eldest son was called Win- throp, born about 1671, best known for many years as Col. Hilton ; he became the leading military man in the prov- ince, and had the chief command in one or more expedi- tions ; he was appointed, 1706, a judge of the court of common pleas, and retained the office until his death ; he was killed by the Indians, June 23, 1710; his wife was Ann Wilson. This Col. Winthrop Hilton's youngest son, born December 21, 1710, after his death, named Winthrop, lived on the homestead, was colonel in the militia, and died December 26, 1781; his son Winthrop was wounded in Northwood by the falling of a tree, January 11, 1775, and died the next day ; and his son Ichabod, who married Su- sanna, daughter of Col. Joseph Smith of Newmarket, had a daughter, Susanna, who became the wife of Levi Mead, Esq., of Northwood.


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Josepli, the third son of the second Edward Hilton. was horn about the year 1681, and dicd at the age of cighty- four ; by his second wife, a widow Adams, he had a son, named Theodore, who lived in Newmarket, and married Mary Sinclair of Stratham ; and their eldest son, Joseph, settled in Deerfield, where he died in 1826; this Joseph Hilton married Sarah Thurston of Epping ; he lived where the brick house now stands, near the mills owned by Saw- yer, Dearborn, and Philbrick ; was a large land-owner, and had corn to spare when others had not ; he also carried on blacksmithing upon a large scale; made oil of flax-seed ; was a very industrious man, succeeding in every branch of business to which he gave liis attention, and accumulated a large estate ; he had, for children, Stephen, who removed to Mainc ; Joseph, who lived in Deerfield, and died a young man, leaving children ; John, who also lived in Deerfield ; Daniel, who went into Maine; Winthrop, who graduated at Dartmouth College, and died in Deerfield ; Hannah, who married a Mr. Butler, and moved into Maine ; Mehitable, who became the wife of Capt. David Haines, who com- manded a company of artillery at Portsmouth. He subse- quently removed to Manchester, having a daughter who married Rev. J. L. Sinclair, whose son, Joseph H., married a sister of Col. Peter Sanborn of Concord, and they live in Manchester ; Elizabeth, born March 30, 1780, married a Mr. Ford, and lived in Gilmanton, and their sons, W. P. and T. H. Ford, are hardware dealers in Concord ; John, who married Abigail Prescott of Decrfield.


Col. Hilton's second wife was the widow of Joseph Mills, Esq., who was her second husband, her first being Joseph March, Esq. It is believed that, at her first marriage, she was a Coffin.


Col. Hilton was a lieutenant in the war of the Revolution, and was wounded at the battle of Saratoga, his company being a part of Col. Scammel's regiment.


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HOAG FAMILY.


The tradition is handed down, that sometime before 1700, although the date is not given, the original of the Hoag family in this country left his wife in England and came with his young son, John, to New York. He found the country so much to his liking that, leaving his son in New York, he started for England to fetch his wife, but he was never afterwards heard from. The boy John, however, lived and grew up, and in due time married a lady of the name of Emery, by whom he had three sons, Joseph, Jonathan, and John ; Joseph remained in New York, John removed to Connecticut, and Jonathan to West Newbury, Mass. From Jonathan is descended the New-Hampshire family, although the record is incomplete.


The unbroken record begins with Jonathan, a descend- ant of the last-named, who lived in Seabrook, where he married a lady of the name of Stanley, and had seven children : Abraham, Jonathan, Hassey, Hepzibah, Isaac, and two daughters, whose names are not preserved. The mother of these children was a Quakeress, and she lived to the great age of one hundred and five years and eight months. The son Isaac, a Quaker, came to Deerfield about 1784, and became the progenitor of the Deerfield family. He married Sarah Langley of Deerfield. They subsequently settled in Pittsfield, and had eight children, six sons and two daughters; afterward removed to Canterbury, where he died. The eldest were twin brothers, named Joseph and Benja- min, born in Deerfield. Joseph moved to Henniker, where he recently died at the age of eighty-nine years, leaving descendants. Benjamin married Betsy Nevins of Cape Ann, Mass., and settled in Deerfield about the year 1812. Nine children were born of this marriage, of whom four died in infancy. Benjamin Hoag died in the year 1828, at the age of forty-three years, having survived his wife, Betsy, six years.


Of the children who survived, Eliza Ann, the eldest


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married Luther Cowen of Nashua, and died July, 1854, at the age of forty-three years, leaving four children, all daughters.


Katharine married John Morrill of Canterbury, and died in Brighton (now Boston), Mass., at the age of fifty-one, leaving three sons and three daughters.


Benjamin, the youngest, died in Brighton, Mass., January, 1845, aged twenty-three years, unmarried.


Isaac, the fourth child, born April, 1819, married Selina Hoag, lives in Manchester, and has no children.


Joseph, the third child, born August, 1816, married Sarah, only child of Timothy and Hannah Batchelder. They settled and still live on the homestead in Deerfield, on the spot where her grandfather, John Batchelder, one of the early settlers in the town, and who in his time did good service in the Revolution, originally established him- self. Joseph Hoag has held various local offices of trust, and, from 1859 to 1861, served the town as selectman, the latter part of the time as chairman of the board. They have had six children, one of whom, a son, died in infancy, and the rest survive : Mary E., the eldest, married Stillman Humphrey of Concord, and has two children, both daughters ; Joseph Henry, born March 20, 1839, married Emily, daughter of Patrick Colby of Boston, Mass., and lives in Lynn ; they have children, a daughter and two sons ; Caroline S., married Abbott Norris of Nottingham, and lives in North Hampton ; they have one daughter and one son. Isaac T., born De- cember 14, 1844, was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1867, and from the Harvard Law School in 1870, and in that year was admitted to the bar in Boston. He subsequently went to Europe, and further pursued his legal studies by attending the law-lectures at the universities of Paris and Berlin. He is now practicing his profession in Boston, as a member of the law firm of Holmes & Hoague. In 1874, he married Caroline E., daughter of the late Otis Daniell of Boston ; they have one child, a son, Theodore,


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born June 22, 1876. Edgar C., the youngest, was born January 25, 1854, and lives in Concord, where he is a clerk in the firm of Humphrey, Dodge, & Co. ; he is unmarried.


The name Hoag, like most other surnames, lias been sub- ject, in course of time, to considerable variation in orthog- raphy. The forms, Hoag, Hoagg, Hoague, Hogue, Hoge, Hogg, occur ; and for any one who has had experience in genealogies or otherwise, of the tendency of names to variety in spelling, it will not be difficult to believe that all these forms had a common origin. The form Hoag is that generally used by the present members of the Deerfield family ; but Isaac T. has adopted the form Hoague, as being more in accordance with what is known of the history of the name.


JAMES FAMILY.


John James was born January 9, 1752, settled at the Pa- rade, where his daugliter, Sally W., now resides, coming from Kensington, and died about 1845, aged about eighty years. His wife was Hannah, daughter of Ezekiel Worth- ington of Kensington, born July 17, 1752, and died Sep- tember 2, 1829. Their children were: (1) Moses, born March 12, 1777 ; (2) Hannah, born October 30, 1778 ; (3) Mary W., born December 27, 1780; (4) Ezekiel W., born January 19, 1783 ; (5) Enoch, born September 1, 1785 ; (6) Mercy, born July 22, 1788; (7) Sally W., born June 4, 1790; (8) Elizabeth L., born October 15, 1792; (9) John, born October 8, 1794, now living in Deerfield. Mo- ses lived and died in Lowell, Mass. His wife was Martha Young of Deerfield. They left children : Josiah Shephard, who resides in Raymond ; Jacob, who lives in Manchester ; Hannah, who nursed the mother of the present Gen. B. F. Butler at his birth, and died on the homestead ; Mary W., who married John Eastman, and died, leaving children, one of whom, Enoch, lives in Eldora, Ia., who has been lieutenant-governor of that state; Ezekiel W., who lived and died on the homestead, marrying Lucy French of New-


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market, leaving nine children, one of whom, Susan, is the wife of Moses Brown, son of Dr. Stephen Brown ; Enoch, who married Eliza Bean of Candia for his first wife, and for his second, Judith Marden of Portsmouth, and is now living in Deerfield, aged eighty-six years; his son Fredcr- ick Plummer, who resides in New York, does not forget the place of his nativity, but cxpends his resources in improv- ing and beautifying the homestead, and in making happy his friends, as well as in bestowing a public benefaction in erecting, at great expeuse, an elegant school-house in the district where his youth was instructed. A few such men in each of our rural towns would soon obliterate evidences of decline, and farms returning to forests would once more become fruitful fields, and the dwellings and barns rcarcd by the fathers, now going to decay, would become models of beauty and taste, as well as promoters of com- fort and aids to wealth.


JAMES FAMILY, - SECOND BRANCH.


Benjamin James came from Kensington, and settled on North Road, at what is called Rand's Corner. He died about 1822, aged about eighty-six years. His wife was a Garland, who died about 1827, aged about eighty-five years. Their children were : -


(1) Huldah, who married John Kenniston, and died in Wilmot, with her daughters, who became wives of gentle- men named White, brothers.


(2) Hannah, who marricd Timothy Batchelder of Deer- field, has one daughter, Sarah, now the wife of Joseph Hoagg, living on the Batchelder homestead.


(3) Jonathan, who was born April 13, 1779, married, March 23, 1802, Hannah, daughter of John Batchelder, born October 31, 1775, and their children were : (1) John B., born July 11, 1803, married Esther Dalton, born April 16, 1805, and died August 4, 1833, leaving one daughter, who married Gilman P. Rand of Deerfield, who has one


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son ; this Esther Dalton was from North Hampton ; Mr. John B. James is deacon in the Baptist Church, and he mar- ried, for his second wife, Sarah Whittier of Deerfield, born in 1812, and died February 17, 1874; and their children are : Myra S., who married William Whittier of Deerfield ; Charles L., who lives on the homestead; and Ella F., who is a graduate of the Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass., and is a teacher in Fall River ; (2) Julia, sister of John B. James, was born April 21, 1805, and married Edmund Rand, Esq., of Deerfield, August 19, 1828 (see sketch) ; (3) Asa James, born May 14, 1807, died January 14, 1830 ; (4) Timothy B., born November 29, 1809, married, for his first wife, Sophia Page, who had two sons, Asa and George H., now living in Deerfield ; his second wife was Dorotha Fogg, who had no children ; his third was a widow San- born ; (5) Jeremiah Garland, born October 3, 1811, mar- ried Elizabeth Ladd of Deerfield, who lives near Thomas Veasey, and they have four children : Julia, who married Andrew Silver, of the firm Silver and Robinson, of Epsom ; Woodbury, who lives in Boston ; Alva, who resides in Mon- treal; and Leroy, who lives on the homestead, with his father ; (6) William Henry Harrison, born August 19, 1815, married Hannah Dalton of Deerfield, where they reside, and have three children, Hannah, the wife of George H. James, Charles H., who lives with his father, and Fred E.


(4) Eunice, fourth child of Benjamin James, the first settler, married Jacob Freese, whose sketch may be con- sulted.


(5) Benjamin, fifth child of Benjamin, lived and died in Wilmot.


JENNESS FAMILY.


Francis Jenness, or, as the name was first spelled, Jen- nings, at the age of thirty-five, came from England to New Hampshire about 1665, and settled on what is now New- castle, then known as Great Island. In 1671, he married Hannah Cox of Hampton, and henceforward resided in


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