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who was born in England 1561, took Episcopal orders, but was ejected for non-conformity, and retired with others to Holland, and then to America ; arrived in Boston, June 5, 1632, bringing with him his three grandsons, John, Stephen, and William, and went directly to Lynn, Mass., where he preached a few years, till 1638 ; settled in Hamp- ton where he was installed first pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in that place. Here John and William set- tled, and died at a good old age; from these two brothers sprang all of the Sanborns in this country. About 1650 Rev. Stephen Bachilor and his grandson, Steplien Sanborn, returned to England.
John Sanborn, born 1620, married, first, Mary Tuck ; second, Margaret Moulton ; children : John, jr., and fifteen . more.
John, jr., born 1649, married Judith Coffin ; children : Tristram, and nine more sons and daughters.
Tristram, born 1690, married Margaret Taylor; children : Peter, and eight other sons and daughters.
Peter, born 1713, married Mary Sanborn ; children : Peter, and ten other sons and daughters.
Peter, born 1748, married Annah Scribner ; moved from Kingston with his brothers, Enos and Benjamin, to Deer- field about 1775 ; all settled and died in Deerfield ; chil- dren : (1) Peter, married Sally Lyford ; (2) Deborah, mar- ried Thomas Jenness ; (3) John, married Susan Sanborn ; (4) Benning Wentworth, married Polly Jenness.
Benning Wentworth, born 1786, was selectman and rep- resentative in 1827, 1832, and 1833, and was one of the best farmers in town ; lived on the old farm on which Peter, his father, settled, the best farm in town to-day ; had six children.
Peter, born 1808, married, first, Susan H. Veasey of Deerfield; second, Sally L. Dow of Epping ; third, Abigail M. Toppan of Hampton. He went through all grades of the militia to colonel; represented Deerfield in the legis-
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lature ; was clerk of the Senate in 1838-40; represented Deerfield in the legislature in 1841 and 1842; moved to Concord 1853; elected representative from ward six, 1855 and 1856 ; elected state treasurer from 1857 to 1871, about fifteen years, and during the war; children : (1) Thomas Wentworth, born January, 1835, married Abby A. Noyes of Pembroke; with Hammond and Ayres, Concord; (2) Lawrence Dow, born January, 1843, married Belle Chat- man of Newmarket; freight conductor on the Sugar River Railroad ; lives in Concord ; no children living ; (3) Susan Josephine, born January, 1845, married Henry J. Crippen, cashier of National State Capital Bank, and lives in Con- cord ; (4) Mary Janc, born October, 1850; (5) Peter, jr., born May, 1853, is in the bookstore with his uncle Josiah B. Sanborn, in Concord.
The children of Thomas W. were: (1) Josiah Butler, born October 23, 1860, died April 1, 1861; (2) Thomas Edwin, born October, 1862.
The children of Susan J. and Henry J. Crippen are : (1) Lida Josephine, born April, 1870; (2) Mary Alice, born September, 1873.
Col. Peter Sanborn went from the old farm, when he was fifteen years old, into a store at Deerfield Parade, and after- wards into trade at Deerfield; moved to Concord in 1853, and went into trade there until he was elected state treas_ urer ; since leaving that office he has interested himself in farming in the summer-time at Hampton Village.
Benning Wentworth, jr., was never married; fitted for college at Exeter ; went into trade at Deerfield ; finally moved to Concord in 1843 and opened a bookstore, and published the " Congregational Journal " as long as it was published ; also the Law Reports of New Hampshire ; died 1874, aged sixty years, leaving a large estate.
Richard Jenness, who married Abby Stearns, now owns and lives on the old homestead on the South Road ; has been representative and selectman several times ; also was
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brigadier-general in the militia. Richard J. has a son about twenty-five years old, living at home on the old farm with his father in South Deerfield, whose name is Joseph Woodbury, of the seventh generation.
Mary Jane married Joseph H. Haines, and they live in Manchester.
Joseph Woodbury, merchant ; he was general's aid in the militia ; moved to Lowell, Mass., in 1840; died at the age of twenty-four, in the year 1842 ; never married.
Josiah Butler, after keeping school a few years, moved to Concord in 1833, and went into business with his brother, Benning W., in the book and publishing business ; is pub- lisher of the New-Hampshire Reports, Town Officer, New- Hampshire Statutes, with all blanks for town business; was aid to Gov. Berry in 1862, and is owner of Sanborn Block, corner of state-house yard, where he keeps his publishing- house and bookstore.
SAWYER FAMILY.
Josiah Sawyer was one of the original proprietors of Not- tingham, and settled where Daniel Jones now lives, near the line between Deerfield and Nottingham ; he married a sister of Jeremiah Eastman, who surveyed the town of Deerfield, and whom the people so generally trusted as. a man of sound judgment and great integrity.
The children of Josiah Sawyer were : -
(1) Josiah, who removed to Gilford.
(2) Jeremiah, who married a Miss Purinton of Brent- wood ; removed to Gilmanton, where he died ; his children were : John ; Jeremiah, who served in the war of the Rev- olution ; James ; David; Nancy ; Miriam ; and Lydia, who married a Jones of Epping.
(3) David, born April 14, 1766, settled in Deerfield; subsequently removed to Lee, where he died August 21, 1845, aged eighty; his first wife was Hannah Palmer, whose children are David, Josiah, John, Hannah who mar-
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ried John Porter, and Luella, who married a Mr. Conklin of Exeter.
David married Deborah Knowles of Northwood, whose children were Gilman, Emeline, and Perry.
Josiah, second son of David Sawyer and Hannah Palmer, married Joanna Sanborn of Kingston, whose children were Angeline, Almira who married Edward Bartlett of Lee, and Frank, also living in Lee.
John, another son of David and Hannah, was born March 16, 1801, married Clarissa Chesley, daughter of Thomas Chesley of Durham, April 19, 1826; settled near the base of Saddleback, where B. D. Smith resides; their children are : (1) Hannah S., born April 4, 1827, married Francis G. Bean, June 25, 1846 ; living in Manchester, having one child, Emma F., born October 23, 1848; (2) Ezra A. J. Sawyer, born November 3, 1828, married, May 24, 1853, Sarah Collins, daughter of Joseplı Bean and Lydia H. Col- lins, who was the daughter of the late Col. Samuel Collins ; lives at the Parade ; represented Deerfield in 1865 and 1866; has been deputy-sheriff nineteen years ; having, for children : Fred B., born April 16, 1854; John F., born March 2, 1856; both living in Dubuque, Ia .; and one daughter, Mabel J., born April 11, 1861.
David Sawyer, son of Josiah, married, for his second wife, Mary, sister of Deacon Levi Knowles of Northwood, and her child is Jefferson, living near Wadley's Falls, Lee, marrying Jane Knowles, daughter of Jonathan Knowles of Northwood ; their children being Francena J., Arabelle, Hattie Beecher, and Charles ; this Francena J. married John P. Eaton, and lives in Nebraska. This David, son of Josiah Sawyer, married, for his third wife, Susan Chesley, widow of Thomas Chesley of Durhamn ; all now dead.
(4) John, the fourth son of Josiah Sawyer, lived in An- dover, where he died, leaving children.
(5) Israel, the fifth son of Josiah, married and lived on the liomestead, having, for children, Coffin, Ebenezer, Phebe, Tristram, and John.
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SIMPSON FAMILY.
(1) Andrew Simpson, born in Scotland about 1697, mar- ried Elizabeth Patten in Scotland, came to Boston in 1725 ; he was a linen-weaver, and wove in Boston a few years ; subsequently he moved to Nottingham, and bought a farm lately owned by John Simpson; the house stands south of Col. Joseph Cilley's residence, and where his wife, Eliza- beth (Patten) Simpson, was murdered by two Indians, Sep- tember, 1742. The garrison or block-house was on the Square, west of Hon. James H. Butler's residence. Great alarm had been given by the presence of hostile Indians, and the women and children were gathered here for safety. Mrs. Simpson went to her house to attend to some domestic. labor, and there met her terrible fate. Mr. Simpson subse- quently married the Widow Brown, whose maiden name was York.
The children of Andrew Simpson and Elizabeth Patten were : -
(1) Thomas, born in Scotland about 1720, came to Bos- ton with his parents ; attended school a few years, and laid the foundation for a better education in after years. He was a land-surveyor, and settled at Deerfield, Old Center, on the farm now owned by John W. Silver. He was se- lected, with his younger brother, Andrew, by Nottingham and Deerfield, to establish the line between the two towns after Deerfield was set off from Nottingham, January 8, 1766 ; he was chosen first parisli-clerk of Deerfield, and re- tained the office till 1773, when he moved to Newbury, Vt., near Haverhill, N. H. ; he married Sarah Morrison, Febru- ary 4, 1747 ; she died March 24, 1753 ; he married again, Mary Cochran, whose maiden name was McClathlan, widow of David Cochran of Londonderry, March 5, 1754; she married, first, Mr. Adams, and they had a daughter, Ra- chel, who married Samuel Gove, who lived at Nottingham ; and they had a daughter who married Barnard Goodrich ; afterwards this Mary McClathlan married David Cochran,
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and they had a daughter, Mary, who married Ephraim Cram of Deerfield, and they had three daughters at one birth, who grew up to womanhood : Isabel married William Lane of Deerfield, who settled in Meredith ; another married Ste- phen Batchelder of Deerfield ; and the other married Mr .. Kenney. Thomas Simpson, Esq., moved to Newbury, Vt., and lived with his daughter Susan, where he died ; his wife, Mary, survived him some twenty years.
(2) Robert, born about 1726 ; he was in the French and Indian war, and had a commission awaiting his return ; he persisted in loading his musket and firing at the Indians from behind a stump after having an arm broken by a shot from one of them ; he died a young man.
(3) Josiah, born about 1729, was killed in the French: and Indian war, with a scout of one hundred and sixty men, known as rangers, - they were out eighteen days near Lake Champlain, - of whom but few ever returned ; he died a young man.
(4) Andrew. born about 1731, married, about 1759, Ag- nes Ayers of Londonderry ; he resided on the home place where he died September 11, 1799; wife died May 14, 1807.
(5) Maj. Patten, born about 1737, married, 1763, first, Jane McClure of Chester, a sister of David McClure who married Elizabeth Simpson, a daughter of Thomas Simp- son, his oldest brother ; Jane died, and lie married, July 17, 1802, Widow Lydia Graves, born 1746; her maiden name was Williams of Pembroke; she died March 25, 1829, aged eighty-three years ; he signed the Association Test in Deerfield, June, 1776, and died 1807, aged seventy years.
The children of Andrew Simpson and Widow Brown were : -
(6) William, born about 1746, married Eunice -; he bought fifty acres of land of his brother Thomas, and built on it ; subsequently, he sold to Jacob True ; he was styled " Old Sheriff Simpson ; " he moved back to Nottingham and died, aged ninety four years.
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(7) Abigail, born 1750, married Jacob Osborn, a Quaker, from Salem, Mass. ; a potter by trade, who moved to Lou- don, N. H., where their descendants now reside.
The children of Thomas Simpson, Esq., and Sarah Mor- rison were : -
(1) Maj. John, born December 1, 1748, married Mary Whidden of Greenland, 1785, and died October 10, 1810. When the news of the battle of Lexington reached Deerfield, Maj. John Simpson, then a private, shouldered his gun, went to the Parade and enlisted in Capt. Daniel Moore's company, and, with Maj. Andrew McClary of Epsom, and Capt. Henry Dearborn of Nottingham, and others, marched to Bunker Hill and was in that battle; he fired the first gun in the battle of Bunker Hill ; in the summer of 1778 he was promoted to first-lieutenant in Capt. Simon Mars- ton's company, Col. Stephen Peabody's regiment, and Wil- liam Whipple's brigade ; subsequently he was promoted to major ; he signed the Association Test in Deerfield, and died October 28, 1825, aged seventy-six years, ten months, and twenty-seven days.
(2) Elizabeth, born April 28, 1750, married Daniel McClure, a brother to Maj. Patten Simpson's first wife ; they removed to the State of Maine.
(3) Sarah, born September 14, 1751 ; she died unmarried. The children of Thomas Simpson, Esq., and Mary Coch- ran were : -
(4) Lieut. Thomas, born May 7, 1755, married Betsey Kelly ; he was lieutenant in Capt. Richard Weare's com- pany, Col. Alexander Scammel's regiment, for 1777-79; was severely wounded in battle at Saratoga; he resided at Haverhill, N. H., in 1777 ; subsequently, at New Hampton ; they had a son, Henry Y., who was appointed one of the county justices for Strafford County, January 4, 1833.
(5) Joanna, born December 2, 1756, married, September 26, 1793, Moses Sanborn of Raymond.
(6) Isabel, born December 31, 1758, married Mr. Jolin- son, and resided at Newbury, Vt.
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(7) Esther, born 1760, twin to Anna, died young.
(8) Anna, born 1760, married Tristram Cram, August 21, 1780 ; he was a tailor, and resided at Deerfield, on the place where the late Capt. Stephen Chase lived ; her father gave her the seven aeres of land in front of the house ; they had a large family ; one daughter, Anna, married Benjamin Eastman, and lived near Pleasant Pond, where Walter Scott now resides, and where she died August 16, 1865, aged seventy-seven years ; born 1788 ; Tristram Cram sub- sequently moved to Jackson, Me.
(9) Susan, born 1762, married John Sanborn, and lived in Newbury, Vt.
(10) Robert, born February, 1764, was paid twelve hun- dred pounds for serving six months, by Deerfield in 1780, at the age of sixteen years ; after the war he married and went West; it is believed that he was the father of John Simpson, who was the father of Hannah Simpson who married Jesse R. Grant, who was the father of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant.
This Hannah Simpson, the mother of Gen. Grant, was the second daughter of Mr. John Simpson of Montgomery County, Penn. ; she was born about twenty miles from Phila- delphia. When about eightcen years old she removed with her father to Clermont County, O., in 1818. She was born about 1800. In 1821 she married Jesse R. Grant, and April 27, 1822, their first child was born, Ulysses S. Grant, in a small, one-story cottage still standing on the banks of the Ohio River, commanding a view of the river and the Ken- tucky shore. Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson's chil- dren were: (1) Ulysses S. Grant, born April 27, 1822; (2) Orville Grant; (3) Simpson Grant, died at Galena, Ill. ; (4) a daughter, married Mr. Corbin, and resides at Elizabeth, Union County, N. J.
(11) Cummings, born February 5, 1766, died aged thirty- five years.
(12) Ebenezer, born July 1, 1770, never married ; went West with his brother Robert.
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The children of Andrew Simpson and Agnes Ayers were : --
(1) William, born 1760; (2) Josiah, born 1762, mar- ried Miss Kitteridge ; settled in State of Maine and had a large family; in the summer of 1817 he and his family moved to Rutland, Callia County, O .; (3) Robert, born 1764, married Miss Longfellow ; settled in Maine; in the summer of 1817, he, with his brother Josiah, moved to Rut- land, O., where his descendants reside; (4) John, born August 11, 1769, married Abigail Gile, August 25, 1791 ; resided on the home place, where he died September 13, 1832, leaving a large family in Nottingham; his wife died August 11, 1861; (5) Nancy, born 1771; (6) Andrew, born 1772, was a sea captain ; lived in Durham ; (7) Jo- seph, born 1773 ; (8) Betsey, born 1775.
The children of Maj. Patten Simpson and Jane McClure were : -
(1) Mary, born December 22, 1766, married Mr. San- born, and settled in Mount Vernon, Me .; (2) Sarah, born July 22, 1769 ; lived on the home place, and died unmar- ried ; (3) Betsey, born 1771, married Nathaniel Philbrick ; settled in Mount Vernon, Me. ; (4) Anna, born 1773, mar- ried, February 18, 1794, Capt. John Robinson of Mount Vernon, Me. ; (5) Martha, born 1775, married Jeremiah Holman of Raymond ; (6) Ensign John, born November 5, 1776, married, January 5, 1806, Mary Graves, born March 29, 1790, and died March 26, 1865, aged seventy-five years ; he lived on the home place at Deerfield, Old Center, where he died aged sixty years ; (7) Jane, born 1778, married Benjamin Griffin of Deerfield, where he died, leaving a fam- ily ; one daughter married Nathaniel Batchelder, a brother of Deacon Thomas J. Batchelder ; (8) Isabel, born 1780, lived on the home place, where she died.
The children of William Simpson and Eunice were : -
(1) William, born October 19, 1771; (2) Sarah, born
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December 5, 1773 ; (3) Abigail Washington, born Decem- ber 4, 1775, married Job Griffin.
The children of Major John Simpson and Mary Whidden were : -
(1) Joseph L., born February 8, 1787, died February 28, 1808, aged twenty-one years ; he was found dead in the road at the foot of the hill between Alden B. Chase's house and Capt Nathan Chase's common, in Deerfield, on his way home from school ; (2) Rev. Thomas, born August 2, 1788, married, November, 1809, Elizabeth Lamprey ; she was born February 22, 1790, and died January 5, 1858, aged sixty- eight ; he first learned the carpenter's trade ; while at work on the state-house at Concord in 1816, he fell, and became crippled for life ; he afterwards became a Congregational minister, and labored at the West, where he died, December 1, 1872, aged eighty-four ; (3) John, born March 2, 1790 ; resided on the home place, where he died February 8, 1868, aged seventy-seven ; (4) Samuel, born January 29, 1792, married, May 26, 1814, Mary Pearsons ; she died, and he mar- ried Hannah Pearsons, sister of his first wife ; after some years he went to Kansas, where he died January 13, 1872, aged about eighty years ; (5) Polly, born June 5, 1794, died on home place November 11, 1832, aged thirty-eight ; (6) Hannah W., born April 29, 1797 ; lived on the home place with her brother John, where she died July 18, 1872, aged seventy-five.
The children of John Simpson and Abigail Gile were : -
(1) Nancy, born February 26, 1792; lived on home place in Nottingham, where she died, October 1, 1876, aged eighty-four; (2) Joseph, born February 20, 1794, married Philena Standly, April 4, 1823, and lives in Ohio ; (3) Betsey, born April 1, 1796, married, January 29, 1821, Thomas Parsons of Gilmanton ; (4) Polly, born February 18, 1798, married, March 16, 1836, Nathaniel Rundlet of Lee ; he was born 1790, and resided at Lee ; died November 15, 1868, aged seventy-eight years ; she
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is still living at Nottingham Square (1878) ; (5) Sally, born December 9, 1801, died young ; (6) John, jr., born September 30, 1803, married, February 28, 1832, Comfort Stevens of Concord ; she was born September 4, 1814. He resided a while in Massachusetts ; then on the home place in Nottingham, where his grandfather, Andrew, and where his great-grandfather, Andrew, and Elizabeth (Patten) lived, and where she was murdered by the Indians. He died October 16, 1874, aged seventy-one years; (7) Sarah, born November 23, 1806, married Peter Lane of Chester ; (8) Rev. Andrew, born January 7, 1809, married, first, Sa- rah E. Harvey, granddaughter of the late Hon. John Har- vey of Northwood ; she dying, he married, 1854, Almyra Gage of Concord ; he died near Boston, Mass., January 19, 1877, aged sixty-eight years ; (9) William A., born Febru- ary 27, 1812, married Mary Camp of Sandusky, O., where they now reside ; (10) Samuel A., born June 27, 1814, married Jane Sleeper of Bristol, and they reside at Epping.
The children of Ensign John Simpson and Polly Graves were : -
(1) George Washington, born March 13, 1806 ; he was a school-teacher for a number of ycars in various towns in New Hampshire and Maine; was superintendent of schools in his native town, justice of the peace, held various other offices of trust, and was one of the selectmen at the time of his death ; he was a man highly esteemed and died March 4, 1865, aged fifty-nine; (2) Andrew, born March 30, 1808, married Dorothy Hidden, born July 7, 1824 ; he, like his brother, was a school-teacher and a justice of the peace ; they always lived on the homestead together, in the utmost harmony ; he died December 1, 1865, aged fifty- seven ; (3) Joseph G., born October 14, 1812; learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and died of consumption, September 6, 1831, aged eighteen ; (4) Gilman, born April 17, 1814, died January 31, 1816 ; (5) John G., born June 16, 1816, married, September 12, 1848, Salome Nichols, born April 16,
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1821 ; he was a merchant in Oswego, N. Y. ; subsequently at Manchester, where he died July 23, 1861, aged forty- five ; his widow married Deacon Nathan Griffin of Deer- field ; (6) Mary, born March 7, 1820, married William M. Conant ; they reside in Ipswich, Mass.
The children of Rev. Thomas Simpson and Elizabeth Lamprey were : -
(1) Mary L., born December 20, 1810, married James Ad- ams, and died September 19, 1861; (2) Sarah Ann, born July 18, 1812, married Edmund Bowker ; (3) Joseph L., born February 13, 1815, married, first, Lavina Heard, sec- ond, Mary R. MeIntire, third, Widow Hannah Randell, who was a Jenkins; they removed to Minnesota, where they died ; (4) Jerusha W. G., born December 23, 1827, mar- ried William Chalmard.
The child of Samuel Simpson and Polly Pearsons was : - (1) Elizabeth, born 1816, married Col. Phinehas Adams, agent of the Stark Mills at Manchester, where they now reside. The children of Samuel Simpson and Hannah Pearsons were : (2) Timothy Gilman, born 1824, is a phy- sician, and resides in Vermont ; (3) Newel, born 1826, re- sides in Kansas; (4) Henry, born about 1830, resides in Kansas.
The children of John Simpson and Comfort Stevens were : -
(1) William J., born August 6, 1833, died young ; (2) Samuel A., born May 7, 1835 ; he enlisted in Company B, Eleventh New-Hampshire Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; died at Milldale, Miss., July 5, 1863, aged twenty-eight years ; (3) Sarah A., born May 4, 1837, married, June 11, 1866, John L. Bartlett, born May 31, 1832 ; he is a son of Gen. Bradbury, and grandson of Gen. Thomas Bartlett of Not- tingham ; he enlisted in Company E, First Regiment of United-States sharp-shooters, from Concord, September 9, 1861 ; he was wounded at Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862 ; pro- moted to corporal October, 1862; mustered out Septem-
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ber 8, 1864; resides at Nottingham Square, a farmer, hav- ing two children ; (4) Susan M., born January 29, 1840, resides on home place ; (5) William J., born June 4, 1843, died young ; (6) Mary G., born May 11, 1847, married Warren Glidden of Pembroke ; (7) William A., born Au- gust 22, 1851, resides on home place ; (8) Betsey P., born November 10, 1855, died young.
The children of Andrew Simpson and Dorothy Hidden were : -
(1) Sarah E., born July 5, 1846, died October 31, 1865, aged nineteen years ; (2) Clara A., born July 7, 1849, died January 5, 1869, aged . nineteen years ; (3) George H., born September 7, 1855, resides on the old homestead at Deerfield, Old Center, with his mother.
The children of Josepli L. Simpson and Hannah Randell were : -
(1) Thomas E., born February 10, 1856, resident at South Deerfield, is a farmer ; (2) Fred L., born May 8, 1858, re- sides in Deerfield.
SMITH FAMILY.
The Smith family is long and wide, and it would not be advisable to give much of it here, but just a sketch of the branch that came and settled in Deerfield, and whose de- scendants are Hilliard J., Merick, and Stevens Smith.
Benjamin Smith was one of the early settlers of that part of Exeter now called Epping, born about 1685, married Polly Stevens; their children were: (1) Stevens, born 1717; (2) Eunice, born 1720; (3) Polly, born 1723; (4) Benjamin, born 1726, married Affie Cass, about 1750, who died in Epping in 1780.
Polly, daughter of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1752, married Nathaniel, son of Paul and Martha Folsom Ladd; their children were : (1) Lois, born June, 1786, married James Harvey, and still resides on the old Ladd farm on Red-oak Hill, Epping, aged ninety-one ; their chil-
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dren were Nathaniel, Matthew, and Dudley L .; (2) Sam- uel, born 1790 ; (3) Polly.
Jeremy, son of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1754, married Judith Towle. Their children were James, and Harriet who married a Mr. Ballou, and lived in Deer- field.
Jacob, son of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1756, marricd Elizabeth Blake, and moved to Raymond, where Wilson S. Abbott now resides ; died August 10, 1843, aged eighty-seven years ; Elizabeth, his wife, died February 5, 1833, aged seventy-nine ; their children were : (1) Dolly, who married Daniel Brown ; her children were : Sarah, who married Mr. Taylor ; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Lang of Candia ; Alfred ; Arvilla, who married Mr. Pills- bury ; Dolly, who married Josiah Cram of Deerfield, son of Jonathan Cram; Stewart ; Jane, who married Thomas Hobbs of Deerfield ; and Luccba; (2) Stevens, born 1782, married Mehitable Towle of Raymond ; he died January 6, 1848, aged sixty-six ; his wife is still living with her daugh- ter in Excter, aged ninety-seven ; their children were Oli -; ver, Joel, Eliza, William, Jacob, Irene, Dorothy, and Ste- vens ; (3) Polly, born in 1784, married Mr. Beane ; (4) Affie, born 1787, married David Abbott, died March 19, 1858, aged seventy-one years ; her son, Wilson S. Abbott, still resides in Raymond ; (5) Sally, born 1792, married John Palmer of Exeter, in 1812, dicd July 25, 1829, aged thirty-seven years ; he died July 3, 1870 ; their children were : Frederick ; Dorothy S. ; Affie ; Mary A., married Jo- siah B. Cram of Raymond, died November 30, 1852; Na- thaniel G. ; Elizabethi B., married Josiah Cram, October 11, 1853 ; Dorothy and Affie died in 1830; (6) Nancy, born September 13, 1795, died November 8, 1830, aged thirty-five.
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