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Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1758, married Shuah Haines, and moved to Meredith, where his descendants now live.
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Betsey, daughter of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1759, married Richard Elkins of Grafton ; their chil- dren were: (1) Susan; (2) Affie ; (3) Richard, a physi- cian.
Stevens, son of Benjamin and Affie Cass Smith, born 1760, married Martha, daughter of Paul and Martha Fol- som Ladd Smith, and granddaughter of Jolin Folsom, who was killed by the Indians, in Nottingham, with Mrs. Simp- son, in 1742; she was born November 5, 1757; died at Deerfield, December 21, 1846, aged eighty-nine. Stevens Smith died very suddenly, in Epping, in October, 1801. The above Stevens Smith was deputy-sheriff, and captain in the Revolutionary war, and one of the selectmen in Ep- ping. His widow, with her family, moved to Deerfield, where some of her descendants now reside. Their chil- dren were : -
Capt. Benjamin, born August 7, 1783, married Lydia, daughter of Dudley and Lydia Haines Ladd, in 1804. Capt. Benjamin Smith died April 25, 1860, aged seventy- six. Lydia, his wife, died February 21, 1850, aged sixty- five. Their children were : (1) Dudley, born November 12, 1804, died November 12, 1820; (2) Stevens, born De- cember, 1806, died March 27, 1863, aged fifty-six years ; married Mary Robinson, daughter of Josiah and Polly Mer- rill Robinson, December 2, 1840; she was born February 22, 1811 ; their children were : (1) Dyer S., born March 18, 1849; (2) a daughter, born July 4, 1851; Dyer S. married Anna J., daughter of Lewis A. and Sarah A. Lang Ladd, who was born May 6, 1854; their children were : (1) Edward Grey Smith, born April 1, 1875; (2) Mercy Velma, born February 7, 1878 : (3) Mercy L., daughter of Benjamin and Lydia L. Smith, born December 22, 1810, married Andrew Bickford, December 7, 1837, and moved to Concord ; died January 8, 1851, aged forty-one ; Andrew Bickford died May 27, 1863 ; their children were : (1) An- drew, born 1838, died same year ; (2) Benjamin T., born
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July 20, 1839, married Annie Dwinnels, 1860; their chil- dren were Myra, died young, Minnie E., Amie, and Charles A. ; (3) Andrew, born December 8, 1842, dicd January 21, 1860, aged eighteen years ; (4) Lydia K., born January 8, 1845, married John J. Palmer of Deerfield, 1868; their children were Annie J., John A. and Mamie A., twins ; (5) Levi B., born June 16, 1848, married Georgie Wood of Georgetown, Mass. ; their child was Georgie, born March, 1876, and died September, 1876; (4) Lydia L., daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Ladd Smith, born July 9, 1814, married Charles Smith, October 3, 1842, and still resides on the old place on the Ridge Road, so called; (5) Benja- min D., born July 3, 1818, married, first, Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Lane Merrill, December 18, 1843, who dicd July 6, 1844, aged twenty-six, by whom he had one child, Keziah, who died young ; married, second, Sarah Mathews, November 6, 1845 ; their children were (1) Eu- gene, (2) Charles M., (3) George P., (4) Sarah N., (5) Melissa, (6) Josiah ; she died in August, 1869; he mar- ried, third, Elisabeth A. Bickford ; (6) Mary J., daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Ladd Smith, born September 23, 1822, died young ; (7) John F. M., born April 20, 1824, moved to Union, O., where he married Eliza Moody, and where he still lives.
Eunice, daughter of Stevens and Martha Ladd Smith, born July 6, 1785, married John Smith of Dcerfield in 1804, who was born July 29, 1781, died October 29, 1834. Eunice, his wife, died September 24, 1848. Their children were : (1) Eunice M., born March 24, 1806, died 1823, aged seventeen ; (2) J. Merrick, born June 4, 1808, married Fannie M. Gustinc of Winchester, died in Boston, Mass., December 23, 1870; (3) Greenleaf M., born May 29, 1813; (4) Salvama, born November 29, 1816, and married Robert M. Chase, December 31, 1840 ; he died January 19, 1875 ; their only son, Alvah B., born March 13, 1847, married Sa- ralı F. Cross, June 14, 1870 ; their children were Edith M.,
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born July 21, 1872, and Mabel S., born June 27, 1875 ; (5). E. Philena, daughter of John and Eunice, born February 4, 1827, married Thomas Hubbard of Piqua, O.
Josiah L., son of Stevens and Martha Ladd Smith, born 1787, married Susan Tucker of North Andover, Mass. Their children were : Charles and Hilliard, twins, born No- vember 4, 1809; Charles married Lydia Smith, October 3, 1842; Hilliard married Arvill V. Locke, November 16, 1839, born April 29, 1817; their children were: Caroline O., born May 15, 1844, married Hobart Stevens, May 8, 1861, died September 23, 1873; George A., born October 15, 1846, married Addie Brown, September 28, 1873 ; Em- ma F., born December 28, 1847, married William Bennett, November 14, 1864 ; Charles H., born November 7, 1850, married Etta Brown, November 27, 1875 ; Frank V., born January 21, 1855, died November 6, 1858; Ira A., born July 24, 1856. Martha M., daughter of Josiah and Susan Tucker Smith, born November 19, 1820, married Edward Hawley of Baltimore, Md .; he died in 1853, leaving one son, Edward L., who married, in August, 1877, Almie Stebbens, and is living in Brattleboro, Vt .; Martha M. mar- ried, second, James M. Culver of Royalton, Vt. ; they have one son, Charles M., born 1860; (4) Edward L., son of Josiah L. and Susan T. Smith, born 1822, died in 1840, aged eighteen years ; (5) Jane J., born 1827, married Charles W. Smith, 1854, and moved to Fond du Lac, Wis. ; their children were Fred, born 1859, and James E., born 1861; (6) William J., son of Josiah and Susan, married and went to Fond du Lac, where he still lives. Susan, wife of Josiah L. Smith, died in Royalton, Vt., in 1857; he then went to Wisconsin, where he still lives, aged ninety.
Greenleaf, son of Stevens and Martha Ladd Smith, died in youth.
Jonathan, born 1792, died in youth.
Stevens, son of Stevens and Martha Ladd Smith, born July 19, 1796, married, first, Nancy Staples, second, Sophia
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Chadbourne, December 30, 1831; she was born November 11, 1807 ; he died September 14, 1876 ; she died October, 1859. Their children were : (1) Frederick, born October 10, 1832, died April, 1861, aged twenty-nine ; (2) Emeline, born June 3, 1835, married Mr. Hobbs, May 13, 1858 ; (3) Nancy S., born June 12, 1838, married January 1, 1866; (4) Charles L., born April 10, 1839, died September, 1841; (5) Martha L., born March 10, 1841, died October, 1860, aged nineteen years ; (6) Francis M., born November 6, 1842, died December, 1842; (7) Herrick, born June 30, 1844, married December 30, 1871; (8) Charles, born Au- gust 29, 1845, married January 1, 1873 ; (9) Alfred S., born December 10, 1847 ; (10) Ella M., born August 10, 1850, married Mr. Marble, August 25, 1870. The above Stevens Smith moved to Waterford, Me., in early life, and died in Paris, Me.
Susanna, daughter of Stevens and Martha L. Smith, born February 26, 1799, married Aaron Rawlins, who was born May 22, 1799, and moved to Union, O., where they still live.
SMITH FAMILY.
William Smith came to Deerfield from Salisbury, Mass., in 1774; he liad three children ; the eldest, a daughter, married Jonathan Philbrick of this town, where some of her descendants still live, bearing the name of Haynes, French, and Chase ; his only son, William True Smith, was born in Salisbury in 1772 ; the youngest child, a daughter, was born in Deerfield, married a Mr. Hoyt, and moved away quite early. Mr. William True Smith, married, about the year 1800, Martha Ambrose of Pembroke ; they had eleven children : (1) Jonathan, a physician, living in Alna, Me .; (2) Ann T., who married Col. Samuel Thompson of Wilmot ; (3) Phebe A., who married William Thompson of Deerfield ; (4) William, who resides in Deerfield ; (5) Timothy N., who died some years since ; (6) Martha A., married Henry M. Elliott of Fisherville ; (7) David A.,
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who resided on the homestead until his death in 1856; (8) Elizabeth J., who graduated at Ontario Female Semi- nary ; taught for many years at the Packer Collegiate In- stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y., with which she is still connected ; (9) H. Hildrith, who is a teacher in Tennessee; (10) Abbie B., who married William Spangler of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; (11) Jolin Q. A., who resides in Boston.
Mr. William Thompson and Phebe A. Smith, his wife, were members of the Congregational Church from early life ; and he was one of the pioneers of the anti-slavery cause in Deerfield, voting, with one other man in town, for Bir- ney for president in 1840. William Smith, the grandfather of Mrs. Phebe A. Thompson, served as lieutenant during the Revolutionary war; was on the governor's staff, also a colonel in the state militia. Once during his absence in the Revolutionary service, his little children were playing not far from the house, and on their return were greatly alarmed at seeing a number of muskets leaning against the side of the house. They hid themselves in the bushes in the garden, thinking the Indians had come to murder and to burn ; and there they watched for the flames from the house until their mother, by chance seeing them, assured them the muskets belonged to men who had come from the northern part of the state to join their father's com- pany, and that she was keeping them till refreshments could be prepared for them. His son, William True Smith, was for sixty-three years a member of the Congregational Church, and for the greater part of that time served as a deacon ; he died in 1859.
STEARNS FAMILY.
John Stearns was the son of Rev. Josiah Stearns of Ep- ping, who was settled there March 8, 1758, and his pas- torate and his life terminated July 25, 1788 ; he was born at Billerica, Mass. ; graduated at Harvard in 1751; was a descendant from Isaac Stearns, who came from England
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with Gov. Wentworth in 1630; this John Stearns, son of Rev. Josiah Stearns, was born January 16, 1762, married Sarah Lane of Poplin, in 1783, and came to Deerfield, March, 1802, and settled on North Road, south shore of Pleasant Pond ; he died January 23, 1843, aged eighty- one ; his wife died April 25, 1845, nearly eighty years old ; their children were : --
(1) Sally, born May 21, 1784, died young.
(2) Betsey, born June 29, 1786, married John, a son of Dr. Edmund Chadwick, and died at Middletown, leaving five children : Nathaniel G. ; John S., who lives in Bangor, Me .; Edmund G., living in New York; Peter, living in Holden, Me .; Abigail, who married Reuben Hayes of Mad- bury ; (3) Josiah, born March 10, 1788, married Jane Thompson ; was a farmer and lived in Wilmot, where he dicd ; leaving, for children : Abigail, who married a Mr. Hurd, and lives in Candia ; Hannah, who married a Sanborn of New London, and is now living in Andover ; William, liv- ing in Manchester ; John, who died young ; Samuel, living in Lawrence, Mass. ; James, living in Wilmot ; Lydia Jane, who married a Peaslce, and lives in Plaistow; having chil- dren : Susan, who married Seth Goodhue, and lives in Wil- mot, having children : Josiah Lane, who lives at the West ; Minot, who married and lives on the homestead in Wilmot ; Tyrus, who died in the army during the late Rebellion.
(4) Ruth, daughter of John, became the wife of Judge Dudley Freese ; she was born November 6, 1789 (see sketch of Freese family).
(5) John, born October 23, 1791, died young ; (6) John, 2d, born October 28, 1793, married Margaret Wallace of Deerfield, and lived near Pleasant Pond on the North Road ; he dicd leaving children : Samuel, who became a Freewill Baptist clergyman, whose wife was Elizabeth Latham of Lowell; Sarah and Abigail died young ; Mary, who married William Yeaton of Epsom, and lives in Eu- field, having children.
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Susan, daughter of John Stearns, jr., married Alonzo A. Cox of Enfield, where they reside, having children.
Sarah A., married David Philbrick of Pittsfield, and has children ; Margaret A., married James Hoitt of Northwood, and has children; John G., married Susan, daughter of Rufus Swain of Northwood; his second wiie was Lucy Hoitt ; has one child.
(7) Samuel, son of John Stearns, the first settler, born April 10, 1795, married Mary French of Deerfield ; lived on the homestead near Pleasant Pond, and died January 1, 1861; his wife died February 5, 1869, leaving, for chil- dren : Richard Jenness. who married and lives in Wilmot, having children ; Bryant, who married Caroline Thompson of Wilmot, and resides in Concord ; Sarah E., who mar- ried David Smith of Deerfield, and died, leaving one son, David A. ; Abigail J., who married Richard Jenness San- born of Deerfield, and has one son, Woodbury ; Horace Butler, who married a Widow Buzzell of Wilmot, and lives in Deerfield, having one daughter, Mabel ; Mary A., who married Luther Tasker of Northwood, and died without children ; Clinton, who died young; John, who married Clara Rand of Deerfield, and lives in Greenland, having one son, Frank ; Caroline C., who married Gilman Rand, and lives in Deerfield, having two sons, Walter and John.
(8) Polly, daughter of the first settler, John Stearns, born January 1, 1797, married Jonathan Goodhue of Deer- field, and died August 19, 1844, in Amesbury, Mass., leav- ing five daughters : Sally, who married Joseph Jewell of South Hampton ; Abigail, who married Samuel Stevens of West Amesbury, Mass., having three children; Augusta, who married Dr. Garland of Hampton, and died in Glouces- ter, Mass., leaving children ; Elizabeth, who married Weare Clifford of Lowell, and Amanda M., unmarried.
(9) Abigail, sister of Polly, born November 20, 1798, died young.
(10) Joshua, born January 3, 1801, married Betsey Page
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of Deerfield, having, for children : Elizabeth, now the wife of Joseph Veasey of Deerfield, having one son, Bryant ; Bryant, who married Mary Holmes, and lives in Deerfield, having three children ; Gilman lives in Manchester, having one son. Clarence ; Martha J. married William Thompson of Deerfield, having three children ; Sally died young; Wil- liam married Jennie Fellows, and lives in California, hav- ing tliree sons ; Sarah, unmarried.
(11) William, son of the first Stearns, born August 5, 1803, married Martha Winkley of Barrington, and lives in Portsmouth, having one daughter, Isabel.
(12) Sally, sister of William, born Mareh 21, 1805, married David Lamprey of Hampton, and died in Deer- field, June 15, 1851, having for children : Naney C., who married and lives in Haverhill, Mass. ; Norris, who lives in St. Paul, Minn., a lawyer ; Sally, who married a Mr. Carpenter, and lives in Chichester; John, who married and lives in Haverhill, and has children ; Martha, who married William Hilton, son of Col. Winthrop H., lives in Haverliill ; Malvina, who married a Standley, and lives in Concord ; William B., married and lives in Haverhill, Mass .; David, who lives in Manchester ; Uri, who lives in St. Paul, Minn. ; Almon, who died young ; Mary, who lives in Concord ; Albion, who died in 1875.
(13) Bryant, brother of Sally, born January 22, 1807, married Sally Veasey, daughter of Thomas V., and died December 31, 1838.
STEVENS FAMILY.
Jonathan Stevens lived and died in Salisbury, Mass., and had three sons, Lemuel, Jacob, and Theophilus. Lemuel and Jacob settled in Salisbury, Mass., and died there. Theophilus Stevens, born January 31, 1732, married Eleanor Tucker, who was born August 17, 1734, and moved to Ep- ping when a young man. He had three sons and one daugliter : Benjamin, born August 29, 1751, and died Au-
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gust 12, 1810 ; Theophilus, born April 8, 1753, died August 29, 1830; Samuel, born May 20, 1764, died December, 1843 ; Molly, born November 27, 1767, died June, 1847, unmarried. The two latter lived and died in Epping. Benjamin and Theophilus moved to Deerfield when young men, became wealthy farmers near the center of the town, and were influential men. Benjamin Stevens married Sarah Fogg, who was born March 7, 1757, died June 11, 1826 ; had five children : one son, Jonathan, born Decem- ber 12, 1775, died April 2, 1819 ; one daughter, Polly, born October 27, 1782, married Nathaniel Davis of Gilford, and died January 6, 1815, leaving several enterprising children ; another daughter, Sally, born October 12, 1790, married Peter P. French of Deerfield, and had eleven children of respectability ; the other two died unmarried.
Theophilus, second son of Theophilus Stevens of Epping, married Betsey Moore of Pembroke; she died without children ; he then married Abigail Tewksbury of Salisbury, Mass., and she had three children : Theophilus, Davis, and Betsey. She died February 18, 1844, aged seventy-eight years.
The said Theophilus Stevens; 2d, held several offices of trust in Deerfield, and was also a first-lieutenant in the company of cavalry in the Eighteenth Regiment New- Hampshire militia ; was also out in the Revolutionary war as a private.
Jonathan Stevens, son of Benjamin, was married to Polly Tilton of Deerfield, who was born April 6, 1778, and died June 11, 1814, leaving seven children, three sons and four daughters. He was also a lieutenant in the company of cavalry. Their eldest son, Benjamin, was born November 22, 1801, married Mehitable Hill of Newmarket ; lived in Deerfield, on the original farm of his grandfather, Benjamin Stevens; was a trader, a justice of the peace, was town clerk and treasurer for a number of years, and was also a deacon of the Baptist Church. He died in Lowell, Mass., June 19, 1857.
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Theophilus Stevens, son of Theophilus of Deerfield, mar- ried Mary Ann Currier of Deerfield ; they live in Deerfield, and have had two sons and one daughter. He was also a lieutenant in the company of cavalry before mentioned.
Deacon David Stevens, second son of Theophilus, born October 1, 1804, married Charlotte Fowler of Newmarket, May 21, 1828, and had one son, George F. Stevens, born February 25, 1830, who married Nancy P. Davenport of Hamilton, Mass., and has three children, Anna B., Charles D., and Georgie Etta ; and one daughter, Sarah S., born May 9, 1833, who married John M. Ballou. These chil- dren of Deaeon Stevens are living in Deerfield.
THOMPSON FAMILY.
Moses Thompson was a native of Kingston in this state ; he married Jane Page of South Hampton, and moved to this town in 1764 or 1765. They had a family of three sons and four daughters ; of the sons, William, the eldest, remained in this town ; Moses settled in Wolfeborough, and Samuel in Wilmot ; two of the daughters died young ; one became Mrs. Cate of Wolfeborough ; and one, Mrs. James Prescott of this town ; the family of Mrs. Prescott was quite large, including the late Mrs. Abram Prescott of Con- eord, also Mrs. Sleeper of Concord, Mrs. John Fellows, Mrs. Milton Lane, and Mr. James Prescott of this town. all de- eeased ; the latter, Mr. James Prescott, left a family of seven children, but one of whom (J. F. Prescott) now re- sides here.
William Thompson married, not far from the year 1785, Hannah Philbrick of this town; their children numbered thirteen ; the eldest, Jonathan, moved, when quite young, to Wilmot, and was soon after fatally injured by the falling of a tree, which he, with some other men, was cutting ; Eleanor, the next child, married Enoch Stevens of this town, and of a large family of children and grandchildren none now remain in Deerfield : one son, William, was a
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soldier in the war of the Rebellion, serving in the Fifteenth New-Hampshire Regiment ; was taken ill on his way home and died in hospital; Jane, Hannah, and Abigail married, respectively, Messrs. Stearns, Cram, and Smith, and moved to Wilmot in this state ; Moses remained at the homestead ; married twice, and had a family of nine children, only one of whom remains in town, William, who tills the farm which his ancestors have occupied for more than a century ; Betsey married N. J. Hilton of this town ; still resides here, and is the only surviving daughter. Of a family of nine children four still are living ; Polly married Capt. J. Fellows of this town, and died young, leaving three sons, all of whom have found homes in California ; the youngest was drowned there some years since; Sally, second wife of the above Capt. Fellows, left two sons, both now residents of Suncook ; Samuel married Ann T., daughter of Deacon William T. Smith, and moved to Wilmot ; William married Phebe A., also daughter of Deacon William T. Smith ; their children numbered six, and all except one, who died in infancy, still survive; the eldest, Martha A., graduated at Mount Holyoke Seminary, taught about fifteen years in Trenton, Washington, Boston, and Groveland, then traveled a year in Europe ; the next survivor, Elizabeth V., married early Mr. Samuel Thompson of Wilmot ; the third, Jennic P., graduated at Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn; taught for some years at Haverhill, Reading, Boston, Flushing, and Groveland Academy; since married to G. J. White of An- dover, N. H. ; the eldest son, Charles H., now on the farm which lately belonged to his father, was a member of the Eleventh New-Hampshire Regiment in the late war, and saw much active service for about two years, when he was severely wounded in the head at Spottsylvania ; he was dis- charged from the service in consequence, a few months after, and has spent most of his time since in Boston, until he retired to the farm about four years since ; the youngest, William Adams, has always resided in this town. Daniel
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Thompson. son of William, the son of Moses, resides in An- dover ; Benjamin, the thirteenth child of William Thomp- son, who was the son of Moses T., resides in Deerfield ; he married Angelina, the only daughter of Col. Peter San- born, and widow of a Mr. Bartlett ; their children are five ; two of the sons served in the late war ; this Mr. Thompson has had many years of experience as teacher of music and day schools in Lowell, Exeter, and vicinity.
TILTON FAMILY.
It is believed that three brothers, David, Jacob, and Daniel Tilton, came to this country from Tilton Hill, Eng- land, and settled in Hampton, where their descendants may now be found, so also in Kingston, Ipswich, and elsewhere. Of these, Josiah, Samuel, and Ebenezer, from Kingston, settled in Deerfield.
Josialı, about 1820, removed to Cornville, Me. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Deacon Abraham True, and their children were : (1) Samuel, (2) Josiah, (3) Sally, (4) Huldah, and (5) a daughter who became the wife of Daniel Currier of Dcerfield. This Samuel, son of Josiah, married Deborah, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder, who died at Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary war ; while Jo- siah, son of Josiah, married Sarah Dearborn of Kensington, and had a large family of children, one of whom is the Rev. Jeremiah Tilton of Rumney, a Baptist clergyman.
Josiah Tilton, the first, whose first wife was Sarah True, married, for his second wife, Abigail Nudd of Kingston, and their children were Abraham, Daniel, and Horatio Gates, all living in Cornville, Me., and having families.
Samuel Tilton, son of Josiah the first, who married Deb- orah Batchelder, settled in the eastern part of the town, where his grandson, George Adanis Tilton, resides, and near where Samuel's father pitched his first tent in Deerfield. His children, by Deborah Batchelder, were : (1) Polly, who died young ; (2) Josiah B., born May 28, 1799 ; (3) Sam-
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uel Sherburn, who married and removed to Newbury, Mass., where he died, leaving several children ; (4) True, who died young; (5) Nathaniel, who died young; (6) Sarah Ann, who married Andrew Leighton of Northwood, and lived in Deerfield, where she died, leaving one son, Wash- ington ; (7) Joseph True, who married a Miss Furnald, daughter of Ezra, and died, leaving three children.
Josiah Batchelder Tilton married Nancy Adams of Newbury, Mass. ; they reside near the Parade. Their chil- dren : (1) George A., born August 4, 1824, resides on the homestead ; married Ann Lord Manning of Newbury, Mass., and they have three children, Frank, Horace, and Burt ; (2) John Moody, born December 8, 1826, was drowned when young in Parker River, in Newbury, Mass. ; (3) Harrison J., born March 27, 1830, married Kate, daughter of Simon Robinson ; lives in Deerfield ; their son, Kirk, died young ; (4) Washington B. B., born September 25, 1832 ; lives in Deerfield ; married Susan, daughter of Benning W. Veasey, having one daughter, Mary V., a son having died in infancy ; (5) Albert Folsom, born April 8, 1835, married Emma D. Manning of Newbury, Mass., and they live in the same house erected by his great-great- grandfather, their children being Albert F., John, Carribel, and Warren ; (6) Elizabeth N., born June 16, 1838, mar- ried Jonathan Ballou, having one son, who died young ; her second husband was Henry Ackerman of Exeter, where they reside.
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