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(4) Joseph Badger, born August 30, 1793, married, Oc- tober, 1817, Judith Peaslee, lived on the homestead, and died April 10, 1875 ; they had children : (1) Judith, born October 31, 1818, married a Mr. Merrill, and they have children ; (2) William, born April 1, 1821, graduated at Dartmouth Medical College, 1841, married, and resides in Bradford, Mass., having no children ; is president of Mas- sachusetts Medical Society, and member of the executive council ; (3) Elizabeth, born September 25, 1824, married Nathaniel H. Clarke, and has children ; (4) Francis, born June 24, 1827 ; has been teacher, is superintendent of public schools in Cambridge, Mass., married, and has children ;
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(5) Sarah Jane, born July 13, 1829, married a Mr. Chase, removed to California, where she died, leaving one daugh- ter, Mary Marland ; (6) Thomas, who is a successful den- tist in Boston, is married.
(5) Nathaniel, born March 5, 1796, graduated from Dart- mouth College, 1819, was many years pastor of the Con- gregational Church in Yarmouth, Mass., was member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and an overseer of Harvard College ; he married, October, 1825, Susan Doane of Yarmouth ; their children were : (1) Elizabeth Doane, born January, 1827, married, November, 1853, Simeon N. Small, graduated from Dartmouth College 1845; removed to Milwaukee, Wis., and both are dead, leaving two sons ; (2) William Henry, born April, 1828, died 1830 ; (3) John Bear Doane, born June, 1829, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1850 ; is a lawyer ; lived in Milwaukee, Wis., was United-States district-attorney of Wisconsin ; returned to Massachusetts ; has been repeatedly member of both branches of the legislature, and has been twice elected president of the Senate ; his wife died, leaving one daugh- ter ; (4) Elisha Doane, has been a banker, is now a clerk in a department in the state-house ; unmarried.
(6) Thomas, born December 7, 1798, married, 1820, Mary Noyes, and settled on the homestead of his grand- father, the late Hon. Thomas Cogswell, in Gilmanton, and died August 8, 1868; was justice of the peace, repeatedly a member of the legislature, and for many years judge of the court of common pleas. Their children were: (1) Julia, born 1823, married O. A. J. Vaughan, and died, leaving a daughter, since deceased ; (2) Mary Noyes, born 1827, married Dr. Benjamin F. Burgess, who died ; she re- sides in Boston with her two sons and a daughter; (3) Martha Badger, born 1830, married Dr. S. F. Batchelder ; after his death removed to South Boston ; has three chil- dren ; (4) Harriet, born in 1832, and died unmarried ; (5) James William, married, and lives in Gilmanton on a
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part of the homestead ; (6) Thomas, born February 8, 1841, graduated from Dartmouth College 1863 ; was an officer in the war of the Rebellion ; is a lawyer, has been a member of the House and is now in the Senate, 1878; is married, and has three children.
(7) Francis, born December 21, 1800, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822, educated a lawyer ; was ap- pointed clerk of court in Strafford County in 1842; removed to Andover, Mass., to take charge of the Ballard Vale Fac- tory, became cashier of the Andover Bank, was elected presi- dent of the Boston and Maine Railroad in September, 1856 ; after six years he resigned that position, and after three years was again elected president of the same road, and at the close of six years again resigned, having held the office of president twelve years and two months ; he has been treas- urer of the Marland Manufacturing Company many years, has been a trustee of Gilmanton Academy, Atkinson Acad- emy, and the Punchard Free School in Andover ; was an overseer of Harvard College for six years ; he married, June 8, 1829, Mary S. Marland of Andover, Mass., who was born August 9, 1806, and died December 28, 1877, and they had eight children, three dying in infancy ; the living are : (1) William Abraham, born May 5, 1830, married, Oc- tober 27, 1868, Susan Louisa Hart; they have one daughter, Mary Louisa, born August 10, 1871, and live in North An- dover ; (2) John Francis, born March 25, 1835, married, March 29, 1860, Esther M. Merrill ; they have two sons, and reside in Lawrence ; (3) Joseph Badger, born June 15, 1837, lives in Andover, unmarried ; (4) Mary Marland, born April 8, 1839, married, January 17, 1861, William Hobbs, now of Brookline, Mass., having two sons ; (5) Thomas Marland, born July 17, 1844, married, June 27, 1872, Georgianna J. McCoy ; lives in Lawrence.
(8) George, born February 5, 1808, graduated at Dart- mouth Medical College 1830, married, August 4, 1831, Abigail Parker of Bradford, Mass .; settled in Bradford ; has
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been a member of the executive council, and United-States collector of internal revenue under Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant; their children arc : (1) Abbie Parker, who married a Mr. Choate, judge of probate of Essex County ; (2) Sarah ; (3) George Badger, graduated at Dartmouth Medical Col- lege, 1857 ; (4) William, a lawyer in Salem, Mass., a cap- tain, colonel, and general in the war of the Rebellion ; is now inspector-general of fish. Dr. George Cogswell's second wife was Elizabeth Doane of Yarmouth, Mass., and they have two children : Doane, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1877, and Carrie.
(9) John, born June 14, 1810, and died August 6, 1811.
Joseph Cogswell, who was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 16, 1764, being the seventeenth child of Nathaniel Cogs- well and Judith Badger, longed to be with his brothers in the service of his country, but was withheld until Dr. Wil- liam Cogswell, his older brother, was promoted to the chief charge of the military hospital at West Point, to whom he immediately repaired, and whom he served in the place of an assistant-surgeon. He had already studied medicine somewhat, receiving aid of Dr. Nathaniel Peabody of Atkin- son. He remained at West Point until September 1, 1785, when he returned with his brother to Atkinson and com- pleted his course of study, and then established himself in practice in Warner, being for some time in the family of Rev. John Kelley, then pastor of the Congregational Church. He married Judith, daughter of Thomas Elliot Colby of Warner. She was born September 25, 1771, in Amesbury, Mass. Jacob Colby of Amesbury, Mass., married Elizabeth Elliot, and they had three children : Edmund, born Decem- ber 8, 1725, Valentine, born May 29, 1728, and Thomas Elliot, born January 31, 1734. This Thomas Elliot Colby married Judith Sargent, and the following children were born to them in Amesbury : (1) Ezekiel, born July 19, 1763 ; (2) Stephen, born June 18, 1765 ; (3) John, born June 21, 1767 ; (4) Elliot, born September 9, 1769; (5)
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Judith, born September 25, 1771 ; (6) Naomi, born Decem- ber 18, 1773 ; (7) Anna, born May 9, 1776; (8) Molly, born July 14, 1778.
Thomas Elliot Colby removed to Warner about 1778, and carried with him some wealth. He was a man of great in- tegrity, and highly esteemed, and reared a family whose influence has ever been good in the town of Warner.
Dr. Joseph Cogswell married Judith Colby December 27, 1788, and remained in practice in Warner a number of years, and then removed to New Durham, whence he subse- quently removed to Tamworth, where he died March 17, 1851. His wife died November 5, 1857. Their children who died young were : Joseph B., born January 2, 1792, died January 20, 1793 ; Hannah, born September 29, 1793, died January 28, 1801 ; Ruth B., born June 15, 1797, died February 6, 1801; Thomas, born November 2, 1799, died August 6, 1803 ; Hannah, born August 6, 1804, died August 7, 1804. Those who grew up to maturity were : (1) Ju- dith, born October 12, 1789, died September 9, 1836, un- married ; (2) Eben, born May 22, 1795, married Betsey Wiggin, lived most of his life in Tamworth, but died in Jackson in 1866 or 1867 ; their children were : Pearson ; Hannah, who married Silas Meserve, and they live in Jack- son, having two sons and one daughter ; and Emily, who married and died.
(3) Ruth, born August 22, 1802, married Eben Allen of Tamworth, and they subsequently removed into Maine and had four children, two of whom, Elliot C. and Reuben T., are living in Maine. She died May 24, 1846.
(4) Mary Sargent, born September 20, 1805, married Jacob C. Wiggin, born February 7, 1803, and they lived in Tamworth ; she died February 12, 1877. Their children who lived to maturity were : (1) Joseph Cogswell, born October 24, 1826, married, for his second wife, Miss Leavitt of Laconia ; was a merchant in Sandwich; was captain of a company of volunteers in the Rebellion, and died of
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wounds received in an encounter at Port Royal, S. C., Au- gust 26, 1863 ; his wife died 1873 ; they left two sons, Fred E., residing in Laconia, and Charles Parker, now a member of Coe's Academy ; Capt. Wiggin's first wife died, leaving one daughter ; (2) Colby S., born September 11, 1827 ; (3) Emily C., born March 13, 1829, married Alvin W. Stevens; (4) Almira J., born March 3, 1831; (5) Mary J., born August 12, 1834, died February 25, 1856 ; (6) Cordelia A., born February 5, 1837 ; (7) Mayhew C., born September 8, 1839, died in Libby prison, November 8, 1864 ; (8) Arthur E., born March 24, 1842 ; (9) Hannah S., born September 8, 1844, died July 13, 1864 ; (10) Amanda F., born August 26, 1846, died February 12, 1866.
(5) Joseph, born April 2, 1808, married, October 24, 1835, Amanda F. Page of Gilmanton ; they reside on the homestead in Tamworth. Their children were : (1) Susan, born September 26, 1837 ; (2) Nathaniel Winslow, born June 4, 1844 ; was teacher of book-keeping in Coe's Acad- emy for some time, and died in Tamworth, February 6, 1872 ; a young man of much promise ; (3) Emma J .. born June 15, 1848, married, August 14, 1871, Charles Robert- son of Eaton, where they reside.
(6) Elliott Colby, born June 11, 1814, studied at Gilman- ton Academy under the late Hon. William Cogswell Clarke and Edwin D. Sanborn, who has been for many years a popular professor in Dartmouth College; graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1838; was principal of Gilmanton Academy two years; studied theology in Gilmanton Theological Seminary under Professors Warner,
Rood, and Bird; began to supply the Congregational Church in Northwood the first sabbath in July, 1842 ; was ordained pastor of the church November 3, 1842; was dismissed July 18, 1848; began, the following sabbath, a ministry with the Congregational Church in Newmarket, which continued until June, 1855 ; immediately removed to New Boston, and was installed, October 31, pastor of the
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First Presbyterian Church in New Boston, where he re- mained until October 31, 1865 ; came immediately to North- wood, serving the Congregational Church as pastor until June, 1876 ; during the last ten years of that period he has been principal of Coe's Northwood Academy, through whose influence, chiefly, it was inaugurated in 1866 ; and, during the last five years of the same period, the materials for this book have been collected and arranged for the press, through which it is now passing, August, 1878. Mr. Cogswell's publications have been a Memoir of Rev. Sam- uel Hidden, published in 1842, a few miscellaneous sermons and addresses, and a History of New Boston, published in 1864.
Mr. Cogswell married, August 12, 1842, Sophia Ann, daughter of Deacon Thomas Adams of Gilmanton, born January 24, 1819. Their children are: (1) Edward Elli- ott, born October 8, 1843, died August 25, 1846; (2) Mary Upham, born September 6, 1845, graduated from Gil- manton Academy, 1865, married, November 19, 1865, George W. Bingham, graduate of Dartmouth College in 1863, and they live in Burlington, Ia. ; (3) Ellen Sophia, born July 14, 1847, died August 13, 1849; (4) Martha Ellen, horn December 28, 1849, graduated from Coe's Academy, 1869, married, December 3, 1874, John G. Mead, jr., of New York City, where they reside ; (5) Elizabeth Greenleaf, born March 5, 1852, graduated from Coe's Acad- emy, 1871, married, February 28, 1877, Charles H. Pres- cott of Walpole, Mass .; (6) William Badger, born August 5, 1854, now a member of Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, New York City ; (7) Thomas Herbert, born August 5, 1856, died September 17, 1860; (8) Ephraim Bradford, born May 11, 1859, died July 25, 1860; (9) Henry Burr, born April 5, 1861, member of Coe's Academy.
It is worthy of statement that eight brothers, the sons of Nathaniel Cogswell and Judith Badger of Atkinson, served in the war of the Revolution ; that six of these sons
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were in the service at the same time ; that all lived to see General Washington President of the United States ; and that no one of the nineteen children of these Christian par- ents dishonored their parentage.
Thomas Adams, father of the wife of Rev. E. C. Cogs- well, descended from Henry Adams, who came from Dev- onshire, England, in 1630, and settled in Braintree, Mass., where he died October 8, 1646. His children were Henry, Samuel, Thomas, Peter, Joseph, William, and Edward. His son Joseph, born in England, 1626, married, November 26, 1650, Abigail Baxter. Their children were Henry, Jo- seph, John, Bethia, Samuel, Peter, Jonathan, Deliverance, and Mary. Their son Joseph married Hannah Bass, one of whosc children was John, from whom President J. Q. Ad- ams descended, also Rev. Joseph Adams of Newington, N. H., who was born January 1, 1689, graduated from Har- vard College 1710, ordained November 16, 1715, and died May 26, 1783. Mary, granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Adams of Newington, married Jonathan Ross, jr., of Gil- manton.
William, son of Henry Adams, the progenitor, removed to Ipswich, Mass., and died there, 1661. He had three sons, William, Nathaniel, and Samuel. This William, jr., had a son, Thomas, born 1696, died 1762. He had Thomas, Ezekiel, Ephraim, and Benjamin; the last two settled in New Ipswich, and from one of these, Ephraim, descended the late Prof. Adams of Dartmouth College.
Thomas, brother of Ephraim and Benjamin, born 1730, died 1797, lived in Ipswich, and married Elizabeth Brown, by whom he had Deborah, Elizabeth, who married Daniel Appleton of Buxton, Me., Hannah, Bethia, Lucy, Abigail, who married Thomas Ross of Gilmanton, Sarah, Thomas, Moses, Mary, who married Ephraim Smith, and afterwards William Price of Gilmanton, and Lydia. This Thomas, son of Thomas Adams and Elizabeth Brown, was born Sep- tember, 1757, died May 6, 1844, married Anna Porter, by
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whom he had : John; David; Nancy; William, who set- tled in Boston, was deacon of Salem-street Congregational Church for many years, and whose daughter, Sarah E., is the wife of Hon. J. S. Potter, United-States Consul at Stuttgart, Germany ; Thomas; George; Allen; Moses ; Deborah ; Smith ; and Samuel. This Thomas, son of Thomas Adams and Anna Porter, was born March 17, 1792, married, March 27, 1817, Sophia Kimball, born January 28, 1798, daughter of David Kimball of Gilmanton; he was deacon of the Congregational Church at Gilmanton for many years. Their children were: (1) Sophia A., born January 24, 1819, married, August 12, 1842, Rev. E. C. Cogswell ; (2) Hazen Worcester, born July 25, 1823, gradu- ated from Dartmouth College 1847, married Jane C. Amos (Campbell) of Hackensack, N. J., August 27, 1861 ; their children are : Hattie C., born March 23, 1862 ; Martha N., born April 6, 1864; Ellen S., born April 16, 1866 ; Charles F., born October 18, 1869; (3) Martha H., born August 19, 1825, married, October 16, 1849, G. C. Nealley of Bur- lington, Ia. (see sketch of Nealley family, Nottingham) ; (4) Mary Frances, born July 24, 1827, married, October 19, 1853, Dr. Gilliam C. Terhune of Hackensack, N. J., graduate of New York Medical College; (5) William Clarke, born August 19, 1833, died September 30, 1834 ; (6) Ellen Elizabeth, born September 1, 1835, died July 29, 1838 ; (7) Edward Elliott, born August 22, 1839, died August 6, 1841. Deacon Adams died May 21, 1873, aged eighty-one ; his wife died July 6, 1874, aged seventy-six.
CROCKETT FAMILY.
John Crockett, son of Ephraim of Stratham, was born June 28, 1739, died March 15, 1817. He married Mary, daughter of Deacon Lane of Stratham. who was born July 14, 1744, and died March 15, 1806. Their children werc : (1) Mary, born July 15, 1764, married Nicholas Dudley Hill, settled in Northwood, and had children, among whom were Walter, Dudley, Mark, James, and Benjamin.
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(2) John, born July 20, 1766, was licensed to preach by the Baptist (Calvin) Church in Northwood in his twenty- sixth year. He was ordained over the First Baptist Church in Sanbornton September 3, 1794. which relation was continued till his death, February 7, 1833. He married, in 1788, Bet- sey Jenness. Their children were : (1) George W., born October 4, 1789, died August 14, 1859, married and had children ; he was a merchant in Boston till 1851, when he became president of the Bank of North America, holding the office till his death ; he represented the state two years in the House and two in the Senate ; (2) John, settled in Sanbornton ; (3) Hezekiah was a physician, and settled in Alton ; married and had two children, a son and a daugh- ter ; (4) Joseph, settled in Sanbornton ; married, and had several children ; one of them, George W., married a daugh- ter of Deacon J. S. Norris of Concord, where they reside ; is of the firm of Norris and Crockett ; (5) Beniah lived in Sanbornton, married, and had children, one of whom was William, who settled in Lawrence ; (6) Betsey ; (7) Mary. (3) George, son of John and Mary Crockett, born July 20, 1768, died October 11, 1768.
(4) Samuel, born February 10, 1770, died November 7, 1846, was the first of the name who came to Northwood. He settled near where Philip Hoitt now resides. He mar- ried Deborah Doe, born May 28, 1770, died July 21, 1848. Their children werc : (1) William, born December 21, 1792, died July 13, 1865, married Frances, daughter of Col. Sam- ucl Sherburn ; their children were : Laura S., born Septem- ber 18, 1818, married, May 1, 1859, Caleb S. Rogers ; George E., born in 1822, died in 1825; Fannie, born June 5, 1830, married, in 1850, C. H. V. Cavis, having children, Charles and Fannie May. Mr. Crockett married, for his second wife, Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Dearborn of Deerfield, by whom he had one son, Hollis Waldo, born November 5, 1846, married Iona Sawyer, July 30, 1872, and has one son, Micalı D., born October 1, 1875. (2) Samuel,
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jr., born November 14, 1795, died November 10, 1836; married Betsey D., daughter of Trueworthy Hill; she died June 13, 1840 ; their children were : (1) George W., born November 22, 1819, married, October 6, 1852, Frances E. Mansir, who died November 30, 1859; he resides in Bos- ton ; (2) James S., born January 11, 1821, settled in Con- cord ; married, October 27, 1846, Caroline E., daughter of Rev. Henry Veasey of Bow, who died July 28, 1854, having had one son, William H., born September 20, 1849, died January 16, 1850 ; Mr. Crockett's second wife was Mary B. Veasey, sister of the first wife, married April 30, 1857; (3) William, born April 22, 1822, died February 5, 1842 ; (4) Mary Lane, born May 19, 1824, died October 9, 1839; (5) Charles Henry, born May 3, 1826, died April 7, 1850 ; (6) Benjamin T., born February 11, 1828, married Annie E. Chandler of Dover, having one son, Arthur ; resides in Boston ; (7) John Kelley, born June 25, 1830, married, September 10, 1851, Sally R. Randall of Deerfield ; lived in Concord ; died November 2, 1854 ; they had one daugh- ter, Annie R., born March 30, 1853, married James Yeaton, and has two children, John K., born in 1875, and a daugh- ter, born July 22, 1878 ; Mr. Crockett's widow married William Goss of Epsom ; (8) Samuel J., born June 25, 1832, of the firm of Ford and Crockett, Boston, Mass., mar- ried, June 30, 1853, Mary J. Vinto of Boston ; their chil- dren are Ella G., born October 6, 1854, died December 12, 1855, and Charles H., born September 26, 1857 ; (9) Eliza H., born September 20, 1836, died June 3, 1858. (3) Polly, daughter of Samuel and Deborah, married Benjamin Batch- elder, and had one daughter, Ann Maria, who married S. S. Moore. (4) Eliza, daughter of Samuel and Deborah Crockett, born May 2, 1800, died July 15, 1835. (5) Capt. John L., born July 10, 1802, married Nancy Furber of Pittsfield ; lived in Northwood on the homestead, was dea- con in Calvin Baptist Church. (6) Dudley, born June 9, 1804, died July 1, 1837, married Mahala Caswell, who died
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November 7, 1837, and had two children, Elizabeth, and Hollis, who died August 13, 1845. (7) Charles P., born January 9, 1808 ; lived in Concord, afterwards in Man- chester ; returned to Concord, where he died, November 24, 1847 ; married, and had one daughter, Josephine, born in 1847, married a Mr. Wyman of Manchester; his widow married a Mr. Plummer of Goffstown. (8) Susan B., born July 11, 1812, died October 6, 1837. (9) Hollis B., born June 21, 1815, was of the firm Gale and Crockett, Concord ; died November 16, 1846.
(5) Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary Crockett, born May 14, 1772, died June 27, 1775.
(6) Ephraim, born May 16, 1774, died January 11, 1842 ; was a physician ; lived in Danbury, N. H .; married, and had children, among whom were Andrew, who settled in Bristol ; Dexter, who settled in Danbury, and Charles, who settled in New London.
(7) James, youngest son of John and Mary Crockett, born April 14, 1777, settled in Meredith ; married, and had four children : Mary, who married a Mr. Blaisdell, and lived in Gilford ; Matilda, who married a Mr. Robinson, and lived in Meredith ; Clarissa, who married a Mr. Smith, and lived in Laconia ; and James.
Many of the prominent members of the Crockett family have been engaged in the manufacture of musical instru- ments.
DEMERITT FAMILY.
Joseph Demeritt came from Madbury, and settled near where Plummer Bennett resides. His children were Moses, Paul, Joseph, John, Betsey, Louisa, Hannah, and Lydia. Moses married a Miss Odell of Durham ; Gordon, now re- siding in Nottingham, is their son. Paul married Martha Woodman of Deerfield, one of whose daughters became the wife of Gen. Alfred Hoitt of Durham, while another mar- ried a Mr. Seward, and a third married John Woodman of Newton. Joseph died in the war of 1812. John was born
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January 30, 1777, lived in Nottingham, married Abigail, daughter of Robert Hill of Nottingham, who was born May 13, 1781; they died within eleven days of each other, he being aged about eighty-seven years. Their children were : Jacob, born July 8, 1800 ; Joseph, born November 11, 1801 ; Sophia, born January 8, 1803; John, jr., born April 20, 1806 ; Timothy, born March 23, 1808 ; Mehitable F., born March 18, 1810; Daniel, born July 12, 1812; Samuel D., born May 29, 1814; Andrew J. ; Sally ; Mary Ann ; and Abigail.
Joseph Demeritt, Esq., residing in Nottingham, is the son of John, who was the son of Joseph, and married Sally, daughter of Benjamin Colcord of Nottingham ; she was born March 10, 1797, and died September 27, 1867. Their children are : Benjamin Willard, born April 5, 1827; Eleanor, married a Mr. Mills of Nova Scotia, having a daughter, Hannah Maria ; Eliza A., born August 16, 1832, married Byron D. Hoitt, and died April 1, 1861 ; Joseph Edward, born May 9, 1836, married Nancy B., daughter of Ebenezer S. Tuttle of Nottingham, and had three children, Eliza Ann, Sally A., and John L. ; Jane, born April 11, 1838, died May 28, 1865; John Leonard, born October 10, 1840, died January 14, 1873. Joseph Demeritt, Esq., has represented his town in the legislature three years, has served as selectman and assistant-postmaster several years, and been engaged in mercantile business since 1825.
DOW FAMILY.
Samuel Dow was born in Epping, 1765, married, in 1791, Dolly Sanborn, born in 1771. They lived in Epping a few years after their marriage, and there their son Henry was born, in 1792. The following year they moved to North- wood, and he aided in cutting the first wheel-road through the Narrows. He was a man of much physical strength, and not easily discouraged by obstacles. He was an excellent pioneer settler and a worthy citizen. He died May 5, 1840.
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His wife died January 4, 1841. Their children were : (1) Henry, born April 3, 1792, married, December 29, 1813, Betsey Watson, daughter of William Watson of Notting- ham ; settled near the Narrows ; he was a cooper by trade, and a natural mechanic, and was useful as a house-joiner ; he served his town as selectman ; was for many years jus- tice of the peace ; died July 25, 1873 ; their children were : (1) Sewell W., born July 14, 1814, married Nancy L. Towle of Hampton, April 12, 1836, where they reside, their children being Philena, born September 9, 1839, died June 15, 1862, and Albon A., born October 22, 1842, died Feb- ruary 24, 1865; (2) Joseph T., born January 6, 1816, married Wealthy Ann Higgins of South Hadley, Mass., July 3, 1839, who died September 26, 1871; he resides in Boston, his children being : Helen Maria, born October 30, 1840, died April 20, 1858 ; Francis E., born September 5, 1842; Adelaid L., born June 18, 1844; Ella F., born March 12, 1846 ; Henry S., born June 16, 1855 ; Shelton E., born October 27, 1857 ; Mr. Dow married, for his sec- ond wife, Mary Van Name of Newark, N. J .; (3) George E., born January 22, 1819, married Julia E. Sackett, Feb- ruary 1, 1841, and settled in Westfield, Mass .; their chil- dren are : Maria, born September 18, 1842, married, May 26, 1869, A. G. Taylor of Springfield, Mass. ; Henry B., born April 16, 1846, died January 8, 1847; Charles E., born November 24, 1847, married Mary M. DeWitt of Springfield, Mass., September 20, 1871; (4) Sarah E., youngest child of Henry Dow, was born March 27, 1824, married, March 1, 1854, Israel Buzzell of Barrington, and lives in Northwood ; he died November 9, 1870, aged forty- one, leaving one son, Henry D., born March 18, 1858.
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