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4. Olif. 5. Eben. 6. Sarah.
7. Jonathan, b. 1781; d. at Havana, 1801.
8. Richard, b. 1783, m. Lydia, dau. of Moses Emerson, and lived with his uncle, Dea. John S. Dearborn, sold out and went to Steuben County, N. Y.
9. Polly.
III. Jonathan, b. 1739, m. Anna, dau. of John Robie, and lived near Samuel. In laying out the road in 1762, it went "west of Samuel Tole and Jonathan Tole's housen." Walter Robie settled his administration account, 1777.
IV. Phineas, b. 1742. V. Morris, b. 1743. VI. Bracket, b. 1746. VII. Sarah. VIII. Simon. IX. Mary.
X. Anthony, b. Nov. 4, 1752; lived on the homestead; d. 1808.
FRANCIS TOWLE, eleventh son of Caleb, b. Jan. 13, 1711, m. Judith, dau. of Ensign Jacob Sargent, June 4, 1738, and settled on his father's HI. L., No. 55. Children : - Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Zipporah and Francis, who settled on No. 85, 2d P., 2d D., the northwest side of the road over Rattlesnake Ifill.
ISAAC TOWLE, the son of Zachariah and Anna, baptized April 6, 1735, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathan Philbrick and Dorcas John- son, Feb. 17, 1754. She was b. May 13, 1730. Isaac d. Aug. 24, 1791. The wid. m. Jonathan Swain, Esq., Jan. 9, 1797; d. Feb. 5, 1820. He settled on Add. No. 61; was a blacksmith. Chil- dren : -
I. Simon, m. Eleanor, dan. of Nathl. Hall, 1779; built and lived in the house since occupied by Benjamin and William Eaton, Drs. Brown, Whittemore and Brown; moved to Haverhill, N. H., about 1805; d. Dec. 11, 1808. Children :-
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Edward; Henry; Charles; Elizabeth; Frederic.
II. Abraham, m. (1) Sally McClellon; she d. 1814. He m. (2) Nabby Emerson, widow of Benja. Hall. He lived on the home- stead. Children :-
Cary, d. unm. Sally, m. Benjamin Baker and Henry Robie.
III. Isaac, b. 1771, m. Anna, dau. of Elijah Pillsbury, 1792; she d. 1814. IIe m. (2) Wid. Butterfield, 1815; she d. 1846. He m. (3) Mrs. Hannah Shackford. He lived on No. 103, 2d P., 2d D .; built the house where Andrew F. Fox now lives; moved to Fran- cestown; d. June, 1856.
IV. Elizabeth, m. Sherburne, son of Peter Dearborn, 1779; she d. Nov. 25, 1798.
TOWNSEND.
EBENEZER TOWNSEND came from Charlestown, Mass .; settled on II. L. No. 11, where John Gage had lived; m. Ann Parker June 4, 1776. He d. Oct. 12, 1840, a. 88; she d. June 12, 1831, a. 71. Children :-
John, b. 1777.
Nancy, b. 1778, m. Jona. Parker of Pittsfield.
Hannah, b. July 30, 1780, m. Dea. John Lane; lived on the homestead; d. April 28, 1861, a. 81.
Eben, b. 1782, lived in New York City. '
Isaac Parker, b. 1784.
Betsy, b. 1786, m. William Stanwood; lived at Newburyport.
Abigail, b. 1789, m. William Barstow.
Nathan, b. 1791, m. Eliza Harding; lived at Wilmington, Mass.
Deborah, b. Aug. 26, 1793; d. April 24, 1826, unm.
TRUE.
CAPT. JOSEPH TRUE came from Salisbury, Mass. ; was surveyor of highways 1755; m. Sarah, dan. of Joshua Prescott; settled on No. 13 or 14, 2d P., 2d D., the southwest side of the river, below the Branch. Children: -
Molly, b. 1757, m. Dr. Francis Hodgkins; Henry; Abigail; Sarah, m. David Glidden; Joseph, b. 1766; Love, b. 1770. Joshua, b. 1772; Leri, d. 1832.
JOSEPH, Sen., d. April, 1800.
BENJAMIN TRUE came from Salisbury, Mass. ; was surveyor of highways in 1756; m. Mehitabel Osgood. They settled first on the northeast side of the river, near the Branch, but moved to the southwest side, on No. 14, 2d P., 2d D. He d. May 5, 1817; she d. Oct. 24, 1825, a. 94. Child: -
Capt. Benjamin, m. Mary Locke, dan. of Capt. William Locke,
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and lived on the homestead, where his son, Osgood now lives. He d. Nov. 13, 1841, a. 81 y., 7 mo. She d. Nov. 13, 1839, a. 71.
TURNER.
WILLIAM TURNER, previous to 1742, had purchased four acres at the northeast end of Add. No. 9, of Paul McFerson. He was either the first or second settler in Candia. There is a tradition that David McClure was the first settler, and that Mr. Turner bor- rowed fire there when he moved to Candia ; but he bought lot No. 35, 3d D., 1741. He m. Sarah, dan. of Enoch Colby. Children :-
1. Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1747, first child in Candia; d. unm., 1836.
2. Mary, b. April 9, 1752, in. Capt. Sargent; d. 1823.
3. Moses, b. Nov. 1755; lived on the homestead ; d. 1844.
4. Susanna, b. Nov. 12, 1758.
WMI. TURNER d. Dec. 8, 1796; his wife d. May 28, 1811. Now if Mr. Turner went to Candia when first married, he was there before McClure. In 1756 JJona. Blunt sold to Winthrop Sargent one-eighth of a saw-mill, on No. 35, 3d D., which he purchased of William Turner.
TYLER.
Richard Kent, of Newbury, sold his full right to JOIN TYLER of Boxford, May 2, 1727. He gave up the Home and Add. lots, and in 1731 had them both laid out together northwest of Gov. Wentworth's farm of 250 acres, southwest of the Congregational church in Auburn. In 1734, he deeded it to his son MosEs, who had previously settled on it. The road from the corner near school-house No. 2, in Auburn, to the Congregational church, was laid out at his request in 1740. He sold to Andrew McFar- land in 1745, including the orchard. He moved to Suncook. McFarland sold fifty acres to Stephen Merrill. Children :-
Joshua, b. 1735; Hannah; Adonijah; Jepthah; Nabby, b. 1743.
UNDERHILL.
The earliest of any of the name that we know anything about, and the ancestor of all of that name in Chester, was SAMPSON. There are deeds on the records in his name as early as April, 1717, in which he is styled " clothier." Sampson Underhill and Eliza- beth Ambrose, both of Salisbury, were married by Rev. Caleb Cushing, minister of the gospel in Salisbury, January 15, 1717. (Sec Nathl. Ambrose).
SAMPSON UNDERHILL sold to Jenness his farm of fifty acres, on which " he lived and kept tavern," April 1, 1730, for £500, and probably then came to Chester. He bought H. L. No. 28, and lived
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near where D. L. Bachelder's hotel now is. He probably died in 1732, as his estate was appraised in May of that year at £483, 19s. 6d. His wife was administrator. The uniform tradition is that he was the first person buried in the present burying-ground. It was on the ten-rod way, in the rear of the old meeting-house. A grave was shown me many years since, as his, just inside of the wall, opposite the present meeting-house.
There is on Salisbury records: "John Underhill, son of Samp- son and Elizabeth his wife, born March 16, 1720-21; Jeremiah, born Dec. 29, 1724." There were also Hezekiah and Moses, not on the records.
In August, 1742, the widow settled her account of administra- tion, and charges for the support of a son Hezekiah 43 years; Moses, 62 years, and a sick son Jeremiah, 10 years.
In 1842, March 29, Elizabeth Underhill conveyed to James Varnum of Chester the home lot No. 28, and John Underhill released the same ; also a house and barn on the highway between the lot and the Rev. Mr. Flagg's. The widow was soon after married to Benjamin Batchelder, who lived where Mr. Sargent now lives, below Mr. Orcutt's H. L. 138. James Varnum pur- chased of the town five rods of the ten-rod way. He sold to Col. Webster. The place has been subsequently owned and occupied by Dr. John Wingate, Dr. Benjamin Kittridge, A. G. Quigg, J. S. Brown, and others, now by D. L. Bachelder. Children :-
1. JOHN UNDERHILL, m. Joanna Healey, daughter of William Healey, Oct. 21, 1741. They lived on Add. 53, near Jacob Chase. He d. July 31, 1793; she d. Aug., 1809. Children :-
I. Betty, b. July 13, 1742, m. Samuel Buswell, of Candia. She was a hypochondriac, and lay in bed without speaking six years; d. Sept 30, 1806.
II. William, b. Feb. 15, 1744, m. Abigail Choate; settled on lot No. 46, 3d D., in Candia ; sold to N. Brown in 1771; removed to Moultonborough ; had 6 children.
III. John. b. June 20, 1745, m. Hannah Colby ; settled in Ches- ter, near the brick school-house, where W. Whittemore now lives, and removed to Plainfield, and d. of hypo., 1816. Had 7 children.
IV. Molly, b. Dec. 4, 1747, m. James Pierce; lived opposite where Jolm lived; moved into the country.
V. Moses, b. Feb. 2, 1749, m. Patty Knight, Nabby Elliot and Rachael Lufkin, and had a large number of children, most of whom d. young :-
Patty, m. a Godfrey of Hampton; Moses, unm., was in the war of 1812; Sally, b. Nov. 26, 1790, in. (1) Smith Greenough, m. (2) Abraham Sargent, Jr .; Polly, m. Thomas Montgomery ; Stephen,
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m. Sally Currier; David, was a wheelright. lived in Concord, re- moved to Amherst, and was county treasurer, d. July 28, 1827; Ruth, m. G. W. Everett, and lived in Chester.
Moses lived a little west of the brick school-house in Chester; he d. Feb. 8, 1838.
VI. Darid, b. Sept. 9, 1751, m. Jemima Blake; resided on the homestead; d. July, 1827; she d. June 25, 1829; had one son, John. m. Lucy Linn.
VII. Samuel, b. May 5, 1752, m. Sarah, dau. of Hezekiah Underhill ; resided on Add. lot No. 54, where George S. Under- hill now lives. He d. Sept. 20, 1828; she d. Aug., 1829. Chil- dren :-
1. Richard, who lived at New Chester and on the Charles Moore place in Chester, and had 8 children.
2. William H., m. Sally March and Elizabeth Towle, dau. of Isaac Towle, Jr. ; resided on Add. lot No. 55, where his son Wil- liam P. resides; d. Dec. 14, 1843, a. 60.
3. Samuel, m. Betsy March; resided in New Chester and Bos- cawen.
4. Dolly, m. Richard Dearborn, son of Jonathan; resided in New Chester.
VIII. Jeremiah, b. Aug. 6, 1755, m. Anna Heath; lived where Caleb Hall first settled, on the road to what is now called Bunker Hill, in Auburn. They had 9 children, who were raised in a house with but one large room and a bedroom. He d. suddenly, Sept. 16. 1794; she d. May 19, 1844. Children: -
1. David, b. 1776. 2. Elijah, m. Molly White. 3. Benjamin, m. Polly Green. 4. Betsy, m. Samuel Davis. 5. Reuben, m. Hannah II. Chase. 6. Anna, m. Joseph Little. 7. James, m. Elizabeth Chase. 8. Samuel. 9. John, b. Nov. 46, 1793, m. Molly Chase.
IX. Sarah, m. Capt. Richard Greenough, of Atkinson ; d. 1838. X. Jounna, m. Moses Preston.
2. HEZEKIAH UNDERHILL, son of Sampson, m. Tabitha Sargent, wid. of John Foss. He was a shoemaker, and settled on Add. lot No. 47, where his son Josiah and grandson, Jesse J., lived. He d. March 8, 1800; she d. Aug 24, 1803. Children: -
I. Jonathan, who probably died in the army.
II. Hannah, m., and went to Cabot, Vt.
III. Sarah, m. her cousin Samuel Underhill; d. Aug., 1829.
IV. Josiah, b. about 1759, m. Anna, dau. of Benjamin Melvin, Feb. 26, 1784; d. May 1, 1822, a. 63; she d. March 17, 1847. Chil- dren : -
1. Jesse J., b. Oct. 2, 1784, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. John Graham; d. Oct. 21, 1860; she d. Sept. 18, 1851, a. 60.
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2. Catherine J., b. July 15, 1786, m. Samuel Graham, Dr. B. Kittridge, and John Bradley; alive in 1869.
3. Hazen R., b. July 24, 1788. d. at Detroit about 1820.
4. Edward Reed (on the family records, but called Ned, and so appears on all the tax-books), b. 1790, mn. Abigail Conner of Exeter in 1817 ; lived nearly opposite his father's. and was a job blacksmith. He moved to Boston and d. there. They had 5 chil- dren.
5. Mack T., b. May 12, 1798, drowned in Amoskeag Falls June 1, 1808.
6. Nancy T., b. Nov. 17, 1795, m. Caleb Merrill. an attorney at Pittsfield, and James Thorndike; lives in Pittsfield.
7. Sally T., b. May 7, 1798. m. Dr. Rufus Kittridge.
8. Dolly T., b. April 1, 1800, m. IIon. John Folsom; d. Dec. 5, 1846.
9. Jay Temple, b. March 17, 1802, m. Sally Brown Oct. 9, 1828; d. Feb. 7, 1839; she d. Aug. 17, 1862.
10. Flagg T., b. Feb. 8, 1804, m. Mary Brown Nov., 1831; d. 1850. His son, Arthur B., is master mechanic for the Boston & Albany Railroad.
Family of Jesse J. Underhill: -
1. Jane Eveline. b. Aug. 6. 1807, m. Elihu Thayer, who was an edge-tool maker at Goffe's Falls. He d. 1834. She m. (2) Asa Edgerton.
2. Samuel Graham, b. Jan. 22. 1809, m. Mary Ann Dinsmore in 1833. In 1829 he went into the tool business in Boston: has now retired, and lives at Somerville.
3. Catherine Graham, b. Dec. 30, 1811, m. David L. Osgood; lived in Auburn, now in Nashua.
4. George W .. b. July 19. 1815, m. Mary M. Gale. He is super- intendent of the Underhill Tool Company at Nashua.
5. Belinda K., b. May 7, 1817, m. Edmund, son of Jethro Sleeper: d. Feb., 1858.
6. Rufus K., b. March 8. 1819, m. Eluthera D. Webster, a great- granddaughter of Col. John Webster. He lives in Bilerica, and and carries on the tool business in Boston.
7. Hazen R., b. March 27. 1821, m. Rebecca P. Dickey; carries on the tool business at Derry Village.
As the Underhill family have been not only locally but widely celebrated as edge-tool makers, and as Chester has been to a con- siderable extent the seat of their operations, I give here some ac- count of the rise and progress of the business.
Lt. Josiah Underhill served a very short apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade with E. Fitts. When he first commenced busi- ness he did not dare undertake to weld a collar on to the bearing of a grindstone crank, but upset the end, and the crank is yet in use.
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Jesse J. once told me that Nathaniel Hall had an ax in which the smith did not succeed in welding in the steel, and he riveted it, and Mr. Hall had to carry a hammer to tighten the rivet. Hc did not tell me who the smith was, but one of his children told me that it was his father. Mr. Underhill, however, became a workman, and drove a thriving business at all branches, includ- ing scythes, axes, hoes, &c., as his account book shows.
The earliest specimen of a narrow or chopping ax that I have seen, was apparently made of iron, two to two and a half inches wide, and half an inch thick, with no head or poll more than the thickness of the iron. The eye was plated so as to have ears project inside on the handle, and the ax would be about nine inches long. They would then have a straight handle nearly three feet long. Gordon Bean, of Candia, has two which he found on his farm, one apparently considerably worn, about nine inches long, the other apparently new, and longer.
The first whom I knew to make a business of edge-tools was Ingalls of Dunstable, at the Harbor, I suppose, near where the shop of the Underhill Company now is.
As Mr. Underhill's sons grew up, they learned the trade. Jesse J. settled where the Candia road crosses the Londonderry turnpike, where Charles Offut now lives, but soon returned and took his father's shop. He soon turned his attention almost ex- clusively to the tool business.
The axes were then made of Russia iron and blistered steel. At the time of the war of 1812 it was very difficult to get steel, it being of English manufacture. American steel was tried, but it proved worthless. Mr. Underhill at length obtained a quantity which was smuggled through Canada, for which he paid seventy- five cents per pound.
At that time they had a very slow method of doing their work. They would take as long a piece of iron as they could well han- dle, and cut and turn down about an inch to make a head, then plate the cheek, and cut it off and lay it aside for one-half of the ax; and then in the same manner make the other side, and weld them together. One of Mr. Underhill's apprentices, Nathaniel Brown, informs me that he and Joseph Neil used to work three hours in the winter evenings to make three polls, without welding in the steel. But after a while they cut off a pattern for an ax, plated the cheeks, turned it over. and either welded on or upset a head. The steel was either split or drawn down with a welding
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heat, to weld up the blisters. After all, the tool would often prove flawy.
It was then a good day's work for two men to make six axes, working from morning till night, with no finish whatever. It would then take the purchaser two or three hours on an ordinary grindstone to grind an ax to an edge.
In 1822, Mr. Underhill, with his apprentices (his brother Jay T. and Elihu Thayer) went to work at Boston for Mr. Faxon, then a celebrated workman. The work was all done there by hand, and with a common forge, but they had a horse-power to put on some finish, and two hands were required to forge, temper and grind six chopping or three broad axes per day.
In 1824 Mr. Faxon died, and the Underhills took the shop. In 1826 Jesse J. returned to Chester and put up a horse-power, and put some finish on his tools. In 1828 Jay T. built a shop on Ches- ter Street, and moved his horse-power from Boston, and ran four fires. In 1829 Jesse J. and his son Samuel G. went to Boston, and did business in the old fashion. In 1832 Jesse J. returned to Chester and fitted up a water-power, with tilt-hammer, grinding and polishing, in his father's old grist-mill.
In 1835, Flagg T. having learned the trade, J. T. and he bought the Blanchard mills, built a shop, with tilt-hammer, grinding, and blowing common bellows by water. In 1837, J. S. Brown became a partner. In 1839 Jay T. died, and the business was carried on under different firms by F. T. Underhill, J. S. Brown, Nathaniel Brown, and W. W. Leighton.
About 1839 the business underwent a great revolution. The hard coal furnace with a fan-blower, which gave a much hotter fire with a constant blast, was introduced, and refined English iron of a more suitable size used, so that instead of being an hour making one poll, four axes could be made with steel fit for the grinder in one hour, without any division of labor. In the Under- hill and Blodgett shops, where there is a greater variety of tools and division of labor, it is done much faster.
These improvements were introduced into the large establish- ments of Collins at Hartford, and Hunt at Douglass, several years earlier. George W. set up at Nashna in 1839, but a large stock company was formed in 1851, of which he is superinten- dent. George W. informs me that when he first started at Nashua in the old Ingalls shop with a blower, nine narrow or five broad axes was a day's work. The Underhill company, in 1865, employed about sixty men and produced three hundred chopping axes, and about one hundred and sixty broad axes, and other kinds of tools daily. Cast-steel was not used by Mr. Underhill until about 1820. It was at first supposed to be incapable of standing, excepting laid on iron, as in chisels and plane irons; and
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there was a great secrecy about welding it. When it first came into use it was not of assorted sizes, but about an inch square. For axes it was cornered down, and for other tools had to be drawn. When blister steel was used, and in the early days of cast-steel. German steel was used for small tools.
3. MOSES, the third son of Sampson Underhill, learned the trade of a hatter at Exeter, and always went by the appellation of " Hatter Underhill." He owned land and probably lived and carried on his trade a little northwest of the brick school-house in Chester, where his nephew Moses afterwards lived. In 1770 he bought of John Dearborn of Stratham, half of No. 127, 2d P., 2d D., on which he built. His house stood the west side of the main road a few rods south of the barn where Gilman C. Smith lately lived in Auburn. His house was single in width with a stone chimney sufficiently capacious to receive wood eight feet long, which he drew in with a horse. The fireplace has been standing within my recollection, and I have seen old men in passing point it out to young men. He kept a tavern. furnishing his guests lodging on bear skins on the floor. Jesse J. Underhill once had occasion to call upon Daniel Webster at his office in Boston. Mr. Webster inquired of his relationship to the landlord of the "Bear tavern." He said that when a lad he drove his father's team and used to put up there and lie on bear skins; they therefore called him the " Bear."
He m. Anne Glidden of Exeter, sister to Nathaniel Glidden, Dec. 26, 1753. Children : -
Abigail, b. Oct. 21, 1754, m. Moses Crombie. d. April 29. 1849 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 20, 1757, d. unmarried; Anne, m. John Wilson and went to Corinth, Vt .; Nathaniel went to Piermont. N. II .; Moser, m. Sarah Buswell and lived where Robert Patten now lives, on 127, 2d P., 2d D. He d. 1827; she d. 1826.
VARNUM.
JAMES VARNUM and John Tolford were chosen invoice men in 1741, and the inventory which was returned to the Secretary's office to make a proportion of rates, is in his hand-writing, and it is excellent. He m. Abigail, the youngest dau. of Dea. Ebenezer Dearborn, Oct. 26, 1742. March 29, 1742, he bought of Elizabeth, widow of Sampson Underhill, HI. L. No. 28, with a house and barn on the ten-rod way, where he lived, and probably kept tavern, as a proprietors' meeting was adjourned from the meeting- house to James Varnum's, " on account of the cold." He sold to Col. John Webster, March 2, 1753.
Abigail administered on his estate April 28, 1756. She m. John Robie. Children : -
1. Abigail, b. 1743, m. Ezekiel, son of Cort. John Lane, 1762,
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who d. in the army, 1777, and she m. Peter Hills, 1780; d. Jan. 4, 1802.
2. James, b. Feb. 14, 1745, m. Anna, dau. of John Robie, who had been married to a Towle and to Jacob Quimby, and lived where Quimby had lived, No. 63, 2d P., 2d D. He d. Nov. 7, 1827, at Stanstead, C. E.
3. John. b. Sept. 23. 1746, in. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Patten, and lived in Raymond; d. June, 1803. Children: - 1. Polly, m. Samuel, son of Col. Nathaniel Emerson. 2. Peter. 3. John.
4. Peter. 5. Josiah. 6. Mary, m. Peter Moores, and went to Maine. 7. Sarah, b. Jan. 29, 1754, mn. Moses, son of Winthrop Sargent. She d. 1813.
WADDEL.
JAMES and JOHN WADDEL lived on Add. Lot 132. It is not known that John had a family. James married. Children: - Betty, killed by John Tolford; a dau., m. Woodsworth, d. in Chester; Susannah, d. 1824; Mirabal, b. 1750, um. d. 1848, a. 98.
WASON.
THOMAS WASON came from Ireland to Londonderry. In July, 1738, he bought Add. Lot No. 106. Isaac Foss had settled on the west end of 101: John Foss on the west end of 105, in 1745: John Moore and James McClure on the east end of their lots, but Mir. Wason settled near the center of his lot, and the family remained without a road until 1822. He d. Jan., 1801, a. about 100. Chil- dren: -
I. Thomas, lived in Candia on the gore between the old and new hundreds, where J. O. Wason now lives; d. 1792.
II. Robert, m. a Wason of Hudson. and lived in Candia, on the east end of No. 118, 2d P., 2d D .; d. 1805, a. 70. Children: -
1. Dea. James, b. 1762, in. Elizabeth, dau. of Samnel Dinsmore, and lived ou No. 66, 2d P., 2d D .; d. 1826.
2. Capt. John, b. 1764, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Smith of Candia; lived near Candia corner and opposite the Long Meadow meeting-house. He d. 1848, a. 84; she d. 1843, a. 81.
3. Thomas, went to Corinth.
4. Betsy, m. Ebenezer Gregg of Dorchester.
5. Anna, m. a Clough of Candia.
6. Sarah, m. Edward Baker of Lyme.
7. Hannah, m. a Frost of Lyme.
8. Robert, m. Catharine, dan. of David Graham; went to Maine.
III. John, went to St. Johns, New Brunswick.
IV. James, b. 1746, m. Jane, dau. of Patrick Melvin, who was
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b. 1747; lived on the homestead. He d. March 14, 1829. Chil- dren : -
1. John, m. Jane, dau. of Thomas Wilson, who d. 1805; m. (2) Sarah Osgood; lived on the gore where Thomas Wason, Jr., had lived.
2. Thomas, b. Nov. 23, 1775, m. Abigail, dau. of Cornet Isaac Lane. He d. 1862, a. 87.
3. Mary, b. 1777, m. a Hoit; d. 1829.
4. Saralı.
5. James, b. Feb. 13, 1780, m. Dorothy, dau. of Capt. Michael Worthen, who was b. March 7, 1783; both alive 1869; lived on the homestead.
6. Samuel, b. June 13, 1783; lived unm. on the homestead; d. July 4. 1868.
WEBSTER.
STEPHEN WEBSTER Was born in Ipswich, and came to Haverhill about 1660. He was a tailor and was father of the grantee of that name, who is mentioned as having built a house previous to 1675, in Haverhill. Stephen, Sen., had a brother Nathan who settled in Bradford, whose wife was Mary, and they had: 1. NATHAN, one of the grantees of Chester, b. March 7, 1678-9. 2. Israel, b. 1686. 3. SAMUEL, b. Sept. 25, 1688, who was the father of Col. John Webster.
NATHAN, the grantee, came to Chester between 1728 and 1732, and owned two home lots, Nos. 71 and 72, and settled on :2, a little north of where Lewis Kimball now lives. His wife was Martha .. Children: -
I. DANIEL, b. Oct. 26, 1712, who settled on Add. No. 4, north- west of Haselton's, towards Jack's Ilill. Ile m. Mary Blasdell, and had two daughters. - Abigail, b. 1746, and Mary, b. 1749. Ilis will was proved May 30, 1780; had a grand-daughter, Martha Sargent.
II. NATHAN. b. July 1, 1715. m. Martha Blasdell, Feb. 10, 1742; lived on II. L. No. 117, where Amos Green lately lived, and had 11 children, most of whom d. young. He d. 1794.
Nathan, his third child, b. Nov. 19, 1747, lived on the home- stead; m. Elizabeth Clifford, dan. of Isaac Clifford, and grand- daughter of Wm. Healey, May 8, 1771, and had 10 children. Josiah, b. Jan. 16, 1772, graduated at Dartmouth, 1798; settled at Hamilton. Mass., and Hampton. He had a son John Calvin, who graduated at Dartmouth, 1832; settled at Hopkinton, Mass. Also, Joseph Dana, 1832, and Claudius, b. 1836. (See Graduates.)
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