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As these records are given in alphabetical order, no index is needed. When several families are of the same name, it has been the rule to mention first the family earliest here. When places OUTSIDE of New Hampshire are mentioned, the initials of the State are given therewith, except in a few cases where it would be needless, as New Orleans, Phil- adelphia, etc.
It has been the rule, as far as practicable without dividing families unwarrantably, to confine our remarks to those born in Antrim. Dates have been brought down to Centennial Day, June 27, 1877; and but lit- tle will be found in these genealogies subsequent to the above point of time, and this only such as has come unsought to my hand. These fam- ilies are allotted different amounts of space, since some were here but a little while, and some left no information or record behind. I have made it a rule to give all information to the point which I could get. If fam- ilies would give me but little, they must not complain if but little is said of them here. Most of the old settlers are noticed at some length. Sometimes I have had to decide between conflicting statements by dif- ferent branches of the same family. Some who had absolutely no records of their own will find notices here which I have picked up from various sources and put together. In making these searches during about five years, I have written fifteen hundred letters and about two thousand postals, - many of them for convenience in our own town. Of families who long since left town, I have often had to write to town clerks and clergymen and others, to find a person who could tell any-
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thing; and then write over and over, inclosing stamps, till sick at heart with it, to get out of him what I wanted. I have tried with entire impartiality to get in all cases what facts I could.
All matters of biography in this book are embodied in the genealogies. Have said but little about the living.
It should be added, that, some items coming in late, I have been obliged to make the additions in a manner out of the usual order. Some of the larger sketches of families I have actually written over four times, to make them correspond with new information, often also unknown to the families themselves. About sixty families have during this period resided in Antrim more or less who are not named in the genealogies, because we have no valid information. Most of these were so little here, or so little identified with us, as not to be greatly missed. The following persons lived here at least one year each before 1810 : Joseph Clark, Jonathan Lamson, Daniel Moore, Stephen Reynolds, Thomas Patch, Jonathan Flanders, Thomas Miller, David Carleton, - Hoyt, William Davidson, William Johnson, and Jesse Rogers. Subsequently, Nathan Cram, Thomas Aucerton, Sampson Reed, Thomas Carleton, Bezaleel Wheeler, Luther Conant, John Edwards, most of them with large fam- ilies, resided here for a time. More recently, many families have come and gone, whom neither convenience nor interest would justify us in following. These genealogies embrace three hundred and twenty-nine different names, and five hundred and eighty-one different families. I have taken what seemed to me all possible pains to be accurate; yet probably many mistakes will be found, for which I ask in advance the patience of all concerned. The result may seem imperfect; but, scat- tered through five years, I have spent more than twelve months of steady, close labor on these genealogies alone, and submit them as the best I can do under the circumstances.
I am indebted to Miss Abby C. Morse, of Concord, for much patient and most efficient work in arranging and copying these materials. Clark Hopkins also has been of great service to me, and has been willing to spend much time in my help. Reed P. Saltmarsh has been ur tiring in his efforts to aid me, and has been of great service. To these especially, and to many others, I here put on record my tender of honest thanks.
And among those who have gone out from the town who have aided in this work, I would mention Rev. S. G. Abbott, Hon. George W. Nes- mith, Hon. A. H. Dunlap, and, in particular, Hon. Charles Adams, Jr. The last named has taken upon him more actual labor and pains than any other person, and he has been ready both with money and work to forward these investigations.
I may add that I have drawn items from every possible source, with- out hesitation but thankfully, for which it would take too much room to make separate acknowledgments.
Robert C. Mack, Esq., of Londonderry, has been greatly my helper, as he is always my honored friend, and my fellow-laborer as a genealogist.
No abbreviations are employed except b. for born, m. for married, and d. for died, unless in case of initials of names; the object being to make every page as plain as possible, especially to the aged.
GENEALOGIES.
ABBOTT.
REV. SAMUEL ABBOTT was son of Dea. Ephraim and Dorothy (Stiles) Abbott. This Dea. Ephraim was the son of Ephraim, who was the son of Ephraim, who was the son of John, who was the son of George Ab- bott, who came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Andover, Mass., 1643. Rev. Samuel Abbott was born in Mont Vernon, 1777, married Sa- rah, daughter of Rev. John Rand, 1798; was pastor in Middleborough, Bridgewater, and Chester, Mass., and Londonderry, N. H. Was the inventor of "Abbott's window-shades," 1825; came here in 1838, and bought the present estate in Clinton, where he remained till his death in 1853. Mr. Abbott was wholly uneducated in the schools, but had strong native abilities, was a good sermonizer, and an impressive preacher. In style, he was bold, incisive, and logical. As a minister, he was honest and fearless. He never wrote a sermon. An incident will best show the man. He preached for Dr. Whiton one day, and had for a subject: " What must be put out of the church to promote a revival ?" After enlarging on several items, he paused and said, "One thing more must go out of the church. [A pause.] Yes, I must mention it, - Rum must go out of the church !" And then with great courage and ability he enforced the reasons why. Those were the first days of the temperance excitement, and many of the members had long been accustomed to a daily dram. Many, therefore, were offended and declared they would never hear Mr. Abbott again. The next time Dr. Whiton asked him to preach, he consented on condition that no hint of it be given beforehand. Then, when suddenly he arose to speak and several men started for the door, he was too quick for them, and in a loud voice gave out his text: " And they, being convicted in their own consciences, went out one by one !" And at once they all appreciated the thing, - heard him through, and were ever after good friends ! Mr. Abbott's children were thus: -
1. SAMUEL, [d. in infancy.]
2. EPHRAIM, [b. Milford 1801, m. Ann Wallace of Merrimack, lives in Sudbury, Mass.]
3. SARAH G., [b. in Middleborough, Mass., 1804, m. Richard Waldron, and lives in Providence, R. I.]
4. MILLE R., [d. in Antrim 1848, unm., aged 41.]
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5. HEPSIBAH N., [b. in Middleborough, Mass., 1809, d. in Antrim 1841.]
6. SAMUEL W., [b. in Bridgewater, Mass., 1812, m. Clarissa P. Claggett of Derry, d. Montreal, Can., 1862. Samuel W. Abbott was the first of the family here. He came in 1835, and bought, in company with Dea. Imla Wright, all the water-power between Holt's and Paige's mills, with a large tract of land. They two built the Abbott mill, 1836. The former bought the Boyd house, 1837, moved it and fitted it up as it now stands. This house was built in 1797, and, when moved, the shingles that had done service forty years were turned over and relaid on the back side, and are doing good service now, having lasted upwards of eighty years.] 7. DOROTHY S., [b. in Bridgewater 1813, m. Rev. Isaac Wood- bury 1857, d. in Antrim June, 1873.]
8. JOHN R., [b. in Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 14, 1817, m. Han- nah O. True of Francestown, Dec. 19, 1848; carried on an extensive business in Clinton many years, was a smart and efficient business man, a loving a it devout Christian. Died in the prime of life, Dec. 6, 1863, in the State of Penn- sylvania, where he had gone in pursuit of health. His widow died June 21, 1875, a noble woman full of prayer and good works, aged 53. Their children are : -
John G., (b. Nov. 3, 1854. He carries on a large business in Clinton, is a most worthy young man and desirable citizen. Is town treasurer, and probably the youngest man that ever held that office in Antrim.)
Charles S., (b. Aug. 16, 1856.)
Harlan P., (b. July 10, 1860.)
Mary Jane, (an adopted daughter, niece of Mrs. Abbott, b. July 13, 1857.)]
9. REV. STEPHEN G., [b. in Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 9, 1819, studied theology at New Hampton, was licensed to preach by the Baptist Church of Antrim, and settled in Needham, Mass., and other places. He m. Sarah B. Cheney of Hol- derness, in 1846. The degree of A. M. was conferred on Mr. Abbott, by Bates College, in 1870. He has but one child.
John T., (b. in Antrim in 1850, was graduated at Bates Col- lege in 1871, m. Alice E. Merriman, and is now a lawyer in Keene.)]
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ADAMS.
[Chiefly from Drake's History of Boston, Folio Edition.]
AP ADAM came to England out of the "Marches of Wales," and twenty-three generations of his descendants in the male line are here given. The earlier generations lived in Lancashire and Devonshire, England, and the later ones in America.
1. Sir John Ap Adam, Knt. Lord Ap Adam, member of Parlia- ment from 1296 to 1307.
2. Sir John Ap Adam.
3. William Ap Adam.
4. Sir John Ap Adam.
5. Thomas Ap Adam.
6. Sir John Ap Adam, Knt.
7. Sir John Ap Adam, alias Adams.
8. Roger Adams.
9. Thomas Adams.
10. John Adams.
11. John Adams.
12. John Adams.
13. Richard Adams.
14. William Adams.
15. Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, Mass. (now Quincy), and died 1646.
16. Edward Adams, of Medfield, Mass.
17. John Adams, of Medway, Mass.
18. Abraham Adams, of Brookfield, Mass.
19. Jesse Adams, of Brookfield, Mass.
20. Dr. Charles Adams, of Antrim.
21. Hon. Charles Adams, Jr., North Brookfield, Mass.
22. Charles Woodburn Adams, North Brookfield, Mass.
23. Charles Joseph Adams, North Brookfield, Mass.
From Henry Adams (15), who settled in Braintree, descended the presidents. He had a large family besides the Edward named above, and among them a son Joseph, born 1626, who married Abigail Baxter, and died 1694. This Joseph had a son Joseph, born Dec. 24, 1654. Of this second Joseph, the second son was Dea. John Adams of Braintree, who died May 25, 1760. Dea. John married Susanna Boylston of Brook- line, Mass., and their oldest son was John Adams, born Oct. 19, 1735, second president of the United States, reaching the age of nearly 91. His oldest son was John Quincy Adams, born July 11, 1767, sixth pres- ident, dying Feb. 23, 1848. John Q. Adams married Louisa C. Johnson, and was father of the distinguished Charles Francis Adams.
Dr. Charles Adams, the twentieth generation from Ap Adam of Wales, was son of Jesse and Miriam (Richardson) Adams of Brookfield, Mass., and was born in that place Feb. 13, 1782. His early years were spent on the farm with his father. His education was chiefly acquired in the district school and Leicester Academy. He then taught some two years in Half Moon, N. Y. On return (1803), he commenced the
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study of medicine with Dr. Asa Walker of Barre, Mass., with whom he remained in practice one year after completing his studies. He came to Antrim and began practice in the early summer of 1807, coming to take . the place of Dr. Cleaves, whose death occurred in April of that year. His attention was called to Antrim by Dr. Whiton, who afterwards set- tled here in the ministry, and at that time had been here enough to know something of the people and their wants. At first Dr. Adams established himself at the Center of the town, where he remained about a year. He bought the place now occupied by Harold Kelsea in South Village, Oct. 31, 1808, and some months after located there, and remained there till his removal from town. This house and the few acres of land attached to it was part of a large tract containing five hun- dred and ninety-five acres, all which was sold for taxes, Oct. 28, 1778, by James Duncan, constable of the town, to Daniel McFarland, in two lots, for £16. 15s. 2d. McFarland held all this land till 1798, when he sold about twenty acres (now belonging to Kelsea, Alvah Dodge, and many others) to Nehemiah Knight, for eighty dollars, under date of June 7 of that year. Knight sold to Dr. Adams, and Dr. Adams to Moses B. Ferson, June 23, 1832. The succeeding owners were John Dunlap, Ezra Hyde, Mark B. Woodbury, N. W. C. Jameson, and Harold Kelsea. Dr. Adams paid three hundred dollars, in 1808, for what is now worth many thousands. At that time there was on the place a little, low, unpainted house, with a small shop joined on to it, which, having apparently been a shoemaker's shop, now became the doctor's office. Feb. 13, 1809, his twenty-seventh birthday, Dr. Adams married Sarah McAllister, daughter of James and Sarah (McClary) McAllister of Antrim. She was a woman of excellent tastes and talents, of rare patience under trial, and of a sweet and winning Christian spirit, - all which made her a woman conspicuously worthy and attractive. "In her tongue was the law of kindness." "Her children rise up and call her blessed." His practice here was large and laborious, and promised to remain so, suggesting to him the idea of a change; and on the death of Dr. Fobes of Oakham, Mass., near his native town, he determined at once to go there, and made his removal to that place in 1816. He died in that place March 6, 1875. Dr. Adams, in Antrim, was occasionally in town office, was a favorite among the people, and was held to be a suc- cessful physician and a man of marked ability. He was a great reader, was full of information, pursued his practice till most of his contempora- ries were gone, and even in extreme old age he was sent for in difficult cases. He was the oldest of twelve children, all of whom he survived more than a quarter of a century. Unbroken health was given him all his life long, and he died of old age at last. Dr. Adams had eight chil- dren, four of them born in Antrim and the four youngest in Oakham.
1. HON. CHARLES, JR., [b. Jan. 31, 1810. Had his first school- ing here, under charge of Daniel M. Christie and Miss Fanny Baldwin. After removal from this town, he was at school six months under Rev. John Bisbee of Brookfield,
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Mass. ; then studied eight months with Rev. Josiah Clark of Rutland, Mass. ; and this was the limit of his opportunity for education. Then, though quite young. he was in a store five or six years, obtaining much practical knowledge in the course of his work. Is what is called a self-made man. Few men can be found better versed than he in literary affairs or political economy, May 8, 1834, he married Eliza, daughter of Dea. Joseph Cummings of Ware, Mass., and settled in North Brookfield, that State, where he has since resided. Was a long time book-keeper, and afterwards part- ner, in the immense boot and shoe manufacturing establish- ment of that place, from which he retired just before the war. With singular continuance he has been kept in offices of trust by the people of his town and State. He was clerk of the town ten years ; representative, four years ; on the Massachusetts executive council, four years ; treasurer of the State, five years ; and is now (1877) on his fourth year as sen- ator in the Massachusetts legislature. Has been in public life more than a quarter of a century. Is a man of fixed prin- ciple and irreproachable character; and is held in honor throughout his adopted State. Has always been greatly attached to his native town, cherishing with unfading love the rocks and the hills upon which he looked in childhood. Was one of the donors of the vestry to the Center Church, with which he subsequently united. He is a Scotch anti- quarian of much reading, foreign travel, and patient research. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College, 1878. Has had five children : Joseph Charles, Charles Woodburn, Ellen Eliza, John Quincy, and George Arthur. ]
2. AUSTIN, [b. June 23, 1811 ; m. 1st, Charlotte Noyes, 1845; 2d, Almira Stearns ; is a mason by trade, lives in Oakham, Mass.]
3. CHARLOTTE, [b. May 21, 1813, m. John F. Howard of Boston, and died Oct. 14, 1849.]
4. LYMAN, [b. April 1, 1815, m. Sarah Brown of Baltimore, Md., and died at New Orleans, March 18, 1859.]
5. DEA. LEVI, [b. Oakham, March 7, 1817 ; m. Sarah L. Ward of North Brookfield, Aug. 14, 1845; 2d, Clara M. Dwight of Belchertown, Mass., May 14, 1854. He died Aug. 11, 1860. Was a fine scholar and a superior teacher. He fol-
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lowed the profession of teaching nearly twenty years; was a man of early and life-long piety ; very able in meetings ; greatly loved by all classes ; was deacon in Congregational Church of North Brookfield, and his early death was one of great glory and peace. In the struggles of death he said to his pastor, referring to his funeral : " I wish you to state that I do not want a Unitarian Savior now, but one that is Almighty ! "]
6. HORACE, [d. unm., 1849, aged 30.]
7. CLARINDA R., [b. Nov. 17, 1823, m. George A. Ellis, who is now treasurer of the South Boston Savings Bank. She is a woman of rare sweetness of character and life.]
8. JOHN, [b. April 4, 1827, m. Marietta Pierce, lives in Boston.]
EDWIN T. ADAMS, carpenter by trade, son of John and Betsey (Atkins) Adams, born in Waterbury, Vt., 1836, came here in 1870 into the Ezra Hyde house, which he has greatly enlarged and improved. Mar- ried Jennie Davis of Hancock, and has one child, Sadie M.
AIKEN.
EDWARD AIKEN, ancestor of all the New Hampshire Aikens, came over from the north of Ireland in 1720, the next year after the set- tlement of Londonderry, and located among his countrymen in that new town. Parker puts the date of emigration in 1722. But near the close of 1720 the general committee of the town were " petitioned to by Wil- liam Aiken, John Bell, Andrew Todd, John Wallis, and Benjamin Wil- son, for the grant of a stream or brook, which commonly goes by the name of Aiken's brook, in order to the setting-up of a saw-mill thereon, and also one acre of land adjoining to said brook, that will be convenient for a yard to said mill." This shows that the Aikens must have been on the ground previous to December, 1720, long enough for the stream to get the name " Aiken's brook." Many of these Aikens were mill- wrights and mechanics, - the first Aiken in Antrim also having up a saw-mill soon after he got fairly started on his farm.
The emigrant, Edward Aiken, had three sons, all, it seems, born in Ireland; and if he had daughters, we have no note of them. The sons settled on adjoining farms in Londonderry, and hence the neighborhood was called " Aiken's Range."
Nathaniel, oldest son of Edward, was born May 14, 1696; married Margaret Cochran, daughter of James, Dec. 1, 1726, and had children: Edward, John, Eleanor, Nathaniel, Christian, Jane, James, Ninian, Wil- liam, Susannah, and Thomas. Nathaniel, the father of these, died Dec. 1, 1783, and his wife in 1788. Edward Aiken, the emigrant, was born in Ireland in 1660, married Barby Edwards, and died in Londonderry in 1747.
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Edward, the oldest child of Nathaniel, went to Windham, Vt. He was born Sept. 2, 1727; was grandfather of Rev. Dr. Samuel C. Aiken of Ohio.
John, second child of Nathaniel, called Dea. John, married Annis Orr, and removed to Bedford. He was grandfather of Rev. Dr. Silas Aiken of Boston, afterwards of Rutland, Vt., and also of Hon. John Aiken of Andover, Mass., and great-grandfather of Rev. Dr. C. A. Aiken, pro- fessor at Princeton. The descendants of Dea. John Aiken are very numerous.
Much might be given of the other children of Nathaniel, but it is beyond the province of this book. James, his seventh child, remained in Londonderry, and had a large family.
Ninian, the eighth child, lived in Deering, and was grandfather of James Aiken, Esq., of Lewisburg, Penn., whose poem appears in the centennial proceedings.
William, the ninth child of Nathaniel, was born Feb. 20, 1743, married Betsey Woodburn, settled in Deering, and died Feb. 19, 1799. Ho was known as "Dea. William," was an excellent man, and was a leader in the new town where he settled and died. Had ten children, and was grandfather of M. M. Aiken, Esq., a man of note in Peoria, Ill., and of the Gillis family named elsewhere. The descendants of " Dea. William " are many in number and noble in character:
Thomas, youngest child of Nathaniel save a daughter, Harriet, sup- posed to have died young, was born Feb. 27, 1747. He married Mary Anderson Dec. 31, 1772 ; was known as " Spinning-wheel Thomas." He settled in the south part of Deering, and there manufactured spinning- wheels for the whole region. Was an officer in the militia. The section where he lived was called Antrim as early as 1770. This was the Thomas Aiken that "lived in Antrim," and brought up the boy Samuel Downing, who became the last survivor of the Revolutionary army. (See Downing.) "Spinning-wheel Thomas " died June 10, 1831, aged eighty- four. Thousands of his spinning-wheels were in use in this region fifty years ago, and a few are still preserved. He had ten children : Joseph, Nancy, John, Thomas, Susanna, Alice, Jennie, Mary, Robert, and Sallie. Inasmuch as he claimed that he "lived in Antrim," his children shall have additional mention here, as follows : --
Joseph was graduated at Dartmouth College, 1799, and died in 1803.
Nancy married Daniel Dane of New Boston.
John married Nancy Moore, and died in Texas, 1846.
Thomas died young.
Susanna married David Lewis of Francestown.
Alice married David Ellinwood of Deering.
Jennie married Peter Clark of Francestown.
Mary married William Langdell of New Boston, and left a large family.
Robert settled in Kingston, Canada, and his descendants are now in that vicinity.
Sallie married Rufus Fuller of Contoocookville, and had a large family.
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Walter and J. B. Aiken, manufacturers at Franklin Falls, are descend- ants of "Spinning-wheel Thomas."
James Aiken, second son of the emigrant Edward, married Jean Coch- ran, Oct. 26, 1725, probably a sister of Margaret Cochran, named above. They had six children. The oldest, Elizabeth, was born Aug. 13, 1726. The others were Edward, James, Jane, Agnes, and John. We have no knowledge of Elizabeth ; Edward, Jane, Agnes, and John went to Benson, Vt., and were among the best people there. A descendant, James H. Aiken, Esq., now resides there, and many are scattered in the South and West.
James, the other of these six children of James and Jean Cochran, was our "Dea. James," of whom a brief sketch follows here. In addi- tion to this sketch it may be said that Dea. Aiken served one campaign or more in the Revolutionary army. He lived to see the forest of 1767 turned into a thriving town of thirteen hundred inhabitants. A brief obituary may be found in the " Amherst Cabinet " of Aug. 2, 1817.
DEA. JAMES AIKEN of Antrim was born in Londonderry, June 1, 1731 ; was out in the French war ; was one of the company celebrated as "Rogers's Rangers," who scoured the country and accomplished marvels in the line of bravery and endurance. Dr. Whiton tells us that Dea. Aiken was once on a scout with Maj. Rogers as far west as Lake George, and the party were almost famished with hunger and thirst, nothing remaining but a glass of rum in a soldier's canteen. The major offered him a dollar for the rum. But the soldier, saying, " Major, I love you, but I love myself better," tipped the canteen and swallowed the rum!
That Dea. Aiken was a brave man, is attested by the fact that alone he faced the forest and the savage, and fixed his home here many miles from a human neighbor. He was the second permanent settler of Antrim. He came and made a little opening in 1766, and the next year removed his family here. Their arrival at his cabin was on Aug. 12, 1767, and it stood against a big rock near the house of Robert Dodge at the foot of the hill in South Village, that being, as he said, the first dry spot he came to on this side of the river. It was four years before another settler joined him in that part of the town. Dea. Aiken was a man of remarkable energy and power, was ready to help any one, was intimidated by no hardship, made his house a shelter to the first settlers, and opened his liumble door to every wanderer. Some of these, as else- where related, found a happy refuge with this family in the wilderness. For many subsequent years, whenever one came to preach to the scat- tered settlers, Dea. Aiken "took care of the minister." In his barn, September, 1775, was preached the first sermon ever heard in Antrim. At the formation of the Presbyterian Church, 1788, he was the first per- son chosen elder, and he held the office with great faithfulness till his death, July 27, 1817, aged eighty-six. He died in the old house by the poplar-tree, which house was taken down by Charles McKeen about 1855. His wife was Molly McFarland, a worthy and noble companion of his hardships and perils. They brought with them four children. She died Dec. 3, 1814, aged seventy-eight. Besides two that died young, the family was as follows : -
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