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1. JANE, [Was preparing to marry Dea. John Alexander, when she suddenly sickened and died, to the great grief of the people. ]
2. BARBARA, [m. John Campbell, 1786, and d. Feb. 1, 1828, aged 63.]
3. KATHERINE, [b. Aug. 10, 1761, m. James Hopkins 1788, and d. Sept. 6, 1820.]
4. MARTHA, [m. Joseph Favor and went to New Chester, now Hill. Her husband was killed by the fall of a bank of earth upon him, Oct. 13, 1807. She died in Lowell, Mass., more than fourscore years of age. ]
5. POLLY, [b. April 15, 1768, first child of the white race born in Antrim ; m. Ebenezer Kimball, and d. Dec. 14, 1862. She was mother of the noted Dr. Kimball of Lowell.]
6. JAMES, JR., [b. in the spring of 1772, being the first male of the white race born in this town. He married a daughter of Hugh Orr of Antrim. He built on the farm of his father, just north of the deacon's residence, the large house now (1879) Mr. Whittum's, and previously Gove's and Barrett's. He soon after went to New York with his wife and two children, Fanny and. Edward, locating in Locke, now Summerhill. No son of Antrim has been hunted for more eagerly than this one, by the writer, but without avail. It is known, however, that he had several sons after emigra- tion, one of whom was Leonard Aiken, who began life as a lawyer.]
7. PEGGY, [b. Aug. 30, 1776, m. Richard McAllister, and d. leaving several children, March 1, 1813, aged 36.]
8. NANCY, [d. unm., 1814.]
William, the youngest son of Edward the emigrant, married Janet Wilson, and had two sons, Edward and William, the former going to Windham, Vt., and the latter to Truro, Nova Scotia. This Janet Wilson was aunt of that Mary Wilson who was born on board of a pirate ship while her mother was a prisoner, and who was named for the pirate cap- tain's wife, and received valuable presents from him. The whole of the children known were Agnes, Edward, Mary, Jonathan, Martha, and Wil- liam. Agnes was born Nov. 17, 1726. Other and valuable information concerning the several branches of the Aiken family must be omitted for want of space.
ALEXANDER.
RANDALL ALEXANDER, no doubt son of Randall and Janet Alexander, who received their lot of land in Nutfield in 1720, came
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here from Londonderry and began the James Hopkins place (Arthur Miller's) in 1772. Had been a soldier in the French war. Then he seems to be lost sight of on the records till he turns up in this place. When he came here he "squatted " (built a log cabin) on the brick-yard hill, so called, near the present house, but never made any purchase. And not possessing a spirit congenial with his neighbors, the land he claimed was quietly bought by others ; and when he resisted removal, he was hustled off without the forms of law. 'Tis said they dragged him down the sand-hill by his heels ! Would not this seem a good process to apply at a day as late as the present in certain cases ?
Mr. Alexander had the first grindstone in Antrim for several years; and when asked by Aiken, his nearest neighbor, where he got it, said he found it in the jam, the annual collection of drift-wood in the bend of the river east of his camp. Aiken said he knew he lied, but couldn't resist the temptation to use that grindstone ! So things went on for a time, until it was found that Alexander had borrowed the grindstone in Peterborough, without the owner's consent, and sent it down the river in a large sap-trough !
Mr. Alexander left town in 1784. Nothing can be ascertained about his family, or where he went. But he came back here in 1823, white- headed, feeble, and forgotten, and was supported by the town till his death in 1826, at the age of ninety-two. Dr. Whiton says, objection was made to tolling the bell for him, because it was the tradition that he saw a beautiful French girl murdered for her beads when he might have pre- vented it with a word. Very likely there was no truth in the charge; but this circumstance shows that this people were very sensitive to a wrong. And that was the first year they had a bell, and no doubt it seemed a very sacred thing.
DEA. JOHN ALEXANDER, not known to be kin of the above, - of Scotch race, - came here from Londonderry and began the Daniel. Holt farm in 1787; married Mary Nevins of Salem, Mass. Sold his farm to Samuel McAdams and moved to the Branch in 1795, into a little house then standing six or eight rods east of Sylvester Preston's. Was chosen elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1800; died in 1812. Left no chil- dren. Was a good man. His widow, partially insane, and without friends, survived him many years. Nothing is known of their ancestry.
ALLDS.
JOHN ALLDS, son of James and Sarah (Hopkins) Allds, came here from Peterborough in 1798; cleared and settled the Jesse Combs place (now Lewis Green's); put up the present buildings in 1800; married Sarah, daughter of Charles Tuttle, in 1803; after many years moved into a house then standing between B. F. Dustin's and the Keene road; moved to Conneaut, Penn., in 1835, and died there, April 11, 1859, aged eighty. Children : -
1. ISAAC W., [b. May 26, 1804, m. Abigail Butters July 19, 1836, lived in west part of Antrim till 1853, when he moved to
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Stoddard, and died there April 26, 1876. Had children, all born here : -
John, (b. July 15, 1837, d. in infancy.)
Benton, (d. Sept. 23, 1842, aged 4.)
Eliza, (d. Sept. 28, 1842, aged 2.)
Sarah Ann, (b. Aug. 3, 1843, m. Charles S. Fletcher of this town March 25, 1874.)
Louisa Ellen, (b. June 25, 1845, m. Cyrus J. Whitney, Jr., Oct. 17, 1875.)
Isaac Worden, (b. Nov. 30, 1848, lives in Centralia, Wis.)
Warren, (b. June 18, 1850, now of Worcester, Mass.)
John Langdon, (b. Oct. 3, 1853, d. June 23, 1861.)]
2. JOHN, [b. March 25, 1806, went to Conneaut, Penn., in 1827, m. Sarah Osmore, now lives in Camp Douglas, Wis.]
3. SARAH A., [twin sister of John, m. Langdon Swett April 25, 1833, was blind many years, d. Dec. 11, 1878.]
4. NANCY H., [b. Jan. 11, 1811, became second wife of Calvin Barrett of Stoddard.]
5. JONATHAN, [b. June 18, 1815, went with his father to Con- neaut, Penn., and still lives there ; m. Hannah Loomis.]
ANTHOINE.
NICHOLAS ANTHOINE came over to Marblehead, Mass., about the middle of the last century, and there married Rachel Hawkes. He was of French race, coming from the Isle of Jersey in the English chan- nel, which has long been a possession of England, though once a part of France and retaining its French manners and customs to this day. Nicholas Anthoine and Rachel Hawkes had three children : John, Rachel, and Nicholas, Jr. The latter went to Windham, Me., with many oth- ers, who formed a settlement and called it New Marblehead, after their old home, - which name was subsequently changed to Windham.
Nicholas, Jr., married Anna Pettingill, whom he found in his new home in Maine. He was a man of note in his day in that section of the country. He had only six weeks' schooling in all his life, yet was a fine scholar, many years a teacher; was teacher of Latin, and was particu- larly proficient in astronomy. He had his telescope and library of astro- nomical works, and used to calculate the various eclipses. He also studied medicine sufficiently to be of great use in that place and day, when physicians were remote.
John Anthoine, son of Nicholas, Jr., married Mary Gilman, and their son, Dr. Isaiah G. Anthoine, was born in Windham, Me., March 25, 1846, and came here as the successor of Dr. Kimball in 1874. He mar- ried Kate I. Preston, Jan. 2, 1877. Is superintending school-committee of the town. Dr. Anthoine studied at Stevens' Plains Seminary near Portland, Me .; entered the academic department of Dartmouth College
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in 1868, leaving at the close of the first year to go out teaching; then studied nearly two years in the Portland School of Medical Instruction ; and was graduated at Bowdoin Medical College in 1874, coming imme- diately here, and locating in South Village. Has one son, Harry M., b. Oct. 2, 1879.
APPLETON.
CHARLES APPLETON, grandson of Judge Robert Alcock, who came direct from England to Deering, and son of James and Mary (Stewart) Appleton, was born in Deering, 1825; name was changed from Alcock to Appleton ; married Nancy J. Parker, moved onto the then- called Tennent place, 1859, and still occupies the same. Children : -
1. CLARA A., [b. in Deering Sept. 5, 1853, m. Andrew D. White April 4, 1877.]
2. GEORGE J., [b. in Deering, Feb. 18, 1855.]
3. SCOTT J., [b. in Antrim, June 23, 1862.]
ATHERTON.
JOSEPH S. ATHERTON, name changed from Witherspoon. See that family.
ATWOOD.
JOSHUA ATWOOD. Little known of him. Lived awhile in Lempster ; was son of Caleb Atwood of Weare; came here and settled the John Barker place, 1790; married Susan Cram, and died in 1829, aged seventy-nine. The five last children were by a second wife, Mrs. Anne (Miller) Dresser of Windsor. He sold his farm to John Barker, in old age, and moved to Washington, but did not long survive the change. The children, except two that died in infancy, are given below. First wife died at the age of thirty-five.
1. WELLS, [m. Betsey Dresser, and moved to Windsor ; went thence to Washington, and d. there years ago.]
2. BETSEY, [m. Samuel Brown, d. on the Dea. Woods farm.]
3. POLLY, [m. John Dresser, moved to Washington, d. there.]
4. JESSE, [m. Betsey Hall of Londonderry, Vt., and lived and d. in that place.]
5. DOLLY, [m. Squire Gove, and moved to Weare.]
6. PETER CLARK, [b. in Lempster Aug. 11, 1795, m. Mary F. Wilkins (" Polly") of Antrim. They lived here about five years after marriage, moving to Londonderry, Vt., in No- vember, 1820. They had children thus :-
Dr. Matthew Whipple, (b. in Antrim May 22, 1816, m. Fannie W. Burnham of this town Oct. 10, 1843, settled as a physi-
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cian in New Hudson, N. Y., and d. there, of consumption, Aug. 19, 1847, aged 31. Was a young man of much prom- ise, and his untimely death was the occasion of great sor- row.)
Mary Almira, (b. in Antrim Jan. 18, 1818, m. Elisha D. Gear- field Oct. 13, 1836, d. of consumption in Londonderry, Vt., July 5, 1847.)
Lydia W., (b. in Antrim March 5, 1820, m. Alvah W. Pierce May 3, 1841, d. of consumption May 9, 1854.)
Harriet N., (b. in Londonderry, Vt., March 23, 1823; m. 1st, Joel M. Pettengill. Her husband d. at the age of 25 ; m. 2d, Harvey S. Curtis, Dec. 25, 1850. Home in Kenosha, Wis.)
Emeline, (b. March 14, 1825, m. Samuel B. Coffin, lives in Newport.)
Susan A., (b. Oct. 2, 1827, m. Josiah W. Pettigrew, lives in Ludlow, Vt.)
Sarah F., (b. Oct. 11, 1829, m. Thomas P. Davis, lives in Boston.)
Peter C., (b. Jan. 26, 1832, m. Helen Aldrich.)
Ann E., (b. Feb. 18, 1835, m. Prof. Addison P. Wyman, d. Sept. 24, 1871. Her husband followed in six months.)
James H., (b. June 5, 1840, m. Frances Palmer, and lives in Canton, Ill.)]
7. JOSHUA, [m. Alice Sanborn of Unity; went some twenty years ago to Wisconsin ; supposed to be dead.]
8. RHODA, [b. May 1, 1800, m. William Gove of Weare.]
9. SALLY A., [m. John Flint of Antrim, Jan. 31, 1822, and now lives a widow at Albany, Wis.]
10. JOHN, [child of second wife, b. Dec. 2, 1807, went into U. S. army in the Mexican war, was badly wounded, from the effects of which he soon died.]
11. JEREMIAH S., [b. Nov. 22, 1809, m. Elisabeth Moore, has children : Hiram G., b. Nov. 2, 1841 ; Samuel H., b. May 9, 1843 ; Mary R., b. May 1, 1845 ; Diantha E., b. May 29, 1846; Martha A., b. July 10, 1850 ; James M., b. Feb. 20, 1852; Joshua C., b. Aug. 27, 1855 ; George L., b. Oct. 20, 1857 ; Abby M., b. Oct. 16, 1859 ; and John M., b. Aug. 13, 1864.]
12. IRA, [b. July 11, 1813, m. Mary Temple of Claremont, went 1 to New York.]
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13. LENORA, [b. Oct. 2, 1816, m. Oscar Lawrence, and went to New York. ]
14. LUCETTE, [m. Harrison Andrews of Windsor.]
WILLIAM D. ATWOOD, grandson of Caleb, and son of Philip and Sarah (Dustin) Atwood, was born in Sandwich, 1789, and married Sally Simonds of this town, May 7, 1812; came here in 1810, lived near Lover- ing's mills; moved to Bridgewater, Vt., in 1823, where he now survives ' . at great age. Children, all but the youngest born here, were thus: -
1. ALEXANDER, [b. in 1813, unm., lives in Pennsylvania.]
2. SARAH, [b. in 1816, m. Cephas Harding of Pomfret, Vt., d. 1854.]
3. LOUISA, [b. in 1818, m. Isaac Angell of Bridgewater, Vt.]
4. LUKE, [b. in 1820, m. Martha Weld, and lives in Barnard, Vt.]
5. HANNAH, [b. in 1823, m. Sylvester Woodward, and has recently come from Deering to this town.]
6. WILLIAM, [b. in 1829, m. Sarah Fairbanks, and lives in Bridge- water, Vt.]
AUSTIN.
But little is known of the ancestry of the Austins of this town. The father of Nathan, named below, was killed by the Indians, but the time and place cannot be ascertained. The father and son were fording a river, both on one horse, when the savages fired upon them. The father was killed and fell into the river, but the boy and the horse escaped unhurt. This boy was taken to Pelham, and there he was brought up, and there he married; and his posterity are very numerous and respectable.
NATHAN AUSTIN came here from Pelham, and began the Danforth farm, west of the Gould place, in 1780. His wife was Phebe Barker, half- sister to Capt. Peter Barker. Brought with him a large family. Moved to Rochester, Vt., in 1800, and died there very aged in 1840. Their chil- dren, besides four little ones buried in Antrim, were: -
1. NATHAN, [m. 1st, Betsey Brown; 2d, Sarah Brown; went with his father to Rochester, Vt., and d. there in 1847, aged 78.]
2. MARENA, [b. 1770, m. John Brown ; had one son, Samuel, b. in Antrim, who m. Louisa Ayer, and is now living in Mont- pelier, Ind. After the birth of Samuel, they moved to Rochester, Vt., and had a large family, one of whom, Thomas Brown, m. his cousin, Lucy Brown of Antrim, in 1829, and lived on what is called the Thomas Brown place, till 1866, when he moved to Hancock. Mrs. Lucy Brown
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d. in 1875, aged 74. Marena d. in Goshen, Vt., at the age of 80.]
3. HANNAH, [m. Ezra Washburn and lived and d. in Rochester, Vt. The date of her death was Sept. 6, 1833, and her age 54.]
4. DANIEL, [m. Polly Baker, lived in Rochester, Vt., and d. there May, 1827.]
5. ABIJAH, [went to Potsdam, N. Y., m. Polly Shaw, and d. April 15, 1860, aged 79. His wife d. Feb. 7, 1858, aged 75.]
6. PHINEHAS, [m. " Dicy " Washburne, went to Potsdam, N. Y., and d. there April 15, 1863. His wife d. Aug. 20, 1865, aged 80.]
7. SARAH, [m. Daniel Shaw of Rochester, Vt., went to Potsdam, N. Y., and d. there, Dec. 22, 1834, aged 47. Her husband d. April 20, 1854, aged 73.]
8. ISAAC, [went to Potsdam, m. Mary Field, moved to Hopkinton, N. Y., and d. there, March 1, 1862, aged 72. His wife d. Oct. 4, 1863, aged 69.]
AVERILL.
PHILIP AVERILL, son of Thomas and Mary Averill, of Windsor, born in Amherst, 1789 ; married, Ist, Hannah Boutwell, Sept. 16, 1812 ; 2d, Mary Vose, Sept. 28, 1834; 3d, Hannah G. Barber of Peterborough. Lived many years in a house then standing near Windsor line, on the road above Daniel Swett's; moved thence to Peterborough in 1836, and died there, Sept. 27, 1858. Children : -
1. MARY ANN, [b. Jan. 30, 1815 ; m. 1st, James Boutelle, Jr., Oct. 23, 1834; 2d, Benjamin B. Osmer ; lives in Peterbor- ough.]
2. JOHN, [b. June 29, 1817, m. Elisabeth Puffer of Peterbor- ough.]
AVERY.
DAVID P. AVERY, born in Greenfield, 1821; married Mary A. Newhall of Nottingham; came here in 1856, and lived where John C. Butterfield now lives; was a carpenter by trade ; moved to Rutland, Mass., in 1868; has but one child, now Mrs. Daniel C. Putnam of that place.
BAILEY.
LEVI P. BAILEY, son of Luther and Betsey (Crombie) Bailey, was born in Troy, Vt., in 1818; married Hannah Morse, and came here into the Champney house, at the Branch, in 1876. Children: -
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1. WILLIAM, [b. July 4, 1841.]
2. MARCUS M., [b. Oct. 4, 1843, m. Helen Thompson, and lives in Nelson.]
3. CHARLES, [b. Nov. 26, 1844, m. Abby Quint of Great Falls, and settled in Wilton.]
4. HIRAM S., [m. Mary A. Woodward of Francestown, lived here awhile, where one child, Walter, was b. Nov. 18, 1876.] 5. LEVI E.
6. AMANDA, [m. Richard Woodward, and lives in Francestown.]
7. ALONZO P., [m. Sarah Woodward, sister of above ; lived here in 1876. One child, Charles, was b. here in Nov., 1876.]
BAKER.
The ancestor of Elliot Webster Baker in this country was John Baker, who came from England, and, bringing a large family, settled in Waltham, Mass., in 1738, where he resided six years. Then the father, and probably his younger children, removed to Killingsley, Conn., while the others remained. The youngest son was Richard, who was ten years of age on arrival in this country. In 1757, he purchased a section of wild land in Westminster, Mass., with the intention of settling on the same, but was pressed into the army against the French and Indians for one year. At the close of the year the British officers refused them their discharge. But the whole company, being stationed at Albany, N. Y., determined to leave in a body, and, making themselves snow-shoes, they started across the Green Mountains over the deep snow for their home in Massachusetts. They were safe from pursuit, inasmuch as they could not be followed without snow-shoes, no considerable number of which would be ready. But they lost their way, wandering several days among the mountains, till, after a time, they struck Deerfield river, and followed it to Coleraine, where they found welcome and shelter and food. They slept on the snow, and were nine days without provisions, except a small dog which they killed and ate. Mr. Baker reached his friends in safety, soon after married Mary Sawyer of Lancaster, settled on his land, had a large family of children, and died in good old age. The fourth son of Richard and Mary (Sawyer) Baker was Bezeleel, who was born in Westminster, Mass., 1768. He came to Marlborough, our State, in 1787, and selected a tract of land on which he soon after settled. In 1793, he married Abigail, daughter of Dea. Nathan Wood of his native town. They had several children, among them the late Dea. Abel Baker, dea- con of the Congregational Church of Troy, and Asa Baker of Jaffrey. The latter married, first, Hannah Moors ; second, Adeline Plummer, daughter of Jesse T. Plummer of Goffstown. The second marriage occurred June 19, 1856. Asa Baker died in Jaffrey, Oct. 12, 1869. His first wife died Dec. 24, 1854.
ELLIOT W. BAKER, son of Asa and Hannah (Moors) Baker, was born in Jaffrey, Sept. 1, 1846. He came here with his step-mother in
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1870, into the Ephraim Simonds house in South Village, which house in itself and surroundings he has greatly improved. Mr. Baker is the very careful and obliging insurance agent for this section. He married Julia V. McCoy of Antrim, Feb. 10, 1878.
BALCH.
JAMES T. BALCH, son of Varion and Mary (Thompson) Balch of Francestown, born there 1817, came here 1840, to work for Dea. Baldwin in the manufacture of hoes; married Lois W. Robbins, 1844; lives in the Robbins house ; has children : -
1. CHARLES F., [b. Nov. 29, 1844, m. Ellen O. Fleming Nov. 17, 1870, and lives in Bennington.]
2. GEORGE W., [drowned May 8, 1852, aged 6 years. Went fishing with other boys, and fell into the river near Baldwin bridge.]
3. WILLIAM A., [b. Nov. 4, 1856.]
4. JOHN A., [b. Feb. 28, 1860.]
BALDWIN.
HENRY BALDWIN of Devonshire, England, was a citizen of Woburn, Mass., as early as 1640. Was selectman and deacon of the church. He married Phebe Richardson of England, Nov. 1, 1649, and had eleven children. He died Feb. 14, 1698. His eighth child, Henry Baldwin, Jr., married Abigail Fisk, May 4, 1692, and had eight children, of whom Isaac. the third in order, was born Feb. 20, 1700. This Isaac married Mary Flagg, March 24, 1726, and had four children : Luke, Jedu- thun, Nahum, and Isaac, Jr.
Nahum, known as "Col. Nahum," was born May 3, 1734, and settled in Amherst. This was without doubt the record of the ancestry of the Antrim family, and may be found more full in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary. Some of the descendants of Dea. Henry Baldwin are said to occupy places in Woburn settled by him two hundred and forty years ago. "Col. Nahum Baldwin " was the "village blacksmith " of Am- herst, was deacon in the Congregational Church the last fourteen years of his life, and died May 7, 1788.
ISAAC BALDWIN of Antrim was son of Col. Nahum and Martha (Low) Baldwin, and grandson of Isaac Baldwin. The father, Col. Nahum, was an officer of considerable note in the Revolutionary war, was the first treasurer of Hillsborough county, was a man of property, was several times representative of Amherst in the New Hampshire Congress, and took conspicuous place on its committees and in its debates, as appears by the Journal of the House. He was one of the parties in the first case brought before a grand jury in this county. The other party was Jonas Stepleton, who, being brought to the bar, pleaded guilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. It was a queer kind of mercy which was dispensed, according to the old record,
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thus : "It is ordered that the Stepleton be whipped twenty stripes on the naked back at the public whipping-post between the hours of one and two of the afternoon of this third day of October (1771), and that he pay Nahum Baldwin, the owner of the good stolen, forty-four pounds lawful money, being tenfold the value of the goods stolen (the goods stolen being returned), and that in default of the payment of said tenfold damage and cost of prosecution, the said Nahum Baldwin be authorized to dispose of said Jonas in servitude to any of His Majesty's subjects for the space of seven years, to commence from this day."
Isaac, who came here, was born in Amherst in 1768. He married Bethia Poole of Hollis, before coming here. Came and settled the Bald- win farm on the river in 1793. He was a stirring, earnest, useful man, greatly respected by all. Was one often called to preside in town meet- ings, and go ahead in important matters. He died in the prime of man- hood, in 1821. He raised a large and respectable family as follows below. The marriage of his sister, who settled near him in Antrim, appears in the "Village Messenger " of Amherst, thus : " In Antrim Sept. 1797 Mr. William Starrett to the agreeable Miss. Lucy Baldwin."
1. EMMA, [b. at Amherst July 13, 1792, m. Jabez Youngman March 14, 1809, and now lives in Dorchester.]
2. FANNY, [b. at Antrim Feb. 26, 1794, m. Dr. Israel Burnham Dec. 11, 1817, and d. April 8, 1847.]
3. DEA. ISAAC, [b. Mar. 22, 1796 ; m. 1st, Sarah Osgood of Nel- son, in 1823, who d. in 1831; 2d, Nancy White of Nelson, in 1833, and d. Feb. 9, 1872. He was one of the building committee of the Center Church in 1826, afterwards was deacon in the Congregational Church at Bennington many years. He was a good man, very decided in his convictions and set in his purposes, yet always meaning to be right. Children : -
Sarah A., (b. June 20, 1824, now Mrs. Gideon Dodge of Fair- fax, Io.)
Isaac O., (b. Feb. 23, 1826, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1849, m. Elizabeth Means of Ohio, and is a lawyer of note in Clinton, Io.)
Nathaniel O., (m. Mary Clough of Lowell, Mass., d. in New York City in 1859.)
John W., (m. Mary Currier of New York City ; had one child,
Frank, b. here 1865; is now a merchant in New York City.) Abby B., (m. Maj Benjamin R. Jenne Oct. 18, 1869, and lives in Brattleboro', Vt.)
Albert, (b. in 1837, m. Martha J. Eaton in 1871 ; is in the in- surance business at Brattleboro', Vt.)
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Benjamin B., (m. Carrie Cochran, and lives in Clinton, Io.) Edward P., (now of Fairfax, Io.)]
4. DEXTER, [b. July 5, 1798 ; graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1823, practiced medicine many years in Mount Ver- non, Me., afterwards in Boston ; retired after practice of nearly forty years, to Framingham, Mass., in 1860, and died there May 27, 1870. Was one of the first " abolitionists " in Maine ; a man of strict principles and a helper in every good work ; m. 1st, Caroline Peabody of Franklin, 1824, who soon died ; 2d, Lavina B. Howard of Winthrop, Me., in 1829. He was a fine specimen of the physical man, pleasant, fearless, and open-hearted. Once in public meet- ing when the votes were counted and they found one " abo- lition " vote, they sneeringly shouted, " Dr. Baldwin !" " Dr. Baldwin ! " At once he raised himself on tiptoe, and stand- ing high above them all he said : "Yes, gentlemen ; and you and I will live to see the day when a vote like that will be the rule and not the exception in this town !" And he was right. But it was thirty years before the war.]
5. NAHUM, [b. July 13, 1800, d. of spotted fever in 1812.]
6. SAMUEL, [b. June 15, 1802; m. 1st, Betsey G. Bell of Ben- nington, in 1830 ; 2d, Mrs. Martha (Gregg) Lear of Man- chester, in 1871. Settled in 1832 in North Branch as a blacksmith, moved thence to Bennington in 1836, where he still resides. Has followed business of machinist and man- ufacturer. Three eldest children were born in Antrim.
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