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(at N. W. C. Jameson's), to come and shoot the bear. McFarland hurried up, and just then her husband came, but the bear was gone. But they made a trap, baited it with part of the mangled pig, and caught the old fellow that night. He weighed over three hundred pounds! The children of Dea. Joseph and Mary Boyd, besides five little ones laid long ago in the grave, were as follows : -
Robert, (b. Nov. 7, 1778, m. Betsey Paige in 1800. His father gave him the Whiteley farm, which he occupied for a time. Afterwards he lived on the homestead of his father. He was found dead in the woods on the John Moore Duncan farm, September, 1837. He left a family of eight children, thus : William, who was b. Sept. 24, 1801, and died in childhood ; Betsey, who was b. Nov. 2, 1803, m. James W. Wilder, and lives in Providence, Penn. ; Joseph, who was b. Aug. 11, 1807, m. Mary G. Bemis of Boston, was long time in the provision business in that city, amassed wealth, and lives in Somerville, Mass., having but one surviving child, Frances A., unm. ; William, who d. in infancy ; Mary, who died in March, 1812; David, who was b. April 9, 1813, m. Abbie S. Butler of Bolton, Mass., and now lives in Plymouth, Vt .; and Mary, b. June 30, 1815, now living with her brother Joseph. The mother of these died in Providence, Penn., May 5, 1869. David buried his wife, Abbie Butler, in 1878, but has two children, William D. and Mary Alice.)
Alice, (b. June 24, 1780, m. Mark Woodbury. A woman of rare attractions and unusual ability and force. She d. April 15, 1858.)
David, (b. Nov. 17, 1782 ; never m. ; lived on the old home- stead till all the rest of the family were dead or gone, then boarded here and there in town till his death, Sept. 2, 1859.)
John C., (never m .; went into the army in the war of 1812, and d. in the service at Portsmouth, March 18, 1813, aged 27. His body was brought to Antrim and buried on the hill.)]
2. WILLIAM, [came to Antrim as early as 1777, and selected a tract of land of which the original deed is appended : -
Know all men by these presents : That George Jaffrey of Ports- mouth for and in consideration of one hundred and
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fifty pounds, lawful money of said state, to him in hand, paid before the delivery hereof, by William Boyd of Londonderry yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, con- vey and confirm to him the said William Boyd, all my right, title and estate of, in, and to, a certain lot of land, being part of the great Lot numbered six which was drawn to my right in the Society land, so called, but now in Antrim in the county of Hillsborough in said state, which large lot was surveyed and laid out in small lots, most of which in one hundred acre lots or thereabouts, and marked in a plan thereof made by Maurice Lynch, surveyor, and returned to me Nov. 3, 1773 - which said lot hereby conveyed to William Boyd aforesaid is numbered twenty-four, at the four corners of said lot, and is situate between the Lots numbered twenty-three & twenty- five, and the side lines one hundred & seventy rods about north & south, and the head and foot lines ninety-four rods about east and west, as may appear by said plan. . In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty-ninth Day of Octo- ber Ann. Domini 1778.
GEORGE JAFFREY
William Boyd m. 1st, Annis Orr, daughter of William Orr of Derry ; 2d, Martha Dickey, sister of the late Capt. Joseph Dickey of Londonderry. She is now living, nearly a hundred years of age. Her husband died Oct. 10, 1825, aged 69. In this town he settled the Dea. Worthley farm, and built the large house now standing on the same. Had five children born here. Sold to the Knights brothers in 1795, and returned at once to the old homestead in Lon- donderry, the occasion being the untimely death of his brother John, who had inherited the paternal acres. The first wife of William had five children, and d. in 1813. All his children were thus : -
William, Jr., (m. Margaret Holmes, and d. in Derry in 1841, aged 59.)
Letitia, (m. Samuel Marsh, d. in Pittsburg, Penn., 1845. Her husband d. Oct. 4, 1825, aged 45.)
James, (d. Dec. 9, 1809, aged 18.)
Robert, (m. Elizabeth Choat, and d. May 19, 1816, aged 27.) Mary,.(d. Aug. 28, 1804, aged 3.)
Col. Calvin, (b. March 5, 1818, m. Charlotte W. Shepard, and lives on the old homestead in Londonderry. Commanded a regiment of New Hampshire militia, and was an efficient and fine-appearing officer.)
Maria, (b. Aug. 19, 1819, m. Horace P. Watts of Manchester.)
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Mason, (b. Aug. 28, 1821, m. Mary H. Dodge, and lives in Londonderry.)]
3. ISAAC, [drowned in the Merrimack river April 28, 1800. Said to have occurred while he was trying to. get a drove of cat- tle across. His age was 29. His wife, Mary Thompson, d. Feb. 2, 1817, aged 47. They left three children, thus: - Dea. Robert, (m. 1st, Susan Riddle of Bedford ; 2d, Martha B. Dickey of Warren, O. He d. in Ohio April 12, 1871, aged 73.)
Alice, (unm .; d. in Londonderry Jan. 9, 1852, aged 55.)
Isaac, (graduated at Dartmouth College in 1826 ; studied medicine, taking his diploma at Bowdoin College in 1829. He settled in the practice of medicine in West Newbury, Mass .; m. Sarah C. Hill of that place ; d. there in 1844 aged 44.)]
4. JOHN, [m. Naomi, daughter of Hon. John Duncan of Antrim ; lived on the homestead of his father, and d. there in early manhood, greatly lamented, July 12, 1795, aged 29.]
5. ALICE, [m. James Steel, lived and d. on the place now occu- pied by William Curtis.]
6. JAMES, [b. April 3, 1768; cleared and settled the farm now Dea. James Boyd's, probably beginning as early as 1789. 'He married Fanny Baldwin of Amherst in 1795. She was a sister of Capt. Isaac Baldwin, came here as a teacher, and taught in several places in town. She taught awhile in a dwelling-house on the top of Patten Hill, up to the summit of which there was at that time a rough public road from the Boyd place. Here she made such good impression, it was judged best to keep her for life. Dr. Whiton says she was a " woman of great excellence of character," which seems to be the sentiment of all who knew her. She d. Dec. 25, 1828, aged 57. He d. Sept. 6, 1835, aged 67. The children of James and Fanny Boyd were : -
Fanny, (b. July 15, 1796, m. Josiah W. Christie March 16, 1824, and d. in child-birth near the close of the same year, leaving twin infants : Franklin, who d. in 1828, and Fran- cis, who removed from Antrim to Boston in 1845.)
Harriet, (b. Sept. 17, 1798, m. Simeon B. Little of Boscawen Sept. 16, 1824, and d. there Oct. 3, 1850, leaving four chil- dren : George, Sherman, Arthur, and Evelyn. One of these is Rev. Arthur Little, a distinguished Congregational cler-
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Lucy, (b. Oct. 6, 1802, m. Dea. Joseph Kimball of Hancock Oct. 20, 1831, d. Feb. 10, 1879.)
Dea. James, (b. May 26, 1804, lived on homestead of his father, m. Evelyn Hall in 1832. She was daughter of Gil- bert and Phebe (Perry) Hall of Warren, Me. Her father was named a " good man," was a sea-captain with a life of romantic successes and reverses, and d. at sea in 1825. Dea. Boyd was a carpenter by trade; built many houses ; was characterized by tireless energy ; was a hard worker and a constant worker, and an able and careful manager. The land on which Clinton Village is built once belonged to his, estate, and was sold off in small lots from time to time. By years of hard labor and good calculation he accumulated the largest property ever collected in Antrim. Was for a long time a chief supporter of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was chosen elder in 1860. Left no children. Was town treasurer for a long time. He d. April 18, 1880, after long and terrible suffering, leaving one hundred dollars per year to the Presbyterian Church, besides thirty dollars per year to its poor, and all the residue of his estate, after the death of his heirs, to missionary and charitable institutions. The " Congregationalist " thus speaks of him : -
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Dea. Boyd was of the Scotch-Irish race, retaining to a remark- able degree the characteristics of the early settlers. He held opin- ions of his own, and was one of those who in every place will think and act for themselves. Like the fathers, he held his views strongly, yet always meant to be right. He was a thinking man of clear head, strong natural abilities, and sound judgment ; a depos- itary of many trusts, and strictly reliable in the care of them. Per- haps no really abler man was ever raised in Antrim. For half a century he was a man of great physical endurance, capable of doing two men's work ; and yet in no rash or careless way, since every- thing was thought out beforehand and done by method.
He was a strong Presbyterian, but he could give the reason why. If, like the Scotch fathers, he was set in his views, he was first thoroughly satisfied with the reasons for them. He came into the church in the great revival of 1827. For a long series of years he held the office of deacon. In the course of his life he gave more, probably, for the support of religion and the various charities, than any other man that ever lived in Antrim. His last years were full of bodily suffering, and his last sickness painful in the extreme; but he met it all with fortitude, and passed away in the Christian
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faith, with the hope of immortal happiness and in sweet peace with all the world.)
Isaac, (b. 'April 28, 1806; m. Mary Hadley of Goffstown ; was a roving, stirring, wide-awake man ; carried on busi- ness of various kinds in different places ; was in the bob- bin business at the Branch some years ; then moved to Waldoborough, Me., and d. there April 24, 1868, leaving children : Mary F., now Mrs. Samuel N. Morse of Nashua ; James P., who lives unm. in Waldoborough, Me .; and Sarah M., who was sometime a teacher in Boston, - more recently a traveler in South America and Europe ; was a teacher in Brazil; speaks several languages; a woman of rare scholarship and energy.)
John M. W., (b. April 1, 1810, named for Dr. Whiton, m. Mary A. Hall of Boston, and d. in that city in 1847, leaving children : John G .; Henry M., who m. Elvira Marshall, lived in this town some years, had one child, Ida F., born here, and moved to Boston some two years since; Abbie F .; and Anna E.)
Abigail W., (twin sister of John M. W., and named for Mrs. Dr. Whiton, d. in 1826.)]
BRACKETT.
The first known in America by this name was Capt. Richard Brack- ett, a native of Scotland, born in 1610, who came to this country in 1629 in the "Massachusetts Bay Company," under Gov. Winthrop. With oth- ers he signed a covenant to establish the first church in Boston. Nov. 25, 1636, he was "admitted a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company." In 1637 he was appointed "Keeper of the Prison," which office he long held ; was chosen deacon of the church July 21, 1642, being then thirty-two years of age ; was "chief military com- mander in Braintry ; " was appointed to "marry and take oaths in civil cases." His life is spoken of as "useful, active, and pious." He died March 5, 1690. One of his eight children was James, born in 1645, -a pious and good man, who died in 1718, leaving seven children. The third of these was Nathan, born Sept. 29, 1677. Nathan married Han- nah Veasie, and died in Quincy, Mass., in 1743. He left seven children. James, oldest child of Nathan, was born Nov. 3, 1709 ; married Abigail Belcher; was a hotel-keeper; and died in 1781, leaving a large family. His fourth child, Samuel, was born in Braintree, Nov. 30, 1741 ; married Rebecca Hayward of Braintree Dec. 17, 1765, and went at once to Peter- borough. His descendants in that town now occupy the spot where he settled. Samuel Brackett had thirteen children in all, as follows: Sarah, Samuel, Betsey, Dorothy, John, James, Josiah, Isaac, Rebecca, William,
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Ebenezer, Joseph, and Benjamin. He died March 16, 1826. His wife died July 7, 1832, aged eighty-six.
JAMES BRACKETT, the sixth of these children, was born in Peter- borough May 10, 1777. He married Hannah, daughter of Dea. James Carr of Antrim, in the year 1803, and lived several years in Peterbor- ough, doing business as a drover, though by trade a shoemaker. Came here in 1811, and the next year built the house long occupied by Mrs. Sally Sawyer, but recently bought and repaired by his son, James Brack- ett. He united with the Presbyterian Church in his old age, and his conversion was so remarkable as to be worthy of notice here. He worked at his trade many years, in a little shop nearly opposite. to the house; had worked that day early and late; had been very thoughtful all the afternoon ; but got through with his work, put out the light, went into the house and sat down. Soon it occurred to him that he had for- gotten something, and he went back to the shop. He found it brilliantly lighted, though from no visible source. He sat down on the bench to consider, and the thought at once struck him that this was a call of God. After looking and wondering for near ten minutes, he went into the house and told his wife what had occurred. They agreed that it was either a call to die or to prepare for death. He did not sleep that night, . was under great conviction, but came out into religious peace and confi- dence on the following day. Though a stranger might feel like doubting this, yet it seems well substantiated ; and it is certain that as early as practicable he made public his experience, was received into the church, and seemed a peaceful, humble Christian till his death, which occurred March 16, 1861. Mrs. Hannah Brackett died March 21, 1867. Children : -
1. JONATHAN C., [b. July 2, 1804, d. unm. April 23, 1835.]
2. ANN C., [b. Feb. 4; 1806, m. John Woodburn Wallace, May, 1833.]
3. SARAH W., [b. June 6, 1808 ; m. 1st, James Smith of Antrim, April 19, 1832; 2d, George Merrill of Cambridgeport, Mass. ; d. in 1877, aged 69.]
4. BETSEY H., [b. Sept. 6, 1810, m. Thomas D. Twiss Jan. 30, 1834.]
5. HANNAH J., [b. in Antrim, Jan. 1, 1813. The four pre- ceding were born in Peterborough. She m. John McClure March 26, 1840, and lives in Revere, Mass.]
6. JAMES, [b. June 27, 1815; m. Margaret D. Balch of Nashua ; was overseer in Nashua mills, where he lived more than twenty years, but came back to Antrim in 1858. Children : Clarence A., (b. March 2, 1840, m. Juliette Oliver, and lives in Chelsea.)
Charles P., (b. June 9, 1842.)
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Estelle O., (b. Jan. 26, 1851, m. Fred L. Nay June 9, 1874. )] 7. SILAS, [b. Oct. 27, 1817, m. Sophia H. Peacock June 20, 1844, and lives in Nashua.]
8. CLARINDA H., [b. March 20, 1820, m. John Little Dec. 1, 1842, and lives in Cambridgeport, Mass.]
9. MARY A., [b. July 5, 1822, m. Luther Campbell Jan. 30, 1843.]
10. HENRY P., [b. July 30, 1827 ; m. 1st, Sarah Jane Harris of Canaan, July, 1847, who died, leaving one child, Emma Jane, b. July 10, 1851. She followed her mother at the age of thirteen years. He m. 2d, Helen Wadleigh of Old- town, Me., July 24, 1856, and they have one child, William W .; b. Nov. 7, 1862, in Watertown, Mass. He lived on the Jonathan Carr farm (Luther Campell's) several years, then moved to Cambridgeport, Mass.]
BRADFORD.
JAMES W. BRADFORD was son of Moses E. and Sarah (Holmes) Bradford. He lived in the Dr. Christie house, and was in trade in the Putney store. Was for a time partner of Charles McKeen, then traded awhile in Bennington, then returned here as clerk for McKeen. He married Fannie B. Dane, daughter of John Dane of Francestown, Nov. 27, 1849, and died July 21, 1858, aged thirty-three. No children.
BREED.
THOMAS KNOWLES BREED, a native of Sudbury, Mass., came here from Nelson, succeeding John Gilmore in the fulling and carding mill in South Village. This was as early as 1803, as he buried a child on the hill that year. He was son of Dr. Thomas G. Breed, who had been a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, and after the war settled in Nelson in the practice of medicine. The son went with his father as a servant, saw many dangers, and was a witness of many historic characters and scenes. He saw the endurances of our fathers in the cause of liberty. Remembered at one time paying ten dollars for a piece of pie ! He mar- ried Polly Keyes of Chelmsford, Mass., in 1791. When he came here he bought, and for a long time occupied, a house then standing where the south school-house in the village was afterwards built. Mr. Breed found a small mill where Luke Hill's blacksmith-shop stands, - " a little, old fulling-mill," it is said ; but in 1814 he pulled this down and put up a large shop in which he carried on a large business for years in the line of carding and manufacturing woolen cloth. The clothing-mill was burned March 31, 1850. Mr. Breed died in 1846, aged eighty-six, and his widow died in 1869, aged ninety-nine. Children of Thomas K. and Polly (Keyes) Breed : -
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1. POLLY, [d. in 1808.]
2. THOMAS K., [b. in 1794 ; m. Persis Haselton of Manchester ; lived with his father some years ; then went to Lowell ; took jobs building railroads, and was engaged upon a large contract of this kind in the West, when he was suddenly brought down with a fever, and died in Danville, Ill., Sept. 30, 1838. His widow survives, and lives in South Village alone, her only child having followed his father to the grave at the age of 14.]
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3. HENRY K., [b. in 1796, m. Barbara A. Favor Feb. 6, 1821, moved to Lowell, d. May 14, 1863.] L
4. THADDEUS B., [d. in 1816, aged 18.]
5. JEREMIAH, [called " Capt. Breed "; b. 1801; m. June 15, 1830, Achsah Moore, a girl brought up by Dea. Weston at the Branch ; moved to Sharon, thence to Danville, Ill., and d. there in 1839, leaving three children : -
James C., (b. in Antrim; m. in Warner ; lost life by the war ; lived in Contoocookville.)
Mary Frances, (b. in Antrim, d. young.)
Harrison K., (b. in the West, m. Mary A. Tolman of North- field, Mass., and lives in Fitchburg, Mass.)]
6. LUCY L., [b. in 1804 ; m. Jesse Richardson of Bedford Dec. 25, 1828 ; moved to Lowell, and died there.]
7. ROXANNA, [b. in 1806, m. Otis Smith.]
8. JAMES C., [b. Oct. 12, 1810 ; m. Elizabeth Brown of Fitch- burg, Mass. ; built the house now occupied by Dr. Christie ; run the mills of his father several years in company with Ezra Hyde, to whom he sold out in 1847. He d. in Marl- borough, September, 1878. Left two children : Mary, unm., and Addie, who m. a Mr. Estey of Marlborough.]
9. MARY, [b. Nov. 30, 1812 ; m. Isaac Barrett July 19, 1845 ; now lives in Lowell.]
10. THADDEUS B., [b. in 1816, d. in infancy.]
BROOKS.
JOSEPH S. BROOKS, born in Maine 1816, son of William and Rebecca Brooks, came here to work in the shop of I. B. Pratt, married Jane Brown of Boston, and lived in the house where Mary Clark now lives. There his wife died, leaving one child, Jane E., now of Man- chester. August 10, 1851, Mr. Brooks married Betsey V. Whitcomb of Waldo, Me. Built Brooks house in Clinton 1854, the frame being that
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of the Buckminster shoe-shop once standing at the Center. Mr. Brooks went into the army, was discharged, and died on his way home, Septem- ber, 1863. Experienced religion in the army, so it was said of him : " He lost life, but gained heaven." Children by second wife were : -
1. JOSIE E., [b. May 22, 1852, m. G. G. Cilley of Lawrence, Mass., in 1875.]
2. FRANK M., [b. Aug. 28, 1854.]
3. JOSEPH W., [b. Dec. 25, 1855.]
4. CARRIE B., [b. May 25, 1859.]
5. MARY E., [b. Sept. 5, 1860.]
6. SARAH R., [b. Feb. 18, 1862.]
LEVI H. BROOKS, son of Dickerson and Hannah (Kemp) Brooks, born in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1831, married Harriet S. Karr of Lynde- borough in 1867, came here in 1869, and bought the first house out of South Village on the Clinton road. This he has enlarged and improved, built a barn, and greatly bettered the premises. This house was built by Dan Dunlap. Mr. Brooks is a stone-cutter by trade, and has laid the foundations of most buildings recently erected in Antrim. Has one adopted son, George A.
CHARLES S. BROOKS, brother of Levi, was born in Ashburn- ham, Mass., Feb. 25, 1833; came here in 1855 to work in the Clinton bedstead-shops ; went to California in 1857, was there nearly five years, mining most of the time, and was considered very successful ; married, Dec. 25, 1862, Lizzie B. Paige of Webster, and moved at once to this town. The next spring, in connection with John W. Foster, he bought what is now the Dodge shop in Clinton, but they soon exchanged with the Dodge brothers, taking the large shop below known as the Johnson chair-factory. Mr. Foster died in the spring of 1868, and Mr. Brooks carried on the business till 1873, when he sold out to Tristram B. Paige. Probably as a business man Mr. Brooks had no superior in Antrim. He was energetic, cool, sharp, popular, and honest. Moved to Francestown in 1876; has one child, Charles Willis, born Dec. 2, 1867.
BROWN.
JOHN BROWN, son of John Brown who came over and settled in Londonderry, but soon after settled in Francestown, came here in 1788 onto the John Nichols place (N. C. Ferry's), and died there in 1808. His wife was Mary McConihe of Merrimack. Children : -
1. THOMAS, [m. Belinda Holmes of Francestown ; was a soldier in the Revolutionary army ; was very fond of telling how the " boys " were compelled by hunger to steal the Dutch- man's sheep when stationed on the Hudson river. He didn't state whether fun and mischief contributed any to this stern necessity. Mr. Brown was stationed at West
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Point during Arnold's treachery ; was near by when Maj. Andre was executed, but was too noble-hearted to witness the scene. On coming to Antrim he settled the place adja- cent to the Blanchard or Whiteley farm on the east, and d. there Nov. 2, 1847, aged 85. All his children d. young except Lucy, who m. her cousin Thomas Brown Feb. 5, 1829, inherited the homestead, moved thence to Hancock in 1866, and d. there in 1875.]
2. JOHN, [m. Marena Austin; had one son born in Antrim in September, 1794, Samuel, who m. Louisa Ayer, and is liv- ing very aged in Montpelier, Ind. After the birth of Samuel, the family. removed in 1800 to Rochester, Vt., and had a numerous household, of whom one son, Thomas, m. Lucy Brown as above, lived near forty years on the place settled by the first Thomas Brown, and moved to Hancock in 1866. Thomas and Lucy Brown had children : Levi H., b. in 1833 ; Olivia B., b. in 1836, m. Charles F. Bond Feb. 19, 1857 ; and Francis C., who m. Mary J. Abbott of Lyndeborough. John Brown d. in 1838 in Goshen, Vt., aged 73.]
3. MARY, [m. James Hewey, moved to Springfield, Vt., and d. there in 1850, aged 88.]
4. BETSEY, [m. Nathan Austin, Jr., moved to Rochester, Vt., and d. there in 1808.]
5. JENNIE, [d. unm., aged 80.]
6. MARGARET, [b. in 1772, m. Dea. John Bell, d. in 1860.]
7. FRANCIS, [b. Feb. 9, 1774 ; m. Mary McMillen ; lived many years on Whiteley place ; moved in 1818 to Hubbardton, Vt .; thence to Goshen, Vt., where he lived about a dozen years. In 1831 he moved to Perrysburg, N. Y., where he d. in 1861. His wife d. in December, 1853. The children, all b. in Antrim, were as follows : -
John, (b. April 27, 1801, m. Mercy Mason, and lives in Fond du Lac, Wis.)
Margaret, (b. May 14, 1803, m. William Alden, and d. in Lei- cester, Vt., 1853.)
Mary, (b. Nov. 8, 1805, m. her cousin Francis Brown of Goshen, Vt.)
Nancy, (b. Nov. 8, 1807, m. Eli Knapp of Perrysburg, N. Y.) Andrew, (b. Dec. 2, 1810, m. Catherine N. Noyes, and lives in Jamestown, N. Y.)
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Betsey, (b. March 21, 1813, m. Dan Bryant, d. June 2, 1845.) Harriet, (b. March 11, 1816, became 2d wife of William Alden of Leicester,. Vt. )]
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