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CONN.
The ancestor of the Conn family in New England was George Conn, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Harvard, Mass., that part called Stillwater, where he spent and ended his days. He had a large family, and among them a son George, who married Martha Kelso of Derry, settled in Harvard, and raised up a family of nine children. The oldest of this large household was John. John Conn married Lucy Sawyer of Boxborough, Mass., and lived in Harvard, Mass., Charlestown, Mass., Goshen and Bethlehem. He died in Milford in 1820, aged forty- nine. His wife died the preceding year in Bethlehem, aged forty-two. Their seven children we will now name : John, who married Philo Fair- banks, and died in 1869, aged seventy-two; Emery, who married Edith Davenport of Ashby, Mass .; Lucy, who married David Baker of Goffs- town, and died in 1820; Jefferson, who will be noticed below; Thomas, who married Malinda Sampson of Hanson, Mass., and died in 1846, aged forty-three ; Almira, who died in 1852, aged forty-five, unmarried; and Abigail, who married Morris Kelly of Charlestown, Mass., and now lives in that place.
JEFFERSON CONN, cousin of Dea. Charles Conn of Hillsborough, and Dr. Granville P. Conn of Concord, son of John and Lucy (Sawyer) Conn, was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1802. He married Mary Ann McClintock of Hillsborough. Her father, John McClintock, died in that town in 1803. Jefferson came here from Stoddard to the Eber Curtis place in 1854, where he lived till his death, which occurred Aug. 20, 1858. His wife died there June 1, 1869, aged seventy-four. Their children were as follows : -
1. NANCY J., [b. Oct. 14, 1825 ; became 2d wife of Solomon H. Griffin, and d. Nov. 30, 1855.]
2. WILLIAM M., [b. May 9, 1827 ; m. 1st, Margaret A. Boutwell, April 9, 1854, an excellent woman, who died very suddenly of diphtheria Feb. 16, 1876 ; m. 2d, Mrs. Augusta (Smith) Carr, July 26, 1877. He occupies the Chandler B. Bout- well place. Has children : -
Clara A., (b. Oct. 23, 1855.) Mary E., (b. March 24, 1860.)
Martha E., (twin-sister of Mary ; d. very suddenly of diph- theria, Feb. 24, 1876. A pious and amiable girl, whose early death was mourned by the whole community.)]
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3. ANGELINE, [b. Windsor, Oct. 21, 1833 ; m. Hiram McIlvaine, Nov. 10, 1853.]
4. CHESTER A., [b. Windsor, July 7, 1835 ; m. Harriet McIl- vaine, daughter of B. F. McIlvaine, 1867; inherits the homestead of his father ; has children : -
Nora May, (b. Feb. 20, 1870.)
Effie I., (b. July 11, 1873.)]
5. FREEMAN, [b. Windsor, Nov. 12, 1837; m. Etta Stevens of Stoddard ; now lives in Keene ; is blacksmith by trade.]
COOLEDGE.
The Cooledge family were located in Cambridgeshire, England, proba- bly as early as six hundred years ago. The name in the several centuries has been variously spelled, as Coolyng, Coolidg, Colynge, Cooladge, etc. Walter and Ralph Coolyng were assessed on the subsidy rolls for land in Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, in 1327. In the reign of Henry VIII. (1509- 1547) the family was located in Arrington, and was a family of distinction and respectability. The records of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, show that Simon Cooledge married Agnes Kingston. The will of this Simon, dated 1591, mentions three children: William, John, and Thomas.
William; the eldest, died in 1620, having had six children: Richard, William, Simon, John, Elisabeth, and Margaret. The fourth of these, John, was baptized Sept. 16, 1604, came to America and settled in Water- town, Mass. Was admitted a freeman there, May 25, 1636; was among the early proprietors of that place. Was very often selectman from 1636 to 1677. Was representative of the town in 1658. His will, which was proved June 16, 1691, mentions his wife, Mary, and four sons, John, Ste- phen, Nathaniel, and Jonathan. Nathaniel, the third son, married Mary Bright, Oct. 15, 1657, and died in 1711 leaving twelve children. The sec- ond of these was Nathaniel, who was born May 9, 1660, and married Lydia Jones, Jan. 2, 1687. He settled in Watertown Farms, now Wes- ton, Mass., and his name is the first on the roll of the original members of the Weston church. He had six children. Josiah, the third of these children, married Deliverance Warren, June 11, 1719. She died Feb. 25, 1764, and he married, second, Mrs. Sarah Muzzey in 1766, and died leav- ing seven children. Nathaniel, the oldest child of Josiah, was born Oct. 20, 1724, and married Sarah Parker of Sudbury, Mass., April 16, 1749. They had children: Susanna, Paul (born Oct. 20, 1751), Lucy, Silas (born Nov. 14, 1755, was out in the Revolutionary army), Anna, Eunice, Uriah, and Nathaniel. The last named is the one that lived some years in the east part of Antrim, and will be further noticed below. He was born in Weston, Mass., Nov. 19, 1768, and died in Norwich, Vt., at the age of seventy-nine.
DANIEL COOLEDGE, son of Paul and Martha (Jones) Cooledge, and grandson of Nathaniel and Sarah (Parker) Cooledge, was born March 10, 1788. His parents were married April 19, 1784. He married Polly
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Spalding Sept. 20, 1808. In 1809 he moved to North Branch and com- menced blacksmithing on the stand now owned by D. P. Bryer, where he worked twenty years. He then bought, of Charles Barker, the place the Cooledge family now occupy, and built a second house on the same in 1849. He died Feb. 25, 1869, leaving a large family, all of them charac- terized by piety and usefulness.
1. MARY, [b. in 1809, m. William S. Foster Nov. 28, 1858.]
2. ABIGAIL, [b. in 1811, and lives unm. on the old place.]
3. CHARLES, [b. in 1813, m. Mary P. Covill, and d. Aug. 2, 1872, leaving two children : -
Abby, (who m. James Richardson in 1871; d. May 28, 1880.) Albert W., (who m. Alma J. Severance in 1875, and lives in Washington.)]
4. CLARISSA, [b. in 1816, m. Benjamin Spalding April 3, 1840, and lives in Chelmsford, Mass.]
5. DANIEL, [b. in 1818, m. Lucy W. Ray of Hopkinton, lived in Chicopee, Mass., and d. in 1869.]
6. SARAH, [b. in 1821, and d. unm., after years of sickness and suffering, in 1868.]
7. ISAAC, [d. in infancy.]
8. FRANKLIN S., [b. in 1826, m. Amanda Burrill of China, Me., and now lives in Lowell, Mass.]
9. JACOB S., [b. in 1829, m. Mary W. Raymond of Nashua, and now lives in Lowell.]
10. MARTHA J., [b. in 1831, and was for many years an invalid. She now lives with her sister on the old homestead, spend- ing life in faithful care of their aged mother. ]
NATHANIEL COOLEDGE came here from Hillsborough in 1803, and lived in the old McCoy house on the Gould place. He was an uncle of Daniel Cooledge of Antrim, and brother of Paul Cooledge. The father of Nathaniel and Paul, was Nathaniel; and their mother was Sarah Par- ker; and they were among the early settlers of Hillsborough. The Nathaniel who came to Antrim in 1803, married Rachel Andrews of Hillsborough, moved back to Hillsborough in 1807, and died Jan. 16, 1847. They had thirteen children, nine of whom grew up, as follows : -
1. NATHANIEL, JR., [b. Aug. 14, 1796, was police officer and jailer most of his long life ; was some years U. S. detective, traveling far and wide. His home was in Boston. He d. Aug. 3, 1864.]
2. ISAAC, [most of his life a jailer, or on the police force of Bos- ton.]
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3. PERKINS, [b. in 1800, lives unm. in Deering.]
4. HENRY, [no information.]
5. LUCY, [b. in Antrim July 30, 1805, m. Walter B. Lewis, and they now live in Ayer, Mass.]
6. JULIANNA, [m. Samuel K. Martin of Hillsborough.]
7. BETSEY, [m. Amos Jones, and d. in Wilmot. ]
8. GEORGE, [U. S. constable and detective, d. in Boston in 1877.]
9. RACHEL, [m. Hiram Morgan of Rutland, Vt.]
COOPER.
STEPHEN COOPER, an old sailor, came here from Salem, Mass., about 1810, and lived on the mountain west of the Capt. Worthley place. After several years he moved to Francestown. He buried two wives here before his removal. At the funeral of the second wife the horse ran away with the coffin and threw it out over the fence, breaking it in pieces. It was a steady old horse, never known to run before, and the good women asked: "Isn't this a judgment for her cruelty to the first wife's children ?" Nothing is now known of his family. His children, as given on the town record, were :-
1. STEPHEN, [b. in Salem, Mass., Jan. 15, 1803, came back here and d. on the poor-farm.]
2. MARY, [b. in Salem, Mass., March 5, 1806.]
3. SAMUEL B., [b. Oct. 1, 1811.]
4. BETSEY H., [b. Jan. 29, 1814.]
5. EDAH, [b. Nov. 6, 1817.]
6. JACOB WILLIAM, [b. June 30, 1819.]
COREY.
AMOS COREY, son of Amos and Achsah (Townsend) Corey, was born in Washington in 1802; married Roxanna Wright of Sullivan, and moved to Antrim in 1857, where he died in 1872, leaving children : -
1. ACHSAH L., [b. in Washington in 1828, and m. Peter Shuttle- worth of Southborough, Mass.]
2. OLIVE W., [d. in 1872 at the age of 42, unm.]
3. MELINDA A., [d. in 1861 at the age of 30.]
4. GEORGE F., [b. in Washington in 1836 ; m. Clara R. Hill of this town in 1860, and resided several years in Waltham, Mass., working in the watch-factory. Having inherited the old homestead at South Antrim, in 1876 he returned to this town; and engaged in business as a jeweler in that village.]
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COSTELLO.
THOMAS COSTELLO, an Irish emigrant, came here about 1820. Had been in the English army, and was twice wounded at the battle of Waterloo. He married Mrs. Ann (Nichols) Emerson Sept. 21, 1826; lived in several places in town; had two children; cannot learn the time or place of his death. His children were : -
1. ELVIRA, [m. James Foote of Francestown.]
2. MARY, [m. James Preston of Concord.]
CRAM.
ASAHEL CRAM, son of Dyer Cram of Weare, came here from Fran- cestown in 1795 ; married Lydia Lewis of Weare, and moved into a house now gone, between Frank Robinson's and S. A. Holt's ; afterwards lived on the Prescott Parmenter place (next above the pound), and died in 1835 at the age of sixty-nine. His children were :-
1. ROXANNA, [b. Dec. 12, 1799, and d. unm. in Natick, Mass., in 1863.]
2. ABNER, [b. Nov. 22, 1801 ; m. Nancy Jones of Windsor, and lived on the Ambrose Story place awhile, when he moved on to the place now George F. McIlvaine's, where he d. in 1830, leaving five children : -
Charles B., (b. Oct. 4, 1822; m. Elizabeth S. Simonds, and lived in Nashua several years, where the three eldest chil- dren were born. He afterwards came to Antrim and built near Lovering's mills. He is a blacksmith by trade, and has five children : Charles E .; Ina S .; Ira S .; Ida J., who was b. Sept. 26, 1859, and m. James A. Salesbury of Greenville, R. I., in 1876 ; and Reed S.)
Abner G., (b. June 28, 1824 ; when last heard from lived in Orange.)
Philura S., (b. in 1826 ; m. William Baker of Andover, Mass., and now lives in that place.)
Ira D., (b. April 27, 1827, and went to sea in early life. After his return he m. Angeline Morse ; lived a few years at South Village, and had two children born here: George F. and Madison. In 1860 he moved to Johnson, R. I.)
John A., (b. Feb. 16, 1829 ; m. Lydia Thornton of Johnson, R. I., and now lives in that place.)]
3. ABIGAIL H., [b. April 7, 1807, and d. unm. in Natick, Mass., in 1867.]
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4. ACHSAH L., [b. Aug. 12, 1809 ; m. Jesse Combs Sept. 3, 1829, and d. in 1867.]
5. DANIEL, [b. in 1814 ; m. Mary Blackman, and moved to Elk- town, Ohio.]
CRANE.
JAMES CRANE (the eighth and youngest child of Joseph and De- liverance (Mills) Crane, who came from Milton, Mass.) was born in Washington, June 21, 1799 ; married Fanny D. Sayward of Gloucester, Mass., March 6, 1828; and came here from Washington January, 1849, into the brick house known as the Cummings place. He died here July 20, 1851, and his wife died in Boston recently. They left two children : -
1. ELIZABETH S., [b. in Washington May 11, 1829; m. Henry McCoy of Sharon, Jan. 8, 1850, and resides in South Bos- ton.]
2. HENRIETTA M., [b. in Washington March 8, 1831 ; m. Samuel A. Fletcher of Antrim, April 29, 1851, and now resides in Bunker Hill, Ill.]
ALFRED CRANE, son of Joseph and Hannah (Mills) Crane, was born in East Washington July 1, 1821; married, first, Almira Nichols; married, second, Roxanna, her sister. Resides in Merrimac, Mass. Has two children, Frederick and Clarence, neither of whom were born here. He came to Antrim in the year 1858 and lived on the Benjamin Nichols place, but remained but little more than two years.
CROSS.
NATHAN CROSS came here about 1790 and settled on what is now known as the Steel place, west of the pond. He had lived before in the town of Hudson, which belonged to Massachusetts till 1741. At this last date, or a little later, his name appears on a petition to Gov. Wentworth for a new township, which was incorporated as Nottingham .West July 5, 1746. Mr. Cross sold about 1798 and moved to Amherst. But little is known of him. The house in which he lived here stood a few rods north of the present house and on the opposite side of the road at the end of the lane leading down to the James Nesmith place.
CUMMINGS.
EBENEZER CUMMINGS, son of Dea. Ebenezer and Sarah (Ste- vens) Cummings of Hudson, was born in that town in 1768. He came here at the age of twenty-three and began the farm west of the pond, long occupied by John R. Hill. He married Lettice Andrews, who died July 1, 1858, at the age of ninety-five, and whose mother, fleeing from the Indians as they attacked her house, was caught by the hair, dragged to a block and her head chopped off. Mr. Cummings died in 1815, at the age of forty-seven. His children were : -
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1. ENOCH, [b. Feb. 5, 1796, and killed by the fall of a tree in 1801.7
2. HANNAH, [b. April 2, 1798, and d. very young.]
3. ELISABETH C., [b. Dec. 29, 1799, m. Charles Gates June 9, 1818, and d. Dec. 18, 1861.]
4. ASENATH, [b. Oct. 2, 1801, m. David Hills, Jr., March 28, 1828, and d. Feb. 16, 1873.]
5. HANNAH, [b. in 1803, and probably d. in infancy.]
6. EBENEZER, [b. Jan. 5, 1804, and d. of cancer covering the whole crown of the head, and terrible in the extreme, at the age of 22.]
7. ABNER, [b. March 21, 1806, and is supposed to have d. in infancy. ]
SAMUEL CUMMINGS, brother of first Ebenezer of Antrim, was born in Hudson in 1781, married Joanna Wyman, and came here in 1807. He bought the Gregg mills, lived awhile in the Rogers house, then bought an old house just north of Dea. Worthley's; and built the brick house now David Bass's. He also built the mill now owned by Abbott F. True. He died in Hollis in 1864, leaving children, of whom the last four were born here : -
1. SAMUEL, [b. in Hudson July 7, 1805, was a wheelwright by trade, m. Hannah Giddings, and lived awhile in Francestown, then moved to Lawrence and died there in 1875. Two children survive him : Josie, a teacher in Lawrence, and James F., now mayor of Bunker Hill, Ill. This last named went through the mill gate of True's shop, in 1837, at the age of five years, when the current tossed him over the wheel ; but he, smart boy, picked himself up and walked off!]
2. JOANNA, [b. in Hudson Nov. 26, 1806, and' m. Cyrus Burge of Hollis, Dec. 15, 1835.]
3. SARAH S., [b. Feb. 5, 1813, and m. James Ball of Hollis, Dec. 29,1847.]
4. JONATHAN W., [b. Nov. 21, 1814, went to Bunker Hill, Ill., m. Frances Hutchinson, was sutler in the army, and was drowned in the Mississippi river in 1864.]
5. REV. SENECA, [b. May 16, 1817, m. Abigail M. Stearns, Oct. 4, 1847, and went to China that year as missionary in the ser- vice of the A. B. C. F. M. On account of her failing health they returned in 1855, and he d. in New Ipswich in the course of the following year. His age was thirty-nine. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College, in the class of 1844.
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Was ordained as a missionary at the Center, in the church to which he belonged, Sept. 30, 1847. The sermon was by Rev. Dr. Silas Aiken, then of Boston. Rev. Seneca Cum- mings was a most worthy and devoted man. His early death was greatly mourned, but the record of his sacrifice and the success of his short life may not be measured in this world or by any standards men can apply.]
6. PHEBE A., [b. 1819, m. Dr. Jonathan C. Shattuck of Brook- line, and moved to Zumbrota, Minn., where he d. in 1869. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1842. Their daughter, Nellie V., m. Dr. D. O. Brainard of Zumbrota.]
MOODY CUMMINGS, brother of Ebenezer and Samuel Cummings, 2 was born in Hudson. He succeeded Caleb Blanchard as blacksmith, sometime between the years 1814 and 1820. He lived on the Jonas White place, having a blacksmith-shop just south of the present barn. He moved to New York as early as 1824, and died there. He had two sons: -
1. CHARLES, [who was a blacksmith, went to Boston and ac- quired wealth by his trade.]
2. ROBERT, [a successful merchant in Boston and an estimable man.]
CHARLES E. CUMMINGS, son of Enoch and Dolly W. (Pillsbury) Cummings of Sutton, was born Aug. 5, 1843; came here in 1866, and began trade in the McKeen store in company with E. D. Putney. Sold out to his partner in the spring of the next year, and went into the retail grocery business with the Marshall Brothers in Nashua; married Sophia Cheney of Warner ; was sergeant-at-arms of the New Hampshire Senate last year, and has held the same office several years in the House. Is now in the marble and gravestone business, in Nashua.
CURTIS.
Two brothers, Lemuel and Stephen, sons of Jacob and Mary (Stiles) Curtis of Amherst, previously of Boxford, Mass., came here in 1784, soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, during the whole of which they served, and began to clear on Windsor mountain, near Antrim north line.
LEMUEL CURTIS built a house so near the town line that people said he lived on the fence, and could avoid taxes by dodging into one town or the other as circumstances required. Probably there was no foundation for this report. He married Mary Smith and had children : -
1. ANNA, [m. Levi Curtis April 1, 1816.]
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2. MARY, [m. John A. Lyon, Dec. 30, 1824, and lived awhile at North Branch. After his death she moved to Windsor and d. there.]
3. HANNAH, [now living alone in Windsor at advanced age.]
4. DAVID, [m. Betsey Swett, whose children all d. young. His second wife was Sally Swett, and they now live in Windsor.]
5. LEMUEL, [m. Pamelia Webster, Feb. 28, 1822, and lived on the old homestead where he d. His children are : - Joel, (m. Abigail Dodge, and went to Connecticut.)
Luther S., (m. 1st, Sarah C. Smith of Hillsborough ; 2d, Mrs. Sarah H. Burnham of Hillsborough, Nov. 28, 1876. Has one daughter, Mary, b. May 29, 1856.)
Luke, (m. Lydia E. Drew, and is supposed to have gone West.)
Washington, (supposed to be now in Kansas.)
Nathan, (m. Hannah Twiss and lives in Stoddard,)
Harlan, (now resides in Kansas.)]
6. SARAH, [m. James Walker, June 22, 1813, lived and d. in Windsor.]
STEPHEN CURTIS, brother of first Lemuel, built on the hill above Daniel Swett's, but the house has long been gone. He married, first, Ab- igail Small. For his second wife he married Bridget Smith, and moved into a house then west of B. F. McIlvaine's, where he died in 1832, at the age of seventy-seven. His children were as follows, the first three being by his first wife : -
1. STEPHEN, [m. Lydia McClintock and moved to Danbury.]
2. SARAH, [m. Jonathan Buck, April 13, 1819, and moved to Danbury.]
3. ABIGAIL, [d. at the age of 20.]
4. LEVI, [m. Anna Curtis, April 7, 1816. He had several children, but buried them all, and ran away many years ago.]
5. BENJAMIN, [went away when a young man and has never been heard from.]
6. NANCY, [m. James Prince, lived and d. in Amherst.]
7. LETTICE, [m. William Miller of Hillsborough, April 25, 1815. She was the grandmother of Arthur Miller of this town.]
EBER CURTIS, son of Jacob Curtis, and grandson of Jacob and Mary (Stiles) Curtis of Amherst, came here from Mont Vernon in 1819, and bought of David Gregg the place at the junction of the Stoddard
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roads (now Chester Conn's). He married Lucy Bradford of Goshen, who was the daughter of Major William Bradford of Mont Vernon, who, though an old man, commanded under Gen. Miller when the latter was requested to take the fort at Lundy's Lane, and said " I'll try, sir." His second wife was Mrs. Mary (Cox) Herrick, whom he married March 29, 1836. He died Feb. 17, 1858, aged seventy-four. His children were :-
1. GRAFTON, [b. in Mont Vernon, Nov. 16, 1815, m. Mrs. Sa- brina (Dresser) Holt of Windsor, June 5, 1850, who d. in 1876. He has no children, and lives on the place next be- low the Branch, on the old road.]
2. GRANVILLE, [twin-brother of Grafton, fell into a tub of hot water and was burned to death Nov. 20, 1816.]
3. WILLIAM B., [b. in 1818, m. Melinda F. Wilkins and moved into the house by the Steele mills. He subsequently spent four years in California, and now lives on the James Steele place near the mill. He has but one child, Mrs. E. W. Esty. ]
4. ANGELINE, [m. John W. Herrick, April 18, 1847.]
5. ELBRIDGE, [m. Laura Shipley of Nashua, and now lives in Deering.]
6. LEONARD B., [m. Emily Holt of Washington. They had several children who all d. and were soon followed by their mother, For 2d wife he m. Addie M. Town of Sullivan, who d. of . typhoid fever three weeks after marriage. He now lives on the Moulton place.]
LEVI CURTIS, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Earl) Curtis, was born in 1792 ; married Lydia Kinson of Mont Vernon (who was born in Ac- worth in 1794), and came here Feb. 22, 1825, and settled on the place still occupied by his widow. The house was built in 1820 by Stephen Curtis and his son Levi of Windsor. He died in 1861, leaving a large family : -
1. LYDIA, [b. in 1819, m. Jesse Parker of Merrimack, who d. in 1861, and she now resides in Manchester.]
2. JOHN, [b. in 1822, m. Susan Greeley of Litchfield, and now resides in Plaistow.]
3. JULIANN A., [b. in 1824, m. Ruel K. Conant of Springfield, Mass. ]
4. SALLY, [b. in 1826, m. William P. Gage, Nov. 12, 1850, and lives in Manchester.]
5. OLIVE, [unm.]
6. GEORGE M., [d. unm. in 1863 at the age of 33.]
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7. ANDREW J., [b. in 1833 ; m. Lucy N. Barrett of Hadley, N. Y., May 4, 1856, and lived in a small house on his father's farm, where his children were born. He was sick for many years, and his family endured much hardship and were scat- tered in childhood. Their names are :
Myra, (m. Sanford Tinker of Alstead, Dec. 28, 1877.)
Lydia J., (b. Feb. 22, 1858; m. Chester A. Holt Nov. 15, 1878.)
Helen L., (b. April 19, 1860 ; m. William Osborne of Lynde- borough, May 25, 1879.)
Mary Ida, (b. May 16, 1861.)
John M., (b. Sept. 23, 1864.) Stillman E., (b. Oct. 22, 1866.)
Clara M., (b. Sept. 11, 1868.) Rosa M., (b. April 15, 1871.)]
8. LEVI, [b. 1835 ; m. Laura A. Shattuck, daughter of the late Dea. Shattuck, in 1864, and bought the Charles Wood place where he still lives. His children are Anna B., b. in 1866, and Arthur F., b. in 1871.]
DANE.
JOHN B. DANE, quite prominent in town for awhile, was son of John Dane; married Almira P., daughter of William Whittemore of Green- field, and lived in a house next south of Putney's store. He was engaged in staging, and moved to Greenfield in 1859. He is now living in Han- cock. One son, William F., was born in Antrim.
DANFORTH.
DAVID DANFORTH, son of David and Elizabeth (Pierce) Danforth, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., in 1784; married Mary Walker of that place Nov. 12, 1812, and came immediately here on to the place next north of the Gould tavern, where he lived till the close of 1837, when he went to Brighton, Me., and died there in 1870. He was deputy-sheriff twenty-eight years. Children : -
1. GEORGE, [b. in 1815 and d. in childhood. ]
2. MARY, [b. in 1817 ; m. John Small in 1835, and settled in Hillsborough.]
3. CATHERINE, [lives unm. in Cambridgeport, Mass. ]
4. DAVID, [b. in 1821 ; m. Zilpha Danforth of Nashua, and set- tled in Philadelphia. ]
5. REBECCA, [m. Alvah Weeks of Brighton, Me.]
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6. BENJAMIN P., [b. in 1831; m. Pleena Weeks, and lives in Brighton, Me.]
7. ANDREW J., [m. Abby Davis of Boston, and moved to Califor- nia.]
DASCOMB.
"FARRINGTON " DASCOMB, or Philip F. Dascomb, son of Dea. George and Sally (Lufkin) Dascomb of Hillsborough, came here in 1822; built the Grafton Curtis house ; married Elisabeth Peters of Henniker the same year; built a large, two-story wheelwright-shop on the first dam above his house, and carried on the business nearly sixteen years; failed up and left town in 1838; went to Chelsea, Mass., and died there in 1854. Had two children, both born here: -
1. ELISABETH, [m. Austin Dalrymple of Newton, Mass., now lives a widow in Revere, Mass.]
2. ELLEN, [m. John G. Latta, and lives in Newton, Mass.] :
DAVIS.
JOSEPH DAVIS, called " Joseph Davis, 1st," a Spaniard who had come over the water and settled in Atkinson and married Peggy, sister of Charles Wood of Antrim, came here from that town in 1819; lived on High Range near the old school-house awhile, then a short time near the town line on the road to Stoddard Center, and in 1825 moved into a small house now unused between Henry and Alvin Barker's, and lived there till 1859, when he went to the county farm, on which he died the follow- ing year, aged about ninety. He left no children. His second wife was Lamira Greenwood, married Dec. 16, 1857, from Nova Scotia.
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