History of the town of Antrim, New Hampshire, from its earliest settlement to June 27, 1877, with a brief genealogical record of all the Antrim families, Part 55

Author: Cochrane, Warren Robert, 1835-1912
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Manchester, N. H., Mirror Steam Printing Press
Number of Pages: 942


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1. MARY, [m. Dea. Thomas Giles of Gloucester, Mass.]


2. BETSEY, [d. young. ]


3. CHARLES, [m. Louisa Pope, lived and d. in Dunbarton. ]


4. CHARLOTTE, [d. unm. at New Bedford, Mass., August, 1853.]


5. JOHN, [d. young. ]


6. ELIZABETH, [m. Jonathan Wheeler ; now lives a widow in Boston ; her daughter m. Charles Hutchins, manager of the " Missionary Herald."]


7. ROBERT C., [m. Julia Bosworth of Springfield, Mass .; now lives in Tiskilwa, Ill.]


AUGUSTINE HOLMES came here from Stoddard, and lived in the James Eaton house in South Village about a dozen years. Was tithing- man in 1829. Subsequently lived in East Sullivan. Was a shoemaker. Remembered as an eccentric and fun-loving man. One dark evening a company of neighbors were in, and Holmes, talking of his sobriety and prudence, said, among other things, that he disapproved of frightening children, and his boy was never afraid in the night. To prove this, he called the boy, who had fallen asleep on the trundle-bed at one side of the room, and ordered him to go up to the store and get a pint of rum. The little fellow got half up, rubbing his eyes, and blurted out, " Why, father, have you drinked the rest of that two quarts I got for you last night ? " The boy was excused. He was, however, pretty thoroughly waked up by the shouts of laughter which followed. Holmes used to enjoy telling this story, though the joke lay rather heavy on himself.


HOLT.


ENOCH HOLT, and his brothers Elijah and Barachias, sons of Jere- miah and Hannah Holt, were born in Andover, Mass., and came here


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from Wilton, in 1794. Enoch lived in several places in town; for several years in a house (now gone) near the school-house at the foot of Perry's Hill. He died in 1805, and nothing is known of his family.


ELIJAH HOLT, who was born July 31, 1768, cleared and built near the river, southwest of the East burial-ground, but sold in a few years and went to Columbus, N. Y., in 1802. These buildings have long been gone, and there never was any road to them. Mr. Holt married Anna Dickey in Antrim, March, 1794, and died Sept. 2, 1850, aged eighty-two, in Columbus, N. Y. Their children were: -


1. JAMES D., [m. 1st, Temperance Denison ; 2d, Gertrude M. Gritman, and settled in Columbus, N. Y.]


2. JEREMIAH, [b. June 9, 1797 ; m. 1st, Eliza Allen of Oswego, N. Y .; 2d, Anna Williams of Columbus, N. Y .; 3d, Jane Williamson of Chenango, N. Y., where he settled, and d. Sept. 22, 1858. He is spoken of as a "plain, industrious, upright, Christian man."]


3. DAVID D., [m. Griselda Miller and settled in Chenango, N. Y. He d. in Painesville, Ohio, Nov. 28, 1876.]


4. DANIEL N., [m. Prudence Tinker ; soon ran away and was never heard from.]


5. MARY A., [b. after her parents moved to New York ; m. An- thony Olney, and lives in Columbus, N. Y.]


6. HANNAH, [d. unm. June 23, 1843.]


7. BETSEY, [d. in infancy.]


8. JOHN, [m. Ann M. Foster, and lives in Berlin, Wis. ]


9. ADAM, [m. Frances M. Sheldon, and lives in Clinton, N. Y.]


DEA. BARACHIAS HOLT built near Elijah's, by the river, but after- wards bought part of the farm now James Wilson's and lived in a house now gone, a few rods south of Wilson's. He was appointed deacon in the Presbyterian Church, in 1800, and his piety was of the kind never ques- tioned by anybody. His wife died Oct. 4, 1821, aged sixty-five. In 1845, Dea. Holt asked the town for a small donation to help him along, which request was most cheerfully granted. He died in 1846, aged eighty-nine. His children were : -


1. ELIZABETH, [m. Israel E. Conant of this town, Aug. 31, 1815.]


2. AMOS, [b. in 1789 ; m. 1st, Rhoda Messer, and kept tavern on the old place. He moved to Hillsborough in 1828. His first wife d. March 3, 1839, and he m. her sister, Lucretia Messer, March 12, 1840. He d. in Hillsborough, Jan. 11, 1846, aged 57.]


3. DOLLY.


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4. ZEBEDIAH S., [b. May 11, 1797 ; moved to Maine about 1820.] 5. PHOEBE, [b. April 17, 1800 ; she was long a singer and leader in the Center choir, and noted for her beauty.]


DANIEL HOLT, son of Daniel and Dorcas (Abbott) Holt, was born in Wilton, Feb. 13, 1796; married Hannah Green of Brookline in 1822, and came to Antrim the next year. He bought the Dea. Alexander place (now " Holt's Hill "), afterwards occupied by Samuel McAdams, then by Isaac Barrett, and lived there forty-five years. Mr. Holt was a great worker, made many improvements on the farm, and built the mas- sive stone walls that attract the notice of the passer-by. His house was burned, Sept. 2, 1833, but the people turned out nobly to help him, and in just four weeks from the day of the fire he moved into the present house. In 1868 he moved to Hillsborough Bridge, where he died Aug. 31, 1876. His children are : -


1. SARAH W., [b. May 19, 1824 ; m. Luther M. Parker Nov. 2, 1843, who went into the army from Keene, and d. in ser- vice. Their eldest son was killed at the battle of Gettys- burg.]


2. SAMUEL A., [b. April 27, 1827, and d. at the age of 7.]


3. DORCAS A., [b. March 29, 1829.]


4. ELISABETH, [b. March 11, 1830, m. Thomas S. Preston of Hillsborough. After his death she m. Orrell Abbott, and lives at Hillsborough Bridge.]


5. SAMUEL A., [b. Jan. 28, 1836, m. Mary M. Whitney Aug. 15, 1861, and lives on the homestead, "Holt's Hill." Their children are : -


Emma E., (b. May 29, 1862.)


Cora E., (b. Sept. 12, 1863.)


Frank A., (b. Jan. 13, 1865.)]


6. ABBOTT D., [b. July 10, 1839 ; went into the army at the age of twenty-three, passed bravely and safely through some of the hardest battles of the war, and then d. of fever, Oct. 4, 1862.]


HERVEY HOLT, brother of Daniel, was born in Wilton, April 30, 1803; married Minda Gregg of Antrim, Feb. 4, 1834, and came here that year. He bought of Dea. Parmenter about four acres of land, right in the pasture and woods, and built the house and mill now the property of his son. He was a man of hard work and great endurance, sustaining numberless bruises and broken bones. He was peaceable and respected, and died July 20, 1873, leaving children: -


1. MARY G., [b. Nov. 9, 1834, and lives unm. on the homestead.


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She has, for many years, been a faithful and efficient helper in every kind of sickness.]


2. CAROLINE, [b. Sept. 3, 1836, m. William Butterfield in 1863 ; d. April 6, 1869, having had but one child, who d. before her.] 3. CHARLES F., [familiarly called " Free," was b. July 27, 1841. He was a fearless and determined soldier in the army ; was terribly wounded and left for dead on the field, in the sec- ond battle of Bull Run, his upper jaw being shot away. He was twice wounded before this. After his return he m. Eme- line Smith in 1863, and lives on the old homestead, hav- ing greatly enlarged and improved the mill. Is deputy- sheriff of Hillsborough county. His children are : -


Charles L., (b. Feb. 2, 1866.)


Nellie J., (b. Jan. 3, 1869.)


William A., (b. Nov. 6, 1870.)


Carrie M., (b. Oct. 21, 1873.)


Arthur, (b. Nov. 1, 1875.)


Alfred, (b. April 12, 1880. )]


4. MARGARET J., [b. May 14, 1843 ; m. Charles H. Story in 1862, who died in the army. Mrs. Story afterwards m. Lorenzo Grace, and now lives in Lowell.]


5. SARAH JOSEPHINE, [b. May 30, 1847, and d. at the age of 14.]


FRANK E. HOLT, son of Horace E. and Maria (Stewart) Holt, was born in Greenfield in 1856; married Jennie S. Hall of Hancock; came here in 1876, and lives in the old Woodbury house at South Antrim. They have one child : -


1. GRACE EVA, [b. in Hancock in 1876.]


HOLTON. .


HENRY HOLTON came to Antrim from Boston in 1862, and lived in the house next east of William Duncan's a few years, when he moved to his present residence at Holton's Crossing in West Deering. He was born in Windsor Aug. 10, 1825, but was brought up by James White on the spot which afterwards came into his own hands, and is now his home. He married Lucinda Ferry, Aug. 15, 1847. Went to Boston in 1842; was a mason by trade, and accumulated property by building and selling houses on the " Back Bay ; " was in this last business about ten years; is now one of the most extensive farmers in the State. Children: -


1. GEORGE HENRY, [b. May 24, 1848; d. May 20, 1849.]


2. EDWIN CLARK, [b. in Boston, July 6, 1852; was for a time editor of the " Hillsborough Messenger ;" is now on the " Boston Globe."]


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HOPKINS.


JAMES HOPKINS, EsQ., was son of John Hopkins and Isabella Reed, and grandson of John Hopkins and Elisabeth Dinsmore, and was born in Windham, Aug. 14, 1761. He came here from that town in 1783. It seems from the old records that four brothers came over from Scot- land togetlier. One of them, whose name I cannot obtain, settled in the eastern part of Maine, among those of Scotch origin who had located there, and left a numerous race. Those who came to Londonderry were John, James, and Robert. John, the oldest, married Elisabeth Dins- more as indicated above. James married Mary . -, settled in Lon- donderry, and there had children: John, born July 18, 1747; James, Jr., born May 31, 1749; and Robert, born Nov. 1, 1750. He may have had other children, but this is all we find record of. Robert, the youngest of the emigrants, married Elenor Wilson; settled in Londonderry (part now Windham), but afterwards moved to Francestown, being among the early inhabitants of that town. He cleared and settled the well-known " Gibson place " there. It was in his barn that Rev. Mr. McGregor of Londonderry preached, and many early children of Antrim were carried for baptism. Robert, or " Dea. Robert," as he was known, was a devout man, and long held the office of deacon. One old record speaks of his wife as " Martha," and it is possible he had a second wife. The children born before his removal to Francestown were Elenor, born March 5, 1738, Elisabeth, Sarah, James, Robert, and Boyd. As the last was born in 1755, it is concluded that he moved to Francestown among the first set- tlers there. This is all that can be learned at present writing about these brothers. Capt. Joseph Dickey, who died in Londonderry in 1878 aged ninety-five, gave me many items from personal memory in regard to these men, and in regard to others of the old stock, having remarkable recollection and reaching back as far as 1789 in some cases. John, who married Isabella Reed, is undoubtedly the one he used to speak of as called " Woods John," because he lived in the woods; while another John, probably son of James and Mary, was called " Baptist John," because of his belief. The latter he remembered as a " very knowing man and always ready to impart information, and very pompous in manner." These two "Johns " lived and died in Londonderry. The first brothers and their sons internamed their children so much that one gets fearfully tangled in the Roberts and Johns and Jameses. The first John, and Elisabeth Dinsmore, left on record the birth of only one child; but it is certain they had others, one of whom, James, was father of William, Ebenezer, and David, who settled in Francestown.


James Hopkins, always called "Esquire Hopkins," on coming here in 1783 at once commenced the Whiton farm, now occupied by Eben Bass, but soon exchanged for the place by the river, now Arthur Miller's, where he lived till his death, Jan. 2, 1843. Before coming here, though quite young, Mr. Hopkins was out in the Revolutionary. army. In this town he was a prominent man for more than half a century. Was a large land-holder; was frequently in town office, and held in general respect. He married, first, Katherine Aiken in 1788. Mr. Whiton says


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" she was a woman of more than ordinary benevolence and excellence of character." In papers left behind, Mrs. Whiton says she was " a lovely woman, and might well be considered one of the salt of the earth." She died Sept. 6, 1820. He married, second, Mrs. Jennett, or Jennie, Cleaves, May 4, 1823, she being his cousin. The children were :-


1. JAMES, JR., [known as " Dea. James," b. March 7, 1789 ; m. Sally Caldwell April 13, 1815; lived with his father; was , chosen elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1835; but d. in 1838 in wonderful triumph and peace. He was in the prime of his years with his young family about him ; but he gave up all, and with faithful admonitions to every one, in the very expressions of dying joy, his lips stopped, and he was gone. He had six children, two of whom died young, and the others were as follows : -


Luther A., (went South for his health in 1838; was assistant quartermaster in regular army in the Seminole war and had many narrow escapes. After the war he settled in Florida, and d. at Key West in 1848, aged 30. He picked out the spot, and had his grave cut in the solid limestone, as a surety against the washing of the waves in the occasional inroads of the sea at that place.)


Fanny J., (m. John F. Marshall, Sept. 5, 1839; d. in Nashua in 1846. Her only child, James Hopkins Marshall, served with distinction in the late war, and now lives in Webster, Mass.)


Kate L., (m. Parker H. Pearson, and went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he d. in 1869.)


Mary E., (went to visit her sister in Milwaukee, in 1857, and there m. Michael H. Dousman in 1861. She has one child, James Hopkins, and is prominent in benevolent and mis- sionary enterprises in that section. ) ]


2. JANE, [b. Sept. 6, 1790; m. Jacob Miller Dec. 16, 1813 ; d July 30, 1815., He d. seven years later in Arkansas. Jacob was brother of Gen. James Miller, who, having been surren- dered by Gen. Hull at Detroit, and being released on parole, was present here at the wedding of his brother.]


3. ISABEL, [b. July 28, 1792 ; m. George Duncan Dec. 20, 1814 ; d. June 26, 1864.]


4. JOHN, [b. Oct. 30, 1794; m. Abby Pratt of Antrim ; moved to Jamestown, N. Y. He and his wife d. only a few days apart in 1873. One son, Henry Reed, is a physician in


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Buffalo. John Hopkins built an addition to the Corey house for a store, and was in trade there from 1817 to 1820; then was in trade awhile in Roxbury, Mass. ; was noted as a teacher, and went to New York for that purpose. ]


5. WILLIAM CLARK, [b. July 1, 1799 ; d. Sept. 3, 1800.]


6. CLARK, [b. Jan. 14, 1801; was a man of large size and great physical power. At the annual " Cork Musters " he used to break up the gamblers and drive them by scores off the field. He would rush in among them, knock them down, smash their furniture, break their bones, till they scattered like wild birds, in sheer terror at the presence of one man. Clark Hopkins had a reputation far and wide as a school-teacher, - able, scholarly, and fearless, and a terror to evil-doers. If there was a school anywhere that nobody else could keep they sent for him. Was by natural endowment one of the ablest men ever raised in Antrim ; was some years deputy-sheriff. His care- ful memory has been of great service in the preparation of this book. In his old age Mr. Hopkins gave his heart to Christ ; after an adventurous, changeful, and oft afflicted life, he was moved to seek the Savior by the memory of the prayers of his mother, who had been dead fifty-four years. In relating his experience he said that for many weeks " her loving face confronted him at every turn." And may not our best answers to prayer come after we are gone ? Clark Hopkins m. Lucy P. Lawrence of Tyngsbor- ough, Mass., March 26, 1845 ; bought the McFarland place (N. W. C. Jameson's), and lived there many years. His wife d. Oct. 23, 1852, aged 39. Their children were : - Amorett, (b. Jan. 26, 1846 ; m. George B. Williams of Williams- ville, Vt., Nov. 3, 1869, and has children, John and Luella.) Luella, (b. Feb. 27, 1848; d. April, 1860.)


James C., (b. Oct. 10, 1852.)]


7. BETSEY ANN, [b. Feb. 29, 1804; m. Amasa Kimball ; lived in Lowell, Mass. ; had one son, John Kimball, now a prominent railroad man in the West.]


8. MILTON W., [b. Dec. 20, 1807 ; m. Rachel Newhall of Boston ; lived some years in Boston, then went to St. Louis, thence to Upper Alton, Ill., and d. there, but we have no dates.]


Perhaps it should be added of the parents of James Hopkins, Esq., that his father, John Hopkins, was a jolly, easy, good-natured, happy man,


Clark Hopkins


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a shoemaker by trade as well as a farmer. His grandson says of him that he would sit at work on his shoemaker's bench and sing Scotch songs from morning till night, without a word of repetition. He had a great memory, and took the world easy. On the contrary, his wife, Isabella Reed, was a woman tremendously nervous and active. She had strong convictions and great energy, no patience with idleness, was fearless and ready for anything; could do two days' work in one and not feel injured by it. She came to this town to spend her old age, was greatly vener- ated and loved, and died here with her son, June 7, 1823, aged eighty- three, and was buried on the hill. Her daughter, Mary Ann, sister of James Hopkins, Esq., married Nathaniel Morrison of Peterborough, and was mother of John H. Morrison, D. D., of Milton, Mass., and Prof. Nathaniel H. Morrison, LL. D., of Baltimore, Md., and also Prof. Horace Morrison, president of the University of Maryland. John Hopkins, named above as marrying Isabella Reed, was born in Londonderry, March 10, 1731, and was son of John and Elisabeth (Dinsmore) Hopkins. (See Dinsmore family.) Isabella Reed was daughter of Matthew Reed and Mary Ann Holmes. John and Isabella Hopkins had another daughter, Betsey Ann, twin-sister of Mrs. Mary Ann Morrison, who married James Gregg of Antrim, afterwards Dea. James of Londonderry, and was mother of Prof. Jarvis Gregg, one of the most precocious and remarka- ble young speakers and scholars ever produced in New Hampshire. He married a daughter of Ezekiel Webster, but died very suddenly but a week or two after marriage.


BOYD HOPKINS, a relative of " Esq. James," and son of Dea. Rob- ert and Elenor (Wilson) Hopkins, was born in Windham, Aug. 17, 1755; married Jane Burns of New Boston; came here in 1794 and bought the John McIlvaine place. The buildings. now gone, stood a few rods west of the school-house in No. 6. Boyd Hopkins remained on said place nearly forty years, till his death, which occurred Sept. 26, 1833. Children, of whom half the number were born in Francestown, were as follows : -


1. PATTY, [Martha on town record, b. Dec. 27, 1783, m. Nathan- iel Griffin, d. 1827.]


2. SOLOMON, [b. Sept. 8, 1785 ; m. Dec. 26, 1811, Sarah, sister of Zenas Temple. His father gave him the east half of his farm, on which he built what is known as the James Bald- win house in 1811, but afterwards moved to Alstead, and d. there in 1852.]


3. ELISABETH, [b. Aug. 25, 1787; m. William Wilkins Feb. 3, 1856.]


4. JANE, [b. Aug. 12, 1789, d. unm. 1820.]


5. HANNAH, [b. May 28, 1791 ; m. Charles Cavender of Green- field, July 6, 1822 ; lived awhile in Keyes house in Antrim, and d. there, Sept. 29, 1834.]


6. POLLY, [b. May 4, 1793, d. in childhood.]


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7. SALLY, [b. in Antrim, May 14, 1795 ; m. Joshua Foster of Han- cock, Oct. 8, 1816, and d. in that town in 1823.]


8. ELENOR W., [b. April 19, 1797 ; m. William- Cavender, and moved to Fairfield, Mich., and d. there in 1839.]


9. NANCY, [b. May 11, 1799, d. aged 20.]


10. ROBERT B., [b. June 16, 1803 ; m. Dec. 23, 1834, Caroline Rugg of Rindge. She was daughter of William and Sarah (Buswell) Rugg, and was b. May 30, 1808. Mr. Hopkins occupied the homestead of his father till 1858, when he sold and moved to the Branch where he now lives. Has but two children : -


Caroline E., (b. Sept. 10, 1835 ; m. Harvey A. Chamberlain in 1866, and moved to Thetford, Vt.)


Harvey B., (b. Nov. 10, 1836; m. Alice B. Putnam of Thet- ford, Vt., Feb. 16, 1876.)]


11. POLLY, [b. Dec. 11, 1805 ; m. John Peabody of Antrim, Dec. 31, 1829.].


12. FANNY, [b. Feb. 12, 1809 ; m. Jan. 29, 1833, Benjamin Tut- tle of Hillsborough, and d. in that town in 1840.]


DAVID HOPKINS, a relative of James, Esq., and of Boyd, and brother of William and Ebenezer of Francestown, came here from Fran- cestown in 1794, and lived in a small house opposite the Christie tavern, till the spring of 1800, when he went to Plainfield, Vt. His wife was Polly Fellows. He went into the army in the war of 1812, and died in the hospital at French Mills, Canada, in 1814, aged forty-seven. His wife died Feb. 15, 1853, aged eighty-six. They had two sons in the army of 1812, and eleven grandsons in the Union army in the late war. Left children : -


1. DAVID, JR., [b. in Francestown, Sept. 25, 1792 ; m. Barbary Low ; was out in the war of 1812 ; settled in Freedom, N. Y., and d. 1839. Children all dead.]


2. LOIS, [b. 1794 ; m. Joseph Gunney; settled in St. Johnsbury, Vt.]


3. MARY, [twin-sister of Lois ; m. John Hopkins of Frances- town ; d. in Vineland, N. J., in 1875.]


4. BETSEY, [b. in Antrim, Oct. 17, 1796 ; d. of spotted fever in 1812.]


5. ABNER F., [b. in Antrim, May 14, 1798; was a soldier throughout the war of 1812; m. 1st, Almeda Rand ; 2d, Mrs. Sarah Clay ; d. in Charlestown, Mass., in 1867.]


6. LATTA, [b. in Plainfield, Vt., in 1800; m. 1st, Simeon


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Fletcher of Greenfield ; 2d, Benjamin Bailey of Greenfield ; d. at Waukon, Io., in 1867.]


7. LAWSON, [m. Eliza Smith of Boston ; d. in that city, February, 1834, aged 32.] -


8. LUCY, [d. in infancy.]


9. JAMES, [b. June 18, 1806, in Montpelier, Vt. ; m. Harriet Watson of Northwood; celebrated their golden wedding March 25, 1877 ; he was twenty-six years a machinist in employ of Dover and Lowell companies, was twenty-one years a sheriff in Lowell ; has lived in Lowell since 1832. Through all his long life has been honored with numerous and important trusts. ]


10. JOHN, [twin-brother of James; m. 1st, Lydia A. Spear of Freedom, N. Y. ; 2d, Parthenia Humphrey of Charles- town, Mass. ; 3d, Lucy Bryant of same place. He d. in that city in 1874.]


11. PHILANDER, [b. 1808 ; m. 1st, Mariam R. Gipson of Hamp- den, Me .; 2d, Caroline E. Rand of Chichester, and d. in Chichester in 1875.]


12. ELIHU H., [b. 1811; m. Susan Watkins of Portsmouth ; was killed by railroad accident in Sonoma, Ohio, in 1858.]


13. ELIZA, [b. in Francestown in 1813; m. Phinehas Davis ; lives in Charlestown, Mass.]


HOUGHTON.


CHARLES HOUGHTON, son of Euclid and Elisabeth (Pettingill) Houghton, was born in Attleborough, Mass., in 1790 ; married Fanny Farrington, and came here in 1816. They lived in a house (gone for many years) east of the corner below the Dea. Shattuck place. This house was several years the parsonage of the East Church; was built in 1812, and taken down by J. W. Christie. Mr. Houghton was a little, ner- vous, fidgety man, a carpenter by trade, and lived awhile in the Ambrose Story house. He was a devoted and good man. In 1833 he moved to Alexandria, and from thence to Boston, where he died in 1861. His chil- dren were : -


1. EUCLID B., [b. in Boston in 1816, m. Catherine B. Blaney in 1839, and d. in a hospital at St Louis in 1862, whither he had gone to take care of sick and wounded soldiers.]


2. CALISTA A., [b. in Antrim Dec. 18, 1818, m. Nathan Tilden, and is now living in Worcester, Mass.]


3. NANCY F., [b. in Antrim Dec. 31, 1821, and d. unm. in Gard- iner, Me., in 1846.]


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4. DANIEL F., [b. in Antrim July 27, 1824, m. Caroline E. Drew, and resides in Worcester, Mass.]


5. FANNY E., [b. in Antrim Jan. 7, 1827, m. Reuben C. Mayo in 1846, and now resides in Boston.]


6. MARY E., [b. in Antrim May 19, 1830, m. E. Welton Roach in 1851, and lives in Boston.]


7. ABBY W., [b. in Alexandria in 1834, m. J. Franklin Tobey, and d. in Boston in 1876.]


HOUSTON.


WILLIAM HOUSTON was born in Bedford in 1755, and came here from that place in 1790. He was a mason by trade, and for many of his later years a maker of basket-bottom chairs; lived at first on the Isaac Patterson farm, and afterwards settled the place now M. B. Tuttle's, and died in 1830, aged seventy-five. His first wife was Betsey Miller of Hills- borough, who was the mother of all his children. His second wife was Isabel Campbell. The children were :-


1. JOHN, [b. in 1782 ; m. Rachel Lowe, June 9, 1809, and went to Nashua, where he d. in 1858.]


2. THOMAS, [d. at the age of 19. " Tom," as he was called, was a mason by trade. When finishing the top of the chimney of the three-story house at the Branch, he slipped from the staging and fell to the ground. It was a terrible fall, but he was not seriously hurt. It might, however, have hastened his early death.]


3. KATHERINE, [m. Silas Marshall, and lived and d. in Hillsbor- ough.]


4. POLLY, [m. David Bell, Jan. 24, 1809.]


5. BETSEY, [m. John Tennent of Antrim, and d. April 18, 1833, aged 31.]


HOWARD.


PITMAN HOWARD, a Revolutionary pensioner, came here about 1800, and lived awhile in a house southwest of Samuel Dinsmore's, but afterwards went to live in the Ring house on the east side of the road from Chester Conn's to Nathaniel Herrick's (taken down in 1837). The name of his first wife and the mother of his children, who were all born before he came here, I cannot learn. She died suddenly while out in the pasture, and he married for a second wife Fanny Stevens of Mont Ver- non, and brought her here on an ox-sled. He died Aug. 29, 1830, aged eighty-three. The children were :-




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