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1. JOHN, [b. July 6, 1785; went to Salem, Mass., when a young man ; m. Mary Pierce of that place in 1811. He d. June 15, 1849. She d. Sept. 4, 1868. They had children : - Mary, (Mrs. William A. Symonds of Salem, Mass.) Ann, (Mrs. Lucius B. Martyn, Salem, Mass.) Harriet, (Mrs. Thomas Beddoe, Charlestown, Mass.)
John, (m. Rachel Stedman ; d. in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 4, 1849.
Prof. Henry W. Jameson of St. Louis is his son. An- other son is Edward S. Jameson, a prominent newspaper man of the same city. Another son was John S. Jameson, who died in Andersonville prison; a rare and noble young man, whose life was published by his regiment. Though young, he was distinguished as an artist and musi-
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cian ; and his face may be seen in the " Arts and Artists of Connecticut.")
Caroline, (Mrs. John W. Stedman of Norwich, Conn. Mr.
S. has been bank commissioner, postmaster, etc. Is insur- ance commissioner of the State of Connecticut. )
Ellen, (Mrs. James D. McMurphy of Salem, Mass.)
Laura, (unm.)
Delina, (unm., Norwich, Conn.) ]
2. MARGARET, [b. Wednesday, May 16, 1787 ; m. Zenas Temple Dec. 23, 1813 ; d. Aug. 4, 1870.]
3. THOMAS, [b. Tuesday, March 17, 1789 ; m. Nancy Cochran, Sept. 27, 1814 ; lived in the Hugh Jameson house on the turnpike ; in 1816 built a store on the opposite side of the road from the house, and was there in trade till 1819, when, not meeting with satisfactory success here, he moved to Med- ford, Mass. ; afterwards he moved to Lowell, and d. there Oct. 10, 1852. Children : -
Thomas C., (b. June 2, 1815; d. in Cincinnati, some years ago, which is all known of him.)
John C., (lost at sea in the autumn of 1842, aged 23; only two on the vessel saved.)
Maria F., (b. in 1830 ; d. young. )
Isaac, (unm. ; was a young man greatly devoted to study ; was very early a school-teacher ; began to study for tlie min- istry, but lost his health, and going to Florida to regain the same in the year 1842, he sunk away on the passage, and was buried at sea, aged 20.)
Andrew, (b. Oct. 19, 1818, in this town ; m. 1st, Lucinda Hobbs of Malone, N. Y. ; 2d, Mrs. Jennie (Palmer) Richards of Taunton, Mass. ; is now a respectable and worthy citizen of Littleton, Mass.)
Nancy, (b. in 1816 ; d. in Lowell, Mass., in 1846.)
Clarissa A., (b. in 1825 ; m. Vespasian Danforth of Lowell, Mass. ; d. in 1858 )
Caroline, (b. in 1834 ; d. in infancy.)
Carrie M., (b. in 1838; became 2d wife of V. Danforth ; d. in Amherst, in 1864.)]
4. JAMES, [b. Friday, March 25, 1791 ; m. Dorcas W. Cleaves, June 18, 1812; d. Marclı 27, 1825, and left children : -
Harriet, (b. Feb. 26, 1813 ; m. Michael Mongan, and lives in Philadelphia, Penn.)
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Isabel, (b. Aug. 6, 1815 ; m. Charles F. Hirsch, and lives in Keene.)
Nathan W. C., (b. on Dustin Barrett, or Cleaves place, July 19, 1818 ; went to Boston at the age of sixteen, with only $1.50 in his pocket, and all the world before him; went into a store as clerk, and after a few years had a store of his own in that city, remaining there till 1851, when he moved back to Antrim. He bought the McFarland house in South Vil- lage, and repaired and adorned that ancient building, built barns, etc., making a beautiful residence. These all were destroyed by fire Aug. 9, 1861, in the evening. The present capacious buildings were at once erected on the site of the old ones, being nearly completed before the close of that year. Mr. Jameson, since returning to Antrim, has been deputy-assessor of United States revenue, postmaster, representative, Sabbath-school superintendent, auctioneer, and farmer, leading a life of constant and great activity. He m. 1st, Mary A. Mixer of Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 6, 1839, who d. in about eight weeks ; 2d, Caroline E. Mixer, sister of the above, Aug. 10, 1841, who d. July 11, 1856, aged 34; 3d, Mary J. Dodge of Bennington, May 14, 1857. His children are nine in number, thus : First, Mary Caro- line, b. Jan. 11, 1845; d. in infancy. Second, Nathan C., who was b. May 4, 1849. He m. Idabel, daughter of John D. and Mary (Burnham) Butler of Bennington, March 15, 1871. Resides in the Mark B. Woodbury house ; has chil- dren : John Butler, b. Aug. 2, 1873; Robert Willis, b. July 23, 1875 ; and James Walker, b. May 28, 1878. N. C. Jameson was representative in 1875 and 1876, and delegate to the constitutional convention of 1876. Third, Charles R., who was b. April 20, 1856 ; now in trade at Hillsborough Bridge. Fourth, Anna Belle, who was b. June 10, 1858, and d. June 4, 1877, being a fine scholar, an excellent organist and pianist, a sweet singer, and a most humble and devoted Christian. Adding to this, that she was beautiful in features, most attractive in manners, and the same to all, it is not strange that she was spoken of as " too fair for this world." Her death was a glorious triumph of grace. She d. exactly six years from the day she united with the church, and lacked six days of being nineteen years old. Her face finds a welcome place in this book. Fifth, Caroline E., b. Aug.
Anne Belle Jameson
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23, 1860, and m. Herbert H. Whittle, Jan. 1, 1879; sixth, Ada Grace, a loved and beautiful child who d. Oct. 8, 1871, aged 8 years ; seventh, Walter D., b. July 10, 1865 ; eighth, Jennie May, b. Sept. 1, 1868; and ninth, Gertrude D., b. Aug. 1, 1872.)
Jane S., (b. Jan. 6, 1824, m. Charles Rice Oct. 11, 1848, and lives in New York City. )]
5. ANDREW, [b. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1793 ; m. Louisa Phippen of Salem, Mass. He was hotel-keeper at Hillsborough Bridge in 1826, and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he d. March 20, 1839. No children.]
6. ANN, [b. Thursday, Oct. 30, 1794, m. Robert H. Cleaves Sept. 24, 1818, and d. Oct. 8, 1868.]
7. HUGH, [b. Thursday, Aug. 18, 1796, m. Sophia Cummings of Tyngsborough, Mass., May 30, 1822, and d. in Boston Feb. 26, 1861. Gen. Horatio Jenkins, of Yale College and Cam- bridge Law School, now of Jacksonville, Fla., m. a daughter of this Hugh. This Hugh was in trade in Nashua many years.]
8. MARY, [b. Monday, Aug. 16, 1798; m. 1st, John Hosley, Aug. 14, 1817; 2d, Dr. Thomas Preston of Hillsborough, and d. Aug. 20, 1831, aged 33. Her son, John Jameson Hosley, was last known as a tanner doing business in Green, N. Y.]
9. ALEXANDER, [b. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1800; lived and d. on the old homestead. He m. 1st, Lucinda Averill of Mont Vernon, Nov. 16, 1829, who d. Nov. 6, 1843, aged 34. He m. 2d, Nancy J. Bell, daughter of Hugh and Nancy (Wil- son ) Bell of Bennington, April 3, 1845. He d. Tuesday, July 26, 1864. Soon after this the old homestead was sold, having been occupied by the family eighty-two years. The widow and children moved to South Village. Alexander Jameson was one of the most worthy and upright men ever resident here ; unassuming and universally respected. His children were : -
Mary R., (b. Sept. 9, 1831 ; m. D. F. French of Washington, Jan. 24, 1855, but lived only four weeks after marriage.)
Anne W., (b. Aug. 31, 1837, m. Harris E. Cutler Aug. 12, 1855, and lives in Chicago.)
Emily S., (d. May 3, 1869, aged 27.)
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Edwin D., (b. Dec. 27, 1846 ; is engineer from Decatur, Ill., to St. Louis ; resides at the former place. )
Frederick W., (b. April 19, 1850; is music-teacher in New York City. Is solo tenor in one of the most fashionable churches in that city.)
Mary A., (b. Dec. 28, 1854.)]
JOHNSON.
VOLNEY HILL JOHNSON, son of Jesse and Betsey (Fay) John- son, was born in Hancock, Feb. 1, 1806. He came to Antrim in 1834 to work for Thomas Poor at South Village, and soon after bought of Elijah Herrick the old mill in the village next below the bridge on the Benning- ton road. The same year he built. the house now the Widow Eaton's, un- der the hill. The next year (1835) he tore down the old mill, and at once built a new saw, grist, and shingle mill. This he kept running till 1841. These mills were burned in 1842. Mr. Johnson married, first, Ede Gould of Greenfield, Feb. 9, 1830, who died Sept. 29, 1853; married, second, Nancy M. Richardson of Washington, Dec. 20, 1854. He moved from Antrim to Washington in 1845, whence he returned after fifteen years. Has been living recent years with his son in Washington, D. C. Of his large family of ten children, all except the oldest and four youngest were born in Antrim.
1. JESSE ORVILLE, [b. in Greenfield July 18, 1833; m. Emma A. Austin Nov. 6, 1864, and lives in Washington, D. C.]
2. FRANCIS R., [b. July 26, 1836 ; unm., and lives in Washing- ton, D. C.]
3. ALFRED OTIS, [b. June 14, 1837 ; was in Arkansas when the war broke out, was pressed into the rebel army, and killed in battle.]
4. JULIA S., [b. April 26, 1840 ; m. George A. Guild of Nashua April 22, 1864, and now lives in that city.]
5. AULDIN S., [b. June 16, 1842 ; m. Clara E. Gray of Reading, Mass., Nov. 3, 1869, and now lives in that city.]
6. IRA STRAW, [b. June 28, 1844 ; was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.]
7. CHARLES SHERMAN, [b. in Washington, Dec. 28, 1846, and d. March 1, 1864.]
8. JAMES HOWE, [b. in Washington, Jan. 17, 1850, and d. in infancy.]
9. WALDO M., [d. in infancy.]
10. GEORGE VOLNEY, [b. in Washington, Sept. 11, 1856 ; d. in Antrim, March 8, 1862.]
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CURTIS JOHNSON, brother of Volney, came here from Hancock, and fitted up for a dwelling the house now Mr. Balch's at South Village, in 1836. He married Jane Matthews, and after two or three years re- moved to Jaffrey.
CALEB JOHNSON succeeded John Ball, who moved from town in 1835. He lived in the Ball house until his death in 1845. The buildings are now all gone. Nothing further known of him or his family.
A SAMUEL JOHNSON entered his protest against the settlement of Mr. Whiton, on the town book, Sept. 4, 1808. He lived a short time somewhere on the mountain in the west part of the town; but his prop- erty was not such as to justify a great deal of worry about his tax for Mr. Whiton's support.
JOHN JOHNSON, son of John and Betsey (Mead) Johnson of Society Land, now Bennington, was born in November, 1829. In June, 1836, he was taken by James M. Wilson from the poor-farm of Hillsbor- ough, and was brought up by him. He turned out to be a smart and good young man. Was a carpenter and house-builder; built the meeting- house in Windsor. Accumulating some property, he went into manu- facturing in Clinton, in company with Samuel A. Fletcher. In this he was unfortunate, and failed; and he soon sickened and died. Married Martha J., daughter of Dea. Samuel Fletcher, Dec. 21, 1852. He died Jan. 29, 1857. His daughter Nellie was born March 26, 1855, married John Hill, and lives in Bunker Hill, Ill. The widow married, second, Henry Wise, in 1864, and died in 1867.
JOHN JOHNSON, son of Alfred and Lucy (Lawrence) Johnson, was born in Meriden, Conn., in 1833; married Ann L. Carr, and moved here in 1875. He is a tool and die maker, and has one child: -
1. ELMER OREN, [b. Feb. 22, 1870, in Meriden, Conn.]
JONES.
JOEL JONES came here from Hillsborough in 1807, and put up the Langdon S.wett house at the Branch. He was a blacksmith, and built the first shop on the Sawyer stand. In 1809 he sold out to Daniel Coolidge, and moved back to Hillsborough. His wife was an Abbott, daughter of " King Abbott," so called. As his stay here was so short, no special efforts have been made to enlarge this notice of him.
JOSLIN.
TAYLOR JOSLIN, son of Nathaniel and Katherine (Joslin) Joslin probably of Stow, Mass., and afterwards of Henniker, was out in the Revolutionary army several years; was wounded in battle, causing him to be lame for life. He enlisted at one time for Deering, but was paid by John Duncan, July 15, 1786, as shown by old state records. He was once taken prisoner by the Indians and compelled to "run the gauntlet " be-
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tween two lines of savages, one line being of men and the other of women, each striking a blow with the fist and hitting him if they could. He always declared that the squaws hit him the hardest and most ! Why not ? Mr. Joslin spoke often of his hardships in the army. Soon after peace was concluded he came back to Antrim (ten years earlier than Mr. Whiton's date), working here and there at the shoemaker's trade. He worked some years for Lemuel Paige at the Center. Oct. 20, 1796, he married Sally Heath of Pelham; built a small house in the corner of the field about four rods north of George Parmenter's barn, where he lived and worked at his trade and on his small farm till 1802, when he moved to Orange; thence to Hill in 1809, where he died in 1817. His widow died in Randolph, Vt., in 1832. They had six children; the youngest, a son, died in infancy, but the five daughters are all now living and in prosperous circumstances.
1. REBECCA, [b. in 1797 ; m. 1st, William Stevens ; 2d, - Jackson ; 3d, another William Stevens ; survived them all and now lives in Franklin, having had no children.]
2. KATHERINE, [m. Simeon Fuller, and lived in Brookfield, Vt.] 3. ABIGAIL, [m. John Wells of Franklin, and lives a widow in that place.]
4. SABRINA GREGG, [m. John Bean, and is now living in Wiscon- sin. ]
5. ROXANNA, [m. Joseph French, and lives in Randolph, Vt.] JOY.
MRS. MARY B. JOY (Gould of Newfane, Vt., before marriage), widow of Daniel Joy of Putney, Vt., came here in 1875, and in the spring of 1876 bought the Ambrose Story place. She and her daughter, Mrs. Perry, built the present house mostly new in the spring of 1876, and tastefully furnished the same for the purpose of keeping summer boarders. Daniel Joy was son of Jedediah and Patience Joy. He died Jan. 20, 1866, aged seventy-three. Only two children grew to maturity : -
1. SARA E. D., [b. Nov. 27, 1838 ; m. Newton Perry, April 18, 1858.]
2. TYLER H., [killed in the second battle of Fredericksburg ; had been skirmishing all day, and just at night received the wound from which he soon d. His death was Dec. 13, 1862, aged 20.]
KEESER.
SAMUEL P. KEESER came here from Bennington, and lived in one of Thomas Poor's houses. He was a lame man, a shoemaker by trade, and after living here about a dozen years he moved back to Ben-
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nington in 1865, and died there Nov. 9, 1869, aged forty-five; was buried in Antrim. His wife was Mary Burtt, and their children were all born here : -
1. MARY J.
3. JUDSON.
2. CHARLES.
KELSEA.
HAROLD KELSEA, son of William and Phœbe (Ladd) Kelsea, was born in Landaff in 1807, and married Harriet Noyes of Landaff. At the age of twenty-one he was licensed as a Methodist preacher. He invented a trebling machine for silk threads, which was held to be of great value and which he set in operation at North Branch in 1856, buying the mill of Henry Dunklee, but moved from the Branch to South Antrim in 1857, exchanging mills with Mark Woodbury, who then owned the upper mill in South Village. This mill, the machinery of which he has enlarged and increased from time to time, putting in steam-works in 1871, is now run by a company. They manufacture raw silk into 'all the various kinds of thread, making more than one hundred different shades, and nothing superior to theirs is made in the world. Mr. Kelsea built his house in 1863. His children are: -
1. ABEL M., [b. in Lisbon July 16, 1829, and now lives in Waterbury, Conn.] 1
2. PHOEBE A., [b. in Lisbon, May 2, 1831 ; m. Ephraim Simonds, Dec. 24, 1857, and lived awhile in South Village.]
3. JUDITH M., [b. May 1, 1833 ; is now Mrs. William Hill.]
4. JOSEPH N., [b. June 12, 1837 ; was in the drug business for some years in Tilton ; m. Maria L. Noyes of Montreal, Can- ada, formerly of Lowell, Jan. 9, 1877, and resides at the South Village, occupying a large and handsome house built by him in 1877.]
5. CHARLES W., [b. in Littleton, Sept. 29, 1844, and is now of the Silk Company at South Antrim; was several years selectman of the town.]
KENDALL.
CAPT. NATHAN KENDALL was born in Litchfield in 1726, and died in Amherst in 1791. He married Rebecca Converse of, Merrimack in 1753. She died in Antrim in 1818, aged eighty-eight. They had children: Nathan, Joshua, Rebecca, Jesse, Timothy, Thaddeus, and John C. These all lived to good old age, the first death among them being that of Joshua, who died in 1823, aged sixty-five. They were all born in Amherst.
TIMOTHY KENDALL, son of Capt. Nathan and Rebecca, born Aug. 1, 1770, came here on to the place vacated by Nathan Austin, now called the Gibson place, near the turnpike. He married Mrs. Esther (Pierce)
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Walker in 1793. She was a sister of Gov. Benjamin Pierce, and died in Antrim, Nov. 15, 1826, aged sixty-four. They settled in Amherst, whence they moved here. Lived on above-named place till 1812, then in several other places in town; but died in Bennington, April 14, 1827. Children are: -
1. INDIANA EMERSON, [b. Dec. 21, 1795, in Amherst ; m. James Jameson, Dec. 4, 1817 ; d. in Lowell, Dec. 14, 1847 ; her six children are all dead.]
2. TIMOTHY, CONVERSE, [b. June 1, 1797; went to Boston in early life, and d. there in December, 1860; m. 1st, Sarah Fenner of Providence ; 2d, Sarah Eveleth of Stow, Mass. ; 3d, Mrs. Mary Bartlett of Boston. His children, all by the first wife, were : George, Thomas, Josiah, Esther Pierce, and Sarah. He was in the hide and leather business ; was often councilman and alderman of Boston, and many years on board of directors of public institutions.]
3. CONVERSE, [d. in infancy.]
4. REBECCA S., [b. in September, 1801, and d. Sept. 9, 1868 ; she m. John Banks Warren, a cousin of Gen. Banks, and left but one child, George K. Warren, Esq., a noted photog- rapher and artist of Boston.]
5. ELISABETH PIERCE, [b. in June, 1803; d. January, 1837 ; m. Gen. Israel Hunt of Nashua, in 1832.]
STEPHEN C. KENDALL, son of Josiah and Mary (Lovett) Ken- dall, was born in 1825. He came here in 1849 from Mont Vernon, and was engaged in the manufacture of doors in the shop now A. F. True's, in company with his brother John, and afterwards with Charles E. Jackson. He built the part of the shop now standing. He married Alfreda Jackson of Tamworth; built the house now Lewis Bass's; left Antrim in 1859, and now lives in Fitchburg, Mass.
JOHN L. KENDALL, brother of Stephen C., married Christiana Lovejoy in 1851, and lived in the Cummings house. He entered the army and was lost overboard on the Potomac. The children are all dead.
ADONIRAM J. KENDALL, another brother, lived here awhile, and moved to Nashua in 1851. His parents came here and lived in the Simon .Story house some years, which house was built for them. Adoniram had an arm sawed off in that shop above the elbow, and he did not know it was off till he saw it on the floor, it was done so quick ! He married Amanda Abbott, and had one child : -
1. FRANK E., [b. here in 1851.]
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KEYES.
VERANUS KEYES came here from Nashua in the spring of 1857 to take charge of the town farm, which he managed for two or three years. He then bought the William Wilkins farm at the foot of the sand-hill, which he occupied some years. He then bought the place next east of school-house No. 6, where he lived till the house was burned, when he went to Ashland. He is now living in Weston, Mass. Veranus was the fourth child of Abner and Susannah (Barton) Keyes, and was born in Hancock, Sept. 22, 1813. Abner Keyes was the fourth genera- tion of exactly the same name. Veranus married Mary G. Lewis of Pittsfield, Mass., Nov. 6, 1831. His father had a large family ; and it is said every one in the whole race able to bear arms was in the Union army in the late war. Veranus had three children : -
1. FRANKLIN L., [b. in Lee, Mass., Aug. 31, 1833 ; m. Eliza Hay of Nashua, Oct. 30, 1854. She d. April 9, 1860. Their two children d. before the mother. He was in a good posi- tion at Concord on the breaking-out of the war, but was one of the first in the State to enlist. Was in the company of sharp-shooters attached to the Second N. H. Regiment. Was one of eight men picked out of his division by Gen. Joe Hooker for the signal corps. Was afterwards messen- ger between Washington and Gen. McClellan on the field. Subsequently, Signal-Officer Keyes was on duty in the Pe- ninsula, was always at headquarters, and was entrusted with many perilous and important undertakings. On the last day of the seven days' fight before Richmond, McClellan ordered a council of war ; and Keyes and other officers were sent to the several commanders for reports of their condition. Keyes had accomplished his errand, and was on his return, when a shell burst near his horse's feet, knocking over both horse and rider and stunning both. He was found senseless partly under the horse, was carried to Harrison Landing, and there lay in a field of wheat two days in the rain. There friends found him, and did what they could for him. Thence, in a terrible condition of wounds and bruises, he was taken to a hospital in Philadelphia. There he remained six months, in great suffering. Everything possible was done for him ; but his case was given up as hopeless. It was then decided to send him North, and by easy stages he arrived at Antrim in the summer of 1863. Here, though very slowly, his condition improved, and in the course of a year he was taken to Concord. There he was m. Aug. 1,
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1866, to Miss Almena P. Quimby, sister of Prof. Quimby of Dartmouth College. This most estimable lady had been engaged to him before the war ; and in his weak, wounded, suffering condition she refused to be set free. But soon after marriage he had a shock of a paralytic nature, on ac- count of which he was confined to the bed nine years, always in a sitting posture night and day. He is now living in Newcastle, a helpless cripple, but a worthy and much-re- spected man. Letters written by him on the bed show con- siderable mental character, and a patient spirit in sufferings. He gave all but life to his country. Few lives can be found of such distress and affliction as his. He has shown a no- bleness and courage worthy of note. His noble wife minis- ters to him with heroic devotion. Though deprived of many blessings, yet they are so happy in life that the complainer visiting them goes away and murmurs no more. It is proper to say, in short, that the facts here narrated are a continual honor to " Signal-Officer Keyes."]
2. SUSAN E., [b. Aug. 26, 1835, m. Andrew J. Varnum, and now lives in Ashland.]
3. FLORA M., [b in Nashua Sept. 21, 1846. Is m. and lives in North Adams, Mass. Her husband's name is Arthur Porter.]
KIDDER.
EBENEZER KIDDER, son of David and Esther (Corey) Kidder of Chelmsford, Mass., and a descendant of James Kidder who arrived in New England before the year 1650, came to Antrim from Chelmsford in 1785, having been married to Esther Wilson in 1784. He bought of Frank Stuart, who had begun the present Kidder place. Stuart had cleared about two acres, and had a log house on the site where the Kidder family have since lived. Mr. Kidder died in 1816, leaving children : -
1. REUBEN, [b. May 2, 1788 ; m. Sally Bickford of Hillsborough in 1817 ; moved to Goshen and d. there in 1862.]
2. JOHN, [b. April 8, 1793 ; m. Sarah Chandler of Hillsborough ; lived with his father, and d. in 1828. One child survives him : -
Warren R., (who lives in Hillsborough, was b. June 30, 1822, and m. Hannah J. Hoyt of Gilford.)]
3. LYDIA, [b. Dec. 4, 1795 ; m. Jonas Wilson Dec. 31, 1818, and lived some time in this town, then went below, thence to Hillsborough, where she still survives.]
4. BENJAMIN, [b. Oct. 19, 1801 ; m. Sarah A. Wilson of Chelms-
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ford June 3, 1829, and occupies the old farm. He built his present house in 1866. His children are : -
Lucy A., (d. in 1841, at the age of 10.)
Benjamin F., (b. April 3, 1834 ; lives with his father.)]
5. PATTY, [d. in 1828 at the age of 24.]
6. AMOS, [b. Jan. 16, 1807 ; m. Lucinda Barton of Croydon, where he learned the clothier's trade. Thence he moved to Newport, where he still resides.]
7. SALOME, [d. in 1828, aged 19.]
KIMBALL.
EBENEZER KIMBALL, son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Waldron) Kimball, came here about 1787; married Polly Aiken, the first American child born in Antrim; where the George Duncan, or Carter House now stands, he had a long, low house, with the gable end standing square up to the road. In the back part he opened a store in 1788, or a little earlier, where he traded five or six years, then sold to Andrew Seaton. It was at Ebenezer Kimball's that town meetings were held for several years, when Hancock was classed with Antrim, to choose a representa- tive. Mr. Kimball moved to Hill in 1797, and was for a long time a mer- chant in that place. He was representative, justice of the peace, and postmaster, and died in 1835 aged seventy-two. His children that lived to adult age were : -
1. RUTH W., [b. in Antrim in 1793 ; m. George W. Crockett, a prominent merchant of Boston, and state senator, who d. in 1859, aged 79. She still lives in Boston.]
2. TIRZAH, [b. in 1800; m. A. W. Burnham, D. D., of Rindge, in 1822, who was pastor there forty-seven years, and she his faithful helper. Samuel Burnham, once editor of the " Con- gregationalist," was her son. She now resides in Keene.]
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