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Dea. David H., (b. Aug. 13, 1840 ; m. Ann R. Wood from Venice, N. Y., and now lives in Bunker Hill, Ill., being en- gaged, in company with Gardiner Parmenter, in a large furniture business. Is deacon in Congregational Church of that place.)]
2. REUBEN M., [b. August, 1805; m. Mary Preston, and moved to Francestown. Was frequently in office in that town, a faithful and efficient man ; d. July 9, 1878. He left but two children, Henry H., who is a merchant in Boston, and Clara, who m. Garvin D. Sleeper, Esq., of Francestown.]
3. EDMOND, [b. Sept. 17, 1807. He learned the blacksmith's trade by an apprenticeship of four years with Dea. Isaac Baldwin, and began business in Bedford ; m. Nancy J., sis- ter of Dea. Robert Steele, Nov. 19, 1835 ; bought out the blacksmith-shop at the Branch, in 1837, where he worked at his trade nearly forty years, hard and constantly, and has accumulated a large estate. He first lived in the Jones house, now Langdon Swett's ; then exchanged with Francis Reed for the locality opposite, where he built the present house in 1846, and the old one, being removed from the spot, was taken across the river, and is now occupied by Robert Hopkins. Mr. Sawyer's children are : -
Samuel S., (b. Nov. 8, 1836 ; m. Mary Day of Peterborough, May 18, 1861 ; is chairman of the selectmen and represent- ative of the town; lives at North Branch, on the John Wallace place, having children as follows : Willis H., b. Jan. 6, 1863 ; Eva L., b. Dec. 31, 1865 ; Georgie Anna, b. April 10, 1867 ; Alice B., b. Dec. 12, 1869 ; Harry G., b. May 18, 1873.)
Mary F., (b. June 18, 1846 ; m. D. P. Bryer, June 20, 1872.)] 4. ENOCH, {b. in 1812; m. Jemima Jones of Hillsborough, Dec. 10, 1835 ; moved to that town, and now lives in the Lower
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Village, having only one child, Mrs. Sylvester Atwood, who lives with them. ]
5. JOHN A., [b in 1818; m. Betsey Robinson in 1847 ; learned the blacksmith's trade with his brother at the Branch, and now lives in Kansas. ]
6. LUCETTA T., [worked many years in mills at Nashua, and d. at the Branch in 1868, aged 44.]
DEA. TRISTRAM SAWYER, the third son of Enoch and Sally (Lit- tle) Sawyer, was born in Goffstown in 1780; came here at the age of fourteen; married Mary Ann Templeton of Hillsborough; bought of Henry White and lived in the first house north of the cemetery at the old Center; built him a new house in 1810, which he moved whole down the hill in 1821. He was chosen deacon in the Presbyterian Church in 1816; moved to Hillsborough in 1831, where he died Aug. 11, 1859, leav- ing children: -
1. SILAS N., [b. June 19, 1805; m. 1st, Lucy P. Moore, June 4, 1833; 2d, Sarah A. Gunnerson ; lived mostly in Hillsbor- ough, but recently moved to Newport, where he d. in 1877.]
2. MARY ANN, [b. Sept. 14, 1806; d. Sept. 4, 1807.]
3. MARY WEBSTER, [b. June 5, 1808 ; d. July 23, 1810.]
4. ELIZABETH, [b. Sept. 17, 1809 ; m. Andrew Mack, and settled in Orange, Mass.]
5. SAMUEL, [b. May 8, 1811 ; d. in infancy.]
6. JANE, [b. Dec. 26, 1812; m. Warren Foster, and lives in Keene.]
7. SAMUEL, [b. July 30, 1813; d. young.]
8. HARRIET N., [b. Aug. 6, 1814; d. unm. in 1864.]
9. JOHN NICHOLS, [b. Sept. 1, 1816 ; m. 1st, Frances Whitmore ; 2d, Susan Newell, and lives in Denison, Tex.]
10. ABBY WHITON, [b. Dec. 28, 1817 ; m. John S. Burtt, and lives in Fitchburg, Mass.]
11. TRISTRAM, [b. Nov. 3, 1819; m. Sarah J. Morrison ; settled in Keene, and d. there, July 24, 1872.]
12. EDMOND, [b. May 11, 1821 ; m. Louisa Wright, and lives in Charles River Village, Mass.]
13. FRANCES CHRISTIE, [b. Oct. 5, 1825 ; lives unm. at Keene. ]
EDMUND SAWYER, fourth son of Enoch and Sarah (Little) Saw- yer, came to Antrim with the rest of the family from Goffstown, being the youngest. He learned the joiner's trade, and worked with his brother Tristram. He married Jane Taggart of Hillsborough; lived in Antrim somewhat over a year, and had one son, named Mark, born here. He
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then went to Stockbridge, Vt., and began a new farm in that town, where he had a large family. His third son, Levi Parsons, graduated at Dart- mouth Medical College in 1854, and was a very successful physician in Nashua. Dr. Sawyer married his second cousin, daughter of Frank and Polly (Sawyer) Merriam, and died at Nashua a few years ago. His widow still resides there. Edmund's youngest son, Reuben M., named for Reuben Mark Sawyer, his cousin, late of Francestown, has lived in Nashua several years, where he is largely engaged in the grocery busi- ness.
CHARLES SAWYER, son of Abel and Elisabeth (Goodhue) Sawyer, and grandson of Jonathan and Isabel (Grimes) Sawyer, was born in Han- cock, Dec. 19, 1812; married Olivia B. Priest of Dublin, Oct. 4, 1838, and moved here from Stoddard in 1867. He soon after bought the place now Freeman Pelsey's, on which he remained till his death, which occurred May 8, 1872. His children were : -
1. CHARLES D., [b. in Hancock, July 26, 1839; m. Martha A. Swett, daughter of Daniel Swett, Nov. 5, 1863 ; now lives in Clinton, in the Widow Tenney house. Is a carpenter by trade.]
2. MARY A., [b. Feb. 26, 1841 ; m. Asher S. Burbank, April 4, 1867. They now live in Boston.]
3. ALLEN L., [b. in Hancock, Oct. 6, 1843 ; m. Carrie A. Wil- son of Stoddard, Nov. 2, 1865 ; lives in Clinton ; has chil- dren, as follows : -
George A., (b. in Stoddard, Sept. 6, 1866.) Mary L., (b. in Antrim, Nov. 11, 1870.) Lora, (b. Dec. 7, 1874.)]
4. GEORGE A., [b. Oct. 26, 1848 ; d. in infancy.]
5. CLARENCE E., [b. in Stoddard, Feb. 22, 1857.]
SAXBY.
MARK SAXBY came here and bought the Ferry place about 1816. He brought with him his aged father, James, a retired sea-captain. They came from Beverly, Mass. Mark also had followed the sea and com- manded a ship. They came here under pressure of "hard times," at the suggestion of Dea. Taylor, a former acquaintance. Were a very respect- able family, but poor. Mark worked here at the shoemaker's trade. After a few years they moved on to the McFarland place, but they all went with Dea. Taylor to Newark, N. Y., in 1824. They had several children, of whom old Mr. McFarland, living in the other part of the house, said: " If there's anything in the saying that snotty-nosed boys make respectable men, there's wisdom in them heads !" And these children are reported to have stood well in the world ! So far as known, they were as follows : -
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1. JAMES, [became a Methodist minister, and is spoken of as a man of culture and ability.]
2. MARK, [nothing known.]
3. MARIA, [nothing known. ]
SENTER.
JAMES S. SENTER, son of Zaccheus and Dorcas Senter of Charles- ton, Vt., was born in that town, Dec. 7, 1822. Has lived in town in va- rious places about a dozen years. Came here from Nashua. He married Ann Skinner. Only one child lived to maturity, Ada A., who was born in Morgan, Vt., June 25, 1855, and married Charles D. Whiting in 1876, and now lives in Nashua.
SHADDOCK.
JOHN SHADDOCK came here from Hillsborough, and built in 1812 what was subsequently known as the "Minister-Davis house," on the north side of the cross-road a few rods east of the Shattuck corner. He married Hannah, daughter of Dea. Barachias Holt. Was a shoemaker. Had two children here. Then went to Charlestown, Mass., where he buried his wife. He came back to Antrim, but soon went to New York, the time being about 1821, since which but little can be learned of him.
SHATTUCK.
DEA. FRANCIS M. SHATTUCK, of English descent, son of Abial and Sarah (King) Shattuck, and grandson of Abial and Phebe (Shat- tuck) Shattuck, cousins, of Andover, Mass., was born in Merrimack, Feb. 17, 1819. He spent most of his early years with Dr. Spalding in Am- herst, where he received his religious impressions, and united with the church at the age of twenty-one. He married Almira Blanchard of Greenfield, Oct. 15, 1840, and lived in various places till 1855, when he bought the Dea. Steele farm and moved to Antrim in the spring of 1856. Having sold the Steele place, he bought the Warren Christie place in 1862, where he died Jan. 16, 1876. He was appointed deacon in the Center Church in 1866. Dea. Shattuck was an iron-molder by trade, and was a master-workman at that business many years. Was a man of remark- able energy and perseverance; a great worker; always the man sent for, for hard or dangerous jobs. He was a hearty, earnest Christian, always at his post, and greatly endeared to his church and all believers that knew him. On the whole, he was one of the most efficient men ever living in Antrim. His children are: -
1. MARY E., [b. in Amherst, July 11, 1841 ; m. Alvin R. Barker, June 1, 1859.]
2. LAURA, [b. Oct. 31, 1845, in Lyndeborough ; m. Levi M. Cur- tis, March 19, 1864.]
3. MARTHA J., [b. Feb. 20, 1849, in Greenfield ; m. Horace Brown Tuttle, Oct. 27, 1870.]
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4. ALMA F., [b. May 19, 1855, in Nashua ; m. Frank O. Clem- ent, April 22, 1876, and now lives in Manchester.]
FRED H. SHATTUCK, who was a nephew of the deacon, and had his home here with him several years, was supposed to have been lost in the railroad calamity at Ashtabula, Ohio, as one item among the " killed " was "Fred Shattuck,- place unknown," and nothing was heard from him for a long time. But recently it is believed he has been heard from as a lumberman in the forests of Maine, and there disabled by an accident.
MRS. PHEBE SHATTUCK, the deacon's grandmother, lived to a great age, only lacking a few months of one hundred years. Her first home after marriage was in Hillsborough, where they remained but a short time. They then moved to Plainfield, Vt., and there raised a large family of children. When her son Abial last visited her, though upwards of ninety years of age, she walked with him some two miles when he left, and then with her blessing gave him ten dollars as her parting gift.
SHAW.
REV. E. M. SHAW, son of Jacob, Jr., and Hannah (Bartlett) Shaw of Rockland, Me., and grandson of Jacob and Sybil (Ward) Shaw, was born Oct. 14, 1842. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Daniel Bartlett of China, Me. Mr. Shaw fitted for college at Waterville, and was graduated at Colby University in 1871. He studied theology at Newton, Mass., and was ordained as pastor of the Baptist Church in Antrim Sept. 30, 1873. He was a man of culture and grace, and held in the highest esteem by all. He married Carrie M. Burpee of Rockland, Me., Oct. 7, 1873, and they have one child: -
1. MINNIE M., [b. May 3, 1875.]
GEORGE W. SHAW, son of Joseph and Martha (Farrar) Shaw, was born in Meredith in 1847; came here to work for Mark True in 1872; married Lucretia M. Robinson March 4, 1873, and lives in Clinton Village. Their children are: -
1. HATTIE ALICE, [b. Jan. 22, 1874.]
2. LILLIAN EMMA, [b. Aug. 10, 1875.]
3. WARREN COCHRANE, [b. Dec. 9, 1876.]
SHEDD.
JOHN S. SHEDD, son of John Shedd, Jr., and Betsey White, was born in Hillsborough, Oct. 15, 1819. John, Jr., was born Sept. 5, 1784, and married May 3, 1807. His wife Betsey died in Antrim, 1870, aged ninety. John, Jr., was son of John, who was born in Billerica, Mass., Aug. 7, 1756, and married Sarah Sprague Dec. 24, 1778. John moved to Hillsborough, and lived to great age. Was a witty man and always ready with a story, and was not in the habit of being outdone in that line. Coming down to John McNiel's store one afternoon in the "Grass-
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hopper Year," they were telling what monstrous creatures of the kind had been found in the village. McNiel declared that one weighed two and one-half pounds. Shedd said that was nothing to what they had out on the farms; for that morning he went out a little before it was light to catch his horse, put his bridle on to the head of a grasshopper, and did not discover his mistake till he tried to get on and ride down to the house! Another story which is believed to belong to him is this: That he " went out one night to shoot skunks, and before nine o'clock he shot twenty on one log, - and it wasn't much of a log for skunks either!" John S. Shedd married Mary E. Tuttle of Antrim, May 20, 1846. Began life in New Bedford, but moved here in 1849 and went into trade with Almus Fairfield at the Branch. Soon sold out, and bought the south part of the Jacob Tuttle, or McClary farm, and put up the buildings there in 1850. In 1868 he moved into the Jonathan White house, South Vil- lage, which, he still occupies. Children: -
1. MARY JOSEPHINE, [b. April 20, 1854 ; d. Aug. 17, 1856.]
2. NETTIE E., [b. July 5, 1857; m. Ruthven Childs, Jan. 1, 1879.]
SIMONDS.
BENJAMIN SIMONDS of Antrim probably descended from Wil- liam Simonds, who married Mrs. Judith (Phippen) Hayward and settled in Woburn, Mass., about 1643. William had a son, grandson, and great- grandson by name of Benjamin. A very numerous posterity branched , out into Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Benjamin Si- monds came here from Mont Vernon in 1793, on to the place next north of Loveren's mills (begun by the first Reuben Boutwell in 1783); married Polly Avery; and died in 1826, aged sixty-five, leaving children as fol- lows: -
1. LUCY, [b. in Amherst, Jan. 30, 1784 ; m. Enoch Sawyer, in 1802; d. June 7, 1853.]
2. POLLY, [b. in Amherst, May 21, 1787 ; m. Robert Burns, Sept. 1, 1812 ; d. Oct. 3, 1857.]
3. JOHN, [b. in Amherst, May 3, 1790; m. Sally B. Preston, Feb. 3, 1814 ; after living in various places, cleared and settled the Nathaniel Herrick place in 1816, where he d. in 1858, leaving children : -
Mark, (b. Aug. 23, 1815 ; m. Abney McClintock, and went to Windsor.)
Elvira, (b. Oct. 19, 1816 ; m. Nathaniel B. Herrick, Oct. 6, 1835.)
Charles, (b. Oct. 3, 1818; m. Harriet Buck of Windsor, and now lives in Providence, R. I.)
Lowell, (b. June 30, 1820 ; m. 1st, Nancy Barrett of Stoddard,
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and went to Goffstown, where she d. ; m. 2d, Marina Brown, and afterward lived at North Branch, owning the saw and grist mill there. He now lives in Northumberland.)
Achsah, (b. April 1, 1822; m. John Pitman, and lives in Nashua. Her husband d. January, 1875.)
Franklin B., (b. Feb. 20, 1825; m. Nancy Steele, and lives in
Greenfield. Is conductor on the railroad.)
Almina, (d. in childhood.)
Mary P., (b. July 14, 1829; m. Alvah Copeland, and lives in Hancock.)
John R., (was drowned in the river near the house, April 29, 1838, aged 6.)
Reuben S., (b. Sept. 19, 1833 ; m. Sarah M. Pike of Windsor in 1860, and lives at South Village, in a house built by him- self in 1864. His children are Harvey C., b. March 9, 1862, and Ned M., b. July 16, 1866.)
Henry, (b. May 11, 1836; m. Rebecca Blood, and lives in Marlow.)]
4. SALLY, [b. in Amherst, March 8, 1792; m. William D. At- wood, May 7, 1812 ; moved to Hartland, Vt., and d. in 1836.]
5. BENJAMIN, [b. in Antrim, June 5, 1796; m. Betsey Preston of Windsor ; lived on his father's farm, and d. Oct. 27, 1850, leaving children : -
Daniel, (b. Dec. 5, 1822; lives unm. on the old place.)
Belinda M., (b. July 11, 1824; m. David Marden, and lives in New Boston.)
Cyrus H., (b. Sept. 28, 1826; went to Antrim, Minn., and was in the army.)
Elizabeth S., (b. July 14, 1830 ; m. Charles B. Cram.)
Ephraim, (b. July 27, 1832; m. Phoebe Kelsea, Dec. 24, 1857 ; built the Baker house, and lived some years at South Village. He now lives in Lowell, and has two children : Luella H., b. Jan. 16, 1859, and Fannie E., b. May 14, 1866.)
Lewis, (b. June 15, 1834; m. Etta Combs, Sept. 18, 1871, and they have two children : Willie H., b. in Antrim, Minn., July 22, 1873, and Mary, b. here Jan. 12,1877. Mr. Simonds lost his right hand in the gearing of a threshing-machine in 1870. As he was oiling the machine his foot slipped and he fell forward, striking his hand into it. He now lives on the Conant place in the east part of the town. )]
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6. NANCY, [b. in Antrim, Feb. 24, 1798 ; became second wife of Simeon Buck, Dec. 29, 1818, and d. in Windsor.]
7. SABRINA, [b. in Antrim, Feb. 25, 1803; became the third wife of Simeon Buck ; d. in Windsor about 1860.]
8. MARK, [b. May 24, 1807 ; d. Nov. 1, 1807.]
JOSEPH SIMONDS, JR., was son of Joseph and (Phelps) Si- monds of Townsend, Mass., but afterwards of Wilton, this State. Joseph, Sen., married, second and third, two wives by name of Spalding, - not sisters. Joseph, Jr., married Rachel Burns, Sept. 3, 1812. He lived in several places in town, longest on the Whitney place, then belonging to Dr. Whiton. He died in Wilton in 1874, aged eighty-two. Children: -
1. WILLIAM, [m. Mary Ann Gale ; lives in Stoddard.]
2. JAMES, [m. Mary A. Gerry ; lived thirty-eight years in Bos- ton ; in recent years has been a trader in Stoddard ; was b. Oct. 5, 1822.]
3. JOHN, [m. Mary A. Burrill ; lives in Charlestown, Mass.]
4. ROBERT B .. [was in Sandwich Islands when last heard of, many years ago.]
5. ABBY J., [b. in Townsend, Mass. ; m. Curtis Bellows ; lives in Wilton.]
JOHN SYMONDS, son of Charles and Sally Symonds of Hancock, married Caroline E. Robbins, Nov. 3, 1841; lived here in 1840-42; has no children; went to Keene, where he yet lives, and has been a leading business man in that place.
DEXTER SYMONDS, brother of the last, was born in Hancock, April 17, 1818. He married, first, Mary A. Parker of Antrim; second, Arabella H. Closson of Lyme. Came here in March, 1847, working at tanning business in South Village about five years. Has one son, Hart- well Dexter, born in Marlow, May 29, 1844. Went from Antrim to Low- ell, and is now in business on Middlesex street in that city.
SMITH.
WILLIAM SMITH, a Scotchman, and intimate friend of Dea. Aiken, was born in Ireland, Feb. 9, 1715 ; was son of James and Jean Smith, and came here from Londonderry in the spring of 1771. He was the second settler in South Antrim, and the third in town. Coming here at the age of fifty-six, his children were all born in Londonderry. He set- tled south of South Village, a few rods west of the road to Bennington, and not far from the south line of the town. The house was taken down in 1841, and the barn subsequently was moved up to the village, being the barn on the Chessmore farm. Smith was a peaceable, excellent, and pious man, - of a simple and practical religion worthy of notice. When his son John was designated to muster among the quota from Antrim in the company at New Boston, July 23, 1777, the father, though sixty-two
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years old, decided to take his son's place, " giving as his reason, that should he himself fall in battle he trusted he was prepared to meet his Judge in peace ; while should his son go and be killed, he could cherish in relation to him no such hope !" So the old man went into the ranks and marched to join the forces under Stark, went through the battles against Burgoyne, and was present at his surrender, Oct. 17, 1777. Returning safe, he sur- vived twenty-three years, was held in great love, and died in peace in 1800, aged eighty-five. His wife was Margaret Duncan, who died in 1790, aged sixty-seven. She was a sister of James, and cousin of Hon. John Duncan. Their children were : -
1. WILLIAM, [b. in 1749; d. in 1813, aged 64; unm.]
2. JOHN, [b. in 1757 ; m. Jane Wilson ; cleared and settled where Thomas Flint now lives. He had no children. His death occurred in 1826. His widow survived till 1856, and d. aged 88. There being no room either side, they opened her husband's grave and laid the coffin upon his bones, - all there was left of him ! He was a Revolutionary soldier.]
3. JEMIMA, [b. in 1753 ; m. William Ramsay of Greenfield, in 1785. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay joined the Center Church at its formation in 1788. She d. in 1825, aged 72. He d. in 1833, aged 82.]
4. ROBERT, [b. in 1761; m. Hannah Moore, and lived a little southwest of S. S. Sawyer's at North Branch. He moved to Anson, Me., in 1816, and d. there in 1830, aged 69. His children have been prospered, and several of them live near one another in honored old age in North Anson, Me. They were as follows, all but the youngest b. here : -
Samuel, (b. June 7, 1796 ; m. Betsey Getshell of Madison, Me., and now lives in Anson, that State.)
John, (b. Oct. 6, 1797 ; d. in infancy.)
Peggy, (b. April 7, 1799 ; d. in infancy.)
Mary Duncan, (b. Aug. 28, 1800; m. Lemuel Rogers of An- son, Me., and d. there in 1869.)
John, (b. Aug. 31, 1802 ; d. of spotted fever in 1812.)
William, (b. May 5, 1804 ; m. Almeda Savage of Anson, Me., and d. there at the age of 33.)
Sutheric Weston, (b. Jan. 29, 1806; m. Allema Sawyer of New Portland, Me., and occupies the farm where his father settled in 1816.)
Jemima Ramsay, (b. Jan. 31, 1808 ; d. unm. at the age of 33.) Peggy Jane, (b. Sept. 9, 1809 ; m. James Young of Madison,
Me., and lives at a place called " The Forks," in Maine.)
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Hannah, (b. May 30, 1811 ; m. John Caswell of New Portland, Me .; d. in 1840.)
Betsey Tuttle, (b. May 24, 1814; m. David B. Rogers of An- son, Me.)
Joseph M., (b. in Anson, Me., in 1818 ; m. Sarah E. Walker of that place, and now resides there, having eight children, all daughters.)]
5. JAMES, [went to Ohio, and nothing further is known of him. ]
ABRAHAM SMITH, son of Alexander Smith of Londonderry, was born Jan. 23, 1768; came here from Hudson in 1795, and lived on the north side of Meeting-House Hill, on the farm now in part Benjamin F. Dustin's. The buildings were on the old road. He married Jane, daugh- ter of Dea. William McNiel of New Boston, had a large family, and died in 1816. She died Sept. 26, 1842, aged sixty-four. Their children were : -
1. SARAH, [b. June 18, 1796; d. in infancy. ]
2. JAMES, [b. July 27, 1798 ; m. Sarah W. Brackett, April 19, 1832, and lived on the old place. He d. in 1841, leaving no children. His widow m. George Merrill. She d. Aug. 12,1877.]
3. JOHN, [b. May 2, 1800; m. Clementine Hamblin of Tewks- bury, Mass., in 1830. He was a carpenter by trade ; built the George McIlvaine house (now B. F. Dustin's) in 1829, and lived there, while his brother James lived on the east part of the old farm. He moved to Andover, Mass., in 1840, and d. July 10, 1842. His only child d. in infancy.]
4. WILLIAM, [b. April 13, 1802; d. in infancy. ]
5. RACHEL, [b. Dec. 12, 1803 ; m. ist, Prescott Melvin of Lon- donderry ; 2d, Samuel Corning. The first marriage took place Feb. 14, 1826. Moved to Londonderry and d. there. Her son, Horace Corning, was killed in the Union army in the late war.]
6. BETSEY, [b. Aug. 22, 1805 ; m. Samuel Gilchrist, March 24, 1829 ; went to Andover, Mass., where she now resides.]
7. JANE, [b. Oct. 5, 1808 ; m. David Boynton of Lowell, Mass., and is now living, a widow, in Milford.]
8. WILLIAM McNIEL, [b. Nov. 12, 1810; was disabled, having lost a leg by fever-sore when five years of age. He m. Lu- cinda Fowler of Hudson ; went to Merrimack, where he d. Dec. 10, 1872, leaving no children ; was a shoemaker by trade, and once had a shop on Meeting-House Hill.]
9, SAMUEL, [b. Sept. 4, 1812 ; d. in 1837, aged 25.]
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10. GRISEL M., [b. Nov. 7, 1814 ; m. Reuben Melvin, Nov. 15, 1836 ; went to Londonderry, and d. there April 12, 1846.]
CAPT. ISAAC SMITH, son of Ichabod and Mary Smith, was born in Deering in 1766; married Nancy Codman, daughter of Dr. William Cod- man of Deering, and came here from that town in 1818. He bought the farm now the Widow Gould place, on which the three-story tavern (built by William Barnes of Hillsborough) had been burned Feb. 1 of that year, at once built the present house, and kept tavern there many years. He finally went back to Deering, where he died in 1834. His widow died in 1837. Their children were :-
1. ISAAC, [b. in 1791; m. Pamelia Stevens of Hillsborough, June 10, 1817, and settled in Deering on the old farm, now occupied by his son, Isaac Smith, now one of the chief men in that town. Thus three Isaac Smiths were b. on that spot.]
2. CATHERINE, [b. in 1793 ; m. Joseph Merrill of Deering.]
3. RHEMY, [b. in 1794 ; m. a Mr. Jones, and went to Western New York. ]
4. AGNES, [b. in 1796 ; m. William Campbell of Antrim, and d. here in 1828.]
5. HENRY C., [b. in 1798; went to Cambridge, Mass., in early life ; m. Mary Tuten of that place ; after some years came to Antrim to live with his father, but, on removal of the lat- ter to Deering, moved to Nashua, where he d. Had chil- dren, all of whom but the two oldest were b. in this town : -
Mary Jane, (b. in Cambridge, Mass. ; d. aged 20.)
Ann Maria, (b. in Cambridge, Mass. ; m. John Robinson of Nashua, now of California.)
Sarah, (lives in Nashua ; m. 1st, John Wright of Brookline ; 2d, George McIntosh.)
Charles H., (went quite young to South America ; m. a Chilian lady ; after hier death he came back to the United States ; was awhile an orange-planter in Florida; subsequently in the meat business, firm of Smith and Leighton, in Nashua, but has now fixed his home in Florida. He m. 1st, the lady referred to above, who never came to the United States; 2d, Albertine Ball, daughter of Dr. Ball, a dentist of Nashua and vicinity for many years.)
Robert, (at age of 17 went to Texas; was drafted into the rebel army and served till the close of the war; is now a stock-raiser in the Lone Star State.)
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