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8. ANSON7 was a grain dealer in Oakland, Cal.
9. ELLEN7.
10. FRANCIS7 b. Dec. 1838; d. Nov. 5, 1839.
11. FREDERICK S.7 b. July 1847; d. Aug. 14, 1848.
12. CLARA A.7 b. 1840; d. Sept. 8, 1845.
13. CHARLES C.7 b. Dec. 1843; d. Mar. 1849.
14. GARDNER7 lived in Chicago, engaged in grain business.
THOMAS BARSTOW6 (Michael5, Joseph4, Samuel3, Joseph2, William1) came to Haverhill and was a clerk in the store of his brothers; married Sally, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Cutter) Hale of Wells River, Vt., born June 9, 1796. They lived in Piermont and later in Canada. They had nine children:
1. SARAH A.7
2. HARRIET7 m. and lived at Derby, Vt.
3. NANCY7 m. Feb. 8, 1850, Edwin S. Thayer and lived in Thetford, Vt.
4. MICHAEL H.7 lived in Boston, Mass.
5. THOMAS A.7
6. ARTHUR C.7
7. LOUISA7.
8. RUTH A.7
9. WILLIAM H.7
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JAMES T. BARSTOW7 (William6, Michael5, Joseph4, Samuel3, Joseph?, William1) born Haverhill Dec. 16, 1816; died Piermont Feb. 17, 1893; thrice married: first, to Marice M. Lovering who died Sept. 14, 1846, age 22 years; second, Oct. 19, 1857, to Mary S., daughter of R. N. Brown of Haverhill who died Sept. 12, 1869, age 36 years; third to Sophronia M. Holden who died Jan. 20, 1890, age 50 years. Two children by second marriage:
1. NELLIE J.8 d. June 21, 1869, ae. 7 yrs., 5 mos., 21 days.
2. EDWARD C.8 d. Sept. 16, 1879, ae. 14 yrs. 3 mos.
Mr. Barstow lived in Haverhill and Piermont. Was town clerk of Piermont in 1848- 49, and 1851-52. The records as kept by him are a model of neatness and accuracy. After his removal to Piermont he represented that town in the legislature.
THOMAS A. BARSTOW7 (Thomas6, Michael5, Joseph4, Samuel3, Joseph2, William1) born Melbourne, Canada; married Mary J., daughter of Amos Tarleton of Piermont. Resided in Piermont from which town he enlisted in 1862 in Company B, 15th N. H. Vols. and was killed at the siege of Port Hudson in May 1863. Three children:
1. GEORGE8 b. Aug. 1849; drowned in Connecticut River Aug. 1863.
2. MARGARETTE8 b. Aug. 1853; m. Jesse R. Squires. (See Squires.)
3. WALTER THOMAS8 b. Jan. 1860; m. Inez Clark of Lowell, Mass. No chil.
BARSTOW
REV. EZEKIEL HALE BARSTOW (Ezekiel5, Joshua4, Joshua3, Joshua2, William1), son of Ezekiel and Mary (Connor), was born in Hanover, Mass., May 17, 1815; married Aug. 1842, Emma G., daughter of Rufus Clarke of Brattleboro, Vt. He graduated at Dart- mouth in 1839, and for five years was principal of Lawrence Academy. Studied theology and became pastor of the Congregational Church in Walpole in 1845. Became teacher in a classical school in Newton, Mass., in 1851. He came to Haverhill in 1860, in failing health, and died soon after. His wife survived him several years, and of their children Mary C. and Sallie C. became teachers. William engaged in business in Nebraska, and John, born in 1858, graduated at Dartmouth in 1883, studied theology at Hartford and Andover, and is a successful Congregationalist minister.
BARTLETT
DR. EZRA BARTLETT, who for a period of thirty-six years filled a large place in the professional, political and social life of Haverhill, came of a distinguished ancestry.
JOHN BARTLETT1 came to America from England early in the seventeenth century and established himself at Beverly, Mass.
RICHARD BARTLETT2 (John1) born in Beverly, one of the several sons of John, settled in Newbury, Mass., where he reared a large family, eight sons and two daughters.
STEPHEN BARTLETT3 (Richard2, John1), fifth son, born Newbury, Mass .; married - Webster, and a few years after his marriage settled in Amesbury.
JOSIAH BARTLETT4 (Stephen3, Richard2, John1), fourth son of Stephen, born Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729; died Kingston May 10, 1795. He received the rudiments of a classical education and began the study of medicine with a relative, Dr. Ordway of Amesbury. In 1750 he began the practice of his profession in Kingston. Exercising freedom from the dogmatical rules of practice he soon became eminent in his profession. He began his political life in 1765 as a delegate to the legislature, an office to which he was annually chosen till the outbreak of the Revolution. He was frequently opposed to the royal policy, and Gov. Wentworth in the hope of gaining his favor, appointed him a magistrate and later in 1770 to the command of a militia regiment. He remained, however, devoted to the patriot cause and in 1775 was deprived of both these offices. He declined an election to the first Provincial Congress in 1774, on account of the loss
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of his house by fire, but in 1775, Gov. Wentworth having left the province, Dr. Bartlett became a member of the Committee of Safety upon which the government of the prov- ince practically devolved for some months, and he also accepted a commission as colonel of the 7th Regiment. He was elected to the Continental Congress in Aug. 1775, and again in Jan. 1776. He was the first to give his vote for the Declaration of Independence, and the first after John Hancock to affix his name to that immortal document. In 1777 he was with Stark at Bennington, acting as agent for the state in procuring medical sup- plies. In Mar. 1778 he was again elected to Congress and still again in August of that year. He became chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1779, justice of the Superior Court in 1780 and chief justice in 1788. In this year he was also an active member of the state convention which adopted the federal constitution. In 1789, greatly depressed by the death of his wife, he declined an election to the United States Senate, pleading his advanced age. He was, however, chosen president of the state by the legislature in 1790, and in 1791 and 1792 by popular election. In 1793 he became the first governor of the state under the new state constitution and held this office till 1794.
Of his children, three sons chose the profession of their father; Levi, the eldest, suc- ceeded to the practice of his father in Kingston; Josiah located in Stratham, and Ezra came first to Warren and then to Haverhill. Brought up in the atmosphere of politics, the three brothers took an active interest in politics and all public affairs throughout their lives. Their letters, now in the possession of their descendants, are interesting commentaries on the public men and matters of their times.
DR. EZRA BARTLETT5 (Josiah4, Stephen3, Richard2, John1), youngest son and executor of his father's will, born Kingston, Sept. 13, 1770; married Jan. 31, 1799, at Kingston, by the Rev. Elihu Thayer, Hannah, daughter Dr. Amos and Hannah (Gilman) Gale. Dr. Gale was the partner of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, and attended to the practice of the firm while his partner was in Philadelphia. He was a pronounced Whig and served on several committees during the Revolution, but held no other office and performed no military duty. Dr. Bartlett died Dec. 5, 1848; she died Sept. 8, 1855. Eleven children, eight born in Warren, three in Haverhill:
1. LAURA S.º b. Oct. 20, 1799; m. Jacob Bell. (See Bell.)
2. JOSIAH® 1801-02.
3. JOSIAH® b. May 3, 1803; m. Hannah E. Weeks; d. 1853.
4. HANNAH® b. Jan. 7, 1805; m. John Blaisdell 1835; d. Alton, Ill., June 17, 1897; had two children: A son who m. and had one child who survived only a few weeks, and a daughter Arriana, who lives unm. in Alton, Ill.
5. LEVI6 b. Oct. 4, 1806; m., 1st., Amelia Honeneman, d. Aug. 7, 1829, buried in Bart- lett lot in cemetery at Ladd Street; m., 2nd, Harriett Hopkins. He d. June 22, 1892.
6. MARY6 b. 1808; d. Aug. 6, 1830; unm.
7. SARAH6 b. 1810; d. Oct. 1, 1836; unm.
8. EZRA6 b. Sept. 28, 1811; m., 1st, Sarah Calef; 2d, Mrs. Eleanor Hubbard. He d. June 16, 1892.
9. AMOS GILMAN6 b. Jan. 14, 1814; m. Georgianna Pike. He had two sons: (1) Albert Edward7, a physician in Albany, N. Y .; (2) Frank7 and possibly others.
10. ALBERT GATTALENG b. May 23, 1815; m. Susan Ann Calef; d. 1842.
11. STEPHEN MADISON6 b. June 22, 1817.
The morning after his marriage, Feb. 1, 1799, Dr. Bartlett and his young wife started on horseback, on their honeymoon trip, for Warren where he settled as a physician, secured a successful practice. From the start he took an active interest in public affairs, represented Warren in the legislature of 1805, and in 1806 was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1812, he removed to Haverhill where he took at once a leading position as a physician, dividing with Drs. Carleton and Spalding an extensive practice, and holding important public offices. In his political affiliations he was a Federalist and
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later a Whig. He represented Haverhill in the legislature of 1834, and held various town offices. In 1836 he received the Whig vote as candidate for governor against Isaac Hill, Democrat. He was judge of the Circuit Court in 1816, and chief justice of the Court of Sessions in 1820. He was member of the Executive Council for three years 1822-24 and collector of internal revenue for the fifth New Hampshire district. He was elector of president and vice-president in 1820 and again in 1828, voting in the latter year for Adams. He was a man of high character and standing both in his profession and in public life, and few if any citizens of Haverhill enjoyed greater popularity. An evidence of this is seen in the fact that probably more children in Haverhill and adjoining towns were named for him than for any other man of his time with the possible exception of the immortal George W. The Bartlett residence is on Court Street at the corner, the next house west of the Judge Westgate residence.
DR. JOSIAH BARTLETT6 (Ezra5, Josiah4, Stephen3, Richard2, John1) married Mary E. Weeks; was a physician in Stratham; was killed in a railroad accident at South Norwalk, Conn., in 1853. They had six children:
1. MARY7 who m. - Rollins of Dover and had two children: Daniel8 who d. without issue, and Hannah8 still living in Dover, unm.
2. ANTOINETTE7 d. unm.
3. LAURA7 d. unm.
4. JOSIAH7 in the Navy, was in the battle between the Kearsarge and Alabama, but who d. without issue.
5. EZRA7 d. without issue.
6. GEORGE7 d. unm.
DR. LEVI BARTLETT® (Ezra5, Josiah4, Stephen3, Richard2, John1) settled as a physician in Skaneateles, N. Y .; two children by his first wife: He had by his second wife one son Fred7, who died in New York City without issue.
1. EDWARD7 who later became judge of the Supreme Court of New York, but d. with- out issue.
2. MARY7 m. - Kellogg and d. 1915 without issue.
DR. EZRA BARTLETT, JR.6 (Ezra5, Josiah4, Stephen3, Richard?, John1) born Warren Sept. 28, 1811; married, first, Apr. 25, 1835, Sarah Calef of Saco, Me .; second, Mrs. Eleanor Augusta Tucker, widow of John Hubbard, a lawyer of South Berwick, Me. Studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. John French of Bath, and graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1832. Began practice in Virginia but was called home at the end of one year by the illness of his father, with whom he spent a few years in part- nership, when he went to South Berwick, Me., where he remained fifteen years. He was later in East Boston, Mass., for four years, when he went to Exeter where he lived until his death. During the last two years of the War of the Rebellion he was a "contract surgeon" and was for the greater part of the time with the armies operating in Tennessee and Georgia. He was a very skillful and successful physician and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He had one son by his first marriage, Josiah Calef7, who graduated at Harvard; married Grace -; engaged in business in Chicago and became agent for the C. B. & Q. railroad; he died about 1900 leaving three sons: (1) Josiah Calef8, (2) Hugh8, and (3) Paul8.
STEPHEN MADISON BARTLETT® (Ezra5, Josiah4, Stephen3, Richard2, John1) married 1856, Susan A. Hendree of Tuskegee, Ala .; died Washington, D. C., 1891. Three children:
1. AGNES S.7 m. Charles C. Bryan, and has one dau. Agnes Bartlett8; all living (1916) in Washington, D. C.
2. SALLIE7. Lives in Calef, Cal.
3. GEORGE m., has several children and lives in Colorado.
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BARTLETT
RICHARD BARTLETT !. Settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635; died May 25, 1647.
RICHARD BARTLETT2 (Richard1) born 1622; married Abigail -; lived in Newbury, Mass .; member of General Court four years; died 1698.
RICHARD BARTLETT3 (Richard2 1) born Feb. 21, 1649; married Nov. 18, 1673, Hannah Emery of Newbury.
RICHARD BARTLETT4 (Richard3 ? 1) born Oct. 20, 1676; married Apr. 12. 1699, Mar- garet Woodman.
RICHARD BARTLETT5 (Richard4 3 2 1) born June 27, 1700; settled in Sutton, Mass.
CHRISTOPHER BARTLETT6 (Richard5 4 3 2 1) settled in Pembroke, N. H.
STEPHEN BARTLETT7 (Christopher6, Richard5 4 3 2 1) married Hannah -; moved to Goshen 1776; children born Pembroke.
JOSIAH BARTLETT& (Stephen7, Christopher6, Richard5 4 3 2 1) born 1774; married Abigail, daughter James and Abigail (Kinsman) Wheelock of Hanover; lived in Bath; died about 1851. She was born 1786; died 1843.
MICHAEL BARTLETT9 (Josiah8, Stephen7, Christopher6, Richard5 4 3 2 1) born Sept. 1814; married, first, Amanda Abbott; second, Laura A. Hibbard.
BATCHELDER
JOHN BACHELLOR1 born in England 1610; married, first, Mary -; second, Eliza- beth Herrick. Came to America 1635; settled in Salem; made a Freeman Nov. 13, 1640; admitted to church 1639; died Sept. 10, 1675. Six children.
JOHN BACHELOR2 (John1) born Salem June 23, 1650; married Salem Aug. 14, 1673, Mary, daughter Zachariah and Mary (Dodge) Herrick, born Oct. 10, 1654; she died Aug. 19, 1684. Cooper by trade; lived in that part of Salem, now Beverly. Six children. JONATHAN BATCHELDER3 (John2, John1) born Salem, Mass., Mar. 29, 1678; married about 1719, Ruth Rayment (Raymond); lived in Salem; died 1740. Three children.
LIEUT. JONATHAN BATCHELDER4 (Jonathan3, John2, John1) born Salem, Mass., 1720; married (published) Feb. 3, 1744, Hepzibah Conant, Beverly b. Oct. 26, 1729. First Lieutenant in Capt. Caleb Dodge's Company which marched Apr. 19, 1775, to Concord and Lexington; lived in Salem and Beverly, Mass .; died Oct. 18, 1776. Ten children. REV. DANIEL BATCHELDER5 (Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1) born (probably in Massachusetts) Feb. 25, 1765; married Unity, N. H., Jan. 25, 1785, Phebe Chase, born Feb. 28, 1767; died Corinth, Vt., Oct. 19, 1858. He was the first ordained Freewill Baptist Minister in Orange County, Vt .; ordained at Corinth Oct. 4, 1799; served the Corinth Church, which he organized, as pastor twenty years. He went west to visit his daughter Mrs. Lena Ladd, and died thirty miles from Cincinnati, O., in 1833. Resided in Corinth and Bradford, Vt. Nine children.
CAPT. DANIEL BATCHELDER6 (Daniel5, Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1) born Cor- inth, Vt., May 10, 1803; married, first, Jan. 20, 1835, Mrs. Emeline (Cooke) Brown of Corinth, Vt., born Mar. 22, 1801; died July 20, 1862; married, second, Dec. 23, 1863, Mrs. Lucretia Haywood, widow of Alvah E. at East Haverhill. She died Sept. 1876. He died July 8, 1868. He came to Coventry (now Benton) in 1824, and lived there till 1841, when he removed to East Haverhill where he lived, except for a few years spent in Corinth, till his death in 1868. While a resident of Coventry he took an active part in town affairs holding the various town offices, and represented the town in the legislature in 1834, '35, '36, '38, '39. He procured the passage of the enabling act changing the name of the town from Coventry to Benton, which was accepted by the town in 1840. After his removal to Haverhill, he was elected representative in 1845, and was moderator in 1866-67. A Democrat in politics he was active in party and town affairs. Was
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deputy sheriff, and for many years was an auctioneer, probably more widely known as such than any one of this time in Haverhill and the adjoining towns. He had a loud voice, ready wit and a sharp tongue, and sold the goods. He recruited a company for the 9th Regiment Infantry in the Mexican War, and was commissioned captain, but was detained on recruiting service at Newport, R. I., and did not go to Mexico. He was also captain in the 13th N. H. Militia. Four children:
1. ANN MARIA7 b. Coventry Dec. 13, 1836; d. Hav. Sept. 24, 1867.
2. CAROLINE COOKE7 b. Coventry Nov. 27, 1838; lived in Jefferson, Ia.
3. EMELINE COOKE7 b. Hav. Feb. 8, 1842; m. Feb. 8, 1859, in Grand Junction, Ia., Charles Cooke Carpenter of Corinth, Vt., b. Apr. 8, 1836. Three chil .: (1) Charles Daniel b. June 17, 1860; m. June 16, 1884. (2) Susan Emma b. Mar. 20, 1863; m. Jan. 26, 1881; lived Walker, Lynn Co., Ia. (3) Carrie A. b. Apr. 15, 1872; lives Grand Junction, Ia.
4. ADALINE BRADLEY7 b. Nov. 28, 1845; d. Apr. 21, 1847.
BATCHELDER
REV. STEPHEN BACHILER1 born England 1561; College of St. John, Oxford. Came to New England in 1632, was in Massachusetts till 1639 when he came to Hampton, N. H. His name is conspicuous in the early annals, and his life was one of great activity. Returned to England, and died there in 1660.
NATHANIEL BATCHELDER2 (Rev. Stephen1) born England 1590; did not come to America.
NATHANIEL BATCHELDER3 (Nathaniel2, Stephen1) born England 1640; married, first, Dec. 10, 1659, Deborah, daughter of John Smith of Martha's Vineyard; married, second, Oct. 31, 1676, Mary (Carter) Wyman, widow of John Wyman; married, third, Oct. 28, 1689, widow Elizabeth Knell. He died Jan. 17, 1710. Lived in Hampton. Seventeen children.
NATHANIEL BATCHELDER4 (Nathaniel3, Nathaniel2, Rev. Stephen1) born Hampton, Dec. 24, 1659; married 1685 Elizabeth Foss, born 1666, died 1746. Lived Hampton Falls. He died 1745. Nine children.
JETHRO BATCHELDER5 (Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel2, Rev. Stephen1) born Hamp- ton Jan. 2, 1698; married May 15, 1721, Dorothy Sanborn, born Oct. 27, 1698, daughter Dea. Benj. Sanborn of Hampton. Lived in Hampton Falls and Exeter. He died 1723; she died 1757. Two children.
JETHRO BATCHELDER6 (Jethro5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel2, Rev. Stephen1) born Loudon 1723; married Abigail Lovering. Lived in Loudon. He died after 1780. Eight children.
ABEL BATCHELDER7 (Jethro6, Jethro5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel2, Rev. Ste- phen1) born Loudon June 15, 1772; married Oct. 4, 1792, Sarah Sanborn, born Sept. 3, 1768, died Plymouth Feb. 11, 1833. He died Jan. 28, 1853. Nine children.
KINSLEY HALL BATCHELDER8 (Abel7, Jethro6, Jethro5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3,Nathan- iel2, Rev. Stephen1) born Jan. 30, 1808; married Betsy Page Knight, daughter Moses Knight of Landaff, Lived in Haverhill, Coventry, and Plymouth till 1868 when he removed to Concord; died 1883. She died Dec. 1, 1888. Six children.
1. GEORGE9 b. Haverhill 1831.
2. SALLY SANBORN9 b. Coventry (Benton) Feb. 13, 1832; m. John Connell for years city marshal of Concord.
3. MARY ANN9 b. Nov. 15, 1833; m. Charles H. Bowles.
4. HARRIET C.9 b. Haverhill 1838; m. Robert W. Mitchell Nov. 27, 1856.
5. ELEANOR.9
6. MOSES9 d. 1863.
GEORGE BATCHELDER9 (Kinsley H.8, Abel7, Jethro6, Jethro5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel?, Rev. Stephen1) born Haverhill 1831; married Oct. 28, 1862, Miriam J.
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Bennett; lived in Haverhill and Plymouth till about 1860 when he removed to Minne- sota. Three children born in St. Paul, Minn., and two in Hamilton, Ont.
1. GEORGE K.10 b. Mar. 10, 1864. In employ of Page Belting Co. In 1901 went to Rangoon, India.
2. MOSES ABEL10 b. Dec. 10, 1866; m. Mar. 8, 1894, Edith Camilla, dau. of Lemuel N. and Priscilla (Simpson) Phillips of Littleton, b. Bethlehem Jan. 23, 1867. In clothing business in Plymouth since 1883; town clerk.
3. BENNETT1º b. June 10, 1869; m., Jan. 1, 1900, Annie S. Roberts. One child: Mir- iam11 b. Oct. 10, 1900. In clothing business, Brown & Batchelder, in Concord, since 1890.
4. MIRIAM10 b. Jan. 5, 1872; went with her father to Australia and later to India; m. 1893 Fred G. Wallis. She d. Rangoon, India, May 15, 1902.
5. WILLIAM J.10 b. Mar. 16, 1874; m. June 16, 1900, Virginia, dau. Charles Taplin of Canaan. (1) Bennett11 b. July 5, 1903.
CYRUS BATCHELDER10, son of William Batchelder of Lancaster, is a descendant of the Rev. Stephen, the line of descent to his father being as follows: William?, Stephen8 Stephen7, James6, John5, Stephen4, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel2, Stephen1.
CYRUS BATCHELDER10, son William9 and Mary B. Farnsworth Batchelder, born Nov. 22, 1857, at West Levant, Me .; married Lisbon Apr. 27, 1883, Ellen S. Jesseman, born Dec. 1, 1864. He came to Haverhill from Nashua where he had been manager of a bicycle store, and became associated with the Jesseman Granite Co. at North Haverhill. Before going to Nashua he was foreman in a job printing and tag manufacturing estab- lishment. Is the head of the Jesseman Granite Co. and resides at North Haverhill. Four children:
1. CORA1 b. Sept. 11, 1883; m. John E. Eastman. (See Eastman.)
2. HAROLD11 b. Apr. 11, 1887.
3. HAZEL11 b. Oct. 3, 1893; m. Wilbur Fish Eastman. (See Eastman.)
4. WILLIAM C.11 b. Aug. 24, 1896.
BATCHELDER
1. SIMON BATCHELDER married Mary Marston. Lived in Bridgewater. Ten children born in Bridgewater: 1, Polly; 2, Benjamin; 3, Caleb; 4, Simon; 5, David; 6, Betsey; 7, Jemima; 8, Phebe; 9, Martha; 10, Nancy.
2. DAVID BATCHELDER born Bridgewater Sept. 12, 1798; married 1821 Sally Thompson, daughter Moses Thompson and Mehitabel (Robertson) Willard. Lived in Bridgewater. Six children: 1, Louisa L .; 2, David W., d. at age of 2 yrs .; 3, Charles W .; 4, David; 5, Lucinda T .; 6, Nathan H.
3. NATHAN H. BATCHELDER, son David and Sally (Willard) Batchelder, born Bridge- water Apr. 20, 1833; married Bradford, Vt., Dec. 21, 1856, daughter of Dudley and Ruby (Allen) Hovey, born Aug. 1, 1836, died Feb. 20, 1899. He died Jan. 3, 1903. Educated in the public schools of Hebron, Bristol, Franklin, and Concord, he learned the carriage maker's trade, and came to Haverhill, where with the exception of a few years spent in Bristol, he resided till his death, engaged for the most of the time in the manu- facture of carriages and sleighs. In politics he was a Democrat, a strong advocate of prohibition, and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two children:
1. FRED PERKINS b. Dec. 17, 1864; m. Junction City., Kan., Aug. 31, 1892, Zadie Ethel, dau. of Col. C. H. Purinton. He fitted for college at Newbury Seminary and Haverhill Academy and graduated at Dartmouth, class 1886; class poet. He pursued post graduate studies at Boston University, receiving his M. A. degree in 1889. Engaged in teaching, and was thus engaged at Junction City, Kan., Nantucket, South Hadley and Florence, Mass. Was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1891, but continued in educational work, as principal and superintendent; d. Apr. 29, 1905.
2. MARY HOVEY b. Sept. 13, 1869; d. Oct. 26, 1869.
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BATTIS
JOHN BATTIS was a tax payer in Haverhill as early as 1799, and his marriage to Susan- nah Wheeler is recorded in the town records, Mar. 10, 1800. Whether they were the parents of Horace Battis is uncertain, but there is a possibility of such parentage since Horace, from whom has descended a numerous family, was born in Haverhill in 1804, and lived in town until his death in 1860, at first in a log house where his eldest child was born and then in a frame house near the summit of King Hill.
HORACE BATTIS1 born Haverhill 1804; married Elizabeth H., daughter James and Hannah (Pettie) Rix of Landaff, a soldier in the War of 1812, and who died in the service at Plattsburg, N. Y. He died Mar. 7, 1860. She died May 10, 1876, aged 75 years, 10 months. Eight children born in Haverhill:
1. SUSAN G.2 b. Jan. 27, 1827; m. Jan. 1, 1846, George Wheeler, farmer at No. Hav., d. Aug. 18, 1883. Mrs. Wheeler lived at No. Hav. in full possession of her faculties and the enjoyment of a good degree of health until her death on Jan. 19, 1919. Two chil. b. Hav .: (1) Helen b. May 22, 1847; m. Josiah Willoughby. (2) Horace m. Clara Winchester. Lived on Brier Hill. Eight chil.
2. JAMES R.2 b. Nov. 28, 1828.
3. JANE 2 b. 1831; m. May 28, 1847, John W. St. Clair. (See St. Clair.)
4. PHEBE2 b. May 7, 1835; m. Dec. 17, 1854, Albert Chase. (See Chase.)
5. NANCY R.2 b. 1833; m. Frank Richardson; d. Nov. 30, 1891.
6. WILLIAM HENRY2 b. Sept. 8, 1838; m. (pub. Dec. 19, 1867) Eliza J., dau. Solon and Theodora (Hurlbert) Swift. (See Swift.) One child: L. Maude3 b. Hav. Sept. 22, 1874; milliner; unm. He d. Hav. Jan. 31, 1908.
7. JOHN S.2 b. June 21, 1841; m. Lydia Ann Whitcher of Warren, b. 1842. Farmer; lived at Hav. Centre; d. Apr. 2, 1907. No chil.
8. CHARLOTTE2 d. young.
JAMES RIX BATTIS2 born Nov. 28, 1828; married, first Apr. 13, 1857, Mary A., daughter Joseph and Lucy (Jeffers) Hardy, died 1860; married, second Jan. 4, 1865, Tryphenia M., daughter David and Abigail (Cutting) Putnam, born Croyden May 22, 1831. He died Woodsville Nov. 27, 1893. She lives (1917) with her son, Clarence, in Woodsville. Farmer. Democrat. Seven children born in Haverhill, two born first marriage, five by second :
1. MARY ELIZABETH3 b. Feb. 10, 1858; m. Nov. 21, 1885, Frank Edward, son George B. and Mary O. (Sargent) Roby, b. Concord Sept. 11, 1858. Live in Woodsville. He is freight conductor B. & M. R. R. No chil.
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