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I. Samuel, b. June 27, 1773.+
II. Betsey, b. May 3, 1775 ; m. William Tenney, q.v. III. Silas, b. Apr. 21, 1777; m. Abigail Johnson. For a number of years, he was engaged in teach- ing school in the vicinity of Marl., and was afterward associated with his brother Samuel in merchandising. He finally removed to Hali- fax, Vt., where he d. Apr. 12, 1834.
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1. Otis, b. July 17, 1810; m., Oct. 15, 1832, Temperance Pearce; d. in Oswego, N.Y., May 2, 1843.
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IV. John, b. Feb. 6, 1779.+
v. James, b. Nov. 14, 1780; m. Mrs. Coy; d. in Troy, 1840.
VI. Abigail, b. Dec. 2, 1782; d. in childhood.
VII. Benjamin, b. March 24, 1786 ; m. Betsey Newton ; d. in Troy, Nov. 24, 1842.
VIII. Amos, b. Oct. 14, 1790; m. Nancy, dau. of Reu- ben Ward. He d. in Boston, Dec. 18, 1830.
IX. Timothy, b. Apr. 24, 1792; m., Jan. 24, 1821, Mary Jones ; d. in Troy, Dec. 12, 1871.
x. Nathan, b. Feb. 22, 1795 ; m. Margaret Bird; d. at Isle-au-Haute, Me., Oct., 1834.
SAMUEL FIFE, eldest son of Dea. Silas, m., Sept. 6, 1806, Anna, dau. of Daniel and Lucy (Collins) Emerson, b. in Marl., May 27, 1782, and d. in Jaffrey, July 28, 1818. He m. (2d), Apr. 1, 1819, Sarah Thayer, b. in Richmond, Aug. 15, 1776, and d. in Elmore, Vt., June 20, 1847. In early life, he taught school for several years, and afterward engaged in mercantile business, in company with his brother Silas. Late in life, he re- moved to Chelsea, Vt., where he was successfully engaged in farming for a number of years, and from thence to Elmore, Vt., where he d. Oct. 15, 1851. Chil- dren by first wife :-
I. Almond, b. March 4, 1811; m., Jan. 5, 1841, Marinda Peck; d. Sept. 3, 1868.
II. Abba, b. July 5, 1814; m., Jan. 28, 1836, Char- lotte Courser ; lives in Irvington, Iowa.
III. Mira, b. Apr. 19, 1818 ; m. Jason M. Kendrick of Wilmington, N.Y .; d. Apr. 5, 1848. Children by second wife : -
IV. Emerson, b. Nov. 13, 1819; d. Nov., 1853, um. v. Silas, b. Apr. 20, 1825; m., Jan. 1, 1857, Sarah Allen ; resides in Chicago, IlI.
JOHN FIFE, third son of Dea. Silas; m. Sarah Seward, b. March 27, 1774; d. in Peterboro, Aug. 24, 1858. He remained in town but a few years after his marriage, then removed to Jaffrey, where he was engaged in farm- ing for many years, and thence to Peterboro, where he d. May 7, 1843.
I. Abigail, b. July 29, 1800; m., Oct. 12, 1823, Samuel Stratton ; resides in Jaffrey.
18 19 II. William, b. Nov. 23, 1803; m., Apr. 27, 1833,
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Ruth Gott ; m. (2d), Dec. 22, 1847, Sarah Sel- lers; d. at Ellsworth, Me., June 2, 1857.
III. John, b. Jan. 31, 1807; m., Nov. 4, 1830, Caroline Stone; resides in Charlotte, N.Y.
1v. Mary, b. June 27, 1808; d. 1828, um.
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v. Elmira, b. Aug. 11, 1811; resides in Peterboro, um.
Elvira, b. Aug. 11, 1811; resides in Peterboro, um. VI.
ROBERT FIFE, a brother of Dea. Silas Fife, b. in Bol- ton, Mass., March 11, 1747 ; m., July 11, 1776, Hepzibah Bash of Marl., Mass. He resided for a few years in this town on a lot of land near his brother, and then returned to Mass., where he d. in Apr., 1785. He had children as follows, all of whom, except Jesse, were b. in Bolton.
I. Lucy, b. Jan. 1, 1777 ; d. in infancy.
II. Hannah, b. July 29, 1778; m. Solomon Moore; d. in Hillsboro', Feb. 21, 1841.
III. Lucy, b. May 18, 1780; m. Curtis Pollard; d. in Bolton, Sept. 26, 1846.
IV. Hepzibah, b. Nov. 30, 1781; m. Asa Goss; d. in Sterling, Mass., 1871.
v. Robert, b. Sept. 27, 1783; m. Larhuhannah Nel- son ; removed to Florida, Mass., where he was deacon of the Congregational Church, and held nearly all the responsible offices within the gift of his fellow-townsmen. He d. Nov. 24, 1846.
v1. Jesse, - -; removed to Florida, Mass., where he m. Lydia Kemp; d. Sept. 22, 1839.
1 PAUL FIFIELD, b. in Concord, N.H., Aug. 6, 1763; m. Temperance Furber, a native of Portsmouth. She was a sister of Nathaniel Furber, a potter who resided for some time in this town and Dublin. Mr. Fifield came to Marl. previous to 1800, and settled in that part of Roxbury set off from Marlboro', being the first settler on what is known as the "old Fifield place." He d. July 22, 1840. His widow d. in 1855.
I. Samuel, b. Nov. 27, 1791; m. Almira Allen of Walpole; removed to Otselic, N.Y.
II. Asa, b. Apr. 11, 1794 ; d. in Painsville, Ohio.
III. Gardner, b. Jan. 15, 1796; m. Hepsibeth Green- lief of Medford, Mass., where he settled, and d. in 1850.
IV. Ira, b. Jan. 11, 1798; m. Irena Allen of Walpole ; removed to Otselic, N.Y.
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v. Betsey, b. March 21, 1800; m. Elias Tozer; resides in Illinois.
VI. Stillman, b. June 12, 1802; m., Sept. 28, 1828, Julia Robbins of Nelson ; resided for many years in Roxbury, then removed to Marl., and thence to Swanzey, where he d. Dec. 15, 1878. VII. Cynthia, b. Feb., 1806; m. Alvah Foster; re- moved to Wheatland, Mich., where she d. March 28, 1875.
VIII. Lucina, b. Jan., 1808; m. Nahum Nims; resides in Sullivan.
1 REV. HALLOWAY FISH, son of Rev. Elisha Fish, was b. in Upton, Mass., Aug. 2, 1762; graduated at Dart- mouth College 1790, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Sept. 25, 1793 (see Chap. VI.). His wife was Hannah, dau. of Jonas and Persis (Baker) Brigham of Westborough, Mass. He d. Sept. 1, 1824. She d. Sept. 1, 1824. He adopted two children, a niece and nephew of his wife.
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I. Hannah, b. 'in Westborough, 1796 ; m. Silas Paine of Randolph, Mass.
II. Halloway, b. in Westborough, Mass., Sept. 2, 1801 (see Brigham family).
FITCH.
JOHN FITCH, with his wife and two children, removed in 1739 from Bradford, Mass., to that part of Lunenburg now included in Ashby. His abode was several miles distant from his nearest neighbors, and was described by him as "seven miles and a half above Lunenburg meeting- house, and three miles and a half above any of the inhabitants, on the road leading from Lunenburg to Northfield." .The settlers in that vicin- ity, apprehensive of an attack from the Indians, assisted Mr. Fitch in fortifying his house; and early in the year 1748 four soldiers were sta- tioned within the garrison. Mr. Fitch was a man of considerable dis- tinction. He had traded much with the Indians, and his frontier posi- tion was well known. It appears that they had resolved upon his capt- ure; and a party of them, not far from eighty in number, stealthily approached his abode during the absence of two of the soldiers, and, on the morning of July 5, 1748, suddenly fell upon him and his two remain- ing companions, who were a short distance from the garrison. One of the soldiers, named Zaccheus Blodgett, was instantly killed. Mr. Fitch and the other soldier, named Jennings, escaped within the enclosure, where they made a stout resistance for an hour and a half, when Jen- nings received a fatal wound in the neck, from a shot through a port-hole. The wife of Mr. Fitch loaded the guns, while her husband continued his efforts to repel the assault. The Indians at last assured him that, if he persisted in firing, he and his family should perish in the flames of the building; but, if he would surrender, they promised to spare the lives of all within his house. A surrender was then made, and the house and fences were burned by the Indians; and Mr. Fitch, accompanied by his
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wife and five children, was conducted to Montreal. The ages of the chil- dren were, respectively, five months, four, five and one half, eleven, and thirteen years. A company of men from Lunenburg and vicinity, under command of Major Hartwell, started in pursuit, early the following morn- ing. The Indians proceeded along the south side of Watatic Mountain, and made their first stop at the meeting-house in Ashburnham, the inhab- itants of which town had abandoned their settlement but a short time previous. It is probable that they continued their course through the eastern portion of Rindge, and thence by way of Spofford Gap in a more northern direction. Somewhere in the township of Ashburnham, the pursuing party discovered a piece of paper fastened to a tree, containing a few lines written by Fitch, imploring his friends not to attempt his rescue, as the Indians had promised to spare their lives, if unmolested, but threatened instant death to himself and family, if his friends at- tempted to deprive them of their captives. The pursuing party then returned. After enduring the severest hardships in their long journey through the wilderness and in captivity, the family were ransomed by their friends in Bradford. After bravely enduring the perils of captiv- ity, the wife of Mr. Fitch sickened while returning, and died in Provi- dence, Dec. 24, 1748, nearly six months after the date of capture. The others returned to their former home in Ashby.
Mr. Fitch used to relate that among the plunder taken from his prem- ises by the Indians, was a heavy draft chain, which one of them carried upon his shoulders to Canada, and there bartered it for a quart of rum. Paul, one of the children, then between five and six years of age, was strapped upon the back of an Indian, and performed the journey more" easily than other members of the family. He always remembered this experience of his childhood, and used to say that, brought into such close contact with his animated vehicle, the smell of the Indian made him sick, and that he cried so lustily the savage turned him about and again bound him to his back. With his face toward his former home, and blindly entering the unknown future, the journey was continued. His new position was a truthful symbol of the uncertainty of his fort- unes. Jacob, another of the sons of Mr. Fitch, then four years of age, and who subsequently was one of the early school-masters in Rindge, suffered more severely. Though in other respects well formed, his lower limbs were of dwarfish size, on account of the rigor with which he was bound to the back of his Indian transport. John Fitch m. (2d), Feb. 14, 1750-51, Elizabeth (Bowers) Peirce. He took an active part in secur- ing an act for the incorporation of Fitchburg, and from him that city received its name. He resided a few years in Rindge, after which he re- turned to Ashby, where he d. Apr. 8, 1795.
1 PAUL FITCH, son of John, b. June 15, 1744; m., Apr., 1767, Mary Jaquith of Billerica, Mass., b. June 25, 1744, who was the mother of his nine children, and d. Feb. 18, 1800; and he m. (2d), in Rindge, Jan. 7, 1802, Joanna (Rice) Walker, widow of Samuel Walker. He settled first in Rindge, and entered the army from that town, being a member of Capt. Stone's Company in 1777. Soon after his discharge, he removed to Jaffrey, and subsequently came to Marl., where he d. May 2, 1818.
2 I. Hannah, b. June 25, 1768; m. John Moore of Sharon, N.H.
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II. John, b. Oct. 1, 1770; m. Hannah -; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 1841.
III. Paul,. b. June 21, 1773.+
IV. Mary, b. March 15, 1776; m., Apr. 15, 1799, William Moore of Sharon. He d. Oct. 6, 1823; she d. Oct. 23, 1835, in Rindge.
v. Alice, b. Apr. 11, 1779 ; d., 1859, um.
VI. Abigail, b. Feb. 26, 1782; m. Joseph Piper of Jaffrey.
VII. Jacob, b. Feb. 20, 1785; d. Aug. 19, 1852, um.
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VIII. Susannah, b. Oct. 2, 1789; m. (1st), Aug. 7, 1808, David Blood. He was killed by falling upon the water-wheel in the saw-mill at the outlet of Stone Pond, May 2, 1813. She m. (2d), Apr. 3, 1815, Joseph Tolman, q.v. By Mr. Blood, she had one child.
1. David, b. Jan. 28, 1813.
Ix. Luther Jaquith, b. Sept. 8, 1792; m. Jane Hoyt ; resided in Hopkinton, N.H.
PAUL FITCH, son of Paul, m., Nov. 25, 1802, Sarah Walker, dau. of Samuel and Joanna (Rice) Walker of Rindge. She d. Nov. 14, 1814, and he m. (2d), Dec. 21, 1815, Sarah Davis. He resided for many years in Marl., and subsequently removed to Claremont, where he d. Dec. 18, 1843. Children by first wife :-
I. Paul, -; m. (1st) - Heard, (2d) Maria Gould of Bellows Falls ; resides in Claremont. II. Josiah, b. July 29, 1805.++ III. Sarah, -; m. Warren Batcheller of Lynn, Mass .; d. May 8, 1868.
IV. A child, b. 1810; d. Nov. 25, 1811, æ. 18 mos. v. Elijah, b. June 25, 1812.++
Children by second wife :-
VI. Lucy, -; m. William Fletcher of Lempster. VII. Luther, m .; resides in Newport. VIII. Lovina,. -; was drowned.
JOSIAH FITCH, son of Paul and Sarah (Walker) Fitch ; m., Dec. 2, 1830, Caroline, dau. of William. and Betsey J. (Needham) Greenwood. She d. Apr. 4, 1839.
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I. R. Walker, b. Aug. 21, 1831; m., Nov. 19, 1853, Rachel C. Cox ; she d., and he m. (2d), Sept. 3, 1857, Nancy J. Clark ; resides in Milford, N.H. II. Wilbur, -; d. June 11, 1843.
Mr. Fitch m. (2d), June 14, 1839, Lucretia Herrick of Reading, Vt. He d. June 9, 1865.
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III. Sarah, b. Oct., 1842; m., Apr., 1858, George Collester ; resides in West Harrisville.
IV. Martha, b. June 29, 1843; m., Dec. 11, 1865, Roger Derby. He d., and she m. (2d) Hulton Travis; resides in West Harrisville.
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Mary, b. June 29, 1843; m., June 14, 1865, Milan Derby; resides in West Har- risville.
VI. Wilbur, b. Oct. 13, 1847; m., Feb. 19, 1867, Lizzie Knight; resides in Swanzey.
VII. Warren B., b. Feb. 9, 1850 ; m., June 2, 1870, Isadore Bowker; resides in Keene.
ELIJAH FITCH, son of Paul and Sarah (Walker) Fitch ; m., May 19, 1839, Eliza, dau. of David and Lucy (Knight) Joslin. He was a blacksmith by trade, and worked for several years at that business in the village. He d. Aug. 4, 1876.
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I. Murray, b. Feb. 23, 1841 ; m., Sept. 3, 1868, Carrie L. Allen of Troy.
II. Emmett, b. Dec. 22, 1845; m., -, Abbie A. (Priest) Capron, dau. of Silas and Nancy M. (Wilder) Priest.
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1. Frank E., b. March 27, 1871.
2. Walter Scott, b. Oct. 24, 1875.
3. F. Carl E., b. May 31, 1879.
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IVERS FLINT, son of Joshua and Susanna (Babcock) Flint, b. in Ashby, Mass., Aug. 27, 1814; m., Dec. 29, 1840, Harriet, dau. of David and Dolly (Fisher) Towns- end, b. in Dublin, Feb. 26, 1817. He resided in Roxbury, on the farm now owned by Josiah Parker, from 1838 to 1870, in which year he came to Marl. to reside.
I. Josephine Amanda, b. Oct. 19, 1841; m., March 13, 1865, Myron C. Wilder of Ashby, Mass. She d. Sept. 20, 1876.
II. Lavater Munroe, b. May 4, 1846; m., Oct. 31, 1867, Clara E., dau. of Oliver and Eliza (Hem- enway) Jewett.
1. Ernest Frederick, b. Apr. 22, 1872.
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1 DEA. JAMES FLOOD was b. probably in Bolton, Mass., 1730; m. Betsey Whitcomb. He was a resident of Marl. in 1776, being the first settler on the Daniel Priest place, lately occupied by Dea. A. M. Smith. He was ac- tive in forming the Congregational Church, was one of the eight original members, and was the first deacon of
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the church, being chosen to that office July 5, 1779. He was killed by the fall of a tree, June 24, 1790. His widow m. (2d), Apr. 20, 1797, Benjamin Spaulding of Jaffrey, who d. Oct. 4, 1806, æ. 68. She probably d. 1825.
I. James, -; m., Aug. 23, 1785, Lois Hunt of Dublin; removed to Canada, where he raised up a family of four boys and four girls.
II. Betsey, d. um.
III. Sarah, -; m. Henry Hunt.
IV. Israel, b. Jan. 24, 1776.+
v. Joseph, b. Oct. 10, 1779.+
VI. Abigail, b. July 27, 1782; m. Daniel Priest, q.v. VII. Rufus, b. March 4, 1784.+
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 VIII. Azubah, b. March 3, 1786; m., March 8, 1807, Abijah Ruggles; settled in Brighton, Mass., where he d. Dec. 1, 1839. She d. at Hudson, Mass., Nov. 28, 1866. Descendants living in Holliston, and Westboro, Mass.
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ISRAEL FLOOD, son of Dea. James, m., 1810, Lydia, dau. of Asa and Eunice (Williams) Porter. He d. Jan. 4, 1829.
I. Emeline, b. May 30, 1811; d. Oct. 30, 1828.
II. Israel Whitcomb, b. Jan. 27, 1813; d. Oct. 11, 1828.
III. Mary Ann, b. Jan. 6, 1815; m., June, 1831, William Putnam of Jaffrey, where they resided until 1837, when they removed to Marilla, N.Y., where they now reside.
IV. Louisa, b. Apr. 15, 1817; m. Calvin Winch ; resides in Marilla, N.Y.
v. Lydia, b. Feb. 6, 1820; d. Aug. 31, 1828.
VI. James Addison, b. June 26, 1822.
VII. Adaline, b. Dec. 31, 1827.
JOSEPH FLOOD, son of Dea. James, m., May 5, 1802, Betsey Priest of Jaffrey ; resided in Marl. until 1806, when they removed to Londonderry, Vt., where all the children, except the two oldest, were born.
I. Azubah, b. Jan. 23, 1803; m. Jan. 7, 1827, Luke Bennett ; settled in Alden, Erie Co., N.Y., and d. March 1, 1872.
II. Betsey, b. Jan. 11, 1805 ; m., May 5, 1831, Samuel Rich of Alden, N.Y. ; resides in Ba- tavia, N.Y.
III. Almira, b. Jan. 2, 1807; m., Feb. 18, 1835,
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Luther Barrett; resides in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N.Y.
IV. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1810; m., July 4, 1832, Ira Cochran of Londonderry, Vt .; d. in Dorset, Vt., Oct. 11, 1841.
v. Joseph P., b. Feb. 10, 1813; m., Jan. 4, 1838, Caroline Battalph ; resides in Marilla, Erie Co., N.Y.
RUFUS FLOOD, son of Dea. James, m., and resided for some time in Marl., and had the following children.
I. Rufus, b. Jan. 3, 1808 ; d. March 20, 1808.
II. Nathaniel Corbin, b. March 5, 1810.
III. S Mary, b. Oct. 24, 1812; d. Jan. 30, 1816.
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IV. Joseph, b. Oct. 24, 1812.
v. Rufus Loring, b. Feb. 2, 1817.
1 JOSEPH FOLLET came from Cumberland, R.I., in 1780, and located near the granite quarry and on the spot where A. G. Mann's boarding-house now stands. He was a very intemperate man, and when under the influence of liquor was so abusive to his family they were frequently obliged to flee his presence for their own safety. Nov. 1, 1806, he returned to his home so intoxi- cated that his wife, feeling that her life was in danger, took refuge in the chamber, drawing the ladder up after her, leaving him sitting before the fire. In the morning, she was horrified to find her husband lying in the fire- place with his head burned off. After the death of Mr. Follet, his widow lived alone for several years, with the exception of a small dog for company, when her son Silas came and took her to his home in Thetford, Vt., where she d. at an advanced age.
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III. Benjamin.
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1 BENJAMIN FORBES from Oakham, Mass., came to Marl. about 1829, and located in the south part of the town, on the place which still bears his name. No record of his death has been found.
I. Huldah, m. - - Sargent.
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III. John. IV. Waldo.
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1 HIRAM FORBUSH, b. in Harvard, Mass., Dec. 13, 1812; m. Lucinda L. Willis of Winchester, b. Jan. 27, 1816. He resided for a number of years in Chesterfield, where all his children but the youngest were born. Mrs. Forbush d. Sept. 8, 1870. He now resides in Swanzey.
I. Nellie M., b. Apr. 15, 1840; m., Oct. 11, 1864, George S. Ellis.
II. Lucius M., b. Ang. 3, 1841 ; d. in Virginia City, Montaina Territory, Sept. 20, 1860, um.
1v. Charles H., b. Jan. 16, 1846; resides in Swanzey, um.
v. Nettie L., b. July 29, 1848 ; m., Ang. 7, 1872, Frank J. Perry of Saco, Me .; resides in Worcester, Mass. VI. Emma E., b. July 28, 1850 ; m., June 9, 1873, Solon W. Nelson; resides in Worcester, Mass. VII. Anna L. S., b. in Marl., Jan. 8, 1856; d. July 26, 1857.
8 1 JOSEPH FOSTER, b. in Lunenburg, Mass., was prob- ably a descendant of Reginald Foster, who came to this country from England, about the year 1638, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., being one of the earliest inhabitants of that town. Joseph m., Jan. 17, 1760, Sarah, dau. of William and Sarah (Locke) Jones of Lunenburg. He first settled in Lunenburg, but in Apr., 1793, he came to this town and located on a lot of land now known as the John Houghton place in Roxbury, then within the limits of Marl. His wife d., and he m. (2d) Rebecca Phelps. He d. Dec. 11, 1804. His widow m. Joseph Rollins of Dublin, and d. in Roxbury, about 1834. Children all by first wife, and b. in Mass.
1. Rebecca, b. Sept. 16, 1760; m. Isaac Whittemore of Ashburnham, Mass .; d. in Sullivan.
II. Enoch, b. Ang. 21, 1762.++
III. James, b. Apr. 24, 1764 ; was killed by falling from a horse.
IV. Stephen, b. Dec. 11, 1768 ; d. in Sullivan, Dec. 10, 1855.
v. Sarah, b. Oct. 19, 1770.
ENOCH FOSTER, son of Joseph ; m. Rebecca, dau. of John and Mary (Whitcomb) French of Dublin ; settled in Roxbury.
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II. Sally, b. June 21, 1794 ; m., May 7, 1813, Samuel Winchester, of Ashburnham; d. in Sullivan.
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III. Stephen, b. Feb. 5, 1796; m. Sophia Briggs of Sullivan.
IV. Rebecca, b. Ang. 16, 1797; m., March 10, 1814, Reuben Phillips of Roxbury ; d. Jan. 19, 1858.
v. Enoch, b. May 16, 1799; m. Eliza, dau. of Levi and Hannah (Brigham) Gates. He d. in Som- erset, Mich., March 24, 1872.
VI. Asa, b. Dec. 29, 1800 ; m. Polly French ; settled in Norwich, N.Y.
VII. Alvah, b. Dec. 26, 1802; m. Cynthia, dau. of Paul and Temperance (Furber) Fifield ; resides in Michigan.
VIII. Roxie, b. Aug. 17, 1805; m., Aug. 17, 1825, Will- iam Merriam; resides in Sterling, Mass.
IX. Mary, b. May 2, 1807; m., 1826, Abel Merriam. She d. in Jamestown, N.Y., Feb. 23, 1851.
x. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 28, 1810; m. Sarah Carpenter of Gilsum ; settled in Nelson; d. Jan. 27, 1867.
BENJAMIN FOSTER, son of Enoch, m., Aug. 21, 1814, Barbary Phillips, b. in Rutland, Mass., March 19, 1793 ; settled in Roxbury. In his old age, he removed to Peterboro, where he d. May 26, 1855. His widow d. July 12, 1873. Mr. Foster was an occasional contrib- utor to the weekly papers. He never attained nor aspired to any great eminence as a writer, but, while earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, preferred to spend his leisure hours in a way that would improve himself and benefit others. The stories which he wrote were particularly calculated to drop useful hints along the pathway of the young. He was ever regarded as an honest, industrious, and worthy man.
I. Rebecca R., b. Feb. 16, 1816; m., Apr. 30, 1839, William Towns of Roxbury; d. in Peterboro. II. Enoch, b. March 25, 1819.+
III. Mary Ann, b. March 3, 1824; m., Nov. 15, 1848, Samuel Hardy of Dublin ; resides in Hillsboro.
iv. Lucina F., b. Nov. 17, 1825; m., Oct. 11, 1846, John R. Forbush of Peterboro. He d. Jan. 30, 1857; and she m. (2d), Oct. 15, 1857, Julius C. Pearl of DeKalb, Ill.
v. Samira Jane, b. Apr. 27, 1830; m., June 27, 1847, Philip C. Wheeler of Peterboro; she d. Apr. 10, 1861.
VI. Sarah E., b. Jan. 23, 1832; m., July 24, 1851, Orange P. Harris of Nelson ; d. in DeKalb, Ill., Dec. 2, 1859.
ENOCH FOSTER, son of Benjamin and Barbary (Phil- lips) Foster, m., Dec. 2, 1842, Mary A., dau. of John
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HISTORY OF MARLBOROUGH.
and Lucretia (Bemis) Lewis. He served three years in Company C, 14th Reg. N.H. Vols.
23 I. Alma L. (adopted dau.), b. Apr. 17, 1853 ; m., June 10, 1873, Charles H. Rockwood of Swan- · zey, b. Feb. 23, 1852.
1. Claude Eugene, b. in Troy, March 2, 1877.
24 1 JOSEPH FRENCH is supposed to have come from Attleboro, Mass., where his grandfather settled about the year 1720. He located on the farm since owned by Pelatiah Hodgkins, in what is now the north-east part of Troy. He resided here until 1808, then sold his farm and removed to Ludlow, Vt.
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I. Arethusa, -; m., June 5, 1804, Joseph Mason, Jr., of Dublin.
3 II. Sarah, -; m. Samuel Thurston, q.v.
4 III. Bridget, -; m. Jonas Knight of Fitzwilliam, June 23, 1803.
5 Iv. Vryling, -; d. Nov. 14, 1804, æ. 25.
FROST.
ELDER EDMUND FROST, the ancestor of nearly all of that name in Marl., embarked at Ipswich, England, with his wife, Thomasine, and son John, in the ship " Great Hope," in the autumn of 1635. He settled at Cambridge, Mass., where he was elected ruling elder of the first church, which was established soon after his arrival. The town of Cambridge granted six acres of land to "Elder ffrost " Feb. 6, 1636 (Camb. Rec.), and in 1646 " Edmund ffrost granted eight acres meddow to lie in com- mon for town's use ; and the 9th, 4 mo. 1652, it was agreed by the church that Shawshine should be divided," being land that was granted by court to the first church at Cambridge. Elder Frost's share was two hundred acres, which was afterward inherited by his sons, Samuel and James, and by them deeded to Billerica.
Feb. 8, 1668-69, Elder Frost was appointed to catechise the children of those families on east side of town. He d. July 12, 1672, having made a will Apr. 16, 1672, proved Oct. 5, 1672, in which he mentions his wife Rena and all his eight children. His first and second wives' names not known, Thomasine - and Mary -. Ilis third wife was Rena, widow of Robert Daniels.
Samuel, son of Elder Edmund Frost, b. Feb. 12, 1638, m. (1st), at Cambridge, Oct. 12, 1663, Mary Coale; m. (2d) Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John and Lydia Miller. He moved to Billerica about 1670, where he had one-half of two hundred acres of land granted by the town of Cam- bridge to his father. He d. Jan. 7, 1717. Joseph, son of Samuel, b. Dec. 23, 1680, mn. (1st), Jan. 12, 1707-8, Sarah Whittemore. She d. Apr. 1717, and he m. (2d), 1718, Hannah Easterbrook. He had fourteen chil- dren, many of whom d. in infancy. About 1740, he removed to Sherborn, where he d. in 1760.
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