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THE FELT FAMILY.
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OLIVER FELT was the seventh ch. of Jonathan and Lovell Felt, of Dedham, Mass. Jonathan Felt was b. June 3, 1719, and d. from an injury occasioned by falling from his cow-yard bars at Peterborough, May 16, 1786, æ. 67 yrs. Oliver Felt was b. in Dedham, Dec. 3, 1758, and d. Dec. 19, 1829, æ. 71 yrs. He m. Mary Dunlap, Aug. 14, 1788, in Peterborough, who d. Sept. 9, 1830, æ. 64 yrs., 8 mos., b. Dec. 22, 1765. His father, Jonathan Felt, came to Peterborough with his family, in 1780, and settled on land purchased of John White, on Street road, north of the John Smith place. Oliver succeeded him in the same place as a blacksmith, and followed the occupation until late in life.
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Tryphena, b. Sept. 26, 1790 ; m. James Buckley, Feb. 17, 1820 ; r. Cape Vincent, N. Y.
Mary, b. Oct. 30, 1792 ; m. Samuel May, April 13, 1815 ; r. Sharon.
Irene, b. Oct. 9, 1796 ; m. Jeremiah S. Steele, April 29, 1823, ¡Ira, b. April 28, 1799 ; m. Elizabeth Jewett, April 28, 1825. t Jonathan, b. April 25, 1802 ; m. Susan Caldwell, May 18, 1829. Oliver, b. June 18, 1804; d. Montebello, Ill., Aug. 29, 1834, æ. 30 yrs.
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IRA FELT m. Elizabeth Jewett, dau. John and Marga- ret Moore Jewett, April 28, 1825. He settled on the homestead, where he d. Oct. 11, 1826, æ. 27 yrs., 5 mos.
Elizabeth, b. - , 1826 ; d. Sept. 2, 1830, æ. 4 yrs.
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JONATHAN FELT. He always r. in town. He m. Susan Caldwell, dau. Thomas and Eliza C. Caldwell, May 18, 1829. He d. March 30, 1870, æ. 68 yrs.
Jonathan, b. Feb. 19, 1830.
George, b. April 23, 1832 ; d. Oct. 20, 1852, æ. 20 yrs., 6 mos. Oliver, b. July 14, 1834; m. Rosa Como, Feb. 22, 1872 ; r. Newton.
Eliza Jane, b. Sept. 14, 1838 ; d. Nov. 7, 1857, æ. 19 yrs.
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CYRUS FELT. He re. to Montebello, Ill., about 1832. He m. Abby R. Brown, Jan. 5, 1834. She d. Sept. 3, 1834; m., 2d w., Martha S. Marsh, Sept. 29, 1836 ; she d. Jan. 29, 1852, æ. 34 yrs., 9 mos .; 3d w., Caroline Lyman, March 21, 1856, of Rose, N. Y .; d .; ch. One son was killed in the late war, and only one dau. sur- vives, who m. - Brown. He d. suddenly at Monte- bello, Ill., Jan. 16, 1872, æ. 65 yrs.
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STEPHEN FELT is of a family distinct from the pre- ceding. He was b. in Temple, Sept. 15, 1793. He came to Peterborough as a machinist in 1816, and was engaged principally in the cotton manufacture till he left the business in 1845. He has since r. at the South Vil- lage ; m., Ist w., Mary K. Ames, dau. of Timothy and Sarah Kneeland Ames, May 23, 1818. She d. Oct. 21, 1844, æ. 45 yrs. She was the mother of five ch. ; 2d w., Eliza H. Morison, Sept. 18, 1845. She d. Aug. 14, 1867, æ. 62 yrs. She had one son.
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Sarah M., b. Aug. 29, 1820 ; d. April 23, 1822, æ. 2 yrs. Granville P., b. Aug. 22, 1822 ; m. Jane B. Kimball, Dec. 3, 1846.
Mary K., b. Nov. 11, 1824; m. Charles Spaulding ; r. Milford.
i George A., b. July 22, 1834; m. July 29, 1855, Eliza Hadley. i Fohn Ames, b. May 8, 1837 ; m. Aug. 1, 1860, Emma Ann Willers. + Edward M., b. Nov. 27, 1847 ; m. Jan. 9, 1873, Joseph- ine Rolf, of Jaffrey.
GRANVILLE PARKER FELT. He received his educa- tion in the common schools. He learned the machinist's
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trade of Gay, Silver & Co., North .Chelmsford, Mass., and first engaged in business in Peterborough in com- pany with Josiah S. Morrison, they having bought out William Moore's machine-shop. They manufactured cotton and woolen machinery, and wood-working ma- chines. Mr. Felt bought out his partner in 1851, and has since conducted the business alone. He built a foundry just west of his shop, in 1865, in which he has done much business. In 1871, he commenced the manu- facture of force and suction pumps, in which business he is now largely engaged. He has constantly employed from twenty-five to thirty hands, and his yearly business has amounted to $30,000 a year.
On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1875, his shop took fire about II, P. M., and was entirely consumed, with a large amount of stock, and almost all his valuable tools. The loss cannot be less than twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars, with only a small insurance. Being a man of indomitable perseverance, he again immediately resumed his business in the shop opposite to his works, which had fortunately been preserved in the conflagration, and will no doubt again recover what he has lost. He repre- sented the town in the Legislature in 1863, '64. He is a director of the Peterborough Railroad. He has been too busy a man in his own affairs to find much time for public offices. He m. Jane B. Kimball, dau. Elijah B. Kimball, Dec. 3, 1846.
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Granville, b. Dec. 2, 1848 ; d. June 10, 1850, æ. 1 yr., 6 mos.
Annie }., b. Nov. 22, 1852 ; m. David A. Rogers, Dec. 16, 1872 ; I ch., Arthur Granville, b. Aug. 23, 1873 ; d. Sept. 13, 1873, æ. 20 dys.
Abby K., b. June 20, 1859.
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GEORGE A. FELT. Is a machinist ; m. July 29, 1855, Eliza Hadley, dau. Joel Hadley.
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Albert, b. March 29, 1857. Fohn Ames, b. June 24, 1859.
JOHN AMES FELT re. to Ohio ; m., Ist w., Aug. 1, 1860, Emma Ann Willers, b. July 24, 1842 ; 2 ch. by Ist w. She d. -; m. 2d w.
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Emma C., b. Sept. 26, 1861. Elmer f., b. May 4, 1865.
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EDWARD MORISON FELT ; r. at South Village. He m. Jan. 9, 1873, Josephine Rolf, of Jaffrey.
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Elmer Morison, b. Aug. 4, 1873 ; d. Sept. 9, 1873, æ. 35 dys.
THE FERGUSON FAMILY.
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JOHN FERGUSON was b. 1704. It is supposed that he was born in Ireland, and probably came to this country in the company of the Smiths, Wilsons, and Littles, who made their first settlement at Lunenburg, Mass., about 1736 or '37. He no doubt accompanied these emigrants to Lunenburg, and with them took up his residence in the north part of the town. This residence at Lunen- burg seems to have been but a temporary abode ; a wait- ing till some new location, in the numerous towns about this time granted by the Massachusetts Legislature, should open to them. The early history of this man is somewhat obscure. He is supposed to have been one of the earliest settlers of the town. It is reported that he came to town the first time, which was between 1738 and '40, with one of the original proprietors, about the time the town was surveyed. It must have been some years before he removed his family. He soon afterwards purchased six hundred acres of land, which land, many years ago, was known as the Henry Ferguson farm, the Hadley farm, with a part of the Barber farm, and a part of the Norton Hunt place. After the purchase of this land, and before his final settlement, he visited Peter- borough a number of times, and, at one time, he stayed there alone for three months, clearing a small piece of land, but spending most of his time in hunting and fish- ing. He carried the furs which he had taken to Lunen- burg on his back. The town was then an unbroken wil- derness, no roads, no mills, no bridges, or houses. The roof and floor of the first log-cabin, built by Mr. Fergu- son, was made of split pine lumber. His first and sec- ond cabins were situated on the north bank of the Con- toocook River, directly west from the present dwelling- house of Col. N. Hunt. The exact time of his settle- ment is uncertain, though most probably not far from 1750, at which time many families from Lunenburg came to town. He gave his son, Henry, two hundred acres of his purchase, or the Ferguson farm so called; to his daughter Esther, who married Charles Stuart, two hun- dred acres, where they lived, now known by the name of the Faxon farm ; and to his daughter, Sarah Morrison, land in-Windy Row, known as the Spring farm.
We can learn but little of his standing in society as a man, or his ability in point of talents. We know that when the town first organized, under the Act of Incor-
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poration in 1760, he was chosen the first Town Clerk ; at which time he uniformly spelled his name on the rec- ords as Farguson. We have no means of telling when the a was changed to e in the name ; probably soon. He continued in the office seven years, and until only two years before his death. His record is a very good one ; the writing plain, but crowded so as to occupy as little space as possible. Stationery, in those times, was scarce and dear. His record of the proceedings was in plain, clear language, and with the fewest words.
He appears to have been a well-educated man, and, feeling a deep interest in the education of his own chil- dren, he set apart some hours each day for their instruc- tion. It was soon known that John Ferguson was teach- ing his children at home, and his school rapidly in- creased to ten or twelve. Some of the scholars, coming from a distant part of the town, brought with them the material for their bean porridge, and an axe which they used morning. and evening, to pay their tuition. Great pains were taken in this school with the branch of hand- writing. The ink used was made from the bark of the white maple ; and their pens from the quills of the wild turkey ; and for paper they used the inner bark of the white birch. White birch bark was used in all the schools by the juveniles in writing until after the Revo- lution. Deacon Nathaniel Moore and wife both learned to write on white birch bark. He m. Sarah McDaniel, in Lunenburg, who was b. in 1710 ; d. Dec. 20, 1791, æ. 81 yrs. He d. May 13, 1769, æ. 65 yrs.
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Mary, b. Dec. 22, 1734 ; m.
1 Henry, b. Sept. 18, 1736 ; m. Martha Wilson.
Sarah, b. Aug. 4, 1740 ; m. Rev. John Morrison.
7 Esther, b. March 30, 1746 ; m. Charles Stuart.
HENRY FERGUSON was son of John Ferguson, but where born I am yet unable to ascertain. He came to Peterborough with his father, when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old, about 1748 or 9 - a year when many of the early settlers came to town from Lunenburg and Townsend. We know very little of his early life, of his childhood nothing ; only that a life that proved such a blessing to society must have had early Christian culture. His father, being an intelligent and educated man, gave his children better opportunities for an education than most of the children of that period enjoyed.
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Yet without books or any of the modern means of instruction, we can hardly see how the work of teaching (mostly oral) could have resulted so well. Mr. Ferguson, with such instruction and training as his father could give, was considered one of the best-educated and intel- ligent men of his day. I find from the town records that he held the office of moderator in 1792, and was selectman for nine years, viz., 1771, '7, '8, 1785, '8, '9, 1790, 'I, '2 ; tithing-man for two years, viz., 1783, '6. These were all the town offices he ever held, though he occasionally served on committees, and no doubt always kept his interest in the municipal affairs of the town. From my earliest days I have heard only the praise of this sainted man, and if he had faults, the sharp eyes of his contemporaries failed to discern them; and he has come down to us as the salt of the earth.
There was a long and intimate friendship between Henry Ferguson and William Smith (the father of the great Smith family), which continued through their lives. There was no doubt great congeniality of feeling be- tween them. They were both mild, social, and discreet men, and loved the quiet of their homes more than the hurry and excitement of frontier life ; they shunned rather than courted popular favor, and only took office for the benefit of others, and not for their own gratifica- tion. In a letter from George W. Moore, Esq., of Me- dina, Mich., he says : "My grandfather, Henry Fergu- son, died before I was born, but all that I have heard of him has led me to form a very excellent opinion of him as a man of candor, justice, sobriety, and all those virtues that should adorn a true man and a real Christian. In matters of religion he put little stress in the creeds or ceremonies of this or that particular church, or in loud professions of religion that did not bring forth the fruits of righteousness. Religion with him was a simple cove- nant with his God, which he strove daily to keep. The most prominent trait of his character was his kindness to the poor, to the sick and unfortunate. His hands were always open to relieve their sufferings. They always found a shelter under his roof, and a seat at his table. If there was any poor family in town, he knew it. I have heard my mother [Sarah Ferguson, w. of Dea. Nathaniel Moore] say that he often went to mill with two or three bags of corn, and returned with but one of meal, having given away a large part of it. He was also a man of strict honesty in all his dealings, always scrupulous to represent an article just as it was, and always careful to give good measure, choosing rather to suffer wrong than to do wrong. About 1786 he
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bought a lot of land of a Mr. A., of Stoddard, upon which the last payment was to be one hundred bushels of rye. The rye was ready for delivery, and my grand- father sent his son James and his hired man with two ox-teams to deliver the same. The roads were bad, and they did not reach Stoddard until late at night. In the morning James, being anxious to get an early start for home, told Mr. A. that his father had carefully measured the rye, and that all he would have to do was to empty the bags. Mr. A. told James that he had a half-bushel measure that was correct, and that the rye must be measured with it. After measuring a few bags, it was evident the rye would overrun measure, and Mr. A. told James that he would take it at his father's measure, since the roads were so bad, and he was so far from home. But James told him, as his half-bushel was a correct measure, and he had questioned his father's honesty, that the rye should be measured again if he did not get home till the next morning. When the task was com- pleted, they found one hundred and two bushels, and he brought the two extra bushels back to Peterborough.
"My grandfather would not tamely submit to a wrong, or allow his friends so to do, if he could prevent it. His sister, Mrs. Morrison, was engaged in a lawsuit in regard to some land. She had the right of the case, but had no money to carry on the suit. He borrowed money for this purpose of Dr. K. Osgood, to the amount of $500, and with this aid she gained her case ; but he neither expected nor would receive any remuneration for the services rendered." Thus far Mr. Moore. It has been reported that Mr. Ferguson did not come in readily to the measures of the Revolution - not that he was a Tory by any means,-but he might have thought the action of the Colonies premature, and that there was no hope in contending, in our weak state, with so powerful a nation as Great Britain. There can be no doubt that he ulti- mately came in heartily with his friends to the support of the cause, if indeed he was ever lukewarm and back- ward, for we find his name, as Lieut. Henry Ferguson, among eleven others from town, who served in the army at Cambridge for forty-four days in the latter part of 1775. Mr. Moore, in another letter, has furnished me the following, as a reason why his grandfather, Henry Ferguson, did not and could not, under the circum- stances, sign the Association Test or Declaration of In- dependence with the eighty-three others of his towns- men and neighbors. The Rev. John Morrison joined the British army at Boston soon after the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and he deserted his wife,
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who was a sister of Henry Ferguson, with four small children, and with little means of support. After a few months the small stock of provisions became exhausted, and Henry Ferguson took his sister and her children to his own home. During this period letters passed be- tween Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, and her situation was known to him. He says : "Mr. Morrison wrote to my grandfather that he had money which he would send to his wife if any one would come and get it. He also designated where he would meet the person sent, which was near New York City. My grandfather concluded to go himself, and after consulting with Deacon Samuel Moore, it was thought best that the journey should be kept secret. He therefore left Peterborough in the night on horseback, and was gone some days before his neigh- bors knew that he was away from home. Capt. David Steele, being one of the Committee of Safety for that year, with Wm. Robbe, Jotham Blanchard, Samuel Mitchell, and Robert Wilson (who had been severely censured by my grandfather at a public gathering in town not long before, for conduct he did not approve), taking advantage of his absence, started a report that he had given up the American cause, and had gone to join the British army in Canada. About the first of July my grandfather returned, and brought with him a certain quantity of gold, estimated at one pound of gold, or some three or four hundred dollars.
" The next day, Capt. Steele, with six of his neighbors, came to his house, and meeting him at the door said to him, 'Henry Ferguson, we understand that you have been to Canada, and we want to know your business, and examine your papers.' He asked them to go into the house, and handed the key of his desk to Capt. Steele, saying : 'I have not been to Canada. I have been about my own legitimate business, and the busi- ness of my family. I have conducted myself with pro- priety in my absence as I have always done.' Mrs. Morrison, fearing that the house would be searched and the gold found, went and hid it in the barn. But the frankness of Mr. Ferguson convinced the party of his honesty, and here the matter ended."
From the above it would be evident that Henry Fer- guson was absent when this declaration was signed by his friends. It was presented the 17th of June, 1776, and immediately signed, as there could be no delay in that crisis of the country. So no imputation of disloyal- ty can rest upon him, for all the circumstances of his life indicate his earnest patriotism and zeal in the cause of liberty. He m. Martha Wilson, who d. Oct. 30, 1815, æ.
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76 yrs. This excellent man became a victim of an epi- demic fever which prevailed in town, April 1, 1812, æ. 75 yrs., and well may it be said of such a man, as quoted by Rev. E. Dunbar, in his notice of his death on the church records : -
" Incorrupta fides, undique veritas, quando ullum Invenient parem, multis ille flebilis occidet."
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Fohn, b. 1768. He went South in early life, and became a successful merchant in Coosawhatchie, Beaufort Co., S. C. In 1807 he gave up his business, and re- tired to his plantation, Coosawhatchie Swamp, where he d. March 28, 1828, of a cancer in the eye. He was never married, though he left children out of the pale of wedlock, to whom he willed his large property of money, lands, and negroes.
t James, b. Feb. 13, 1770 ; m. Mary Howard, July 18, I&II.
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Fane, b. 1773 ; m. George Duncan, Jr.
Sarah, b. Aug. 4, 1775 ; m. Deacon Nathaniel Moore.
Henry, b. 1777 ; unm .; d. in the autumn 1818, at Coo- sawhatchie, S. C.
Thomas, b. 1779 ; unm. ; d. at Ashapoo, Colleton Co., S. C., April 14, 1834, æ. 54 yrs., 7 mos.
Martha, b. 1781 ; m. Gen. James Miller ; d. Greenfield, May 12, 1805, æ. 23 yrs.
Betsey, b. Nov. 28, 1783 ; m. Asaph Evans, Aug. 30, 1808 ; d. Aug. 18, 1816, æ. 33 yrs.
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JAMES FERGUSON. He m. Mary Howard, July 18, 1811. He settled on the homestead, and d. April 30, 1814, æ. 44 yrs. She m., 2d hus., Elias Boynton, of Temple.
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James, b. Sept. 10, 1814; m. Sylva Stevens,' 1836; d. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1869, æ. 54 yrs., 5 mos.
THE FERRY FAMILY.
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· CHARLES BRACE FERRY (Rev.), son of Benjamin and Hannah Street Ferry, was b. in Moscow, Livingston Co., N. Y., April 11, 1832. His parents originated in Connecticut. He had the ordinary advantages of the schools of Livingston Co., and for some years after he was seventeen years of age he taught winter schools, and worked on the farm during the summer. In 1852 he commenced learning the printer's trade, at Elmira,
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N. Y., and subsequently spent four years at this business in Cincinnati, O. In 1856 he entered Meadville School, and remained there till 1859. In April of 1860 he re- ceived a call to settle over the Congregational Society (Unitarian) in Peterborough, and was ordained June 13, 1860. He remained pastor of this society till Sept., 1869, when he resigned and was installed at Manchester, Dec. 9, of the same year. He left Manchester early in 1874, and is now settled at Northampton, Mass. He m. Ellen Matilda Haywood, dau. of E. W. and Susan B. Haywood, of Uxbridge, Mass., June 11, 1860. She was b. Aug. 11, 1834.
Catharine P., b. Aug. 8, 1862 ; d. Jan. 15, 1863, æ. 5. mos., 7 dys.
Ebenezer H., b. June 14, 1864.
Charles, b. Feb. 10, 1868.
Henry B., b. Feb. 5, 1872, at Manchester.
THE FIELD FAMILY.
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JOHN FIELD came to Peterborough, in company with Dea. Christopher Thayer, May 8, 1786, from Braintree, now Quincy, where he was b. April 16, 1752. He was a tanner by trade, and settled just north of the farm of William Smith, Esq., where some vats had been made and some tanning done by Robert Smith, father to Wil- liam Smith. These vats are now in a perfect state of preservation, having been made not far from 1760. He m. Ruth Thayer, in Braintree, Nov. 11, 1775, who was b. July 2, 1752. She d. in Peterborough, Aug. 7, 1846, æ. 94 yrs., having been blind some thirty years before her death. He d. Jan. 8, 1826, æ. 74 yrs.
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t Fohn, b. Braintree, Oct. 27, 1777 ; m., Ist w., Beulah Reed ; 2d. w., Tabitha Colburn.
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t William, b. Nov. 18, 1782 ; m. Mary McAlister.
Elisha, b. Aug. 2, 1784 ; d. Aug. 19, 1861, æ. 77 yrs.
Jabez, b. Jan. 4, 1789 ; drowned in tan vats, June 25, 1793, æ. 4 yrs.
Sally, b. March 7, 1791 ; m. Noah Youngman, Lempster ; d. March 24, 1854, æ. 63 yrs.
Otis, b. Jan. 12, 1794; m. Lydia Dodge; six ch .; d. 1863, æ. 69 yrs.
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Ruth, b. April 3, 1796 ; m. David Youngman ; I ch., Dr. David Youngman, of Boston. She d. Sept. 5, 1817, æ. 22 yrs.
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Mary, b. March 10, 1798 ; m. Timothy Bruce, Lempster ; seven ch. She had five sons who went to the war, and all returned safe but one, who d. in the service.
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JOHN FIELD (Dea.). He was nine years of age when his father moved to town. He followed the occupation of his father, and carried on extensively the business of tanning, for many years, at the same place his father began. He m., Ist w., Beulah Reed, of Lempster, June 20, 1802, who was the mother of all his ch. She d. July 30, 1835, æ. 57 yrs. He m., 2d w., Tabitha Colburn, April 5, 1838 ; d. Oct. 7, 1848, æ. 52 yrs. He d. Nov. 18, 1856, æ. 79 yrs.
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Adelaide, b. April 29, 1803 ; m. James B. Nichols, Feb. 4, 1830. He d. Aug. 3, 1852, æ. 46 yrs. She d. May 4, 1872, æ. 69 yrs. ; ch., (1) John F., b. Jan. 7, 1831 ; r. Chicago, Ill. ; (2) James, b. April 1, 1833 ; r. Ala- bama ; (3) Sarah, b. Aug. 29, 1835 ; m. Rev. George Dustan, May 4, 1864.
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Isaac, b. July 11, 1804 ; m. Mary Greene, Charlestown, Mass., May 20, 1830; c. He r. in Boston twelve years, was engaged in the hide and leather business, and then re. to Denmark, Ia., and has lived there since.
Louisa, b. March 20, 1806 ; m. Benjamin Norton, Abing- ton, Mass., May 13, 1841. She d. 1843, æ. 37 yrs. Sylvina, b. Dec. 21, 1807 ; m. John W. Shepherd, Oct. 17, 1839 ; r. Woburn, Mass .; ch., (1) Horatio N .; (2) Louisa C .; (3) Sarah J. ; (4) Henry M. ; (5) Emma. Ruth, b. June 22, 1809 ; m. John E. Leiper, of Bethel, Ill., Jan. 4, 1842 ; ch., (1) Mary Louisa ; (2) John F .; (3) Curtis M .; (4) Edward F .; d. Peterborough, April 22, 1850, æ. 14 mos. ; r. Denmark, Ia.
t John, Fr., b. Nov. 22, 1810 ; m. Sarah E. Worcester ; 2d w., Sarah A. Baldwin, Brighton, Mass.
Horatio N., b. March 25, 1813 ; m. Charity Taylor, Oct. 29, 1839 ; ch., (1) Emily ; (2) Charles ; (3) Ellen ; (4) Walter ; r. Chicago, IlI.
William, b. April 27, 1814; m. Sophia Cone, Illinois. Two ch.
Mary Ann, b. Nov. 22, 1815 ; d. April 4, 1816, æ. 4 mos. Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1817 ; m. Luther Noyes, of Abington ; d. Sept. 25, 1840, æ. 23 yrs. ; one ch., Mary Jane, b. May 10, 1840; d. young.
Marcy C., b. Dec. 23, 1817 ; m. Moses Thompson, Feb. 20, 1840 ; two ch .; (1) Mary Noyes ; (2) William E. She d. February, 1860, æ. 43 yrs.
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Sarah T., b. Aug. 3, 1819 ; m. Andrew A. Farnsworth. Louis Fane, b. June 14, 1821 ; m. Luther Noyes, Abing- ton, May 13, 1841. She d. Jan. II, 1850, æ. 29 yrs. One ch., James B., b. June 14, 1844 ; d. young.
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WILLIAM FIELD. He lived in the east part of the town, adjoining the old Blair place, where he raised his large family. He was a farmer. He m. Mary Mc- Alister, dau. of Randall McAlister, April 17, 1808. She d. May 21, 1853, æ. 67 yrs. He d. April 23, 1863, æ. 80 yrs.
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