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FIFTH GENERATION
22. Lanader Blodgett (Philander3, Thomas3, Josiah2, Archip- pus1) was born in 1829. He married Lydia C. Holbrook, who was born in 1835 and died June II, 1908. He died March 10, 1877.
FRED, m. Eunice Mabery.
HENRY.
AMANDA, m. Lorenzo Bass; 6 ch .: Vina, Ida, Lulu, Jennie, Minnie, Annie.
NELLIE, m. Timothy Johnson.
ETTA, m. Leon Schoff.
ISSIE, m. Orason Blodgett.
23 .. Mortimer Blodgett (Philander4, Thomas3, Josiah2, Archip- pus1) was born March 17, 1837, and died November 30, 1870. He married, December 9, 1858, Martha Cross.
ALICE, m. Lovel Chase.
MORTIMER, m. Rose Haskins. HATTIE, m. Drew Legro; d. Mar. 1888.
ALBERT C., m. Jennie Johnson.
BERTHA, d. young.
24. Hazen Blodgett (Darius4, Elijah3, Josiah2, Archippus1) was born September 23, 1862. He married Amanda (Virtue) Gordon.
NELLIE, b. 5 Sept. 1884; m. Melrose Gamsby; d. Aug. 1904. CLARA AMELIA, b. 18 July 1886; m. Everett Egan; I ch .: Robert.
IRVING DARIUS, b. 9 Jan. 1889; m. Blanche Westover.
HAZEN FREDERICK, b. 31 Dec. 1890.
CORA BESSIE, b. 24 Feb. 1894; m. Howard Blodgett.
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EDGAR WINFIELD, b. 27 Aug. 1896.
JAMES BEDEL, b. 23 May 1900; m. Myrtle Osgood; I ch .: Jean Elinor.
25. James Blodgett (Josiah4, Elijah3, Josiah2, Archippus1) married Lucinda Cross.
HORACE. EMMA.
26. ORASON J., b. 27 Sept. 1866; m. Issie Blodgett.
27. MADISON, b. 7 Oct. 1871; m. Gertie Blodgett. WESLEY. HAVEN.
SIXTH GENERATION
26. Orason J. Blodgett (James5, Josiah4, Elijah3, Josiah2, Archippus1) was born September 27, 1866. He married Issie, daughter of Lanader and Lydia (Holbrook) Blodgett, who was born June 20, 1874.
HOWARD E., b. II May 1895; m. Cora Blodgett; 2. ch .: Shirley, Marjorie.
ALICE, b. I May 1898; d. 1899.
HAZEL, b. 15 Nov. 1902; m. Philip Bronson. NAOMI, b. 20 Feb. 1909.
27. Madison Blodgett (James5, Josiah4, Elijah3, Josiah2, Archippus1) was born October 7, 1871. He married, March 9, 1901, Gertie, daughter of Hemphill Blodgett, who was born May 23, 1876.
EDITH, b. 15 June 1902. ALICE, b. I Dec. 1904. GLENN, b. 15 Jan. 191I.
BOND
Robert Bond was born in Hanover, N. H., in 1799. He mar- ried Ann Maria Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Pear- son) Wilson, in 1828. She was born in Haverhill, January 8, 1806.
Mr. Bond came with his wife and oldest child from Hanover to Stratford in 1829. He built the old tavern at the Hollow and operated it. He also built a saw mill and a carding and wool- dressing mill on the site where the Daniels mill was burned.
After Mr. Bond's death, in 1850, the family moved to Orono, Me. Mrs. Bond married Jonas Merriam in 186-, and died in 1883.
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2. HARRIET CLARK, b. II Apr. 1829; m. James Powers.
3. NATHANIEL WILSON, b. 1831 ; m. Marcia A. Lucas.
4. ADALINE BOARDMAN, b. 1833; m. Charles H. Colburn. SARAH ANN, b. 1835; d. 1836.
HENRY CLAY, b. 1838; d. 1866, in Virginia, where he had served in the army for 3 years.
5. ANN MAUD, b. 1840; m. Charles Forbes.
FREDERICK ALBERT, b. 1842; m. Emma J. Anderson; Orono, Me .; d. 1869; I ch .: Eddie (?), newspaper photographer, Boston.
SARAH ELIZABETH, b. 1844; m. Albion Frost, Bangor, Me .; d. 1869.
2. Harriet Clark Bond (Robert1) was born in Hanover, N. H., April II, 1829. She married James Powers, November 16, 1851, and died January 19, 1862. James Powers was born in Ireland. He came here in early life, and made his home with Judge Nathan Baldwin. He served in the 9th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, dur- ing the Mexican War, the only soldier going from Stratford in that war; and was captain in the 3rd Vermont Volunteers in the Civil War. He there contracted a disease of which he died in Orono, Maine, in 1864. James Powers was a shoemaker by trade. He lived at the Hollow several years, coming to North Stratford in the '50's, and built the house afterwards converted into the "Coös Cottage."
6. MARCIA ADALINE, b. July 1853; m. Arthur M. Farrington. JAMES RUSSELL, b. 23 Mar. 1855; d. Orono, Me., 31 July 1887.
7. LILLIAN MARIA, b. 19 Feb. 1860; m. Edwin F. Yeaton.
3. Nathaniel Wilson Bond (Robert1) was born in Stratford in 1831, and moved to Orono, Maine. He married Marcia A. Lucas in 1857, and died October, 1917.
HELEN LEONORA. BERTHA. ALICE MAY. ROBERT LUCAS.
4. Adaline Boardman Bond (Robert1) was born in 1833. She married Charles H. Colburn, in Orono, Maine, and died in 1863.
ABBY ADALINE, m. Wm. M. Stevens. ADDIE HELEN. DOROTHY. WILLIAMINA.
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5. Ann Maud Bond (Robert1) was born in 1840, and married, in 1868, Charles Forbes, son of Joel Forbes of Northumberland.
FRANK, m. Ida McIntyre.
ADDIE POWERS.
NELLIE, m. Leonard Smith, South Hadley, Mass.
6. Marcia Adaline Powers (Harriet2, Robert1), daughter of James and Harriet (Bond) Powers, was born in Stratford in July, 1853. At ten years of age she went to Orono, Maine. Educated in the schools of Orono, and in Farmington Normal School, she taught several years in Orono, and in Worcester, Mass. She married Arthur M. Farrington, and resides in Washington, D. C.
HELEN.
ETHEL, m. E. W. Marsh; Gloucester, N. J. GLADYS, employed in War Dept., Washington.
7. Lillian Maria Powers (Harriet2, Robert1), youngest daugh- ter of James and Harriet (Bond) Powers, was born at North Stratford, February 19, 1860. She went to Orono, Maine, and married Edwin F. Yeaton of Belgrade, Maine, where she now resides.
PAUL M. DONNA L. RUSSELL POWERS.
BROWN
In the history of Stratford, Conn., we find the following entry : "Deacon Isaiah Brown, married, January 1735-6, Ann Brins- made, probably daughter of Zechariah. She died, 1788, age 72. He died in 1793, age 80. He took the freeman's oath in Strat- ford in 1731. His son, James, born February 1748-49, settled in Stratford, N. H."
Captain Isaiah Brown, as he appears in the proprietors' records, was one of the grantees of Stratford, N. H., and one of the men most interested in the new settlement. He was moderator at that very important meeting held January 21, 1773, when the proprietors decided to defend themselves against Northumber- land's action for trespass, a decision which resulted in a new charter and an enlarged township.
James, his eldest son and fourth child, came to Coös in the summer of 1772, one of that group of men to whom the proprie-
THE BROWN HOMESTEAD
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tors awarded each the sum of three pounds in December of that year for their pioneer work during the preceding summer.
On January 18, 1774, Isaiah Brown transfers land to James Brown with this significant item: "Consideration of my love and esteem for my son, James Brown, being original Proprietor." This homestead, so affectionately conveyed, has always remained in the possession of the Brown family. The father undoubtedly recognized the promise of the young pioneer of twenty-three, who, until his death in 1813, was one of the most active and useful men in this little frontier town.
In November of 1775 he took Hannah Lamkin, daughter of Joshua Lamkin, a young lady of sixteen, behind him on his horse, and rode away to Seth Wales to be married. This was the first marriage in Stratford. He died in 1813, aged sixty-three years. Mrs. Brown died in 1836, aged seventy-seven years.
James Brown was prominent in town affairs throughout his life in Stratford. He was authorized in the act of incorporation to call the first town meeting, April, 1780, and was elected mod- erator of that meeting. He served as selectman, clerk, assessor, laid out highways, kept the town records as well as those of the proprietors. During the Revolution he acted as commissary for the fort, a task that taxed his utmost ability to furnish supplies.
Mr. Brown and his wife figured as largely in church affairs as in town. The son of a Congregational deacon, he brought relig- ious books with him into the wilderness in his saddlebags, and Sunday services were held at his home in the early times. When the first church was organized in Stratford, in 1800, which hap- pened to be a Methodist Church, he became a member, and the Brown home was noted as a Methodist preachers' tavern; and here the people came for thirty or forty miles around to attend the quarterly meetings and to enjoy Mr. and Mrs. Brown's hospitality.
The Brown homestead was built of boards rafted from Guild- hall on the river, forcing them along with poles to the Burnside place, then drawing them by team. The first house was built of logs and connected with the fort. This house was burned. Mr. and Mrs. Brown raised a large family, most of whom settled about them.
· ANNE, b. 17 Mar. 1776; m. Noah Hatch.
SAMUEL, b. 19 Oct. 1777; d. 28 Apr. 1781.
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2. ISAAC, b. 10 Oct. 1780; m. Nancy Gile.
HANNAH, b. 24 Aug. 1792; m. David Burnside; settled in Canada West.
ADMIRABEL, b. 20 Dec. 1786; m. Thomas Blodgett.
ROXANA, b. 5 Apr. 1790; m. David Platt.
3. SAMUEL F., b. 19 July 1792; m. (1) Judith Smith, (2) Caro- line Bishop.
MARCY, b. 19 July 1794; m. Martin Phinney ; 2 ch. : Don A., Ellen Maria.
SINDERILE, b. 10 May 1798; m. Joseph Blodgett.
4.
ALEXANDER, b. 19 Oct. 1804; m. (I) Esther Curtis, (2) Caroline, widow of his brother, Samuel F.
2. Isaac Brown (James1) was born October 10, 1780. He married Nancy Gile, daughter of Rev. George Gile. Mr. Brown lived at the place north of David Platt's, in the house still stand- ing, one of the first frame buildings erected in town. Isaac Brown was the first person in Stratford to receive the rite of baptism, and was active in the religious life of the town.
ADELINA, b. 4 Nov. 1805; d. 24 Feb. 1885; m. William Brown.
5. BRANCH, b. 29 July 1807; m. Hannah Curtis.
VOLNEY, b. 29 Sept. 1809; d. 6 Dec. 1888; m. (I) Almira Blodgett, (2) Widow Nancy Carr.
CLEMENTINA, b. 4 Oct. 1811; d. 24 Nov. 1886; m. Charles Lucas; 3 ch .: Henry, Reuben, Amanda-m. Wm. Mc- Intyre.
OLIVE, b. 27 Aug. 1814; d. II Nov. 1889; m. Geo. Pervanche; 2 ch .: Isadore, George A.
SAMUEL F., b. 2 Mar. 1817; m. Nancy Crosby; 3 ch. : Walter, Ada, Ella.
6. DONALD, b. 24 Oct. 1819; d. 28 Mar. 1898; m. Mary Roberts ; I ch .: Samuel F., m. Elvira Schoff.
GOULD L., b. 18 Mar. 1822; d. 27 Mar. 1825.
CELESTINA, b. 19 May 1825; d. 27 Feb. 1924; m. Frank Snow; 7 ch .: Chas. Rockwood, Geo. Augustus, Herbert Wellington, Sarah Gertrude, Martha Allison, Arthur Adams.
7. WELLINGTON, b. 6 Apr. 1828; d. 17 Dec. 1901; m. Melissa Curtis.
3. Samuel F. Brown (James1) was born July 19, 1792, the seventh child of James and Hannah (Lamkin) Brown. He was a man of prominence in the town, served several years as select- man, represented the town in the legislature in 1835, and was a sheriff of Coös county. He died February 27, 1837, in his forty- sixth year, and at the height of his usefulness. He married (I)
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Judith Smith, who was born April 7, 1793, and died March 23, 1824; (2) Caroline Bishop.
(First Marriage)
8. SAMUEL CLARK, b. Feb. 1811; m. Sophia Curtis.
9. JAMES BRINSMADE, b. 31 Dec. 1816; m. (1) Eliza J. Howe, (2) Helen A. Patterson.
WILLIAM RILEY, b. 14 Dec. 1819; m. Mary D. Hadley, 1845.
(Second Marriage)
HELEN MARR, m. John Wilson; 4 ch .: Nellie, Harry L., John H., James; settled in northern Idaho.
ROLLIN JACKSON, b. 1827; d. 1846.
JOHN H., m. Clara Smith; 5 ch .: Chas. F., Ella, Sidney B., Horace, Lillie; settled in California.
IO. HENRY GARDINER, b. 15 Jan. 1833; m. Priscilla Stevens.
II. LOYAL PARSONS, b. 26 Sept. 1829; m. Sarah Cousen.
12. ALONZO F., b. 31 Aug. 1836; m. Adaline M. Lamkin.
4. Alexander Brown (James1), the youngest child of James and Hannah (Lamkin) Brown, was born October 19, 1804. He mar- ried (1) Esther Curtis, who was born June 12, 1803; (2) Caroline (Bishop) Brown, widow of Samuel F. He died in Oakland, Calif. August, 1884. Mr. Brown was a resident of Stratford until 1854, when he accompanied his stepson, Loyal P. Brown, on his return to Oregon, the overland trip from Illinois requiring four months. From Mr. Brown's reminiscences Mr. Prescott gathered many facts concerning the early history of the town.
(First Marriage)
MERCY, m. (1) Wm. P. Whitcomb, (2) Svarbrick; 5 ch .: George, Ida, Jessie, Charles, Emma.
MIRANDA, m. William Caleb, Boston.
MARIA, m. Benj. Joslin, Lawrence, Mass .; 4 ch .: Chas. M., Ellen and Maria (twins), Nellie.
HARVEY, m. Sarah Bass; I ch .: George H.
(Second Marriage)
EMMA, m. (I) F. T. Moses, (2) John McPherson; 3 ch .: Carrie, William, Belle.
THIRD GENERATION
5. Branch Brown (Isaac2, James1) was born July 29, 1807. He married Hannah, daughter of Lewis Curtis, who was born March 10, 1810. He died October 20, 1895.
EVALINE, m. A. T. Perham; 6 ch .: Alice, Colonel Lee, Orrie Malcolm, Harry, Clarie Adeline, Anna.
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MARINA LARNARD, m. Lowell Simonds; 3 ch .: Sfa, Ellen, Lilla. ELLEN, d. at 18.
GOULD.
MONTEZUMA, d. at 23.
SAMUEL, b. 2 Mar. 1840; m. Mary Eliza Kimball; d. 13 May 1920.
ADALINE, d. at 19.
ANDROMEDA, d. at 16.
6. Donald Brown (Isaac2, James1) was born October 24, 1819, and died March 28, 1898. He married Mary Roberts.
13. SAMUEL F., m. Elvira Schoff.
7. Wellington Brown (Isaac2, James1) was born April 6, 1828. He married Melissa Curtis, daughter of Anderson Curtis on De- cember 5, 1864. He died December 17, 1901. Mrs. Brown died July 28, 1915. Wellington Brown was a veteran of the Civil War, in the 8th Infantry, which served on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
14. HARRY W. b. 26 Mar. 1866; m. Edith R. Newell. HENRY, b. 27 Sept. 1868; m. Susie Tyler; I ch .: Ethel E. IDA, b. 15 Jan. 1872; m. Chas. L. Lyman.
INA, b. 10 June 1873; m. George Kimball.
8. Samuel Clark Brown (Samuel F.2, James1) was born at Stratford, February 18, 1811. He was a prosperous farmer, and held many town offices. He married Sophia Curtis, daughter of Thomas and Sally (Dustin) Curtis, who was born in 1814, and died in 1889. Mr. Brown died in 1872.
SAMUEL F., b. 1840; m. Margaret Stanley ; I ch .: Raymond. MARTHA J., b. 1842; d. 1894; m. Albert Rich of Northumber- land; I ch .: Addie.
15. WILLIAM RILEY, b. 1844; m. Ella Bishop.
PERSIS, b. 1846; d. 1877; m. Henry C. McIntyre; 2 ch .: Irving, Clark.
CORA E., b. 1862; m. Dewer Rich; 3 ch .: Glenn, Carroll, Mary.
HELEN, d. at 14. IDA, d. at 10.
9. James Brinsmade Brown (Samuel F.2, James1) was born December 31, 1816. He married (1) Eliza J. Howe, daughter of Stephen Howe of Lunenburg, Vt. who was born May 3, 1826, and died August 6, 1848. He married (2) Helen A. Patterson of
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Lunenburg, Vt., on May 7, 1850. She was born April 13, 1824, and died April 30, 1881. Mr. Brown died June 8, 1882. Mr. Brown carried on extensive lumbering operations in Vermont. He built a mill on Paul Stream, in Maidstone, in 1853, and con- tinued its operation for more than twenty years.
ELIZA J., d. at 9. CORA H.
ROLLIN J., m. Helen Marr French.
GERTRUDE, d. at 26. ANNIE MAUD
ALICE MABEL twins, d. early.
10. Henry Gardiner Brown (Samuel F.2, James1) the third son of Samuel F. and Caroline (Bishop) Brown, was born January 15, 1838, at Stratford. He went to Boston in 1848, and from Boston to Oregon, by way of Panama. He was married to Priscilla Stearns at Scottsburg, Ore., September 15, 1856. Previous to this he had been in the packing business, and a farmer in South Oregon, Yuka, Calif., and Elkton, Ohio. He was with Knott Brothers at Leach Creek at the outbreak of the Indian War, and was reported killed ; but he returned, having escaped the scalping knife. He made a fine record in the legislature of his adopted state.
HATTIE. SAMUEL H. HELEN MARR. CARRIE. MATTIE.
II. Loyal Parsons Brown (Samuel F.2, James1) was born Sep- tember 26, 1829, and being early impressed with the idea that, although a good state to be born in, it was well to emigrate from New Hampshire early, he removed to Boston at the age of six- teen, and commenced his career as a clerk in a mercantile estab- lishment. The excited reports of gold discoveries in California induced him to join the Massasoit Company early in 1849, and he sailed from Boston, March 12th of that year, on the schooner Harriet Neil for California by way of the Isthmus, and reached San Francisco, July 12, 1849. He soon went to the gold fields and realized his expectations. In 1850 he became engaged in packing and selling miners' supplies. The Rogue River Indian War of 1855 called for his services, and he was in the quartermaster's
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department until the close of the war. In 1858 he returned to Stratford for a visit, bringing his family with him by the overland route. On his return to the West he was accompanied by his mother, his stepfather, Alexander Brown, his brothers, and others, the entire party consisting of twenty-four persons. They ar- rived in Oregon in September, 1859. Mr. Brown eventually settled at Mount Idaho, Idaho, where he engaged in stock-raising, farming, milling, and other pursuits incidental to a new country possessed of great mining and agricultural advantages. He al- ways took an active part in all public affairs. During the Nez Perce Indian War, in the summer of 1877, when the people of Idaho county were compelled to stockade Mount Idaho, his sound judgment, open house, and open purse, contributed largely to the safety and comfort of those who were obliged to participate in those bloody wars. On the 24th of October, 1859, Mr. Brown married Miss Sarah T. Cousen, daughter of one of the pioneer families from Illinois. In Loyal Parsons Brown we find a typical Pacific Coast pioneer, characterized by generous impulses, in- domitable energy, iron will and public spirit, that never failed to respond to duty's call.
ROLLIN C. ADA.
DAISY.
12. Alonzo F. Brown (Samuel F.2, James1), born August 31, 1836, was the fourth in that group of Brown brothers who made their adventurous way to the Pacific Coast. And the story of the hardships endured, dangers encountered, and the ultimate reward of their courage and determination, reads like a romance of the West. Mr. Brown has written out this story for the benefit of his descendants, and we regret that our readers have not the privilege of reading this intimate, graphic description of pioneer life on the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Brown left Stratford in 1850, when fourteen, and found employment in Boston, at one time with Guy Lamkin in the boot and shoe business, afterwards entering the clothing business. In 1854 he left Boston with $1,300 in cash, and bought out a tailoring establishment in Saratoga Springs, N. Y .; and being settled in business, and having arrived at the dignity of eighteen years, he went back to Boston for his bride, Ada Lamkin. In March, 1859,
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he joined the party of his brother, L. P. Brown, on his return to Oregon. Farming engaged his attention there; and when the gold excitement broke out in Washington he went into the mining dis- trict, opened a store for supplies, and ran a pack train over the mountains. He finally settled in Oakland and engaged in trade and real estate, and later removed to South Pasadena, Calif. His wife, Ada (Lamkin) Brown, died May 3, 1888, and on the 19th of December, 1889, he married Addie Smith, by whom he had one child, Loyal P., who died at five months.
MINNIE ADA, b. 10 Sept. 1855; d. at 14. EDGAR LAMKIN, b. 1862; m. Mary T. Johnson.
WILLIAM HENRY, m. Lillian Beatrice Russell; 2 ch .: Herbert Hildreth, Minnie Beatrice.
CHARLES HERBERT, m. Elizabeth Barnard; I ch .: Lucille Beth.
JOSEPH HILDRETH, m. Anna F. Dorgeloh; I ch .: Marguerite Lamkin.
FOURTH GENERATION
13. Samuel F. Brown (Donald3, Isaac2, James1) married, in 1865, Elvira Schoff, daughter of Charles G. and Mary (Taylor) Schoff.
FORREST E., b. Oct. 1866. AGNES A., b. Oct. 1868. EVA D., b. Sept. 1870. ELIZABETH A., b. 13 Dec. 1872. HOWARD E., b. 1875.
14. Harry Wellington Brown (Wellington3, Isaac2, Isaac1) was born March 26, 1866. He married Edith R. Newell, September 17, 189I.
16. EARL EUGENE, b. 21 Apr. 1892. GRACE ELLEN, b. 10 Sept. 1893. GENEVA ALICE, b. 8 Sept. 1894; d. 10 Mar. 19II. NEIL HARRY, b. 21 May 1896; d. 21 Feb. 1899. MARION EDITH, b. 21 July 1898.
15. William Riley Brown (Samuel Clark3, Samuel F.2, James1) was born April 2, 1844. He was educated in the common schools of Stratford and at the Academy at Lancaster, N. H., and at Newbury Seminary, Newbury, Vt. For eleven years he taught school during the winter and farmed summers. For fifteen years he was a drover, taking cattle to the Boston market. For
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twenty years he was in trade in Stratford Hollow, and was post- master during President Cleveland's administration. He was justice of the peace, selectman for ten years, served on the school board six years, and represented the town in the legislature in 1877-78. He married, October 8, 1872, Ella, daughter of John and Caroline (Richardson) Bishop, of Lisbon, N. H. Mr. Brown died January II, 1919, and Mrs. Brown died December 31, '1919.
EVERETT C., b. 18 Jan. 1879; m. (I) Augusta Twohey, (2) Cleo S. Smith.
17. LOYAL P., b. 26 Mar. 1881; m. Flora Connary. HOWARD BISHOP, b. 28 Mar. 1889.
FIFTH GENERATION
16. Earl Eugene Brown (Harry W.4,Wellington3, Isaac2, James1) was born April 21, 1892. He married, June 5, 1915, Albertina Mason, daughter of Charles Mason of Brunswick Vt.
STANLEY, b. 2 June 1917.
RUTH MARION, b. 2 June 1919.
PAUL BISHOP, b. 4 June 1921. BRADLEY EARLE, b. 27 June 1923.
17. Loyal P. Brown (William R.4, Samuel C.3, Samuel F.2, James1) was born March 26, 1881. He married Flora Connary, daughter of Simon and Georgiana (Curtis) Connary.
PRISCILLA.
LUCILLE, twin to Priscilla, d. Jan. 1919. HELEN.
BURNSIDE
The Burnsides came from Dublin and were of Scotch-Irish descent. They settled in Londonderry, N. H. The family name was originally Wallace; and, as there were several of them by the name of John, to distinguish them they designated "John of the Hill," "John of the Mill," and "John of the Burnside." Thus came the name Burnside.
Thomas Burnside, his wife and three children, and Daniel Spaulding with his wife and son, Edward, made the first perma- nent settlement in Northumberland in 1767. Thomas Burnside was an original grantee, and his pitch (the Charles Rich place)
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was confirmed to him March 5, 17II, at the first proprietors' meeting held at Portsmouth.
Mr. Burnside was no ordinary character. Coming of the strong Scotch-Irish stock, he showed his characteristics plainly. He was one of Rogers' famous "Rangers" in the French and Indian War, and was highly esteemed and trusted by his com- mander. He had little fear in his composition, and little veneration or respect for those in authority. One or two anec- dotes concerning him will indicate the character of the man:
January 20, 1757, a fight occurred between the Rangers and the Indians at the foot of Lake Champlain. Several Rangers were wounded so badly that they could not be carried off the field. The nearest point from which to obtain succor was Crown Point, forty miles away. Burnside, himself wounded, and John Stark, started for aid. They traveled to Crown Point through the snow and on the ice in about twelve hours, and in less than twenty-four hours their disabled comrades were being conveyed by teams to a place of safety.
Some years after the settlement of Northumberland Mr. Burnside became desirous of official honors, and, taking as a present to Governor Wentworth a firkin of butter and roll of linen, he journeyed to Portsmouth and waited on the Gover- nor. After presenting his gifts he told the Governor that the people of his town could no longer live peaceably without a magistrate. Governor Wentworth enquired how many in- habitants there were in the town, and whom Mr. Burnside would recommend for the office. "My dear Governor," said Burnside, "there is but neighbor Spaulding and meself living in the town, and he's no more fit for a justice of the peace than a chestnut burr is for an eyestone." "Then I shall have to appoint you," laughingly said the Governor, and drew up the commission for him. "Esquire" Burnside was duly qualified, and putting the commission in his pocket, he said, "Gover- nor, when I get home to me folks, what shall I tell 'em that the Governor gave me that was good to drink?" "Some brandy," answered the Governor, bringing a decanter from the sideboard."-From Coos County History.
The story is told further that, when ready to go home, he called on the Governor to bid him goodby. When His Excel- lency asked him what he should say to his neighbor about the Governor, he replied, "I shall tell him I had two drinks of brandy with him." "But you have had only one." "Yes, but I expect another." He got it.
Thomas Burnside married Susan McGregor, a daughter of Rev. James McGregor, the celebrated spiritual leader of the London- derry colony.
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2. JAMES, m. Susan Nutter. DAVID, m. Hannah Brown; settled in Kingston, Ont. ALEXANDER, studied medicine; settled in Toronto, where he d. unm., leaving a large fortune to the Church of England. 3. SAMUEL MCGREGOR.
A daughter, m. Chauncey Curtis, a member of Gen. Washing- ton's bodyguard (conflicting ideas whether this was a dau. or a sister of Thomas Burnside).
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