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2. John Scott Lyman (Noah1), eldest child of Noah and Clarissa (Granger) Lyman, was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1801. Married Emily Schoff, daughter of Henry and Mary (Hulbert) Schoff. (2.) Mrs. Caroline Matilda Lyman, widow of Stephen Lyman, and daughter of Levi and Caroline (Cleveland) Smith of Hanover, N. H., who had by her first marriage, three children, Lucia, Adeline, Phebe D.
John S. Lyman was deputy sheriff for Coös Co. for some years.
(First Marriage)
DIANA, m. (I) Chase B. Smith, (2) Jedidiah Thompson; 2 ch .: Lydia Smith, m. George Elliott of Iowa, Herbert Thompson. JOHN QUINCY, d. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 1862, Ist. Wis. Vol.
PRUDENTIA, d. young.
CASSANDRA, m. Samuel Austin.
LUCRETIA A., m. Bela Vining; 3 ch .: Fred, Sarah, Elma. (Second Marriage)
WILLIAM CALEB, b. 20 June 1845; d. in 1918; m. Ella S. Cook; Ich .: Lena, m. Francis Atkinson.
ELVIRA, b. Mar. 1848. d. young.
HORACE G., b. 23 Sept. 1854.
EPHRAIM H. MAHURIN
BY CHARLES MAHURIN, ESQ.
Prominent among the early settlers of Stratford was Ephraim H. Mahurin, who came here from Westmoreland, N. H., about the year 1801 or 1802, and was more or less conspicuous in business and political circles and official positions in Coös county for half a century thereafter. He was born in Westmoreland, March I, 1780, and died at Stratford, March 4, 1859, though during that time he had lived many years in Lancaster and also in Columbia, having returned to Stratford to live a few years previous to his decease. He married Rebecca Bundy of Walpole about the year 1799, who shared with him his varying fortunes through a long life, surviving him nearly five years, dying at Stratford, January 8, 1864, aged eighty years and six months.
They had eleven children, three only of whom survive, namely: Ephraim H., James M., and Charles, the youngest. Having at an early age acquired all the learning derivable from the district
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school at that period, he mastered the rudiments of the Latin tongue at home under the tutorship of the orthodox clergyman of the vicinage, and entered Chesterfield Academy, then justly noted as an educational institution of rare merit, where he attended sev- eral successive terms, fitting for the college at Middlebury, Vt., which he entered when under seventeen years of age; but owing to the wayward impulses of youth did not complete his collegiate course, retiring therefrom at the end of one and a half years to enter the office of Roger Vose, then a leading lawyer of Cheshire county, at Keene, with whom he pursued the studyof law for about a year and a half, when having meantime married, he left his law studies, and obeying the impulse of youth and the spirit of adven- ture, which was a prominent characteristic, struck out to seek fortune in the wild regions of Upper Coös, allured thither some- what by the glowing accounts of fertility of the soil, and beauty of location, contained in flaming advertisements of wild lands for sale by Colonel Whipple of Portsmouth, then a large land-holder in this region. The sequel proved to him, in lessons of experience, that things are not always what fancy paints them, and that the dreams of youth are frequently illusive and sadly disappointing.
He taught school during the first two or three winters of his sojourn here in the then Lucas neighborhood in Northumberland, having among his pupils the late Judge Joshua Marshall, then a young man nearly of his own age, which fact the writer has often heard pleasantly referred to by both teacher and pupil when they were far advanced in age, as among the pleasing reminiscences of early life.
In the troublous times on this frontier preceding and during the last war with Great Britain, Mr. M. bore a conspicuous part, acting most of the time during that period as an officer of the customs, whose duty it was to prevent smuggling, and who was charged also with the special duty of preventing, so far as possible, the smuggling of beef cattle over the border into Canada, to feed the enemy; a business in which, reprehensible and unpatriotic as it was, many of our citizens, who were unfriendly to the administra- tion and the war, were unfortunately engaged. His fearless and efficient performance of the duties of his position involved much of sacrifice and many dangers, from which he never shrunk. During the war period he was in command of a military company, composed mostly of men from Coös and Grafton counties stationed
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for six months on the line at Indian Stream, for the purpose of guarding the frontier to prevent incursions from Canada, holding his commission as captain under the hand of President Madison, which is now extant, and in possession of the writer. It was a squad of men from his company led by him that captured a small drove of beef cattle which were being driven over the line by a party of British sympathizers, with whom was one Morrill, a leader, who was killed in the skirmish which ensued. It was after this, and while he was in command at Indian Stream, that Beach was intercepted, while attempting to drive beef cattle over the line to the enemy, and killed, and the cattle taken and condemned and sold. Among other important captures made by him in his capacity of customhouse officer, was the seizure of forty-one head of beef cattle which the late Thomas Eames had gathered in his yard in Northumberland, which were seized, although the seizure was stoutly resisted, the very night they were intended to start for Canada. They were condemned and sold by the regular process of law, and Eames afterwards sued him for the same. The action was transferred to the United States district court at Portsmouth, where after a tedious and protracted litigation it was finally decided in his favor, he recovering judgment for costs against Eames amounting to over $7,000.
Daniel Webster was of council, as appears by copy of libel against said forty-one head of beef cattle, certified by Daniel Humphrey, then clerk of the United States district court for the district of New Hampshire, at Portsmouth, which document is in possession of the writer.
He represents in the legislature the classed towns, of which Stratford was one, at several different times, the last time in 1824, the year in which Lafayette visited Concord, and was one of the committee chosen on the part of the House, to ride out to Hopkin- ton to meet and escort the distinguished guest to the Capitol.
Very soon after settling in Stratford he was appointed a deputy sheriff, and did business in that line, including five years as sheriff of the county (from 1825 to 1830), for over thirty years in the aggregate. Being a practical and expert surveyor he did a great deal in that line during his active life, and as late as 1836 was employed by the state boundary commission, composed of Gen. Joseph Low of Concord, Hon. John P. Hale of Dover, and Hon. Ralph Metcalf of Claremont (afterwards governer) to make
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explorations and surveys in the Indian Stream territory with a view to ascertain and determine that northernmost branch of Connecticut River, upon which the whole question of boundary on that part of the line rests. He performed that duty in the summer and autumn of 1836, and made an extended report and map of that region, showing all its streams and lakes. The map was lithographed in Boston, and forms a part of his report, now on file in the office of secretary of state at Concord. It may not be out of place to state here that in the troubles at Indian Stream of the year previous (1835), growing out of unsettled boundary and disputed jurisdiction, wherein young Blanchard, a deputy sheriff, was seized by the Canadian authorities and carried over the line into Hereford, Mr. M., happening at Colebrook village at the time the affair happened, helped organize and formed one of the party, that pursued and retook Blanchard at the house of Alex. Rea, the Canadian magistrate under whose authority Blanchard was seized.
He was a member of the first Masonic lodge instituted in Coös county. At one time, after the close of the war, he was engaged in storekeeping at Lancaster in company with Col. Samuel White, father of the late Nathaniel White of Concord. He was one of the road commissioners of Coös county as late as 1850-51.
Admitted to the bar in 1843 or 1844, his active life having been up to that time fully engrossed by other pursuits, he did quite a law business late in life, such as his advanced age, and location, would permit; besides a great deal of conveyancing all through life, which branch of law he understood thoroughly.
He was a man of very decided traits of character, energetic, and of indomitable will and great personal courage. There are few men in any community whose lives have been marked by so great multiplicity and diversity of pursuit and public position.
ELIZABETH, b. in Walpole, N. H., 16 July 1802; d. about 1824. WILLIAM, b. 31 Dec. 1803; m. Lydia Johnson; I ch .: Betsey. SUSANNA, b. 27 Apr. 1806; m. Rev. Chas. C. Cons; d. Frye- burg, Me., 1836.
2. MILO, b. 28 Mar. 1808; m. Caroline Cone.
JOHN ADAMS, b. II Sept. 1810.
REBECCA, b. 30 June 1813; d. at about 16 yrs. of age.
EPHRAIM H., Jr .; m. Mary Bailey ; 6 ch .: Susan, Persis, Julia, Frances, Ellen, Frank.
FRANCES, d. early.
3. JAMES M .; m. Emily Curtis.
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CHARLES, b. 1820, Columbia, N. H .; d. Stratford, 1891 ; unm .; lawyer, well read, and for many years did most of the legal business in the lower part of the town.
2. Milo Mahurin (Ephraim H.1) was born March 28, 1808. He married Caroline Cone, daughter of Major Jared Cone of Colum- bia, and spent his life in that town, dying about 1878.
ELVIRA, m. Horace Carlton of Haverhill, N. H. ELLEN, d. young, in 1888.
WILLIAM C. JULIUS.
3. James Mahurin (Ephraim H.1) married Emily Curtis, daughter of Thomas Curtis. He was postmaster, and in trade at- the Hollow for several years, moving from there in the '60's to Spring Valley, Minnesota.
BELLE M., m. Adelbert F. Baker.
ETTIE, m. Henry B. Turner.
KATIE, m. Geo. T. Albro.
CLARA, m. Chas. D. Washburn.
MARSHALL
Antipas Marshall was the first preacher to settle in this section of the country. He was born in Ipswich, Mass., about 1754. He lived at one time in Gloucester, Mass., also in Hampstead, N. H., coming from that town to Northumberland, N. H., in 1796, in company with his nephew, Eliphalet Day, and Isaac Merriam. They settled on the Brown Hatch place.
"Elder Marshall" was a Methodist local preacher, a deacon and elder, and preached for forty years. He was of the old- fashioned type, and proclaimed the Law as well as the Gospel in no uncertain terms. Vigorous in body, as well as in his preach- ing, he was well adapted to the pioneer life. A farmer, an officer of the town, besides ministering to the spiritual needs of the peo- ple, he served his generation well. He lived to a good old age and was active to the last. He married (1) Sarah Low, who died at the age of fifty-five; (2) the widow of Gideon Bowker of Lunenburg, Vt. He died September 23, 1846.
2. JOSHUA, b. 23 Oct. 1780; m. Betsey Day.
SALLY, b. 31 Dec. 1782; m. Joseph Burroughs; near Lake Champlain.
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3. POLLY, b. 10 Jan. 1785; m. Washington Byron.
ANNA, b. 25 Feb. 1787; m. Rev. James Jaques ; 5 ch .; settled in Ohio.
RACHEL, b. 6 Nov. 1789; m. Alanson Holbrook of New York.
4. ANTIPAS, b. 30 Jan. 1792; m. Nancy Lucas. ABIGAL, b. 3 June 1794; m. Thomas Blake. SUSANNA, b. 30 Mar. 1796; m. Legrand Lucas.
TIMOTHY, b. 8 Feb. 1799; m. Mehitable Durgin; 5 ch .: Lydia, Noble, Sarah, Timothy, Amanda.
LUCINDA, b. 15 Jan. 1802; m. Alpheus Hatch.
2. Joshua Marshall (Antipas1) was born in Ipswich, Mass., October 23, 1780, and died May 14, 1861. He married Betsey W. Day, daughter of Eliphalet and Tirzah (French) Day, who was born in Sandown, N. H., March 19, 1783. He came to North- umberland at the age of sixteen, and in 1814 became a resident of Stratford, where he at once became a recognized leader in public affairs. In 1814 he was elected town clerk, a position which he held until 1828. He was on the board of selectmen in the years 1829-30-31-34-35-52, and represented the town at the legislature at different times. In 1833 he was appointed justice of the Court of Commons Pleas, and was in office until 1850, when he was succeeded by Nahum D. Day. For upwards of fifty years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for nearly twenty years a steward in the same.
Judge Marshall was a man widely known, and universally esteemed, of strong intelligence and integrity, and well qualified to fill the various positions of honor and trust confided to him by his fellow townsmen. He purchased of Agur Platt the farm, now owned by James Carr, and this was the home of the Marshall family for nearly half a century.
Mrs. Marshall, who died February 10, 1856, was a woman of fine Christian character, beloved by her family and friends. Her devotion to the church was testified by the long walks she took to attend services held in a church three miles distant. Leading her children by the hand, she walked the six miles after she had passed middle age.
6. ROBERSON SABIN, b. 9 Feb. 1806; m. (1) Lydia Stevens, (2) Mrs. Charlotte (Wilson) Baldwin.
ALBERT, b. 27 Apr. 1808; d. 2 yrs. RACHEL, d. infancy.
EVELINE, b. 27 Apr. 1811; m. Russel Gamsby. BETSEY, d. 2 yrs.
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TIRZAH, b. 20 Sept. 1813; d. 21 Nov. 1826.
SARAH Low, b. 31 m. 1816; d. II Aug. 1818. JOSHUA DAY, b. 31 Dec. 1819; d. 14 yrs. ELIPHALET DAY, b. 25 June 1821; d. 20 June 1824.
7. ANTIPAS PERCIVAL, b. 24 June 1826; m. Maria Adelard.
3. Polly Marshall (Antipas1) was born January 10, 1785, and married Washington Byron.
GEORGE, m. Julia Platt.
ANTIPAS, m. Eunice Dutton.
EDWARD, m. Sarah Blake; lived in Compton P. Q.
ANN, m. Brown Hatch.
MARY, m. Rev. J. W. Johnson.
JANE, m. Elisha Johnson.
AMANDA, m. Chas. O. Parker; lived in Portland, Me.
4. Antipas Marshall (Antipas1) was born January 30, 1792. He married Nancy Lucas. He died about 1825, Mrs. Marshall married (2) Eri Curtis.
CORDELIA, b. 1814, m. James Curtis.
8. ANDERSON J., b. 13 July 1819; m. Frances Perkins.
5. Abigal Marshall (Antipas1) was born June 3, 1794. She married Thomas Blake.
REBECCA, m. Almon Butler.
JOHN L., m -; I ch .: George.
HELEN M., m. Edward Foster; I ch .: Florence.
MARY, m. John Dodge; 2 ch .: George, Fred.
GEORGE, m. Lizzie Williams; 3 ch .: Ada, Sarah, George.
THIRD GENERATION
6. Roberson Sabin Marshall (Joshua2, Antipas1) was born in Northumberland, N. H., February 9, 1806. He married (I) Lydia Stevens, daughter of Isaac and Mrs. Lydia (Brainard) Osborn Stevens, who was born May 4, 1820, and died June 6, 1856; (2) Mrs. Charlotte (Wilson) Baldwin, widow of Jabez Baldwin, who was born March, 1817, and died February 2, 1890. Mr. Marshall died at North Stratford, October 2, 1874. "Sabin Marshall," like his father, Joshua, had strong political sentiments, and the name of Roberson S. Marshall appears frequently in the list of town officers. We find it first as town clerk in 1835, and from that time until 1872, he served as selectman seven different years, and represented the town in 1851.
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Mr. Marshall was a man of fine intelligence, of scholarly tastes, genial in his fellowships. He was a farmer, but late in the '50's, removed to Groveton, where he ran the hotel, since known as the Melcher House. The last years of his life were spent at North Stratford, where he lived in the house later trans- formed into Coös Cottage. Mrs. Charlotte Marshall survived him for several years. She was a woman of strong Christian character, and much respected in the community, and loved by those who knew her best.
(First Marriage)
MELVIN, b. Dec. 1838; m. Jane McIntyre; d. in Texas; I ch. : Elbert. Mr. Marshall was in trade several years at North Stratford. He removed to Texas during the '80's. He held many public offices while in Stratford.
CATHERINE, b. 22 Feb. 1842; d. 6 Dec. 1923; m. Heman Folsom; I ch .: Bertha,
ELBERT, b. 8 Mar. 1840; d. 25 Apr. 1861.
9. EVELINE, b. June, 1849; m. Dr. Henry P. Watson.
(Second Marriage)
IO. FRANK, b. 20 Apr. 1860; m. Jennie Seveigney.
7. Antipas Percival Marshall (Joshua2, Antipas1) was born June 24, 1826. He entered Dartmouth College, but on account of poor health was obliged to seek a southern climate. He became a civil engineer, and went to Louisiana, where he built levees upon the Mississippi, before the Civil War. During the war his property was confiscated, but later he received ninety thousand dollars from the state on his pay. He came North and was em- ployed by the Astor family in the care of their estates for many years. He died March 17, 1901, and was buried in Stratford. He married Maria Adelard; 5 ch .: Annie, May, Herbert, Harford, Percy.
8. Anderson J. Marshall (Antipas2, Antipas1) was born July 13, 1819, and died August 28, 1883. He married Frances Perkins, January 1, 1840. Mr. Marshall's father died when he was a child, and he grew up in the family of his uncle, Judge Joshua Marshall. In 1847 he established a manufactory for carriage building in Lancaster, N. H., and became one of the leading manufacturers of Coös county. He was not only a successful business man, but greatly loved and esteemed as a citizen and
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friend. He never held public offices, but was closely and help- fully connected with the affairs of the town.
ANTIPAS P., m -; 3 ch .: Fred A., Frank P., Winnie A. EMMA F., m. George L. Williams; 2 ch .: Jessie, Ethelyn. BELLE, m. George S. Locke; I ch .: George S.
FOURTH GENERATION
9. Eveline Marshall (Roberson S3, Joshua2, Antipas1) married Dr. Henry P. Watson, son of Dr. H. L. Watson, for many years a practicing physician in Stratford and Northumberland. Doctor Watson rose to eminence as a physician, and was quite noted as a surgeon, practicing in Groveton, Haverhill and Manchester, N. H. Mrs. Watson is a lady of culture and refinement.
DR. GEORGE MARSHALL, b. 22 Oct. 1868.
HENRY LEE, b. 20 Jan. 1871 ; d. 25 Oct. 1872.
DR. MAURICE, b. 21 May 1874.
ELMER KIMBALL, b. 15 Aug. 1876; d. 27 Jan. 1879. DR. HARRY, b. 22 Oct. 1880.
IO. Frank Marshall (Roberson S3, Joshua2, Antipas1) was born in Groveton, N. H., April 20, 1860. He married Jennie Seveigney who was born April 29, 1865, and died Jan. 21, 1909.
II. ROBERT S., b. 30 Aug. 1889; m. Ethel Barnett. CHARLOTTE, b. 26 Jan. 1891; m. Roy E. Smith; 3 ch .: ' Edward Marshall, Howard Willis, Pauline Jeannette. LEWIS, b. 9 Aug. 1893.
EVELYN, b. 8 Aug. 1896; m. George Lawrence Robertson, 2 ch .: Maxine Eleanor, George Lawrence.
FIFTH GENERATION
II. Robert S. Marshall (Frank4, Roberson S3, Joshua2, Anti- pas1, was born in Stratford, August 30, 1889, and married Ethel Elizabeth Barnett, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (Clark) Barnett.
EVERETT LEWIS, b. 14 Dec. 1921.
FRANCIS ARNOLD, b. I Nov. 1923.
ELAINE, b. 28 July 1925.
MARSHALL
SECOND FAMILY
Caleb Marshall, a cousin of Antipas, came from Hampstead, N. H., to Northumberland, before the Revolutionary War. He settled on the farm below John Eames, and built his house with-
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out hammer or nails. After getting settled an alarm of Indians was given, and they buried their pewter dishes and put their knives and forks on a beam in the house, mounted a horse, and returned to their former home for a year or two. Mr. Marshall died August 23, 1800, aged fifty years, and his wife Zeruiah (Harriman) Marshall, died October 15, 1842, aged eighty-nine.
SALLY, m. Moody Rich, Maidstone, Vt.
2. MARY, m. Joseph Dyer. ABIGAL, m. Christopher Bailey, Lemington, Vt.
BETSEY, m. Obadiah Tillotson, Orford, Vt.
BENJAMIN, drowned in New Brunswick. CALEB, m. Laura Waters.
SUSANNA, m. Samuel Harvey, Columbia, N. H.
3. WILLIAM, m. Margaret Iemeson. RHODA, d. 1804, 14 yrs.
4. NANCY, m. Washington Byron. FANNY, m. Levi Bowker, Lemington; d. at Omaha, 85 yrs. SILAS, m. Mary Belcher, Guildhall; d. Illinois, over 80.
2. Mary Marshall (Caleb1) was born August 7, 1780. She was married to Joseph Dyer, October II, 1799, by Rev. Selden Church of Northumberland and moved to Stratford. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer became converted to Shakerism, and joined that body at Enfield, N. H. Mrs. Dyer left them and wrote a book, "Shaker- ism Exposed," printed in Concord, 1847. Mr. Prescott read the book and some extracts have been taken from it, as it gives some dates in the family history.
"My parentage was Benjamin Marshall from Scotland, settled in Essex, Mass .; four children: John, Edmund, Benjamin, Ezekiel. Sons of Benjamin : Joseph, William and Moses. William settled in Hampstead, N. H. Caleb, my father, was eldest son of William. My grandmother Marshall was Sarah Buswell of Salisbury, Mass. My mother was Zeruiah Harriman, and my parents had twelve children. Our kind parents were careful to procure a good education for us, though in a wilderness, and ten of the children were school teachers. My grandmother Harriman was Mehitable Putnam, a sister of Gen. Israel Putnam. William Marshall was much of a business man. Previous to the Revolu- tionary War, he had been an officer in the King's Regiment. He was also a wealthy merchant and land owner in Hampstead and adjoining towns. At the Stamp Act my grandfather renounced the authority of the king and exclaimed, 'We can be an inde-
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pendent nation.' In the time of the war he did much for the inhabitants of Coös. He would wear only home-made clothes. He lived to be ninety-six years and four months. His last counsel was 'You must be honest and always speak the truth.'"'
Mrs. Dyer's life at Enfield was very unhappy, her children were taken from her (Jan. 1813), and she made repeated efforts to escape. Her oldest child, Caleb M. Dyer, a leading man among the Shakers, was shot by Thomas Wier, an infuriated father, who could not gain possession of his children. At last she escaped, resumed her maiden name, and wrote this book of 268 pages against Shakerism. She had five children: Caleb M., Orville, Betsey, Jarrub, Joseph.
3. William Marshall (Caleb1) was born January 6, 1781. He married, July 5, 1803, Margaret Iemeson, daughter of Dorothea (Gamsby) Iemeson. Mrs. Iemeson was early left a widow; her story has been told by her granddaughter, Mrs. Maria (Marshall) Johnson, in her book "Dorothea." William Marshall lived in Brunswick, Vt., on the farm now called the Flanders place.
MARIA, b. 25 Oct. 1804; m. Marcus D. Johnson.
WILLIAM, b. 10 Aug. 1806; m .- Beecher.
GEORGE, b. 19 May 1808; m. Sarah Kimball; 3 ch .: Phivella, Sarah, William.
RICHARD, b. 31 Mar. 1811; d. 20 Apr. 1823.
MARY, b. 29 Dec. 1812; m. Carlos Wallace.
JANE, b. 15 Dec. 1814; m. Simeon Robie; 6 ch .: Fred, Mar- garet (b. 3 Feb. 1844), Delia, Frank, Fay, Alma.
BENJAMIN, b. 12 June -; d. 16 Sept. 1822.
4. Nancy Marshall (Caleb1), married Washington Byron.
ALMIRA, m. John Harding.
ELIZA, d. Young.
JULIA, m. James Stanley of North Monroe, N. H., 5 ch .: Frederick, Julia, Stella, Susie L., Fannie.
MARTIN
The name, Martin, is of frequent occurrence, both in the Old World and throughout the English colonies in America generally. That branch of the Martin family which came to Stratford, N. H., belonged to Connecticut, and can be traced back to one, William, who possibly was the son of Richard, who came to America in 1663 and settled at Rehoboth, Mass. William was on record in Wood-
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bury, Conn., as far back as August 30, 1685, when he and his wife, Abigail, were admitted to the church there. Mrs. Martin was a daughter of Jonathan Curtis of Stratford, Conn., and was born October 17, 1671, and married June 25, 1685, and died January 4, 1735. William Martin died July 4, 1715. Their children were: Joseph, Samuel, Caleb, and Phoebe.
Joseph Martin (William1) was baptized November 1691, at Woodbury, Conn., where he passed his life, and died there in 1740. He married Sarah Harris, August 18, 1718. Their children were: Abigail, Abijah, Hannah, Asahel, Ruth, Amos, Joseph, Gideon.
Gideon Martin, known as "Captain Gideon," was the father of Andrew Martin, who came with his son, Joseph, from Bethlehem, Conn., to Stratford, N. H., in 1814. We find the names of Andrew and Joseph Martin in the tax list of Stratford in 1821. They settled in the northern part of the town, on Lot 67 (John Wendell), a farm which has ever since been in the possession of the family.
Andrew Martin (Gideon3, Joseph2, William1) was born in Beth- lehem, Conn., December 6, 1762. He married Deborah Holbrook, daughter of Joseph Holbrook, who was born December 7, 1795, and died in 1853. Andrew died in 1832.
BETSEY, m. Levi Rockwood, Bristol, Vt. EMILY, m. George Rockwood, Bristol, Vt. ALFRED F., m. Cynthia Mann, Oldtown, Maine. POLLY.
2. JOSEPH A., m. Elvira Lyman.
2. Joseph A. Martin (Andrew4, Gideon3, Joseph2, William1) was born in Bethlehem, Conn., March 4, 1799. He married Elvira Lyman, daughter of Noah and Anna (Blair) Lyman, who was born in Northampton, Mass., May 23, 1806, and died -. Joseph A. died in 1876.
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