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CHARLES, b. 18 Mar. 1828; unm .; d. 1873.
GEORGE, b. 7 May 1829; m. Olive Haynes; I ch .: George B. LIZZIE, b. 29 Mar. 1831 ; m. H. P. Greeley.
3. J. DOUGLAS, b. 16 Dec. 1833; m. Carrie Thompson.
JULIA, b. 16 Sept. 1835; m. Robinson Gamsby ; d. 20 Apr. 1923. THELMA B., b. 22 Nov. 1836; m. Henry H. Harris; 3 ch .: Chas. F., Henry H., Earl.
AUGUSTA, b. I Jan. 1840; m. (1) Henry Adams, (2) Volney Day; I ch .: Durward.
JANE E., b. 24 Mar. 1842; m. Gov. Julius Converse, Wood- stock, Vt .; I ch .: Luna B.
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CLARA L., b. 17 June 1845; m. Geo. Parsons; 2 ch .: Clara B., Geo. Frederick.
ELLA M., b. 17 Mar. 1847; m. A. J. Thurston, Franklin, N. H .; d. 2 Jan. 1923.
ADA, b. 26 Feb. 1849; m. E. H. Sturtevant; 3 ch .: Eva C., Ruth S., Fred W.
FRED, b. 16 Apr. 1851; m. Alma Eastman; 2 ch .: Frederick, Margarette.
BELLE T., b. 31 May 1854; m. Geo. B. French ; 3 ch. : Georgie B., Wayne M., Gerald W.
3. John Douglas Martin (Joseph A.5, Andrew4, Gideon3, Joseph2, William1) was born in Stratford, December 16, 1833. He married Carrie Thompson. Removed to Marietta, Ohio.
ADA MAY. GEORGIE EVELINA. GEORGE FROST. CHARLIE GUY.
4. FREDERICK ROY.
4. Frederick Roy Martin (John Douglas6, Joseph A.5,Andrew4, Gideon3, Joseph2, William1) was born at North Stratford, N. H., November 17, 1871. He was graduated, A.B., from Harvard University in 1893. Married Anna F. Wayne. He was on the staff of the Boston Journal, 1893-98. He was editorial writer and correspondent in Porto Rico during the Spanish War; associate editor, Providence Journal, 1898-04; editor, same, 1906-12. He became director of the Associated Press in 1912; assistant general manager, April, 1920; acting manager, 1920-21 ; general manager, 1921-25.
MERRIAM
The family is an ancient one, the name appearing as far back as 1295-96. The first fully authenticated ancestor of this family is William Merriam, of Kent, England, a clothier during the latter part of the sixteenth century. His son, Joseph, born in Kent about the year 1600, was also a clothier, and settled in Concord, Mass., in June, 1638. He married Sarah Golidstone of Kent about the year 1623. Concord or Lexington was the home of the Merriam family for several generations, and in Concord, Isaac, seventh son from William, was born January 29, 1762. He was a hatter by trade, and lived in the early part of his life in Ashburn- ham, Mass. He married Betsey, daughter of Benjamin Wait of
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Ipswich, Mass., in 1789. She was born April 8, 1765, and was a witness of the "Boston Tea Party." Isaac Merriam was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was at Stony Point under General Wayne.
Isaac came from Boylston, Mass., to Northumberland, N. H., and settled on the Brown Hatch farm, and was one of three men in Northumberland to vote for Thomas Jefferson the first time he was a candidate for the presidency, in 1797. Mr. Merriam died at Jackson, N. Y., February I, 1853.
2. DAVID, b. 5 May 1790; m. Joanna Smith; d. 16 April 1877.
3. ISAAC, m. Sarah Vanderlip; d. at age of 91. BETSEY, m. Lyman Bowker, Eaton, P. Q., Nov. 1818.
WILLIAM, b. 21 March 1796; d. battle of Chippewa, 5 July 1814.
4. JONAS, b. 23 May 1798; m. (I) Lucinda (Gamsby) Day, (2) Ann Maria (Wilson) Bond.
5. BENJAMIN, b. 25 Sept. 1800; m. Abigal Blake.
6. JOSEPH WAITE, b. 27 Aug. 1803; m. Sarah M. Seaverns. SARAH, m. Harvey Rice, Jackson, N. Y.
2. David Merriam (Isaac 1) was born May 5, 1790. He mar- ried, February 16, 1814, Joanna, daughter of Gideon and Eliza- beth (Ames) Smith, who was born in 1792, and died August 2, 1848. David died April 16, 1877. He built where Charles H. Merriam now lives, and conveyed the property to his brother, Jonas, who lived there forty-three years.
ALBERT P., d. I Jan. 1831 ; aged 14 yrs. 9 mos. ANN, d. at 7 yrs.
7. JOSEPH W., b. 14 June 1828; m. Sarah Louie Abbott.
3. Isaac Merriam (Isaac1) was a trader in Jackson, N. Y., where he died at the age of ninety-one. He married (1) Sarah Vander- lip, (2) Mrs. Fred Winslow (?).
(First Marriage)
ROBERT. WILLIAM. JAMES.
(Second Marriage)
SARAH. ANDREW.
JOSEPH, consul to Lima, Peru.
4. Jonas Merriam (Isaac 1), fourth son of Isaac and Betsey (Waite) Merriam, was born in Northumberland, N. H., May 23, 1798. He was living in Stratford in the '30's. He married (I)
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Mrs. Lucinda (Gamsby) Day, daughter of George Gamsby, who was born August 27, 18II, and died August 25, 1866; (2) Mrs. Ann Maria (Wilson) Bond, widow of Robert Bond, in 1868, who died in May 1883. Mr. Merriam died January 25, 1889.
HARVEY RICE, b. 2 July 1841 ; d. in Gen. Banks' expedition on Red River.
8. EDWARD BENJAMIN, b. 2 July 1844; m. Olive Burnside.
9. CHARLES HENRY, b. I May 1850; m. Emma A. Gardner.
5. Benjamin Merriam (Isaac 1) was born September 25, 1800, and died November 9, 1861. He married Abigal Blake, daughter of Samuel and Abigal (Dunton) Blake, who was born October 30, 1806, and died February 15, 1857. Mr. Merriam was not strictly a citizen of Stratford, as his home was on the first farm in North- umberland, where Samuel Blake settled; but there was no dividing line in the connection of the family with all the local interests of Stratford.
ANN ELIZA, b. 15 Oct. 1826; m. William Grandison Fuller, 1853; d. 18 Mar. 1871.
SARAH, b. 15 Feb. 1828; m. Abraham Manee, New York City, 1855; d. 31 Aug. 1899; 6 ch .: Abram H., Maria Ella, Annie E., Charles, Harriet, William N.
HATTIE VANDERLIP, b. 3 Sept. 1829; m. Dr. C. C. Carpenter; d. 21 Sept. 1916, Corvalis, Mont.
WILLIAM HENRY, b. 28 Feb. 1831; m. Martha Annette White, 1853; 3 ch .: Sarah, m. Alfred B. Stride (I ch .: Mary An- nette); Abbie, m. Henry McIntire; Lillian, m. Herbert Johnson.
MARY REBECCA, b. 25 Jan. 1833; m. Timothy Marshall, West Burke, Vt .; 5 ch .: George, Fred, Charles, Mamie, Dwight.
GEORGE, b. 20 July 1835; d. 1854, at Stratford; unm.
MARTHA A., b. 19 Apr. 1837; m., 1859, James Frederick Green, brother of Ann Katherine Green, novelist; 2 ch .: Alice, James Wilson. The former is graduate of Orange (N. J.) Training School, and has been engaged in mission work with her mother under the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. Mrs. Green d. 15 Oct. 1920, San Diego, .Calif.
SUSAN B., b. 14 Dec. 1839; m. Charles R. Merriam, 1853; d. Oct. 1921, San Jose, Calif .; 3 ch .: George, William, Percy. JULIA ADELAIDE, b. 19 Aug. 1841; m. Rev. Wm. C. Cobleigh ; I ch .: Prof. William, Bozeman, Mont.
SAMUEL EDWARD, b. 9 Mar. 1847; unm. ; in Civil War at 14 yrs. of age; d. 10 Jan. 1922, Soldiers' Home, San Francisco.
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6. Joseph Waite Merriam (Isaac 1) youngest son of Isaac and Betsey (Waite) Merriam, was born August 27, 1803. He married Sarah W. Seaverns of Boston. He left Stratford at the age of twenty-one, and became a commission merchant at Fanueil Hall Market, Boston. He died in 1877.
JOSEPH W., b. 1835; unm.
EDWIN A., b. 1838; m. Caroline Stalbird, Nantucket, Mass .; I ch. Florence, m. - Hills.
NELLIE M., b. 19 Oct. 1848; m. (1) Albert G. Sherman, N. Y., 1868, (2) Frederick A. Winslow; 3 ch .: George M., Gardi- ner Arthur, Joseph Edwin.
THIRD GENERATION.
7. Joseph W. Merriam (David 2, Isaac 1) was born June 14, 1828. He married Sarah Louie Abbott. He received his educa- tion in the common schools and academies of the day. He read law with Burns & Fletcher of Lancaster, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in 1854. The same year he went to Washington, where he spent the next three years in the Post Office Department. While in Lancaster he had assisted Mr. Rix in the conduct of the Coös County Democrat, and during his sojourn in Washington he used his pen quite largely as a writer for the New Hampshire Patriot, the Boston Post, the Coös County Democrat, and other papers, and at that time, and subsequently, he appears to have been a successful newspaper man. In 1859 he went to Nashville, expecting to be connected with the Nashville Union, then the most influential paper in the state. Negotiations fell through, and he went to Memphis, where he remained about two years as one of the editors and proprietors of the Memphis Avalanche, which he left after the paper declared for secession, and opened a law office. The attack upon Fort Sumter sent him to the North. After a few months practice at Grinnell, Iowa, he gravitated to Chicago, in January, 1862, where he entered upon the practice of his profes- sion, under the firm name of Wilson & Merriam. Later the firm of Merriam & Alexander was formed, which continued fourteen years. Then came the firm of Merriam & Whipple, the business of which was largely chancery matters and patent litigation. As a lawyer Mr. Merriam sustained the reputation of being a thor- ough practitioner, having a well-balanced judgment, discriminat- ing and accurate, which, combined with his native integrity, won the respect of all who knew him as a lawyer and a citizen.
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8. Edward Benjamin Merriam (Jonas 2, Isaac 1) was born July 2, 1841. He married Olive, daughter of Guy and Mary H. (Partridge) Burnside, who was born February 2, 1846, and died November 13, 1892. He married (2) Mrs. Fred Tilton. Mr. Merriam was engaged in trade at the Hollow and later at North Stratford, doing a large business at the latter place, in company with George R. Eaton. In 1893 he sold and went to Spokane, Wash., where he entered the firm of Lindsay & Merriam, whole- sale and retail grocers.
JENNIE, b. 1868; m. Clinton M. Cheney, June 22, 1893; I ch .: Joe Merriam.
9. Charles Henry Merriam (Jonas 2, Isaac 1) was born in Strat- ford, May 1, 1850, on the Merriam homestead, where he has since resided. He began farming at an early age, and has now about one hundred twenty acres under cultivation. On October 24, 1872, he married Emma A. Gardner, daughter of Ezekiel Gardner, who was born September 29, 1853.
MARION E., b. 12 March 1874; m. J. Carl Burbank; d. 1909; I ch .: Merriam.
IO. THOMAS O., b. 22 Nov. 1878; m. Agnes St. John, Portland, Maine.
CARRIE BELLE, b. I Dec. 1881; m. Guy T. Gardner; I ch .: Marion.
II. HENRY A., b. 31 Dec. 1888; m. Henrietta Thompson, Portland, Maine.
FOURTH GENERATION.
IO. Thomas Oakley Merriam (Charles 3, Jonas 2, Isaac 1) was born November 22, 1878, and married Agnes St. John, of Port- land, Maine. He is a farmer, living in Stratford Hollow.
ALICE, b. 21 Nov. 1903; m. Perley Mayberry; 2 ch.
HILDEGARDE, b. 28 May 1905.
TOM OAKLEY, b. 28 Mar. 1909.
II. Henry Albert Merriam (Charles 3, Jonas 2, Isaac 1) was born December 31, 1888. He married Henrietta Thompson of Portland, Maine.
PHILIP G., b. 31 May 1914.
NATALIE EDNA, b. 7 Mar. 1916.
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OCKINGTON
Benjamin Bird Ockington, the second child of Jesse and Han- nah Ockington, was born in Dublin, N. H., January 16, 1804, and died in Stratford, March 3, 1875. He married, June 24, 1826, Sarah Force Sawyer, who was born in Templeton, Mass., January 19, 1805, and died December 26, 1883.
Mr. Ockington came to Stratford in 1832, and built the mills at Stratford Hollow which were so long connected with the Ocking- ton name, and for nearly fifty years furnished the principal indus- try in the lower part of the town. Previous to coming to Strat- ford, Mr. Ockington had resided in Franklin, N. H., Randolph and Lancaster, N. H.
Mrs. Sarah Force Ockington was a woman of marked character, charitable without ostentation, strong and bright intellectually, with cultivated and critical scholarship she wrote with great clear- ness, force and wit. Frank and outspoken to a fault, her great plainness of speech never gave offense because of its utter freedom from malice. Proverbially honest, industrious, genial and kind, she was universally esteemed by all who knew her.
RICHARD STRONG, b. 22 Nov. 1827, Franklin, N. H .; d. II May 1867; unm.
2. JOHN SAWYER, b. 26 Apr. 1829, Randolph, N. H .; d. 6 May 1884; m. Sarah Pinkham.
3. BENJAMIN BROOKS, b. 25 Feb. 1831, Randolph, N. H .; d. 24 Feb. 1909; m. Rhoda A. Wright.
JAMES GREENWOOD, b. I Sept. 1833, Stratford; d. 16 Apr. 1901 ; unm. ; went to Georgia, and was a lawyer at Irvinton ; a colonel in the Confederate Army.
4. MARY REBECCA, b. 16 Feb. 1836; m. Henry Sanders.
GEORGE PAGE, b. 25 June 1838; d. 20 Dec. 1900; m. Etta L. Mason, July 1872.
5. ANDREW JACKSON, b. 19 Dec. 1840; m. Carrie L. Platt. SARAH MARIA, b. 31 Oct. 1844; m. (I) Eliphalet Day, (2) Frederick A. Padfield.
LOVINA ABERCROMBIE, b. 14 Sept. 1849; d. 15 Apr. 1850.
2. John Sawyer Ockington (Benjamin Bird1) was born in Ran- dolph, N. H., April 26, 1829, and died May 6, 1884. He married, November 15, 1855, Sarah A. Pinkham, Lancaster, N. H., who was born in 1837, and died Jan. 9, 19II.
ADA MARIA, b. 31 Aug. 1856, Lancaster; d. 4 Nov. 1890; m. Frank W. Poole.
JOHN, d. in infancy. LAURA, d. in infancy.
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3. Benjamin Brooks Ockington (Benjamin Bird1) was born in Randolph, N. H., February 25, 1831, and died February 24, 1909. He married, February 13, 1862, Rhoda Ann Wright of Stoddard N. H., who was born October II, 1842, and died November 7, 1893. B. Brooks Ockington, in company with his brother, An- drew J., succeeded his father in the conduct of the mills at the Hollow. Mr. Ockington was a man honorable and just in his deal- ings, successful in business, musical in his taste; and the firm of Ockington Brothers did much to promote both the civic and tem- poral interests of Stratford Hollow.
6. GERTRUDE FOSTER, b. 19 July 1863; m. George W. Gordon. ELLSWORTH WRIGHT, b. 29 Jan. 1865; d. 15 Feb. 1865.
7. JOSEPHINE LOUISE, b. 10 Apr. 1870; m. Frank S. Whitney. CHARLES WHITNEY, b. 5 Dec. 1875; unm.
4. Mary Rebecca Ockington (Benjamin Bird1) was born in Stratford, February 16, 1836, and died February 1, 1902. She married, November 29, 1855, Henry Sanders, who was born Feb- ruary 26, 1831, and died January 10, 1890. They resided in West Townsend, Mass.
8. SARAH LOUISE, b. 16 Nov. 1856; m. James MacElligott, West Townsend, Mass.
GEORGE HENRY, b. 31 Mar. 1868; d. 23 Dec. 1885; unm.
5. Andrew Jackson Ockington (Benjamin Bird1) was born in Stratford, December 19, 1840, and died April 8, 1879. He mar- ried, September 27, 1864, Carrie L., daughter of Charles Grandi- son and Mary (Blake) Platt, who was born July 2, 1846. At the age of 19 Mr. Ockington went to Groton, now Ayer, Mass., the home of his father's family, where he remained until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when he was one of the first to volunteer in the famous 6th Massachusetts Regiment, which furnished the first two victims of that memorable struggle. He was with the regi- ment when attacked by the mob in Baltimore. He returned to Stratford at the end of his enlistment, with health so broken, as the result of hardships and exposure, that he never fully recovered and his death was directly traceable to his services in the war. Mr. Ockington was a practical machinist, carpenter, and inventor of uncommon merit, his clothespin and bobbin machines attract- ing much attention and proving very lucrative to their inventor and owner. In partnership with his brother, B. Brooks Ocking- ton, he for several years owned and operated the Stratford mills, doing the largest business ever done at Stratford Hollow, and, in
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connection with it, running a general store. Andrew J. Ockington was a man of strict integrity, scrupulously honest, a fine musician, and a firm friend. His unswerving honesty, outspoken frankness and geniality will be long remembered by his fellow townsmen. Mrs. Ockington is a lady of marked artistic ability, and has de- voted her attention to painting. She resides in Portland, Me.
EVA FLORENCE, b. 3 Jan. 1867; d. 25 July 1867. HERBERT BLAKE, b. II Aug. 1870; lawyer; unm.
THIRD GENERATION
6. Gertrude Foster Ockington (B. Brooks2, Benjamin Bird1) was born in Stratford, July 19, 1863, and died February 4, 1924. She married, June 24, 1891, George W. Gordon, who was born November 15, 1847, and died May 15, 1918, at Berlin, N. H.
ALICE OCKINGTON, b. 14 Jan. 1894, West Milan, N. H .; m. Leslie Edward Wight, New York City.
7. Josephine Louise Ockington (B. Brooks2, Benjamin Bird1) was born in Stratford, April 10, 1870. She married, November 27, 1895, Frank Seavey Whitney, who was born March 22, 1864, at Jonesboro, Me. Mr. Whitney was in trade for several years at the Hollow (see chapter "Stratford Hollow Business"). She resides in Woodfords, Me.
BRYAN OCKINGTON, b. 2 Dec. 1896, Jonesboro, Me .; m. Florence V. Queen, Woodfords, Me .; I ch .: Eleanor V., b. 3 Aug. 1921.
GERTRUDE OCKINGTON, b. 21 Feb. 1898, Jonesboro, Me.
RUTH CONANT, b. I Apr. 1900, Stratford; m. Dwight Lyman Turner.
RALPH GORDON, b. 27 July 1902, Stratford.
RHODA WRIGHT, b. 19 Mar. 1906, Stratford.
WILMA REBECCA, b. 23 July 1907.
8. Sarah Louise Sanders (Mary Rebecca2, Benjamin Bird1) was born in West Townsend, Mass., November 16, 1856. She married James MacElligott.
INEZ GERTRUDE.
GEORGE HENRY, b. 18 June 1891. Attended Eric Pape School Boston, 1908; School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1909- 1912. Traveling scholar from Museum School. Worked at offices of Alley & Emery and Hilham & Hopkins, Boston, Mass. Enlisted 1917 with Harvard R. O. T. C. Attended 2nd Officers' Training Camp at Oglethorpe, Ga. Com-
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missioned Ist Lieut. Infantry, November 27, 1917. As- signed and went over seas with 30th Infantry M. G. Com- pany, April, 1918. He displayed extreme courage by remaining at his post in spite of a fatal wound, in order to encourage his men during the bombardment of July 15, 1918. He paid for this act with his life at the second battle of the Marne. The Croix de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross were awarded posthumously to his mother.
PLATT
In the list of grantees of the town of Stratford we find the names of seven men who bore the name of Judson. It was David who sent his settlers, Joshua Lamkin, Archippus Blodgett, John Smith, James Brown, and James Curtis, to Stratford. He also secured the large grant of land offered by the proprietors for the building of the first satisfactory mill in Stratford. In the inventory of the town lots for many years we find the Judsons still retained their possessions here; and as none of them were resident in Stratford for any length of time, an agent was required to look after their interests. This man was David Platt, a grandson of Donald Judson.
David Platt was the son of Moses and Hannah (Judson) Platt, and one of a family of seventeen children. He came to Stratford in 1802, his only possession being a pair of steers. An older brother, Agur Platt, had preceded him, coming in 1796. They both became leaders in town affairs.
The Judsons had long been represented in Stratford, Conn. William Judson came there in 1638, a year before there was a real settlement there. Sergeant Jeremiah Judson, son of William, born in England in 1621, came to Stratford, Conn., at the age of sixteen, married in 1652, was a prominent business man, and died in 1700. Joshua Judson, third son of William, was born in Eng- land in 1623, came to Stratford with his father, married Ann Porter in 1656, and died in 1661, leaving two sons. We find Judsons in the early lists of deacons, and in the fence lists in 1651. In 1885 a house 113 years old was occupied by Abner, direct descendant of William.
The Platts are directly descended from Richard and Mary Platt, who came from England in 1637.
Moses Platt was born in 1746, and died September 18, 1819.
THE PLATT HOMESTEAD
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He was married in Old Stratford, Conn., December 17, 1769, to Hannah Judson, daughter of Donald Judson, who was born October 1, 1753, and died September 11, 1816. Their children, born in Huntington, Conn., were:
MEHITABEL, b. 10 Jan. 1772; d. 19 Aug. 1818. HANNAH, b. 28 Oct. 1773; d. 27 Apr. 1821.
2. AGUR, b. 31 Oct. 1775; d. 5 Dec. 1848. POLLY, b. 13 Sept. 1777; d. I Aug. 1823. BETSEY, b. 24 Aug. 1779; d. 25 Oct. 1796.
3. DAVID, b. 6 Sept. 1781; d. 29 Jan. 1866. SALLY, b. 2 Mar. 1783; d. I Apr. 1845. MOSES, b. 29 Jan. 1785; d. 3 Nov. 1870. ROSWELL, b. 8 Nov. 1786; d. 3 Aug. 1845. MOREY, b. 31 Mar. 1788; d. II Apr. 18II. ELY, b. 24 Aug. 1789; d. 12 Jan. 1790. ELY (2nd), b. 13 Sept. 1790; d. 2 Jan. 1791. JUDSON, b. 3 Nov. 1791 ; d. 8 Oct. 1860. TEZAH, b. 5 Feb. 1793; d. 19 Aug. 1848. LEVI, b. 22 Dec. 1795; d. 8 Sept. 1886. BETSEY, b. 28 Nov. 1798; d. 2 Oct. 1835. NANCY, b. 28 Nov. 1798; d. 26 Jan. 1799.
2. Agur Platt (Moses1) was born in Huntington, Conn., October 31, 1775, and died December 5, 1848. He married, June 2, 1808, Abigal Jennison, who was born in 1788, and died in 1851. He came to Stratford, N. H., in 1796, and, until his removal to Indiana in 1814, was one of the most prominent men in town, from 1805 holding some public office.
MORTIMER, b. 1809; d. 1870. LOUISA, b. 18II. JULIA, b. 1814. JENNISON H., b. 1817. AGUR, b. 1821. ABIGAIL, b. 1825. HANNAH, b. 1828; lived at Mt. Vernon, Ind.
3. David Platt (Moses1) was born in Huntington, Conn., September 6, 1781. He died in Stratford, N. H., January 29, 1866. He married, October 18, 1808, Roxana Brown, daughter of James and Hannah (Lamkin) Brown, who was born April 5, 1790, and died May 25, 1872. David Platt became a man of substance. The old Platt homestead, now taken down, was a house of Colonial type, an old Connecticut home transplanted to New Hampshire. That he was a man of ability is shown in his success as a man of affairs; and a man of strong convictions in the
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fact that he was one of two men in Stratford to vote persistently the Whig ticket in an overwhelmingly Democratic town. Mrs. Platt was a devoted wife and mother, whose duties in all the re- lations of life were performed in a way to command love and re- spect.
4. CHARLES GRANDISON, b. 25 Oct. 1809; m. Mary Blake; d. 24 Apr. 1889.
HANNAH, b. 17 Dec. 1811; m. Abijah French.
JULIA C., b. 8 Oct. 1815; m. Geo. W. Byron; d. 4 May 1872; I ch .: Ellen, m. Will Scruton, Lewiston.
JANET JUDSON, b. 15 Feb. 1819; m. Hon. Nahum D. Day. DONALD A., b. 29 Dec. 1820; d. 18 Jan. 1862; unm.
MAHALA P., b. 30 Mar. 1823; m. Rueben B. Marden; d. 4 Feb. 1899.
5. ELLEN M., b. 16 June 1828; m. Hiram H. Wright.
ANGELINA W., b. 6 June 1833; m. George Bass; d. 19 Dec. 1875; I ch .: Emma, m. W. H. Kimball.
4. Charles Grandison Platt (David2, Moses1) was born October 25, 1809, and died April 24, 1889. He married Mary Blake, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Dunton) Blake, who was born September 17, 1815, and died April 17, 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Platt exemplified in their lives much that stands for the best citizenship, the unassuming virtues that make character. Mrs. Platt will long be remembered for her charm of manner, her keen intelligence, that never weakened through her fourscore years. She was a charter member of the Baptist Church at North Stratford.
CAROLINE L., b. 2 July 1846; m. Andrew J. Ockington, first Stratford man under fire in Civil War, with Mass. 6th at Baltimore.
MARY R., b. 19 June 1848; m. Antipas Hatch; noted author and club woman.
6. CHARLES D., b. 29 Jan. 1850; m. Adaline Bishop. FRANK B., b. 27 July 1852; m. Addie Campbell.
5. Ellen M. Platt (David2, Moses1) was born June 16, 1828. She married Hiram H. Wright. She died December 23, 1910.
JESSIE, m. Geo. W. Bond.
FREMONT, m. Jennie Waters. NETTIE, d. young.
6. Charles D. Platt (Charles Grandison3, David2, Moses1) was born January 29, 1850. He married Adaline A. Bishop, who was born in Landaff, N. H., August 15, 1865. Mr. Platt was educated
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at Lancaster Academy and graduated at Plymouth Normal School in 1873. He taught in Jefferson and Stratford, in Colo- rado, Oregon and California. He has been justice of the peace forty years, and notary public thirty years. He served on the Board of Education of the town from 1898 to 1923, fourteen years. He was library trustee 1901-8, 1918-23, a member of the Com- mittee on Town History in 1898-99. He has also been first selectman and auditor.
C. JUDSON, b. 24 June 1885; d. 17 Sept. 1886.
7. FRANK B., b. 16 Nov. 1887; m. Ida Cable. MARIBEL M., b. 18 Oct. 1889.
ROXANNA, b. 9 Oct. 1890; d. 5 Jan. 1891.
MAHALA R., b. I Dec. 1892; d. 20 Feb. 1893.
ANNA KATHERINE, b. 5 Sept. 1897; N. H. University 1915. CHARLES GRANDISON, b. 6 Oct. 1899; N. H. University 1923.
7. Frank B. Platt (Charles D.4, Charles Grandison3, David2, Moses1) was born November 16, 1887. He married, April 19, 1914, Ida Cable, who was born June 16, 1892. Mr. Platt was educated at Rockland Military Academy, from which he re- ceived the degree of electrical engineer.
FRANCES ELIZABETH, b. 30 May 1916.
IRENE ESTELLE, b. 3 Jan. 1918.
LOUISE BLAKE, b. 25 July 1923.
PRESCOTT
Rev. Lucien W. Prescott, the author of the "History of Strat- ford" was descended from James Prescott, who came from Dugby, county of Lincolnshire, England, in 1665, and settled in Hampton, N. H., and was the first of this family in America. His son Joshua, had a son, Joshua, who settled in Chester, N. H. He and his three sons served in the Revolutionary War. Joseph, son of Joshua, Jr., married Lydia Worthen, and settled in Bridge- water, N. H., about 1790. . Capt. Jesse Prescott, son of Joseph, married Eliza Harriman.
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