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Robert married Susan Miller, and settled in New Boston. They had two sons, John and Samuel. The former lives on the homestead, and the latter resides in Erie county, Penn. They had five daughters, all of whom were married.
Thomas married Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of James and Mary Wallace, in 1775. They had twelve children, all of whom except one son, who died in infancy, lived to adult age and were settled in life. Nine still survive. 1. Grisey, the eldest, married David Barnet. 2. James married Hannah Hughes, of Windham. 3. Peter married Mary Wallace, daughter of Judge Wallace, of Henniker. 4. Robert mar- ried Esther Spaulding, of Hudson. 5. Mary married Abra- ham McNeil, and removed to Antrim, where she died of the spotted fever, in 1812. 6. Margaret married Samuel . F. Taylor. 7. Thomas married Hannah, a daughter of John Duncan, and lives on the original homestead. 8. William married Lucinda Gregg, of Derry. 9. Elizabeth married William Duncan, Esq., of Candia. 10. Jenny married Dr. Augustus Frank, of Warsaw, N. Y. 11. George W. mar- ried Hannah, a daughter of John Dickey, Esq. In 1815, William, being then a young man, went into the State of
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New York, and commenced the business of making and vending fanning-mills, which had been recently patented. He was quite successful, and, in 1818, was joined by his brother George W., who was some years younger than him- self. Though they were favored with a common school education only, and engaged in mechanical business, yet such was their force of character, such their correctness of prin- ciple and of conduct, and such their enterprise, that they not only succeeded in accumulating a large property, but secured the confidence of the communities in which they resided. They were elected to offices of trust and responsibility, and became members of the legislature of the State for successive years. In 1836, William was chosen member of Congress, from the district composed of the county of Genesee, but while at Washington, in 1838, he was seized with illness, from which he never recovered. Although able to reach home, he died August 14, 1838, aged forty-nine. George W., after having been a member of the assembly six years, was chosen speaker, which office he held two years. In 1846, he was elected a member of the convention to revise the constitu- tion. In 1848, he was chosen lieutenant-governor, which office he still holds. About 1829, Robert and Peter also removed to the State of New York, and settled in the vicinity of their brothers, who had preceded them. Peter Patterson, Esq., who had represented his native town in General Court, and sustained various public offices, was, soon after his settlement in New York, elected a representa- tive to the State Assembly for the years 1833 and 1834. In 1842, he was appointed one of the judges of the county court, for the term of five years.
John married Jane Wilson, of Windham, and had one son, Peter, who removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1810, was for many years clerk of Ross county, and, up to the time of his death, 1845, was one of the magistrates of the city. He left several sons, one of whom is a clergyman of the
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Methodist denomination. The widow of John Patterson married Deacon James Aiken, of Londonderry, and was the mother of Captain Nathaniel Aiken.
Rachel married William McNeil, and settled in New Bos- ton. They had three sons and three daughters.
Margaret married Thomas Holmes, of Londonderry. They had thirteen children, several of whom still reside in Derry and Londonderry.
Sarah married Thomas Melendy, and settled in Amherst, N. H. They had five sons and one daughter ; two of the sons are dead ; one lives in Springfield, Illinois, one at Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and one son and the daughter are on the home- stead at Amherst.
Grisey married John Burns, and settled in Milford, N. H. They had two sons and one daughter.
Elizabeth married Daniel Burns, and also settled in Mil- ford. They had five sons and one daughter.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, the brother of Peter, came from Ireland to Londonderry about the year 1724, and settled on Patterson's Hill, afterwards Smith's Hill. He had five sons and several daughters.
John settled on the Chestnut Hills, Amherst. His daughter Elizabeth married Phineas Aiken, of Bedford.
Robert settled in New Boston.
Peter married a daughter of John Bell, Esq., and settled in Goffstown.
Adam married and settled in the State of Maine.
David married a daughter of Silas Betton, Esq., of Wind- ham, and settled in Temple, but afterwards removed to Francestown. The information which has been obtained of this branch of the Patterson family is very limited.
John Patterson, the great-grandfather of Peter and Wil- liam, who came to this country, removed from Argyleshire in Scotland to Ireland about one hundred years before the emi- gration of his descendants to America.
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FAMILY OF JOHN PINKERTON.
The ancestor of this family, JOHN PINKERTON, came from the county of Antrim, in the north of Ireland, to this town, in 1724. He settled upon a farm in the West Parish of Londonderry, and died in 1780, at the age of eighty. He left five sons ; David and John, who were born in Ireland, Matthew, Samuel, and James; and four daughters; Mary, Elizabeth, who married Deacon James Aiken, Rachel, and Jane, who married Deacon David Brewster.
Of David and Samuel we have no particular information.
Matthew lived and died in Londonderry. He had three sons ; the late Lieutenant John Pinkerton, who held for some years offices of trust in the town, and was the father of George W. Pinkerton, Esq., of Manchester, N. H., James, who resides in Derry, and David, who settled in Boscawen.
A brief sketch of John, the second son, and of James, the youngest, has been already given. They were benefactors to the town, and deserve to be had in remembrance. The following is a brief genealogical statement of their fam- ilies : -
Major John Pinkerton married, for his first wife, Rachel Duncan, by whom he had five children; namely, Polly, Naomi, Betsey, John, and Esther. Polly married Alex- ander MacGregor, and had one child, John P., who was adopted by Major Pinkerton.
For his second wife, he married Polly Tufts, but had no children by her.
Deacon James Pinkerton married, for his first wife, Elizabeth Nesmith, daughter of John Nesmith, by whom he had six children, as follows : Isabella and James, both of whom died in infancy ; Betsey, who married John Aiken, son of Deacon Nathaniel Aiken, and died in 1837 ; Jane, who married Joshua Aiken, brother of Jolin Aiken ; Mary B., who married Captain William Choate, and Clarissa, who married Robert E. Little.
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Deacon Pinkerton married, for his second wife, Sarah Wallace, daughter of Samuel Wallace, and by her had four children, as follows : Rebecca W., who married Perkins .A. Hodge ; Francis C., who married Hon. Luther V. Bell ; David H., who married Elizabeth Aiken, and John M., who is a counsellor at law, and resides in Boston, Mass.
FAMILY OF HUGH RANKIN.
In the year 1722, three years after the settlement in Lon- donderry was commenced, HUGH RANKIN arrived with his family from the county of Antrim, in Ireland. He had nine daughters and no son; consequently those who have borne that name in the town during some past genera- tions, were not descended from him; nor did they sustain any relation whatever to his family. He was a man of fair Christian character, was influential in promoting the pros- perity of the settlement, and sustained for some years the office of ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church. His numerous family of daughters were distinguished for their personal appearance, and for their accomplishments. They all became members of the church, and examples of Chris- tian piety and virtue. They were all respectably married, excepting the youngest, who died in early life.
The eldest married Hugh Stirling, whose descendants are in the State of Maine. The second married William Gregg. The third married John Gregg. The fourth married Allen Anderson, and had no offspring. The fifth married James Cochran, whose descendants now live in many parts of the country. The sixth married Mr. Clyde, of Windham, and had a numerous family. The seventh married John Crombie, from whom descended all of that name in this part of the country. The eighth married a Mr. Rogers, who removed into the State of Maine, where their descendant's still live.
The posterity of this family of the early settlers became very numerous, and are extensively dispersed throughout
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the land ; and in most instances are known to have proved valuable members of the community.
FAMILY OF JAMES REID.
Among the first settlers of Londonderry, was JAMES REID, a native of Scotland, and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He took an active and conspicuous part in the early organization of the town, and in the direction of its councils. He was a man who added to an accomplished mind, all those traits of character which go to constitute an influential and useful member of society. He was a member of the session of the church in the West .Parish, during the ministry of Rev. David MacGregor, and died in November, 1755, aged sixty. His widow, Mary, died February, 1775, aged seventy-six. His children were
Elizabeth, who married John Nesmith, and whose children are mentioned in the notice of the family of James Nesmith. John, who died February, 1803, aged fifty-eight.
George, who married Mary Woodburn, and of whom a notice has already been given. He had five children, as follows : 1. Elizabeth, his eldest child, married Robert Mac- Gregor, son of Rev. David MacGregor. She died in March, 1847, at the advanced age of eighty-one, highly respected and esteemed in the wide circle of her acquaintance. 2. James, for many years of the eminent banking-house of Brown, Reid, and Co., of Lisbon, Portugal, died in London, May, 1827, aged sixty. 3. Mary, who married the late HIon. Samuel Dinsmoor, formerly governor of New Hamp- shire, and father of the present governor. She died at Keene, June, 1834, at the age of sixty-four. 4. John, who was for many years a respectable and successful merchant in Philadelphia, where he died in December, 1834, aged sixty-three. 5. George, their youngest child, was born Jan. 29, 1774, and graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1797, married Mary Borland, in 1809; for his second wife, he mar-
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ried Harriet Davidson, in 1835. He entered the profession of law, which he practised with much success, in the State of Maine. He died in Boston, January 30, 1848, aged seventy-four.
FAMILY OF MATTHEW TAYLOR.
MATTHEW TAYLOR and his wife, Janet, came from the vicinity of Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in London- derry (now Derry), in 1722. He lived on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Henry Taylor.
John, their first child, was born September 22, 1721, on their passage to America. He married Margaret Dickey, and had five children; Matthew, James, John, Janet, and Nancy. 1. Matthew married a Miss Little, and had five children ; Sarah, Joseph, John, James, and Oliver. 2. James married a Miss Dickey, and had three children ; Margaret, Rachel, and William. 3. John married Janet McKeen, and had five children ; Anna, Margaret, John, Daniel, and Samuel. 4. Janet married Captain John McKeen, and had seven children ; James, John, Joseph, Robert, Samuel . Sarah, and Janet. 5. Nancy married William McKeen, and had six children; Mary, Nancy, Margaret, John, Janet, and Alice.
Matthew, the second son, was born October 30, 1727, mar- ried, and went to St. John's, Nova Scotia. He had four sons ; one of them became a ship-builder, and three went to Ohio and settled on the Sciota river.
William was born March 23, 1733, and married Betsey Grimes. Their children were Mary, John, Janet, Nancy, Adam, Samuel, Sarah, and Betsey. 1. Mary married John Gregg, and went to New York. 2. John married Nancy Cunningham. Their children were Aiken, William, Samuel Fisher, Ephraim, Nancy, Mary, Sarah, Eliza, and Fanny. 3. Adam married Martha Paul. Their children were Jane, Betsey, Adam, Matthew, Clarissa, Mary Ann, Margaret, and m Beonão
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Paul. 4. Sarah married John McGrath, of Dorchester, and had three sons and two daughters. 5. Betsey married Captain James Paul. Their children were Betsey, John, and David. Janet, Nancy, and Samuel, the remaining children- of William, were unmarried, and lived to be quite aged.
David, the fourth son, was born August 10, 1735, married Margaret Kelsey, and had seven children : 1. David mar- ried, and had two sons. 2. Robert married Dolly Colby, and had ten children; Anna, Lucinda, Rebecca, Robert, Stephen, Henry, and four who died under fifteen, and in one week, of spotted fever. 5. Rosa married James McNeil, and removed to the western part of the State. William, Betsey, Jonathan, and John, were unmarried, and died in the prime of life.
Adam was born August 15, 1737, married Mary Cunning- ham, and had three children: 1. Nancy married Matthew Anderson. Their children were Adam, John, Jane, Mary, Samuel, Matthew, Betsey, James, and Nancy. 2. Janet married Colonel William Adams, and had two children, Mary, who married Captain John Holmes, and James, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1813, and died in 1817. 3. Betsey married Samuel McKeen, brother of Joseph McKeen, president of Bowdoin College, and had three chil- dren, John, Adam, and James Orr.
Samuel, the sixth son, remained on a part of the home- stead, having erected a house and married Sarah Fisher. She had one son and then died. Her son, Matthew, grad- uated at Dartmouth College in 1801, entered the ministry, married a Miss Fisher, and went as a missionary to Ohio, where he died. Samuel married Eunice Lancaster for his second wife. They had nine children ; Sarah, Janet, Sam- · uel Fisher, Henry, James, Mary, and three at a birth, who died young. 1. Sarah married Captain John Clark, and had seven children ; Eliza, Mary Jane, Sarah, Nancy, Mel- vina, Sophia, John Newton, and Harvey. The sons dicd
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in infancy. 2. Janet died unmarried. 3. Samuel F. mar- ried Margaret Patterson. Their children were Mary Jane, Henry Gilman, Elizabeth, James, Lucinda, and three sons .who died young. 4. Henry resides upon the homestead of his grandfather, Matthew Taylor, and is unmarried. 5. James resides on a part of the homestead, being one of the farms originally belonging to Governor Wentworth, and married Persis Hemphill ; they have nine children ; Samuel H., Nathaniel M., Almira, Caroline P., Harriette, James C., Sarah J., Mary E., and Emma. 6. Mary married Captain John Clark, as his second wife, and had two children, Elvira M., and Clara A.
Sarah, the first daughter, married Deacon Samuel Fisher, and had one child, Sarah, who married Samuel, the sixth son of Matthew Taylor.
Janet, the second daughter, was born June 10, 1731, and married John Anderson. Their children were : 1. John, who married a Miss Archibald, and had thirteen children ; Ann, John, Jane, Robert, Martha, Betsey, Thomas, Marga- ret, Nancy, Eli, Samuel, and two who died young. 2. Mat- thew, married his cousin, Nancy Taylor, whose children are referred to in Adam Taylor's family. 3. Jane married David Paul, whose children were Martha, James, Janet, John, Mary, Matthew, David, Jane, Thomas, Margaret, Nancy, and two who died young. After Mr. Anderson's death, his widow married Mr. Finlay, and had two children : 1. Samuel, who married a Miss Witherspoon; and their children were Jane, Robert, Joseph, John, Nancy, Fanny, Hugh, Jesse, and Martha. 2. Hugh married Janet Cochran, and had six children ; Mary, Joseph, Betsey, Samuel, Sophia, and Barnett.
John and Matthew Anderson lived in Ira, Vt .; and Samuel and Hugh Finlay, in Acworth, N. H. Nearly all the other families lived in Derry, or the vicinity.
The great-grandchildren of MATTHEW TAYLOR, as far as known, number one hundred and thirty.
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FAMILY OF ANDREW TODD.
ANDREW TODD arrived at Londonderry in 1720. He was the third son of James Todd and Rachel Nelson, both of whom were natives of Scotland, but emigrated to the north of Ireland, where all their children were born, and had arrived at middle age, before the emigration to Londonderry, N. H. James Todd died in Ireland, but his widow removed with her children to New England, and died at London- derry.
Alexander, the eldest brother, removed to Boston from Londonderry ; was married, and had three daughters, one of whom married a Mr. Houghton, and among her descend- ants are many persons of the name of Warren, Willis, Newcomb, etc. He was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. Samuel, his brother, was also a graduate at Edinburgh, and resided at Boston, where he died unmarried. Their sister, Elizabeth, married John Bell, who emigrated to Londonderry, in 1720, where she died in August, 1771, aged eighty-two. For her descendants see the family of John Bell.
ANDREW TODD married Beatrix Moore, in Ireland, and early became a leading man in the town. He represented the town in the provincial legislature, and held a commis- sion in the French war of 1744, and again in the war of 1755, and held the rank of colonel of the provincial levies at the close of his military service. He gained a high rep- utation by his services in those wars, and was one of the marked men of his time. He had five sons and two daugh- ters. Towards the close of his life he removed to Peter- borough, where one of his sons liad settled. He died at Peterborough, about 1778, aged over eighty years. His children were : -
Alexander, who lived in Hooksett, N. H., upon a handsome interval on the Merrimack, now known as the Todd Farm,
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from which he returned to Londonderry. He married a daughter of Deacon George Duncan, of Londonderry, and had several children. He was a captain in the provincial levies, in the last French war. He died at Londonderry, aged about seventy.
John, who was drowned at Amoskeag Falls, about 1754, aged twenty-four.
James, who resided at the house where his father lived, in Aiken's Range, and died of hemorrhage of the lungs.
Andrew, who died unmarried, aged seventy.
A daughter, who married a Mr. Miller.
Rachel, who married Moses Morrison, of Peterborough.
Samuel, who married a Miss Morrison, and lived and died at Peterborough. Deacon John Todd, who lately died at Peterborough, at a very advanced age, was his son.
FAMILIES OF JOHN AND THOMAS WALLACE.
JOHN WALLACE came from the county of Antrim, Ire- land, to Londonderry, in 1719 or 1720, and was married to Annis Barnett, on the 18th of May, 1721, being the first couple married in Londonderry. They had four sons and four daughters. The sons were James, Samuel, William, and John; the daughters were Ann, Janet, Sarah, and Rebecca.
James married Mary Wallace, a cousin of his father. They lived "over the brook," on the farm now owned by Captain Upton. Mrs. Simeon Danforth and Mrs. William Montgomery are their granddaughters.
Samuel married Letitia Clark. They had four daughters and no son. One of the daughters was married to Deacon James Pinkerton, as his second wife; another to Robert Clark, of New Boston ; another to John Clark, of Hancock, and another to a Mr. Porter, of Vermont. His widow after- wards married Deacon Robert Moor, by whom she had two daughters and one son ; Jane, Mary, and Samuel.
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William married Hannah Thornton. They had three sons ; William, James, and John ; and two daughters, Han- nah and Catherine. William and James settled at Niagara, in Upper Canada, prior to 1800, and remained there until the war of 1812. They had acquired a very large property ; and were the owners of forty thousand acres of choice land, on Grand River, besides a large amount of village property at Niagara. But they were too patriotic to take up arms against their native country. They therefore left all their possessions in Canada, to be confiscated by the government, and came to Rochester, and were among the early settlers of that city. 1. William died in 1823, and left a daughter, Charity, and four sons ; Matthew T., William, James, and John. They all reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. 2. James still survives, and is living with his second wife. He is eighty- seven years of age ; a man of strong mind and energy of character. He now resides in Buffalo, N. Y. He has no child living. 3. John married, and settled in the town of Thornton, N. H. He died a few years since, leaving a family. 4. Hannah was never married. She died soon after her mother, on the homestead, the farm now owned by Mr. Robert Chase, near the Lower Village. 5. Catherine married James Cox, removed to Holderness, N. H., and had a large family.
John married Sarah Woodburn, of the High Range. He settled in Bedford; Rev. Cyrus Wallace, of Manchester, is one of his descendants.
Ann married William Clark, of New Boston, the father of Robert and John Clark.
Janet married Matthew Dickey, the father of John Dickey, Esq., - formerly of this town, - and of three other sons ; Ebenezer, James, and Samuel ; also of two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca.
THOMAS WALLACE, brother of JOHN WALLACE, who married Annis Barnett, and Jean, his wife, emigrated from
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Coleraine, in the county of Antrim, in Ireland, to London- derry, N. H., in the year 1726. They were not married when they came to this country ; an acquaintance was formed on their passage, which resulted in marriage. Her maiden name was Jean Wallace, and she was a sister of Joseph Wallace, who was one of the early settlers of Milford, N. H., and many of whose descendants have resided in that town. Thomas Wallace and his wife settled on the farm formerly owned by elder John Fisher. They had four sons ; James, Joseph, William, and John ; and four daughters; Janet, Margaret, Ann, and Betsey. After the birth of all their children, they removed to Bedford, N. H., and were the eighth family that settled that town.
James settled in Bedford, and married Mary Lind; by whom he had one son, Thomas, and three daughters, Ann, Mary, and Betsey. By his second wife, Sarah Riddle, he had two sons, James and John, and one daughter, Sarah O.
Joseph married Mary Scoby, and settled in Acworth, N. H. They had three sons ; Thomas, John, and Joseph ; and four daughters ; Susan, Martha, Mary Ann, and Marga- ret. All this family, with the exception of two maiden daughters, are dead, and have left no issue.
William married Ann Scoby, sister of the wife of Joseph, and settled in Merrimack, N. H. They had five sons ; Joseph, James, David, John P., and Adam; and three daughters, Jane, Ann, and Sarah.
John married Isabella Witherspoon, and settled in Bed- ford. They had seven sons; Robert, Samuel, Ande, Isaac, Jesse, William, Thomas, and George O, and two daughters, Janet and Polly. Doctors Thomas and Isaac Wallace were of this family.
Janet, Ann, and Betsey were never married.
Margaret married George Orr, of Bedford. They had four daughters ; Jane, Eleanor, Ann, and Margaret. No one of this family is now living.
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FAMILY OF THOMAS WALLACE.
Another branch of the Wallace family is as follows :
THOMAS WALLACE, a nephew of John Wallace, came from the county of Antrim, Ireland, about the year 1732, and settled near the West Parish meeting-house. He had four sons; Robert, Thomas, William, and James ; and one daughter, Mary.
Robert owned and occupied the Cobb Farm, east of the meeting-house, and died without issue.
Thomas owned the farm lately occupied by Boyes and Gilchrist, and also died without issue.
William was educated at Edinburgh, Scotland, for the ministry, and died at Londonderry, March 27, 1733, aged twenty-six. He was the first person buried in the " Hill graveyard."
Mary married James Wallace, her cousin's son, and was distinguished from the other Mary Wallace at the West meeting-house, as " Mary over the brook," as above men- tioned.
James, the youngest son of Thomas Wallace, married . Mary Wilson, who was born on board of a pirate ship, in 1720, - a memorable fact, which is noticed in the account of the Woodburn family. They had four sons; Thomas, Robert, William, and James ; and one daughter, Elizabeth. 1. Thomas married a Miss Gregg; was in the battle of Ben- nington, and died soon after his return home. He had one son, now living in Weare, N. H. The other three brothers married three sisters, Jane, Hannah, and Ann Moore, of the English Range, and they all settled in Henniker. 2. Robert . had four sons ; James, Robert M., Thomas, and William ; and one daughter, Mary. James and Thomas married ladies by the name of Bowman; the former continued to reside in Henniker, the latter settled in Goffstown, where he died, leaving four sons and one daughter. Robert M. married Jane Morrison, daughter of Rev. William Morrison, of Lon-
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