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8. vi. SETH, b. May 20, 1784; d. Jan. 9, 1792.
2. JOSEPH6 (Joseph5, John4, Joseph3, Humphrey2, Hum- phrey1), b. Mason, Jan. 25, 1774; d. Oct. 31, 1852; m. Oct. 3, 1809, Mary, dau. of Isaac and Mary (Adams) Appleton (9). His name appears upon the town record at about the date of his marriage, but soon after he removed to Bakersfield, Vt., where he was a farmer for ten or twelve years, during which all his children were born. About 1821 he came to New Ips- wich and occupied the Appleton farm, his wife's early home, for twenty years, removing thence in 1842 to the John F. Hills place upon the Turnpike, afterward the residence of his son-in-law, S. W. Bent, where the last ten years of his life were passed. He was a quiet, unassuming man, but one whose opinion was prized, especially in the church, although he de- clined official station when chosen deacon. Children :
9. i. JOSEPH APPLETON, b. July 22, 1812; d. Apr. 20, 1833. He was a student in Yale College at the time of his death.
10. ii. EMILY MARIA, b. Oct. 23, 1814; d. June 11, 1833, unm.
11. iii. MARY NARCISSA, b. Aug. 24, 1816; d. May 28, 1872; m. Aug. 3, 1836, Samuel W. Bent (1).
12. iv. DORA EVERETT, b. Jan. 10, 1820; m. June 23, 1842, Dr. Edward, son of Dr. Matthias and Rebecca Spalding. She lived at Nashua, where she had three children.
5. CHARLES6 (Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b. Sept. 24, 1773 ; d. Sept. 3, 1836; m. at Concord, Mass., Oct. 15, 1799, Martha, dau. of Jonas and Mary (Hall) Minott [b. Oct. 17, 1771; d. 1842]. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1794, and soon after entered into trade at the foot of the old Meeting-house Hill in partnership with Samuel Appleton, whom after a few years he followed to Boston, and there continued busily engaged in commercial matters until 1814, when he returned to his native town. For the remainder of his life he was a prominent figure in its activities, having a leading place in the formation of the man- ufacturing companies and in the establishment of the bank, representing the town in the Legislature for several years, and being practically the founder of the Unitarian church and the leading supporter during its brief life. Children-the first three born in New Ipswich, the last two in Boston :
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Barrett
13. i. GEORGE, b. Dec. 15, 1801.++
14. ii. MARY ANN, b. Nov. 12, 1802; d. Aug., 1875; m. (1) May 1,
1820, Silas Bullard (J. 8) ; (2) Sept. 13, 1838, Alfred C. Hersey [d. Mar. 8, 1888].
15. iii. JULIET MARIA, b. Dec. 22, 1804; d. May 22, 1808.
16. iv. CHARLES, b. Jan. 11, 1807.+-
17. v. EDWARD AUGUSTUS, b. June 17, 1811; d. May 2, 1834.
13. GEORGE7 (Charles6, Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b. Dec. 15, 1801; d. Oct. 4, 1862; m. at Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 1, 1831, Frances Hall, dau. of Ambrose and Hannah (Allen) Ames [b. Nov. 18, 1809; d. 1887]. In early manhood he entered into business in Boston, and thus continued until 1842, when he returned to New Ipswich and assumed the cashiership of the bank, which he successfully managed until removed by disease. He lived for a few years after his return in the brick dwelling built by his father at Bank Village; after the removal of the bank to the Center Village, first the "Bullard house" and afterwards the family mansion became his home. Children :
18. i. EDWARD AUGUSTUS, b. May 18, 1834.+
19. ii. GEORGE ROBERT, b. May 17, 1844; m. Apr. 21, 1880, Elizabeth M., dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crocker) Lawrence, and widow of George L. Barr. For a few years he was occu- pied in the sale of books, but afterward devoted himself to the collection of historical letters, broadsides, and en- gravings relative to the Colonial and Revolutionary period, of which rare treasures his collection is exceptionally large and valuable. His interleaved and illustrated copy of Ban- croft's History is unique in its magnitude and value. While preferring a city residence during the greater part of the year, he is still of New Ipswich, retaining and keeping in order the family mansion and serving as president of the trustees of Appleton Academy.
16. CHARLES7 (Charles®, Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b. Jan. 11, 1807; d. Feb. 9, 1862; m. May 31, 1830, (by Ralph Waldo Emerson,) Abby B., dau. of Edmund (builder of the old ship Constitution) and Mehit- able (Lambert) Hart [b. Nov. 17, 1809; d. Nov. 24, 1877.] At the age of five years he lost his hearing from the action of medicine given during a severe illness. He was educated in the asylum for deaf-mutes in Hartford, Conn., and he was treasurer of the New England Gallaudet Association of Deaf- Mutes from its formation in 1852 until his death. For a few years he was engaged in trade at Bank Village, William W.
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Johnson being his partner, and he resided in the brick dwelling-house erected for him by his father at the time of his marriage; after the death of his mother he removed to the homestead mansion; this he sold to his brother George in 1848, and passed his remaining years in Boston. His bodily deprivation could not shut him within himself. Of him it was said: "To all who were permitted to know him his short and comparatively uneventful life suggests many sweet and beau- tiful memories-memories of gracious, kindly intercourse, of serene cheerfulness, of Christian content." Children-born in New Ipswich :
20. i. JULIA MARIA, b. May 11, 1832; m. Dec. 21, 1858, Charles, son of Reuben and Mary (Wetherbee) Marsh [b. 1829; d. July 9, 1886]. She lived in Boston. Children: i. Edith Barrett Marsh, b. Mar. 24, 1863; m. Oct. 21, 1884, George Binney. (Children : i. George Hayward Binney, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1886. ii. Edith Marsh Binney, b. Jan. 10, 1888; d. March 6, 1895.) ii. Mabel Minott Marsh, b. Mar. 4, 1867; m. June 9, 1888, Arthur N. Milliken. iii. Charles Reuben Marsh, b. Mar. 2, 1872; d. at Sharon, Mass., Mar. 16, 1908.
21. ii. MARY DARRACOTT, b. June 28, 1840.
22. iii. CHARLES, b. July 21, 1844; d. Aug. 31, 1845.
18. EDWARD AUGUSTUS8 (George7, Charles6, Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b. May 18, 1834; d. Mar. 11, 1883; m. Sept. 26, 1860, Georgianna M., dau. of Wells and Maria (Bailey) Chase [b. 1840; d. 1883]. He was in business in the West for a few years, but passed the later years of his life in the family home. Children :
23. i. GEORGE WELLS, b. Aug. 1, 1863.+
24. ii. CHARLES EDWARD, b. Sept. 14, 1865.+
25. iii. FRANCES AMES, b. Nov. 10, 1867; m. May 24, 1893, George Augustus Hopkins of Boston. Child: i. Barrett Hopkins, b. Jan. 30, 1906.
26. iv. BLANCHE, b. Dec. 26, 1872; d. May 2, 1874.
23. GEORGE WELLS9 (Edward A.8, George7, Charles6, Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b. Aug. 1, 1863; m. Jamestown, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1890, Caroline Whitney. He was engaged in banking, and later in the in- ternal revenue service. Children :
27. i. AGNES, b. June 13, 1902.
28. ii. FRANCES AMES, b. Nov. 22, 1903; d. Dec. 16, 1906.
29. iii. JEAN, b. Mar. 3, 1912.
24. CHARLES EDWARD9 (Edward A.8, George7, Charles6, Charles5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, Humphrey2, Humphrey1), b.
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Sept. 14, 1865; m. May 31, 1894, Beulah Gertrude Hildreth (30). He is bank cashier in Winchester, Mass., where he
resides. Children :
30. i. HILDRETH, b. Apr. 27, 1899.
31. ii. REBECCA, b. May 24, 1904.
BARTLETT.
JOSEPH1 BARTLETT, d. Dec. 26, 1702; m. Oct. 27, 1668, Mary Waite [d. Dec. 21, 1721]. He was early at Newton, Mass., whither he probably came from Cambridge. His home was on the side of the hill where now is the Baptist Theological Seminary.
JOSEPH2 (Joseph1), b. Mar. 5, 1673; d. 1734; m. (1) Hannah [d. Dec., 1730]; (2) 1732, Mercy Hyde [b. about 1671; d. June, 1750].
JOSEPH3 (Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Apr. 8, 1703; m. Feb., 1731, Zebiah
1. SAMUEL4 (Joseph3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Mar. 9, 1732; d. Jan. 27, 1812; m. (pub. Sept. 1, 1760) Elizabeth, sister of Isaac Appleton (1) [bapt. Oct. 24, 1736; d. May 4, 1817]. He seems to have lived in his ancestral town of Newton until 1771, when he came to New Ipswich and settled upon XIII : 2, S. R., afterward long the home of Richard Wheeler, and there he passed his life. Children :
2. i. ISAAC, b. Oct. 8, 1761.
3. ii. SAMUEL, b. July 18, 1763.
4. iii. ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 9, 1765; d. 1790.
5. iv. DANIEL, b. Jan. 8, 1767.
6. v. NOAH, b. Dec. 25, 1768.+
7. vi. LYDIA, b. Feb. 3, 1771.
8. vii. ELIZABETH, b. July 20, 1773; d. Jan. 28, 1790.
9. viii. SARAH, b. Sept. 10, 1776; d. Nov. 27, 1803; m. May 16, 1802, Timothy Fox (2).
10. ix. JOHN, b. May 7, 1779; d. Oct. 4, 1802.
11. x. MARY, b. Dec. 9, 1781; m. Aug. 21, 1817, Daniel Giles (4).
6. NOAH5 (Samuel4, Joseph3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Dec. 25, 1768; d. Sept. 14, 1809; m. Nov. 17, 1799, Mary Hills (3). He remained at the home of his boyhood, and although he died in middle life he became a leading citizen. He was town clerk for two years, a selectman during the last twelve years of his life, and also represented the town in the Legislature the last seven years. He was elected a deacon two years before his death. Children :
12. i. GEORGE EVERETT, b. May 17, 1801; d. Sept. 24, 1820.
13. ii. LYDIA, b. Aug. 14, 1802; d. Nov. 11, 1804.
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14. iii. JOHN, b. Jan. 22, 1804; d. about 1826, unm. He had purposed to enter the ministry, and had studied at Andover Theo- logical Seminary; but before the completion of his course of study he, the last survivor of a family which had per- ished from consumption, was attacked by the same disease, and while on his way south in hope of relief, he died in New Jersey. What remained of the family property he bequeathed to the American Board of Missions.
BATCHELDER-BATCHELLER.
The New Ipswich records and gravestones present this family name in several varying forms, but an examination of early records forbids the conclusion that such orthographic variations necessarily indicate dif- ferent origins. The New England families bearing some form of this name appear to have descended from several different emigrant ancestors; but the two branches appearing in New Ipswich are found to have sprung from a common stock, despite the fact that, with by no means infrequent variations, each of them has adhered to its chosen one of the two forms given above.
The name of their common ancestor is uncertain, but probably was Joseph. He is not known to have removed from England, but it is be- lieved that three of his sons, Joseph, John, and Henry came from Canter- bury, Kent, England, about 1636, and founded the Salem branch of the family. Henry and his wife, Martha, however, left no issue; the de- scendants of both the other brothers have had a part in the building of New Ipswich.
JOSEPH1 BATCHELLER, d. about 1657; m. Elizabeth -. He is be- lieved to have made a home in that part of Salem which was afterward set off as Wenham.
JOHN1 BATCHELDER, b. about 1610; d. Nov. 13, 1675; m. Elizabeth
[d. Nov. 10, 1675]. He had a grant of land in 1639, in that part of Salem which is now Beverly, and was made a freeman in the following year.
JOHN2 (Joseph1), bapt. Jan. 20, 1638; d. Mar. 22, 1729; m. (1) July 12, 1661, Mary Dennis; (2) May 4, 1666, Sarah, dau. of Robert Goodale of Salem. He probably resided near the place of his birth.
JOHN2 (John1), b. June 23, 1650; d. Aug. 6, 1684; m. Aug. 14, 1673, Mary, prob. dau. of Zachariah and Mary (Dodge) Herrick [b. Oct. 10, 1654; d. Aug. 19, 1684]. He was a cooper living in that part of Salem which is now Beverly.
EBENEZER3 (John2, Joseph1), b. about 1673; d. 1747; m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Tarbox of Lynn, Mass.
JONATHAN3 (John2, John1), b. Mar. 29, 1678; d. Apr., 1740; m. Ruth, dau. of William and Ruth (Hull) Raymond [b. 1690; d. 1736]. He was a prominent citizen, and represented Salem in the General Court.
JOSIAH4 (Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Wenham, 1709; d. 1786; m. 1740, Hannah Kimball. He passed his life in Wenham, but all his chil- dren removed to New Ipswich, the sons before his death, and the daugh- ters with their mother in 1787. Children :
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1. i. HANNAH, b. Feb. 11, 1746/7; d. Jan. 2, 1827.
2. ii. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 19, 1748/9.+
3. iii. ABIGAIL, b. May 28, 1751; d. Dec. 8, 1838.
4. iv. JOSIAH, b. Dec. 19, 1753.+
JONATHAN4 (Jonathan3, John2, John1), b. 1720; d. Oct. 19, 1776; m. Apr. 10, 1745, Hephzibah, dau. of Daniel and Lucy (Dodge) Conant [b. Beverly, Oct. 16, 1729]. He was lieutenant in the company which marched from Salem on the Concord alarm, 1775.
2. JOSEPH5 (Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Feb. 19, 1748; d. Wallingford, Vt., 1812; m. (1) Dec. 31, 1771, Elizabeth Merry of Marblehead, Mass. [b. Aug. 10, 1752, N. S .; d. Feb. 1, 1809]; (2) Rebecca -, who soon became in- sane. He came to New Ipswich in 1780 and followed the busi- ness of a carpenter and cabinet maker, the occupation of many members of the family, until his removal from town after the loss of a home caused by his wife's insanity. His first place of residence in the town was on or near the site afterward occupied by the house of Rev. Stephen Farrar, a short dis- tance northwesterly from the church, but he soon built a house nearer the church in a southeast direction, long occu- pied by his family, afterward by the widow Fisk, and now the summer home of Henry T. Champney. Children :
6. i. JOSEPH, b. Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 27, 1773.++
7. ii. JOHN MERRY, b. Marblehead, Mass., Mar. 14, 1775; d. Oct. 13, 1849; m. Mary Simonds of Billerica [b. about 1777; d. Dec. 22, 1861]. He passed his life as a carpenter and cabinet maker, his first home after marriage being in a small house near the brook crossing the road a little to the east of the present Baptist church, until he built a house between the present sites of the two cottages upon the north side of the turnpike fifteen or twenty rods below the crossing of the road from the starch factory. Child: 37. i. Frederic M., b. about 1805; d. Sept. 19, 1830.
8. iii. ELIZABETH, b. Wenham, Nov. 1, 1779; d. Feb. 6, 1842. She passed her life in New Ipswich, living for many years in the family of her youngest brother, and conducting a very successful business as a tailoress, often having four em- ployees in her shop.
9. iv. HANNAH, b. New Ipswich, July 30, 1782; d. Feb. 4, 1838. She passed her life as a tailoress in her native town, living for many years on the spot afterward occupied by the school- house of District No. 13, and also caring for her aunts, Hannah and Abigail, often called the "two old bachelors and the two old maids."
10. v. JOSIAH, b. Sept. 2, 1783; d. Mar. 25, 1784.
11. vi. JOSIAH, b. Jan. 30, 1785; d. Feb. 4, 1785.
12. vii. POLLY, b. May 2, 1786; d. May 6, 1786.
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13. viii. POLLY, b. Nov. 30, 1787; d. Nov. 30, 1787.
14. ix. OLIVER, b. Jan. 6, 1791; d. July 1, 1816; unm. He was a cabinet maker.
15. x. MOSES, b. June 22, 1793.+
16. xi. HERVEY, b. Nov. 28, 1795.+
4. JOSIAH5 (Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Dec. 19, 1753; d. May 2, 1812; m. Ruth Fletcher (37). He came to New Ipswich at about the same time as his brother, and was the village blacksmith for many years, living in the house upon the west side of the street running southerly from the Baptist church, and since occupied in succession by Dea. John Clark and his son Peter. His shop was situated just across the street from his house, and was destroyed by fire in 1812. Children-all born in New Ipswich :
17. i. JOSIAH, b. Nov. 20, 1787.++
18. ii. RUTH, b. Mar. 27, 1789; d. June 1, 1811.
19. iii. PETER, b. July 20, 1794; d. New Orleans, La., while a young man.
20. iv. WILLIAM KIMBALL, b. Aug. 4, 1798; d. Aug. 4, 1811.
21. v. WASHINGTON ADAMS, b. Apr. 30, 1808.++
5. SAMUEL5 (Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1), b. Jan. 1, 1755; d. Feb. 17, 1814; m. (pub. Jan. 13, 1782) Elizabeth, dau. of Peter and Mary (Rea) Woodbury [d. Feb. 11, 1835] and also great-granddaughter of John and Hannah (Tarbox) Batch- eller, brother and sister of Ebenezer3 and Sarah (Tarbox) Batcheller. He served in the company with his father at the time of his father's death. He removed from Beverly to New Hampshire in 1785, and commenced business as a baker in a very small way in the house long occupied by Benjamin Davis in the Davis Village, (northeast corner of XIII: 1, S. R.) He also had a small store, which in time came to be managed by his sons. He prospered in his business, and upon the open- ing of the Turnpike he erected the "Peppermint Tavern," (61, N. D.,) which for a long time had such a reputation as being the best public-house between Boston and Keene that travel- ers and teamsters, whose wagons drawn by four horses served the public in place of the freight trains of the present, would often shorten or extend the day's journey in order to rest at it. Children-all born at New Ipswich, except the eldest :
22. i. SAMUEL, b. Jaffrey, June 8, 1784.+
23. ii. PETER, b. Sept. 12, 1786.+
24. iii. BETSEY, b. Jan. 16, 1789; d. 1857; m. Jan. 18, 1814, Moody Adams (R. 1).
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25. iv. WILLIAM, b. May 24, 1791; d. Nov. 18, 1811.
26. v. NANCY, b. June 20, 1793; m. Rev. Phineas Pratt (2).
27. vi. DANIEL, b. 1795; d. 1796.
28. vii. MARY, b. Apr. 18, 1797 ; d. Feb. 9, 1879; m. Silas Wheeler (75).
29. viii. CZARINA, b. Dec. 22, 1800; m. Joel Parker.
30. ix. FANNY, b. June 16, 1804; m. Rev. Jonathan Tucker of Saco, Me.
6. JOSEPH6 (Joseph5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 27, 1773; m. 1796, Hannah, dau. of Samuel Trull. He left his native town soon after reaching his majority, and pursued his father's calling of cabinet maker in other parts of the state; for a time he resided in Billerica, where his wife died. Children :
31. i. JOSEPH, b. Apr. 25, 1797.
32. ii. JOSIAH, b. May 28, 1799.
33. iii. HANNAH, b. Oct. 28, 1800; m. June 25, 1822, James H. Eames of Reading, Mass.
34. iv. SOPHRONIA, b. May 20, 1802; m. May 17, 1825, William Taintor of Boston.
35. v. ELIZA, b. Feb. 20, 1804.
36. vi. BROOKS TRULL, b. Jan. 7, 1813.
15. MOSES6 (Joseph5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. June 2, 1793 ; d. Jan. 12, 1829; m. (pub. Jan., 1818) Lucy M. Nash of Dorset, Vt. He was a carpenter in Williamstown and died there. Children :
38. i. HARRIET M., b. Jan. 19, 1819.
39. ii. GEORGE H., b. Jan. 7, 1820.
40. iii. KIMBALL, b. May 22, 1821.
41. iv. ADDISON, b. Nov. 16, 1822.
42. v. ELIZA MAY, b. May 8, 1824.
43. vi. ALVA N., b. Mar. 2, 1826.
44. vii. ALVIN B., b. Mar. 2, 1826.
45. viii. OLIVER, b. Dec. 2, 1828; d. June 25, 1830.
16. HERVEY6 (Joseph5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Nov. 28, 1795; d. Sept. 16, 1857; m. Apr., 1832, Sally, dau. of James and Nabby (Childs) Buchanan of Waltham, Mass. [b. Apr. 1, 1805; d. June 10, 1865]. He continued the family industry as carpenter and cabinet maker, and lived in the house at the foot of Meeting-house Hill around which the road to the Baptist church and postoffice bends. Children :
46. i. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 11, 1833; d. Aug. 20, 1909. She was educated at New Ipswich Academy, and at the age of nineteen began her work as a teacher in which she con- tinued until near the close of her life, a period sufficient
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to make further evidence of success superfluous. Her work was largely in the cities of Boston and New York, and the latter was her home after the end of her work.
47. ii. HERVEY BUCHANAN, b. May 16, 1836; d. Jan. 28, 1912, unm. His life was largely occupied with the duties of a pro- fessional nurse in New York.
48. iii. MARY ABIGAIL, b. Apr. 13, 1838; d. Mar. 9, 1842.
49. iv. OLIVER MERRY, b. May 1, 1840; unm. He is a business man in Minneapolis, Minn.
17. JOSIAH6 (Josiah5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Nov. 20, 1787; m. Rebecca Billings. He was a blacksmith, and for a time was his father's partner. Children :
50. i. IRA ALONZO, was fatally scalded in early life.
51. ii. WILLIAM KIMBALL.
52. iii. RUTH ANN, m. (1) about Mar. 1, 1836, Levi Ward [d. Mar. 22, 1836]; (2) - - Chase.
53. iv. MARY REBECCA.
54. v. MARTHA MARIA.
21. WASHINGTON ADAMS6 (Josiah5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1), b. Apr. 30, 1808; m. his cousin, Adelaide Fletcher (63). He removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. Children :
55. i. ADELAIDE A.
56. ii. CLARA, d. unm.
57. iii. JOSEPHINE, d. unm.
58. iv. LUCILLA, d. young.
59. v. EUGENE, d. young.
60. vi. HENRY KENT.+
22. SAMUEL6 (Samuel5, Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1), b. Jaffrey, June 8, 1784; d. Feb. 5, 1879; m. Aug. 26, 1810, Mary, dau. of Gen. John Montgomery of Haverhill, N. H. [b. Mar. 5, 1780; d. Apr. 24, 1869]. He early showed his mercantile instincts, and at the age of sixteen he practically conducted his father's store. At the age of twenty he opened a store in Peterboro, later removing to Exeter, but in 1808 he returned to New Ipswich and occupied the store on the Turnpike at the corner of the Temple road until it was burned in 1812, when he built the brick building known since that time as "the corner store" and traded there until his removal from town. While still a young man he became greatly in- terested in the manufacture of cotton goods, then taking form in the town, entered upon it, and for the rest of his life was especially devoted to that interest. With the birth of Lowell he went thither and came to have a very prominent position in the manufactures of that city and of other places, being
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president of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, the Ap- pleton Company, the Essex Company, the Everett Mills, the York Manufacturing Company, and the Exeter Manufacturing Company, together possessing capital, truly enormous in those days, of $5,000,000. His own inventions had no small place in the prosperity of the various undertakings in which he was so earnestly engaged for a period of 62 years, and during those years of constant advance in methods his mind kept pace with the increasing demands of the market and he wielded a facile pen in support of his own views. His tastes were literary, and he was a frequent contributor to magazines and journals, even till he reached four score years and ten. He represented New Ipswich in the Legislature for six years, and he afterward sat in the Massachusetts Legislature. He resided in Lowell for several years and was one of the first board of selectmen of that new town. He removed to Saco, Me., in 1831, and there made his home for fifteen years, after which he established himself in Cambridge, Mass., where he was a member of its first board of aldermen and resided for a third of a century. Children :
61. i. JOHN MONTGOMERY, b. Oct. 12, 1811.+
62. ii. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 12, 1813; d. May 21, 1857; m. Nov. 14, 1842, Caroline Augusta, dau. of Dr. Thomas G. and Sarah (Cutto) Thornton [b. Saco, Me., Aug. 14, 1814; d. Saco, 1899]. He prepared for college at Lancaster, Mass., and entered Harvard College in 1830, but did not complete his course of study. He resided at Andover, Mass., where he was an amateur farmer.
63. iii. MARY ANNE, b. Aug. 2, 1815; d. Lowell, Oct. 31, 1827.
64. iv. HORACE, b. Oct. 11, 1817; d. Saco, Feb. 11, 1842, unm.
65. v. ISABELLA, b. Sept. 2, 1819 .- +-
66. vi. EDWARD EVERETT, b. Sept. 19, 1821; d. Sept. 24, 1821.
67. vii. EUGENE, b. Nov. 13, 1822.+
68. viii. FRANCIS LOWELL, b. Apr. 2, 1825.+
69. ix. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 9, 1830.+
23. PETER6 (Samuel5, Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1),
b. Sept. 12, 1786; d. Sept., 1867 ; m. Margaret Mitchell. Child : 70. i. A daughter, m. - Bradford. Res. in Francestown.
60. HENRY KENT7 (Washington Adams6, Josiah5, Josiah4, Ebenezer3, John2, Joseph1). He resided in Brooklyn, N. Y. Children :
71. i. ESTELLA, a teacher in Brooklyn.
72. ii. HARRY.
73. iii. ADELINE.
74. iv. JOHN. He has two children, Blanch and Hattie.
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61. JOHN MONTGOMERY7 (Samuel6, Samuel5, Jonathan4, Jon- athan3, John2, John1), b. Oct. 12, 1811; d. July 8, 1892; m. (1) 1843, Mary Elizabeth Wood; (2) Eliza Constantia (Bird) Beardsley [d. 1898]. He was a civil engineer at York, Me., and at Lawrence, Mass., and for a time had charge of a mill in Ipswich, Mass. He then became connected with the United States Coast Survey, and was active in the investigation of a great variety of scientific questions, in which he was asso- ciated with many of the leading American scientists. He was the inventor of many valuable scientific devices. He was elected member of the American Academy, and was also a member of many other scientific societies, retaining his earnest and active interest in such matters to the end of his long life. Children :
75. i. HORACE, b. Saco, Me., 1844; d. 1844.
76. ii. ISABELLA, b. Sept. 28, 1846. Resides in Boston.
77. iii. ARTHUR MONTGOMERY, b. 1851; d. 1856.
65. ISABELLA7 (Samuel6, Samuel5, Jonathan4, Jonathan3, John2, John1), b. Sept. 2, 1819; d. Aug. 6, 1901 ; m. Dec. 3, 1851, Thomas Potts James of Philadelphia. She lived in Philadel- phia until 1869, then in Cambridge until 1885, and afterward in England, her home being at Ottery-St. Mary, Devon, where she died. During the Civil War she devoted much time to the Sanitary Commission and hospital work, being prominent in patriotic activities, and she was afterward presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Commission, and also interested in other similar work. In later life she was largely engaged in antiquarian, historic, and genealogical study, and was a member of many societies of that general character. A worthy ode from her pen sung at the Centennial Celebra- tion of New Ipswich may be recalled here. Children :
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