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removed to the town. He graduated from Harvard College in 1815. He was a successful lawyer in Missouri.
4. iii. SALLY, m. Michael Gay of Watertown, Mass.
5. iv. JANE, b. Jan. 11, 1788; d. Feb. 9, 1865; m. June 11, 1811, Wil- liam Fiske of Cambridge, Mass.
FARNSWORTH.
The town records give very little concerning this family, and the family history presents the New Ipswich branch with too many omissions and certain errors to give assurance of accuracy. It is feared that the following sketch is only approximately correct.
MATTHIAS1 FARNSWORTH, b. about 1612; d. Jan. 21, 1688/9; m. (1) probably in England, but his wife's name is unknown; (2) Mary, dau. of George Farr of Lynn, Mass. [d. 1717]. He probably came from Farnsworth, Lancashire, England. He settled at Lynn, where his name first appears in 1657, although he may have arrived some years earlier. He removed to Groton, Mass., about 1660, where he was a weaver and also a farmer. He was a selectman in Groton and held other offices.
MATTHIAS2 (Matthias1), b. 1649, probably of first m .; d. about 1693; m. 1681, Sarah, dau. of John1 and Sarah (Eggleton) Nutting [b. May 29, 1663; m. (2) John Stone]. He passed his life in Groton, holding various town offices and serving in King Philip's war.
BENJAMIN2 (Matthias1), b. 1667; d. Aug. 15, 1733; m. 1695, Mary, dau. of Jonas and Mary (Loker) Prescott [b. Feb. 3, 1674; d. Oct. 28, 1735]. He lived in his native town, holding the office of selectman and various other offices.
EBENEZER3 (Matthias2, Matthias1), b. about 1684; m. Apr. 17, 1707, Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua and Abigail (Tarbell) Whitney of Watertown, Mass. [b. about 1686]. Res. Groton.
JOSIAH3 (Matthias2, Matthias1), b. Feb. 24, 1687; d. Sept., 1744; m. (1) Mar., 1719/20, Mary, dau. of Ephraim Pierce [b. Aug. 9, 1696]; (2) June 1, 1710, Mary (Green), widow of Jonathan Nutting. Res. Groton.
JONAS3 (Benjamin2, Matthias1), b. Oct. 14, 1713; d. Dec., 1803; m. 1739, Thankful Ward of Worcester, Mass. [b. Feb. 15, 1712; d. May 1, 1799].
MATTHIAS4 (Ebenezer3, Matthias2, Matthias1), b. Sept. 20, 1709; d. 1796; m. (1) Feb. 24, 1730, Abigail, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Shedd [b. Nov. 7, 1708; d. May 11, 1748]; (2) Azubah (Burt) [d. 1812, aged 100 years] widow of his brother Phineas, who d. 1752. Res. in Harvard, Mass.
1. THOMAS4 (Josiah3, Matthias2, Matthias1), b. Apr. 1, 1731 ; m. (1) Elizabeth Tuttle; (2) Nov. 12, 1753, Elizabeth Davis of Littleton, Mass. He lived in Lunenburg, Mass., whence he came to New Ipswich apparently as early as 1757, and certainly before the first town meeting after the incorporation, as at that meeting he was chosen one of the surveyors of highways. His residence continued until 1779. His home was in the northern, half of the town, but its location therein
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is not known. He was a revolutionary soldier, responding to the Concord call, and enlisting twice afterward. Children :
3. i. MOSES, b. Jan. 17, 1750; d. Oct. 23, 1837; m. (1) Annie Wilson of Alstead [d. Aug. 29, 1790]; (2) Rohanna Beckwith Crocker. He res. for a time in Alstead, but removed, hav- ing several different places of residence, the last being Sugar Grove, Pa. He served in the Revolution in the com- pany of Capt. Isaac Farwell.
4. ii. MARY, b. Jaffrey about 1755; d. July, 1832.
5. iii. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 20, 1757 ; m. Daniel Emery. Two children.
6. iv. CATHERINE, b. Mar. 17, 1760; d. Williamstown, Vt., 1857.
7. v. LUCY, b. Apr. 16, 1762; m. thrice. Res. Mexico, N. Y., 1847.
8. vi. HANNAH, b. June 7, 1767; d. 1817; m. Aug. 4, 1785, Abijah
Stone. Res. St. Albans, Vt. The wife of U. S. Senator Jacob Collamer of Vermont was her daughter.
9. vii. THOMAS, b. May 30, 1768; m. Feb., 1791, Dimmis Ladd. Res. Alden, N. Y.
10. viii. RACHEL, b. Sept. 9, 1770. Res. Lancaster, 1847.
11. ix. JOSEPH, b. June 25, 1772; d. Newport, July 19, 1837; m. (1) Feb. 27, 1803, Martha Shepherd [b. Nov. 4, 1780; d. Apr. 2, 1834]; (2) Nov. 27, 1834, Tryphena, widow of Col. Wil- liam Cheney of Newport, N. H.
12. x. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 12, 1774; m. Olive Kingsbury.
13. xi. SARAH, b. June 11, 1776. Res. Alden, N. Y., 1847.
2. DANIEL4 (Jonas3, Benjamin2, Matthias1), b. Oct. 14, 1748. His name appears upon the tax-lists from 1772 to 1775, and he is said to have been a student in the office of Judge Champney. His name is not found on the printed roll of any body of Revolutionary troops, but the former town history records that he "deserted from his company, and went over to the enemy," and that he was named in the list of those who in 1783 were forbidden to return under penalty of death.
EBENEZER® (Matthias4, Ebenezer3, Matthias2, Matthias1), b. May 10, 1731; d. May, 1760; m. Feb. 20, 1755, Mary Nichols. Res. Boston.
14. HARBOR6 (Ebenezer5, Matthias4, Ebenezer3, Matthias2, Matthias1), b. June 10, 1756; d. Mar. 5, 1826; m. Mar. 12, 1778, Lucy Hale [b. about 1758; d. Jan. 29, 1838]. His unusual name was due to his birth on a boat while approaching the shore in Boston Harbor. He lived in Harvard, Mass., and later in Stoddard, but when nearly sixty years of age he came to New Ipswich and there made the home of his later years, living for a time on the south end of XII : 4, S. R., in the east- erly house of the two formerly standing upon the north side of the old road now discontinued, and later in the most south- erly house of Smith Village, built in part, at least, by Samuel
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Foster. The list of his children is probably incomplete, and their order is uncertain. Children :
15. i. ISAAC.
16. ii. LUCY, b. about 1780; d. June 27, 1852; m. Stephen Spaulding (30).
17. iii. JOHN.
18. iv. ASA, b. about 1786; d. June 18, 1831; m. Mar. 24, 1823, Lucy
Scollay [b. Ashburnham, Mass., Mar. 31, 1768; d. Sept., 1842]. Res. Lancaster, but was in New Ipswich, 1807-09.
19. v. SUSAN, b. about 1787; d. Dec. 23, 1873; m. William Blanchard (8).
20. vi. EBENEZER, b. Nov. 2, 1790; d. Oct. 18, 1863; m. Feb. 23, 1816, Mary Jane Ames [b. Hanover, Nov. 2, 1798; d. July 22, 1870]. He was a shoe dealer in Detroit, Mich.
21. vii. NANCY, m. Mar. 1, 1815, Warren Skinner of Brownville, N. Y. 22. viii. MARY, m. Sept. 10, 1818, Ichabod Robbins of Chester, Vt. Two children.
23. ix. EMILY, b. July, 1799; m. Apr. 20, 1820, Andrew Conant (19). 24. x. SALLY, m. Dec. 27, 1823, Jonas Stone (23).
25. LEVI FARNSWORTH probably was a member of the fam- ily already considered, but the line of connection has not ap- peared. He married Eunice - and the births of seven children are found in the New Ipswich records, which are silent in matters concerning him. Children:
26. i. JONATHAN HADLEY, b. Aug. 15, 1776.
27. ii. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 17, 1778.
28. iii. NATHAN, b. Feb. 15, 1780.
29. iv. RUFUS, b. Feb. 15, 1782.
30. v. TIMOTHY JONES, b. Aug. 6, 1783.
31. vi. EUNICE, b. Sept. 22, 1785.
32. vii. LEVI, b. May 4, 1788.
SAMUEL FARNSWORTH is named upon the roll of the com- pany of Capt. Robert Fletcher, 1778, which was so largely composed of New Ipswich men that his residence in the town is probable, but nothing more definite in relation to him has come to light.
FARRAR.
Two brothers, John and Jacob Farrar, were among the original pro- prietors of Lancaster, Mass., in 1653. There is a tradition, not entirely certain, that they came from Lancashire, England. The New Ipswich family has descended from the younger brother.
JACOB1 FARRAR, b. 1620 or earlier ; d. Aug. 14, 1687; m. Ann -. He had four children, whom he left with their mother in England until he had made a home for them in Lancaster, to which they came in 1658. During King Philip's War, 1675-76, two of his sons were killed and after
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the massacre by the Indians in the latter year he with his wife, son, and daughter and her husband went to Woburn, Mass., where he passed the brief remainder of his life.
JACOB2 (Jacob1), b. about 1642; d. Aug. 22, 1675; m. 1668, Hannah, dau. of George and Mary Hayward of Concord, Mass. [b. Apr. 20, 1647]. He came to Lancaster about 1658, and lived there until killed by the Indians, as stated above. His widow, with her four children, returned to Concord, where the children were brought up and settled.
GEORGE3 (Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Aug. 17, 1670; d. May 15, 1760; m. Sept. 9, 1692, Mary Howe, probably dau. of Samuel and Mary (Wolley) Howe [b. Jan. 17, 1674; d. Apr. 12, 1761]. He became a large landowner in that part of Concord which is now Lincoln, his land being possessed by successive generations of his descendants. He was urged to settle farther in the interior of the country, and is said to have been offered one-half of the township of Southboro, Mass., for "two coppers per acre," and to have journeyed thither and examined the proposed purchase, but on his return to have declared that "it was so far off that it never could be worth anything," a remark which now seems worthy of utterance by his great-great-great-great-grandson, Artemus Ward. He was a selectman of Concord for several years. Descendants of two of his sons settled in New Ipswich.
JOSEPH4 (George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Feb. 26, 1693/4; d. about 1732; m. 1715, Mary -. He settled in Chelmsford. He was in "Lovewell's fight" in 1725.
SAMUEL4 (George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Sept. 28, 1708; d. Apr. 17, 1783; m. Jan. 13, 1731/2, Lydia, dau. of Capt. Benjamin2 (Humphrey1) and Lydia (Minot) Barrett [b. Aug. 2, 1712; d. June 27, 1802]. His home was near the home of his boyhood, and he was one of the most influential townsmen, being at different times selectman, town clerk, and represent- ative, and also chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, member of the Middlesex Convention of August, 1774, which at so early a date clearly declared the purpose of Revolution, and also of the first Provincial Congress a few weeks later; and despite his age had a part in the prac- tical support of his belief in the "Concord Fight" the next year. He was a deacon of the church in whose building the Provincial Congress met. He owned land in New Ipswich, and four of his children settled in this town.
ISAAC5 (Joseph4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Chelmsford, Mass., Aug. 10, 1719; d. 1807; m. Mar. 1, 1743/4, Sarah Brooks. Res. in Townsend, Mass.
1. STEPHEN5 (Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Sept. 8, 1738; d. June 23, 1809; m. 1764, Eunice, dau. of Moses Brown of Beverly, Mass. He graduated from Harvard College in 1755, being a classmate of John Adams, second president of the United States, fitted for the ministry, and commenced preaching at New Ipswich before he had completed his twenty-first year, was called to settle in the following year, and is believed to have drawn up the covenant under which
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a year later he organized the church over which he was first ordained pastor; this position he retained until his death, al- most half a century after his or- STEPHEN FARRAR dination, his entire ministry 1738 somewhat exceeding that peri- MINISTER od. The story of his pastorate is 1759 - 1809 a part of the church history and PASTOR PATRIOT COUNSELLOR is presented on a preceding page, but its enduring influence is evidenced by the tablet THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY placed with appropriate ser- vices, one hundred years after THE CHILDREN OF HIS PEOPLE his death, beside the pulpit of TO HONOR the building which has suc- THE ABIDING POWER ceeded the place of his minis- OF A NOBLE LIFE 1909 try. He represented the town in the Third Provincial Con- gress, held in May, 1775. His home during the greater part of his pastorate was in the house at the corner formed by the Turnpike and the road leading from the summit of the hill northward to the Mill or Starch Factory Brook, but his last few years were passed in the house built by his son Stephen a short distance to the southwest, about equally distant from his earlier home and the old "meeting-house upon the hill." Children :
5. i. EUNICE, b. Aug. 18, 1765; d. Sept. 3, 1765.
6. ii. STEPHEN, b. Aug. 17, 1766.++-
7. iii. EUNICE, b. Feb. 26, 1768; d. Apr., 1838; m. Peter Jones. Five children.
8. iv. JAMES, b. June 23, 1769; d. 1812; m. Araminta Turrell. Lived in Vermont.
9. v. ISAAC BROWN, b. Mar. 27, 1771.+
10. vi. SAMUEL, b. June 30, 1772; d. 1846; m. - Deming. He graduated at Harvard College, 1793; lived at or near Fair- fax, Vt. Had a large family.
11. vii. PRENTICE, b. Nov. 12, 1773; m. Elizabeth Osgood of Rutland, Vt. He settled in Canada. Seven children.
12. viii. POLLY, b. June 26, 1775; m. Samuel Dakin. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797. Five children.
13. ix. MOSES, b. Mar. 12, 1777; m. Electa Turrell.
14. x. LYDIA, b. Dec. 30, 1778; d. Aug., 1868; m. Mar. 6, 1800, Rev. Warren Pierce. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1799. Nine children.
15. xi. CALEB, b. June, 1780.+
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16. xii. NANCY, b. June 14, 1782; m. (1) John Muzzy; (2) - Hodg- kins; (3) - Lovegrove.
17. xiii. EPHRAIM HARTWELL, b. Dec. 8, 1783.+
2. JAMES5 (Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. July 24, 1741; d. July 11, 1767, unm. He came to New Ipswich after attaining his majority and settled upon VIII: 1, S. R., a short distance west from the site of the first church, burned during the temporary desertion of the town in 1748; here he com- menced the erection of the large house afterward occupied by his brother Timothy, which was occupied until the closing years of the nineteenth century before it was replaced by the present building upon the same spot. His position in the town was exceptionally honorable for so young a man, duties being intrusted to him such as were usually held by older citizens. At the time of his death he was a member of the committee for the building of the third meeting-house.
3. REBECCA5 (Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Aug. 13, 1743; d. Apr., 1829; m. Nov. 29, 1764, Dr. John Preston (3) and passed her entire life in the town.
4. TIMOTHY5 (Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. June 28, 1747; d. Feb. 21, 1849; m. Oct. 14, 1779, Anna, dau. of Capt. Edmund Bancroft of Pepperell, Mass. [d. May 1, 1817]. He graduated from Harvard College in 1767, taught in and near Concord two or three years, came to New Ipswich as a teacher in 1770, and according to the vote of the town in the next spring he must have been the first teacher to teach in all the districts in succession, the grammar scholars from the entire town being supposed to follow him around from district to district. He soon became the possessor of the land upon which his brother James had begun to build. In 1774 he had not only the lot but also a part of each of the lots adjoining it upon the east and west. And now, at the age of twenty- seven years, his fellow citizens seem to have begun to recog- nize a broader ability to be employed in public matters, and gave him a responsible duty as chairman of a committee to protest and finally to refuse payment of a tax held to have been unjustly assessed by the King's justices sitting as a Court of Sessions. In 1774 he was chosen first selectman. His military experience was comprised in five days' service at the time of the Concord alarm. The Revolutionary government of the state, consisting of a Provincial Congress in session at
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Exeter, acting in conjunction with the Committees of Corres- pondence, on the same day issued to him a commission as major in the Minute-men then being enrolled and comprising about one-fourth of the militia of the state, and also appointed him Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, with a request that he would accept the latter as being the most difficult to fill. With this request he complied and held the position for six- teen years, when his judicial success was recognized by an appointment to the Supreme Bench of the state as associate justice, and eleven years later as chief justice. This last ap- pointment, however, he accepted with reluctance, and retained only a single year, but in 1803, having resigned his seat on the Supreme Bench, he was reappointed to the Court of Common Pleas of his own county. Here he presided for ten years, which with three years in a newly formed judicial circuit comprising three counties, completed a period of over forty years devoted to judicial service. The value of that service is perhaps sufficiently evidenced by the statement of Daniel Webster that he "never knew a judge more calm, dispassion- ate, impartial, and attentive, or more anxious to discover truth and to do justice." He seemed to feel that his judicial duties left no place for partisan activities, and although re- peatedly urged to be a candidate for election to Congress and to the governorship of the state he constantly refused, and declined office when once elected to represent the town in the Legislature. He made an exception, however, of the brief duties of a Presidential Elector, which he performed four times, perhaps having a different feeling in that matter on account of the strenuous endeavors which he had felt called to undertake in the critical year when it was to be decided that the several states were really to form a nation. An apparently reliable tradition concerning this critical period perhaps rightly has place here. In June, 1788, the prospect of the adoption of the Federal constitution was by no means bright. Eight states had accepted it, but the ninth one, necessary to make the pre- vious ones effective, was very doubtful. The New Hampshire convention was in session, and was not far from evenly divided on the question. Judge Farrar was not a member of the con- vention, but his Federal belief was too strong to permit him to rest without putting forth all his logical and persuasive powers to influence the decision. He seems to have been
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unable to move the New Ipswich delegate, Charles Barrett, who was an Anti-Federalist in belief, but tradition declares that at that time he was said to have convinced a sufficient number of the delegates of the absolute necessity of a real union in place of an hardly more than nominal confederation, and that the resulting vote was 57 to 47. When it was re- membered that four days later Virginia, the largest of the thirteen states, by the earnest labor of James Madison decided in the same way, and a month later the eminently potent ef- forts of Alexander Hamilton barely won the approval in New York by a very small majority, without which the union in name would have been geographically disunited, it seems that the three names of Madison, Hamilton, and Farrar stand locked together in the efforts of a national birth.
Judge Farrar's public life closed in 1816, and at the age of sixty-nine years he retired to his farm, his books, and an honorable ease. His latest years were passed at the home of his daughter in Hollis, where he died at the age of one hundred and one years, seven months, and twenty-four days. In 1847, when he had lived a few days more than a century, his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, which without doubt pleased him, but which educed only the remark, "They have given me a feather to stick in my night- cap." Children :
18. i. ANNA, b. Mar. 31, 1785; d. Oct. 7, 1789.
19. ii. TIMOTHY, b. Mar. 17, 1788.+-
20. iii. LUCY, b. Dec. 6, 1789; d. Jan. 21, 1873; m. (1) Aug. 10, 1812, Rev. Richard Hall [b. Aug., 1784; d. July 13, 1824]; (2) June 6, 1826, Rev. Joseph W. Clary.
21. iv. ANNA, b. Nov. 22, 1791; d. Feb. 15, 1825; m. Sept. 1, 1813, Rev. Joseph W. Clary.
22. v. ELIZA, b. May 19, 1794; d. Oct. 25, 1861; m. Nov. 8, 1838, Oliver, son of Oliver and Jane Scripture [b. June 16, 1783; d. Nov. 7, 1860]. He was a physician in Hollis.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Clary, the sons-in-law of Judge Farrar, as given above, were intimate friends, classmates, and roommates at Middlebury College and Andover Theological Seminary; their ordinations, the former at New Ipswich and the latter at Dover, were separated by only a few weeks, their marriages by about a year, and the close of their family lives by death only a few months. The later marriage of Mr. Clary and Mrs. Hall formed a single family of the two, and seems to demand a modification of the usual forms of record in the presentation of the fam- ilies below.
Children of Richard and Lucy (Farrar) Hall :
i. RICHARD HALL, b. July 1, 1815; d. Dec. 31, 1815.
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ii. RICHARD HALL, b. Aug. 6, 1817; d. about 1907; m. Sept., 1850, Elizabeth Chapin. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1847; studied at Union Theological Seminary, was or- dained at New Ipswich in 1850, and entered upon home missionary work in Minnesota, to which he devoted himself with eminent success throughout a long life.
iii. HORACE HALL, b. Apr. 6, 1819; d. Feb. 27, 1842. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1839, and was a theological student and a teacher.
iv. WILLIAM HALL, b. Mar. 11, 1812; d. June 15, 1845.
V. LUCY FARRAR HALL, b. Jan. 1, 1823; d. July 16, 1870; m. George Buck of Hartford, Conn. Seven children.
Children of Joseph W. and Anna (Farrar) Clary :
1. JOSEPH WARD CLARY, b. June 28, 1815; d. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 11, 1859.
ii. TIMOTHY FARRAR CLARY, b. Apr. 25, 1817; m. Nov. 17, 1852, Sarah S. Willard of Oxford. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1841 and became a minister. Five chil- dren.
iii. EDWARD WARREN CLARY, b. Nov. 6, 1819; d. June 16, 1852; m. Aug. 17, 1847, Charlotte Russell. Two children.
iv. ANNA FARRAR CLARY, b. Feb. 6, 1822; m. Sept. 20, 1854, Henry Walter of New Britain, Conn.
V. WILLIAM CLARY, b. Jan. 3, 1824; d. Feb. 15, 1826.
Children of Joseph W. and Lucy (Farrar) Clary :
1. ELIZA FARRAR CLARY, b. Mar. 23, 1827; unm. Res. in Connec- ticut.
ii. GEORGE CLARY, b. Apr. 13, 1829; m. Dec. 5, 1867, Mary Rebecca Dorance. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1852, studied medicine, and was a physician at New Britain, Conn. Four children.
ISAAC® (Isaac5, Joseph4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. 1760; d. 1840; m. Nov. 30, 1786, Hannah, dau. of Rev. - Dix of Townsend, Mass. [b. May 29, 1766]. He removed from Townsend to Hillsboro in 1798, and remained there until his death.
6. STEPHEN6 (Stephen5, Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Aug. 17, 1766; d. Oct. 14, 1829; m. Oct. 11, 1795, Nancy Morse [b. about 1776; d. Feb. 22, 1854]. He lived in New Ipswich until the middle of his life, and for a time at least was proprietor of the mill half a mile north of the meeting- house, which was probably the first in town fitted for the pro- duction of wheat flour. He built the house situated in a north- west direction from the meeting-house of those days, occu- pied for a considerable time in later years by Dr. F. N. Gibson. He afterward lived in Groton, but returned to New Ipswich before his death. Children :
24. i. LOUISA, b. 1797; m. 1815, Daniel Smith. Three sons.
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25. ii. ANN, b. Apr., 1800.
26. iii. LAURA, b. Nov. 24, 1802; m. Sept. 23, 1826, Jabez Pratt of Boston. Two sons.
27. iv. MARY ANN, b. Mar. 2, 1804; m. John Higgins.
28. v. STEPHEN FRANKLIN, b. 1806; m. Catherine Jones.
29. vi. JOHN MORSE, b. 1815.
30. vii. GEORGE, b. 1817.
31. viii. PRENTICE, b. 1819; d. 1820.
9. ISAAC BROWN6 (Stephen5, Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Mar. 27, 1771 ; d. 1838; m. Anna, dau. of Dr. Ebene- zer Lawrence of Pepperell, Mass. He lived in New Ipswich for a few years after reaching manhood, and had a tavern, and perhaps a store also, in a large one-story house previously occupied for the same purposes by Jonathan Dix, on the spot afterward occupied by the home of Rev. Mr. Lee near the foot of the Academy grounds. He then moved to Enosburg, Vt., of which town, organized in 1798, he was the first clerk. He had a large family, but the names of only the following have been found. Children :
32. i. BETSY LAWRENCE, b. June 26, 1796.
33. ii. ANNA FISK, b. June 4, 1798. She was the first child born in Fairfax.
34. iii. EBENEZER LAWRENCE. Lived in Burlington, Vt.
35. iv. STEPHEN, m. Anna, dau. of John and Nancy (16) (Farrar) Muzzy.
36. v. EPHRAIM HARTWELL, b. Sept. 20, 1808. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1831.
37. vi.
ISAAC B., m. Eveline Farrar (38) of Middlebury, Vt.
15. CALEB6 (Stephen5, Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. June, 1780; d. June, 1849; m. Mar. 25, 1804, Sarah Parker (S. 13). Res. Middlebury, Vt. Children :
38. i. EVELINE, m. Isaac B. Farrar (37) of Fairfax, Vt.
39. ii. EDWARD WILLIAM, d. May 15, 1845.
40. iii. CLARISSA R., m. Daniel West of New Haven, Vt.
41. iv. LOUISA, b. Mar. 5, 1816; d. Oct. 8, 1838.
42. v. HENRY BROWN, b. Mar. 3, 1818. He graduated from Middle-
bury College in 1841 and removed to North Carolina.
43. vi. MARTHA, b. 1820; m. 1849, Philander V. Hathaway.
44. vii. GEORGE PARKER, b. 1822. He was a merchant in Manchester, N. H.
17. EPHRAIM HARTWELL6 (Stephen5, Samuel4, George3, Jacob2, Jacob1), b. Dec. 8, 1783; d. Jan. 8, 1851 ; m. 1826, Phebe Parker (S. 14), widow of Jonas C. Champney. In early man- hood he went to Boston, where he taught for nearly twenty years, returning to his native town a year or two before his
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marriage, and living in the house which had been the home of his father's last years and of his widowed mother. He held the office of town clerk for fourteen years, and was a trustee of the Academy until his death. Child :
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