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35. i. WILLIE HENRY, b. Nov. 30, 1877.
36. ii. EVA MAY, b. and d. about 1880.
37. iii. ESTELLA ISABEL, m. Fred Stacy.
29. JOHN LEWIS9 (John L.8, John C.7, Elijah6, Elijah5, Eph- raim4, Joseph3, Joseph2, Richard1), b. Aug. 17, 1870; m. June 1, 1897, Harriet Maria Bigelow. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1892, receiving the degree B. L., and from Harvard College in 1903, receiving the degree A. B. He is a civil engineer, engaged upon the Metropolitan Water Works in New York city. Children :
38. i. HARRIET SMITH, b. Feb. 3, 1900.
39. ii. JOHN LEWIS, b. June 4, 1906.
31. ALFRED HITCHCOCK9 (John L.8, John C.7, Elijah6, Eli- jah5, Ephraim4, Joseph3, Joseph2, Richard1), b. Sept. 10, 1874; m. June 6, 1905, Alice Russell of Winchester. He graduated from Harvard College in 1896, and from Harvard Law School in 1899. He is a lawyer in Boston, engaged in patent law. Children :
40. i. RICHARD RUSSELL, b. Mar. 21, 1909.
41. ii. HELEN COLBURN, b. Nov. 19, 1911.
42. EPHRAIM HILDRETH is mentioned in the History of Westford, Mass., as having left that town and remained in New Ipswich for a time, but his place in the Westford family is uncertain. He was a Revolutionary soldier serving in the companies of Capts. Briant, Joseph Parker, and Thomas, and his name continues upon the town records until 1792. A part of his military history is given in "New Hampshire Genealogies," in which he is said to have been born in New Ipswich in 1754, and to have died Oct., 1853, but no memory of him exists in
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the town, nor does the family name appear until much later than the birth date there given. He married Oct. 6, 1783, Rhoda Barnes [b. 1763; d. Dec., 1846]. Child :
43. i. EPHRAIM BARNES, b. July 24, 1784.
HILLS.
JOSEPH1 HILLS, b. Billericay, Essex, England, bapt. Mar. 3, 1602; d. Newbury, Mass., Feb. 5, 1688; m. (1) Rose Clark [d. Mar. 24, 1650]; (2) June 24, 1651, Hannah (Smith), widow of Edward Mellows of Charlestown; (3) Helen, dau. of Hugh Atkinson of Kendall, Westmore- land, England; (4) Anna, widow of Henry Lunt of Newbury. He came to America in 1638 and settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a selectman, and also representative to the General Court, where he was elected speaker. His residence was in the part of the town set off as Malden, which he represented a long time. He was a magistrate, and in that capacity performed his own third marriage, for which he was admonished by the court. He died in Newbury.
JOSEPH2 (Joseph1), bapt. Aug. 2, 1629; d. Apr. 19, 1674; m. Hannah Smith [d. July 11, 1674]. Res. in Malden.
SAMUEL3 (Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Dec. 16, 1669; d. Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 7, 1704; m. Sarah
JABEZ4 (Samuel3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. June 4, 1699; d. July 18, 1742; m. Jan. 31, 1727, Martha, dau. of Eleazer and Meletiah (Fish) Metcalf [b. Wrentham, Mass., Aug. 27, 1699]. He res. in that part of Wrentham which became Franklin.
1. DAVID5 (Jabez4, Samuel3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Jan. 24, 1737 ; d. Dec. 18, 1815 ; m. (1) Hannah Fales of Dedham, Mass. [b. Apr. 16, 1745 ; d. Sept. 12, 1777] ; (2) Apr. 22, 1778, Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Avery) Manning [b. Townsend, Mass., June 14, 1755 ; d. Oct. 2, 1803] ; (3) Jan. 9, 1806, Abigail, widow of Abijah Smith (1) [d. Dec. 4, 1815]. He came to New Ipswich about 1772, bought the farm of Joseph Bates, previously owned by Abijah Foster, and erected, but a few rods southerly from the place of the first dwelling ever built in the town, a substantial building which was his home and store for many years, and which gave evidence of the thoroughness of its construction, not only by showing no signs of age as more than one hundred years passed by, but also by the long continued vigor of the fire which finally destroyed it. He was a man who was not afraid to follow new ways, in which he usually was successful. This trait of character was shown in his improved methods and instruments in farming, his hori- zontal well to supply his house with running water, and in his manufacture of potash near the site of the bank building
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north of Union Hall, which probably aroused the very con- siderable number of like attempts in many parts of the town. Children :
2. i. MARTHA, b. Dec. 27, 1772; m. Feb. 25, 1801, William Hall of Rockingham, Vt. Five children.
3. ii. MARY, b. Jan. 26, 1774; d. Oct. 23, 1806; m. Nov. 17, 1799, Noah Bartlett (6).
4. iii. HANNAH, b. May 13, 1775; m. June 12, 1796, John B. Wheeler of Oxford. Five children, of whom the eldest was John, president of the University of Vermont.
5. iv.
MELETIAH, b. Oct. 24, 1776; d. Aug. 13, 1778.
6. v. SARAH, b. Dec. 15, 1778; d. Dec. 18, 1819; m. Mar. 9, 1815, William Hall of Rockingham, Vt.
7. vi. JOHN FALES, b. July 22, 1780.+
8. vii. DAVID, b. Oct. 19, 1781; d. Apr. 2, 1789.
9. viii. MELETIAH, b. July 3, 1783; d. Jan. 13, 1784.
10. ix. SUSANNAH, b. Dec. 21, 1784; d. Sept. 16, 1864, unm.
11. x. SAMUEL, b. Oct. 15, 1789; d. Aug. 9, 1791.
12. xi. JABEZ, d. Sept. 6, 1871, unm. He went to Rockingham, Vt., as a clerk with his brother-in-law William Hall, and mani- fested the business abilities of his father and brother suffi- ciently to accumulate a considerable property which he employed in private banking. But in other matters he was peculiar, and exceedingly unsocial, being known as "Jabez, the Hermit."
7. JOHN FALES6 (David5, Jabez4, Samuel3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. July 22, 1780; d. Oct. 31, 1819; m. (1) Mar., 1810, Abigail, dau. of Timothy and Ruth (Pollard) Fox (15); (2) Feb. 15, 1816, Esther, dau. of Seth Arnold [b. Westminster, Vt., Sept. 3, 1792; d. Dec. 27, 1877]. He succeeded to his father's busi- ness, which had then for a brief time been carried on in the house built by his father on the present site of the Appleton House opposite the end of School street. After a few years he removed that building across the Turnpike to its present position opposite the postoffice, and began the erection of the building now known as the Appleton House, but died before it was completed. Children :
13. i. HENRY Fox, b. Dec. 5, 1810; d. June 18, 1860; m. Rebecca
K.
14. ii. HARRIET, b. May 1, 1812; d. Feb. 27, 1888.
15. iii. EDWARD A., b. Oct. 19, 1813; m. and had two sons.
16. iv. DAVID ARNOLD, b. Aug. 11, 1817.+
17. v. MYRA B., b. Dec. 31, 1818; d. Mar. 15, 1820.
16. DAVID ARNOLD7 (John Fales6, David5, Jabez4, Samuel3, Joseph2, Joseph1), b. Aug. 11, 1817; d. Westminster, Vt., July 19, 1903 ; m. Dec. 19, 1839, Sarah Elizabeth Heath of Roxbury,
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Mass. [b. Mar. 25, 1818; d. Mar. 15, 1885]. Res. Westminster, Vt. Children :
18. i. WILLIAM H., b. Oct. 14, 1840; m. (1) Alice A. E. Graves ;
(2) Mary J. Pratt; (3) Lizzie R. Cross. Four children.
19. ii. EDWARD A., b. Sept. 15, 1856; m. Harriet E. Cobb.
20. iii. SARAH E., b. Mar. 28, 1858.
HOAR.
CHARLES1 HOAR, d. 1638; m. Joanna Hinxman [b. Braintree, Mass., Sept. 21, 1651]. He was the son of Charles Hoar, a saddler of Glouces- ter, England, and his wife Margerie. It is uncertain whether he came to America. If he did, he died very soon after. At all events his widow Joanna and five children are said to have crossed the ocean as early as 1640. He was an alderman of Gloucester, and also sheriff.
JOHN2 (Charles1), b. about 1622; d. Apr. 2, 1704; m. Alice - [d. June 5, 1696]. He lived for a time in Scituate, Mass., but he was a proprietor of Concord, Mass., and a lawyer there in 1665. His honorable and courageous conduct in relation to the "praying Indians," unjustly accused by his fellow citizens, is noteworthy in the early history of Con- cord. His younger brother, Leonard, whose wife Bridget was a daugh- ter of Lord John Lisle, president of the court which convicted King Charles I., was president of Harvard College, 1672-75.
DANIEL3 (John2, Charles1), b. 1650; m. (1) July 19, 1677, Mary, dau. of Samuel2 and Mary (Frye) Stratton [b. Concord, Jan. 19, 1656/7] ; (2) Oct. 16, 1717, Mary Lee.
BENJAMIN4 (Daniel3, John2, Charles1), b. Feb. 11, 1693; d. Littleton, Mass., Mar. 22, 1775; m. (1) Esther -- [b. about 1695; d. May 15, 1744]; (2) Sarah - [b. about 1697; d. Jan. 10, 1770]. Res. in Concord and in Littleton.
1. BENJAMIN5 (Benjamin4, Daniel3, John2, Charles1), b. in that part of Concord which is now Lincoln, May 21, 1717; d. Feb. 14, 1799; m. Concord, Anna Brooks [b. about 1715; d. Feb. 19, 1799]. He passed his youth in Littleton, coming thence to New Ipswich in 1742 or earlier, being preceded by only Abijah Foster and wife and Jonas Woolson. Probably he did not marry until several years later, at all events her com- ing to the new home was delayed. He settled upon V : 2, S. R., and built a house near the river, a quarter-mile from the earlier structure of Jonas Woolson. The history of that early dwelling is not unlike that of that earlier neighbor, as in due time it was supplemented by a large two-storied building, and when age required further change the older part was rebuilt; the resulting building standing on its original site, and long known as the "Champney house," is still a serviceable dwell- ing. Apparently this early pioneer did not lack the qualities
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tending to leadership which have distinguished many of his kinsmen. The former town history characterizes him as "one of the most important and useful men of the town, for its first half century." The first meeting of the Proprietors held in the town, June 20, 1750, was at his house, and not long after, in 1752, he is mentioned as an "inn-holder," and he continued this convenience for the public during the period of more than forty years. He was also the first blacksmith, his shop being situated just across the "country road" from his house. The title of captain appears to have been his as early as 1763. He was moderator of some of the Proprietors' meetings and also of town meetings after the incorporation of the town. He was also one of the selectmen. Children:
2. i BENJAMIN, b. Mar. 9, 1751; d. Dec. 13, 1752.
3. ii. BENJAMIN, b. July 8, 1753; d. Sept. 28, 1753.
4. iii. ANNA, b. July 20, 1754; d. Mar. 17, 1755.
5. iv. RHODA, b. June 24, 1756; m. - Loring.
6. v. JOTHAM, b. July 6, 1757.+
7. vi. ANNA, b. Feb. 25, 1760; d. Nov. 8, 1824; m. Nathaniel Pren- tice (1).
8. vii. BENJAMIN, b. Apr. 16, 1762.
9. viii. PHŒBE, b. Mar. 1, 1765; m. Jonas Adams (H. 13).
6. JOTHAM6 (Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Daniel3, John2, Charles1), b. July 6, 1757 ; will probated 1815; m. Mary -. He succeeded to his father's home, but removed to Peterboro in 1805. He held the office of captain while in New Ipswich, and later became major. Children :
10. i. SALLY, b. June 24, 1787.
11. ii. JOTHAM, b. Dec. 14, 1788.
12. iii. CHARLES, b. Mar. 3, 1791; d. July 19, 1794.
13. iv. POLLY, b. June 16, 1793.
14. v. CHARLES DAVISON, b. May 18, 1795.
15. vi. ANNA, b. Apr. 14, 1797.
16. vii. BENJAMIN, b. June 26, 1799.
17. viii. EDITH, b. Aug. 28, 1801.
18. ix. JOHN, b. Jan. 26, 1805.
HODGKINS.
Without doubt the early settlers in New Ipswich bearing this family name were descendants of William of Ipswich, Mass., and a careful ex- amination of the records of that town gives an apparently correct line of descent to William5 and Hezekiah5 as presented below. But the frequency of those two names in the intervening generations forbids the entire cer- tainty which is to be desired.
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WILLIAM1 HODGKINS, b. 1622; d. Dec. 26, 1693; m. Grace, dau. of Osman and Grace Dutch. He came to Ipswich, Mass., about 1640, and made that town his home until his death.
CHRISTOPHER2 (William1), m. Jan. 22, 1689, Tabitha Howard [d. Sept. 15, 1735]. He was ancestor of several New Hampshire Hodgkins families.
WILLIAM3 (Christopher2, William1), b. Aug. 12, 1703; m. 1724, Eliza- beth Clark [m. (2) 1744, Ezekiel Hunt].
WILLIAM4 (William3, Christopher2, William1), bapt. Jan. 30, 1725; m. Mar. 3, 1748/9, Abigail, dau. of William and Martha (Smith) Uran [bapt. July 2, 1721; d. May 5, 1790].
1. WILLIAM5 (William4, William3, Christopher2, William1), bapt. Feb. 3, 1750; d. 1804; m. 1765, Elizabeth (Foster) (4), widow of John Fletcher (3). He came to New Ipswich about 1765, and settled at the south end of X : 2, S. R., probably a short distance north from the site of the cross-roads which long bore the name "Hodgkins' Corner," and on the east side of the county road running thence to Davis Village. He rendered Revolutionary service at the time of the Concord alarm, and also under Capt. Samuel Atkinson at Coos in 1776, Capt. Josiah Brown on the Rutland excursion in 1777, and Capt. Robert Fletcher in response to the call from Rhode Island in 1778, and finally under Capt. Joseph Parker in the brief expedition to Royalton, Vt., in 1780. Children :
3. i. NATHANIEL, b. about 1768; m. Mar. 11, 1790, Anna Stickney (6). They removed to Belvidere, Vt.
4. ii. SUSANNA, b. prob. about 1770; m. Feb. 6, 1790, Phineas Spaulding.
5. iii. WILLIAM, b. about 1772. His name appears on the tax-list 1793-97.
6. iv. POLLY, b. prob. about 1774; m. May 29, 1794, John Putnam.
7. v. JOHN, b. about 1777. His name is on the tax-list 1798-1801.
2. HEZEKIAH5 (William4, William3, Christopher2, Wil- liam1), b. about 1757 ; d. Oct. 4, 1821 ; m. Dec. 18, 1780, Lydia, dau. of Peletiah Cummings [b. about 1760; d. Apr. 4, 1843]. His name is borne upon the New Ipswich tax-lists 1780-84, after which he appears to have removed to Marlboro, and thence to Troy. He twice enlisted from Ipswich, Mass., for service in the Revolution, under Capt. Timothy Barnard in 1775, and under Capt. Stephen Jenkins in 1777. It may be also that the name "Hezekh Hodg" on the roll of the sally to Royalton, Vt., almost immediately before the date of his marriage, is an abbreviated form of his name showing that he was with his brother in that brief term of service. Children :
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8. i. STEPHEN, b. Oct. 21, 1782; d. Albany, N. Y., 1827; m. 1807, Arethusa Corbin.
9. ii. PELETIAH, b. Mason, Oct. 12, 1784; m. Oct., 1814, Mehitable Adams of Jaffrey. Res. Troy.
10. iii. SARAH, b. 1786; d. 1817.
11. iv. LYDIA, b. May 21, 1790; d. 1790.
12. v. AMOS, b. July 2, 1792; d. 1792.
13. vi. LUCY, b. Nov. 15, 1793; d. Troy, Dec. 29, 1854; m. Enoch Garfield.
14. vii. LYDIA, b. 1796; d. 1817; m. Oct. 5, 1815, Joseph Corbin of Rochester, N. Y.
15. viii. AARON, b. Apr. 25, 1797; d. Troy, Apr. 11, 1856; m. (1) Rhoda Perkins; (2) Alfreda Brown.
16. ix. ELIZABETH, b. June 7, 1804; d. 1812.
17. x. SARAH, b. 1810; m. Alfred Wright.
HOLDEN.
The early history of this family is very shadowy, the emigrant an- cestor not being certainly known.
1. SAMUEL1, "of Ipswich," b. Dec. 16, 1740; d. Mar. 18, 1820; m. 1768, Sarah Hosmer of Concord. He came to New Ipswich in 1763 and settled on the farm south of Whittemore Hill since known as the "Holden place." Children :
2. i. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 17, 1769; d. Mar. 4, 1860.
3. ii. SARAH, b. Apr. 17, 1771; d. Mar. 15, 1841; m. Feb. 20, 1801, John Knowlton (8).
4. iii. REUBEN, b. July 21, 1773.++
5. iv. BETSY, b. Dec. 17, 1782; d. Nov. 16, 1868.
4. REUBEN2 (Samuel1), b. July 21, 1773; d. Nov. 10, 1813; m. Feb. 19, 1801, Hannah Prichard (14). Children :
6. i. JEREMIAH, b. Mar. 16, 1803; d. Apr. 1, 1804.
7. ii. IRA SAMUEL, b. Nov. 17, 1804; d. Jan. 4, 1880; m. (1) Cathe- rine Dellinger; (2) Mary Rogers.
8. iii. AMOS P., b. Jan. 26, 1806.++
9. iv. EDWARD HOSMER, b. Mar. 26, 1811.+
10. v. REUBEN ANDRUS, b. Aug. 9, 1813.++
8. AMOS P.3 (Reuben2, Samuel1), b. Jan. 26, 1806; d. Oct. 2, 1852; m. Mary Jane Goodman. Children :
11. i. EDWARD G., m. Jean Stansbury.
12. ii. ALBERT. -
13. iii. HENRY, for many years employed in the Patent Office, Wash- ington, D. C.
14. iv. MARY, m. Myron F. Near. Res. Erie, Pa.
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9. EDWARD HOSMER3 (Reuben2, Samuel1), b. Mar. 26, 1811; d. Mar. 25, 1842; m. Dorcas Barrett Cragin (29). Children :
15. i. AUGUSTA HOSMER, b. Sept. 13, 1838; m. Nov. 24, 1864, Francis A. Wright. One child.
10. REUBEN ANDRUS3 (Reuben2, Samuel1), b. Aug. 9, 1813; d. May 16, 1900; m. Sept. 19, 1836, Aurelia Wells. Children :
16. i. EMMA A., b. July 12, 1838; m. James C. Crane.
17. ii. LOUISA A. M., b. Feb. 21, 1843; m. S. P. Cheseldine.
18. iii. KATE, b. Feb. 5, 1845; d. Mar. 8, 1901; m. William E. Crane.
19. iv. FLORENCE, b. Sept. 2, 1849; m. Charles E. Wilson.
20. v. REUBEN ANDRUS, b. May 23, 1859; m. Grace Hillyer.
HORSLEY.
JAMES1 HORSLEY, b. May 1, 1649; m. Martha, dau. of John Parker.
JAMES2 (James1), b. Sept. 4, 1675; d. Feb. 18, 1728; m. Maria -.
JAMES3 (James2, James1), b. Billerica, Mass., May 19, 1702; d. Mar. 28, 1745; m. Exercise - [m. (2) John Brown].
1. JAMES4 (James3, James2, James1), b. Townsend, Mass., Jan. 19, 1734; d. Apr. 19, 1809 ; m. Dec. 21, 1758, Sarah Shedd of Pepperell, Mass. [b. 1738; d. Sept. 7, 1804]. He lived until late middle life in his native town, where he was selectman, town clerk, and representative, also a deacon. He is said to have served in the Revolutionary War, and he was afterward known as Captain. He came to New Ipswich about 1783, and although he removed to Hancock five years later, he was a somewhat prominent man during his brief residence, being elected first selectman and town clerk in 1783, and holding that responsible position for three years. After his removal to Hancock he was town clerk fifteen years. His home in New Ipswich was the farm previously owned by Peletiah Whittemore, and afterward by Josiah and Moses Wilkins, [VI : 3, S. R.] Children :
2. i. JAMES, b. Dec. 3, 1759; d. Oct. 23, 1776, while in Revolutionary service.
3. ii. JOHN, b. Sept. 21, 1761; d. Nov. 26, 1778, while on furlough, but of disease contracted in Revolutionary service.
4. iii. SARAH, b. Aug. 8, 1763; d. Jan. 16, 1797; m. Mar. 24, 1796, Benjamin Hadley.
5. iv. DAVID, b. Aug. 18, 1765; d. 1836; m. (1) Apr. 19, 1789, Eliza- beth Chase of Peterborough; (2) Sept. 20, 1805, Hannah Gates. Res. Hancock, Marlow, Swanzey, and Winchester. Eleven children.
6. v. SAMUEL, b. July 8, 1767; d. Dec. 20, 1826; m. (1) Aug. 23,
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1791, Polly, dau. of Thomas Dodge [d. Oct. 5, 1822]; (2) Kezema - Res. Hancock. Five children.
7. vi.
RACHEL, b. Sept. 28, 1769; d. Dec. 3, 1778.
8. vii. BETSEY, b. Mar. 5, 1772; d. July 20, 1830; m. (1) Aug. 30, 1790, John Whitcomb [d. Dec., 1796]; (2) Mar. 4, 1802, Samuel Morrison. Res. Hancock and Alstead.
9. viii. JOSEPH, b. June 5, 1774; m. Louisa Parks of Temple. Res. Livermore, Me. Five children.
10. ix. HANNAH, b. Aug. 11, 1776; d. Jan. 6, 1855; m. Dec. 18, 1794, Oliver Whitcomb, for a time a blacksmith in New Ipswich, but resided most of the time in Hancock. Ten children.
11. x. JAMES, b. May 11, 1779; d. Mar. 3, 1851; m. 1802, Prudence Paul of Livermore, Me. He was a cloth-dresser in Liver- more for a time and later started in Dublin the cloth business which he sold to the father of Milan Harris, whose products have been so long known as "Harris cloth." Four children.
SAMUEL HORSLEY and his heirs appear on the New Ipswich tax-lists from 1765 to 1794, but he was probably a non-resident landowner.
HOSMER.
JAMES1 HOSMER, b. 1607; d. Feb. 7, 1685; m. (1) Ann -; (2) Mary [b. about 1608; d. May 11, 1641]; (3) Alice - [d. Mar. 3, 1664/5]. He was a clothier at Hawkhurst, Kent, England. He came to New Eng- land in 1635, and settled at Concord, Mass., where he resided until his death.
JAMES2 (James1), b. 1637; d. May 31, 1676, killed by Indians in the "Sudbury fight;" m. Oct. 13, 1658, Sarah White.
STEPHEN2 (James1), b. Nov. 27, 1642; d. Dec. 15, 1714; m. May 24, 1667, Abigail, dau. of Michael Wood [b. Apr. 10, 1642; d. 1717, or 1718]. He passed his life in Concord.
THOMAS3 (James2, James1), b. July 6, 1672; d. Nov. 2, 1754; m. Feb. 18, 1695/6, Hannah, dau. of Samuel and Ruth (Wheeler) Hartwell [b. Oct. 8, 1675; d. Sept. 29, 1753]. Res. in Concord.
JOHN3 (Stephen2, James1), b. Aug. 31, 1671; d. 1751; m. May 12, 1699, Mary Billings.
THOMAS4 (Thomas3, James2, James1), b. Feb. 7, 1703; d. Jan. 10, 1787; m. Apr. 29, 1731, Prudence, dau. of Stephen3 and Prudence (Billings) Hosmer [b. Nov. 27, 1707; d. Oct. 14, 1791]. He res. in Concord.
JOHN4 (John3, Stephen2, James1), b. July 24, 1700; d. Dec. 14, 1733; m. Aug. 26, 1724, Mehitable Parker. He passed his life in Concord.
NATHANIEL4 (John3, Stephen2, James1), b. Dec. 21, 1701; m. Elizabeth [b. about 1704; d. May 28, 1794]. His name appears upon the New Ipswich tax-lists in 1765 and 1767, and it is possible that he was with his sons who came to town in 1764, but it appears more probable that he was a non-resident tax-payer, and that he retained his residence in Concord during his entire life.
JOHN5 (John4, John3, Stephen2, James1), b. May 17, 1725; d. Nov. 17, 1771; m. Aug. 29, 1750, Martha Webber of Medford, Mass. He res. in Medford.
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1. BENJAMIN5 (Thomas4, Thomas3, James2, James1), b. May 18, 1750; d. Jan. 2, 1832; m. Apr. 20, 1792, Sally Miles of Con- cord [b. about 1757; d. Dec. 28, 1792]. This was probably the Benjamin Hosmer whose name is borne upon the New Ipswich tax-lists most of the time from 1785 to 1805, but not upon those of the three years 1791-93, which include the time of his brief married life. He seems to have lived in the high- way district then extending from the Roger Chandler farm, (XII : 4, S. R.,) to the southwestern corner of the town. Later than 1805 his name is borne on the non-resident list as living in Concord.
2. WILLIAM5 (Nathaniel4, John3, Stephen2, James1), b. Oct. 19, 1729 ; d. Mar. 26, 1802 ; m. June 19, 1753, Ann, dau. of Amos and Elizabeth Heald [b. Oct. 25, 1732; d. Aug. 6, 1814]. He was one of the two members of his family whose names ap- peared upon the New Ipswich records as early as 1764, but it remained for so brief a time that it is by no means certain that he was an actual resident. If he was, he probably made his home with his brother Reuben.
3. NATHANIEL5 (Nathaniel4, John3, Stephen2, James1), b. Nov. 29, 1731; d. Aug. 6, 1814; m. July 1, 1756, Elizabeth, dau. of Amos and Elizabeth Heald [b. Jan. 6, 1734; d. Aug. 23, 1810]. The identity of his name with that of his father and the fur- ther identity of the given names of his mother and his wife make the question of his residence almost insoluble. There is no doubt of his later residence in Mason, and he died at Cam- den, Me. Children :
7. i. TABITHA, b. May 24, 1757; d. Mar. 4, 1841; m. John Sawtelle.
8. ii. ANNA, b. Nov. 13, 1759; m. Job Hodgman.
9. iii. EUNICE, b. Aug. 22, 1762; d. Dec., 1832; m. Samuel Russell.
10. iv. NATHANIEL, b. Aug. 9, 1765; d. June 3, 1846; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1789, Mary Wheeler; (2) Feb. 3, 1803, Nancy Fay.
11. v. ASA, b. Aug. 10, 1769; m. Oct. 2, 1795, Nancy Eaton.
4. AMos5 (Nathaniel4, John3, Stephen2, James1), b. June 28, 1734; d. Nov. 2, 1810; m. (1) Nov. 22, 1776, Mrs. Lucy Mer- riam [b. about 1750; d. Feb. 23, 1804] ; (2) Apr. 11, 1806, Sarah Hosmer [b. about 1747; d. Aug. 10, 1820]. He lived in Con- cord, where he was a lieutenant, but the name appears upon the New Ipswich tax-lists from 1780 to 1803 without any in- dication of non-residence. Later until his death he was re- corded as of Concord. A few months before his death he
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conveyed to his son Amos for "love and good-will" all his land in New Ipswich, including the "rest of lot 24," a part of which Amos, Jr., had bought a few years before from his uncle Reuben, at the time of sale a resident in Mason. Apparently, therefore, Lieut. Amos Hosmer's home in New Ipswich was in the region afterward occupied by his descendants in the southeastern corner of the town. Children :
12. i. AMos, b. about 1777.+
13. ii. NATHAN, b. Dec. 3, 1780; d. Oct. 9, 1805.
14. iii. ASA, b. Sept. 17, 1782; d. Oct. 15, 1844.
15. iv. REBECCA, b. Feb. 7, 1784.
16. v. NATHAN, b. Oct. 22, 1785.
17. vi. EPHRAIM, b. June 29, 1787.
18. vii. SALLY, b. Sept. 17, 1789.
19. viii. BETSEY, b. Jan. 18, 1792; d. Jan. 31, 1831; m. Dec. 6, 1812, Ebenezer Conant. Seven children.
5. REUBEN5 (Nathaniel4, John3, Stephen2, James1), b. Dec. 5, 1739 ; d. Acton, Mass., Aug. 15, 1812; m. (int. Feb. 8, 1797) Lydia Powers of Littleton, Mass. He came from Concord, Mass., to New Ipswich in 1764, and his name frequently ap- pears on the records of the town throughout his life, although his residence was not always within its bounds. He is said in the former history of the town to have settled in its south- eastern part, which harmonizes with his sale, five years later, of lot 68, A. D., and also with the sale in 1800 of a part of lot 24, N. L. O., to his nephew, as before mentioned. In the first of those deeds he is defined as a husbandman of Ashby, Mass., and in the second he is said to be a mason. He joined with residents in the southern part of the town in a contest concerning the location of the meeting-house in 1767. In the early years of the nineteenth century he paid highway taxes in the northwestern corner district, and finally in the Davis Village district. His death in Acton, Mass., is recorded in the records of Concord. Children :
20. i. SEWALL, b. Concord, Mass., Jan. 13, 1798. Very little has been found concerning this member of the family, but he is be- lieved to be represented by his name borne from 1824 to 1832 upon the tax-list of the highway district including the eastern part of the Center Village and the Adams farms, (21 and 25, N. D.)
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