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23. xii. JEREMIAH, b. Mar. 12, 1781; d. in Maine.
3. JOSEPH4 (Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Oct. 31, 1725; d. Temple, Apr., 1817; m. Feb. 27, 1752, Rebecca Chamberlin. of Westford. He was one of the Masonian grantees, holding, however, but a single right, the principal lot of which, (IX : 1, S. R.,) lay upon the "country road," extending from the old graveyard upon the hill to the large central one of later years. It was considered an undesirable tract of land, "as poor as the Joe Kidder lot" being often used as a type of worthlessness. His house was on the site afterward occupied by the home of Judge Ebenezer Champney, since known as the dwelling of John Preston, Esq., and his family. It was probably one of the largest houses of early days, as it was the place of public worship for several years before the completion of the meeting-house at the summit of the hill near at hand. He re-
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moved to Temple soon after the incorporation of that town, and there passed his remaining years, his name disappearing from the New Ipswich tax-lists in 1772. He served in both the French and Revolutionary wars, being wounded in the former, responding to the Concord alarm, and appearing on the rolls of Capts. Abijah Smith, Gershom Drury, and Robert Fletcher. Children :
24. i. WILDER, b. Mar. 15, 1753. Served in Revolution. Res. in New York state.
25. ii. REBECCA, b. Aug. 27, 1754.
26. iii. SIBYL, b. Mar. 24, 1756.
27. iv. SUSANNAH, b. Oct. 17, 1759.
28. v. LYDIA, b. Oct. 17, 1859.
29. vi. MOLLY, b. Nov. 1, 1761.
30. vii. JOSEPH, b. Aug. 22, 1763.
31. viii. CALVIN, b. Aug. 22, 1765.
32. ix. RHODA, b. Sept. 12, 1767.
4. THOMAS5 (Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Sept. 16, 1750; d. Mar. 5, 1827; m. Grafton, Mass., Ruth Page [d. Mar. 4, 1826]. He remained in New Ipswich until 1780, being one of those responding to the Royalton alarm in that year, but soon after he removed to Vermont. Children :
33. i. THOMAS, b. New Ipswich, June 13, 1777.+
34. ii. BENJAMIN PAGE, b. New Ipswich, Apr. 28, 1778; m. 1807, Polly Colson Trufant of Groton, Mass. He was a farmer in Barnet, Vt. Twelve children.
35. iii. SARAH, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 18, 1780; m. Sylvester Butler Norton of Weathersfield, Vt. Removed to New York state and thence to Plainfield, I11.
36. iv. REBECCA, b. New Ipswich, Jan. 1, 1783; d. Hancock, Wis., 1864; m. Weathersfield, Vt., 1804, Asa Spaulding, a farmer [d. Wautoma, Wis., 1860]. Res. at Weathersfield until after the birth of their six children, and then removed succes- sively to Maine, New York, and Wisconsin.
37. v. RUTH, m. Thomas Emerson of New Ipswich.
38. vi. AARON KEYES, b. Mar. 4, 1787.+
39. vii. LUTHER HEATON, b. July 11, 1793.+
40. viii. TIMOTHY LOVELL, b. May 31, 1798.+
9. AARON5 (Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Nov. 18, 1764; m. Elizabeth Bush. Children :
41. i. AARON BUSH, b. July 21, 1788.
42. ii. LUTHER, b. 1792.
43. iii. JEREMIAH, b. 1794.
44. iv. JAMES CARTER, b. 1795.
45. v. BETSEY, b. 1796.
46. vi. BENJAMIN F., b. 1799.
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47. vii. THOMAS, b. 1801.
48. viii. JOANNA, b. 1803.
49. ix. ALMIRA, b. 1806.
50. x. LOUISA, b. 1807.
10. LUTHER5 (Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. June 29, 1767 ; d. Pike, Pa., Sept. 2, 1831; m. Windham, Conn., Sept. 25, 1788, Phebe, dau. of Asa and Abia (Pease) Church [d. Oct. 31, 1851]. Res. at Windham, Conn., and later at Waterford, Vt. Children :
51. i. RACHEL JOANNA, b. Oct. 15, 1791; d. July 25, 1879; m. Dec. 8, 1814, Friend Corson.
52. ii. LUCY, b. June 9, 1795; d. Jan. 9, 1819.
53. iii. SALLY, b. Dec. 1, 1797; d. Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1863; m. Oct. 17, 1817, Elias Colby.
54. iv. SAMUEL, b. Dec. 1, 1797.+
55. v. PHEBE, b. Feb. 23, 1800; m. Jan. 16, 1824, Jasper Fletcher, great-grandson of Timothy4.
56. vi. LYMAN CHURCH, b. Apr. 18, 1802.+-
57. vii. SOPHIA, b. Apr. 26, 1804; d. in Michigan, 1851; m. Mar. 4, 1824, John Barron.
58. viii. MARY, b. Aug. 31, 1806; d. Ann Arbor, Mich., July 29, 1877 ; m. John Kellogg.
59. ix. LUTHER, b. Nov. 19, 1808.+
60. x. EMERENZA, b. Feb. 2, 1810; m. (1) Nov. 27, 1831, Samuel Stevens, Jr. [d. July 17, 1855]; (2) Oct. 29, 1864, John Keller. Res. Pennsylvania.
17. REUBEN5 (Reuben4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. New Ipswich, Apr. 3, 1768; d. New Harmony, Ind., 1817; m. Lois Crosby [d. 1809]. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1791, studied law, and entered upon practice in Waterville, Me., then hardly more than a backwoods village, where he married, had a family, and lost his wife by death. A few years later, attracted by the prevailing enthusiasm for emi- gration to the West, he removed to Indiana, but lived only a single year after the change of residence. Children :
61. i. GEORGE, d. young.
62. ii. HENRY, d. Port au Prince, unm.
63. iii. CAMILLUS, b. June 27, 1805.+
64. iv. JEROME G., b. 1808; d. Boston, 1882, unm. He went to Bos- ton in 1824 and engaged at once in the grocery business, but soon after attaining his majority he entered the oil business, in which he continued until about 1864 and se- cured a large fortune, the greater part of which descended to his brother Camillus, but he remembered with a legacy of $10,000 a lady who many years before had declined his repeated offers of marriage.
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18. ISAIAH5 (Reuben4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Feb. 3, 1770; d. Apr. 28, 1811; m. Nov. 16, 1798, Hephzibah Jones (15) [b. Dec. 22, 1771; d. Oct. 21, 1853]. His business life, closed by his early death, showed a versatile and practical ability of great promise for later years. He taught a few years in early manhood, but the settlement of his father's large and varied interests devolved upon him at the age of twenty-three, and was successfully managed. He continued his father's progressive methods of husbandry and at an early age introduced in the region the raising of the merino sheep. A few years after his father's death he opened a store in that part of Mason which was afterward detached to form the town of Greenville, and continued it for six years, when he closed that business and bought the interest of Charles Bar- rett in the New Ipswich Cotton Mill, and for some time was the principal manager of that industry, being associated with Benjamin Champney and Roger Chandler, Samuel Appleton also assuming an interest with them somewhat later. But the development in those days of so unfamiliar an industry was very slow, and he did not live to carry it to the expected success. He was chosen to represent the town in the Legis- lature at the last two elections before his death, which inter- vened to prevent him from assuming its duties the second time. Children :
65. i. ANNA, b. June 25, 1801; d. Boston, July 13, 1858.
66. ii. SOPHIA, b. Mar. 13, 1803; d. Charleston, S. C., 1854; m. Oct. 15, 1832, Christopher G. Salinas. Res. Beaufort, S. C.
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FREDERIC, b. Apr. 16, 1804; d. Dec. 19, 1885; m. Jan., 1841, Harriet M. Hagar [d. Dec. 22, 1875]. At the age of eighteen he entered upon mercantile life in Boston, which had the leading place in his life for nearly forty years, during eight years of which, in company with his brother, he con- ducted business in Wilmington, N. C., with good success, although the Civil War necessarily terminated Southern relations and caused heavy losses. During these years he became greatly interested in historical topics, and devoted much labor to the preparation of the former history of his native town conducted by himself and Dr. A. A. Gould. After retiring from mercantile activity he devoted himself to historical and genealogical study and published several greatly approved works, besides contributing articles to lead- ing periodicals devoted to those lines of research.
68. iv. EDWARD, b. Oct. 19, 1805 .- +-
69. v. GEORGE, b. Nov. 22, 1807; d. Mar. 7, 1815.
70. vi. HARRIET, b. Aug. 26, 1809; d. in Miss., 1847; m. Oct. 15, 1832, Charles Wood of Groton, Mass. Two children.
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71. vii. ISAIAH, b. Mar. 18, 1811; d. Nov. 30, 1822, from the bite of a rabid animal.
33. THOMAS6 (Thomas5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. New Ipswich, June 13, 1777; d. in Weathersfield, Vt .; m. Eliza Mills. Children-born in Weathersfield, Vt .:
72. i. AARON, b. 1808; d. in the army, unm.
73. ii. ELIZA, b. Aug. 1, 1810; m. 1833, Philip Hardy. She had six children, three of whom died young, and two of the others and the husband of the third served in the army during the Civil War, one losing his life.
74. iii. REUBEN, b. 1812; m. Emma Porter. He was a farmer. Twelve children.
75. iv. LEVI, b. Feb. 2, 1814. Two sons.
76. v. JOSEPH, b. June 22, 1818. Res. Groton, Vt.
77. vi. JAMES M., b. 1820. Res. Bethlehem. Four children.
78. vii. SARAH, b. 1823.
38. AARON KEYES6 (Thomas5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Mar. 4, 1787; d. Vienna, Me., Feb. 10, 1872; m. (1) Weathersfield, Vt., Sophia Barnes [d. Feb. 10, 1837]; (2) Harriet Lane. Res. Weathersfield, Vt., Concord and Vienna, Me. Children :
79. i. JULIA, b. Oct. 5, 1814; d. Oct. 6, 1814.
80. ii. SABRINA SOPHIA, b. Nov. 2, 1815; d. Nov. 8, 1858; m. Apr. 9, 1835, John S. Spaulding, son of Rebecca Kidder (36), a farmer of Townshend, Vt. Six children.
81. iii. AARON ISAIAH, b. Aug. 7, 1818; m. Warwick, Mass., Apr. 6, 1842, Eveline Morse. He was a farmer at Orange, Mass. Two children.
82. iv. HENRY WILLARD, b. Sept. 2, 1820; d. July 10, 1864; m. Fanny White.
83. v. HIRAM BARNES, b. Oct. 27, 1822; m. May 30, 1850, Angeline Maria Fitts. Removed to Delaware in 1866. Two daugh- ters.
84. vi. ASA, b. July 10, 1824; d. May 20, 1862; m. Hannah Susan Hall. Removed to Wisconsin in 1859. Two children.
85. vii. ANNA SAMANTHA, b. May 20, 1832; d. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 25, 1844, unm.
86. viii. SILAS READE, b. Aug. 9, 1839; d. Jan. 16, 1876; m. 1869, Flora L. Hilton. He served in the Civil War; went to California in 1866, and was shot while engaged in mining.
87. ix. MELVIN ATLANTA, b. July 15, 1842; m. May 20, 1867, - Griffin. Res. Vienna, Me.
88. x. NATHAN HEALY, b. Aug. 4, 1845; d. May 14, 1851.
39. LUTHER HEATON6 (Thomas5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1,) b. July 11, 1793 ; m. Aug. 18, 1819, Hannah Hill Rowe of Gloucester, Mass. Children :
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89. i. BENJAMIN ROWE, b. May 15, 1820; m. Jan. 18, 1846, Eliza Cummings Butman. A sea captain until he retired to live at Rockport, Mass. One child.
90. ii. PAMELIA BOOTHBY, b. Dec. 25, 1825; d. Mar. 2, 1846, unm.
91. iii. HENRY NORWOOD, b. Dec. 11, 1827; m. Sarah Elizabeth Hodg- kins of Gloucester, Mass., where he res. A stonecutter. Six children.
92. iv. ELIZABETH PARLIN, b. Aug. 27, 1832; m. Oct. 27, 1853, Edward Groton Slocum, an engineer at Newport, R. I. One daughter.
93. v. GEORGE NORWOOD, b. Aug. 27, 1832; d. Sept. 3, 1832.
94. vi. WILLIAM NORWOOD, b. Aug. 27, 1832; d. Apr. 18, 1835.
40. TIMOTHY LOVELL6 (Thomas5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. May 31, 1798; d. Aug. 21, 1870; m. May 18, 1819, Hannah Johnson. He lived in Weathersfield, Vt., and Con- cord, Me., and in his later years removed to Augusta, Wis. He served in the War of 1812. Children :
95. i. RACHEL MARIA, b. Jan. 11, 1821; d. Oct. 11, 1822.
96. ii. EUNICE REBECCA, b. Sept. 15, 1822; m. Dec. 16, 1838, William Harlow, a farmer in Maine. Removed thence to Augusta, Wis. Eight children.
97. iii. GEORGE CALVIN, b. Aug. 4, 1824; m. (1) May 28, 1848, Rachel Electa Worden [d. Aug., 1869]; (2) Sept. 19, 1872, Mary Caroline Goutermont. Res. Burkeville, Va. Three children.
98. iv. MICAH B., b. Feb. 18, 1826; d. Feb. 16, 1827.
99. v. LOVELL, b. Apr. 1, 1828; m. Mar. 26, 1849, Jerusha Ann Bother- ton. Res. in Maine, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wis- consin, and Minnesota. Ten children.
100. vi. JESSE B., b. Mar. 22, 1832; m. (1) Antwerp, N. Y., July 28, 1852, Mary Jane Manning [d. Apr. 12, 1873]; (2) Indepen- dence, Wis., Nov. 11, 1877, Ann Cook. A stonemason, res. at various places in New York and Wisconsin. Seven children.
101. vii. POMEROY J., b. Mar. 22, 1832; d. Apr. 2, 1862; m. Jan. 1, 1856, Lucy Scott. A carpenter in Wisconsin. Three children.
102. viii. MASON S. C., b. May 29, 1834; m. Jan. 1, 1856, Sally Melissa Aldrich. A lumber dealer, farmer, and mechanic in Michi- gan. Served during Civil War in 1st Regiment Michigan Engineers. Five children.
103. ix. TIMOTHY, b. Mar. 30, 1836; d. Oct. 15, 1877 ; m. Sept. 20, 1860, Margaret Ann Ainsworth. A mason and general mechanic at Felt's Mills, N. Y. Six children.
104. x. SQUIRE, b. Aug. 1, 1839; m. Nov. 9, 1870, Mrs. Lucia Sabina (Hana) Hall. A farmer at Fergus Falls, Minn. Six chil- dren.
105. xi. HANNAH M., b. Jan. 30, 1841; m. Sac, Iowa, Mar. 15, 1857, Charles Rause, also m. a second time. Several children.
106. xii. ELIZA, b. June 30, 1843; m. Mar. 25, 1861, Israel Herrell, a farmer at Augusta, Wis. Five children.
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54. SAMUEL® (Luther5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Waterford, Vt., Dec. 1, 1797; d. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 22, 1850; m. Sept. 10, 1826, Sarah Stanley. He was a farmer. Children :
107. i. LOPHEMIA LETITIA, b. May 28, 1827; m. Aug. 21, 1851, Elijah C. Blackmer, a farmer and stock raiser at Rochester, Iowa. Four children.
108. ii. ALBERT STANLEY, b. July 5, 1829; d. Dec. 28, 1852.
109. iii. MARY EMELINE, b. Aug. 3, 1831; d. Feb. 2, 1877; m. May 29, 1852, Edwin T. Whitcomb. Two children.
110. iv. SARAH FRANCES, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Jan. 14, 1856.
111. v. SUSAN ESTHER, b. Apr. 24, 1836; m. Apr. 2, 1856, Samuel G. Baker. Res. Scranton, Pa. Four children.
112. vi. MINNIE PUTNAM, b. Sept. 7, 1838; d. Avoca, Iowa, May 21, 1879; m. Oct. 26, 1858, Horace A. Baker. Six children.
113. vii. AUGUSTUS LUTHER, b. Oct. 14, 1840; m. Apr., 1865, Mary E. Smith. A carpenter and builder in Washington. He was a captain in the 4th Iowa Regiment during the Civil War. Four children.
114. viii. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, b. July 27, 1844; d. Rochester, Iowa, Jan. 2, 1878; m. May 1, 1869, Mary Canly. A teacher and bookkeeper.
115. ix. SAMUEL STANLEY, b. Mar. 24, 1848; d. Jan. 29, 1871.
56. LYMAN CHURCH6 (Luther5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Waterford, Vt., Apr. 18, 1802; d. Janesville, Wis., Dec. 10, 1850; m. Mar. 27, 1825, Mary Dean. He was a sur- veyor. He served in the Mexican War. Children :
116. i. SAMUEL SYLVESTER, b. June 10, 1829; d. June 18, 1831.
117. ii. MARY EMERENZA, b. July 2, 1831; m. Feb. 8, 1853, Charles B. Manville. One son.
118. iii. CHARLES ELEAZER, b. Feb. 2, 1834; d. Sept. 12, 1834.
119. iv. ANDERSON DANA, b. Aug. 8, 1837; d. Apr. 8, 1843.
120. v. CLARENCE PORTER, b. May 10, 1839; m. May 24, 1864, Louisa A. Parsons. He graduated from Union College in 1863, studied law, and practiced at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Three children.
121. vi. ROWLAND METCALF, b. July 3, 1842; d. Dec. 25, 1874, unm. He served during the Civil War in the 6th Regiment Penn- sylvania Cavalry, and for a year was a prisoner at Ander- sonville. He then studied law and practiced in Colorado. He was also a U. S. surveyor in New Mexico.
122. vii. LOUISA DANA, b. Feb. 20, 1845; m. Dec. 20, 1866, Andrew J. Davis. Res. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Four children.
123. viii. LUTHER ASA, b. Nov. 19, 1846; d. Feb. 18, 1860.
59. LUTHER6 (Luther5, Aaron4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Waterford, Vt., Nov. 19, 1808; d. Sept. 30, 1854; m. Oct. 13, 1835, Martha Ann Scott. He was a lawyer in Pennsylvania, a judge for several years, and also state senator. Children :
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124. i. DAVID SCOTT, b. Oct. 20, 1836; d. about 1881, unm.
125. ii. MARTHA ELDER, b. Apr. 27, 1838; d. Nov. 8, 1882; m. May 12,
1864, Col. O. K. Moore of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Two children. EMMA VICTORIA, b. Nov. 14, 1840; d. Mar. 2, 1875.
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CHARLES HOLLAND, b. Dec. 27, 1846; m. Aug. 6, 1868, Clara Miller. He graduated from West Philadelphia P. E. Divin- ity School in 1877, and became an Episcopalian clergyman. Three children.
63. CAMILLUS6 (Reuben5, Reuben4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. Waterville, Me., June 27, 1805; d. Boston, Jan. 16, 1883; m. Oct. 16, 1834, Sarah Thompson Herrick of Hamp- den, Me. He was in business at Bangor, Me., but at the age of thirty he removed to Maryland, and in 1842 engaged in a large commission business at Baltimore, in which he contin- ued during the Civil War. Children :
128. i. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 6, 1835; m. Apr. 18, 1860, John Truslow, a merchant in New York city. Six children.
129. ii. JEROME HENRY, b. Oct. 26, 1842; d. 1889; m. Sept., 1878, Mary, dau. of Hon. Horace Maynard of Tennessee, ex-minister to Turkey and ex-Postmaster General. He graduated from Harvard College in 1862. He served during one year of the Civil War in the 10th Michigan Regiment and after- ward in U. S. hospitals. He received the degree of M. D. from the University of Michigan in 1865, and was com- missioned as surgeon in the U. S. Navy. Later he was engaged upon scientific work in the Smithsonian Institution, at the Naval Laboratory, and on the U. S. Commission.
130. iii. CAMILLUS GERRY, b. July 6, 1850; m. Dec. 3, 1881, Matilda Cushman Faber of New York city. He graduated from Harvard College in 1872 and from the Harvard Law School in 1875. He entered at once into practice in New York city.
68. EDWARD6 (Isaiah5, Reuben4, Thomas3, John2, James1), b. New Ipswich, Oct. 19, 1805; d. Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 25, 1885 ; m. Aug. 11, 1836, Ann Potter. While a young man he went to Wilmington, N. C., and entered the lumber business in connection with various partners, the last of whom were his sons, continuing an honorable, popular, and successful man until his death. He was also greatly interested in his- torical studies. Children :
131. i. EDWARD HARTWELL, b. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1840; m. Oct. 11, 1865, Mary Lincoln Hathaway. He graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and entered business life in New York city.
132. ii. GEORGE WILSON, b. Wilmington, N. C., June 15, 1842; m. Dec. 19, 1877, Florence Hill. A native of the South, he served in the Confederate army. He was a member of the firm of Edward Kidder & Sons. One daughter.
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133. iii. SUSAN SMITH, b. Nov. 19, 1843; m. Dec. 17, 1868, James Ivers Lewis. Res. New London, Conn. Two children.
134. iv. GILBERT POTTER, b. May 5, 1845. Res. in North Carolina.
135. v. FREDERIC, b. Nov. 12, 1847. He graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1870. A planter in Wilmington, N. C.
136. vi. ANNA POTTER, b. Sept. 1, 1851. Res. in North Carolina.
137. vii. MATTHEW GRIER, b. Dec. 5, 1853; m. Apr., 1883, Bessie Low. Res. in North Carolina.
KING.
Two families bearing this name, but not known to be related, have resided in New Ipswich, and must necessarily be represented separately.
KING (BENJAMIN).
1. BENJAMIN1 KING, b. about 1722; m. Sarah -. They came to New Ipswich as early as 1752. He was the first set- tler upon lot 34, N. D., afterward the home of Abijah Smith. It is not unlikely that he was of the family which came to New Ipswich almost half a century later, as the name Benja- min is frequent in the records of that family. But his lineage has not been found. He removed to Mason about 1764 and probably remained there until 1777, after which his residence is unknown. He was in Capt. Ezra Towne's company at Bunker Hill, and on the company roll is said to reside in Ma- son. In the later part of the same year he is credited to New Ipswich in a record of New Hampshire men in Massachusetts regiments. Children :
2. i. ELIZABETH, d. Dec. 25, 1752.
3. ii. SARAH, d. Dec. 17, 1752.
4. iii. SARAH, b. Apr. 7, 1754.
5. iv. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 4, 1757.
6. v. SILENCE, b. May 10, 1759.
7. vi. MARY, b. Dec. 18, 1760; m. Dec. 11, 1783, Amos Dakin, Jr.
8. vii. SAMUEL, b. Mar. 1, 1763.
9. viii. BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 22, 1768.
KING (WILLIAM).
WILLIAM1 KING, b. Ugborough, Devonshire, England, about 1622; m. Oct. 16, 1642, Agnes Alwill [d. Apr. 7, 1662]. There is no certain evi- dence that he came to New England, and the date of his death is uncer- tain; but apparently his sons came soon after the death of their mother before they had reached full manhood, and the father was interested in fisheries upon the American coast, being drowned near the Banks of
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Newfoundland, which facts perhaps justify the position of his name as that of the first of his family in America.
JAMES2 (William1), b. Nov. 7, 1647; d. May 13, 1722; m. (1) Mar. 23, 1674, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller of Ipswich, Mass. [b. May 31, 1652; d. June 30, 1715]; (2) Feb. 27, 1716, Hannah, widow of Samuel Loomis [d. 1720]. He lived in Ipswich, Mass., where he learned the cooper's trade, but removed, about 1678, to Suffield, Conn., of which he was one of the original proprietors.
JOSEPH3 (James2, William1), b. May 10, 1689; d. Mar. 6, 1756; m. (1) May 2, 1717, dau. of Phineas Wilson of Hartford, Conn., and widow of David Jesse [d. Sept. 11, 1737]; (2) June 2, 1740, Hannah, dau. of Rev. Ebenezer and Hannah (Breck) Devotion [b. Suffield, Apr. 24, 1716; d. Mar. 4, 1805]. He passed his life in Suffield, where he was possessed of a very considerable property. He was a leading citizen, holding the posi- tion of selectman and other offices of trust. He was also a captain.
ELIPHALET4 (Joseph3, James2, William1), b. Feb. 6, 1743; d. Aug. 29, 1821; m. (1) Nov. 3, 1768, Mary, dau. of Jonathan and Thankful (War- ner) Remington [b. July 12, 1743; d. June 24, 1788]; (2) Oct. 2, 1788, Silence Rumrill [b. about 1768; d. Oct. 16, 1839]. He was a citizen of Suffield, with the exception of a few years of his later life, during which he made his home in West Springfield, Mass. He served in the Revolu- tionary War, holding the rank of lieutenant.
1. SETH5 (Eliphalet4, Joseph3, James2, William1), b. Sept. 27, 1777 ; d. July 12, 1851 ; m. Oct. 15, 1808, Anna Preston (25). He came to New Ipswich in early manhood, and for a long period conducted business as a hatter, his shop being situated across the street northerly from the western entrance to the Academy campus. Later he was engaged in the manufacture of friction matches, an industry then almost unknown, and for a time he was a maker of broadcloths, which previously had been obtained only by importation. He held a marked place in the various activities of the town, which he three times represented in the Legislature. He was interested in military matters and held a major's commission in the militia. After his marriage he succeeded to the residence of his father-in-law, situated a few rods easterly from his hatter's shop, and thus it resulted that his wife during her life of nearly eighty years lived in the same house, drawing her first and her last breath in the same room. Children :
2. i. LUCY ANNA, b. Mar. 2, 1812; m. May, 1831, Nathan G. Parlow. Five children.
3. ii. GEORGE ELIPHALET, b. June 11, 1814.++
4. iii. MARY REMINGTON, b. July 11, 1817; d. Nov. 25, 1842; m. Oct. 29, 1835, Otis Hoyt, M. D. Res. in Mason and in Framing-
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ham, Mass., where she died. Children: i. Mary Remington Hoyt, b. Mason, Nov. 12, 1836; d. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9, 1883; m. (1) Aug. 29, 1855, Charles Edward Dexter; (2) Jan. 1, 1870, Henry Augustus Wilson; two children of first marriage. ii. Charles Otis Hoyt, b. Framingham, Sept. 25, 1839; d. Amarillo, Tex., Apr. 30, 1905, unm .; he served in the Civil War; later he was a miner in Colorado.
5. iv. CHARLES HENRY, b. Nov. 9, 1818.+
6. v. HARRIET HUBBARD, b. Apr. 25, 1820; d. Oct. 21, 1903, unm. She passed her life as a teacher in Boston, being the first in that city to teach the negro children, for whom she con- ducted a school during twenty years. Later for a still longer period she was proprietor of a fashionable boarding school.
7. vi. ELIZA BELLOWS, b. Apr. 5, 1822; d. Oct. 1, 1886; m. Aug. 16, 1843, her brother-in-law, Otis Hoyt, M. D., then a resident at Framingham, Mass., but after service in the Mexican War, practicing his profession at St. Croix Falls and Hud- son, Wis. She was educated at the New Ipswich Academy and at Troy, (N. Y.,) Female Seminary. Children : i. Ella Frances Hoyt, b. Oct. 2, 1845; d. Nov. 15, 1846. ii. Ella Frances Hoyt, b. St. Croix Falls, Wis., Mar. 3, 1850; m. May 18, 1875, Charles Frederick5 King, M. D. (William P.4, Richard3, James2, William1), a physician at Hudson, Wis .; she graduated from New Ipswich Appleton Academy in 1871; five children. iii. Anna Preston Hoyt, b. Sept. 3, 1851; m. June 20, 1877, Frank William Epley, M. D., a physician at New Richmond, Wis .; she graduated from New Ipswich Appleton Academy in 1873; five children. iv. Caleb Cushing Hoyt, b. Hudson, Wis., May 20, 1853; d. Aug. 7, 1854. v. Eliza Bellows Hoyt, b. Apr. 21, 1855; d. Feb. 11, 1858. vi. Ida Maria Hoyt, b. Apr. 1, 1857; m. Oct. 19, 1888, Edmund Deveraux Sewall; res. at Minneapolis, Minn .; two children. vii. Harriet King Hoyt, b. Apr. 2, 1859; m. June 24, 1877, John Alexander Wyand; res. at Crookston, Minn .; three children. viii. Eliza Bellows Hoyt, b. Nov. 12, 1861; m. June 16, 1886, Rev. William R. Rey- nolds; res. at Cincinnati, O .; six children.
8. vii. FRANCES LOCKE, b. Sept. 2, 1823; d. Oct. 30, 1900, unm.
9. viii. CAROLINE, b. Jan. 3, 1827; d. Apr. 16, 1910; m. Apr. 13, 1852, Nehemiah Adams Edson of Chester, Vt. [d. 1899]. Res. at Chester, and later at West Brookfield, Mass. Children : i. Fannie M. Edson. ii. Charles O. M. Edson. iii. William A. Edson. iv. Carrie K. Edson.
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