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I. ROLAND A., b. Oct. 1, 1883, d. Oct. 1, 1883.
ROSWELL MURRAY BOUTWELL. son of Rodney C. and Nancy J. (Barnes) Boutwell ; born May 22, 1855 ; married May 22, 1883, Jeannie C. Russell of Louisville, Ky. She was born Feb. 28, 1859. He is a member of the firm of Boutwell Bros., incorporated, Lowell, Mass., dealers in iron and steel, and is treasurer of the Portland Iron and Steel Co., Port- land, Me., manufacturers of iron and steel. He is also treasurer of the Standard Horse Shoe Co., of So. Wareham, Mass., manufacturers of horse shoes. While a resident of Lowell he was a member of the city council from 1886 to 1889 and was chairman of the board of aldermen during the year 1889. Residence, 300 Newbury Street, Boston. Children : - I. ELSIE RUSSELL, b. July 24, 1884.
Rosweg Man Fontwell.
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2. ROSWELL MURRAY, JR., b. Jan. 19, 1888.
3. ROLAND HILL, second, b. Oct. 10, 1889.
BOUTWELL.
ABRAM E. BOUTWELL was born at Amherst; married Nancy Brown of Amherst, Dec.31, 1816; died June 25, 1835. His widow and children removed to Lyndeborough. Children : --
I. NAOMI ANN, m. William B. Raymond.
2. JAMES, +
3. ABRAM, +
4. NANCY, m. Benjamin B. Miller.
5. SARAH, m. Warren Ames.
6. MARY J., first, d. in infancy.
7. MARY J., second, m. Calvin A. Abbott. (See respective gen.)
JAMES BOUTWELL, son of Abram E. and , Nancy (Brown) Bout- well; born April 16, 1820 ; married Ellen O'Donnell; born in Ireland. James Boutwell was a soldier in the Civil War and died Aug. 15, 1863, the day after he returned from the army. (See chap. X.) Their two oldest children were born at Lyndeborough. Children :-
I. MARY A., b. Dec. 5, 1852.
2. JAMES C., b. March 31, 1854.
3. ELLEN M., b. at Wilton.
4. ANGELINE, b. at Temple.
5. GEORGE, b. at Temple.
ABRAM BOUTWELL was born Feb. 28, 1822 ; married Mary Badger, a daughter of Stephen Badger. She was born Oct. 21, 1821, and died March 30, 1900. He was a soldier in the Civil War and died Dec. 27, 1893. (See chap. X.) Children all born in Lyndeborough :-
I. CHARLES F., b. July 19, 1853.
2. SARAH, b. June 8, 1855, d. June 18, 1859.
3. IDA M., b. May 1, 1858, m. Peter King.
4. HARVEY, b. Feb. 19, 1860.
5. STILLMAN, b. Feb. 17, 1862.
BOWEN
WILLIAM H. BOWEN, son of Guy and Mary ( Richardson ) Bowen ; born in Corinth, Vt., Nov. 6, 1847; married April 19, 1869, Estella E., daughter of George B. and Mary J. (Clark) Woodward of Francestown. She was born Nov. 11, 1848. Mr. Bowen resides in "Johnson Corner " and is a prosperous and enterprising farmer. He has enlarged and re- modeled the farm buildings. The production of milk for Boston is the leading branch of his farming. Child :-
I. WILLIAM T., +
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WILLIAM T. BOWEN was born in Francestown, Dec. II, 1869; mar- ried Aug. 30, 1892, Susan, daughter of James and Susan (Beaman) Walch. She was born Oct. 10, 1867. Mr. Bowen's failing health compelled him to seek the warmer climate of California, but receiving but little benefit from the change he returned to Lyndeborough and died the afternoon of his arrival, March 17, 1904.
BRADFORD.
THOMAS BRADFORD, born June 4, 1776; married first, Abigail She died Jan. 14, 1797 ; second, Oct. 2, 1799, Patty Coburn. She was born Oct. 31, 1769; died Oct. 15, 1849. He died Sept. 14, 1852. Child by first wife : -
I. SARAH, b. Sept. 6, 1795, m. Oct. 31, 1833, Elijah Upton. He d. Feb. 4, 1835. She m., second, Loammi Eaton.
Children by second wife : -
2. ABIGAIL, b. July 7, 1800, m. Dec. 23, 1830, Reuben Bald- win. He d. Nov. 2, 1831.
3. PATTY, b. Feb. 7, 1802, m. Daniel Fish. (See Fish gen.)
4. MARY, b. Feb. 17, 1803, m. March 20, 1828, James Parker. She d. Oct. 21, 1847.
5. CHARLOTTE, b. Sept. 27, 1805, m. Dec. 23, 1830, Loammi Baldwin of Wilton. She d. May 27, 1882.
6. HANNAH, b. Nov. 7, 1807, m. Feb. 18, 1845, Lyman Parker. She d. Feb. 19, 1892.
7. REBECCA, b. Oct. 3, 1810, m. Albert Hardy of Greenfield. He d. Oct. 16, 1853.
8. JAMES C., +
9. JANE, b. Nov. 1, 1817, m. June 6, 1844, Horace Cudworth. She d. March 9, 1892.
JAMES C. BRADFORD, son of Thomas and Patty (Coburn) Bradford, born Sept. 2, 1813; married June, 1837, Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah and - - Brown of Mont Vernon. She was born Jan. 24, 1806; died Sept. 15, 1888. He died May 28, 1860. Children born in Lyndeborough :- I. ANN M., b. July 24, 1841, m. John M. Emery. (See Emery gen.)
2. JOHN A., b. May 22, 1843, d. July 1, 1896.
3. SARAH C., b. Aug. 28, 1845, d. Sept. 14, 1848.
4. HARLAN P., +
HARLAN PAGE BRADFORD, son of James C. and Sarah (Brown) Bradford, born April 20, 1848 ; married Oct. 25, 1870, Georgianna, daugli- ter of Harvey and Lois (Cram) Holt of Lyndeborough. She was born March 17, 1851 ; died Sept. 27, 1871. Child : -
I. GEORGE P., b. Sept. 26, 1871, m. Agnes C., dau. of Wil- liam E. and Phebe"(Cutler) Fiske. One child : Harlan F.
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BROOKS.
CAPT. WILLIAM BROOKS came to Lyndeborough soon after the Revolutionary War. He was born at Woburn, Mass., March 3, 1737, and was twice married. First, March 29, 1759, Abigail Kemp of Hollis, N. H .; second, Sept. 20, 1787, Hepsibah Powers of Hollis. By his first marriage he had a large family, none of the children probably born at Lyndeborough. Whether they came to Lyndeborough with him is un- known. It is supposed some of them did. He died at Lyndeborough Oct. 11, 1804. He enlisted in 1778 in Capt. Emerson's Co., Rhode Island Regiment, and was a second lieutenant. He again enlisted in Capt. John Mills' company in 1781. This company is supposed to be from Londonderry, N. H. In the town records is the record of the birth of Nathan, born Sept. 10, 1800, and John Boffee, born Dec. 12, 1802, children of William and Rebecca Brooks. It is not known if this William was the son of Capt. William or not. Children : -
I. WILLIAM, b. May 1, 1760.
2. ABIGAIL, b. July 19. 1762.
3. BETSEY, b. July 23, 1764.
4. SARAH, b. July 6, 1766.
5. ISAAC, b. Oct. 28, 1768.
6. MARAH, b. Feb. 15, 1771.
7. SAMUEL, b. March 3, 1774.
8. MARTHA, b. Aug. 23, 1776.
9. LEONARD, b. Jan. 29, 1779.
IO. JOHN, b. Nov. 11, 1781.
II. SUSANNA, b. Feb. 12, 1783.
BROWN.
In the interval between the French and Indian war and the war of Independence, many deserters from the British army and navy found refuge in New Hampshire where opportunities were good for escape from capture. Prior to the year 1770, a young English soldier, named Hodgeman, came with two fellow deserters to the vicinity of Lynde- borough Centre, and were hidden and befriended by John Stephenson and others. One of the men died while here and was buried in the woods. Hodgeman learning that scouts were on his track sought con- cealment in the neighborhood of Purgatory Falls, then known as Wain- wright's brook. Stephen Peabody, who had built a house on top of Strawberry Hill, here befriended the refugee. He made for him a hid- ing place in the ravine during the day. Hodgeman received his food from his protector's table, and at night stole up to Peabody's house for lodging. He afterward married and settled in Amherst, served in the Revolutionary Army, and abandoning the name of Hodgeman was known as William Brown. It is an interesting coincidence that nearly eighty years after this deserter found refuge at Purgatory Falls during troub- lous times, his son, Robert Brown, should become the owner of the land which includes this upper fall. Some of this land was sold to Mr. Hutchinson but the descendants of William Brown still own the adjoin-
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ing farm. This William Brown married Tabitha Boutwell, of Amherst, and twelve children were born to them, one of whom, Robert, came to Lyndeborough.
ROBERT BROWN, son of William Brown and Tabitha (Boutwell) Brown, born at Amherst Dec. 14, 1800; married Mary Ann Erving of Amherst. She was born May 18, 1807 ; died July 9, 1866, at Jaffrey. He died Nov. 27, 1873, at Jaffrey. He came to Lyndeborough from Merri- mack in 1839 and lived on the Lucas place (now so called) for a few years, then moved to the farm where Leonard G. now lives in the spring of 1844. His son, Leonard G., says of him " he was a moving planet ; when he had been married twenty years, he had moved twenty-one times." Children : -
I. LEONARD G., +
2. SILAS L., b. at Lowell, Vt., 1828.
3. JOHN M., b. at Amherst, 1830. Went to sea and died there.
4. MARY E., b. April 23, 1832, d. October 18, 1895, in Mont Vernon.
Then there were four children who died very young of which there is no record.
9. SARAH A., b. at Lyndeborough, Jan. 6, 1844, d. Sept. 6, 1849.
IO. GEORGE A., b. at Lyndeborough, 1846, died Sept. 13, 1849.
II. JAMES T., b. at Lyndeborough, May 5, 18-
12. MELISSA A., b. at Lyndeborough, July 1, 1848. Res. at Manchester.
LEONARD G. BROWN, son of Robert and Mary (Erving) Brown, born May 28, 1826 ; married Sept. 18, 1855, Nancy, daughter of Nathaniel C. and Betsey (Odell) Carkin. She was born May 27, 1837. In the fall of 1854 he went to the west and taught school in Missouri and Kansas. He taught seven months in an old log school house in Harrisonville, Mo. He returned to Lyndeborough in 1855 and settled on the Brown homestead near the celebrated Purgatory picnic grounds. He and young David Carkin found evidence that Purgatory was used as a picnic ground as early as 1839. He is a farmer, gardener and fruit grower. He has been superintendent of schools and a teacher; is much interested in temperance reform and has written for the agricultural papers. Of strict integrity of character, he has the respect of his fellow towns- people. Children : -
I. MINA A., b. Aug. 9, 1856, m. 1875, Edwin O. Butler.
2. LEONARD E., b. Sept. 27, 1858.
3. EFFIE M., b. Jan. 25, 1863, m. Andrew J. Marshall. (See Marshall gen.)
4. IDA B., b. July 25, 1865, m. April 17, 1886, Miles B. Wal- lace of Mont Vernon. Child : Maud E., b. April 21, 1890. 5. IRA R., b. Jan. 6, 1874, m. Nov. 25, 1896, Minnie O.,
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daughter of Milton W. and Margaret (Mears) Wallace of Mont Vernon. She.was b. July 19, 1871. One child, Ray W., b. Feb. 7, 1903.
BUCK.
SEWELL M. BUCK, son of Austin and Sarah (Coburn) Buck, born April 16, 1839, at Norway, Me; married Oct. 24, 1860, Sarah F., daughter of Ephraim T. and Mary A. (Shaw) Putnam. She was born Jan. 16, 1841. He came to Lyndeborough from Greenfield in 1870 and settled on the Israel Cram place in the westerly part of the town. He enlisted from Nashua in Co. F, Ist N. H. Vol., and served three months during the Civil War. Is a painter by trade. Children : -
I. GEORGIA A., b. Feb. 14, 1864.
2. CARRIE B., b. Aug. 30, 1866, m. first, Samuel Dolliver. (See Doliver gen.), m. second, Roy E. Burton. (See Bur- ton gen.)
BULLARD.
JOHN A. BULLARD, son of Naliami and Keziah ( Peabody) Bullard, born at Amherst, June 26, 1851, m. Nov. 23, 1875, Ida B., daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Farnum) Swinnington. She was born at Mont Ver- non, May 25, 1860. Mr. Bullard resides on the Charles Tarbell farm, Perham Corner. Children : -
I. HARRY O., b. July 17, 1877.
2. WINFIELD S., b. Sept. 5, 1880.
3. ARTHUR B., b. June 26. 1885, m. Aug. 21, 1904, Alice M. Dicey.
4. INFANT CHILD, b. July 31, 1890, d. Aug. 3, 1890.
BURNHAM.
The Burnham family here recorded came from Ipswich, Mass., some- time before the Revolution and settled in that part of Lyndeborough which was made the town of Greenfield. The farm is now owned by John Fletcher or is known as the Fletcher place. Col. Joshua Burnham, probably a brother of Stephen (the first to come to Lyndeborough), set- tled in Milford. Stephen, Nathaniel and James came to Lyndeborough. Mrs. Luther Cram is a grand-daughter of one of them. They all had a Revolutionary war record. Children of Stephen and Lucy Burnham : -
I. SARAH, b. May 18, 1777.
2. LOUISE, b. Sept. 6, 1778.
Children of Nathaniel and Mary Burnham : -
I. LUCY, b. Oct. 14, 1774.
2. CALEB, b. Nov. 23, 1776.
3. NATHANIEL, b. March 19, 1779.
4. EPES, b. Aug. 17, 1771.
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Children of James and Ruampa Burnham : -
I. RUTH, b. Sept. 2, 1775.
2. MARY, b. Feb. 14, 1777.
3. JAMES, b. April 9, 1779.
4. JOSEPH, b. Aug. 10, 1782.
JOHN W. BURNHAM, born at Greenfield Dec. 18, 1822 ; married March 17, 1846, Ruth A., daughter of John and Sally (Tinker) Gage. She was born June 9, 1826; died Sept. 16, 1874. He lived for some years on the John Gage place, then removed to Francestown where he died Nov. 10, 1888. Children : -
I, JOHN A., b. at New Boston, Sept. 21, 1847, m. April 5, 1877, Almira A. Powers of Washington.
2. MARY A., b. at Francestown, April 20, 1850, m. Nov. 16, 1868, Frank E. Lee of Greenfield. Res. at Cambridge, Mass.
3. SARAH G., b. at Lyndeborough, Jan. 6, 1854, m. Nov. 16, 1880, John K. Jones of East Cambridge, Mass.
4. CHARLES F., b. at Lyndeborough Jan. 16, 1859, m. March 22, 1877, Lenora E. Dodge of Bennington.
5. EDWARD W., b. at Lyndeborough, May 4, 1860, m. Oct. 18, 1885, Mary E. Mulhall of Hancock.
6. EMMA A., b. at Lyndeborough, Aug. 31, 1863, m. July II, 1892, George O. Joslin of Bennington. Res. at Bennington.
BURTON.
DEXTER BURTON, born at Wilton, Oct. 16, 1802; married April 20, 1824, Clarissa O. Spofford of Temple. She was born June 12, 1803 ; died Oct. 15, 1886. He died June 3, 1855. Children : -
I. DEXTER L., b. April 10, 1825, m. Nov., 1853, Emily F. Ward of Chelmsford, Mass. He ren. to Temple, d. May 3, 1896.
2. CLARISSA I., b. July 2, 1827, m. Jan. 1854, Nathan Holt of Temple.
3. JAMES E., b. Nov. 18, 1828, m. Nov. 18, 1852, Olive A. Robinson of Bennington. He d. March 11, 1897.
4. HELEN M., b. Feb. 24, 1831, m. May 18, 1853, George H. Blood of Temple. He was b. Oct. 17, 1826, d. Feb. 5, 1897. She d. April 8, 1900.
5. ELIZA J., b. Dec. 6, 1834, m. May 17, 1857, George W. Boynton of Wilton. He d. Nov. 1, 1900, in Oregon.
6. WILLIAM W., +
7. SARAH A., b. Aug. 28, 1838, d. in infancy.
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WILLIAM W. BURTON, born Nov. 14, 1836; married June 20, 1861, Esther, daughter of Augustus and Almira ( Boynton) Cragin of Temple. He has been and is a man of much influence in town affairs. Has been selectman many years. Was representative to the General Court in 1874- 1875, 1895-1896. Road agent in 1892 and has held other public office. He makes the raising of milk for the Boston market a specialty and for 40 years has run a milk route to Wilton, taking the route of D. Whiting. His farm is large and well cultivated, with a fine set of farm buildings, situated in the extreme southwest part of the town. Children : -
I. CLARA J., b. April 17, 1862, m. March 27, 1889, George E. May of Wilton. Res. in Wilton,
2. ELMER W., b. Oct. 21, m. Oct. 25, 1892, Cora Lane of Stoddard. Res. in Wilton.
3. ADDIE A., b. June 3, 1871, m. Dr. M. B. Richards. (See Richards gen.)
JOHN HALE BURTON, son of John and Anna (Kidder) Burton, born at Wilton, Oct. 2, 1843; married March 1I, 1871, Clintina, daughter of David J. and Elizabeth (Salter) Carkin. She was born in Peterbor- ough Oct. 27, 1853. Children : -
I. JOHN MILO, b. Oct. 1, 1871, m. Nov. 27, 1895, Florence E. Jaquith.
2. CORA A., b. May 23, 1873, m. August, 1888, Charles Green.
3. RoY E., b. April 25, 1875, m. August, 1896, Carrie, daugh- ter of Sewell M. and Sarah (Putnam) Buck. She was
ยท b. Aug. 30, 1866.
4. EDDA F., b. Nov. 2, 1877, m. Nov. 20, 1897, Clarence Lowe. Children : Lester, Hazel, Harold, Forest.
5. MYRTIE C., b. March 9, 1881, mn. Perley Holden. (See Holden gen.)
6: JOSIE E., b. May 9, 1887.
BUTLER.
WILLIAM BUTLER, the ancestor of the Butler family of Lyndebor- ough, lived at one time in Gloucester, Mass. While there he married Sarah Perkins. They afterward removed to Ipswich, Mass. Just how many children they had we do not know, but there were three sons of whom there is some record. The dates of his birth and death are un- known. His wife died in Lyndeborough in 1821. The above mentioned three sons were : -
I. JONATHAN, +
2. WILLIAM, who entered the Continental Army, and is sup- posed to have died of disease or to have been killed, for he never was heard from.
3. JACOB, also enlisted in the Continental Army, was taken
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prisoner, sent to Halifax, N. S., where he died of small pox.
JONATHAN BUTLER, son of William and Sarah (Perkins) Butler; born 1758 ; married Aug. 17, 1778, Lois, daughter of John and Tryphena (Powers) Kidder. She was born July 10, 1760; died 1846; He died Dec. 5, 1844. He was a soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in the retreat from that engagement was taken with cramps and fell out of the ranks ; after much suffering he crawled into a swamp, where he was con- cealed, and later joined his company again. He came to Lyndeborough in 1777, and settled on land in the westerly part of the town. He was a blacksmith by trade, and his daughter used to say that the sound of his hammer on the anvil was the first thing she heard in the morning and the last thing at night. He was a man of retiring manners, and much re- spected. He was a constant attendant at church and Sunday School. He sang and took part in all the services the Sunday but one before he died. Children, all born in Lyndeborough : -
I: SARAH, b. Jan. II, 1779, m. first, Asa Burroughs, second, Samuel Rogers, five children.
2. HANNAH, b. Oct. 27, 1780, m. Douglass Robinson, four chil- dren.
3. JACOB, b. Dec. 30, 1782, d. June 1, 1785.
4. JONATHAN, b. March 1, 1785, m. Patty Russell, nine chil- dren.
. 5. LoIs, b. April 27, 1787, m. Ephraim Hackett, eleven chil- dren.
6. RACHEL, b. July 4, 1789, m. James Cavendish, nine chil- dren.
7. TRYPHENA, b. April 2, 1792, m. David Putnam. (See Put- nam gen.)
8. JACOB, 2nd, +
9. MARY, b. Sept. 4, 1796, m. James White, twelve children.
IO. SUSANNA, b. Sept. 23, 1798, d. aged sixteen years.
II. LUCY, b. Jan. 21, 1802, m. Nathaniel Burnham, one child. 12. WILLIAM, +
JACOB BUTLER, son of Jonathan and Lois (Kidder) Butler ; born June 7, 1794 ; married Jan. 22, 1818, Sarah, daughter of - Blanchard of Lynde- borough. She was born May 29, 1793 ; died April, 1869. He died April 16, 1882. He was a man who stood high in the estimation of his townsmen and in church circles. His name frequently occurs in the records of his day, and he evidently was a man of influence. When the old church at the Centre was sold, he bought the historic structure, and taking it down used the material in making him a new barn. He served in the War of 1812, and after his return from the army became an energetic and thrifty farmer. Children, all born in Lyndeborough : -
I. JACOB NEWTON, b. Aug. 21, 1819, d. Oct. 13, 1819.
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2. JACOB N., 2nd, +
3. JONATHAN, b. June 16, 1823, rem. to Nebraska.
4. WILLIAM H., b. Oct. 28, 1825.
5. CHARLES M., +
6. OLNEY P., +
DR. WILLIAM BUTLER, son of Jonathan and Lois (Kidder) Butler ; born April 21, 1805; married first, March 30, 1830, Nancy Smith. She died April II, 1850, and he married second, Oct. 22, 1850, Mrs. Ximenia P. King. By his first wife he had four children, one of whom was Dr. William Morris Butler of Brooklyn, N. Y. He took the full course at Dartmouth Medical College, taking his degree in 1830. He removed to Maine, Broom Co., N. Y. For a period of fifty-five years he diligently followed his profession, his practice covering a vast extent of territory, and in common with all doctors in the early settlements, he made his visits on horseback. At 80 years of age he was still strong and vigorous, the oldest member of the Broom County Medical Society. He was for more than forty years a member and official of the Presbyterian Church.
DR. JACOB NEWTON BUTLER, son of Jacob and Sarah (Blanchard) Butler, born Feb. 6, 1821; married Harriet Moore of Lempster, N. H., June 22, 1846. She was born Feb. 10, 1827. He was educated at the New Ipswich and Hancock Academies and at a preparatory school at Union, New York. Read medicine first under the direction of Dr. John Ramsey of Greenfield and afterwards at Peterboro under Doctors Follansbee and Smith. He then studied with Dr. Joseph Parsons of Bennington, and after attending several courses of lectures, graduated at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1843, before he was twenty-three years of age. In December of that year he located at Lempster, N. H., where he resided until his death which occured Feb. 16, 1903. Child :-
I. GEORGE ARTHUR, b. May 23, 1850. Is a civil engineer and res. in Chicago, Il1.
CHARLES M. BUTLER, son of Jacob and Sarah (Blanchard) Butler, born Aug. 7, 1827 ; married Martha M. Weston of Newton, Ohio, June 21, 1855. She was born July 18, 1839. He died May II, 1903.
I. Lu A., b. April 6, 1871, m. Charles W. White of Wilton, June 29, 1893.
2. LILLIE M., b. July 14, 1874, m. Charles G. Carleton of Mt. Vernon, Oct. 11, 1894.
OLNEY P. BUTLER, son of Jacob and Sarah (Blanchard) Butler, born April 22, 1835 ; married Hannah W. Langdell. He died May 1, 1880. Olney P. Butler, together with four of his children, died of diphtheria in 1880, within the space of five weeks.
I. SARAH A., b. at Lyndeborough, Aug. 27, 1856, m. 1874, Joseph H. Stickney of Tyson, Vt.
2. GEORGE H., ++
3. CARRIE L., b. at Lyndeborough, July 7, 1861, m. Dec. 20,
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1884, Edward H. Spofford of Greenfield. She d. March 28, 1890.
4. NELLIE P., b. at Greenfield, June 10, 1863, m. Nov. 30, 1882, Charles H. Scott of Tyson, Vt. She d. May 30, 1883.
5. WILLIAM L., b. at Lyndeborough, March 5, 1865, d. April 29, 1880.
6. LIZZIE H., b. at Lyndeborough, Jan. 28, 1870, d. April 20, 1880.
7. WALTER S., b. at Lyndeborough, Oct, 19, .1876, d. March 30, 1880.
8. MARK W., b. at Lyndeborough, Feb. 17, 1878, d. April 5, 1880.
GEORGE H. BUTLER, son of Olney P. and Hannah (Langdell) Butler, born at Lyndeborough, March 19, 1858 ; married Sept. 15, 1881, Myra A. Carpenter of Surrey, Vt. Children born at Lyndeborough :-
I. HERVEY L., b. Dec. 22, 1885.
2. HAROLD A., b. Feb. 14, 1890.
BUTTERFIELD.
DAVID BUTTERFIELD lived in town at one time and his children were born here. He married Miriam Durant. She was born in 1775; died in Francestown, Feb. 2, 1848. He was born 1775 and died at Lynde- borough, Feb. 18, 1812, of spotted fever. He was the grandfather of David " Newton " Butterfield of New Boston. Children born at Lynde- borough :-
I. SARAH, m. Brackley Rose (See Rose gen.)
2. HANNAH.
3. JANE, m. Benjamin Ames.
4. LUCY, m. Nathaniel Bruce.
5. OLIVE, m. Hiram Dodge.
CARKIN.
The first record of the Carkin family in Lyndeborough is the birth of John, son of John and Elizabeth his wife, Sept. 9, 1765. Elizabeth Carkin died Nov. 10, 1829, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Chamberlain Cram. John Carkin died March 2, 1799, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. John and his wife, Elizabeth, appear to have been the first of the family to settle in town. John and Isaac Carkin are credited to Lyndeborough, as Revolutionary soldiers. Isaac was probably a brother of John. Among the older mem- bers of the family, there is a story current of the origin of the name Carkin, whether true or not it is quaint and interesting. It is said that two little boys were secretly placed on board a ship bound for America. They were not discovered until too late to put back. These young stowa- ways were unable to give much of an account of themselves or tell their
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names, and were made to carry water to the sailors and in other ways to work their passage. They carried the liquid in tin cans, and soon were known as the little "carrycans" and from thence the name Carkin. Isaac and John were said to be sons or grandsons of one of the little " carrycans." There are four children of John and Elizabeth recorded : -
I. JOHN, b. Sept. 9, 1765, drowned July 9, 1777.
2. AARON, ++
3. PRUDENCE, b. Sept. 2, 1774.
4. ELIZABETH. The marriage intention of Ephraim Putnam, third, and Elizabeth Carkin is recorded Nov. 6, 1794.
AARON CARKIN, son of John and Elizabeth Carkin, born Nov. 13, 1767 ; married Dec. 15, 1791, Betsey Duncklee of Amherst. She died Nov. 30, 1845. He died Feb. 19, 1852. Children :-
I. JOHN, b. Oct. 19, 1792, m. Betsey Smith. Rem. to Benning- ton where he was extensively engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder. He d. Oct. 25, 1883.
2. ELIZABETH, b. May 6, 1794, d. June 4, 1794.
3. BETSEY, b. Jan. 30, 1796, m. Oliver Fales. Rem. to Ded- ham, Mass., d. Dec. 30, 1820.
4. CLARISSA, b. Nov. 13, 1797, m. Asher Curtis, d. Dec. 8, 1880. (See Curtis gen.)
5. MEHITABLE, b. Aug. 14, 1799, m. John Hartshorn, d. Feb. 19, 1881. (See Hartshorn gen.)
6. AARON, b. July 22, 1801. Was badly burned by an explos- ion of gun powder at Bennington and died ten days later, Oct. 13, 1828.
7. NATHANIEL C., +
8. DAVID, ++
9. JESSE D., b. Nov. 20, 1807, m. Sarah Hutchinson of Wilton.
IO. CLEMENT, b. Oct., 1808, d. Nov, 20, 1808.
II. CHARLES, b. March 12, 1811, d. April 8, 1888.
NATHANIEL C. CARKIN, son of Aaron and Betsey (Duncklee) Carkin, born Oct. 28, 1803; married Feb. 23, 1830, Betsey T. Odell of Mont Vernon ; second, Elizabeth Brown of Amherst. Betsey (Odell) Carkin died Feb. 27, 1864. Children by first wife :-
I. AARON, b. Dec. 31, 1831, d. Jan. 9, 1832.
2. SOPHRONIA, b. June 27, 1833, m. March 9, 1864, Ezra M. Farnum.
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