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3. NANCY, b. May 27, 1837, m. Leonard G. Brown. (See Brown gen.)
DAVID CARKIN, son of Aaron and Betsey (Duncklee) Carkin, born Jan. 1, 1806 ; married Dec. 27, 1827, Lydia, daughter of William and
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Eunice (Cram) Abbott. She was born June 5, 1809 ; died Sept. 15, 1895. He died July 6, 1892. Children :-
I. DAVID J., +
2. LYDIA J., b. June 27, 1831, m., first, Oct. 27, 1851, Franklin Towns of Milford ; second, Jerome Weston of Mason.
3. JOHN C., +
DAVID J. CARKIN, son of David and Lydia (Abbott) Carkin, born July 17, 1827 ; married Elizabeth Salter of Mount Holley, Vt. He died Nov. 16, 1878, in Louisiana. He was a soldier in the Civil War. (See Chap. X.) Children :-
I. CLINTINA, b. in Peterborough, Oct 27, 1853, m. John H. Burton of Lyndeborough. (See Burton gen.)
2. GEORGE, b. April 24, 1857, m. Hattie M. Stone of Royal- ston, Mass. She was b. Oct. 15, 1862, m. July 4, 1882.
JOHN C. CARKIN, son of David and Lydia C. (Abbott) Carkin, born March 7, 1844 ; married Dec. 30, 1866, Ellen E., daughter of Zadoc and Ellinor (Sanborn) Jones of Milford. She was born Oct. 29, 1846. He was a soldier in the Civil War. (See Chap. X.) Was moderator of the town meetings for many years. Resides at So. Lyndeborough. Cliil- dren :-
I. MEDIE A., b. Oct. 12, 1867, m. first, John L. Trask of Marrons, Conn. ; second, Bradley L. Hayward of Brockton, Mass. ; third, Fred Waterhouse of Brockton, Mass.
2. JOHN A .. +
3. MERRILL F., b. Nov. 25, 1869, m. Aug. 16, 1894, Jennie, daughter of William H. and Eliza A. (Dale) Doe of Read- ing, Mass. Child : Evelyn G.
4. FRED E. +
5. WILLIE C., +
JOHN A. CARKIN, son of John C. and Ellen E. (Jones) Carkin, born Sept. 10, 1868 ; married Minnie R., daughter of John H. and Sabra Anna (Lewis) Day of Greenfield, June 23, 1889. She was born Sept. 20, 1872. Children all born in Lyndeborough :-
I. HENRY A., b. Nov. 7, 1892.
2. BELLE E., b. Oct. 23, 1894.
3. CARROLL C., b. March 30, 1897.
4. EDGAR L., b. Feb. 12, 1899.
5. SABRA E., b. April 13, 1901.
6. LYDIA R., b. at Greenland, N. H., Aug. 31, 1903.
FRED E. CARKIN, son of John C. and Ellen E. (Jones) Carkin, born Jan. 25, 1871 ; married March 31, 1894, Mary E., daughter of Edwin and Emmeline (Wilkins) Kinney of Peterborough. Children :-
I. NELLIE E., b. at Lyndeborough, Feb. 27, 1895.
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2. GEORGE, b. at Lyndeborough, April 20, 1897.
3. ISAAC B., b. at Harrisville, April 24, 1899, d. Sept. 4, 1899.
4. Annie R., b. at Harrisville, June 13, 1900.
5. EDITH M., b. at Harrisville, Oct. 15, 1901.
6. KATHLEEN E., b. at Harrisville, Feb. 20, 1903.
7. JOHN R., b. at Lyndeborough, April 27, 1904.
WILLIE C. CARKIN, son of John C. and Ellen E. (Jones) Carkin, born Oct. 7, 1873 ; married Dec. 19, 1893, Anna E., daughter of Charles A. and Ann B. (Butler) Barrett of Antrim. She was born June 4, 1871. Children : -
I. ROBERT C., b. Sept. 16, 1894.
2. GERALD, b. Oct. 2, 1901.
CARLETON.
One of the most notable families among the early settlers of Salem- Canada was the Carleton family. Joseph Carleton, their immigrant ances- tor, came to this country from England and settled in Newburyport, Mass. He married Abigail Osgood and they had six children born to them, David, Jonathan, Moses, Jeremiah, Mary and Abigail. It is sup- posed that these children were born in Newburyport, Mass.
JEREMIAH CARLETON, son of Joseph and Abigail (Osgood) Carle- ton, born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1715; married Eunice Taylor, who was born in 1717. They lived in Newtown, now Amesbury, Mass., where part of his children were born. His business was that of a carpenter, millwright and lumber dealer. About the year 1750, he removed to Litchfield, N. H., and six years later in the fall he came to Salem-Canada and pitched his camp on land now owned by E. C. Curtis. It was built beside a big rock situated about 30 rods from the northeast corner of said land. The remains of the stone fire dogs and cellar hole may still be seen. He began his clearing among the big hemlocks on the flat the other side of the brook and worked at it during the fall and winter, and in the spring went back to his family presumably at Litchfield. While he was in camp that winter some hunters drove a lot of deer into the big brook near by and getting fire from his camp they killed a num- ber. They stayed with him all night, and in the morning took the hides of the deer, leaving him with a plentiful supply of venison. He re- turned with his family that year and is supposed to have built him a cabin, but Indians killed his stock and burned his cabin and he was forced to leave and did not return until two years later in 1760. When he returned, if he cleared 20 acres of land and built a framed house of certain dimensions he was to have 60 acres of land, and if he built a saw-mill he was to have 60 acres more for that. He built his house about 100 rods northeast of E. C. Curtis's brick house, and near the brook. He hewed all the timber for his house from oak logs and those timbers are sound to-day.
He built the saw-mill in 1761 and 1762. It was situated about 30 rods below the bridge on the road from Johnson's Corner to Wilton. In this mill the boards were sawed to finish his house. The mill did a good
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business as long as he was able to run it. He cleared the land and had 8 acres of corn planted among the stumps the first year. The bears were numerous and took toll of the corn and live stock. The Carletons were at work among the corn one day, when they heard the hog squeal. The old man ran to the rescue but too late to save the hog, but the women folks had run with their hemlock brooms and had scared a bear away from the carcass. Jeremiah was indignant that he should lose the chance to shoot the bear, but they had fresh pork for awhile. He died in 1769. His wife survived him about 25 years. She was a very religious woman and used to walk to Amherst, 6 miles, to attend church, guiding her way by marked trees. They had seven children : -
I. OSGOOD, +
2. JEREMIAH, +
3. MARY, m. Reuben Bachelder and rem. to Warren, N. H., where they lived and died.
4. ABIGAIL, m. first, Adam Johnson, second, "Ensign "David Putnam. Mr. Johnson died or was killed while in the army during the Revolutionary War.
5. TIMOTHY. Was killed by the accident at the raising of the Wilton church in 1774.
6. DAVID. Killed in the army during the Revolutionary War. (See Chapter VII.)
7. EBENEZER. After the close of the Revolutionary War, in which he took part (See Chapter VII), he came home and settled in Chester, N. H., and d. in 1840.
OSGOOD CARLETON, son of Jeremiah and Eunice (Taylor) Carleton born in Newtown, or Amesbury, Mass., in 1741, and came to Lyndeborough with his father. He was a fine mechanic and a great mathematician. He cleared a piece of land about half a mile south of the old meeting house and built a house and lived in it some years. The site is grown up to wood now. He did a large business in surveying, laying out the towns around in lots, both in New Hampshire and Vermont. He published some works on navigation and made almanacs. He taught a select school of high order and once when the committee visited it they found every- thing satisfactory, but said they wished to ask him one question. They said they had been told that he never went to school a day in his life and wished to know if it was true. He said that it was so. He surveyed and drew the plans for the forts to protect Boston harbor and did other surveying for the government. One of his pupils in Boston was Robert B. Thomas of " Farmers' Almanac " fame. Mr. Carleton taught him how make almanacs and indeed made the calculations for the first "Farmers' Almanac" himself. The story is told that everything was finished and ready for the printer but the weather predictions, and Mr. Carleton told his daughter, a lively girl of sixteen, that she might add them. In a spirit of mischief she predicted a thunder storm in January and a snowstorm in June. When the book was printed Mr. Carleton reproached his daughter for having ruined the venture, but as it hap-
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pened, a thunder storm did come in January, and one morning in June the girl arose and found flakes of snow falling. She called her father to see. The reputation of the " Farmers' Almanac " was made for all time. He was also a cunning hunter and trapper. (See p. 118.)
Osgood had two sons and one or more daughters. His wife died in Lyndeborough. After his wife's death he went to live with his son in Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. (See Chap. VII.)
JEREMIAH CARLETON, second son of Jeremiah and Eunice (Taylor) Carleton, was born in Newtown in 1743 ; married Lois Hoyt, born in New- buryport in 1746. He lived with his father until he was sixteen, and then enlisted in the army. The year after his discharge, 1760, he went to work as an apprentice to learn the ship carpenters' trade, presumably in Newburyport, and stayed there until 1771, when he removed with his family to the farm left by his father in Lyndeborough, but in a year or two went back to Newburyport, Mass. When the Revolutionary War came on, there being no work at ship carpentering, he again returned to the farm. After the war he lived the remainder of his life on the farm. (For military record see Chap. VII.) They had eleven children: -
I. SARAH, b. in Newburyport, Mass., 1768, came with her father to Lyndeborough when three years old, m. 1795, William Richardson, and removed to Barre, Vt .; two children.
2. JEREMIAH, b. 1770, in Newburyport, d. an infant.
3. JEREMIAH, 2nd, b. in Lyndeborough May 10, 1772, m. 1798, Deborah Edwards, and removed to Barre, Vt .; nine chil- dren.
3. TIMOTHY, b. June 1, 1774, m. 1801, Miss Huzza, and re- moved to Barre, Vt .; seven children.
5. LoIs, b. Mar. 2, 1776, m. Caleb Taft and removed to Barre, Vt .; six children.
6. MARY, b. Aug. 3, 1779, m. 1799, John Harwood ; removed to Mont Vernon ; six children.
7. BETTY, b. Apr. 19, 1781.
8. RHODA, b. June 27, 1783, m. 1806, Henry Cram.
9. HANNAH, b. Sept. 16, 1785.
IO. DUDLEY, +
II. MOSES, b. Sept. 7, 1792, m. 1818, Chloe Batchelder, lived at Amherst and New Ipswich, and 1832 removed to Os- wego, N. Y.
DUDLEY CARLETON, son of Jeremiah and Lois (Hoyt) Carleton ; born June 23, 1788; married Dec. 24, 1817, Eliza, daughter of John and Ruth (Southwick) Proctor of Lyndeborough. She was born Mar. 8, 1796; died at Amherst, June 9, 1867. He died Nov. 19, 1873. He settled on the old homestead farm to take care of his parents. He built the brick house now owned and occupied by E. C. Curtis. (Mr. Curtis owns prac-
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tically all of the Carleton farm.) In 1833 he sold part of the farm with the brick house to Amaziah Blanchard, and the rest to James O'Donnell, and in 1834 removed to Francestown, where he lived until 1838, when he removed to Amherst, where he died. Children : -
I. JOHN, b. July 16, 1819, m. May 13, 1858, Mary P., dau. of Abel and Polly (Proctor) Hill of Lyndeborough. She was b. Jan. 15, 1822. One son, John S., b. at Frances- town, May 18, 1861, d. at Amherst, Aug. 14, 1887. John Carleton d. in Amherst, July 31, 1891.
2. ELIZA, b. Jan. 27, 1824.
3. MARY LOIS, b. Nov. 12, 1827, m. May 9, 1861, Luther Cog- gin, Jr., of Amherst. Res. at Amherst.
CARR.
CHARLES CARR, and Rosa, his wife, resided in Lyndeborough for a number of years, removing to Wilton. They had two children born in Lyndeborough.
I. C. LORENZO, b. Oct. 25, 1882.
2. Annis R. b. March 4, 1887.
CARSON.
WILLIAM CARSON was the first of that name to settle in Lyndebor- ough. He was born in Scotland in 1722. He was a brother or nephew of John Carson, the first settler in Francestown .* He lived in Francestown for a time, and then removed to Johnson's Corner. He probably came here in 1774 or 1775. He married Isabelle, daughter of John and Mary Johnson, and settled on land which is now the farm owned by Mrs. Kil- burn S. Curtis. He built the house which has been remodeled into the present building. He died in 1818, aged 96. They had four children, some of them said to have been born in Francestown : -
I. WILLIAM, +
2. ROBERT, ++
3. MARY, +
4. ASA, +
WILLIAM CARSON, son of William and Isabelle (Johnson) Carson ; born 1754; married Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Harwood of Mont Vernon. The father died a short time before the birth of the youngest child, 1797. Children : -
I. JOHN, +
2. WILLIAM, b. 1797, m. Dorcas Russell. They had two chil- dren, Eliza A. and Lafayette. Eliza A., m. Anson French of Wilton. Lafayette d. unm.
*There is a variance of the records furnished me by a descendant of the family (Mrs. W. D. Hooper of Mont Vernon) and those published in the Francestown History. She insists that John of Francestown never married, and that Jolin, William and Robert were his nephews. It is immaterial to this History to enter into a controversy in regard to it.
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JOHN CARSON, son of William and Abigail (Harwood) Carson ; born Sept. 10, 1792; married 1813, Hannah Austin of Methuen, Mass. They had four children, two dying in infancy and two sons living to man- hood : -
I. JOHN JOHNSON, +
2. ALEXANDER, +
JOHN JOHNSON CARSON, son of John and Hannah (Austin) Car- son, born March 3, 1816; married June, 1840, Sarah, daughter of James and Azubah (Curtis) Hopkins of Mont Vernon. She was born March 12, 1816; died Nov. 18, 1887. He died Sept. 16, 1896. Children :
I. SARAH F., b. March, 1841, d. July, 1842.
2. EMILY F., b. Jan. 16, 1843, m. David Upton, Sept. 7, 1854. Res. in New Boston.
3. ADONIRAM J., b. March 27, 1845, d. September, 1847.
4. GEORGE J., +
5. HANNAH J., b. Feb. 2, 1851, d. August, 1853.
6. HATTIE J., b. Oct. 19, 1852, m. Ira Parker of Mont Vernon June 24, 1878, d. June 26, 1881.
7. FRANK P., b. March 26, 1855, m. Eda M. Carson, Aug. 24, 1880.
GEORGE J. CARSON, son of John J. and Sarah (Hopkins) Carson, born Oct. 19, 1848 in Mont Vernon ; married June 14, 1877, Laura A., daughter of David D. and Sophronia (Dickinson) Clark of Lyndebor- ough. She was born March 7, 1852; died Nov. 24, 1903. Children :
I. ROY C., b. in Mont Vernon, Dec. 8, 1879.
2. CORA A., b. in Mont Vernon, Sept. 20, 1881, d. March 5, 1889.
3. HATTIE M., b. at New Boston, Aug. 13, 1883.
ALEXANDER CARSON, son of John and Hannah (Austin) Carson, born Dec. 17, 1822; married Dec. 20, 1843, Margaretta C., daughter of James and Azubah (Curtis) Hopkins of Mont Vernon. She was born Dec. 14, 1822. Children born in Lyndeborough :
I & 2. HELEN and ELLEN, twins, b. Sept. 30, 1844. Ellen d. May 3, 1859, Helen d. Oct. 14, 1867.
3. MARTHA A., b. Feb. 28, 1846, m. May 9, 1878, Wallace D. Hooper, and res. in Mont Vernon.
4. JOHN W., b. Nov. 16, 1847, m. Dec. 24, 1884, Julia A. Dodge of Francestown, res. in Francestown.
5. ABBIE L., b. June 9, 1853, d. Oct. 14, 1867.
6. ALWILDA J., b. July 1, 1854, d. Oct. 17, 1867.
7. NETTIE M., b., Feb. 20, 1860, in Mont Vernon, m. March 29, 1898, Nathaniel F. Hooper, res. in Mont Vernon.
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8. THERESA D., b. May 6, 1861, in Mont Vernon, d. June 6, I868.
ROBERT CARSON, son of William and Isabelle (Johnson ) Carson. We have been unable to find any record of his family. He married and raised a family here, living on the Charles L. Perham farm. He is said to have removed with his family to Barre, Vt., and to have been one of the first settlers of that place.
MARY CARSON, daughter of William and Isabelle (Johnson) Car- son; married Amos Wilkins. They had five children, Amos, Mary, Isabelle, Simon and Mark. Mary and Isabelle married two brothers by the name of Stone and went to Swampscott, Mass. Simon and Mark also settled there or in Lynn, Mass. Amos Wilkins left his family for some reason and was never heard from.
ASA CARSON, son of William and Isabelle (Johnson) .Carson, married Mrs. Elizabeth (Harwood) Lynch. (This widow Lynch had one daugh- ter, Artemesia, who married Capt. Ebenezer Russell of Lyndeborough.) Asa Carson and Elizabeth, his wife, had seven children born to them, none of them born at Lyndeborough. The Harwood sisters, who mar- ried William and Asa Carson, were sisters of Andrew Harwood of Perham Corner, and daughters of John and Abigail (Hastings) Harwood of Mont Vernon.
CARYL.
JOHN CARYL, born Sept. 16, 1791; married Lucy Clark, May, 1818. She was born Aug. 3, 1800; died May 14, 1835. He died May 30. 1882. Children :
I. JOHN C., b. May 20, 1819.
2. WILLIAM B., b. Dec. 4, 1820.
3. NANCY, b. Jan. 29, 1823.
4. OLIVE, b. June 5, 1825.
5. CHRISTANNA, b. July 16, 1827.
6. BENJAMIN W., b. Dec. 1, 1829.
7. LUCY H., b. June 27, 1832.
CHAMBERLAIN.
The name Chamberlain appears very early in the history of Salem- Canada. Jonathan Chamberlain was the son of Capt. Samuel and Abi- gail ( Hill) Chamberlain of Chelmsford, Mass. He was born there Feb. II, 17II. On May 12, 1737, his father deeded him for "love and natural affection " a number of lots of land in Tyngs Township which "lyeth on the east side of Merrimack river between Suncook or Lovell's town (now Pembroke) and Litchfield." On Aug. 21, 1739, he sold this land to James Anderson of Londonderry. In that same year (1739), he removed to Salem-Canada. In 1740 or 1741 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Cram. They were his predecessors by one or two years in the township. It is evident that he returned to Chelmsford, Mass., and lived there for awhile, for their children are recorded as born in Chelmsford. But Mr. Rufus Chamberlain believes they were born in
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Salem-Canada, and there being no township records kept, they were recorded in Chelmsford, Mass. It is a fact that the older children of the daughters of John Cram are recorded in the towns where their husbands came from. April 8, 1768, Jonathan Chamberlain received from the heirs of Joseph Cram of Lyndeborough, a deed of the south part of Lot No. 41, containing seventy-five acres. The consideration being, "the caring for and giving Christian burial to Joseph Cram." This farm is the one where Rufus Chamberlain now lives. Jonathan Chamberlain was a Revolutionary soldier. He, together with his son, Jonathan Jr., enlisted in Capt. Peter Clark's Company, and marched from Lyndeborough for Ticonderoga, July 1, 1777. (See Chap. VII.) He was prominent in shaping the policy and management of the new town, and endured the hardships of frontier life. His wife was born 1721, and died April 30, 1806. He died Jan. 19, 1795. Children :-
I. ELIZABETH, born April 30, 1742.
2. JONATHAN, +
3. SAMUEL, +
4. OLIVE, b. Aug. 16, 1750, m. Benjamin Cram.
5. SARAH, b. April 6, 1753, d. Jan. 5, 1797.
6. MOLLY, b. May 10, 1756.
7. JOHN, +
8. ABIGAIL, b. July 8, 1763.
JONATHAN CHAMBERLAIN, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Cram) Chamberlain, born Feb. 26, 1743-4 ; married July 13, 1768, Margaret, daughter of Benjamin Cram and Elizabeth, his wife. She was born 1748. Like his father he was a soldier in the Continental army. He died April 26, 1815. Children : -
I. BENJAMIN, b. April 7, 1770, m, Joanna Herrick. Rem. to Gardiner, Me.
2. JONATHAN, b. March 17, 1772. Rem. to Hanover, N. H., and was the father of Eliza Chamberlain, who lived at the centre for many years.
3. JOHN, b. March 26, 1774, m. Abigail Brown. Rem. to Hallowell, Me.
4. ELIZABETH, b. June 3, 1776, m. Samuel Woodward. (See Woodward gen.)
5. DAVID, b. Dec. 3, 1778.
6. DANIEL, +
7. MARGARET, b. Dec. 28, 1783, m. - Cole.
8. OLIVE, b. Aug. 4, 1788, m. Ephraim Woodward. (See Woodward gen.)
9. NATHANIEL, b. March 3, 1791, m. 1816, Mary Knapp. He rem. to Covington, Ky .; later to Hudson, Mich .; d. Toledo, O., March 20, 1857.
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IO. ASA, b. April 10, 1793.
II, JOSEPH, b. Nov. 12, 1795, m. Burton. Rem. to Mason.
DANIEL CHAMBERLAIN, son of Jonathan and Margaret (Cram) Chamberlain, b. March 6, 1781; married Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Patience Pearsons of Lyndeborough. She died July 29, 1873. He removed to Woburn, Mass., where he died May 5, 1874. Children re- corded as born at Lyndeborough : -
I. HANNAH, b. Dec. 14, 1815.
2. CHLOE, b. June 23, 1817.
3. DIANTHA, b. Aug. 27, 1819.
4. AMANDA, b. Nov. 11, 1824.
5. DANIEL, b. Oct. 30, 1826.
SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Cram) Chamberlain, born April 4, 1745; married first, Hannah, who died Sept. 25, 1784 ; second, Naomi Richardson. He died in 1812 or 1813, and his widow, Naomi, died in 1850 or 1851. He was a soldier in the Continental Army. (See Chapter VII.) Children by first wife : -
I. HANNAH, b. April 28, 1775, m. - Burnham. Rem. to Greenfield.
2. ELIZABETH, b. May 8, 1777, d. June 13, 1780. ,
3. SAMUEL, +
4. AMY, b. Feb. 14, 1781.
5. BETSEY, b. April 18, 1783.
6. BENJAMIN, b. Jan. 30, 1786, m. - Ordway. Rem. to New York.
7. RACHEL; b. Oct. 6, 1787, m. Thomas Dutton.
8. JOSEPH, +
9. PETER, b. Nov. 9, 1791. Rem. to New York.
IO. NAOMI, b. Nov. 25, 1793.
By second wife : -
II. SILAS, b. Feb. 20, 1797.
12. SARAH, b. April 10, 1800.
13. PHINEAS A., b. April 4, 1802, d. March 10, 1803.
14. LEVI,, b. June 29, 1804. Rem. to New Boston.
15. OLIVE, b. Oct. 5, 1807, d. young.
SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN, son of Samuel and Hannah Chamberlain, born May 4, 1779; married first, Olive -; second, Hepsibah -. Children : -
I. EDA, b. Dec. 21, 1810.
2. WILLIAM, b. Oct. 18, 1812.
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3. PHILLIP, b. July 25, 1814.
4. HANNAH, b. March 12, 1816.
By second wife : -
5. HEMAN SARGENT, b. Feb. 16, 1820.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, son of Samuel and Naomi (Richardson) Chamberlain, born Dec. 12, 1789; married Dec. 27, 1817, Sarah Abbott of Chelmsford, Mass. She was born March 19, 1792; died, May 31, 1857. He died Aug. 30, 1862. After serving in the War of 1812 (See Chapter IX), he went to Milford. He was a brick maker by trade, and came back to his native town about 1825. Children :-
I. RUFUS, +
2. JOSEPH, b. at Milford, Feb. 22, 1821, m. Oct. 31, 1844, Mary A. Drew of Somersworth, b. April 3, 1824. After many removals he settled in Paxton, Mass., where he died Sept. 18, 1886. His wife d. at Cambridgeport, Mass., Dec. 6, I886. Children : Horace E., Ella E., George A., Fred W.
3. SALLY, b. at Milford, March II, 1823, m. July 15, 1847, Charles Blanchard of Milford.
4. OTIS, b. at Lyndeborough, Jan. 8, 1826, m. first, May, 1849, Clara S. Holt. She d. June 10, 1852 ; second, Nov. 24, 1852, Martha K., dau. of Jonas and Mary (Hall) Wheeler. She was b. Nov. 23, 1834. He rem. from Lyndeborough and for a number of years was engaged in lumbering in Canada. He subsequently settled in Grafton, N. H. Children : Emery O., Woodbury O., Fred W.
5. OLIVE, born at Lyndeborough, Jan. 20, 1828, m. Edwin N. Patch. (See Patch gen.)
6. SUSAN, b. at Wilton, Oct. 29, 1830, d. Aug. 17, 1832.
7. HARVEY, b. at Lyndeborough, March 2, 1833, m. Sept. 21, 1862, Sarah J. Libbey of Warren. Rem. to Rivere de Loupe, Canada, where he d. Sept. 9, 1867. Child : Harry L.
RUFUS CHAMBERLAIN, son of Joseph and Sarah Abbott Chamber- lain, born at Milford, June 5, 1819; married May 20, 1843, Martha Jane Upton. She was born at Lyndeborough, Jan. 21, 1821 ; died May 24, 1892. He is of the seventh generation from Thomas Chamberlain of Woburn, Mass., who is presumed to be the immigrant ancestor of the Chamberlains of Lyndeborough. He is the only descendant in the male line now living in Lyndeborough of the many Chamberlains born here. The rest have emigrated to many parts of the country. In early life he worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass., but returned to Lyndebor- ough and settled on the homestead farm which has been in the family
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since 1768. He has always taken a lively interest in the business affairs of the town, and has filled many offices of trust. For nine years he was selectman and helped guide the financial matters of the town during the closing years of the Civil War, when Lyndeborough, in common with most of the towns of New Hampshire, was burdened with a heavy debt. He has been a trusted counsellor of the political party to which he belonged, and whose principles he was ever ready to defend. He was the parish sexton for more than forty years. Children : -
I. EMILY, b. March 3, 1844, m. May 18, 1865, Charles F. Tar- bell. (See Tarbell gen.)
2. WALTER, b. Oct. 2, 1846. Was a soldier in the Civil War, and d. at New Orleans, La., May 7, 1863. (See Chapter X.)
3. ELIZA ANN, b. Oct. 16, 1848, m. Dec. 4, 1867, Charles H. Wilson of Deering. He was b. June 20, 1838. Children : Willis H., Eugene R., Alice M., Walter C.
4. SARAH FLORENCE, b. Sept. 23, 1850, d. Feb. 26, 1853.
5. FRANK, b. Oct. 9, 1852, m. Oct. 23, 1873, Sarah M. Barrett. Res. in Worcester. Children : Mabel Otis, Alton L.
6. WILLIS BROOKS, b. June 25, 1854, m. April 30, 1879, S. Cornelia Maynard of South Lancaster, Mass. Children : Emma C., Marion L.
7. RUFUS WARREN, b. May 11, 1856, m. Dec. 25, 1876, Carrie J. Wallace. Res. at Omaha, Neb. Children : Fred W., Walter, Fannie M., Martha F.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Cran) Chamberlain, born Sept. 16, 1759; married Molly Children re- corded as born in Lyndeborough : -
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