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I. JACOB, JR., +
2. JAMES, b. in 1747, d. in the army during the Revolution.
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3. ABRAHAM, b. in 1748, m. Rebecca Pearsons. He served in the Continental Army, and lived some years after the close of the war. He received a pension. Rem. to Maine about 1785.
4. JOHN, +
5. ANN, b. in 1750, m. John Howes.
6. ELIZABETH, b. in 1751, m. Joseph Robeson.
JACOB WELLMAN, JR., son of Capt. Jacob and Jane (Johnson) Well- man ; born May 13, 1746, in Dunstable, Mass .; married first, Hannah, daughter of Dea. Melchisedek Boffee of Lyndeborough. She was born May 5, 1745 ; died Jan. 28, 1793 ; married second, Elizabeth Moore. She was born Aug. 9, 1757; died in Sept., 1848. He died April 20, 1834. He was a soldier in the Continental Army, and in the winter of 1775 marched to Charlestown and encamped at Winter Hill, and was wounded in the Bat- tle of Bunker Hill. The next day he was carried to the hospital at Cam- bridge and when sufficiently recovered returned to Lyndeborough.
It is related of him that in company with Thomas Johnson he was in the woods one day in search of timber when they saw a bear approaching. One of them had an axe in his hand and the other a handspike, and they held their ground, standing perfectly still. The bear came on until pretty near them, then stopped and began growling and making other hostile demonstrations, but suddenly hitched back a few steps and fled from their sight. Wellman said Johnson was paler than he was when facing the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill. At another time, in com- pany with another man, hunting bears, they had driven one into its den, in which there were some cubs. Wellman agreed to crawl into the cave, having first fastened a rope to his ankles and instructed his com- panion to pull him out if he jerked the rope. With his musket in his hand he cautiously crawled into the cave until he could see the bear's eyes glisten, then took aim and fired and lost no time in backing out. They then built a fire to smoke out the cubs. But after awhile they found the old bear dead, and the cubs, two in number, suffocated. To crawl into a den where there was a bear guarding her cubs would seem to require nerve of the highest kind. Children by first wife : -
I. HANNAH, b. Sept. 13, 1767, m. David Jennings of Lynde- borough. They had two or three sons and a daughter.
2. JACOB, +
3. DAVID, b. Nov. 28, 1772, m. Sarah Faxon. Was county sheriff and d. in Washington, N. H.
4. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 20, 1773, d. March, 1835. Was a soldier in the army five years, and went with the troops to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1792, when our territories were threatened by French and Spanish. He was a man of strict integrity of character.
5. THOMAS, b. Feb. 4, 1777, m. Lydia Knowlton, rem. to Maine. They had thirteen children.
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6. MARY, b. Jan. 2, 1779, mn. 1802, Jonathan Bosworth of Hart- ford, Me. She d. Dec. 1825.
7. BETSEY, b. Feb. 17, 1781, m. Jan. 30, 1803, Stephen Bos- worth of Buckfield, Me. She d. July, 1816.
8. JAMES, b. Feb. 25, 1783, m. Jan. 26, 1806, Sarah Francis. She was b. Oct. 15, 1786. He rem. to Farmington, Me., in 1805.
9. EBENEZER BRYANT, b. June 7, 1785, m. 1810, Carrie Parker, rem. to Maine.
10. JOHN, +
Children by second wife : -
II. WILLIAM M., b. Dec. 20, 1795, d. Feb. 19, 1812.
12. DANIEL, b. Jan. 13, 1798, d. March 29, 1798.
JACOB WELLMAN, son of Jacob, Jr., and Hannah (Boffee) Wellman ; born Feb. 17, 1771 ; married Sarah Orne. She died April 4, 1866. He died Oct., 1817. Children : -
I. THOMAS, b. 1794, in. Irene Miner.
2. SARAH, m. Francis Cram.
3. HANNAH, mn. Alden Casey.
4. JACOB, m. Sophie Miner.
JOHN WELLMAN, son of Jacob Jr., and Hannah (Boffee) Wellman ; born July 18, 1790; married Betsey Moore. She was born Dec. 25, 1795. He was a member of the Calvinist Baptist Church for fifty years, and was generally known as "John the Baptist." He died in 1855. Children : - I. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 25, 1819, d. 1852, committed suicide.
2. JESSE P., b. July 4, 1821, was supposed to have been killed in a railroad accident at Norwalk, Conn.
3. NANCY E., b. Feb. 24, 1823, m. Daniel Sargent of Milford.
4. JOHN, b. March 15, 1825.
5. HANNAH J., b. June 11, 1827, d. Jan. 21, 1838.
6. ISRAEL W., b. March 1, 1829, rem. to Stoddard.
7. KEZIAH, b. May 5, 1831, m. Hiram Story, rem. to Antrim, 1889.
8. JAMES M., b. Sept. 30, 1835. Was a soldier in the Civil War. (See Chap. X.)
9. MARY J., b. Jan. 17, 1839.
JOHN WELLMAN, son of Capt. Jacob and Jane (Johnson) Wellman ; born 1758; married Ann Thissell. He died June 30, 1826; she died March 23, 1851, aged eighty years. He was a soldier in the Continental Army. Children : -
1. POLLY, b. Jan. 2, 1779, d. Sept. 11, 1863.
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2. JOHN, 2ND, d. Dec. 21, 1875. He lived on the same farm and in the same house in which he and his father were born. He was more commonly known as "Spud " Well- man.
WILDER.
ERWIN D. WILDER, son of Cyrus and Nancy (Erwin) Wilder, born at New Boston, Oct. 14, 1828; married Jan. 11, 1854, Sarah E., daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Messer) Kendall of Dunstable, Mass. She was born Oct. 10, 1832. He came to Lyndeborough from Nashua in 1865, and in 1867 settled on the Daniel Boardman place, North Lyndeborough, purchasing it of his brother, Alfred. He is a carpenter and builder, and also a farmer. He was selectman in 1876, and is a man well liked in the community. Children, the three older born at Nashua : -
I. ALFRED E., b. Feb. 25, 1855, m. March 12, 1879, Charlotte A., dau. of John and Mary (Crombie) Andrews of New Boston. She was b. Nov. 5, 1848. He d. Dec. 19, 1903. Child : Mary E., b. June 23, 1883.
2. CHARLES F., b. Jan. 11, 1857, m. June 9, 1879, Mary F. Whittier of Newton, N. H. She was b. March 4, 1861. Children : Howard E., b. April 3, 1885 ; Mabel E., b. Nov. 27, 1888 ; Wallace W. Res. at Amesbury, Mass.
3. ARTHUR W., b. Oct. 2, 1860, m. June 2, 1888, Clara E. Peaslee of Roxbury, Mass. She was b. June 2, 1866. Children : Erwin S., b. March 21, 1889 ; Esther W. Res. at Newton, N. H.
4. WILLIAM C., b. at Lyndeborough, Sept. 13, 1868, m. Sept. 21, 1892, Adria A., dau. of Emery and Ella (Russell) Holt, b. Jan. 8, 1873. Children : Bertha E., b. Oct. 26, 1900 : Gladys Elizabeth, b. at New Boston, Nov. 21, 1901; Carl Emery, b. Aug. 27, 1903; Ruth Gertrude, b. at Lyndeborough, June 5, 1905.
ALFRED WILDER, a brother of Erwin D., born in 1826; came to Lyndeborough from Nashua and lived for a few years on the Boardman place. He married Naomi McConnihee of Mont Vernon. He removed to Greenville and later to Milford, where he died December, 1898. Of his four children one, George, was born in Lyndeborough, Oct. 25, 1865.
WILKERSON.
EDWIN C. WILKERSON, son of Herbert and Flora (Putnam) Wilkerson, born Aug. 20, 1873, in Wilton; married Rebecca, daughter of Hugh and Margaret (Archie) Morrison of Yorkshire, England, Nov. 20, 1895. She was born Aug. 13, 1871. Children born in Lyndeborough : - I. HILDA M., b. July 7, 1897.
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2. GERTRUDE, b. Feb. 2, 1899.
3. BERTRAM C., b. March 24, 1903.
WILLIAMS.
THOMAS A. WILLIAMS, son of James and Mary (Brooks) Williams, born at Manchester, England, Nov. 5, 1857; married Nov. 10, 1881, Hattie E., daughter of Phineas Collier of Boston, Mass. She was born Nov. 20, 1861. He lived at the Bixby place and was postmaster at the centre from 1889 until the office was discontinued in 1901. He was tax collector in 1900-1901. Resides in Boston. Child : -
I. HERBERT C.,b. Jan. 27, 1887.
JAMES H. WILLIAMS, son of James and Mary (Brooks) Williams, born at Manchester, England; married first, Lizzie J. Leach of Waltham, Mass; married second, Hattie E. Hapgood of Standish, Me. Children :-
I. ANNIE E., b. Jan. 7, 1876, at Peru, Me.
2. THOMAS A., b. July 3, 1881, at Hartford, Me.
WILSON.
ALBRO M. WILSON, son of Griffin and Elizabeth (Stevens) Wilson, born in Nelson, April 1, 1846; married July 18, 1874, Rosa M., daughter of Edward and Betsey (Way) Sulham. She was born March 19, 1857. Was in the provision business at South Lyndeborough for a while. Removed to Milford in 1886, where he died April 14, 1902. Children, all born in Lyndeborough but the youngest : -
I. ALBERT G., b. Dec. 19, 1875. Res. in Milford.
2. ELMER M., b. April 9, 1877, m. March 3, 1900, Georgia. F. H., dau. of Stephen and Maria (Martin) Blanchard. Res. in Milford.
3. GEORGE S., b. July 19, 1883.
4. HAROLD L., b. in Milford, Sept. 19, 1895.
WILSON.
MILLARD WILSON, son of David and Lois (Messer) Wilson, born Nov. 27, 1851 ; married Sept. 5, 1880, Ida L., daughter of David and Lenora (Kendall) Morse of Alexandria, N. H. She was born Oct. 23, 1859. He came to Lyndeborough from Greenfield in 1898, and settled on the Manning place, north of the mountain. Children : -
I. WILLIAM P., b. April 6, 1881.
2. DAVID E., b. June 14, 1883.
WINN.
GEORGE E. WINN, son of Erwin and Jane (Pollard) Winn, born April 18, 1844, in Bennington ; married first, Feb. 22, 1867, C. S. Smith, daughter of Louis and Cynthia Smith. She was born June, 1849 ; married second, Nov. 14, 1892, Camelia W., daughter of Freeman and Ruth
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Josiah Wheeler
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(Jackman) Elkins and widow of David S. Draper. She was born Sept. 15, 1845. He was a soldier during the Civil War. (See Chap. X.) Chil- dren by first wife, all born in Wilton : -
I. GEORGE A., b. Feb. 4, 1868.
2. MARY E., b. March, 1870.
3. IDA J., b. Aug. 13, 1872.
4. FRANK A., b. Nov. 23, 1879, m. Jan. 1, 1903, Clara B., dau. of Daniel A. and May (Hoyt) Colby of Francestown.
WHEELER.
Nathan Wheeler was one of the early settlers of Temple. He married Lydia Adams of Concord, Mass., and it was from that town they came to Temple. They had three children. Nathan and Josiah came to Lynde- borough. The other child was Lydia, born Aug. 19, 1783. Nathan re- turned to Temple about 1820.
NATHAN WHEELER, son of Nathan and Lydia (Adams) Wheeler ; born at Temple, Oct. 20, 1781; married Rachel -. Children, born in Lyndeborough : -
I. NATHAN C., b. May 9, 1805.
2. EPHRAIM A., b. March 31, 1809.
3. JONATHAN, d. April 16, 1809.
4. LUTHER, b. Feb. 21, 1812.
5. THOMAS, b. March 23, 1814.
JOSIAH WHEELER, son of Nathan. and Lydia (Adams) Wheeler; born in Temple, N. H., May II, 1786; died Oct. 4, 1874; married first, Dolly Shattuck of Temple, N. H., Dec. 31, 1811. She was born Sept. I, 1788; died Aug. 14, 1845; married second, Mrs. Dorothy (Whiting) Killan of Thetford, Vt., April 29, 1846. She was born March 14, 1795 ; died Dec. 4, 1870. He built the house at the Centre known as the Wheeler house in 1813, and lived there until his death. He was a car- penter by trade and his work as a craftsman was done before the days of planing machines and other labor saving devices. He was thoroughly honest and upright in all his dealings, a sincere and earnest Christian and a constant attendant at church service. He had a quaint and dry humor, and was quiet and retiring in disposition. The boys all liked "Uncle Si," and he was never too busy to attend to their wants. The Franklin Library was for many years in his house under the care of his wife, and many of the books were of her selection. He was town treas- urer of Lyndeborough for thirty-one consecutive years. Children by first wife, born in Lyndeborough :-
I. DOLLY, b. Dec. 14, 1814, m. Henry I. Kimball of Springfield, Vt., March 3, 1840. He was b. April II, 1813, d. Oct. 25, 1862. Children : Lydia Annah, Alice Wheeler, Janie.
2. LYDIA, b. June 8, 1818, m. Thomas P. Rand of Francestown. (See Rand gen.)
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3. JOSIAH KIMBALL, b. July 15, 1822, m. first, Abby A. Marsh of Hudson, Nov. 22, 1849. She was b. April 23, 1827, d. June 12, 1865; m. second, Abbie A. Wilson of New Ip- swich, Dec. 28, 1865. She was b. July 28, 1836. Mr. Wheeler removed to Hudson, where he has since lived. He represented that town in the legislature in 1871. Was town clerk and treasurer in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, select- man five years, and was moderator for many years, which record shows in what esteem the citizens of that town hold him. He is a farmer and a successful business man. They have one adopted daughter.
WHEELER.
JONAS WHEELER was born July 31, 1801 ; married May 6, 1822, Mary Hall of Brookline. She was born June 2, 1803 ; died Nov. 26, 1862. Chil- dren : -
I. WILLIAM GLOVER, b. July 28, 1829.
2. SALATHIEL LIDSON, +
3. MARY A., b. March 5, 1833, m. C. Henry Holt. (See Holt gen.)
4. MARTHA KARR, b. Nov. 23, 1834, m. Otis Chamberlain. (See Chamberlain gen.)
5. DUSTIN H., b. April 13, 1837, in. first, Mrs. Lucinda Hall, m. second, Mrs. Dundy.
6. MARCUS DE H., b. Dec. 13, 1839.
7. SAMANTHA A., b. Sept. 29, 1841, m. Hiram Bailey, of Peterborough, res. in Burlington, Vt.
SALATHIEL L. WHEELER, son of Jonas and Mary (Hall) Wheeler ; born Feb. 6, 1831 ; married Jan. 2, 1855, Mary J. Carpenter of Vermont. He died May 10, 1890. Children : -
I. MARY A., m. Charles O. Clement. (See Clement gen.)
2. CHARLES L., b. Nov. 5, 1866, m. Catharine Watts of Eng- land. Children : Florence, Ethel. Res. in Wilton.
3. MINNIE, b. June 2, 1874, d. Sept. 21, 1874.
4. MINNIE M., b. Oct. 23, 1875. m. George Blanchard of Greenfield, res. in Greenfield.
WHITING.
JOSEPH WHITING was born in 1727. He married when he was about thirty years of age, Abigail Chamberlain of Dunstable, Mass. She was a daughter of Thomas Chamberlain, who married a sister of Col. Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable. Joseph Whiting came to Lyndeborough in the spring of 1793 and settled on what has since been known as the Whiting
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place, in the north part of the town. The buildings have been torn down, but the site is a little way to the west of the No. 8 schoolhouse. He died in Merrimac, Feb., 1807. He had seven sons and three daughters. One of these sons, Oliver, remained in Lyndeborough.
OLIVER WHITING, son of Joseph and Abigail (Chamberlain) Whit. ing ; born Jan. 29, 1769; married 1793 Hannah Marshall of Billerica, Mass. She died Oct .. 1843. He died July 15, 1815.
The Whiting family were prominent in town and social affairs, and at the time they were living in Lyndeborough the section of the town northwest of the mountain was the most prosperous and its citizens the most influential of any. Now it is grown over with bushes, and nothing but cellar holes mark the place where once were well cultivated farms and substantial dwellings, where were raised large families of children. Not much is known of the older families of this section. They are ex- tinct in this town. Children : -
I. HANNAH, b. Oct. 6, 1793, m. Jan. 29, 1824, Enoch Ordway of Lyndeborough. They removed to Jasper, N. Y., the next spring. He was very active in church work and started the first Sunday School in Jasper. It was held in his house for some time. He was drowned while going down the Canister River with a raft of logs May 14, 1851. She d. March 14, 1851.
2. ALICE, b. May 29, 1796, in. Nov. 24, 1825, Samuel Dennis of Jasper, N. Y., formerly of Hancock, N. H. She d. Sept. 15, 1856.
3. OLIVER, +
4. OLIVE, b. Jan. 24, 1800, m. Jan. 24, 1822, Daniel Boardman of Lyndeborough. After the death of Mr. Boardman, she m. Samuel Dennis of Jasper, N. Y. She d. Sept. 16, 1860. 5. THOMAS, b. April 30, 1802, mn. Oct. 16, 1828, Sarah Cram of Lyndeborough. She d. June 19, 1889. He d. Oct. 31, 1878. He traveled the entire distance from Lyndeborough to Jasper, N. Y., on foot three times. He went to Jasper and bought a farm, cleared some land, built a house, re- turned to Lyndeborough, married, and returned again to Jasper. He became very influential in church and town affairs, and was ruling elder in the Presbyterian church for many years.
6. JONATHAN, b. May 8, 1807, m. 1832, Lavisa Wilkins of Francestown. He d. Dec. 21, 1868. He was much inter- csted in temperance reform and became a very successful farmer. He removed to Jasper soon after his marriage.
7. ANSTIS, b. Aug. 30, 1809, d. 1831.
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8. CHARLES, b. July 25, 1813, m. Oct. 26, 1843, Sarah M. Wyman. He d. May 5, 1855. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1839 and became a Congregationalist minister.
DEA. OLIVER WHITING, son of Oliver and Hannah (Marshall) Whiting, born April 3, 1798 ; married Huldah, daughter of Ithemer and Huldah (Sharp) Woodward, April 19, 1827. She was born Aug. 2, 1795; died Jan. 26, 1885. He died Oct. 10, 1886. He remained on the old Whiting homestead until 1845, when he removed to Manchester. He went to Jasper, N. Y., in 1854. He was thoroughly identified with the life of the church and town. Was deacon of the Congregational Church and selectman a number of years. Children, all born in Lynde- borough : -
I. HULDAH J., b. May 3, 1829, m. May, 1861, J. Perkins Towns. Res. in Methuen, Mass.
2. OLIVER LYNDON, b. Nov. 23, 1830. Went to California when 19 years old. He has not been heard from for many years. Supposed to be dead.
3. CHARLES MILTON, b. July 18, 1833, m. twice. Served four years in the army during the Civil War, d. July or August, 1901.
4. JOSEPH, b. Jan. 30, 1835, m. Lucy E. Jackson of Norwalk, O. He graduated from Lima College, N. Y., in 1866, and from the Auburn Theological school in 1873. He has been a missionary in China for 30 years. In 1900, during the Boxer outbreak, he had to leave his home and go to the Methodist Mission, and when that became unsafe he went to the British Legation and was there all through the Seige of Pekin. He came to the United States and re- mained a year, then returned to Pekin, where he now is.
5. ANSTIS M., b. May 16, 1838, m. July 26, 1861, J. Susanna Sargent of Jasper, N. Y., d. Dec. 6, 1872.
6. WILLIAM H., b. Jan. 3, 1842, m. Carrie Andrews of Rochester, N. Y. Is a lawyer in Rochester.
WHITMARSH.
CHARLES WHITMARSH was born in Braintree, Mass., June 12, 1763 ; married 'Anna Faxon, Nov. 27, 1782. She died July 9, 1846. He died May 14, 1821. He was a blacksmith and had a shop on top of the hill west of E. D. Wilders's and a house opposite. He afterward moved to where the house owned by D. E. Proctor stands. But little can be learned about him. Children : -
I. ANNA, b. May 7, 1785.
2. SALLY, b. Nov. 12, 1787.
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3. BETSEY, b. May 17, 1789.
4. CHARLES, +
5. THOMAS, b. June 8, 1794, d. Nov. 13, 1796.
6. POLLY, b. July 23, 1796, d. Feb. 26, 1820.
7. MARGERY, b. July 24, 1798.
8. NABBY, b. Oct. 10, 1800.
9. HANNAH, b. July 22, 1803, d. Nov. 4, 1818.
IO. WILLIAM F., b. Dec. 6, 1805.
CHARLES WHITMARSH, son of Charles and Anna (Faxon) Whit- marsh, born Feb. 23, 1792 ; married Hannah Epps, Dec. 1, 1814. She was born April 15, 1796; died May 30, 1867. He died Sept. 5, 1838. Children : Mary Ann, Mary Ann, Charles E., Francis P., Joseph J., Harriet, Lewis, George L., William F. Most of the descendants of this branch of the Whitmarsh family reside in Denmark, Iowa, and in South Dakota.
WHITNEY.
MARTIN WHITNEY, born in Sherburn, Vt., July 18, 1838 ; married Nancy E., daughter of Edgar and Miranda (Dutton) Rand, March 10, 1859. She was born Jan. 6, 1834. He lived on the old town farm, which he bought soon after it was sold by the town, and he kept the store at the centre for a few years, during which time he was postmaster. He removed from town about 1880 and resides at Hillsboro. Children, all but Charles M., born in Lyndeborough : -
I. EDGAR R., b. Jan. 19, 1861, m. Dec. 5, 1885, Emma P. Harvey. Children : Frank A., Helen E., John E., Harry L. Res. in Antrim.
2. CHARLES M., b. in Mont Vernon, May 2, 1863, d. Aug. II, 1865.
3. ARTHUR M., b. Jan. 28, 1866, m. July 12, 1890, Mabel M. Cram. Child: Vona. Res. in Deering.
4. MIRANDA L. A., b. Oct. 20, 1873, m. Feb. 5, 1891, John M. Davis. Res. in Hillsboro, N. H.
WHITTEMORE.
The origin of the name Whittemore is found by tracing the genealogy of Thomas, the first American ancestor, back twelve generations to one John, upon whom Henry III. of England, about A. D. 1230, bestowed a title for heroism in battle and at the same time gave him a large tract of land called Whyte-mere, the meaning of which is white meadow or white plain. From that time John was known as John Lord de (of) Whytemere. After four generations the de was dropped and Whytemere with variations in spelling became the surname of John's descendants.
Thomas Whittemore, the common American ancestor of the Whitte- more family, came to this country from Hitchin, County of Hertford,
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England, sometime between the years 1639 and 1645. He settled in that part of Charlestown, Mass., which is now embraced within the limits of the city of Everett, Mass.
Daniel Whittemore, the first of the family to come to Lyndeborough, was of the fourth generation from Thomas, as follows : Thomas, John, Daniel, Daniel. It is claimed that he made the first permanent clearing north of the mountain ; but John Stephenson certainly started to make a "beginning " there previous to the date of Daniel's coming, but as related in another place he removed to the south of the mountain.
The log house that Daniel Whittemore built was situated in the field about 50 rods northwest of the present buildings. It is probable that he did not occupy it long, for he soon built a frame house about 25 rods southeast of the present buildings. It was in this latter that Jona- than lived and died. It was torn down and some of the material was used in building the present shed. Samuel, another son of Daniel, built a house on the hill directly east of the farm buildings now in use. Here he lived for several years. Aaron, grandfather of Daniel B., built on the present location.
DANIEL WHITTEMORE, born Jan. 16, 1717; married Sept. 10, 1739, Eleanor Osborne. He died at Lyndeborough, March 7, 1776. He was the earliest settler in that part of the town which lies north of the inountain. He took a deed of a lot of land there, April 28, 1770, and made his beginning that same year. He came from Danvers, Mass. A part of that lot of land is still occupied by his descendant, Daniel B. Whittemore. While building his log house he used to go over the moun- tain to spend the night at the house of Dea. David Badger, then the nearest neighbor to him. His way to and from the house was only a foot path and his guide boards were blazed trees. His children were probably all born at Danvers, Mass .; the four older never lived in Lyndeborough. Children : -
I. DANIEL, b. Jan. 19, 1742, d. young.
2. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 19, 1743.
3. CLARK, b. Aug. 11, 1746, d. in infancy.
4. JOHN, b. Nov. 14, 1748 ..
5. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 8, 1750, m. Dec. 5, 1774, Jenny Searles. He rem. to Concord between 1790 and 1795. He d. May, I821.
6. ELEANOR, b. March 12, 1751, m. John Hutchinson. She d. May 19, 1782.
7. JONATHAN, +
8. AARON, +
9. MARY, b. March 12, 1757, m. Jan. 9, 1799, Simon Low.
IO. CLARK, b. Oct. 17, 1758.
II. DANIEL, b. Sept. 28, 1761.
12. HANNAH, b. Aug. 6, 1764, m. 1785, Amos Stoning.
JONATHAN WHITTEMORE, son of Daniel and Eleanor (Osborne)
:
Daniel B. Whitemore
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Whittemore, born Feb. 12, 1753 ; married Sept. 25, 1777, Elizabeth Down- ing. She died April 1, 1834. He died March 16, 1789. Children : -
I. SUSANNA, b. Aug. 3, 1778, m. 1798, Jonathan Kimball. She d. July 4, 1814.
2. CLARK, +
3. * JAMES, b. July 4, 1787, m. Lydia Carter. Their children were James, b. April 26, 1815; Hannah, Charles A., Mary A.
CLARK WHITTEMORE, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Downing) Whittemore, born Aug. 21, 1782; married Sept. 10, 1810, Hannah, daughter of Amos and Hannah (Whittemore) Stoning. He died in Lyndeborough, March 25, 1826. Children : -
I. HANNAH, b. Aug. 8, 1811, m. May 19, 1841, Clark Kimball. Rem. to Pennsylvania.
2. ELIZA D., b. Feb. 27, 1813, m. Oct. 22, 1831, Alanson Burnham.
3. CLARK, b. April 24, 1815, d. July, 1817.
4. AMOS S., b. Aug. 6, 1818, m. first, July 11, 1847, Caroline Griffin of Francestown. She d. June 7, 1853 ; m. second, Oct. 21, 1855, Eliza J. Moore of Francestown. He d. Feb. 8, 1886.
5. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 16, 1824, m. Annie A. Conchlin, Sept. 13, 1853. He rem. to Pennsylvania.
AARON WHITTEMORE, son of Daniel and Eleanor (Osborne) Whittemore, born Feb. 5, 1755; married Ruth Downing in 1786. She died June, 1834. He died Jan. 1, 1825. He was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War and was in Capt. Peter Clark's company, Stark's Brigade, at the Battle of Bennington. Children : -
I. THOMAS, b. April, 1788, d. April, 1797.
2. AARON, +
3. CALEB, b. Jan. 22, 1792, m. March 22, 1821, Sarah Dodge. He d. August, 1879. Child: Jonathan, b. September, 1822.
4. RUTH, b. June 8, 1796, m. Feb. 29, 1820, David Smith. He d. Oct. 8, 1872. She d. Aug. 14, 1889. Children : John A. V., b. July 19, 1823; Aaron W., b. Sept. 24, 1829 ; David, b. Nov. 29, 1832 ; Mary A. B., b. Aug. 8, 1836, d. September, 1891.
5. and 6. SARAH and WILLIAM (twins), b. Jan. 13, 1800. Sarah, m. William Marble. William m. Jan. 21, 1829, Nancy Wilkins. He d. May 25, 1873. She d. Sept. 2, * This family removed to Suncook, N. H.
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HISTORY OF LYNDEBOROUGH
1887. Children : Anstis B., b. Jan. 22, 1832 ; William W., b. June 5, 1837 ; Aaron F., b. March 1, 1841 ; Sarah N., b. Oct. 29, 1845.
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