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In public life Mr. Burrows held for a score of years a most conspicuous position. He was originally a Whig in politics, but later affili-
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ated with the Democratic party. In 1844 he was presidential elector on the Clay ticket. In 1845 he was elected supervisor of the town of Barre and was also treasurer of Orleans county. In 1849 he was elected to the national house of representatives from the district com- prising the counties of Niagara and Orleans. In 1852 he was re-elected, serving his two terms with fidelity to his constituents' inter- ests. In 1855 he was elected comptroller of the state of New York, holding office two years. In February, 1858, he was chosen the second regent of the University of the State of New York, which office he held continu- ously until his death in 1885. He was an ar- dent admirer of Henry Clay, and aided in every way to secure Mr. Clay's election to the presidency. He was also a warm personal friend of President Millard Fillmore, and it is said he declined a portfolio in Fillmore's cab- inet. Mr. Burrows bore in all positions of trust and responsibility a character of unblem- ished purity. He was faithful to every trust and loyal to every duty. He was most hos- pitable in his intercourse with friends and to the unfortunate unobtrusively beneficent. He lived an honored, useful life and died deeply regretted.
He married, May 11, 1830, Louisa, daugh- ter of George Lord, of Haddam, Connecticut. She died September 30, 1883. Mrs. Burrows was a devoted Christian, one of the organizers and first members of the First Baptist Church of Albion, to whose upbuilding she largely con- tributed. She was a worthy helpmeet for her distinguished husband, whom she preceded to that last home about two years. Children : I. Emeline, born March 17, 1832; was educated at Phipps Union Seminary, Albion, New York, and has spent her life in that village, where she is known for her good works and kindli- ness of heart. Since April 7, 1850, she has been identified as a member of the Baptist church of Albion and for many years was an earnest worker in the Sabbath school. Her mother was one of the charter members of that church, and Miss Burrows has always been very liberal in her benefactions to both church and Sabbath school. 2. Louisa; born May 29, 1834, died April 11, 1872 ; married B. Rush McGregor. 3. George Lord, born August 30, 1836; married, June 25. 1863, Julia Sigourney Hotchkiss, who died Octo- ber 14, 1883, and was buried at Albion, New York, with her infant son; children: Alice,
Elizabeth, married George Huntington ; George Lord, Jr., Emeline, Lucy Stewart, Julia S., Mary Sage, Edwina and an infant son. 4. Lorenzo, born May 6, 1839; mar- ried, October 11. 1864, Julia Louise Moore; children : Charles Moore, Lorenzo, Jr., Henry Lord, Lynn Moore and Harry, died aged four years. 5. July Ann, born Septem- ber 28, 1842. died July 22, 1843. 6. Ellen, born July 15, 1844, died November 11, 1845.
This family name is common
MAYNARD in early New England an- nals the earlier immigrants
coming from England, but believed to have been of French ancestry. More than one of the name figures in the list of pioneer settlers, but John Maynard is the progenitor of the greater number bearing the name in New Eng- land. He was born in England, came to the colonies, and was an inhabitant of Sudbury in 1639, and died there December 10, 1672. His first wife came with him from England. His second was Mary Axdell. He had sons : John, by first wife, and Zachery by second. It is from one of these that the Medina family de- scends.
(I) Almerine B. Maynard died in Savannah, New York. He married Mary Merriam, of Rutland, Vermont, who also died in Savannah. He settled in Wayne county, New York, prior to the civil war; purchased and cultivated a farm in the town of Butler. He was a deacon of the Christian church (Disciples of Christ). Children : Emmet A., and a daughter.
( II) Emmet A., son of Almerine B. May- nard, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 4, 1840, died in Savannah, New York, Febru- ary, 1910. He was educated in the public schools of Butler, Wayne county, New York, and for several years engaged in agriculture with his father. Later he went to Kentucky, where he became established in the nursery business and later became traveling salesman for a wholesale drug house of New York City. After the death of his father he came into possession of the homestead of seventy acres in Savannah, and in 1900, his health failing, he retired from business and settled on the farm. There he passed his remaining years. He married. in 1862, at Elbridge, Onondaga county, New York, Clara M. Gates, born 1842, who survives him and resides on the Savannah farm. Children : 1. Myrtie D., married Calvin
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Crofoot ; children : Clifford, Stanley, Vernon and Neal. 2. Howard A., of whom further. 3. Earle R., born August 23, 1884, now a veter- inary surgeon of Manitoba, Canada.
(III) Dr. Howard A. Maynard, son of Em- met A. Maynard, was born in Savannah, Wayne county, New York, September 6, 1872. He was educated in the public schools and Jordan Free Academy, at Jordan, New York. He decided upon a profession and entered the medical department of the University of Buf- falo, whence he was graduated, M. D., class of 1898. He was an interne at Buffalo General Hospital part of 1898 and 1899, and in the lat- ter year became established in Medina, New York, where he is now ( 1912) located, and in command of a good practice. He is a member of the Orleans County and New York State medical societies, and of the American Medical Association. He belongs to lodge, chapter and commandery of the Masonic order, and is a supporter of the Republican party.
He married, April 30, 1901, Grace F. Ream- er, born October 22, 1873, daughter of David Reamer, of Savannah, New York. Child : Homer R. Maynard, born June 4, 1902.
William Hill, the founder of this HILL family, immigrant to New England in the ship "William and Francis," which landed her passengers in the new world June 5, 1632. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he became a man of much prominence. November 5, 1633, he was. admitted freeman, and November 12, 1635, he received a grant of land ; in 1636 he was se- lectman of Dorchester ; soon afterward he re- moved to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was granted a home lot and "set out an orchard." In 1639 he was appointed by the general court to examine the arms and munitions of the towns in the colony, and was also auditor of public accounts. From 1639 to 1641 and in 1644 he was deputy to the general court. Later he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he finally settled and died about 1649, as his first wife is called a widow that year in the town records. In Fairfield he was also deputy to the general court and collector of customs. He and his son William were granted by the town home lots between Paul's Neck and Robert Tourney's lot on the northeast side of Dor- chester street and the Newton Square. In his will, dated September 9, 1649, and proved May 15, 1650, he names wife Sarah and children :
Sarah, married, 17 September, 1646, Joseph Loomis; William, referred to below; Joseph, Ignatius, James, Elizabeth.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) and Sarah Hill was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1684. He immigrated with his father and followed him to Dorchester, Windsor and Fairfield, where he was granted the home lot already described, and became one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was town recorder in 1650 and for several years afterward, and Roger Lud- low entrusted to his care town papers of much value when he left Fairfield in 1654. Feb- ruary 1, 1673, he received his portion of his father's estate from his "father-in-law," (probably his stepfather), Mr. Greenleaf, Feb- ruary 13, 1670, the town granted him the Lewis lot on the northwest torner of Newton Square. He married, at Fairfield, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Jones. Children : Wil- liam (3), died 1728, married, October 7, 1691, Abigail Osborne; Eliphat, died 1695, married Esther Ward; Joseph, died 1696 unmarried ; John, referred to below; James, Sarah, mar- ried, 15 April, 1686, Richard Widden; Igna- tius, James.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Eliza- beth (Jones) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Con- necticut, and died there in 1727. He married Sarah Children : Sarah, baptized 15 May, 1701 ; John, referred to below.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 29, 1707, and died there December 17, 1759. He married, January 27, 1729, Esther, baptized December 30, 1713, daughter of Jo- seph and Esther Bulkley (see Bulkley). Chil- dren : Nathan, referred to below ; Esther, born April 21, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Daniel Wakeman : Sarah, born April 28, 1742, died February 6, 1832, married June 17, 1762, George Wakeman ; Isaac, born September 25, 1745: Joseph, May 2, 1752; John, December 17. 1754.
(V) Nathan, son of John (2) and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Con- necticut, October 9, 1731, and was baptized there in Christ Church, February 21, 1741-2. He married (first), July 3, 1753, Eunice, born January 31, 1735, and died January 29, 1765, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca ( More- house) Wakeman (see Wakeman). He mar- ried (second), August 25, 1765, Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth
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Wakeman, a first cousin of his first wife, who was baptized August 15, 1736, and died March 9, 1766. He married (third), in December, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom White- head. Children, five by first marriage and one by third : Eunice, born June 3, 1754, married David Meeker ; Aaron, referred to below ; Re- becca, baptized October 22, 1758; Sarah, born November 17, 1760; Stephen, November 16, 1762; John, June 5, 1767.
(VI) Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice (Wakeman) Hill, was born in Fairfield, Con- necticut, December 12, 1755, and baptized there in Christ Church, February 8, 1756, died in Saratoga county, New York. During the revolution he served in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess county militia. He married, Septem- ber 15, 1777, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, who was born in Cumber- land, Rhode Island, May 4, 1762 (see Fiske). Children : Nathan, born March 23, 1778; Asa, May 17, 1781; Hannah, January 22, 1784; Ezra, May 1, 1786; Cynthia, August 17, 1789; Aaron (2), January 26, 1791 ; Robert S., No- vember 30, 1792 ; Jonathan, June 8, 1796, died in May, 1886, married, February 5, 1818, Sarah Wright; Lydia, born January 22, 1798; Elizabeth, May 4, 1800; Ephraim, referred to below.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Aaron and Hannah (Fiske) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 20, 1804, and died in Knowlesville, Saratoga county, in 1889. He was a farmer. In the spring of 1838 he moved to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and settled there. He was a captain in the militia. He married, at Ballston Spa, Sara- toga county, New York, November 30, 1830, Amanda Smith, of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. Children: Aaron Lester, born March 7, 1832, married, 1882, Sabra Russell; Sears S., referred to below; Ora, and seven daughters.
(VIII) Sears S., son of Ephraim and Amanda (Smith) Hill, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 12, 1836. He was about eighteen months old when his father moved by the canal route to the town of Ridgeway, near Knowlesville, and as he grew up he assisted his father in working the one hundred and sixty acre farm there, which he afterward inherited, and on which he lived till about eight years ago, when he retired from active life and removed to Medina. He became a member of the Knowlesville Bap-
tist church in 1866, and for a number of years was trustee, and after settling in Medina he joined the Baptist church there. He enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry Regiment at Rochester in 1865, and was mustered out later in the same year. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 6, 1866, Helen, daughter of William and Amanda (Barker) Ives, of Homer, Cort- land county, New York, who was born in 1839. Children : 1. William, born November 20, 1866; married Nellie McNall, children : Francis, Arthur and Claire. 2. Ernest, born October 5, 1868; married Nellie Thurston ; children: Mildred and Alice. 3. Gertrude, born April 18, 1877; married Frank Cham- berlain ; children : Harold, Marion and Frank. 4. Glenn, born May 15, 1879; married Susie Marshall ; child : Derenwood.
(The Bulkley Line).
Rev. Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of the parish of Odell, Bedfordshire, England, the founder of this family, was born January 31, 1583, in Bedfordshire, England, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 1659. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1655. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Allen; (second) Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwoode, who survived him and died in New London, Connecticut, April 21, 1669. Children, thirteen by first mar- riage: Edward, born June 15, 1614; Mary, baptized August 24, 1615, died young ; Thomas, referred to below; Nathaniel, born November 29, 1618, died 1627; John, born February 17, 1620, died after October 11, 1689, married Avis - -; Mary, born No- vember 1, 1621, died 1624; George, born May 17, 1623; Daniel, born August 28, 1625; Ja- bez, born December 20, 1626, died before 1639; Joseph, William, Richard, Gershom, born De- cember 6, 1636, died December 13, 1713, mar- ried October 26, 1659, Sarah Chauncey; Elie- zer, born about 1638, died unmarried; Dor- othy, born August 16, 1640; Peter, born June 12, 1643, died after March 25, 1691.
(II). Thomas, son of Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkley, was born in Bedfordshire, England, April 11, 1617, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, before February 26, 1658. He married, Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Jones, of Concord, Massachusetts, who survived him and married (second) Anthony Wilson. Chil- dren : Sarah, born August 12, 1640, married
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Eleazer Brown; John, born about 1642, died
in February, 1709, married Eliza - -; Jo- seph, referred to below ; Rebecca, born about 1646, married Joseph Whipley ; Hannah, born about 1648.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Jones) Bulkley, was born in Fairfield, Con- necticut, about 1644. He married Martha Beers, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Children : Thomas, born 1678, died May 25, 1756, mar- ried Abigail -; Daniel, born 1680, mar- ried Hannah Bartram; Joseph, referred to be- low; Peter, born May 21, 1684, died 1753, married Abigail - -; Sarah, baptized Sep- tember 23, 1684; John, baptized March 22, 1701, married Martha . - ; Rachel, bap- tized March 23, 1706; Grace, baptized May 27, IZII.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and Martha (Beers) Bulkley, was born in Fair- field, Connecticut, May 9, 1682, and died May 6, 1750. He married Esther Chil- dren: Sarah, baptized September 23, 1694, died young; Gershom, baptized September 13, 1696; John, baptized March 22, 1701 ; a son, born March 9, 1711; Esther, referred to be- low; Nathan, baptized January 16, 1718, died 1763, married Sarah Perry; Joseph (3), born November 22, 1719, married Ruth
Samuel, baptized March 1, 1726, married Sep- tember 2, 1754, Beulah Henry ; Sarah, baptized February 23, 1729; Ebenezer, baptized De- cember 5, 1731, married December 11, 1765, Hannah Maltbie.
(V) Esther, daughter of Joseph (2) and Esther Bulkley was born in Fairfield, Con- necticut, and baptized there December 30, 1713. She married, January 27, 1729, John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah Hill, referred to above.
(The Wakeman Line).
Francis Wakeman, the founder of this fam- ily, lived at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, where he died September 2, 1626. He married Anne Goode, who died January 29, 1621. Chil- dren : Mary, baptized 1591, married January 14, 1622, John Wowen; Sarah, baptized 23 April, 1593, married April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell; Martha, baptized March 27, 1596, died in 1664, married November 30, 1621, William Davis; John, referred to below ; Sam- uel, baptized September 25, 1603, died 1641, married Eliza ยท; Isaac, baptized August 3, 1606, died April 14, 1609; Joseph, baptized April 23, 1609; Anne, baptized July 3, 22-W
1614, married Adam Nichols; Hester, baptized June 15, 1617, died 1693, married Thomas Selden; Priscilla, married January 23, 1630, Thomas Richards.
(II) John, son of Francis and Anne (Goode) Wakeman, was born at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, about 1598, and died at Hartford, Connecticut, 1661. He married, January 28, 1628-9, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Helen (Vickaris) Hopkins, who was born at Bewdley, October 30, 1609, and died at New Haven in 1658. Children : John, baptized July 25, 1630, died January 19, 1636; Helena, baptized December 23, 1632, died June 23, 1674, married, October 29, 1650, Lieutenant-Colonel John Talcott; Samuel, re- ferred to below; Elizabeth, baptized Septem- ber 16, 1638, married March 1I, 1656-7, Sam- uel Kitchell.
(III) Rev. Samuel Wakeman, son of John and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Wakeman, was bap- tized at Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, June 7, 1635, and died in New Haven, Con- necticut, March 1I, 1692. He married, August 28, 1656, Hannah, daughter of Governor Stephen Goodyear, who survived him and mar- ried (second) Nathaniel Burr. Children : Samuel, born October 12, 1657, died 1691 ; John, referred to below; Ebenezer, born about 1668, died in 1690; Joseph, born 1670, died in December 5, 1726; Jabez, born 1678, died October 8, 1704, married September 9, 1702, Eunice Howell; Mary, married Michael Clug- stone; Ann, married Abraham Howell; Eliza- beth, married Albert Denny.
(IV) Captain John (2) Wakeman, son of Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Goodyear) Wake- man, was born about 1659, and died Febru- ary 15, 1709. He married, April 24, 1687, Martha, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hubbell, who died June 5, 1710. Children : Helena, born August 24, 1689, died February 12, 1710-II; Ann, born March 24, 1692; Sam- uel, referred to below; Elizabeth, born June I, 1695; Martha, born September 24, 1700, mar- ried February 2, 1720-21, Israel Chauncey ; Stephen, referred to below; John, born August 27, 1705, died 1789-90, married April 8, 1730, Catherine Gilbert.
(V) Lieutenant Samuel Wakeman, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born February 24, 1693, and died October 19, 1771. He married Elizabeth -, born 1695, died March 14, 1759. Chil- dren (baptismal dates) : Eleanor, August 8,
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1726; Moses, August 8, 1726, died May 14, 1764, married, August 21, 1745, Mary Good- sell; Anna, August 8, 1726, married Nathan Hubbell; Elizabeth, 1729, married, June 23, 1746, John Lyon ; Sarah, October 5, 1731, died January 18, 1769, married November 2, 1756, Gershom Hubbell; Samuel, March 10, 1734, died August 6, 1809, married Mabel Burr ; Martha, referred to below; Seth, January 8, 1738; George, January 1, 1740, married Jan- uary 17, 1762, Sarah Hill.
(VI) Martha, daughter of Lieutenant Sam- uel and Elizabeth Wakeman, was baptized in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 15, 1736, and died there March 9, 1766. She married, as sec- ond wife, August 25, 1765, Nathan, son of John and Esther ( Bulkley ) Hill, referred to above.
(V) Stephen, son of Captain John (2) and Martha (Hubbell) Wakeman, was born Octo- ber 15 1702, and died in 1761-2. He married at Fairfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1727, Re- becca, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, who was baptized February 24, 1712, and died in 1762. Children : Sarah, born March 12, 1728, died June 1I, 1728; David, baptized January II, 1730, died 1813-14, married, February 17, 1754, Mary E. Jennings ; Daniel, born April 6, 1732, married, May 28, 1761, Esther Hill; Eunice, referred to below ; Squier, born June 29, 1738, married, May 28, 1761, Damaris Bradley; Stephen, born November 19, 1740, died May 7, 1744; James, born May 19, 1743, died about April, 1768; Stephen, born Octo- ber 23, 1745, died about April, 1768; Sarah, born January 26, 1748, died April 26, 1779, married, November 11, 1772, John Alvord; Noah, born November 28, 1751, died Novem- ber 5, 1777.
(VI) Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Re- becca (Morehouse) Hill, was born in Fair- field, Connecticut, January 31, 1735, and died there January 29. 1765. She married, as first wife, July 3, 1753, Nathan, son of John and Esther (Bulkley) Hill, referred to above.
(The Fiske Line).
William Fiske, the founder of this family, was born in England about 1613, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, in December, 1654. He was son of John Fiske, and brother of Rev. John Fiske, pastor at Salem and Wen- ham, Massachusetts. From 1643 to 1650 he was the first town clerk of Wenham, and deputy to the general court 1647-52. He married, at Salem, in 1643, Bridget Muskett,
of Pelham, England, who survived him and married. (second), November 3, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem. Children : William, referred to below ; Samuel, died October 31, 1716, married (first), November 6, 1679, Phebe Bragg, (sec- ond) Mrs. Hannah Allen; Joseph, born about 1650, married, May 22, 1677, Elizabeth Ha- man; Benjamin, married, November 6, 1674, Bethusha Moore; Martha. .
(II) Deacon William (2) Fiske, son of Hon. William (1) and Bridget (Mfuskett ) Fiske, was baptized at Wenham, Massachu- setts, June 4, 1642, and died there February 5, 1728. He was lieutenant in the train band. and elected deacon in the Congregational church in 1679. He was moderator of the town, 1702-14, and deputy to the general court 1707-17. He married, in Wenham, January 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of Austin and Alice Kilham, of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1646, and died January 26, 1737. Chil- dren : William, born January 30, 1663, died December 10, 1745, married Marah or Mary -; Sarah, born February 5, 1664, married September 14, 1688, John Cook; Ruth, born March 2, 1666, died before 1725, married -; Samuel, born March 2, 1667, died young; Martha, born May 5, 1668; Jo- seph, born February 10, 1669, died young ; Samuel, referred to below; Joseph, born April 14, 1672, died May 2, 1745, married (first) Susan Warner, (second), January 7, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller : Benjamin, born April 6, 1674, died June 6, 1742, unmarried; The- ophilus, born July 28, 1676, died September 6, 1759, married (first), July 18, 1700, Phebe Lampson, (second), July 26, 1756, Mehitable Wilkins : Ebenezer, born March 22, 1679, died September 30, 1771, married (first), May 24, 1710, Elizabeth Fuller, (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball; Jonathan, born July 22, 1681, died February 14, 1705, unmar- ried ; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1684.
(III) Samuel, son of Deacon William and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1670, and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He removed from Wenham to Reading, Massachusetts, in 1710, and to Rehoboth some time before 1728. He married. December 5, 1699, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. Children: Elizabeth, born De- cember 8, 1700: Josiah, referred to below : Rhineas, born May 5, 1705; Lois, October I. 1710; Anna, twin with Lois.
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( Browne) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Mas- . sachusetts, July 7, 1702, and died at Cumber- land, Rhode Island, 1773. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 20, 1723, Sarah Bishop. Children : Esther, born May 4, 1725; Samuel, March 23, 1727; John, Febru- ary 20, 1729, died February 12, 1789, mar- ried May 5, 1755, Mary Bartlett ; Rachel, born July 1, 1730, married, August 20, 1749, Benoni Studley; Joyce, born February 24, 1732; Sarah, September 5, 1733; Jonathan, referred to below ; Martha, May 10, 1741 ; Mary, April 12, 1743.
(V) Jonathan, son of Josiah and Sarah ( Bishop ) Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August 13, 1739, and died near Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, De- cember 22, 1816. During the revolution he served in the Connecticut line, and was granted a revolutionary pension. After the war he removed to Saratoga county, and lived in the log house, three miles from the village of Schuylerville .. He married Hannah
born November 18, 1743, died September 17, 1814. Children : Jonathan, born December 12, 1760, died November 2, 1853, married, April 20, 1779, Mercy Robinson ; Hannah, referred to below ; Huldah, born July 19, 1765; Martha, August 13, 1767 ; David, June 17, 1769. died in November, 1849, married, December 26, 1790, Mary Gree ; Doshe, born July 20, 1771 : Cloah, April 13, 1774; Lydia, May 19, 1776; Aza, April 26, 1778, died 1832, married Lydia Ham- ilton ; Abigail, born May 13, 1780; Stephen, May 1, 1782, died July 21, 1855, married Han- nah Curry ; Benjamin, born July 5, 1788, mar- ried Rebecca
( VI) Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Fiske, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island. May 4, 1762, married, Septem- ber 15, 1777, Aaron, son of Nathan and Eunice ( Wakeman) Hill, referred to above.
MARTIN The Martin family, of whom Darwin D. Martin is a present day representative, descends from English ancestry. The first of the line of record in America is John Martin, whose marriage appears on the town records of Re- hoboth, Massachusetts: "Marriage of John Martin and Mercye Billington, 27th June, 1681." Page 231, Book 2, Rehoboth, town rec- ords, contain this entry : "Marcy, wife of John Martin, Senior, died September 28, 1718," and "John Martin, senior, died August 28, 1720."
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