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(111) Deacon Joseph Huntington, son of Simon Huntington, was born at Norwich, Sep- tember. 1661, and died at Windham, Decem- ber 20, 1717. In 1687 he went to Windham, Connecticut. and built his house, materials from which were used in the construction of the house now on his old farm. He was elect- ed deacon in Windham church in 1729. He
owned land in Williamantic and in Windham. He married, November 28, 1787, Rebecca, daughter of Deacon Thomas Adgate. Chil- dren : Deacon Joseph, born at Norwich, Au- gust 29. 1688, married July 6, 1719, Elizabeth Ripley : Nathaniel, born at Norwich, Septem- ber 1, 1601. Born at Windham : Jonathan, Oc- tober 7, 1695, married, November 7. 1734, Elizabeth Rockwell, ( second ), August 7, 1754, Sarah Norton ; David, December 6, 1697, mar- ried, June 30, 1725, Mary Mason, born Au- gust 31. 1707 : Solomon, mentioned below ; Re- becca, September 18, 1712 ( doubtless 1702), married January 24. 1734, John Crane : Sarah, born May 25. 1706, married March 28. 1728, Ebenezer Wright : Mary, August 4, 1707, mar- ried Theophilus Fitch, of Canterbury.
( IV) Solomon, son of Deacon Joseph Hunt- ington, was born in Windham, February 6. 1700, and died April 30, 1752. He married, October 31. 1727, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Griswold ) Buckingham, grand- daughter of Rev. Thomas and Esther ( Hos- mer ) Buckingham, born June 5, 1705, died September 7. 1778. Children : Solomon, born November 24, 1728, died January 2, 1729; Margaret, born April 8, 1730; Jeremiah, Feb- ruary 24, 1732-33. a soldier in the revolution ; Rebecca, June 7, 1735; Solomon, mentioned below ; Temperance, October 6, 1739; Mary, October 8, 1741 ; Lydia, November 2, 1744.
(\') Solomon (2), son of Solomon (1) Huntington, was born October 19, 1737, and died March 3, 1809. He married, March 28, 1762, Anna Denison, born 1742, died Septem- ber 6, 1807. She joined the church. 1770. He was prominent in town affairs. Children, born at Windham : Minor, April 22, 1763. removed to Nova Scotia. 1784; Alathea, November 29, 1764; Elizabeth, January 15. 1767; Anna and Solomon ( twins), April 7, 1770; Joseph Deni- son, October 28, 1778; Mary, February 25, 1781.
(VI) Solomon (3), son of Solomon (2) Huntington, was born April 7, 1770, and mar- ried, October 25, 1801, Anna Jones, of New Haven. lle removed to Mexico, New York.
Children, first born in Connecticut, the rest in Mexico: Elizabeth Lathrop, September 13, 1802, married Avery Skinner ( see Skinner) ; William Jones, February 9, 1804; Herbert Nelson, April 9. 1807 : Benjamin Lathrop, Feb- ruary 16, 1810; Samuel Peck, May 25, 1811; John Lathrop, March 24, 1817.
HUNTINGTON (III) Lieutenant Sam- uel Huntington, son of Simon Huntington (q. v. ), was born in Norwich, March 1, 1665, died at Lebanon, May 10, 1717. In 1700 he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, after selling his house and lot for a parsonage. Before his removal he had been in public life and held various offices. In 1692 he was elect- ed constable and he had been one of the towns- men. Ten years after settling in Lebanon, he was appointed by the citizens of Norwich on a committee to locate the new meeting-house, about which a serious dispute had arisen. He owned much land both in Norwich and Leb- anon. His name was on the list of members of the Lebanon church in 1707, and his wife's name in 1701. He married, in Norwich, Octo- ber 29, 1686, Mary, daughter of William Clark, of Wethersfield; she died October 5, 1743. Children, born in Norwich: Elizabeth, April 24. 1688-89 ; Samuel, August 28, 1691 ; Caleb, mentioned below : Mary, October 1, 1696; Re- becca, February, 1698-99. Born in Lebanon : Saralı, October 22, 1701 ; Jolin, May 17, 1706: Simon, August 15, 1708.
(1V ) Caleb, son of Lieutenant Sammuel Hunt- ington, was born at Norwich, Connecticut. February 8, 1693-94: married there, January 28, 1720, Lydia Griswold, born May 28, 1696. Children, born at Lebanon, Connecticut : Caleb, December 9, 1721 : Lydia, June 3. 1722 ; Elisha and Elijah, twins, April 25, 1724; Abner. March 6, 1726; James, April 25, 1728; Sus- anna, June 23, 1730: Ezekiel. August 2, 1732. mentioned below.
(V) Ezekiel, son of Caleb Huntington, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut. August 2, 1732. He lived at Lebanon, and perhaps for a time at Sharon, Connecticut, locating after the revo- lution at Stephentown, Albany county, New York, where he was living in 1790, according to the first federal census, with two males over sixteen, two males under sixteen, and three females in his family. He married twice. Children, born at Lebanon: Joseph, May 25. 1758, was of Rensselaerwyck, New York, in
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1790; Betsey, September 3, 1760, lived at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia ; Esther, July 5, 1763 ; Ezekiel, November, 1764, settled at Stephen- town, and was head of family there in 1790; Daniel, September 6, 1766; Caleb, mentioned below.
(VI) Caleb (2), son of Ezekiel Hunting- ton, was born at Sharon, Connecticut, October 4, 1770. He was a millwright by trade, and settled when a young man in Otsego county. He came to the town of Mexico, New York, January 15, 1824, and was contractor and builder of many of the mills erected in Cen- tral New York. He and his son Edwin own- ed and operated the Huntington Mills, at Mex- ico. He married ( first ), in 1795, Sarah Joyce, who died September 13, 1823 : married ( sec- ond) Demaris Wight. Caleb died in Mexico, October 1, 1839. Children : Allen, born June 12, 1797: Eli, December 22, 1799; Harry, De- cember 25, 1801; Edwin, of whom further ; Willis P., May 9, 1808; Lester B. ; Sarah M., November 16, 1812: Olive A., December 12, 1820.
(VII) Edwin Huntington, son of Caleb (2) Huntington, was born in Burlington, Otsego county, New York, June 1, 1805, and died at Mexico, Oswego county, New York, May 20, 1870. He attended the common and high schools of the town of Mexico, and for sev- eral years was a school teacher. He learned the trade of millwright of his father, with whom he was afterward in partnership, own- ing and operating the Huntington Mills, at Mexico. Upon the death of his father he suc- ceeded to the ownership of the mills and con- ducted them until some ten years before he died. In connection with the mills he had a general store in Mexico, and for many years was postmaster there. In early life he was an old-line Whig in politics, afterwards a Re- publican. He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of the order of Sons of Temperance. He died May 20, 1870. He married, January 20, 1831, Mary Charity Gregory, who died July 6, 1834. He married ( second ), in 1835, Lucy Ann Gregory, a sister of his first wife, who died January I, 1851. He married ( third), June 5, 1853, Mary E. (Borden) Hewett, who died in 1881. Chil- dren of first wife: Marion, born March 20, 1832, died in infancy ; Mary H., born May 10, 1834. Children of second wife: Lester B .; Edwin L., mentioned below ; Sarah H .; Lewis J., born 1846, enlisted during the civil war in
Battery L, Ninth Regiment Artillery, New York, died in Washington, D. C., July 9, 1864, of fever contracted in the Wilderness cam- paign.
(VIII) Captain Edwin L. Huntington, son of Edwin Huntington, was born in Mexico, New York, July 8, 1839, and was educated in the public schools there and in the Mexico Academy. From 1856 to 1858 he was in Wis- consin and Michigan. In 1861, when Presi- dent Lincoln called for volunteers, after the attack of Fort Sumter, he was one of the first to enlist, and from first to last during the civil war was active in service. He went to the front in the first regiment that left the county .. being mustered in as a private and winning promotion from grade to grade until he was captain of his company. He enlisted in Com- pany B, Twenty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, First Brigade ( the famous Iron Bri- gade ), First Division, First Army Corps. Mr. Huntington took part in the following engage- ments during the years 1861-63 : Bailey's Cross Roads, July 25, 1861 ; Falls Church, October 8, 1861; Falmouth, April 17, 1862; Massa- ponax, August 6, 1862 ; Rappahannock River, August 22, 1862 ; Gainesville, August 28, 1862 : Sulphur Springs, August 29, 1862; Groveton, August 29, 1862; Bull Run, August 30, 1862 ; Little River Turnpike, September 1, 1862; South Mountain, September 14, 1862; Antie- tam, September 17, 1862; Fredericksburg, De- cember 14-15. 1862; Pollock's Mill Creek, April 29, 1863 ; Chancellorsville, May 2-3, 1863. At Chancellorsville Mr. Huntington was the only private in Company B to escape injury, all the others being wounded or killed. He was slightly wounded at Fredericksburg. He was honorably discharged and mustered out May 29, 1863. He reëlisted in 1863, and was. commissioned second lieutenant in Captain Frank Sinclair's Battery L, Ninth New York Artillery, and was commissioned captain July 6, 1865. His regiment was in the Second Bri- gade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, and took part in the following engagements in 1864-65: Cold Harbor, May 31 to June 12. 1864: Petersburg, June 15-19, 1864; Weldon Railroad, June 21-23, 1864 : Washington, July 12-13. 1864; Charlestown, August 21, 1864; Summit Point, August 29, 1864; Winchester, September 19. 1864; near Cedar Creek, Octo- ber 26, 1864; assault on Petersburg Works, March 25, 1864; fall of Petersburg, April 2, 1865; Sailors' Creek, April 6, 1865, and Appo-
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matox Court House, April 9, 1865. He was slightly wounded at Cedar Creek. He was honorably discharged and mustered out Sep- tember 6, 1865.
Upon his return from the front Captain Huntington engaged in business as a druggist, in the town of Mexico, and enjoyed a large and flourishing business for a number of years. Since the war he has been prominent in the state militia and in the public service. In June, 1878, he organized a company which was at- tached to the Forty-eighth Regiment, New York National Guard, commonly known as the Huntington Guards, and for a period of twelve years was captain. It was composed largely of veterans and won the reputation of being one of the finest companies in the regi- ment. It was called into service several times, the most important being at the time of the railroad riots at Hornellsville and other parts of New York state. In 1880 Captain Hunting- ton was unanimously nominated for the office of sheriff of Oswego county, on the first ballot in the Republican county convention, being the first nominee in the county to receive the nomi- nation for this office without a contest. Ile was elected by an unusually large plurality. In 1894 he was elected supervisor of the town of Mexico and reelected from year to year until he had served fourteen years, and he be- came one of the most prominent members in the board of supervisors of the county. He has always been a Republican. His first vote was cast for Lincoln. He was commander of Melzar Richards Post, No. 367, Grand Army of the Republic, for twenty-one years, and the camp of Sons of Veterans in Mexico was named for him. He has always taken a keen interest in village improvement, and largely through his energy and support the electric lighting system was secured. In the move- ment to raise funds for the soldiers' monu- ment he was an earnest worker. The monu- ment was erected in the Mexico cemetery. He is a member of Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free Masons, and has been honored with all the offices in succession ; member of Mexico Chapter, No. 135. Royal Arch Masons; of Lake Ontario Commandery, Knights Templar. In religion he is a Methodist.
Ile married (first ), September 1, 1868, Flor- ence A. Allen, born in Mexico, died April 20, 1888, daughter of Alonzo Allen. He married (second), in 1891, Mary A. Tourdot, born in Mexico, 1862, daughter of Joseph and Mary
Tourdot. Children : 1. Edith L., born July 30, 1871 ; married, March 5, 1891, Clinton E. Avery ; child, Florence Avery. 2. Lulu Adelle, born March 22, 1875; married, June 18, 1902, Dr. L. D. Pulsifer, of Mexico ; children, Allen Huntington and Helen D. Pulsifer.
John Everts, or Evarts, immi-
EVERTS grant ancestor, was born in England, and settled early in Concord, Massachusetts, of which he was made a freeman by the general court in March, 1637- 38. He resided there several years, and at least two of his children were born there. He removed to Guilford, Connecticut, and took the freeman's oath in Connecticut, February 5. 1651-52. In 1655 he was defendant in two civil suits, being then a resident of Guilford. He purchased Jolm Mepham's allotment at Guilford, for twenty-one pounds, July 29. 1651. In 1667 he was appointed tithingman. He is said to have lived also at New Haven for a time. He died at Guilford, May 9, 1669. He married ( first ) Elizabeth ,and (sec- ond), May 27, 1663, Elizabeth, widow of John Parmelee, who died in November, 1688. Chil- dren of first wife: John, born February 29. 1639-40, mentioned below ; Judah, October 27, 1642, at Concord; Daniel, 1645: James, 1648; Elizabeth, married Peter Abbott, and was mur- dered by her husband at Fairfield, for which offence he was tried, convicted and executed. October 16, 1667.
(11) John Everts, son of John Everts, or Evarts, was born at Concord, February 29. 1639-40, died at Guilford, December 28, 1692. lle married ( first ), September 14, 1665, Mary, daughter of Thomas French. She died in 1668. and he married (second) Mary, daughter of Alexander Bow, of Middletown, Connecticut. She died April 25. 1700. Children of first wife, born at Guilford: Mary, born August 12. 1666; John, September 16, 1668. Children of second wife, born at Guilford: Hannah, No- vember 12, 1670; Sarah, June 4, 1673; Eliza- beth, 1674; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Me- hitable, February 25, 1678-79 ; Ebenezer, Sep- tember 15. 1681 ; Silence, January 26, 1683-84 ; Patience, May 14, 1689.
(III) Nathaniel, son of John Everts, was born at Guilford, July 24, 1675, died in May. 1739. He lived at East Guilford, where he was assessed, in 1716, for sixty-six pounds seven shillings six pence. He married, May 7, 1707, Margaret, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hast-
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ings, of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Children, born at Guilford: John, September 21, 1708, lived at Salisbury and New Haven, Vermont : Margaret, August 22, 1710; Elijah, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, May 9, 1719; Sylvanus, March 31. 1721.
(IV) Elijah, son of Nathaniel Everts, was born at Guilford, April 4, 1712. He probably married Gillette.
(V) Samuel Gillett Everts, son or nephew of Elijah Everts, was born at Guilford, Janu- ary 29, 1746. Many of his near relatives set- tled in Vermont and New York. In 1790 Luther. Ambrose, Timothy, Solomon, Jesse, Jesse Jr .. James, Gilbert H., Edward, Eber. Charles and Abner were heads of families in New Haven, Salisbury, Middlebury, Sunder- land and other towns in Vermont. Many of the Vermont families afterward moved to New York and westward. Amos, Jonathan and Solomon were heads of families in Massachu- setts, in 1790, according to the first federal census. Luther Everts, of Lanesborough, and Judah Everts, of Stockbridge, were soldiers from Massachusetts in the revolution. Eben- ezer Everts, a brother of Samuel Everts, set- tled in the town of Mexico, Oswego county, New York, in 1804, clearing a farm in the southwest part of the town, and had sons Fred- erick and Philo Everts. Samuel Everts came to Mexico about 1804 and settled on the farm which his descendants still own and occupy. Samuel married, September 10, 1771, Sarah Fuller. Their sons Elijah, Walter, Samuel and Luther Everts took up farms in Mexico. Children of Samuel Gillette and Sarah Everts : Elijah, Samuel (mentioned below), Walter, Luther, Electa, Sarah, Asenath, Olive and Julia.
(VI) Samuel, son of Samuel Gillett Everts, was born in Connecticut, September 20, 1780, and came with his father and uncle's family to Mexico. He drew land and cleared a farm in Mexico and besides following farming was a land surveyor. He gave the land for a church in his neighborhood, now called North Mexico church. He married Lucinda Roberts. He died at the age of seventy years; his wife at the age of eighty. Children : Myron, mention- ed below; Alma, Matilda, Milton, Sarah and Avery, the last dying in young manhood, the others living to an advanced age.
(VII) Myron, son of Samuel Everts, was born in Mexico, in 1816, died there, in 1908, at the age of ninety-two. He attended the com-
mon schools of his native town, and worked during boyhood on his father's farm. On ac- count of his father's illness, he had to take charge of the farm at an early age, and he fol- lowed farming throughout his life. He was a competent and successful business man. In politics he was a Republican. He married, Oc- tober 20, 1846, Lucretia Matthews, born April 3, 1820, died in 1892, daughter of Edmund Matthews. Her father was born in Massachu- setts. January 3. 1775, died September 2, 1848. one of the first settlers of Mexico, Oswego county, New York; married (first), Lucy Bruce, born March II, 1780, died October 12, 1803. Edmund Matthews married ( second ) December 24, 1806, Lucy: Mclellan, born Jan- uary 10, 1779, died February 2, 1862. Child of Edmund and Lucy ( Bruce) Matthews : Charles B. Matthews, born March 27, 1803. Children of Edmund and Lucy ( Mclellan ) Matthews: Henry Matthews, born January 25, 1808, died June 24, 1874; Lucy Mat- thews, born December 11, 1810, died October 8, 1861 ; Paschal P., born August 5, 1812, died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1906, one of the great financiers of the country, who achieved his wealth by his own efforts, who married, May 1, 1840, Louisa Vinton, born November 11, 1809, and had one child, Lucy Alice Matthews, born December 2, 1842, died August 4, 1882; Emery Matthews, born September 12, 1813, died in 1860; Lucretia Matthews, married Myron Everts, as stated above. Children of Myron and Lucretia Everts : Edmund M., men- tioned below ; Charles H., mentioned below.
(VIII) Edmund M., son of Myron Everts, was born June 11, 1850, in Mexico, on the old Matthews homestead. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Mexico Academy. For nearly fifty years he lived on the farm where he was born and followed farming from his early youth. In 1901 he re- tired from active labor and since then he has resided in the village of Mexico. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Presbyterian. He married, September 25, 1879. Margaret Cadby, born November 6, 1853, in Jefferson county, New York, daughter of George and Margaret (Dean) Cadby. Her father was born in England and settled in Jefferson county. New York, when a young man. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Everts : I. Paschal I'., born Juiy I. 1880, educated in the public schools and a graduate of Mexico Academy and Columbia College, a pharmacist in New York City : mar-
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ried, June 28, 1905, Mrs. Ella (Sherman) Mabey. 2. Ethel Lucretia, February 9, 1888, a graduate from the Mexico high school and academy, also a graduate of the State Normal School, at Oswego, now a kindergarten teacher.
(VIII) Charles H., second son of Myron Everts, was born in Mexico, April 20, 1854, and was brought up on the old Matthews home- stead on which he was born. He attended the public schools, Mexico Academy and the State Normal School, at Oswego. After completing his education he engaged in farming and other occupations. He is a member of the Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free and Accepted Masons; of Mexico Chapter, No. 135, Royal Arch Masons; of Ontario Lake Command- ery, Knights Templar, of Oswego; of Media Temple. Mystic Shrine, of Watertown; of the Citizens Club, of Syracuse. In politics he is a Republican. Ile married, December 29, 1883, Emma E. Aird, born in Richland, Oswego county, New York, March 15. 1854, daughter of Robert and Philinda (Tyler) Aird. Her father was born in New York state, son of Matthew Aird, who was born in Scotland, and came to New York soon after 1800. Matthew Aird married Sarah Howard ( see Howard \'). Robert Aird was a soldier in the civil war, serving three years in the One Hundred and Tenth New York Regiment, Volunteer Infan- try, and is a member of the Grand Army, the Free Masons, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a Republican in politics ; married Philinda Tyler, born in Pulaski, Oswego coun- ty, New York, daughter of William and Ruha- mah ( Morton ) Tyler, of New Haven, Oswego county, previously of Connecticut. William Tyler was a farmer at New Haven, and a soldier in the war of 1812. Child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Everts: Myron Aird, born 1887, died aged two months.
(The Howard Line).
(1) Henry Howard, immigrant ancestor, was doubtless born in England, and he settled early at Wethersfield, Connecticut. He also lived at Hartford. He was a malster by trade. Ile was born probably in 1623. His will was proved April 4, 1709. His inventory amounted to five hundred and thirty-one pounds fourteen shillings six pence. lle married, at Hartford. September 28, 1648, Sarah Stone. Children : Mary, born 1651 : Sarah. 1653 : Elizabeth, 1656; John and Lydia ( twins ) ; Mary ; Samuel, men- tioned below.
( II) Samuel, son of Henry Howard, was born in Hartford or Wethersfield, about 1660, died in 1716. His inventory dated May 30. 1716, amounted to two thousand two hundred and five pounds seventeen shillings and seven pence. His will was dated February 23, 1716. proved August 17 following. He was a pros- perous shop keeper or merchant at Hartford. He married Susanna Children, men- tioned in the will, the daughters being minors : Samuel, mentioned below ; Susanna, Abigail and Ruth.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( 1) How- ard, was born in Hartford, about 1690. He and his mother were executors of his father's will in 1716, and he inherited house, land and business at Hartford. He was in business in Hartford. He died there in 1749. His inven- tory shows an estate valued at four thousand four hundred pounds, January 12. 1749-50. His widow Alice sold real estate in 1751 and the estate was distributed in that year. She was appointed administratrix, March 22, 1749- 50. He had only one son, Samuel, and several daughters, whose names are not known.
(IV) Samnel (3), son of Samuel (2) How- ard, was born about 1720. He received a double share from his father's estate in 1751. Sons : Samuel, mentioned below ; James ; Ben- jamin : Daniel.
(V) Samuel (4), son of Samuel ( 3) How- ard, was born at Hartford, and removed to Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, according to the history of that town, with several brothers. In 1790 Samuel Howard, of Ben- son, had one son under sixteen and three females in his family, according to the first federal census; his brother James had two sons under sixteen and two females, and his brother Benjamin two males over sixteen. three under that age and two females. His brother James was deacon of the Benson Con- gregational Church in 1797, and died in 1831, aged sixty-eight. All of the brothers lived on Howard Hill, Samuel, James, Daniel and prob- ably Benjamin. Samuel Howard was a soldier in the revolution in Captain James Davis's company in 1781, in Connecticut, and went to Vermont about 1785. He was selectman of Benson from 1791 to 1795; in 1850, from 1806 to 1816; and represented the town in the state legislature in 1815 and 1823. 1le died there in April, 1831, aged seventy years. His son, Major Edward S. Howard, was an active and successful man in Benson, representative to
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the legislature in 1842, died June 7, 1863, aged seventy-two years. Sarah Howard, daughter of Samuel Howard, married Matthew Aird and settled in New York state; her son, Robert Aird, married Philinda Tyler and their daugh- ter, Emma E. Aird, married, in 1883, Charles H. Evarts ( see Evarts \'III ).
Christopher Goodwin, the im- GOODWIN migrant ancestor, was born in England and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where his wife Mary was admitted to the church, August 9, 1656. He was a mason by trade. He died there, according to his gravestone, January 22, 1682, aged sixty-five years. Children: En- sign Nathaniel, deputy to general court from Charlestown, removed to Reading, where his son, John was a prominent citizen; Christo- pher, mentioned below ; John, had son John. not one mentioned below ; Mary, married, 1672, William Brown; Elizabeth, born March 13, 1659: Timothy, baptized June 8, 1662.
(II) Christopher (2), son of Christopher (1) Goodwin, was born in 1647, according to his deposition, 1682, giving his age as thirty- five. Fle was like his father, a mason by trade. He and his wife were admitted to the Charles- town church, March 18, 1676-77. He married ( first), May 11, 1672, Mercy Crouch, who died July. 1678, aged twenty-five ; ( second ), Decem- ber 10, 1678, Joanna Johnson. Children of first wife: Mary, born December 15, 1672: Hannah, baptize 1 April 30, 1676; Mercy, bap- tized June 6, 1680. Children of second wife : Deborah. baptized June 6, 1680; Christopher, baptized October 8, 1681: John, mentioned below.
(III) John, son of Christopher (2) Good- win. was born about 1683-85, in Charlestown. He resided in Boston, Cambridge, Malden and Charlestown. He was a housewright by trade, and left a large estate for his day. He mar- ried (first ) : (second) Lydia Sprague, November 25, 1714; (third), Sep- tember 3. 1751, Margaret Gibbs, who died in 1759. probably a Prentiss of Cambridge. He was taxed in Charlestown 1727-48; was of Cambridge in 1724. His son Edward was ap- pointed administrator February 19. 1753. He owned land to the eastward with the Plymouth Land Company. His widow Margaret was tax- ed in 1756. Children: Edward; John, men- tioned below : Samuel, born March 16, 1716-17.
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