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crat, but in later years he was a Republican, and supported the government in the civil war. He was a communicant of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He married (first) Wealthy Phelps, born October 18, 1783, at Bolton, Con- necticut, died September 18, 1822; (second) Hannah ( Mills) Thompson, a native of Nor- folk, Connecticut. Children by first wife: Erastus Phelps, mentioned below ; Sally La- vinia, born October 18, 1809, died August 16, 1855, married Orrin Merchant ; Abigail Eliza, born May 17, 1812, died February 24, 1879, married Nathan Delavan, of Connecticut ; Lucius Augustus, born February 12, 1815, dicd March 13, 1817: Lucia Ann, born October 22, 1816, died April 21, 1906, married Dr. John Clark, of Guilford, New York ; Wealthy May, born October 17, 1818, died February 25, 1902, married (first) Lawrence Bryant, (second) Fred Bolles: William Augustus, born March 31, 1820, died August 4, 1892.
(VII) Erastus Phelps, son of Samuel Asher Smith, was born in Guilford, New York, No- vember 23. 1806, died February 9, 1876, in Hamilton, New York. He attended the public schools of his native town and Oxford Acad- emy, but he was largely self-educated and was a man of great natural ability and force of character, and held in high esteem in the com- munity. He held the offices of loan commis- sioner and supervisor of the town, and was in much demand as a public speaker. In later years he was ordained in the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. His first charge was at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was located for two years. For about three years he was in charge of a parish at Sodus, Ontario county, New York, and afterward at Hamil- ton, New York, where he died. Altogether he was in the ministry for ten years. He married ( first ), April 15. 1829, Betsey Mills, born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, February 3, 1803, died March 23, 1843, daughter of Abiram and Esther ( Harris) Mills : (second). Septem- ber II. 1843. Mrs. Mary ( Bradbury) Cable, (lied March 6, 1860; (third), June 5, 1861, Mrs. Nancy ( Eckson) Hanford, died August 23, 1881. Children by first wife: Homer L., mentioned below : Esther K., born May 21, 1834, married Edward S. Bradley, and had one son. Dr. Bradley, of Norwich, New York; Laura Arthusa, born February 29, 1840, mar- ried Rufus Mills, of Guilford, New York, and had daughter Mary. Children by second wife: Betsey B., born September 17. 1844. married
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Harvey Shelton, and had Mary. Laura, Grace and Julia Shelton.
(VIII) Homer Lucius, son of Erastus Phelps Smith, was born in Guilford, August 22, 1830. He received his early education in the district schools, and worked on his father's farm at Guilford until he was seventeen years old. Then he was employed as clerk in a store at Guilford several years, after which he be- came bookkeeper for the firm of Thorp & Chapman, at Oxford, New York, for two years. In 1851 he came to Norwich, and two years later went to New York City. He was clerk in various stores there, and salesman and bookkeeper. For a number of years he was in business as a produce and commission mer- chant on his own account in New York City. In 1869 he formed a partnership with a Mr. White to manufacture butter and cheese at Sherburne, New York, under the firm name of White & Smith. In 1880 he sold out this business and engaged in business in New York City for five years. In 1885 he returned to Sherburne, and in 1890 came to Norwich again. Since then he has resided at Norwich, where he has been engaged in business as a dealer in dairy supplies and as a manufacturer of rennet extracts. He built the building in which his business is now located in 1903. His is one of the large houses in this line of business in Central New York. He manufactures rennet, and handles all sundry supplies for dairies. His store is on Birdsall street, Norwich. In politics he is a Republican, in religion an Epis- copalian.
He married. September 12, 1855. Carrie Carroll, of New York City, born December 2, 1836, daughter of Edward and Caroline Car- roll. Children: 1. Homer E., born June 17, 1856; an oculist, practicing in Norwich ; mar- ried Isabel Goodrich, of Norwich. 2. Victor Mills, born September 12, 1859. died April 28. 1893 : married Ida Johnson, of Syracuse, New York ; child. Homer Bruce, born in Brighton, England, May 10, 1890, now living in Water- loo, Iowa.
The surname Willard has been WILLARD a personal name from ancient times. Earlier than use as a surname, it was a local or place name in Eng- land. The coat-of-arms used by many branches of the family is: "Argent a chevron sable be- tween three fish wiers proper five ermine spots."
Crest : "A griffin's head erased or." Motto: Patienta Duris.
(I) Richard Willard, grandfather of the American immigrant, was a yeoman at Brench- ley, England, where he died, leaving a will dated September 18, 1558, proved October 4, 1558. Children : Robert : Alexander ; George ; Richard, mentioned below : Andrew ; Symon ; Thomas ; William; Alice ; Agnes.
(11) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Wil- lard, lived at Horsemonden, county Kent, Eng- land. He married (first) Catherine
who was buried March 11, 1559; (second) Margery - , who died December 12, 1608: ( third), January 17, 1610. Joan Morebread, who was buried February 25, 1617. His will mentioned children George, Mary, Elizabeth, Margery. Catherine, Richard ; brother Thomas : brother-in-law Thomas Humphrey ; son Symon and sister-in-law Mary Davy. Children : Rich- ard, died young; Thomas, baptized May 6, 1593, buried January 15, 1608; Edward, bap- tized March 21, 1611-12, buried April 16, 1612 : John, baptized March 3, 1612-13, buried June 20, 1613; George; George; Mary ; Elizabeth ; Margery : Catherine, baptized August 30, 1607 : Richard ; Simon.
( III) Major Simon Willard. son of Richard (2) Willard, was the immigrant ancestor, was born in 1605, and baptized at Horsemonden, county Kent, England, December 4, 1614. When a young man he was a soldier in Kent. He came to New England in April, 1634, in the same ship with Dolor Davis, his brother- in-law, who married Margery Willard. He was a merchant, and began to trade with the Indians as soon as he was fairly established at Cambridge. Davis, the ancestor of many dis- tinguished Massachusetts families, settled on an adjoining farm, on the Brighton side of the Charles river. Willard acquired a thousand acres bounded by the farm of Davis, Charles river, and the Boston town line. He had many grants of land from time to time. He was one of the founders and first settlers of Concord. and was the first deputy to the general court elected in December, 1636, serving every year after that until 1664, excepting 1643-47-48, and was elected but declined to serve in the year 1654. He was a member of the council fifteen years, and for twenty-two years an assistant. He was given a patent by the gen- eral court in 1641 for trading with the Indians and collecting tribute from them. He was
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appointed magistrate, and during his life at- tended between seventy and eighty terms of the county court, his first term beginning No- vember 28, 1654, his last April 4, 1676. For forty years he was active in military life. He rose to the rank of major, and commanded the provincial troops against the Indians. Both in military and civil life he became one of the most famous men of the province. He led the expedition against the Narragansetts in 1655, and was at Brookfield and Hadley in King Philip's war, leading the Middlesex regi- ment. The town of Lancaster invited him by a personal letter dated February 7, 1658-59. to make his home in that town, promising lands and privileges. He decided to locate in Lancaster, and sold out his Concord estates to Captain Thomas Marshall, of Lynn, in 1659. His first home in Lancaster was near the open- ing of the present Center road, bounded on two sides by the Nashua river, and command- ing a superb view of the valley and surround- ing country. He lived there twelve years, and in 1670-71 removed to the large farm in the south part of Groton, where in 1671-72 he served as chairman of the committee to seat the meeting-house. In 1673 he was chairman of the Groton selectmen. He had a fine farm at Still River, now Harvard, and doubtless moved to Groton in order to be nearer his property. He left Lancaster enjoying peace and good order, though King Philip's war was soon to come. In civil life Major Willard was a surveyor and was often called upon to fix town boundaries. He died of influenza, an epidemic of this occurring in 1676. He was one of the most conspicuous and honored men of his day, and he died at the close of King Philip's war, after receiving his greatest tri- umphs, April 24. 1676. He was a Puritan, conscientious and of sound understanding, of brave and enduring spirit. He was wealthy and gave large amounts of land to his children, leaving 1300 acres besides other property at his death. His widow petitioned the general court for reimbursement for losses from Indian wars, declaring that the major often said he had lost a thousand pounds in this way. The court answered this petition by a grant of a thou- sand acres to be divided among the six young- est children. He was buried April 27, 1676, and the inventory of his estate was filed later by Mrs. Willard. He married (first) Mary Sharpe, born 1614, at Horsmonden, daughter of Henry and Jane (Field) Sharpe: (second)
Elizabeth, sister of Henry Dunster, first presi- dent of Harvard College ; (third) Mary, sister of Elizabeth Dunster, and she married (sec- ond) Deacon Joseph Noyes, of Sudbury. His children, by the first and third wives: Mary; Elizabeth, died young ; Elizabeth, died August 29, 1690; Dorothy, died young; Josiah. Born at Concord: Samuel, January 31, 1639-40; Sarah, June 27, 1642; Above-hope, October 30. 1646; Simon, November 23, 1649; Mary, Sep- tember 7, 1653: Henry, June 4, 1655: John. February 12, 1656-57: Daniel, December 29, 1658. Born at Lancaster: Joseph, January 4. 1660-61, lived at London, England : Benjamin. 1665; Hannah, October 6, 1666: Jonathan, December 14, 1669.
(VI) Josiah, descendant of Major Simon Willard, and of the sixth generation in this lineage, was a native of Massachusetts. IIe was a pioneer at Oriskany Falls, now in Oneida county, New York. He cleared a farm and spent his later years there. He had a daugh- ter Jeanette, and a son James M., mentioned below.
(VII ) James M1., son of Josiah Willard, was born near or at Oriskany Falls, Oneida county, New York, and died there in 1870. He was a merchant, and a prominent citizen in his native town. In politics he was a Democrat. and a man of wide influence and high standing in the community. He owned several canal boats, warehouses and storehouses on the Erie canal, and was in business for many years under the firm name of James M. Willard & Company. He also owned a distillery at Oris- kany Falls. He married Angelina Hubbard. born in Bridgewater, New York, died March 31, 1900, aged eighty-six years. Children : Nettie, died young; Levi G. Platt ; Ephraim Jay, mentioned below : Amelia, married F. B. Merwin : Maria, married David Ellis.
(VIII) Ephraim Jay, son of James M. Will- ard, was born at Oriskany Falls, New York. and was educated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter and fol- lowed it for many years. In religion he was a Presbyterian. He married Frances M. Ballard. born 1847, at Waterville, New York, daugh- ter of Clesson M. and Mary ( Howland) Bal- lard ( see Howland). Children : George Harvey, mentioned below : Edward Clesson, born 1870. a printer. Frances M. ( Ballard) Willard mar- ried (second) Milo C. Barker, of Oriskany Falls and had one daughter, Mabel A .. married Albert W. Clark.
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(IX) George Harvey, son of Ephraim Jay Willard, was born at Oriskany Falls, April 17, 1866. He attended the public schools of his native town and the high school at Brookfield, Madison county, New York. For two years after he left school he was engaged in teach- ing, and then learned the printing business in the office of F. E. Munger, in Richfield Springs, New York. For some time he was also local correspondent for the New York Journal, the New York Graphic and the Utica Daily Ob- scrvcr. For a period of three years he lived at Waterville, and for two years was on the staff of the Waterville Times. He spent a year in West Winfield, Herkimer county, and was afterward city editor of the Oneida Union, a semi-weekly newspaper, and the only Demo- cratic organ in the county. In the summer of 1890 he returned to Richfield Springs, where he became editor of the Richfield Daily and special correspondent of the New York World. In the following August he removed to New Berlin, New York, and a year later to Nor- wich, where he was foreman on the Morning Sun and county representative of the United Press Association, and afterward city editor of The Sun. In 1893 he became foreman of the Citizen Publishing Company of Ilion, New York; in July, 1895. he bought a half interest in the New Berlin Gasette. For three years he was in partnership with Joseph K. Fox. Since 1898 he has been sole proprietor and publisher of the newspaper. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has taken a prominent part in public affairs. He has represented his party and town in the Democratic county committee. He has been clerk of the incorporated village of New Berlin and a member of the board of education. He is a member of Phœbus Lodge of Free Masons, New Berlin; of Hillington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Morris, New York ; and of Norwich Commandery, Knights Templar, Norwich, New York; of Ehren- breitstein Lodge, Odd Fellows, New Berlin, and he is a communicant of St. Andrew's Prot- estant Episcopal Church.
He married, December 23, 1893. Lillie Lot- tridge, born in Columbus, New York, May 26, 1869, daughter of Henry L. and Bessie ( Fen- ton) Lottridge. Her father was a son of Ben- nett Abijah Lottridge, who was born at Cohim- bus, November 21, 1811, and died at New Ber- lin, December 5. 1890; married Phebe Caro- line Simonds, of Rhode Island, born January 14. 1813, died March 15, 1889. John Lottridge,
father of Bennett Abijah, came from Albany, New York, to Columbus, New York, in De- cember, 1799, married Polly, daughter of Cap- tain Garrett Reed, an officer in the revolution- ary war. John Lottridge died February 16, 1853, aged seventy-eight years ; his wife Polly died September 11, 1836, aged fifty-seven years. Children of George H. Willard : Henry Milo, born November 13, 1894; Ray Francis, March 8, 1897.
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(J) John Howland, the immigrant ancestor, came to this country when twenty-eight years of age, in 1620. His name was thirteenth on the list of forty-one who signed the compact in the cabin of the "Mayflower," November 21, 1620. Prince says that he was one of Gov- ernor Carver's family at the time. He was one of the ten who chose the place of settle- ment. In the records the first mention of him is on the list of freemen, and as third in the governor's council of seven. He was an asses- sor in 1633; in 1636 he served on a jury, in 1666 was selectman, and deputy in 1652-56- 58-61-63-66-67-70. June 2, 1670, was the last time his name was used as candidate for public office, as he was nearly eighty years of age, and refused to serve any more. He was very prominent, and active in public and church work. He was manager of the colonists' inter- est in a trading post on the Kennebec river in Maine. He lived at what was called Rocky Nook. He died February 23, 1672-73, and his will was dated May 29, 1672, proved March 5, 1673. Although it says on his gravestone that he married Governor Carver's daughter, the discovery of Bradford's manuscript has proved that the Governor had no daughter ; the mant- script says that he married Elizabeth Tilly. daughter of John Tilly, who died before Car- ver did, when Elizabeth was fourteen years of age. It is probably that she was taken into the Governor's family at that time. Ilis wife (lied December 21, 1687, at the home of her daughter Lydia Brown, in Swanzey. Her will was dated at Swanzey. December 17, 1686. Children, perhaps not in order of birth: De- sire, married Captain John Gorham; John, mentioned below ; Jabez; Hope, born October 30, 1629; Elizabeth; Lydia; Ruth; Hannah ; Joseph ; Isaac, born November 15. 1649.
(II) John (2), son of John ( 1) Howland, was born at Plymouth, February 24, 1627. He was in Marshfield as early as 1653, and took
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the oath of fidelity in 1657, there. In the rec- ords, a daughter Elizabeth is given as born May 17, 1655. In 1657 he was in Barnstable. He was a good business man, and well liked and respected in the colony. He was summon- ed before the general court for warning "Arthur and the Quaker" that the constable were on their way to arrest them; "Arthur" was his uncle, Arthur Howland. In 1674 he was appointed ensign of the military company of Barnstable. He and his brothers Joseph and Jacob, in 1675, petitioned for land for their children. He received a license to sell cider in Barnstable in 1685, and in 1689 was chosen selectman. Children : Mary, born 1652; Elizabeth, May 17, 1655; Isaac, November 25, 1659; Hannah, May 15, 1661; Mercy, Janu- ary 21, 1663; Lydia, January 9, 1665; Experi- ence, July 28, 1668; Anne, September 9, 1670; Shubael, September 30, 1672; John, mentioned below.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Howland, was born in Barnstable, December 31, 1674, and lived there during the whole of his life. His son John was graduated from Ilarvard. He married (first) Abigail Crocker. accord- ing to one authority, and Mary Walker, ac- cording to another. He married (second). June II, 1719, Mary Crocker, born June 29, 1681. Abigail may have been the second wife, instead of Mary. His will, dated February 8. 1738, proved March 29, 1738, mentions his children, and said "my will is that if my son John should fail of being brought up to col- lege, then he shall become an equal partner with my son Job in the real estate." Children by first wife, born at Barnstable: George Gill, mentioned below ; Hannah, February 2, 1708; Mary, August 11, 1711 ; Joanna, January 26, 1715. Children by second wife : John, Febri- ary 13, 1721 ; Job, June 18, 1726.
(IV) George Gill, son of John (3) How- land, was born at Barnstable, December 30, 1705. He moved with his family from Barn- stable to Gill, where the Indians were so hos- tile that they were driven from here, and re- turned later. He married (first) Abigail Crocker, who died September 5, 1732; (sec- ond), in Gill, Children : Mary. Hannah, born August 4, 1732; Seth, March 17. 1735; John, June 2, 1738, died aged twen- ty-four, unmarried; Shove, June 18, 1741 ; George, mentioned below.
(V) George, son of George Gill Howland, was born at Barnstable, April 25. 1743, and
died in Gill, aged sixty. He married twice. Children of first wife : Salmon, Zimel ; children of second wife: Solomon, mentioned below ; Lucius, Chester, born June 13, 1783; George, December 17, 1788: Mercy.
(VI) Solomon, son of George Howland, was born September 25, 1780, in Gill. Ile lived in Bridgewater, New York, where he died September 2, 1870. lle was a farmer. Ile married, January 11, 1804, Lucinda Bal- lard. of Gill, born April 3, 1772, died at Bridgewater, July 9, 1868. Children : Chester. born September 6, 1804; Lucinda, December 6, 1806; Alva, December 3. 1808; Melinda. November 15, 1810; Mary, mentioned below : Seth, born May 27, 1816, at Bridgewater, New York : George, July 7, 1818.
(\'II) Mary, daughter of Solomon How- land, was born October 19, 1813. She married. March 20. 1841, Clesson Ballard, born in Gill. town of Montagne, Massachusetts, October 15. 1814. son of Tertius Ballard, who married Anna Clark. Tertins Ballard died in 1820. and was brother of Zelotus and Amiziah. Frances M., daughter of Clesson and Mary Ballard, married Ephraim Jay Willard; (see- ond) M. C. Barker, of Bridgewater. New York.
HOLMES Jonathan Holmes, said to the immigrant ancestor of this family, was born about 1700. or perhaps a few years later, and settled in the town of Washington, Dutchess county. New York. He must have died before 1790. for the first federal census taken in that year does not give his name. Ile appears to have had three sons who settled in Washington. The census shows that Abner Holmes had two males over sixteen, three under that age and one female in his family in 1790, and James Holmes had one son under sixteen and four females in the same record. Jacob's name also appears, as mentioned below.
( II) Jacob, son of Jonathan Holmes, was born about 1740, and settled in the town of Washington, Dutchess county, where, accord- ing to the census of 1790, he was head of a family consisting of three males over sixteen, two under that age and three females. 11e removed to Bridgewater, Oneida county, late in life, and died there, aged seventy-six years. He was a man of integrity and highly respect- ed in the community. He married Anne Titus. Children : Titus, Sarah. Isaac. mentioned be- low
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(III) Isaac, son of Jacob Holmes, was born in 1777, in Washington, Dutchess county, and died in Columbus, New York, May 5, 1863, aged eighty-six years. In 1802 he came to Bridgewater, Oneida county, from his native county, and settled in Columbus, of which he was one of the pioneer settlers in 1827. He cleared his farm and took an active part in the development and upbuilding of the town. He became well-to-do in the course of time, and in addition to general farming and the raising of grain, he conducted a hotel at North Bridgewater, New York. This farin is now known as the Eugene Hopson place. He died at the age of eighty years, in Columbus, Che- mango county. He married Sarah Ketchum, who died February 20, 1837. Children : Elias, Eliza, Gilbert. mentioned below ; Jonathan, Jacob, Charles, Phebe, Melle, Henry, Platt. Charles Holmes was a prosperous farmer in Columbus ; married (first ) Sarah Merchant, and had Cerelia, married Charles W. Spurr ; Mary J., married Charles llaywood, and James Amsby. He married (second) Lucy ( Phillips) Sturgis, widow of Lavette Stur- gis, of South Otselic, daughter of Esek Phil- lips ; by her first marriage she had four chil- dren, Harlon, Myra, Amy and Minnie. Henry Holmes was born July 13, 1816; a farmer and produce dealer of Columbus; married Li- cinda, daughter of Stephen Howard; she died in 1895, aged eighty-six years; their only child, Mary Ann, born July 12, 1848, married (). D). Larchar, a merchant, who died in 1891, leaving a wife and four children, Henry H., married Maud E. Hopson, and has one child, Roy; G. Myron, married Nellie M. Lottridge, and has one child, Guy H .; Dela M. and Uri C.
(IV) Gilbert, son of Isaac Holmes, was born in Oneida county, July 15, 1802. He re- moved to Columbus, Chenango county, and spent most of his active life there. lle died in 1846, being killed by a falling tree. lle was a distiller by occupation. In politics he was a Whig and in religion a Universalist. He married Asenath Finch, born May 11, 1802. Children : Isaac, mentioned below ; Charles, born February 28, 1834. died in childhood ; Phebe, born August 27. 1837, married Oliver Arnold; Melle, born December 2, 1838, mar- ried Henry Lewis.
(V) Isaac (2), son of Gilbert Holmes, was born in Columbus, New York, May 12, 1829, and died October 16, 1910, in New Berlin,
New York. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the cooper's trade, which he followed for a period of twenty years. He was a skillful craftsman. Afterward he fol- lowed farming in Columbus until 1873, when he moved to the village of New Berlin and re- tired from active business. In politics he was a Republican, and he held the offices of town assessor and president of the incorporated village. Throughout his life he was active and interested in public affairs, an upright and influential citizen. He married (first), April 27, 1851, Louisa Lottridge, born in Columbus, April 4, 1833, died April 3. 1872, daughter of William and granddaughter of John Lott- ridge, who came to Columbus, New York, to settle, in 1799, from his old home in Albany, New York. Her father was a Baptist clergy- man in early life, afterward a Universalist preacher, and pastor of the Universalist church at Columbus. Rev. Mr. Lottridge was also a farmer. lle was the father of sixteen children. Mr. Holmes married (second ), Sep- tember 2, 1873, Abigail Lloyd, born April 9, 1831, now living in New Berlin. Children, all by first wife: 1. Jay Gilbert, born Novem- ber 7, 1853, died March 7, 1906; a lawyer by profession, admitted to the bar in 1877, county clerk three terms of three years each, a thirty- second degree Free Mason: married Mary Lamb, and had one child, who died in infancy. 2-3. Charles Arnold and Frank Ellsworth, both mentioned below.
(VI) Charles Arnold, son of Isaac (2) Holmes, was born in Columbus, New York, November 12, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of New Berlin, and learned the jeweler's trade in Port Henry, New York. Since 1884 he has been in business as a jew- eler in New Berlin, and has enjoyed a large and flourishing trade. Ile is a director of the Preferred Mutual Insurance Company of New Berlin, and a member of Phœbus Lodge, No. 82, Free Masons, of New Berlin ; of Hilling- ton Chapter, No. 224, Royal Arch Masons, of Morris; of Norwich Commandery, No. 47, Knights Templar ; of Otseningo (?) Consis- tory, of Binghamton, and of other bodies of Free Masonry to the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, and of Ziyara Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Utica. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He married, November 25, 1885, Ella M. Armstrong, of New Berlin, daughter of William and Gertrude (Kinney) Armstrong. They have no children.
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