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(V) Nathaniel, eldest son of Captain Jere- miah Shattuck, was born in Pepperell, Massa- chusetts, August 12, 1724, died during the
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great fever epidemic in Pepperell, July 17, 1757, in his thirty-third year. He married (first) Hannah Symonds, of Reading, Massa- chusetts ; (second), April 18, 1757, Ruth Shattuck. Children, born in Pepperell : Hannah, married Isaac Boynton; Nathaniel, of whom further ; Elizabeth, married James Lakin.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) Shattuck, was born in Pepperell, Massachu- setts, April 3, 1749, died in Temple, New Hampshire, January 30, 1828, in his seventy- ninth year. He was one of the fifty-three men who in September, 1773, fell at the rais- ing of the meeting house in Wilton, New Hampshire. Three were instantly killed, two more died soon after, others were crippled for life and most of them received injuries. Mr. Shattuck was wounded in the head and had three ribs broken. He served in the revolutionary war and was one of the com- pany of fifty-six men who marched from Temple to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, but arrived too late to engage in the battle ; service fourteen days. In July, 1777, he was one of the seventeen men who marched from Temple to Benning- ton in Captain S. Parker's company, Colonel M. Nichol's regiment, General John Stark's brigade.
He married, in 1773, Catherine, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, February 16, 1753. daughter of Jeremiah Andrews, of Concord, Massachusetts. She died in Temple, Novem- ber 19, 1845, aged ninety-two years, nine months, three days. At her decease she had two hundred and eight descendants; thirteen children, seventy-eight grandchildren, one hundred and fifteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She could say "Arise, daughter, and go to thy daughter for thy daughter's daughter hath a daughter." Children, born in Temple, New Hampshire : Nathaniel, of whom further; Oliver, died young ; Parker, married Sally Spofford ; Han- nah, married Nathan Richardson; Catherine, married George Kimball; Polly, died young ; Oliver (2), married Sally Start; Polly (2), married Aaron K. Putnam; Dolly, married Josiah Wheeler; Sally, married Joseph Put- nam; Milly, married John Bales; Ralph, died young : Ralph (2), died young.
(VII) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) Shattuck, was born in Temple, New Hamp- shire, February 27, 1774, died in Concord, New Hampshire, September 1, 1864, aged
ninety years, six months, four days. When a young man, in the winter seasons between January, 1792, and March, 1800, he was em- ployed in teaching the common schools in Parkersfield (now Nelson), Cheshire county, New Hampshire, Sharon, Mason and Temple, Hillsboro county. He graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1801, in the class of Daniel Webster. While in college he became the author of the illustration of cube root by the use of blocks when under the instruction of tutor, John Noyes, which was afterward intro- duced by Dr. Daniel Adams in the subsequent editions of his arithmetic, and by others who have published their arithmetics since that time. Daniel Webster in his "Life and Cor- respondence," referring to his college course, says : "I left mathematics to Shattuck." After reading law for two years with Hon. Benja- min J. Gilbert, of Hanover. and two more with Hon. Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, Massachusetts, he was admitted to the bar in the county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, in 1804. He commenced practice in Milford, New Hampshire. In 1830 he removed to Mason village (now Greenville), where he remained in the practice of his profession till the failure of his eyesight by cataracts in 1844, being the seventieth year of his age. For two years he was totally blind. By a successful operation his sight was restored so that by the aid of glasses he could read with facility. Having given up his profession he resided with his children at New Hampton, New Hampshire, Lancaster and Lynn, Massachu- setts, and later at Manchester, New Hamp- shire, with his son-in-law, Rev. A. W. Chaffin. During these years he kept up his early habit of methodical reading and study. He was a careful student of the Bible. It was his cus- tom to devote three or four hours daily with pen in hand to a critical study of the Bible, comparing scripture with scripture. Recently when asked how many times he had read the Bible through, his reply was, "Over fifty times." Prior to his being blind, as a literary labor he verified the more important events and facts of scripture. So fond was he of the Bible that latterly he had but little relish for other reading, save that of the religious and political news. In his own language :
"The book of books, the Bible ever new,
Be this our Chart, our Sail and Compass, too: And when the beating storms of life are o'er. Our souls be landed safe on Canaan's shore."
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In the pending national struggle he was deeply interested and heartily sympathized with the government in its effort to overcome the rebellion and to extirpate slavery, the cause of it. Summing up his mental charac- teristics we may style them as eminently mathematical, legal and poetical. As a law- yer but few of his contemporaries were better read and wiser or safer counsel. He used his profession for the benefit of others rather than his own pecuniary profit. As a writer he often indulged in poetical rather than prose compositions; composing hymns and odes and other pieces dedicated to friends or used on public occasions. In conversation he was slow of speech. Possessed of a re- markable memory, he never wanted for an anecdote or fact to point his remarks or illus- trate a principle. Happy in repartee, he was scrupulously careful not to wound the feelings of others. Physically blessed with a strong constitution, he attended carefully to the laws of health. His favorite exercise was walking. In his eightieth year, having been left at Lawrence, Massachusetts, by the cars on his way to Manchester, New Hampshire, he walked the whole distance (28 miles) that day rather than remain over one train. His last sickness was short and violent, he having an apoplectic attack while on a visit to his friend which resulted in mental derangment and death. His remains were carried to Am- herst, where appropriate funeral services were held in the Congregational chapel, Rev. J. G. Davis officiating. His remains were deposited in the burying ground near the court house in which he spent so many of his professional days. He reposes there with kindred dust awaiting the resurrection morn, to come forth in the robes of Christ's righteousness in whom as the only Saviour he believed and trusted. He was greatly interested in pre- serving the genealogy of the Shattucks. The compiler of the "Shattuck Genealogy" says : "We are greatly indebted to him for much valuable information concerning the family and descendants of his father."
He married (first) June 15, 1806, Mary, born in Temple, April 5, 1790, daughter of_ Hon. James and Betsey (Kimball) Wallace, of Milford, New Hampshire. She died June 3, 1812, in her twenty-third year. He mar- ried (second), April 4, 1816, Sally, born in Amherst, New Hampshire, July 25, 1789, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Seaton) Stan-
ley. Child of first wife: 1. Ann Jane, born May 12, 1809, died August 16, 1847; married B. F. Wallace, of Antrim, principal of Bid- ford Academy. Children by second wife: 2. Mary Wallace, died in her twelfth year. 3. Algernon Parker, born February 15, 1819, at Amherst, New Hampshire, died August 20, 1874, at Lynn, Massachusetts; she was a teacher of penmanship in various places and in 1854 was connected with the New Eng- land Normal Institute. 4. Catherine Kimball, born December 15, 1823, died December 20, 1907,; she married, in Boston, April 20, 1848, Rev. Aaron W. Chaffin, professor of lan- guages and later a minister of the Baptist church. 5. George Freeman, died young. 6. Henry Campbell, died young. 7. George Henry, of whom further.
(VIII) George Henry, youngest child of Nathaniel (3) and his second wife, Sally (Stanley) Shattuck, was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, December 9, 1830. He was educated in the public schools, Hancock Lit- erary and Scientific Institution, and the insti- tution at New Hampton. He learned the trade of machinist in Manchester, New Hampshire. He worked as a journeyman at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, for a time, and then secured employment in Colt's pistol shops in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked until 1850. In that year he aban- doned his trade and went to New York City, later going west, and in 1851 settled in Or- leans county, New York. He had under the tuition of his brother become an expert pen- man. In 1853-54 the association for the exhi- bition of the Industry of All Nations awarded Mr. Shattuck mention, with special appro- bation for specimens of penmanship; this was on the same ground as now occupied by the new public library in New York City. He personally taught penmanship in Western New York and in Western cities, and was employed by the publishers to introduce Payson, Dunton & Scribners copy books in Western New York. He continued teach- ing in Western New York for several years, then was sent by the publishers to New York City, where he taught Payson, Dunton & Scribners system of penmanship, introduced them in the public school, and was interested in the publication of this copy book until 1890. At that time the American Book Com- pany was formed and they took over the publications in which he was interested. In
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1876 he bought an interest in Spencerian and was agent and associate author until 1890. In 1900 Mr. Shattuck disposed of his inter- ests in Payson, Dunton & Scribners and Spen- cerian copy books to the American Book Company and associated himself with Mr. H. W. Shaylor, of Portland, Maine, who has been for more than a quarter of a century a teacher of writing in that city and the au- thor of Harper's copy books, also Ginn & Company copy books and together they pre- pared the Medial system which at this writing enjoys a larger circulation than the four sys- tems above named. Payson, Dunton & Scrib- ners system was copied and reprinted in Canada, was reproduced in Edinburgh, Scot- land, and issued under the title of the Inter- national system. The Spencerian was re- produced in Tokio, Japan. All of the above reproductions were made independent of and without consulting the original publishers or authors. The Medial was adopted for the schools of Porto Rico, and at the request of the school authorities the lower numbers were translated into Spanish. During his career more than eighty million of copy books have been used throughout the schools of the world, in which he had an interest. Mr. Shattuck retired to Medina, Orleans county, New York, where he continues his residence, now in his eighty-second year, and remark- ably well preserved. He is independent in politics; from 1889 to 1904 he was commis- sioner of Boxwood cemetery in Medina, New York. He is a member of Medina Lodge, No. 336, Free and Accepted Masons ; Medina Chapter, No. 281, Royal Arch Masons; Alpha and Omega Council, No. 71, Royal and Se- lect Masters; Morton Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar, of New York, also Mecca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a communicant of the Episcopal church. Mr. Shattuck presented to the New York Public Library, New York City, his entire collec- tion of books, pamphlets, etc., relating to the history of penmanship, the whole comprising four hundred and twenty-eight works, cov- ering the period from 1659 to 1850, a valuable and highly appreciated gift. He also pre- sented in 1907 to the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy an interesting collection of cata- logues of art exhibitions and sales for thirty years, from 1876, held at the American Mu- seum of Natural History and the National Academy of Design. Many of these cata-
logues contained the prices at which paintings were sold at that time and they are a source of great interest and very valuable. He also presented to the library of the Forty-second Separate Company bound copies of twenty- two volumes of Scribners that preceded the Century, and bound volumes of the Century, the successor of Scribners, over eighty vol- umes in all, in memory of his son George H., whose death was the first in the company and who was accorded a military funeral, three volleys were fired over his grave and taps were sounded by the bugler.
Mr. Shattuck married, June 30, 1862, at Medina, Margaret Bathgate, born there De- cember 5, 1829, died October 5, 1904, daugh- ter of Simeon and Euphemia (Atchison) Bathgate. Children: I. William B., born May 5, 1864, died October 27, 1864. 2. George H., born March 29, 1866, died No- vember 17, 1894. 3. Algernon B., born De- cember 7, 1871 ; educated in the public school and Orchard Lake Military Academy, Michi- gan ; now employed in the government postal service at Medina, New York; he served in the Spanish-American war as second lieuten- ant of Company F, Third Regiment, New York Infantry. Enrolled May 1, 1898, at Me- dina to serve two years; mustered in as sec- ond lieutenant Company F, May 17, 1898; mustered out with company November 30, 1898, at Medina, New York, commissioned second lieutenant, May 17, 1898, with rank from same date original. He married Flor- ence Bilton and has a daughter, Margaret B., born May 4, 1910.
LAPHAM Thomas Lapham, the immi- grant ancestor, came probably from county Kent, England, and was at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1635. It is thought that he left England in 1634, and from his friendship with Rev. John Lothrop, pastor of the first church of Scituate, and El- der Nathaniel Tilden, the first ruling elder, it is believed he left Kent because of religious troubles. He joined the church of which Lo- throp was pastor, March 24, 1636. His home was near Scituate harbor. He died in 1648, and his will, dated 1646, is recorded in the early Plymouth Colony records, proved June 5, 1651. His wife was executrix. His name is found very rarely on the town records, and it is evident that he was more active in church affairs, as his name is found more often on
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the church records than anywhere else. He married, March 13, 1637, Mary, daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden. Children, Elizabeth, born May 6, 1638; Mary ; Thomas, mentioned below; Lydia; Rebecca, born 1645; Joseph, born 1648.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Lap- ham, was born in 1643. He married Mary . He married a second time, and about 1700 moved to Marshfield. He died in 1720. Children by first wife: Joseph, born 1670; Samuel, mentioned below ; Lydia, born 1677. Child by second wife: Mary, born 1704.
(III) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Lapham, was born in 1676. He married Hannah Rog- ers, of Marshfield, November 19, 1701. Chil- dren: Hannah, born April 1, 1703; Mary, September 13, 1704; David, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, April 13, 1708; Joshua, December 22, 1710; Mercy, May 10, 1713; Thankful, May, 1715; Amos, December 1, 1717; Lydia, May 17, 1724.
(IV) David, son of Samuel Lapham, was born April 3, 1706. He married, 1727, Re- becca King. Children: Thomas, born Sep- tember II, 1728; David, April 19, 1730 ; Amos, March 30, 1731 ; Rebecca, September 21, 1732; Elisha, May 10, 1734; Elizabeth, November 7, 1735 ; Stephen, mentioned below ; Benjamin, December 10, 1738; Daniel, March 10, 1739; Isaac, October 25, 1741; King, October 4, 1743; Lydia, December 7, 1744; Asa, April 12, 1746.
(V) Stephen, son of David Lapham, was born February 10, 1736; married, in 1761, Ruth Rogers. He and his brothers moved to the town of Washington, in Dutchess county, New York. According to the census of 1790 there were four heads of families there at that time. David had two sons under sixteen and one female in his family ; Jonathan, five males over sixteen, three under that age and eight females; Benjamin had two males over six- teen, one under that age and five females ; Solon had two over sixteen, one under that age and two females. Stephen was in the same section of the state. He settled at Queensbury, Washington county, and in 1790 had in his family two males over sixteen, one under that age and seven females in his fam- ily. Nathan, with a family of twelve, lived at Danby, in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1790, and Asa Lapham with six in his family lived at Charlotte, Chittenden county, Vermont.
(VI) Gideon, born January 7, 1787, died
September 13, 1871, was son or nephew of Stephen Lapham ; the records are not available to show the exact relationship, but that he was of this family is without doubt. He came from Vermont to Cayuga county, New York, among the early settlers of the county, and afterward settled in Erie county, buying a farm on the Big Tree road, near East Au- rora, New York. This farm is now part of the town of Wales, in Erie county, and has been owned lately by Charles A. Sill. From this place Gideon moved to East Hill, just south of the village of East Aurora. He married Dorcas Bowen, born April 17, 1790, died September 29, 1869. Children : Dr. George Henry Lapham, of whom further; Susan, born January 29, 1815; Ann E., July 9, 1822; May E., March 21, 1829.
(VII) Dr. George Henry Lapham, son of Gideon Lapham, was born at Scipio, New York, September 5. 1813, and died December 14, 1885, in East Aurora, New York. He was educated in private schools and at the Aurora Academy. Under the instruction of Dr. Hought and Dr. Wallis he began the study of medicine, and in 1833 was a student in the State Medical College at Fairfield, New York, and in the following year at the Philadelphia Medical College, from which he was gradu- ated in 1836 with high honors. He located in 1836 in East Aurora and began to practice his profession. In 1840 he built a residence on Main street, near the East Aurora railroad station, and there he had his office and home during the rest of his life. At the time of his death he was the oldest practicing physician in Erie county. He had a large practice, and was a sagacious man of affairs, acquiring a competence in his practice and wisely invest- ing it. He was for many years one of the largest taxpayers of the town. He took a keen interest in town affairs and exerted a strong and wholesome interest in politics. He was especially interested in public education, served for a long time on the board of educa- tion, and was a prime mover in changing the district school and Aurora Academy to the Union schools. He was superintendent of schools for a number of years, and also served the town as highway commissioner. He mar- ried, in 1840, Catherine White, born August 5, 1815, daughter of David P. and Betsey (Platt) White. Dr. James P. White, of Buf- falo, who built the White Block in that city, was her brother. She died December 20, 1879,
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and Dr. Lapham married (second), in July, 1882, Mrs. L. W. Graves, who survives him. Children by first wife: Mary Penfield, born February 18, 1842, married Seth R. Sill, of Rochester, New York; Henry White, born October 8, 1845, died January 19, 1882 un- married; Clara E., born August 6, 1853, died June 9, 1866; Albert H., mentioned below.
(VIII) Albert H., son of Dr. George Henry Lapham, was born April 15, 1857, at East Aurora, New York. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. For a number of years he conducted a general store at East Aurora, and from 1889 to 1906 he was postmaster of that place. Since then he has not been in active business. His time is de- voted to the care and improvement of his real estate. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum.
He married, November 30, 1881, Mary T. Leigh, born September 26, 1856. They have one child, Florence Katherine, born May 2, 1884, married, October 12, 1910, George R. Van Keuren, a hardware merchant in East Aurora.
Mrs. Lapham was the daughter of Edwin Leigh, who was born in England, in 1828, and came to America when seven years of age, with his parents. He married Abigail Shaw. Children: Ida E., Mary T. (wife of Albert H. Lapham), Emma S. and Nettie L. Mr. Leigh was postmaster at Wales, New York, for many years, and was a merchant and suc- cessful business man. He died May 7, 1910, and his wife died June. 12, 1904. Mrs. Lap- ham is a member of the Presbyterian church.
PATCH Nicholas Patch, the American progenitor, was born in the par- ish of South Petherton, Somer- setshire, England, near Burlescomb, son of Nicholas and Jane Patch, and was baptized in the parish church there June 20, 1597. He came from England with his wife Elizabeth and two sons, John and James, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1636. He had a grant of ten acres of land in 1638, and an- other of forty acres in 1639. He was a pro- prietor and freeman in 1639. He was a farm- er, and prominent in town and church, to which he made a bequest in his will. He was a member of the First Church of Salem, and with his wife was among the founders of the church at Beverly, where he died Novem- ber 16, 1673. His estate was inventoried in
1673, and division made between his sons Thomas and John by mutual agreement. Chil- dren: John, James, and Thomas (mentioned below). John married Elizabeth Bracken- bury, daughter of Richard, "called" the first female child born in Salem (Boston News Letter, N. E. Reg., iv. 289).
(II) Sergeant Thomas Patch, son of Nicho- las Patch, was born in 1638, and died in Wen- ham, Massachusetts, February 19, 1721-22, aged eighty-three years. He was admitted a freeman in 1670, and was deputy to the gen- eral court in 1689. He married Mary Scott, daughter of Thomas of Ipswich. He settled at Wenham. Children (Savage and Wenham vital records) : Thomas, born July 19, 1674, died October 7, 1754; Stephen, April 12, 1680; Isaac, 1682, settled at Groton ; Ephraim ; Tim- othy, mentioned below; Simon, of Wenham ; Sarah, December 8, 1666; Marah (not Mary or Maria), February 3, 1669.
(III) Timothy, son of Thomas Patch, was born about 1670, and died at Wenham, June 24, 1746, or May 16, 1751. He married, at Beverly, November 18, 1705, Elizabeth Po- land, who died September 6 or 7, 1742. Chil- dren, born at Wenham: Elizabeth, November 23, 1706; Timothy, September 13, 1708; Anna, March 5, 1711-12; Sarah, December 15, 1714; Margery, May 6, 1718; Deborah, October 6, 1721; Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel, son of Timothy Patch, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 14, 1726. He lived at Wenham, but may have spent his last years at New Boston, New Hampshire. He married, February 14, 1744- 45, at Wenham, Abigail Williams. Children, born at Wenham: I. Reuben, August II, 1745, probably died young. 2. Samuel, No- vember 3, 1747 (a Samuel died in West Indies of broken leg and lockjaw, December 4, 1765, and another Samuel died August 22, 1788, aged thirty-five, according to Wenham rec- ords. But this Samuel of his father was in New Boston in 1790). 3. Molly, October I, 1749. 4. Ephraim, June 21, 1751 ; soldier in the revolution, at Chesterfield. 5. Abigail, baptized August 12, 1753. 6. Reuben, bap- tized August 13, 1758; settled at New Boston ; soldier in the revolution. 7. Nathaniel, bap- tized November 29, 1761. 8. Stephen, men- tioned below. 9. Sally, baptized November 29, 1767.
(V) Stephen, son of Samuel Patch, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, and baptized
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there November 29, 1767. He went with his family to New Boston, New Hampshire. Ac- cording to the first federal census taken in 1790 he had two females in his family, and three males under sixteen. Samuel Patch, of New Boston, had one female, and was pre- sumably his father. His brother Reuben had two females in his family, and removed later to Henniker, New Hampshire. Stephen Patch came from New Boston, New Hampshire, to Buffalo, New York, in 1816, making the jour- ney in wagons, and he died at Buffalo two years later. He married Anna Thompson. Children: David, was a soldier in the war of 1812; Samuel, went to New Orleans to live; Joshua; Oliver; Thompson; Martha ; Nancy; Reuben, settled in Ohio : Stephen W., of whom further.
(VI) Stephen Williams, son of Stephen Patch, was born at New Boston, March 7, 1808. and came to Buffalo with his father. He married Thankful M. Winsor, daughter of Abraham Winsor and Sophia (Bigelow) (see Bigelow). Children: I. Anna Sophia, married George Ehresman, born in Bavaria, and came to America when seven years of age; afterward a farmer in East Aurora, and had one child, Daisy Ehresman, who married William S. Butlin, of East Aurora. 2. Anne, married Nelson B. Randall, of Chicago, Illi- nois. 3. Margaret R., born 1862: married (first ) Zenas Foote; (second) John D. Weed. 4. Alice M., married Rev. Schuyler S. Ballou, a clergyman.
(The Bigelow Line).
(I) John Bigelow, the immigrant ancestor, is believed to have come from England, but the variations in spelling at the time of his immigration to New England make it difficult to trace the name. The first mention of his name on the records is found at Watertown, Massachusetts, where September 30, 1642, he married Mary Warren, who died October 19, 1691. She was daughter of John and Mar- garet Warren. In 1652 he took the oath of fidelity there, and April 18. 1690, he was ad- mitted freeman. He was a blacksmith by trade. and was allowed certain timber by the town for the building of his forge. He was highway surveyor in 1652-60; constable in 1663, and selectman in 1665-70-71. His home- stead consisted of six acres. He married (second), October 2, 1694, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown. He died July 14. 1703. His will was dated January 4,
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