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(IV) Isaac (2), son of Benjamin Meacham, was born in 1746, and named for his brother who died at Cape Breton. The records of En- field show that he died "out of town."
(V) Isaac (3), son or nephew of Isaac (2) Meacham, was born about 1780, died aged seventy-four years. He settled in Willet, New York, and is buried at Upper Lisle, New York. He married . Children : Dexter, Chad- wick, Randall, mentioned below ; daughter. married Shaw ; Dulta, married Signor ; Amanda, married Wilbur.
(VI) Randall, son of Isaac (3) Meacham, was born probably at Willet, New York, Sep- tember 6, 1813, died in Willet, November 30, 1887. He was educated in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter and fol- lowed his trade and farming all his active life, in the town of Willet. He married, Feb- ruary 3, 1833, Harriet J. Burt, born at Pitts- field, Massachusetts, July 20, 1809, died at Willet, New York, July 12, 1896. Children : James, born January 31, 1834, died November 20, 1842; Thomas, January 15, 1836, died April 1, 1906 ; Linus Dickinson, mentioned be- low ; Chauncey, May 11, 1840, died October 12, 1907: Mary Rosetta, August, 1850, mar- ried George Palmer.
(VII) Linus Dickinson, son of Randall Meacham, was born in Willet, New York, May 16, 1838. He was educated in the district schools of Upper Lisle. New York, and taught school in that section for several terms. When a young man he made his home in Newburg, New York, and remained in that town for a period of twenty-five years, engaged during that time in business for himself as an itinerant merchant, traveling with one of the time-hon- ored tin-pedler's outfits. For several years he conducted a hardware store in Newburg. In 1874 he came to Willet and engaged in farm- ing, continuing in that vocation to the pres- ent time. He has been justice of the peace of the town of Willet. He married, November 24. 1858, Sophronia Bennett, born November 1, 1839, daughter of Jonathan and Lois (Loomis) Bennett, of Cortland, New York. Children: Hattie, born February 22, 1861. died October 5, 1862: Linus Dickinson, men- tioned below; Willis Grant, September 24, 1870, married Emma Frolick and has a daugh-
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ter Bessie ; Arthur Thomas, June 3, 1872, mar- ried Belle Green.
(VIII ) Linus Dickinson (2), son of Linus Dickinson ( 1) Meacham, was born in New- burg. New York, July 20, 1869. He removed to Willet with his parents when he was five years old and was educated there in the pub- lic schools and in the State Normal School at Cortland. From 1888 to 1898 he was engaged in mercantile business in Cortland. After a year in Syracuse and another in Schenectady, he came about 1900 to Willet and since then has conducted a general store in that town with marked success. He is secretary of the local Creamery Company. In politics he is a Republican and from 1907 to 191I was super- visor of the town of Willet. He married, in 1890. Carrie Aldrich, of Dryden, New York, daughter of Frank and Mary ( Brown) Ald- rich. They have one son, Moses Rowland, born 1897.
HALL Jonathan Hall was born in Con- necticut, as family tradition states that he served in the revolution and was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill. A Jonathan Hall from the vicinity of Hart- ford. Connecticut, was in Captain Samuel Wyllis's company. as fifer at Boston. May 6 to December 15. 1775. Wyllis was of Hart- ford. The Hartford records are wanting, and it has not been possible to trace his ancestry to any of the Hall families, which were very numerous in Connecticut. Another Jonathan Hall was in Captain Ezekiel Scott's company in the revolution, and a third was a soldier in a company from Plainfield, Connecticut. In Massachusetts a half dozen Jonathan Halls served in the revolution. In 1790, according to the first federal census, three Jonathan Halls were heads of families and in Connecti- cut no less than five.
(II) Hopestill. son of Jonathan Hall, was born in Massachusetts. He settled at Central Square. Oswego county, New York. He was engaged in farming and conducted a retail boot and shoe store. He married Eliza Sparks. Children : Loren, Ransom L., mentioned be- low ; Lewis, Elvira. Mary and Zidana.
( III) Ransom L .. son of Hopestill Hall. was born at Central Square, New York, in 1828, and followed farming in his native town. He died there in 1906. He married Mary Barnes, of Palermo, New York.
(IV) Dr. Albert Llewellyn Hall, son of
Ransom L. Hall, was born at Central Square. New York, December 14, 1851. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at Cazenovia Seminary. For five years he taught school. and was principal of the Cleveland, Parrish and Constantia, New York, schools. He en- tered the Medical School of the University of Michigan in 1876, a year later entered the Medical Department of Syracuse University, and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1879. He started in practice at Fair Ha- ven, Cayuga county, New York, soon after- ward and continued there until December. 1899. He located in Fulton, New York, in January, 1900, and has practiced there since then, with much success. He is a member of the Oswego County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Physicians' and Surgeons' Association of Fulton. He is a member of Central Square Lodge, No. 622. Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Mason- ic Club of Fulton. He was coroner of Cay- uga county for nine years, and was a member of the pension board in 1890. For eleven years he was surgeon for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He was president of the Village of Fair Haven for three terms, sani- tarian inspector of the Marine Hospital and inspector for the state. He is a member of the United States pension examining sur- geons of the Auburn board.
He married, in 1875, Almeda Louise Allen. of West Munro. Children: Blanche A. and Ralph L.
Prentice or Prentise is an an- PRENTICE cient surname, and the spell- ing varies even at the present time. As early as 1318 there is mention of a Thomas Prentiz in England, and a William de Prentice de Leak lived in England in 1341. Peter Prentiz was a member of the house of commons from Derby about 1361-62, and John Prentiz was also a member from Derby. Eliza- beth Prentise married the Earl of Ferra in 1778. John Prentys was rector of Winter- born, August 22, 1723. The first of the name recorded in America was Valentine Prentice, who came over from Nazing. county Essex, England, with the Indian apostle Eliot. in 1631, with his wife Alice and son John Pren- tice, and another child who died on the voy- age. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is supposed that Valentine of Roxbury
albort Llewellyn Itall
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Robert of Roxbury and Newton, were in some way connected.
(I) Captain Thomas Prentice, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1621. He married there, about 1643, Grace -_. The earliest notice of him in America is in the rec- ords of the first church in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, under the Rev. Mr. Shepard. He came to Cambridge with his wife and daugh- ter Grace and joined the church there about 1652. May 23, 1052. he was made a freeman. A few years later he removed to Newton, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1653 he hired a farm ; in 1056 he was chosen lieutenant of a troop of horse and was its captain in 1662; in 1661 he bought three hun- dred acres of land in the "Pequot" country ; in 1667 he was sent to lay out and settle Quinsigamond ( Worcester, Massachusetts ), and had fifty or sixty acres of land and one of the first fifty-eight houses there. He had also grants of land in Woburn in 1684, and in Billerica and other places, and in 1672-74 he was a representative to the general court. In 1675 three hundred acres of land were granted to him by the general assembly of Connecticut. In 1675 he and his troop of horse are mentioned nineteen times on books of the treasurer of Massachusetts colony. "He and his troop of horse were a terror to the Indians by his sudden attacks and impetious charges." June 24, 1675. he was appointed captain of the troop of horse in the Indian war, was in the Narragansetts fight and helped in its success. June 26, 1675, he marched with his troop to Swansea, and December 29, 1675, to Narragansett, in 1676, with a "fly" of horse, he was sent to Sudbury and April 27. 1676, to Grafton, Massachusetts. In 1689 he and his troop were ordered to Rhode Island to arrest and bring back Sir Edmund Andros. He was one of the commissioners to put In- dian children to service in 1675, and the same year a commissioner to rebuild Lancaster, Massachusetts, after it had been burned by the Indians. He was a friend and counsellor of the converted Indians who in 1691 petitioned the general court that "Captain Thomas Pren- tice may be appointed their overseer and mag- istrate." In 1705 he settled his estate by gift deeds. He died July 6, 1710, "on Sunday, in consequence of a fall from his horse on re- turning from church and was buried under arms by the company of troop, July 8, 1710. in the old burying ground in Newton." His
gravestone is still to be seen there. His wife Grace died in Newton, October 9, 1092.
Children: Grace, born in England, 1648; Thomas, twin, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, twin, January 22, 1649; Mary; Henry, died 1054; John, born February 2. 1053, died March 10, 1654: John, July 10, 1655 ; Hannah, 1661.
( II) Thomas ( 2), son of Captain Thomas ( 1) Prentice, was born January 22, 1049. He was probably a trooper in his father's troop of horse. Ile died April 19, 1685. He married, March 29, 1675, Sarah, daughter of Captain Thomas Stanton, born 1055. Her father. Thomas Stanton, left England in 1635, at the age of thirty, and was a man of note in the colony. He was a famous Indian interpreter. His wife was Ann, daughter of Thomas Lord, and they were of Stonington, Connecticut. Sarah, wife of Thomas Prentice, married ( sec- ond) Captain William Denison, and died in 1713. Children : Thomas, born January 13, 1676; Grace : Samuel, mentioned below ; John, 1682, minister of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
(III) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Prentice, was born about 1680. He owned a large tract of land in Stonington, before 1700, and re- moved there about 1709. Most of this land remains in the family, and the old house in which he lived was standing in 1883. He was grandfather of Judge Samuel Prentiss, of Montpelier, Vermont. He died April 24, 1728. He married Esther, daughter of Nathaniel Hammond, of Newton. Children: Samuel, mentioned below; Joseph, born January 26, 1704; Grace, January 16, 1705: Mary, April 12, 1708; Jonas, September 28, 1710, in Ston- ington; Esther, December 12, 1713; Oliver, died in North Stonington, October 18, 1755: Eunice, December 8, 1717: Thomas, October 25. 1719: Dorothy, December 13, 1723.
(IV) Deacon Samuel ( 2) Prentice, son of Samuel (1) Prentice, was born in Newton, November 25, 1702. He was town clerk of Stonington for over thirty years, and died there October 11, 1773. He married Abigail Billings, of Stonington, who died October 30, 1789. Children: Dorothy, born January 7. 1727 : Samuel, May 24, 1729, died January 15, 1734; Ebenezer, October 25, 1731 : John, May 13. 1733 ; Abigail. December 11, 1734; Joshua, July 2, 1737 ; Phebe, February 22, 1738; Asa. September 7, 1740, died September 7, 1742: Jonas, February 9, 1742: Jesse, mentioned be- low : Esther, January 31, 1745. died March 25.
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1751 ; Amos, April 24 1748; Grace, December 4, 1750.
(V) Lieutenant Jesse Prentice, son of Dea- con Samuel (2) Prentice, was born January 24, 1743. He was a lieutenant in the revolui- tion, and was present at the siege of Yorktown and in other battles. He married Elizabeth, born March 12, 1756, died in Berkshire, New York. August 10, 1844, daughter of Moses and Esther ( Rudd) Belcher, of Preston, Con- necticut. They settled in Stonington, where he died in August, 1811. After his death his widow removed in August, 1812, to Berkshire. Children : Joseph, born March 15, 1793 : Fan- ny. 1796; Alfred Belcher, mentioned below : Jesse, August 20, 1801.
(VI) Alfred Belcher, son of Lieutenant Jesse Prentice, was born December 11, 1798. He removed with his mother and other chil- dren to Berkshire, New York, in 1812. Ile married (first ) February 24. 1829, Catherine Huff Simons, born in Berkshire, April 10, 1802, died there November 21, 1839. He mar- ried ( second ) February 4, 1841, at East Mine, Broome county, New York, Laura Lucretia, daughter of William and Mary (Chaffee) Goodspeed, of Lenox, Massachusetts, and widow of Alson Stone, of Maine, New York, born in Lenox. April 25, 1804. He was a member of the Congregational church in Berk- shire, January 2, 1820. Children of first wife : Martin DeWitt, born May 3, 1830: Frederick Delos. February 24, 1832, died December 16, 1833: Franklin, December 4, 1833. died De- cember 16, 1833: Elizabeth, February 2, 1835 ; September 29, 1876; Lary Louise, May 20, 1838; Joseph, November 20, 1839. died same day: children of second wife: Irvin Belcher, July 24, 1842: Ellen Imogene, Sep- tember 18, 1843: William Goodspeed, men- tioned below.
(VII) William Goodspeed, son of Alfred Belcher Prentice, was born July 1, 1845, died November 18, 1910. He married Amelia Liv- ermore, born at Berkshire, February, 1844. daughter of David Livermore. They adopted Raymond Livermore Van Marter (see Van Marter VII ).
(VIII) Dr. Raymond Livermore (Van Marter ) Prentice, son of Edson and Emma (Livermore) Van Marter, and a descendant of the line herein traced, was adopted by his mother's sister and her husband, after his mother died, and his name changed by his foster parents, William Goodspeed and Amelia
( Livermore ) Prentice, to Prentice. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town, and studied medicine at the Hahne- man Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1908. Ile located in Tully, New York, in the same year, and has since then practiced medicine in that town. He is a member of the state and county medi- cal societies, and of the Knights of Maccabees. He married, 1908, Marion, daughter of Rich- ard Harkinson, of Philadelphia.
(The Van Marter Line ).
(1) Jan Gysbertsen Van Meteren, Van Meter, Van Metre, or, as it would be in Eng- lish. John (son of Gilbert) Van Metre, was in all likelihood a son of Gilbert, brother of Jan Joosten (Van Metre). Such is the tra- dition and we know that Jan named a son Gilbert.
Jan Gysbertsen Van Meteren, Van Meter, or Van Metre, is said to have immigrated from Bommell, province of Gelderland, Ilol- land, to New Amsterdam, in 1663, bringing with him a son, Kryn Jansen Van Meteren. born, it is believed, in Bommell, March 10, 1650. The compilers of the various records at New Utrecht, Long Island, state that Jan Gysbertsen settled there in 1663. He was an inhabitant and taxpayer of New Utrecht in 1675-76. 1683, 1698, and doubtless in the meantime and before and afterward. He was a magistrate in 1673: deacon of the Dutch church in 1683. After 1698 his name disap- pears from that locality, but reappears at Middletown, Monmouth county. New Jersey. then the province of East Jersey, whence he is supposed to have come that year. He is presumed to have married in that place his second wife, Hester, daughter of James Gro- ver Jr., of Middletown, in whose will, dated March 18, 1714-15, mention is made of his son-in-law. John Gysbertsen. Jan Gyshertsen and wife Esther of Monmouth county mort- gaged land to Gerardus Beekman. of Kings county, New York, November 19, 1700, 01) their land in Monmouth county, one hundred and forty-nine acres, adjoining land of Cap- tain John Bowne on Hope river. In the in- ventory of the estate of this Captain John Bowne, of Mattewan, Middletown township. filed April 9. 1716, the name of John Ghis- berson occurs as a mortgagor and also the names of Cryne Jansen, John Van Metre and
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Thomas Shepherd, all of whom were debtors to the estate.
(II) Kreign, son of Jan Gysbertsen Van Meteren, was the only son of whom we have knowledge. Ilis name is variously spelled Quryn, Kryn. Chrine, Crynonce, Cryne, and probably in many other ways favored by the simple spellers of his day. He settled at New Utrecht with his father, and married there. September 9. 1683. Neeltje Van Cleef. He purchased Thomas Jans' new farm in New Utrecht, March 25, 1675, for two thousand gilders. He was a taxpayer there from 1675 to 1709; member of the Dutch church, 1677 ; deacon, 1699. He removed to Middletown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1709, and died there March 10, 1720. His wife died there January I. 1747. Children: Jan, born April 26, 1687 ; John. April 17, 1688; Ida, Au- gust 24, 1691; Gysbert, February 24, 1694: Engleteje. September 30, 1696; Benjamin, January 22, 1702; Cornelia, May 24, 1704; Cyrenius, August 28, 1706: Joseph, February 5. 1710.
(III) John Van Meter, or Van Marter, as his descendants are called, was born at New Utrecht, April 17, 1688. He married, Oc- tober 17, 1717, Ida, daughter of Ruyk Hen- dricksen Van Suydam. Her father was lieu- tenant of Flatbush troop in 1715 : deeded land to his son-in-law in Middletown, June 6, 1727. John Van Marter was a communicant of the Dutch church of Freehold in 1713 and deacon in 1739. He died January 10, 1761. Children : Cryn (Jan), born September 28, 1718; Ryck, April 16. 1720: Gilbert, January 14. 1722; Janetje, baptized October 29, 1724; Nealtje. baptized August 14, 1728; Marija, January 7, 1731: Eyda, February 12, 1733; John. Feb- ruary I, 1735: Cornelia, July 4, 1737; Cor- nelius, August 14, 1739: Geertje. November 27, 1744. John Van Marter's will, dated March 7. 1758, and proved April 1, 1761, gives the names of wife and children in the following form and order: "Widow Eitje : sons-Chrineyonce, Richard, Gusbert. John ; daughters-Youmachie Sutphen Vally van Lery : Eitje Sutphen, Mary, Caty. Hune and Charity." The will provided that the son John be supported by Gusbert (Gilbert ) as long as he lived.
(IV) Gilbert. son of John Van Marter, was born January 14. 1722. He lived in Mon- mouth county, New Jersey.
(VI) Gilbert Van Marter, descendant of
the above, probably grandson of Gilbert Van Marter, lived during most of his life, if not all, near Lodi, New York, between Cayuga and Seneca lakes. He married Clarissa Bailey. Children: Elum, John, Isaac, Judson, Sally Ann, Mary Ann, Betsey.
(VII) John, son of Gilbert Van Marter, was born in 1826 near Lodi, New York. He was a carpenter and builder and during the later years of his life was engaged in farming in Genoa and Venice, New York. Ile mar- ried Diana Shaver, born 1827 at North Lans- ing, New York, daughter and youngest of the twelve children of Benjamin and Mary (Lou- der ) Shaver. Mary Louder was born 1778-79. Benjamin Shaver is said to have been a nephew of Stephen Hopkins, of Rhode Island, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Children of John and Diana Van Marter: 1. Albert Benjamin, born at Gro- ton, New York, January 15, 1848; learned the trade of carpentering, stair building, hand carving and engraving and was in this busi- ness in Auburn, New York, for twenty years ; resides (1911) in Moravia ; a Republican in polities ; member of First Congregational Church of Moravia ; married ( first ), at Genoa, June .II, 1873, Emma A. Miller, of Venice, born August 20, 1848, died March 11, 1903: (second) Carrie .A. Brigden, born June 17, 1865. 2. Mary Helen, at Venice, March 13, 1857 : married Alpheus Hutchinson, of Mo- ravia. 3. Edson John, mentioned below. 4. Clarence Burdett, at Venice, September 6, 1859, deceased. 5. Alida May, at Genoa, No- vember 3, 1869: married Frederick Moss, of Auburn.
(VIII ) Edson John, son of John Van Mar- ter, was born in Venice, Cayuga county, New York, April 27, 1858, and is thought to have lost his life in the San Francisco fire. He was a gifted inventor and made a number of important improvements in automobiles. He married (first ) Emma, daughter of David Livermore, of Berkshire, New York : she died July 12, 1880. He married ( second ) Mary Titus. Child by first wife, Dr. Raymond Liv- ermore (Prentice by adoption, see Prentice VIII). Children by second wife: Lena and Grove, who died in infancy.
John Sawyer, father of the SAWYER immigrant, was a farmer in Lincolnshire. England, where he is supposed to have been a landholder also.
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He had three sons: William. Edward and Thomas, who left England on a ship com- manded by Captain Parker and settled in Massachusetts about 1636.
( 11) Edward, son of John Sawyer, brought over with him from England his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Peaseley, and their children, Mary, Henry, James, mentioned be- low. They settled first in Ipswich and then in Rowley, Massachusetts.
( 11I) James, son of Edward Sawyer. was born in England and came to Ipswich with his father. He was a weaver by trade and set- fled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he (lied May 31, 1703. One authority says that he is doubtless son of Edward, while another having searched the records of Ipswich, was unable to verify this. The diary of a clergy- man tells of meetings held at the house of James, also of his being present at the death of a daughter there. The records show that his first wife was Martha. In 1677 the Gloucester records show that a son Nathaniel was born to him and his wife Sarah, and in his will dated May 25, 1703. he mentioned his wife Sarah, and his children. He married ( second ) Sarah Bray, born 1651, died April 24. 1727. Children, named in will: Thomas ; John, mentioned below : Nathaniel, born 1677 : Abraham, 1685: Isaac, 1684: Jacob, 1687: James, 1691: Mary, married William Ring : Sarah, 1693.
( IV ) John (2). son of James Sawyer, was born in 1676, died in 1760. In 1719 he moved with his family to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and was buried in the graveyard at Meeting House Hill. Cape Elizabeth. His store there was standing at a recent date. In 1719 the town granted him the privilege of the ferry on the cape side and he kept it many years. He married. February 20. 1701. Rebecca Stanford. Children: Job. Sarah, Mary, Re- becca. Bethiah, John. Jonathan, Daniel, Jo- seph, mentioned below.
(V) Joseph, son of John (2) Sawyer, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, May 7. 1711, died March 31. 1800. He went with his parents to Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1719. The York county records show that he was appointed special justice of the court of common pleas. December 27, 1734. April 8, 1743. special justice of superior court in 1749. and judge of the inferior court, September 11. 1765. He married Joanna, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Cobb, of
Cape Elizabeth. Ebenezer Cobb was born April 10, 1688, died October 28. 1731, son of Jonathan Cobb, born April 10. 1660, mar- ried, March 1. 1682, Hope Chipman. Jona- than Cobb was son of Elder Henry Cobb, who died in 1675, and his second wife, Sarah ( Hinckley ) Cobb, daughter of Samuel Hinck- ley. Hope ( Chipman ) Cobb was daughter of Elder John Chipman, born 1021, died April 7. 1708, son of Thomas and Hope ( Howland ) Chipman. Hope Howland was daughter of John Howland, who came in the "Mayflower" and died 1673. and Elizabeth ( Tilley ) How- land, who also came in the "Mayflower" and died in 1687. Her father, John Tilley, and his wife, who is supposed to have been a daughter of Governor Carver. came in the "Mayflower," and the records show that they died in 1621. Children of Joseph Sawyer: Ebenezer. Mary. Lemuel, James, Jabez, John, Rachel. Mercy, Rebecca.
(\'HI) Thomas Sawyer, of the Falmouth (Portland ) family, was grandson or a near relative of Joseph Sawyer (V). Among his children was Captain Abel, mentioned below. The Falmouth records are meagre. The church records show the marriages 1743 to 1752 of Josiah. Jeremiah, Samuel and Solo- mon Sawyer. Some branches of the family are given in "Ridleon's Saco Valley His- tory."
(\'III ) Captain Abel Sawyer, son of Thom- as Sawyer, was born in what is now Port- land, Maine, and died 1870-75. aged sixty- two years. He was a master mariner, the owner of his own vessel sailing to India around Cape Horn. In politics he was a Re- publican after that party was formed. In re- ligion he was a Swedenborgian. He married Sarah Ann Giveen, of Brunswick, Maine. a descendant in the maternal line of the Pen- nells. They had twelve children, among whom were: John, died at sea: Sarah; Rob- ert. died in California: William Hayden; Abel Hargrave, the youngest. mentioned be- low. Others died young. Sarah Ann (Giv- een ) Sawyer was well educated, being a pu- pil in her youth in a private school kept by Miss Salucia Abbott. a sister of John S. C. Abbott, the author, and of Jacob Abbott, the historian.
( IX ) Abel Hargrave, son of Captain Abel Sawyer, was born at Portland. Maine, July 13. 1846, died at Boston, Massachusetts. in January, 1911. He attended the public schools
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of Portland and the College du Havre at Havre, France, and the Liverpool Institute. England. He began in early manhood a not- able business career. Until 1888 he was in the wholesale grocery business in Portland. From that time until he died he was a comm- mission merchant in Boston. Ile was a man of magnetic personality and widely known and popular throughout New England. He had taken the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and was a member of lodge. chapter, council and Portland Commandery. In youth he was confirmed in the Sweden- borgian church, but afterward became a U'ni- tarian. He married, December 25. 1873. Eve- lina Jessie, born April 28. 1853, daughter of Hannibal and Lucy Ann ( Brett ) Belcher. She and her mother are living together at Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her mother is a lineal descendant of John and Priscilla Alden in two lines. She is now ( 1912) ninety-six years old (see Belcher VII). Children of Abel H. and Evelina J. Sawyer: 1. Philip Brett. mentioned below. 2. Frederica, born July 6. 1879 : married, Oc- tober 24, 1906, Stafford D'Oyly Noble, of the firm of Sawyer, Noble & Co., investment bank- ers of Elmira. New York : children : Phyllis, born August 8, 1908, died August 8, 1909: Shirley Evelina, born June 29, 1910. 3. Lucy Belcher, born December 8, 1880.
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