Genealogical and family history of northern New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume II, Part 45

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 994


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( IV) Robert, son of John (2) Collins and his first wife, was born in 1667, died August 20. 170 ;. He married ( first ), De- cember 24. 1689. Lois Burnet. of South- ampton. Long Island: (second ). June 3, 1707. Eunice Foster.


(V) Jonathan, son of Robert and Lois ( Burnet ) Collins, married ( first). May 4.


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1725, Mary Witmore, of Middletown, Con- necticut, who died in 1741; (second ) Agnes Tyrom, of Wallingford, Connecticut, Au- gust 26, 1744. By his first marriage he had four children. all of whom died in child- hood. By his second marriage he had Jon- athan ( see forward ) ; Oliver, Rebecca and Martha.


+ (VI) Jonathan ( 2), son of Jonathan ( I ) and Agnes ( Tyrom) Collins, was born at Wallingford, Connecticut. May 3. 1755. died April 6. 1845. He served in the war of the revolution, and in after life drew a government pension on account of his sery- ice. He emigrated from Meriden, Con- nectient, and settled in Lewis county, New York, in the spring of 1797. in West Turin. He arrived in that section in the spring, and found Sugar river in such a swollen condi- tion that great difficulty was experienced in crossing. He settled on a valuable tract. and, having ample means, improved and de- veloped it quickly and profitably. He was an able man. thoroughly independent in thought as well as action, and soon took a commanding position in the county. He was early chosen a justice of the peace. and from 1800 to 1815 served as the first judge of the Lewis county court. In 1820 he was chosen presidential elector. Few men have obtained a greater degree of public confi- dence than Judge Collins. His strict in- tegrity, love of justice and sound judgment, rendered him a most valuable public official. He had a serupulous regard for the rights of others, and his judicial fairness was re- marked by his brethren of the bar. His advice and counsel during the early life of the county was of the greatest value. and his influence materially assisted the growth and prosperity of Lewis county. His breth- er. General Oliver Collins, of Oneida coun- ty, New York, was in the United States serv- ice on the frontier luring the war of 1812. A fact not generally known is that the first masonie lodge in northern New York held its meeting at the home of Judge Collins. and he was the first worshipful master.


This was Farmers' Lodge, No. 110, located at Turin, then in Oneida county. The lodge was chartered June 29, 1804, and continued its meetings at the judge's home until the anti-Masonie crusade caused the charter to be surrendered and the lodge discontinued. A letter written by Jonathan C., son of Judge Collins, in reply to inquiries made to him is here of interest :


Leyden, December 28, 1891. ยท


Dear Friend Horace Bush:


I know that the lodge was held in our house and that Jonathan Collins was Master of the lodge, that they celebrated St. John's Day, June 24. at our house, that they had lamb baked for dinner, and for vegetables had green peas and other vegetables: that the meeting was attended by about twenty Masons from Boonville and Leyden and was much enjoyed. I must have been twelve or fourteen years old, but how they got there is unknown to me. The lodge was held in the north chamber, in the middle was a good sized chamber and the Tiler was placed there with drawn -word. I suppose father must have procured the charter and was made master of the lodge. Afterwards Nathaniel Merriam was elected ma-ter. I don't know of any lodge ever held in Constable with


Yours


Jonathan C. Collins.


Judge Collins married Sarah Couch, born January 10. 1775. Sons: Levi. Selden. Homer, member state legislature, 1858: An- thony. Wayne. Jonathan Couch ( see for- ward ). Daughters : Katrina, Lament, Deme and Sarah. The sons were all active, pros- perous business men, married. and heads of families.


(VII) Jonathan Couch, son of Jonathan (2) and Sarah ( Conch) Collins, was born in West Turin, New York, January 3. 1801. and died December 24. 1894. He settled in Leyden in 1870, and was an influential citizen. He was prominent in public life and prosperous in business. He served the town as supervisor, assessor, and as repre- sentative in the state legislature in 1854. In 1852 he was presidential elector. He married. in 1826. Sally C. Talcott, born May 5, 1806. died September. 1896. Chil- dren : Andrew J .. see forward: John D .. twin of Andrew. married Helen Jaret. i L'tica. New York: Homer L., born De-


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cember 23, 1832, died in Montana, in 1905. (VIII ) Andrew J., son of Jonathan C. and Sally C. ( Talcott ) Collins, was born in West Turin, New York, January 9, 1828. He married, September 18. 1855, Anna MI .. daughter of Dr. Frederick and Magdalina (Guben ) Rundge. Children: Rosalie Eu- genia, born September 8. 1856. married Leonard Loomis : Homer Rudolph. see for- ward: Anna Augusta, born February 2. 1861, married F. M. Bagg : Charles Henry, born January 26. 1863: Andrew J. (2). born August 7. 1866, died September 6. IO0I.


(IX) Homer Rudolph, eklest son of .In- drew J. and Anna M. ( Rundge ) Collins. was born in West Turin. New York. June 19. 1850. He attended the public schools of Talcottville until he was sixteen years of age. then enlisted in the United States navy and served for five years. He was as- signed to the "Minnesota." and served his teim of enlistment on that ship. When his term expired he returned to Talcottville for a short time. On attaining his majority he went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania. where he spent several years. Afterward he traveled all over the western states. re- turning to his New York home in 1899. He is a member of the Republican party, and a liberal, progressive public-spirited man, well informed on all questions and issues of the day. and influential in the community. He married. June 19. 1895. at Talcottville, New York. Martha Daniels, daughter of Chester T. and Lodema (Taleotti Munn. Lodema Talertt was a descendant of Hezekiah, son of Jehn and Sarah ( Parsons ) Talcott. Hez- ckich Talcott came from Durham, Con- Recticut. in 1798, and was one of the early settlers of the town of Leyden. Lewis coun- v. He married Sarah Johnson, and had Phoebe. Sally, Elisha. Daniel. Joel. Jesse. Te hnson Parson and Lucy. Johnson, son of Hezekiah Talcott. married Altamira perhaps Amirar Cooley, and had Sally, Speronia. Ralph, Adeline. Jeannette. Jesse. 1. ha and bodema. Lodem Taleott mar-


ried, June 21. 1854. Chester J. Munn. Chil- dren: Harriet. Helen. Margarita. Adeline. Martha Daniels. Grace Kimball and Chester Cummings. Martha Daniels Munn married Homer Rudolph Collins.


Thomas Dewey. immigrant DEWEY ancestor, came from Sand- wich, county Kent, England, and was one of the original grantees of Dor- chester in 1636. He was here as early as 1633, when he was witness to the nuncupa- tive will of John Russell, of Dorchester. He was admitted a freeman, May 14. 1634. August 12. 1635, he sold his Dorchester lands and removed to Windsor. Connecti- cut. one of the first settlers there. He was granted land in 1640. and his home lot was the first one north of the palisade, and ex- tended from the main street to the Connecti- cut river. Ile was juryman several years. He died intestate. and the inventory was filed May 19. 1648. He married, March 22. 1639. at Windsor. Frances, widow of Joseph Clark. She married ( third ) George Phelps, and died September 27. 1600. Chil- dren: Thomas, born February 16. 1640; Josiah, baptized October ro. 1641 : Anna, baptized October 15. 1643 : Israel, born Sep- tember 25. 1645: Jedediah. mentioned be- low.


(II) Ensign Jedediah Dewey, son of Thomas Dewey, was' bern December 15. 1647. in Windsor, Connecticut, and died in May, 1718, in Westfield. Massachusetts. The lands in Windsor belonging to him were sold in his twenty-first year. and that same year he is mentioned at Westfield. which was then being settled under the di- rection of a committee appointed by the town of Springfield. August 27. 1668, he was granted fifteen or sixteen acres of land. and in 1670 he received another grant of six aeres. At this time he probably re- moved. In 1672 he and his brothers Thom- as and Josiah, with Joseph Whiting, erected a "saw and o rumill" on a brook then called Two-Mile Brook. They were granted forty


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acres of land for the use of the mills, and were to give to the town one-twelfth of the corn which they ground. During King Philip's war the settlers of Westfield re- mained most of the time inside the "Com- pact dwelling." which they had been ordered to form for protection against the Indians. and it was not until 108; that they began to receive grants of land and to build houses outside the two-mile limit thus enclosed. February of the latter year Jedediah Dewey, with other proprietors, received a grant of twenty acres without the meeting house. He served in the various town offices of the period; selectman in 1678-86-95-97-99: mentioned as ensign in 1686: was made a freeman January 1. 1680: joined the church September 28, 1680. By trade he was a wheelwright. He was the only one of the sons of Thomas, the immigrant, to make a will, which was proved May 25. 1718. In it he mentioned sons Jedediah. Thomas. Jo- seph, Daniel, James: children of his daugh- ters Sarah, Margaret and Hannah, all de- ceased : and daughter, Mary and Abigail. He married. about 1670. Sarah. daughter of Thomas and Margaret ( Pell ) Orton. Thom- was probably son of Thomas, of Charles- .n. Massachusetts. She was baptized .Au- gust 22, 1652, at Windsor. She joined the Westfield church March 24. 1780: died No- vember 20. 1711. in Westfield. Children. born in Westfield: Sarah, March 28. 1672: Margaret, January 10. 1674: Jedediah, June 14. 1676: Daniel, March 9. 1680: Thomas. June 29. 1682: Joseph. May 10. 1684. men- tioned below: Hannah, March 14. 1680: Mary, March 1. 1689-90: James, April 3. 1602: Abigail. November 17. 1694.


(III) Joseph Dewey, son of Jedediah Dewey, was born May Io. 1684. in West- field. and died there January 3. 1757. Ile was a farmer, and lived on the south corner of Elm and Franklin streets. July 4. 1715. his father deeded to him thirty acres of land in Squawfield, at Westfield. He was select- man in 1726; joined the church. April 30. 1727. He married. in 1713. Mrs. Sarah


Root, widow of Samuel Root, and daughter of John and Sarah ( Ferry) Warner. She was born. 1688. in Springfield, and died in Westfield, where she was buried February 19. 1760. Children, born in Westfield: 1. Joseph (q. v. v. October 7, 1714: 2. Sarah. April 15. 1716. 3. Lydia. May 25. 1718. 4. Mary, March 21. 1720. 5. Roger. March 17. 1722-23. 6. Noah, May 3. 1724.


(IV) Roger, son of Sergeant Joseph Dewey, was born March 17. 1722, at West- field. and lived east of Hebron. Connecticut. He bought one hundred acres of land at Glastonbury in 1764, and was living there in 1773. He had interests at Worthington. Massachusetts, in 1789. where his sons. Ju- seph and Samuel, were early settlers. He was also a grantee in Gilsom. New Hamp- shire. He married, at Hebron. June 5. 1744. Patience. born there. August 12. 1720. daughter of William Rollo. Children: Sa- rah. born July 11. 1745: John. June 26. 1748, mentioned below : Mary. August 3. 1750: Joseph. May 22. 1753 : Lydia. July 3. 1755: Samuel Rollo. December 25. 1757: Patience Experience, September 18, 1760.


(V) John, son of Roger Dewey, was born near Hebron, Connecticut, June 26. 1,48. died at Franklin. New York. October 1. 1824. He was a farmer, and removed to Franklin in 1793-94. He married. August 20. 1772. Mindwell Kneeland. bom May. 1753. died October 22. 1834. Children : John, born June 7. 1773: Mindwell, Janu- ary 6. 1775 : Roger. October 30. 1777. men- tioned bele w: Lydia. April 26. 1780: Ben- jamin. May 24. 1783; David. January 27. 1786.


(VI) Roger (21. son of John Dewey. was born October 30. 1777. died at Frank- lin, January 25. 1859. He was a farmer there. He married. October 24. 1800. Su- sannah Marsh, who died December 26. 1857. Children, born at Franklin: Sarah. April 24. 1802: David Edwin, July 29. 1807. men- tioned below: William. July 27, 1812: Tal- man, September 3. 1814: Susan, March o. 1818.


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(VII ) David Edwin, son of Roger (2) Dewey, was born July 29. 1807. at Frank- lin, New York. died there. April 30. 1870. He was a farmer. He married. February 12, 1834. Elishaba Edwards, who died No- vember 13. 1858. Children: 1. Lyman Beecher, born September 27. 1835. died January 19, 1862, at Key West. Florida. while in service in the Ninetieth Regiment. New York Volunteers. 2. William Austin. born February 25. 1838. mentioned below. 3. Jonathan Edwards. September 9. 1842. 4. Roger Edwin, December 15, 1844.


(VIII ) William Austin, son of David Edwin Dewey, was born February 25. 1838. died. 1891 at Potsdam. New York. He re- ceived a common school education. and taught school as a young man. Later he conducted a general store at Franklin. New York, and also dealt largely in real estate, buying, improving, and selling farms. He removed to Potsdam in 1889. He was a leading citizen, and held various town offi- ces. He was a Republican in politics, and an elder in the Presbyterian church at Franklin. He married, July 25, 1859. Lo- demia. daughter of Elisha B .. Jr .. and Mary (Fitch) Kilbourne. Her father was born in England. son of Elisha B. and Polly ( Seymour) Kilbourne, who came to Con- necticut and later to New York state. Chil- dren : Frederick Lincoln, born May 14, 1860, mentioned below: Mary Elizabeth, February 16, 1862, died July 25. 1874.


(IX ) Frederick LinceIn Dewey. A. B., A. M .. Ph. D., son of William Austin Dew- ey, was born in Otsego, New York, May 14. 1860. He prepared for college at the Dela- ware Literary Institute, and graduated from Hamilton College. Clinton, in 1882, with the degree of A. B. He went back to the Delaware Literary Institute as teacher of elassics, remaining three years, and in 1885 went to Potsdam to take charge of the class- ical department of the State Normal School. His principal classes were in Latin and Greek, in which studies he won the Hawley prize while in college. He also won the


Tompkins mathematical scholarship, and was appointed Clark prize orator, won the McKinney prize debate, and was honored with the valedictory at commencement. Two years after graduation he received the de- gree of A. M .. and in 1892, when he re- tired from his professorship in the normal school, he was honored with the degree of Ph. D. by Hamilton College. Professor Dewey sent five valedictorians to Hamilton College from the normal school. In 1886 he was secretary of the New York Teach- ers' Association. In 1892 he became treas- urer and manager of the Raquette River Paper Mills, being one of the original stock- holders. For three years he was with the Colton Pulp Company, and two years with the Canton Lumber Company. For a year he was with the Hannan Falls Power Com- pany. In 1906 he was elected president of the Citizens' National Bank of Potsdam, and still holds that position. He is a di- rector in the Northern Wall Paper Com- pany: president of the Potsdam Building and Loan Association; member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Phi fraternities; trustee of Potsdam State Normal School; president of the Potsdam Public Library; member of Free. Masons: president of the Potsdam Club, and member of the Century Club, of Ogdensburg. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion an Episcopalian. He married, 1887. Jessie M .. daughter of William Y. and Harriet J. ( Dayton ) Henry. and granddaughter of Hiram Henry ( see Henry). They have one child. Lewis Day- ton, born November 15, 1890: educated in public schools and at Hamilton College. ( The connection with the Henry family is given on p. 725. )


(IV) Deacon Joseph (2) Dewey. son of Joseph ( 1) Dewey, was born October 7, 1714. in Westfield, and died there August 25. 1790. He was a farmer, and lived on West Silver street. in a large two-story house. \ large, red sandstone slab marks his grave in Mechanic street old burying- ground. He married ( first), January 26,


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1738, Beulah, daughter of Joseph and Abi- gail Sackett. She was born January 30, 1714, in Westfield, and died there October 27, 1769. He married (second ), November 25, 1773, Hannah, daughter of Aaron and Rachel (Bagg ) Phelps. She was born May 12, 1734, and died November 2, 1815. Chil- dren, born in Westfield : Beulah, February 5, 1739, died July 18. 1739: Joseph, born March 5, 1741, mentioned below ; Benjamin, April 5, 1743: Gad. January 14. 1745; Eliab; November 2, 1746; Beulah, October 12, 1748, died January 12. 1752: Sarah, born September 12, 1750: Mary. June 23. 1753.


(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Dew- ey, was born March 5, 1741, in Westfield, and died there December 31. 1815. He was a farmer. and lived in the King Parks house at Fox District. He was drafted to go into the Continental army in 1777: fined twenty pounds for refusing. He married. October 6, 1762, Ruth, daughter of Aaron and Ra- chel (Bagg ) Phelps. She was born March 12, 1739, in Westfield, and died January, 1803. She joined the church June 26, 1763. Children, born in Westfield: Ruth. September 18. 1763: Stephen. August 26, 1765: Hannah, January 27. 1768: John, March 14, 1770: Abner. December 1. 1774. mentioned below : Caleb. November 6. 1779.


(VI) Abner, son of Joseph (3) Dewey, was born December 1. 1774. in Westfield, and died there. December 31. 1835. He married. December 25. 1802, Nancy, daugh- ter of William and Rachel ( Shepard ) Hiss- cock. She died October 1. 1816. Children : Abner, born 1803. mentioned below: Mer- win, 1805: Rhoda Maria. 1807: Pomeroy, buried at Suffield. Connecticut, December 27, 1876; child. born June. died July 21, 1815.


(VII) Ahner (2), son of Ahner ( 1) Dewey, was born in Westfield. in 1803. He was educated in the common schools and fol- lowed the trade of stone mason. In middle life he rented a farm, on which he was as- sisted by his sons, and continued to work at


his trade at the same time. He married Cynthia, daughter of Winthrop and Achsah (Loomis) Shepard. She had brothers Win- throp, Noble, George, Charles, Harlow, Eli. De Witt, and sisters Maria and Achsah Shepard. Children of Abner and Cynthia Dewey: De Witt, Edwin Pelton. mentioned below ; Mary, Milo, Louisa, Achsah, Charles and Cynthia. The four eldest were born in Massachusetts.


(VIII ) Edwin Pelton, son of Abner ( 2 ) Dewey, was born in Westfield, Massachu- setts, and when he was seven years of age removed to northern New York, where his parents settled. He attended the public schools of Turin, New York. He worked on the farm during his boyhood, and when a young man worked out by the month for eight years. Then, in partnership with his brother De Witt, he bought one hundred and sixty acres of wild land in Leyden, New York. They cleared the land and divided it into two farms. Edwin built a house on his portion. After four years. when he had cleared twenty acres of land and greatly improved the property, he sold out. He bought another farm at Turin, consisting of 235 acres of land at $58 an acre, including ten cows. His wife bought twenty-five acres adjoining. He increased his dairy and added machinery and equipment valued at $18,000, of which he owed all but the first payment of $3.000, but by dint of hard work, thrift and enterprise. he managed to pay the inortgage. He retired from active labor in 1901, but still owns the farm. He resides in a cottage in Turin with his daugli- ter, Mrs. Ralph Payne. In politics he is a Republican. He was for nineteen years commissioner of highways, and overseer of the poor two years. He is a member of the Baptist church in Turin. He married. March 23, 1852. Esther, daughter of George and Mary ( Staplin ) Shepard. She has brothers George. Ashley and Charles, and sisters Mary. Theodora, Sophia. Theresa, Achsah. Eunice and Benecia Shepard. George Shepard, father of Esther, was or-


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derly for his father, Captain Winthrop Shepard, stationed at Sacketts Harbor, New York, in the war of 1812. He received a grant of land from the government and aft- erward sold it. Children of Edwin P. and Esther Dewey: 1. George E., born July 10, 1856; married, June 29. 1886, Ida L. Loyd : children : Helen M., Mabel and Harold. 2. Etta M., born June 1. 1864 ; married, March 7, 1894. Ralph Payne: children: Harold and Alice. 3. Effie MI., born March 7. 1867, died May 10, 1867. 4. John MI., born July 15. 1870: married. February 22. 1893. Louise Merz.


Hiram Henry ( see Dewey IX, ante ) was a native of Vermont. and a cabinetmaker by trade. He had three children.


(II) William Y., only son of Hiram Hen- ry, was educated in the public schools, and went when a young man to Madrid. New York, where for four or five years he was engaged as clerk in a general store. For a number of years he was engaged in trade in various places. Returning to Madrid. he was station agent there. then passenger con- ductor, and also carried on a general store in Madrid. In 1863 he entered the employ of the government at Alexandria. Virginia. In 1886 he settled in Potsdam, and in March that year entered the National Bank as hook- keeper. Ile was afterward teller. and was cashier of the First National Bank for thirty years. He was also vice-president of the Potsdam Electric Light Company. He died in 1904. . He married. 1854. Harriet J. Day- ton, of Madrid, who died in 1870. Chil- dren: Frederick D .. died December 25. IS72; Jessie M., married Dr. Frederick L. Dewey (q. v. ). Mr. Henry married (sec- ond), 1871, Jane Huntington, of St. . Al- bans, Vermont, and they have one child. Al- fred Huntington. born May 23. 1873.


HOLDEN The surname Holden, Hold- ing or Houlding, is ancient and distinguished in Eng- land. Various branches of the family bear coats-of-arms and titles.


(I) Richard Holden, immigrant ancestor, born in England. in 1609, came to this coun- try in the ship "Francis," sailing from Ips- wich, England. April 30. 1634. He settled first at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was for a time a land owner. His brother, Justinian, born in 1611, came a year later. and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, whither Richard also removed soon after- ward. A manuscript family record, written about 1800, states that they had brothers Adam and William, and an uncle James Holden, "one of the Lords of England." who secured their release by the sheriff who had arrested them for attending a "dissent- ing meeting" on condition that they would do so no more "in that country"-an in- stance of the intolerance of that day.


Richard Holden resided at Cambridge for a time, and Justinian settled there. Rich- ard was a proprietor of Woburn in 1658. He sold his place in Watertown in 1655 to J. Sherman. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1657. In 1656-57 Richard settled in Groton, where he had nine hundred and seventy-five acres of land in the northerly part of the town, now in Shirley, part of which was lately occupied by Porter Kitt- ridge. His land extended on the west bank of the Nashua river from a point near Beaver pond to the northward. He spent his last years with his son Stephen. to whom he gave his real estate, March 23. 1691, call- ing himself at that time "aged, infirm and a widower." He died at Groton, March 1. 1600: his wife died at Watertown. Decem- ber 6, 1601. He married, in 1640, Martha. daughter of Stephen Fosdick, of Charles- town. The latter left a forty-acre lot of land to Richard, situated in Woburn. Chil- dren : 1. Stephen, born July 19, 1642 ; killed by fall from a tree at Groton. in 1658. 2. Justinian, born 1644. mentioned below. 3. Martha, January 15. 1645-46: married Thomas Boyden. 4. Samuel. June 8. 1650: settled in Groton and Stoneham. 5. Mary. married Thomas Williams, 6. Sarah, mar- ried. December 20. 1677, Gershom Swan.


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7. Elizabeth. 8. Thomas, born 1657. 9. John, 1667. 10. Stephen, about 1658.


( II ) Justinian, son of Richard Hcklen. was born in 1044. He lived at Billerica and Groton, Massachusetts, and perhaps at Cambridge. He left Billerica on account of some differences with the tax collector. He was a carpenter by trade. He gave a pow- er of attorney to his wife and son. Decem- ber 14, 1696. He married (first ) Mary -- , who died May 15, 1601. at Billerica ; ( second ) Susanna - . Children : Mary. born May 10, 1680: James, mentioned be- low; Ebenezer, May 11. 1000, at Woburn; Susanna, October 16. 1694. at Billerica. Per- haps others.


(III ) James, son of Justinian Holden, was born in 1685, and died at Barre, Wor- cester county, Massachusetts. in 1766. The only clue to his parentage is given in the probate records, which give his father's name when he had a guardian appointed March 17. 1700. He was then fifteen years old. He resided in Groton, Cambridge and Charlestown. He came to Worcester about 1719, and removed about twenty years later to Barre, then Rutland district. His will was offered for probate at Worcester. De- cember 3. 1766. He bequeathed to wife Hannah: grandson John, son of eldest son James : Jeduthan, eldest son of son Daniel and other children of Daniel-Rachel. Dan- iel. Martha. Katharine, Nathan and James: sons Josiah. Thomas and Aaron : daughters Mary, wife of Israel Green, and Abigail. wife of Josiah Bacon. (Worcester Record. 30.202.) He spelled his name Holdein in the will. He married. February 17. 1708- c9, at Charlestown. Hannah Adams. of Cambridge. Children, born at Charlestown and baptized at Cambridge. November 18, IZII : I. Hannah, born December 18, 1700. 2. James, August 2. 1;11. Other children : 3. Abigail. married Josiah Bacon. 4. Daniel, born at Worcester. 5. Mary, February II. 1719. 6. Josiah. July 24. 1721 : married Abigail Bond. of Watertown. 7. Thomas. October 26, 1723 ; mentioned below. 8. Abi-




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