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(IV) Nelson Henry, son of Wallace Danton Waters, was born in Sydenham, county of Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, September I. 1867.
He received his education in his native town. When he was sixteen years old he located in the town of Cortland, New York. where he afterward engaged in business as a dealer in men's furnishings and clothing. For a number of years he was employed by the Gillette Shirt Company. In 1907 he was one of the organizers of the Cortland Skirt Company and from the first has been presi- dent and manager of the concern. The com- pany had besides an extensive plant at Cort- land, which in July, 1911, was removed to Binghamton, New York. He is a member of Homer Lodge, Free Masons ; of Royal Arch Chapter, of Cortlandville ; of Knights Temp- lar, of Cortland. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Cortland.
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and for a number of years has been vestry- man.
He married, September 30, 1889, Louise Sarepta, daughter of Stillwell Mudge and Harriet Amelia (Eggleston) Benjamin, of Cortland. Children : I. Stillwell Benjamin, born February 19, 1891, assistant manager of the Binghamton plant of the Cortland Skirt Company. 2. Harriet Louise, born June II, 1894. 3. Helena Elizabeth, November 22, 1904.
(IV) Catherine Elizabeth Josephine, dauglı- ter of Wallace Danton Waters, was born in Sydenham, Ontario, Canada, August 7, 1870. She married, March 1, 1904, Willis L. Starks, born in Rossie, St. Lawrence county, New York, March 3, 1874, son of Chauncey A. and Nancy Maria ( Ellsworth) Starks. Mr. Starks was formerly for several years employed in various paper mills in Watertown, New York. but for several years has been with the Cort- land Skirt Company of Cortland, as shipping clerk.
(The Bigelow Line).
(I) John Bigelow, immigrant ancestor, is believed to have come from England, but the variations of spelling at the time of his emi- gration to New England make it difficult to trace this name, which was spelled according to the fancy of the writers. He was born in 1617, and came to America before 1642. The first mention of his name on the records is found in Watertown, Massachusetts, on the occasion of his marriage, which was the first recorded in that town, September 20, 1642, to Mary, daughter of John and Margaret War- ren. He took the oath of fidelity there in 1652, and was admitted a freeman, April 18, 1690. 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 and 1660; constable, 1663, and selectman, 1665-70-71. His homestead 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, 1703, and proved July 23, 1703. Children of first wife, born in Watertown: John, October 27, 1643 ; Jonathan, December 1I, 1646; Mary, March 14, 1648; Daniel, December 1, 1650; Samuel, October 28, 1653: Joshua, November 5, 1655 : Elizabeth, June 15, 1657: Sary, September 29, 1659: James, married three times and lived in Watertown; Martha, April 1. 1662:
Abigail, February 4, 1664; Hannah, March 4, 1666, died March 8, 1666; Son, born and died December 18, 1667.
(II) Samuel, son of John Bigelow, was born in Watertown, October 28, 1653. He married, June 3, 1674, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary Flagg, born January 14, 1658, died September 7, 1720. He was a prominent man in Watertown and was an inn- holder, licensed as such from 1702 to 1716. He was a representative to the general court, 1708-09-10. His will was dated September 30, 1720, and proved February 21, 1731. Chil- dren, born in Watertown: John, May 9, 1675 ; Mary, September 12, 1677: Samuel, Septem- ber 18, 1679 ; Sarah, October 1, 1681 ; Thomas, October 24, 1683: Mercy, supposed to have been the Martha who was recorded as born April 4, 1686; Abigail, May 7, 1687 : Hannah, married, May 24, 1711, Daniel Warren ; Isaac, born May 19, 1691, mentioned below ; Deliv- erance, September 22, 1695.
(III) Sergeant Isaac Bigelow, son of Sam- uel Bigelow, was born in Watertown, March or May 19, 1691. He married, December 29, 1709, Mary Bond, of Watertown. She died July 9, 1775. Shortly after his marriage, he removed to Colchester, Connecticut, and bought land there, May 23, 1712. He was a military man of considerable prominence, and was commissioned sergeant by the governor in 1744. He died in Colchester, September II, 1751, and left an estate valued at two thousand and eighty-seven pounds, eleven shil- lings, nine pence. Children, born in Colchies- ter : Mercy, July 23, 1711, died young : Isaac, May 4, 1713 : Mercy, February 4, 1715 ; Mary, July 31, 1719, married Lazarus Waters (see Waters I) ; Hannah, October 2, 1721 ; Abigail, April 13, 1723; Samuel, December 21, 1724, died June 5, 1745. unmarried ; Sarah, died young ; Sarah, June 27, 1727; Lydia, April 22, 1729, died May 16, 1745 ; Elisha, April 14, 1731.
(The Gardner Line).
(I) Lion Gardner, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1599, died in East Hampton, New York, in 1663. Before com- ing to America, in 1635, he had seen military service in Holland with the English army, as "an engineer and master of works of fortifica- tions in the legers of the Prince of Orange in the Low Countries." While there he accepted a position to go to New England to construct works of fortification and command them. He
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contracted with the company that engaged him, for one hundred pounds a year, for a term of four years ; he was to serve only in the "drawing, ordering and making of a city, towns and forts of defence," under the im- mediate direction of John Winthrop, the younger, and he and his family were to be fur- nished transportation and subsistence free.
He sailed, probably from Rotterdam, July 10, 1635. in the bark, "Batcheller," and, ac- cording to the journal of Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, landed at Boston, November 28, 1635. He remained for some little time in Boston, and during his stay was engaged to complete the fortifications on Fort Hill. About the same time the "Magistrates of the Bay" desired him to visit Salem, for the pur- pose of seeing if it was fit for fortification. This he did, and upon his return told the magistrates that the people in Salem were more in danger of starvation than of any "for- eign, potent enemy," and to defer works of that kind for the present. He concluded his own account of the affair thus: "And they liked my saying well."
Early in the following spring he continued his journey to Connecticut, where John Win- throp, the younger. had commission from Lords Say, Brooke and other prominent men in England, to begin a plantation and to be governor of it. Winthrop's advance party had already taken possession of a point of land near the mouth of the Connecticut, and here Gardner landed early in the spring of 1636, probably in March. He constructed a fort with ditch and palisade, which was the first fortification erected in New England. It was named Saybrooke, in honor of Lords Say and Brooke. During the next few years the settlers had much trouble with the Indians, and many skirmishes, in which Gardner took a prominent part. Their most famous encoun- ter was with the Pequots in 1637. when com- bined forces from Massachusetts and Connec- ticut, with Mason, Gardner and Underhill in command, succeeded in nearly exterminating the latter tribe of Indians.
In the summer of 1639, Gardner's engage- ment with the Saybrooke Company ended, and he removed to a large island east of Long Island sound, which he had secured from the Indians by a deed of purchase, May 3. 1639. Subsequently he procured a grant of the same island from an agent of the Earl of Stirling, the grantee of the King of England, March
IO, 1639-40. He took with him his family, and a number of men from the Saybrooke for farmers, and these formed, it is said, the earliest English settlement within the present limits of the state of New York. He formed here a friendship with the great Indian chief, Wyandanch, of the Montauks, which endured all his life and was of untold benefit to him and other English settlers.
In 1649 Gardner became one of the original purchasers of about thirty thousand acres of land for the settlement of East Hampton, and in 1653 he removed there with his family. His residence there on the east side of the main street is still owned by a descendant. In 1655, and again in 1657, he, with others, were ap- pointed a committee to visit Hartford and treat with the authorities about placing East Hampton under the protection of Connecticut. In 1658 he became one of the purchasers in the original conveyance from the Indians of nine thousand acres of land on Montauk Point.
In return for Gardner's efforts in redeem- ing from her captors a daughter of Wyan- danch, the latter presented to him, July 14, 1659, a free gift of land, the original deed for which is now in possession of the Long Island Historical Society. That same year he was prosecuted before the magistrates of East Hampton by certain English captors of a Dutch vessel, for retaking the vessel at his island, but the case was never tried. He died late in the year 1663, one of the prominent figures of early colonial history of New Eng- land.
In . addition to his military and his execu- tive ability, he possessed considerable literary talent. His "Relation of the Pequot Wars,' and "Letters to John Winthrop Jr.," were dis- covered in manuscript form and published in 1833, and 1865, respectively.
He married, about the time of his contract to come to America, Mary, daughter of De- rike Wilemson, of the city of Woerdon, Hol- land. She accompanied him, shared with him the dangers and privations of the life at Say- brooke Fort, and died in 1665, aged sixty- four, at East Hampton. Children, the first two born at Saybrooke: David. April 29, 1636, the first child born of English parents in Connecticut : Mary, August 30, 1638, married Jeremiah Conkling, of East Hampton, son of Ananias Conkling, the immigrant ancestor of the Conkling family of New York, including Judge Alfred Conkling, his sons, Hon. Roscoe
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Conkling and Colonel Frederick A. Conkling ; Elizabeth. September 14. 1641.
(II) David. son of Lion Gardner, was born in Savbrooke Fort, April 29, 1636, died July IO, 1689, at Hartford, Connecticut. About 1656 he visited England, it is supposed to be educated. While there he married, June 4, 1657, Mary Leringman, widow, of the parish of St. Margaret, in the city of Westminster, England. He was back in East Hampton, June 10, 1658, on which date his name occurs in the records of that town as a witness. His father died in 1663. and by his will left his entire estate to his wife. His mother left to David, however, the Island of Wight during his life. In 1664 the English dispossessed the Dutch at New Netherlands, and proceeded to issue new patents to the townships and in- dividuals who held large tracts of land. In compliance with this order. David Gardner applied for and obtained, October 5, 1665, a new grant for the island, and September 11, 1686, a confirmatory grant, reciting all former grants and confirming them, and making the island into "one lordship and manor of Gardi- ner's Island." He appears to have been a prominent landholder also in Southold, and was once a resident there. He died in Hart- ford, while attending the general assembly of the colony of Connecticut, in behalf of the east-end towns of Long Island. He was in- terrel in the burying ground of Center Church and his tombstone is still standing there. Children, order of birth not known: John, April 19, 1661, mentioned below ; David ; Lion ; Elizabeth, married James Parshall, of South- old, sometimes called "Gent of the Isle of Wight."
(III ) John, son of David Gardner, was born April 19. 1661, died at Groton, Connecti- cnt, June 25. 1738. by accident, caused by a fall from a horse. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Ludlam) King, of Southold, born 1670, died July 4. 1707. He married (second ). September 2. 1708, Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Douglass ) Chandler, of Woodstock, Connec- ticut. and widow of William Coit. of New London, died July 3. 1711. He married (third) Elizabeth, daughter of John Allyn, who was a son of Matthew Allyn, an early settler of Hartford, and widow of Alexander Allen. of Windsor. Connecticut. She died on Gardner's Island, and was buried there. date unknown. He married ( fourth), October
4, 1733, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Hedges, and widow of Daniel Osborne, of East Hampton. She died May 19, 1747. He came into possession of Gardner's Island on the death of his father, by entail. He and his brother, Lion, appear as witnesses, De- cember 27, 1676, to the deed of confirmation of the patentees of Southold, and July 2, 1690, he and his brothers, David and Lion, appear in a deed of settlement, as heirs to the estate of their father. He also appears as a grantor in several deeds of land. He quit-claimed to his aunt. Mary (Gardner) Conkling, all the land willed by his grandmother, Mary Gard- ner, to the first named Mary.
There is a strong tradition in the family that during the proprietorship of John the island was surprised by a visit from the notor- ious Captain Kidd, but the only authentic ac- count of such an event is found in a docu- ment which contains a verbatim report of John Gardner's testimony taken before a board of government commissioners at Bos- ton, dated July 17, 1699.
John Gardner is described as "a hearty, ac- tive, robust man ; generous and upright ; sober at home but jovial abroad, and swore some- times : always kept his chaplain ; he was a good farmer and made great improvements on the island ; he made a great deal of money, al- though a high liver, and had a great deal to do for his four wives' connections; he had an expensive family of children ; he gave them, for those times, large portions." He was in- terred in the old burying ground at New Lon- don, and a brownstone slab, supported by six ornamented stone pillars. marks his grave. On top of the slab. on a square piece of blue slate-stone. is engraved a coat-of-arms with a lettered inscription.
Children of first wife, birth dates not cer- tain : David, January 3. 1691 : John, 1693; Samuel, 1695 : Joseph, April 22, 1697, men- tioned below : Hannah. December 11, 1699; Mary, September I. 1702: Elizabeth, married Thomas Greene, son of Nathaniel and Ann (Gold ) Greene, of Boston : children of second wife: Jonathan, born 1709; Sarah, 1710.
(IV) Joseph, son of John Gardner, was born April 22, 1697. He married, October 1, 1729, Sarah. born January 8, 1699-1700, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Pinney) Grant, granddaughter of Tahan and Hannah (Palmer) Grant, great-granddaughter of Mat- thew and Susannah Grant, the English immi-
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grant, who settled first in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, and afterwards in Windsor, Con- necticut. General U. S. Grant was of this same family, descended from Samuel, next older brother of Tahan, mentioned above, Samuel, Noah, Noah, Noah, and Jesse Root Grant, his father. Joseph Gardner settled in Groton, Connecticut, and was a farmer and trader by occupation. In 1719 a brig was built for him at Coit's ship yard in New Lon- don. His father deeded to him a valuable farm in Groton, March 27, 1733. He died in Groton, May 15, 1752, and his wife. also in Groton, September 17, 1754. On the inscrip- tion on his gravestone he is called captain. Children: Mary, August 30, 1730; John, Sep- tember 25, 1732; Joseph, died aged fifteen months, nine days: Jonathan, died December. 1737, aged eight months, ten days ; Sarah. died February, 1739, aged twenty-four days : Will- iam, mentioned below.
(V) William, son of Joseph Gardner. was born September 5, 1741, died at Chenango Forks, New York, March 31, 1800. He mar- ried. April 6, 1761, Esther, daughter of Dan- iel and Esther Denison, of Stonington, Con- necticut, born October 17, 1743, died at Che- nango Forks, May 21, 1824. He went to sea when a young man. After his marriage he lived in Stonington, and about 1793 removed to Chenango Forks, where he spent the re- mainder of his life. Children, born in Sto- nington : Joseph, July 28, 1762, died young : Sarah, December 28, 1763 : Esther, March 23. 1766. married Bigelow Waters ( see Waters I) : Joseph, February 9, 1768; Hannah, March 21, 1770: Daniel Denison, March 28, 1773: Henry, February 13. 1775: Isaac, May 22, 1784: William. July 3, 1787.
Robert Lang, immigrant ancestor, LANG is thought to have been born in Scotland about 1645 and to have removed to England, where he married, it is thought, before coming to America. He set- tled at Portsmouth. New Hampshire, and was known as "The Fisherman of the Isle of Shoals." In 1670 the names of Robert Lang and his family appeared on a list of members of the Portsmouth Church. According to the records in the war department at Washington, Robert Lang furnished a man and team to work on the old Fort Constitution at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, in 1690, and liis son John received pay for the service. He died
February 16, 1715, and the probate records of his estate are shown in Vol. D. now at the New Hampshire State Library, Concord. He had sons : Stephen, mentioned below; Na- thaniel, Robert, John.
(II) Stephen, son of Robert Lang, was born about 1675. His name is found in the public records as early as 1699 in a list of church members of the Portsmouth Church. He was living at Sagamore Creek ( Ports- month ) in 1734. He was a shipwright. He
married Children : 1. Stephen, bom 1703, died 1790: married Elizabeth Rice. 2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Thomas. 4. William, married Sarah Bennett. 5. Deliver- ance, married Nathaniel Nelson. 6. Sarah. married Nathaniel Muchmore.
7. Abigail. married Abraham Elliot.
(H1) Samuel. son of Stephen Lang, was born about 1715. and died in 1799, aged eighty-four years. In 1736 he and his brother Thomas bought two acres of land on Saga- more Creek, adjoining their father's place. Samuel sold his share of this property to Thomas, May II. 1750, and is supposed to have left the locality at that time. Samuel was a shipwright. He married Mary Sher- born. They had a son Samuel, mentioned be- low, and probably a son William.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( I ) Lang. was born at Portsmouth in 1754. died in Bath, New Hampshire, November 8, 1829. He set- tled in Bath, was deacon of the First Congre- gational Church there, and is mentioned in the town history as being noted for his "adapta- bility in prayers." He married, at Haverhill. New Hampshire, April 30. 1778, Susan Sal- ter, born in Boston in 1755, died in Bath, Oc- tober 5. 1843. Children: 1. Jacob Hurd, born February 29, 1779, died at Charleston, Ver- mont, in 1862 : married, May 19, 1808. Sarah Sherborn. 2. William, born August 24. 1780. died in infancy. 3. Sherborn, born February 25, 1782, died in Bath in 1859: married. March 4. 1816, Mehitable Ricker, born in Newbury, Vermont, April 5. 1797, died De- cember 24. 1865. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5. Mary (Polly), born May 22. 1786, died in 1844 at Bath: married Ebenezer Ricker. 6. Anna Salter, born June 26, 1788. died at War- ren. New Hampshire, in 1873 ; married Charles Abbott. 7. Hannah, born in 1790, died in in- fancy. 8. William, born March 21, 1792, died in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1875 ; married (first), March 14, 1822. Martha Child: (sec-
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ond ) January 1, 1833, Susan Child. 9. Henry Hancock, born in 1794, died at Bath, New Hampshire, August 19, 1865 ; married Lucia Child. 10. Hannah B., born in 1795, died in 1865 at Bath. 11. John, born in 1798, died in Calais, Maine.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Lang, was born in Bath, New Hampshire, March 9, 1784, died in Palmyra, Maine, March 4, 1879, nearly ninety-five years old. In 1803, when he was nineteen years old, he left home and settled on a farm, three-fourths of a mile from the village of Palmyra, where he lived the remainder of his life. He married, in 1808, Sally Smith, born in Concord, Massachusetts, in December, 1792, died in Palmyra, Maine. March 21, 1857, daughter of Captain Isaac Smith, born at Concord, Massachusetts, in December, 1754. of English parentage. Cap- tain Smith was the first white man to spend the winter farther north than Augusta, on the Kennebec river. Children of Samuel Lang, born at Palmyra : I. Rev. John Sherborn, born March 13, 1810; a minister of the Chris- tian church ; married -, and had eight children. 2. Mary Sherborn, born March 2, 1812; married, June 7, 1831, William Ste- phens, of Dixmont, and had three children. 3. Dona Zaida, born June 24. 1814, died in 1887 : married, November 14, 1836, Alvin Mann, and had seven children. 4. Sarah, born July 31, 1816, died in Canada, August 10, 1850; married, June 18, 1850, Henry Dear- born. 5. Susan Salter, born February 14, 1821, died February 4, 1899 ; married, in 1842, Alfred Elliot, of Monroe, and had five chil- dren. 6. William, born March 15, 1824, died May 9, 1837. 7. Alfred H., born March 3, 1826, died in Placerville, California, January 5, 1852; married, January 14, 1849, Mary L. Lancy, and had one son, Alfred H. 8. Rev. Samuel Salter, born January 22. 1827, died in Palmyra, Maine, February 2, 1897; was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman ; married, Sep- tember 22, 1845, Sarah J. Burgess, and had one son, Gershom Burgess. 9. Peter H., born February 25, 1828, died July 1, 1903 ; held various town offices and was representative to the state legislature ; member of the Society of Friends; married, February 20, 1852, Nancy E. Farnham and had five children. 10. Andrew Jackson, mentioned below. 11. Luvia Childs, born January 7, 1833 ; married, May 21, 1849, Nahum L. Hayden, who died July 7, 1876; they had six children.
(VI) Andrew Jackson, son of Samuel (3) Lang, was born in Palmyra, Maine, September 3, 1831, died in Waverly, New York, August 22, 1870. He was graduated from Union Col- lege, class of 1856. He married, April 9, 1857, Elvira Lyford, born at St. Albans, Maine, February 21, 1834, died at Waverly, New York, December 20, 1910, daughter of Albert and Phebe (Bates) Lyford (see Ly- ford VI). Children: 1. Louis Jay, born at Waverly, December 18, 1859; married, De- cember 24, 1883, Clara Terhune, of Brooklyn, New York. 2. Percy Lyford, mentioned be- low. 3. Gertrude Josephine, born at Waverly, March 3, 1870, died January 31, 1871.
(VII) Percy Lyford, son of Andrew Jack- son Lang, was born in Waverly, Tioga county, New York, June 8, 1861. He attended the public schools of his native town, the Elmira Free Academy, from which he was graduated in 1879, and Hillsdale College, Michigan. He became afterward a student in Williston Sem- inary at Easthampton, Massachusetts. He entered Yale College and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1885. He then started in business at Waverly in partnership with James A. Clark, under the firm name of Clark & Lang, dealers in hard- ware. In 1887 he sold out his share in the business, and in February of that year became assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Waverly. In 1891 he was made cashier, and he has held that position to the present time. He has taken a lively interest in pub- lic affairs. He was appointed loan commis- sioner of Tioga county by Governor Levi P. Morton, and in 1897 he was appointed by Governor Frank S. Black one of the managers of the Craig Colony at Sonyea, New York, and he is president of the board of managers. He has been a member of the board of educa- tion. He has financial interests in many other lines of business. He is a member of Waverly Lodge, No. 407, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Cayuta Chapter, No. 245, Royal Arch Ma- sons, of Waverly, New York; of St. Omar Commandery, Knights Templar, of Elmira ; Otseningo Bodies, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, of Binghamton : Kalurah Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, of Binghamton. He is also a mem- ber of Manoca Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 219, and of Lodge No. 1039, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of Waverly, New York; Elmira City
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Club : Elmira Country Club ; Quarry Glen Country Club ; Susquewanda Country Club, and Rapshaw Fishing Club.
He married ( first ), November 18, 1885, Alice Smith Johnson, born at Ansonia, Con- necticut, July 12, 1860, died in Waverly, Au- giist 7, 1903. daughter of Nathan S. and Bes- sie (Cable ) Johnson. He married ( second), September 1, 1906, Mrs. Marie Louise Hos- kins King, born in Owego, New York, April 8. 1867. Children, all by first wife: I. Ger- trude Adele, born November 10, 1886; mar- ried E. Barton Hall, of Waverly : children : Percy Lang Hall and E. Barton Hall Jr. 2. Alice Marion, born December 13, 1888; a graduate of Wellesley College. 3. Helen Ly- ford, born 1893. died in 1900. 4. Percy Ly- ford Jr., born June 25. 1898.
( The Lyford Line ).
(I) Francis Lyford, immigrant ancestor, was in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1667. He owned land on the water front, and was called a mariner. He removed to Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1689, when he sold his Boston estate to the father of his first wife. He bought a farm in Exeter and was select- man in 1689-90. He received a grant of two hundred acres in 1698. He served in King William's war from February 6 to March 5. 1696, in Captain Kinsley Hall's company of militia in Exeter. He was commander of the sloop "Elizabeth" of Exeter. He was chosen constable in 1709, but "being acc'ted Very in- firm by sundry ailments, whereby he seems very unfit for that service," another was chosen in his place. His will was dated De- cember 17, 1723, proved September 2, 1724. He married (first ) in Boston, about June. 1671. Elizabeth, born November 6, 1646, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith. He married (second ) in Exeter, New Hampshire, November 21. 1681. Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley, and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Children of first wife: Thomas, born March 25, 1672: Eliza- beth, July 19, 1673; Francis. Children of second wife: Stephen, mentioned below : Ann, married Timothy Leavitt : Deborah, married Follett : Rebecca, married Har- dv : Sarah, married John Folsom : Mary, mar- ried Hall.
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