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Masons, of Owego: Tioga Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. of Smithboro, and of the college fraternity Delta Kappa Ep- silon. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, one of the stewards and member of the board of trustees. In politics he is a Republican. He was supervisor of the town of Tioga in 1904-05 ; supervisor of the census in 1910 for the fourteenth district of New York, and in 1911 was elected to the New York assembly.
Mr. Pembleton married, December 27, 1911, Julia, daughter of Orin Leroy and Ber- tie (Swank ) Haverly, of Athens, Pennsyl- vania.
HILTON Edward Hilton, one of the pioneers in New Hampshire, was born in England. He came with his brother William, and Mr. Da- vid Thompson, all fishmongers from London, to begin a plantation at Piscataqua in 1623. They settled at Dover Neck, seven miles from Portsmouth. New Hampshire. They were sent over by the proprietor of Laconia. not only to fish, but to plant vineyards, discover mines, etc. He was in business in London, and continued the sale and shipment in New England.
He was the leader of the little plan- tation and received the patent for the land, the Squamscott Patent, as it was called, including what are now known as Dover, Dur- ham, Stratham, and parts of Newington and Greenland, etc. In 1642 he was appointed by the Massachusetts Bay government one of the local associate justices of the court, sit- ting with the magistrates on the highest ques- tions and acting by themselves in cases not beyond certain limits, and because of this of- fice was exempt from taxation in 1669. He also held many other public offices. As early as December, 1639. he was settled in Exeter. where he had a large grant of land in what is now South Newfields. He was selectman there from 1645 nearly every year up to 1652, and in 1657 was on the committee of two from Exeter to meet the committee from Dover to settle the bounds between the towns. He has been called "The Father of New Hampshire." He died early in 1671. He married (second ) Jane (Shepley ) Treworgie. daughter of Hon. Alexander Shepley, agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in Maine : she was widow of James Treworgie, of Kittery,
Maine. The name of his first wife is not known. Children, by first wife: Edward, mentioned below; Captain William, born about 1628; Samuel; Charles : daughter, mar- ried Christopher Palmer; daughter, married Henry Moulton.
(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Hil- ton, was born in 1626, in Dover, New Hamp- shire. He moved to Exeter. He made a large purchase of Nadononamin, or John Johnson, sagamore of Washuck, who "as well for the love he bore the English generally and especially Edward Hilton of Piscataqua, eldest son of Edward Hilton of the same Pis- cataqua, gentleman, and for divers other rea- sonable causes and considerations deeded all his lands between the two branches of the Lampreel River, called Washucke river about six miles and a neck of land reserving half if need be of convenient planting land during grantor's life." This land is believed to be in the present towns of Newmarket, Epping and Lee, New Hampshire. He married Ann Dudley, born October 16, 1641, at Salisbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Rev. Samuel Dud- ley, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and grand- daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His mother, Mary ( Winthrop) Dudley, was daughter of Governor John Winthrop, second governor of Massachusetts Bay. Edward Hilton died April 28, 1699. Children: Winthrop, born about 1671, prominent in civil and military affairs, and judge of court of common pleas ; Dudley : Joseph, born about 1681 ; Jane; Ann, mentioned below : Mary; Sobriety.
(III) Ann, daughter of Edward (2) Hil- ton, married her cousin, Richard Hilton, son of William and Rebecca Hilton. Children, probably born in Exeter: Edward, mentioned below ; Richard. Benjamin, Samuel, William.
(IV) Edward (3), son of Richard Hilton, was born in Exeter about 1700. died in 1776. He married Elizabeth They had a son Josiah, mentioned below.
(V) Josiah, son of Edward (3) Hilton, was born November 6, 1724, at Newmarket, New Hampshire. He married, at Newmarket, March 4, 1756. Sarah Marston Ames. Chil- dren : Colonel Richard, Edward, Betsey, married Smart : Mary, married Brackett : Love, married - Pickering.
(VI) Winthrop, son of Josiah Hilton, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1760. He married, at Exeter, November 7, 1788,
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Hepsibah Dockum. Among their children was Josiah, mentioned below.
(VII) Josiah (2), son of Winthrop Hilton, was born in Fairfax, Vermont, November 28, 1790, died at Hornby, Steuben county, New York. He was a farmer. He married Mary Northaway. Children: Rensselaer : Jolin C., mentioned below : Charlotte, married White ; Henry.
(VIII) John C., son of Josiah (2) Hilton, was born in Fairfax, Vermont, August 20. 1815, died at Beaver Dam, Schuyler county, New York. November 19, 1891. He was edu- cated in the district schools, and followed farming for a number of years in Steuben county. He married Polly Cove, born No- vember 20, 1814, died October 31. 1886. Children: 1. Josiah, born June 19, 1841 ; a farmer of Big Flats, New York. 2. Sylvester B., born December 30, 1844 (twin ), died Oc- tober 2, 1896: served in the civil war. 3. Sylvinia, born December 30, 1844 (twin). died May 6, 1864: married Sylvester B. Rog- ers. 4. Judson J., born November 23. 1845. 5. Willard M. (twin), mentioned below. 6. Willis Northaway, born July 28, 1850 (twin), traveling salesman in Elmira, New York ; married May E. Coe, and has one daughter, Rena H.
( IX) Willard MI., son of John C. Hilton, was born at Orange, Steuben county, New York, July 28, 1850. He received his early education in the public schools and at the academy at Red Creek. Wayne county, New York. He entered the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877, from the New York Homeopathic Medi- cal College. During the next two years he practiced medicine at Vanetten, New York, and since 1879 has been in general practice at Waverly, New York. He is director and national medical examiner of the National Protective Legion, having offices at Waverly, New York, and he is one of the founders of that institution. He is also an official exami- ner of the United States navy. He is a member of the Interstate Homeopathic Medi- cal Society; of the Southern Tier Medical Society and the Valley Academy of Medicine. He is a member of Waverly Lodge, No. 407. Free and Accepted Masons, of Waverly : of Waverly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of Owego Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a prominent member
of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been an elder for twenty-five years. In poli- tics he is a Republican.
He married, August 15, 1877, Mary, daugh- ter of William and Mary (Smith ) Atwood, of Union Springs, New York. Children: I. William Atwood, born June 27, 1879; gradu- ate of Cornell University with the degrees of B. S. and Ph. B., and now an instructor in the University of Minnesota. 2. Mame At- wood, born May 18, 1884; graduate of El- mira College; married Harry C. Baldwin, of Waverly, and has one son, Waterman Hilton Baldwin. 3. John Gray, born August 24, 1898.
Asa Shepard was one of the
SHEPARD pioneers of Oneida county, New York. He settled near Sauquoit in the spring of 1789, and after- ward lived in New Hartford in that county. He was a farmer. He was twice married. The name of his first wife is not known. His second wife was Elizabeth Gilbert, a widow. Children : Frederick, William, Jared, Martha. Ira, mentioned below.
(II) Ira, son of Asa and Elizabeth (Gil- bert ) Shepard, was born at New Hartford, Oneida county, New York, June 19, 1807, died September 7. 1895. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of millwright. In later years he became the owner of the Lenox Mills, near Wempsville. in Madison county, and he conducted them successfully for many years. In 1873 he re- moved to the city of Oneida. For several years he owned and operated a flouring mill ; this mill was burned, and having an interest in the malting business, he devoted the re- mainder of his active business life to that line of work. He was an able and highly re- spected business man, quiet and domestic in his tastes, dividing his time almost exclusively between his office and home. In religion he was a member of the Presbyterian church. and in politics a Republican.
He married, in 1831, Mary Avery, born in Paris, New York, now Clayville, Oneida county, New York, daughter of Colonel Gar- diner and Betsey (Sage) Avery. She died July 1, 1870. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Shepard: 1. Mary Elizabeth, married (first ) James J. Stewart : children: Fannie A. and Robert Duff Stewart ; married (second) T. F. Hand; she died October 14, 1891. 2. Susan
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Maria, married John Ould ; children : Harris Truscott, Sophia Stewart and John Avery Ould; Mrs. Ould died in September, 1881. 3. Sophia Cornelia, married Frank M. Nich- ols ; children : Frank Clarke and Albert Spencer Nichols; she died in 1889. 4. Julia Avery, resides in Oneida, New York; is a member of Shenandoah Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, and was vice-regent three years. 5. Lyman Gardiner, died in 1874, leaving one son, Ira Dunlap, who has two children.
FENDERSON The surname Fenderson is identical with Finlay- son, an ancient Scotch surname. The family was seated very early in Perthshire, Scotland. During the persecu- tion of the Scotch Covenanters by the Eng- lish about 1680, James Finlayson, of New Kil- patrick, Lennoxshire. Scotland, was banished with many hundred others (see p. 253, Vol. II, Hanna's Scotch-Irish). According to the history of Parsonfield, Maine, where a branch of the family was living at last accounts, the name of the immigrant ancestor in this coun- try was Samuel, but no record of him has been found by the writer.
(I) Nathaniel Finlayson, or Fenderson, as the name is now spelled, married, at Scarbor- ough, Maine, November 24, 1743. He was presumably a son of Samuel, the immigrant. Frances Finlayson, doubtless a sister of Na- thaniel, married at Scarborough, August 25, 1731, John Babb (see manuscript records of Scarborough church at New England His- toric-Genealogical Society). This Nathaniel was living in Scarborough in 1790, when ac- cording to the first federal census, he had two males over sixteen and two females in his family. His son, Nathaniel Jr., had at that time three sons over sixteen, and four under that age, and four females. Pelatialı, a son or grandson, had one son under six- teen and two grandsons. John, son of Na- thaniel, was born at Scarborough, July 15, 1756, married Sarah Kenny, of Saco, re- moved to Parsonfield in 1796 and died there, June 24. 1852. Children of John: Polly, Nathan. Nathaniel, John, married Hannah Perry and settled at East Machias; Edward and Sally. We find Nathaniel a witness to the will of Stephen Munson, September II, 1751, a resident of Scarborough, and again. April 1, 1756, witness to the will of Job Bur-
nam. William and John of Scarborough were soldiers in the revolution; also Pelatiah, and Wallis, who must have been a grandson of Nathaniel. In the revolutionary record it ap- pears that John served part of the time for Marblehead, Massachusetts, indicating that the family lived there at some time. Doubt- less the first generations were mariners. William Fenderson was one of the captors of the British ship "Margaretta" during the revolution (p. 13, Maine Hist. Society, Vol. 2 Second Series).
(III) John Fenderson, grandson of Na- thaniel Fenderson, was born in the vicinity of Scarborough, if not in that town, and died at Oldtown, Maine, about 1848. The family was doubtless Scotch-Irish, coming among the early settlers from Ulster province, Ire- land. John Fenderson married Dolly Crox- ford, of Oldtown, Maine. She died at or near Owego, New York, in 1858. Children : Wilmot, Ivory (a name found also in the Par- sonfield branch), Ann, Sally, John, mentioned below; Caroline, Keziah, Lydia, William, George and Washington (twins), and Isaiah, who died at or near Tioga Center. William died at or near Granville, Iowa : George was killed on the railroad at Centerville, Corning, New York, December, 1859.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Fender- son, was born in Maine, near or at Oldtown, about 1810, and died in a drowning accident at Hyats Ferry, near Owego, New York, April 7. 1877. He came to New York state in 1836 and located at Owego, where he run by the thousand a saw mill at the village of Canawana, and carried on an extensive lum- ber business for six years. Afterwards he run a mill for John Dubois at Cascade township, Pennsylvania, three years, and in 1851 built for himself a steam mill near Owego. but failed in business in 1858. He married Lucy Clem- ents, born in Oldtown. Maine, about 1814, died in the town of Nichols, New York, in 1898, daughter of Prentice Clements, who was captain of a company taking part in the war of 1812. Children: 1. Tisdale Dean, (lied in the service in the civil war. 2. Fran- cis M., born in Maine, also served in the civil war: now living at Williamsport, Penn- sylvania. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Au- relia, born in Owego. 5. Massenillo, born in Owego; served in the civil war: resides in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 6. Lucy, born in Cascade, Pennsylvania, lives at West Lake,
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Louisiana. 7. Lamartine, born in Cascade, Pennsylvania, died during the civil war. 8. Albertine. 9. Josephina. 10. Mary L., born in the town of Nichols, New York; all three died in 1854 in Owego within three days of each other, all in childhood. 11. Mary N., born in Owego, 1854; married R. N. Perry, of Syracuse, New York. 12. Josephine, born 1856 in Owego. 13. Albertine, born 1858 in Owego, died at Waverly, New York, March, 1906.
(V) John (3), son of John (2) Fenderson, was born in Owego, New York, April 4. 1841. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and county. For a num- ber of years he lived in Nichols, New York, and owned and conducted a grist and saw mill. He has been in the lumber business all his active life. He was for fifteen years president and general manager of the John Fenderson Lumber Company, engaged in the lumber business in Canada. He spent five years in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, in the lumber business, and he owns about eight hundred and fifty acres of tim- ber land in the state of Virginia. He has bought recently a tract of sixteen hundred acres of timber land near Washington, D. C. For many years, however, he has made his home in Owego. He is interested in public affairs in that town and has been commis- sioner of highways. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He is a member of Lodge No. 153. Free and Accepted Masons, of Owego.
He married (first), November 9, 1862, Catherine L. Ford, born July 30, 1846. in Tioga county, New York, died January 13. 1909, daughter of George L. and Mary Ann Ford. He married (second). January 15. 1910, Louise, widow of Edward Greenidge. Children, all by first wife: I. George L .. born November 17, 1865 : a farmer and lum- berman of Nichols, New York ; married Nel- lie Seymour and has one daughter. Blanche. 2. Stella A., born September 10, 1867; mar- ried Floyd Anthony, now with Siegel Cooper Company, New York. 3. Katy Belle, born October 2, 1869, died February 27. 1899 : married Fred Ingersoll, of Nichols, and had one child, Bernice. 4. Mary A., born Sep- tember. 1873; married H. B. Richardson, of Hornell, New York. 5. Charles L., born March 29, 1876: is general manager of the manufacturing of lumber for John Fender- son Lumber Company in Canada. 6. Perry
G., born May 17, 1886. 7. John M., born March 7, 1888.
Samuel Packard, immigrant
PACKARD ancestor, came to New Eng- land with his wife and one child in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, in 1638. He came from Windham, a small hamlet near Hingham, county Norfolk, England. He settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, and removed about 1660 to Bridgewater. He held office there in 1664, and was licensed to keep an ordinary in 1670. His sons, and probably he himself, were soldiers under Captain Benjamin Church in King Philip's war in 1675-76. His will was dated 1684. Children: Elizabeth, born probably in England; Samuel Jr., born in Hingham ; Zaccheus, mentioned below : Thomas, born in Hingham; John, born in Hingham; Nathaniel ; Mary ; Hannah ; Israel ; Joel ; Deborah ; Deliverance.
(II) Zaccheus, son of Samuel Packard. was born in Hingham, and died in Bridge- water, August 3, 1723. He married Sarah, daughter of John Howard, of West Bridge- water. Children, born in Bridgewater : Israel, April 27, 1680; Sarah, August 19, 1682; Jonathan, December 7, 1684; David, February II, 1687, mentioned below; Solo- mon, March 20, 1689; Deacon James, June 2, 1691 ; Zaccheus Jr., September 4, 1693; John, October 8, 1695: Captain Abiel, April 29. 1699.
(III) David, son of Zaccheus Packard, was born February 1I, 1687, died in 1755. He married Hannah, daughter of John Ames, in 1712, and she died aged sixty-seven. Chil- dren : David, born 1713: William, born 1715 : Hannah, 1718; Isaac, 1720; Mary, 1722 ; Ebe- nezer, 1724, mentioned below ; Abiah, 1727 ; Mehitable, 1730; James, 1734.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of David Packard, was born in 1724, died in 1803. He married, 1746, Sarah, daughter of Mark Perkins; she died in 1810. Children : Alice, born 1747: Ebe- nezer, mentioned below : Eunice, 1750 : Jonas. 1752; Adin, 1754: Mathew. 1756: Eliphalet. 1758: Robert, 1760: Joel, 1762; Lot; Noah and Joseph.
(V) Deacon Ebenezer (2) Packard, son of Ebenezer (1) Packard, was born at Bridge- water, in 1749. He was a soldier in the revo- lution in 1777. He or his son was in the Tenth Company, Plymouth county, and served
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at Ticonderoga. Ebenezer Packard sent a man for "Joel" in December, 1777. Joel was a brother of Ebenezer Jr. Ebenezer Packard was deacon of the church and a prominent citizen of Bridgewater. He married (first), in 1774, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Rey- nolds: (second) in 1781, Content Harlow. Children by first wife: Mehitable, born 1774; Philip, 1776; Mary, 1778. Children by sec- ond wife: Sarah, 1781 ; Ebenezer, 1783; Sil- vester, 1785; Rhoda, 1788; Ansel, mentioned below ; Charles, 1792 ; Content.
(VI) Ansel, son of Deacon Ebenezer (2) Packard, was born in Bridgewater in 1789. He settled in Bainbridge, New York. He married Sarah Monfort, of Harpersfield, New York. Children: Peter M .; Mary, married R. Porter Putnam, of Porterville, California ; Anna P., lives in Bainbridge, New York, mar- ried D. C. Scott, deceased ; Stephen S., lived in Covington, Pennsylvania : George, died in California ; Almira, married Eli Soctwell, of Hammonton, New Jersey.
(VII) Peter Monfort, son of Ansel Pack- ard, was born in Bainbridge, New York, De- cember 3, 1819, died in Cowanesque, Pennsyl- vania, February 10, 1903, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Isabelle (Packard) Strang. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. When a young man he en- gaged in the hotel business, and conducted a stage line, which was the most extensive in that part of the state. He kept a hundred horses, and covered much of the territory in the Susquehanna and Chenango valleys. His business continued to grow until the advent of the railroads between Albany and Bing- hamton. Thereupon he abandoned some of the lines and for a time, before the railroads came, owned stage lines to Westfield, Penn- sylvania. For many years he was proprietor of the hotel that formerly stood on the site now occupied by the rectory of St. Peter's Church. He spent most of his life in Bain- bridge. He was a useful citizen, highly es- teemed for his liberality, kindness of heart and upright life.
He married, September 22, 1845, Sarah Jane Wiley, born in Utica, New York, June 10, 1817, died at Oxford, New York, March 13, 1895, daughter of Jonathan P. Wiley, of Brownsville, New York, who stood high in Masonry in the state. Children, born at Bain- bridge: Albert Lewis, July 5, 1847, died Au- gust 5, 1862 ; Peter Wiley, May 24, 1849, died
May 13, 1908; Georgianna Ida, June 1, 1851, died April 3, 1852 : Joseph Edwin, mentioned below ; Isabelle Emma, born August 28, 1856, married A. B. Strang, of Greene, New York ; Fannie Louise, July 27, 1858, died October 31, 1910, married G. H. Simmons.
(VIII) Joseph Edwin, son of Peter Mon- fort Packard, was born in Bainbridge, De- cember 12, 1854. He attended the public schools of his native town and Sidney, New York. In 1873 he came to Oxford as clerk in the bank and he has resided in Oxford since that time. In winter he resides at Bing- hamton. He retired from business several years ago. He is a member of Oxford Lodge, No. 175, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Oxford Chapter, No. 254, Royal Arch Ma- sons. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church and for fifteen years was vestryman.
He married, January 17, 1881, Catharine Odessa Sands, of Oxford, New York, daugh- ter of Dr. William G. and S. Eliza (Mygatt) Sands. Her mother was a sister of the late Henry R. Mygatt, a noted lawyer and promi- nent citizen of Oxford, New York. Dr. Will- iam G. Sands was a son of Obadiah and Eliza- beth (Teed) Sands. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Packard, all born at Oxford: Edith Sands, May 28, 1885 ; Henry Mygatt, Septem- ber 25, 1886, died July 7, 1893 ; William Guth- rie, October 13, 1889; Katherine Odessa, Sep- tember 19, 1890.
John Tobin was born in Ireland. TOBIN He settled in Lincklaen, Che- nango county, New York, and followed farming all his active life. Children : Edward, Daniel, John, mentioned below ; Bridget.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Tobin, was born in Lincklaen, Chenango county, New York, died at Auburn, New York, in 1902. He lived most of his life, however, in his native town, where he was educated in the public schools and where he followed farming. He was a man of upright character and a useful citizen. He married Mary Lonergan, of Cuyler, New York, daughter of James Lonergan. She died about 1898 in Lincklaen. Their children: 1. Edward, lives in the west. 2. James. 3. John, lives in New York City. 4. Daniel, died young. 5. Joseph, married Anna Cardner: now a farmer in Lincklaen, New York. 6. George Leo, mentioned below.
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7. Patrick, a carpenter in Chittenango, New York. 8. Mary, married Oscar Yeager. 9. Anna, married Birn Cardner, of Cuyler, New York. IO. Nellie. II. Margarite, married Merrill Stewart, of Deruyter, New York. 12. Florence, married Ralph Porter; resides at Cuyler.
(III) George Leo, son of John (2) Tobin, was born at Lincklaen, Chenango county, New York, June 15, 1885. He received his early education there in the public schools. In his boyhood and youth he worked on a farm and afterward at Cuyler for a time in a milk station. He engaged in business on his own account as a general merchant at Cuyler in 1907, and has built up a flourishing trade. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and in politics he is a Republican. He married. De- cember 23, 1905, Pearl Torry, of Deruyter, New York, born February 20, 1884, at Cuyler, daughter of Ezra and Maggie (Steele) Torry. They have one child, Hilda, born July 3, 1910.
The name of Lewis, sometimes LEWIS spelled Lewes, has had many dis- tinguished representatives in this
country. The family is numerous and an- cient, both north and south. Robert Lewis, of Bradmockshire, Wales, emigrated to Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1640. He had a large grant of land from the Crown, and from him have sprung different families of Lewises all over the country. Samuel Gilford Lewis was a major on General Washington's staff, and distinguished himself at the battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania. His descend- ants lived at Washington, D. C., and at St. Louis, where they were known as editors, judges and surgeons. George Lewis, of Ply- mouth, afterwards at Scituate, Massachusetts, where he joined the church, September 20, 1635, came from East Greenwich in Kent be- fore 1633. Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, was first at Watertown, and came over from England in 1634. John Lewis settled at Westerly, Rhode Island, as early as 1660. Dr. William Jerauld Lewis, presi- dent of the American Society of Microscop- ists, is descended from the Connecticut and Rhode Island families. In 1834 thirteen of the Lewis name had been graduated from Harvard, and thirty-four from other New England colleges.
(I) Edmund Lewis sailed April 10, 1634, from Ipswich, England, with his wife, Mary,
aged thirty-two years, son John, three years, and Thomas, nine months old, in the ship "Elizabeth" commanded by William Andrews. He settled first at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he shared in the first division of lands, and had several subsequent grants, receiving lot No. 26 of thirty acres, July 25, 1630; lot No. 82 of five acres, February 28, 1037; lot No. 61 of five acres, June 16, of the same year, and another grant of six acres, April 9, 1638. He resided on the east side of Lex- ington street, and had one hundred acres of upland beside numerous small parcels. He was admitted a freeman, May 24, 1636; was selectman in 1638, and appointed on a com- mittee to lay out the farms near the Dedham line, October 14, of that year. It is supposed that he had been a sailor as the inventory of his property included a cutlass and he seems to have been very fond of the water, for though he had a good estate in Watertown, he removed between 1639 and 1642 to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he purchased forty acres on the shore. He died there in January, 1650, and the inventory of his estate showed a value of one hundred and twenty-two pounds, seven shillings and six pence. His name is perpet- uated in the name of Lewis street which ad- joins his property at Wood-End, Lynn. Chil- dren : John, Thomas, James, Nathaniel, a child which lived but twenty hours; Joseph, and probably Benjamin. All of these except the first two were born in this country.
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