Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 21

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 656

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He married, January 1, 1880, at Troy, New York, Mary Lena, daughter of Solomon Burt and Mary Eliza (Thompson) Saxton (see Saxton VII). Children: I. Alice Quimby, born at Troy, December 17, 1880; married, February 8, 1910, Robert Hall, of Lockport, New York, secretary and treasurer of the Lockport Steam Heating Company. 2. Gor- don Saxton, born in Lansingburg, New York, August 6, 1883; was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with the de- gree of C. E., class of 1905: he married, February 7, 1906, Ethel Williams, of Troy. 3. Nathaniel French, born in Lansingburg, October 16, 1884: graduated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with the degree of C. E., class of 1907, now assistant engineer in the department for the elimination of grade crossings on the New York Central rail- road ; he married, September 28, 1909, S. La- vinia Morrison, of Lansingburg. 4. Dwinel Burt, born in Lansingburg. December 14, 1886; also a graduate of the Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, 1907, with degree of C. E .; will graduate in class of 1911 from the same institute with degree of E. E.

(The French Line).

Harriett Newell (French) Thompson, mother of Professor Dwinel French Thomp- son, was a direct descendant of Edward French, of Salisbury, Massachusetts.

(I) The surname French is found in Wilt- shire, England, records as early as 1252, and is found in Scotland in the records of the old monasteries under the forms of Francus, Franciscus, Francegena, Franceis and Franke. The family is a most honorable as well as an ancient one. The branch herein considered was founded in America by Edward French, of Salisbury. Massachusetts, who received land in the "first division," bought land in 1642. was selectman and a man of influence. He was of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1633. He married Ann Goodale ; died December 28, 1674. He had four children.

(II) Samuel, son of Edward and Ann French, died in Salisbury, Massachusetts, July 26, 1692; married (first) April 1, 1664, Abigail, born February 23, 1643, died Jan- uary II, 1679-80, daughter of Henry and Abigail Brown. She was the mother of six children. He married (second) Esther -, who bore him three children.

(III) Deacon Joseph, son of Samuel and Abigail (Brown) French, was born in Salis- bury, Massachusetts, 1676, died there August 27, 1749. He was a soldier 1697-1710. He married Hannah who bore him five children.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Deacon Joseph and Hannah French, was born December 1I, 1699, at Salisbury, died April 21, '1767. He married, November 23, 1721, Mary Collins, born May 1, 1698, died November 18, 1766. Nine children.

(V) Nathaniel, son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Collins) French, was born January 13, 1724, at Salisbury. He married Anna Russell. Nine children.

(VI) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) and Anna (Russell) French, was born March 15, 1757, at Epping, New Hampshire, died at Sandwich, that state, January 16, 1799. He was a farmer. He married, August 27. 1780, Martha Jewell, of Sandwich, New Hamp- shire, born September 14, 1762, died in that town, September 28, 1822, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Martha (Quimby) Jewell; nine children. Martha Jewell was a descendant of the fifth generation from Thomas Jewell, of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1639.

(VII) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) and Martha (Jewell) French, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, May 23, 1799, died June 28, 1876, at Auburn, Maine. He was a man of great natural ability, a good mathematician and noted for his excellent memory. He was a manufacturer and at one time owned a machine shop and foundry. He held several public offices, including that of trial justice. He was a man of influence and a member and deacon of the Congrega- tional church.

Nathaniel French married, in 1817, Eliza- beth Libby Quimby, born at Sandwich, New Hampshire, August 25, 1797, died while on a visit to Troy, New York, November 18, 1873. Elizabeth Libby Quimby was a daugh- ter of Lieutenant Enoch Quimby, of Sand- wich. New Hampshire, a descendant of Rob- ert Quimby, the immigrant ancestor from England. 1653, who married Elizabeth Os- born, and settled at Salisbury, Massachusetts. Her grandfather, Major Aaron Quimby, served in the revolution. Her father, Lieu-

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tenant Enoch Quimby, served in the war of 1812.

(VIII) Harriett Newell, daughter of Na- thaniel (3) and Elizabeth Libby (Quimby ) French, was born at Sandwich, New Hamp- shire, April 11, 1818, died at Lansingburg (Troy), November 13, 1893. She married, February 17, 1842, at Bangor, Maine, Joel Dwinel Thompson (see Thompson VI).

(The Saxton Line).

This name is common in England, especially in Yorkshire. The family name appears early on the Massachusetts colonial records. Rev. Peter Saxton (also written Sexton) ·emigrated to Massachusetts. as early as 1630, and was the first minister to Scituate. The first of record in the Connecticut colony were Richard and George Sexton, who embarked from London, England ; Richard, 1635, on the ship "Blessing," and was in Windsor, Con- necticut. 1643; George came later, was a contemporary of Richard, and probably his brother. It is very sure that he was not a son. The earliest mention found of George Sexton is in Book of Deeds, at Springfield, Massachusetts, in a deed from Thomas Cow- 'per to George Sexton "Now resident of Wind- sor," June 10, 1663. He removed to West- field, about 1671, where a son Benjamin was 'born, said to have been the first white child born in the town. He died between 1688 and 1690. He married Katharine - - -- , and had seven children.

(II) Captain Joseph, fourth son of George and Katharine Saxton, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, 1664, died at Enfield, May 3, 1742. Removed from Westfield to Enfield about 1704. He married, November 20, 1690, Hannah Wright, born July 28, 1669, died in 1742, daughter of Abel Wright, of Spring- field. Seven children.

(III) Ensign Joseph (2), son of Captain Joseph (1) and Hannah (Wright) Saxton, was born in Westfield, October 2, 1694. He removed to Enfield with his father and set- tled in the East Parish (now Somers). He married (first) October 16, 1723, Sarah Par- sons, born March 10, 1705, died at Salisbury, August 25, 1747. She was a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Hitchcock ) Parsons, of Enfield, Connecticut ; granddaughter of Deacon Benjamin and Sarah (Vere) Par- sons, and great-granddaughter of Richard Vere Parsons, of Westfield. He married (second) Widow Mary Collins, by whom he had one child. By his first wife he had ten ·children.

(IV) Deacon Samuel, son of Ensign Jo- ·seph (2) and Sarah (Parsons) Saxton, born

June 22, 1726, died March 22, 1816. He lived in Connecticut, near Springfield. He married Sarah Chapin, January 23, 1754. She was born October 19, 1736, died March 27, 1821. The Chapin family were prominent in Springfield, where a statue is erected to their memory. She was a direct descendant of Henry and Nelly (Burt) Chapin.

(V) Noah, son of Deacon Samuel and Sarah (Chapin) Saxton, was born July 24, 1772, at South Wilbraham, Massachusetts, died April 15, 1850. He probably lived at South Wilbraham all his life, as all his chil- dren were born there. His eldest son, Noah Chapin Saxton, was the first publisher of the New York Evangelist. He married, Decem- ber 15, 1796, Martha Bliss, born in North Wilbraham, March 12, 1775, died December 18, 1836.

(VI) Gordon Bliss, son of Noah and Mar- tha (Bliss) Saxton, was born in South Wil- braham, Massachusetts, June 5, 1800, died in Troy, New York, April 28, 1868. He was a merchant of Troy, first engaged in dry goods and millinery, later with his son, Solomon Burt Saxton, in the flour and grain trade. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and one of Troy's most respected citizens. In 1825 he married Philena Fletcher Severance, born April 26, 1800, died August 3, 1851, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Joslyn) Severance, of New Braintree, Massachusetts. Five children.

(VII) Solomon Burt, eldest son and child of Gordon Bliss and Philena Fletcher (Sev- erance) Saxton, was born in South Wilbra- ham, Massachusetts, January 31, 1827, died at Troy, New York, January 12, 1903. When a young man he came to Troy and engaged in business and later became a member of the firm of Saxton & Thompson, with large flour- ing mills at Lockport. This business is still continued in the family name of Thompson by George Thompson. Mr. Saxton later dis- posed of his interest in Lockport and devoted himself exclusively to the wholesale flour business in Troy. He was interested in many of the manufacturing enterprises of Troy, and was officially connected with the banks of the city. He was a successful business man and highly regarded as a citizen. He was an accomplished musician, and for forty years was a member and organist of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, taking high rank as a performer on the pipe organ. He married. September 1, 1851, Mary Eliza Thompson, a descendant of John Thompson, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the American founder of her family. (See Thompson Gen- ealogy of Troy, New York.) Children :

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Mary Lena, born December 27, 1855, in Troy, New York, married Professor Dwinel French Thompson (see Thompson VII) : John Gor- don, born November 1. 1857, in Troy, New York, he is a landscape painter of fame, with residence in Brooklyn and Amityville, Long Island, married, June 20, 1885, Hattie Thompson Rowe, of Auburn, Maine.

THOMPSON The Thompson family of Albany, New York, repre- sented in the present gen-

eration by David Allen Thompson, descend from the early settler of that name in Salem county, New Jersey. The family is of Eng- lish origin seated in Yorkshire, England. In 1658 Thomas Thompson and Elizabeth, his wife, with their sons John and Andrew, re- moved from Kirkfenton, Yorkshire county, England, to Ireland. John, the eldest son, , married Jane Humbles, or Humbly, born in England, and then living in Ireland. An- drew, the younger son, was born at Kirk- fenton, England, 1637. He removed to Ire- land with the family in 1658, and on July II, 1664, married Isabella, daughter of Hum- phrey Marshall, born in Leicestershire, Eng- land, September 16, 1667. Andrew Thomp- son, his wife and three children, accompanied by his brother John, his wife and four chil- dren, embarked in the ship "Mary of Dublin," John Hall, master, and landed at Elsinboro Point, West Jersey, December 22 of the same year. In 1680 the brothers bought of Rich- ard and Bridget Guy adjoining lands in the present township of Elsinborough, Salem county, New Jersey. The "Emigrant house," built on the original farm, was standing in good condition and repair as late as 1820. The site of the house and the orchard in front have now been entirely removed by the action of the Delaware river wearing away its east- ern shore. Andrew Thompson became a well- known public man. He was appointed a jus- tice of the peace for the colony by John Fen- wick, the governor, and was also one of the four justices of the peace elected by the general free assembly at Burlington, qualify- ing March 15, 1683, serving several years. He frequently served as executor and was a trusted citizen. IIe died in 1696. His will, written with his own hand, dated 29th of tenth month, 1694, devises his homestead of one hundred and sixty-eight acres to his two elder sons. William and Andrew, and specially requests them "not to oppress or deale un- justly by one the other." Children of An- drew and Isabella Thompson, first three born in Ireland: I. Elizabeth, born August 15, 1666; married in Salem, Friends' meeting,

February 25, 1683, Isaac Smart, the society consenting thereto except Isaac had not notified his mother in old England, owing to the distance, that was waived." Isaac Smart died in 1700, and his widow. Elizabeth, "with the approval of the meeting," married, No- vember 26, 1701, Edward Keasbey. 2. Wil- liam, August 9, 1699, married (first) Sarah (second) Jane Nickson: (third) Hannalı He settled at Thompson's bridge, now Allowaystown, Monmouth town- ship. His son Benjamin, born 1719. died 1775, was for many years manager of Wis- tar's Glass Works. 3. Andrew (2). see for- ward. 4. John, the only child of American birth, was born in Elsinborough, Salem county, New Jersey, April 23, 1684.

(II) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (I) and Isabella (Marshall) Thompson, was born in Parish Donard, Wickloe county, Ireland, No- vember 13, 1676, died 1727. He came to New Jersey with his parents in 1677. Like his father he was trusted in business and fre- quently an executor. He was left one-half the homestead by his father's will, and in 1710 purchased his brother William's half, thus becoming sole owner of the Elsinborough homestead farm. The title to this property was held in the Thompson family from 1680 until December 26, 1882, when David Allen Thompson, of Albany, New York, conveyed the same to J. Howard Subers, of Philadel- phia. It is believed that his first marriage was to Rebecca Pedrick, October 28, 1696. Children : Jonathan, born September 16, 1697; Hannah, January 12, 1699: Isabella, October 22, 1700: Andrew (3), February 2, 1704. The records of Salem Friends' meet- ings show that at a monthly meeting held January 25, 1706, he gave notice that he was to marry a wife belonging to the Darby ( Pennsylvania) meeting and desired a certifi- cate. The same records also show the fol- lowing children of Andrew and Grace Thompson: Thomas, born November 28, 1707; Sarah, February 8, 1709; Abraham, October 26, 1710: Joshua (see forward) ; Thomas, July 21, 1715: Rebecca, November 3. 1717 ; Abraham, May 27, 1721. Several of these children died before their father, as his will names only "dear and loving wife Grace," and children Andrew, Joshua, Han- nah Cook, Thomas, Sarah and Abraham. The inventory of his estate amounted to six hun- dred and one pounds twelve shillings, includ- ing bonds. bill and book accounts, two hun- dred and eighteen pounds eighteen shillings, old books. four pounds. a clock, and a negro woman valued at twenty-eight pounds.

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second wife Grace Thompson, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, February 2, 1713, died in 1789. He was a member of the So- ciety of Friends, an elder and leader of the Salem monthly meeting. It has been said of him "that he was an Israelite in whom there was no guile." December 17, 1761, he ad- vertised in the Pennsylvania Gasctte for a schoolmaster for himself and neighbors in the township of Elsinborough. His will, dated ninth month, twenty-second day, 1784, was probated January 10, 1790. He married (first) Sarah - Children: 1. Andrew, see forward. 2. Sarah, born December 24, 1742; she became second wife of William Hancock, a Friend, who, March 21, 1778, received a mortal wound at the massacre in his house at Hancock's bridge, Salem county, by the British soldiers under Colonel Charles S. Mawhood. Joshua Thompson married (second), Elizabeth Gibson, of Woodbury, New Jersey. Children : 3. Joshua (2), born June 8, 1748. 4. Rebecca (twin of Joshua). 5. John, April 7, 1752. 6. Joseph, March 26, 1756, died March 23, 1778, from wounds re- ceived at the Hancock's bridge massacre, pre- viously mentioned.

(IV) Andrew (3), son of Joshua and his first wife, Sarah Thompson, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, May 29, 1739, died August 15, 1782, "and was decently buried in Friends' burying place of Salem the 16th of same monthı." He married Grace, born Sep- tember 11. 1746, died January. 13, 1779, daughter of Sammuel and Grace Nicholson, of Elsinborough, Salem county. Children : Joshua (see forward) ; Sarah, born January 20, 1769. married Jacob Ware: Grace, born February 12, 1771, married Job Ware; Ra- chel, born May 7, 1773, married Benjamin Tindell ; Samuel N., born May 23, 1777, mar- ried Ann, daughter of Clement Hall.

(\') Joshua (2), eldest son of Andrew and Grace (Nicholson) Thompson, was born September 19, 1767, died June 22, 1806. Under the will of his grandfather, Joshua Thompson, he became owner of the Elsinbor- ough homestead farm when he reached legal age in 1788. He died intestate. in 1806. His real estate passed to his three minor children, subject to their mother's dower claim. He married, May 1, 1793, Rebecca Allen, born March 21, 1772, who survived him and mar- ried (second) Benjamin Griscom, to whom she bore two children, Beulah and George. She died August 24, 1853. aged eighty-one years. Children of Joshua and Rebecca ( Al- len ) Thompson : 1. Andrew (4), see forward. 2. Ann, born May 5, 1797, died March 26, · 1870; married (first) Caleb Lippincott, in

1826; (second) Joseph Bassett. 3. Dávid Allen, born June 4, 1803, died August 13, 1847, at Lockport, New York, unmarried.

(VI) Andrew (4), eldest son of Joshua (2) and Rebecca (Allen) Thompson, was born August 12, 1795, died August 11, 1869. He married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Gill) Abbott. The mar- riage was conducted under Friends' disci- pline, and the committee, April 27, 1818, re- ported that it was orderly accomplished. Child of first marriage: 1. Hannah Ann, born October 21. 1819, married, April 17, 1843. Elisha Bassett (2). died July 27. 1903; children : i. Rebecca, married, February 24, 1870, S. Preston Carpenter. ii. Henry, married Rebecca Lawrence; (second) Mrs. Mary Noble Lippincott. iii. Anna, mar- ried, November 6, 1901, William T. Hil- liard. iv. Clement. Two other children died in infancy. Andrew Thompson married (second), November 8, 1827, Ann Dallas Clark, born June 10, 1806, died July 7, 1839, daughter of John and Ann Elkinton, of Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. Children : 2. Joshua, born January 17, 1829, died June 11, 1887 ; married, March 11, 1852, Mary Jane Pan- coast ; children: i. Anne E., married Smith Bassett. ii. Sarah, married Smith Bassett (second wife). iii. Emma, married George Acton. iv. Andrew J., died young. v. Caro- line, died young. 3. John Elkinton, Septem- ber 10, 1830, died April 11, 1907; married, March 6, 1856, Mary C. Davis; children: i. Ella, married Samuel Griscom. ii. Mary Davis. iii. Elizabeth Davis, married Joseph L. Nicholson, M.D. 4. Clark Holmes, Sep- tember 7. 1832; married, January 1, 1857, Anna Test ; children : i. Hannah Bacon, mar- ried Frank Pettit. ii. Lucy Mulford, married Wyatt Acton. iii. Mariana, married Josiah Miller. iv. Elizabeth Holmes. v. Alice El- kinton, died young. vi. Cornelia, married Harry Finlaw. 5. Andrew; March 19, 1835, died February 16, 1909, unmarried. Andrew Thompson married (third), August 8, 1843, Mary Thompson Tyler, widow of Charles B. Harmer, of Greenwich, New Jersey, and daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Thompson) Tyler. Her mother, Ann, born May 8, 1787, died in 1818, was daughter of Butler and Ann Thompson of Allowaystown, New Jersey. Mary Thompson Tyler was born October 25, 1809, died September 15, 1907, at the great age of ninety-eight years. She married ( first) February 8. 1826, Charles B. Harmer, who. died February 8, - 1828. Their son, Charles. B. Harmer (2), was born April 15, 1828, died' September 21, 1907 ; he married Emeline Scat- tergood, and had children: i. Mary T., mar-

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ried Benjamin T. Walker. ii. Charles R., (2), unmarried. iii. J. Barton, married Julia Homer. iv. Susan S., married W. Harris Seltzer, and has sons George A., WV. Harris (2) and Frank Harmer. The children of Andrew Thompson and his third wife, Mary ( Tyler) Thompson Harmer, were: 6. David Allen, see forward. 7. Richard, born Febru- ary 6, 1846; married October 6, 1870, Eliza- beth W., daughter of Richard and Charlotte (Acton) Wistar ; children: i. Charlotte, born February 20, 1874, married October 25, 1904, George D. E. Mortimer. ii. David A., July 19, 1876. iii. Mary T., April 20, 1879. iv. Cornelias W., March 17, 1884. v. Caroline McIntyre, October 16, 1888. 8. Anne, No- vember 8, 1847; married, October 22, 1868, Louis M. Hall; children: i. Clement Har- wood, born April 12, 1870. ii. Frank Thomp- son, born August 23, 1872. iii. Walter, born February 1, 1878, married Frances T. Car- penter, October 19, 1909. 9. Rebecca, Au- gust 24, 1849; married, February 18, 1869, Clayton Wistar ; children : i. Richard Wyatt, February 7. 1870, married, October 25, 1899, Mary Acton Rumsey. ii. Arthur Thompson, November 1, 1886.

(VII) David Allen, sixth child of Andrew Thompson and edest son of his third wife, Mary Harmer, was born at Mannington, Salem county, New Jersey, May 29, 1844. He was educated at the Friends' school, Salem, New Jersey, and the Salem Academy, gradu- ating from the latter in 1864. He entered Haverford College, but after a year spent there entered Princeton University, where he was graduated A. B., 1868. Deciding upon the profession of law, he entered Albany Law school. where he was graduated in 1869, and was at once admitted to the New York bar. He became managing clerk for the law firm of Shepard and Stedman, Albany, New York. In 1871 he began practice in his own office, continuing alone until 1879, when the firm of Thompson & Andrews was founded, and as such did a successful law business. In 1885 a third partner was added, and the firm became Stedman, Thompson & Andrews. In 1896 Mr. Stedman withdrew and the firm re- verted to its former personnel, Thompson & Andrews, continuing until 1902, when it was dissolved. Since that year Mr. Thompson has continued in practice alone. He is a law- yer of high standing, and is highly regarded as a citizen. He is a trustee of the Home Savings Bank of Albany, the Mutual Insur- ance Company, and has other business in- terests. He is interested in church and ben- evolent work, serving as president of the Albany Orphan Asylum and of the Home for

Aged Men. He is a member of the Univer- sity Club. He is a writer of ability, and is deeply interested in historical and genealogi- cal research. It is to his painstaking and careful investigation that this history of the Thompsons of Salem county, New Jersey, is due, being compiled from his recent book (1910), "Andrew Thompson," "The Emigrant of Elsinborough, Salem county, New Jersey, and one line of his descendants." He mar- ried, October 4, 1871, Margaret, daughter of Dr. James and Caroline (McIntyre) Mc- Naughton, of Albany, New York. Children : I. James McNaughton, born November 17, 1872, died December 26, 1908. He married, November 12, 1902, Florence J. Jones. 2. Andrew (5), August 13, 1877, married, Jan- uary 25, 1908, Mary B. Easton. 3. Margaret, September 1, 1881.

IDE In the New England records this name is to be found under various spellings. In the earlier years it was Hyde or Hide, then Iyde, Ide, Iyd and Jyde. The last old country (doubtless English) an- cestor of the American Ide family under con- sideration was:

Nicholas Ide (or Hyde). He died early in the seventeenth century, leaving a son Nicho- las (2). The widow of Nicholas (I) after- ward married Thomas Bliss, of Belstone, near Okelhampton, Devonshire, England. The lat- ter belonged to a family of substantial farm- ers and landowners of Belstone, who by their adherence to Puritan views and opposition to the court and clergy, suffered persecution under Charles I., and were reluctantly com- pelled to emigrate to the New American colonies. Thomas Bliss emigrated to Amer- ica in 1636, taking with him his stepson, Nicholas Ide, his wife (formerly Mrs. Ide) and two or three children of his own. He joined an uncle at Braintree, near Boston, Massachusetts. In a year or two he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, then back again to Braintre in 1640. Religious dissensions arising in the Plymouth Church, Thomas Bliss left the place and settled at Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, where he shared in a distribution of land, June, 1644. Here Thomas Bliss, who was said to have been a blacksmith, lived until his death in 1649. In his will he men- tions, besides two sons and daughters, Nich- olas Ide as his son-in-law. This is meant of course to be stepson, as his half-sister could not have become his wife.

(I) Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (1) Idc, was born in England about 1624, died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, October 18, 1690. He came to America with his stepfather, ·

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Thomas Bliss, in 1636, and followed his wan- .derings until 1643, when they finally settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where Nicholas lived the remainder of his days. Rehoboth was noted even at that time as having been the home of William Blackstone, the first settler of Boston, Roger Williams, founder of Providence, Rhode Island, and Rev. Sam- uel Newman. Nicholas Ide (who signed his name lyde) first appears in the Rehoboth .records as drawing for land, April 9, 1645. He was then probably just of age, and we may reasonably place his birth date at 1624. He participated in other drawings and divi- sions in Rehoboth, becoming the owner of considerable land. He was admitted a free- .man in 1648. In 1652 he was fined £25 by the general court for selling a gun to an In- dian ; he pleaded inability to pay and the court in 1657 ordered that on payment of "the sum of five pounds in good wampum" the balance of the fine should be remitted. He was surveyor of the "Highwaies" of Reho- both in 1662-69-74. He was one of the com- mittee to settle the dispute with King Philip, the Indian chief. He is the only Ide that . appears in the list of freemen of New Plym- outh Colony in 1658-70. His wife was named Martha and bore him ten children: Nathaniel ; Mary, married Samuel Fuller ; John, served in King Philip's war; Nicholas (3), see forward; Martha, married Samuel Walker; Elizabeth; Timothy; Dorothy; Pa- tience, married Samuel Carpenter ; and Ex- perience. Mrs. Martha Ide was buried at Rehoboth, November 3, 1676. Nicholas Ide is buried in the same churchyard.

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 21

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 656

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 656