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(IV) John, son of Henry and Deborah Al- den, was baptized in Dedham in 1704. His will was dated June 26, 1782, and in it he mentions his wife, sons John, Henry, Samuel, Thomas, daughters Jemima Pratt, Alice Ca- pron, Mary Paine, and granddaughter Lydia Smith. His son Silas executor. He married, November 26, 1728, Thankful, of Dedham, daughter of Samuel and Mercy Parker, and granddaughter of Samuel Parker. Children : 1. Jemima, 1730. (Did she die young and an- other Jemima marry Moses Pratt?) 2. John, 1731; married Mary Adams, of Medway. 3. Alice, 1733; married Jonathan Capron. 4. Henry, see forward. 5. Silas, 1736; married Margaret Capron. 6. Samuel, 1743 ; married Susannah Coller. 7. Moses, died young. 8. Moses, died young. 9. Thomas, married Polly Cheny. 10. Thankful. ( Did she marry a Smith and have a daughter Lydia?) II. Mary, mar- ried Samuel Paine. 12. Bethiah, died March 6, 1742-43.
(V) Henry, born November 27, 1734, died September 28, 1809. He married, March 25, 1762, Thankful, born July 22, 1731, daughter of John Parker, of Needham, whose direct an- cestors for three generations were also named John, and were respectively of Muddy River, Boston and England. Children: 1. William, sce forward. 2. Rebecca, born March 25, 1765. 3. Asa, born January 16, 1767, died May 10, 1769. 4. Mehitable. born March 23, 1769, Family tradition says that others died young, and the impression exists that this was the case with Rebecca and Mchitable also.
(VI) William, eldest child of Henry and Thankful (Parker) Alden, was born at Need- ham, July 1, 1763, and died at Calais, Ver- mont, September 27, 1842. He married Su- sanna, born December 9, 1766, died February 27, 1844, daughter of Jason and Elizabeth (Beal) Whitney. Jason Whitney was a sol- dier during the revolution and his line of de- scent is through Mark, Benjamin and John ; Elizabeth (Beal) Whitney is descended through Joseph, William and William. Chil- dren, all born in Needham: I. Isaac, see for- ward. 2. William, born August 22, 1791, died August 4, 1861; married (first), 1818, Ann
Fuller, who died in 1822; married (second), 1824, Elizabeth Bacon, and among their chil- dren was Charles, father of Annie Cutler, of Chelsea, Massachusetts. 3. Asa, born Septem- ber 25, 1794, was of Calais, Vermont : mar- ried, October 29, 1822, Avis Hammet Snow, sister of the wife of his brother Isaac; none of his children were married. 4. George, born in 1797, died in Eden, Vermont, November 27, 1846 ; married, 1826, Clarinda McIntyre : their children died without leaving descendants. 5. Elizabeth, born in 1802, married Isaac Ken- non, of Eden, Vermont, and had five children ; she died in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was living with her daughter, Mrs. Bas- sett, now also deceased, the latter leaving two sons, George M. and Arthur Bassett, both married and living in Worcester. 6. Hannah W., born in 1806, married Washington Fiske, of Hyde Park, Vermont, and had three chil- dren.
William Alden was a farmer, a mill owner and a manufacturer. He was in military serv- ice for a short time, then, being an invalid, he contributed money. A record of his serv- ice is to be found in the Year Book of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
(VII ) Isaac, eldest child of William and Su- sanna (Whitney) Alden, was born in Need- ham, Massachusetts, March 19, 1789, and died in Lewis, Essex county, New York, August 17, 1860. He was a farmer, saw and other mill owner, manufacturer of nails, and was engaged in a variety of business enterprises. He served during the war of 1812, and the musket which he used in that struggle is still in the family, but his war record has not been preserved. After his marriage he lived at Newton Upper Falls until between 1815 and 1817, when, with his wife and two sons, he re- moved to Calais, Vermont. His first wife died there, leaving an infant daughter, and he sub- sequently went to Essex county, New York, where he made his permanent home in Essex.
He married (first), 1813, Maria Stone, born in Newton, January 1, 1792, died in Calais, Vermont, February 1I, 1818. He married (second), August 30, 1818, HIannah Snow, of Montpelier, Vermont, born October 28, 1792, died in Sand Lake in 1869. (See Snow). Children by first marriage: 1. Edwin Augus- tus, born in Newton Upper Falls, March 10, 1814; married, September 18, 1848, Mary Elizabeth, born February 10, 1828, died No- vember 12, 1856, daughter of Dr. Ira Hay- ward, of Clintonville, New York ; children : i. Helen Maria, married Henry Nason, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. ii. George, born October 3, 1852, died unmarried. iii. Kate, born November 26, 1854; married Judge Lu-
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cius L. Sheddon, of Plattsburg. New York, and has: George, Shepard and Elizabeth. 2. Joseph Jackson, born in Newton, Massachu- setts, September 19, 1815. resided at Sand Lake and Troy, New York, and died in the latter city, in 1897; he married, July 27, 1842, at Troy, Sarah Waterman, born October 4, 1824, daughter of Captain Benjamin Mar- shall: children: i. Maria Stone, born May 29, 1844; married, June 1, 1864, Jonathan Al- den, and lived in Brooklyn, New York. ii. Marshall Benjamin, born November 27, 1846, died August 8, 1847. iii. Harry Marshall, born August 2, 1848, died in Troy, New York, in 1902: married, 1870, Julia Louise Bab- cock, and had two sons: George M. and Mar- shall MacClay. iv. Emma Hepsebeth, born March II. 1854, died January 26, 1890; she married, October 8, 1879. Frederick Carver, and had one child, Arthur. v. Mary Newcomb, born November 26, 1856, died February 18, 1886: she married, December 3, 1889, El- bridge Garret Stannard, and had one son: Alden. vi. Edward Marshall, born March 21, 1860, married, October 12, 1887, Helen Van Doren, of New York, and had: Gladys, Mil- dred and Marshall. Edward Marshall and Harry Marshall Alden carried on the grocery business left by their father, the firm having first been J. J. Alden, then J. J. Alden & Sons, and at present J. J. Alden's Sons. 3. Olive Maria, born at Calais, Vermont, August 4, 1817, was an infant when her mother died. and for some years her home was with her mother's family in Newton ; she married, Feb- ruary 2, 1840, in Lewis, New York, John James Knox, born October 26, 1815, died after 1854; children : i. Charles Lucius, born Sep- tember 1, 1841, was a soldier during the civil war; married in Nebraska. and died, leaving one daughter. ii. Ruby Emeline, born June 1, 1846; married Prouty, and had chil- dren. iii. Elizabeth Viola, born March 23, 1852, is living in Worcester, Massachusetts, unmarried. iv. Eliza Cornelia, born February 27, 1854; married Charles O. Prouty, lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has one son. Alden Knox. Children by second marriage : 4. Ruby Hammet, born March 18, 1821, lived in Wisconsin and Iowa, in which latter state both she and her husband died ; she married in Lewis, New York, August 20, 1845. David Swan Sykes: children, of whom all but the second are living in Iowa: i. Maria Jane, born in 1846, married - Benson. ii. Da- vid, born in 1848, married. iii. Horatio, born in 1854, married. iv. Mary, married. v. Charles Alonzo, married. 5. Emily Doane, born in Lewis, New York, December 18, 1824, is now deceased ; she married, Decem-
ber 29. 1841, Shubal Moses Coll, born in Westport, New York, January 20, 1821, also. deceased : children: i. Sarah Marshall, born November 30, 1842, died unmarried. ii. Mary Elizabeth, born February 11, 1845, is living in Leadville, Colorado. She married Willard Brown and has had four children. iii. Francis. Herbert, born December 23, 1846: is living in the West ; he married. iv. Isaac Levi, born February 20, 1852, died young. 6. Charles L., (see forward). 7. Avis Ellen, born Decem- ber 8, 1830; married, September 23, 1848, George Palmer Prescott, and lives in Albany,. New York; children: i. Richard, born Octo- ber 28, 1849, graduated from Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, and is now dead; married,. but left no children. ii. Anna Maria, born November 26, 1851, unmarried, and lives in. Albany, New York. iii. Alice, born January 15, 1854, died young. 8. Alonzo Isaac, born July 18, 1834, and died ; he was educated in the district schools of Keeseville and Wil- liams College, from which he was graduated in 1859, and was admitted to the bar. He entered the army, first as lieutenant of the Thirtieth Volunteers, New York, and was ad- vanced through the various ranks until he be- came colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty- ninth New York Volunteers. He was recom- mended for bravery by Brigadier-General Terry. After the war he became postmaster of Troy, New York, and a general in the- National Guard. He married, 1866, Charlotte- Dauchy, born February 20, 1845, and had chil- dren: i. Joseph Dauchy, married Clara Nie- brugge, and had : Marion. ii. Frederick Alonzo, graduated from Williams College and' Auburn Theological Seminary, and is living at Montrose, Pennsylvania : married and has children: Frederick Alonzo and Ruth. iii. Marion, died young.
(VIII) Charles L., son of Isaac and Han- nah (Snow) Alden, was born in Lewis, Essex county, New York, August 21, 1827, and died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, November. 1902. He was educated in the district schools of Westport and Lewis, Essex county, until 1843, and in the following year he went to- Oberlin College, Ohio, where he spent his freshman and sophomore years. Illness neces- sitated his return to Troy, New York, in 1848. and in 1849 he entered Williams College as a junior and was graduated in 1851. In 1852 he became a clerk in the law office of Hunt, Fairbanks & Gale in Albany, and was admit- ted to the bar in 1853. Two years later he was admitted as a member of the above-men- tioned firm, and in the same year Mr. Fair- banks retired, and the firm then practiced un- der the name of Gale & Alden. In 1884 Henry-
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King and Henry J. Speck entered the firm, the name being changed to Alden, King & Speck, and in 1890 Mr. John B. Gale removed from the city. Mr. Alden then practiced independ- ently, but retained the same offices with Messrs. King and Speck. Later he retired from active practice and removed to Dorches- ter. Massachusetts. His political affiliations were with the Democratic party until the civil war, and after that tronblous time he was a supporter of Republican principles. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity of Oberlin and Williams College, of the Ionic and Troy clubs, of Troy, New York, and treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church, of Troy, New York.
Mr. Alden was married, by Rev. John Mat- tocks, in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1, 1868, to Mary Langford Taylor, born in Westmore- land, Oneida county, New York, August 16, 1846. (See Taylor). Children : 1. Antoinette Spencer, married Theodore Pierpont, son of Theodore F. and Mary Augusta ( Pierpont) Barnum, and lives in Troy, New York ; one child, Mary Alden, born December 31, 1905. 2. Mary Curran, died at age of eight years. 3. John Gale, born 1878, died 1881. 4. Chloe Sweeting. born 1882, died 1883. 5. John Gale, born January 24, 1884; lives in Boston, Mas- sachusetts: he received his education in the "Troy Academy, Dorchester high school and Massachusetts Technical school ; he is a yacht broker and designer ; married, August 5, 1908, Helene, daughter of Richard and Harriet (Bray) Harvey, of Laurium, Michigan, and have one child: Harriet Harvey. 6. Lang- ford T., born in Troy, New York, January 7, 1887; was educated in Troy Academy, Dor- chester high school and Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute, from which he was graduated with the degree of civil engineer in 1909: he is now in the employ of the Mexican Northern railroad in northern Mexico. He married, at El Paso, Texas, November 19, 1910, Louise Howard, daughter of Richard B. and Alice (Greene ) Comstock ; she was born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, in 1887, and was gradu- ated from Smith College in 1908. 7. Charles 'Snow, born November 8, 1889; was educated in Troy Academy, the Naval Preparatory School, and is now (1911) in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary- land, a member of the class which will gradu- ate in 1912.
(The Snow Line).
(I) Nicholas Snow, immigrant ancestor. ·came in the second ship which carried the Pilgrims to this shore. He married Constance, "who came to this country in the "Mayflower,"
with her father, Stephen Hopkins. Nicholas and Constance Snow lived at Eastham.
(II ) Mark, eldest son of Nicholas and Con- stance ( Hopkins ) Snow, married Jane, daugh- ter of Governor Thomas and Mary (Collier) Prence, and granddaughter of William Col- lier. Among other children they had :
(III) Nicholas, who removed with his fam- ilv to Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1729, pos- sibly earlier. He married Lydia Shaw.
(IV) Jonathan, eldest son of Nicholas and Lydia (Shaw) Snow, married in Cape Cod. Thankful Freeman, whose line of descent is through Edmund, Major John to Edmund Freeman. Major John Freeman married Mary Prence, a granddaughter of Elder Brewster, of the "Mayflower." Jonathan Snow went with his father to Rochester, and died there. Among his children was:
(V) Mark, son of Jonathan and Thankful ( Freeman) Snow, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, and was in active service as a soldier during the revolution. He married ( first) Hannah, daughter of Paul and Charity (Whittredge) Sears, her paternal line being through two other Pauls to Richard, the im- migrant : through her grandmother Sears, she is descended from Major John Freeman, and through his wife from Elder Brewster. Mark Snow married (second) Susanna (West) Wheldon. Children by first marriage: Jona- than (see forward) : Mark; Paul; Edmond ; Charity and Thankful. By the second mar- riage: Loammi, afterward Loum, was a sea- captain from New Bedford, and some of his descendants are still there : Abner ; West ; and two daughters.
(VI) Jonathan, son of Mark and Hannah (Sears) Snow, went in 1791, with three oth- ers, from Rochester, Massachusetts, to Mont- pelier, Vermont, blazing their way. They then returned, married, and took their wives back with them to the new settlement. He mar- ried Lydia Hammet, of Long Plain, near New Bedford, Massachusetts, whose line of descent was through Barnabas, Micah, to Edward, the immigrant.
(VII) Hannah, eldest child of Jonathan and Lydia (Hammet) Snow, was born in 1792, the second white child born in Montpelier. She married Isaac Alden. ( Alden VII).
(The Taylor Line).
(I) Simon Taylor, great-grandfather of Mary Langford (Taylord) Alden, was a na- tive of Yorkshire, England, and came to this country in Burgoyne's army. He was in that army when it surrendered to the continental forces, in which were three great-grandfathers of Mrs. Alden-Silas Wickes, George Lang-
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ford and Nathaniel Sweeting. Simon Taylor was paroled and went to New England. At the close of the war England was able to take back less than one-half of her paroled soldiers, and he remained in hiding until the British forces had left. About 1800 he came to Thompkins. Cayuga county, where he died. He married Ruth Chappell, of New London, Connecticut, whose direct paternal ancestors were four Georges, and had a family of thir- teen children, among them being: Lucy, Mary, Henry, James, Richard Durfee, Simon, who died young, and others. The greater number of these married in central New York, then went farther west, some to Michigan, Wisconsin, California.
(II) James, son of Simon and Ruth ( Chap- pell) Taylor, was born in New London, Con- necticut, and died in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1880. His boyhood years were spent in Ca- yuga county, and he was admitted to the bar, served as judge. and lived in Penn Yan, New York, until 1856, when he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and after one year to Leaven- worth, Kansas, where he made his permanent home. He married Maria Wickes, born in Schaghticoke. Rensselaer county, New York, 1794, died in Leavenworth, Kansas. (See Wickes). Children: 1. James Wickes (see forward ). 2. Eliza, married Septimus Watkins, of Waterloo, New York: had three children ; there are few descendants, among them being Mrs. Melvin O. Hecker, of Leavenworth, Kansas. 3. Charles, died unmarried, in Penn Yan. 4. Henry, drowned in Canandaigua lake. 5. Harriet Newell, married Claudius Broughton Brace, of Victor and Penn Yan, New York, who died in Leavenworth : chil- dren: i. Maria Porter, married Major James P. Kimball, U. S. A., and has one child. ii. Kate Scott, married Lieutenant William Gil- patrick, U. S. N. iii. Walter is a mining en- gineer in Denver, Colorado: married and has children. iv. Charles, married, and lived in St. Louis, Missouri, now living in Arkansas. v. James Taylor, graduated from Cornell Uni- versity ; was a lawyer in Kansas City, whence he went to the Klondike and died there of ty- phoid fever.
(III) James Wickes, eldest child of James and Maria (Wickes) Taylor, was born in Yates county, New York, and died in Mani- toba, in 1893. He was educated in the schools of Penn Yan, then went to Hamilton College, from which he was graduated, and was in the same class as George Langford. who later became his brother-in-law. While at college he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He was admitted to the bar in the state of New York, then went to Cincin-
nati, Ohio, in 1842, and found he must study in a law office for one year before he could be permitted to practice in that state. He was a personal friend of Alphonsus Taft, father of President Taft, and of Salmon P. Chase, being a clerk in the office of the latter, and having a partnership offered him. At this time the new party was forming, and Mr. Taylor accepted the editorship of the Signal, a short-lived political paper. He wrote the letter nominating Zachary Taylor for the pres- idency. He was prominent in literature, as well as in politics, commenced a "History of Ohio," one volume of which was published, and was an active participant in the Ohio state convention. He resided in a number of cities in Ohio-Cincinnati, Sandusky. Cleve- land, Columbus-as editor of several papers and as a leader in political affairs. Until the civil war he was a Democrat, and after that a Republican or War Democrat. In July, 1856, he took his family, consisting at that time of his wife, four children, to St. Paul, Minnesota. He was accompanied by his fath- er and mother, his sister Harriet, her husband and two children. The climate was too rigor- ous for Mr. Brace and Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, and Mr. Brace took his family to Leaven- worth, Kansas, in 1857. Mr. Taylor was noted as an orator and scholar, and was greatly beloved. As an editor, he displayed exceptional ability, and at Washington he was a special commissioner of statistics of the great northwest territory, especially the Sas- katchewan Valley, until about 1869. He was then appointed as consul to Manitoba, where his death occurred. He excelled in tact and diplomacy, and his report of the "Rehl pro- ceedings to U. S. authorities, prevented severe friction between Great Britain and the U. S.," and Queen Victoria dictated a personal letter to him, thanking him for his efforts "for peace," and at his death the British flag. by her direction, was placed at halfmast on Wind- sor Castle.
Mr. Taylor married Chloe Langford, who was educated in the schools of Westmoreland and Utica, where her father was cashier of the Oneida Bank, and also at Miss Sheldon's Female Seminary, which was later known as Miss Jane. Kelly's School, and was burned in 1865. (See Langford). Children: 1. Mary Langford (see forward). 2. Helen Antoi- nette, born 1848, died 1850. 3. Alice, born in 1851 ; married Charles J. Monfort, of St. Paul, and died leaving one daughter, Alice, married John W. G. Dunn, and has two chil- dren. 4. Harriet Brace, born 1854, died 1880. 5. Elizabeth, born January 8, 1856: was a member of the Art Students' League, of New
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spent three winter months in Lansingburg "with relatives or friends," as the tradition goes. George Langford married in 1781, Abi- gail Elliott. (See Elliott). Children : I. James, died unmarried. 2. Charles, was a mechanical genius, but unsuccessful, and had to receive help from his father : he married and went west, and Judge William Langford, of Walla Walla, Washington, is one of his descendants. 3. George (see forward). 4. Abigail, died young. James Langford was dissipated. and his father was impoverished by him, so that in his old age he and his wife were given a comfortable home by their son George.
(IV) George, son of George and Abigail (Elliott) Langford, was born in Clinton, Oneida county, New York, and died in Utica. He lived for a time in Westmoreland, was one of the first organizers of Hecla Furnace. then removed to Utica, and was cashier of the Oneida Bank.
George Langford married, 1813. Chloe Sweeting. (See Sweeting). Children : 1. Mary. married Edward Curran, of Utica. New York : children: i. George Langford, married Cornelia Douglas, of Utica. ii. Major Henry Hastings, killed in battle of the Wilderness. iii. Philip, died unmarried. iv. Mary Lang- ford, married Willard Peck, of Hudson, New York, and had : Philip C., Darius E. and Mary Curran. v. John Elliott, married Lilla Mul- ford, and has: Henry Hastings, Gerald and Eleanor. 2. George, graduated from Hamil- ton College, went to Marshall, Michigan, where he died of malarial fever. 3. Philip, died in infancy. 4. Philip, married Mary Thomas : had one child, Fannie, who is liv- ing with her mother in California. 5. Chloe, ( see forward). 6. De Witt, deceased, married Mary Morrison, also deceased; children, all living in Vernon, Oneida county, New York: Mary M .. Helen D., George and Gertrude Chloe. 7. Abigail, died in St. Paul, Minne- sota ; married William R. Marshall, who died in Pasadena, California ; he served as major, colonel and general during the civil war, re- sided in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was gover- nor of that state two terms ; their only child, George, married Carolyn Rumbough, of Ash- ville, North Carolina, and he died leaving an only daughter, Alice. 8. Moreau, died un- married. 9. Marie Antoinette, married Wil- liam Austin, son of Joshua Austin and Electa (Dean ) Spencer, of Utica, New York ; they went to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1856, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Chil- dren : Sherwood Day, deceased: Charles Langford, married Margaret Clough. lives in St. Paul; Edward Curran, deceased ; William
Austin, married Lilly White. 10. Charles C., lived in Utica, and married Louise Penfield, of Catskill, New York ; children: Louise Pen- field, deceased: several others died young. Mrs. Langford is also dead. 11. Nathaniel P., went to St. Paul, Minnesota, 1856-57, then to Montana on the first overland expedition. He was the first white man to climb Mount Lang- ford, which was named in his honor. Later he was appointed bank examiner for the terri- tories, and was one of the early settlers of Helena, Montana. He returned to St. Paul, where he married (first) Emma Wheaton. (second Clara Wheaton. Has no living chil- dren. 12. Augustine G., went to St. Paul in 1856-57, and after a time to Pike's Peak. Colorado. After his marriage he settled in Denver, Colorado. He married Elizabeth Rob- ertson, of St. Paul, who returned to that city with her three boys after the death of her hus- band ; children, all married: Nathaniel, Wil- liam and George. 13. Harriet White, died in in fancy.
(\') Chloe, daughter of George and Chloe (Sweeting) Langford, was born in West- moreland, Oneida county, New York, and married. 1845, James Wickes Taylor. (Tay- lor III).
(The Elliott Line).
(I) Hon Andrew Elliott, the immigrant an- cestor. came from Somersetshire, England, and the members of his line were very tall, dark and swarthy. (II) William. (III) John.
(IV) Nathaniel Elliott was in Beverly, for a time in Woodstock, where his children were born, and later settled in Southampton. He was in active service in the French and Indian war, and while on his way to New York passed through Chesterfield, Massachusetts. He liked the region so much that he had land granted him in Narragansett township No. 4, and settled there, but went later to Southamp- ton, and settled in that part afterward set off to Westhampton. His death occurred just before the commencement of the revolution- ary war. He married (first) in Beverly, Abi- gail Edmonds, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain Ebenezer Edmonds. of Roxbury, who commanded a company at An- napolis Royal, and his sons settled in Wood- stock, Connecticut. He married (second) Elizabeth who came with her step- daughter Abigail to Oneida county New York. Among the children of Nathaniel Elliott were : I. Abigail (see forward). 2. Elizabeth, mar- ried Seth Hulburt and settled in Central New York. 3. John, was a soldier of the revolution and drew a pension : lived in Easthampton, and later removed to Ohio. 4. Francis, lived
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