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George Shattuck, youngest son of Giles and Nancy (Eggleston) Shattuck, born in Connecticut, November 26, 1836, also became a resident of Phila- delphia. He married, April 16, 1867, Caroline Mann Rowland, born August 19, 1844, daughter of Dr. Joseph T. Rowland, of Camden, New Jersey, who was born April 9, 1807. George Shattuck is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution; of the New England Society of Philadelphia ; and of other patriotic, charitable and benevolent associations. He is promi- nent in the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Ionic Lodge No. 94, Free and Accepted Masons, of Camden, New Jersey ; past high priest, of Si- loam Chapter, No. 19, Royal Arch Masons; past thrice illustrious master, Van Hook Council, No. 8, Royal and Select Masters, of Camden, New Jersey ; past recorder of Cyrene Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar, of Camden, New Jersey ; and past recorder of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite bodies, of Camden.
George and Caroline (Rowland) Shattuck had two children: Carrie Row- land Shattuck, born February 6, 1869, died March 16, 1869; Evelyn May Shattuck. born October 30, 1870.
FRANK RODMAN SHATTUCK, son of Francis Elliott Shattuck, was born in Philadelphia, February 19, 1864. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Philadelphia, graduating from the Central High School in 1881. He began the study of law in the office of Alexander P. Colesberry, and in 1883 entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with honors in 1885, and in the same year was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia Bar, where he has since practiced.
Mr. Shattuck is a member of the Colonial Society, and of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, being admitted to the latter on October 14, 1895, as a great-grandson of Private David Shattuck, (1758-1840) whose rec- ord as a Revolutionary soldier is given above.
He is also a member of the Art Club, University Club, Racquet Club, Phila- delphia Country Club, Huntingdon Valley Country Club, the New England Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Shattuck is a mem- ber of the Philadelphia Board of Law Examiners.
Frank Rodman Shattuck married, November 18, 1886, Ella Agnes Wood- ward, daughter of Thomas and Katharine (Martin) Woodward, of Philadelphia, and they had two children; Mildred Woodward Shattuck, born June 26, 1889, and Kathlyne Montgomery Shattuck, born May 22, 1895.
DANIEL SMITH NEWHALL
DANIEL SMITH NEWHALL, of Philadelphia, now filling the responsible posi- tion of purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, traces his descent, on the paternal side to early Puritan settlers of Massachusetts, and, on the maternal side, to actual passengers on the historic "Mayflower" in 1620.
THOMAS NEWHALL, with a brother Anthony, came from England and landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630. He soon after that date settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. His being one of the fifty families resident there in 1630. In the division of the public lands of the town of Lynn in 1638, he received as his allotment thirty acres, and he acquired other lands in Rumney Marsh and at Gaines Neck, which at his death on May 25, 1674, passed to his sons John and Thomas. His wife Mary, died September 25, 1665. Beside the two sons above mentioned, he had two daughters; Susanna, who married Richard Hav- en; and Mary, who married Thomas Brown. A sister Mary, the wife of Matthew Harrington, is also referred to in his will.
THOMAS NEWHALL (2), son of Thomas and Mary Newhall, in a deposition made November 10, 1683, in reference to the thirty acres laid out to his father in 1638, "now lying in the township of Redding," is referred to as "Aged about fifty years", which would indicate that he was born in Lynn. The depo- sition refers to the thirty acre tract as "in the woods" and having thereon "an olde dwelling House & olde Barn." Thomas Newhall is referred to in the records in 1675, as "Corporal" and later as an ensign, in which capacities he served during King Philip's War. He was buried at Lynn, April 1, 1687. The inventory of his estate shows him to have been possessed of land on the borders of Lynnfield, with a dwelling house, "Mault Mill, and Mault House." He married, December 29, 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Potter, of Lynn, a builder, living in Lynn as early as 1634, and who received sixty acres of land in the division of 1638. He had an interest in the iron works at Lynn in 1660, when he removed to Salem, giving his estate in Lynn to the two children by his first wife, Robert, and Elizabeth Potter, above mentioned. He died at Salem, October 18, 1677. His first wife, the mother of Elizabeth (Potter) Newhall, died January 26, 1659.
Elizabeth (Potter) Newhall died and was buried at Lynn, February 22, 1686-87. She and her husband were the parents of ten children.
THOMAS NEWHALL (3), son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Potter) Newhall, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, November 18, 1653. Like his father he was a soldier in King Philip's War, and was a lieutenant of the military company of the town of Malden, whither he removed on his marriage in 1674, receiving by deed of gift dated November 9, 1674, from his wife's grandfather, Joseph Hills, a tract of sixty acres at Malden, of which town he was selectman, 1700 to 1712. He died at Malden, July 3, 1728. He married in 1674, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Greene Jr., and his wife Rebecca Hills, and granddaugh- ter of Thomas Greene, who was born in Leicestershire, England, about 1606,
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and was one of the early settlers of Malden, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. He was a resident of Malden, October 28, 1651, when his wife and daughter presented a petition to the General Court, and was selectman of the town, 1653- 58-59. He died there, December 19, 1667. His first wife, Elizabeth, the moth- er of Thomas, Jr., whom he had married in England, died September 5, 1659.
Thomas Greene Jr., father of Rebecca (Greene) Newhall, was born in Eng- land in 1630, and died in Malden, February 13, 1671-72. He was admitted a freeman of that town, May 31, 1670. He married Rebecca Hills, daughter of Joseph and Rose Hills, and their eldest child was Rebecca, above mentioned, the wife of Thomas Newhall (3).
Joseph Hills, the maternal grandfather of Rebecca (Greene) Newhall, was baptized at the parish church of Great Burstead, Billericay, County Essex, England, March 3, 1602, and was a son of George and Mary Hills. He mar- ried at Billericay, July 22, 1624, Rose Clarke, and in 1629 removed to Malden, County Essex. He was a woolen draper and carried on a large business in woolen goods in London. He arrived in Boston July 25, 1638, on the ship. "Susan and Ellen", with his wife Rose and five children, bringing with him a large amount of woolen goods. He settled first in Charlestown, Massachusetts, residing in that part of the town, which became Malden in 1649, removing many years later to Newbury, where he died February 6, 1687-88. He was one of the most prominent able men of the Massachusetts Colony. He was a deputy to the General Court, or legislature of the Colony in 1646, was its Speaker in 1647, and continued one of the active members until 1669; was many years Governor's Assistant, or councillor, and one of the leading lawyers of the Province, being appointed to arrange the laws in 1650 and spent two years in codifying the various acts and arranging them into five "books of Laws". He was also at one time leader of the military company of Malden. His wife Rose, died March 24, 1649-50, and he was three times married there- after. He was totally blind for the last five years of his life and was exempted from taxation by act of General Court. He had nine children by his first wife, three by his second, Hannah (Smith) Mellowes, and four by the third, Eleanor Atkinson; none by his fourth, Ann Lant. Rebecca who became the wife of Thomas Greene above mentioned was the fifth child and was baptized at Malden, County Essex, England, April 20, 1634. She died at Malden, Massachusetts, May 25, 1726.
LIEUTENANT SAMUEL NEWHALL, seventh of the nine children of Thomas and Rebecca (Greene) Newhall, was born at Malden, Massachusetts, April 26, 1689, and died there, April 12, 1733. He married, December 3, 1713, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Sergeant, (born Barnstable, Massachusetts, April 18, 1663; died November 17, 1717) and his wife Mary Green, daughter of John Green; and granddaughter of John and Deborah (Hillier) Sergeant, of Barnstable. She was born at Malden, October 30, 1695.
COLONEL EZRA NEWHALL, the youngest of the nine children of Lieutenant Samuel and Sarah (Sergeant) Newhall, was born at Malden, Massachusetts, May 1, 1733, two weeks after the death of his father. On February 20, 1760, he was commissioned ensign in Colonel Timothy Ruggles' Massachusetts Regi- ment, in the company commanded by his brother Captain Joseph Newhall, of Newbury, and took part in the last French and Indian War. At the outbreak
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of the Revolutionary War, he was captain of a company of minutemen who marched from Lynn, Massachusetts, on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and he is said to have been the bearer of the message to Colonel Pickering giving infor- mation of the movement of the British troops toward Lexington. He became senior captain in Colonel Mansfield's regiment, stationed at "Winter Hill" during the siege of Boston, and was present at the evacuation of that city. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of major, and on May 17, 1777, to the position of lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, Continen- tal Line, of which he later became colonel, and served under General Rufus Putnam. He also served in the campaign against Burgoyne; was at Valley Forge and in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He was later stationed at West Point, New York, under General Heath, where he was at the close of the war. On the return of peace Colonel Ezra Newhall settled in Salem, Massachusetts, having previous to that time lived in Lynn. He was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue by President Washington, and held that position until his death, April 5, 1798. An obituary notice of him in the Salem Ga- zette of April 10, says of him. "He served his country in the late war with fidel- ity and honour, and in civil and domestic life the character of an honest man, faithful friend, tender husband and kind parent was conspicuous in him. So- ciety suffers a real loss by his death."
Colonel Ezra Newhall married (first), April 10, 1755, Sarah Fuller, born July 27, 1737, died May 4, 1777, daughter of Joseph and Eunice (Potter) Full- er, of Lynn, Massachusetts. He married (second), May 8, 1781, Alice (Breed) Gray, a daughter of Nathan and Mary (Bassett) Breed, of Lynn, born at Lynn, September 22, 1744, died at Lowell, Massachusetts, February 9, 1833. By the first wife he had eight children, and by the second, one child.
GILBERT NEWHALL, youngest child of Colonel Ezra Newhall, by his first wife, Sarah Fuller, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, October 10, 1775.
HENDRICK ELSWORTH PAINE
l'he Paine family is one of the oldest and most honored in this country, and has been equally distinguished in military and professional life. It furnished one signer to the Declaration, Robert Treat Paine. The Revolutionary ances- tor of Hendrick Elsworth Paine is Eleazer Paine, who enlisted as a drummer boy and saw Burgoyne surrender at Saratoga. The Paines are first mentioned in Bloomfield's "History of Norfolk County," printed in 1316. This shire was the earliest recorded seat of the family, which traces its ancestry to the an- cient Britons or Angles. The name has been spelled variously Pain, Payn, Paine, and Payne.
STEPHEN PAINE, the immigrant ancestor of the family, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in the year 1635. He was succeeded in the next four genera- tions by Stephen second, third and fourth.
STEPHEN PAINE (4) removed to Pomfret, Connecticut. He served in the Colonial Wars, fought at the battle of Louisburg, and was with Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham.
STEPHEN PAINE (5) was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, and was resi- dent there during the Revolutionary War. He served out two enlistments in Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Eighth Connecticut Regiment, Fifth Company, serving from July 10 to December 18, 1775. He married Lydia Cook.
ELEAZER PAINE, son of Stephen (5) and Lydia (Cook) Paine, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, February 17, 1764, and died at Painesville, Ohio, February 4, 1804. When but a lad of sixteen he entered in the Continental Army as a drummer boy and was with the army of General Gates at Saratoga. He entered in the Second Connecticut Regiment, July 5, 1780, and was dis- charged December 9, 1780. He continued in public life in Connecticut after the close of the war and held several important positions, among them that of colonel, being appointed in 1803 by Governor Trumbull. He married, at East Windsor, Connecticut, Auriel Elsworth, daughter of Job, born in East Wind- sor, in the year 1767, and died in Ohio, in 1844. The Elsworth family held a conspicuous position in the early history of Connecticut as well as in the na- tion, one reaching the honored position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Another became governor of Connecticut. The proposed admission of Ohio into the Union of States aroused in the breast of Colonel Paine a desire to possess some of the rich land that was being thrown open to settlement. In 1801 he traveled from East Windsor to northern Ohio where he purchased three thousand acres around the mouth of the Grand river. To this tract he removed with family in 1803, and founded what is now Paines- ville, Ohio. He was a surveyor and had high hopes of accomplishing a great deal in the new West, but death cut him down in February, 1804. He is buried on the banks of the Grand river.
COLONEL HENDRICK ELSWORTH PAINE, son of Eleazer and Auriel (Els- worth) Paine, was born at East Windsor, Connecticut, died at the age of nine-
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ty-three at Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois. In 1803, he was one of the family at Painesville, Ohio. He was the eldest of four sons and one daughter. He was fourteen years old when his father died, and at once succeeded him as the head of the family. The military instinct developed early in him and he joined all the military organizations of the neighborhood, and was promoted from one rank to another until he was commissioned colonel of a regiment. During the War of 1812 his regiment was called out and served for a time on the front between Sandusky and Detroit. He was the pioneer iron manufac- turer of northern Ohio and built the first forge for the making of bar iron ever built in that section, now one of the great iron and steel centres of the world. In 1809 Colonel Paine married Harriet Phelps, a member of the old and dis- tinguished Connecticut family of that name; five children were born to them: Henry, see forward, Elizabeth Elsworth, married Jamon Smith and moved to Illinois. General Eleazer A., inherited the Paine military ardor and at the age of eighteen received an appointment at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was graduated with honors four years later. He served on different stations for some years, then tiring of military life he resigned and took up the study of law. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he went to Spring- field, Illinois, and offered his services to Governor Richard Yates, who placed him in charge of the reception of recruits and their organization into companies and regiments, prior to dispatching them to the front. After eight regiments had been sent out he secured a commission as colonel of the Ninth Illinois and was in constant service until the close of the war. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general and commanded a division in the army of the Cum- berland. Barton F., emigrated to Nebraska where he died. He was a suc- cessful farmer. Hendrick E. at the outbreak of the War raised a company of volunteers in the neighborhood of Monmouth, Illinois, took it to the front saw travel and constant service all through the war and was mustered out at the close, with the rank of major. He located in Omaha, Nebraska, after the war, where he was for a time chief of police, resigning to enter the detective service of the Union Pacific Railroad, a connection only broken by Major Paine's death.
HENRY PAINE, eldest child of Col. Hendrick Elsworth and Harriet (Phelps) Paine, was born in Painesville, Ohio, February 4, 1810. He was educated in the common schools and at Eagleville Academy. He succeeded his father in the iron works and engaged in lumbering as well as farming. He possessed the entire confidence of the community, who three times elected him county com- missioner, an office he was holding at the time of his death. He had previously been county coroner and justice of the peace. He was also interested in military matters and held the rank of major. While in the twenty-fourth year of his age, Henry Paine married Harriet N. Tuttle, daughter of Ira and Cherry (Mills) Tuttle, of Ashtabula county, Ohio, whom he first met while a student at Eagleville Academy. She was a descendant of two old Connecticut families -Tuttle and Mills. She was most gifted by nature, gentle and womanly in all her ways, domestic and devoted to the rearing of her ten children, who grew to maturity, three sons and seven daughters, who in their latter years all "rose up and called her blessed." At the age of fifty-eight, Major Henry Paine met an accidental death. His wife Harriet N. (Tuttle) Paine, survived him eleven
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years and they rest side by side in the cemetery on the banks of the Grand river at Painesville, Ohio. Two of their twelve children died in infancy, the ten who grew to maturity are in the order of their birth: Elizabeth E., Auriel, Mary D., Charlotte I., Hendrick E., Ira T., Cherry M., Harriet N., Stella A., and Henry. These children were all living when the youngest had reached the age of forty-eight.
HENDRICK ELSWORTH PAINE, was the seventh child of Major Henry and Harriet N. Tuttle Paine, and the first born son. His early life was that of the average country boy. At the age of five he began attendance at the dis- trict school and made rapid progress. At the age of ten he availed himself of the library with which the state of Ohio then provided each school. These works, were mostly history and biography by able writers. For years young Paine stored his mind with these writings and learned of the great world be- yond his own vision. His surroundings were all anti-slavery, and when this became the one great issue before the American people, it found him a pro- nounced Abolitionist. When sixteen years of age he entered Madison Semi- nary near his home, but after one term enlisted in the army and marched away to the defense of his country. He had tried to enlist in 1861, when President Lincoln made his final call after the fall of Fort Sumter, but the government then did not need boys. One year later the need was greater and he was ac- cepted as a drummer boy in Company D, One Hundred and fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted for three years on July 31, 1862, but was discharged for physical disability at Gallatin, Tennessee, February 26, 1863. At the date of Mr. Paine's enlistment Bragg was invading Kentucky and the regiment was rushed to the front to reinforce General Buell, who was opposing him. The arduous campaign culminated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. In this battle the young drummer played a man's part. He brought off a wounded comrade from between the lines at the risk of his life, but notwith- standing the fearful risk and the heavy loss of life in the battle he escaped un- hurt. In the winter of 1862-63 while on the march from Kentucky to Tennes- see, Mr. Paine was attacked by measles, and was very ill. In order to save his life he was discharged and was sent home, which he reached, a mere skele- ton. After a year spent in regaining his health, Mr. Paine enlisted for one hundred days in Company E, One Hundred Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry. He served his full term and after receiving an honorable dis- charge went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania. For the next eighteen years he was actively engaged in drilling and operating oil wells and becoming an expert in all the details of the oil business. Step by step he rose until he was manager of some of the largest companies in the district and was also operating wells for his own account. In 1882 he sold his oil interests and retired from that business. In the year 1883 he located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the fire insurance business. In 1890 he admitted his son Ernest I., to the firm which is now H. E. Paine & Son. The firm do a general agency business that covers northeastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Paine has other lines of activity and is largely interested in several of the best known Scranton corporations. He is a Republican, but decidedly independent, often opposing in his party men whom he does not think worthy, and measures which he does not believe are for the public good. For several years he has represented his ward in the
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city council and keeps a keen eye on all public business. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, and a member of its board of deacons. He is a member of Griffin Post, Grand Army of the Republic, which has the distinction of having the largest membership of any Post of that order in Pennsylvania. He is a charter member of the New England Society and of the Sons of the Revolution, in both of which he is active and interested.
Hendrick E. Payne married, December 25, 1866, Jennie L. Powers, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Powers, of Perry, Ohio. They have one son, Ernest Ira Paine, born November 12, 1867. He is the junior member of the firm of H. E. Paine & Son, and has varied business interests. He is past master of Peter Williamson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Scranton, and a member of other fraternal institutions. He married, October 14, 1891, Nettie Moore, daughter of John and Fannie Moore, of Scranton. They have Harriet Eleanor and Arthur Ernest Paine.
THOMPSON RICHARD WINSHEIMER
MR. WINSHEIMER, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is a grandson of Michael Winsheimer, the founder of the family in America. He came from Nurem- berg, Germany, and landed in America, December 30, 1837, with his wife and family. They settled near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, but after a few years Michael removed to Indiana county, where he bought one hundred acres of woodland from the Holland Land Company at two dollars per acre. On this tract he settled, being one of the pioneers in that section. His purchase was part of the primeval forest, and abounded in immense trees of valuable kinds, and was the home of an abundance of the wild creatures of the forest. The tract was gradually cleared and brought under cultivation. Michael Winsheimer lived to be eighty-seven years of age, and his wife, Eliza- beth Karline, died at the age of ninety years. Their remains rest at the Five Point schoolhouse graveyard, north of the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Their children were: Lawrence, see forward; George; Margaret, married John Smith; Mary, married Augustus Vogel; Michael, Jr.
LAWRENCE WINSHEIMER, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Karline) Win- sheimer, was born near Nuremberg, Germany, June 1, 1817. He came to America with his parents in 1837, and with them settled in Westmoreland coun- ty, Pennsylvania, near Greensburg. When the family removed to Indiana coun- ty, Lawrence did not accompany them, but remained a resident of Westmore- land, until his death, October 28, 1905, a period of sixty-eight years four months twenty-seven days. He was a tailor by trade and for over forty years was in that business in Greensburg. He was always actively identified with the interests and progress of the town. He was a Democrat in politics, and was always very careful to have his vote recorded at each succeeding election. He was elected coroner of Westmoreland county for three successive terms, and at one election received the largest majority ever given a Democrat in the county, over five thousand. During his term of office as coroner he was at one time acting sheriff, owing to the technical disqualification of the sheriff-elect. He was elected mayor of Greensburg in 1872, and represented his ward in the. common council for several terms. He was constable for several terms, and precinct registrar of the second ward for ten years preceding his death, his suc- cessive elections being almost unanimous, such was the kindly feeling of his townsmen. He was an intelligent, exemplary, upright citizen, a lifelong mem- ber of the First Lutheran Church and for many years an official member of that congregation. He enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him and left behind, the record of a blameless life and an untarnished name.
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