Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. III, Part 28

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 598


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Rev. Eliphalet Merrill married Miriam Green, whom he survived about a year and ten months. They were survived by six children.


EDWIN BARTLETT MERRILL, son of Rev. Eliphalet and Miriam (Green) Mer-


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rill, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Northwood, Rock- ingham county, New Hampshire, November 13, 1813. He located in the thriv- ing manufacturing town of Manchester, county-seat of Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, in early life, and died there November 14, 1884. He married, at Manchester, October 6, 1842, Laura Ann Spaulding, who was born at Mont- pelier, Vermont, May 12, 1814, died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 27, 1900.


Edward Spalding, the founder in America of the well-known Spaulding fam- ily of New England, to which Mrs. Merrill belonged, came to Virginia with Sit George Yeardley, governor and captain general of the Colony of Virginia, (1619- 27), in the ship "Gift", which arrived at Jamestown, April 19, 1619. He was a resident of Jamestown at the time of the Indian massacre of March 22, 1622, his name appearing on the list of the inhabitants, "living and dead" taken by executive order, February 16, 1623, to ascertain who had perished in, and who survived the massacre. The names of his wife Margaret and a son and daugh- ter also appeared on this list.


Edward Spalding was among those of the Virginia Colony on the James riv- er who assisted in founding the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Alexander Brown, in his Genesis of the United States, says, "After the Colony of South Virginia was established, many of the members of that company turned atten- tion northward", and "of the first forty-three members of His Majesty's Coun- cil of New England, at least thirty-nine had been instrumental in founding the Colony on James River, in Virginia."


The date of the migration of Edward Spalding and his family from Virginia to Massachusetts is not definitely known, but he was made a freeman of Brain- tree, Massachusetts, May 13, 1640, and the records of that town record the death of his wife Margaret in 1640, and the birth of his eldest son by his sec- ond wife Rachel, September 2, 1643. He was a petitioner for the division of the lands there, October 1, 1645, to the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was one of the founders and first proprietors of the town of Chelmsford, Middlesex county, in 1653, and was chosen as one of the select- men for that town at the first town meeting, held November 22, 1654; was re- elected 1656-60-61, and was prominent in the affairs of the town until near the time of his death, which occurred February 26, 1670. The land upon which he settled is now in the most populous part of the thriving city of Lowell. His will dated February 13, 1666, mentions his wife Rachel, and children, Benja- min, Joseph, Dinah and Andrew.


Andrew Spalding, the youngest son of Edward and Rachel Spalding, born at Braintree, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, November 18, 1652, was taken by his parents to the new settlement at Chelmsford, Middlesex county, when he was little more than a year old. He succeeded to the paternal estate in North Chelmsford, now the city of Lowell, and spent his whole life there. He was chosen deacon of the church and held that office until his death on May 5, 1713. The same office was subsequently held by his son, Andrew, and grandson, Ephraim Spalding. His will dated June 6, 1712, describes him as "Andrew Spalding, Senior of the Town of Chelmsford, County of Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, Yeoman". He married, April 30, 1674,


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Hannah, daughter of Henry Jefes, of Billerica, in the same county. She sur- vived him many years, dying January 21, 1730.


Andrew Spalding Jr., second son of Andrew and Hannah (Jefes) Spalding, was born in the town of Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, March 25, 1678, died there, November 7, 1753. He succeeded to a portion of the pa- ternal estate and was prominent in town affairs, filling the office of deacon of the church, and serving in various municipal capacities. He was also inter- ested in lands in Londonderry, New Hampshire, he and his wife Abigail con- veying a tract of land there to John Goffe by deed dated at Dunstable, Middle- sex county, Massachusetts, September 2, 1726. His will dated at Chelmsford, February 19, 1741-42, was probated in 1753. He married, February 5, 1701, Abigail Warren, who survived him and died May 12, 1768. They had twelve children.


James Spalding, ninth child of Andrew and Abigail (Warren) Spalding, was born at Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, October 7, 1714. He located at Westford in the same county, where he resided the greater part of his adult life, removing for a time to New Ipswich, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, but returning to Westford, where he died about 1790. He married (first) Anna -, who was admitted a member of the church at Westford, September 21, 1737, and died in that town, May 24, 170. He married (second), January 15, 1771, Mrs. Eunice Bennett, a widow, who survived him many years and died at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, March 12, 1812, at the age of nine- ty-five or ninety-six years.


James Spaulding, son of James and Anna Spalding, was born at Westford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, August 31, 1748. In early manhood he lo- cated for a time in Lyme, on the Connecticut river in Grafton county, New Hampshire, but a little later removed to the town of Ashburnham, in the northern part of Worcester county, Massachusetts, settling in the wilderness near the line of New Hampshire, about 1773. He was outside the town limits of Ashburnham, and was connected socially with New Ipswich, New Hamp- shire, where he paid his minister's and school rates, and participated with the church and school there. He was for sixty-five years a constant attendant of New Ipswich Church. When the Alarm of the Lexington fight spread on April 19, 1775, he marched with his company, under the command of Captain Samuel Stone in Colonel William Prescott's regiment, and was in the service under that alarm ten days. He served in the several engagements under Prescott during the campaign about Boston, and later, from February 21, to March 25, 1777, saw actual service in the company of Captain Philip Thomas, in Colonel Thomas Marshall's regiment. His wife and eldest son spent the afternoon of the Lex- ington and Concord fight on the summit of Watatic, from where they could see the smoke of the burning buildings and hear the boom of the British cannon. James Spaulding died at his home near New Ipswich, New Hampshire, June 8, 1832. He married (first) at Westford, Massachusetts, September 26, 1769, Hannah Barron, born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 17, 1747, died at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, September 4, 1814. He married (second) Abi- gail Wilkins, who survived him and died March 3, 1841.


Dr. Nathan Barron Spaulding, son of James and Hannah (Barron) Spauld- ing, was born at Ashburnham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, April 30,


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1780. He studied medicine with Dr. Asa Merritt, at Lempster, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, and began the practice of his profession at Randolph, Orange county, Vermont, where he was settled for a time, later practicing successively, in Montpelier and in Hardwick, Caledonia county, Vermont, but finally settling in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he died May 17, 1861. He married (first) at Brookfield, Orange county, Vermont, December 8, 1807, Sophia Fisk, born at Westminster, Windham county, Vermont, July 3, 1786, died at Hard- wick, Caledonia county, Vermont, February 4, 1844, daughter of Lieutenant Experience Fisk, of Westminster, Windham county, Vermont, a valiant sol- dier of the Revolution, and his wife, Mary (Earll) Fisk, and a descendant of Nathan Fiske, an early settler of Watertown, Massachusetts, whose ancestry in England is given below: Dr. Spaulding married (second) Sophia Hazeltine.


Lord Symond Fiske was Lord of the manor of Stadbaugh, Parish of Lax- field, county Suffolk, England, during the reigns of Henry IV and Henry VI, (1399-1422). His will is dated December 22, 1463, and was probated at Nor- wich, February 26, 1463-4. The old manor house of Stadbaugh, occupied by the Fiske family until the beginning of the eighteenth century, as rebuilt in the reign of Henry VIII, still stands and is in a good state of preservation. A John Smith who acquired it and the surrounding estate of about one hundred and twelve acres devised it to the town of Laxfield in 1715, for the use of a school for orphan boys, to which the rents of the estate are still applied. The old stone manor house standing about one mile from the village of Laxfield, where according to an old ballad "Prince Charlie came riding down to hunt the deer with his men", was evidently a grand one in its day. Cotton Mather refers to the estate as being the scene of many deeds of loyalty and highmind- edness. Lord Symond Fiske married (first) Susanna Smythe and (second) Katharine - -, who survived him and is mentioned in his will.


William Fiske, eldest son of Lord Symond and Susanna (Smythe) Fiske, was born at Stadbaugh, and died there about 1504. He married Joan Lynne, of Norfolk, who with five children survived him.


Simon Fiske, one of the sons of William and Joan (Lynne) Fiske, was born at Stadbaugh, and died there in 1538. His will dated July 10, 1536, and pro- bated June 13, 1538, requests that he be buried at the chancel end of the Church of All Saints, in Laxfield, next his father, his wife Elizabeth, and his seven children. He was survived by three children.


Simon Fiske, son of Simon and Elizabeth Fiske, was born at Laxfield, county Suffolk, and died there, leaving a will in which he leaves legacies to eleven minor children, and to his brother "Master John Fiske".


Robert Fiske, son of Simon Fiske, was born at Stadbaugh, about 1525, and lived for a time in the parish of St. James, South Elham. He and his family were Protestants, and at one time his wife and her sister were in great danger of martyrdom during the religious troubles in 1553-58, and were only saved by the intercession of some powerful nobles among their relatives. The family fled to Geneva, and returned to England after the death of Queen Mary. Rob- ert Fiske's will is dated April 10, 1590, and was probated July 28, 1600.


William Fiske, son of Robert Fiske, resided in Ditchingham, county Nor- folk. His will dated November 25, 1616, was probated May 17, 1623. He mar- ried (first) Anna, daughter of Robert Anstye; and (second) Alice


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Nathaniel Fiske, son of William Fiske, of Ditchingham, lived at Weybred, county Suffolk, and was the father of a son Nathaniel.


Nathaniel Fiske, son of Nathaniel Fiske, was born at Weybred, county Suf- folk. He married Dorothy Symonds, of Wendham, daughter of John Sym- onds. Tradition relates that Nathaniel Fiske started to accompany his son Nathan to New England, but died on board the ship during the voyage.


Nathan Fiske, the New England immigrant, son of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Symonds) Fiske, of county Suffolk, England, was born in Suffolk about 1615. He was a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1642, was admitted a freeman there May 10, 1643, made selectman of the town, in 1673, and died there June 21, 1676. His wife's name was Susanna.


Lieutenant Nathan Fiske, son of Nathan and Susanna Fiske, was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, October 17, 1642, died there October 11, 1694. The title of lieutenant, by which he appears on record, was doubtless acquired dur- ing King Philip's or other early Indian wars. He married Elizabeth Fry, about 1664, and their eldest child was born February 9, 1665. Elizabeth, the widow, died May 15, 1696.


William Fiske, son of Lieutenant Nathan and Elizabeth (Fry) Fiske, was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, November 10, 1678. He married, at Fram- ingham, Massachusetts, November 3, 1708, Eunice Jennings, born 1686, daugh- ter of Stephen and Hannah (Stanhope) Jennings, and in 1715 removed with his family to Willington, Connecticut, where William Fiske died, November 8, 1750. His widow, Eunice, married (second) January 3, 1754, William John- son.


Nathan Fisk, son of William and Eunice (Jennings) Fiske, was born in Willington, Connecticut, February 13, 1722. He married there, February 14, 1743, Eleanor Whitney, and in 1748 removed to Greenwich, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, settling in that part of Greenwich which was later incorporated as Enfield. He was town clerk of Greenwich, 1748-58.


Experience Fisk, first above mentioned, was a son of Nathan and Eleanor (Whitney) Fisk, and was born in Greenwich, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 19, 1755. He married, at Westminster, Windham county, Vermont, October 12, 1785, Mary Earll, born at Leicester, Worcester county, Massachu- setts, July 27, 1761, and settled at Westminster, Vermont. He was a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War, probably from the inception of the Revolutionary struggle, but no record of his services in the earlier years of the war has been obtained. His name appears as a corporal on the muster roll of the company of Captain Michael Gillson, in the battalion of Vermont Mili- tia commanded by Major Elkanah Day, dated at Westminster, Hampshire coun- ty, September 3, 1781. The detachment to which his company belonged marched in the alarm of October, 1780, one hundred and ten miles, and he is credited with eight days service on that alarm. Another record shows his service as a non-commissioned officer of Captain James Burk's company, or of Captain Michael Gillson's company, dated at Westminster, September 3, 1781, when those two companies marched in the alarm at Newberry in 1781. He was later lieutenant of Captain Benjamin Whitney's company, in Colonel Bradley's first regiment, Vermont Militia, his name appearing on the pay-rolls of the com- pany dated at Westminster, September 15 and 20, 1782, and June 18, 1784.


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The record further shows that Lieutenant Fisk and this company was "in the service of the State of Vermont, at Guilford and other adjacent parts in the county of Windham", from October 30, 1783, to March 1, 1784. During the later years of his life he resided at Brookfield, Worcester county, Massachu- setts, and died there, June 2, 1825.


Laura Ann Spaulding, who married Edwin Bartlett Merrill, at Manchester, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, October 6, 1842, was the eldest child of Dr. Nathan Barron Spaulding, by his first wife, Sophia Fisk, and was born at Montpelier, Vermont, May 12, 1814. She survived her husband and died, as before stated, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 27, 1900.


CHARLES WARREN MERRILL, son of Edwin Bartlett and Laura Ann (Spauld- ing) Merrill, was born in Manchester, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, July 7, 1849. He was educated at the high school of the city of Manchester, and at the close of his school days entered a book-store in Boston, Massachu- setts, where he remained for a few months and then entered the office of the Boston Agency of the Security Fire Insurance Company, 88 State street. He came to Philadelphia and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Fire Insur- ance Company in 1873, as a surveyor. He was promoted to the position of as- sistant secretary of the company in 1890, and filled that position until his re- tirement from active business pursuits in July, 1908. Mr. Merrill is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; of the New England So- ciety ; the Society of Founders and Patriots; the Colonial Society of America, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Society of the War of 1812.


Charles Warren Merrill married, September 11, 1877, Julia Frances (Husted) Peet, widow of Edward Butler Peet, of Philadelphia, and daughter of Hiram and Mary Ann (Truesdell) Husted, of New York. For the ancestry of Mrs. Charles W. Merrill see Peet Family, pages 1282 and 1283 in this work. They have no children.


Mrs. Merrill was born in the city of New York, September 17, 1844, and was married in that city, April 30, 1864, to her first husband, Edward Butler Peet, and had by him two sons, Walter Field Peet, and Edward Butler Peet, of the firm of Peet Brothers, manufacturers of hooks and eyes, 44 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, an account of whom and their paternal ancestry appears elsewhere in these volumes. Mrs. Merrill is a member of Philadelphia Chapter of Colonial Dames; Pennsylvania Society New England Women; The New Century Club; registrar of Independence Hall Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, and member of Emma Willard Alumni, Troy, New York; a mem- ber of Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and hereditary life member of the National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Washington, D. C.


CLEMENT WEAVER


The Weaver family was among the earliest settlers in Rhode Island, where the subject of this sketch was born. His ancestor in the eighth generation, Cle- ment Weaver, was a resident of that Province at least as early as 1655. He married Mary Freeborn, of a family long prominent in Rhode Island, and had among other children a son Thomas.


THOMAS WEAVER, son of Clement Weaver, married Mary - and had a son Benjamin.


BENJAMIN WEAVER, son of Thomas and Mary Weaver, married Hannah Coggeshall, of the well-known and prominent family of that name.


THOMAS WEAVER, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Coggeshall) Weaver, mar- ried Ann Mott and had a son Perry.


PERRY WEAVER, son of Thomas and Ann (Mott) Weaver, married Catharine Goddard and had a son Benjamin.


BENJAMIN WEAVER, son of Perry and Catharine (Goddard) Weaver, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born at Newport, Rhode Island, March 4, 1781, was one of the prominent and highly respected men of Newport in his day and generation. He became a member of the Newport Artillery Company in 1814, and in 1819 was first elected to the General Assembly of Rhode Island from that city, and served several terms with honor to himself and the district he represented. Removing to Middletown, he was a delegate to the State Constitu- tional Convention in 1834, and in 1837 was elected to represent Middletown in the General Assembly, in which he served until 1843. In 1844 he was a presi- dential elector for Rhode Island, and cast his vote for Henry Clay. In 1845 he was elected to the State Senate from the Middletown District, and served one term. He held many other important official positions, filled numerous semi- public trusts, and was a prominent figure in the politics of his native state for many years. He died May 11, 1863, universally honored and respected. A Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper closes an obituary notice of him in the words, "In all the relations of life he discharged his duties faithfully and well, and now, at a ripe old age, he has passed away from earth honored and respect- ed and much lamented by all who knew him".


Benjamin Weaver married, October 29, 1809, Hannah Spooner Briggs, born January 4, 1783, died October 9, 1847, daughter of Joseph Briggs, of New- port, Rhode Island, and his wife, Mary (Spooner) Briggs, granddaughter of Joseph Briggs, (born at Newport, January 4, 1720, died there in 1758), and his wife, Ruth (Coe) Briggs, whom he had married in 1745; great-granddaughter of Job and Mary Briggs ; great-great-granddaughter of John Briggs; and great- great-great-granddaughter of another John Briggs, who was admitted as a free- man of Newport, Rhode Island, October 1, 1648.


Joseph Briggs, father of Hannah Spooner (Briggs) Weaver, and great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, June 7. 1749. In May, 1775, he enlisted in Captain Jeremiah Olney's fourth


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company, in Colonel Daniel Hitchcock's regiment, one of the three regiments raised under the resolution of the Rhode Island Assembly of April 25, 1775, "to constitute an Army of Observation". These three regiments under Colonels Hitchcock, Mann and Church, were placed under General Nathaniel Greene, and marched to the relief of Boston, arriving at Jamaica Plains before June I, 1775. This command took a prominent part in the siege of Boston, as evi- denced by the correspondence of General Greene, the famous "Quaker Soldier of Rhode Island" as well as in the subsequent actions thereabouts. Joseph Briggs was subsequently engaged in the privateer service during a considerable period of the Revolutionary War. At the close of the war he returned to New- port and resumed his business there, that of a cooper, and was interested in a number of marine ventures from that port, residing there until his death, Oc- tober 5, 1830. He was a man of high character and sterling integrity, and served his townsmen in various positions of trust.


Joseph Briggs married, July 14, 1774, Mary Spooner, born at Newport, Rhode Island, December 28, 1747, died there, April 2, 1830, six months before her husband. Their son, George Briggs, born 1784, was a mariner and served in the privateer service during the second war with Great Britain. He was on board the brig "Rambler" when it was captured by the English, and was car- ried as a prisoner of war to Sierra Leone, where he suffered imprisonment for some months, and he died on the passage home, late in 1813.


William Spooner, great-grandfather of Mary (Spooner) Briggs, was a na- tive of England, and came to "Colchester, county Essex", Massachusetts, when a child. On March 27, 1637, he was indentured to John Holmes, of New Ply- mouth. He subsequently acquired considerable land in Plymouth and resided there until 1660, becoming a prominent figure in the colony. He was one of the purchasers of the lands at Dartmouth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, in 1652, and removed there with his family in 1660. He married (first) at Ply- mouth, Elizabeth Partridge, who died there, April 28, 1648. He married (sec- ond) about 1650, Hannah Pratt, by whom he had eight children.


Samuel Spooner, second child of William and Hannah (Pratt) Spooner, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, January 14, 1655, removed with his parents to Dartmouth, at the age of five years. He was one of the proprietors of Dart- mouth, was constable of the town, 1680-84, and filled a number of important trusts there, prior to his death in 1739. He married Experience Wing, born August 4, 1668, daughter of Daniel Wing, a member of the Society of Friends, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, who had come from England with his parents, and his second wife, Anna Ewer, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Learned) Ewer, whom he married in 1666.


Captain Wing Spooner, son of Samuel and Experience (Wing) Spooner, born at Dartmouth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, December 30, 1706, was a house carpenter for some years in New Bedford and vicinity, until about 1739, when he removed with his family to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was ad- mitted a freeman, September 27, 1739. He became a prominent architect and builder, and carried on a large contracting business in connection with his brother Daniel. Many of the buildings erected by them are still standing, nota- ble among them being the famous Redwood Library building. Wing Spooner was captain of Rhode Island Militia, and held many offices of trust and honor


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in that province and his adopted city of Newport. He died prior to 1774. He married, March 9, 1729, Deborah Church, great-granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church, of Plymouth, and Mary Spooner, who became the wife of Joseph Briggs, was one of their younger children, and Hannah Briggs, who became the wife of Benjamin Weaver, was the fourth child of the last- named couple.


Benjamin and Hannah Spooner (Briggs) Weaver, of Newport, Rhode Island, had three sons : Joseph Briggs Weaver, of whom presently. John G. Weaver, born November 25, 1813, a prominent business man of Newport, an alderman of the city, and its representative in the General Assembly for several years, etc. George Briggs Weaver, also a prominent merchant of Newport, born 1830, died 1879; and four daughters, only one of whom married.


JOSEPH BRIGGS WEAVER, eldest son of Benjamin and Hannah Spooner (Briggs) Weaver, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, November 7, 1810, died there, January 20, 1873. He was for many years engaged in the manu- facture of hats at Newport, and was prominent in the public affairs of that city and of his native state, first as a Whig, but uniting with the Republican par- ty at its organization. He long represented his ward in the council of the city of Newport, and that city in the General Assembly of Rhode Island, and was one of the most distinguished citizens of the city. In 1844 he abandoned the manufacturing business, and was for a time the owner and proprietor of the Atlantic House. He was later appointed inspector of customs of the port of Newport, and held that position until his death in 1873.


Joseph Briggs Weaver married, June 9, 1833, Abby Dyer Marsh, born July 27, 1811, died May 16, 1878, daughter of Benjamin and Fanny (Peterson) Marsh, of Newport, Rhode Island. They had seven children, the eldest of whom died in infancy. Those who survived were: Catharine Goddard Weaver, born March 21, 1835, who married, September 1, 1857, Joseph T. Bailey, Jr., of the firm of Bailey & Company, later Bailey, Banks & Biddle, the prominent firm of jewelers of Philadelphia, a son of Joseph T. and Mary (Potter) Bailey. Benjamin M. Weaver, born August 10, 1837, an architect of Newark, New Jer- sey. Charles Spooner Weaver, born March 24, 1840, died 1865, an officer of the Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, 1861-65. Mary Briggs Weaver, born Decem- ber 19, 1842, died August 26, 1847. Ann Lawton Weaver, born April 4, 1845. married Lieutenant Philip S. Chase, an officer of Burnside's Division, in the Army of the James, during the Civil War. Clement Weaver, the subject of this sketch.




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