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Three of the descendants made unusual marriages. John Fessenden married Abigail Child, of Warren, Rhode Island, the daughter of Colonel Sylvester Child, who married Pris- cilla Bradford, a lineal descendant of Gover- nor Bradford of Plymouth. Lemuel Pierce married Eliza Mildeberger, whose mother was Mary Magdeline Colon, a descendant of Chris- topher Columbus. Joseph Lorenzo Locke married Laura J. Bulluck (January 4, 1843), who was born in Savannah, Georgia. Her paternal grandfather was the first colonial gov- ernor of Georgia, and her mother was de- scended from Sir John Allston, of South Caro- lina.
The Bible which belonged to William Locke is in black letter, and was undoubtedly printed before 1600. His death occurred at Woburn, Massachusetts, June 16, 1720. His wife died in 1716. The "Old Locke Place" is the property of a descendant. A "wing" of the original house is owned by the Historical Society of Woburn. The children were: I.
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William, born 1659; married (first) Sarah Whittmore, 1683, (second) Abigail Haywood. 2. John, born 1661 ; married Elizabeth Plymp- ton. 3. Joseph, born 1664; married (first) Mary - -, died 1707; married (second) Margaret Mead; married (third) Hannah Pierce, 1743. 4. Mary, born 1666; married Samuel Kendall. 5. Samuel, born 1669; mar- ried (first) Ruth -; married (second) Mary Day. 6. Ebenezer, of whom further. 7. James, born 1677 ; married Sarah Cutter. 8. Elizabeth, born 1681 ; married James Markam. All the above marriages were of Pilgrim or Puritan English. The children of William Locke Sr., were intelligent and educated peo- ple of their time. Many of their descendants had greater advantages and evidently em- braced them.
Lieutenant Ebenezer (2) Locke, son of William (1) Locke, was born in 1674. He was a prominent man in Woburn. A large estate with the homestead included was given him by his father. He was frequently elected to town offices, and was lieutenant of the Train Band. He married (first) Susannah Walker, 1697, daughter of Israel Walker, of Woburn, who died in 1699. One son by this marriage, Ebenezer, born 1699, married Mary Meriam, and is said to have fired the first shot at the battle of Lexington, where he resided .- He married (second) Hannah (3) Meads, 1701, born in 1676, whose father, Daniel (2) Meads, was a soldier in King Philip's Indian war. Vide "Bodges History." Children of Lieu- tenant Ebenezer Locke by second wife: I. Samuel, born in 1702; married Rebeckah Richardson in 1730. 2. Josiah, born 1705, died 1727 ; unmarried, a young man of educa- tion with a taste for poetry. 3. Joshua (3), of whom further. 4. Nathan, born 1713, diea 1723. 5. Hannah, born 1716; married, in 1739, Asa Richardson. Gabriel (1) Meads, Puritan, came over in 1630 with Sir Richard Saltonstall. Resided at Dorchester and Wa- tertown-Freeman 1638. The mother of Han- nah (3) Meads Locke was Hannah (3) War- ren, daughter of Daniel (2), born in England in 1628, in 1650 married Mary (2) (daughter of Ellis (1) Barron), Watertown-Freeman 1640. Selectman 1680 to 1692. Was in Pe- quot War and fight at Sudbury.
John (1) Warren, Watertown, married Margaret. Came over in 1630 with Sir Rich- ard Saltonstall. Selectman of Watertown 1636 to 1640. Puritan.
Ellis (1) Barron-Freeman, Watertown, 1640. Selectman, 1668. Wife, Grace, thought to be mother of all his children.
Joshua (3), son of Lieutenant Ebenezer Locke, was born August 21, 1709, at Woburn, Massachusetts. He married (first ) Hannah (5) Reade, in March, 1732, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas (4) and Sarah (4) (Sawyer) Reade, of Woburn, born 1687, and sister of James Reade who was a military officer of eminence in French and revolutionary war. In May, 1775, he was colonel of the second New Hampshire Regiment and held the rail-fence with John Stark at Bunker Hill. He was, on the recommendation of Washington, the first brigadier-general appointed by the provincial congress. He married (second) Tabitha Bel- lows, Boston, April, 1744, daughter of Dr. Isaac Bellows, of Southboro. Resided at Woburn, Westboro, Boston and Southboro. He sold land in Southboro in 1753, was on the alarm list in that town in 1757, and died there in 1767. No children by second wife. His children by Hannah Reade were: I. Joshua, born 1733; married Abigail Maynard. 2. Josiah, born 1735; married Persis Mathews. 3. Ebenezer, of whom further.
Ebenezer (4), son of Joshua Locke, was born in 1737 at Woburn. He was three years in the French war, and with General Winslow at Nova Scotia in 1755. Resided at Oxford. Rev. Army Records, Washington, D. C., cer- tify: Ebenezer Locke Sr., served in Captain John Wood's company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment. Invalid pensions in state of New Hampshire show Ebenezer Locke in Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and wounded in right thigh, and as fit for duty, vol. III., p. 345. He died September 24, 1812. He mar- ried, in 1759, Phoebe Mores. Their children were: 1. Mary, born 1761 ; married Thomas Laws. 2. Ebenezer, of whom further. 3. Allis, born 1769; married Nathaniel Ford. 4. Collins, born 1771; married Elizabeth Bur- roughs. 5. Rufus, born 1779: married Lydia Stebbins. 6. Nathan, married Hannah Good- now. 7. Edward Jewett, born 1778; married Rhoda Laws.
Ebenezer (5), son of Ebenezer Locke, was born 1763, in Ervingshire. After the revolu- tionary war he purchased land in Rockingham, Vermont, where he lived until his death in 1833. Naturally possessed of a good mind, much practical good sense and good habits, he reared a large family respectably, and accumu-
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lated a handsome property, and secured the respect and esteem of all who knew him. His revolutionary service reads: Ebenezer Locke Jr., served in Captain John Wood's company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment, 1775-1779, when he re-enlisted for three years-thirty months as private, three months as corporal. He began his soldier life at the age of twelve years. On February 6, 1783, he married (first) Hannah Gustin (Augustine) of Rockingham, Vermont, born in 1764, died in 1833. Children born at Rockingham, Vermont: I. John, born 1784; physician; married Hannah Gordon Clark, 1810. 2. Phoebe, married Fay. 3. Cyrus, of whom further. 4. Asa, born 1792; married Fanny Prentiss, 1815. 5. Albert, born 1795; married Phoebe Chafin, 1823. 6. Ran- dilla, married Nathaniel Walker, 1813. 7. Oren, born 1798; married (first) Catherine Tyler, 1823, married (second) Nancy Will- iams, 1841. 8. Lewis, born 1802; married Laura Darby, 1828. 9. Henry, born 1804; married Eliza Prentiss, 1827. He married (second) 1835, Mrs. Susan Campbell. No children.
Cyrus (6), son of Ebenezer Locke, was born April 14, 1789, at Rockingham, Vermont. He was a man of good principles and assured po- sition ; of influence in town and county, select- man and magistrate, president of orphans court eighteen years. Bountifully he was blessed in "basket and store" and being of a genial and hospitable disposition his home in "Old Town" was always filled to overflowing with the ever welcome guests. He married, January 14, 1812, Randilla (7), daughter of Captain William (6) Thayer, whose line was : Lieutenant William (5), William (4), Will- iam (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (I), and wife, Susannah (7) Lincoln, whose line was: Elkanah (6), Elkanah (5), Jonathan (4), Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Thomas (I). Their children were: I. Lucius Elliot, born November 30, 1812; married Louisa Blake. 2. Cyrus Henry, born 1814; married, 1841, Amelia Bailey. 3. Randilla, born 1816; mar- ried, 1836, George Marsh. 4. James Leonard, born 1819; married, 1842, Lavinia Russell. 5. Celina Thayer, born 1822; married, 1842, Charles Pierce Marsh. 6. Eliza Maria, born 1824; married, 1845, Isaac Glynn. 7. Martha Jane, born 1826; married, 1847, Thomas C. Wells. 8. Henry Thayer, born 1829; married, 1863, Jane Peterson. 9. Rollin Mallory, born 1832; married, 1858, Marcia Stone. 10. Al-
bert Emerson, born 1834; married, 1860, Emma Sackett. II. Abbie Louise, born 1837; married, 1859, Charles Pollard. 12. Rush Syl- vester, born 1839; married, 1861, Ellen Davis.
(The Reade Line).
Lieutenant Thomas (4) Reade was a prom- inent man. He was representative to the gen- eral court, and for many years connected with the Train Band of Woburn. Vide "Cutter's History of Woburn."
George (3) Reade, born in England in 1629, settled in Dorchester. Married, in 1652, Eliza- beth, daughter of Robert Jamison. See "His- tory of Dorchester."
William (2) Reade, son of Thomas (I) Reade, of Brocket Hall, Northumberland, England, and wife, Mary, came to New Eng- land in the "Defence," 1635, aged forty-eight years, with wife, Mabel Kendall, aged thirty years. The history of the Reade family has considerable account of him as identified with early history of Dorchester.
The Reades were among the reigning princes of Northumberland, Kent, Wessex and Mercia, and all seem to have been of the same blood and allied politically. Withred was king of Kent in the seventh century. Their seat was at Rede in the hundred of Merdinnie, now Marden. Here many of the kinsfolk by name of Reade resided. Sir Walter Scott in "Rokeby" alludes to a slab in Elsden Church which describes the family as having been seated in Redesdale nine hundred years. The Redes of the Cragg of Redesdale descended from the elder branch of Redes of Trough- end Redesdale, and until recent years held lands granted by the crown prior to the con- quest.
The original coat-of-arms of the Reades, described in heraldic terms, is "Azure; a griffin sergeant, or rampant, or clowed gules ;" this emblem was of great antiquity and was borne by Cerdicus (Cedric), the Saxon, when he landed in Britain. The crest was an eagle sable, with wings extended, beak and claws gold-the heraldic motto, "Avi Numerantur Avorum." (Translated: "They exhibit a long line of ancestors.") Two Saxon ealdormen, Cedric and son Cynric, founded in 495 a settle- ment on the coast of what is now Hampshire. That settlement grew into the kingdom of England. Twenty-four years after their first landing the two Saxon ealdormen deemed their position strong enough and their con-
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quests wide enough for them to assume the kingly title. Thus began the royal line of the West-Saxons, which became the royal line of England.
Joshua (3) Sawyer, born 1655, married, 1678, Sarah Potter. He was a soldier in King Philip's Indian war. Vide "Bodges History.'
Thomas (2) Sawyer, England, was at Lan- caster in 1644: was one of the first six set- tlers. He had before resided at Rowley. He married Mary, daughter of John Prescott. His first son, Thomas, was a captive among the Indians several years, and his second son, Ephraim, was killed by them in 1676.
John (1) Sawyer, born in England in the sixteenth century. He did not come to America.
(The Prescott Line).
The name of Prescott is of very ancient origin, and is composed of two Saxon words "Priest" and "Cottage." The ancestry has been traced back in the English records to Alfred the Great, and the earliest of the Saxon kings. It is certain that they belonged to the nobility of England. There is preserved by the descendants in this country (America) a family coat-of-arms, which was conferred upon one of the remote ancestors for his bravery, courage and successful enterprise as a man and military officer. This coat-of-arms must have been very old, as it was used by the Prescotts of Theobald Park, Hertford- shire, Barts, and by those of the ancient fam- ilies of that name in Lancashire and York- shire. Among the most marked traits of this race, which have remained the same in each succeeding generation for centuries, are inde- pendence and great force of character, execu- tive ability, integrity, tenacity of purpose, and quickness to think and act in emergency.
John Prescott, who sold his lands in Shev- ington, Lancashire, and wife, Mary Platt, who died in 1683, sailed for the Barbadoes, where he landed in 1638, and became an owner of lands there. In 1640 he came to Boston. He then settled in Watertown, where he had large grants of land allotted him. Like most of the early settlers in New England he left his home to escape the relentless religious persecutions in his native land. How much his coming meant to what was then a wilderness !
John Prescott was a pioneer of Lancaster, one of the most interesting and prominent of the early settlers of New England. (See History of Lancaster for above named). His
record as a sturdy pioneer is of greater value than any royal descent. Although the leading citizen of Lancaster he was for a quarter of a century without a vote or any voice in the government, not eligible even to serve on a jury. His brave stand for liberty, against the Puritan despotism should offset any Royal descent. (Boston Transcript).
From him have come ministers, scholars, statesmen, soldiers, and brave men and good women filling honorable places in their respec- tive communities-such men as "Prescott, the Historian" and "Prescott of Bunker Hill" are prominent figures in the line of his descend- ants.
When the "Prescott Memorial" was ready for press, it was withheld until the soldiers were "mustered out" at the close of the "Civil War." Three hundred and sixty of the names responded-also many of the Prescott an- cestry.
The first American ancestor of the Pres- cotts was of fine physique, forceful character, and brilliant mind; he was a remarkable per- sonage, and at once became an influential man in his adopted country.
(The Thayer Line).
"Tayer"; Thayer: The origin of the name is, as of all surnames, signified by the occupa- tion followed by the persons, or signified by the locality or some personal peculiarity.
Judge Horace Metcalf, who has examined the English law on the subject of the "Tayer" name spelled in the different ways in those re- ports (Thayer, Thear, Theyer, etc.) is of Ger- man origin, and in that language signifies an ox or a cow, or dealer in such. Consequently it seems probable that our ancestors took their surname from the continent, and it is syn- onymous with a bullock in the English lan- guage. We do also know that England was over run by the Danes and Saxons one thou- sand years ago, more or less, and the counties of Kent and Essex on the east coast of Eng- land passed into the possession of those ma- rauders composed of intruders from the op- posite coast. We next find a coat-of-arms conferred on Augustine Thayor, of Thaydone, a small village in the county of Essex, eighteen miles from London.
The Thayers when coming to this country chose their residence in Braintree, Massachu- setts. It has been a great pleasure to many of their descendants to trace back their pro-
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geniture in an uninterrupted series, to those who first landed on the unhospitable shores of New England, and it is not improbable that the arrival of the Puritan Fathers of New England will form a more memorable epoch in history than the Conquest of England does in that country, (and that posterity, a few centuries hence, will experience as much pleasure in tracing back its ancestry to the New England colonist as some of the English feel who are able to deduce their descent from the Norman).
Thomas ( 1 ) Tayer-Thayer was a shoemaker. He was a progenitor of a numerous offspring, by some said to be a distinct race from Rich- ard, but it is not positively known as to the facts. Both families settled in the same town (Braintree; Mass.) about the same time; and as intermarriage took place, it would make them relatives. He brought with him from England his wife, Margery Wheeler, and three sons : Thomas, Ferdinando, Shadrack, of whom further. Will recorded, 13th of Sep- tember, 1665. Good Puritan.
Shadrack (2), son of Thomas Thayer, died in 1678. He married (first) Mary Barrett, 1654, and settled in Braintree, Massachu- setts. She died in 1658. Child, Rachel, born 1655. Married (second) Deliverance (2), daughter of James (I) and Elizabeth Priest, of Boston and Weymouth. Died 1723, aged seventy-nine. Children : Freelove, born 1662, died 1662; Mary, born 1663; Timothy, born 1666; Samuel, born 1667; Ephraim; Hannah, born 1672: William, of whom further.
William (3), son of Shadrack Thayer, born in 1675. He married, in 1692, Hannah (3) (Hosmer) Heywood, a widow, dauglı- ter of James (2) Hosmer and wife Alice, and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. Chil- dren: Bethiah, born 1700; Jonathan, born 1703; William, of whom further ; Martha, born 1709. Thomas (1) Hosmer, father of James Hosmer, came from Hawkhurst, county Kent, England, in 1632, to Cambridge, Hartford, Connecticut, 1636. Representative. Died 1687, aged eighty-three. Wife Frances died 1675, age seventy-three.
William (4), son of William Thayer, was born 1705, died 1769. He married Abigail, daughter of John (3) Burt, of Buckley, Mas- sachusetts, 1729, died 1790, aged eighty-two. Resided in Old Taunton, Massachusetts Chil- dren : Jacob, born 1730; William, 1732; John, 1734; Abigail, 1737 ; Elijah, 1740; Sally, 1743.
John (3) Burt, 1671-1767, married Abigail, born 1673, daughter of William (1) Paull and wife Mary (3) Richmond; John (2), John (I), England. "Emery's History" of Taunton, P. 40I, says: "The Press Masters returned under their hands, that they impressed for his Majesties service, July 25, 1697, just as the afternoon meeting was done. (When the King of England and the king of France got mad and wouldn't play, then they went to war ; and the English provences were brought into the struggle, hence John (3) Burt, paid his fealty to his King.")
Richard (2) Burt, England, 1629-1685 : One of the purchasers of the "North Pur- chase" of Taunton, 1668, and of the "South Purchase", 1672. In King Philip's war, 1675. Married Charity, daughter of George Hall, who died 1711. Surveyor. Took oath of fidelity, 1657. Constable, 1667. Freeman, 1670.
Richard (1) Burt: One of the forty-six "First purchasers" of (Cohannet) Taunton of Massasoit, 1639. Advanced in years; name not in first military company 1643. Died pre- vious to 1647. Date of marriage and name of wife not given. Puritan English.
Lientenant William (5) Thayer, William (4), William (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (1), 1732-1779. A gentleman of landed estate, Taunton, Massachusetts. Ensign Fourth Taunton Company : Captain James (3) Leon- ard, Bristol county regiment : Colonel Sam- uel White, Mass. archives 99: 47, State House, Boston. Appointed lieutenant Fourth Taun- ton Company : Captain James Leonard, Third Regiment Bristol county, 1771. Mass. archives 99:47. "Also assisted in establishing Ameri- can Independence, while acting in capacity of lieutenant in New York, December, 1776, and at different times until he contracted small-pox and died." Emery's "History of Taunton," P. 452. He married, in 1763, a widow, Mary (5) Leonard (Tisdale) 1729-1814, daughter of Captain James (4) Leonard, of Taunton. Children : William, born 1764; Wealthy, 1766; Polly ; Lydia.
(The Lenerd, Leonard Line).
James (2), James (3), James (4), Mary (5).
Thomas (I) Leonard, Monmouth, England, was the English ancestor who never came to America, but who is enumerated in the Leon- ard Genealogy. James (2) Leonard, and
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brother Henry, were the first representatives of the family in this country, coming from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, England.
They were skilled "Iron Masters" and were interested in the first "Bloomerie" erected in New England, situated at Saugus. In 1651-52 they superintended the erection of the first foundry at Braintree, and in the same year they removed to Taunton and erected their own "bloomerie," which remained in opera- tion in the hands of Leonards and descend- ants until it was demolished in 1876. James Leonard, Sr., was one of the "Associates" of the North Purchase in 1668 of Philip. The price paid for this tract of land was "the full sume of one hundred pounds."
In 1695 two hundred acres of land were given the Leonards for another forge on the "Stony Brook" in the "North Division," and also the liberty to take their next division of one share in the North-Purchase lands "in the best iron-oare that they can find." They were also allowed the privilege of digging ore in any other man's land, for the use and benefit of said works, by "paying the owner of such land one shilling a tun for every tun of iron-oare they shall dig." At one colonial period they coined money for the realm; certain pieces are on exhibition at the present time in His- torical Hall, Taunton, Massachusetts.
By his wife, Margaret Martin, he had a large family of children : Thomas (3), James (3); Abigail (3), who married Jolin Kings- ley, of Milton; Rebecca (3), married Isaac Chapman, of Barnstable; Joseph (3) ; Ben- jamin (3) ; Hannah (3), married Isaac Dean ; Uriah (3). The two most distinguished were Thomas (3) and James (3).
Captain James (3) Leonard, 1643-1726, was like his father, a "Bloomer." He was select- man (one of the principal offices) of Taun- ton for many years ; representative to the gen- eral court of Massachusetts; first lieutenant in the first Military Company of Taunton, 1705; captain in 1713. Vide Emery's "His- tory of Taunton." By his three wives he had thirteen children.
He married (second) in 1675, Lydia, 1658- 1705, daughter of Anthony (1) Gulliver, born 1619 in England, died in Milton, 1706, and wife, Eleanor (2), daughter of Stephen (1) Kingsley, England and Dorchester, Massachu- setts, representative 1650 to general court ; re- moved to Braintree ; ordained "Ruling Elder" of the church, 1639: Representative 1666.
Names of children : Eunice (4), married Rich- ard Burt; Prudence (4), married Samuel Lewis, of Barnstable; Hannah (4), married John Crane; James (4), married Lydia, daughter of Jonathan Gulliver; Lydia (4), married William Britton; Stephen (4) ; Abi- gail (4), married Ezra Dean ; Seth (4) ; Sarah (4), married Henry Hodges; Elizabeth (4), married Captain Joseph Hall.
To show the manly and friendly side of James (2) and James (3) Leonard, I will quote from "Abbott's History:" "It is said that Philip had given orders that the town of Taunton should be spared until all the other towns in the Colony were destroyed."
"A family by the name of Leonard resided in Taunton, where they had erected the first forge which was established in the English colonies. Philip, though his usual residence was at Mount Hope, had a favorite summer resort at a place called 'Fowling Pond,' then within the limits of Taunton. In these excur- sions he had become acquainted with the Leon- ards. They had treated him and his followers with uniform kindness, repairing their guns, and supplying them with such tools as the In- dians highly prized. Philip had become ex- ceedingly attached to this family, and in grat- itude, at the commencement of the war, had given the strictest orders that the Indians should never injure a Leonard. Apprehend- ing that in a general assault upon the town his friends, the Leonards, might be exposed to danger, he spread the shield of his generous protection over the whole place."
"His extraordinary kindness to the Leonards, inducing him to avert calamities from a whole settlement, lest they, by some accident, might be injured develops magnanimity which is seldom paralleled." Francis Baylies "History of Taunton."
Captain James (4) Leonard, 1677-1764, was also a manufacturer of iron; selectman of the town for many years; representative to gen- eral court, 1708-1721, 1726-1733, 1735-1739, 1740. Plymouth and Massachusetts Colonial Records. Ensign, lieutenant, captain of Mili- tia Company, 1736. He married (first) 1699, Hannah (Walley) Stone, of Bristol, by whom he had Lieutenant James (5), born 1699, cap- tain and muster-master for Taunton in revo- lutionary war, died in 1793: Eliphalet, 1702- 1786, of Easton; Lydia, married Captain Thomas Cobb and were the parents of David Cobb, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts,
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general and aide to Washington in the revo- lutionary war, judge and member of congress, 1793-95; Sally, married Robert Treat Paine, "Signer of Declaration of Independence." The Daughters of the American Revolution Chap- ter of Taunton is named for "Lydia Cobb." He married (second) Lydia, widow of John Gulli- ver, of Milton, and daughter of Jonathan (2) Gulliver and wife, Mary Robinson, by whom he had Jonathan ; Mary (5), widow of Loved Tisdale, who married (second) Lieutenant William (5) Thayer; Elizabeth, married Joseph Harvey; Jerusha, married Abijah Hodges. Wife died previous to 1759. He married (third) Mercy -. "History of Norton," p. 85.
The Leonards claim descent from Lennard Lord Dacre, one of the most distinguished families in the United Kingdom, descended in two lines from Edward III., through two of his sons, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and Thomas Plantaganet, Duke of Gloucester. There appears to be ground for this claim from the fact that the arms of Lennerd and Lenord families are the same: Or, on a fesse gules (red) three fleur-de-lis of the first or field. Crest: Out of a ducal Coronet or, a Tiger's head argent. Motto: Pour-Bien-De- sirer. To wish well.
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