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About 1650 he married Mary Butterworth, who was probably a daughter of John Butter- worth, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. She died August 29, 1714. Children: 1. Noah, born between October 26, 1651, and February 8, 1652, died March 2, 1699; married (first) Martha - -, who died February 6, 1675; married (second) December 6, 1677. Sarah Fitch. 2. Sampson, born probably in 1653; married, July 14, 1705, Abigail Ferris. 3. John, born between March 18 and May 12, 1655, died March 18, 1682; married, October 15, 1679, Content Wales. 4. Samuel, born February 12, 1656, died January 25, 1743: married (first) March 2, 1682, Elizabeth Miller, who died March 3, 1718; married ( sec- ond) November 4, 1718, Mrs. Lydia Tilling- hast. 5. Sarah, born February 15, 1657. 6. Mary, born February 7, 1659, died November 15, 1727; married, January 7. 1684, Ephraim Wheaton. 7. Joseph, born March 6, 1662, died May 19, 1748; married (first) March
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12, 1683, Anne Daggett; married (second) September 4, 1686, Lydia Bowen. 8. Bethiah, born October 15, 1665, died before 1712; mar- ried, May 23, 1688, John Wood. 9. Isaac, of whom further. IO. Pelatiah, born April I. 1669, died March 29, 1763 ; married, May 22, 1694, Hepsibeth Brooks; is said to have had three other wives. 11. Benjamin, born Octo- ber 20, 1670, died in August, 1740: married Ruth Rounds. 12 Thankful, born October 27, 1672 ; married, June 17, 1689, Thomas Bowen.
(II) Isaac, son of Sampson and Mary ( But- terworth) Mason, was born in Rehoboth, Mas- sachusetts, July 15, 1667, died January 25, 1741. He was a shoemaker by trade, and lived in Rehoboth for some years after his marriage. About 1706 he removed to Swansea, where he probably erected the house, still standing, which by tradition was his home. He was chosen deacon of the Second Church of Swan- sea soon after its organization, in 1693, and continued in that office until his death. His wife Hannah was living when he made his will in 1741, but the date of her death is un- known. He married Hannah Chil- dren : 1. Hannah, born January 9, 1694, died February 26, 1697. 2. Mary, born January 26, 1695, died March 4, 1697. 3. Isaac, born December 26, 1698, died in 1732; married, January 29, 1723, Mary Fiske. 4. Sampson, born February 24, 1700, died probably in 1731 ; married, September 26, 1723, Experience Lewis. 5. Hezekiah, born June 6, 1704, died April 4, 1738; married, July 23, 1730, Rebecca Martin. 6. Nathan, of whom further. 7. Oliver, born August 20, 1706, died December II, 1787 ; married, December 19, 1728, Martha Cole. 8. Hannah, born March, 1710; married, December 27, 1727, Samuel Lewis. 9. Benja- min, born April 10, 1711. 10. Mary, born May 21, 1713; married, December 18, 1737, Nathan Bowen.
(III) Nathan, son of Isaac and Hannah Mason, was born in Rehoboth, May 10, 1705, died May, 1758. He was a blacksmith, and lived in Swansea during the greater part of his life. He married, August 26, 1731, Lillis Hale, daughter of John and Hannah (Tillinghast) Hale, born in Swansea, October 2, 1714. After his death, Mr. Mason's widow married, Janu- ary 30, 1763, Mial Pierce. Children : 1. Samp- son, born September 27, 1732, died September 29, 1811; married, August 5, 1751, Hannah Haile. 2. Barnard, born March 13, 1735, died December 6, 1804; married, July 22, 1756,
Abiah Eastbrook. 3. Jesse, of whom further. 4. Lillis, born May 8, 1739; married, March 16, 1764, Isaac Fish Jr. 5. Nathan, born Feb- ruary 21, 1741 ; married (first) March 7, 1765, Mehitable Carpenter; (second) Mrs. Rhode Mason, widow of James Mason and daughter of Nathan Wood. 6. Freelove, born April 25, 1743, died February 23, 1814; married, March 23, 1763, Aaron Wood. 7. Innocent, born Au- gust 20, 1745, died in 1778; married, Decem- ber 2, 1767, Benjamin Kingsley. 8. Mary, born June 30, 1748, died December 17, 1834; married, October 8, 1769, Joseph Cornell. 9. Aaron, born June 29, 1749; served in militia during the revolution. IO. Rosanna, born about 1750, died March 10, 1795; married, July 14, 1776, Joseph Baker. 11. Sibbel, mar- ried Levi Wood. 12. Levi, born October 15, 1752, died August 20, 1834 ; married Amy Til- son. 13. Pardon, born August 14, 1758, died May 18, 1845 ; married (first) April 24, 1785, Anna Hale; married (second) September. 24, 1837, Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, daughter of John Stafford.
(IV) Jesse, son of Nathan and Lillis (Hale) Mason, was born in Swansea, Massa- chusetts, March 21, 1737, died October 17, 1823. He was a carpenter by trade. About 1770 he removed to Lanesborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts. He served in the revolution- ary war as a private in Captain Daniel Brown's company. The company was called into serv- ice, August 14, 1777, on an alarm from Lanes- borough, Massachusetts, and fought at the battle of Bennington. He served a second time in Captain Daniel Brown's company, Colonel Benjamin Simon's regiment, in Octo- ber, 1780. The company rendered service at Berkshire, Massachusetts.
He married, March 22, 1758, Lois Mason, daughter of Pelatiah and Hannah (Hale) Ma- son, born in Swansea, February 23, 1739. He is said to have married (second) in 1813, Mrs. Pratt. Children : I. Esther, born October 17, 1759; married Simeon Martin. 2. David, of whom further. 3. Nathan, born August 8, 1762, died in Malone, New York; married, January 1, 1784, Mercy Wood. 4. Elizabeth, born October 1, 1763. 5. Lydia, born July 4, 1765, died September 17, 1812; married, De- cember, 1782, Reuben Baker. 6. Zephaniah, born August 29, 1766; married, November 12, 1786, Desire Cole. 7. Daniel, born March 26, 1769, died in 1838; married, November 14, 1788, (possibly) Polly Whitman. 8. Pru-
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dence, born July 26, 1770; married, December 22, 1787, Kingsley Martin: 9. Reuben. 10. Lorana, married, August 1, 1789, Stephen Potter. 11. Jesse, born July 24, 1778, died about 1854; married, May 25, 1800, Hannah Brown. 12. Lois, married Stephen Greenman.
(V) David, son of Jesse and Lois (Mason) Mason, was born in Swansea, Massachusetts, April 5, 1761, died March 16, 1817. The fam- ily settled in New Ashford, Massachusetts. He married, November 19, 1780, Mehitable Pratt, born September 11, 1762, died in March, 1852. Children: 1. Linda, born August 28, 1781 ; married, January, 1799, Eliphalet Dean. 2. Benjamin Pratt, mentioned below. 3. Lewis, born May 3, 1785, died September 17, 1786. 4. Jesse, born April 25, 1786. 5. Ar- villa, born September 4, 1789; married Wil- liam Beach. 6. Mehitable, born August 23, 1791 ; married, March 21, 1811, Dudley Skin- ner. 7. Achsah G., born March 24, 1793; married, October 31. 1816, Elisha Davenport. 8. Polly, born March 25, 1795; married, De- cember 20, 1815, Julius Hutchinson. 9. Jerusha H., born April 17, 1797 ; married, May 5, 1816, Samuel Springer. 10. Lewis T., born August 14, 1799, died unmarried. 11. John Luther, born January 9, 1801. 12. Electa Beach, born October 30, 1804; married Asa Skinner. 13. Henry Turner, born July 20, 1807, died September 20, 1873, unmarried.
(VI) Benjamin Pratt, son of David and Mehitable (Pratt) Mason, was born April 23, 1783, died in 1867. He married, in 1805, Rhoda Brown, born in 1785, died December 24, 1846. Among their children was Augustus C., of whom further.
(VII) Augustus C., son of Benjamin Pratt and Rhoda (Brown) Mason, was born in Sep- tember, 1817, died May 26, 1895. He lived for a number of years in Buffalo, New York, and then removed to Salamanca, New York, where he was engaged in the real estate busi- ness. He married, January 1, 1837, Charlotte Riddell, born January 20, 1820, died in Febru- ary, 1895 (see Riddell III). Children: I. Albert Woodford, born in November, 1844; married Desdemonia Smith ; children : Alber- tina, married George Eastman ; May, married Frank Gardner. 2. Olive Jane, born October, 1847; married Timothy Babbitt; children : Timothy and Jennie M. 3. Perry Foster, born July, 1850; married (first) Evelyn Wilcox, by whom he had one son, Wayne; married (second) Lucy Chamberlain. 4. James Au-
gustus, born May, 1853; married Catherine Wright ; children : Verne, Guy, Emma and Ada. 5. Charlotte Idelle, born November 12, 1855 ; married Charles M. Wenrick ; children : Raymond M., Charles M., Albert, Earl, Olive E. and Charlotte M. 6. Zaidee Lenore, born August 12, 1860, died January 4, 1913, mar- ried Hosea Monroe Nichols (see Nichols III).
(The Riddell Line).
(I) Thomas Ridel (or Riddell) was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1739. He was brought to this country when a child and grew up in New England. He was a farmer. It is said that he served in the war of the revolu- tion. He married Rebecca Moulton, of Mon- son, Massachusetts. Children: 1. John, born 1761 ; married Olive Blodget. 2. Joseph, of whom further. 3. Elijah, born January 27, 1772; married Clarissa Fuller. 4. Mary. 5. Susan, born between 1772 and 1773; married John Squires. 6. Sally, born February 16, 1774. 7. Sally, born February 16, 1778; mar- ried Levi Patterson. 8. Thomas, born Sep- tember 7, 1781 ; married Minerva Merrick.
(II) Joseph Riddle (or Riddell), son of Thomas and Rebecca (Moulton) Ridel or Rid- dell, was born in Monson, Massachusetts, in 1763. He resided in Monson until 1808, when he emigrated to the "Holland Purchase" in the state of New York, where he settled as a farmer and resided during the remainder of his lifetime. In the summer of 1775 he en- listed under Captain Isaac Cotton, in Colonel David Brewster's regiment. In 1776 he en- listed under Captain Joseph Munger, in the regiment of Colonel Robert I. Woodbridge, "Massachusetts Line." July 1, 1777, he enter- ed the service for three years under Captain Caleb Keen, and Colonel William Shepherd, of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Gen- eral Glover's brigade, as drum-major; and in July, 1780, was discharged by Captain Simon Larned, who was in command of the regiment at "Robertson Farms," near West Point. He was in a short tour in the militia and at the surrender of Burgoyne, but was not in the decisive battle preceding that event, in conse- quence of guarding the road to Albany. He was in the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, June 28, 1778, and with General Sullivan, in Rhode Island, in August, 1778. He married Mary or Polly Children : I. Rebecca, born March 10, 1782; married Thomas Broad- way. 2. Polly, born August 1, 1784; married
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Daniel Moulton. 3. Lina, born June 1, 1786; married Maturin Allard. 4. Charlotte, born June 8, 1788; married James McKain. 5. Orrin, born May 18, 1790; married Bertha Chaffe. 6. Freeborn Moulton, of whom fur- ther.
(III) Freeborn Moulton Riddell, son of Jo- seph and Mary Riddle or Riddell, was born in Monson, Massachusetts, September 18, 1793, died March 12, 1877. He was a farmer by occupation. He married (first) Abigail Chaffe, of Alexander, New York. She died March 15, 1829. He married (second) Sarah Smith, of Batavia, Genesee county, New York. He married (third) Jemima Baston. Child by first marriage: Charlotte Riddell, born Janu- ary 20, 1820, died in February, 1895 ; she mar- ried, January 1, 1837, Augustus C. Mason (see Mason VII).
The Hull family are recorded HULL in the "Heralds Distinction" of Devonshire, England, but the orig- inal name, De la Hulle, in Shropshire, in the reign of Edward II., indicates they went from the continent to England. Shortly after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, five brothers came to Massachusetts from England: John, George, Richard, Joseph and Robert. The family in England bore arms: "A chevron ermine, between the lions or talbots, heads erased."
(I) Rev. Joseph Hull was born in England, 1595, and matriculated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, May 12, 1612, and became a B. A., November 14, 1614, being then nineteen years of age. He was instituted rector of North- leigh in 1621, resigned in 1632 and in 1635 with a second wife Agnes, seven children and three servants, and a company of people he had collected, sailed for America. He settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, but a year later went to Hingham. He was afterwards minis- ter at the Isle of Shoals, York, Oyster River, and again at the Isle of Shoals, where he died November 19, 1675, and is buried at York, Massachusetts.
(II) Captain Tristam Hull, son of Rev. Joseph Hull, was born in 1624, died in 1666. He was a seafaring man and became a sea cap- tain. He was a selectman of Bristol and served on numerous committees. He owned two ships and lands constituting a comfortable fortune for that day. He married Blanche
(III) John, son of Captain Tristam Hull,
was a resident of Canonicut, Massachusetts. He held many positions of trust and was representative in 1757. He married a Miss Cary.
(IV) Oliver, son of John Hull, settled in New York City with his wife, Penelope (Pfones) Hull, a few years before the revolu- tion. Though members of the Society of Friends they took an active but quiet part, and aided the efforts of the Quakers to mitigate the sufferings of the American prisoners dur- ing the time the British held possession of New York.
(V) John (2), son of Oliver Hull, was born in Canonicut, Massachusetts, August II, 1762. He came to New York with his father, where in 1781 he married (first) Mary Avery, who died in 1802, in Dutchess county, New York, where they moved in 1800. He married (sec- ond) November 23, 1803, Amy Cornell.
(VI) John (3), son of John (2) Hull, was born about 1800, died in Warren, Pennsyl- vania, August, 1873. He was born in Dutch- ess county, New York, and lived in New Jer- sey, where his marriage occurred. He came to Warren, Pennsylvania, during the decade 1840-50, where he engaged in general merchan- dising. Later he became proprietor of the old Warren House, built in 1819. In 1848 he began the erection of the Carver House, which he opened for the entertainment of guests in 1849. This has always been the leading hotel of Warren. Mr. Hull was its proprietor from 1849 until January 1, 1857, when he leased it, but again resumed its management in 1859, continuing until 1864. The following year his son, Milton W., became its proprietor, con- tinuing until 1867, when it passed out of the controls of the Hulls. Mr. Hull was one of the leading men in the development of War- ren, and was influential in public affairs. In 1853 he was elected borough councilman (his son Milton W. being elected chief burgess the same year) and was reelected 1854-55-56-57- 58-62-63-65-66-67-68-69-70-71-72-73, dying in the office in August of that year. He was an able, honorable gentleman and held in the high- est regard. He was a member of the Masonic order, holding a high position, and an Odd Fellow of prominence. He married Nancy Gibbs. Children : Cindrella, married Charles Holman; Theodore, married Jemima Mc- Gowan ; Matilda, married Julius Hall; Milton W., of whom further; Morris, died young while attending school at West Point ; Cynthia,
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married Mckinney Mead; Annie E., married Edward E. Mooar.
(VII) Milton W., son of John (3) Hull, was born in New Jersey, died in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and is buried in Warren. He came to Warren, Pennsylvania, with his father and was his assistant in business and his contemporary in public affairs, both work- ing in harmony for the public good. He be- came proprietor of the Carver House in War- ren, June 1, 1865, in association with J. B. Hall, continuing until April, 1867. He then engaged in the oil business and became one of the successful producers of his section. In 1853 he was elected chief burgess of Warren, and in 1856 was elected councilman, reelected 1857-64-65; with the exception of the year 1864 his father was also a member of council. He was one of the early volunteer firemen of Warren, being a charter member of Vulcan Fire Company, No. I, organized in 1853. He married Rebecca Jones Conarros. Children : Cora Evelyn, of whom further ; Nettie M., married Silas Morton Ross, children : Cora E. and Mildred E .; John H., married Isabel Young.
(VIII) Cora Evelyn, daughter of Milton W. and Rebecca Jones (Conarros) Hull, was born in Warren, Pennsylvania. She married, June 12, 1879, Samuel Young Ramage, son of Benjamin and Almira (Seavey) Ramage, and resides in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Children : Florence E., married Henry Logan Golson ; Samuel Young, married Elizabeth D. Saxon, children : Samuel S. and Ruth E .; Ruth E., died young ; Louise, died young; Alfred Hull, now (1912) a student at Amherst College ; Isabel ; Benjamin.
LAY The earliest record of a Lay in Penn- sylvania is of the eccentric Benjamin Lay, of Abington. He was born in Colchester, England, and for a time followed the sea. In 1710 he was in Barbadoes, where he witnessed much of the suffering caused by slavery. He was engaged there as a merchant, but soon left in disgust, coming to Pennsyl- vania and settling at Abington, ten miles from Philadelphia. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and it is said that at one time he was known to every man and woman in Phila- delphia, and to nearly every child. He had two hobbies, hatred of slavery and of animal food. Many interesting stories are related of him, and it would seem that he was a thorn in
the side of his Quaker brethren, who kept slaves. He is said to have been but four feet in height, and an ancient print of him shows a full beard. He wrote a book against negro slavery that was printed by Dr. Franklin in 1737. He died in February, 1759, aged eighty- two years, at the residence of Joshua Morris, and is buried in the Friends' burial ground at Abington. There is no mention of his having a family, nor do the records of the Abington monthly meeting bear the name of any other Lay. The census of the United States, taken in 1790, does not disclose the name of any Lay living in Pennsylvania at that date. Histories of York give no one of the name in York township or borough in 1783. Hence the con- clusion is irresistible that John Lay, the pro- genitor of the Lays of Oil City, was a descend- ant of the Lays of Connecticut, and came to York, Pennsylvania, after the census of 1790 was taken. John was a persistent name in the Connecticut family, and in the absence of any contrary evidence, John of York may safely be considered a descendant of John (I) Lay, of Lyme, Connecticut, who first appeared in (then) Saybrook, later Lyme, in 1648. He had two sons, both named John, one by a first and one by a second marriage. This has led to much conjecture and no little confusion. There were many Jolins in each generation, usually bearing a distinctive title, as : "senior," "junior," "second," "third," etc. There are two branches of the family recognized as having separated from each other in the second American gen- eration. The Lays of New York descend from Robert Lay, of Westbrook, Connecticut, a descendant of one of these two sons of John (1) Lay, named John.
(I) The first connected definite record of the progenitors of Charles H. Lay, of Oil City, is of John Lay, who was born on the hillside of the west side of Codorus, and buried in York, Pennsylvania. He was a coppersmith, engaged also in the kindred business of tin- smithing. He married (first) Chil- dren: Charles, of whom further; George; Josiah, and Margaret. He married (second) a widow, Mrs. Ruby, of German parentage.
(II) Charles, son of John Lay, was born in York, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1798, died in California. He continued his residence in York until the year 1822, then moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trades of coppersmith and tinsmith, which he had learned with his father. In addition to this
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business he also conducted a general store. In 1832 he contracted and built a one mile section of the French Creek canal and moved his resi- dence to Franklin, Pennsylvania. When his contract was completed he again moved, set- tling in Pittsburgh, where he was engaged in building engines to be used on the inclines by which canal boats were taken over the Alle- gheny mountains on the old Pennsylvania canal. Afterward he ran the engine at Incline No. 5 for a year, then moved to Columbia, Pennsylvania. When the railroad was built from Baltimore to York, Pennsylvania, he ran the first engine that passed over it. Later he moved with his family to York, Pennsylvania. In 1849 he joined a party of gold-seekers and went to California, where all trace of him was lost. He left Sacramento with considerable gold on his person, and it is supposed he was attacked by robbers and murdered.
He married, February 18, 1824, Ann Cath- erine Bartols, born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 6, 1799, of German parentage, died in Columbia, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1842. Her twin sister Margaret was the mother of John Randall, of Memphis, Tennessee. Chil- dren : I. Charles Henry, of whom further. 2. William Lambert, born February 18, 1827, died in Oil City, Pennsylvania, December IO, 1896; he married Harriet Lentz. 3. John Co- lumbus, born September 10, 1829; married Mrs. Eliza Jane Erwin, born in 1837, at Scotch Hill, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. 4. New- ton, born January 4, 1832, died at Balize, Hon- duras, August 24, 1858. 5. Oliver, born Feb- rnary 27, 1835, died at Oil City, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1873. 6. Mary Ann, born March 22, 1838; married, February 12, 1863, Andrew Bunker ; children : Fannie and Mary.
(III) Charles Henry, son of Charles and Ann Catherine ( Bartols) Lay, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1825, died in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He became a manu- facturer of printing inks in Philadelphia, with his brother, William L. Lay, and John R. Campbell. Later he moved to Oil City, where he became engaged in the lumber business. He was a man of wealth and influence ; a mem- ber of the Episcopal church and a Republican in politics. He married, December 23, 1852, Isabel Rogers Campbell, born February 14, 1830, died November 7, 1908, daughter of Alexander and Abby T. (Russell) Campbell (see Tillinghast VII). Children: I. Charles Hamilton, of whom further. 2. Russell Camp-
bell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No- vember 11, 1855, died in Karns county, Texas, March 27, 1863. 3. William Dennett, born July 31, 1858, in Philadelphia, died there June 15, 1859. 4. William Russell, born in Karns county, Texas, March 18, 1863; married, July 12, 1886, Tirza Leona Hill, born September 3, 1864, in Oil City, Pennsylvania; children : Margaret Isabel, born May 14, 1887; Frances Trask, November 8, 1889; Joseph Hill, March 12, 1896; Lawrence Campbell, March 23, 1904. 5. Alexander, born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1866, died there June 2, 1867.
(IV) Charles Hamilton, son of Charles Henry and Isabel Rogers (Campbell) Lay, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1854. He is a resident of Oil City. Prior to the dissolution of the Standard Oil Com- pany he was treasurer of seven subsidiary companies, and at present is treasurer of the National Transit Company. He married, June 6, 1877, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, Alice Ger- trude Colling, born in Medford, Minnesota, October 13, 1858, daughter of W. H. Colling. Child, Russell Colling, born January 3, 1879; married Rebecca White, born November 22, 1880; children : Isabel Priestley, born Septem- ber 29, 1906; Eleanor Mable, February 9, 1909.
(The Tillinghast Line).
(I) Isabel Rogers (Campbell) Lay, wife of Charles Henry Lay, was a direct descendant of Elder Pardon (3) Tillinghast, a soldier under Cromwell, who was born at Seven Cliffs, near Beachy Head, England, in 1622, son of Pardon (2) and Elizabeth Tichbourne Tilling- hast. He came to Connecticut in 1646, thence to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was a proprietor in 1665, having been a resident of Newport in 1663. In 1681, and for many years, he was minister and elder of the First Baptist Church of Providence. In 1711 he gave to the church a deed of the meeting house and lot. He was a cooper and engaged in commerce and storekeeping, owning a store- house and wharf. He was a deputy to the gen- eral court, 1672-80-90-94-96-97. He was over- seer of the poor in 1687 and for seventeen years member of the town council, his service being almost continuous. Morgan Edwards asserts that he was remarkable for his plain- ness and piety. In deeding his property to the church he stated the consideration as "The Christian love good will and affection, which I bear to the Church of Christ in Providence
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which I am in fellowship with and have the care of, as being Elder of the said Church." His will was proved February 17, 1718. He was buried in his own lot at the south end of the town of Providence.
He married (first) Butterworth ; chidren: 1. Sarah, died young. 2. John, a deputy in 1690. 3. Mary, married Benjamin Carpenter. He married (second) April 16, 1664, Lydia, died 1718, daughter of Philip and Lydia (Masters) Taber. Children : 4. Lydia, married John Audley. 5. Pardon, of whom further. 6. Philip, a merchant, in 1690 a sol- dier in the expedition against Canada, justice of the peace, for twelve years deputy and at the same time member of the town council; his estate inventoried five thousand pounds, a very large fortune for his day ; married Martha Thomas, who bore him fifteen children. 7. Benjamin, also a merchant; married Sarah Rhodes and left an estate almost as large as his brother Philip. 8. Abigail, married Nich- olas Sheldon. 9. Joseph, a merchant ; married (first) Freelove Stafford, (second) Mary Hen- don. 10. Mercy, married Nicholas Power. II. Hannah, married John Hale. 12. Elizabeth, married Philip Taber.
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