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iv. Thomas, baptized Aug. 29, 1794; drifted away and was never heard from; his widow was buried at East Corinth; d. July 16, 1862, aged 67.
1 BLANCHARD, b. Newbury, 1769; farmer on homestead in Topsham, captain in the militia and prominent in the town. In person a small man, very lively and hospitable; had a large farm, with a great housefull of c .; m. 1st, Feb. 19, 1789, Betsey Leach, who d. Sept. 15, 1818, in her 49th year; 2d, Jan. 2, 1822, Susanna, widow of Dudley Brown and dau. Dudley Carleton of Newbury ; d. Nov. 8, 1861 in her 81st year. He d. Sept. 24, 1843. Children, eight by 1st, and three by 2d marriage:
i. Betsey, b. December, 1789; never m .; lived on homestead; d. Nov. 27, 1863.
ii. Sally, m. Ephraim Jones; d. Dover, N. H.
iii. Dr. Thomas, physician at Burlington ; d. there.
iv. Rebecca, b. February, 1804; d. Dec. 25, 1874; lived on homestead ; un-m.
v. Blanchard, settled and d. in Canada. Two sons, Norman and Blanchard. vi. Jacob B., d. at five years.
vii. Polly, d. at about twenty-six.
2 viii. James, b. 1800; d. March 4, 1874.
ix. Morrison, d. about eighteen.
x. Jacob B., b. about 1807; d. Aug. 24, 1880; never m.
xi. Susannah, b. July 20, 1820; m. William Hunter, q. v .; d. Aug. 17, 1898.
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xii. Mehetable, b. Sept. 11, 1822 ; m. Reuben George, q. v .; d. Jan. 7, 1889. xiii. John D., b. May 21, 1824; d. May 31, 1844.
Capt. Blanchard Chamberlain, with his two wives and six c., are buried on Currier Hill.
2 JAMES, b. 1800; farmer on homestead; town representative. 1850; captain in militia, etc .; m. Hannah Knight, who d. July 31, 1872. He d. March 4, 1874; buried East Corinth.
Children :
i. Thomas Knight, b. 1833.
ii. James Hale. b. Sept. 22, 1834; at the age of eighteen, he went to sea on the ship "New World," trading between New York and Liverpool, commanded by Capt. Hale Knight of Corinth; made captain of the same ship, 1859, and in 1861, master of ship "Liverpool" running between New York and London. In those days packet ships brought to America all the emigrants they could accommodate. In 1867, he was sent by his employers, to reside in London, and superintend their fleet of packet ships, holding that position eleven years; res. 1878-83, East Corinth ; town representative, 1882; in 1883, appointed surveyor of ships, at New York, for the Bureau Veritas, International Register of Shipping, whose head office is in Paris. This position he still holds; member, since 1883, of the Marine Society of the City of New York (a charitable institution founded 1769) and has been its treasurer since 1890; m. 1st, September, 1862, Addie E. Smart, who d. April, 1871; three sons, two living; m. 2d, October, 1873, Hannah K. Smart, who d. November, 1886; 3d, 1894, Dora E. Möller. Two c., son son and dau.
CHAMBERLIN.
The second family by this name was the third family of pioneers to settle in Newbury, and their advent is thus described by Rev. Clark Perry: "In June, 1762, came up Richard Chamberlin, from Hinsdale, with a family of thirteen c. Seven only of these came with their parents, the rest afterwards. Richard and family landed about noon at the Old Ferry. Before night a hut of posts, bark, etc., was erected, in which they lived three months. He settled near what is called Chamberlin's Ferry on Musquash Meadow. The cellar where the house stood may now, (1831), be seen near Josiah Little's barn, not far from the river. This fruitful vine has still many flourishing branches among us." Joseph, his son, had been here before, and perhaps others of them.
I. The researches of Joseph Edgar Chamberlin embodied in a pamphlet published by him in 1894, show that Richard Chamberlin is first mentioned as in Braintree, Mass .. in 1637, whence he rem. to Sudbury and d. before April 15, 1673. He left sons, Benjamin and Joseph and several daughters.
II. JOSEPH, b. Roxbury, baptized June 4, 1655; m. at Sudbury Aug. 26, 1682, Hannah Gilbert; soldier in the Narragansett war. With his brother Benjamin he rem. to Oxford in 1713, where he d. Aug. 8, 1721.
III. NATHANIEL, b. Sudbury, Mass., at the present village of Wayland, 1689; rem. to Oxford, 1713; m. Elizabeth Hunkins; both were members of the church in Oxford; rem. to Hatfield about 1722; soldier in Father Rasle's war. Taken prisoner. After his return from captivity he rem. to Northfield, Mass. Soldier in the Crown Point expedition, 1755. In Col. William's regiment 1759. He d. Nov. 7, 1780, and the church record of Northfield says, "He left a good name behind him."
Children :
1 i. Richard, b. July 9, 1714.
ii. *Moses, b. March 30, 1716.
iii. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 3, 1718; d. Aug. 22, 1745.
iv. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 30, 1719.
*See Moses Chamberlain family.
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v. Sarah, b. May 31, 1721, at Oxford.
vi. Mary, b. July 13, 1727, at Northfield.
1 RICHARD, b. Oxford, Mass., July 9, 1714. Rem. to Northfield. Was in Capt. Phinehas Stevens' Co. of 60 men at Charlestown, N. H., during the siege in 1747. In Capt. Selah Barnard's Co., Col. Wm. William's regiment for the invasion of Canada from March 13 to Dec. 13, 1758, with his son, Abial. Came to Newbury in June, 1762, (See early chapters of this volume), where he settled on Musquash Meadow, and kept the ferry. Was in a company of minute men in 1775. He seems to have been a man of substance and held in esteem, and in the town and church records is always spoken of as Mr. Chamberlin. He was, probably, a member of the 1st ch., as there is record of several church meetings being held at his house. He held various minor offices, and appears to have been a substantial citizen, and the oldest man in the settlement. His gravestone, which may be found in the cemetery at the Ox-bow, a few feet from the monument to Col. Thomas Johnson, says that he d. 16 - - ber, 1784. Traditions, handed down through various branches of the Chamberlin families, assert that Richard, and Moses the pioneer of the third Chamberlin family to settle here, were brothers, and m. sisters, daus. of Remembrance Wright of Northampton. (See Moses Chamberlain family). His wife's name was Abigail, and the date of her death unknown. She survived her husband several years, as she is mentioned, as late as 1795, in Dr. Samuel White's account book, as "Widow Richard Chamberlin." She was one of the earliest members of the Congregational church.
Children.
i. Abigail, b. Aug. 28, 1736. Nothing further is known of her.
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ii. Joseph, b. March 18, 1738; d. Sept. 5, 1815.
3 iii. Abiel, b. Nov. 22, 1739; d. May 14, 1787.
4 iv. Uriah, b. Feb. 24, 1742. 5 v. Er, b. June 24, 1744; d. about 1830.
6 vi. Nathaniel, b. May 5, 1746; d. 1802.
7 vii. Benjamin, b. Dec. 15, 1747 ; d. June 11, 1832.
viii. Rebecca, b. March 13, 1749 ; m. John Foreman, q. V.
ix. Louisa, b. Dec. 25, 1751 ; m. Jacob Page, q. v.
8 x. Silas, b. Jan. 19, 1754.
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xi. Richard, baptized Nov. 2, 1755.
xii. Martha, b. April 16, 1758; m. probably, William Taplin.
xiii. Eri, baptized Feb. 22, 1761; drowned July 3, 1773. His gravestone may still be seen in good preservation, near his father's.
2 JOSEPH,2 (Richard1) b. Northfield, Mass., March 18, 1738; soldier in the French and Indian war under Capt. John Catlin, 1757-58; in Coös in 1760; came to Newbury, 1762; grantee of the town; ensign, 1775, in Capt. Thomas Johnson's company of Minute Men; second Lieutenant, 1777-79 in Capt. Frye Bayley's company, guarding and scouting; was with that company at Pawlet, Aug. 16-Oct. 1, 1777; 1779-81, 1st Lieutenant in Capt. Simeon Stevens' company, Olcott's regiment; private in Capt. Frye Bayley's company "in sundry alarms" to the end of the war; carpenter and some time blacksmith; built the large house at the top of the hill south of Montebello; m. Ruth, dau. William Preston of Chester, N. H., (b. 1745; d. Oct. 16, 1831. (Church record). He d. Sept. 6, 1815. Joseph Chamberlin appears to have been a very prominent man in town, and held many positions of trust.
Children :
10 i. Raymond, b. Aug. 19, 1769; d. Feb. 7, 1849.
ii. Abigail, b. Dec. 25, 1775; m. Isaac Waldron, q. v .; d. Oct. 3, 1860.
11 iii. Joseph, b. Sept. 8, 1777; d. Nov. 9, 1845.
iv. Ruth, b. May 30, 1779; m. John Witherspoon, q. v .; d. June 29, 1854.
v. Erastus, b. Sept. 27, 1782; d. July, 1348.
12 vi. John, b. Sept. 10, 1874; m. Ruby Wright; lived at White River Junction.
vii. Mary. b. Sept. 7, 1786; m. April 15, 1823, George W. Wheeler of Littleton; d. Littleton, N. H., Oct. 8, 1865. Three c.
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viii. Silas, b. Jan. 9, 1789; lived in the Brock neighborhood; went west; m. Susan C., dau. Josiah Eastman, who d. Nov. 21, 1860, aged 73.
ix. Hannah, b. March 9, 1791; m. March 24, 1829, Elijah Blaisdell of Boscawen, N. H.
10 RAYMOND,3 (Joseph,2 Jacob1) b. Aug. 19, 1769; farmer; lived a little east of L. W. McAllister's, no trace of buildings remain, also a little north of Frank Leighton's; m. 1st, Sarah Hibbard, who d. 1811; 2d, Clarissa Whitmore. He d. Feb. 7, 1849.
Children :
i. Betsey, b. Sept. 10, 1790; m. Francis G. McAllister, q. v .; d. May 26, 1877.
ii. Rhoda, d. at sixteen years of age.
iii. Charlotte, b. June 6, 1799; d. May 3, 1865.
iv. William, m. Betsey Cameron of New York state; both dead. C., (1) Henry, who d. in Texas. (2) Amelia, m. George Burrage of Boston, where she d. 1899, and two others.
v. Ruth, b. 1802; m. Isaac A. Bayley, q. v .; d. April 7, 1854.
11 JOSEPH,3 (Joseph,2 Richard1) b. Sept. 8, 1777; farmer ; settled in 1801, on land bought of Matthew Gibson, where R. S. Chamberlin now lives, where he built a log house and, a few years later, a house which stood a little north of the present one. This, built on the hillside, had a brick basement in front, in which were the living rooms, opening into the cellar behind. Such houses were once very common, but few are left. The lower rooms were damp and unhealthy. This house, after being long unoccupied, was taken down in 1875. Farmer, also blacksmith and shoemaker; m. 1st, Sept. 17, 1801, Nancy, dau. Archibald McAllister, (b. New Boston, N. H., Sept. 16, 1776; d. Dec. 7, 1838) ; 2d, Feb. 9, 1841, Mrs. Fanny Goss, sister of 1st wife. Joseph and both of his wives were members of 1st ch. He d. Nov. 9,1845.
13 i. Preston, b. Oct. 2, 1802; d. Feb. 20, 1859.
14 fii. Abner, b. Aug. 11, 1804; d. Oct. 4, 1884.
15 iii. Clark, b. July 24, 1806; d. July 18, 1874.
iv. Joseph, b. July 16, 1808; lived where Joseph Fuller does; m. Oct. 22, 1838, Abigail L., dau. James A. Bayley ; went west ; d. Nov. 20, 1880.
v. Eliza J., b. Sept. 8, 1810; m. Luther Chapin ; d. July 13, 1845.
16 vi. Nancy, b. Jan. 4, 1813.
vii. Mary Ann, b. April 13, 1815; m. 1st in Wisconsin, a Mr. Rublee; 2d, a Mr. Hartshorne.
viii. Sophronia, b. May 2, 1818; m. Amos Eastman; d. March 19, 1880.
ix. Amplias, b. May 1, 1821 ; m. Cynthia Bolton; settled at Kilbourne City, Wisconsin.
13 PRESTON,4 (Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. Oct. 2, 1802. Graduated Middlebury College and Burlington Medical College. Is believed to have settled first in Canaan, N. H., but rem. to Herkimer Co., N. Y., where he practiced medicine till his death, Feb. 20, 1859. He m. Laura, dau. Dr. Richard Huntley of Topsham.
Children, nine, of whom seven are living :
i. Milo. res. Waltham, Mass .; machinist.
ii. George H., res. Rock Falls, Wis .; merchant.
iii. Henry P., res. Chicago; bookkeeper.
iv. Joseph A., res. Springfield, Mass., with Smith & Wesson, pistol manufacturers.
vi. Hiram H., res. Eau Claire, Wis .; farmer.
vii. Clarence A., res. Eau Claire, Wis .; lumber business.
viii. Daughter, res. Waltham, Mass.
14 ABNER,4 (Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. Aug. 11, 1804. Lived on the homestead, next where Frank Putnam now does, then on the farm which E. E. Putnam owns and occupics, where he built the present house. Captain in the militia, and held town offices. In 1857, he rem. to Spring Prairie with his wife and younger child; in 1867, to Burlington, Wis. In 1878, returned to Vermont. He m. Dec. 1, 1825, Mary, dau. Capt. David Haseltinc, (b. May 1, 1808; d. Burlington, Wis., Nov. 19, 1877). He d. at Bradford, Oct. 4, 1884.
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Children :
i. Martha Ann, b. May 8, 1827; m. June 2, 1847, Simeon Avery. They rem. to Minnesota, where she d. May 20, 1875. Three c.
ii. Mary Jane, b. June 23, 1829; m. 1st, Aug. 22, 1849, William Brock, 2d, (who d. July 27, 1852) ; 2d, June 1, 1867, Hiram W. Kimball of Bradford. C., Alice, m. G. W. Carleton, of West Newbury.
iii. Everett, b May 5; d. Dec. 20, 1831.
17 iv. Preston Samuel, b. Nov. 28, 1832.
18 T. Adeline, b. March 8, 1835.
19 vi. George Campbell, b. Feb. 24, 1837 ; d. Nov. 8, 1896.
20 vii. Everett, b. May 8, 1839 ; d. Feb. 19, 1875.
viii. Helen Sophronia, b. July 3, 1842; m., Aug. 31, 1865, John R. Drake of Milwaukee, Wis., where she resides.
ix. Julia E., b. June 8, 1845; m , Dec. 5, 1871, Harvey W. Drake, of Milwaukee. x. Joseph E., b. Aug. 6, 1851.
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17 PRESTON SAMUEL,5 (Abner,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard1) b. at Newbury Centre, November 28, 1832; m. Hannah S. Corliss of Bradford, Jan. 17, 1857, and since that time has resided in Bradford; enlisted under the first call for volunteers, in the civil war, in 1861, and went out with the First Vermont Volunteer regiment; mustered out at the expiration of his term, he re-entered the service as captain of Company H. (the Bradford Guards) Twelfth Vermont Volunteers. He has held several town offices in Bradford and represented that town in the Vermont legislature of 1890. Three c., Mrs. Annie F. Spaulding, Mrs. Mary H. Grant and Edith J. Chamberlin.
18 ADALINE5, (Abner,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. March 8, 1835; m., Oct. 21, 1856, to Charles E. Benton, (son of Samuel Slade, and Esther (Prouty) Benton, b. Waterford, Dec. 11, 1825. Rem. from Newbury to Guildhall, 1860. Representative from Guildhall, 1866, 1867. Senator from Essex County, 1874, 1875. Appointed clerk of Essex County Court, 1865. Elected Judge of Probate, 1888, holding both positions at time of death, June 10, 1892.)
Children.
i. Charles Abner, b. Newbury, Aug. 12, 1857; d. Guildhall, Aug. 20, 1877.
ii. Everett Chamberlin, b. Guildhall, Sept. 25, 1862. Educated at Colebrook and Lancaster Academies. Appointed, 1874, page of the Vermont senate ; 1876, clerk to the Secretary of State. Went to Boston, 1882, entering the insurance office of John C. Paige & Co., of which concern he is now a member. Has held important positions on the Republican state and congressional committees. Appointed, 1893, aid-de-camp to Gov. Greenhalge, with the title of colonel. Member, 1896, of the executive council of Gov. Wolcott, but declined re-election the next year, on account of the pressure of business. Member of several clubs and societies, including the Vermont Association, and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. Res. Waverly, Belmont, Mass., but has a summer home at Guildhall, where he has erected a beautiful building for a Masonic Hall and Public Library. He m. Jan. 24, 1885, Willera Rogers. Six c., five living. Jay R., Charles E., Blanche A., Dorothy D., Hannah S.
iii. Jay Bayard, b. April 10, 1870. Entered Dartmouth College from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1886, after one year's interim as librarian of the Young Men s Institute, New York City. Graduated from college in 1870, having been one of the editors of the Dartmouth, president of the Handel Society, and assistant librarian. Chosen member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Received degree of A. M. 1893. Went to Boston 1890. Reporter on the Evening Transcript. In 1894 became assistant managing editor of the Journal. Returned 1897 to the Transcript of which he is city editor. Member of several clubs, including the Papyrus and Dartmouth, is Boston correspondent of the New York Dramatic Mirror, and press representative of the Boston Museum, Hollis street, and Colonial Theaters. Not married, res. with his mother, Winchester, Mass.
19 GEORGE CAMPBELL,5 (Abner,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard1) b. at Newbury Centre, Feb. 24, 1837. He learned the printer's trade when young, at Windsor, and New Haven, Conn. Afterward he came to Bradford, where for
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several years he published the Orange County Telegraph. Selling out in 1863, he enlisted as a private in the Ninth Vermont Volunteers. He served until December, 1865, when he was mustered out as first lieutenant. He went west early in 1866, with health shattered by long service in a malarious district of North Carolina, and located in Southwestern Minnesota. He founded the town of Jackson in that state, building, with a friend, the first house in that place, which he lived to see grow to a town of 2,000 people. He started a newspaper in Jackson under circumstances of great difficulty; the material was hauled fifty miles by team, and when the press and type arrived in this manner, he found that the paper was left behind. The team which he sent for this was caught in a blizzard. He published this paper, the Jackson Republic, many years; during this time he served as Sergeant-at-Arms of the Minnesota Senate for one session, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives during two sessions, and was for six years a member of the Minnesota State Board of Equalization. He became interested in a daily paper at St. James, in the same state, until failing eyesight compelled him to give up all newspaper work. He sold out his interests and returned to Jackson, where he became totally blind in 1884. He built a residence at Jackson, but in 1893 came back to Vermont, where he lived, mostly with his brother, Captain P. S. Chamberlin and d. at Bradford, Nov. 8, 1896. He was never m.
20 EVERETT,5 (Abner, 4 Joseph,3 Joseph, 2 Richard,1) was b. at Newbury Center, May 8, 1839. He attended Newbury Seminary, and very early in life adopted the occupation of a teacher. In the exercise of this calling he went in 1857 to Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1862, he returned to Vermont to enlist in Company H, 12th Vermont Volunteers, of which company he became orderly sergeant. When his term of service with his regiment had expired, he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he went out as captain of Co. I, 39th Wisconsin Volunteers. Leaving the service in 1864, he became city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and from that time forward followed the career of a journalist and writer. In 1868, he went to Chicago to join the staff of the Evening Post of that city, on which journal he gained a wide reputation through the wit and pungency of his paragraph writing, and the excellence of his critical judgment, especially in music. He afterward joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune as an editorial writer, and afterward that of the Chicago Times. In 1873 he was compelled by delicate health to relinquish all editorial work. He went to California, Colorado and Florida in quest of health, and d. at Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 19, 1875, of consumption. He was the author of three books, "Chicago and the Great Conflagration," (with Elias Colbert), a history of the Chicago fire of 1871, published in 1872; "The Struggle of '72," an account of the political campaign in which Grant was elected president over Greeley; and "Chicago and Her Suburbs," (1873), a work of reference on Chicago and the surrounding towns. Everett Chamberlin was m. to Anna E. Martin, at Big Bend, Wisconsin, Oct. 10, 1866. Of their c. there now survives Miss Minnie E. Chamberlin and Mrs. Julia Robertson, both res. in Wisconsin.
21 JOSEPH EDGAR,5 (Abner,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) was b. at West Newbury, August 6, 1851. He rem. with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857. Educated in the common schools, he went to Chicago in December, 1868, and went to work on the Evening Post, newspaper of that city. Here he served until after the great Chicago fire of 1871, when he was for a brief time city editor of the Daily Journal of Indianapolis, Ind. Returning to Chicago, he served in various editorial capacities on the Chicago Times until December, 1880, when broken down in health by over-work, he resigned the managing editorship of that paper to return to the East. He was, from 1881'to 1884, editor of papers in Newport, R. I., and Fall River, Mass .; in 1884 he went to Boston and was editor of the Evening Record and Daily Advertiser of that city, until 1887, when he went to the Boston Transcript. In 1890 he became one of the editorial staff of the Youth's Companion, with which paper, as well as with the Boston Transcript, he is still connected. In 1898 he went to the Spanish war as correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Youth's Companion,
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and went through the Santiago campaign. He is the author of three books, "The Listener in the Town," "The Listener in the Country," (Boston, 1896,) and "John Brown," a biography, (Boston, 1899.) The two former books are made up out of the "Listener" series of essays in the Boston Transcript, which Mr. Chamberlin founded in 1887 and still (1900) writes. He is a member of the St. Botolph Club and Authors' Club of Boston. He was m. at Chicago, June 26, 1873, to Ida Elizabeth Atwood.
Children :
i. Mrs. Helen Dodd. One c., David Haseltine, b. Wrentham, Mass., May 2, 1900. Rem. to Topsham, 1901.
ii. Elizabeth.
iii. Raymond.
iv. Mary Eleanor.
15 CLARK,4 (Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. July 24, 1806; farmer on his father's homestead; m. Jan. 30, 1834, Amanda, dau. Joseph Sawyer, (b. March 13, 1807; d. Nov. 13, 1868). He d. July 17, 1874. Members of the Meth. ch.
Children :
i. Joseph Allen, b. Aug. 26, 1835; served in 1862-3, nine months in Co. H, 12th Vt; rem. 1867 to Wisconsin, later to Texas; farmer in Newbury ; m. April 30, 1857, Lucia A., dau. Ross Ford, (b. July 20, 1838). He d. Denison, Texas, Dec. 24, 1881. C., (1) Mary Emma, b. Oct. 10, 1858; d. Burlington, Wis., Feb. 3, 1870. (2) Carrie Amanda, b. Nov. 13, 1861; m. in Denison, Texas, Jan. 1, 1879, William H. Taylor, who d. in Bozeman, Montana, June 24, 1883.
ii. Remembrance Sawyer, b. Oct. 24, 1840; farmer on homestead; m. March 20, 1867, Ellen E., dau. William U. Bailey. C., William Clark, b. July 28, 1876.
iii. Charles Franklin, b. Feb. 5, 1850; d. April 11, 1852.
16 NANCY,+ (Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. Jan. 4, 1813; m. Jan. 7, 1841, James Caldwell of Topsham, (b. Ryegate, Dec. 10, 1808; farmer in Topsham where his c. were b.)
Children :
i. Joseph C., b. Dec. 3, 1842 ; physician at Buckfield, Maine; twice m. Three c. ii. Eliza, b. March 20, 1845; m. James Lang of Topsham. Six c.
iii. James R., b. Sept. 3, 1846; farmer in Topsham; m. 1st, Jan. 15, 1878, Ella Vance, who d. July 15, 1893. C., (1) Rosamond N. (2) Nathan R. (3) Joseph C. He m. 2d, Nov. 14, 1890. Mrs. Martha Jones.
iv. Martin, b. April 22, 1848; graduated from Rush's Medical School, Chicago, and d. while in practice at Hershaw, Ill. Left a wife and c.
v. John Preston, d. in infancy.
vi. Eber C., b. Dec. 12, 1853 ; d. Dec. 9, 1876.
12 ERASTUS,3 (Joseph,2 Richard,1) b. Sept. 27, 1782; lived many years on the homestead, but rem. to Canada, then to Livingston County, New York. He m. September, 1805, Betsey Goodall, (b. Pomfret, Conn., November, 1783; d. Sept. 15, 1863). He d. York, New York, Jan. 11, 1848. After his death his wife returned to the old home in Newbury in 1856.
Children :
i. Finette, b. May 17, 1806 ; m. James B. Johnston, q. v. ; d. Nov. 20, 1897.
ii. Richard, rem. to Jackson, Mich .; farmer; he survived wife and child; dead some years.
iii. Harriet, m. William Osborn, of Troy, N. Y .; d. in Chicago about 1890, leaving two sons.
iv. Henry, lawyer; m. Amanda Lyon, eight c., two living; d. in Westchester County, N. Y.
v. Erastus, d. Brooklyn, N. Y., left a dau., Mrs. Tyler, who d. in Toronto, Canada.
vi. George, d. in Canada, un-m., at 21.
vii. Elizabeth C., b. 1821; m. in Canada, April, 1842, David Owen. Still living in Bath, Me. Res. Alabama, New York City and Maine. Five c. One son in St. Louis, one in Bangor, Me., and a dau. in Bath. One dau., Elizabeth, was b. in Newbury, 1856.
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viii. Mary, d. Canada, in 1839, aged 18.
ix. Samuel Alden, drowned in the Hudson at Albany, N. Y., at the age of 12, while returning from school at Canandaigua, N. Y.
3 ABIEL,2 (Richard1) b. Nov. 22, 1739; served in the old French war with his father in Col. William William's regiment; served in the revolutionary war; was in Capt. Thomas Johnson's company of minute men, 1775; in winter of 1775-6 was one of the men who went with Capt. Johnson to mark out a road from Newbury to St. Johns. On reaching the latter place, he went on, says Johnson, and joined the army at Quebec. In Capt. John G. Bayley's company, guarding and scouting, and in other service. He is called "Lieutenant" on his gravestone. Grantee of Newbury and settled on upper meadow, near the river; m. March 27, 1769, Elinor, dau. Elihu Johnson, who after his death m. Ezra Gates and d. Sept. 24, 1822, aged 69. He d. May 14, 1787.
Children :
22 i, Martin, b. Jan. 12, 1770; d. Aug, 24, 1820, q. v.
23 ii. Charles, b. Jan. 9, 1772; d. Dec. 5, 1834, q. v.
iii. Eunice, b. Jan. 14, 1774.
24 iv. Phineas, b. Dec. 7, 1779; d. Feb. 14, 1859.
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