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i. Eliza Crocker, b. Newbury, Sept. 11, 1795; m. Dr. A. L. Porter of Dover, N. H., and removed to Detroit, Mich., where she d. in March, 1875
ii. Mary Porter, b. Newbury, Dec. 11, 1796 ; m. N. P. Rogers, (b. Plymouth, N. H., June 3, 1794; d. Concord, N. H., Oct. 16, 1846. Graduated at Dartmouth College, 1814. Lawyer, teacher and editor. One of the earliest
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and most prominent abolitionists). She d. 1890. They had eight children and some of their descendants are notable people.
iii. Lucia Ann, b. Newbury, July 29, 1798; m. Geo. A. Kent, Esq., of Concord, N. H. He was long cashier of the "Old Concord Bank." She d. in Feb., 1838.
iv. Frances Jacobs, b. Newbury, Sept. 6, 1800; m. 1st, Rev. Mr. Murdock and 2d, John Richardson, Esq., lawyer of Durham, N. H. She d. 1880.
v. Caroline Thompson, b. Bellows Falls, Apr. 8, 1802; d. un-m., 1871. Teacher.
vi. Charlotte Parmalee, b. Feb. 3, 1804 ; m., as 2d wife, Dr. Stephen C. Henry, a noted physician and surgeon of Detroit. She d. Jan. 25, 1884. One son, D. Farrand Henry, b. May 27, 1833. Graduate of Sheffield Scientific School and Yale College. Connected with U. S. Lake Survey 17 years. Engineer of Detroit water works, designing and constructing the present water works at Detroit. Chief engineer and promoter Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie ship canal
vii. Arabella Marie, b. Burlington, Aug. 23, 1806; m. Mr. Geo. Willson, instructor at Canandaigua Academy, and author of "Willson's Arithmetic," Willson's Readers," etc. She was a lady of rare talent, and authoress of "Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons," "History of the 126th N.Y.Regiment in the Civil War," etc. She also contributed to the press a great number of articles and poems, one of the best known of which is, "An appeel for pewer air. To the sextant of the Old Brick Meetin' House." She d. at Canandaigua, N. Y., March 13, 1884.
viii. Martha Olcott, b. Burlington, Sept. 6, 1808; d. 1878.
ix. Ellen, b. Burlington, Feb. 7, 1812; m. Nathaniel E. Russell, founder of the Green River Cutlery Works, Greenfield, Mass.
FARWELL.
AUGUSTUS STARR, son of Jonathan and Susan Farwell,b. Rumney, N. H., 1821; came to Wells River, Dec. 6, 1848, and has been in business there since ; 1848-1872, as merchant, postmaster, etc., agent of the Vermont and Canada Telegraph Co., and its successor, the Western Union Co., 1853-1890; express agent since 1858. While in trade he sold the first gallon of kerosene oil in this town, the price being $1.50 per gallon. Since 1848, Mr. Farwell, has employed from one to three young men, many of whom are now in business for themselves. He established and for some years maintained a select school in the Eames building, which he owned at the time. In politics a democrat. Member of the Episcopal church at Woodsville. He m. 1845, Susannah G. Norris, of Pittsfield, N. H., who d. 1883.
Children :
i. Julia Hutchins, b. Newbury; graduated Mt. Holyoke Seminary. After a few unimportant engagements she was appointed First Assistant at St. Mary's School, Garden City, L. I., was connected with the school four years in that capacity, and five as principal. Resigned the position to study in Germany. Senior at Barnard College, 1897-1898. Received in June, 1899, the degree of A. B., from Mt. Holyoke, in recognition of her work at other colleges, and in the same month the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia College.
FISK.
Pierce's Genealogy of the Fisk and Fiske families traces their ancestry back to the 14th century. In the 14th generation from the first known ancestor was Saul Bartlett Fisk, b. Rhode Island, Feb. 12, 1780; d. Rochester, N. Y., July 8, 1840; mill wright; he m. Vianna Estes, by whom he had two sons, Ebenezer and James. The latter, b. Providence, R. I., Jan. 6, 1812; m. in 1832, Laura B. Ryan. They had two c., one of whom James, Jr., b. Bennington, April 1, 1835, became a stock operator in New York, and was noted for his daring and unscrupulous operations. He was one of the kings of Wall street for a brief time, and possessed powerful qualities of good and evil. On Jan. 6, 1872, he was assassinated in the Grand Central
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Hotel in New York City by Edward S. Stokes. His sister, Minnie G., m, Col. Hooker of Brattleboro.
EBENEZER FISK, elder brother of James, (senior), b. Canterbury, N. H., Jan. 6, 1786. He was brought to Newbury the year of his birth, and served in the war of 1812, being wounded at the battle of Plattsburg, for which he drew a pension till his death. He m. April 4, 1806, Sally Hood of Topsham. He d. Newbury, Oct. 22, 1858.
Three of their sons were:
i. Alvin, b. Topsham, Jan. 6, 1807; drowned in the river at Orford, while working there June 19, 1828.
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ii. Curtis, (twin brother of Alvin).
iii. Aaron S., b. Groton, March 28, 1808. Served in the Union army during the civil war and d.
1 iv. CURTIS, son of Ebenezer, b. Newbury, Jan. 6, 1807; m. 1826, Sarah, dau. of Dr. Jonathan Cowdry, who was surgeon on the frigate Philadelphia, when she ran upon the rocks, Oct. 31, 1801, in the Tripolitan war, when all the crew were made prisoners. (She was b. in Tunbridge, July 31, 1808; d. Newbury, July 16, 1875). He d. March 28, 1880.
Children, all b. in Newbury :
i. Lucinda, b. Nov. 19, 1827; d. Nov. 22, 1845.
ii. Nancy B., b. Sept. 24. 1830; d. July 4, 1880, Lyndon.
iii. Jane M., b. July 30, 1832; m. April 19, 1855, William Bowditch of Randolph; res. Lyndon.
iv. Alvin F., b. Aug. 18, 1834; d. March 28, 1838.
2 v. Curtis B., b. Aug. 28, 1836, q. v.
vi. Sarah A., b. April 7, 1838; m. Jan. 9, 1862, Charles Colley of Lyndon.
vii. George R., b. April 11, 1839; d. Oct. 11, 1840.
viii. Sophronia E., b. April 7, 1841; d. May 11, 1870.
ix. Isaac E., b. Feb. 20; d. June 15, 1844.
x. Ada L., b. Jan. 6, 1847; d. Jan. 16, 1857.
2 CURTIS BARTLETT FISK, b. Aug. 28, 1836; m. Jan. 9, 1862, Margaret Buchanan of Ryegate; carpenter for some years; 1872-76, in employ of the Sturtevant Manufacturing Co., Lebanon, and while there studied medicine with Dr. James A. Davis; res. Newbury; carpenter and farmer. Children, all b. in Newbury:
i. Alonzo Bole, b. March 10, 1864; farmer; m. Abbie Minard of Groton. C., (1) Fanny E., b. Oct. 23, 1893. (2) James C., b. Oct. 19, 1896.
ii. David B., b. Dec. 31, 1869; m. Dec. 27, 1893, Clara F. Gibson of Ryegate ; farmer. C., Hugh Gibson, b. April 17, 1895.
iii. Eunice Annette, b. June 8, 1878.
'FLEMING.
ALONZO, b. Ascot, P. Q., July 26, 1806. Came to Newbury, 1831. Carpenter and farmer. Was entirely self taught, yet accounted a skillful workman, and, although he erected many large buildings in this and other towns, was never known to make a plan of any kind. He owned and operated many years a saw mill on Hall's Brook, below the Center, which was washed away in the freshet of June 5, 1878. He m. June 2, 1826, Naomi Erwin, who d. June 19, 1881. He d. Oct. 26, 1896.
Children :
i. Ephraim, b. Canada, Feb. 12, 1829. Carpenter and farmer. Enlisted for three years in Co. A, 10th N. H. Taken prisoner and confined 18 months at Andersonville, where he was a personal witness of some of the most fearful scenes which took place there. Exchanged, 1864. Discharged, Jan. 13, 1865; m. Dec. 6, 1849, Lydia E., dau. of John Messer, (b. Dec. 23. 1833; d. June 24, 1900.) He d. July 30, 1896. Four children living.
ii. Lucinda, m. Wm. K. Putnam, q. v.
iii. Freeman, died in the army, was a teamster ; in. Janet Cowdry. No children living.
iv. Mary Ann, m. Wm. Goodwin ; d. June 3, 1901.
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v. Lydia, m. 1st, Horace N. Abbott, 2d, John Hutchinson ; d. in the West.
vi. Emily, m. John Bartlett, and lives in California.
vii. HenryE. Served in the army. (See record.) m. and d. in Mass.
viii. Alice, m. B. Frank Greenough of Bradford; d. 1883 in Cal. Buried in Bradford.
ix. Belle, m. 1870, Frank M. Jones.
FORD.
PAUL, came here before 1780, and began to clear land on what has long been known as the "Old McIndoe place," at West Newbury, and built the house still standing on that farm. He served several short enlistments in the revolutionary war. The town record of him is brief: "Paul Ford and Elinor Kelley were m. May 10, 1781. Moses Morrison, the adopted son of Paul Ford and his wife, was b. Dec. 26, 1788. Paul Ford departed this life April 30, 1809." This Moses Morrison is understood to have become a doctor, and succeeded Mr. Ford on that farm, but, later, rem. to Bath.
SETH, b. Cornwall, Conn., March 7, 1757; m. Mary Andross, (b. Northfield, Mass., July 17, 1757). Settled as early as 1776 in Piermont, N. H. A year or two later he rem. to Bradford, and finally to Fairfax where he d. He was one of the men who went from Piermont to bring in the people at Strafford and Randolph, at the time Royalton was burned. Later, in 1781, he served seven days in Capt. Robert Hunkins Co., in the "Peacham Alarm." He also served 11 months in Capt. Ezekiel Ladd's Co. of Bedel's regiment.
Children :
i. Seth, b. Piermont, April 22, 1776; settled in Campton, N. H.
ii. Polly, b. Bradford, Jan 27, 1778; d. Sept. 27, 1779.
iii. Betsey, b. Bradford, Feb. 12, 1780; settled in Enosburg.
iv. Nabby, b. Bradford, March, 18, 1782; settled in Enosburg.
v. Polly, b. Piermont, Sept. 17, 1784.
vi. Sally, b. Piermont, Jan. 21, 1787; m. John C. Dunbar, q. v.
vii. Zebina, b. Piermont, Dec. 4, 1788; settled finally in Illinois.
viii. Lucy, B. Piermont, June 30, 1791; m. Eben Burbank and settled at Lowell, Mass.
1 ix. Ross C., b. Fairfax, June 7, 1793, q. v.
x. Hollis, b. Fairfax, Aug. 4, 1795.
xi. Alanson, b. March 13, 1798.
xii. Almira, b. Fairfax, June 1, 1801 ; deceased.
1 Ross C., b. Fairfax, June 7, 1793. He was a "Plattsburg volunteer" in the war of 1812. His wife, Hannah, dau. of Reuben Leighton, was b. March 7, 1796, and d. in Lowell, Mass., February, 1879. They were members of the Methodist church, Mr. Ford being class leader nearly fifty years. Farmer. He d. Barnet, May 5, 1874.
Children :
i. Hazen, b. April 26, 1815; farmer of Newbury and Barnet; m. 1st, March 25, 1841, Christian, dau. of William Wallace, (b. April 29, 1817; d.) Five c., all d. young. He m. 2d, Eliza Paddleford of Monroe, N. H., by whom he had one dau., Nellie E., (Mrs. J. C. McClay of St. Johnsbury). He d. Dec. 6, 1894.
ii. Ross, b. Jan. 11, 1817; farmer and blacksmith; m. Feb. 1, 1841, Deborah Noyes of Tunbridge, now living in Groton. He d. June 1, 1885. Three c., d. in infancy.
iii. Seth, b. Aug. 29. 1818, now retired from business in Barnet; farmer in that town, horse dealer, and ran a stage line 28 consecutive years in the White Mountains. He m. Amanda Paddleford. C., (1) Frank M., a farmer in northern Texas. (2) Patience M., (Mrs. M. E. McClary).
iv. Dan Young, b. Newbury, Sept. 13, 1820. Farmer on river road; m. 1st, Sept. 17, 1838, Charlotte A. Woodbury, who d. Feb. 14, 1870. One dau., Angeline, m. B. P. Wheeler, q. v .; 2d, Sept. 22, 1870, Ava B. Morgan of Lyndon. One dau., May Belle, b. May 1, 1874. Music teacher and organist at the Cong. Ch. Graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June, 1900.
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v. Emily S., b. Dec. 18, 1822; m. James Y. Prescott, q. v. d. Dec. 4, 1889.
vi. Jane S., b. April 3, 1825; m. Austin Paddleford of Monroe, N. H .; d. Jan., 1864.
vii. Mary S., b. March 26, 1828; m. a Mr. Sherman ; d. at Lowell, Mass., Aug. 7, 1854.
viii. Eliza W., b. Sept. 26, 1832. Res. Montour, Iowa; n1. Edward Taplin.
ix. Hannah H., b. May 3, 1835; m. Daniel Bartlett; d. Jan. 11, 1887, at Ord, Neb.
x. Lucia A., b. July 26, 1837. Res. Dennison, Texas; m. 1st, Joseph Allen Chamberlin, q. v., 2d, a Mr. Levy.
xi. Helen H., b. June 22, 1842; m. Nov. 18, 1857 Henry M. Niles. Res. Monroe, Wis.
FOREMAN-FARMAN.
ROBERT FOREMAN came from London, England, to Maryland, in 1674. He settled near Bodkin Bay, fourteen miles north of Annapolis, and became a planter. He was succeeded on the same estate by his son, William, and later by his grandson, Joseph, the latter born Oct. 17, 1699. The records of the wills of these three, and those of the widows of William and Joseph, are still to be found in Annapolis.
I. JOHN FOREMAN, was the sixth child and fifth son of Joseph, b. September 16, 1739. In the year 1756, he entered the British army as a volunteer, "for the war," then being waged by the English against the French colonists in North America. He went from Maryland to New York, thence up the Hudson, and through the wilderness, by the way of the Mokawk, Oneida Lake and Oswego river, to Oswego, and in the last year of the war, 1760, down the St. Lawrence to Montreal, and later to Three Rivers. In 1763, having been retained in the service nearly three years after he was entitled to his discharge, he, with two other volunteers, left the army at Three Rivers, "without leave," and made their way through forests to the colony of New Hampshire. They were lost and wandered in the wilderness six months, subsisting by hunting and such fruits and roots as they could obtain. At one time they came so near starvation that they sat down on a log to cast lots to determine which of the three famishing men should be food for the others. While thus occupied, a moose and two calves came in sight. They secured the mother and one calf, and were thus relieved from their desperate situation. They remained at this place a number of days to recover their strength, and dry their meat. They had with them a small amount of silver money. This, in their weak condition, had become a burden and was buried. Some time afterwards they came to the Connecticut river, or one of its tributaries, which they followed down stream for many days, finally coming to an open place covered with grass, where a horse was feeding. This gave the name to "Horse Meadow" in Haverhill. Supposing the horse had strayed they shot it for food. Starting again on their journey, the next morning, they soon discovered smoke on the Ox-bow at Newbury. They had met an Indian a few days before, the only human being they had seen since leaving the vicinity of Three Rivers, and fearing they were near an Indian village, one of the men cautiously crossed the river to reconnoiter. He soon returned accompanied by white settlers to the relief and great joy of his comrades. The owner demanded payment for his horse, and the men gave one or more of their guns in settlement of his claim, but the settlers, on learning the facts, raised by subscription a sum to satisfy him, and returned the guns. The gun of John Forcman is said to have been carried by Silas Chamberlin, one of his brothers in-law, at the battle of Bunker Hill. John Forcman served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Barron's Co. of Bedel's regiment, and was also employed, on account of his knowledge of the French lais uage, in special service in Canada, particularly to visit tlic settlements along the St. Francis and the St. Lawrence, with a scouting party in 1779 and 1780. He m. in 1764, Rebecca, dau. of Richard Chamberlin, (b. March 13, 1749, in Northfield, Mass). He remained in Newbury until 1771, when lic settled in Bath, N. H., on what is known as the William Abbott farm, at the mouth of the Ammonoosuc, opposite the
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present village of Woodsville, where he resided till his death in 1792. His widow, Rebecca, who landed with her father at Newbury in 1762, was only fifteen years old at the time of her marriage. In 1801, she went with her son, John, to Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y., and as late as 1820-21 was a vigorous lady, living with her son, Moody, in the adjoining town of Vernon, where she d. soon afterwards. At the time of the death of John Foreman, Sr., the family name was changed to Farman, for what reason is unknown. Some of the sons who had previously held town offices under the name of Foreman, afterwards held, in the same town, the same positions under the name of Farman.
Children :
i. Roswell, b. in Newbury, March 20, 1765; m. 1st, Ruth Turner; 2d, Abiah, dau. of Capt. Jeremiah Hutchins of Bath; 3d, Polly Wheeler; d. in New Haven, Oswego Co., N. Y., Oct. 17, 1839.
ii. Joab, b. in Newbury, May 22, 1766; removed to Paris, N. Y., 1797, to Ellisburg, N. Y., 1808, where he d. Oct. 11, 1864, in his 99th year; m. 1st, May 26, 1791, in Bath, N. H., Rebecca Powers, b. Sept. 22, 1771; d. July 6, 1806, in Paris, N. Y .; 2d, Abigail Whitney, Aug. 22, 1807; b. April 10, 1774, in Ridgefield, Conn .; d. June 20, 1856, in Ellisburg, N. Y.
iii. John, b. in Newbury in 1768; m. Esther Goodwin of Haverhill, N. H., in 1799 (probably dau. Simeon Goodwin) ; she was born Aug. 15, 1777; d. May 15, 1872, at Ellington, N. Y .; d. in Oppenheim, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1812, while on his way from Albany to his home in Augusta, N. Y.
iv. William, d. in childhood.
v. Benjamin, b. in Bath, N. H., Dec. 25, 1773; m. 1st, Keziah Powers, 1795, b. 1777; died in Bath, Aug., 1822; 2d, Mrs. Lois Stebbins, widow Capt. Benj. Stebbins of Westfield, Vt., in 1836; d. Sept. 25, 1858, in Lowell, Vt., and buried in adjoining town of Troy. (Said in notice of his death to have been the first male child born in Bath that lived to manhood).
vi. Moody, b. in Bath, N. H., in 1775; m. Hannah McEuen, 1809, of Oneida Valley, N. Y .; d. in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1825.
vii. Simpson, b. in Bath, N. H., May 31, 1776; m. 1st, Hannah Ward, b. 1780; d. 1832; 2d, Rachel Hosolton ; d. in Poke Co., Wis., Sept. 23, 1863.
viii. Samuel, b. in Bath, N. H., Sept. 5, 1777 ; m., in Bath, N. H., Polly Psalter, b. Oct. 13, 1785; d. in Ellisburg, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1870; d. in Ellisburg, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1849.
ix. Wealthy, m. John Henry Hunt; lived in Bath, N. H.
x. Harvey, b. in Bath, 1784; removed from Bath to Westfield, 1820; d. in Troy, Vt., May 20, 1844; buried in adjoining town of Westfield.
The daughter and eight of the nine sons of these hardy pioneers of Newbury left children, and six of the sons large families. Their descendants are numer- ous, scattered in most of the northern and western states. Benjamin and Harvey settled in Orleans Co., Vt. The other sons, some in 1797, and the . others a few years later, removed to the State of New York. Roswell went first, in 1803, to Oneida County, and in 1806 to Oswego County, N. Y., being attracted to the latter place by the accounts given him by his father of his long sojourn as a soldier at Oswego. His oldest son, Zadok, m. Marthy Dix, b. in Wethersfield, Conn., Dec. 12, 1796. She was a descendant on the paternal side of Leonard Dix, one of the original settlers of that town, and on her maternal of Thomas Wells, also a settler of Wethersfield (1635), and the first Colonial Treasurer of Connecticut, and afterwards Secretary, Deputy Governor and Governor of that colony, and twenty-four years one of the judges of the General Court and the writer and one of the enactors, in 1642, of the severe criminal statutes that have given rise to the tradition of the existence of a criminal code commonly called the "Blue Laws."
ELBERT ELI FARMAN, traveler and diplomatist, was the third son and the fifth child of Zadok and Martha Dix Farman. He was b. in New Haven, N. Y., April 23, 1831; fitted for college at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary; was two years at Genesee College, but graduated at Amherst College 1855, from which he received the degree of A. M., in 1858, and in 1882 that of L.L. D. He took an active part in the Fremont campaign of 1856, delivering over fifty addresses. Studied law at Warsaw, N. Y., and
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was admitted to the bar in 1858, and settled at Warsaw, which has since been his permanent residence. Was also, for several years, editor of the Western New Yorker, attending at the same time to a very large practice. From 1865 to 1867 he traveled and studied in Europe. District Attorney for Wyoming County, N. Y., 1868-76. He was appointed by President Grant, in 1876, diplomatie agent, and consul general at Cairo, Egypt, holding this position till 1881, when he was appointed by President Garfield, on the last day of his publie service, July 1, 1881, as one of the judges of the mixed tribunals of Egypt. This is a court composed of representatives of the various powers, who try all cases in which foreigners are interested. In January, 1883, he was designated by President Arthur, a member of the International Commission to determine the amounts to be paid as damages caused by the riots, burning and pillage of Alexandria in 1882. These scenes and the bombardment and burning of the city he witnessed. When Gen. Grant visited Egypt, Mr. Farman presented him to the Khedive, and accompanied him in his voyage up the Nile. It is to his personal efforts and his friendly relations to the Khedive, that New York city is indebted for the obelisk in Central Park. He also made, while in Egypt, extensive collections of antiquities, which he has since elassfied, and are now on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum in Central Park. Mr. Farman has been an indefatigable traveler, has crossed the Atlantic many times, has visited nearly every country in Europe and Asia, has explored Yucatan, Central and South America. At the time this work goes to press he has just returnd to America from a long residence in France, where he and Mrs. Farman have educated their children. Their home is in Warsaw, N. Y., where he is a member, and for 35 years a trustee of the Congregational church. Judge Farman has several times visited Newbury, and has taken a deep interest in this history, to whose success he has contributed in many ways. He was one of the first to urge its undertaking upon the editor, and, at the earnest solicitation of the latter, has caused a steel portrait of himself to be placed in this volume.
FOSTER.
REUBEN, was a prominent man, and an early settler, came here before the revolutionary war in which he served. In 1777, he with Gen. Bayley, represented Newbury in the first Windsor Convention, and the next year was chosen, with Col. Kent, to the second convention held at that place. He was, evidently, a man of affairs. The family has long been extinet here, but a record of the children of Reuben Foster, and Hannah Bayley, his wife, is from the town records, and inserted for the information of any member of the Foster family who may be in search for data.
Children :
i. Edward, b. May 14, 1768.
ii. Lydia, b. Sept. 21, 1770.
iii. Cyrus, b. July 10, 1772.
iv. Mary, b. June 19, 1774; d. Aug. 11, 1776.
v. Ebenczer, b. June 25, 1776.
vi. Nathaniel, b. May 25, 1778.
vii. Doreas, b. Jan. 4, 1782.
FOWLER.
This family was prominent in the early years, but disappeared before the 19th century came in. Mr. F. L. Bailey says that the wives of Col. Joshua Bayley and his brother, Capt. Ephraim Bayley, were sisters, and daughters of Dea. Abner Fowler of Pembroke, N. H. This being the case, there are many descendants of the Fowlers living here now, and a few scanty details are here preserved, as there is no mention of the Newbury family in the "Book of the Fowlers." The family came early. Jacob Fowler was here in 1764, and in the town records is called "Captain" Fowler, by which it is presumed that he was an officer in the old French war. In 1769 he was a selectman.
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JACOB and his wife were members of the Congregational church, and the record reads: "Jan. 23, 1785. At five o'clock this morning, Lieut. Jacob Fowler, a member of this church, deceased." The N. Y. petition, 1773, is signed by Abner, Peter, Jonathan, Abner, Jr., and Joseph Fowler. In 1771, Jacob, Jonathan, Abner and Abner, Jr., are given as heads of families. All these, with Jacob, Jr., and Jacob 3d, were in Revolutionary service. The name once must have been as common as that of Bayley or Chamberlain, but it has long disappeared from the town.
FULLER.
REV. STEPHEN FULLER, b. Mansfield. Conn., Dec. 3, 1756; grad. Dartmouth College 1786; ordained pastor of Cong. ch., Vershire, Sept. 3, 1788, and d. in office April 2, 1816. Published a volume of sermons. His salary never exceeded $400, on which he and his wife reared and educated a large family, sending five sons through college. He m., Sept., 1788, Phebe, dau. of Moses Thurston.
Children :
i. Henry, Presbyterian minister and D. D. at Huntington, Long Island; three children.
ii. Sewall, farmer, of Bradford; six c.
iii. Stephen, physician, at Northampton, Mass. ; four c.
iv. David, lawyer, in Ohio; four c.
Edwin, farmer, in Bradford and Fairlee.
vi.
1 T. Edward C., minister at Brooklyn, N. Y.
vii. Joseph, minister, d. in Vershire.
viii. Lucy. d. un-m.
ix. Lydia, d. y.
x. Phebe. b. Dec. 18, 1794 ; m. June 4, 1816, Rev. Silas McKeen of Bradford, d. Nov. 30, 1820.
1 EDWIN, farmer, of Fairlee and Bradford ; he m. Wealthy, dau. of Moody Clark of Bradford, who d. in Fairlee, April 30, 1854; d. Bradford, Nov. 4, 1887.
Children :
i. Susan Clark, m. 1st, John Thompson (q. v.) ; 2d, Isaac Olmsted (q. v.) ; 3d, - Jones, and is a widow, living at South Newbury.
2 ii. Joseph H., b. Feb. 21, 1832.
iii. Edward P., d. at two years of age.
iv. Edward P., m. Carrie Bacon of Conn .; lived in Mount Vernon, N. Y .; d. Nov. 25, 1896.
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