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2 v. Jonathan, b. March 17, 1764.
3 vi. Samuel, b. Jan. 31, 1766.
vii. John, b. Dec. 13, 1767; d. Apr. 18, 1778.
viii. Prescott, b. Jan. 8, 1770 ; settled in Maine.
ix. Hale, b. Dec. 22, 1771 ; settled in Maine.
4 x. Moody, b. Nov. 9, 1773.
xi. Anna, b. June 27, 1775 ; d. June 4, 1777.
xii. Peter, b. Aug. 4, 1777 ; settled in Maine; d. 1870.
xiii. Anna, b. July 25, 1779; d. in Maine.
In the Hale genealogy, Samuel is given as 5th and Jonathan as 6th, the latter b. in Newbury. Chipman's "Dartmouth Alumni" gives Jonathan as b. here.
1 STEPHEN, b. Newent, Conn., July 15, 1762; served in Capt. Fryc Bayley's Co., guarding and scouting, 1 month, 20 days, in 1781; m. Feb. 12, 1786, Mary (Polly) Grow, b. Pomfret, Conn. They settled at West Newbury,
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and cleared a farm where George Page now lives. He d. March 22, 1843 ; she d. Apr. 1, 1843; buried at West Newbury.
Children :
i. Peter, b. Apr. 17, 1787; m. Ruth. dau. Josiah Rogers. Lived in Corinth and had c .; Alden, who served in the navy ; Peter, Nelson, Grenville, d. y .; Abigail, m. Col. Sanborn of Bunker Hill, Iowa; Luthera, who. m. Joel Derby of Vershire; Grenville of Corinth, and Sarah, twin sister of Alden, who m. Horace T. Keyes of Vershire and Newbury. He d. June 25, 1857.
ii. Martha, d. in infancy.
iii. Martha, b. May 23, 1790; m. John Bailey ; q. v.
iv. Anna, b. May 12, 1792; m. Thomas Abbott ; q. v.
v. Jonathan, b. March 8, 1792 ; m. Harriet Corliss, March 21, 1822; d. July 1, 1873, at West Burke.
vi. Polly, b. Dec. 5, 1795; d. Oct. 12, 1823.
vii. Abigail, b. Sept. 7, 1797; m. Thomas Abbott as 2d wife.
viii. Stephen, b. July 16, 1799; m. Mary Stevens of Piermont; b. Sept. 14, 1802. C., b. Newbury. (1) Joseph, b. Aug. 24, 1823 ; m. Sarah Downing; d. 1866. (2) Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1825; m. Jonathan Merrill. (3) Betsey, b. Nov. 23, 1826; m. Daniel Cleveland. (4) John, b. Nov. 27, 1828; m. Ann Moore. (5) Isaac, b. Dec. 23, 1830; m. Mary Baldwin; d. March, 1875. (6) Love, b. Jan. 19, 1833 ; m. John Aiken. (7) Anne, b. Nov. 19, 1835; m. William Harding. (8) Harriet, b. Jan. 25, 1837; m. W. E. Hill; d. Dec. 12, 1872. He d. in New York. Dec. 12, 1869.
ix. John, b. July 30 1802; d. July 13, 1803.
Betsey. b. June 6, 1804; m. John Powers.
xi. Electa D., b. Dec. 13, 1806; m. Jonathan Powers.
2 JONATHAN, B. March 17, 1764; (Chipman's Dartmouth Alumni gives Newbury as his birthplace). Served 15 days in Capt. Frye Bayley's Co., guarding and scouting in 1781. Taught the first school in Ryegate; graduated at Dartmouth College 1793; pastor of Cong. Ch. at Penobscot, Me., 1796, till death, 1808. Twice m .; 1st to a sister of the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Lambert of Newbury.
3 SAMUEL, b. Newbury, Jan. 31, 1766; (another record makes him b. in Hollis, 1764). Farmer; lived a little north of the schoolhouse in the Powers (now Rollins) neighborhood. His father intended him for the ministry, but he thought his brother Jonathan was better fitted for the calling and gave place to him. He was a member of the Cong. Ch. more than 75 years, and greatly respected, holding many town offices. He was a very good scholar, and a practical surveyor. For the last ten years of his life he was blind. He m., 1st, Feb. 14, 1788, Anna Grow, who d. June 16, 1789; one c .; 2d, March 13, 1795, Sarah Ford, who d. Sept. 1799, in her 28th year; two c .; 3d. March 23, 1802, Mary, dau. Ebenezer White, (b. March 23, 1761; d. Feb. 16, 1849). He d. Jan. 21, 1857; buried at Boltonville.
Children :
i. John, b. Jan. 26, 1789. Lived near his father's; m. Nov. 27, 1826, his double cousin, Betsey, dau. Stephen Powers, (b. June 16, 1804 ; d. Dec. 25, 1877). C., (1) John, b. July 5, 1827; d. Jan. 1, 1885. (2) Anna S., b. Nov. 11, 1840; d. Jan. 28, 1881.
5 ii. Moody, b. Dec. 5, 1795; d. July 1, 1869.
iii. Anna, b. Feb. 14, 1797 ; m. John H. Carbee of Newbury and Bath.
4 MOODY, b. Nov. 9, 1773; physician at Deer Isle, Me., excepting one year at St. Stephen, N. B. He m. Elizabeth Eaton. Nine c., of whom Elizabeth E., b. St. Stephen, N. B., Aug. 12, 1805, m. in Boston, David Tyler; res. Deer Isle until his death, when she came to Newbury, and m. Oct. 1850, John B. Carleton, as 2d wife. She d. June 8, 1878. Mr. Powers d. Nov. 30, 1853. Children by 1st marriage:
i. George P. Tyler, b. Deer Isle, Sept. 16, 1833; farmer at West Newbury. He lost his right arm by falling from a load of wood while descending Sawyer Hill, Jan. 9, 1880, getting caught under the sled. Thrown from his wagon in "Goshen," Dec. 30, 1899, and d. same day. He m. Dec. 31, 1862, Eliza H., dau. Thomas Smith, who d. May 12, 1899. C., (1) Clarice L., b. Dec. 4, 1864. (2) John B. C., b. Feb. 22, 1869, merchant at West Newbury ;
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m. Nov. 1893, Abbie E. Parker of Wentworth, N. H. C., a., Russell Parker, b. July 13, 1896. b., Margaret, and c., Lawrence Gordon, (twins), b. May 7, 1898. (3) Bessie C., b. Sept. 2, 1872; teacher. (4) George L., b. May 24, 1884.
ii. Hannah H., b. Nov. 23, 1839 ; m. Joseph Sawyer; q. v.
5 MOODY, (Deacon), b. Dec. 5, 1795; m. June 17, 1819, Anna, dau. of Col. Joshua Bayley; (b. Jan. 17, 1795; d. March, 1858). Dea. Powers lived where Mrs. H. T. Swan now lives, and rem. to Iowa about 1863. Deacon in Wells River church; d. July 1, 1869, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Children :
i. Prescott, b Feb. 10, 1821; d. June 11, 1881. at Keneesaw, Neb.
ii. Hale, b. Aug. 18, 1823; m. Mary Bailey of Lyman; d. May 15, 1872, at Franconia, N. H .; one son.
iii. Joshua, b. June 4, 1826; served in the Union army and d. Nov. 20, 1862, in service at Georgetown, D. C.
iv. Ephraim, b. May 9, 1828; m. Janette Whitehill; 3 c .; d. Jan. 26, 1898, Keneesaw, Neb.
v. Moody, b. Aug. 31, 1830; m. Juliette Whitehill; 2 c .; d. Oct. 31, 1864, Newbury.
vi. Charles J., b. March 12, 1833 ; 2 c.
vii. Sarah F., b. Jan. 3, 1836 ; m. J. H. Roberts, Marshalltown, Iowa.
6 JONATHAN, b. Deer Isle, Nov. 12, 1808. Sailor and captain of a coasting vessel many years. He m. Jan. 21, 1837, Electa, dau. of Stephen Powers, and settled on the latter's farm. They rem. to Bradford, where she d. Nov. 9, 1888. He d. Bradford, Jan. 28, 1882.
Children :
i. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 3, 1838; m. March 6, 1861, George W. Farr of Bradford; architect and builder ; rem. to Kansas City, 1885. Mrs. Farr has rendered valuable aid in collecting these records of the Powers family.
ii. John Hale, b. Nov. 1, 1840; enlisted 1861, 1st Vt. Cavalry; surgeon's elerk and assistant; was under fire. in 43 battles; graduated Wesleyan University. 1869; in business and studying law at Cincinnati, where he d. suddenly, Sept. 26, 1877. He m. Nov. 8, 1870, Josephine Haggatt of Sidney, O., and had c., Josephine P., b. Dee. 25, 1873, and H. Hale, b. Nov. 7, 1885, now at Wesleyan University.
iii. Martha B., b. Jan. 3, 1845; graduated Vermont Conference Seminary, 1872; one year teacher in Grammar sehool, Union City, Ind .; preeeptress of Bradford Academy, 1874-86; preceptress of Indian mission school, supported by the government at Pawhuska, Indian Territory, 1889-90; teacher in a mission school among the Digger Indians at Ukiah, Cal., where there had never been a school or missionary before, 1891-94. She m. April 15, 1893, James E. Glazier of Ukiah, Cal.
POWERS.
MATTHIAS, b. Tramore Bay, Waterford County, Ireland, Mareh 31, 1820; m. in Ireland, Aug. 12, 1844, Johannah O'Brien, b. Kileomera, Waterford County, Aug. 14, 1824. She d. Littleton, Dee. 13, 1900. He came to America in 1847, landing in Boston, barefoot and penniless. He earned money and sent for his wife and ehild. In 1848, he worked on the Connecticut River Railway at Westminster, and later helped build the White Mountain R. R. from Woodsville to Littleton. Came to Newbury in 1858, and bought the William Meader place. Rem. 1865 to Corinth, where he worked in the copper mincs. In 1870 he bought a farm ncar South Littleton, N. H., on which he lived till death, Dec. 13, 1898, having acquired a comfortable estatc.
Children, who survived infancy :
i. Mary, b. Ircland, Aug. 12, 1845; m. Mareh 10, 1869, George M. Stowell of Springfield, Mass; d. Springfield, Mass., Oct. 13, 1871. Onc dau., Mary P., b. August, 1871; m. a Mr. Morris of Philadelphia.
ii. Fanny R., b. Bath, N. H., Jan. 11, 1852; attendant in lunatic hospital, Northampton, Mass .; m. Junc 21, 1876, Charles H. Dudley, from
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Winthrop, Me. They were connected with the State Alms house at Tewksbury, Mass., several years, and then entered the Danvers Lunatic hospital, where she attained the position of matron, and superintendent of nurses, and principal of school for nurses. Mr. Dudley d. Aug. 19, 1896, and she resigned her position. She m. 2d at Constantinople, Turkey, Sept. 17, 1897, Hon. Milo A. Jewett, consul at Sivas, Asiatic Turkey ; res. Sivas. One son, Charles H. Dudley, b. Oct. 9, 1877, now in Dartmouth College.
iii. Thomas C., b. Littleton, Oct. 19, 1853; attendant from 1874, and afterwards steward at Northampton Lunatic hospital. He m. May 19, 1878, Hattie A. Aldrich of Cuttingsville. He d. Northampton, Mass., Feb. 12, 1893. Three c., Katie Alice, Fanny D. and Thomas C., all residents of Northampton.
iv. Margaret, b. Littleton, June 7, 1855, d. Littleton, Oct. 17, 1874.
v. Maurice, b. Newbury, March 14, 1860; d. Cornith, May 2, 1865.
vi. Alice, b. Newbury, Feb. 8, 1862; teacher for 20 years; now, 1901, with her sister at Sivas, Turkey.
vii. Matthew, b. Newbury, Aug. 16, 1863; two years in Dartmouth College, teacher ; m. Kate Foshey ; now farmer on homestead.
PRESCOTT.
I. JAMES, ancestor of many families in Newbury, emigrated from Dryby, Lincolnshire, England, in 1665, and settled in Hampton, N. H. In 1694, he became a grantee of the town of Kingston to which place he rem. in 1725, and where he d., Nov. 25, 1728, aged about 85. He was a member of the church at Hampton, and afterwards at Kingston, about fifty years. He m. in 1668, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel and Grace Boulter, (b. Exeter, May 15, 1648; d. at Kingston, Oct. 4, 1735). "The Prescott Memorial," published in 1870, by Dr. William Prescott of Concord, N. H., has furnished most of the records of this family. They had nine c., of whom Dea. James was b. Sept 1, 1671; farmer of Hampton; m. March 1, 1695, Maria, dau. of William Marston, Jr., (b. May 16, 1672). Their c. were eight, of whom the 2d,
II. SAMUEL, b. March 14, 1697, farmer of Hampton Falls, of which he was town clerk. He m. Dec. 17, 1717, Mary Sanborn. They were parents of six sons, five of whom served in the Old French war and the Revolution. She d. June 12, 1759. The date of his death is not known.
III. JEREMIAH, eldest son of Samuel, b. Sept. 29, 1718; m. 1st, Jan. 15, 1741, Mary Hayes; settled in Epping. Served in Capt. Folsom's Co., of Blanchard's regiment in the expedition against the French fort at Niagara, in 1755. In 1756, he served in Capt. Doe's Co. of Merserve's regiment in the expedition against Crown Point. He d. 1780.
Their c. were nine:
IV. COL. JEREMIAH, the eldest, b. Dec. 22, 1741. Lieut. in Capt. Sanborn's Co. in Col. Evan's regiment, 1777; captain in Col. Stickney's regiment ; settled in Epsom, where he was a farmer, and colonel in the militia. He m. Jan., 1764, Jane Sherburne, (b. Oct., 1745; d. Sept., 1828). William Prescott, brother of Col. Jeremiah, settled in Vershire. Col. Jeremiah, d. Apr. 25, 1817.
The c. of Col. Prescott were as follows:
i. John, (1764-1857), of Epsom and Bristol, N. H.
ii. Jeremiah, (1767-1817), of Epsom, N. H., and Vershire; lived in Newbury in 1801.
iii. Huldah, (1770-1815) ; m. Daniel Kimball of Pembroke, N. H., and Bradford. iv. Samuel, (1773-) ; settled in Vershire.
v. Sarah, b. 1776; m. Stephen Maltby ; settled in Vershire.
1 vi. Joseph, (1779-1866).
vii. Sherburne, b. Sept. 29, 1782; settled in Vershire ; m. 1st, 1805, Betsey Rand, who d. leaving six c., of whom Mary, b. July 16, 1814, m. Thomas L. Tucker of Newbury, and Irene C., b. Feb. 15, 1818; m. Feb. 15, 1843, Samuel Alden Tucker ; d. Feb. 15, 1888.
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1 JOSEPH, b. Epsom, July 21, 1879; m. Jan. 1801, Sarepta, dau. of Joseph and Sarah Olmsted of Bradford, (b. Jan., 1781; d. Feb. 15, 1850) ; settled at West Newbury about 1800 on the farm still called the "old Prescott place" where N. C. Randall now lives, building a log house and later a framed one. They were members of the first Methodist class formed in this town, in 1801, and among the earliest members of the M. E. church, in which he was a class leader for many years. He d. Oct., 1866.
Children :
i. Israel, b. Apr. 4, 1803; m. 1st, March 8, 1826, Betsey E. Putnam of Bradford, (b. Feb. 22, 1802; d. Boston, March 8, 1850). One son, Wm. P., b. Newbury, Jan. 21, 1824; res. Boston; connected with Boston Theatre ; has two c .; Lizzie, m. -, and William. He m. 2d, Sept. 15, 1850, Sally, widow of his brother, Lorenzo.
ii. Mary, b. Apr. 25, 1805; m. Ephraim, son of Col. Joshua Bailey ; q. v.
iii. Sophia, b. Sept. 5, 1809; m. Sept., 1829, William Heath.
iv. Eliza, b. Oct. 25, 1812 ; m. Isaac Olmsted; q. v.
v. Jane S., b. June 14, 1814; m. Feb. 15, 1838, Lowell G., son of Nathan Taplin of Corinth; rem. to Oskosh, Wis., in 1848 and died there. C., (1) Osman Baker, b. Newbury, Dec. 19, 1840; studied medicine; enlisted Apr. 21, 1861, in Co. E., 2d Wisconsin for three months; re-enlisted June 11, for three years; was in the first and second battles of Bull Run, Gainesville and South Mountain; was mortally wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, and d. at Keedysville, Md., Sept. 24, and buried there. (2) Carrie S., b. Corinth, July 1, 1843; m. Chas. A. Johnson of Oshkosh; d. St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, April 13, 1898. (3) Sarah A. C., b. in Boston, Dec. 19, 1851; d. June 8, 1852.
vi. Amanda, b. Nov. 10, 1816; m. Jan. 10, 1837, David G. Bickford, who d. at Corinth, Jan. 20, 1843, leaving a son, Israel P., b. Newbury, March 28, 1838; res. Concord, N. H.
vii. Lorenzo Dow, b. Aug. 7, 1818; m. Dec. 15, 1843, Sally, dau. of Dudley Carleton, (b. Sept. 11, 1816; d. July 3, 1893). One son, Lorenzo D., b. Oct., 1847; d. May 4, 1898, while staying over night at a hotel in Newport, Vt. ; un-m.
viii. James Young, b. Dec. 21, 1820; m. Oct. 5, 1843, Emily, dau. of R. C. Ford. Sold the old farm in 1871 and rem. to Lowell, Mass., where he d. Apr. 21, 1884 ; she d. Dec. 3, 1889. C., (1) Adda E., b. Jan. 22, 1845; d. Sept. 29, 1864. (2) Arabella A., b. July 7, 1848. Teacher in the Bartlett Grammar School, Lowell, having risen from the middle grade to the highest, also in the model and practice school connected with the state normal school. (3) Frank P., b. Feb. 8, 1853; res. Boston; un-m. (4) Frederick M., b. Oct. 17, 1855; jeweler at Lowell; 1899 chosen private secretary to the Mayor of Lowell.
ix. Sarah Janc, b. Oct. 1828; m. March, 1842, Horatio N. Carleton; q. v.
PROUTY.
SAMUEL, of Spencer, Mass., m. Miriam Stevens, of Shrewsbury, and had four c., of whom Samuel, b. May 10, 1780, m. Mary, dau. of Elijah and Mary (Stevens) King. They rem. to Barnet, where others of the Stevens family resided, but settled in Charlestown, N. H. Of their six c., Elijah King was b. in Charlestown, N. H., 1801; teacher of vocal and instrumental music, from about 1825, till death, and composer of many church tunes and secular pieces; teacher of vocal music at Newbury Seminary, 1851, and lived here several years, teaching music. After some years' absence he returned to Newbury about 1856, where he exercised his profession, and was much engaged in holding musical conventions. He possessed a clear and strong tenor voice, and was considered an authority upon all musical subjects. He was chorister at the Cong. Ch. many years. He m. 1st, Cynthia -, who d. in Waterford. Hc m. 2d, 1838, Mary Ann Converse, of Lyme, N. H. He d. Newbury, Sept. 26, 1869. Children, three by 1st, and two by 2d marriage:
i. Bcriah Loomis, b. Oct. 14, 1831; res. Lynn, Mass.
ii. Chloe Emeline, b. Dcc. 22, 1833; m. Charles F. Johnson of Lyme, N. H .; res. Minneapolis, Minn.
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iii. Elijah King, b. March, 1836; served in the Union army; was officer in a colored regiment. He d. in Birmingham, Ala., about 1888.
iv. Mary Jane, b. 1842; d. Wilson, N. C., 1859.
v. Edith Josephine, b. July 30, 1855; m. A. J. Holbrook; res. London, Eng.
PUTNAM.
I. JOHN, b. about 1580, of England and Salem, Mass .; d. at Salem Village, now Danvers, Dec. 30, 1662. He came from Buckinghamshire, Eng., in 1634, with three sons.
II. NATHANIEL, b. in England 1617 or 1621; m. Elizabeth Hutchinson, by whom he had seven c. He had a considerable landed estate, much of which remains in the family. He d. Danvers, July 23, 1700. He had two sons, John and Benjamin; one of the Newbury Putnam families is descended from John, and the other from Benjamin.
III. JOHN, b. Danvers, March 26, 1657; m. Hannah Cutter; d. September, 1722. They had 15 c.
IV. Amos, b. Danvers, Jan. 27, 1697 ; d. 1774.
V. DEA. DANIEL, b. Danvers; m. Elizabeth Putnam; lieutenant in Capt. Samuel Flint's Co., which marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775.
VI. DANIEL, b. Danvers, Oct. 3, 1762; came to West Newbury before 1796, and built a log house on the farm where the late Joel Putnam lived; later he built a two-story house which, with the barns, was burned, August 5, 1882. He m. Sarah Porter, of Danvers, who d. Feb. 13, 1834. He d. Dec. 19, 1802, Newbury. They were buried in a small, disused yard on their own farm.
Children :
i. Betsey, b. Jan. 22, 1791; d. Aug. 27, 1791.
ii. Daniel, b. Jan. 9, 1792; went west.
iii. Betsey, b. May 12, 1794; m. Oct. 10, 1816, Michael Carleton, of Haverhill; d.
1 iv. Joel, b. Newbury, July 28, 1796; d. June 5, 1860.
v. Sally A., b. March 17, 1800; m. Aug. 27, 1823, Dudley C. Kimball, q. v.
1 JOEL,2 (Daniel,1) b. Newbury, July 28, 1796; m. March 7, 1821, Mindwell, dau. Samuel Tucker, (b. July 7, 1799; d. Sept. 5, 1853) ; farmer on homestead; d. June 5, 1860.
Children :
i. Joel P., b. Dec. 2, 1823; farmer on homestead; m. Feb. 13, 1872, Lydia M. Gove; d. March 22, 1899.
ii. Samuel T., b. March 11, 1825; m. Nov. 3, 1858, Lucinda, dau. of David McAllister, and widow of John N. Brock, (b. Feb. 18, 1823; d. June 15, 1871) ; farmer, on the farm before owned by John N. Brock. He d. Nov. 16, 1895. One son, Samuel Frank, b. Aug. 25, 1860; farmer on homestead ; m. June 15, 1885, Alice Josephine, dau. of John Crawford, b. Jan. 1, 1865. C., a, John Harrington, b. Jan. 15, 1886. 6, Ned Franklin, b. Dec. 12, 1889. c, infant, b. April 7; d. April 10, 1891. d, Tressie Lucinda, b. April 17, 1894. e, Marjorie Josephine, b. Nov. 15, 1898.
iii. Mindwell, b. Feb. 17, 1827; d. April 6, 1866.
iv. Mary, b. Nov. 28, 1829; d. May 11, 1878.
v. William K., b. June 1, 1833; farmer; m. Sept. 5, 1860, Lucinda R., dau. Alonzo Fleming. C., (1) George W., b. Jan. 22, 1862; farmer in Newbury; m. July 2, 1890, Carrie, dau. G. W. K. Carleton. C., a, George William, b. May 31, 1896. (2) Edward E., b. Aug. 1, 1863; farmer at West Newbury; m. November 28, 1888, Mattie J., dau. L. W. McAllister. (3) Hattie, b. November 20, 1872 ; m. Jonas Tucker.
vi. Sarah, b. Jan. 15, 1836; d. y.
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PUTNAM.
This family is also descended from John Putnam, who came to Salem in 1634, through
II. NATHANIEL, b. 1621; d. Feb. 23, 1700. He had two sons, John and Benjamin. III. BENJAMIN, b. 1664 ; had seven sons.
IV. ISRAEL, b. 1699.
V. * TARRANT, b. about 1732. The history of Danvers, Mass., mentions a Tarrant Putnam whom it calls "Ensign Tarrant Putnam," and gives the date of his birth as 1733. He was elerk of the 1st church in Danvers, in 1775, and may be the Tarrant Putnam who came here about ten years later. The latter was a man of very high standing, wrote an excellent hand, and seems to have been familiar with the details of business. Tarrant and Daniel Putnam eame to Newbury about the same time and settled in what is now ealled West Newbury. Daniel Putnam m. Sarah Porter. Tarrant Putnam m. 1st, Hannah Porter and 2d Eunice Porter, but it is not known that there was any connection between the three. It used to be said in early days that one-third of the people in Danvers were Putnams, and another third were Porters.
Tarrant Putnam, b. Danvers, Mass., 1732; m. Hannah Porter, July 1, 1756. They were the parents of 5 e. She d. and he m. 2d about 1775, Eunice Porter. They came to Newbury about 1790, and settled where the late Guy Corliss long lived. They were members of the 1st church, and in 1801, the town voted that "Rev. Mr. Lambert should preach at the house of Mr. Tarrant Putnam in the baek part of the town on the fourth Sabbath of each month." He d. 1819, as Asa Tenney, Isaac Bayley and David Wilson were appointed commissioners on his estate, Apr. 17th in that year.
Children :
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i. Eleazer P., b. Dee. 7, 1758.
2 ii. Israel, b. Nov. 22, 1760; d. March 13, 1849.
iii. Asa, b. Dee. 28, 1765; rem. to Brookfield, N. Y., and d. about 1840.
iv. Abigail, b. July 13, 1768 ; m. and d. in Danvers.
v. Polly, b. Apr. 28, 1771; m. Wyman Smith. (He was a stone eutter and made gravestones, many of which are still in the older cemeteries about here. The births of 9 e. between Apr. 18, 1794, and Apr. 5, 1811, are recorded in Newbury. He appears to have rem. to Piermont, where he d. Oet., 1852). George Jenkins of Bradford is a grandson.
vi. Sarah, b. 1777; m. Josiah Moore of West Fairlee.
vii. Daniel, d. y.
viii. Tarrant, m. Nov. 10, 1805, Ruth Chadwick. He d. leaving two e., who rem. to New York., and she m. 2d Jan. 21, 1817, Benjamin Broek, q. v.
ix. Elizabeth, b. 1788; m. John Briekett; q. v.
x. Euniee, d. y.
xi. Ruth, d. y.
xii. Elisha, b. 1794; m. and went west.
1 ELEAZER PORTER, commonly called Porter Putnam, b. Dee. 7, 1758 ; served in the Revolutionary War with his brother, Israel, for two years, after which he m. and rem. to Maine, and in 1786, eame to Newbury where his brother Israel had settled and where their father and the rest of the family followed them. Later he rem. to Topsham, then to Corinth. Children :
i. Samuel, b. Salem, Mass., 1782; studied medieine with Dr. Richard Huntley of Topsham and settled in Burke, in 1804, as the 1st physician in that town. In 1808 he came to Bradford and lived in "Goshen." In 1816, he moved to Newbury to the "John Atwood place; " d. of consumption, July 17, 1817, and buried in Rogers Hill cemetery. He m. Mareh 11, 1812, Betsey, dau. Col. John Bayley. C., a dau. who d. y. and a son, Samuel
"Mrs. Tower collected the records of the Grow and Tarrant Putnam families for this volume.
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who m. Lydia, dau. Abner Bayley ; reared a large family ; d. Chicago, 1857. ii. Benjamin, b. Bakerstown, Me., Sept. 1, 1788; ordained an evangelist in the Free Will Baptist church at Strafford, Feb. 6, 1809, and preached in the Christian denomination some years in Bradford, and Topsham; ordained to the Baptist ministry, Aug. 21, 1820, and was settled in Bethel. In 1834 he was pastor of the First Baptist church at Springfield, Mass., and later, settled in Billerica, Mass., where he d. In 1821, he published a small volume of his religious experiences. He had several c. of whom Harriet L., m. a Mr. Packer of Brooklyn, N. Y., where they founded a school which afterwards became widely known as the "Packer Institute." Maria, m. Rev. Mr. Bellamy, and their son, Edward, a journalist, was the author of "Looking Backward." Julia, the other dau., mn. a Rev. Mr. Savage, and went to India as a missionary, and d. there, leaving a dau. still in India. iii. Israel, became a physician and settled in Boston; several c.
iv. Smith, m. a Mrs. Ormsbee of Fairlee and rem. to Elmore. A dau., Maria L., m. Asa T. Shaw, of Bradford ; 6 c.
v. Sally, m. Paschal Raymond. Mrs. John B. Wilson is their dau.
vi. Louisa, m. a Mr. Scott of Randolph and Dorchester, Mass.
2 ISRAEL, b. Nov. 22, 1760; served in the Revolutionary War with his elder brother; came to Newbury about 1784, and m. March 17, 1788, Susanna Heath. In that year they rem. to Topsham, and settled in the east part of the town, on what is sometimes called the "Alden Brock place." The buildings are all gone. In 1838, he rem. to Bradford, where he d. March 13, 1849, and she d. Jan. 16, 1847; both buried at West Newbury.
Children :
i. Betsey, b. July 15, 1789; m. John B. Carleton, q. v .; d. Dec. 5, 1849.
ii. Jesse, b. Dec. 21, 1790; d. March 3, 1868.
3 iii. Susan, b. Feb. 27, 1794; m. Luke Cross, and rem. to Fonda, N. Y .; d. 1856.
3 JESSE, b. Dec. 21, 1790; farmer and schoolmaster ; m. April 18, 1816, Eliza, dau. Samuel Grow, (d. July 23, 1872). Farmer with his father in Topsham till 1838. when he rem. to Bradford, and in 1867 to Rutland where he d. March 3, 1868.
Children :
i. Eliza S., b. March 31, 1817; teacher nearly 40 years; d. Hyde Park, Mass., Jan. 24, 1873.
ii. Israel C . b, April 15, 1821; d. Sept. 19, 1823.
iii. Samuel G., b. Newbury, Nov. 27, 1822; m. March 12, 1863, Priscilla C. Pattee of Milton, and lived in Rutland, where he d. Dec. 25, 1888. C., (1) Henry C., b. Nov. 13, 1865; now of Seattle, Washington. (2) John A., b. Feb. 9, 1869, now of Troy, N. Y .; m. Ernestine Ploss.
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