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iv. Albert N., b. June 9, 1845; res. Decorah, Iowa; grocer; m. May 12, 1874, Ida Dunbar. Three c.
v. Nancy J., b. Barnet, Aug. 13, 1847; m. Oct. 2, 1871, D. C. Dyar; res. Houston, Minn. She is now blind. Six c
vi. Nicholas W., b. Ryegate, Oct. 31, 1849; in banking business, Wolsey, South Dakota, 1888-96; res. Winona, Minn., 1896-98; in business with his brother, Albert, at Decorah, Iowa. He m. Libbie Burns of Caledonia, Minn., Aug. 14, 1879. Two daus.
vii. Abigail, b. Ryegate, Nov. 23, 1851; m. October, 1893, Calvin C. Vance; res. Money Creek, Minn.
viii. Aaron E., b. Ryegate, April 2, 1854 ; res. Joliet, Il1; m. March, 1879, Clara Birdsell. Three c.
9 NANCY JOHNSTON,3 (Jonas,2 Samuel,1) b. Nov. 27, 1821; m. Dec. 4, 1845, Albert G. Newcomb of Fairlee, who d. 1900. She d. Feb. 4, 1896.
Children :
i. Lelia Annette, b. July 22, 1848; d. July 9, 1854.
ii. Lester A., b. Sept. 13, 1855.
10 LYDIA JOHNSTON,3 (Jonas,2 Samuel,1) b. June 14, 1824; m. Robert Bradford Sargent of Orford, Jan. 1, 1851, (b. Jan. 28, 1826 ; d. July 9, 1892). Children :
i. Delia Jane, b. Dec. 10, 1852; d. Aug. 17, 1876.
ii. Lucius Hancock, b. Aug. 7, 1854; m. Ella Spaulding of Rumney, N. H .; 1 c.
iii. Annette, b. May 23, 1858; d. Jan. 12, 1862.
11 MARY WHITE,3 (Jonas,2 Samuel,1) b. May 8, 1826; m. Jan. 6, 1848, John Bailey Sargent, (b. June 30, 1819).
Children :
i. Willis Bailey, b. Feb. 17, 1850.
ii. Harvey Adrian, b. April 28, 1852.
iii. Clara Bell, b. July 6, 1862.
iv. Charles Johnston, b. Jan. 10, 1864.
V . Hannah May, b. Dec. 1, 1865.
vi. Frank Herbert, b. Jan. 8, 1870.
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12 EDWIN,3 (David,2 Samuel,1) b. Newbury, Dec. 23, 1835; rem. to Kansas with his father; farmer, and in banking business: president of Eureka Bank, Eureka, Kan .; member of House of Representatives, Kansas, 1867-68; senator, 1869, '70, '89, '90; president of the Board of Regents of the state Normal School; trustee of Washburn College. He m. Aug. 15, 1863, Amelia Willis.
Children :
i. David H., b. Feb. 13, 1865; graduated Washburn College.
ii. Albert, b. Feb. 25, 1867; graduated Washburn College.
iii. Mabel, b. March 25, 1872; m. 1897, a Mr. Finney.
iv. George, b. Aug. 9, 1874.
v. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1878.
vi. Nettie, b. Aug. 27, 1880.
vii. Florence, b. Dec. 8, 1883.
TUTTLE.
SAMUEL, son of Samuel and Betsey (Baker) Tuttle, of Acton, Mass., came to Antrim, N. H., from Temple, in 1816. He m. September, 1806, Mary Wright, of Concord, Mass. They had 16 children, of whom Jonas M., b. Acton, Mass., Dec. 31. 1807; m. Feb. 20, 1834, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Måry (Park) Dinsmore, (b. Sept. 22, 1810; d. Aug. 30, 1884). Rem. to Newbury, 1840; in railroad business; was in Kentucky when the Civil War broke out, and served 13 months in the 9th Kentucky cavalry; discharged Sept. 20, 1862. He d. Dec. 2, 1883.
Children :
i. Edwin, b. Antrim, N. H., Oct. 3, 1834; served three years in the 10th Vt. in the Civil War; was wounded three times in one day, and never fully recovered; res. in Newbury and Boston. He m. 1st, March 12, 1857, Ruth, dau. Hiram Whitcher, (b. Sept. 4, 1834; d. March 26, 1861). He m. 2d, Mary, dau. Matthew Temple, (d. 1882). He m. 3d, Alice Guild, who d. a few months after his own death. He d. Sept. 12, 1892. One dau., Lulu, by 2d m., lives in Boston.
ii. Mary E . b. Antrim, N. H , Jan. 22, 1838; m. William Buchanan, q. v.
iii. Susan D., b. Antrim, N. H., Dec. 19. 1839; m. Walter Buchanan, q. v.
iv. Samuel, b. Newbury, Oct. 26, 1841; m. May 26, 1866, Rebecca Corruth; farmer on homestead; served three years in the Civil War in the 3d Vt .; wounded in the right shoulder in the battle of the Wilderness. He has communicated some interesting reminiscences of army life, which want of space compels us to omit. C., (1) Enima E., b. Dee. 25, 1867; d. Dec. 18, 1871. (2) Ida Mae, b. Fcb. 14, 1873; d. Aug. 3, 1873. (3) Robert I., b. Ryegate, Oct. 27, 1875. (4) Clara B., b. Newbury, March 4, 1878; graduated New Hampshire Normal School, 1900. (5) Burton H., b. Oct. 8, 1886. (6) George S., b. Feb. 21, 1887.
v. Clarissa, b. Aug. 19, 1844; m Nathan Hunter, q. v .; d. 1878.
vi. Silas M., b. Jan. 16, 1851; m. May 19, 1875, Ella M. Maloon of Haverhill; res. Grinnell, Iowa, West Newbury, and Lowell, Mass .; harness maker. Onc c., L. Edna.
TUTTLE.
JOTHAM, One of the earliest settlers of Wcare, N. H., m. Mary Worthley, and rem. to Goffstown. Timothy, their 3d son, b. July 20, 1764; m. 1st, Mary Ann, (b. Jan. 17, 1767 ; d. Fcb. 4, 1821); m. 2d, Rachel,-
(d Scpt. 3,1848). Rcm. to Tunbridge, and d. there Feb. 22, 1851. Of their e ght children, four came to Newbury :
i. Polly. b May 6, 1796: m. Absalom Brown.
ii. Moses, b. July 7, 1798; m. Deborah Bennett; he came to Newbury and bought the Atwood sawmill; built in 1841, the house where H. H. Runnells lives ; d. Junc 29, 1867.
iv. Eli, b April 10, 1802: lived on Leighton Hill one year; returned to Tunbridge; d. Sept. 30, 1883.
vii. Elias S., b. April 10, 1802; m. Lois, dau. of Joshua and Lois King, (b. March 15, 1804; d. Jan. 3, 1877). Came to South Newbury in the fall after
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the great fire of June 12, 1851; rebuilt the R. R. Aldrich house; farming and lumber business; d. Sept. 20, 1883. C., (1) infant son, b. and d. Dec. 12, 1834. (2) Elias J., b. Aug. 26, 1836; enlisted Dec. 26, 1861, Co. D, 12th Vt.,; served two years and enlisted for three more; mustered out June 28, 1865; farmer and mill owner. He m. 1st, Feb. 13, 1859, Mary Ann, dau. Abel Sargent, (b. July 21, 1838; d. Jan. 17, 1883). He m. 2d, May 16, 1886, Randilla F. Wheeler (Brown), (b. May 16, 1836; d. Aug. 7, 1888). He m. 3d, June 18, 1890, Dora D. Webster, (b. August 13, 1865). No c. (3) Mary Ann, (b. April 28, 1840); m. as 2d wife, Oct. 20, 1861, Owen F. O'Malley, (b. Ireland, 1834; soldier in the British army ; served in the Crimean War; was in the battles of Balaklava, Inkermann, and the taking of Sevastopol. His regiment was ordered to Quebec, whence he and George King deserted, and both settled in Newbury, where Mr. King d. in 1896. Enlisted Dec. 26, 1861, Co. D, 8th Vt .; re-enlisted, Jan. 5, 1864; mustered out July 17, 1865). Several c. He d. Newbury. She m. 2d, --- Jones. (4) George L., b. Aug. 8, 1844, (army record, same as that of his brother, E. J.); m. 1st, dau. of Moses King, who d. Nov. 19, 1870; m. 2d, July 26, 1873, Helen L. (Clough) Bedell.
THRALL.
REV. SAMUEL ROWLEY, b. West Rutland, Jan. 16, 1811; graduated Middlebury College, 1835; in Andover Theological Seminary two years and a Congregational minister, 1839; pastor of Wells River church, 1839-47; after his dismission there he filled several pastorates. He m. Oct. 12. 1842, Miriam Hunt Bowman of Lexington, who d. Nov. 22, 1886. Eight c. Three sons became Congregational ministers, Rev. J. B. Thrall of Albany, N. Y., Rev. George S. Thrall, who d. 1886, and Rev. William H. Thrall, Home Missionary superintendent for South Dakota. Their sister m. Rev. A. W. Jenney, and they were missionaries in Turkey, several years. They returned to America and settled at Boscohel, Wis., where Rev. S. R. Thrall d. Feb. 27, 1894.
UNDERWOOD.
JOHN, b. Westford, Mass., Oct. 28, 1755; settled in Bradford in 1784; m. Mary Fassett, (b. Westford, June 15, 1759; d. Bradford, Oct. 21, 1821). He d. in Bradford Nov. 19. 1837.
Ten c., the first three b. in Westford, the rest in Bradford :
i. John, b. July 10, 1779 ; farmer in Bradford ; d. Oct. 22, 1851.
ji. Benjamin, b. Feb. 3, 1782 ; farmer in Bradford ; d. Aug. 25, 1863.
iii. Silas, b. Dec. 7. 1783; farmer in Hardwick; d. April 24, 1859. Hon. Levi Underwood of Burlington was his son.
iv. Mary, b. Nov. 2, 1785; m. Sans Niles of Fairlee ; d. Aug. 23, 1860.
v. Russell, b. April 9, 1787 ; carpenter of Lyman, N. H., and St. Johnsbury ; d. Dec. 23, 1871.
vi. Levi, b. March 7, 1789 ; farmer ; d. in St. Johnsbury, Feb. 19, 1872.
vii. Timothy, b. May 21, 1791 ; clothier; d. at Hardwick, Dec. 25, 1870.
viii. Reuben, b. May 24, 1793 ; farmer in Craftsbury ; d. Jan. 31, 1876.
ix. Joseph, b. Oct. 2, 1796; Cong. minister ; d. July 27, 1876. Abel, b. April 6, 1799.
ABEL, b. April 6, 1799. Fitted for college at Thetford Academy; graduated Dartmouth College, 1824. Studied law with Gen. Fletcher of Lyndon; admitted to the bar, April, 1827; in practice at Wells River, 1828 till death. (See Judge Leslie's chapter on Wells River). State's Attorney, 1839-41; United State's District Attorney, 1848-52; Judge of Circuit Court, 1854-57. During the construction of the Vermont Central R. R. he was in company with Judge Adams of Grand Isle and Judge Curtis of Westfield, a commissioner for the settlement of land damages, attending that enterprise. Director and president of the bank at Wells River. Town representative, 1861-62. He m. July 12, 1827, Emily, dau. of Elisha and
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Elizabeth (Flynn) Rix, (b. Royalton, Jan. 16, 1805; d. Oct. 15, 1861). They were members of the Cong. ch. at Wells River. He d. April 20, 1879. Children :
i. Elizabeth, b. March 31, 1830; m. July 24, 1856, B. B. Clark of St. Johnsbury. C., (1) Carrie E., b. Apr. 11, 1857. (2) Emily L., b. Aug. 27, 1858. (3) Susan E., b. July 24, 1860. (4) Alice G., b. Sept. 12, 1863. (5) George B., b. Jan. 24, 1866; d. April 13, 1872.
ii. George Rix, b. April 15, 1832. Went south and engaged in business, and d. at Gainsville, Ala., Oct. 10, 1856; buried at Wells River.
iii. Emma R. Ellis, b. Feb. 13, 1835; d. May 15, 1839.
iv. Ellen M., b. May 18, 1840; m. 1st, July 14, 1858, Wm. Roscoe Dean, who d. Aug. 13, 1861. She m. 2d, April 10, 1872, Horace D. Hickok, a dentist at Wells River and Malone, N. Y., where they reside. C., (1) Alice, b. Sept. 20, 1860; d. July 2, 1861. (2) Harry Abel, b. Dec. 16, 1867; d. Sept. 23, 1874. (3) Nellie H., b. June 17, 1877; d. Nov. 16, 1887.
v. Susan A., b. Sept. 2, 1842; m. 1st, Jan. 25, 1859, George A. Damon, who was an officer in the Union army. She d. Nov. 3, 1895. C., (1) Emily J., b. Oct. 31, 1861; m. June 7, 1882, George P. Arthur, b. Scotland. At one time cashier Bradford Bank; res. Montpelier. C., a, Leslie P., b. March 17, 1883; d. Dec. 24, 1889. 6, Malcolm Underwood, b. Jan. 22, 1886. (2) Ellen D., b. Oct. 16, 1864; m. 2d, March 7, 1876, to John P. Flanders, who d. Jan. 7, 1894.
WADDELL.
JOHN, b. 1732, in Erskine, Scotland; m. 1761, Rebecca Allison, b. 1738. William, grandfather of John, was one of those who were persecuted for their faith in the reign of Charles II, and had many adventures in escaping from the King's troops. James, son of William, was father of John, who came to Ryegate in 1774, and was one of the first settlers of that town. Owing to the Revolutionary War, he was unable to bring his family over till 1784. He d. in Barnet in 1822, aged 90 years, and his wife in 1795, aged 56 years. Of their seven c., John Jr., b. July 1767, m. Severance Patton of Candia, N. H., about 1796, and settled on Jefferson Hill in 1815. Children, all b. in Barnet :
i. Betsey.
ii. John.
iii. Jane, who lived on Jefferson Hill, and d. there Aug. 13, 1896, aged 92 years, 6 months.
iv. Rebecca, who m. Samuel Gibson, q. v.
v. William, who settled in Bath.
vi. Robert, never m .; settled on the old farm on Jefferson Hill where he d. Dec. 18, 1880, aged 79 years.
vii. Jennett, m. James Halley.
viii. James, a mechanic, lived in Groton; d. July 18, 1846 .*
JOHN, son of John the emigrant, b. Barnet Dec. 14, 1797. He came with his parents to Jefferson Hill in 1815. He m. Feb. 12, 1832, in Hardwick, Mrs. Mary Wheeler, b. Glastonbury, Conn., dau. of John Strong. She d. at Providence, R. I., Nov. 2, 1880. John Waddell settled in Boltonville in 1832, and opened a shop where he made and repaired furniture. He d. in Newbury, Feb. 26, 1860.
Children :
i. Mary Elvira, b. May 20, 1833; m. J. Henry Wilbur of Providence, R. I., where she still lives.
ii. Harriet Jane, b. Jan. 13, 1836; m. Henry G. Rollins, q. v.
iii. John S., b. Dec. 17, 1838; d. Providence, R. I., May 8, 1881.
iv. Julia A., b. Nov. 16, 1839; d. Providence, July 8, 1865.
v. Lucy Josephine, b. Jan. 3, 1846; m. J. Frank Brown of Providence, R. I.
*The above particulars were from Edward Miller.
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WALDRON.
ISAAC, b. Warner, N. H., January, 1778; came to Newbury, 1800, and resided here until death, Oct. 30, 1853. He m. June 20, 1802, Abigail, dau. of Joseph Chamberlin, (d. Oct. 3, 1860).
Children :
i. John, b. Oct. 27, 1802.
ii. Isaac, b. Jan. 22, 1804.
iii. Hannah, b. July 30, 1807.
iv. Sarah, b. March 1, 1813; m. April 5, 1838, James Renfrew, Jr.
v. Nancy, b. July 16, 1814.
1 vi. Benjamin, b. Dec. 22, 1816.
1 BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 22, 1816; farmer in Newbury; served in the Union Army; enlisted Nov. 28, 1861; mustered in Feb. 18, 1862, into Co. C, 8th Vt., for three years; went to Louisiana with Butler, and was in several battles near Port Hudson; re-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864; was with Sheridan in the Valley; in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek; taken prisoner, Oct. 19, 1864; confined in Libby Prison and at Salisbury, N. C .; exchanged April, 1865, and d. three days later at Annapolis, Md. He m. 1844, Laura H., dau. of F. G. McAllister.
Children :
i. John Mervin, b. March 7, 1845; enlisted Dec. 3, 1861, in Co. C, 8th Vt .; mustered in Feb. 18, 1862; went to Louisiana with Butler's expedition, and was in several battles near Port Hudson; wounded at Port Hudson; went to New York on detached duty with prisoners; re-enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; was with Sheridan in the Valley; in battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek; wounded at the last battle, Oct. 19, 1864, in the right lung; in hospital at Brattleboro till Jan. 1, 1865; in service till discharged June 28, 1865; farmer and carpenter. He m. Feb. 23, 1870, Lucy Ann, dau. of Richard Patterson. C., (1) Richard Herbert, b. March 25, 1871; m. June 22, 1898, Addie H. Corey, (b. Feb. 5, 1878). (2) Maggie, b. April 12; d. Aug. 25, 1873. (3) Francis M., b. Aug. 17, 1874. (4) Jennie, b. Sept. 22, 1876; m. April 30, 1898, Henry G. Hatch of Groton, (b. Jan. 25, 1872). (5) George A., b. Aug. 13, 1878. (6) Laura, b. Oct. 11, 1881. (7) Edith A., b. Nov. 18, 1886.
ii. Helen Elizabeth, b. Nov. 21, 1876; m. Oct. 7, 1869, Samuel H. Patten; res. Woburn, Mass. C., (1) Bessie B., b. July, 1870; d. (2) Lewis, b. June 15, 1872. (3) Mabel E., b. Sept. 8, 1874. (+) Joseph F., b. Sept. 3, 1874. (5) Charlotte H., b. March 29; d. September, 1880.
iii. Abigail N., b. July 12, 1848; m. Jan. 1, 1868, Austin G. French of Bedford, N. H .; lived in Newbury; rem. 1872, to Woburn, Mass. C., (1) George F., b. Newbury, Sept. 2, 1868; m. Margaret A. Hall; d. April 5, 1899.
C., Hazel and Ruth H. (2) Walter M., b. Nov. 29, 1872; m. Eva M. Wilson of Roxbury, Mass. (3) Frank W., b. June 29, 1876.
iv. Harriet S., b. Sept. 29, 1849; m. Edward H. Patten of Bedford, N. H .; res. Woburn, Mass. C., (1) Laura B., b. July 16, 1874; d. Aug. 8, 1878. (2) Lucia K., b. March 17, 1876.
v. Benjamin F., b. May 22, 1855; res. Woburn, Mass .; m. Nov. 9, 1881, Gertrude M. Richardson of Woburn. C., (1) Wilbur R., b. July 21, 1882, (2) Raymond E., b. June 16, 1893. (3) Marion F., b. Nov. 10; d. Dec. 8, 1898.
vi. Laura Belle, b. Aug. 24, 1862; m. Feb. 7, 1881, John B. Thompson; res. East Corinth. C., (1) Hattie B., b. Sept. 13, 1881. (2) Amanda, b. Jan. 6, 1883. (3) Helen G., b. Aug. 29, 1884. (4) John F., b. Feb. 6, 1886. (5) Lucia L., b. March 9, 1899.
WALLACE.
COL. WILLIAM was b. near Glasgow in Scotland, and came to Newbury, says Mr. Perry, in 1775. He was bred to mercantile pursuits in Glasgow, and began business at once in Newbury, in a building which stood near the present residence of Henry W. Bailey at the Ox bow. This building he moved, about 1779, to the present site of the library. He enlarged it, and
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kept store there, until he erected the house which afterward became the Spring Hotel, when he rem. the earlier building to the other side of the street, where it still stands, the baek part of the old Newbury House. "It was," says Mr. Perry, "for a series of years, the principal store for trading, for all the northern towns of Vermont, and did a vast amount of business. And from all that appears, had he been less generous and kindhearted to his debtors, and more careful and exact in the management of his business, he might have died in the possession of vast wealth. His business was extensive, and his influence great, for a number of years, but he lived to see his riches take to themselves wings, and flee away." He was sheriff of the county, and colonel in the militia. He was elerk to General Bayley, during a part, at least, of the war, and many of the latter's military papers are in his hand writing, which was as clear and plain as type. Col. Wallace was frequently dispatched by Bayley on important missions, and himself served as a private in Capt. Frye Bayley's Co., which went to Saratoga in 1777. Col. Wallace m. Hannah, dau. of Dudley Carleton of Haverhill, Mass. (b. Jan. 7, 1754; d. Oet. 5, 1831). He d. in a house which stood where the railroad depot is now, but the date, and the place of his burial in the Ox-bow cemetery are unknown.
Several children, the names of all are not known:
i. Dudley Carleton, became a physician.
1 ii. John, a lawyer; d. July 1826.
2 iii. Moses, farmer and merehant.
iv. Ann, b. April 29, 1794, d. April 26, 1876; m. William Broek, q. v.
1 JOHN,2 (William,1) b. Newbury, Feb. 10, 1790 ; graduated Dartmouth College, 1808; principal of New Salem (Mass.) Academy, 1808-11, studying law meantime. Admitted to the bar in August, 1811, and opened an office in Newbury where he practiced till death in 1826. He was more fond of literature than of the law, and contributed to the publie press of his day. He also had an office in Haverhill for some time. Two of his publie addresses were printed. (See Bibliography of Newbury). Mr. Wallace never married.
2 MOSES, son of Col. William Wallace, b. Newbury, about 1783; was a farmer and business man in this town, but rem. about 1808 to West Topsham, where he kept store many years. In the war of 1812 he was an officer in the Topsham militia, which were called out by the Burlington alarm. They marched as far as Bolton, where they were met by the news of the victory of Plattsburg, and returned home. He mn. Betsey, dau. of Dea. Thomas McKeith, (b. Topsham, April 16, 1786; d.)
Children, (dates of birth, except the first, from Topsham records) :
3 i. Vietor M., b. Newbury, Aug. 22, 1807.
ii. Sally MeKeith, b. Oet. 12, 1809.
iii. Caroline J., b. June 20, 1813.
4 iv. Andrew J., b. April 12, 1815.
vi. Hannah, b. Feb. 14, 1817.
vii. John, b. Feb. 10, 1819.
3 VICTOR M.,3 (Moses,2 William,1) b. Newbury, Aug. 22, 1807. A man of remarkable ingenuity; made several improvements upon the elarionet while still very young. In 1835 he rem. to St. Louis, Mo., where he opened a shop in which he made and repaired guns and pistols. In that year he perfected the model and obtained the patent of the first breeeh-loading pistol. In 1841 he m. Isabel Roy, (b. Scotland, 1819; d. Keleo, Washington, Jan. 13, 1899). In May, 1847, with three other families, they started for Oregon in wagons drawn by oxen, and reached Oregon City about Dec. 10, where he made the dies with which the first gold pieces were struck at the Oregon mint. He made the first threshing machine used in Oregon and the first printing press. When the gold excitement broke out in California, he started for the mines, and was with the first party of 60 men, who opened the way from the Williamette to the Sacramento river. In 1850, he rem. to Washington Territory, and took up land, on which he spent the rest of his life. He held various county offices, and help build the first schoolhouse in what is now the state of Washington. He d. Keleo, Wash., Sept. 5, 1895.
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4 ANDREW J.,3 (Moses,2 William,1), b. Topsham, April 12, 1815; hotel keeper at West Topsham; m. 1st, June 19, 1842, Caroline, dau. of Jonathan Jenness. Four c. He m. 2d, Kate, dau. John Wallace of Newbury, (b. June 9, 1837 ; d. Sept. 10, 1886). C. He d. March 9, 1888.
WALLACE.
JAMES, came from Scotland the place from which he emigrated being Kinsland, near Glasgow. With his wife, Christian (Hoag), and three sons he settled in that part of Newbury called Wallace Hill, southwest from Wells River, in 1801. The family came to New York and thence to Hartford, proceeding up the Connecticut River in a flat boat run by Joseph Chamberlin. There were forty persons in the party and their boat was tied to an elm tree which is still standing at the foot of Ingalls Hill. James Wallace was a relative of Col. William Wallace and was induced, it is said, by the latter to settle here. Robert Fulton, Andrew Buchanan and others were of the same party of emigrants. James Wallace bought a farm which was cleared by Charles Bayley and sold to Ashbell Buell in 1796. His house, demolished some years ago, was south of the one built by his son, James, where the McGinnis family has long lived. He d. Feb. 28, 1814, in his 47th year, (cem. record), and his wife Dec. 29, 1845, (ch. record ). Their three sons, William, James and John, were b. in Scotland, and a daughter, Jane, was b. in Newbury.
Children :
1 i. William, b. 1793; d. Jan. 5, 1877.
2 ii. James, b. July 28, 1794 ; d. Sept., 1883.
3 iii. John, b. 1797; d. Aug. 12, 1861.
iv. Jane, b. Newbury, April 18, 1803; m. Capt. Charles Smith, q. v .; d. June 30, 1890.
1 WILLIAM, b. Scotland, 1793, came to America with his parents in 1801; lived eleven years in the family of Gen. James Whitelaw in Ryegate, whose dau., Marion, he m. Aug. 18, 1814. In 1818, he came to Newbury and bought the William Peach farm, as it was then called, on which he lived till his death. He was a very kindly, hospitable man, and was called "Uncle Will Wallace," and his wife was called "Aunt Will." She inherited many of the traits which distinguished her father. After the death of William Wallace the farm became that of his son Robert, who had always lived at home. The present house. erected in 1892, is the eighth dwelling house which has been built on that farm. William d. Jan. 5, 1877, aged 84. Mrs. Wallace was b. Jan. 31, 1787; d. Jan. 5, 1866.
Their children were:
i. James, b. Ryegate, May 15, 1815; d. 1850.
ii. Christian, b. Ryegate, April 29, 1817 ; m. March 25, 1841, Hazen Ford, and d. a few years later.
iii. William, b. Newbury, March 27, 1819; lived in Newbury most of his life ; was a peddler, etc. He m. July 2, 1843, Susan, dau. Reuben Leighton. He d. in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 19, 1894. C., (1) Ellen, m. Barron Sulham. (2) Georgiana, m. Jan. 1, 1868, Hugh Cameron. (3) Kirk, d. un-m. (4) Gertrude, m. Frank Sawvin.
iv. John, b. July 29, 1821; farmer, owning in succession several farms in this town. Rem. to Green Mountain, Iowa, 1868. Farmer there till 1874, when he went into the livery business at Grinnell, Iowa. Returned to Newbury to spend the later years of his life in 1897. He m. March 3, 1845, Mary Ann, dau. of Reuben Leighton. C., all b. in Newbury. (1) William Robert, b. April 4, 1847 ; res. Marshalltown, Iowa. (2) Elmer, b. July 20, 1848; railroad conductor; res. Newport; m. Ellen Stebbins. (3) Adeline, b. Sept. 3, 1850; m. William Crawford. (4) Frank, b. March 30, 1853; m. E. L. Bernard. (5) Kate, b. Sept. 24, 1856; m. Daniel Bartlett as 2d wife.
v. Robert, b. Oct. 27, 1822; farmer on the homestead; a very quiet, industrious, kindly man; m. Olivia, dau. of Daniel Richardson; d. 1893. C., Bertha, b. April 2, 1862; m. W. M. Rollins.
vi. Jane, b. 1829; m. Feb. 25, 1858, John Reid, q. v .; d. Jan. 17, 1895.
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HISTORY OF NEWBURY, VERMONT.
2 JAMES, b. Glasgow, Scotland, July 28, 1794; farmer on the homestead, until past middle life, when he rem. to the village; captain in the militia, and generally known by his military title. In 1847, when the smallpox broke out in this town, and it was almost impossible to secure anyone to take care of the sick, James Wallace laid aside his affairs, and took care of several of these until they recovered. For this he refused to receive any compensation, saying that it was a man's duty to assist the distressed. For this act a vote of thanks was passed by the town, in March meeting, 1848. He m. 1st, March 15, 1827, Ann, dau. of Samuel Gibson, (b. June 12, 1805; d. March 28, 1836). He m. 2d, January, 1837, at Barre, Mrs. Rebekah Lawson, who d. 1860. He m. 3d, March 1, 1865, at Barnet, Mrs. Matilda Towle, who d. at St. Johnsbury, 1897. He d. Newbury Sept. 1, 1883.
Children, both by 1st marriage:
i. Louisa G., b. Sept. 26, 1829; m. Jan. 2, 1848, George W. Avery, 2d. She is now a widow living in Wisconsin. Two daus., both married. One has four children.
ii. William K., b. Oct. 9, 1833; learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler, and carried on the business in Newbury from 1855 till 1872, except that he served in the Union army, nine months as a private in Co. H, 12th Vt. Manufacturer of jewelry in Boston, 1872-74. In the watch and jewelry business at Woodsville, May, 1875 to 1889. During this time he dealt much in horses. In 1889, he bought a farm in Haverhill, near Woodsville, called Wallace Hill horse farm. He m. Jan. 20, 1859, Harriott C., dau. of Arad S. Kent.
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