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i. Benjamin, b. July 10, 1788; m. July 11, 1811, Eleanor, dau., prob., of Philip Royce, as Benjamin quitclaims to Philip's estate, but without his wife, who was then perhaps deceased, Aug. 1, 1829. Benjamin was then in New York.
ii. Charles, b. June 31, 1790; d. Nov. 13, 1808, Roy.
iii. Silas, b. Mar. 9, 1793; d. abt. 1831, Decatur, Ill .; his estate then probated; m. Lydia -. Dr. Denison charged Silas for two births: Sept. 8, 1817 and Mar. 14, 1822. Had tan yard on Broad Brook.
iv. Lucinda, went to N. Y.
v. Ira F., went to N. Y.
vi. Lucy, b. June 15, 1805; d. Mar. 17, 1808, Roy. Decedents named bur. in Broad Brook Cem.
ERASTUS PACKARD, m. Hannah Mr. Pack- ard bought the Dana-West farm in 1842, and was then in Sharon. He sold to the Wests in 1866 and left town in 1869. In 1877 he was in Flushing, Mich. Little has been ascertained regard- ing his family. i. Alonzo, b. 1839, Sharon; m. Sep. 7, 1865, Mary E., dau. Nicholas and Lovina Jacobs of Sharon, b. 1846; a ch., Edgar A., b. July 14, 1869; d. Oct. 4, 1869.
ii. Almina, who m. Royal H. Hart, and had Lucelia, b. Oct. 3, 1866, was probably his dau.
PAGE FAMILY.
NATHAN PAGE, b. 1762; d. Aug. 26, 1832, Roy .; m. Hannah Cobb, b. 1764; d. May 27, 1833, Roy .; bur. Howe Cem. In 1787 Mr. Page bought E. 33 L. A. Two years later he se- cured 75 acres in M. 33 L. A. He was a substantial citizen of Royalton. He represented the town in the legislature in 1804- 05. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and was pensioned June 14, 1819, but suspended under the act of May 1, 1820. He served in the Mass. Continental. Ch. b. in Roy., except Betsey.
i. Betsey, b. 1784; d. Feb. 22, 1797; bur. Howe Cem.
ii. Alfred, b. Apr. 25, 1788; d. Mar. 26, 1862, Bethel; m. June 8 or 13, 1808, Sarah, dau. Eliphaz and Sarah (Cushing) Bigelow, b. Jan. 23, 1791, Barnard; d. July 20, 1872, Concord, N. H .; both bur. Bethel. Dr. Page studied medicine with Dr. Jo Adam Denison in Bethel, and grad. from Yale; began practice in Barnard, then suc- ceeded Dr. Denison in Bethel, when Dr. Denison rem. to Royalton. In 1833 he built the brick house in Bethel village where he died. He attained high rank as a physician and surgeon. See Chap. XXVII. for militia officers. He had eleven ch., six of whom died in infancy. Ch .: (a) Caroline, b. Feb. 14, 1817, Bethel; d. May 8, 1884; m. Apr. 29, 1849, Hon. Augustus P. Hunton, son Dr. Ariel and Polly (Pingry) Hunton, b. Feb. 23, 1816; lawyer in Bethel; represented Bethel in the legislature eight years, and served three times as senator from Windsor County; speaker of House of Representatives, 1860-61; dele- gate to Republican Nat. Convention which renominated Lincoln; d. June 20, 1911; ch .: (i) Mary, b. Apr. 25, 1851; m. Feb. 1, 1877, Wil- liam Brunswick Curry, son Rev. Moses P. and Jane F. (Curry) Stick- ney, and had William and Mary; (ii) Albert, b. June 20, 1853; d. July 18, 1864; (b) Edwin, d. Sep. 19, 1827; (c) Jennette, d. Apr. 14, 1822; (d) Fannie, d. Aug. 24, 1824; (e) Hannah, d. Sep. 7, 1829; (f) infant, Oct. 3, 1834; (g) Alfred, b. Apr. 7, 1823, Bethel; d. Jan. 14, 1882,
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Bethel; physician; practiced in Bethel; attended lectures in Castleton Med. Coll., and Med. Coll. of New York City; (h) Sarah, m. Minot Wheeler (See).
iii. William, b. Sept. 9, 1789; m. Mar. 7, 1811, Sharon, Mary Hitchcock.
iv. Otis, b. Mar. 16, 1792.
v. Nathan, b. Feb. 13, 1796; m. Dec. 21, 1820, Louisa Gould.
vi. Betsey, b. Mar. 22, 1798; m. Dec. 21, 1820, Andrew Stevens.
vii. Hannah, b. July 24, 1800.
viii. Lucius, b. Oct. 7, 1802. ix. Jonathan E., b. May 8, 1806.
PIERCE PAGE, b. 1769; d. Oct. 16, 1830; m. Anna
bur. in Howe Cem .; her headstone broken and sunk so the in- scription cannot be read. Mr. Page bought a part of W. 28 and E. 32 L. A. in 1808. He was first listed in 1791.
i. Phila, b. May 5, 1792, Roy .; d. Jan. 25, 1813.
ii. Lorinda, b. Oct. 2, 1793.
iii. Laura, b. 1794 (?); d. July 21, 1846; m. Feb. 20, 1817, Ira Freeman of Barnard.
iv. Roswell, took freeman's oath in 1816; m. Nov. 24, 1824, Adeline Williams; he d. before Dec., 1860.
v. David, took freeman's oath in 1817; m. June 15, 1823, Anna, dau. Levi Parker; ch .: (a) Martha, b. Aug. 2, 1828; d. Apr. 25, 1831; (b) Franklin, b. Oct., 1834; d. Apr. 11, 1836.
vi. Calvin, b. 1800 (?); d. Apr. 19, 1855, Roy., unm.
vii. Riley, b. 1802; d. May 16, 1837.
viii. Daniel, b. 1804; d. Aug. 22, 1806.
ix. Elijah, d. before Dec., 1860.
x. Mary, b. 1809; d. Apr. 19, 1855.
xi. Elvira, b. Mar., 1817; d. Jan. 7, 1888, Tunbridge; m. Har- vey Lasell.
Dr. Jo Adam Denison has charges for births of children of Pierce Page, according to the following dates: Jan. 8, 1814; Mar. 10, 1817; Apr. 4, 1824; July 16, 1826.
PARK FAMILY.
JOHN PARK, m. Mary In 1783 he bought E. 21 L. A., which he sold in 1785, and in 1788 he bought 27 Dutch. This he sold to Andrew in 1802, and he in turn sold it to John, Jr., prob., in 1807. John paid no poll tax after 1798, and seems either to have died or left town about 1802. In 1809 John gives a bond for support of his mother Mary, which would indicate that his father was dead. John, Jr., was first listed in 1796, and continued to be until 1812. He m. Dec. 15, 1799, Sally Crane of Bethel, and had three ch. born in Roy .: John William, b. Oct. 11, 1800; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 13, 1802; Ruth, b. Oct. 21, 1804. Andrew seems to be a son, who was first listed in 1802, and last listed in 1806. Of the children of John, Jr., Ruth m. Mr. Lyon. There were also Polly and Sarah, who m. Mr. Wood and had a son, E. A. Wood of Nicholville, N. Y., and other children. John William m. and had eleven ch., among them William, Mary, Constance, Ellen M., who m. A. N. Gree- ley, and had Elmer E., who d. young, and Gertrude Lelia, who
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m. Rev. J. N. Perrin, Jr. (See). This family wrote their name Parks.
DANIEL HARRINGTON PARK, son of Edward, the son of Thomas, son of Richard, supposed to be the son of Edward of London, b. 1766; d. Apr. 17, 1850, Roy .; m. (1) Sep. 23, 1795, Sharon, Hannah, dau. Joel and Sarah Marsh, b. Oct. 2, 1774, Sharon; d. Aug. 7, 1799, Roy .; m. (2) Dec. 16, 1800, Wealthy, dau. Samuel and Elizabeth Ladd, b. Mar. 14, 1778, Sharon; d. Aug. 2, 1853, Roy .; she and Daniel H. bur. in Havens Cem. Mr. Park rem. from Sharon to Roy. in 1795, and settled on 6 Dutch, where he lived and died, the farm now owned by Chas. M. Wiley. i. Joel Marsh, b. Dec. 29, 1796; d. Dec. 23, 1814, Roy.
ii. Sarah Marsh, b. Apr. 11, 1799; d. Sep., 1841, S. Hadley, Mass.
* iii. Hannah Marsh, b. Sep. 13, 1803; m. Rodolphus K. Dewey. iv. Eliza Ladd, b. July 29, 1807, Roy .; d. 1865, Tunb .; m. Mar. 5, 1829, Spencer, son of Stephen and Comfort (Wallis) Smith, b. Sep. 1, 1802, Tunb .; d. Aug., 1879; he m. (2) Huldah A. Root (See). Ch .: (a) Cornelia A., b. Jan. 26, 1830; d. May 29, 1860, Rand .; m. Jesse Carter of Rand., who d. the spring of 1893; ch .: (i) Algina, m. Geo. Rogers of Rand .; both dead; one ch., Cecil; (ii) Cornelia, b. May 29, 1860, Rand .; m. Sep. 2, 1890, Henry H. Paige of Rand .; one ch., Ray- mond, b. May 28, 1891, S. Roy .; (iii) Jessie, twin of Cornelia, m. Henry Seymour of Rand .; three ch .; res., Orange, Conn .; (b) Wallace Fer- nando, b. Apr. 6, 1831; d. Feb. 13, 1903; m. Harriet Drew of Tunb .; ch .: (i) Fred, m. and has two daughters; res. in Minn .; (ii) Eva, d. young; (iii) Carlton, res. Lake Superior, Wis .; (iv) Wealthy, m. and has ch .; res., Lake Superior; (c) Royal Cornelius, b. Oct. 31, 1832; d. June 12, 1910; m. Caroline, dau. Sabin Durkee of Tunb .; two ch., Flora, teacher in Somerville, Mass., and Phil., who m. and has three ch., and res. in Montpelier; enlisted from Randolph, Dec. 31, 1863; prom. Corp. Feb. 7, 1865; dis. Dec. 1, 1865; (d) Helen A., b. Sep. 29, 1834; m. S. C. Drew (See) ; (e) Marcia J., b. Apr. 29, 1836; d. Dec. 21, 1863; m. Mason Griffith of Tunb .; no ch .; (f) Charles B., b. Apr. 27, 1838; m. Martha Sanders; ch .: (i) Mary, m. and res. in Seattle; d. 1909; (ii) Clarence, in Tunb., unm .; (iii) Robert, grad. of Tufts College; unm .; (iv) Arthur, m. and has two ch .; (g) Mary E., b. Sep. 10, 1839; m. Parkhurst Durkee; ch .: (i) Frank, professor in Tufts Coll .; has four ch .; (ii) Henry, m. and lives in Springfield, Mass .; (h) Henry H., b. June 18, 1841; d. Sep. 29, 1863; enlisted from Tunb. in the Civil War; taken sick on his return and died; (i) Stephen W., b. Sep. 25, 1843; d. Oct. 3, 1864; (j) George W., b. Oct. 23, 1845; d. Jan. 6, 1864; (k) Weltha A., b. Sep. 19, 1847; d. Aug., 1864; unm .; (1) Agnes A., b. Nov. 27, 1849; d. Dec. 28, 1849; (m) Clarence L., b. Mar. 25, 1851; d. Nov. 3, 1863.
v. Electa Ann, b. Oct. 5, 1810; m. Robert Bennerson of Quincy, Ill., where she d .; four ch .: (a) Alice, m. Mr. Farwell; (b) Anna; (c) Cora, a lawyer in Cambridge, Mass .; unm .; (d) Lina, m. Dr. McMahan.
vi. Susan Champney, b. Dec. 22, 1812-13; d. Apr. 11, 1841-42, S. Roy., unm.
vii. Wealthy Jane, b. June 28, 1819; d. Aug. 24, 1906; m. (1) James Clark of Brighton, Mass .; m. (2) Sep. 10, 1861, Frank Johnson, b. Newburyport, Mass .; one ch., which d. in Cambridge, Mass.
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viii. Charles Dana, b. Aug. 15, 1821; d. Sep. 18, 1847, Roy .; m. Mar. 7, 1844, Roy., Miranda Clark; lived and d. where his father did, where James Doyle later lived; one ch., Susan, died West, unm.
Daniel Harrington Park was born in Brighton, Mass. His father changed his estate for two in Tolland and Mansfield, Conn., from which state Daniel came to Sharon. In 1842 he made an arrangement with his son, Charles, for support of himself and wife.
PARKER FAMILY.
LEVI PARKER, d. 1813, before March of that year; m. Mary Lyon ( ?) of Hubbardston, Mass. He came to Roy. in 1798, and settled in 27 L. A. His place of burial is not known, but may have been in the Howard Cem., where some of Elisha's family and John are buried. His widow remained on the farm and raised her family of small children, four of whom were minors at the time of her husband's death. The older children, among them, Levi, probably did not remain in town. Levi was administrator with the widow Mary.
i. Levi (?), who seems to have married Polly Nichols, and to have settled in Wilmington, Mass., and to be the father of Newman, but this cannot be positively stated.
ii. Samuel, took freeman's oath in 1808; m. Loraine Aikens of Colton, N. Y .; res., Potsdam, N. Y. He had Albert, who had a dau., Mrs. Anna Lemore of Potsdam, and Louis, who is dead.
iii. Martha, m. Mar. 12, 1812, Shuball Crandall.
iv. Mary, m. Horace Garfield; res., Potsdam; her ch., John, Milton and others, are all dead.
v. Aaron, in N. Y. in 1822, in Ohio in 1837.
vi. John, b. 1795; d. Apr. 7, 1825, Pierrepont, N. Y., unm .; bur. Howard Cem.
vii. Elisha, b. Oct. 12, 1798, Roy., prob .; d. Apr. 23, 1871, Pierre- pont, N. Y .; bur. Potsdam; m. Oct. 2, 1830, Alvira, dau. Augustus and Polly Colburn, b. Oct. 2, 1809; d. Oct. 2, 1870, Pierrepont; bur. Potsdam. Elisha belonged to the state militia. He gave up farming and became a shoemaker; rem. to Rochester in 1852, to N. Tunbridge in 1859, to Pierrepont, N. Y., in 1865. Ch .: (a) Mary, b. May 7, 1831, Roy .; d. 1869, Lake City, Minn .; bur. Potsdam; m. 1859, John, son Horace and Mary (Parker) Garfield of Potsdam, and had Florence, who m. Geo. M. Rus- sell of Potsdam and d. 1901, leaving two ch .; (b) Levi, b. Oct. 18, 1835, Roy .; d. Feb. 9, 1836; (c) Charles, b. Nov. 27, 1837; d. Mar. 30, 1843; (d) Eleanor, b. Jan. 17, 1842; m. George Hackett (See); (e) Eliza- beth, b. July 2, 1850, S. Roy .; m. Nov. 26, 1869, Potsdam, Nelson, son Wm. and Rosamond (Holden) Parmeter; settled in Pierrepont, N. Y .; (f) Henry, b. Apr. 3, 1854, Rochester; d. Apr. 8, 1874, Tunbridge; m. 1871, Lillie Algiers, Pierrepont, and had Orin Elisha, who d. N. Tunb .; (g) Laura E. Howe, an adopted dau., b. July 2, 1831, had son, Royal, b. Sep. 6, 1871; d. at age of two weeks; Nelson, b. Aug. 2, 1846, Pots- dam; d. Jan. 29, 1910, Pierrepont.
* viii. Anna, m. David Page. ix. Miriam, m. Harvey Edgerton; d. Potsdam; no ch.
x. Isaac, took freeman's oath in 1828; res., Downer's Grove, Ill.
NEWMAN PARKER, son of Levi and Polly Nichols, b. Jan. 21, 1818, Wilmington, Mass .; d. Oct. 8, 1883, Roy .; m. Alice, dau. George and Alice (Nichols) Sloan, b. Mar. 21, 1822,
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Wilmington, Mass .; d. June 23, 1885, Roy .; both bur. N. Roy. Cem. Mr. Parker rem. to Royalton in 1850. He had been a shoemaker, but soon after coming to Royalton he started in the mercantile business. He bought the property that had been Hatsel Brewer's. In 1873 he purchased the Collamer place of James Culver. i. Charles Newman, b. May 12, 1842, Wilmington, Mass .; d. Aug. 21, 1887, Roy .; m. Laura Freeman, dau. John and Philena (Free- man) Williams, b. Aug. 3, 1842; d. Sep. 15, 1907, Malden, Mass .; ch .: (a) Alice Eugenia, b. Sep. 13, 1865, Roy. Mr. Parker was educated in Royalton Academy. He worked four years on the railroad and at the age of twenty-four went into business with his father. After his father's death he conducted the business alone. He was postmaster at Roy. village seven years. After his death his daughter, Alice E., was postmistress for nearly eleven years. She and her mother rem. to Malden, Mass., in 1900.
ii. Alice N., b. May 17, 1846; d. Jan. 26, 1852, Roy.
PARKHURST FAMILY.
1. BENJAMIN PARKHURST, son of Joseph and Mary Parkhurst, b. Dec. 10, 1745, Plainfield, Conn .; d. Dec. 15, 1842, Roy .; m. Oct. 12, 1773, Sarah Shepard, b. 1765; d. Sep. 4, 1834, Roy .; both bur. N. Roy. Cem. His father was one of the earliest settlers of Sharon, but is buried near Benjamin, and perhaps he and his wife died with their son in Roy. He was born, 1718, and d. Nov. 4, 1815; his wife d. Dec. 12, 1809, aged ninety-five. Benjamin was called the cousin of Tilly Parkhurst, but was not his own cousin probably, as Tilly's father was Joseph. Benjamin's wife was said to have been the third white woman in Royalton. While he was living with his father in Sharon, he piloted some women four miles through the woods, to the birth of the first native of that town. Their lantern was a warming pan of coals, and an apron full of birch bark. He sheared the first flock of sheep in Sharon with a pair of common shears. He gave his time and labor freely in aiding in cutting a road from W. Bethel to Hartford and from E. Bethel to Norwich. Salt was a luxury in those days. At one time Mr. Parkhurst carried eleven bushels of wheat to Lebanon, N. H., and exchanged for one bushel of salt, and a little after it was safely lodged in the house, the building caught fire, and his wife threw the salt on it to extinguish it. He taught the first school in the vicinity of his residence in part of his own house, and four of his pupils attended his funeral. He sold the first goods in Royalton, trading on commission for Judge Paine of Wil- liamstown. In his obituary it is stated that he killed moose, bears, wolves, and beaver, and caught salmon weighing from eight to thirty pounds. His brother was a physician, perhaps Dr. Phineas of Sharon, and he learned so much of the healing art as to bleed and extract teeth. It is related that at a raising
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one man was injured and rendered insensible, and he bled him with the corner of an ax which had been broken out, and the man revived. He was active to the time of his death, and cut his own wood the day before. He lived and died on one of his original lots, at N. Royalton. His first log house was just west of the railroad crossing. * i. Rachel, b. Mar. 20, 1775; the first white girl born in Roy .; m. Benjamin Day.
ii. Anna, b. July 21, 1778; prob. the Anna who m. May 7, 1797, How Wheeler.
2. iii. Phineas, b. Nov. 16, 1780-81.
iv. Simon, b. May 17, 1783; d. Jan. 11, 1868; m. Jan. 9, 1840, Eunice Whitcomb of Stockbridge, wid. of Branch Whitcomb, b. 1792; d. Nov. 1, 1850.
*v. Betsey, b. Jan. 9, 1786; m. Jan. 1, 1805, Abel Stevens, Jr.
vi. Polly, b. Feb. 19, 1788; m. Dec. 1, 1808, Otis Wilson.
vii. Stephen, b. Nov. 20, 1789; listed in 1812 only.
* viii. Sarah, b. Feb. 9, 1792; m. William Smith.
* ix. Eunice, b. Nov. 27, 1795; m. Gen. Lovell Hibbard.
3. x. Coit, b. Feb. 28, 1798.
xi. Levi, b. 1800; d. Oct. 2, 1875, N. Troy; m. Lakin, dau. Willard Leland, b. Feb. 4, 1801, Baltimore; d. Mar., 1890, N. Troy; ch .: (a) Caroline Shepard, b. Aug. 31, 1829, N. Troy; d. July 8, 1905, Bakersfield; m. Jackson Tupper, and had five ch .: Fred S., lawyer in E. Fairfield; Leland E., minister at Craftsbury; Eugene, farmer and speculator, E. Fairfield; Thomas, farmer, Fairfield; (b) Simon, b. Apr., 1833; d. Dec. 29, 1853, Cal .; (c) Henry Byron, b. Jan. 10, 1837; m. Mar. 14, 1867, Mary E. Norris; ch .: (i) Simon J., b. Oct., 1870; d. Aug., 1871, San Mateo, Cal .; (ii) Henry B., b. Nov. 3, 1872; m. June 27, 1900, Lula N. Sanborn; one ch., Mary E., b. Dec. 11, 1906, N. Troy; (iii) Elva I., b. Nov. 21, 1874; m. Aug. 16, 1905, Frederick W. Elkins, Deputy Collector of Customs, Quebec; (iv) Clara J., b. July 28, 1881; m. Carroll B. Slayton of Montpelier; two ch., Carroll Leland and Evelyn I .; Henry Byron served in Co. D, 6th Vt. Vols., three years; (d) Charles, d. when a few months old; (e) Charles, b. 1844; d. Jan. 16, 1877, Colorado Springs, a physician; m. Clara Kellam; two sons, John and C. Percy, both b. in Irasburg; living in the West.
2. PHINEAS PARKHURST, son of Benjamin, b. Nov. 16, 1780; d. Sep. 26, 1839; m. Mar. 7, 1811, Esther, dau. Wil- liam and Esther Wight of Tunbridge, b. Mar. 17, 1790; d. Mar. 16, 1873-74; bur. E. Bethel; he is bur. N. Roy. Cem. His home was near this cemetery.
i. William W., b. Dec. 2, 1812; m. Elizabeth Merrifield; three ch .; he and wife both dead; settled in New Salem, Mass. ii. George, b. Apr. 30, 1817, Tunbridge; d. in Union Plain, O .; m. Wilhelmina Hughs; no ch.
iii. Sarah, b. Apr. 9, 1819, Compton, Can., where she d. young. iv. Jeremiah S., b. Oct. 24, 1823, Roy .; d. Mar. 29, 1899, S. Roy .; m. Roxana, dau. Ephraim and Lucena (Bugbee) Terry, b. Apr. 1, 1823, E. Bethel; both bur. E. Bethel; three daughters. v. Esther McKnight, b. Aug. 7, 1827; d. Oct. 21, 1905; m. Jan. 26, 1848, Horace, son Martin and Polly (Hatch) Goss, b. Feb. 16, 1822; d. Feb. 11, 1878; ch .: (a) Horace Martin, b. Jan., 1849, E. Bethel; d. Aug. 16, 1854, E. Bethel; (b) Lucy Olivia, b. Dec., 1852; d. Aug. 8, 1854, E. Bethel; (c) George Martin, b. Apr. 3, 1857; m. Oct. 17, 1888, Mary Guernsey of Montpelier; (d) Carrie Louise, b. June 26,
Mrs. Sarah (Webster) Metcalf. Mrs. Polly (Gifford) Kimball. Paul Clark.
John Hammond Metcalf. Capt. Nathan Kimball. Mrs. Betsey (Flint) Havens. John Gillette, 1745-1829; Wife, Jemima (Smalley) Gillette, and Daughter, Jemima Gillette.
Mrs. Mary A. (Bingham) Parkhurst, 1804-1890. Ebenezer Dewey, 1762-1843. Richard Thomas, 1783-1863.
Coit Parkhurst, 1798-1888. Jireh Tucker, 1792-1878. Capt. Harry Bingham, 1786-1862.
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1862; m. Chester M. Bard; res., LaGrange, Ill. Horace Goss rem. to Royalton in 1865, and to Barre in 1875.
* vi. Harriet Adeline, b. July 24, 1830, Roy .; m. Danforth Day.
3. COIT PARKHURST, son of Benjamin, b. Feb. 28, 1798, Roy .; d. July 5, 1883, Hinckley, Ill .; m. Oct. 30, 1822, Mary Ann, dau. William and Olive (Havens) Bingham, b. Sep. 10, 1804, Roy .; d. Mar. 25, 1890, Hinckley. When first married Mr. Parkhurst lived in about the same place where Simon after- wards lived, then moved into the house where Mr. Fox had dwelt, then into the house where Mr. Gifford later lived, and finally rem. to Royalton village. After residing there a few years they went to Hinckley, Ill., to live with their daugh- ter, Mrs. Prince. In 1839 Mr. Parkhurst assumed the care of his father. Mrs. Parkhurst was a famous weaver of rag car- pets, and had about 5,000 yards to her credit before her hands ceased their labor. She was never tired of repeating the story of the Indian raid, as she heard it from the lips of her grand- parents. The writer had the privilege in 1882 of taking her over the ground from the mouth of the First Branch to South Tunbridge, and putting on paper the location of places and the story as she recalled it.
i. Olive Havens, b. May 10, 1824; d. Aug. 19, 1840, Roy.
ii. Helen Mar, b. Mar. 2, 1826; d. July 8, 1854, unm.
iii. Benjamin Franklin, b. June 28, 1829; m. (1) 1851, Frances J., dau. George W. and Philena Graves of E. Randolph, who d. Nov. 8, 1893, Worcester, Mass .; m. (2) Mar. 5, 1901, Harriet E. Maynard of Worcester, Mass .; one ch., Helen Marcella, b. Feb. 23, 1860; m. Dec. 19, 1900, Sylvester Dwight Judd, who d. Oct. 22, 1905, Baltimore, Md .; res., Malden, Mass .; res. of Benj. F., Tengerine, Fla.
iv. Sarah Agnes, b. July 14, 1837; d. Aug. 9, 1870.
v. William Frederick, b. Sep. 25, 1839; d. June 10, 1840.
vi. Frederick Groce, b. Sep. 16, 1849; d. June 18, 1909, Hinck- ley, Ill .; m. Sep. 20, 1871, Ai F., son Freeman J. and Sarah A. Prince; no ch .; an adopted ch., Fannie Elsie, b. July 18, 1882; m. Oct. 12, 1905, Dick H. Doede, and has Wendall Ai, b. Aug. 23, 1906; res., Hinckley, Ill. Mrs. Prince rem. to Hinckley in 1876. She was highly esteemed in her western home for her wholesome and helpful life.
JOSEPH [4] PARKHURST (Joseph [3], Joseph [2], George [1]), b. Aug. 5, 1695, Plainfield, Conn .; d. June 16, 1779, Roy ( ?) ; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1730, Sarah Lawrence; m. (2) Aug., 1740, Judith Johnson, b. 1713; d. Jan. 13, 1797; funeral attended at the meeting-house Jan. 18, the text, Rev. 14:13. It is probable that Joseph rem. with his sons Joseph and Calvin and others to Royalton ; his death is on the town records. There may have been no cemetery at that time, and he was doubtless buried near his home, if he died in Roy. Mr. Perrin speaks of Judith as the mother of Joseph, and it is likely that she lived with him.
2. i. Tilly [5], b. Oct. 10, 1732, Plainfield, Conn.
ii. Jabez [5], b. Nov. 2, 1734.
iii. Susannah [5], b. Aug. 28, 1736; d. Aug. 3, 1738.
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iv. Sarah [5], b. Oct. 3, 1742; d. 1744.
v. Susannah [5], d. 1745.
3. vi. Ebenezer [5], b. May 8, 1746.
* vii. Hannah [5], b. Mar. 14, 1748; m. John Hutchinson.
4. viii. Joseph [5], b. Mar. 1, 1750.
5. ix. Calvin [5], b. June 12, 1753.
2. TILLY [5] PARKHURST (Joseph [4], Joseph [3], etc.), b. Oct. 10, 1732 or 1729, Plainfield, Conn .; d. July 11, 1802, Roy .; bur. S. Roy. Cem .; m. Mrs. Sarah (Shepard) Ste- vens, wid. of Elias Stevens, b. 1730, Conn .; d. Oct. 12, 1816, Roy. See "Earliest Settlers." Mr. Parkhurst was in Plain- field, Conn., on July 2, 1774, and is said to have come to Roy. the next year. He was one of the eight Parkhursts who were original grantees of the town. He paid no poll tax after 1791. His tombstone states that he was in his 73d year when he died, which may be a mistake.
i. Phineas [6], b. Jan. 6, 1760, Plainfield, Conn .; d. Lebanon, N. H., 1844; m. Mar. 11, 1784, Roy., Lucy, dau. Nathaniel, Jr., and Priscilla (Shepard) Pierce, b. 1763; d. Nov. 29, 1841; both bur. Leba- non, N. H. They were own cousins, their mothers being sisters. The service which Dr. Phineas rendered at the time of the Indian raid has been told in the "Burning of Royalton." He studied medicine with Dr. Hall of Lebanon in a room 12 feet square and 6 ft. 4 in. high. He never returned to Royalton to live for any length of time. He found ample time to attend to the raising of mules and land speculation, and the running of mills, and assisted into this world 3,000 children, it is said, without the loss of a mother. He built the first grist mill in Lebanon, and was the first president of the first bank there. He grew rich, and he knew how to use his wealth, for he had come through the school of poverty. His wife's dowry, a cow and a pig, was sold to pay his debts, and her silk dress was cut up to make him shirts. He was keen at repartee. Going by one of his farms one day and seeing his man, as he thought, in the corn field, he called, "Mr. Snow!" No reply. Louder yet, "Mr. Snow!" Still no
response. "Mr. Snow!" to the limit of his lungs. Mr. Snow was deaf, and he rode on. Seeing Mr. Snow a few days later he lectured him for not answering him. When he was through, Mr. Snow asked when it happened, and on being told, said: "Well, Doctor, I was up to neighbor Rice's shearing sheep all that day, but my old hat and coat was fixed up in the cornfield to scare the crows." "Well, well, by Judas, it looked just like you, only a good deal better." Dr. Parkhurst left an impress on the town of Lebanon which will always remain. On his tombstone are the words, "The skillful Physician, the upright Man." Ch .: (a) Phineas [7], b. Mar. 2, 1785; d. May 31, 1819; m. Persis Kendall, and had Paul Kendall [8], b. Hartford; went with his parents when a year old to Templeton, Mass .; m. Almina J. Patridge, dau. Otis and Unity; five ch .: Phineas [9], the eldest, b. Nov. 7, 1837, Templeton, d. Nov. 7, 1877, while visiting his mother in Temple- ton; enlisted as a musician in 3rd Regt., N. H. Vols., and re-enlisted Aug. 7, 1861, as musician of Second Brig. band of Tenth Army Corps; m. Jan. 5, 1869, Alice G. Quam, b. Apr. 23, 1846, in Halifax, and had Harriet I. [10], b. Mar., 1870, Concord, N. H., and James P. [10], b. 1872, now engaged in manufacture of silverware in Keene, N. H .; Harriet I. is employed in the State House at Concord, N. H .; (b) Lucy Ann [7], b. May 15, 1790; d. May 11, 1826; m. Jason Allen of Leba- non, N. H., the father of H. P. Allen of Royalton; (c) Susan [7], b.
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