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He was three times married and had issue by each of his wives.
His first wife was Laura Chapin, who bore him two daughters, Laura Chapin, who married Cyrus Chase and had one son, George Harlan; and
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Emeline F., who lived but a few days. His first wife having died in 1825, he married her sister, Henrietta F. Chapin, who died at Manchester, N. H., in May, 1840, having borne one son, James Henry, Aug. 16, 1832. By his third wife, Charlotte Barr, he had two children; Charles Barr, who married in Michigan and there died childless, and a daughter, Mary S. Florinda married Ira Farr about a year after her parents moved to London- derry and spent the rest of her life in Windham, dying June 9, 1879, having had three sons and four daughters.
Dasid Clark married Rachel Farr, sister of Ira, Florinda's husband, and had two children: Mary Adaline, who married Orin Curtis and died, childless, . at Charlestown, Mass., in 1850; and David who spent all his life in Londonderry. He died in this town, Oct. 7, 1863.
Horace spent his life, after his father's moving here, in Londonderry and was a cabinet maker by trade, having his shop near his house at the west- erly end of the village next the bridge across Utley Branch. He married Rebecca Reed, by whom he had three children; Alonzo H .; Henrietta, who married Charles L. Whitman and died, childless, in 1882, and Henry, born in 1832, who survived but a few days. Horace died Nov. 23, 1878.
Harden was never married. He died, in this town, Oct. 24, 1881.
Elizabeth E. married Dr. Jeremiah Arnold of this town and had a family of seven children. She died here on Christmas day, 1871. (See Arnold Family Sketch.)
Luther married Elzina Davis, of Londonderry, and all their children were born in this town. Later he moved from town, but the date of his so doing is not known. It must have been later than 1850, for in that year he is said to have been Postmaster here. He lived in several different towns after this removal and was a resident of Framingham, Mass. at the time of his death, though he died in Londonderry, Nov. 7, 1894. His children were: Addinette Elzina, who married Orin Curtis, surviving husband of her deceased cousin, Mary Adaline, and had two sons and a daughter; Luther H. who served three years in the Civil War, Co. H, 2nd Mass. Vols. and later married Abigail F. Kendall, at Framingham, Mass. where he resided until his death in June, 1913, without having any children; and Marian S. who married Harlan H. Whitney and died childless, Aug. 2, 1917, at Framingham.
Avery B. lived in Londonderry from his early boyhood until his death, Nov. 17, 1896. In 1833 he married Sally Davis, whom he survived twenty years, residing on the old homestead on what is termed "Stowell Hill." Their children were: Webber, May 21, 1844, who died on day of his birth; Saville, June 13, 1845, married William L. Gibson and bore two sons and two daughters (see Gibson Family Sketch); Mary Elma, June 27, 1847, died, unmarried, June 29, 1876; Willard B., Apr. 18, 1849,
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died Feb. 6, 1870, unmarried; Warren C., June 15, 1851, died Jan. 20, 1852; and Walter D., Oct. 6, 1855.
Mary B. married three times. Her first husband was Henry Chapin; her second, Lory Bacon, and her third was Joseph Perham. By her first mar- riage she had one daughter, and by her second two sons and two daugh- ters. There was no issue of her third marriage. She died at Lyndeboro, N. H., Jan. 28, 1879.
Lydia married Samuel Whitney, had four sons, lived in Nashua, N. H. and in Waltham, Mass. where she died, May 11, 1896.
Henry Chapin, Deacon Luther's youngest child, died at Waltham, Mass., ยท Oct. 2, 1887. He was married four times. His first wife, Elizabeth M. Whitney, had a son, George H., born in Londonderry, July 25, 1845.
By his second wife, Irene K. Bates, he had daughter, Elizabeth Irene, who married James H. Tattersall, by whom she had daughter, Mildred W. who married Edward H. Swift, of Manchester, Vt .; and afterward married Charles F. Bacon, bore him a son, Winthrop E., and died Apr. 26, 1914, at Londonderry.
His third wife was Eliza R. Jones, who died childless; and by the fourth marriage, to Martha Ann Bond, he had a daughter, Clara Bond.
James Henry, son of Col. Josiah and Henrietta F. (Chapin), was about ten years old when his father moved here from New Hampshire and, probably, lived here until the family moved to Michigan. He never resided here thereafter; nor did either of the other children of the Colonel ever live here. James Henry died, June 12, 1895, at N. Y. City.
David, son of David Clark and Rachel (Farr), married Maryette Hay- ward, of Londonderry, Oct. 22, 1850, lived for many years on "Stowell Hill," his farm adjoining the old homestead of his grandfather, Deacon Luther, and died Feb. 11, 1910. His children, all born in Londonderry, were: Mary Adaline, May 2, 1852; Emma Elizabeth, Mar. 16, 1854; Henry Clark, Dec. 12, 1856; Clara Ellen, Nov. 11, 1864, and Orin David, Nov. 22, 1869.
Alonzo H., son of Horace and Rebecca (Reed), was born in Londonderry, June 7, 1828, and died in Manchester, N. H., June 4, 1898. His wife was Elizabeth Murch and the fruit of their union was a son and daughter born in Londonderry and a second son, born in Charlestown, Mass. These were: Frank, Feb. 12, 1851; Mary Alice, July 3, 1856, and Charles Winthrop, June 4, 1870.
Walter D., youngest child of Avery B. and Sally (Davis), married Jennie Larrabee and lived for several years upon a farm on "Stowell Hill," from which he moved to Framingham, Mass. where he died. His first-born, a daughter, did not survive the day of her birth, and his other child, Lillian May, May 15, 1894, married, at Framingham, Clarence P. Baxter.
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George Henry, son of Henry Chapin and Elizabeth M. (Whitney), died at at his home in Waltham, Mass., Dec. 31, 1894.
His wife was Abbie Arvilla Daggett, who survived him. Only two of their five children survived the day of their respective births.
These were Bertha Mae, who married Carl A. Mears and had two children, a daughter and a son; and Henry Whitney, May 30, 1877, who married Anita Evans Tebbetts. He was a lawyer in N. Y. City, a graduate of Harvard College, and has one son, Henry Evans, Feb. 26, 1910.
Mary Adaline, daughter of David and Maryette (Hayward), married Frank H. Marden, of Londonderry, whom she survived, having a son, Clarence S., who married Ella V. Childs and has one son and three daugh- ters. Later she married Serrel Allen, of this town, and resides on the old Allen homestead with her son, her husband having deceased.
Emma E. married John E. Carleton, of Londonderry, but had no child. Henry Clark, named for his paternal grandfather, married Lilla Lizzie Coleman and lives in Brattleboro, Vt. They have no children.
Clara Ellen married Charles B. Carleton and resided in Manchester, Vt. until her death. She had no children.
Orin David, younger son of David and Maryette, married Nettie S. Clough, of Londonderry, and removed to Brattleboro where he was long connected with Dunham Bros. Co., wholesale and retail shoe dealers. He has three children: Inez May, born in Londonderry, Sept. 19, 1894, Ruth Eleanor, Aug. 13,. 1897, and Hugh Orin, the last two born in Brattleboro.
Frank, son of Alonzo H. and Elizabeth (Murch), married Catherine Sleeper at Boston, Mass. in 1874, and they, some years later, came to Lon- donderry and lived for a time in the "North village." No children.
Mary Alice married, at Boston, Mass., Nathaniel H. Walker, but has no child.
Charles Winthrop has been twice married but has no issue. His first wife was Helen T. Western, and after her death he married Cecelia A. Ward- well.
Reuben Stowell was seven years younger than his half-brother, Deacon Luther, having been born, in Winchester, N. H., Nov. 4, 1779.
He became a resident of Windham, Vt. only a few years after that town was established, on the division of the original township of Londonderry, and there all his children were born. He never lived in Londonderry, as the town is now known, but spent his life in Windham, where he died Sept. 24, 1861. He married Mary Bennett and they had a family of five sons and five daughters. These were: Melinda, Nov. 6, 1800; Mary, Nov. 12, 1802; Israel, May 8, 1805; Joseph, Feb. 24, 1807; Almira, June 15, 1809; Calvin, Sept. 6, 1812; Aaron B., Sept. 19, 1814; Sarah Miranda, May 17, 1818; Hollis G., Mar. 17, 1821, and Ordelia A., Nov. 2, 1824.
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Several of these children are found to have been, in later life, connected with this town, to some extent.
Melinda married Jude Farr and lived in Windham. Her oldest child, Laura Ann, born in Windham, May 14, 1822, married Winslow Babbitt and had five children. (See BABBITT FAMILY SKETCH.)
Mary, better known in her later years as "Aunt Polly," married Hubbard Barrett and lived for many years on the farm about a mile below South Londonderry, on West River, still termed "The Barrett Farm," until after her husband's death and died in Wardsboro, Vt., at the home of a daughter.
Israel married Achsah Goddard, daughter of Samuel and Anna, and had a family of seven children. (See Goddard Family Sketch.)
Joseph married Hepsebeth Hastings, at Windham, and lived for several years in Albany and Troy, N. Y., coming to Londonderry in 1857. He owned and managed a farm on the "under mountain road" until his death, Dec. 11, 1871.
His only child, Maria Hastings, married John Cheney, of Londonderry, and had one daughter, Ella J., who was brought up by her grandparents, her mother having died when she was a mere infant. This granddaughter married John C. Robinson, of Jamaica, and has three sons and a daughter. Almira married Jacob B. Rugg and had a family of three sons and six daughters. They lived in Londonderry for some years, their fifth child, Nancy M., being born here, Jan. 19, 1834, and the next three in the list were also born here. They moved from Londonderry to Chester, Vt. and in that town Martin L., their youngest child was born, Sept. 5, 1849.
Calvin spent all his life in Windham, where he died Sept. 9, 1894. He was three times married and had six children by the first wife, two by the second and none by the third. Only two of these lived to maturity, Ebenezer W. and Fanny Lorinda, children of the first wife.
Aaron B. was a Baptist clergyman and never a resident of this town. He died at Herndon, Va., then his home, Mar. 23, 1891.
Sarah Miranda married Levi Jones, of Londonderry, and spent the re- mainder of her life here. She died Sept. 10, 1874, leaving an only child, Georgia Lucy, who married Henry L. Darling and had one son, Frank L. Hollis G. married Lydia A. Farr, daughter of Florinda (Stowell) Farr, and grand-daughter of Deacon Luther Stowell, and had one child, William Hollis. Neither Hollis G. nor William H. lived in Londonderry.
Ordelia A., Reuben's youngest child, married Jonathan Jones, brother of Levi who married her sister Sarah Miranda. For a time she and her husband lived on the old Jones homestead, on the hill just south of the "South village;" Levi, Jonathan and their father (Levi), then owning the
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place jointly. Ordelia and her husband then moved to South Windham, Vt. and later to a farm just across the line in Townshend, where she died, Dec. 2, 1900, leaving an only son, Charles, who has since deceased.
Thomson - - Thompson
SAMUEL THOMPSON was born May 23, 1751 and came from Dunbarton, N. H. to Londonderry, Vt. where he died Feb. 13, 1838. He is named in several sketches of the early history of this town, heretofore printed, as one of Col. Rogers' original party, the first comers. This is an error for he did not make his home here until several years later, nor did he visit the locality until after the earliest party had erected houses and brought their families.
His wife was Mary Miller, sister of Robert, John and Daniel who came among the earliest settlers and established themselves on the Thompson- burg Meadows, as they are now known.
In 1774, Samuel and his wife came from their home in Dunbarton to visit her brothers and look over the opportunities for securing desirable lands in the vicinity. Their visit or stay was so far prolonged that two children were born to them while here, though they took up no land and established no home. They then returned to Dunbarton where they remained until 1782, when they again came to Londonderry and bought the farms of Robert and John Miller; the house of the latter being built on the pitched lot or farm of Robert. Daniel Miller had taken up no land at that time but had built a log house on the lot pitched by his brother Robert, though, later, he owned the farm which he conveyed to Hugh Montgomery and John Hasey, lying on West River and now a part of George M. Tuttle's homestead, formerly known as the George Hewes place.
Though Robert Miller gave Thomson a warranty deed of the farm in Thompsonburg in 1782 the deeds on record support the assumption that, at that time, he had received no title deed to the same, for the conveyance of these premises to him was made in September, 1784, by "The Committee," or persons appointed by the Legislature in 1780 to dispose of "Tory Rogers' " lands. The same is true as to the farm of John Miller.
Probably these farms were "pitched" by the Millers under some arrange- ment with Rogers and their rights thereunder recognized by the "Com- mittee." All three of the Millers early left town and moved to Manchester, Vt.
Thomson, from time to time, purchased other adjoining lands and owned a very large tract from which he set out farms for his sons, as they grew up and married and from them the locality took the name Thompsonburg which it has ever since borne.
Samuel Thomson's home was on this old Robert Miller farm until his decease. Up to 1815 both he and his family spelled the family name Thom-
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son but from that time forward the present form, Thompson, seems to have been used.
The children of Samuel and Mary (Miller) Thomson were: John, born Apr. II, 1773, who evidently died when quite young; David, Jan. 19, 1775; Samuel, Jr., Nov. 27, 1776; John, Aug. 25, 1778; James, Mar. 31, 1781; Rogers, Apr. 26, 1783; Polly, Apr. 21, 1785; Maryann, Nov. 29, 1787; Betsey, Nov. 8, 1791; Hannah, Feb. 10, 1793, died Feb. 17, 1798; Joel, Apr. 10, 1795, died Mar. 4, 1810; and Jennet, Sept. 28, 1798, died Mar. 8, I799.
David married Hannah Boorn and was settled on the hill farm now for many years owned by Georgianna M. Mansfield. His first house was a log structure built by him and his brother Samuel when they were 18 and 16 years of age respectively. Later he built the brick house now standing on the crest of the hill, the brick having been made at the foot of the hill where he established a brick-yard for that purpose, and where were also made the brick for the house east of the "Capt. James place" on the farm once called the Magar place.
His children were: Nathaniel B., Samuel (3d), David, Jr., William Squire, Mercy, Joel, Jared, Polly, Sylvia and Emery; all of whom lived to maturity and married.
Nathaniel B. married Philena Buxton. Their children were; Minerva, who
married Calvin W. Wheeler and had a family of nine children, of whom eight lived to maturity; Emeline, who married Lyman W. Ellis and had two children; Gilman J. who married Susan A. Temple and who served as a soldier in the Civil War. After living in Winhall for many years they moved to So. Londonderry where both died, leaving one daughter, Hallie A., surviving; Fidelia, married Alfred A. Chase and had one son; and Ellen, who married Thomas J. Jaquith to whom she bore two sons and two daughters. Nathaniel and Philena also had two sons who died in infancy, Alfred and one not named.
Samuel (3d) married Orra Burlingame and went to northern New York to live. He had a daughter, who was blind, and a son, George, who mar- ried and had four children.
David, fr. married Cynthia Burch. He, also, had a daughter who became blind and died unmarried. He removed to Pennsylvania and died there. William Squire married Lucinda Rockwood. He had three daughters;
Lucina, who married John Moore; Mercy, who married a Sheldon; Laura, who married a Shipman, and also a son Loren. Squire, as he was usually called, lived for some years at Thompsonburg, but went to the home of his daughter Lucina and her husband, in Rockingham, Vt. and spent the last of his life.
Mercy married Asa Whitman and bore two sons and two daughters. (See Whitman Family Sketch.)
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Joel married Cynthia Whitman and had three daughters; Ella who died in childhood; Helen who married Cyrus A. Greeley, by whom she had a son, Clifford; and a second Ella, who married first Asa Howe, by whom she had a son, Bert, and for second husband married Merritt Cook. Joel lived for many years at Thompsonburg, on the old Rogers Thompson farm, and there died.
Jared married Caroline Clark, of Providence, R. I., but had no children. Polly married Thomas Faulkner and lived in town many years. She sur-
vived her husband and spent her last years in Athol, Mass. Sylvia married John Greeley, but had no children.
Emery married Belinda Clark. He was a soldier of the Civil War, and had a son who also enlisted in that war, at the age of 17, and died in service. He also had a daughter, Katie, who married Moore and had several children.
SAMUEL, JR., son of Samuel and Mary (Miller), married Abigail Hoskins and had ten children; Jane, Feb. 23, 1798; John, Aug. 25, 1799; Samuel Miller, July 27, 1801; Betsey, Apr. 21, 1803; Solon, Jan. 17, 1805; Mary, Jan. 5, 1807; Solon, Jan. 22, 1809; Maryann, Apr. 20, 1811; William, Dec. 5, 1813; and Rhoda, Jan. 11, 1816.
He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and died, Sept. 22, 1853, on the old homestead, to which he had taken title some years before and on which he had cared for his parents in their last years.
Jane, the oldest child of Samuel, Jr., married Robert Wheeler.
John died Dec. 25, 1825; and we have no information as to his ever having married.
Samuel Miller was killed by the falling of a limb from a tree while at work in the woods in Peru, Vt. It is said that he never was married.
Betsey died in infancy.
Solon, the first of that name, died at the age of two years.
Mary married Ira Whitman, lived for many years on the "Brook Road" in this town, and died childless.
Solon, the second son of that name, married Lucy Maria Churchill and they had four sons and five daughters; Mahala, Henry L., Augustus, Semira, Achsah L., Celestia M., Walter, Laroy S. and Marion. He sur- vived the mother of these children many years, and took for his second wife Anna B. (Farnum) Campbell, who survived him.
Mahla, his oldest child, married Francis N. Ball and died childless. Henry L. married twice; first , and second Cornelia (Burbee) Kings- bury. His children, all by his first marriage, were Delbert, who died un- married; Gilbert, who married Sylvia F. Wood, and, for his second wife, Blanche Smith but has no child; Eva, who married Henry A. Wood; and Minnie, who married J. E. Wood. Augustus died unmarried.
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Semira married Willard M. Bemis and bore him three sons.
Achsah L. married Edgar S. McAllister, had a son, John C., and a daughter, Ira, who married Leon W. Coleman.
Celestia M. married Harvey W. Pierce and died childless.
Walter married Emma L. Hart and occupied his father's homestead farm at the time of his death. He left three sons and one daughter; Irvin L., who married Mabel S. Johnson, has one daughter and lives on the old home farm; Earl, who married Bertha Hoyt and has one son; Luther, who mar- ried Mercy Bowen, and who was called into military service in the World War but did not go overseas; and Bertha, who became the second wife of Leon W. Coleman.
Laroy S. married Julia A. Doe, lived in town some years and then moved into "York State," where he died leaving two sons, Albert and Floyd.
Marion married Hervey Bryant and spent practically all her married life away from Londonderry.
Maryann, daughter of Samuel, Jr., married Jonathan Sawin.
William, youngest son of Samuel, Jr., was twice married; first to Nancy H. Rugg, and for his second wife took Anna B., the widow of his brother Solon. His children were all by his first wife, and were Daniel, Wayland, Newton, Malcolm, and two daughters.
John, the second son of Samuel and Mary to bear that name, married Vina Pierce and was settled on the farm next south of his father's homestead, the place known in these later years as the Johnson Brothers' farm. He had one son, Bradley, who became a Baptist clergyman, and seven daughters; Joanna, Hannah, Fanny, Huldah, Eliza, Julia and Lucina. As to the order of their birth we are uncertain, and about these children definite information has not been found available beyond the fact that Hannah married Othenial Packard.
James was blind and died Aug. 26, 1826, unmarried.
Rogers, youngest of Samuel's sons who survived boyhood, married Olive Herrick and had four children; Riley, Roxana, Lorinda, and Laura, but of none of them has further reliable information been found. His father settled him on the farm across the brook from the old homestead, in the recent past known as the Joel Thompson farm. Rogers sold this farm in and moved from town to
Polly married Sherman Pierce and had a large family of children. (See Pierce Family Sketch.)
Maryann married Sherwin.
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Waite-Wait
Two branches of this family are represented in this town, claiming no kinship with each other but found to be of the same original stock. The name was originally written Wayte and the change to the present form, or forms, seems to be coincident with the coming of the family to New Eng- land.
Richard Wait, born 1608, was in 1637 a resident of Watertown, Mass., and from him can be traced the descent of both branches of the family in this town.
Richard had three sons; John, Thomas and Joseph.
Joseph, the youngest, was born in Watertown in 1643. Joseph's son, William had a son, Jason, who was living at Grafton, Mass. in 1750.
This Jason had a son, Jason, who served as a soldier from Grafton, Mass. in 1757; later removed to Alstead, N. H. and served in the War of the Revolution in various organizations. He was commissioned, Nov. 7, 1776, as Captain in "Col. Joseph Cilley's Regiment," and also, at one time, was Captain in "Col. John Stark's Regiment." He was a member of the force that marched into Canada in 1776 and surrendered at a fort, or station, called "The Cedars." At this time he held rank as "Capt. of the Third Company in Col. Timothy Bedell's Regiment." In the latter part of the year 1782 he resigned his commission, then being Major in 3rd Regt., and left the army. While he was absent from home on military service his wife died and, later, the family moved to Westmoreland, N. H., where he re- married and remained until his decease. He had a son, Barnet, born in 1768, who married Diadama Warner, daughter of William Warner, who was among the early settlers of Chester, Vt., and had settled on what is now the main street of that village.
This son came to Londonderry, Vt. in 1791 and settled on land adjoining the Colonel Rogers homestead, taking deed of the same, June 26, 1792, from "The Committee" who sold Colonel Rogers' land under authority of the Vermont Legislature, and lived in this town until his death, which occurred in 1838.
His children were Lee, Barnet, Warren, Jason, Polly, Clarissa, Caroline, Maria, William, George, Loren and two others who died young.
Lee married Lydia Stearns, of Hebron, N. Y .; Barnet married Polly Smith, of Andover, Vt .; Warren married Mary Hooker; Jason married Melinda Warner; Polly married Joseph Clark; Clarissa married Sylvester W. Sheldon; Caroline married Gardner Eaton; Maria married Isaac W. Gibson; William "went off to sea," and later settled in Chicago, Ill .; George married Sophia Spaulding, and Loren went "out west," where we can follow him no further.
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Barnet, second son of Barnet and Diadama, was born Aug. 20, 1795 and was a resident of this town during his lifetime, 98 years and 17 days. For full two generations the residents of this and adjoining towns knew him well as Squire Wait; in his later years "the old Squire."
From his early manhood until long after he had passed the allotted three score and ten he held, almost continuously, some town office, covering at different times nearly the full list by law chosen at the annual town meet- ings, and for half a century held the office of Justice of the Peace. He had six children; Mary C., Aug. 3, 1825; Barnet S., May 23, 1827; William H., March 1, 1830; Caroline H., June 3, 1832; Corydon F., Oct. 20, 1834, and Cordelia M., Jan. 8, 1840.
Mary C. married Albert M. Allbe, a lawyer, who resided for some years in this town and at one time conducted a store in the North Village.
Later they removed to Springfield, Vt., where they lived many years before going to Bellows Falls to spend their last days.
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