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They had four children: Alberton A., who died young; Alla N., who mar- ried Frederick W. Pierce; Cora A., who married Dr. E. S. Allbee of Bellows Falls; Gertrude A., who married Alvah C. Spencer.
Barnet S. married Mary A. McAllister in 1849 and spent the later years of his life in this town, where he died Feb. 29, 1896.
They had one son, Albert B., Nov. 7, 1853, who married Nina E. Peck and lived many years in Chicago, Ill. and Des Moines, Iowa. On the death of his father he returned to Londonderry and now resides on the old family homestead in the North Village. He has no children.
William H. died at the age of two years.
Caroline H. married James Parker and lived in this town until her death, Dec. 25, 1879, leaving no child.
Corydon F. married Jennie M. Bates, and died June 8, 1897. He had two children: Nellie E., May 29, 1857, who married L. S. Richardson, of Chester, formerly a resident of Londonderry, and Barnet M., Sept. 8, 1865, who married Dora Barber.
The later generations of this branch make use of an additional letter in the family name, writing it Waite.
From John, eldest son of Richard Wait (1608) of Watertown, Mass., descended John Wait who moved from Mason, N. H. to Andover, Vt. about 1795, locating in that portion of the town which later became Weston.
In his family were five sons: John, Amos, Daniel, James and Sumner, and three daughters: Betsey, Sally and Lucinda.
Sumner Wait was born, Jan. 9, 1807, in Weston, Vt. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in the shop of his brother, Daniel, in Chester, Vt. and first opened his own shop at Londonderry, but later moved into several other localities before finally settling down in this town.
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He married Polly Dodge, daughter of Daniel Dodge who, with his brother Ezra, moved to Londonderry from Andover, Vt. in 1817 and settled upon a tract of virgin forest land just south of the Weston town line, now known as the Wait, or Highland, farm. This was the home of Sumner Wait and his wife from the fall of 1842, her father and mother living in the family in their old age and until their death.
Sumner Wait died on this farm Aug. 4, 1882. He and his descendants are the only members of this branch of the Wait family who made London- derry their home.
The children of Sumner and Polly (Dodge) Wait were: Daniel D., Marion and Maryette D.
Daniel D. married Janette T. Chittenden and had one child, Charles S., Feb. 11, 1859, and died, on the farm cleared by his maternal grandfather, June 6, 1916.
Marion married Dr. Luther S. Arnold and resided in town until her de- cease. They had one son, Elmore Ferdinand, who, like his father and his grandfather, was a physician. (See Arnold Family Sketch.)
Maryette D. married David Putnam and had her home in Lyndeboro, N. H. Charles S., son of Daniel D., married Alta M. Wilkins, who bore him two sons, Charles D., April 12, 1890, and Robert L., Dec. 28, 1894. His second wife was Anna (Angolum) Mayer. No child was born of this second marriage, but he formally adopted Marjorie, daughter of his second wife by a former marriage, and gave her the name Wait. He died, June 15, 1922, on the farm where three generations of his ancestors had lived and died.
ยท Warner
MANY representatives of this family, or bearers of this name, have been residents of Londonderry but it is not possible to trace them to a common origin, nor to determine anything as to a definite relationship between the different families, though there is a strong presumption that all of them sprung from that William to whom we trace one branch.
In April, 1803, John Warner, Jr., "of Keene, N. H.," took deed from one John Jacobs of 25 acres of land in town adjacent to the "Great Pond," now Lowell Lake; and in the following March conveyed the same to John War- ner, "of Keene," setting himself as "of Londonderry," Vt.
A quit-claim deed of the same plot to John Warner, dated Sept. 2, 1815 describes him as "of Londonderry," and he is so designated in his deed of this same land to Daniel Warner under date May 31, 1827.
It is apparently true that John, Jr. was the first of this branch to reside in town and that he came in 1803 or 1804; also, that his father, John (Senior), came between that date and 1815. The business carried on upon the tract described in these deeds was that of cloth-dressing and fulling.
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John, the elder, was a "clothier," or cloth-dresser, by occupation and had followed that calling in New Ipswich and in Keene, N. H. before the date his name appears in our records. His first wife was Priscilla Adams, by whom he had two daughters, Molly and Dorcas. Molly married Isaac Esty, Jr., of Keene, and Dorcas died, unmarried, while a member of the family of her half-brother Daniel in Londonderry. His second wife was Sarah Eastman, who bore him nine children: John (undoubtedly the John, Jr. who came to Londonderry), Sarah, Caleb, Jerry, Palmyra, Elvira, Marianna, Daniel and Harriet. All these sons followed the same occupation as their father.
The father was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting, in 1777, as a private in Capt. Josiah Brown's Co. of Colonel Enoch Hale's Regt.
His ancestry, traced by one of a later generation in the family, runs back through Caleb, and Elizabeth (Brown); Daniel, and Dorcas (Adams); Daniel, and Sarah (Dane); Daniel, and Elizabeth (Denne) to William War- ner, born in England, who came to Ipswich, Mass. in 1637 bringing with him his sons John and Daniel, his daughter Abigail, whose husband had preceded them to America, and his sister Sarah.
Of John, Jr. we have no information further than already stated, except the date of his birth, Aug. 22, 1779 at New Ipswich.
His brother Jerry was born Sept. 25, 1786 and married Phebe, daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah (Glenne) How, Dec. 24, 1807. They lived in this town until after the birth of their first child, Sarah Eastman, July 16, 1808, and later that same year moved to Cornish, N. H. From that time until 1867 they lived in various places, in N. H. and in N. Y., and then went to Nunda, Ill. and spent the remainder of their lives at that place, having had two sons and two daughters born to them after leaving Londonderry. He died Jan. 16, 1873.
Daniel, youngest son of John (Senior) and Sarah (Eastman), was born in Keene, N. H., Mar. 18, 1797 and died at Weston, Vt., Sept. 1, 1867. He mar- ried Huldah How, sister of his brother Jerry's wife, at Londonderry, and operated his "clothier and fulling mill" at the "Great Pond" (Lowell Lake), for some years, moving to Weston in 1835 and there carrying on a like busi- ness until his removal to Pennsylvania in 1848. He later returned to Weston and passed his last days there.
His children were all daughters and all were born in Londonderry. They were: Eliza Harriet, married Charles Gardner and died, childless, in Boston, Aug. 13, 1852; Martha Elvira, married Abel Rideout, of Weston, and died there Feb. 13, 1884, without issue; Sallie Mariah, married Fer- nando Farrar, had five children and died in Erie, Pa., Mar. 18, 1859; Mary Ann, married Oramel Cheney and died, Apr. 19, 1861, in Dedham, Mass. leaving two daughters, Addie and Effie; Adaline Frances married Philetus Strong, had seven children, and died in Waterford, Pa., Apr. 19, 1907.
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One Jonathan Warner resided for a time in Londonderry, where he mar- ried Abigail, oldest daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah (Glenne) How, about 1797 as family tradition states, though the records (as in very many other cases) disclose nothing as to the marriage.
He was living in town in February, 1808 but how long he had been here is not known. No evidence of any relationship between him and Jerry and Daniel before mentioned can be found, other than that arising from the fact that their respective wives were sisters; nor can we connect Jonathan with any of the other Warners who have resided in town.
The wife of Barnet Wait (father of the "Old Squire," Barnet), was a Warner (see Wait Family Sketch), but her relationship to any of the others of that family name who have resided in Londonderry cannot be traced.
At a comparatively recent date Carmillus T. Warner was a resident physician in town for a time, removing to Chester, Vt.
He was the son of Carmillus Warner who died in military service during the Civil War, and grandson of Selah Warner who lived just over the line between Londonderry and Landgrove, in the latter town.
One Curtis Warner once operated a sawmill on Flood Brook, in this town and left descendants, one of whom at least resided in town for a short time; but neither Selah nor Curtis can be connected with the others of the family name before mentioned.
Whitman
THROUGH researches made by members of the family in the present generation, it appears that the Whitmans who first came to' Londonderry traced descent, through Daniel, Ebenezer and John, from John Whitman, who came from England and settled in Weymouth, Mass.
Noah Whitman was born in Attleborough, Mass., then a part of Reho- both, Aug. 6, 1750 and died at Londonderry, Vt., July 10, 1834.
He, with his brother Abial, came from Westmoreland, N. H. to Vermont about 1792 and, in that year, each took deed of land in that part of ancient Londonderry which a few years later became the town of Windham.
About a year later Noah conveyed his land there to one Vesey and pur- chased from "the Committee" a full two-hundred acre lot lying on what is called "Melendy Hill," southwest of the village of South Londonderry, and there was his home until his death. He married Persis Pratt, who bore him three sons and five daughters, of whom the five oldest were born in West- moreland, N. H. and the others within the limits of ancient Londonderry, one in that part now Windham and the two youngest on the old hill home- stead. These children were; Hannah, Sept. 6, 1778; Alanson, Oct. 19, 1780;
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Lyman, Dec. 1, 1782; Fanny, Oct. 29, 1785; Persis, Sept. 24, 1788; Anna, Apr. 28, 1793; Clarissa, Apr. 15, 1795; and Noah, May 12, 1798, the last of whom died in early childhood.
Hannah married Richmond Horton and was the mother of Deacon Rich- mond Horton who spent his long life in town on the farm where he was born, still known as "the Horton Place." She also had one daughter, Hannah, who married Ezra Brown.
Alanson married Catherine G. Warfield and had a large family, all his children, save two, living to maturity. He died Oct. 25, 1860.
Lyman married Mary Gibson and had four children: Cynthia, who died in childhood; John G., Nov. 13, 1809; Mary, Mar. 8, 1812, and Silas, Aug. 16, 1817.
Fanny married Jacob Hogeboom.
Persis married Benjamin Baldwin and had two sons, Horace D. and Curtis, who lived to maturity, and two other children who died in infancy.
Anna died unmarried.
Clarissa married John Hogeboom.
The children of Alanson and Catherine G. (Warfield) were: Loring, Apr. 22, 1803; Alanson, Jr., Apr. 19, 1805; Lyman, Mar. 13, 1807; Persis, Feb. 19, 1809; Noah (2nd), Mar. 25, 1811; Fanny, Nov. 22, 1812; Hiram, Nov. 8, 1814; Noah (3d), Nov. 4, 1816; Cynthia, Feb. 19, 1819; Nelson, Mar. 17, 1821; Catherine G., Apr. 3, 1823.
Loring married Electra Aldrich by whom he had a son, Charles L., and two daughters, Althine and Catherine. Charles L. served in the Mexican War as a private in Co. I, First Mass. Vols., enlisting from Boston. He married Henrietta Stowell and died, childless.
Althine married but died without issue. Catherine married
Curtis and is said to have had three daughters.
Alanson, fr. married Jane Gardner, had two sons, Frank W. and George H., and a daughter, Mary Matilda. Frank W. was a physician and practiced for some years in Bellows Falls, and died, Dec. 20, 1910, leaving no de- scendants surviving. George H. died without issue. Mary M. married Matthias Haynes and had son, Frank D. who died in Pennsylvania where he had for several years had his home.
Lyman died, in Londonderry, Dec. 14, 1877, and the records state that he was a "widower," but the name of his deceased wife is not there found, nor is it learned by inquiry among surviving members of the family name. Nothing is learned as to any child of his and it is believed he left no descendant.
Persis died in her second year.
Noah (2nd) died in early childhood.
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Fanny married Hiram Robinson and had a daughter, Mary Jane, who mar- ried Frederick W. Marsh and died childless.
Hiram married Hannah E. Gove, had a son, James Henry, and died Nov. 18, 1897, leaving as the best part of his family's heritage an unfading memory of kindly acts and unostentatious benevolence that had warmed and brightened many a clouded life and troubled heart. Many of these kindly deeds were so quietly accomplished that not even the recipients knew whence the aid came, and, doubtless, many of his acts of benevo- lence will never be known until the final great reckoning. To the end of his life he cherished deep interest and love for the town which was the old family home. His son, James H., married Minerva B. Rogerson, had one son, Allan Hiram, and died Oct. II, 1915.
Noah (3d) married Sarah Reynolds and died Oct. 4, 1891, leaving three chil- dren: Ellen S. and Charles, both of whom died unmarried, though of mature years, and Warren H. who married Dellfa Pelkey.
Cynthia married Joel Thompson and had three daughters (see Thompson Family Sketch). She died, June 26, 1886, in Londonderry.
Nelson married Susan G. Higgins and moved to the western part of the state of New York. They had five children: Wayland, Herbert, Lyman, Isella dnd Hiram R. Nelson died in December, 1910.
Catherine G. married Harley B. Woods and died Sept. 16, 1883. She had one daughter, Emma, who married Jean C. Bracq and resides in Keene, N. H. She also had a son, George, of whom the only information given is that he married and had one child, possibly more than one.
Of the children of Lyman and Mary (Gibson) Whitman three lived to maturity. John G. married Emeline Chase and spent his life in London- derry, where he died, March 8, 1888. His children were: Cynthia, Mary Jane, Ellen, Orrin, Ora, Emma and Effie. Cynthia died unmarried.
ABIAL WHITMAN, brother of Noah, with whom he came to Vermont about 1792, married Alice Dunham in Westmoreland, N. H. Nov. 29, 1787. They had a family of six sons and three daughters, Electa, Sarah, and Alice. The sons were: Abial, Jr., Ira, Ara, Daniel, Ona and Asa, all of whom at some period of their lives were residents of this town, though their father resided in Windham until his decease.
Abial, fr. was born Mar. 30, 1788 and died Nov. 27, 1866. He married
Hannah Sawtelle and they had twelve children: Abial (3d), Aug. 18, 1812; Hannah, Aug. 14, 1814; Sawtelle, May 17, 1816; Sarah, Sept. II, 1818; Adaline, Sept. 6, 1820; Harriet, Jan. 10, 1823; Elsie, Feb. 5, 1825; Esther, Sept. 2, 1827; Alvah, June 19, 1829; Alice, Feb. 1, 1832; Asa, July 18, 1834, and Ira E., Nov. 24, 1836.
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Abial (3d) married Aurilla Farr. He went to California in 1849 and in the following year, having become broken in health, started on his return home by voyage around "the Horn." He died on the voyage and was buried at sea.
Hannah married Clark Bennett, had a family of twelve children and died Feb. 10, 1883.
Sawtelle married Marietta ---- , had a son, Alvah, and died Sept. 28, 1887.
Sarah married George Hewes and died, childless, Mar. 19, 1840.
Adaline married Josiah Pierce and had five daughters and one son, of whom only one daughter, Hattie A., lived to maturity. She died at the home of her daughter, the old Pierce homestead, Jan. 29, 191I.
Harriet married Luther Justin Albee, had three daughters and one son and died Feb. 18, 1908.
Elsie died Aug. 22, 1840, unmarried.
Esther married Amasa A. Chase and bore him two sons, Julius and Irvin, and was later married to Amori E. Fuller whom she survived. There was no child by this second marriage.
Alvah was twice married; by his first wife, Mary Albee, he had Alma, Harriet and Edgar, and by his second wife, Josephine Robinson Churchill, Mary and Inez. He moved from town about 1870 to the middle west where he died.
Alice married Willard M. Bemis and died without children.
Asa, when about three years old, fell in the fireplace and died from the burns sustained.
Ira E. married three times. His first wife, and mother of all his children, was Lizzie Chase; his second wife was Eliza Chamberlain, and his third was Nancy S. (Farr) Clay. His children were; Arthur, Edwin, Etta, Bertha, Grace and Rowe.
Ira, second son of Abial and Alice, married Mary Thompson and remained in town until his death, - -. He had no children.
Ara was twice married. His first wife, Abigail Hoskins, bore him one son, Fernando, who died in childhood; and by his second wife, Elvira Thomp- son he had eight children who lived to maturity and two who died in infancy; Ella married William N. Turner; Emma married Henry G. Howard; Lina married Artemas W. J. Wilkins; Asa married Stella Good- ell; Celia died unmarried; Orlando married - - and moved to Chicago; Mary married Frank Sparrow, and Lettie E. married Peter Smith.
Daniel had two wives; the first, Esther Hoskins, had four children; Martin D. who married Maria E. Chase and upon her decease without child he
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married her sister, Miranda E. Chase who bore him one son, Frank; Abby married Winslow Puffer; Charles died on his twenty-first birthday, unmarried, and Adna was drowned in boyhood. Daniel's second wife was Rhoda (Hart) Chase by whom he had no child.
Ona married Cynthia Hadley and they had three sons and a daughter who lived to maturity; Larkin who, while a young man, went to California and never returned, nor did the family have further knowledge of him thereafter other than a rumor that he died there not long after; Dana who served as a soldier in the Civil War and later moved to the "Middle West"; Edwin who also was a soldier and died in hospital from disease contracted in military service; and Lauraette who died unmarried. Ona's second wife was Lucinda Pierce and seven children were born of this second marriage; Lydia O., Emma O., Alvaroy S., Eugene H., Ellen L., Adonno A., and Elsie A.
Lydia O. married Winslow Rhodes, of Bridgeport, Conn. and had a son, Ona, and a daughter Verna.
Emma O. married William Lyman, of Stratton, Vt. and bore him four children: Roy W., Ona R., Ray E., and May M.
Alvaroy S. married Annie Coombs and lived in So. Dakota. He had six children : Ethel, Rena, Carrie, Addie, Mary and Sidney.
Eugene H. first married Emma Patterson by whom he had one daughter, Emma E. For second wife he married Azelia Knapp and then moved to Michigan. Five daughters were the fruit of this marriage: Lillian, Cora, Ellioese, Daisy and Ruth.
Ellen L. died in her youth.
Adonno A. married Carrie Eddy and had two daughters, Carroll and Helen, and a son Ona.
Elsie A. died in childhood.
Asa, youngest son of Abial and Alice, married Mercy Thompson, had two sons and two daughters, and died June 5, 1886. His children were Charles Asa, whose wife was Flotyna Cheney and who lived and died in Florida, leaving a son, Alton B., and two daughters; Mary and Alice; Celinda, who married Ransley Harrington; Alma A. who never married, and Yates Carey who died unmarried.
Two of the three daughters of Abial and Alice (Dunham) were mar- ried and one, Sarah, died in girlhood. Electa married Benjamin Sumner and had one child, Sarah. Alice married Jeremiah Barrett and went to the western part of New York to live. She had a son and a daughter.
Original Documents of Londonderry
To the Honorable CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq., His Majesty's Lieu- tenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the province of New York and territories depending thereon in America.
IN COUNCIL
The Petition of James Rogers in behalf of himself and twenty-two other persons Humbly showeth:
That your petitioner and his associates ap- prehended they had a good right and title to twenty six thousand acres of land by a grant from Governor Wentworth, lying on the east side of the water running from South Bay to Ticonderoga. That on the twentieth day of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty four by the Resolve of his Majesty and his Majesty's privy Council, the said lands fell within the bounds of this province and that some time last Spring the same lands were granted by your Honor to reduced officers, whereby your petitioner and his associates must inevitably loose their rights unless your Honours will be pleased to make them a grant in some other lands in this province:
That there is a certain tract of land lying in this province bounding on the West side of Tomlinson, beginning at the south westerly corner of Chester and running west twenty seven degrees north seven miles and thirty-eight chains; Then south ten degrees west seven miles seventy- six chains; Then east ten degrees south six miles eight chains; Then north twenty degrees east six miles to the place from whence the survey began, containing in the whole twenty-six thousand acres with an allowance of three thousand acres of mountains.
Your petitioner for himself and associates therefore humbly prays that your Honours will be favorably pleased, by his Majesty's Letter Patent to grant unto them, Under the great seal of this province, the above bounded and described land and premises to hold to them, their heirs and assigns forever, and that the same be erected into a township by the name of Kent and vested with such powers and privileges as other towns in this province have and do enjoy.
And your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray.
New York tweluth October one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.
JAS. ROGERS.
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A LIST OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF KENT James Rogers, James MacGregor, Sen., Margaret Rogers, Thomas Creage, James A. Adams, James (Miltmer), Jonathan Gillmore, Robert Hunter, William Moore, Garret Schooler, Benjamin (Lindner), John McGinnis, James Carroll, David Phillips, Edward (Landree), Cornelius Ryan, Andrew Burn, Robert Wallace, Thomas Blaknie, Joseph Cox, John Armstrong, Lewis Hamilton, Patrick Butler.
PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF MISTAKES
To his Excellency SIR HENRY MOORE, Baronet, Captain-General, Gover- nor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same -
IN COUNCIL
The petition of James Rogers for him- self and his associates Humbly Sheweth -
That there was a mistake in the bounds mentioned in the petition and warrant of survey of the town of Kent on the east side gives the point from the south east corner to river north twenty degrees east, and the line of Tomlinson is north seven degrees east; So that there will be a gore left between Thomlinson and Kent, and your petitioner and his associates will not have their complement of land without infringing on some other town.
Your petitioner therefore for himself and his associates humbly pray your Honours to take the matter into your wise consideration and upon examination find the mistake truly represented, you will be pleased to grant to your petitioner and his associates the said tract of land to begin at Chester south west corner and to bound north on Andover, west partly on Bromley and partly on Winhall, south on (un-) granted land and east on Thomlinson which it is true bounds as may more fully appear by the Surveyor General's plans.
Your petitioner for himself and his associates humbly prays your Excel- lency will be pleased to rectify the said mistake and order the Surveyor General to make return of the Survey bill of Kent as it truly is.
And your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray, etc.
New York thirtieth June One thousand seven hundred sixty-six.
JAMES ROGERS.
Charter of the Township of Kent
Letters Patent, or Grant of this Township, appear recorded in the office f the Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y. and such record is here given in full as it there appears.
The original parchments are preserved in the hands of descendants of Colonel James Rogers, original grantee, now resident in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
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Charter
GEORGE the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and so forth. To all to whom these Presents shall come GREETING.
Whereas our Province of New York in America hath ever since the Grant thereof to James Duke of York, been abutted and bounded to the East in part by the West Bank or side of Connecticut River. And Whereas of late years great part of our said Province lying to the Westward of the same River, hath nevertheless been pretended to be granted by divers instruments under the Great Seal of the Province of New Hampshire, as tho' the same Lands had then belonged to, and were within the Bounds and Limits of the said Province of New Hampshire, and within the powers and Jurisdiction of the Government thereof. And Whereas our loving Subject James Rogers by his humble petition in behalf of Himself and twenty two other Persons presented unto our late trusty and welbeloved Sir Henry Moore Baronet, then our Captain General and Gov- ernor in Chief in and over our Province of New York, and the Territories depending thereon in America, and read in our Council for our said Province of New York on the second day of June which was in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty six, did set forth, That the Petitioner
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