Hon. Isaac Darwin Merrill, a well-known public man of Contoocook, is a son of Isaac and Mary (Wyman) Merrill, born October 1, 1814, in Hopkinton village, N.H. The father, a native of Hollis, Hillsborough County, born June 15, 1784, was a cooper by trade, and worked in Boston, Portland, and Troy, N.Y. When Isaac D. […]
Thomas Barnard & Sarah Bond Jan. 2, 1791 Samuel Covel & Lydia Praey Feb. 3, 1791 John Mitchel & Nancy Pecker Feb. 9, 1791 John Thompson & Sarah Walker Mar. 24, 1791 Capt. Edward Staples & Diana Adams Mar. 24, 1791 John Watts & Mary Owens Mar. 31, 1791 Ebenezer Knowlton & Susannah Robson of
Giles Lodge & Abigail H. Langdon Jan. 3, 1800 John Austin & Susanna Douglass Jan. 6, 1800 Seth Taylor & Neomy Robins Jan. 7, 1800 Joseph Willington Page & Polly Bixby of Framingham Jan. 14, 1800 James Rolly & Hannah Wright Jan. 24, 1800 John Palmer & Polly Martin Jan. 25, 1800 David Pratt &
Francis Costar & Margaret Hubbard Jan. 2,1762 Joseph Selva & Jane Chamberlain Jan. 4, 1762 Joshua Thornton & Lucretia Lehay Jan. 7, 1762 Nicholas Fitzgerald & Katharine Gough Jan. 14, 1762 Robert Gadd & Hannah Tuffs Jan. 18, 1762 Paul Burbeen & Elizabeth Granger Jan. 22, 1762 Luke Hall & Sarah Barnard Jan. 27, 1762
Among the most prominent law offices in southern Massachusetts is one which by lineal succession has existed for nearly, if not quite, a hundred years, and in which three generations of the Clifford family have been represented. The members of the Clifford family who have been such important factors in this old and prominent law firm came of a distinguished ancestry. The late John H. Clifford was a direct descendant in the eighth generation from George Clifford, who came with his wife Elizabeth and son John from Arnold village and parish, Nottinghamshire, England, to Boston in 1644.
For nearly two hundred and seventy-five years the Packard family has been one prominent and influential in New England, and it has become a most numerous family, too, many of whose members both at home and abroad have given a good account of themselves. Samuel Packard, the immigrant ancestor of this family, became one of
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Moses Adams Packard, of Brockton, where he has been so long and so successfully engaged in the manufacture of shoes, is as well one of that city’s highly honored and respected citizens. Mr. Packard began life with little capital save boundless energy and a resolute purpose, and has pushed his way upward against almost every kind of obstacle until he now holds a foremost position among the leading manufacturers in this Commonwealth, vindicating the old saying, “Labor is king.” He was born Feb. 28, 1843, in New London, N. H., which was the home of his mother, while his father was a native of North Bridgewater, and a descendant of one of the old and historical families of Massachusetts.
Since its coming to this Bridgewater settlement, which was the first interior settlement of the Old Colony, as early as 1664, to the present time, for nearly two hundred and fifty years, the Packard family has been one prominent and influential in this community, and has become a most numerous family, many, too, of its members both at home and abroad having given a good account of themselves.
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Nelson Genealogy William Nelson, an early comer to Plymouth, before 1636, had land granted him Aug. 3, 1640, and was among those able to bear arms in 1643. He was juryman in 1648. He was probably among the first settlers of Middleboro, although it is impossible to state when he went from Plymouth to Middleboro,
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Stephen Clark say Choak & Lucinda Boyd Jan. 4, 1804 Benjamin Wiggin & Charlotte Fowle Jan. 4, 1804 George Gidion, Junr & Nancy Benjamin Jan. 7, 1804 John Rynier & Susannah Withington Jan. 11, 1804 Jacob Hastings & Sarah H. Weld of Roxbury Jan. 11, -1804 Henry Nolen & Mary Haven of Shrewsbury Jan. 12,
SWIFT. For a hundred years and more the Swift family in and about New Bedford has been one of prominence, wealth. and influence, not only in the several local communities in which its members have resided but out through the Commonwealth and into the nation, where their extensive enterprises have extended. These Acushnet-New Bedford Swifts,
Jeffery Manning & Mary Coit Jan. 2, 1775 William White of Haverhill & Mrs. Polly Chandler Jan. 5, 1775 John Patten & Elizabeth Clough Jan. 5, 1775 Edward Wilkinson & Elizabeth Welch Jan. 6, 1775 William Sharp & Hannah Burk Jan. 6, 1775 Henry Prouse & Nelly Shaw Jan. 7, 1775 James Bennet & Susannah
The son of Moses Davis, Esq., was born at Dracut, Mass., probably about the year 1797 or 1798. He established himself in the practice of medicine at Norwich Plain in 1830 or 1831, and there continued till his death in March, 1873. He was in constant practice of his profession for more than thirty years.
Robert Ives Lee. In the death of Robert Ives Lee, which occurred at Chicago, Illinois, December 19, 1911, there passed away one of the most prominent horsemen of the Middle West. He was born May 5, 1846, at Boston, Massachusetts, and was a son of the late Brev.-Brig.-Gen. William Raymond Lee III, U. S. V.,
FOSS, Ella Neat Todd9, (Charles S.8, Eliel S.7, Samuel6, Eliel5, Samuel4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born May 1, 1884, in Boston, Mass., married June 12, 1907, George Herbert, son of George Washington and Nellie S. Foss. He is a physician in Springfield, Mass. Children: I. George Herbert, b. Sept. 30, 1908, in Hinsdale, N. H. II.
The New Bedford Benjamin family here considered – some of the descendants of Isaac Benjamin, one of whose sons, the late Isaac W. Benjamin, was for years officially identified with the New Bedford Cordage Company and a public servant of the city of New Bedford of rare fidelity and usefulness – is a branch of the Livermore, Maine, family of the name and it of the still earlier family of Watertown, Mass., where arrived John Benjamin Sept. 16, 1632, in the ship “Lion.”
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Hosea Ballou Carter, son of Susan Shannon (Merrick) Carter and Tappan Sargent Carter, was born at East Hampstead, Rockingham County, N.H., on September 5, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of Hampstead and at Atkinson Academy, where he was a classmate of General William Cogswell, of Bradford, Mass., and later of Salem, Mass.
McGee, John Bernard; physician; born, Boston, July 3, 1853; son of Peter and Mary A. (Donnelly) McGee; graduate public schools, Boston; M. D., Western Reserve University, 1878; married Mary Lavina Rogers, of Cleveland, October 1884 (died May, 1885); 2nd, Elizabeth Dieter, of Cleveland, Sept. 17, 1892; formerly prof. therapeutics, and sec’y Cleveland College of Physicians
The descent of the Converse family, of Thompson, from Roger de Coigneries, one of the trusted chieftains of William the Conqueror, has been elsewhere given in this volume, and need not be repeated here.. The first member of the family to emigrate from England to America was Deacon Edward Convers, who settled in Woburn, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cooke Partridge, a well-known musician of Claremont and a zealous worker in the cause of temperance, was born in Claremont, daughter of Godfrey and Abigail (Hubbard) Cooke. Her paternal grandfather, Captain John Cooke, of Norton, Mass., was among the first of the minute-men to report at Lexington in response to the alarm
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