CLARA BARTON FAMILY PAPERS [*GENEALOGY Barton Family Von Sahler,Louis(comp) Notes*]5 Copy.... [*Gift of Hermann P. Riccius August 17, 1959*] BARTON. Stenographers' Notes No. ____ From ____ 191__ Mass. -- Maine -- New Hampshire To ____ 191__ R.I. -- N.Y. -- New Jersey No. 142The Bartons 1 - of England 2 - of the American Colonies 3 - Homes of the Oxford Barton's 4 - The Bartons of Oxford, Mass. 5 - Special Biographies [*Mch 13, 1915*]Genealogy of the Bartons of Oxford Worcester Co. Mass. The family of Samuel Barton of Oxford, and the descendants of his youngest son Edmund Barton By Louis H. Von Sahler Commonwealth Press Worcester, Mass. 1915 Typed copy ready for last revision before publication Suggestions dated Mch 13. 1915 in a Letter from William E. Barton, Chicago To Mr. Stephen E. Barton 85 Water St BostonCompiled by the late Bernard Barton Vassell of Worcester Mass. Mrs Vassell Stephen Emory Barton and Charles Sumner Barton I [*(1068-1100)*] Sir Leysing de Barton Knight. - in a Roll of Henry 1st feudal vassal of lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribbe under [*(Ribble) Lancaster)*] Stephen, Count of Mortagne, gdson of Wm the Conqueror (Later King Stephen) He was father of Matthew de Barton and Grandfather of several gd. daughters among them Editha de Barton, lady of Barton Manor-of Lancashire history She married Augustine de Barton possibly a cousin and had 2 children John de Barton - (he d. before his mother) and Cicely de Barton After death of Augustine, widow married Gilbert de Notton from Lincolnshire - he had lands in Lancastershireand Yorkshire. By a previous marriage he had 3 songs Wm, Roger, and John de Notton Wm de Notton m. his step sister Cicely de Barton their son Gilbert de Notton (the younger inherited Barton Manor and assumed the Surname of Barton He m. 1st Margary de Eland 2nd Cicely de Hulton By 2nd wife, had Agnes de Barton She m. John de Booth and inherited Barton Manor- For generations it remained a Booth estate then passed to their descendants the Leighs- There are many indications that there were younger sons in the earliest generations of Barton Manor who inherited the name and blood of Barton and founded Barton family The Great Barton Manor- in barony of Manchester- contained many estates and villages - the homestead or smaller Barton Manor was parent of settlement Barton on Irwell now in Eccles near city of Manchester Editha de Barton and husband Gilbert de Notton gave priest of Eccles 1/4 of Church of Eccles in perpetual alms for the souls of their families and their ancestors - and for same purpose much other lands etc. Coat-of-Arms-Bartons of Barton Manor on Irwell - Argent, 3 boars heads, erased (or couped) Sable. Another II Bartons of Barton Hall, at Preststown or PrestonCoat of Armed Argent, 3 boars heads, erased (or couped) gules Often latter Finally Fleetwood Barton of Barton Hall, only child and heiress of - Richard Barton Mr Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorp Attorney Gen. and Chief Justice of Cheshire and Barton hall passed to Shuttleworths Descendants of this line: Bartons of Grove, Tipperary Ireland- then Thomas Barton who went with Earl of Essex and his army to Ireland From a brother of said Thomas Barton descended Rev. Thos Barton of Ireland and Penn - who m. Esther sister of David Rittenhouse the scientist. III Bartons of Malpas - Cheshire, as Malpas - another Early Barton Manor - district from Lancashire but connection not yet disproved Under Henry 3rd ! Patrick de Barton - Lord of Barton Manor m. Sibilla de Golbourne, dau. of David de Golbourne descended from De Malpas family. Barton became extinct in elder line property passed to Marquisate of Cholmondeley Coat of Arms - Argent, a bend cotised, sableIV Bartons of Smith's Barton's - became Lords of Smithills Manor near Bolton in 15th Century thro marriage with the Radcliffs were descendants of a Barton who acquired fortune through sheep and built a stone mansion and chapel at Holme, near Newark in Nottinghamshire Ralph Barton of Holme, m. Joan Radcliffe, (he descended from several Ralph Radcliffs Lords of Smithills) his son John Barton m. his cousin Cicely Radcliffe dau. of another Ralph Radcliffe - hence the Bartons of Smithills Manor - their son Andrew Barton rebuilt Smithill Smithill Manor was dependent on Superior Manor of Sharples annual tenure - a pair of gilt spurs - and unlimited use of the wine cellars for a week - Rules adopted by [?] Barton a billet of wood and a cask, - bar - time. Grace Barton dau. of Thomas who d. in 1659. m. - Henry Belasye heir of Thomas, Viscount Fauconberg and Smithill Manor passed from Barton name. Younger Barton sons represent the blond Coat-of-Arms. Azure - a fesse between 3 bucks heads, cabossed, or. Crest an acorn, or, leaved, VertIV Barton's of Smith's V - Bartons of Lancashire Yorkshire and Elsewhere in England Largest and most Scotland Barton family in England Same coat of arms. - Ermine, on a fesse, gules, 3 annulets, or. They were sealed in Lancashire Yorkshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Kent, and other parts of England Indications that they were descended from a younger son of the earliest Bartons of Barton Manor in Irwell; and that they were [print is half cut off here] a new house- or family of Barton - a distinctive coat-of-arms Andrew de Barton in Lancashire in middle of 14th century m. a dau of Sir Robert Worsley, their son Andrew Barton m. a dau. of Sir John Sortherd also in 14th Century Thomas de Barton of Frilton Son of Thomas de Barton and gd son of Sir John de Barton; he m Alice Morgan only dau. and heir of Sir John Morgan of Whenby, Yorkshire and founded Bartons of Whenby Their son John Barton m Christiano Aski and had sons Conan and ThomasV - Bartons of Lancashire Yorkshire and Elsewhere in England Largest and most Scotland Barton family in England Same Coat-of-Arms. - Ermine, on a fesse, gules, 3 annulets, or. They were seated in Lancashire Yorkshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Kent, and other parts of England Indications that they were descended from a younger son of the earlier Bartons of Barton Manor in Irwell: and that they were granted, when they founded a new house - or family of Barton - a distinctive Coat-of-Arms Andrew de Barton in Lancashire in middle of 14th century m. a dau of Sir Robert Worsley, their son Andrew - Barton m. a dau. of Sir John Sortherd Also in 14th Century Thomas de Barton of Frilton Son of Thomas de Barton and gd son of Sir John de Barton; he m Alice Morgan only dau. and heir of Sir John Morgan of Whenby, Yorkshire and founded Bartons of Whenby Their son John Barton m Christiano Aski and had sons Conan and ThomasConan Barton of Whenby, m. Joan Strangeways dau. of Robert Strangeways and had 1. Richard - 2. Richard, 3. John and two dau. Richard Barton of Whenby m. Isabel Norton dau of John Norton and had 1 Christopher, 2 Richard, 3 John, and a dau, Christopher Barton of Whenby m. Margaret Danby dau. of Sir Robert Danby. and had 1 John 2 Thomas 3 Christopher 4 Richard 5 Philip 6 Robert and a dau John B. of W - m Margaret Pickering and had 1 Thomas 2 John 3 Leonard 4 Robert and 3 dau Thos B. of W- m Barbara Lascelles dau of Christopher L and had 1 Richard 2 John 3 Christopher 4 Roger and 5 dau - Edward B of W - m Elizabeth Norton dau of Francis Norton and had 1 Thomas 2 Edward Thomas B. of W. m Alice Braithwaite, and their dau Elizabeth only dau and heiress before 1625 The younger sons of the Bartons of Whenby were not accounted for and ScottishJohn Barton (of Whenby) son of John and Margaret (Pickering) Barton m. 1st Beatrix Lee - 2nd Margaret Hansard They had a son Edward Barton and a dau. The Bartons of Gawton in Yorkshire descended from Richard - a younger son of Christopher and Margaret (Danby) Barton; their son Wm. m. Elizabeth Botteresse dau. of Wm. Botteresse; children 1 Thomas Barton m. Frances dau. of Edward and Elizabeth (Norton) Barton 2 Robert Barton m. Elizabeth dau of Wilfred Brand 3-4-5 three daughters Dr. John Barton from Huntingdonshire Eng. to Salem Mass in 1672 - descendant of last mentioned Barton family - the Bartons of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Elsewhere, - scattered over England, and using the same Coat-of-Arms Ermine, on a fesse, guler, three annulets, or. It is thought that Edward Barton from England to Salem about 1640 was of the same familyBartons in the American Colonies. In 17th Century there were several Bartons in New England and Elsewhere some merely mentioned by name others with fuller accounts ________ Dr. John Barton of Salem possibly a Kinsman of Edward Barton of Salem, Portsmouth and Cape Porpoise,- gd father of Samuel Barton, founder of the Bartons of Oxford, Mass - Then were also James Barton of Boston and Newton Roger Barton of New York Rufus Barton of R.I. and others ____________________ __________________ Bartons of Salem, Mass Dr. John Barton, of Salem, physician churchgoer and apothecary. (Son of John Barton of Huntingdonshire Eng) To New England in 1672. Marblehead there married in 1675 Lydia Roberts dau. of Thomas Roberts; step-dau. of Moses Maverick; removed to Salem 1676. Started for Barbadoes in 1694 died of Yellow fever. [children] childChildren of John and Lydia (Roberts) Barton 1 John b. 1676-d. soon 2 John b. 1676 d. soon 3 Thomas b. July 17, 1680; d Apr 28, 1751 4 Jaccheus b. Apr 1 1683: Oct 14, 1707. unmarried 5 Samuel b. Aug 30, 1688; d. Mch 13, 1772 6 Elizabeth b. 1685. m. 1721 Samuel King Thomas-1680-1751; apothecary and Merchant town clerk Many years. - Colonel of a regiment m - May 10, 1710, Mary - dau of Nehemiah Willoughby of Salem -: their children were: 1 John b Dec 5, 1711: d. Dec 21, 1774 unmarried 2. Mary b 1715; m 1st Dr Bezaleel Toppan 2nd Benjamin Pickman Thomas Barton went to Eng in 1706 with certified affidavits to secure the inheritance of his grandfather John Barton of Huntingdonshire Samuel Barton, youngest son of Dr John Barton, Merchant. Married first Dec 26, 1723 Mary Bowditch widow of James Butler; second Sept 29, 1737 Elizabeth Marston- their child was Samuel Barton b. Sept 9, 1738. d. Nov 9 1773 Known as Samuel Barton, Jr. of Salem Merchant. m. Dec. 11, 1764 Margaret Gardiner. Their children were 1 Elizabeth--m. Wm Cleveland 2 Samuel (3rd) b. Apr 22, 1767; d. Nov 16, 1795 unmarried 3 Margaret: m. Samuel Derby 4 Sally m. John Derby5. Lydia. died unmarried 6 Hannah died young 7 John b. June 27, 1774, d Feb 25, 1818 John Barton of Salem. Youngest Son of Saml B. was a merchant m. Oct. 16, 1802. Mary Webb They had several children. He w Barton’s of New Netherlands Roger Barton was a landed proprietor under the Dutch in New Netherlands as early as 1642. In his will of 1688 he mentions his lands in Westchester N.Y and in Yonkers, N.Y.: his wife Mary, and sons Elisha, Elijah, Roger, Jr., Noah, Enoch, and Joseph. Barton’s Neck, Rye, N.Y Suggests his lands there. Among his many descendants have men of distinguished personality & positions Bartons of Rhode Island Rufus Barton went to R.I in the early 1640’s from New Amsterdam: had a leasehold from Dominic Everhardus Bogardus husband of the famous Annetje Webber Jans. At Portsmouth and later at Warwick, he received land grants and public offices. He died suddenly in 1648 leaving 3 young children and a Mdm Marjorie who M. ^2nd Walter Todd. The dau Elizabeth m. Thomas Green, the dau. Phebe m. Richard Codner The son Benj Barton b. about 1638 was for many years prominent in the government of R.I. He m. Susannah dau. of Samuel Gorton and their descendant Col William Barton captured the English GeneralPrescott - during the Amer. Rev - Bartons of Newton James Barton came to N. Eng in 1678, at Boston he owned land, with a warehouse, messuage, and wharf and at Newton a homestead and many acres. His wife Margaret - their children: John Barton b 1686 and daughters In his will he names gd sons James, John, Samuel and Michael Barton. gave gd son Thomas Stanton, money for college education He d. in 1729 aged 86: Wife Margaret Barton d 1731 aged 87 - both buried in Newton - Bartons of Pa Thomas Barton b 1730 Ireland Co. Monaghan graduate of Trinity College, Dublin to America in 1750 Descendant of Barton of Barton Hall Lancashire, Eng of which family 2 or more sons Went to Ireland in 1599 with the Army of Earl of Essex and for service received large land grants - one in Co. Monaghan and the other in Co. Fermanagh from the latter are descended the Bartons of Grove, Co. Tipperary He taught private school in Norristown Pa home of Rittenhouse family, intimate friend of David and married his sister Esther in 1753 Later taught in Phila Academy later the Univ. of Penna. Returned In 1754 to be ordained in Eng for Church of England Was appointed missionary to the Western Parts of Pa - a Mission full of responsibilities including Indian fighting 1758 - Chaplain in Expedition again. Ft Duquesne - with Gen Washington etcMany years rector Lancaster was imprisoned as a Royalist during Rev. War - removed to N.J. d 1780 - left descendant His son Wm. Barton 1st designed the Great Seal of the United States --------------------------- New Jersey Bartons Lt. Wm. Barton b Oct 24, 1754 d Dec. 27, 1829. m. Margaret Henderson 3 sons lived to maturity and 7 dau 1. James Barton, b. Mch 17, 1782 m Jan. 27, 1803 Elizabeth Van Houten They had 1 son Wm. Holloway Barton and 3 dau. He d July 22, 1823 and is buried with his parents in Morris Co. N.J. 2. Rosannah Barton b. Dec 20 1786 m Wm Bowen of Morristown 3. John Barton b. Mch 15, 1789, m. Eleanor Cobb 5 child: Wm Jesse; Eliza Eleanor; David L.; Ebenezer and Albert Horace 4. Eleazer Barton b Jan 12, 1791, m. Nov 8 1816 Rachel Bostedo Read - He served as private later as Ensign in 1st Bat 3rd Regt Morris Co. Mil. War of 1812; In 1846 removed from Morris Co. N.J. to Sublette, Ill. - 10 sons 1 dau all b. in Morris Co. N.J. (a) Lewis Read Barton - b June 3, 1817 m. Agnes Masaker d 1911 (b) James Barton b Oct 18, 1818 m. Susan Davenport 1840 d - Three Rivers - Cal 1913 (c) Mannon Barton b Jan 26, 1822; d June 11 1824 (d) John b. Nov 5, 1825; d Dec. 20, 1823 (e) Stephen b. Nov 2, 1826 m. Mch 10, 1893 m Mrs Helen Hall (f) Daniel b Feb 27, 1827 d Jefferson Iowa Feb 7 1891 m. 1st Nancy Ann Williams 2nd Miranda Robinson(g) Eleazer Barton b. June 11, 1831 m Mch 31, 1854 Hannah L. Turner (h) Jacob Bostedo Barton, b Jan 5, 1834 m - 1st Helen Methven (d Apr 18, 1893) 2nd Mrs Angelina Eastman Ellsworth who survived him i he d Jan 29, 1912 (i) Jason b Oct 25, 1836; d June 30, 1861 (j) Rachel Amanda b Oct 12, 1838 m. Aug 29, 1856 Rev Edward Crandall Pratt and d in Iowa (k) William Newton Barton b. Sept 11, 1841 d May 4, 1865 Eastern Tenn (?) m Maria L. Hastings, he was a soldier in 7th Ill. Cavalry ------------------------------- A booklet genealogy of Lt. Wm. Barton and his descendants - written by his gt gd son Rev. Wm E. Barton of Oak Park, Ill. Lt. Barton served with honor in Rev. War. He and wife are buried in Morris Co. N.J. Bartons of Oxford Mass Samuel Barton son of Matthew gd son of Edward Barton - founded Barton of Oxford in 1716 then in Suffolk now in Worcester Co. Mass Earlier homes Salem - Portsmouth, Cape Porpoise Framingham and Oxford - as time of 1st White Settlements on N. Eng coast region in South Central Mass - was called Nipmuck Country. -- Oxford Village or Plantation 12000, named for Oxford Eng. - (Indian deeds of 1683 - (granted to Dudley Stoughton etc (42000 acres - provision Was within 4 years a settlement of 30 families should be created)30000 acres divided Among the 5 Proprietors Joseph Dudley Stoughton Robert Thompson of London Blackwell and Cox Early settlers Gabriel Bernon ^Settled in Boston and Providence Never lived in Oxford, Mass - Huguenot stood shoulder ^ca 1687 for a settlement at Oxford of 30 Huguenot or French Protestant families receive 1750 acres his agent Isaac Bertrand due Treffeau 750 a Indian depredations forced them to leave 1696 Some went back in 1699 but left is forever in 1704 1712- Propritor house lots offered to 30 English families and any French who desired to return, home lots of 40 "a" each 1713 deeded Oxford Village 2500-3000 a to the English Settler - Recorded Suffolk Co. Registry of Deeds at Boston - Among those mentioned 'Daniel and David Elliot, Jr.; John, Ephraim and Israel Town and Isaac and Ebenezer Learned Later names - Jonathan Provender who sold in 1716 to Samuel Barton of Framingham. his house lands and interest in Elliotts Mills Sutton which adjoins Oxford on the East was another early home of the Bartons of Oxford. 1704 - John Connor James Smith, Wm Mumford and Joshua Hewes of Boston bought land of John Wampas and associate Nipmuck Indians land 8 m sq (including Hassanimisco - one of nine Settlements of John Elliots Praying Indians later known as Grafton.) named Sutton. -1813 Township of Mullbury was taken from SuttonFramingham - Middlesex Co Mass Midway between Boston and Worcester - 1640 - 1st grants for Mrs. Elizabeth Glover (widow of Rev. Jesse formerly of Eng - who d. at sea) Was coming to Cambridge to set up 1st printing press in N. Eng. She m 2nd Henry Dunstin - 1st Pres. of Harvard College other grants: 1660 to Thos Danforth d. 1699 1st Settlers on the Danforth Farren-Salem end were: Townes, Bridges, Bartons ets in 1693. Salem Essex Co founded 1628 Settlers under acting Gov. John Endicott -who forced Rev. Roger Conant and his followers who left Plymouth because they refused to Separate from the Church of England and were living on the banks of Boston Bay when he became associated with the Dorchester Co of England formerly Rev John White The Dorchester Co passed away. The Mass. Bay Co became a power Rev J. White was interested in both companies Barton of Portsmouth (N.H Portsmouth - Rockingham Co. N.H and Cape Porpoise York Co Maine formerly in the grant from England to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason in 1622. This grant extended from the Merrimac river to the Kennebec but Gorges and Mason divided it as Pascatagua river. Gorges had what became Maine and Mason became the Founder of N.H.Both were members of the Plymouth Colony of England. Gorgas was interested in the unsuccessful Popham Colony at the Mouth of the Kennebec. Also in the settlement of Ajamenticus which he endowed in 1641 with City Charter a Gorgeana - 1st Eng. City on continent of N. America. After his death was reorganized in 1652 as town of York Mason settled a Colony in 1623 on Odiornes Point near the mouth of the Pascataqua when Mason Hall was built in 1831: the Great House at Strawberry Bank on the Pascataqua - 3 mi from the sea. The Site of Portsmouth. Bartons of Cape Porpoise Me Cape Porpoise - on Maine Coast formed by a cluster of about 15 and the Mainland. First mentioned by Eng Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold 1602. Claimed that Samuel de Champlain and Capt John Smith and others of the early voyagers landed there and then Richard Vines made a settlement there. 1st Settlement Stagi Island and later Montagues Neck on the Mainland In 1653 - Came under control of Mass with other settlements of Me - and was incorporated as Cape Porpoise Town 1660 - Stone fort built on Stage Island1671 - 700 soldiers distributed in Me 80 being at Wells and Cape Porpoise for defense - Indian Wars - 1714 - town records could not be found only fragmentary pages in existence 1719 - Town of Cape Porpoise incorporated as Arundel, and in 1821 changed to Kennebunkport. Cape Porpoise River became Kennebunk river - At first Cape Porpoise was the Settlements Center later the interior Settlement on the river took the lead. 1st burying ground was on Stage Island - finally washed away by the sea. Earlier town and church records disappeared Still traces of old house sites. Origin of the Oxford Mass Bartons Edward Barton was among the earlier Puritan Settlers at Salem Essex Co. Mass. Possibly but not probably related to Roger Barton. Settler New Netherlands (N.Y) and Rufus Barton of R.I. about the same time. Doubtful that all earlier Bartons in America were related - or that the earlier Bartons in Eng. Scot. Ire and Wales. Although there may have been a general origin in the Middle ages it cannot be proven - Origin of Name. Some claim Bar. defense and ton or enclosure the stronghold of the family and their relatives.Some say from bere or barley and hem or enclosure - the barley enclosure but this last idea is not favored. Many records of earliest Puritan Settlements not carefully kept or have been destroyed. Indians fires carelessness etc Two - Barton families in Salem. but probably of same ancestry One from Edward Barton settler 1640 One from Dr John Barton settler about 1672 Edward Barton Lived in Salem about 640 owned house and lands there which he later exchanged for lands at Marblehead 1646 or before grants of land in Portsmouth jurisdiction. Little Harbor on Pascataqua received additional grants in 1652 and 1653 Removed from Portsmouth to Cape Porpoise from about 1663-1666 1656 at Portsmouth Susannah wife of Oliver Trimmings complained that she had been bewitched by Jane Walford wife of Thomas - 1st settlers of Charlestown witness Eliza or Elizabeth wife of Edward Barton testified as to illness of Mrs Trimmings but said that the bewitchment "was nothing but her fantasy -(Grandmother of Samuel Barton who gave similar testimony 40 yrs later at Salem) Edward Barton owned farm 300 a on Montagues Neck - bounded by the Cape Porpoise river, the sea and Monague river which he had bought from Anthony Littlefield Edward Barton- d. 1671. In April widow Elizabeth Barton and Griffin Montague bonded administrator Matthew, his oldest son, Wm Elisha, Edward (the younger) Joshua and Benjamin Barton sons or near relatives Wm Son of Edward and Elizabeth Barton John Puddington son-in-law of Elizabeth Barton Sons of Wm Barton {John and Ebenezer Barton dau. of Wm Barton - Susannah - m Wm Smith and lived in Biddeford Another dau. Mary m. Solomon Holman live at Newbury. Anne widow of above Wm Barton m; 2nd Wallis Penuel at Newbury It is supposed that by 1730 the remaining Bartons had sold the last of their lands and left Cape Porpoise or Arundel Early land records name: Barton's Creek; Barton's Cove; Barton's Neck and Barton's Further Neck also called Eastern Neck. Ebenezer son of Wm and Anne Barton (above) lived at Cape Porpoise and Newbury. Mariner, was drowned on Newbury Bar 1721. He m. 1710 Newbury. Esther Flood. She d. about 17214 children b. at Newbury or Cape Porpoise 1. Pennel Barton b 1712 - m 1736 Mary Burneli at Falmouth now Portland 2. Sarah b 1714 m 1732 Nathan at Newbury Nathaniel Chase 3. Ebenezer (Jr) b.1718. m. 1741 - Margaret Hunt at Newbury 4. Mercy m. 1736 James Thurston at Newbury John son of Wm and Anne Barton lived at Cape Porpoise and York his son John, Jr m. 1737 at York Anne Adams and his supposed son Wm of Wiscasset m. 1740 at York Mercy Cane 1754 an Edward Barton of York - (Edward 32) m. at York Mercy Allen Elisha probably son of Edward Barton m. Mary Crockett, dau. of Thomas C. and in 1684 agreed with his bro-in-law Ephraim Crockett to receive a certain amt as his wifes Share in her fathers' estate. In 1672 Edward and Benjamin Barton other supposed sons of Edward Barton were among the petitioners at Bonawagon Me to Mass for Govt. protection 1674 - Edward Barton (the younger) then of Pemaquid Me took oath at Pemiquid and at Salem. Was a soldier in King Philips War 1729 - Matthew Barton formerly of Cape Porpoise then of Salem sold the farm 300 a in Cape Porpoise formerly the house of his father Edward Barton.Witness 1714 Samuel Scarlet aged 67 Matthew Barton - eldest son of Edward - Shipwright and Mariner- of Salem and farmer- Portsmouth, Cape Porpoise 1668 - with wife - Martha - of Salem - sold land 1671, Apr 29 - Matthew aged about 32 Yrs - 1675 Martha B - temporary resident Salem Indian troubles 1683 Matthew B - bought Salem property 1686 “ “ “ “ “ 1721 - S “ “ Sold “ “ Matthew B. m 3 times 1st Martha - son Samuel Barton b 1664 and probably other children 2nd Sarah - 4 child all b. Salem Susannah b May 20 1680 Matthew b Sept 6, 1682 Sarah b Apr 1. 1685. m - 1708 in Newbury to Daniel Rawlins Elizabeth b Apr 20 1687 Dec 20, 1694 m 3rd Mrs. Elizabeth Tapley Dickenson dau. of John Tapley and Elizabeth Pride dau. of John Pride Their children all bap. in 1st Church Salem were John b Dec 6, 1695 Patricia bp Aug 8, 1697 m 1722 James Mascott of Salem Susannah bp Mch 29 1702 Susannah bp Oct 31 1703: m 1723 Nathaniel Knight Martha bp Mch 30 1707 Benjamin bp Oct 10, 1708Samuel Barton b. Salem prob. about 1664 Founder of Bartons of Oxford (probably oldest) Son of Matthew Barton of Salem and gdson of Edward Barton [emmigrations?] 1640 fr Eng to New Engl. and [lived?] at Salem Portsmouth & Cape Porpoise Samuel - aged [sons? or about] 19 [?] 1683 deed from Gilbert Endicott of Wells to James Ross of Wells. ([consideration] lands at Casco alias Falmouth) for a Saw Mill [etc] - Cape Porpoise 50 a. of land which Endicotts bought fr- Maj Wm Phillips - 1687 Capt John Gerrish of Dover NH in book of business details as to his Saw Mill mentions Samuel Barton 1692 Samuel Barton aged [about] 28 Witness for Elizabeth wife of John Proctor - Witch-craft - Salem - Was at Sergeant Thos Putnam (wife Ann Carr): others Mercy Lewis John Houghlin, Philip English wife May [Hollens...?] Samuel Barton 1690 m Hannah Bridges dau. of Edmund Bridges and Sarah Towne dau. of Wm Towne of Salem Village Bridges & Towne prominent Salem Huguenot families Philip English - Philip d'Anglais to Salem from c 1670 - 1692 lived in Manor house with 20 Servants Said to have then been Mchant [...] in the New England Colonies owned 20 vessels in foreign [lands?]Towne Wm m. Joanna Blessing Mch 25, 1620 - Yarmouth Norfolk Co Eng - to New England about 1636 - Northfields part of Salem - : 1652 to Topsfield he d. Topsfield about 1672 Children - b. Yarmouth Eng - Rebecca, John, Susannah, Edmund Jacob & May Children b. Salem were Sarah & Joseph Rebecca Towne b 1621. m Francis Morse of Salem [h...] July 19 1692 May b 1634 m. Isaac Esty of Salem [h...] Sept 22 1692 Sarah b about 1634 d. 1703 Framingham m. 1st 1659 Edmund Bridges Jr 2nd 1682 Peter Cloyes all of Salem Village All their Sisters persecuted as Witches two oldest were executed as Witches Exodus from. Salem Village to Framingham after this time ------------------ Edmund Bridges (Sr) fro England - 1635 lived at Lyme, Rowley & Ipswich m 1st Alice : 2nd Elizabeth - 3rd Mary Littlehale, he. d.. 1685 Children Edmund Bridges Jr, John : Mehetable Bertha : Obediah : Faith Hackaliah Josiah and May Edmund Bridges Jr b about 1737 lived Topsfield & Salem m in 1759 Sarah Towne - he d. 1682 - Children Edmund (3rd) Benjamin Mary Hannah and CalebHannah Bridges d. Mch 13. 1727 dau. of Edmund Jr and Sarah (Towne) Bridges m about 1690 prob at Salem Samuel Barton [born in?] 1716 d Sept 12 1732 founded the Bartons of Oxford In spring of 1693 Members of Towne Bridges Barton Cloyes & Elliott families from Salem Village Started to Settle at Framingham at Salem end Which includes Salem Plain on the Danforth lands - Caleb Bridges bro in law of Saml Barton Benj " " " " " " " All childr of Saml Barton excepting the oldest [Sen?] Saml (Jr) (b. Salem) were b. at Framingham Samuel Barton June 19, 1716 bought 1/3 property at Oxford [and?] became one of the 30 landed Settlers or proprietors of Oxford John Towne Son of Jacob Towne nephew of Sarah Towne Bridges Cloyes - and cousin of Hannah Bridges Barton was b 1658 at Topfields - removed to Framingham Was close friend and associate of Samuel Barton leader in Cong. Church of Topsfield 1740 - H is son - David Towne m Mercy dau. of Saml. Barton 1720 - John Towne Saml Barton Abiel Lamb & Joseph Wiley later Richard Moore - Israel Towne etc - founded Cong Ch at Oxford Rev Josiah Dwight of Woodstock Conn. Rev. Joseph Dow. of Mendon Mass - etc others David Towne - John Israel Isaac & Ebenezer Learned Collins Moore - and wives of all - Rev John Campbell 1st pastor 1721 - Samuel Barton of Oxford Husbandman and 1722 " " " " Yoeman of Oxford Village - Sold land 1726 Samuel Barton to Son Elesha Witness Wm Brown Jr and Caleb Barton 1727 to Son Joshua Barton 1731 " " " 1731 " Son in law David Towne Will of Samuel Barton - of Oxford dated June 13 1732 Probated Sept 23 1732 To Sons - Samuel, Joshua Jedidiah Elesha dau Mehetable Dunkin (Duncan) dau Mercy Towne Son Edmund Barton " Caleb Barton Witness Richard Gleeson Abiel Lamb John CampbellSamuel Barton and wife buried in Oxford England Rev Dr. Samuel Barton 1648 - 1715 " Prebendary of Westminster Abby Son of John Barton of Kent Church of England - descendant of Bartons of Lancashire Yorkshire and Elsewhere in Eng ancestors of Dr Bartons of Oxford Samuel b 1664 probably Salem. d Sept 12, 1732 Oxford Son of Matthew and Martha Barton of Salem and Cape Porpoise gdson of Edward and Elizabeth Barton of Salem Portsmouth & Cape Porpoise M - about 1690 prob. Salem Hannah Bridges d Mch 13, 1727 Oxford dau. of Edmund Bridges Jr. & Sarah Towne dau of Wm Towne Children 1 Samuel Jr. b Oct 8, 1691 prob Salem m. Elizabeth Billings 2. Mercy b May 22, 1694, m. David Towne 3 Joshua b Dec 24, 1697 m 1st Anne - 2nd Hannah Holman 4 Elisha b Apr 22, 1701 m Elizabeth Waite 5 Caleb b Feb 9 1704 m 1st Mary Shumway 2nd Susannah Marsh 6 Jedediah b Sept 18. 1707 m 1st Lydia Pratt 2nd Sarah Miller 7 Mehetable b Aug 22, 1710 m Samuel Duncan 8 Edmund b Aug 15, 1714 m Anna FlintSaml Jr 1691 m. May 23 1715 at Marleboro Elizabeth Bellows b Mch 17 1695 dau of Isaac and Elizabeth Bellows gd. dau of John Bellows of England Concord and Marleboro and wife Mary dau of John Wood Saml Jr - Was one of the original 30 Grantors & Settlers of the 4000 Acre Grant in Sutton Children b. in Sutton 1 Amariah b. Sutton Aug 30 1716 d Sutton Dec 8 1730 2 Mary b Sept 14. 1718 3 Bazaleel b. July 26. 1722 4 Samuel (3rd) b Aug 12 1724 5 Ebenezer b Dec 10. 1726 6 Elizabeth (Betty) b Feb 10 1729 7 Amariah b Nov 18 1731 Bazaleel Barton Son of Saml Jr b. July 26. 1822 m Apr 30 1747 Phebe Carlton at Sutton Lived on his fathers farm removing to Royalton - Rev. sold killed at Battle of Bunker Hill Children b. in Sutton 1 Phebe Jan 24. 1748 2 Elizabeth bap Dec 23 1753 3 Bazaleel (Jr b June 4 1754 4 Tabitha bap Aug 15 1756 5 Benjamin b Apr 21. 1758 6 Rebecca b Apr 18 1760 7 Peter b Sept 3 1763The 3 Sons of Bazaleel Jr. Benj and Peter were Rev. Soldiers They removed from Royalton to Croyden, N.H founded the Bartons of Croyden Samuel 3rd Son of Saml 2nd b Aug 12 1724 M 1st Mch 11, 1745, Sutton Mary Stockwell 2nd Mch 5, 1748, Sutton Hannah Lillie removed to Royalton Child of Samuel & Mary Stockwell 1 Mary b Apr 27, 1746 Children by 2nd wife Hannah Lillie 2 Hannah b May 8 1751 3 Susannah b Nov 4 1753 4 Ezra bap Feb 15 1761 5 Sarah bap Dec 25 1763 Ebenezer Son of Saml 2nd b Dec 10 1726 M 1st Jan 24 1749 - Hannah Barton dau of Caleb Barton of Oxford She and 4 of their 5 children died of an epidemic He m. 2nd Mary Hart had 1 child Elkanah Barton b Oct 10, 1758 Tolland Conn Ebenezer entered Army of Amer Rev - probably killed never heard from againMercy Barton dau of Samuel of Oxford b May 22, 1694 Framingham m: Dec 31. 1716 Woodstock Conn David Towne Son of John Towne of Oxford - Marriage intentions Dec 17. 1716 Oxford - She d. Dec 3 1730 Children 1 Francis 1719 - 1729 2 Hannah 1720 - 1743 3 Deliverance b 1725/6 David Towne m 2nd Sarah --- 3rd Priscilla Hovey 4th Margaret Manning Joshua - 2nd Son of Samuel of Oxford b. Dec 24 1687 Framingham M 1st Anne - (b Feb 27. 1699) (d June 24 1757) M 2nd Dec 27, 1757 Hannah Holman at Sutton Children of 1st Wife 1 Anne b Oxford Mch 17 1721 2 Sarah b " Oct 13 1724 3 Joshua b " Oct 2 1727 4 Mary b " May 10, 1730 5 Timothy b Leicester April 13. 1732 6 Nathan b " July 23 1734 7 Reuben b " Mch 1738 Joshua Son of Joshua b Oct 2 1727 m Mch 28, 1750 Framingham Abigail Pratt Landowner in Spencer Children1 Daniel b Aug 25. 1751 d Mch 9 1754 2 Nathaniel b July 28. 1723 3 Maryann b Dec 18 1755 d Dec 30 1766 4 Reuben b Apr 28. 1758: d Jan 5. 1767 5 Hannah b July 7 1760 d Dec 1766 6 Tabitha b Oct 21. 1763 d Dec 30 1766 7 Joshua b Oct 9 1766 8 Abia b Oct 25 1869 Timothy son of Joshua B b Apr 13. 1732 m 1st Hepzibah Stowe of Southboro in 1753: she d Oct 26 1766 Charlton m 2nd 1767 Anna Allen of Dudley Lived in Spencer Charlton Oxford and Chester Children 1st wife 1 Jonathan b Spencer Sept 11. 1754 2 Mary (Polly b Hopkinson Dec 28 1756 3 Benjamin b Charlton Oct 16, 1761 4 Alpheus b " May 11 1765 5 Ann b " Sept 10 1766 Timothy Stowe Barton is Supposed to have been another Son Children 2nd wife 6 Hepsibah b Oxford June 16, 1771 7 Joshua b " Dec 28 1773 Nathan Barton son of Joshua b July 23, 1734 m. 1st Apr 4. 1759 Oxford Tamar Barton dau of Jedidiah B. of Oxford 2nd Lydia Rice - Lived Spencer Oxford Charlton and Belchertown 1 Jedidiah b Oxford Jany 14 1762 2 Nathan b " 1764. d Cholera Oxford 1768 3 David b " Mch 2. 1768 4 Nathan b Oxford Feb 8. 1770 5 Joshua b 1772 6 Tamar b 1774 Reuben Son of Joshua b Mch 28 1738 M June 29. 1761 Oxford Catherine Learned dau of Josiah Learned of Oxford. Lived Spencer Oxford & Belchertown. Noted for his Strength & bravery in Sevice French and Indian War & Rev War - Children 1 William b Aug 26. 1762 : d Sept 18, 1790 2 Sarah b Mch 22 1764 3 Josiah b Apr 2 1766 4 Daniel b Jul 21 1768 5 Lucy b Mch 9 1770 6 Reuben b Jan 17 1772 Elisha 3rd Son of Samuel of Oxford b Apr 22 1701 : M Feb 3 1732 Sutton Elizabeth (Betty) Waite b Oct 28 1778 (?) dau of Asa Waite and Zeruiah Smith of Sutton : gd d of Wm Waite and Ruth Lowell gt gd da of Gershom Waite and Johannah Rocket Lived Oxford - Sutton (now Millbury) & South Hadley (now Granby) Children b. Sutton 1 Ezekiel b Aug 19 1732 2 Elisha b June 5 1734 3 Mehetibel b Oct 8 1736 4 David b Feb 6 1740 5 Gershom b Dec 6 1742 6 Elizabeth b Mch 31 1745 (Betty) 7 Sarah b Mch 21 1747 8 Rebecca b Dec 1 1748Ezekiel Son of Elisha Aug 19 1732 M. Martha Children 1 Ezekiel b Dec 24, 1763 2 Waite b Mch 19 1766 d Oct 11, 1776 3 Hannah b Aug 8 1768 d Jan 21, 1770 4 Simeon b Jan 9, 1771 5 Levi Tomlin b Sept 25, 1773 6 Martha b Dec 6, 1775 Elisha Jr Son of Elisha b June 5, 1734 m Sarah - Children 1 Geshom b Nov 6, 1768 2 Jonah b Dec 30 1769 3 Elisha (3rd) b Dec 2 1771 David Son of Elisha b Feb 6, 1740 m. Sarah Dickinson Children 1 David Sept Sept 18 1762 d Oct 8 1762 2 David b Aug 13, 1763 3 Titus Theodore b Feb 17 1766 4 Lucinda Apr 2 1768 5 Hannah b My 20 1771 6 Samuel Dickenson b Nov 20, 1777 Caleb 4th Son of Samuel of Oxford b Feb 9 1704 Framingham M 1st Dec 6 1725 Oxford Mary Shumway dau of Peter Shumway of Oxford and Topsfield gd dau of Peter Shumway (or Chamois) of Topsfield Claimed to have been a Huguenot She d Aug 29, 1747he M 2nd Jan 13. 1748 Oxford Susannah Marsh of Sutton Lived Oxford and Charlton 1 John b Oct 12 1726 2 Hannah b Apr 29 1728 M - Ebenezer Barton Son of Saml, Jr 3 Reuben b May 20 1731: d Mch 4 1733 4 Azubah b Dec 25 1733. d Aug 23 1747 5 Caleb b Aug 11, 1736 - d. during French War in 1756 at Ft Wm Henry Lake George 6 Reuben b Aug 22 1748 7 March b Jan 1 1749 8 Abraham b Oct 16 1750 9 Jacob b Nov 2 1753 10 Bathsheba b Oct 15 1754 11 Hannah b July 18 1757 12 Sibley b Aug 18 1760 13 Olive b Oct 14 1763 14 Alexander Reuben Jr born in Oxford John Barton Son of Caleb b Oct 12, 1726. M July 23 1746 at Oxford Abigail Dana dau of Phinehas Dana Lived on Barton Hill Eastern part of Oxford Children 1 Asa b May 21 1747 2 Azubah b Aug 15 1749 3 Phinehas b My 9 1752 4 John b Jan 23 1755 5 Caleb b Dec 17 1756 6 David b Mch 30 1759 7 Abigail b May 25 1761 8 Jeremiah June 25 1763 9 Edward b Aug 28 1765 10 Hannah b July 21 1767 11 Pearley b Mch 6 1770 12 Amos b June 1 1771 13 Rufus {twins} b Aug 1 1774 14 Phebe {twins} b Aug 1 1774Reuben Son of Caleb Barton b Aug 23, 1748, brought up as a Son by Richard Singletary of Sutton M - June 1. 1770 at Sutton Olive Jennison b Aug 22, 1751 Children 1 Olive b Jan 3 1771 2 Reuben b Jan 25 1772 3 Jennison b Mch 14 1774 4 Hannah ]twins b Mch 16 1777 5 Thankful ]twins 6 Silence b Dec 24 1781 7 John Flavel b Mch 31 1783 8 Hannah b Dec 26 1784 9 Sarah (Sally) b Jan 15 1784 10 Joseph Goffe b. Feb 9 1793 Sibley Barton Son of Caleb b Aug 18 1760 M 1st 1785, at Charlton Rachel Needham. She d. 1786 M 2nd - 1788 Lucretia Twiss dau of Joseph Twiss and his wife Mary Campbell Towne widow of Jacob Towne and dau of Rev John Campbell Children 1 Wm b Feb 1. 1789 2 Jacob b Apr 18 1791 3 Joseph Twiss b Jan 6 1793 4 Rachel Needham b Nov 19. 1794 5 Harlem b Mch 13 1798 6 Sally b Jan 19 1800 7 Lewis b Mch 12 1803Jedediah Barton 5th Son of Samuel of Oxford 74 was b. Sept 18, 1707 at Framingham m 1st Mch 23, 1731, at Oxford Lydia Pratt dau of Jonathan Pratt of Framingham and Oxford and his wife Sarah Gale and gd dau of Thomas Pratt of Watertown and Framingham Lydia Pratt Barton d Aug 13. 1765 He m 2nd Oct 7. 1778, Oxford Sarah Miller. He was Landowner at Oxford. Was in French War and in the Militia - Children b in Oxford of Jedediah and 1st wife Lydia Pratt 1 Abraham b May 11. 1732. d June 15 1743 2 Lydia b Jan 17. 1734. d May 20 1743 3 Jedediah b Mch 28 1736 d Mar 4 1743 4 Mercy b Apr 14. 1738 d May 8. 1743 5 Isaac b Sept 21. 1740 6 Tamar b Feb 17, 1743 m Apr 4 1759 Nathan son of Joshua Barton Isaac Barton only surviving Son of Jedediah Barton b Sept 21 1740 m. July 29, 1761 at Oxford Sarah Covel. He d Oct 9. 1769. Oxford. She m 2nd in 1780 John Ballard at Children of Isaac and his 2nd wife Sarah (Covel) Barton - All b. in Oxford 1 Abraham b Aug 15, 1762 d Nov 28 1768 2 Isaac b Sept 21 1766 d Dec 24 1768 3 Isaac b Mch 21 1768Mehetebel Barton dau of Samuel of Oxford b Aug 22 1710 at Framingham M. Nov 12 1730 at Oxford Samuel Duncan of Worcester; they had a Son Samuel b Feb 12. 1742 d Feb 28. 1742 She d Nov 7. 1742 ------------------ Edmund Barton Youngest Son of Samuel Barton of Oxford was b Aug 15, 1715 at Framingham; d Dec 13. 1799 - Sutton he was M. April 9 1739 at Salem by Rev Peter Clark to [Aviva?] Flint b June 9. 1718 at Middleton bap June 22 at Beverly - d Mch 20, 1795 eldest dau of Stephen Flint of Middleton and his wife Hannah Moulton. gd d- of Thomas Flint who probably came from Wales before 1650 to Salem, and Settled in Salem Village on a large farm which continued in the Flint family for Several generations Edmund Barton Settled in Sutton before his Marriage & owned lands there & in Oxford Served in French War Was at Ft. Edward in 1753 Members of 1st Church of Sutton later of 2nd Church of Sutton which became 1st Church of Millbury - Children b in Sutton - 1 Stephen b June 10 1740 2 Mary b June 11 1742 m. Apr 3 1766 Obadiah Browne of Uxbridge 3 Hannah b Sept 22 1744 m Oct 29, 1765 Saml Boutell, Jr of Sutton. 4 Jedediah b May 6 1747 5 Flint b Dec 3 1749 6 Elijah b Apr 22 1751 drowned June 1756 7 Gideon b Apr 22 1753 drowned June 1756 8 Anna b Aug 1 1756 M. Apr. 29, 1778 David Gibson at Fitchburg 9 Luke b Feb 1 1759 10 Eunice b May 22 1761: M. [Grendal?] Keith of Rockingham, Vt ------------------------- Dr Stephen Barton eldest Son of Edmund Barton of Sutton b June 10. 1740 at Sutton d Oct 21, 1804 - on homestead farm in Me M. May 28. 1765 at Oxford Dorothy Moore b Apr. 12, 1747 at Oxford dau of Elijah and Dorothy (Learned) Moore; gdau of Richard Moore gt gd - of Jacob Moore, gt gt gd dau of John Moore - : Dorothy dau of Ebenezer Learned gd dau of Isaac gt gd da of Wm Learned - Dr B. Studied Medicine with Dr Green of Worcester (old family there) Dr B. practices in Mass & Me Was buried near a great boulder on his farm in Me. Now Windsor Me Widow d Nov 11. 1838 in Oxford home of their son Capt Stephen BartonChildren of Dr Stephen and Dorothy (Moore) Barton 1. Elijah Moore Barton b Oxford Oct 12 1765 d June 13. 1769 2 Gideon - b Oxford Mch 29. 1767 d Oct 27 1770 3 Pamela b " Nov 28. 1768 m July 18 1787 - Benj Porter 2nd wife - Settled in Me - 4 Clarissa Harlowe b " Sept 10. 1770 m. Richard Foster Settled in Me 5 Stephen Jr b " Aug 18. 1774 m. Sarah Stone 6 Hannah b Maine m Jonathin Davis of Oxford 2nd wife 7 Parthina " " 1780 8 Dolly (Dorothy) " " Apr 11. 1782 - twin m Oct 7 1798 Jeremiah Learned 9 Polly (Mary ) " " Apr 11 1782 - twin m - Nov 17 1805 Daniel Batchelor 3rd wife 10 Elijah Moore " " Aug 10 1784 m Sarah Fairfield, Settled Me 11 Gideon " " June 18 1786 m. Sarah Pierce - Settled in Me. 12 Anna. " " 1788 13 Luke b Oxford Sept 3. 1791. m Martha Ballard - Settled in Me (Jeremiah Learned Son of Ebenezer of Oxford) Capt Stephen Barton eldest Surviving Son of Dr Stephen and Dorothy (Moore) Barton b Aug 18 1774 - Oxford d m Apr 22 1804 Oxford Sarah Stone b Nov 13. 1783 at Oxford dau of David Haven Stone and wife Sarah Treadwell of Sutton b. at Rowley dau of Joseph and Sarah (Hammond) Treadwell: gd dau of Thomas and Sarah (Goodhue) Treadwell gt gd dau of Nathaniel and Abigail (Wells) Treadwell - gt gt gd da of Thomas TreadwellDavid Haven Stone's Mother Esther Gale dau of Saml - and Rebecca Gale of Waltham gd dau of Abraham Gale Jr. and Rachel Parkhurst, gt gd da of Abraham and Sarah (Fiske) Gale - gt gt gd dau of Richard and May Gale of Watertown ---------------------------- Rachel Parkhurst (wife of Abraham Gale Jr) was dau of Geo Parkhurst Jr & 1st wife Sarah Browne eldest dau of Abraham Browne a very early Settler at Watertown a freeman in 1632 - land Surveyor owned much property - Son of Thomas Brown of Swan Hall, Parish of Hawkedon, Co. Suffolk, Eng who was the Son of Christopher Browne 3rd of Swan Hall, gd son of Christopher 2nd - of Same and gt gd son of Christopher 1st of Stamford in Lincolnshire who was Son of John Browne 4th of Stamford gd son of John B. 3rd of Stamford - Drape-Merchant of the Staple of Calais - Alderman of Stamford in 1414 - etc erected All Saints Church Stamford - where he is buried - and was Son of John Browne 2nd of Stamford and gd son of John Browne 1st who was Chief Magistrate of Stamford in 1376 -All Saints Church Stamford Lincolnshire Eng was built by John Browne - 3rd - before 1442 Steeple built by his Son Wm also a Merchant of the Staple of Calais "A Merchant of Wonderful richness Who founded Brownes Hospital in Stamford Completed in 1493, dedicated in 1494 and endowed it liberally with the Manor of Swayfield in Lincolnshire and other estates - A flourishing institution with great revenues and of large Charities today --------------------- Stephen Jr - known as Capt Stephen Barton enlisted aged 21 to fight in Western Indian Wars. Under Gen Anthony Wayne Was Capt of Militia Oxford after his return - His father in law David Haven Stone Was in Rev Army Under Gen Learned and was at the Surrender of Burgoyne Children of Capt Stephen Jr and Sarah (Stone) Barton all b in Oxford were 1 Dorothy (Dolly) b Oct 2 1804. d Apr 19 1846 2 Stephen 3rd - b Mch 20. 1806 m Nov 24 1833 Elizabeth Rich - 3 David b Aug 15 1808 m Sept 30 1839 Julia Ann Maria Porter 4 Sarah. b Mch 20. 1811 m Apr 17 1834 Vester Vassall 5 Clara Barton founder of Am Red Cross b Dec 25. 1821 Elijah Moore Barton Son of Dr Stephen b Aug 10, 1784 M. Sarah Fairfield Children 1 Wm C : 2 Sarah E. : 3 John F : 4 Reuben F : 5 Ira D. ------------ Gideon Son of Dr Stephen Barton b June 18 1786, M. Sarah Pierce Children 1 Clarissa Harlowe 2 Samuel P 3 Lucy 4 Dorothy (Dolly) 5 Stephen 6 Rufus 7 Gideon 8 Ruel 9 Sumner 10 Theodore 11 Benjamin F 12 Sarah E 13 Lucy E ------------ Luke Son of Dr Stephen Barton b. Sept 3 1791, m Martha Ballard their Children were : 1 Charles H 2 George L 3 Martha A 4 Hannah 5 Virgil B 6 Sarah H 7 Dorothy M (Dolly) ------------ Capt David Son of Capt Stephen Barton, Jr, b Aug 15, 1808 d Mch 12. 1888 Oxford) - m Sept 30 1839, Vienna Me Julia Ann Maria Porter b Jan 25, 1814 dau of Benj Porter of Vienna and his 2nd wife Pamela dau of Dr Stephen Barton lived at N. Oxford - active in business and public life - in the Civil War Served as Quarter- Master with the rank of Capt Children 1 Ada Idelia b. Oxford Jan 18, 1847 twin m. Chas M. Clark Children 1 David Barton Clark 2 Mary Josephine Clark 3 Harry LeRoy Clark 2 Ida Adelia b. Jan 18 1847. Oxford twin m Adolph Riccius Children 1 Edith Riccius 2 Herman Porter Riccius 3 Saidee Riccius 4 Harold Riccius 3 Stephen Emory b Dec 24 1848 Oxford m. June 28, 1870 Port Hastings Cape Breton - Joyce Wilmot dau of Thomas Wilmot M.D. of Birmingham, Eng - Children 1 Irving Wilmot Barton 2 Ida Myrtis " 3 Edith Joyce " 4 Lauretta Gertrude " The 3rd Stephen Barton was the 2nd Capt Stephen Barton Son of Capt Stephen Barton was b Mch 20 1806 Oxford m. Nov 24, 1833 Charlton Elizabeth (Betsy) Rich, dau of Jacob Rich of Charlton He was active in public business & School Affairs in Oxford Where he was Capt of Militia Was interested in a large lumber plant in N. C - before the Civil War - thro defending his property lost his health finally reached Washington - died with his relatives there Mch 10, 1865 His wife d Jan 22, 1875 Children 1 John Rich Barton b Oxford Sept 19. 1837 d Dec 1. 1837 2 Samuel Rich B. b Oxford May 31. 1839 3 David Stephen b. Oxford Oct 15. 1845 d Nov 11. 1847 -------------- Samuel Rich Barton Son of Stephen 3rd. b May 31. 1839 m Feb 12 1863. Oxford Amelie L. Parks dau. of Loren C. Parks of Oxford Children 1 Stephen Ira : 2 Elizabeth Anna 3 Herbert Parks 4 Myrtis Amelie 5 Loren Chandler 6 Walter Samuel 7 Clarence Walter 8 Marion Amelia Barton Sarah Barton dau of Capt Stephen Barton b Oxford Mch 20 1811 d " May 1874 Worcester m Apr 17. 1834 Oxford Mass Vester Vassell b. July 31. 1809 at Ward d Sept 1880 Worcester Son of Benj, Jr - gd Son of Benjamin Vassall Sr - Children 1. Bernard Barton Vassall b Oxford Oct 10. 1835 d Worcester Mch 23. 1894 m Nov 26. 1863 Frances Maria Childs b Mch 21 1834 Worcester dau of Benjamin Willis and Elizabeth (Southworth) Childs 2. Irving Stetson Vassall b. Aug 16. 1840 Oxford d Apr 9, 1865 Washington D.C. Clara Barton dau of Capt Stephen Barton - gd dau of Dr Stephen Barton gt gd dau of Edmund Barton of Oxford - gt gt gd dau of Samuel Barton of Oxford Was born on Christmas Day 1821 at Oxford - Founder of the American Red Cross d - April 13. 1912 at Glen Echo - Washington D. C - is buried at Oxford ------------- Jedidiah Barton (the Younger) 2nd Son of Edmund Barton of Sutton b My 6. 1747 at Sutton d Sept 15, 1808 Millbury M Mch 23. 1774 - Sutton - Lydia Pierce b. Feb 19 1756 d Mch 1 1842 both at Sutton (Millbury) - dau of Dr Ebenezer Pierce who came to Sutton (now Millbury) from Woburn, and his wife Mary Stowe gd dau of Ebenezer Pierce gt gd dau of John " gt gt gd dau " Thomas Jr " gt gt gd dau of Thomas Pierce of Woburn Children all b in Sutton 1 Rufus b Feb 28 1775 d Aug 17, 1776 2 Rufus b Aug 31, 1776 m Nancy Goddard 3 - Silvia b. Apr 22 1778 d June 9 1801 m Nov 27. 1800 to Jennison Barton Son of Reuben & gd Son of Caleb Barton 4 James Stowe b Nov 4 1781 m Matilda Park 5 Lucretia b. May 9, 1784 d May 21, 1818 m. Sept 9 1808 Henry B Harbuck of Sutton 6 Pliny - b Oct 12 1786 m Naomi Morse 7 Livy b. Jan 12 1789 m. Phebe Clement 8 Warner b Sept 25 1791 m Elizabeth Clement 9 Porter b Oct 23. 1795 m Levina Wood Rufus Barton - eldest Surviving Son of Jedidiah and Lydia (Pierce) Barton was b Aug 31, 1776 at Sutton d Aug 5. 1854 Millbury m Mch 11 1806 Sutton Nancy (Anna) Goddard b April 18, 1786 - Sutton d Nov 24 1869 Worcester - dau. of Robert Goddard and 1st wife Anna Tainter gd dau of Elisha Goddard gt gd dau Robert Goddard gt gt gd dau Joseph " gt gt gt gd dau Wm " Children born in Sutton-Millbury 1 Sumner b. Dec 9. 1806 d Apr 2 1826 2 Jedidiah Heywood b Dec 16. 1810 m. Nov. 28. 1833 Mary Lothrop 3 Lydia Pierce b Mch 23, 1813 - m - (intentions Nov 16. 1836) Edwin Grout 4 Eben Thatcher b Apr 13, 1815 d June 5 1826 5 Rufus b. July 28 1817 - m Dec 30 1843 Margaret S Carlton 6 George b Jan 12, 1820 : d Apr 16, 1822 7 Nancy Goddard b Oct 18. 1822. m Feb 2 1842 Abel H. Snow 8 George Sumner b July 18, 1825 m 1st 2nd ------------------ Pliny Barton Son of Jedidian of Sutton b Dec 3 1749 Sutton M. Mch 31, 1808 at Oxford Naomi Morse removed to Spencer, later to Cairo, Greene Co finally to Olive Ulster Co. N. Y Manufacturer of Shears for Woolen Cloth & Scythes He d : Mch 20, 1851 : She d Jan 1 1865 born at Olive, N. Y Children 1 Pliny Liberty b Oxford Jan. 22. 1809 2 Mary b Dec 5 1810 Spencer 3 Sophia b Apr 6 1813 " 4 Caroline b Apr 26 1815 Cairo 5 Jane b Nov 28 1817 " 6 Eliza b Mch 18 1820 " 7 Hiram b Mch 21 1822 " 8 Julia b June 22 1825 " 9 Philo b Apr 3 1828 " 10 Flint b - - - - ------------------- Oldest Son Pliny Liberty Barton b Oxford Jan 22, 1809 d m Cairo Apr 7, 1836 Mary Ann Lockwood removed to Salisbury Litchfield Co Conn in 1841 He Studied law : Manufactured Scythes held many then and State offices Livy Son of Jedidiah Barton of Sutton b Jan 12, 1789 Sutton m Phebe Clement their Child wer 1 Maria Stone b. Apr 27 1813 Warner Barton Son of Jedidiah of Sutton b Sept 25, 1791 in Sutton m Elizabeth (Betsy) Clement Children 1 Eiza D b Aug 13 1816 2 Warner Jr b Mch 16 1818 3 Elbridge b May 27 1820 4 Aaron b May 3 1822 5 Otis b Mch 31 1825 6 Eliza A b June 6 1827 7 Sarah P b Jan 22 1831 8 Catherine b Apr 19 1831 Porter Barton Son of Jedidiah of Sutton b Oct 23 1795 in Sutton m. Levina Wood Children 1 George W. b May 1 1825 2 Porter G. b July 12, 1827 ----------------- George Sumner Barton 1st Son of Rufus Barton - (not in Manuscript)Flint Barton - 3rd Son of Edmund of Sutton b Dec 3, 1749 Sutton d My 12. 1833 m Lydia dau. of Jonah Crosby d Nov 25. 1821 and Settled at Sydney Me - . Children 1 Edmund b Apr 8. 1779. d. Unmarried 2 Amos b Nov 12 1780 3 Jonah b July 13 1782 d. Young 4 Otis b May 24 1784 5 Rufus b Aug 28, 1786 6 Persia b July 3 1788 7 Crosby b Feb 20 1791 8 Stephen Flint b Jan 27 1793 - d Unmarried 9 Alfred b Mch 18 1795 10 Franklin b My 12 1797 11 Anson . b Dec 4, 1799 12 Dean W. b Dec 21, 1802 d. Unmarried Amos - Son of Flint Barton b Nov 12, 1780 d m Martha Hinds Children 1 Samuel C b Feb 9 1818 2 Asher H b Mch 29 1819 3 Marcia P b Oct 2 1820 4 Ulmer B b July 13 1822 5 Martha P b Mch 4 1824 6 Amos b Dec 6. 1825 --------------- Otis Son of Flint Barton b May 24. 1784 M 1st Eleanor Thomas 2nd Sarah E Curtis Children 1st wife 1 Lydia M - b died Young 2 Greenwood F - b Apr 30, 1821 3 Louisa F - b Apr 10 1823 4 Robert G b Aug 4 1825 2nd Wife 5 Gideon C b Mch 31, 1833 6 Cutbush W b Dec 18 1834 7 Lydia M b Feb 24 1837 8 Adaline M b July 22 1841 9 Mary E. b Mch 1 1844 Rufus Son of Flint Barton b Aug 27. 1786 - m Sarah Wyman Children 1 George R. b July 20 1816 2 Stephen F b May 25 1818 3 Caroline G b Apr 5 1820 4 Elizabeth B b Apr 3 1822 5 Charles H b Apr 3 1824 6 dau - b Mch 8 1827 d. infancy 7 Amos b Apr 12 1828 8 Henry D. b Sept 30 1830 Persia Barton Son of Flint Barton b July 3, 1788 m. Harriet Butler their Child was 1 Mary E. b 1820 - d Unmarried Crosby - Son of Flint Barton b. Feb 20, 1791 m 1st Sybil W Patten 2nd Ruby Hinds Sister of Martha Hinds wife of Amos Barton Children by 1st Wife 1 Harriet T. b Feb 1 1823 2 Thomas F b Dec 16 1825 3 Helen A b Sept 29 1827 4 Olive P b Mch 8 1832 Alfred Barton Son of Flint Barton b Mch 18 1795. M. Sarah Collins Childr 1 Percival b Nov 16 1822 2 Rebecca b Feb 4 1825 3 Clarissa b Dec 21 1826 4 Jane b Sept 16 1828 5 May L b July 11 1830 6 Christina b July 24 1832 7 Philena b Mch 18 1834 8 Portugal b Nov 1 1836 9 Georgia b Nov 29 1838 10 Elgia b Nov 23 1840 11 Benjamin F b July 28 1844 12 Alfred Jr b June 24 1848 Franklin Barton Son of Flint b. May 12, 1797 m 1st Lavinia Crosby 2nd Mary A Brackett Children by 1st Wife 1 Sophronia b Nov 6 1822 2 Rosetta b July 21. 1824 3 Almeda b Jan 26 1826 4 Persia b May 21 1828 5 Alban R b Aug 29 1838 6 Diantha b Apr 29 1842Anson Son of Flint Barton b Dec 4. 1799 m. Rhoda Sisson Children 1 Albion b Oct 3 1826 2 George S b Aug 17 1828 3 Greenleaf b May 2 1831 4 Herrick S b Mch 14 1833 5 Jonathan G b Mch 20 1835 6 Anson B b Nov 27 1836 7 Mary H b Oct 26 1838 8 Wm H b Mch 13 1840 9 Ellen V b May 8 1841 10 Chas G b Mch 27. 1842 11 May E b Oct 7 1845 12 Caroline A b Mch 1 1848 The Moores and Learneds of Oxford and the Goddards of Sutton ---------------- ---------------- Dorothy Moore Wife of Dr Stephen Barton was the dau of Elijah and Dorothy (Learned) Moore of Sutton - Elijah Moore was active in public Affairs & Capt. of Militia Son of one of early Settlers of Oxford Richard Moore b. Sudbury 1670 and Mary Collins dau of Samuel Collins of Middlebury Conn gd dau of Edward Collins of Cambridge - Richard Moore lived in Needham after his Marriage until 1714 then bought at Oxford the homestead of Samuel Hayburn half-bro. of Gov Joseph Dudly one of the original proprietors of Oxford Village Was J. P. town Clerk - Selectman etc and [Chairman?] town Treas. and in 1721 rep. to General Court Was Son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Looker) Moore of Sudbury (dau of Henry Looker of Sudbury) gd son of John Moore who bought in Sudbury in 1642 and his Wife Elizabeth dau of Philemon Whale -------------- Dorothy Wife of Elijah Moore Was dau. of Col Ebenezer Learned one of the 30 original proprietors of Oxford one of largest land owners there Active in Public Military & Char Ch Affairs - (Ensign to Col. in Mil - 1718-1750) left 1000 acres to his Sons (Gen) Ebenezer & Jeremiah Learned to latter the homestead on condition that he Maintain his Mother (Madam Learned) and the black Servant "Mingo" - "According to his rank and Circumstances "Col Ebenezer Learned m. Deborah Haynes dau of John Haynes of Sudbury: was son of Isaac Learned Jr - of Chelmsford and Framingham - a Soldier in the Narragansett War - and his wife Sarah Bigelow. dau. of John Bigelow of Watertown - [the] gd son of Isaac Learned of Woburn and Chelmsford and wife Mary Stearns dau of Isaac Stearns of Watertown gt gd son of Wm and Goditha Learned - Members of the Charlestown Church in 1632 and of Woburn Church in 1642 Brig Gen Ebenezer Learned of Oxford. one of the most distinguished officers of the Rev War. Was a bro. of Dorothy Learned Moore. The gt gd Mother of Clara BartonThe Goddards of Sutton Anna (Nancy) Goddard wife of Rufus Barton of Sutton. was dau of Robert Goddard of Sutton and 1st wife Anna Tainter --------- This Robt Goddard M - 4 times 1st Anna Tainter 2nd Tamar Goddard - dau of Saml Goddard 3rd Hannah Sister of above 4th Mrs Sybil Peters Penniman ----------- He was son of Elisha Goddard of Sutton - and his 2nd wife May Thatcher (1st wife was Anna Haven) - and was gd son of Robert Goddard of Brookline who later Settled in Sutton (Millbury) and his 1st wife Mehetebel Spring (2nd wife Mrs Dorothy Dwight Child) This Robert Goddard was Son of Joseph Goddard of Watertown and Brookline and wife Dorothy Treadway and gd son of Wm - Goddard the American Ancestor. ----------------- Wm Goddard - 7th Son of Edward Goddard - was bap Feb 28, 1627 at Englesham. M - Elizabeth Miles dau. of Benj. Miles of London became a citizen of London Member of Guild of The Worshipful Company of Grocers. In 1665 left wife children and property in England and came to America to investigate conditions here with view to removal His wife was dau of Robert Foote of London who d prior to 1665 - her Mother was then living - She had an Uncle - fathers bro in N. E - after great London Fire 1666 Wm Goddard Sent for family and Settled on farm in Watertown freeman in 1678 : Was teaching in 1680 d. Oct 6. 1691 Edward Goddard of Englesham father of Wm Was of Parliamentary party during the Civil Wars in Eng. - He lost most of his property His bro Thomas Goddard of Upham Was a Royalist This Edward Goddard b 1584 was 2nd Son of Richard Goddard of Englesham in Berkshire : Matriculated at Oxford University 1601 - M - Pricilla Doyley dau of John D'Oyley of Chiselhampton (this D'Oyley family came to Eng. with Wm the Conquerer in 1066 - were created Barons Hooknorton in Oxfordshire One of them built Oxford Castle Another founded Oseney Priory Oxford - The Goddards a very ancient family in Eng - estates in Wiltshire, Berkshire etc Biographies of the Descendants of Edmund Barton Youngest Son of Samuel Barton of Oxford For biographies of Clara Barton Bernard Barton Vassall etc Vassall Bernard Barton Vassall eldest Son of Vester Vassall and Sarah Barton b. Oxford Oct 10 1835 His Mother was a dau of Capt Stephen Barton and Sarah dau of David Haven Stone His father was Son of Benj Vassalls Jr and his 1st wife Mary (Polly) dau. of Uriah Stone, Jr - gd son of Benj Vassall Sr and 1st wife Susannah, dau of Jonah Stetson. Vassals lived at Scituate Charlton and Oxford - were related to the distinguished Vassalls family of N. Eng. and Eng Barnard Barton Vassall m - Nov 26. 1863 Frances Maria Childs dau of Benj. Willis and Elizabeth (Southworth) Childs of Oxford Mr Vassalls was associated with his Uncle Stephen Barton 3rd in lumber business in N. Car whenbroke out - he returned to Oxford enlisted in DeWitt Guards (later Co E. 15th Mass Regt - Was Lt Was taken prisoner at Battle of Balls Bluff - after 4 mo. in prison at Richmond was paroled to Annapolis - Resigned and enlisted Surg. Gen's Office at Washington. After War as Special Agent of P. O. Dept reorganized P. O Service throughout the South later reorganized the postal Service in New England; Later was a real estate and Insurance business : Was special agent of Mass State Board of Charities He was always interested in the Barton Genealogy and from time to time collected much. Was a Semi-invalid for Years - effects of an injury received at Ball's Bluff Illness prevented his further investigation of parentage and ancestry of Samuel Barton He d - Mch 23 1894 His widow is still living and associated with Stephen E. and Chas S. Barton on compiling this genealogy Bernard Barton Vassalls was in Civil War his gd father Capt Stephen Barton was in Western Indian Wars under Gen Wayne. His gt gd fathers Benj Vassalls and David Haven Stone were in Rev. War His gt gt gd father Edmund Barton Was in the French War. And. his Aunt Clara Barton - founded the American Red Cross Many Bartons were in the Colonial Wars, the War of the Rev and the Civil War ------------- His younger and only brother Irving Stetson Vassall b Oxford Aug 16. 1840 d Washington D. C Apr 9. 1865 Physically delicate many of his prose and poetic writings were published ---------- Was employed as Chief Clerk by Col Gardner Tufts. of the Mass. Military Agency in Washington - His duties were of the Most Arduous and Confidential Nature - official letter answers to inquiries from Soldiers friends instructions and directions to Soldiers distribution of Supplies to Sick wounded and needy Soldiers - gentle, Sympathetic, patient, courteous always Edward Barton the American Ancestor of this family - died at Cape Porpoise in 1671 and many of his descendants have been Settlers and Natives of Maine as well as of Massachusetts ---------------- Bartons - of Bartonville Vt - now Barton. Vt. -He was 10th child and 9th son - (8th son in succession) of Abner Keys, Jr. b 1781 - Hollis, N.H. d Feb 12, 1837 - Hancock, N.H. m. Nov. 27. 1806- Susan or Susannah Barton b. Aug 31. 1788 d. Nov. 23. 1858 She of Bartonsville Now Barton. Vt. He was son of Abner Keys, Sr. of Hollis, N.H b. d m Mary Shedd of Billerica Mass. (Mrs St Clair has her full records of her direct Keys, ancestors but does not anything of the ancestry of her grandmother Susan or Susannah Barton 1788-1858 Abner Keys Sr Mary Shedd {1 son 2 dau 3 son 4 son 5 son 6 son 7 son 8 son 9 son 10 son Abner Keys Jr 1781-1837 m 1806} Barton {Susan Barton 1788 - 1858} {Albert Barton Keys 1828 - 1887 m 1851 Hannah M Gordon near St Clair} Bartons - in front of book do not carry this line down if it is from their ancestry See who the Bartons of Bartonsville Vt. were from Other Bartons - Emigrant Ancestry Unknown Mary E Keys b m. Dr Francis A. St. Clair b She was oldest dau of Abner Barton Keys b Jan 26. 1828 - Hancock NH d Apr 3 1887 - Washington D.C. m Aug 2 1851 Holderness N.H. now Ashland Hannah M Gordon b Aug 26, 1829 Holderness NH d June 10, 1891 - Washington D.C.Diary of Elvira Stone copied from manuscript loaned me by her niece Hortense Stone (Mrs. H. M. Corey) of Northboro. Mass (now dead.) Saidee F. Riccius Cousin Hortense also loaned me Vira Stone's map of the old Stone Homestead on Rocky Hill North Oxford, of which I had photostat copies made. One hand[?] in birthplace, as it was the home & birthplace of Sarah Stone Barton [*2nd Copy*] Copied from the DIARY of ELVIRA STONE, Miss Martha Elvira Stone was born in the village of North Oxford, Mass., September 13, 1816, received her early education at the District School there, and graduated from the Oxford Classical School. Later she pursued a higher course of study at the Academy of Leicester, Mass., was a teacher for nineteen years in public and private schools, and for forty seven years was Postmistress at North Oxford. At the time of her death in 1900 no other woman had held the position that length of time. For three years she was a member of the School Board of Oxford. In the Literary field she contributed to the history of "The Huguenots" in Oxford, and later was a most valuable assistant to George F. Daniele in his "History of Oxford.[*"*] She was named as an assistant in the compilation of the history of Oxford in "The Master County History,[*"*] for eight years was largely associated with Judge William L. Learned of Albany, N.Y., in his Genealogical History of the Lea[rn]ed family, and with the Hon. Ex. Senator George L. Davis of No. Andover, Mass., in his most complete genealogical history of the Davis family, the two families among the wealthiest and most influential of Oxford from its earliest settlement, and from whom Miss Stone traced her descent. (From a slip of paper in the old book) "The following occurrences in the Natural World took place more or less in every part of New England, and are copied here an interesting memoranda. The Great Snow. The winter of 1717 was long remembered as the winter of the "Great Snow." The snow commenced falling the 20th of February.Vira Stone Diary #2 and continued through the night. The next day it continued and increased to a most violent storm, so that communication between neighbors was almost impossible, and for some hours were unable even to pass across the road. The 24th of the same month was another furious storm, which added to that of the 20th produced a most unprecedented amount of snow. The churches were blocked up, and no meetings were held throughout the country. Cattle, sheep and hogs were buried up in the snow,-great numbers of them died, and were found standing dead on their legs as if alive when the snow melted away. Sheep and poultry were found buried under 15 feet of snow,- some of the sheep were found alive having fed upon the wool of the dead sheep near them. Cattle were seen walking upon the frozen crust of the snow 12 feet deep, browsing upon the fruit trees. Small low houses were buried under the snow so deep that there could be nothing seen but the top of the chimneys and people in many cases had [the] to leave their houses by tunnelling the snow, or going out of their chamber windows. Earthquakes. October 29th, 1729, in the evening was the "Great Earthquake" socalled, being the most remarkable that ever happened in New England. In the County of Essex the earth burst open in many places, from which were thrown large quantities of earth and stones. Cellar walls fell in, and tops of chimneys were shaken off. November 18, 1755 was another memorable Earthquake in New England, though not as violent as that of Oct. 29, 1729. The Cold Winter. The winter of 1780 was remarkable for its severity. The snow was of great depth, accompanied by almost insupportable cold weather, so that for six weeks, while the sky was clear and the sun shining in full splendor, it was unable to thaw the snow Stone Diary #3 in any degree on the south side of the buildings. Roads were not broken out, and most of the intercourse among people was by "snow shoes or rackets", or by hand sleds on the frozen crust of snow. The snow was so intense that some people were unable to get to their woodlots for fuel and were obliged to cut down their fruit trees for that purpose. My father, Lieut. Joseph Stone was born that year, Aug.24,1780. The Dark Day. May 19, 1780, following the"cold winter" was distinguished as the "Dark Day". In most parts of the country where the darkness prevailed, persons were unable to read common print the darkness was so great. They could not tell the time of day by their clocks or watches, or manage their domestic business without candles or other additional lights. Birds sang their evening songs, disappeared, and then became silent, fowls retired to their roosts, and the cocks crowed around as at break of day. Objects could be distinguished but a little distance, and everything bore the appearance of night. The night following was as proportionally dark as the day. No object could be discerned, even when coming in contact with it, and those who were so unfortunate as to be from their home were guided in their return to their dwellings solely by the sense of feeling. No reason for the unusual phenomenon could be assigned. Solar Eclipse. In June 1806 there was a total eclipse of the sun. The sky was clear and presented a fair opportunity for observing it. The total eclipse was about two minutes,- all objects were shrouded in a dome gloom, fowls flew to their roosts, all labor was suspended, and every eye was directed to the sky.Stone #4. The HIGH WIND. "September 25, 1815 this part of Massachusetts experienced the most powerful wind that has occurred in the present century. It commenced late in the morning, and increased rapidly in violence so that it became a complete "hurricane". Vast quantities of valuable wood and timber were prostrated, small buildings were blown down and others wrecked. Indian corn and other vegetables levelled with the earth, fruit t[orn] from the trees. I have heard my mother say that Father was,during the height of the wind, working and directing his help to remove the drift wood that was floating down, and lodging upon his dam at the Phoenixville Pond in order to keep the dam from being broken in upon by the water and washed off, and at the same time she was taking care of the house and watching her only little baby boy, with intense fear and anxiety for father's sake and that the house would be broken into by the uprooting of a fine row of poplar trees in the side and front of it. The earth around the roots of the trees would lift and fall back repeatedly, till becoming loosened, one fell and lodged against another till all were levelled with the ground. The dam was saved. This was the "Old house", the first of father's and mother's after their marriage, socalled as a distinction from the new one built a few years after 1817. The Cold Summer. The whole of the year 1816 was an ungenial year and was designated as "the year without a summer". The summer was unusually cold, producing deadly frosts even in July. There was scarcely a bushel of sound Indian corn raised in this locality of towns, and not half of the usual crop of grass. The prospects of a short supply of fodder for cattle for the coming winter was Stone #5. so imminent that good milch cows were sold in the autumn for eight dollars. Famine stared the people in the face and was only averted by unusual good crops of English grain and potatoes. The year 1817 was likewise a cold year, but less in Massachusetts than the previous year. The cold seasons extended to the State of Maine, producing there almost a total failure of crops both years.Elvira Stone Diary. "Thursday, July 25th, 1878 was an eventful day in the history of the descendants of David Stone and Sarah Treadwell Stone, who met for the first time by invitation at a family union here in my house, it being perhaps the most centrally located and I bearing the name of Stone. It was here that Joseph, the 2nd son of David and Sarah Treadwell, built and owned and lived and died. The selection of July 25th was to commemorate the day they were married, which was July 25, 1776. They had five children,- viz.- David Joseph Sarah Anne Jeremiah 5 3 5 4 5 (22 grandchildren) No of descendants present from each branch at the family Union. Betsey-0 Jeremiah L-4 Dolly - Emerson-0 Lovina -0 David 3 Martha Elvira 1 Stephen 4 Mary 0 Jeremiah3 Jos.LaFayette David 7 Sarah 0 Abigail 0 Sarah 0 Emory 1 Mary 0 Clarissa H 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 5 11 1 = 23 in all out of the 43 living descendants, viz:- David 12, Joseph 5, Sarah 16, Anne 4, Jeremiah 6, = 43 The day of the family Union was beautifully clear and cool. We set the table in the grove about ten rods from the house,- the provisions were brought by each family, a Picnic Party. I furnished hot tea and coffee with milk and sugar. We had iced lemonade and an abundance of excellent and choice refreshments and flowers. Letters were read from those who were not able to be present. It was decided to meet again at some future time for a reunion the Second time. Names of those who were here are on the opposite page. Mrs. Lucella W. Stone Prince and husband from Webster, Mass. " Lizzie M. Stone Converse and daughter from Webster, Mass. " Sarah L. Stone Barrett and husband from Gardner, Mass. over From Elvira Stone's Diary. JOSEPH STONE and MARTHA LEARNED STONE. Saturday, April 18th, 1885, warm, bright, sunshine all day, delightfully pleasant like father's and mother's wedding day Sunday, April 18th, 1813,- 72 years ago today. Mother and Aunt Hannah, (my grandmother Learned's sister) have told me how pleasant the day was. Aunt Hannah's husband was mother's own cousin and a Justice of the Peace, General Jonathan Davis, he performed the marriage ceremony. There were six in one party who rode on horseback from the extreme north part of Oxford to the Meeting House in the middle of the town to see them "Go out Bride".Uncle Jerry Learned's wife has told me that they were called the handsomest couple that ever went into that meeting house. If youth and face and figure and dress and personal bearing made the handsomest couple they were entitled to it, for I have the Bill of items of my father's wedding suit which was as nice as money in those days in our inland towns could buy. I have seen all of mother's wedding suit, the richest, heaviest plain pale blue silk made with square low neck, gold necklace, elbow sleeves with rich lace hanging just over the elbow and long white silk net figured gloves to meet the sleeves, with a gored skirt and a white Swiss muslin, (more like a vapor than anything real) overskirt draped up like the present style. Her fan was the most beautiful pure white ivory ribbed perfectly transparent silk muslin with spangles of silver scattered over it. Both father and mother were tall, finely proportioned, he 6 ft 2 in. in height, she 5 ft. 8 in., a little taller than I am, both fair complexioned. Father very fair, 32 yrs. old, mother not quite 20 yrs. old. Mother died Tuesday 11 o'clock A.M. Aug. 4th, 1835, aged 42, father died Friday 4 1/2 o'clock P. M. Feb. 21st, 1862 aged 81 yrs. 6 mos.Mrs. Emma Stone Conant, husband and daughter from Gardner, Mass. Martha Elvira Stone, Byron Stone, Jeremiah L. Stone and Eva Elvira Stone Mrs. Hortense M. Stone Corey from Northboro, Mass. Mr. Samuel R. Barton and three children, viz. Herbert Parks, Loren C. and Clarence W. Mr. David Barton and wife and daughters. Ida Adellia and Mary A. Mrs. Ada I. Clark and three children,- D. Barton, Mary Josephine and Harry Leroy of North Oxford. Mr. Vester Vassall, the widowed husband of cousin Sarah Barton. Mrs. Zurilla Stone Dwinnell the widowed wife of Jeremiah Stone. Tuesday 11 o'clock A. M., Aug. 4, 1885. It is just fifty years this hour and day since my mother died. Every event and incident of the day before and night and morning are as vividly before me as when being said and done. Monday P.M. after a shower,cousin Sally Barton Vassall, who lived in the Dr. Jonathan H. Learned house, came up to bid mother a last "Good Bye". In the evening Aunt(Sophey ?) and Jerry Learned's widow and her son Loren came in. Mother held his hand and bid him Good Bye. Later when brother Jerry was going to his room for the night she bad him, with a dying mother's advice, her last farewell, although she spoke with him when he got up in the morning. Grandmother Stone and Aunt Anna Stone Eddy, father's youngest sister, were here and bad Mother with most loving words "Good bye." Grandmother's word was "Farewell", which she always used at her tender partings. LaFayette, the darling young Brother stood by me the longest, except Father, that evening. Oh, the fair-faced, beautiful boy of thirteen, how broken in spirit, how willing to do the least bidding or wish of mother's. For the last time a yearning of my heart was gratified by laying on the bed by the side of Mother a little while resting, Father watching. Then mother wanted late in the night to be laid in a large cradle we had for change. Father and I laid her there for two or three hours, then at sunrise back on the bed from which she was never again removed. In the morning she named for the officiating minister, Rev. Loren Robins of the Congregational Church. She selected the sight bearers, Alexander Campbell Thurston, Alphius Eddy, Thaddeus Hall, Phineus L. Bartlett, Eleazear Bartlett, A. H. Bettebone, Samuel C. Butler and Archibald Campbell. Desired me not to put on black, but to wear what I had, directions about her shroud and cap were given. Her dying words to me were, "You must preserve your health to take care of your Father and Brothers", as I declined to eat my breakfast.Copy of a Deed from Benjamin Eddy to Ebenezer Learned. Copied by Vira Stone, into her diary. Dated 1725, 18th November. To all people To whom these presents shall come, Greeting & c. Know ye that I Benjamin Eddy of Oxford in the County of Suffolk, in the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Husbandman, For and in consideration of a valuable sum of money to me in hand well and truly paid by Capt. Ebenezer Learned of said Oxford, yeoman, the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and the said Ebenezer Learned his heirs, Executors and administrators acquit and discharge forever. Have given, Granted, Barganed and Sold al enpossed and confirmed and do hereby Sell, Convey and Confirm unto the said Ebenezer Learned, his heirs and Assigns forever a Certain Tract of Land containing [twety] twentie acres lying upon the Hill in Oxford Village commonly known by the name of Prospect, being a part of the twentie eight fifty acre lot in the Second Range and bounded as followeth, vis.-beginning at a Stake and heap of stones at the north west corner of said lot thence running South fourty rod to a stake and heap of stones, thence eastwardly croff said lot to a stake and heap of stones in the west line of land of Jonathan Pratt, thence running north on said land of Jonathan Pratt fourty rod to the land of Ebenezer Learned to the stake and stones first mentioned together with all houses, Edifices and inclosures made thereon whatsomever, To which I the said Benjamin Eddy may lay just claim unto or have any right, title or interest in within the bounds of said tract of land with all the profits and privileges and advantages of said land arising therefrom or any manner of way appertaining thereto to be to him the said Ebenezer Learned, his Heirs, Executors Administrators or assigns to have and to hold to his and their proper use and behoof in a good and sure Estate of Inheritance in fee simple forever as also for the said Ebenezer Learned and his aforsaide my assigns in and to all 2. (Copy of Benj. Eddy deed to Eben.Learned.) Rights, writs and evidences of and concerning the said land above alienated, conceived or that may any way be interpreted in favours of me or any other my authors and predecessors thereof, and further I the said Benjamin Eddy for me my Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant and Grant to and with the said Ebenezer Learned his Heirs, Ecutors administrators and assigns by these presents that I the said Benjamin Eddy have in myself good rightfull power and lawful authority to grant Bargain and Sell the above to his Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns as is before declared in this Deed; and that the said Ebenezer Learned and his afforsaids shall and may by force of these presents from time to time and at all times forever hereafter have and occupy possess and enjoy all the premises above mentioned with all the privileges profits and advantages of the same, and I the said Benjamin Eddy oblige me, my Heirs and administrators in Warrentes thereoff and from all perils Dangers incumbrances and inconveniences of what kind soever against all and every person or persons whatsomever for cause of occasion preceeding the date hereof as also I do oblege me and my aforesaids at and upon the reasonable request of the said Ebenezer Learned or his afforsaids to give and pass such further and ample assurances in confirmation of all the promesses unto him the said Ebenezer Learned and his afforsaids as by men of law can be devised and advised and required by him or his afforsaids for his and their further assurance. thereof in witness whereof I the said Benjamin Eddy have hereunto put my hand and seal this eighteenth day of November Anno Domini Seventeen hundred twentie five and in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George of Great Brittan & c King. Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of over3 (Copy of Benj. Eddy deed to Ebenezer Learned.) (his mark) Ebenezer I Lamb Benjamin Eddy John Campbell Suffolk Ls. Oxford August 14:1727 Banj"a Eddy the Subscriber to ice foregoing Instrument personally appearing freely acknowledded the same to be his act and Deed - Coram me John Chandler Just. Tx Pac ' Boston Aug, ' 18th 1727 Received and Recorded with the Records of Deed for the County of Suffolk Lib.41.folio 1224 p Jogn Ballantine reg. r (Copied in orthography and form of letters as nearly as possible from the original Deed 16th February 1868 by the great grand child of Col. Ebenezer Learned M. E. Stone (Marth Elvira Stone of Oxford) From Elvira Stone's Diary. Col. Ebenezer Learned. 1690-1772 My Great grandfather on my Mother's side was one of the earliest settlers in Oxford. I have been told that he was one of three Brothers who helped form permanent settlements, one in Thompson, Conn. and two here in the northern part of Oxford, sometime sometime between the years 1713 and 15. His name was Col. Ebenezer Learned. He died March 14th, 1772, aged 82. The Indians were almost the only inhabitants when he came here. His house was fortified and picketed in to protect himself and family, and the few white residents living here from their vengeance. His farm was the most extensive in Oxford and is now known as the Capt. Jeremy Learned place. His wife's maiden name was Deborah Haynes, and he was ever distinguished by the respectful title of "Madam Learned." They had nine children, seven daughters and two sons, viz;- 1715 Dorothy or "Dolly", married Elijah [*(*over)*] Moore, died Dec. 4th 1787, aged 73. Dorothy Learned was the fourth child born in Oxford, 1715. 1717 Ruth married Samuel Davis, died previous to Sept.9, 1767 1719 Abagail " Edward Davis, Esq., died Aug. 11, 1805, 86 yrs. 1721 Deborah, died Aug. 21, 1736 1726 Mary , married Richard Moore, Jr. 1724 Martha, died young, 17 yrs. old and unmarried. 1729 Ebenezer, married Jerusha Baker. He died April 1, 1801, aged 73 1730 Comfort, " Capt. Sam'l. Mower and died May 11, 1765, aged 34. 1733 Jeremiah, had 4 wives, had 11 children, died June 14th, 1812, aged 79. General Ebenezer Learned. 1729-1801. General Ebenezer Learned built and owned and lived and died in the house in the extreme north part of Oxford where the Widow Abisha Learned now owns and lives. His wife's maiden name was Jerusha Baker, who was of a lively, vivacious, spirited turn of mind, said"to be equally able to talk sense as well as nonsense." They had ten children, viz;- b. July 3,1750 Ebenezer, died unmarried-young, lost at sea, aged about 21. Oct. 24,1751 Dorothy, m. Jamed Hill of Douglas. Mch. 28,1755, Deborah, m. (1st) 7 Feb. 1755, George Robinson of Dudley, by whom she had one child, Geo. Robinson, Jr., married 2nd, Ebenezer Pray.Elijah Moore and Richard Moore, Jr. were brothers, and Samuel Davis and Edward Davis were brothers. Capt. Samuel Mower lived in Worcester and his wife, Comfort Learned Mower, was buried on the Old Common, near the Old South Church. Sept.20,1757, Haynes, m. intentions 6 Sept., 1777, his own cousin Mary, daughter of Edward Davis , Esq. of Oxford. (See Danials History of Oxford.) page 589. May 30, 1760, Sylvanus, m. Martha, sister of Haynes wife. Apr. 3, 1762, Joel, unmarried Feb. 4, 1765, Abisha, died unmarried, young. Feb. 14,1767, David, m. Polly Hurd, sister of old Deacon Hurd of Ox. See page 589 Daniels History of Oxford. July 3, 1769, Jerusha, died unmarried. June 10,1772, Rufus, m. Polly Humphrey of Oxford and was mother to Mrs. George Alvarson (Ruth Learned) cousin Clara Learned's husband's mother. See History of Ox. page 589. At the raising of the house which was built soon after the Revolution on the General's return from the Northery Army, the neighbors came and helped raise it. After the frame was up, as Grandpa Stone related it, the General "treated" as was then the custom with "Toddy." When Mr. James Butler raised his glass to drink, he toasted, "May this house rot down," at which the people were indignant and refused to drink the toast. "What would you have gentlemen, "said he,"would you have it burned by fire or lightning, or destroyed by winds or flood? I repeat it, 'May this house rot down.'" upon which the toast was drunk with great glee. General Learned during our Colonial history was one of the Crown Officers, and the scales he used to weigh the bullion of Government are now in the possession of Lizzie Learned. He was in the battles previous to and at the defeat and surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Oct. 7, 1777, and with Col. Brooks stormed the encampment of the German's under Col. Breyman and the reward of his bravery was the praise he received from all lips. The soldiers followed wherever he led and lifted him and his horse over the wounded and dead. After this battle he returned home and brought with him an epulet and heavy silver spoon that were Burgoyne's. They are in the possession of his g reat overGrand child, cousin Rufus G. Alverson. He also brought home with him from the battle of Hunker Hill, where he was Colonel, as a trophy a 24 pound canon ball, which my father had for a great many years. Esq. Abisha Larned, his Grandson took it to his [?] a few years before he died in 1854. Captain Jeremiah Learned. b.1733. Captain Jeremiah Learned, who was born January 12th, 1733, and lived and died in the house originally built by his father, Col. Ebenezer Learned, had four wives. The first, and mother of his seven oldest children was Elizabeth Hunt of Littleton, Mass., b. April 3, 1735, died May 10, 1784. They were married December 21, 1756. Their children;- Jeremiah was a physician, settled on Leicester Hill, he was born Oct. 29, 1757, died unmarried April 1, 1783, aged 26. Benjamin, born Oct. 6 1759, died Oct. 11,1811 aged 52 Elizabeth, born June 14th, 1762, died July 5, 1820, married Dr. Benjamin Drurry of Spencer. Martha, born Aug. 13, 1764, died Oct. 24, 1785, aged 21, unmarried. Jonathan, was a physician, settled near Grandpa Learned's in Oxford. He was born Nov. [x] 9th, 1766, died .... , Married Annie Campbell of Oxford. Ebenezer, born June 17th, 1769, died Dec. 17th, 1769, aged 6 mos. Mary, born Dec. 24th, 1770, died ...., married Capt. Atwood (Joseph). Their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Learned died May 10th 1784. His 2nd wife was the widow Mary Green, a midwife by profession, who died Sept. 2nd, 1791. The third wife was Miss Dolly Barton, the grand-daughter of his sister Dolly Moore, who was born Aug. 27, 1778, married Oct. 7, 1793, and died July 14th, 1799. She left four children, viz:- Martha, (my mother) born April 28, 1793, died Aug. 4, 1835. aged 42. Jeremiah, born April 10, 1795, died July 8th, 1829 aged 34. Ebenezer, born January 17th, 1797, died Oct. 7, 1828, aged 31. Stephen, born June 28, 1799, died unmarried July 31, 1827, aged 28. The fourth wife was the widow of Dr. Weaver of Thompson, Conn., who died in Sept. 1811, a woman of good abilities, but of a violent temper, so much sp that at times Grandpa used to confine her in a room partitioned off in the old west room, which was the part of the house that was first built. This was when she had been drinking. (Mrs. Corey tells me this fourth wife was so unkind and abusive to the Captain's children by his other wives that they would not have her buried near their father.) S.F.Riccius. Dec. 1934.)Sylvanus Learned and Martha DAvis were published December 27, 1783. Family of Col. Sylvanus Learned, the fifth child of General Ebenezer Learned. He was born May 30, 1760. His wife was his own cousin, Martha Davis. They were married April 9th, 1764. He died on his birthday May 28, 1826, aged 66, at the house just this side of Geo. W. Hartwell's. His 2nd wife was his brother Rufus's widow, the grandmother of cousin Rufus G. Alverson. She died Sept. 12, 1819. His first wife died Oct. 3rd, 1805. His children were by his first wife, the eldest,- Lucinda, was born Feb. 3, 1785, married Wm. Campbell of Oxford, having 2 sons. She died Dec. 1, 1807. Abisha, was born Sept. 25th, 1786, died Mch. 19,1854. His wife's name was Betsey Rand of Shrewsbury. They were married Feb. 27, 1816. They had four children;- Cornelia Maria, Elizabeth Rand Sylvanus Louisa Ellen Sylvanus, born Hune 21, 1788, died June 2, 1870 in Lansing, Mich. Had two wives, Mary Woodbury, who was mother of his 3 children, and after her death, married her cousin Silence King of Chalton. Martha, born April 4th, 1790, married Charles Hooper, Esq., of Middlebore. She died January 24, 1858, 2 children, both dead. Abagail, born January 29, 1792, married her cousin Capt. Joshua Lamb of Leicester, son of Jerusha Learned, her father's sister. She died June 6, 1822. No children. Diadamia, born January 10, 1794, married Aaron Morey of Charlton, died Aug. 9, 1816, left 3 children, only Brigham W. living. Edward Davis, born Sept. 20, 1795, died Feb. 17, 1796. Jerusha , born May 6, 1798, died June 1, 1827, never married. Lucy, born Aug. 23, 1800, died Sept. 30, 1835 in Newton, Mass. Her husband was Asa McFarland of Worcester. She had six children. Copy of the Will of Colonel Ebenezer Learned who was one of the 30 families who formed the permanent settlement of the Town of Oxford, Mass., A.D. 1713. Col. Learned died March 14th, 1772, aged 82. "In the name of God Amen." "The last Will and Testament of Ebenezer Learned of Oxford in the County of Worcester, Esq. made this ninth day of September Anne Domino 1767 being sensible of the frailty of human nature, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die and being now in a good Degree of Health do by these Presents make and ordain these Presents to be, and contain my last Will and Testament. In the first place I recommend my Soul to God who gave it, hoping for the pardon of all my Sins through the mediation of Jesus Christ and my Body I comitt to the Dust from whence it was taken to be buried in a descent Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give and dispose of the same after my just Debts and funeral Charges are paid in the following manner, viz ; Imp's- I give to my beloved wife Deborah (*) the Sum of Forty Pounds to be pair her by my Executors hereinafter named in Equal Parts,also the free liberty and Improvement of the Westerly part of my Dwelling House dureing her Life, also all my indoor or household movables and my Negro man Mingo to wait upon her and that she be supported dureing her natural life out of my Estate by my son Jeremiah in sickness and in Health he finding everything necessary and convenient for her according to her Rank and Circumstances and at her Death decently bury her which is to be in lieu of her Dower in my Real Estate. Item. I give to my three beloved Daughters namely Dolly Moore, wife of Elijah Moore, Abagail Davis, wife of Edward Davis Esq[r], andCol. Learned's Will #2. Mary Moore, wife of Richard Moore, Jr. and to their heirs and assigns forever to each of them the sum of Eighty Pounds lawful money. Item. I give to my beloved Grandchildren the children of My Daughter Ruth Davis Deceased, the Sum of Eighty Pounds Lawfull money to be equally divided between them to them their Heirs and Assigns forever. Item. I give to my beloved Grandchildren the children of my Daughter Comfort Mower Decs.[d] the sum of Eighty Pounds Lawfull Money to be equally Divided between them their Heirs and Assigns forever. All the aforesaid Legacies given to my Children and Grandchildren as aforesaid to be paid to them in one year after my Decease by my Two sons, Ebenezer & Jeremiah. Item. I give to my beloved Son, Ebenezer Learned and to his Heirs and assigns for Ever about Four Hundred and ten acres of land laying in Oxford upon Stony River bounded south on Joseph Edwards, East on Capt. Elijah Moore, North upon the country gore, west upon Capt. Hartwell or however otherwise bounded, or reputed to be bounded which Lands I hold by Deed from Capt. Edward Davis. Item. I give and bequeath to my two Sons Ebenezer Learned and Jeremiah Learned, and to their Heirs and Assigns forever to be equally divided between them three Hundred acres of Land laying in the Country Gore which belonged to the Provinces and which I hold by Deed from Messrs. Dudley, How & Tileston a Committee of Ye General Court to sell Ye same. I also give unto my two Sons aforesaid and to their Heirs and assigns forever to be equally divided between them about Two Hundred and ninety nine acres of Land situate partly in Oxford and partly in Charlton in the County of Worcester and discribed in Deed or quit claim from Capt. Edward Davis to me Recorded in the County Records of Deeds Book 57 Page 236 may appear. Col. Learned's Will #3. Also all the Remander of my Personall Estate of what Kind SoEver or wheresoever I give unto my said Two Sons their Heirs and Assigns forever to be equally divided between them Item. I give unto my beloved son Jeremiah Learned his Heirs and Assigns for Ever all the Rest of my Real Estate wheresoever it may be not heretofore disposed of in this will. And Whereas I sometime ago lent unto Elijah Curtis of a place called the Country Oxford North Gore a sum of Money for Security of which I took a Deed of part of his Farm where he now lives on, if it should so happen that the money aforesaid should not be paid in my Life Time and that My Executors hereinafter named are obliged to take the Land in that case the land so held for the Debt aforesaid shall be and belong to my Two Sons the Said Ebenezer and Jeremiah to them and their Heirs and Assigns to be equally divided between them. All the aforesaid bequests to my Two Sons are upon this condition that they pay my just Debts and Legacies aforesaid to my Children, and Grandchildren as before herein mentioned and the Forty Pounds [???] aforementioned to their Mother and that my son Jeremiah support his mother in manner as herein before expressed during her Life and support my Negro man Mingo during his Life and decently Bury his sd Mother as also the sd Mingo at their respective Deaths. Lastly I appoint my Two Sons Ebenezer & Jeremiah Executors to this my last Will and Testament relying upon their fidelity to see the same properly executed and do hereby disanul all [???] other and former testaments by me made or Executors named here by ratifying & confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament for witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day & Year aforesaid. Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Eben[r] Learned as his last will & Testament in presence of usCol. Learned's Will #4. who in his Presence Subscribed our names Ebenezer Learned (Seal) As witnesess hereto Samuel Bridge Timothy Paine Timothy Paine Jun[r] *Note by me;- Her (Deborah Learned's) maiden name was Deborah Haynes and distinguished by the appellation of "Madam Learned." Copied by me in orthography & Capitals very nearly this Anniversary day of the writing of the Will the Ninth Day of September 1866, just 99 years from the day of its writing. He was my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather being Jeremiah Learned. Martha Elvira Stone." Gale 1. Richard Gale, of Watertown, 1640, died 1679. m. Mary Children; 1. Abraham, b. 1643, m. Sarah Fisk, 1673 and died 1718, father of Abraham (m. Rachel Parkhurst Dec. 6,1699) 2. Richard. 3. Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth Green, 1709. 4. John 5. Joshua, died 1721. 6. Sarah, m. Jonathan Pratt of Framingham. 7. Mercy, m. Samuel/Sanderson 8. Mary 9. Lydia 10. Abigail, m. Edward Jackson From "History of Framingham by Barry[*Sarah*] GALE. From History of Framingham By Barry. Copy from S. F. Riccius. 1. Richard Gale, of Watertown, 1640, died 1679. Mar. Mary --- Children: 1. Abraham, b. 1643, m. Sarah Fisk, 1673 and died 1718. father of Abraham (m. Rachel Parkhurst Dec. 6,1699). 2. Richard, 3. Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth Green, 1709. 4. John, 5. Joshua, died 1721. 6. Sarah, m. Jonathan Pratt of Framingham. 7. Mercy, m. Samuel Sanderson. 8. Mary, 9. Lydia, 10. Abigail, m. Edward Jackson. Dear Sarah: (Riccius) The above is a copy of the Gale Family history which you so recently sent me and which you found in Barry's History of Framingham. I am sending you a copy of the Gales I once found in a book in the State Library at Augusta, Me., and it took the family back as far as Rachel Parkhurst who married Abraham Gale, and then went over to Rachel's side of the house - the Browne family - and try as I did, I could find little trace of the Gale family beyond Abraham. Now you send this copy which gives us a Richard Gale, but I do not seem able to piece the family together very well except as I have tried to do, as you will see below. Do you think it might be something like the following? Edith Riccius King ******************* Richard Gale, probably b. around 1620 in England, possibly, and came to Watertown, Mass. about 1640 and died in 1679. Mar. Mary --. Children: 1. Abraham, b. 1643, m. Sarah Fisk 1673 and d. 1718. 3. Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth Green, 1709. 2. Richard. 4. John. 5. Joshua, d. 1721. 6. Sarah, m. Jonathan Pratt of Frmham. 7. Mercy, m. Sam'l Sanderson. 8. Mary. 9. Lydia. 10. Abigail, m. Ed. Jackson. Abraham Gale, b. 1643, d. 1718, m. Sarah Fisk in 1673. Children: 1. Abraham, b. about 1675, d. ; mar. Dec. 6, 1699 to Rachel Parkhurst who was b. Dec. 20, 1678, d. Jan. 20, 1767. Probably other children. Abraham Gale, b. about 1675, mar. Rachel Parkhurst b. Dec. 39, 1678, d. Jan. 30, 1767. See Abraham Browne and Abraham Gale genealogy attached for continuation. #1. [*Sarah.*] - ABRAHAM BROWNE - ABRAHAM GALE - OF WATERTOWN, MASS. **************************** By Edith R. King. #1. ABRAHAM BROWNE, born ; died ; married twice: a daughter, Sarah Browne, by 1st marriage. #2. SARAH BROWNE, born ; died ; married George Parkhurst, Jr., had a daughter, Rachel Parkhurst. #3. RACHEL PARKHURST, born Dec. 30, 1678; died Jan. 30, 1767; at Watertown, Mass.; mar. Dec. 6, 1699 to Abraham Gale, (probably son of Abraham Gale, born 1643, died 1718, mar. in 1673 to Sarah Fisk.) Children of Rachel Parkhurst and Abraham Gale: 1. Abraham Gale, b. 1700. 2. Rachel Gale, b. 1702. 3. SAMUEL GALE, b. 1705. 4. Isaac Gale, b. 1708. 5. Eunice Gale, b. 1711. 6. Abigail Gale, b. 1714. 7. Daniel Gale, b. 1717. 8. Josiah Gale, b. 1722. #4. SAMUEL GALE , son of Rachel Parkhurst and Abraham Gale, born 1705, died ; mar. Rebecca Cunningham, of Weston, Waltham and Watertown: Children of Rebecca Cunningham and Samuel Gale: 1. Samuel Gale, b. May 6, 1726; d. May 6, 1793. 2. Rebecca Gale, b. May 24, 1728; d. 3. Rachel Gale, b. Nov. 6, 1729; mar. Wm. Lackey Mar.20,1748-9, 4. ESTHER GALE, b. Dec, 21, 1730; d. ; mar. 1st, Abraham (?) Haven; had a son David Haven: mar. 2nd, Dec, 25, 1749, Wm. Stone; mar.3rd. John Todd: mar. 4th, Robt. McIntyre. 5. Abraham Gale, b. Sept. 23, 1733; d. 6. Lois Gale, b. Dec. 1, 1734; died in infancy. 7. Lois Gale, b. July 11, 1736, mar. Jos. Savery of Sutton. 8. Richard Gale, b. July 9, 1738. #5. ESTHER GALE, daughter of Rebecca Cunningham and Samuel Gale, born Dec. 21, 1730, d. ; mar. Dec. 25, 1749 Abraham (?) Haven of Waltham, and had a son David Haven. Mar. 2nd. Wm. Stone who adopted David Haven and gave him the name of David Haven Stone. Esther mar. 3rd. John Todd: mar. 4th. Robt. McIntyre. Esther died of cancer of the throat and neck and was buried in Charlton,Mass. Continued.#2. continued. ABRAHAM BROWNE - ABRAHAM GALE - OF WATERTOWN, MASS. #6. DAVID HAVEN STONE, son of Esther Gale and Abraham (?) Haven, later adapted by Wm. Stone, his mother's second husband, was born Dec. 6, 1750; died Dec. 9, 1827: mar. July 25, 1776 to Sarah Treadwell of Waltham, born June 21 1751; died Feb. 25, 1837. Children of Sarah Treadwell and David Haven Stone: 1. David Stone, b. Apr. 6, 1777; died Aug. 29, 1828. 2. Joseph Stone, b. Aug. 24, 1780; died Feb. 21, 1862. 3. SARAH STONE, b. Nov. 13, 1783; died July 18, 1851. 4. Anna Stone, b. Oct. 27, 1787; died Sept. 15, 1857. 5. Jeremiah Stone, b. Mar. 21, 1791; died Feb. 7, 1867. SARAH STONE, daughter of Sarah Treadwell and David Haven Stone, born Nov. 13, 1783; died July 18, 1851; mar. Apr. 22, 1804 at Oxford, Mass., Capt. Stephen Barton, son of Dorothy Moore and Dr. Stephen Barton. He was born Aug, 18, 1774 and died Mar. 21, 1862. Children of Sarah Stone and Capt. Stephen Barton: 1. Dorothy Barton, b. Oct. 2, 1804; d. Apr. 19, 1846. 2. Stephen Barton, b. Mar. 29, 1806; d. Mar. 10, 1865. 3. DAVID BARTON, b. Aug. 15, 1808; d. Mar. 12, 1888. 4. Sarah Barton, b. Mar. 20, 1811; d. May 24, 1874. 5. Clarissa Harlow Barton, b. Dec, 25, 1821; d. Apr. 12, 1912. (Clara Barton of Red Cross fame) DAVID BARTON, son of Sarah Stone and Capt. Stephen Barton, b. Aug. 15, 1808; d. Mar. 12, 1888; mar. Sept. 30, 1839, his cousin Julia Ann Maria Porter, of Vienna, Maine, who was born Jan. 23, 1814; died July 14, 1899. Children of Julia Ann Maria Porter and David Barton: 1. Ada Idelia Barton, twin, b. Jan. 18, 1974; d. Feb. 17, 1930. 2. Ida Adelia Barton, twin, b. Jan. 18, 1974; d. Jan. 26, 1911. 3. Stephen Emory Barton, b. Dec 24, 1848; d. Jan. 17, 1929. 4. Mary Anna Barton, b. Dec. 11, 1851; d. Jan. 20, 1929. IDA ADELIA BARTON, daughter of Julia Ann Maria Porter and David Barton, b. Jan. 18, 1847; d. Jan. 26, 1911; mar. Mar. 22, 1879, Gustar Adolph Julius Riccius, Millbury, Mass. b. Mar. 18, 1841; d. July 6, 1891. Children: 1. Edith Julia Riccius, 2. Hermann Porter Riccius, 3. Saidee Frances Riccius, 4. Walter Harold Riccius, Friday Jan, 21, 49. Sarah dearest: Gosh, but it is cold today and it seems odd to have it so, as it has been so nice and warm all along. Guess it must have been near zero last night but got up as far as 15 above around noon and has stayed there all day but is getting colder again this afternoon. Thanks so much for the new batch of papers you have sent. I cannot recall how many of them I have thanked you for, but think I wrote you about at least one batch that came and also the snap shots, and now will acknowledge the rest you have sent. Very interesting indeed and I have filed away the Moore data and Barton papers and have the snap shots all sorted out to attach to my papers when I get them out and find the right places for them to go. This afternoon I have not felt too good but have been trying to dope out the Gale family and am sending you the result. All more or less guess work, but perhaps the way I have doped it out may be the way Richard Gale fits into the picture. Surely if he were born in 1640 he couldn't have had a son in 1643, so I assume he was in Watertown in 1640 and not born then. Some day I will run into the Library and see if I can find any Gales or Havens (Havens especially,) in Lynn. Maude and I searched thru Waltham, Watertown, Wrentham, Needham, Natick, Framingham, and God knows what other towns, trying to find a David Haven who had married an Esther Gale, but we couldn't find a trace. I did find an Abraham Haven who had married an Esther Gale,so thought perhaps I had been looking under the wrong name (David) for her husband. I suppose I thought her husband must have been a David because her son was so named. So next time I will search under Abraham and see if I can dig up something. None of the Gale history ever mentioned the man Esther had married and I have been going on the history and notes that Vira Stone left and which you sent me a long time ago. The Gales, Havens and Polly Sargent families seem very elusive. I always have so much to look up when I go to the library I do not have half time enough to get it all done. I gave Minnie the copies you sent her and thought she would be bewildred over the Haven and Gale lines as they are not ones she would be familiar with in any way as they come down on the Sarah Stone Barton side and are not in any direct line of the Barton family that Minnie would know. So I called her up and explained it to her and sure enough, she did not know anything about them, andhaving no history of Oxford could not look them up/ So I wrote out a little explanation of how they fitted into our line and she seemed glad to have it. She is glad to have the Moore line as she searches for a clue to her grandmother's family, who were Moores, just as we do for the Havens and Gales, etc. and never seems to find much to go on. There is an Elizabeth Moore in the papers you sent which she thinks may be one of her line and so she is pleased to have another lead. I have copied some of the Gale and Haven stuff for Joyce as she seems anxious to have data on all the lines. I think she has a whole lot of it somewhere among her mother's things for I sent Myrtis a lot of papers from time to time, but guess Joyce hasn't come across it yet. So much for that, and thanks a million for all the papers you sent. And thanks for the Magazine, too, which has just come. Well, Geord has just come back from taking old Spotty out for a walk and so I will get some supper now. The kids are cutting brush down near their garden and the roadside looks so much better now. If only the Whittiers would cut their brambles, but they never will, of course. Joyce has Gertrude Rayner with her. Dwight says they talk 14 hrs. on a stretch. Love, Sis.Esther GALE Stone North Oxford, Sunday evening, 11 o'clock, 15 min. January 12th, 1862. I am sitting before the stove, with my feet on the hearth, with my writing on the table by my side, and Father sick in bed in his bedroom joining the kitchen, telling me what to write. - "My great-grandmother Stone's maiden name was Esther Gale. (The Gales), one of three sisters of a good family whose native town was Waltham, Mass., and who married and 'came into the country'. vis; to Oxford and Ward, (now Auburn) Mass., to live. Her second husband was an Englishman named William Stone, who lived and died with Grandfather David Stone, (son of Esther Gale) on his farm in the N.W. part of Oxford. David was her only child. Her 3rd husband's name was John Todd, who was a widower with two children, John and Jannie. He was from Newburyport. He owned and lived and died on the Stephen Savery place (in Ward) now Auburn. Great-grandmother Todd after his death went to live with her son David, (my grandfather, and there married her fourth husband Robert McIntire of Chalton, Mass. She died while his wife and was buried in the middle of the town of Charlton. Her disease was cancer on the face and neck. She died in 1806 or 7. One of Esther's sisters Polly (Lois) (father thinks the name was) married Joseph Savery, Grandfather to Stephen, and the other sister, (father has forgotten her name (Rachel)), married a man named William Lackey of Sutton, Mass." Finished writing the above 11 o'clock, 15 min. Martha Elvira Stone. Grandfather STONES children. Captain David Stone, born 6th April, 1777 and died 29th August 1828, and married Betsey Hall from Sutton, Mass., April 1st, 1808. They had 5 children,- Betsey, born Dec. 31, 1808, who married Danforth Brown of Oxford (her cousin) in Jan. 1829, (left one daughter Elizabeth, born April 13, 1834) and died Dec. 3, 1839. David, born June 21, 1810, he married Parsis Earror of Princeton April 1836. She died March 30, 1851. She had 4 children, viz. Albert D.born Oct. 24,1837 Lucella W. b. Nov. 24,1839. Emory F. born Oct. 18,1841 Mary Elizabeth, b. June 3, 1846 Jeremiah, born 12th March 1812, and married Zurilla Hawes in Sept. 1834. They had 4 children, viz.- Alfred Henery, b Dec. 19, 1834 Charles, b April 4, 1837 Sarah, b. March 3, 1839 Emma, b. Nov. 19, 1840. Jeremiah died in Addison, N.Y. on Oct. 13, 1842. Abigail, born 19th Sept. 1814, who married Philander Pond March 28th, 1850, had one daughter,- Carrie Marcia, born Oct. 5,1854, died in Sur Prairie, Wis. 20th, Jan. 1860. Mary, born Jany. 19, 1818, unmarried in 1860. Gt. Grandfather's second child Joseph, born Aug. 24, 1780, his third child Sarah, born 13th Nov. 1783 and died 18th July, 1851. She married Capt. Stephen Barton 21st April 1804 and had 4 children,- Dolly, born 2nd Oct. 1804, died unmarried 1846. Stephen, Jr. b. 29th Mch. 1806, who married Betsey Rich, Nov. 1833 and have one son Samuel R. born May 1839. David, born Aug. 15, 1808, who married Julia A. Porter from Vienna, Ma.Sept. 30, 1839. They have 4 children, viz. Ada I. and Ida A, twins. Emory Stephen Mary Sarah. born March 20, 1811, married Vester Vassall, [???] April 1834, had two children, viz,- Bernard B, born 10 Oct. 1835 Irving S., b. 16 Aug. 1840. Clarissa H. born Dec. 25, 1821, unmarried in 1860.[Treadwell] David Stone & Sarah Treadwell.- also Esther Gale [*Capt.*] "David Stone of Oxford, and Sarah Treadwell of Sutton were married by Ebenexer Learned*, "Justice of the Peace" July 25th, 1776." * Gen. Ebenezer Learned of Revolutionary Memory. When they want to be married Grandmother rode on a pillion behind Grandfather to the General's house, about a mile north from here. My paternal Grandfather was born December 6th, 1750, and died December 9th, 1827, aged 77 years, 3 days. His name David Stone. My paternal Grandmother was born June 21st, 1750, and died February 25th, 1837, aged 86, 8 months, 4 days. Her name Sarah Treadwell. My great-grandmother Stone's maiden name was Esther Gale, a native of Waltham, Mass. (Her first husband was .... Haven.) Her second husband's name was William Stone, her 3rd (m. intentions Sept. 2, 1780) John Todd who owned the farm in Auburn where Stephen Severy lived,- her 4th husband Robert McIntyre of Charlton. (m. intentions Apr. 27, 1799 She died while yet his wife and was buried in Charlton, middle of the town. Her disease was cancer on her mouth and neck. Grandfather Stone's wife. Sarah Treadwell was born in Rowley, Mass, her father, Joseph Treadwell, died in the army of the Old French War near Nova Scotia, Chignecto 1755 (at Menas). Her mother's name was Sarah Hammond. There were three children,- Mary who married a man by the name of Tryal Sarah, my grandmother Joseph, her only son who died when he was 24 years old. Joseph had two sons;- Joseph Benjamin Captain Ames Parsons married Hannah Hammond, sister to Sarah Hammond, and after my great grandfather (Joseph Treadwell) died, he took grandmother and brought her up in Newburyport. He was a sea Captain.Mass Man [?] 311 Elvira Stone's Diary continued. "Originally written in 1835." "To view the spot, which nature in her wildest moments Had formed to human eye so wildly beautiful, That the far stranger from a foreign land sought it As a voluntary exile's home, was not my lot to see, But at that distant period, when the stranger, and His sons slept in their graves, and cultivations track Discovered the abundant harvest which promised To reward the laborors toil:- when the primitive Covering of the "Rocky Hills" which begirt it round Had supplied for fuel, or crumbled into atoms, And the tender undergrowth had succeeded it, and Followed, and yet another crowned those hills, which Were, and shall be to eternity.- That gently meandering stream the "French", which owes The exile for its name- like the willow winding its Waters through new channels, cut by man for pleasure, Or convenience, its sparkling waters, now glistening In the sun, now hid behind the Alders, which vainly Aspire to rival the majestic oak, which once Skirted its borders, and served as covert, and a Shade, to the noble, generous, ruthless savage, that Whooped, and shouted, till the opposite hills gave Back their echo,- resembling most the artillery Of Heaven. I love its waters for on its banks From childhood's earliest hour I played; and Memory never tires while lingering On the joys, so full, so perfect, they now appearISAAC and EBENEZER LEARNED. *From Daniel's "History of Oxford, p 574 under Abial Lam[b]- "The Essex Gazette (Sala[?]) of 23 July, 1771, has the following;- 'Died at Oxford, Hannah Lamb, widow of the late Abial Lamb, aged 94 years. She was the mother of the first English child born in that town.' We find upon examination of the records of the History of Oxford, Mass., that two of the most prominent names among thirty families who constituted the permanent settlers of the town are Isaac & Ebenezer Learned, two of the three brothers who emigrated from Framingham,Mass. In 1713. William the third brother settled in Thompson, Ct., something like 12 or 15 miles from Oxford. They were among the many sons of Isaac Learned the second, and his wife Sarah Bigslow Learned, Ebenezer being the sixth child of the family. Isaac, the elder of the two, being 10 years his senior, brought with him his wife, Sarah Howe Learned and three children, to which eight more sons and daughters were afterward born. Ebenezer the younger, being only 24 years old, came with his young wife Deborah Haynes Learned, and their eldest child Dorothy was their first or fourth child born in the settlement. From the time of their arrival in Oxford we find the name Learned identified with everything that tended to promote the growth and prosperity of the infant colony. They proved themselves to be men of large and liberal minds, clear sighted, far-seeing and spent freely of their abundant means for those days for all necessary public works as the church and town records show. The first mention of their names on record was the division of the proprietors' lands, which were drawn by lot January 18, 1714, to each man of the thirty families thirty acres for his house lot. Isaac Learned drew lot No. 5, which was in the extreme south-east corner of the township, adjoining the Peter Shumway lot, about one mile south-east from Oxford Plain. That of Ebenezer Learned was No. 19, about four miles north of Isaac, in what is now known as North Oxford. The house that he then built, with an addition to it some years later when the size of the family required it, is a large mansion house and still in good habitable condition. The few first years of his living in it it was picketed in to defend it from the hostility of the Indians. There his nine children, deven daughters and two sons, were born, two of whom died just at the opening of womanhood. From there all the rest of them/married in the early years of life. There he and his wife lived and died, succeeded by three generations. Isaac's dwelling was less pretentious, but it we may judge from the present appearances of its surroundings, it was a comfortable home. We next find the names of the brothers Isaac and Ebenezer on the church record formed according to the Congregational usage. Isaac Learned and wife, Ebenezer Learned and wife were four of the thirty- two members composing the first established church in Oxford, which was formed in the summer of 1780, under the pastorate of Rev. John Campbell, the first ordained preacher in Oxford. There had been preaching in the years previous, but no established church. As the town increased in numbers, a larger meeting house was required and more centrally located to accommodate the scattered population. A spot was chosen a mile north of the one they then worshipped in. Ebenezer Learned gave the land on which to build it, which was in 1748. Although the meeting house was but partially finished, the town voted to have preaching in this the fourth Sabbath in July. It was not finished until 1752, when the town voted to accept the report of the committee appointed to dignify and appraise the pews. "It is believed that the term dignify as here used, was to give the preference to the selection of pews to those whose heads of families most noted in public affairs, and for their liberality in providing the means for the 2 Learned. erection of the new house and the support of public worship." It was also voted "that those who are highest in the rates of their real estate towards building our meeting house in Oxford proceed to draw their pews." I make this quotation and give the following names to show the relative standing and influence of Isaac and Ebenezer Learned and their descendants at that time within town and church. The names of the pew proprietors and the valuation of pews stands as follows:- Pew No. L s d Col. Eb'r Learned 3 52 16 00 Dea. Sam'l. Davis 18 44 00 00 father of Saml.&Ed.Davis Widow Elizabeth Mayo 14 45 15 4 (named below. Capt. Elijah Moore 8 51 10 00 Son-in-law of Col. Eber.Learned. Rev. John Campbell 13 46 12 11 Lt. Samuel Davis 1 52 16 00 Son-in-law of Col .Eb'r Learned. Jonas Pratt 17 39 11 3 Edward Davis 2 51 18 00 " " " " " " John Kingsley 6 41 16 6 Jonathan Pratt, Jr. 19 28 3 3 Duncan Campbell 5 48 8 1 William Davis 22 22 17 2 Son-in-law of Isaac Learned Ebenezer Coburn 20 24 13 4 Ebenezer Humphrey 9 48 8 1 Isaac Learned 10 22 17 2 Joseph Phillips 11 39 11 3 Dea. Jonathan Town 12 40 8 10 John Learned 16 22 17 2 Son of Isaac Learned Lt. Thomas Gleason 23 23 17 2 Thomas Davis 24 23 17 2 We next find the brothers Isaac and Ebenezer acquiring military and civil distinction in town. The military records of Oxford appear to have been imperfectly kept, but as early as Nov. 18, 1725 we find Ebenezer's name as Capt. Ebenezer Learned in a deed of land purchased by him of Benjamin Eddy of 12 acres on Prospect Hill, which would be less than a mile from his home, and he was still Captain on another deed bearing date of April 8, 1738 of land purchased jointly with Dea. Samuel Davis, containing by estimation 40 acres, situated near Oxford village. In September 1752, at the appraising and dignifying the pews in the meeting house, his name is recorded as Col. Ebenezer Learned. He did not rise above the rank of Colonel for one finds on his tombstone, "Here lies the remains of Col. Eb'r. Learned died March 14th, 1772, aged 82." He was a Justice of the Peace for many years. In the record of the civil history of the town we find in the list of Town clerks the name of Isaac Learned for the years 1732, 1735, 1736, 1737, 1738, five years. As intelligence, enterprise and wealth give distinction, we may presume that Col. Learned's influence was not limited to home duties,- His enterprise, inferred from the fact that at the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, men in town. His will bearing date of Sept. 9th, 1767, enumerates over 1000 acres of land to be divided between his two sons, Ebenezer and Jeremiah, independent of the homestead,- that contained 1000 acres which was given to the youngest son Jeremiah, the conditions of which were that he maintain his mother, Deborah Haynes Learned, and his black man Mingo, to3 Learned. wait upon her during their natural lives out of my estate in sickness and in health, he finding everything necessary and convenient for his mother according to her rank and circumstances, and at her death to pay all necessary funeral charges, as also Mingo's according to her rank and circumstances, was very significant, for she was a woman tradition hands down [??] superior among women, and bore the distinguished appellation which no other woman did, of "Madam Learned," As "my man Mingo" for many years was a part of the property and family of Col. Ebenezer Learned, we must not pass him by without some notice. He was an intelligent, native African, tradition says a chief in his own country. He was also dumb, or successfully feigned himself so. Till within little more than a generation, Mingo's shoes, which were the largest size, were kept stored in the shoe cupboard of the hired help under the garret stairs in the Col. Ebenezer Learned mansion house. And Mingo's spoon, which was of copper, was also preserved and Mingo's block that he sat on in the corner of the huge fire place in the old "west room" which Madam Learned occupied as her living room after her husband's death, was for years preserved. Tradition hands down one anecdote of him which goes to show the Colonel's and his families Sunday habits. (I copy from original diary of Elvira Stone as the above was unfinished.) S.F.Riccius Dec. 14, 1934.) Mingo Col. Ebenezer Learned, my great grand father owned a Negro named Mingo, who is named in his will. Mingo was a native African, and was either dumb or feigned himself so, but was bright and intelligent and always succeeded in making himself understood by signs and gesticulations. An instance of this,- One Sabbath, the Colonel and all his family were away at church. During the time the wild son of the minister, Priest Campbell, went into the house and found no one there but Mingo. He broke open the desk and took from it a large sum of money for those times, depending upon the speechless Mingo's inability to betray him. When Col. Learned returned from meeting, Mingo at once began to inform him of his loss by going to the desk and making signs to explain, but not succeeding he took a stand and placed the Bible on it, opened it, and after putting some white bands upon his neck, kneeled down in the attitude of prayed. Then getting up he began to gesticulate as if preaching, then he pounded the Bible as he had seen the minister do when excited and all so like the Parson Campbell that the purloiner was at once revealed. /over Biographical Sketch of General Ebenezer Learned. Ebenezer Learned was the 7th child and eldest son of Col. Ebenezer and Deborah Haynes Learned. He was born in Oxford, Mass., April 18, 1728. Married to Miss Jerusha Baker of Oxford, Oct. 5, 1749, by Richard Moore, Esq., Justice of the Peace. Their children were:- Ebenezer born July 3, 1750 Dorothy " Oct. 24, 1751 Deborah " Mch. 28, 1755 Haynes " Sept.20, 1757 Sylvanus " May 30, 1760 Joel born April 3, 1762 Abisha " Feby. 4, 1765 David " " 14, 1767 Jerusha " July 3, 1769 Rufus " June 10, 1772 The life of Ebenezer Learned was marked by two separate, distinct characters,- viz. Military and Civil, in both of which his name stands prominent on the records of his town and country. We first find it recorded of him that "he was a Captain of Rangers in the Old French War from 1764 to 1763. He was at Fort Edward when Fort William Henry was beleaguered, and marched, with his company to its relief,taking on himself the responsibility of the act although without orders." (1) We next find his name upon the list of Revolutionary Heroes as Colonel of a Regiment, the 3d of sught men. He marched to Cambridge reporting himself the day after the battle of Lexington with Colonels Prescott and Warren. Was in command at the battle of Bunker Hill June 17 1775, and when the British evacuated Boston Marhh 17, 1776, he with his own hands unbarred the gates for the American troops to march through into Boston. He received an injury in the war at Dorchester, Mass., which for a time disabled him, and he retired from the service. (2) Later we find the record "Learned, Ebenezer, a Brigadier General in the War of the Revolution, appointed by Congress April 1777. He commanded a Brigade in the battles at Saratoga 1777, and was distinguished in the military manoeuvers which preceded, and in the capture of Burgoyne's army, and its surrender to Gen. Gates. He with Colonel Brooks stormed the British encampment of the Germans and carried it. (3) He was the first man who entered the breach made in the Fort and Stillwater, riding in on his famous war horse, "Spanking Fury", as the soldiers named it. (4) Such was the confidence of his men that they followed wherever he led, and when entering the breach made in the wall of the Fort they lifted him in on his horse over the wounded and dead. Mr. Abijah Lamb, a highly intelligent man who was in the battle with General Learned, said of him- "He was the bravest man on the field of battle I ever saw, and when he led his brigade on the field, he was dressed not in Stars and Straps, but as a common soldier, wearing an insignia upon his breast known to the command only. He felt in such a cause his life was too precious for him to deck himself for British bullets,- prompted not by fear, but a wise forethought, for he was dauntless and brave, and, as Lamb said,"could you have seen him in the flight you would have known that he knew what fear was." From ill health, the result of previous disabilities, he from this time retired from the service. From a letter "From the Department of the Interior-Pension Office-Washington, D.C., December 17, 1875. I make the following extract. "In reply to your inquiry relative to General Ebenezer Learned, you are informed that he was an invalid pensioner forThe minister was not of course the thief, but the Colonel at once recalled the fact that the son was not at church, and made known to Mingo who was overjoyed that he was understood. This money was restored to the Colonel. " 2 disabilities received while holding the rank of Colonel. His death is recorded as having taken place April 1, 1801. He was not entitled to Bounty land as he left the service before the close of the war. (5) Those who were personally acquainted with General Learned have described him to the writer of these pages as a man of large frame, over six feet in height, erect, standing so that every inch of his height showed itself,-weighing over 200 lbs., of a fair complexion with dark blue eyes, and of stately, dignified, commanding mien, as on born for the times in which he lived, and acted,and proverbially wore a smile upon his face. To show the high respect, veneration, and awe with which General Learned was regarded by his townsmen and acquaintances, the following reminiscences selected from others are here given. The first years of his married life were spent on a farm he owned about one mile north from his father's, Col. Ebenezer Learned, his dwelling house being situated on the brow of the Prospect Hill Range, on the old road to Worcester, now known as the Silas Turner farm, and there his family lived during his absence in the war of the Revolution. On his return home from the Northern Army he built a fine, large, two story mansion house, something like three fourths of a mile south-west from his residence on "Prospect Hill" on land that he owned on the Leicester Road, and there in his own peaceful home in the quiet retirement of civil life he spent his last years surrounded by his family and friends, most highly respected by the community around him. At the raising of this new house, which in the thinly populated towns of that date was a great event, the neighbors, and townspeople generally were present. After the heavy oak timbered frame was up, the General treated, as was then the custom. When Mr. James Butler, a prominent merchant living near Oxford Plain, raised his glass to drink, he toasted, "May this house rot down: at which the people were indignant and refused to drink the toast. "What would you have, gentlemen?" said he, "Would you have it burned by fire, or destroyed by lightning, wind or flood? I repeat it. 'May this house rot down!" It at once showed the tone of public sentiment. The toast was then drunk with great glee. Now, after a lapse of three quarters of a century, this fine substantial dwelling which has been owned and occupied by four successive generations of the General's descendants, to all appearances, from the excellent repair in which it has been kept, shows no signs of the decay to which Mr. Butler alluded. Mr. Artemus Merriam used to relate that General Learned once came to his father's to buy apples when he was a boy, and he was so frightened at his commanding appearance and dignified manner, together with the stories he had heard soldiers tell of his military bravery, and deeds of daring in the war, that he ran into the barn and hid from the fear he felt. We find the following biographical incident in the General's life related by Miss Sarah Treadwell. (6) General Learned and the Rev. Joseph Bowman who was the 2d minister in the town of Oxford, were on terms of intimate friendship and correspondence, as letters now extant show, during the War of the Revolution. One Sabbath, Mr. Bowman exchanged pulpits with the minister in Sutton, and adjoining town. Miss Treadwell, a young lady, was present, sitting near an open window. Her attention was arrested by the stamping of a horse, and some one tapping on the glass with a riding whip. On looking up there sat an officer in full uniform. "Young woman," said he,"will you tell priest Bowman that Colonel Learned would like to speak with him?" She informed some gentleman who told Mr. Bowman, whereupon he went down from the pulpit and out to meet the Colonel. It was3. evidently business of importance, for a man of the character of Colonel Learned to ride 10 or 12 miles and call a minister from the meeting house during service. Miss Treadwell used to tell of the awe his presence inspired her with from his noble manner, saying that she little thought then, that General Learned would in a few months perform her marriage ceremony as he did. In April 1872, a very aged man, Mr. Ames Merriam, was going from his home in Millbury to that of his childhood and warly manhood on a visit, passing the General Learned house, he called at the door. He spoke of the change in the village, and of the face of nature there, with forests levelled, roads out, buildings erected, saying that the old well and that house were all that remained as when he left his youthful home, then of the days of General Learned, and dwelt upon his life, heroism and death, described how he impressed him when a bot, and the wonder, and awe he always felt in his presence. He should never forget the day of his funeral, when everything was so bright, and fresh. This green grass around here looked so like velvet, and as I looked at him as he lay so quiet in his coffin I asked myself, can this be all that is left of this great man, and here the end? And when the sexton, old Miller Lamb, as was then the custom, nailed up the coffin, Oh! how the driving of those nails hurt me! I felt every blow! and kept asking myself, "Will General Learned submit?" It seemed somehow an outrage, the, to me, cool indifference. The flower of General Learned's manhood was spent in the wars in the defence of his country. He was a brave soldier and patriot, a loved and honored man. His riper, and later life was devoted to the service of his native town and state. We first find his name as an officer under the Crown, commissioned by King George LII to weigh the gold, and silver bullion of the English government in this country, and the scales he used are still preserved as an heirloom in the families of his descendants. There is perhaps not another signature more frequently found on the records of Oxford than that of Ebenezer Learned, Justice of the Peace. At a meeting of Freeholders, and other inhabitants of the town of Oxford assembled on the 29th of September 1774, it was voted that Doctor Alexander Campbell and Captain Ebenezer Learned attend the Provincial Congress at Concord on the second Tuesday of October next or at any other town in the Province that shall be agreed upon. We find it recorded that the town in the Province that shall be agreed upon. We find it recorded that the town of Oxford was represented at the General Court for the year 1774 by Capt. Ebenezer Learned. That was when the differences were ripening between the Colonies and the mother country. In 1779 we find his name as Chairman of the Constitutional Convention with his associate Esra Bowman which met at Cambridge to aid in forming a Constitution of Government for the State. In the history of the town of Livermore, Ms. (7) we find that General Ebenezer Learned, a native of Oxford, Mass. and Officer in the Revolutionary War was one of the original proprietors of that town. "That at a meeting in Waltham, Mass., June 17, 1772, Elijah Livermore, Capt. Ebenezer Learned in Richard Woodward were chosen a committee to run the line around the township of Livermore, and divide it into 61 lets and upon two of these lots several years later General Ebenezer Learned settled two of his sons, Haynes and David. We afterwards find his name on another committee to lay out a read to Winthrop, a town joining Livermore, The married life of General Learned is represented to us as having been one of remarkable harmony and unity of feeling in all that pertained to their domestic relations, and yet two more dissimilar characters were seldom united in matrimony. It was a marriage consumated in their 4. early youth, and one of Cupid's unaccountable freaks. He, thoughtful, taciturn, dignified, commanding. She of a spirited turn of mind, gay, lively, vivacious, full of mirth and song; said to be equally capable of talking sense as well as nonsense, two rare qualifications to be united in one person. The General would sit quietly by, a silent looker-on of his wife's mirthful gaiety without participating in it, and all the wild pranks of their descendants are traced directly back to "Baker blood." For fifty years nearly their lives ran in the same channel. We first find her death recorded on the records of Oxford thus;- "Lady Jerusha Learned, consort of General Ebenezer Learned, Esq., deceased February 22nd, 1799, aged 67 years," and two years later we find the record of hid death entered in a bold, clear open hand as that of John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence, thus- "General Ebenezer Learned, Esquire, deceased April 1, 1801, aged 73 yrs." Their remains are laid very near his Father's, Col. Ebenezer Learned, in the old burying ground on Oxford Plain. Marginal notes; (1) From Biog. Dict'y. of Samuel Jennison, Esq. (2) " " " " " (3) Silleman's Historical sketches. (4) This horse, bridle and saddle the General took home with him to Oxford. (5) My father, Lt. Joseph Stone, and Mr. Ebenezer Clark. I find on the Oxford Records that the town was represented 1783 by General Ebenezer Learned. (6) Sarah Treadwell was my Grandmother Stone. She was married July 25,1776 The early home of Mr. Amos and Artemus Merriam was 3/6 of a mile from that of General Learned. (7) Until 1829 Maine was a part of Mass., known as the District of Maine. The town of Livermore was named after Elijah Livermore, one of the original settlers, and the County of Oxford in which it is situated General Learned named after the place of his birth. May 1, 1800 we find the record of the publishment of General Ebenezer Learned to Miss Eliphal Putnam of Worcester, as his widow she survived him. (Elvira Stone furnished the material for this sketch, but whether she wrote the sketch in collaboration with kinsmenI am not sure.S.F.R.Biographical Sketches of the children of General Ebenezer Learned. Ebenezer, born July 3, 1750 (died in early infancy) see p. 589 Ox. History. He was lost at sea at about the age of 21. Dorothy, or Dolly, as she was generally called, married to James Hill of Douglas, Mass. February 16, 1769 by Rec. Hoseph Bowman. Their children were;- James, who married Betsey Kingsbury of Oxford. They had four children, - James - Olive -- Eliza- and another son. Barnabas, who married Lucy, sister to Jame's wife. He was drowned while fishing through the ice about 1828 or 9. Jerusha, who married Anthony Butler of Hardwick December 29, 1790. They were married by her grandfather, Gen. Ebenezer Learned, Justice of the Peace. She was married in the new house that General Learned built after the Revolution. She died after about six years and her widowed husband married her sister. Deborah, her uncle Sylvannus Learned performing the ceremony February 20, 1797. A daughter of Jerusha, Hannah Butler, was brought up in Oxford at her Grandfather's. Mr. James Butler's, who lived near the Old Common. She once said that she had been told that her great grandfather General Learned had a large foot and hand, and that when going over his lands she had often looked to see if she could find his footprints in the soil. She married Capt. Stearns DeWitt, a descendant Oxford. They had three children;- Mary, who married Franklin Freeland of Sutton. Elizabeth, who died unmarried Third child died in early infancy. Bethiah, who married Mark Dodge of Dudley, Nov. 19, 1789, her grandfather, General Ebenezer Learned, Justice of the Peace, performing the ceremony. She had but one child, Susannah, born March 1792, married Josiah Moulton, Stafford, Conn., and had 11 children, viz.- Mark born 1811 John " 1813 Elizabeth Foskett, born 1815 James born 1817 Othniel " 1819 Josiah " 1821, d. in Boyleton,Jan.29,1878 Bethiah H. " 1823, m. ...Brown, died June 22, 1868, aged 25 David D. " 1825, m. ...West, d.in Ox.June 8, 1862 (aged 38 Susan " 1827 George " 1829 Rufus " 1831 Triphone, who married Abel Davis Dorothy, " " David Freeman, There may have been more of the Dolly Hill children than these 7. Biographical Sketch of Captain Jeremiah Learned of Oxford. Jeremiah Learned was the 2nd son and youngest, 9th child , of Colonel Ebenezer and Deborah Haynes Learned. He was born in Oxford, Mass., January 12, 1733, married to Miss Elizabeth Hunt of Littleton, Mass., December 21, 1756 by Rev. Daniel Rogers. (1) Their children:- 1. Jeremiah b. Oct. 29, 1757 2. Benjamin " " 6, 1759 3. Elizabeth " June 14, 1762 4. Martha " Aug. 13, 1764 died unmarried Oct. 24, 1785. 5 Jonathan b. Nov. 9, 1766 6 Ebenezer " June 17, 1769 d. Dec. 17, 1769, aged 6 mos. 7 Mary, b, Dec. 24, 1770. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Learned died May 10, 1784. Martha, their daughter b. Aug. 13, 1764, died Dec. 17, 1769. Ebenezer their son, b. June 17, 1769, died Dec. 17, 1769. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Learned's name is handed down to us as a type of amiability and refinement, intelligent, independent, and a model wife and mother. Martha, her deceased daughter, was the betrothed wife, so tradition says, to Capt. Joseph Atwood, Esq., who afterward married Martha's youngest sister Mary. (1) We find on the Oxford records the date of the intentions of marriage between Jeremiah Learned and Elizabeth Hunt of Littleton, Oct. 30, 1756 and the date of their marriage December 21, 1756 on the records of Littleton, the date of her birth April 3, 1735. His 2nd wife was, Mrs. Mary Green, widow of Dr. Green of Thompson, Ct.She lived but a few years, dying without issue. She was a midwife by profession. Her services were extensively called for fifteen or twenty miles around. Her horse stood saddled and bridled at the hitching post by the side of her special horse block ready to mount at short notice. She was evidently well-todo in worldly goods when she married Capt. Learned, as heavy silver spoons, large and small, large mirror and good furniture, all marked with her initials, show. His 3rd wife was, Miss Dorothy Barton (2) who was born in Windsor, Ms., and the daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton. They were married in Oxford Oct. 7, 1792 by Gen. Ebenezer Learned, Justice of the Peace. Their children:- 8. Martha b. April 26, 1795 9. Jeremiah " " 10, 1795 10. Ebenezer b. January 17, 1797. 11. Stephen b. June 28, 1799. Mrs. Dorothy Barton Learned died July 14, 1799. She is represented as a tender, careful mother. Her married life was short. Dying young, her character was scarcely moulded to show the type of womanhood she would have represented had she lived to a greater age. (2) Mrs. Dorothy Learned was above the medium size, a clear brunette with dark curling hair, her four children were tall, the three sons complexioned like herself, the daughter fair.2- Capt. Jeremiah Learned. His 4th wife was Mrs. Esther Weaver, widow of Dr. Weaver of Thompson, Ct. She lived about 10 years after her marriage with Capt. Learned, dying without issue September 1811. (3) She was a woman of good natural abilities, but of an unreasonable, violent temper, so much so that when she had been drinking, to which she was somewhat addicted, personal restraint was necessary. (3) Her extremely violent temper is a well authenticated tradition in the family. ---------------------------- Jeremiah Learned, like his brother, General Ebenezer Learned was noted for both civil and military service in his town and state and country. We first find it recorded of him that he was an ensign, Lieutenant and Captain in a company of Rangers in the Old French War, and accompanied his brother Capt. Ebenezer Learned from 1756 to 1763 (4) was at Fort Edward and Fort William Henry. Unlike his brother during the Revolutionary War, he was a firm Loyalist, from the beginning maintaining his allegiance to his sovereign, and steadfastly adhering to his convictions of right to the close of the war. He looked upon the Whigs as Rebels against their King, and considered the War as unnatural. His opinion was at all times courteously, but firmly expressed. He took every suitable opportunity to dissuage his friends and neighbors from participation in the Rebellion, but he never shouldered a musket, or girded on a sword or piloted an expedition against the Republicans. Like very many others he was a passive, noble-minded man, and deserves our respect for his consistency and honesty of opinion. At the opening of the Revolutionary War he was suspected of loyalty and a Committee was chosen to wait on him and learn his sentiments. After hearing them through he replied, - "Gentlemen, what would you have me do? I am at this time holding four commissions under the crown of England, to which I have pledged my word sacredly to the fullfillment of the obligations they impose upon me. Would you have me perjure myself?" This ended that conference. Again he was called upon and an attempt made to intimidate him by threats. "If," said the Captain, "you injure my person or property, or in any way molest me I will inform the King, and he will send an army here and crush you." He was at this time about 42 years old. His wealth, intelligence and influence were so great among his fellow townsmen that he was let entirely alone through fear, and personal respect. If at that time he was found to adhere with fidelity to his pledge and his King, the subsequent record of his history in town and state shows that he was equally as to his country. (5) The following records of his military life are copied from records kept in Boston. 3 Capt. Jeremiah Learned. 1756 Captain Edward Davis* Ensign Jeremiah Learned Sargeant Jedediah Barton 1758 Capt. Edward Davis Lieut. Jeremiah Learned Sergeant Jedediah Barton 1761 2nd Oxford Company Jeremiah Learned Capt. Jedediah Barton, Lieut. John Town, Jr. Ensign 1771 Copied from records in Boston Jeremiah Learned was chosen State Assessor for town of Oxford. 1771 Also selected same year Capt. Jeremiah Learned. *Capt. Edward Davis Company marched for the relief of Fort William Henry went from Oxford. In this company we find the name of Jacob Cummings- a private-he was probably the husband of Capt. Jeremiah Learned's father's sister Martha Learned. We find upon the records of Oxford that the town was represented to the General Court by Capt. Jeremiah Learned for the years 1772 and 1773 than for the years 1784 to 1793 inclusive-10 years;- in all 12 years. The state election at that time was the last Wednesday in May- which consequently caused the Legislative session to be held in the busiest season of the year for Capt. Learned. Yet, notwithstanding his absence for all these years during the summer months, when his personal supervision seemed so essential to the successful management of his large farm, nothing appears to have been neglected which served to make it one of the most thoroughly cultivated farms in town, as the lapse of from 75 to a hundred years gives evidence. Ditches can be traced from half to a mile in length which served to water the extensive intervals lands above the rich meadows laying on either side of "Stony River", as it was at first called, but French River now, which runs through the entire length of the farm. Fences then built, half stone wall, half rail, are to be seen standing, which have withstood the wear of time for three generations. (6) This farm fell to Capt. "Jeremy" Learned, as he was familiarly called by his friends, by legacy from his father. It was estimated to contain one thousand acres, laying mainly in the valley between the two ranges of hills, "Prospect" on the east, and "Rocky" on the West, in the north part of Oxford, about one mile south of that owned by his brother Gen. Ebenezer Learned. The dwelling house was built in the midst of a circle of eight or ten knolls from 45 or 50 to 100 ft. high terminating at the south an 1/8 of a mile from the house with "Peaked Hill", the largest of the group, a short distance below which was the "Flowed Swamp" and just across the river "Beaver Dam" (7), three celebrated localities on the farm. At the base of the knolls, between them and the house, is a natural pond of water always full in those days (8), containing perhaps 3/4 of an acre and coming up to within 25 feet of the north porch of the house. In personal appearance Capt. Jeremy Learned was tall, over six feet, not large, fair complexion, blue eyes. He had that air of resolute courage, and superior will, that make him seem a man somewhat alone. He was born to wealth and position, conservative in principle, which made him to many inapproachable. He was distinguished for his reasoning powers, strong in argument, and the "East Room" in the old mansion house was the resort of literacy men both laity and clergy, especially after he changed4- Capt. Jeremiah Learned. his religious views. In his later years he was somewhat troubled with the gout, but his general health good. His death was momentary, Sunday morning when dressing to attend church, he fell back and was caught by an attendant, laid upon his bed in the East room and was gone, June 14, 1812, aged 79, 5 mos., 2 days. He lies buried by the side of his father, Col. Ebenezer Learned on Oxford Plain. Marginal notes; - (4) From Biog. Dictionary of Samuel Jennison, Esq. (5) The ruling traits of character of the early menbers of the Learned family as we see it from our stand point were uprightness, firmness, almost amounting to obstinacy, resoluteness almost to daring. (6) For several of the last years of his life his horse was saddled and bridled at his request and hitched to his special horseblock and he rode over his farm giving directions to his help about the work. (7) "Beaver Dam" was a deep basin of water which was in the early times of the settlement the home of a family of beavers that constructed a dam across the stream just at the boundary limit between the intervals meadows. (8) There was a drain dug about 1825 to draw out the water to obtain mud for farm use, but it filled up again soon. During those days the out-door work was not all done by the fathers, husbands, brothers and sons, the wives and daughters considered their duty as their pleasure to work in the fields when necessary at such things as harvesting grain, husking corn, planting and digging potatoes, or helping make the potash or maple sugar. Out door work was no disparagement to the daughters of the rich, more than the poor. It was no injury to their standing in society. In the simplicity of their lives they did not undergo any privations or hardships in their labor that they felt to be such. They had an abundance all the substantials of life and they knew nothing of the superfluities, the want of which never cost them a regret. With the almost perfect health and strength that the constant exercise in the open air gave them, labor was to them their delight and their ambition. Sickness seldom cam to them. We can judge of this by the great length of life of the great proportion of the early members of the different families. By thus living they established for themselves by their industry and frugality habits and examples that laid a deep and permanent stability of character which gave the elevated tone to their position in society, then and in later years, which is so visible among their descendants to this day. Col. Jacob Davis was the son of Esq. Edward and Abigail Learned Davis. He with his three brothers . . . was settled by their father on portions of his Whately purchase in that part of Oxford afterwards set off forming the town of Charlton in 1754. In stature he was 6 ft. tall, broad shouldered, well proportioned, compactly built and of great physical powers. It is related of him that on clearing his farm in Montpelier, Vt. that he felled one acre of forest land in a day. In fact he was handsomely featured, and his whole appearance dignified and . He was a man of great enterprise and energy, with excellent judgment and farseeing sagacity. His name is perpetuated by being one of two founders of the well and widely known Leicester Academy in 1774, and he was emphatically the founder of 5- Capt. Jeremiah Learned. Montpelier, Vt. He married his cousin, Rebecca Davis, of Oxford in 1765. He was in the War of the Revolution, but how much he was in the active service is not known. Dr. Edward Lamb and his brother, Col. Learned Lamb, were sons of Samuel Lamb and Elizabeth Davis. They had six children;- 1. Mary 2. Learned 3. Edward 4. ? 5. Betsey 6. Joshua Removed to Montpelier, Vt. where they became permanent citizens and prominent men. Dr. Lamb was distinguished physician and excelled in his treatment of fevers. He was born in Leicester, Mass., 1771, died Nov. 4, 1854. Perley, Nathaniel and Hezekiah Davis, cousins of Dr. Edward and Col. Learned Lamb, and all of them nephews of Col. Jacob Davis, they being sones of his brother Nathaniel Davis, went with their Uncle Jacob Davis, or followed soon after, in the settlement of Montpelier, Vt. They were born in Oxford, Mass. Perley was born March 31, 1766 and received more than ordinary education for the times in the newly established Leicester Academy and was a professional surveyor and was eminently one of the leading men in Montpelier. He went through the different degrees of military rank till he was promoted to the prominent post of General. He died April 14, 1854, aged 82. He married Rebecca Peabody, and had 7 daughters. Nathaniel and Hezekiah settled on farms and became rich men in Montpelier.CAPT. DAVID STONE from Vira Stone's records. Grandpa David Stone, born December 6, 1750 was of a fair complexion, medium size, weight perhaps 175 or 180 lbs. His eldest son, David, Jr., much the same size and build and weight. Joseph, his second child, my father, tall, 6 feet 2 inches in height, weight in life's prime over 200 lbs., complexion fair like his father's. the most delicate, tender skin that would almost rub off: soft, fine hair and a natural mechanic. Standing erect, of a social, pleasing address and manner. SARAH TREADWELL Grandmother Sarah Treadwell Stone, born June 22, 1757, was of brun[n]ette complexion, tall, graceful, calm in manner and speech. Her two daughters, Sarah and Anna both had her complexion, but of more than medium height, and in the prime of life weighed 180 lbs. perhaps. Sarah was a fair brunette, and very handsome even in old age. Anna was a dark brunette, regular features, but not attractive in face like her sister Sarah. Jeremiah, 5th child and youngest son of Capt. David and Sarah Stone, was 6 ft. or more tall, weight 200 lbs. or more, a handsome, tall, deep brunette like his mother. The five eldest are buried in Oxford, three on Oxford Plain, and Sarah in North Oxford. Jeremiah buried in Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New York. He died Feb. 7, 1867. He left one child, Mrs. (Judge) Robert S. Hale, (Lavina), who died Jan. 28, 1897, aged 69 years. Eight children. Lavina was born May 22, 1827, and was the mother of four daughters, 1 Abba Laura, 2 Mary Eddy, 3 Elizabeth Nashty, 4 Maria Ellen, sons, Harry, a lawyer, others not named. [*See Bernard Vassalls original records given me by Aunt Fan Vassall S.F. Riccius*] Born Dec.6,1750 June 21,1751 Married July 25, 1776. (1) On Prospect Hill. (2) I don't know of whom the farm was bought or the exact date of purchase, but wish I did. FAMILY RECORD OF DAVID and SARAH TREADWELL STONE. (As prepared and written by Martha Elvira Stone) [*Capt.*] DAVID (Haven) STONE, in Waltham, Mass., died Dec.9,1827 SARAH TREADWELL, in Rawley,Mass. " Feb.25, 1837 They had both emigrated with their parents, he to No. Oxford, she to Sutton in early life. They were married July 25, 1776 by General Ebenezer Learned at his home where they rode on horseback, Sarah on a pillion behind her husband, dressed in a rich, heavy light colored silk with a large white, embroidered muslin apron to protect her dress. (I, Saidee F. Riccius, have pieces of the wedding dress and a dark blue China silk, kept in a quaint box all these years and passed down to the Sarah's' in the family. Cousin Anna Eddy Howe of Auburn gave it to me as the only Sarah in the family in 1911.) They first settled on a farm, half a mile from Gen. Learned's in (1) North Oxford, given to David by his step-father, where they lived about three years. This farm was exchanged for one (2) about two miles west of it in North Oxford, near the boundary line of Charlton, where their 4 youngest children were born, his eldest, David, having been born on the farm first owned on the extreme westerly part of what is now Auburn, on Prospect Hill. David Stone, Senior, was one of the heroesDavid and Sarah Stone, sheet 2. of the Revolution, having been in the battles in the Northern Army under the command of General Ebenezer Learned in 1777. In his later life he visited the battle fields he was engaged on with his sons and gave vivid descriptions and scenes and events that transpired there and then, especially at the surrender of Burgoyne. He owned a large, well cultivated farm and his death was the first that occurred in his household for 51 years. His eldest son, David, to whom he had made over his property for his own and wife's maintenance, died next about nine months after, when the Stone homestead went into another name. [*(3) The house was torn down in Jan. 1879. The farm now owned by 3 or 4 different men, 1879.*] The buildings on the farm were all built by him, two story dwelling (3) house, and two large barns, all the very best farm buildings. Both of the barns were burned at one time, March 11, 1861, having caught fire from sparks from a burning chimney Sunday, 11 o'clock in the forenoon. [*There were 12, 084 bricks in the chimney.*] [Born] Children of David & Sarah Treadwell Stone;- [Apr. 6,1777] [*Capt of Militia*] David, born,lived & died in No. Oxford Aug.29,1828. [Aug.24,1780] Joseph " " " " " " " Feb.21,1862. [Nov.13,1783] Sarah " " " " " " " July 18,1851. [Oct.27,1787] Anna " No. Ox.,died in W.Millbury Sept.15,1857. [Mch. 21, 1791] Jeremiah " " " Elizabethtown,N.Y. Feb.7,1867. (1) Where she settled (1) Where he settled. DAVID and SARAH TREADWELL STONE, sheet 3. Captain David Stone, Jr. and his wife, Betsey Hall Stone are both buried by the side of his father and mother in the burying ground on Oxford Plain, North West corner of the burying ground. [*Buried No. West corner old cemetery on Oxford Plain.*] Publishment of Grandfather Stone. "Intentions of marriage between David and Sarah Treadwell of Sutton were entered June 8, 1776." Marriage of Grandfather Stone. "David Stone of Oxford and Sarah Treadwell of Sutton were married by Ebenezer Learned, Justice of the Peace, July 25,th day 1776." Their 5 children David Joseph Sarah, m Capt. Stephen Barton Anna Jeremiah Sarah Treadwell cup and saucer, all that is left of her china she started housekeeping with, is now in the possession of Mrs. Corey of Northboro, a niece of Elvira Stone. Vira had placed this little note on a slip of paper inside the cup,- "This cup and saucer was one of the sett that David Stone and Sarah Treadwell commenced housekeeping with at the time of their marriage, July 25, 1776. They rode on horseback to theDavid and Sarah Stone sheet 4. house of General Ebenezer Learned when they were married, she riding on a pillion behind." DAVID STONE and SARAH TREADWELL. (Copied from diaries and papers of Vira Stone of Oxford.) "DAVID STONE, from whom we descended,- He was a man not much above medium size, fair complexion, clear blue eyes with a character of firmness, perseverance and great decision, and seldem failed to accomplish his purpose. Somewhat hasty tempered. SARAH TREADWELL, wife of David Stone, Tall, elegantly formed. A deep brunette with a head of hair when she died that any young miss of 20 might covet for thickness and length. For nearly forty years before her death she was bowed over at almost right angles because of rheumatism in the small of the back, but raised herself erect when walking with a staff. When our Grandfather, Joseph Stone became of age in 1801 his father, David Stone, to celebrate the event, went on a journey with him to Fort Ticonderoga, where he had served as a soldier in the Northern Army. He was a soldier under General Learned, and was present (being a Deputy Sheriff) when Burgoyne surrendered to the American forces. I wonder if they went on horseback? How vividly he could describe the events." David Stone served at Saratoga Bennington Stillwater Lake George and at surrender of Burgoyne. David Stone was born on Prospect Hill "Little Woods" North 200 acres in the | | Well | View of the buildings on the farm home farm in the | | | of my grandfather Mr David Stone extreme North west | Pasture land. "Upper Barn" | | The "old part" of the house he built corner of Oxford [and?] | | | first, and in it were born his four bounded by Charlton. | Oxes pen | Trough made of a 20ft long | youngest children. His eldest son | [Chase?] room | Grocery | hollow log | David was born on a farm he owned A high swell of land. | [..........?] | Water brought in | that joined the Amasa Edely farm in A large field of land | | hollow logs. | Auburn 3/4 mile from here east Cultivated and mowing land. | | | up the hill. 12 acres. | | | Pasture Cultivated field. | | | Huckleberry 6 acres. apple trees. House painted red with door, | Peach and | bushes enough to window panes, & corner boards white. | Melon Orchard | supply the family. 24 panes of glass 18 ft [stable at right?] just built 180 | 1/2 acre. | From here the land rises high - in each window. "Old Part." | 30 ft wide 28 front | Carriage road leading to the main road parlor 16 ft. sq. Grindstone Sour apple tree. Very large tree. "Lower Barn." House stood on a Stone 2 1/2 ft. high gentle swell of ground hollowed out at top A Spring of water issues here Cultivated field. depressed on the to wash hands in. 6 acres. apple trees. east and west. A Hard water in the well. low wet most beautiful lawn South for Kitchen garden. 1/8 of a mile. Here Grandpa Very early Sour Orchard set out by Grandpa. Bee hives. raised his own apple tree called Tobacco. The [Gemstone?] Collicum Brook Fence of tight bands on the west end 10 ft high Cart Road Bass Swale land fenced in was called the Hog Pasture Cart Road Bass Here the geese run. This strip of land Here the This was the an unfailing A little brooke runs Buckwheat Flax field. Spring of soft water. [through?] it called field. South Sketch of [Capt.] David Stone's home in No. Oxford. by Vira Stone. STONE HOMESTEAD. Horace Pope owned and lived with his family on the Grandpa Stone farm when the two barns were burned. It was Sunday fornoon and he feels sure that it was February 25, 1860. The two barns had been moved together just east of the house and the great barn doors were open and a strong west wind carried sparks of fire from the house chimney and set the barn on fire. Father died February 21, 1862 and I recollect well the sad, depressed look of father's when we heard of the fire before it was extinguished. His father built both of the barns and the house. The house was standing and occupied for a number of years after the barns were burned. These personal sketches intersperced, greatly increase the value of the history. We know them now, but in the far future how interesting to the descendants to know what we knew. How dearly we cherish the traditional items of the lives of our ancestors. M. E. Stone." (Written by Miss Martha Elvira Stone, known in the family as cousin Vira. Her father was Joseph Stone.) S. F. Riccius "There were 12,084 bricks in the chimney of the house of Grandfather Stone's. He built the house with oak lumber that he cut from his own farm about 1800. It was finished off ready for his eldest son David to take his new wife to April 1, 1808.Genealogical Material prepared by Edith Riccius King with additions by Saidee F Riccius Barton-Edmund - Samuel Porters Hammonds Whale Towne [*For S.F.R.*] THE BARTON GENEALOGY. EDWARD BARTON, who arrived in Salem, Mass, about 1640, probably came from Lancashire, England. He married ELIZABETH-----------------. who survived him. He died, probably at Cape Porpoise, Me, not later than April 1671. For about twenty years he and his family possessed large tracts of land in Cape Porpoise, (now Kennebunkport, Me.) until they were driven out by the Indians. Also lived at Marblehead, Mass. and Portsmouth,N.H. 6 CHILDREN - order of births uncertain. Mathew, b. about 1640. William, D. before Apr. 1700. m, Anna ---, 4 ch, Susannah, Mary, Ebenezer, John. Elisha, m. Mary Crockett. Edward, soldier in King Philip's War. Benjamin, soldier in King Philip's War. Joshua. *** MATHEW BARTON, son of Edward and Elizabeth Barton, of Salem, Portsmouth, N.H. and Cape Porpoise, Me, shipwright, mariner, born about 1640 and was living in 1729. m, 1st, Martha ---, who was living in 1675; 2nd, Sarah ---; 3rd, Dec. 20, 1694, at Salem, Elizabeth Tapley Dickinson. In 1729, being then of Salem, he sold the 300 acre farm at Cape Porpoise, formerly the home of his father. CHILDREN BY 1ST WIFE: Samuel, (probably the eldest son) b. probably at Salem about 1664. Probably other children by first wife. Children by 2nd wife, born at Salem: Susannah, b. May 10, 1680; probably died before 1702. Matthew, b. Sept. 6, 1682. Sarah, b. Apr. 1, 1685; m. Dan'l Rawlin[g]s in 1708. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 20, 1687. Children by 3rd wife, born at Salem. John, bapt. Dec. 6, 1695. Patience, bapt. Aug. 8, 1697, m. Nov. 7, 1721, James Mascoll. Susanna, bapt. Mar. 29 1702; died in infancy. Susanna, bapt. Oct. 31, 1703; m. June 29, 1723, Nathaniel Knight. Martha, bapt. Mar. 20, 1707. Benjamin, bapt. Oct. 10, 1708. *** SAMUEL BARTON, son of Matthew and Martha Barton, of Salem, Framingham and Oxford, Mass., founder of the Oxford Bartons, born probably at Salem about 1664; died at Oxford Sept. 12, 1732. He married, probably at Salem, about 1690, Hannah Bridges, dau. of Edmund and Sarah Towne Bridges; she died March 13, 1727. They are both buried in Burying Ground west of the Common, in Oxford.#2 THE BARTON GENEALOGY. Continued, #2. The name of Samuel Barton appears first in public records in 1683, when he was nineteen years old and witnessed a deed from Gilbert Endicott of Wells, Mr., to James Ross of same town. In 1667 he is mentioned in connection with assisting in the work of building a bridge at Madburry, N. H. In 1692[?] when he was 28 years old he was a witness for Elizabeth Proctor in the witchcraft troubles at Salem. It was in 1692 that Hannah Bridges Barton, wife of Samuel Barton, bore the ordeal, along with others of her family, of having her mother, Sarah Towne Bridges Cloyes, and two Aunts, sisters of her mother, condemned to death as witches. This frightful experience must have caused many members of the family to leave Alem, for in 1693 members of the Barton, Bridges, Cloyes, Towne and Elliott families left to settle in the plantation of Framingham. All of Samuel and Hannah's children were born in Framingham except the eldest son, Samuel, who was probably born in Salem. By 1716 Samuel Barton had fully decided to move from Framingham to Oxford where he and his family lived until he died. CHILDREN OF SAMUEL AND HANNAH BRIDGES BARTON: Samuel, b. probably at Salem Oct. 8, 1691. m. Elizabeth Bellows,1715. Mercy, b. at Fram. May 22, 1694; d. Oct. 3, 1730; m. Dec. 31, 1716 David Towne, her 2nd cousin, 3 ch, Francis, Hannah, Deliverance. Joshua, b. at Fram. Dec. 24, 1697,M. Anne ---; 2nd, Hannah Holman. Elisha, b. at Fram, Apr. 22, 1701, m. Betty Waite in 1731/2 Caleb, b. at Fram, Feb. 9, 1704/5; m.Mary Shamway & Susannah March. Jedediah, b. at Fram, Sept. 18, 1707; m. Lydia Pratt & Sarah Miller. Mehitahle, B. at Fram, Ang. 22, 1710; d. Nov. 7, 1742; m. Nov. 12, 1720 Samuel Duncan, 1 ch, Samuel Duncan,B & D in Feb.1742. Edmund, b. at Fram, Aug. 5, 1714, d. Dec. 13, 1799; m. Anna Flint at Salem Apr. 9, 1739. *** EDMUND BARTON, son of Samuel and Hannah Bridges Barton, born at Framingham Mass, Aug. 5, 1714; Died Dec. 13, 1799; mar. at Salem Apr. 9, 1739, Anna Flint, born at Middleton June 9, 1718; died Mar. 20, 1796. She was the oldest dau. of Stephen and Hannah Moulton Flint. Edmund and wife buried in burying ground near their home on the read from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. He settled in Sutton before his marriage and owned lands there and in Oxford. His farm was in that part of Sutton which in 1818 was established as Millbury. CHILDREN BORN AT SUTTON. Stephen, b. June 10, 1749; d. Oct. 21, 1804, m. Dorothy Moore in 1765. Mary, b. June 11, 1742; m. Obadiah Brown Apr. 3, 1766. Hannah, b. Sept. 22, 1746; m. Samuel Boutail Oct. 29, 1765. Jedediah, b. May 6, 1747. d. Sept. 15, 1808. m. Lydia Pierce. Flint, b. Dec. 3, 1749. d. May 12, 1833, m. Lydia Crosby. Elijah, b. Apr. 22, 1731; drowned in June 1756. Gideon, b. Apr. 22, 1753; drowned in June 1756. Anna, b. Aug. 1, 1756; M. David Gibson Apr. 29, 1778. Luke, b. Feb. 1, 1759; d. Feb. 11, 1790. Eunice, b. May 22, 1761; m. Grindal Keith. Have been trying to get this Barton genealogy business finished up and off my chest. Can't seem to get anywhere as no one answered any of the inquiries I sent out and so I cannot go ahead, but will put in what I have and let it go at that. Ran into a lot of trouble as I tried to get the lives of some of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Bartons$ children straightened out. I think the order of their births as we have them is all mixed up but do not know how we can prove it unless we can find some new source of information concerning them. I have asked Maude if she can find out more about them and have written Gert to see if she has the records of births and deaths of Dorothy Barton Learned who is probably buried in the old cemetery back of the church - where we went that day - for Gert told me she had been asked by the town to copy all the inscriptions on the stones so to keep a record of all who were buried there. Don't suppose she ever got around to get them, but if she did, she may have Dorothy's record and then I can get her life straightened out. Surely something screwy somewhere as it is not likely she was a mother at eleven. In the records you sent me once, copied from Vira Stone's diary, she gives Dorothy Learned's birth date and her twin, Mary, or Polly, as AUG, 27, 1778. Every record I have seen says April 11, 1782. I think Vira is right, however. And I think Parthenia was born in 1772 or 3 instead of 1780 as her headstone reads "Died Sept. 1794, age 21. And I found her marriage date which was 1792. I will copy the order of births as I think they probably are and if you have any information or corrections will you send the dates along, please.This is the list, revised, as I think it might possibly be, to make sense, of the children of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, and their birth dates. 1. Eljiah Moore Barton, b. Oct. 12, 1765; 2. Gideon Barton, b. March 29, 1767; 3. Pamela Barton, b. Nov. 28, 1768; 4. Clarissa Harlowe Barton, b. Sept. 10, 1770; 5. Parthenia Barton, b. [ ] 1772 or '73; 6. Stephen Barton, b. Aug. 18, 1774; 7. Hannah Barton, b. July 20, 1776; 8. (Dorothy Barton, twin, b. Aug. 27, 1778 instead of April 11, 1782. 9 (Mary Barton, [b.] twin, b. Aug. 27, 1778 " " " " " 10. Eljiah Moore Barton, b. Aug. 10, 1784; 11. Gideon Barton, b. June 18, 1786; 12. Anna Barton, b. [ ] 1788; 13. Luke N. Barton, b. Sept. 3, 1791. I will hold the records I have for you a few days to see if anyone I wrote to sends me information - if I get nothing more will send the copies on a s they are and call it a day. No more tonight. Love to you both, Sis.#3, continued. THE BARTON GENEALOGY. Continued, #3. DR. STEPHEN BARTON, son of Edmund and Anna Flint Barton, born at Sutton, June 10, 1740; died Oct. 21, 1804; mar. May 28, 1765, Dorothy Moore, born at Oxford, Mass. Apr. 12, 1747; died at the home of her son, Capt. Stephen Barton, in Oxford, Nov. 11, 1838. She was a dau. of Elijah and Dorothy Learned Moore. Dr. Barton and his wife lived in Oxford, Mass. and in Windsor, Maine, and he is buried near a boulder on his homestead farm in Windsor, Maine. CHILDREN: Elijah Moore, b. at Oxf. Oct. 12, 1765; d. June 13, 1769. Gideon, b. at Oxf. Mar. 29, 1767; d. Oct. 27, 1770. Pamela, b. at Oxf. Nov. 28, 1768; d. Nov. 16, 1838; m. July 18, 1787 to Benjamin Porter, 12 ch. Clarissa Harlowe, b. Sept. 10, 1770; d. Nov. 13, 1843; m. Oct. 20,1791 to Richard Foster, 10 ch. Stephen, b. Aug. 18, 1774; d. Mar. 21, 1862; m. Sarah Stone Apr.22,1804. 5 children. Hannah, b. July 20, 1776; d. Feb. 12, 1859; m. Johnathan Davis Oct. 5, 1822, 2 ch. Parthema, b. [ ] 1772 [*or 3*]; d. Sept. [ ] 1794; m. Shubail Pitts, no ch. Dorothy twin, b. [*Aug.*] [*27*], 17[*78*]; d. July 14, 1799; m. Jeremiah Larned Oct. 7, 1798. 4 ch. Mary, twin, b. Aug. [*27*], 17[*78*]; d. Apr. 12, 1835; m. Daniel Batcheller, Nov. 17, 1895, 4 ch.( Twins called Dolly and Polly ) Elihah Moore, b. Aug. 10, 1784; d. Fairfield [ ] 5 ch. Gideon, b. June 18, 1788; d. June [ ] 1889; m. Sarah Pierce Mar. 5, 1808; 18 ch. Anna, b. [ ] 1788; d. Luke, b. Sept. 3, 1791; d. [ ] ; m. Martha Ballard, Mar. 19, 1823. 7 ch. *** CAPT. STEPHEN BARTON, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born Aug. 18, 1774; died March 21, 1862; married April 22, 1804, Sarah Stone, dau. of David Haven and Sarah Treadwell Stone. She was born Nov. 13, 1783; died July 18, 1851. CHILDREN: Dorothy, b. Oct. 2, 1804; d. unm. Apr. 19, 1845. Stephen, b. March 29, 1806; d. Mar. 10, 1865. m. Betsy Rich. David, b. Aug. 15, 1808; d. Mar. 12, 1888. m. Julia Ann Maria Porter. Baron[?], b. Mar. 20, 1811; d. May 24, 1874; m. Vester Vassall. Clarissa Harlowe, (Clara Barton) b. Dec. 25, 1821; d. unm. Apr.12,1912. *** 4. continued. THE BARTON GENEALOGY. continued, #4. DAVID BARTON, son of Capt. Stephen and Sarah Stone Barton, born Aug. 15, 1808, married Sept. 30, 1839, his cousin, Julia Ann Maria Porter, of Vienna, Maine, who was born Jan. 23, 1814, and died July 14, 1899. David was a Capt. in the Civil War and died March 12, 1888. CHILDREN: 1. Ada Idelia ( twins, born Jan. 18, 1847. Ada died Feb. 17, 1930. 2. Ida Adelia ( [ ] born Jan. 18, 1847; Ida died Jan. 26, 1911. 3. Stephen Emory, born Dec. 24, 1848, died Jan. 17, 1929. 4. Mary Anna, born Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929. *** IDA ADELIA BARTON, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Jan. 26, 1911; daughter of Capt. David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton. Mar. on March 22, 1879 to Gustav Adolph Julius Riccius, of Millbury, Mass, who was born March 18, 1841; died July 6, 1891. CHILDREN: 1. Edith Julia, b. Feb. 13, 1881; mar. George E. King, Aug. 19, 1906. 2. Hermann Porter, b. Oct. 4, 1883. unmar. 3. Saidee Frances, b. Dec. 28, 1886. unmar. 4. Walter Harold, b. May 5, 1889; mar. 1st, Ruth M. Brown, Jul.[#] 15, 1912; mar. 2nd Wilhelmina Mange, Feb. 14, 1929. *** Ada Idelia Barton, dau. of Capt. David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton, twin, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Feb. 17, 1920; married Dec. 4, 1869, Charles Monroe Clark of Oxford, CHILDREN: Charles, b. [ ] d. young. David Barton, b. May 29, 1871; m. Lizetta Powell: 4ch [*d. Oct.24.1947*] Mary Josephine, b. June 27, 1873; died Feb. 14, 1935. unmar. Lynn Eddy, b. [ ] d. young. Harry LeRoy, b. May 29, 1875; d. [ ] ; mar. 1st. Louise [ ]; 2nd. Charlotte [ ] ;no ch. Stephen Emory Barton, son of David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton, norn Dec. 24, 1848; died Jan. 17, 1929; mar. 1st, June 28, 1870, Joyce Willmott born Aug. 24, 1848; died April 12, 1881; 4 ch: Irving, b. and d. 1872; Ida Myrtis (later changed to Myrtis Willmott) born March 23, 1873; mar. June 11, 1900 to Stephen Lathrop Butler;*1 dau. Joyce Willmott, b. June 27, 1903; mar.Sept. 11, 1926 to Dwight Hughes, 2 ch. Jere, [* *died May 11.1946. *]5. continued, BARTON GENEALOGY. Continued, #5. (Children of Stephen Emory and Joyce Willmott Barton.) Children of Dwight and Joyce W. Butler Hughes - continued from page 4.) Jere Hughes, born Nov. 8, 1927; Stephen, b. Feb. 15. 1929. Edith Joyce, dau. of Stephen and Joyce Barton, born in 1875; died in 1876; Lauretta Gertrude, b. Dec. 7, 1876; killed by loaded wagon April 5, 1883 at Oxford. Stephen E. Barton mar. 2nd, Oct. 13, 1884, Harriet Elizabeth Walker Tracy, who died June 20, 1931. No ch. *** Mary Anna Barton, dau. of David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton, born Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929; mar. March 22, 1879 to John H. Stafford who died March 21, 1929. He was born Dec. 15, 1850. CHILDREN: Stephen Barton, b. Dec. 3, 1880; mar. Helen [*Louise*] Richardson [*born 1887*] in 1910; 4 ch; John Kenneth, born [ ] 1910; died Jan. 20, 1929; Donald Barton, born Dec. 10, 1912, mar. [*Santina Forchielle*] [ ] ; Stephen Phillip, born Oct. 11, 1914; Martha born [ ] 1913 - d 1913 died [ ] Anna Gertrude, born May 11, 1883, married Aug. 24, 1903 to Guy Willard Olney, born July 15, 1881. CHILDREN: Helen Gertrude, born Oct. 9, 1904; unmar. May Barton, born July 8, 1908; mar. Jan. 16, 1937, Raymond E. White, born [1] [*2*] child; Raymond Olney White, born Oct.31,1940. [*Stephen Barton b. Aug [ ] 1945*] *** [*??? 1947*] [*A Barnestool ? copy - The other man not an ?????*] By E. R. King. Maude Mosher contributed largely to the "explanation" and information contained herein, concerning the old letters written by Gideon and Like Barton. The letter dated March 28, 1807 was written by Gideon Barton, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, of Windsor, Me., to his brother Stephen Barton of Oxford, Mass. The "Mrs. Porters" he mentions was his sister Pamela Barton, who married Benjamin Porter, of Vienna, Me. The Mr. Foster who had "ben avoyage to the west indias", was Gideon's brother-in-law, Richard Foster, who married Clarissa Barton, "eben who wint with Mr. Foster" may have been his son, Ebenezer Foster, born in 1794 and old enough to take a voyage with his father; Or it might have been Ebenezer Foster, a brother of Richard Foster - or again it may have been Ebenezer Moore, a cousin of Mr. Foster's wife, Clarissa. In 1818 Harlow Foster, son of Richard and Clarissa Foster, went on a voyage to the West Indies and died on his return trip. "Mr. Gill who murdered himself with a shave" was undoubtedly Charles Gill of Augusta who married "Uncle Luke's widow", Betty Towne Barton. Luke Barton was a brother to Gideon's father, Dr. Stephen Barton. Luke died in 1790. "Marm" is Gideon's mother, Dorothy Moore Barton who lived with her son Stephen Barton in Oxford, Mass. "Elijah and Luke Barton were Gideon's two brother living in Maine. "Hannah and Polley" were Gideon's two sisters living in Oxford, Mass. *** The letter dated October 17, 1814, was written by Luke Barton to his mother, Dorothy Moore Barton, who lived in Oxford, Mass. with her son Stephen Barton. Dr. Stephen Barton, her husband, had died in Windsor, Me. Oct. 1804. Like Barton was not married when this letter was written but he afterward, in 1823, married his second cousin, Martha Ballard and they had seven children. So he evidently recovered from the illness he mentions in his letter. Elijah was Luke's brother, who was in Buffalo at this time, on business, probably. Elijah married Sarah Fairfield and they had five children. One son, William is mentioned in thisletter. Gideon was also a brother of Luke and had married Sarah Pierce in 1808 and at the timethis letter was written, had four children, the two youngest, Lucy and Dorothy, twins, named for their respective grandmothers', Lucy Pierce and Dorothy Moorse Barton. Mrs. Porter, when Luke saw in Augusta, was his sister Pamela Barton Porter and the child she had with her, not a year old, was a daughter, Julia Ann Maria Porter, born Jan. 23, 1814. Julia later married her cousin, David Barton, son of Stephen Barton of Oxford, who was her uncle. (Julia and David Barton were the grandparents of the writer of this article). Jonathan, the son of Pamela Porter, who had recently died, was born in 1790, died April 14, 1814, unmar. The Mrs. Foster who was very sick last spring, was Luke's sister Clarissa who married Richard Foster and had ten children. Uncle Ballard was Ephriam Ballard who married Martha Moore, sister of Luke's mother, Dorothy Moore Barton. Ephriam Ballard died in 1821, aged 96. His wife, Martha, was a famous midwife in Augusta and Hallowell; died in 1812. Aunt Waters was Sarah Moore, a sister of Dorothy Moore Barton and Martha Moore Ballard. She first married her cousin Reuben Davis, and secondly, she married Dr. Abel Waters and lived in Gardner, Me. She died in 1820. Hannah and Gardner who lived with them may have been relatives; many members of the Moore and Barton families lived in Maine at that time. The farm where Aunt Waters lived probably belonged to one of the Lamberts of Lambards who married Martha Moore Ballard's daughter, Dorothy Ballard. The widow Homan and her daughter, Miss Howe are unknown to us. "Miss Wyman" who was the widow Pierce, was Lucy Fuller Pierce wife of Samuel Pierce - her daughter Sarah had married Gideon Barton and a twin was named for Lucy. Dean Wyman was Lucy's second husband with whom she did not live in harmony. She mar. Wyman in 1811 and later lived with her son Luther Pierce. She died in 1331.The following is copied from a newspaper clipping given me by Maude Mosher. The year is 1933 - no other date given.) Lady Conway Who Died In Jerusalem Native Of Augusta. Wife of Baron of Allington, Patron of the Arts was Kate Lambard, Daughter of Charles Alan Lambard. Lady Conway, formerly Katrina Lambard, of Augusta, and who died Wednesday, according to Associated Press dispatches from Jerusalem, was the daughter of Charles Allen Lambard, who was the son of Allen Lambard, a pioneer Augusta resident, Lady Conway was born in Augusta and her father, Charles, after being located in business here for a few years, removed to Boston. He was connected with the Pacific Railroad enterprise in which he made a fortune. He married Frances Emily Johnson of Belfast, Maine. She died May 8, 1854, aged 25 years and he married Abby Williams, daughter of Hon. Daniel Williams, of Augusta. There were two children, Frances Allen Lambard and Kate Lambard. In 1884 Kate, later called Katrina, married William Conway, who after being knighted in 1895, was made first Baron Conway of Allington in 1931. They had one daughter. Lord and Lady Conway traveled extensively and he is a distinguished mountain climber and patron of arts. Early in his career, just after his marriage, he was professor of fine arts at University College of the University of Liverpool. He has been trustee and director of British Museums and learned societies and has written many books on arts and travels. It was the paternal grandfather of Lady Conway, Allen Lambard, who purchased the Dr. Snell estate at the corner of Winthrop and Pleasant Streets in Augusta at an expense, with repairs, of $7,000 and gave it in October, 1870 to Trustees, for the benefit of aged women. The institution was named St. Mark's Home. *** (Another clipping, with no date, reads as follows: Conway Marriage In London Has Local Interesting History. Announcement that the 78 year old Lord Conway and Mrs. Iva Lawson, 32, formerly of Texas, are to be wed in London, recalls to mind interesting history of Augusta origin, that would not be apparent to the casual observer. William Martin Conway, the first Baron Conway of Allington, was married in 1884 to Katrina Lambard of Augusta, the daughter of Charles Allen Lambard, who was the son of Allen Lambard about whom centers much interesting local history, Then follows the history of Allen which I have already sent you along with other Lambard and Ballard papers. *** [*For S. F. R.*] #1. BARTON. By Edith Riccius King. The following pages are devoted to an incomplete and history and genealogy of the children and their descendants of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, of Oxford, Mass. and WIndsor, Maine. The greater portion of this information has been obtained thru the kindness and assistance in research work, of Miss Maude Mosher, of Augusta, Maine. Miss Mosher is a great, great grand-daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton. Many dates of births, deaths and marriages of members of the Barton family which could not be found in the records in the libraries, Miss Mosher has supplied from her personal files, and we are very grateful to her for having preserved them and allowing them to be used in this record which follows. *** DR. STEPHEN BARTON, son of Edmund and Anna Flint Barton, of Oxford, Mass. and of Windsor, Maine, physicain, born at Sutton, Mass. June 10, 1740; died Oct. 21, 1804, and is buried near a boulder on his homestead farm in what is now Windsor, Maine. It was on this spot, near the boulder, Dr. Stephen spent the first night, with his sons, Eljiah and Gideon, on going into the wilderness. This rock has been faced and now bears his monumental inscription. He studied with Dr. Green, of Leicester, mass., was a trader at the center 1764 to 1766 and from 1766 to 1769 landlord at the old tavern. He married at Oxford, May 28, 1765, Dorothy Moore, daughter of Elijah and Dorothy Learned Moore, who was born at Oxford, April 12, 1747 and died there at the home of her son, Capt. Stephen Barton, Nov. 11, 1838. Dr. Stephen and his wife were well educated and he was a good physician charitably inclined, and it is said lost much by never present[l]ing his bills to his patients. He was patriotic, a good citizen and one of the organizers of the "Social Library". He removed about 1776 to Windsor or Vassalbore, Maine, and with his sons, Elijah and Gideon. About 1790 he returned to Oxford by later returned to Maine for his health and died there. It is related that Dorothy, his wife, made several trips on horseback, usually with a child in her arms, from Oxford to Windsor. A sister of Dorothy, Martha Moore Ballard, with her husband, Ephriam, had settled in Hallowell, Maine, and that may have been one reason the Bartons' settled in this particular area. Martha Ballard writes in her diary of a visit both Dr. and Dorothy Barton made at her home and comments upon "the very bad cough brother Stephen has". He died shortly after of "consumption". Dorothy lived to be 91 and lived the last years of her life at the home of her son Stephen Barton. Her grand-daughter, Julia Ann Maria Porter, of Vienna, Maine, went to Oxford to take care of her grandmother, Dorothy, and often told her grandchildren that altho' Dorothy was blind she was very keen and particular as to how she was dressed and would not allow even a pin, not her own, to be used about her person. She could tell a substitute in a second. And her hair had to be combed just so or Julie heard from her.#2. continued- BARTON. By E.R.K #2. CHILDREN OF DR. STEPHEN AND DOROTHY MOORE BARTON AND DESCENDANTS. 1. Elijah Moore Barton, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., Oct. 12, 1765; died June 13, 1769. *** 2. Gideon Barton, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., March 29, 1767; died Oct. 27, 1770. *** 3. Pamela Barton, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., Nov. 28, 1768; died Nov. 16, 1836; married July 18, 1787 to Benjamin Porter, of Boxford, Mass. Settled in Goshen, now Vienna, Maine. Benjamin Porter was born in Boxford, Mass. Aug. 20, 1755 - removed to Winthrop, Me. in 1780 and to Vienna Me. in 1788; died April 11, 1837. He bought land in Monmouth and Winthrop, Me., and finally a large tract in Goshen, now Vienna, Maine. He was Lieut. of the 1st Militia Company of Vienna, Me. In Lineage Book, Vol. 129 it is recorded:"Benjamin Porter (1754-1837) served as private in Capt. John Cushing's Co. of Militia which marched on Lexington Alarm." He was the son of Benjamin and Ruth Foster Porter, and he married 1st, in Boxford, Mass., Polly Sargent, Jan. 25, 1778. She died Jan. 10, 1786 and was buried in Winthrop, Me. There were three children by this union - Betsey, born Sept. 13, 1779; died [ ] ; mar. Barnard Kimball; no ch. John, b. Dec. 27, 1780; d. Sept. 21, 1823; mar. Mary Robinson. Benjamin, b. July 17, 1783; died young. Pamela Barton, 2nd wife of Benjamin Porter, was a strong woman mentally, was firm and exercised good government in her family. Her word was law, always. Her daughter Parthenia writes: "My mother has told me that she never went to school only six weeks after her father moved from Oxford; she was then seven years old - she was an easy reader, a good speller and writer and very good at figures - could reckon up a web to weave in her head when I should be obliged to take a slate and cypher it". Pamela died at the home of this daughter, Parthenia Porter Folsom, as also did her father. Besides rearing the two children of her husband's first wife, Pamela had 12 children of her own. CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND PAMELA BARTON PORTER: AND DESCENDANTS: 1. Polly Porter, b. May 11, 1788; died May [ ] 1867; Mar. Oct. 1803 to James Chapman of Mt. Vernon, Me., son of Joseph and Mary Moore Chapman of Dover, N. H. ( Older children of Jcs. [?] and Mary Chapman b. in Wakefield, N. H. - the rest in Vienna, Me.) He was well educated, a successful school teacher, used the ferrule when necessary. He taught for thirty years in the winter season. Was Justice of Peace for fifty years. Did more writing and married more couples than any man ever did in this vicinity. Was sent to State Legislature several times, to Portland and Augusta. Died about 1864, age 83. continued. #3. continued. BARTON. by E.R.K. #3. Children of Polly Porter Chapman ,(dau. of Pamela and Benjamin Porter,) and James Chapman: &&& 1. Pamela Porter Chapman, b. Vienna Me. March 10, 1805; d. Sept. 12, 1827; mar. Moses Sanborn. One child,Martha,C. who mar. Daniel Rich, b. July 14, 1821. Mar. at N. oxford March 31, 1843. 8 children: Sarah P. b. Dec. 24, 1844; m. 1869 Russell Peters: Byron C. b. Mar. 30, 1846, m. 1867 Francella Law - 3 ch. Marcia, Clifton, Isa: Ruth A. b. Dec. I, 1848, m. William Morris; 1 ch: Julia E. b. Sept. 30, 1852, m. Melvin 2. Pierce, 1 ch: Horatio C. b. Oct. 30,1857; m. 1881 Hattie F. Robinson, 3 ch: Laura,Ethel, a dau.: Arthur C. b. Feb. 13, 1860, m. Nellie Lacount, had ch: Lyman W. b. Dec. 22, 1863, m. Lillian Larned: Leon E. b. Feb. 11, 1860. (In her old age Martha Sanborn Rich was left poor and deserted by her children and grandchildren - robbed of her property by one of her sons. Clara Barton came to her rescue, brought her to the home of Ida Barton Riccius, my mother, until arrangements could be made to take her to Clara Barton's home in Washington. Martha lived the last years of her life in comfort and peace at Clara's home and was loved and cared for and buried by Clara Barton) *** 2. John Chapman, b. Vienna, Me., June 19, 1806; died Sept. 12, 1825. A very promising young man. 3. Horatio G. Chapman, b. Vienna, Me., Mar.[?] 19, 1808; died May [ ] 1829; Very promising young man, fitting himself for college. Died suddenly. 4. Lucinda Chapman, b. Vienna, Me., Oct. 4, 1809; died June 1829, just two weeks after Horatio's death. A splendid girl and scholar. 5. Enoch Chapman, b. Vienna, June 11, 1813; died June 1829, two weeks after Lucinda. 6. Polly Chapman, b. Vienna, Dec. 1, 1814; died in 1830. 7. Benjamin Porter Chapman, b. Vienna, Jan. 20, 1817; died in 1864; mar. Lavina Gould: Caroline, a dau. of Benj. and Lavina Chapman, born [*Dec. [ ] 1845*]; died [*Oct. 29, 1922*] married [*son of Moses + Sally Phillips Fellows*] Eugene Fellows; 6 ch. [*M? - b. July 17, 1865, d George - b. Feb 4, 1867, mar. Oct 8, 1907. Aaron - b. Feb 22, 1809, d. Jan 24, 1934. Carroll, b Oct. 27, 1870. mar. Alana V. Oct. 9:1907; Cara Feith b. Aug 25, 1872 d. Mar. 12, 1906; Myrtle Banks b. Nov. 2, 1874.*]Barton. [???] Flint Barton, born in Sutton, Mass. in 1749, came to Sidney, Maine in 1773, where he ied in 1833. His wife was Lydia Crosby and their 12 sins were: Edmund; Crosby; Ames; Jonah; Otis; Persia; Alfred; Rufus; Franklin; Anson; Dean W.; Stephen. Anson born Dec. 4, 1799, married Rhoda Sisson and of their thirteen children, seven are now living. (1892). The fourth, Greenleaf, born in 1831, occupies the homestead of his father and a part of the place originally settled by his grandfather, who was a miller, blacksmith and farmer. --- Flint Barton was selectman four years - 1792 - 3 - 4 - 5. Flint Barton, who came here in 1773, built the first saw mill on the stream that has since borne his name. He was a blacksmith and had in his shop a trip hammer that was run by water-power. These mills were succeeded by a grist mill from which the stones were removed in 1832. In 1859 Albion K. Barton built on the old dam a grist mill that Paul T. Stevens ran on shares til 1885, when it could pay it's way no longer. Flint Barton built, opreated and abansoned an ashery before 1830. Burial Places: On George Barton's farm is the Barton tomb. The eldest burying ground in Sidney is situated on the bank of the river, one fourth of a mile below Hasting's Brook and is known as the Old Plain. It is thought to hold the remains of over one hundred pioneers. --- Samuel Barton, son of Gideon and Sarah Pierce Barton, born Sept. 18, 1810, died Dec. 23, 1891, married Harriet Perkins. Children: Lucy, Dolly b. Jan. 14, 1838, M. Summer A. Holway: She d. 1912; He d. 1919. George Buzzell, M. [ ] Fairchild. Ruel Abbie, M. Leroy Marson of Windsor. Charles M. Mary E. Shaffer 1st; Annie Baker 2nd. Orrin L. (A Dr.) M. Addie Vail. Martha (mother of Elsia Holway Burleigh) M. Emerson Joy, 1st; Isaac Holway 2nd Ida May M. Charles H. Gale 1st; Alvah Elder 2nd. Cara M. George Motherwell. Horace Colburn M. Susie Schaffer/ Lot Morrill M. Hattie Pierce Mamie, lived to be 12 years old. --- Maria Dolly, dau. of Samuel and Harriet Perkins Barton, b. Jan. 14, 1838, d. Mar. 10, 1912, M. Summer A. Holway, d. Feb. 28, 1919. Children: Mary Ellen b. Aug. 19, 1866. [H]ettie Blanche B. Oct. 1871. Fred B. Sept. 1 , 1872. Charles S. B. Aug. 20, 1873. Alice Dee B. May 4, 1877, M. Harry Pierpont; a dau. Ruth m. Haskell, had son Carl. --- [*over*] Con. #2. MOORE. Children of Eljiah and Dorothy Learned Moore. Dorothy, B. April 12, 1747, M. Dr. Stephen Barton. Sarah, B. Sept. 26, 1749, M. Reuben Davis, her cousin. Ebenezer, B. Sept. 7, 1751. Deborah, B. July 27, 1753, M. Levi Davis, her cousin. --- The descendants of Elijah and Dorothy Learned Moore were numerous and many were of more than ordinary ability. The last house on the Main Street, west side, was the residence of Richard Moore, Esq. This residence was at the south end of whatwas called the village street. This ancient house, belonging to the Moore family, was in it's day a substantial mansion, built in the style of an English hall, it's gables being on the north and south, fronting on the street, but extending westerly, giving a south front, and like every house in those times, served as a sun dial. The broad street door opening into one of it's apartments was rich and much ornamented in it's architecture, as were the houses of the gentry; in it's different apartments were large, broad breasted chimneys, with large, open fire places, and then there were in these pleasant rooms rich wainscotting. The house was large and elegant, and had a narrow lawn and lovely garden. It was the home of Richard Moore, Sr. in his declining years and also of his son Richard, and also Marvin, son of Richard. The late Hon. Ira Moore Barton, of Worcester, Mass. often visited the Moore place as the home of his ancestors. The Moore family were originally of Scotch extra[?]tion, tracing back their ancestry to the time of William the Conqueror. The giant oak still stands on the lawn as a sentinel on duty. It was a tree of great size and age two hundred years ago. From the Records of Oxford, Mass. 1630 - 1894 Manners and Fashions of the Time by Mary De Witt Freeland. P. 250.Abbie, dau. of Sam, and Harriet Perkins Barton, M. Lercy Marson. Children: Hattie, Lillian, died young - scarlet fever. Lucy, m. Jonathan Longfellow. Arthur, Ida, Imelia M. Crawford. --- Charles, son of Sam and Harriet Perkins Barton M. Mary E. Schaffer, Lives in Oakland, Children: Grace L. B. Dec. 12, 1876. Charles H. JR. B. July 31, 1878. Daisy May B. 1880, now Mrs. Bates. Louise B. 1889, now Mrs. Barron. Walter Samuel B. 1886. MOORE. John Moore was of Sudbury by 1643 and may have come over to America in the "Planter" in 1635, at the age of 24, or he may have arrived in 1638. He was twice married, his first wife was Elizabeth Whale, daughter of Philomen Whale, of Sudbury. 2nd wife, Ann ----. Jacob Moore, son of John and Elizabeth Whale Moore, married Elizabeth Lecker, May 29, 1667. Richard Moore, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Moore, born Sept. 12, 1671, died Nov. 19th 1767, age 96 years, married Mary Collins, daughter of Samuel Collins of Middletown, Conn., grand-daughter of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge. She was born June 16, 1672; died July 12, 1769. 97 yrs. Children: Sykilla, B. Sept. 2, 1694, M. Ebenezer Chamberlin. Abigail, B. May 23, 1696 Collins, B. Oct. 7, 1698 Isaac, B. June 11, 1700 Elijah, B. Mar. 14, 1702 Susanna, B. Dec. 26, 1704 Ahijah, B. Dec. 22, 1705 Richard, B. Jan. 10, 1708 Mary, B. May 15, 1710 Richard Moore was among the leading men of Oxford in its warly history. He had ample means, and was long one of the largest land holders in the south part of the town; the first justice of the Peace in the vicinity and transacted a large part of the conveyancing, probate and other official business during the early years, and was the second licensed innholder in the vicinity, (town). Beginning in 1715 and continuing many years. Fifteen years selectman between 1715 and 1741 most of the time chairman. Town clerk between 1715 and 1734; the first representative from the English settlement in 1721 Treasurer in 1721 and 1729, several years moderator in town meeting. He sold June 6, 1714 his farm in the south part of Needham, 260 acres. bounding on Nat[?]ck, and bought Aug. 1714, of Samuel Gagburn his house and land in Oxford. Elijah, son of Richard and Mary Collins Moore, born March 14, 1702, married Dorothy Learned, dau. of Ebenezer and Deborah Haynes Learned, July 19, 1733. Prominent in Oxford,for more than 25 years innkeeper at the old stand, rear of the Israel Sibley House. Captain of militia, constable in 1730, selectman seven years between 1742 and 1756. Children: Martha, B. Deb. 9, 1735, m. Ephrian Ballard. Lucy, B. July 25, 1737. Jonathan, B. July 7, 1739. Abigail, B. May 7, 1741, m. Jeremiah Shumway. Collins, B. Apr. 17, 1743. Elihah, B. May 5, 1745.North's history isn't old - written in 1870 Nashs is not as old as that even - written about 1880 I think but both are scarce. Mr. Nash said his father copied the Ballard diaries himself but not the complete diaries - just the most interesting parts he needed for his history. Sunday night, Feb. 6, 1944 August, Maine Martha Ballard Dearest Sarah: Most of this literature I am sending you has been copied from the old North's History of Augusta which I found in the house, library, I understand, and it cannot be taken from the Library. So I am taking advantage of having a chance to copy from it while I am here. I wish Mrs. Rogers would sell it to me, but, altho' she probably never has looked inside it, nor ever will, she would not sell it if I asked her, I do not believe, for she won't sell anything she has that is old even tho' she never cares for the old things and they just stand and rot out in the wood shed. So there is little chance of getting this book, and anyway, I asked Maude about chances of picking one up and she thot the chances remote and said even if I found one I would be soaked 20.00 to 30.00 and that is too much. Anyway, I would much rather have the old Nash History, but that, too is impossible to obtain as well I know. When Maude and I went to the State Library to see the old Dr. Stephen diary and Martha Ballard's books, we were kept waiting quite a while before the Librarian finally brought them to us, altho' we had phoned the day before we would like to see them. The lady in charge said she could not locate the books in the vault downstairs. Maude got very nervous, thinking they had been stolen or lost. Finally they were located and given to us and we were allowed to go into a little private room to look at them. Usually the attendant stands over the person looking at them, but as they knew Maude we were allowed to be alone with them. We took them out of a box - the Drs. old book and the two diaries of Martha's and began to look them over. Very hard to read, but we spent an hour or more trying to decipher some of the items of interest and then I told Maude my eyes would stand no more, so I picked up the box to put the books back and discovered there was another book in a paper in the bottom of the box. I unwrapped and it proved to be a Nash History of Augusta and as we opened it and paged thru it I discovered it had page after page of both Sewalls and M. Ballards diaries printed in it. I called in Miss Stuart and asked her about it and if I could take it home and copy the Ballard diary. She smiled and said she did not know it was in the box with the other diaries as it was not supposed to be given to anyone to look over. It was merely loaned to the LIbrary and no one even knew it was there and she could not let anyone see it without permission from it's owner, Mr. Danforth Nash. She said they all wished he had not brought it to the Library as it did no one any good and was just a responsibility for the library to shoulder. Said she wished the library would appropriate money to have it copied as it was the only copy in existence and it had never been finished as Mr. Chas. Nash died before it was finished and his son Danforth had never gone on with it, but that it was the best history of Augusta in existence at that. She said she did not think all of the diary of Martha was there, but we looked and compared the first few and last pages and it seemed to be identical. Well, we looked thru it for awhile but had to leave as it was closing time, and we have never been back since. I decided to find out where Danforth Nash lived and go ask him if he would let me take the book. Discovered he lived very near us so I went to his house one day (this was quite a while before Thanksgiving) and no one answered the bell altho I heard voices inside. I rang and rang but no one came. So I turned and walked down to his office which Maude had told me about. He has a small printing business, left him by his father, I guess. I had Curl with me and he received me very graciously and made a lot of Curley as he has four dogs of his own. I heard them barking at his house. He listened to my story as I told him my desire to copy the old records which were impossible to copy from the original books, and he was just as nice as he could be but he would not consent to having his history taken from the Library. He said a number of relatives of Martha B. had from time to time asked to copy the records and he had allowed them to do so at the Library and if I cared to do the same he would phone Miss Stuart to allow me to see the book any time I cared to use it. I said it was quite hard for me to go way over to the Library as it was quite a distance and my time was limited and then I also had to phone in advance as they liked to known when the books were to be used for they had to go to the vaults to get them, etc. He said, smilingly, that they were there for that purpose and it did not matter if it did put them to a bit of trouble. He was a very kind faced, benign, good looking old gentleman, but he was obdurate as far as letting me take the book home. Just before I left he suddenly said that his father had printed about a thousand of the books but they were stored in someones barn and not accessible and the only copy he had was the one in the library. He said the history was never finished and just then someone called him on the phone so I thanked him hurriedly and left. A few days later I wrote him and asked if he would consider selling me one of the histories sometime if he ever unearthed them and so on. I enclosed a self addressed, stamped envelope but he never replied. I'll bet if they knew at the Library that he had 1000 volumes of that history in an old barn they would be wild. Maude knows Miss Stuart very well land will some day ask he what she thinks of his holding out on them - his business, of course and his right, but so many people want that history you would think he would either finish it himself or let the other libraries have a copy at least. I wanted so to get one for Dix but the chances are I can get neither North's nor Nashes. Anyway, I will copy what I can from this old North book, but it is so full details about the life here, all mixed up with names of our kith and kin, it is hard to condense it and I simply cannot copy it all. I have tried to get the Ballard, Lambard and Nichols families copied to we will have those altho they are not vital to us as they are not in our direct line. I copied them, for later on I will go up to the old cemetery and get a line on more old graves and fill dates that I do not find in the history. So much for the Ballards etc.A[ugusta] Nurse Authors Book Lieut. Ruth Pierpont Haskell, Augusta nurse, who was a member of the Army Nursing Corps that participated in the North African invasion and who is now stationed at the Ream General Hospital, Palm Beach, Fla., has entered the ranks of the present day writers. Her first book, which she will call "Nurse Under Fire" is now being published by G. B. Putnam's Sons in New York City and will come out during March. Mrs. Haskell, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pierpont of Myrtle Street, Augusta, received an injury while in foreign service but remained on there some time after until it was absolutely necessary fir her to be returned to the States for treatment and operations. While in Augusta Lieut. Haskell spoke at the Rotary Club and then later in New York City she participated in a nation-wide radio hook- up. [Permit Increase]E.R. King For Saidee. No. 1. It is fitting that with it's historic name and associations, it's new home in historic Fort Western, presented in memory of the late Sadie Gannett, she having been a member of this Chapter, by her husband and son, direct descendants of the Howard family who first occupied this ancient structure, Koussinoc Chapter should present the name of one who was closely identified with that period of history which we wish to preserve - one whose deeds of mercy and self-sacrifice enriched the period in which she lived. In Martha (Moore) Ballard we find the highest type of early New England Womanhood, whose name is in every way worthy of a permanent place in the archives of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Martha Moore, daughter of Captain Elijah Moor and his wife, Dorothy Learned, was born in Oxford, Mass., Feb. 20, 1735; died in Augusta, Maine in 1812; married Ephriam Ballard, Dec. 19, 1755, and according to a record in her diary, went to housekeeping the same day. Mr. Ballard, a civil engineer and surveyor, was employed by the Plymouth Land Company to survey and map out certain tracts of land along the Kennebec River in 1775. Accordingly he moved with his family to Augusta where he found a home near Bond Brook, and not far from the spot where Glen Cottage now stands. Within this humble home Martha Moore Ballard performed the duties incumbent upon the homemaker and mother of sons and daughters; those homely household tasks often tedious and laborious in the days when modern conveniences were unknown. She planted and hoed her garden with the aid of her daughters; she spun the yarn and wove the cloth from which garments for the family were made. The household linen was also woven and whitened by the same industrious hands. Her hospitality was unbounded. Here, the high and the low, the rich and the poor found welcome. Notwithstanding the many household duties which demanded her attention, she found time to minister to such as were in need of her services. Her knowledge and skill in the system of medical treatment at that time, brought her services into requisition for many miles around, and her success as a nurse, and remarkable skill as midwife, called her to officiate at the birth of approximately 1000 infants. Her fee for obstetrical cases was nine shillings, no matter how prolonged the labor nor how tedious the journey she was called upon to take. The roads over which she traveled were rough and often dangerous, yet this noble humanitarian never failed to respond to a call for help. Her strong soul knew no fear when on an errand of mercy. On those perilous journeys of the night, alone with the Infinite, Martha Ballard grasped the vision of the Christ as revealed by modern science, and communed with the "Parent of the Universe". The most stupendous task accomplished by the wonderful Martha was the keeping of a diary for twenty-seven years - from 1785 to 1812. It is estimated that this record of important events and neighborhood occurrences, if printed, would fill a volume of 1000 pages. No. 2. By the courtesy of Danforth L. Nash we were permitted to copy a few items from this journal as it appears in the first volume of Nash's History of Augusta. THE DIARY. 1785. Apr. 23, Mrs. Pollard (daughter Hannah) and I took tea at Col. North's. Oct. 11, Called in great haste to Col. Howard's to see his wife and five children, very sick. Samuel bleeding. Gave then great Bitters. Oct. 13, Watched at the Fort. Oct. 14, Came home from the fort. Went back before night. Sat up in Mrs. Howard's chamber. Oct. 16, Went to Col. Howard's. Tarried all night and watched with Mrs. Howard. Oct. 17, I tarried and helped move the sick, dress the blisters, etc. Oct. 28, Was called to Col. Howard's to assist in laying out his wife. (Margaret, the nine year old daughter of the Howards' died Nov. 4, 1785.) 1787. Dec. 30, Went to see Thomas Kenney's wife in travail. Broke through the ice on the eddy. Went into the water to my waist. Got out without assistance. Mr. Kenney carried me in his arms to the landing, mounted his horse, wet as I was, rode in haste to Mr. White's. The patient was safe delivered and is cleverly. Dec. 31, Dec. 1787 is ended. It happy is, if we are mended. If not, God grant that we may be. 1788. Apr. 6, Fast day. Mrs. Weston, Dr. Cony also dined here. We had a fine leg of pork. Apr. 18, Received 6 galls. rhum, 2 llbs. coffee, 5 lbs. sugar, some tobacco, 1/4 bush. salt from Joseph Williams for attending his wife in travail with her last child. May 8, Dr. Coney chosen to represent this town at General Court. 1788. July 1, Ice an inch thick in our yard. Aug. 4, Col. Howard made a present of a gall. of rhum and 2 lbs. sugar for my attendance on his family in sickness. Oct. 13, Mr. Davis here, has shingles. We bled a cat and applied the blood which gave relief. Apr. 17, A thief was whipped at the post for stealing clothes. Oct. 30, Mr. Ballard been to Town Meeting. They have appointed a council. Nov. 30, The council sett to consider the divorcing of the minister and the church. 1789. Apr. 27, Severe storm of rain. Was called at 11 P. M. to Ebenezer Hewins. Crossed the river in their boat. A great sea was going. We got safe over, then sett out for Mr. Hewins. Crossed the stream on floating logs. Got safe over. Wonderful in the goodness of providence! continued -continued No. 5 Company, under the direction of Col. North, to ascertain the "utmost limits of Cobbosseecontee toward the western ocean." While in the employment of this company on lands in the neighborhood of Balltown, he was driven off by armed men "who robbed him of his papers and instruments They demanded them with musket presented at his breast." A few days after "Philip Bullen and a Mr. Jones brought news that the unruly gang had burnt two barns, fifty-nine tons of hay, one horse and two swine, the property of Mr. Jones' father". (From Martha's diary) In 1796 he was employed by the commonwealth in surveying settling lands at Hampden and Bangor on the Penobscot. He married Martha Moore of Oxford, Mass., December 19, 1754, by whom he had three sons, Cyrus, Johnathan and Ephriam, and two daughters, Hannah, married to Moses Pollard, and Dolly, the wife of Barnabas Lambard. Mr. Ballard died January 7, 1821 at the advanced age of ninety-six. From Sewall's and Mrs. Ballard's diary in North's History: The winter of 1794-5 was remarkably mild. On the 15th of Dec. the river was clear of ice from Cobbossee to the sea, and on the twenty-first of the same month the ice went out from Fort Western, and the river continued open to the thirty-first, at which time the ground was bare of snow. However, the ice became "passable" on the third of Jan. and snow covered the ground to the depth of a foot the next day. On the third of Feb. a change came. A damp snow had fallen for two days previously, and the wind arose in the Kennebec that had been known since the settlement of the country. On the fifth the water rose to the sills of Gen. Sewall's house, and Johnathan Ballard, who lived in the William Brook's store at the mouth of Bond's Brook, was flooded out. The water rose three or four feet on the house floor, and the concussion of the ice driving down the brook removed the house from it's foundation and threw the chimney down. Mrs. Ballard, who had been confined four days before with her daughter Martha, and the family were in bed at the time. The water rose suddenly from the ice jamming below, and the inmates barely escaped before the house was removed from its foundation. Mrs. Ballard, with the child, was taken with the bed on which they lay, placed in a sleigh, and carried to the house of James Burton, and although she was "out three or four hours" her mother found her the next day, as she relates, "comfortable to admiration." (This was Martha's son Johnathan and his wife and child). One of those casualties happened at the fort settlement on the 31st of May, 1792 which are of too frequent occurrence even at the present day. As some men were firing a cannon in front of the meeting house at eight o'clock in the evening, probably on account of some recent news from France, William Vose and James and Samuel Johnson "were wounded by an unexpected discharge, by reason of the cannon not being properly swabbed." The two Johnsons were thought to be partially wounded and were carried to Elias Craigs house in whose family James Johnson resided. Samuel at the time lived with James Child. Mrs. Ballard was at Mr. Child's when the accident occurred, where she had just presided at the birth of his second son. She went over to Mr. Craig's and dressed the wounds of the sufferers, and the next day Samuel was carried on a bier borne by four men to Mr. Child's where he was properly cared for. In April of 1793, as Ephriam Ballard and his wife were returning from meeting, riding on the same horse, after the manner of the time, the horse fell near the Kennedy brook and threw them"into a doleful gully", but Mrs. Ballard relates, regardless of herself- that Mr. Ballard cleared himself No. 6. of the horse" and we "were not much hurt." *** In May, 1788, Ephriam Ballard commenced building a saw mill upon the site of the one burned the previous season. It was raised July 7th. This was an event that called together "a vast concourse of men and children" and it is added, "not many were disguised with liquor". "A Mr. Marshall and Thomas Moore were hurt during the raising." "The business otherwise was done with safety." The event was further commemorated by "the young folks" who "had a dance" at Mr. Ballard's which was continued till midnight. A heavy rain occurred April 7th, 1789 and the river opened. The bridge built the pervious season over Bond's Brook was swept away, and the underpinning of one side of Mr. Ballard's house fell in and part of his dam was carried away. A severe rain storm occurred on the 24th of the same month. The greatest freshet in the river that had been known for many years. In 1807, according to North's History, John Brewster, portrait and miniature painter, had arrived in town (Augusta) and was stopping at the Kennebec tavern, to paint in unfading colors the faces which King, his predecessor, had taken in profile. Maude Mosher, as well as others in the family, believe that the original portrait of Martha Ballard was produced by either King or Brewster as they were the only "artists" here at that time, and Martha certainly was not young when the picture was painted. The picture Maude sent to Hermann Riccius is a copy of the original, and the original is now in the possession of a Mr. Young, of Augusta, whose wife, I believe was a relative of the Ballards. Maude has not seen the picture for a long time and does not recall whether it is painted or just what it is like, but said it was in a frame (square) such as the old daguerreotypes were in, and that it was fading badly. It belonged to one of the Lambards - and Martha's daughter Dorothy married Barnabas Lambard so probably one of her descendants fell heir to the picture - and when this Lambard person was moving to California she or he gave the picture to Mrs. Young,feeling it should not be taken away from Augusta. Mrs. Joseph Young's mother, Martha A. Barton, was a daughter of Luke Barton, son of Dr. Stephen. Martha Ballard's diary, in two thick volumes, was last owned by Dr Hobart, of Boston, who had a copy of it made and printed before she donated it to the State Library of Augusta. Dr. Hobart was, I believe, a maiden lady and is now deceased. Martha Ballard was her great, great grandmother. Martha's daughter Dorothy Married Barnabas Lambard, and their daughter Lucy Lambard married Asaph Nichols, and one of the Nichols'daughters, either"Sarah Caroline"or"Martha Lambard" married a Hobart who was the father of Dr. Hobart who had the diary. Both Sarah and Martha married Hobarts (probably brothers) so I do not know which was the father of Dr. Hobart. Who has the copy of the old diary now we do not know. It may have gone to some niece or nephew of the Dr's. The original diary is extremely hard to read, being badly faded and the writing odd, and it has been mended with linen strips which obliterate a great deal of the writing and no one is allowed to take it from the Library, where it is kept in a vault along with Dr. Stephen Barton's old account book and diary given the Library by Maude Mosher. Both diaries will be shown on request.BALLARD. For early history of the Ballard family see Daniels History of Oxford, Massachusetts, Page 379. Ephriam Ballard, son of Johnathan and Hannah Kidder, born May 6, 1725, died, Jan. 7, 1821. Married Dec. 19, 1754, Martha Moore, dau. of Elijah and Dorothy Learned Moore, born Feb.9,1735. She died Aug. [ ] 1812. CHILDREN: Cyrus Ballard, b. Sept. 11, 1756, Lucy Ballard, b. Aug. 28, 1758; died Martha Ballard, b. [ ] 1761; died [ ] 1769. Johnathan Ballard, b. Mar. 4, 1763; mar. Tryphena Ballard, b. [ ] 1765; died [ ] 1769. Dorothy Ballard, b. [ ] 1767; died [ ] 1769. Hannah Ballard, b. Aug. 6, 1769; Mar. Moses Pollard; died Dorothy Ballard, b. Sept. 2, 1772, Mar. May 14, 1795, Barnabas Lambard; died Mar. 14, 1861. Ephriam Ballard, b. Mar, 30, 1779; mar. Feb. 5, 1804 to Mary Farwell; died [ ] 1829 at Bangor. *** Dorothy Ballard, dau. of Ephriam and Martha Moore Ballard, b. Sept. 2, 1772, died Mar. 14, 1861; mar. May. 14, 1795 to Barnabas Lambard, son of Luke and Rachel Lambard, b. Sept. 1, 1772 at Braintree, Mass. Probably in Hallowell in 1794; died Oct. 10, 1860, aged 89. He was a house joiner. 11 CHILDREN: 1. Allen Lambard, b. July 22, 1796; mar. Sibyl Angier Farnham of Mass. died 2. Dorothy Lambard, b. Nov. 11, 1797; died [ ] unmarried. 10. Thomas Lambard, b. June 29, 1813; mar. Oct. 14, 1841, Eliza Taylor of Crediton, England; died [ ] 3 children: Frederic Robinson; Frances Todd; Mary Eliza, Thomas President of Augusta Savings Bank. 3. Thomas Lambard, b. Aug. 10, 1799; died Oct. 12, 1804. (This Thomas,#3, should have been listed before the above Thomas #10.) 4. Barnabas Lambard, b. Apr. 17, 1801; died Sept. 25, 1815. 5. Lucy Lambard, b. Jan. 31, 1803; mar. Aug. 4, 1822, Asaph R. Nichols of Augusta; died [ ] ; Asaph died May 10, 1863. 9 ch. 6. William Lambard, b. Nov. 21, 1804; died unmar. Feb. 15, 1839. Merchant. 7. Henry Augustus Lambard, b. Dec. 26, 1806; died Mar. 27, 1821. 8. Sarah Farwell, Lambard, b. June 25, 1809; died [ ] unmarried. 9. Martha Town Lambard, b. Apr. 4, 1811; died Aug. [ ] 1823. 10. Thomas Lambard, (See Thomas #10 listed above by error) 11. Hannah P. Lambard, b. Mar. 29, 1816; Mar. 1st, Sept. 20, 1842, Rev. Jogn A. Henry; He died and she mar. 2nd, Dec. 19, 1850. Edward Walcott of Natick, Mass. She died (Hannah P. Lambard was undoubtedly named after her Grandmother's daughter Hannah Pollard (her aunt,) and was married on the anniversary of her grandma's marriage, Dec. 19, - almost a hundred years later.) #6. LAMBARD. Allen Lambard, son of Barnabas and Dorothy Ballard Lambard, born July 23, 1796, worked with his father at his trade until he was of age, in 1816, when he went to Charlestown, S. C. where he was employed as a clerk in a mercantile house for two or three years; afterwards he engaged in the commission business at that place, and in 1825, had, by enterprise and industry, accumulated $12,000, a large sum for that day. He closed his business at Charlestown the latter year and returned to Augusta. Here he engaged in the distillery business, in a stone building which he erected on the east side of the river. When this business became disagreeable from the progress of the temperance reform, he changed the works, before "Dea. Giles' Distillery" ceased to operate, into a foundry. The foundry business he prosecuted until 1852, when he went to California with a building apparatus to establish an iron foundry. This he commenced erecting at the city of Sacramento, on a large lot of land, and had it nearly finished, at the expense of $30,000, when fire in the fall of that year laid the city in ashes. However, he prosecuted his enterprise to completion, and foreseeing with far-reaching discernment the capacity of California for cereal productions, he built an expensive flour mill at Sacramento. These proved fortunate investments, and after a three years' residence, he sold his flour mill to Gen. Redington, regained his foundry, which is now regained by his son Orville, and returned home with an ample fortune. Mr. Lambard, now in the evening of his days, with much enterprise and vigor of his more youthful years, is now engaged in agricultural improvements and pursuits from a love of the employment. A restless activity and untiring energy have characterized the prosecution of all his enterprises, which have been so fortunate as to make him the largest individual taxpayer in Augusta. Mr. Lambard purchased the Dr. Snell estate, at the corner of Winthrop and Pleasant Streets in Augusta, at an expense, with the repairs, of $7,000, and has just given it, (Oct. 1870) to trustees, for the benefit of aged and indigent females. The charity is called "St. Mark's Home for Aged and Indigent Women." Mr. Lambard married Sibyl Angier Farnham of Mass. 8 Children: Emerson Jarvis, b. Mar. 1826; d. Sept. 26, 1835; aged 9 yrs. Charles Allen, b. about 1828; was in business at Augusta a few years; removed to Boston, was connected with the Pacific Railroad enterprise in which he made a fortune; mar. Frances Emily Johnson of Belfast, Me. She d. May 8, 1854, aged 25; mar. 2nd, Abby Williams dau. of Hon. Daniel Williams of Augusta. 2 chil: Frances Allen; Kate. Julia, b. about 1830; mar. Ralph Johnson of Belfast, now of Milwaukee Wis. John Farnham, b. July 1833; d. Jan. 12, 1841, aged 7 yrs. Frank Richmond, b. Sept. 1835; d. Dec. 27, 1835. aged 4 mo. Orville Dewey, b. about 1837; removed to Calif. where he now resides. Charlotte Louisa, b. about 1839; mar. Rev. Wm. E. Armitage of Augusta, now of Detroit, Mich. bishop of the diocese of Mich. 8 child, Julia Armitage. Sibyl Augusta, b. about 1841; mar. Nov. 1866 Henry T. Baldwin of Detroit now governor of Mich. 2 chil. Sibyl; Kate. ***[Saidee] NICHOLS. Asaph R. Nichols, son of Kendall and Deborah Partridge Nichols, born in 1800; died May 10, 1863; mar. Lucy Lambard, dau. of Barnabas and Dorothy Ballard Lambard, the 4th of Aug. 1822. She was born Jan. 1, 1803; died 9 Children: Henry, b. Sept. 11, 1823; mar. Sarah Evans Cole. Anne Augusta, b. July 11, 1825; mar. *eorge Shepard Hall. Sarah Caroline b. Mar. 20, 1827, mar. Enoch A. Hobart of Boston Lucy Lambard, b. June 14, 1829; mar. Daniel W. Fessenden. Martha Lambard, b. June 27, 1831; mar. Arthur W. Hobart of Boston. Charles Kendall, b. June 13, 1834, mar. Julia F. Melchert. Andrew Jackson, b. Dec. 30, 1836, mar. Mary Elizabeth Walcott. Hannah Alicia, b. May 22, 1839; died Jan. 24, 1842. John Henry b. Sept. 12, 1847; died Sept. 8, 1848. *** Either Sarah Caroline Nichols or her sister Martha Lambard Nichols, both of whom married a Hobart, was the mother of Dr. Hobart of Boston, who had Martha Ballard's old diary and had it printed before she gave it to The Augusta State Library. *** It is my understanding that all the Lambards have moved away from Augusta - many of them live in California. However, many of them who died are buried in the old cemetery known as Mt. Vernon Cemetery, in Augusta - formerly called Burnt Hill Cemetery. Many of the Ballards ar e also buried in this cemetery and Maude Mosher feels sure Martha and her husband, Ephriam Ballard are buried beneath a stone which is merely marked "Ballard". Dorothy Ballard Lambard's family are buried in the next lot and Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Barton's dau. [Parthenia] who married Zubail Pitts and died when in her early twenties, lies buried very near the Ballards and Lambards. The lovely old house that Allen Lambard bought and gave to St. Marks as a home for aged and indigent women, is still being used as an old folks home and is not far from where we live. When I become too feeble and poor to shoft for myself maybe I shall apply for a shelter there. Maude Mosher has heard of a man named Ephriam Ballard, a relative of the Ballards, quite old, who lives in North Augusta, and it is said he has stories, letters and pictures of the family which are of interest. If he lives until we can find him and we ever get gas to go see him, we hope to locate him and find out some more about the family. Dr. Stephen and Dorothy's dau. Clarissa Harlowe married Richard Foster and they lived in Winthrop, Maine and are buried there. Martha Ballard, Clarissa's Aunt, often went to Winthrop to deliver babies, and no doubt visited Clarissa often. Benjamin Porter and his first wife also lived in Winthrop - she was Polly Sargent - and in Martha's diary I saw a notation -"Mr. Porter spent the night with us". No doubt Pamela met him at her Aunt [Martha's.]HAYNE - HAYNES - HAINES. The list of names of the passengers intended for New England in the good ship Confidence, of London of C C tonnes, John Jobson, Master, and thus by virtue of the Lord Treasurer wan'.t of the X th of April 1638, Southampton, 24 April 1638. Walter Haynes of Sutton, Mandifield, the town of Wilts Lennen. Weaver - age 55 - Elizabeth Haynes, his wife. Thomas Hayne their sonnes John Hayne, under 16, Josias Hayne under 16 yeares of age Sufferance Hayne their daughters Mary. The Haines Garrison house stood on the Water Row Road, by the margin of the river meadow. It is supposed to have been erected by Walter Haynes In later years it was painted red. In 1876 it was still standing but has since been demolished. (A picture of it in History of Sudbury - Hudson, Page 27). John Haynes Sr. M. Ruth Roper, June 19, 1683. Debora Haynes, dau. of John and Ruth, B. Jan 30, 1690, M. Ebenezer Learned. John Haines, son of Walter, came with his father in 1638 in the "Confidence" at the age of sixteen. We hear of him about 1658 with other Sudbury parties in possession of lands in the territory of Worcester. (See chapter on Colonials from Sudbury - Hudson) John Haines died Dec. 11, 1710, M. June 19,1638 at Framingham. (Mrs. Alice Haynes, of Semley, WIlts. in her will dated March 2, 1620-1 mentioned her son Walter Haynes (of Sudbury.) From N. E. Hist. and Gena. Reg. Vol. 6 5, Page 295. LEARNED. The emigrant ancestor of the Oxford families was William, from Bermondsey Parish, Surry, England, of Charlestown, in 1632. A freeman in 1634. Removed in 1641 to Woburn - Selectman of Charlestown and Woburn. William Learned and Goodith (name not Judith, but an old English name from the Saxon, Goditha), his wife admitted to First Church of Charlestown 10 M. 6 day, 1632. He died in 1646. Isaac, apparently the only son of William and Goodith Learned, born in England, married July 9, 1646 to Mary Stearns of Watertown, and removed to Chelmsford; Selectman - freeman 1647. Children: Mary, B. Aug. 7, 1647. Hannah, B. Aug. 24, 1649. William, B. Died 1684. Sarah, B. Oct. 28., 1653. Isaac, B. Sept. 16, 1655. Benoni, B. Nov. 29, 1657. Isaac Jr., son of Isaac and Mary Stearns Learned, B. Sept 16, 1655, married July 23, 1669, Sarah, dau. of John and Mary Warren Bigelow. One of the 30 English settlers at Oxford. Isaac Learned Jr. in Narragansett [War] Dec. 19, 1675. In Captain Davenport's Co. - wounded. Had 11 children. Ebenezer Learned, M. Oct. 14, 1714, Deborah Haynes, dau. of John and Ruth Haynes - born Jan. 30, 1690 at Sudbury. Children: Dorothy, B. July 28, 1715, M. Elijah Moore. Ruth B. Apr. 5, 1717, M. Samuel Davis. Abigail, B. Apr. 7, 1719, M. Edward Davis. Deborah, B. July 6, 1721. Martha B. 1724. Mary B. Feb. 10, 1726, M. Richard Moore, Jr. Ebenezer B. Apr. 18, 1728. Jeremiah B. Jan. 1733. Comfort, B. July 11, 1730, M. Capt. Samuel Mower. died May 11, 1765. Ebenezer Learned was a large land owner - active in public affairs. 1718 Ensign. Captain 1744. Major 1747. Was Representative 1731.-1751. Was one of 30 proprietors - 32 years selectman. Col. Ebenezer Learned B. Aug. 31, 1690, d. Mar. 15, 1772, M. October 14, 1714.4. continued. BARTON. By E.R.King. #4. CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN PORTER AND LAVINA CHAPMAN. Continued. 2. Ida Orana, dau. of Benj. and Lavina Chapman, born [] died [] ; mar. David Lyon; had a son, 3. Mary Parthenia, dau. of Benj. and Lavina Chapman, born [May 8] died [] ; mar. John Wight, 5 ch:1Arthur, b. Aug. 12, 1871; d. [] 1929; mar. My[?]tie Fellows: [*b. pr. 10, 1882*] 3 ch. Donald, b. [June 15, 1903] mar. Freda Foss: 3 ch. Beverly, b. Aug. 18, 1936; Arthur, b. [Feb. 5, 1932]; Marjorie, b. [Dec. 19, 1935] [] : Prescott, b. Dec. 31, 1907 mar. Monice [Flagg] , ch. [Gloria b. May 5, 1927; Phyllis, b. June 3, 1930.] [Prescott, b. Mar. 4, 1932: Beatrice Dec 3, 1933.] Auswell, b. [March 19, 1905], mar. Mabel Allen, 2 ch. Robert b. [July 28, 1932] Gerald b. Jan. 1[5], 193[7?]; 2. Blanche, b. Aug. 14, 1873; d. Sept. 19, 1941; mar. 1st, [George] Brent; 2nd Moses Gordon. co ch. 3. Lora, b. Nov. 22, 1874; d. [Feb. 12, 1911]; mar. Robert Austin: 3 ch. Robert, b. May 1, [1901 ?]; mar. Eleanor Robertson, b. Nov. 3, 1902; 1 ch. Lora Ann, b. Feb. 13, 1932, John, b. [Feb. 18, 1901. mar. Mildred Reimund: 2 ch. [g?l? gr.] Deborah Ann.] Dorothy, b. Oct. 5, 1904; unmar. 4. Ella, b. Aug. 29, 1878; d. [] ; mar. Herbert Dolloff; 1 ch. Herbert, b. [May 28,] 5. Gertrude, b. July 15, 1881; mar. Wallace Kroyer. 4. George, born [Jan.] [*Dec. 8*], 185[9] [*7*]; died [Nov, 29, 1917] [*in Farm.*] ; son of Benj. and Lavina Chapman. [mar. Apr. 19, 1892 to Rose Norton] 8. Joseph Chapman, son of Polly and James Chapman, b. Feb. [] 1819. died June, [] 1831. 9. Byron Porter Chapman, son of Polly and James Chapman, b. June 1, 1821; died April [] 1825. 10. James Hervey Chapman, son of Polly and James Chapman, b. Vienna, May 1823-4; died [] ; mar. Ludia Walcott (Howe ?) and lived in Oxford, Maine. 7 ch. Clifton, b. Imogene b. June 20,1849; d. Feb. 26, 1911 ; m. Benjamin Porter Folsom , son of Rufus H. and Parthenia Barton Porter Folsom,b. Aug. 20, 1836; d. Jan. 22, 1880; (married Sept. 7, 1866.) [?] children: Fred Olney, b. Dec. 2, 1867l d.Mar.22,1882: Ella Clifton, b. Apr. 23, 1869; mar. May 16,1889 George Walter Abbott who d. Sept. [] 19-3: 2ch. Fred Amos, b. Imogene Folsom, b. [Julia E. b. Oct. 29, 1870. d. Nov. 24, 1875; Danforth T. b. Mar. 7, 1873, d. Mar. 1876.] [*Folsom Record ? 2 pages ??? here) [*(Insert) Folsom.*] FOLSOM RECORD - From the Genealogy prepared by Jacob Chapman at The Public Library, 42nd Street, New York City. The name FOULSHAM is derived from a village in County Norfolk, England, near Hingham. 1709 spelling changed to "FULLSOM" - Deacon John wrote it "FULLSOM" and signed his last will in 1715. Later the name spelled FOLSOM. On April 26, 1638, the Ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, England, of 350 tons burdon, John Martin, Master, set sail from the mouth of the Thames River, for Massachusetts Bay, having aboard nineteen families and eight single persons - in all, one hundred thirty-three. Twelve of these families were from old Hingham, all embarked for the purpose of joining a colony settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Among those now emigrating were John (Foulsham) Folsom, twenty-four years of age, and his young wife, Mary, to whom he had been married a year and a half. They were attended by two servants. His wife's fater and mother, Edward and Mary Clark Gilman, and his brothers and sisters, were also aboard. They landed at Boston, Mass. Aug. 10th, 1638. They went to Hingham, Mass in 1639. John Folsom sold his land in Hingham, Mass. In 1655 and removed to Exeter, New Hampshire. From there brabches of the family journeyed to the state of Maine and located at Cornville, New Sharon and Mount Vernon, Me. In Mt. Vernon a hill near their home was known as Folsom Hill. "The names of John Folsom and his wife, Mary Gilman, are found in a diary of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, Mass., who recorede the dates. John Folsom was an enterprising, courageous man, prominent in the commmities in which he lived, a leader in public affairs, determined on simplicity in religious worship and equity in the State - a solid, independent, righteous and true man." Jeremiah Folsom 6 (Nath.5, Jere.4, Nath.3, Nath.2, John 1 ) born at Mt. Vernon, Maine, and his wife, Nancy Thomas was also born in Mt. Vernon, Me., and was one of the members who organized the Free Baptist Church at Dunn's Corner Mount Vernon, in 1828. 1. William Thomas 7, born July 21, 1807. A farmer and mechanic in Augusta, Me. He mar. Hannah, dau. of Nathan Whitney, botn 19th of March, 1804, and died the 30th of March, 1865. They had four children. 2. Rufus H.7, born 17 of March, 1809, mar. Parthenia Porter, born July 4, 1805, in Vienna, Maine. They had three sons and two daughters. Rufus H. 7 died the 18th of May, 1869. His children were: 1. James H.8, born July 9, 1833, mar. Louise Smith, dau. of Thomas Smith of Mt. Vernon. 3 children. 2. Benjamin P. 8, born Aug. 20, 1836 in Oxford, Me. Died Jan. 22, 1880 in Oxford, Me. Married Imogene Chapman, dau. of J. Hervey Chapman, son of James Chapman Esq. and his wife Lydia Stetson Walcott; [??] was born in Oxford, Me. June 20, 1849, died in Dexter, Me. Feb. 26, 1911. 2 ch: Ella & Fred. Ella Mar. Geo. Abbott who died Sept. 1903. 3. Julia E.8, born Oct. 29, 1838 and died Nov. 24,1865#2. FOLSOM GENEALOGY. Children of Rufus H. 7. (continued) 4. Danforth T. 8, born March 7, 1843, died March 8, 1866. 5. Carrie [?]. 8, born Sept.15, 1845, died May 26, 1866. 3. Jogn Clark 7, son of Jeremiah 6, born Sept, 1, 1811, did not marry and was living in Vienna Maine 1876. 4. Dr. Aaron L. 7, born Sept, 30, 1814, a homeopathic doctor at Monticello, Me. 5. Louise T. 7, born Jan 6, 1817, died Jan, 2, 1852. 6. Sarah C. 7, born Jan. 26, 1820, mar. Stephen Veasie, lives in Eaton Steuben Co. N. Y. 7. Robert Holcon 7, born July 26, 1822, mar. about 1850 to Vashiti Brigg born Mt. Vernon, Me. He died Mar. 12, 1858. She died Nov. 1866. Their children wereL 1. Hu[???]le 8, born at Winthrop, Me. Jan. 20, 1851 and mar. Annie, dau. of John Lyons. Resided at Chicago, Ill. and was a steward at the Briggs House in Chicago in 1878. 2. Melville 8, born in Lowell, Mass. 8. Daniel L. 7, born April 30, 1825, farmer, unmarried, lived in Vienna. 9. George B. 7, born April 9th, 2831, died Jan. 31, 1855. Dr. Silas Burbank's mother was Miriam 7, dau. of Sarah 6 Folsom and she married the Rev. Peter S. Burbank (father of DR. Silas Burbank) Dr. Silas Burbank married a remote relative for his first wife, Mary Burbank, and his second wife was Hattie Morse of Mt. Vernon, Me. 5. continued. BARTON. By E.R.King. #5. CHILDREN OF JAMES HERVEY AND LYDIA WALCOTT CHAPMAN: continued. Ella Ida Jane, b. [] d. [] mar. [] Alden; a dau. Annie Elmer Hervey, b. [] d. age 28, mar. [] ; a dau. William, b. Pauline, b. Hattie, b. [] D. Aug. 1, *** 11. George E. Chapman, son of James and Polly Chapman, b. Vienna, [] 1830; died 1831. 12. Parthenia Porter Chapman, dau. of James and Polly Chapman, b. Dec. 3, 1833; died Dec. 27, 1853; mar. Franklin Richardson. No children. *** 3. CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND PAMELA BARTON PORTER AND DESCENDANTS: continued from page 2. 2. Jonathan Porter, son of Benj. and Pamela Barton Porter, b. May 5, 1790; died April 14, 1814; not married. 3. Dolly Barton Porter, dau. of Benj. and Pamela Porter, b. Dec. 29, 1792. died at Vienna July 4, 1827; mar. Oct. 15, 1815, to Abel Whittier who was born Oct. 17, 1789. One dau., Fidelia Porter Whittier, b. Oct. 12, 1816; mar. Thomas Buswell, 4 ch: Evaline, b. died when a young woman. Charles, b. d. [] , mar. Clara [Smith] and lived in Worcester, Mass. No ch. Afella, b. d. [] ; was given to Edward Howard at her mother's death, and he gave her a good education. She mar. [] Jenks, and had a son [*Harvey*] who mar. and had a dau. [Cynthia] Augusta, b. [July 7, 1845] d. [Dec. 20, 1889] mar. Auswell Fellows: [*b. Jan 26, 1846. d. Dec. 20, 1915*] 5 ch. 1 living. [Ellery b, Oct. 9, 1867, d. Nov. 27, 1879; Cora L. b. Jan. 14, 1870, d. Aug. 22, 1872; Albert L. June 30, 1873, d. Feb. 25, 1902; Bertha M. b. Jan. 8, 1875; d. Jan. 4, 1880; Mystic A. b. Apr. 10, 1882.] 4. Stephen Barton Porter, son of Benj. and Pamela Porter, b. in Vienna, March 9, 1795; d. [] ; mar. Miriam Whittier, Aug. 15, 1819. 5 children: Artemas, b. June 5, 1820; d. Martha Whittier, b. Feb. 4, 1822; d. mar. Nath. moore and had 5 ch. She had a good education, a good teacher and beloved by all who knew her. Moved to Minnesota with their family and she died with cholera on passage from Illinois to Minn. Taken ashore, buried in Galena, Ill.6. Continued. BARTON: By E. R. KING. #6. CHILDREN OF STEPHEN BARTON PORTER AND MIRIAM WHITTIER PORTER: Continued. John C. Porter, b. July 20, 1827; had college education, was teacher of mathematics several years in N. Y. Health failed and he was carried to his father's home in Minn, and soon died. Married a N. Y. woman. Charles Porter, b. Sept. 1, 1829; died [] ; Mar. and lived in Minn. Well educated and successful. George Porter, b. Sept. 1, 1834; died [] ; mar. and lived in Minn. Successful teacher. Stephen Barton Porter served in the war of 1812 and was Lieut. of a Company. He and his three sons went to Minn. He took bounty land and his sons bought adjoining land. They owned large farms. *** 5. Tyler Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born in Vienna, Maine, April 6, 1797; died June 24, 1835; mar. Aug. 20, 1817 to Mary Whittier, b. at South Newburg, Me. Oct. 31, 1799; died at Chelsea, Mass. June 14, 1887. She married second, March 18, 1838, Jogn M. Hussey. Children: Johnathan, b. East Dixmont, Me. Dec. 13, 1818; Mar. Sarah Folsom and had one son, John, who lived in Dixmont, Me. Thomas Whittier, B. Mt. Vernon, Me. Nov. 13, 1820; mar. Almira Dexter and Almira Loring Gardner; Served as Colonel in Civil War. Brought his cousin Orestes Porter's remains home after he died in the army. Was a lawyer in Boston. Pamela Barton, b. Sept. 23, 1822; mar. William Gray of Lynn Mass. and had a son and dau. Byron, b, July 10, 1825: Lived with his Aunt Parthenia Porter Folsom after his father died, 'till he was twelve years old, then went to Dixmont and lived with his Uncle Byron Porter who educated him. Later studied medicine with him and became a highly esteemed physician and lived in Newport Me. Dolly Ann, b. Newburg, Me. Nov. 15, 1827; mar.Ezekiel Weston. Henry Clay, b. Jan. 7, 1832; died Feb, 11, 1832. Mary, b. March 7, 1833. Two ch. by second husband, John M. Hussey: Russell Hussey. William Penn Hussey. *** 6. Benjamin Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born June 25, 1799; died May 31, 1868; mar. 1st, Oct. 24, 1819, Phebe Gould, born [] 1803; died Aug. 23, 1844. Married 2nd, Abigail Kimball, b. [] 1823; died Jan. 13, 1898. continued. 7. continued. BARTON. By E. R. King. #7. Benjamin Porter was most always in town business, sent once to the State Legislature, active in town affairs and helf various town offices. CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND PHEBE GOULD PORTER: Augusta, b. Mar. 22, 1821; died [] ; mar. Rothens M. Byram, a Universalist preacher. Lived in Chelsea and had two children that lived to an adult age: Ada and Rothens. Eugene M., a son born in 1937, died Mar. 3, 1841. Adas first husband was a sea captain named Phinney, I think, and was killed, leaving a daughter Blanche who mar. Arthur Wells and had 3 daughters; Edith, Ada and Maretta all of whom are married and live in or near Phila. Pa. Ada's second husband was named Eaton. Rothens lived in New York City. Benjamin Franklin, b. April 13, 1824; died [] ; mar. Abby Button and lived in Vienna. Had two children: Benjamin Franklin and Bertha. Russell Streeter, b. May [] 1828; died April 1, 1838. Adeline, b. Sept. 1833; died April [] ; mar. William Penning and lived in Springfield, Mass. Had six daughters: [Rose, Nell, Addie] Russell Streeter, b. Nov. [] 1837; died in 1876; mar. Martha Leighton and had a son Fred M. who mar. Nell Gordon and had a son Rotheus of Mt. Vernon. Viola, b. June [] 1841; died [] ; mar. Silas Taft of Oxford, Mass., May 26, 1861. Ch. Viola A. b. July 25, 1862; died Sept. a5, 1862l Mary Isabel b. Mar. 17, 1865; mar. Benj. Franklin Porter and had several ch. CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND ABIGAIL KIMBALL PORTER, 2ND WIFE: La Forest, b. May 27, 1852; died June 11, 1917; mar. Dec. 24, 1878, Jennie Rosina French, b. April 1, 1861; died Nov. 19, 1924. Two children died in infancy; a daughter, Minnie Evaline, b. Vienna, Me. July 8, 1890; mar. Arthur Greenleaf Whittier, Nov. 25, 1914. He was b. in N. Vienna Nov. 27, 1884; Two children: Porter Barton, b. Aug. 4, 1917; Ray Greenleaf, b. Feb. 26, 1922 in Vienna, Me. [d. July 7, 1945] Phebe Evaline, b. Dec. 16, 1853; died Jan. 27, 1933; mar. James Porter, Davis, her cousin, b. Feb. 26, 1858; died Jan. 20. 1914. No children. ***8. Continued. BARTON By E. R. King, #6 7. Byron Porter, (Doctor), son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born May 11, 1802; died Feb. 1871; Worcester, Mass., mar. Eliza J. Morse in 1831. He was a Doctor, settled in DIxmont, Me. and had six children. Practiced in Dixmont, Bangor and Waterville and retired from is profession with a competency. Went from Dixmont to Hampden, next to Bangor, then to Waterville where is health failed, then went to Vineland, N. J. and last to Worcester, Mass. where he died. Accumulated a good property, enough to make wife and family comfortable. Always in some business, never idle. CHILDREN: Parker Cleveland, b. June 10, 1833. He served in the Rebellion as Surgeon. Married and had a son and lived in Chicago, Ill. Octavia F., b. ; mar. William Reed, a Congregational preacher. A twin to Octavia died in a few hours. Emma . b. : mar. John Blaisdell. Two ch. Both died. Mary Eva, b. ; Mr. Joseph Brown and lived in Beverly, Mass. 2 ch. Porter Emerson, b. 1879; d. Sept. 20, 134; mar. and had ch. He was quite a famous novelist. Majorie, b. Lizzie May, b. ; unmarried. Barton Porter, b. July 4, 1805 (twin to James Porter) died Oct. 25, 1892, age 87 years; mar. 1st Rufus H. Folsom Sept. 9, 1831. He was born Mar. 17, 1809; died May 18, 1869. Parthenia mar. 2nd Hiram Seavey. 5 Children: James H. b. July 9, 1833; mar. Aug. 23, 1866, Louise A. Smith, dau. of Thos. Smith of Mt. Vernon, Me. Three CH: Carrie L. b. Mar. 9, 1871; mar. Frank Gordon and has son Shirley b. Feb. 3, 1896; mar. May Neal; 2 ch. Madeline b. ; Marjorie, b. Nov. 9, 1940. Elvena S. b. June 16, 1873; d. Dec. 14, 1873. Carroll Barton, b. April 10, 1875; died Sept. 25, 1942; unmarried. Benjamin Porter, b. Ag. 20, 1836; D. Jan. 29, 1880, mar. Sept. 7, 1866 to Emogene Chapman, dau. of . Jervey Chapman, b. Ime 20, 1849; d. Feb. 26, 1911: 2 ch. Fred Olney, b. Dec. 2, 1867; d. March 22, 1882; Ella Clifton, b. Apr. 23, 1869; mar. May 16, 1889 Geo. Walter Abbott who d. Sept. 1903. 2 ch. Fred Amos b. ; Imogene Follsom, Julia E., b. Oct. 29, 1838; died Nov. 24, 1865. Unmar. Danforth T. b. Mar. 7, 1843; died Mar. 8, 1866. Carrie L. b. Sept. 15, 1845; died May 26, 1866 M. Leander No ch. by second Husband, Hiram Seavey. #9. continued. BARTON. By E.R. King. 9. James Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born July 4, 805, (Twin to Parthena) died Aug. 1877; mar. Jan 1827 to Lurinda Gould, born died 3 Children: Horatio C. Porter, b. Jan. 16 1830; died June 25, 1905; Mar. Anna El Dearborn, b. Apr. 16, 1835; d. April 19, 1901; no ch. Orestes Harlow Porter, b. Sept. 10, 1836; died; mar Rachel Allen, b.; d. ; no ch. Served in the Civil War. and died in service. Victoria L. Porter, b. Feb. 24, 1839, in Vienna, Me.; died Mar. 27, 1865; mar. April 8, 1857 to George E. Davis, b. Sept. 14, 1830; died Oct. 10, 1867; 2 ch. James Porter Davis, b. Feb 26, 1858 at Natick, Mass.; died Jan. 30, 1914; mar. Phebe Evaline Porter, is second cousin, May 11, 1884; She was b. Dec. 16, 1853; d. Jan. 27, 1933. no ch. George Albert Davis, b. Nov. 7, 1860; at Natick Mass., d.; mar. Apr. 11, 1884 [Waleatt] N. Dakota to Jennie Emilie Olsen, b. ; d. Jennie [Victoria} 2 ch. Victoria Davis, b. June 12, 1885 Married Victor Ratzburg; d. ; 4 ch: Paul; Lucile; Gladys; Doris. Gladys Evlyn Davis, b. Nov. 26, 1886; Nashua, N.H.; mar. Ralph Holt; he died; 3 ch. Ralph; Ruth; Edith. 10. Caoline Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born March 27, 1808; died young. 11. Caroline M. Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, b. July 8, 1811, d. Dec. 16, 1840; Mar. June 15, 1832 to Jonathan D. Poor, b. in Sebago Me., (Jonathan) 1845 in Windsor, Me. where he is buried. married 2nd. his first wife's cousin, Clarissa Harlowe Barton, b. Apr. 23, 1809; d. Nov. 28, 1899; dau. of Gideon and Sarah Pierce Barton. No ch. by Clarissa. Children of Caroline M. and Jonathan D. Poor: Leander A. Poor, b. June 10, 1833; d. July 8, 1910; mar. , to Mary Dore of No. Oxford, Mass., b. Aug. 31, 1841; died Apr. 19, 1926. 6 Children: Howard W. Poor, b. Aug. t, 1867; mar. July 25, 190 to Edith Holden, b. Aug. 29, ; 2 ch. Leander Holden, b. Jan. 1, 1902; Theodora, adopted, [*Antoinette Golay [?] - Aug. 1954*] I am sure Antoinette never gave me anything but the copy of her genealogy which I once sent her and asked her to fill in names and dates of her immediate family, which she did, and I still have it. I am glad you now know she must have given you the C.B. book and also glad it is in the Dansville Chapter and appreciated and loved. I know you have many more letters with information about Mattie and Jules and Antoinette than I have, but from copies of the old letters that Maud Mosher gave me, and those Antoinette and the Poor girls have written me, I have been able to piece together quite a history of Mattie and Jules, as you probably have. Not that it matters a hoot about it all, now, but it was interesting at the time we found those old records and letters and Maud was so glad to give them where they belonged. As far as I know, Antoinette knew more about the Porter family than she did about the Barton family, for Her grandmother was our grandma's sister and that is undoubtedly why both Callie (Caroline) Porter Poor and herdaughter, Mattie, both visited our grandmother. I know you think I am making up the story about Antoinette not knowing she was related to Aunt C., but really, I do not make things up for the sake of a good story, when it comes to writing a history of a family. All I know is that Antoinette was so surprised when I mentioned it and thot perhaps her so called relationship to the Bartons' was thru Grandma Julie who married a Barton. She certainly did not know one thing about Pamela Porter being a Barton, not anything about the old Dr. Stephen Barton in Windsor, even tho' her mother stayed over there with Gideon's family a great deal. And so did her Uncle Leander Poor. And her Grandfather Johnathan Poor lived at Gideon's and married his dau. for a second wife, but Antoinette knew nothing of all this. In fact she said she knew almost nothing of the family history as she was taken awayfrom her relatives when a small child, after her father married again. She told me her stepmother was very kind to her but never seemed to want her to have any contact with her mother's relatives. The day that we called on her in Georgetown, Maine, I had taken along all my records so I could have data to refer to in case she was interested in the family; and she was interested very much, and so was her grandson, Frederick Bueschner. He went out to the car with me while I got the papers out of my suitcase and afterward asked me if I would send him a copy of the family line. I did, as soon as I got back, and as he was in college at that time I sent the copies to Antoinette who was staying with Fred's mother; but I never heard a word from any of them regarding the copies. As they were never returned to me I suppose they got them but forget to write me. Freddie was writing a novel then and teaching in Princeton, so probably was too busy to write. I only hope he got the relationships straightened out. Antoinette was as alert as anyone could be - no signs of failing mentality at that time, I assure you. A very interesting lady and snappy dark eyes and dark hair, lots of it, streaked with gray, and a deep voice. She was small. Both grandsons were very handsome and gay and interested in all we had to say. Their mother was very sweet too. Now my notes received from Antoinette state that Mattie, her mother, was born in 1837, died on Nov. 13, 1868. married to Jules on Dec. 25,1866. Jules was younger than Mattie, born in 1842 and Antoinette states he died in 1890, but you have sent me a record that states he died in 1880 and I am sure your record is correct for our mother used to tell me about him and he had been dead a long time when she talked about him. He had a crush on mother and also Aunt Mamie and anyone else that would take him, I guess. He got mother's Swiss watch and the bracelets for her - whether he sent to Switzerland for them or where, I do not know. Now Antoinette was born in (Washington) [*I think - maybe in Ox.*] in 1867 on Nov. 13, and I think she has mistaken her birthday with the death of her mother which she places on Nov. 13, 1868. Her birthday undoubtedly is Nov. 13, 1867, but I have a letter ( a copy) her father wrote to "Aunt Hannah Barton", Maud's grandmother, after Mattie died, and he goes on to say that Mattie had been dead over two months when he was writing that letter in Nov. So she probably died in Sept instead of Nov. Antoinette was confused. She was not well at the time she filled in those dates, she said. Jules wrote that Mattie went to Maine in the spring of 1867 and must have gone down to Aunt Julie's from there and died in the fall [*1868*]. Mother took A. back to Washington, but I do not know how old A. was at that time. A small girl, I think, as she said she was heartbroken to leave Aunt Julie. Jules married a Maine woman, Harriet Chase Barrett, related to Lord Somebody in Kittery, and they had a daughter Cornelia who still lives up in Machiasport, Maine, and Antoinette visits her occasionally and seems very fond of her. Caroline Porter Poor, grandma's sister, was born in 1811 and died in 1840, and her husband, Jno. Poor was born in 1803 and died in 1845 and married for a second wife, Clarissa Barton, Gideon's dau. He was married only a yr. when he died and Gideon buried him in the Barton lot at Windsor. Maybe Gideon was dead then, too, but anyway he was buried in G's lot. So Maud said. You have all this in your papers, I know, but to save you the bother of looking it up, I have retold you the history as I know it. Of course I have made a million mistakes in dates and facts etc. in the history I have compiled, (and not finished by a long shot,) of the family, but it has been a very great pleasure to me to have searched for records and put them together and I do not regret all the time and eye sight I have spent doing it. However, I am tempted to dump the whole thing in the fireplace and burn it up, for what I have written does not amount to a tinker's dam and probably will be labeled incorrect by anyone who bothers to look thru it. It was amusing and interesting to me while I was writing it but I should never have sent copies of what I wrote as they may be misleading, altho' I have tried to copy faithfully what I have found in histories and other sources. What gives you the idea I will tell you I am not a 10th generation descendant of the Whipple family? What have I said about that?#10. continued, BARTON. (Children of Howard W. and Edith Holden Poor) continued. Theodora Poor, adopted, born Jan. 12, 1906. (Children of Leander A. and Mary Dore Poor: continued:) Effie Poor, b. Jan. 31, 1869; died Jan. 20, 1891. Eva May Poor, b. Oct. 3, 1870; died July 19, 1871. Nina Poor, b. Nov. 18, 1871; died Dec. 28, 1936. Charles Summer Poor, b. Mar. 11, 1874; d. Dec. 5, 1915; mar. June 19, 1900 to Julia Bunker: 3 ch. William Bunker, born Oct. 11, 1901; Effie Marian, b. June 19, 1903; Louis Summer b. Jan. 15, 1910. Carrie Poor, b. Feb. 6, 1877; mar. Harry Gohl Jan. 22, 1908; 3 ch: Robert Edgar b. Jan. 10, 1909; d. Aug. 30, 1940; Donald F. born Nov. 10, 1911; Howard Summer, b. Jan. 25, 1916. Martha V. Poor, b. Dec. 9, 1880. ******************** Caroline (Julia Helen Poor, dau. of Jonathan D. and Caroline Porter Poor, born June 9, 1835; died ; mar. 1st Samuel Lord; 2nd mar. Simeon D. Holman of Auburn, Mass. who died in Leicester, Mass. in 1870. A son Albert Holman born in Dudley in 1867. Martha Osgood Poor (Mattie), dau. of Jonathan D. and Caroline Porter Poor, born April 3, 1837; died Nov. 13, 1868; mar. Dec. 25, 1866 to Jules Golay, born 1848; died July 10, 1890. He was a native of Geneva Switzerland and came to America to be a soldier in the civil war. He married a second wife and had a daughter Cornelia Golay, who married Francis Lane Benedict of Machiasport, Me. I child by 1st wife, Martha Osgood Poor Golay: Antoinette Golay, dau. of Jules and Martha O. Poor Golay, born (called "Nettie") Nov. 12, 1867; mar. Sept. 25, 1895 to David Wilson Kuhn, born Nov. 6, 1866. 3 children: [*b. Jan. 23, 1947.*] Katherine Kuhn, b. July 13, 1896; mar.Frederick Buechuer, July 28, 1920; He was born Oct. 31, 1898, died Nov. 1986: 2 ch: Frederick Buechuer, b. July 11, 1921; James Buechuer, b.Dec.7,1928. Ruth [???], b. March 15 1899, mar. George Wick, b. Mar. 21, 2897; Married Mar. 20, 1918: 3 ch: Antoinette Wick, b. Jan. 15, 1919, mar. in 1942 to Rufus Soghum: George Wick, b. Dec. 7, 1921, mar. Kathleen Coates in 1944 and have a dau., Mary Hitchcock Wick b. Mar. 12, 1945. #11. continued. BARTON. By E. R. King. Children of Antoinette Golay and David Wilson Kuhn: continued: (Children of Ruth Kuhn and George Wick - continued: ) David Wick, born Feb. 27, 1927. Son of Ruth and George Wick. James Anthony Kuhn, son of Antoinette Golay and David Wilson Kuhn, born Jan. 28, 1907. *************** Russell Streeter Poor, son of Caroline Porter and Jonathan D. Poor, born Mar. 4, 1839. died ; mar. Isabel Winslow and had a son Fred. By second mar. a son Lawrence b. 1881, mar. and had one son, Russell b. 1911. A dau., Alice, b. 1883, mar. S. Conkling. *************** 12. Julia Ann Maria Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born Jan. 23, 1818; died July 14, 1899; mar. Sept. 30, 1839, David Barton Barton, her cousin, born Aug. 15, 1808; died March 12, 1888. Children: Ada Idelia Barton, twin, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Feb. 17, 1930; mar. Dec. 4, 1869 to Charles Monroe Clark, b. [*1848*] d. [*1916*]; 5 ch: Charles, b. 1870; died in infancy; David Barton, b. May 29, 1871; mar. Lizetta [*Powell about 1895*] : 4 ch: [*Harry L. b 1895 - 1895 Elizabeth M. 1901-1902*] Muriel Clark, b. ; Mar. [*Norman McCann*] Dorothy Clark, b. Mar. Kenneth Lowe mar. July 17, 1937; 2 ch. Virginia Barton Lowe, b. Mar. 21, 1936; Elizabeth Clark Low, b. July 25, 1942: Lyman E Clark b. [*1882*] d [*1885*] Josephine Clark, b. June 27, 1873; d. Feb 14, 1935. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. May 29, 1875, d. mar. 1st. Louise 2nd. Charlotte No ch. by either marriage. Ida Adelia Barton, twin, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Jan. 26, 1911, mar. March 22, 1879 to Gustav Adolph Julius Riccius, b. March 18, 1841; died July 6, 1891. 4 children: Edith Julia Riccius, b. Feb. 13, 1881; mar. Aug. 19, 1906 to George Evander King, b. Mar. 30, 1879; no ch. Hermann Porter Riccius, b. Oct 4, 1883; unmarried; Saidee Frances Riccius, b. Dec. 28, 1886; unmarried; Walter Harold Riccius, b. May 5, 1889; mar. 1st. July 15, 1912, Ruth Brown; mar. 2nd. Wilhelmina Mange, b. Sept. 26, 1899. Mar. Feb. 14, 1929. #12. Continued. BARTON: By E. R. King. Children of Julia Ann Maria Porter and David Barton: continued. Stephen Emory Barton, born Dec. 24, 1848; died Jan. 17, 1929. mar. 1st. Joyce Wilmot, born [*Aug 24 1848*]; mar. June 28, 1870. She died April 12, 1881. He mar. 2nd. Oct. 13, 1884, Harriet Elizabeth Walker Tracy, born July 27, 1849; died June 20, 1931. No ch. [*In U.S. Military Telegraph operated at Hilton Head 1863 (aged 15) as telegrapher. Later as Cape Breton N.S with laying of 1st cable overseas by Overland Cable Co. Insurance in Wor. N.Y & Boston. See "The Red Cross" by Clara Barton P. 373 (picture)*] Children by 1st. wife, Joyce Wilmot Barton: Irving Wilmot Barton b, and died in 1871; Ida Myrtis, (changed later to Myrtis Wilmot Barton) born March 23, 1873; mar. June 11, 1900 to Stephen Lathrop Butler, b. April 9, 1871; died May 2, 1945. 1 ch. Joyce Wilmot Butler, b. June 27, 1903; mar. Sept 11, 1926 to Dwight Hughes, b. April 15, 1891: 2 ch. Jere Hughes, b. Nov. 8, 1927; Stephen Barton Hughes, b. Feb. 15, 1929. Edith Joyce Barton b. [*Apr. 3 1875*] d. [*June 15, 1876*] Lauretta Gertrude Barton, b. Dec. 7, 1876: d. Apr. 5, 1883. ********************************** Mary Anna Barton (Mamie) born Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929; mar. March 22, 1879 to John H. Stafford, b. Dec. 15, 1850; died March 21, 1929. 2 ch: Stephen Barton Stafford, b Dec. 3, 1880; mar, [*about 1909-10*] Helen Richardson, b [*1887*]; 4 ch. John Kenneth Stafford. b. [*1910*] 1911; d. Jan. 20, 1929; Donald Barton Stafford, b. Dec. 10, 1912; mar. [*Santina Forchielli - a daughter - Susan b June 1951*]; Stephen Phillip Stafford born Oct. 11, 1914; [*Martha - b 1913 - d 1913*] Anna Gertrude Stafford, b. May 11, 1883; mar. Aug. 24, 1903, Guy Willard Olney, b. July 15, 1881. 2 ch. Helen Gertrude Olney, born Oct. 9, 1904; unmarried: May Barton Olney, b. July 7, 1908; mar. Jan. 16, 1937 to Ray E. White, b. 2 ch. Raymond Olney White, b. Oct. 31, 1940; Stephen Barton Olney, born Aug. 2, 1945. ************************************* The foregoing pages contain all the information of births, marriages and deaths, etc. available at the moment, of the oldest daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, [..] Pamela Barton Porter and her husband, Benjamin Porter, their children and descendants. The following pages will be a like history of the next child of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton - a daughter, Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who married Richard Foster and settled in Maine. [*Sarah -*] BARTON. By E.R.K. 1946. CLARISSA HARLOWE BARTON, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass. Sept 10, 1770, died Nov. 13, 1843; married Oct. 20, 1791 to Richard Foster, son of Samuel Foster, born at Little Nine Partners, N. Y., May 31, 1768; died Aug. 23, 1841. Both buried at New Sharon, Maine. There is a story handed down to us, that Clarissa Harlowe Barton was named for the heroine of a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1748; "Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady." Many other members of the Barton family were later named Clarissa Harlowe - so many, in fact, that the name Clarissa has become a family name. Richard Foster attained quite a reputation as a wit; in October 1806 he and his son Ebenezer went as hostlers on a boat to the West Indies, returning in January, 1807. Clarissa and Richard Foster settled in Maine. 10 children were born to them: 1. Parthena Foster, born May 18, 1792; died ; married Jan. 22, 1815 to Daniel Thing of Mt. Vernon, Me., b. died Nov. 20, 1851. 2. Ebenezer Foster, born Aug. 14, 1794; d. ; married Crabtree 3. Harlow Foster, born Sept. 12, 1798; d. ; unmar. 4. Clarissa Harlowe Foster, born May 2, 1801; d. ; mar. Elijah Gove. (5. Laurinda Foster, twin, born March 14, 1804; d. ; Twins: ( Married Charles Leadbetter. (6. Pamela Foster, twin, born March 14, 1804; d. ; ( married Aaron Barton. 7. Elvira Foster, born Nov. 17, 1806; d. ; married James Maxwell and had a son Dwight Maxwell b. Feb. 17, 1838; died Sept. 14, 1884 who mar. and had a dau. Lillian Maxwell who married Samuel L. Small and lived in Dexter, Maine. Lillian Maxwell Small was a musician and sang at the Barton Reunion at home of Mr. & Mrs. Winfield Barton, W. Windsor, Me. 8. Michael Foster, born April 19, 1809; died ; 9. Walcott Foster, born March 12, 1812; d. ; married Mabrianna Atwood. 10. Viletta Foster, born May 9, 1815; d. ; married James Lane. Elvira, Michael Walcott and Viletta born in New Sharon, Maine.Did I send you Clarissa's record? Let me know. #1 BARTON GENEALOGY. HANNAH BARTON, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born in Maine, July 20, 1776; died at Worcester, Mass., Feb. 12, 1859; (mar. Oct. 5, 1822) to Jonathan Davis, son of Edward and Abigail Learned Davis, born March 27, 1761: died Aug. 3, 1838 at Oxford, Mass. Jonathan Davis married first, Sept. 12, 1787, Sarah Hammond, daughter of Ebenezer Hammond. She died Feb. 5, 1821 - 22. 2 children: Stephen Davis, born Sept. 1, 1788; died Feb. 1, 1854: Jonathan Davis, born Oct. 29, 1789; died Apr. 11, 1868. Jonathan Davis Sr. was Justice of the Peace, Representative, County Commissioner, Major General of Militia, Chief Justice of Court of Sessions in Worcester and President of Oxford Bank for many years. The Davis family was a fine and highly respected one. Jonathan lived in the old homestead of the Davis family until 1827. The story of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis is interesting, unusual and perhaps a bit irregular and was told to me by my mother, Ida Barton Riccius. Hannah Barton was "placed out" to work as a maid in the family of Jonathan Davis. Hannah was extremely young but she was very capable and assisted in nursing Sarah Davis, Jonathan's wife, thru both confinements when her two children were born. After a few years Sarah Davis became more or less of an invalid and Hannah had complete charge of the home. On Oct. 25th, 1796, Hannah Barton had a son of her own and Jonathan Davis was the father of her child. In August, 1799, Hannah had another son by Jonathan Davis. Sarah Davis assisted Hannah thru both confinements and the "double family" seemed on very friendly terms. As Sarah was still Jonathan's wife, Hannah could do naught but give her two sons the name of Barton as a surname. So she named the first born child, Ira Moore Barton, and the second son was called Sumner Barton. Jonathan Davis, the father of these two sons, gave them every advantage, just as he gave his sons by his wife, Sarah Davis. Both of Hannah's sons were sent to Brown University and Ira graduated from there in 1820 and attended Cambridge Law School for 18 months. Sumner Barton, the younger son, was extremely sensitive and when some of his college class mates cast aspersions upon his parentage, it caused him such grief and humiliation he committed suicide by shooting himself in 1821, just twenty-two years old. Jonathan Davis' wife, Sarah, did not die until Feb. 5, 1821-22, but after a decent interval had passed, Jonathan and Hannah were at last married, Oct. 5, 1822, and lived together until Aug. 1838 when Jonathan Davis died. Hannah then lived with her son, Ira Barton, in Worcester, until she died in 1859. Ira loved his mother devotedly and gave her very tender care and every luxury. Ira became a Judge and was a most remarkable character - brilliant, dignified, honorable and distinguished, yet entirely simple and unassuming in manner. He was a very handsome man and was greatly loved and respected by all who ever knew him. A letter Ira wrote to a cousin In Maine was recently found among some old papers, and in it Ira planned to bring his mother again to Maine for a visit before she became too old to travel. No one seemed to blame Hannah for the course she followed - people seemed to love and respect her because she made no effort to conceal her unconventional union with Jonathan Davis, and because she gave her children her own name and held her head high and went her placid way. A picture of her taken when she was an old lady, portrays her as a sweet, gentle person, yet with strength of character written all over her dear old face. Her descendants have little cause to be ashamed of her for she has given them a remarkable and splendid heritage. On the following page is the history of her Son, Ira Moore Barton and his descendants. BARTON GENEALOGY. #2 cont. Children of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis. I IRA MOORE BARTON, son of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis, born in Oxford, Mass. Oct. 25, 1796; died July 18, 1867; mar. Nov 11, 1823 to Maria W., dau. of Dr. Artsmas Bullard. She died Nov. 24, 1883. 9 children: 1. William Sumner Barton, born at Oxford, Sept.30, 1824; died mar. 1st, Apr. 4, 1840 to Anne Elizabeth Jannison who died Feb. 28, 1869; 3 children. 1. Mary Barton . b. dept. 29, 1853; d. June 12, 1931; at all Saints, by Dr. Huntington Apr. 11, 1872 mar. Alfred W. Dana of Santa Rosa, Cal. and had 12 children. 1. Alfred Henshaw, b. Sept. 26, 1872 at Berchtesgaden, Germany; mar. 1st May Ballard 1 child Alfred, mar. 2nd Cecil Harrold, a child Charles 2. William Sumner Barton, b. Aug. 30, 1873, d. July 24, 1945, mar. Amy Winterburn a son David. 3. Charles Bates, b. Oct. 22, 1875; mar. Madge H. Breslin. No children. 4. John A. b. Mch 24, 1876, mar. Josephine Hammond. No children. 5. Harold B. b, Aug. 31, 1878, unmarried 6. Elizabeth Mabel, b. Jan. 23, 1882, unmarried. 7. Frank, b. Dec. 25, 1884, d. Sept. 23, 1937, unmarried. 8. A child died in infancy. 9. " " " " " 10. Edith died " " twins 11. Ruth, b. Oct. 19, 1891; mar. Dec. 1, 1917 to Dr. Gilbart W. Haigh, b. May 18, 1884, 2 children; Dana Haigh, b. July 28, 1821 Barton Haigh, b. July 18, 1923 12. Dorothy, b. Oct. 19, 1891, d. at birth 2. Lucy Barton, b. Jan 7, 1856; d. mar. Edgar Powers. No children. Anna Barton, b. Apr. 20, 1858, mar. Nov. 15, 1881 to Albert Man Powell, b? Aug. 28, 1856, d. May 6, 1935. Anna died May 2, 1924. children 1. Charles Sumner, b. May 16, 1882, unmarried 2. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 11,1883, m. Albert Seaver July 11, 1918. Mr. Seaver d. Jan, 18, 1931. 3. Alrie Man, b. May 6, 1887; mar. Alice F. Perkins, b. Dec. 7, 1892. x Died 1953 3 children next page 2 children of Alrie Powell and Alice F. Perkins. 1 Alrie Hamilton Powell b. Dec. 24, 1914, mar. Muriel Wood Nov. 30, 1938, b. Feb. 19, 1916 2 Dorothy Alice, b. Nov. 19, 1916, mar. Robt. English Durfee Aug. 30, 1940, he b. July 27, 1917 2 children 1 Elizabeth Ann, b. Mar. 23, 1942, d. July 28, 1945 2 Sharon Jean, b. Mar. 5, 1943 3 David Barton Powell, b. Aug. 5,1924, m. Shirley Ruth Perry Aug. 24, 1944, she was b. Sept. 10, 1923. 3. Cornelia Bowell, b. March 30,1891, unmarried. [XXXXXXXXXXX] [XXXXX] William Sumner Barton mar. 2nd on Nov. 22,1870 Kate A. Allery, b. d. 2 children 1. William E. Barton, b. Dec 10,1873; mar. 2. Edith A. Barton, b. Sept. 29, 1876, mar. Edgar Atkins, b , d no children 6 The Evening Gazette Worcester, Sat., Nov. 5, 1955 Engaged to City Man Mr. and Mrs. Ira W. Whittaker of Paramus, N.J., formerly of Meckling, S. D. announce the engagement of their daughter, MISS ELLA JUNE WHITTAKER, to Barton Haigh. Mr. Haigh is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert W. Haigh of 242 Burncoat street. Miss Whittaker attended University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y., and pacific Music Camp, Stockton, Calif. A soprano, she has appeared as a soloist with the Lancaster, Pa., Orchestra, the Franklin & Marshall College Glee Club and the Guild Choir of the Riverside Church, New York City, in concerts. A graduate of Worcester Academy and Clark University, Mr. Haigh received a master's degree in the administration of recreation in June 1954 at Columbia University. He is a member of the faculty of St. Bernard's School for Boys, New York City, and a recreation specialist. In World War II he served as a lieutenant (j. g.) with the Navy in the Pacific area. The wedding will be at 5 p. m. Dec. 10 in the chapel of the Riverside Church, New York City.12 The Evening Gazette Worcester, Wed., July 9, 19[68] VISIT HERE PRECEDES TOUR Mr. and Mrs. Bart Haigh of Kew Gardens, N.Y., and their daughter, Tammy Barbara Haigh, are visiting Mr. Haigh's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert W. aigh of 87-8 Park Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Haigh will motor in New England before returning to their home. Rufus Haigh 1 Hanna Barton (Davis) 2 Judge Ira Barton 3 Wm. Sumner Barton 4 Mary Barton Dana 5 Ruth Dana Haigh 4th cousin I believe Saralee Ricciu 1 Capt. Stephen Barton 2 Clara Barton 2 Daniel Barton 3 Ida Barton 4 S. F. R. (grand niece) Dec. 1945 Judge C.B. Dana, Academy Graduate Dies in Conn. Special to the Telegram DARIEN, Conn., Saturday - Judge Charles B. Dana, 73, Graduate of Worcester Academy, in 1895, and retired senior judge of the Town Court here, died at his home on Old Farm road Wednesday. Funeral services will be held in Darien at 2 p.m. today. He was a brother of John A. Dana, 16 Auburn street and the former Ruth Dana, wife of Dr. Gilbert W. Haigh, 242 Burncoat street, both of Worcester. He also leaves his wife, Mrs. Madge (Brezlin) Dana; another sister, Miss Elizabeth M. Dana of Darien, and two other brothers, Alfred H., of Decoto, Calif., and Harold B. of Daytona Beach, Fla. Born in California He was born in San Francisco Calif., Oct. 22, 1875, son of the late Alfred W. and Mary (Barton) Dana. He graduated from Santa Rosa, Calif. High School. He graduated from Worcester Academy and from Brown University in 1899. He also studied for a year at the Ecole Libre des Science Politques, Paris, France. He received his L.L.B. from New York Law School in 1903. At one time Judge Dana was a Wall Street reporter for the old New York Tribune. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1907. He was appointed first judge of the Darien Town Court in 1925. He retired June 30, 1945. In First World War During World War I, he was a lieutenant (s.g.) in the Navy and served as U.S. Naval Attache at Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at Montevideo, Uruguay. At that time, he was made a Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus of Italy. He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Noroton; of the American Bar Association; Brown University Club, and Delta Phi Fraternity. continued. Barton Genealogy. [*Sarah*] Children of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis. 1. Ira Moore Barton, son of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis, born in Oxford, Mass. Oct. 25, 1796; d. July 18, 1867; m. Nov 11, 1823 to Maria W., dau of Dr. Artemas Bullard. She was b. : d. Nov. 24, 1883. 9 children: 1. William Sumner Barton, b. at Oxford, Sept. 30, 1824; d. mar. 1st. Apr. 4, 1849 to Elizabeth Anne Jennison who died Feb. 28, 1869: 3 children: 1. Mary Barton, b. Sept 29, 1853; d. June 12, 1931; m. April 11, 1872 Alfred W. Dana of Northampton, Mass. 12 children: 1. Alfred Henshaw Dana, b, Sept. 26, 1871; m. May Ballard: 1 ch: Alfred Dana: m. 2nd. Cecil Harrold; 1 ch. Chas. Dana. 2. William Sumner Barton Dana, b. Aug. 30, 1873; d. July 24, 1945; m. Amy Winterburn: 1 ch: David Winterburn Dana. 3. Charles Bates Dana, b. Oct. 22, 1875; m. Madge H. Breslin, b. Aug. 9, : no ch. 4. Harold B. Dana, b. Aug. 31, 1876; unmar. 5. John Adams Dana, b. March 24, 1878; m. Josephine Hammond: No ch. 6. Elizabeth Mabel Dana, b. Jan. 23, 1882; unmar. 7. Frank Dana, b. Dec. 25, 1884; d. Sept 23, 1937; unmar. 8. A child died in infancy. 9. A child died in infancy. 10. Edith Dana, died young. Twin (11. Ruth Dana, twin, b. Oct. 19, 1891; m. Dr. Gilbert W. ( Haigh, b. May 18, 1884: 2 children: ( 1. Dana Haigh, b. July 28, 1921; ( 2. Barton Haigh, b. July 18, 1923. Twin (12. Dorothy Dana, twin, b. Oct 19, 1891; d. 1891. ********************* 2. Lucy Barton, b. Jan. 7, 1856; d. ; m. Edgar Powers: No Ch. 3. Anna Barton, b. April 20, 1858; d. ; m. Albert Powell who d. May 6, 1935: 4 ch: 1. Charles Powell, b. unmar. 2. Elizabeth Powell, b. ; m. 3. Alrec Powell, b. ; m. Alice 4. Cornelia Powell, b. William Sumner Barton mar. 2nd. Nov. 22, 1870, Kate A. Ellery born ; d. ; 2 children: 1. William E. Barton, b. Dec. 10, 1873; mar. 2. Edith A. Barton, b. Sept. 19, 1876; m. Edgar Atkins, born died [*#2*] BARTON GENEALOGY. Continued. Children of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis. (II. Sumner. b. Ox. Aug. 1799. Died in Sutton. Mass. July 13. 1821 unmarried.) 1. Ira Moore Barton, son of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis, born in Oxford, Mass. Oct. 25, 1796; d. July 18, 1867; mar. Nov 11, 1823 to Maria W., dau of Dr. Artemas Bullard. She died Nov. 24, 1883. 9 Children: 1. William Sumner Barton, born at Oxford, Sept. 30, 1824; died ; mar. 1st. April 4, 1849, to Anne Elizabeth Jennison who died Feb. 28, 1869: 3 children: 1. Mary Barton, b. Sept 29, 1853; d. June 12, 1931; mar. April 11, 1872 at Worcester Alfred W. Dana of Santa Rosa, Calif. Northampton, Mass. and had 8 12 children: 3. Charles Bates, b. Oct. 22, 1875; m. Madge H. Breslin ch: none 2. William S. B. (Sumner Barton), b. Aug. 30, 1873; d. July 24, 1945; mar. Amy Winterburn ch: a son David Alfred Henshaw, b. Sept. 26, 1871; at Berchtesgaden Germany m. 1st May Ballard: ch. Alfred mar. 2nd. Cecil Harrold ch. Charles Harold B, b. Aug. 31, 1878 John A, b. Mch 14, 1876; mar. Josephine Hammond: 6 Elizabeth Mabel, b. Jan. 23 1882 7 Frank, b. Dec 25, 1884; d. Sept 23, 1937. [*12 children?*] 8 child lived only 9 " short time 10 Edith. d 3 years Edith Twins { Ruth Dana, twin, b. Oct. 19, 1891; mar. Dec. 1, 1917 to Dr. Gilbert W. Haigh, b. May 18, 1884 2 ch: Dana Haigh, b. July 28, 1921 Barton Haigh, b. July 18, 1923 {12 Dorothy d. when born 2. Lucy Barton, b. Jan. 7, 1856; d. mar. Edgar Powers. No ch. 3. Anna Barton, b. April 20, 1858; died May 2, 1924; (Nov. 15, 1881 - mar.) Albert Powell, b. Aug. 18, 1856 died May 6, 1935: 4 ch: Charles Powell, b. May 11, 1882 Elizabeth Powell, b. Nov. 11, 1883; Alrec[k] Powell, b. May 6, 1887 Cornelia Powell, b. Mch 30, 1891 William Sumner Barton mar. 2nd. Nov. 22, 1870, Kate A. Ellery, born ; d. 2 children: 1. William E. Barton, b. Dec. 10, 1873; mar. 2. Edith A. Barton, b. Sept. 19, 1876; mar. Edgar Atkins, b. ; d. no children Anna (Barton) Powell Born April 20, 1888 Died May 2, 1924 married Albert Man Powell Born Aug. 25, 1856 Died May 6, 1935 Nov. 15, 1881 children Charles Sumner Powell Born May 16, 1882 Died Elizabeth Powell Born Nov. 11, 1883 Died married Albert Seaver July 11, 1918 Born Mar. 19, 1859 Died Jan. 18, 1931 Alric Man Powell Born May 6, 1887 Died married Nov. 29, 1913 Alice F. Perkins Born Dec. 7, 1892 Died children Alric Hamilton Powell Born Dec. 24, 1914 Dorothy Alice Powell Born Nov. 19, 1916 David Barton Powell Born Aug. 5, 1924 Cornelia Powell Born March 30, 1891 Alric Hamilton Powell married Muriel Wood Nov. 30, 1938 Born Feb. 19, 1916 Dorothy Alice Powell married Robert English Durfee Aug. 30, 1944 children Born July 27, 1917 children Elizabeth Ann B. Mar. 23, 1942 D. July 28, 1945 Sharon Jean B. Mar. 5, 1943 David Barton Powell married Shirley Ruth Perry Aug. 24, 1944 Born Sept. 10, 1923 #3. continued. BARTON GENEALOGY. Children of Ira Moore Barton and Maria W. Bullard Barton: 2. Anna Maria Barton, b. Apr. 21, 1826; d. mar. Nov. 7, 1849 to John W. Bigelow and had 4 children: 1. William B. Bigelow, b. Feb. 5, 1852; 2. Annie Bigelow, b. Jan.20, 1855; mar. Chas. F. McKim. 3. Samuel L. Bigelow, b. and d. Aug. 1856, in France. 4. Marie Bigelow, b. June 20, 1861; 3. Artemas B. Barton, b. 1828; d. 1831. 4. Chas. H. Barton, b. Apr. 10, 1830; d. Feb.16, 1885; mar. 1st. to Isabella Edwards, June 20, 1853 and had 3 ch: 1. Maria E. Barton, b. Apr. 8, 1854; 2. Mary Barton, b. Nov, 23, 1856; 3. Anna Barton, b. 1859; d. 1860. Charles H. Barton mar. 2nd. Sept. 28, 1861, Sarah Ann White and had one child: 1. James Y. Barton, b. Jan. 2, 1863; 5. Artemas B. Barton, b. 1831; d. 1837. 6. Lucy Barton, b. July 24, 1834, mar. May 1, 1857 to Samuel L. Bigelow, brother of husband of her sister Anna Maria Barton Bigelow; Samuel L. Bigelow died Oct. 31, 1862: 2 children: 1. Samuel L. Bigelow, b. July 28, 1858; 2. Abigail Bigelow, b. and d. 1860. 7. Francis A. Barton, b. Oct. 24, 1836, mar. Sept. 7, 1864 to Emily J. Wood and had one child: 1. Annie A. Barton, b. Aug. 4, 1865; 8. Edmund Mills Barton, b. Sept. 27, 1838; d. Apr. 15, 1918 mar. Sept. 6, 1871 to Abby T. Blake, 4 children: 1. Lydia M. Barton, b. Aug. 2, 1872; mar. Sept 4, 1904 George Easton Goldie 2. Edmund Blake Barton, b. Oct. 30, 1874; mar. 3. Donald Barton, b. 4. Harold Barton, b. 9. George E. Barton, b. July 30, 1841; d. May 29, 1878: Capt in the Civil War. 2. Sumner Barton, son of Hannah Barton and Jonathan Davis, b. August, 1799; died July 13, 1821; unmarried. 4. BARTON GENEALOGY. Continued. 7. Parthenia Barton, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born in Maine, [date of birth questioned] 1780; died Sept. 1794; married Nov 18, 1792 in Augusta, Maine, to Shubail Pitts and died soon after her marriage. "Shubail Pitts was endeared to Parthenia Barton's family because of his extreme and tender care and kindness to his young wife." Parthenia Barton Pitts is buried in the old cemetery in Augusta, Maine at the top of the hill on Winthrop Street on the right hand side of the road, and the inscription on her tomb stone reads thus: "Parthenia Pitts, wife of Shubail Pitts, died Sept. 1794; 21 years old." If she was 21 years old when she died, there is an error in the date of her death and possibly also in the date of her birth, altho she could not have been born more than two years before 1780. Shubail Pitts married again after Parthenia died and became quite prominent in affairs in Augusta. 8. Dorothy or "Dolly" Barton, twin, born in Windsor, Maine, April 11, 1782; died July 14, 1799; mar. Oct. 7, 1793, the third wife of Jeremiah Learned, son of Ebenezer and Deborah Haynes Learned, born Jan. 12, 1733; died June 14, 1812. Dorothy and Jeremiah were married by General Ebenezer Learned, brother of Jeremiah. Jeremiah Learned was a great uncle of Dorothy Barton - a brother of her grandmother, Dorothy Learned Moore. Jeremiah Learned married 1st., Dec. 21, 1756, Elizabeth Hunt who died May 10, 1784; born April 3, 1735. Seven children: Jeremiah; Benjamin; Elizabeth; Martha; Jonathan; Ebenezer and Mary. Jeremiah Learned married 2nd., July 13, 1785, Mrs. Mary Green, widow of Dr. Green of Thompson, Conn. who died Sept. 2, 1793, dying without issue. ( [Vira?] Stone gives date of Dorothy's birth Aug. 27, 1778- Probably correct.) (Vira's record is correct. S.F> Riccus 1946) Jeremiah Learned was noted for both civil and military service in his town, state and country. He was first an ensign, then Lieut. and Capt. in a Company of Rangers in the Old French War; accompanied by his brother, Capt. Ebenezer Learned from 1756 to 1763 and was at Fort Edwards and Fort William Henry. However, during the Revolutionary War he was a firm Loyalist, steadfastly adhering to his convictions and maintaining his allegiance to his sovereign to the close of the war. He took every suitable opportunity to dissuage friends from participation in the Rebellion but never should- ered a musket, girded on a sword or piloted an expedition against the Republicans. If at the time he was found to adhere with fidelity to his pledge and his King, the subsequent record of his history in town and state shows that he was equally loyal to his country. continued:dates given me by Alice Powell. Feb. 1946 Continued: Barton Genealogy. Children of Dorothy Barton Learned and Jeremiah Learned: 1. Martha Learned, b. Apr. 28, 1793; d. Aug. 4, 1835; mar. April 18, 1813, Joseph Stone, son of David and Sarah Treadwell Stone, b. Aug. 24, 1780; d. Feb. 21, 1862. Three children: 1. Jeremiah L. Stone, b. Feb. 16, 1815; d. Oct. 8, 1864; mar. Oct. 31, 1849, Emeline Kidder and had seven ch: Byron Stone, b. Mar. 2, 1851; d. Dec. 28, 1933; married Sarah Hilton: Countland Stone, b. 1852; d. 1855; Hortense M. Stone, b. Aug. 7, 1854; d. Nov. 6, 1940; mar. may 1872, Henry G. Corey and had Helen Corey: Jeremiah L. Stone b. Sept. 6, 1856, mar. Apr. 13, 1881 to Jennette M. Tucker and had Herbert J. b. Oct. 18, 1882; Eva E. Stone, b. Apr. 4, 1859, mar. Jencks: 2 ch: Ruth Jencks, b. ______; Esther Jencks b. _____: Joseph Stone b. Apr. 11, 1860; died young; Helen E. Stone, b. June 3, 1861, d. young. 2. Martha Elvira Stone, b. Sept. 13, 1816; died 1900; unmarried; oldest Postmistress in country. 3. Joseph LaFayette, b. May 24, 1822; d. Graduated from Hamilton Medical College, removed to Missouri. 2. Jeremiah Learned, b. April 10, 1795; d. July 10, 1829; married Apr. 15, 1818 to Susannah Stockwell who died Oct. 19, 1873: 4 ch: Loring Learned b. Nov. 9, 1819; d. Jan. 9, 1862, unmar: Jeremiah Learned, b. Apr. 29, 1821; d. 1889; mar. Jennie E. Warren Dec. 27, 1839: Clarissa S. Learned b. July 6, 1823, mar. Rufus G. Alverson: Susan Learned, b. Sept. , 1825, mar. Mar. 14, 1857 to Joseph Kelley, 3 ch. 3. Ebenezer Learned, b. Jan. 17, 1797; d. Oct. 7, 1829; mar. Nov. 12, 1826 to Naomi Shumway, no ch. She mar. 2nd Erastus Evans. 4. Stephen Learned, b. June 28, 1799; d. July 31, 1827, unmarried. Jeremiah Learned married 4th, Dec. 3, 1799, Mrs. Esther Weaver, widow of Dr. Weaver of Thompson. Conn. who died Sept. 1811. No ch. #6. Barton Genealogy. 9. Mary or "Polly" Barton, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, a twin to Dorothy or "Dolly" Barton, born April 11, 1782; died April 12, 1835; married Nov. 17, 1805 to Daniel Batcheller and resided in Warren, Mass. Date of Mary's birth, Aug 27, 1778 according to Vera Stone 4 Children: 1. Elmira Batcheller, b. _____; d. ____; mar. William Sessions of Warren and removed to Iowa where he died. They had children. 2. William G. Batcheller, b. ____; d. at Winsted, Conn.; mar. ____; had two sons. 3. Mary L. Batcheller, b. May 14, 1815; d. June 9, 1886; mar. Sept. 11, 1833 to Peter C. Bacon, b. ____; died Feb. 7, 1886: Children: Henry Bacon, b. Nov. 30, 1835; d. Daniel B. Bacon, b. and d. 1837. Mary L. Bacon, b. Oct. 16, 1838; d. Francis Bacon, b. Nov. 3, 1841; killed in battle May 1863. William Bacon, b. Dec. 4, 1843; killed in battle May 15, 1864, at New Market. Peter C. Bacon, b. Oct. 11, 1846; mar. Amanda A. Beale. Arthur Bacon, b. Sept. 23, 1849; d. young. Eloazbeth Bacon, b. Dec. 26, 1852; mar. Halleck Bartlett and had children. 4. Pamela P. Batcheller, b. Dec. 2, 1817; d. May 7, 1886; mar. June 26, 1837 to William E. Starr of Thompson, Conn. Children: William Starr, b. 1838; mar. Darius Starr, b. 1842; d. Sept. 2, 1864; Daniel Starr, b. 1850; d. 10. Elijah Moore Barton, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born in Maine Aug. 10, 1784; d.____; married Sarah Fairfield, _______-; b. _____; d______. 5 Children: 1. William Collins Barton, b. ____; d;_____; mar. Susan Pierce, b. ____; d. ____; William Collins Barton was born in the log cabin at the Gideon Barton home in West Windsor, Maine and enjoyed telling the story that he was born in the road - the cabin stood where the present highway runs. Elijah and "Sally" Barton, parents of William C., lived with Elijah's brother Gideon Barton and family when they were first married. William Collins Barton was one of the Commissioners of Kanabec County. Dates unknown. The names of the children of William C. and Susan Pierce Barton follows: continued #7. Continued. Barton Genealogy. Children of William Collins and Susan Pierce Barton: 1. John Henry Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married Ellen Goddard and lived on farm with his father. Was prominent in town affairs. 2 ch: Stella Elizabeth Barton, who taught school in Augusta; retired to live with her mother after her father died. She is buried in W. Windsor, Maine. William Barton, b. 2. Fannie Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married James Rogers and had two daughters: Lived in Gardiner, ; e. and Mass: Nina Rogers mar. George Sweetser, a Boston Attorney. She was graduated from Wellesley College. Hester Rogers, died young. 3. Sarah Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married William Gay, a letter carrier in Boston. She is buried in W. Windsor. 4. Lydia Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married Albert Hall and lived in Mass. One son, Arden Hall. 5. Ella Barton. b. ----; d. aged 87 ____; married Charles Smith of Thorndike, Me. She was a brilliant woman. An invalid in youth but health improved later. Introduced Domestic Science in Augusta Schools; member of D.A.R.; church worker. No ch. 6. Melinda Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married Edwin Day and had dau. Evelyn Day who married Leonard L. Farley of Portland, Me. and had two ch: 2. Sarah E. Barton, dau. of Elijah and Sarah Fairfield Barton, b. died July 9, 1854; 3. John F. Barton, b. ----; d. Jan 1, 1855. 4. Reuben F. Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married Rosanna Hawes; a dau. Delia Barton; 5. Ira Davis Barton, b. ____; d. ____; married Mary Moody; 2 ch. Vesta Barton and Robt. Barton. Ira D. Barton was Postmaster of Windsor many years. #8 Continued. Barton Genealogy. 11. Gideon Barton, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born in Wind- sor, Main, June 18, 1786; died in Vassalbore, Main, May 30, 1878; mar. March 5, 1787 to Sarah Pierce, b. Nov. 15,1 1787; died Oct. 7, 1835. 13 children: 1. Clarissa Harlowe Barton, b. Apr. 23, 1809; d. Nov. 28, 1899; married about 1841 to Jonathan D. Poor, as his second wife, b.; d. in 1845 and buried in Windsor, Me. Jonathan D. Poor's first wife, Caroline Porter, was a cousin to Clarissa Harlowe Barton, his second wife. He had four children by his first wife and none by his second wife. He was an itinerant artist, painting scenery on the walls of many homes in the surrounding countryside. 2. Samuel P. Barton, b. Sept. 18, 1810; d. Dec. 23, 1891; mar. Harriet Perkins about 1837. Buried in Windsor, Me. Lived in N. Windsor. 13 children: Twins. 1 ( Lucy Barton, twin, b. Jan. 14, 1838; d. ; 2( Maria Dolly Barton, twin, b. Jan. 14, 1838; d. March 10, 1912; mar. Summer A. Holway, b. : d. Feb. 28, 1919 5 children: 1. Mary Ellen Holway; b. Aug. 19, 1866; d. 2. Nettie Blanche Holway, b. Oct. 1871; d. 3. Fred B. Holway, b. Sept. 1, 1872; d. 4. Charles S. Holway, b. Aug. 20, 1873; d. 5. Alice Bee Holway, b. May 4, 1877; mar. Harry R. Pierpont and had a dau. Ruth Pierpont who mar. 1st, Haskell and had a son Carl Haskell; mar. 2nd, Dec. 25, 1945, Lawrence A. Crocker 3. George Russell Barton, b ; d. mar. Fairehid; In civil war, moved to Calif. 4. Ruel Barton, b. ; d. 18 yrs old. 5. Abbie Barton, b. ; d. ; mar. George Leroy Marson of Windsor, and had six children: 1. Hattie P. Marson, b. Mar. 22, 1867; d. 2. Lucy E. Marson, b. May 10, 1868; d. ; mar. Jonathan Longfellow. 3. Lilliam A. Marson, b. Dec. 28, 1869; d.y. scarlet fever 4. Arthur L. Marson, b. Oct. 8, 1872; d. 5. Ada M. Marson, b. Oct. 28, 1880; d. 6. Inez M. Marson, b. May 8, 1889; d. ; mar. Crawford. 6. Charles Barton, b. ; d. ; mar. Mary E. Schaffer and lived in Oakland Calif. 5 ch: 1. Orren L. Barton, b. Dec. 10, 1976; d. 2. Charles H. Barton b. July 31, 1878; 3. Daisy May Barton, b. 1880; mar. Bates. 4. Louise B. Barton, b. 1882; mar. Farren 5. Walter Samuel Barton, b. 1886. 7. Orrin L. Barton, a Dr., b. ; d. mar. Addir Vail, 8. Martha S. Barton, b. Aug. 10, 1850; d. 1941; 1878- mar. 1st. Emerson G. Joy; one son, Emerson W. Joy, 1885- mar. 2nd. Isaac Holway; a dau. Elsia Holway who mar. Thos. G. Burleigh and had one dau., Elizabeth I. Burleigh continued. Continued. Barton Genealogy. Children of Samuel P. and Harriet Perkins Barton; 9. Ida May Barton, b. ; d. mar. 1st. Charles M. Gale: mar. 2nd. Alvah Elder. 10. Cora M. Barton, b. ; d. ; mar. George Motherwell, 11. Horace Colburn Barton, b. : d. ; mar. Susie Schaffer, 12. Lot Morrill Barton, b. ; d. ; mar. Harriet Pierce in 1885; after Lot's death she mar. Morrison: a dau. by 1st husband : Anna M. Barton, b. June 6, 1888; d. Dec. 1944; mar. Edward Conners. 13. Mamie Barton, lived to be 12 years old. 3. (Lucy Barton, dau. of Gideon and Sarah Pierce Barton, b. Nov. 2, 1812; Twins. ( died 1830; A twin to Dorothy Barton. ( 4. (Dorothy Barton, b. Nov. 2, 1812; d. Oct. 5, 1892; marriage intentions Feb. 10 1832 to Giles Tarbell: a dau. Clara Tarbell mar. Dr. Leander J. Crooker of Augusta. 5. Stephen Barton, b. Oct. 7, 1814; d. May 12 1870; mar. Jane Elliott of Windsor, b. 1816; buried in Windsor: 9 children: 1. Franklin Otis Barton, b. March 4, 1840; d. ; mar. Mary A. Merrill and had ch: 1. Harry R. Barton, b. Sept. 1, 1872; at Parkman. 2. Oscar E. Barton, b. Oct. 24, 1873 2. Amie E. Barton, b. Dec. 26, 1841; d. ; mar. Dec. 22, 1879 to John Preston Whitehouse: no ch. 3. Jennie E. Barton, b. Aug. 20, 1844; d. ; mar. George Blodgett: a son, Harry Blodgett b. 4. Ellen M. Barton, b. Sept. 7, 1846; d. 5. Martha Barton, b. July 4, 1848; d. ; mar. Genther and lived in Parkman, Me. 6. Stephen W. Barton, b. Feb. 2, 1850; d. Feb 25, 1851. 7. Stephen G. Barton, b. Oct. 26, 1852; d. 1853. 8. Eva Barton, b. Sept. 13, 1854; d. 6. Rufus P. Barton, b. Aug. 29, 1816; d. April 12, 1896; mar. Eliza Children: continued: #10. Continued: Barton Genealogy. Children of Rufus P. and Eliza Percival Barton: 1. Mattie Barton, b. ; d. mar. William Tyler and lived in N. Dakota. 2. Sumner P. Barton, b. Feb. 4, 1854; d. Nov. 21, 1940; mar. Nov. 8, 1883; to Ettie Gorham, b. Sept. 22, 1859; died Dec. 2, 1940: no ch. 7. Gideon Barton Jr. b. July 29, 1818; d. Sept. 20, 1896; mar. Harriet Percival, b. Children: Russell Barton, b. ; d. lived in Windsor and Waterville. Buried in Waterville. #11. continued. Barton Genealogy. Children of Gideon and Sarah Pierce Barton: 8. Ruel G. Barton, b. June 6, 1820; d. 1836; 9. Sumner Barton, b. Apr. 4, 1822; d. Apr. 17, 1906; mar. Apr. 20, 1849 to Sarah (Sally) Maria Taylor b. Fed. 18, 1823; died July 17, 1907: An only son, LaRoy Barton, b. April 19, 1850; died May 25, 1854. This little boy was killed when a log fell on him as he was climbing a wall or fence as he went to call his father to dinner. He had a little book he always called his "Little Bible Book". 10. Theodore Barton, b. Mar. 18, 1824; d. Feb. 20, 1901; mar. April 27, 1853 to Hannah Quimby McCausland, a widow, b. May 18, 1827; d. 1914; buried in S. China, Me. 1 daughter: Viola Barton, b. Oct. 26, 1855; died May 5, 1928; mar. Dec. 28, 1876 to Edward Mosher, b. Aug. 17, 1852; d. Jan. 1925: had a daughter, Maude M. Mosher, b. Oct. 10, 1878; unmarried. 11. Benjamin Franklin Barton, b. Dec. 29, 1826; died 1907; married Lydia Hobart, b. Oct. 14, ; d. 1890: Children: 12. Sarah E. Barton, b. July 5, 1828; d. March 27, 1905; mar. William Morse and had a son Frank Morse b. May 23, 1854; died Jan. 1925. 13. Lucy E. Barton, b. Jan. 12, 1832; died April 23, 1863.#12. Continued: Barton Genealogy. Children of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton. 12. Anna Barton, born in Maine 1788; died 13. Luke N, Barton, born in Oxford, Mass. Sept. 3, [1790] 1791; died 1849. married March 19, 1825 to Martha M. Ballard, b. 1794 died ____; she was her husband's second cousin, a daughter of Johnathan Ballard, the son of Ephriam and Martha Moore Ballard. 7 children 1. Charles H. Barton, b. Jan. 5, 1825; d. 2. George L. Barton, b. Jan. 15, 1827; d. 3. Martha A. Barton, b. March 12, 1829; d. had a dau. Mrs. Jos. Young. 4. Hannah Barton b. Oct. 9, 1831; d.____; married Ansel Richardson and had a son Edward L. Richardson who married Page; he d. 1922. Ch: Irma Richardson: Mayo Richardson: Welthea Richardson, mar. J. Harold Tuttle. 5. Virgil B. Barton, b. Oct. 5, 1833; died young Twins. 6. Sarah H. Barton, b. Feb. 3, 1836; d. 7. Dorothy M. Barton, b. Feb. 3, 1836; d. 1. Luke Barton b. 1794. m 1823 d. ? 1849 2. Fidaliu Porterman Abil Whittean Sept. 7, 1837. Sumner Barton [b. ex. Oct ??? 1796] Hannab Barton b. July 20, 1776 d. ____? (date Jan. six) Feb. 12, 1859 (connect my Barton family of ex) under Dr. Stephen [Parthenia bin] Maine 1773 (spelling of name and given in her instruction) Buchanan Died Dec. 19 [20?] 1956 California Editor, Born in Oxford, Succumbs at 81 OXFORD, Dec. 21, 1956 -- Word hase been received here of the death yesterday of Clarence W. Barton, 81, retired editor and publisher, at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif. He was born in North Oxford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel (Parks) Barton and was a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was the grandnephew of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. He went to California at the turn of the century, later settling in Ontario, where he became owner and publisher of The Ontario Observer. Later he edited the Riverside Enterprise in California and the El Centro Press and Progress. He also served as trust officer for the Security Title Insurance and Guarantee Company in Los Angeles. He is survived by his wife and one son, Bernard, who lives in New Jersey. MRS. LOUIS J. OLIVIER By Edith Riccius King. 1945. BARTON. 5. STEPHEN BARTON (CAPT.), son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born Aug. 18, 1774 at Oxford, Mass., died March 21, 1864. Married at Oxford, April 22, 1804 to Sarah Stone, daughter of David Haven and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. She was born Nov. 13, 1783, at Oxford; died July 18, 1851. Stephen enlisted at the age of nineteen to fight in the Indian wars in the west, under Gen. Anthony Wayne, became a non commissioned officer, and served for more than three years, being present when Tecumsch was slain and at the signing of the treaty of peace. He returned to Oxford from the West in 1796. There he tilled his farm, was chosen captain in the militia, was at various times moderator of the town meetings and selectman, and was elected a member of the Legislature. 5 Children: 1. Dorothy Barton, born Oct. 2, 1804; died unmarried, at Oxford, April 19, 1846. 2. Stephen Barton, born March 29, 1806; died March 10, 1865; Married at Charlton, Mass. Nov. 24, 1833 to Elizabeth Rich, born 1808; died Jan. 22, 1875, at Oxford, Mass. She was the dau. of Jacob Rich. Stephen Barton was active in public affairs, school [picture inserted / writing under picture]] EXPLAIN PAINTINGS -- Miss Loren Barton and Lorser Feitelson, art teacher, who answered Councilmen's questions. "What is it, a forest fire?" inquired one official. [???] and was also captain in the [???] Before the Civil War he was in- [?charg] lumber plant in North Carolina [???] his property he lost his health. [??arragements] he reached Washington [???] for until his death by his sis- [???] and other relatives. [?] born at Oxford, Mass. [?] Sept. 19, 1837; died Dec. 1, 1837. [?] May 31, 1839; died March 29, 1908; [?] b. 12, 1863, to Amelia L. Parks, [?] born Apr. 4, 1842; died Aug. 21, 1877. [?] at Oxford, Mass. [?] 4, 1864; d. Feb. 3, 1882. [?] Nov. 2, 1865; d. Nov 3, 1865. [?] Dec. 25, 1866, d. Oct. 1925 in [?] Oct. 18, 1890 to Fannie J. Vas- [?] Pa. b. ; died [?eles], Cal. from auto accident. [?] Barton, b. Sept. 22, 1894; mar. [?] - [?] Robert b. 1933 [?] May 26, 1868; d. Sept. 22, 1869. [?] Aug. 28, 1870; mar. Jessie Wood- [?] d. Aug. 31, 1942. One child, [?] known professionally as "Loren Barton", b. Nov. 16, 1893; mar. Perez R. Babcock, born Nov. 17, 1877. b. Nov. 13, 1947, Roberta Barton Babcock is an artist living in Calif. #7. By Edith Riccius King. 1945. BARTON. 5. STEPHEN BARTON (CAPT.), son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born Aug. 18, 1774 at Oxford, Mass., died March 21, 1864. Married at Oxford, April 22, 1804 to Sarah Stone, daughter of David Haven and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. She was born Nov. 13, 1783, at Oxford; died July 18, 1851. Stephen enlisted at the age of nineteen to fight in the Indian wars in the west, under Gen. Anthony Wayne, became a noncommissioned officer, and served for more than three years, being present when Tecumseh was slain and at the signing of the treaty of peace. He returned to Oxford from the West in 1796. There he tilled his farm, was chosen captain in the militia, was at various times moderator of the town meetings and selectman, and was elected a member of the Legislature. 5 Children: 1. Dorothy Barton. born Oct. 2, 1804; died unmarried, at Oxford, April 19, 1846. 2. Stephen Barton, born March 29, 1806; died March 10, 1865; Married at Charlton, Mass. Nov. 24, 1833 to Elozabeth Rich, born 1808; died Jan. 22, 1875, at Oxford, Mass. She was the dau. of Jacob Rich. Stephen Barton was active in public affairs, school matters and business and was also captain in the militia in Oxford. Before the Civil War he was interested in a large lumber plant in North Carolina and in defending his property he lost his health. After many discouragements he reached Washington where he was cared for until his death by his sister, Clara Barton, and other relatives. 3 Children, born at Oxford, Mass. 1. John Rich Barton, born Sept. 19, 1837; died Dec. 1, 1837 2. Samuel Rich Barton, born May 31, 1839; died March 29, 1908; mar. at Oxford, Mass. Feb. 12, 1863, to Amelia L. Parks, dau. of Loren C. Parks, born Apr. 4, 1842; died Aug. 21, 1877. 8 Children born at Oxford, Mass. 1. Stephen Ira Barton, b. Aug. 4, 1864; d. Feb. 3, 1882. 2. Elizabeth Anna Barton, b. Nov. 2, 1865; d. Nov. 3, 1865. 3. Herbert Parks Barton, b. Dec. 25, 1866, d. Oct. 1925 in Los Angeles, Cal; mar. Oct. 18, 1890 to Fannie J. Vasseur of Philadelphia, Pa. b. --- ; died Oct. 1923 [Chan?] died 1951 at Los Angeles, Cal. from auto accident. One child, Chandler Parks Barton, b. Sept. 22, 1894; mar. and divorced, Mary Joyce. - a one Robert b. 1933. 4. Myrtis Amelia Barton, b. May 26,1868; d. Sept. 22, 1869. 5. Loren Chandler Barton, b. Aug. 28, 1870; mar. Jessie Woodbury, b. July 16, 1870; d. Aug. 31, 1942. One child, Roberta Amelia Barton, known professionally as "Loren Barton", b. Nov. 16, 1893; mar. Perez R. Babcock, born Nov. 17, 1877; d. Nov. 13, 1947. Roberta Barton Babcock is an artist living in Calif. #2. BARTON. [ insert on top of page: Mrs. Helen M. Diehl announces the marriage of her daughter Claire Louise Taylor to Mr. Bernard Barton on Saturday, March twenty-seventh nineteen hundred and forty eight Rutledge, Pennsylvania children Mi mi Wendy.] Children of Samuel Rich and [??] 6. Walter Samuel Barton, b [???] 7. Clarence Walter Barton, [???] d. Dec. 19, [?] to Josiebell [W???] 2 children; St [???] Miriam Josephi[???] 8. Marion Amelia Barton, b. [???] 3. David Stephen Barton, son of [???] Oct. 15, 1845; died Nov. 11, [???] 3. David Barton, son of Capt. Step[???] Mass., Aug. 15, [???] 1839 to his cousin [???] and Pamela (Barto [???] 1813; died July [???] David Barton live [???] tive in business [???] War as quarter,a[???] 4. [???] 1. Ada Idelia Barton, (twin), b. Jan. 18, 1847; died Feb. 17, 1930; married Dec. 4, 1869 at Oxford, to Charles Monroe Clark, b. 1848; died Nov. 6, 1916. 5 Children: 1. Charles Clark, b. and d. in 1870. d. Nov. 1947 2. David Barton Clark, b. May 29, 1871; mar. Edna Lizetta Powell, b. Oct. 17, 1872: 4 children: 1. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. Dec, 22, 1895; died Dec. 23, 1985; 2. Muriel Josephine Clark, b. April 11, 1898; mar. Norman McCann, b. 1896. 3. Elizabeth Mathews Clark, b. Nov. 13, 1901; died June 27, 1902. 4. Dorothy Barton Clark, b. Jan. 16, 1909; married July 17, 1937 to Kenneth Neil Low, b. Feb. 2, 1908: 2 ch. Virginia Barton Low, b. Mar. 21, 1938; Elizabeth Clark Low, b. July 25, 1942; 3. Mary Josephine Clark, b. June 27, 1873; died Feb. 14, 1935; unmarried. 4. Harry Leroy Clark, b. May 29, 1875, died March 26, 1937; mar. 1st. Louise ---------- divorced; mar. 2nd. March 30, 1902, Charlotte Harrison, b. Oct. 3, 1880. 5. Lyman Eddy Clark, b. 1882; d. 1885. #2. BARTON. Children of Samuel Rich and Amelia L. Parks Barton: Continued. 6. Walter Samuel Barton, b. Mar. 12, 1872; d. June 14, 1872. 7. Clarence Walter Barton, b. May 16, 1875; D. Dec. 19 [1956] married Nov. 16, 1904 to Josiebell Wheeler, b. Oct. 3, 1880, at Riverside, Cal. 2 children: Stephen Bernard Barton, b. Nov. 27, 1905; Miriam Josephine Barton, b. Aug. 22, 1907; d. Jan. 20, 1920. 8. Marion Amelia Barton, b. Aug. 5, 1877; d. Oct. 5, 1877. ************************ 3. David Stephen Barton, son of Stephen and Elizabeth Rich Barton, born Oct. 15, 1845; died Nov. 11, 1847. ********************************** 3. David Barton, son of Capt. Stephen and Sarah Stone Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., Aug. 15, 1808; died March 12, 1888; married Sept. 30, 1839 to his cousin, Julia Ann Maria Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela (Barton) Porter, of Vienna, Maine, born Jany. 23, 1813; died July 14, 1899. David Barton lived at North Oxford, Mass. where he was active in business and public life and he served in the Civil War as quartermaster, with the rank of captain. 4 Children: Born at Oxford, Mass. 1. Ada Idelia Barton, (twin), b. Jan. 18, 1847; died Feb. 17, 1930; married Dec. 4, 1869 at Oxford, to Charles Monroe Clark, b. 1848; died Nov. 6, 1916. 5 Children: 1. Charles Clark, b. and d. in 1870. d. Nov. 1947. 2. David Barton Clark, b. May 29, 1871; mar. Edna Lizetta Powell, b. Oct. 17, 1872; 4 children: 1. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. Dec. 22, 1895; died Dec. 23, 1895; 2. Muriel Josephine Clark, b. April 11, 1898; mar. Norman McCann, b. 1896. 3. Elizabeth Mathews Clark, b. Nov. 13, 1901; died June 27, 1902. 4. Dorothy Barton Clark, b. Jan. 16, 1909; married July 17, 1937 to Kenneth Neil Low, b. Feb. 2, 1908: 2 ch. Virginia Barton Low, b. Mar. 21, 1938; Elizabeth Clark Low, b. July 25, 1942; 3. Mary Josephine Clark, b. June 27, 1873; died Feb. 14, 1935; unmarried. 4. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. May 29, 1875, died March 26, 1937; mar. 1st. Louise ----------- divorced; mar. 2nd. March 30, 1902, Charlotte Harrison, b. Oct. 3, 1880. 5. Lyman Eddy Clark, b. 1882; d. 1885. #3. Continued BARTON. Children of David and Julia Ann Maria (Porter) Barton. 2. Ida Adelia Barton, (twin), born Jan. 18, 1847; died Jan. 26, 1911; mar. March 22, 1879; in Oxford, Mass. to Gustav Adolph Julius Riccius, b. Mar. 18, 1841; d. July 6, 1891. 4 Children: 1. Edith Julia Riccius, b. Feb. 13, 1881; married August 19, 1906 to George Evander King, b. March 30, 1879. No ch. 2. Hermann Porter Riccius, b. Oct. 4, 1883; unmarried. 3. Saidee Frances Riccius, b. Dec. 28, 1886, unmarried. 4. Walter Harold Riccius, b. May 5, 1889; Mar. 1st on July 15, 1912, Ruth Brown; mar. 2nd. on Feb. 14, 1929, Wilhelmina B. Mange, b. Sept. 26, 1899. 3. Stephen Emory Barton, born Dec. 24, 1848; died Jan. 17, 1929; mar. 1st. June 28, 1870, Joyce Wilmot, b. Aug. 24, 1848; died April 12, 1881. Stephen Emory Barton mar. 2nd. Oct. 13, 1884, Harriet Elizabeth Walker Tracy, b. July 27, 1849; died June 20, 1931. No ch. by 2nd wife. 4 Children by 1st wife, Joyce Wilmot Barton. 1. Irving Wilmot Barton, b. Jan. 11, 1872; died Jan. 21, 1872. 2. Ida Myrtis Barton, (changed later to Myrtis Wilmot Barton), b. March 23, 1873; mar. June 11, 1900 to Stephen Lathrop Butler, b. April 9, 1871; died May 2, 1945; One child, Joyce Wilmot Butler, born June 27, 1903; mar. Sept. 11, 1926 to Dwight Hughes, born April 15, 1891: 2 ch: Jere Hughes, born Nov. 8, 1927; Stephen Barton Hughes, born Feb. 15, 1929. 3. Edith Joyce Barton, born April 3, 1875; died June 15, 1876. 4. Lauretta Gertrude Barton, born Dec. 7, 1876; died April 5, 1883. Fell under a loaded wagon and killed. 4. Mary Anna Barton, (Mamie), born Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929; mar. March 22, 1879 to John H. Stafford, born Dec. 15, 1850; died March 21, 1929. 2 Children: continued. Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass., Monday, May 13, 1946. Mrs. Stephen Butler Dies In 74th Year Widow of Prominent Northampton Manufacturer Was a Grand Niece of Clara Barton, American Red Cross Founder Mrs. Myrtis W. (Barton) Butler, 73, widow of Stephen Lathrop Butler, of Dunedin, Fla., and formerly of this city, died Saturday night at the Dickinson hospital after a short illness. Mrs. Butler was a grand niece of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, and in March she was elected an honorary member of the First Clara Barton chapter organized in Dansville, N. Y., in 1881. During the Spanish-American war she was secretary of the Red Cross hospital in New York City. She was born in North Oxford, March 23, 1973, the daughter of Stephen E. and Joyce (Willmot) Barton. Her mother was a native of Ilmington, England. Mrs. Butler was a member of the Church of the Ascension of New York City and later a member of the First Congregational church of this city, and she was active in church affairs in her earlier years. Mrs. Butler was a charter member and a president of the Clef club in which she was active for many years, and she was also a member of the Business and Professional Woman's club and the Northampton Historical society. Mr. and Mrs. Butler were married in New York City, June 11, 1900, and came to this city in September, 1905. Mr. Butler was treasurer of the Northampton Cutlery company until 1943 and he later served as chairman of the board of directors of the concern until the time of his death. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Dwight Hughes, and two grandsons, Jere Lathrop, and Stephen Dwight Hughes, of Mt. Vernon, Me. Funeral services will be conducted at the First Congregational church Tuesday afternoon at 3, with Rev. Robbins Ralph, the pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the family lot in Bridge Street cemetery. H. S. Students in 'Radio Skits' [*Worcester Gazette Sept 9, 1953*] Market Steady, Price Changes Are Upward NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (AP)--The stock market held steady with trading unusually quiet. Prices seldom moved as much as a major fraction either way. Most changes, by a small margin, were upward. Showing slight rising tendencies on balance were railroads, steels, motion pictures, chemicals, and radio-televisions. Other sections were steady to mixed. Railroads were encouraged by the report of the Association of American Railroads that Class One railroads had a July net income 82 per cent higher than a year ago during the steel strike. Net income for the first seven months this year, a more significant figure, amounted to 490 million dollars, 142 million dollars ahead of the corresponding figure of a year ago. Higher stocks included Santa Fe, New York Central, Northern Pacific, Bethlehem Steel, Kennecott Copper, Zenith Radio, and Celotex. Lower were Goodyear, Southern Railway, and Johns-Manville. Real silk hosiery mills jumped ahead 3 points at 24 3/4 after directors proposed purchasing common stock from stockholders at a price of $25. Details were promised later. The stock didn't appear on the tape until near the end of the first hour when it opened on the 800 shares up 2 7/8 at 24 5/8. Yesterday it was up 1 1/4 at 21 3/4. High priced Mahoning Coal Railroad gained 5 1/2 at 525 after declaration of a dividend of $12.50, bringing payments this year to the same level at last. The American Stock Exchange was mixed. Trading was light. Higher stocks included Alabama Gas, Burry Biscuit, Coastal Caribbean Oils, and Pacific Petroleums Ltd. Lower were Cuban Atlantic Sugar, Molybdenum, Standard Power, and Vogt Mfg. 14 Worcester Daily Telegram, Wed., Sept. 9, 1953 S. B. Stafford, Rice-Barton Official, Dies OXFORD, Wednesday -- Stephen B. Stafford, 72, of 6 West street, an official of Rice-Barton Corp., Worcester, died last night at The Memorial Hospital, Worcester. He was a lifelong resident of Oxford and son of the late John H. and Mary (Barton) Stafford. He was a past member of Oxford Lodge, A. F. & A. M., a member of Grace Episcopal Church, and a trustee of Oxford Public Library since 1909. Company Secretary He was employed by Rice-Barton Corp. of Worcester for 56 years, starting to work for that concern in 1897. He had held a number of positions and at the time of his death was sales engineer, secretary of the corporation and a member of the board of directors. He leaves two sons, Donald B. of Oxford and S. Philip of Newport News, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Guy W. Olney of Oxford; one granddaughter and two nieces. Funeral services will be held at the Lullman-Paradise Funeral Home Friday at 2 p. m. Rev. Robert E. Davis will officiate. Burial will be in North Cemetery. Visiting hours at the funeral home are Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. There will be a Masonic service Thursday at 8 p. m. The family suggests flowers be omitted and that contributions be sent the American Cancer Society, Boylston street, Boston.#4. continued. BARTON Children of Mary Anna (Barton) and John H Stafford. continued. 2 children: 1. Stephen Barton Stafford, born December 3, 1880, married in 1909, died Sept 8, 1953 Helen Louise Richardson, born 1887; 4 ch. (divorced) 1. John Kenneth Stafford, b. 1910; died January 20, 1939. 2. Donald Barton Stafford, b. December 10, 1912; mar. Santina Forchielli, born 3. Martha Stafford, born and died in 1913. A daughter Susan 2 1/2 in 1953. 4. Stephen Phillip Stafford, born October 11, 1914. 2. Anna Gertrude Stafford, born May 11, 1883; married August 24, 1903 to Guy Willard Olney, born July 15, 1881. 2 children: 1. Helen Gertrude Olney, born October 9 1904; unmarried. 2. May Barton Olney, born July 8, 1908; married January 16, 1937 to Raymond E. White, born 2 children: 1. Raymond Olney White, born October 31, 1940. 2. Stephen Barton White, born August 2, 1945. BARTON. 4. SARAH (Sally) Barton, daughter of Capt. Stephen and Sarah (kstone) Barton, born at Oxford, Mass. March 20, 1811; died Worcester, Mass. May 24, 1874; married at Oxford April 17, 1834 to Vester Vassall, born at Ward, Mass. July 31, 1809; died at Worcester, Mass. Sept. 1880. 2 Children: 1. Bernard Barton Vassall, born at Oxford, Mass. October 10, 1835; died at Worcester March 23, 1894; married November 26, 1863 to Frances Maria Childs, daughter of Benjamin Willis and Elizabeth (Southworth) Childs, born at Worcester, March 21, 1834; died Worcester, March 26, 1926. No. ch. Bernard Vassall was associated with his Uncle, Captain Stephen Barton, in the lumber business in North Carolina, but returned to Oxford at outbreak of Civil War and became a Lieut. in an Oxford Company. Was taken prisoner at Balls Bluff and held for four months at Richmond, Virginia. After the was he successfully accomplished reorganizing the Post Office Service through the South and afterward reorganized the Post Office Railway Mail Service in New England with success. He collected much data relating to hie ancestors but a war injury made a semi invalid of him and prevented him from further investigation. Frances (Childs) Vassall, is wife, commenced to teach school when but 15 years of age, and in 1852 was called by Clara Barton as an assistant in the pioneer work of establishing free public schools in New Jersey. The work accomplished by Clara Barton and Frances Vassall and her sister Annie E. Childs were of the greatest assistance to Clara Barton in her work of receiving and distributing supplies to soldiers and war sufferers. 2. Irving Stetson Vassall, born at Oxford August 16, 1840; died unmarried at Washington D.C. April 9, 1865. He was employed as clerk during the war, of the Massachusetts Military Agency and his work was of a very arduous and confidential nature, requiring him to answer daily scores of letters and inquiries from soldiers' relatives and friends and to give instructions, directions and also superintend distribution of supplies to sick and wounded. He also wrote much in both prose an poetry and many of his writings were published. He was physically delicate and died prematurely in his 25th year.#6. BARTON. 5. CLARISSA HARLOWE BARTON, ( CLARA BARTON, "Angel of the Battlefield"), born Dec. 25, 1821; died, unmarried, at Glen Echo, Md., April 12, 1912, in the 91st year of her birth; buried at Oxford, Mass. Daughter of Capt. Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She won world-wide renown for her services to the sick and wounded soldiers in the Civil War, the France-Prussian War and the Spanish - American War, and was the founder and first president of the American Red Cross. For a detailed biography of this illustrious woman the reader is referred to"The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross" by Rev. William E. Barton, D. D. and LL.D. Saidee F. Riccius, 1936. WHIPPLE GENEALOGY. 1 John Whipple: (Ruling Elder) Ipswich 1639 B. M Twice,- 1st Susanna ,- died June 14, 1658 2nd Janett D. [* (1669, June 30 1 Susannah , m Lionel Worth of Newbury 2 Mary Stone, 3 Sarah Goodhue 4 Anthony Potter 5 John, d. 1674 2 Sarah Whipple, B. 1641, m July 13, 1661, d. July 23, 1681. Married Joseph Goodhue, 1661 10 Children William, m. Nay Lowden 3 William Goodhue, b. 1666, m. 1692, d. July 10, 1722 M. May Lowden 1692, d. Sept 4, 1729 a daughter Sarah Goodhue, b. May 24, 1695,m. Mch.18, 1715-6 died Jan 2, 1764, prob. Ipswich. 4 Sarah Goodhue, m 1715-6 Thomas Treadwell a son, Joseph, b. Feb. 3, 1716-7 in Ipswich , Yeoman m. int. pub. in Ipswich Jan.10, 1746-7 d. about 1763 in Army at Menas Bay on Bay Chagnesto, Nova Scotia. 5 Joseph Treadwell, M. Sarah Hammond of Rowley, BFeb. 15, 1727-8 m twice, (See my genl. outline.) Children by 1st wife Sarah Hammond. 1 Joseph 2 Elizabeth, Bap. Mch. 5,1748-9, died young 3 Sarah, b. June 21, 1750 a daughter Anna b. 1771 to second [wife] husband Walter Davis of Newburyport on Dec. 25, 1769 6 Sarah Treadwell (Stone) of Sutton. b. Rawley June 21, 1750, m. at Genl. Learned's home in Ox. July 25, 1776 d. at Millbury, Feb. 25, 1837, buried in old cemetery Ox. Plain cem. n/w corner of burying ground. a daughter Sarah 7 Sarah Treadwell Stone , m Capt. Stephen Barton, 8 David Barton, m. Julia Ann Maria Porter 9 Ida Adelia Barton, m Adolf Riccius etc. Edith Riccius King Hermann P. Riccius Saidee F. Riccius Walter Harold RicciusJuly 1943 #1. Hammond. Treadwell - Haven - Stone. THOMAS HAMMOND, of Lavenham, Suffolk Co., England, married ROSE TRIPPE Born Mar. May 14, 1573 Died - Busied Nov. 24, 1589. Children: 1. Elizabeth. Bapt. Apr. 1, 1574 2. William, Bapt. Oct. 30, 1575; Mar. Elizabeth Paine June 9, 1605. 3. Rose, Bapt. Apr. 22, 1578. 4. Martha, Bapt. Nov. 6, 1579 5. Thomas, Bapt. Jan. 9, 1586, of Hingham, afterward Newton. 6. Marie, Bapt. July 7, 1587 7. Susan William Hammond, son of Thomas and Rose Trippe Hammond, baptised Oct. 30, 1575, in Lavenham, Suffolk Co., England, married Elizabeth Paine, June 9, 1605. She was born in Newton Parish, Suffolk Co., near Bury St. Edmunds, England, in 1587. She died Sept. 14, 1670. She came to America on Ship "James" in 1634. Her father was William Paine, born Dec. 2, 1565; Her Grandfather was Anthony Paine. (See Paine Family of Ipswich, Mass., by Albert W. Paine of Bangor, Maine.) William Hammond was in Boston n 1632. Later settled in Watertown, Mass. He died there Dec. 10, 1655-1660. He was independent in religion and a great lover of liberty. Sympathy ofr those persecuted for conscience's sake. He was the first of his line in America. His descendants have no criminal records but are too modest and retiring by nature. (Quote). Most all the New England Hammonds are descended from William and his brother Thomas of Hingham, afterward Newton. 9 Children: 1. WIlliam, Bapt. Sept. 20, 1607. 2. Anne, Bapt. Nov. 19, 1609. 3. John, Bapt. Dec. 5, 1611 4. Anne, Bapt. July 14, 1616. 5. Thomas, Bapt. Sept. 17, 1618; of Watertown; Died Dec. 10; 1655-60. 6. Elizabeth, Bapt. about 1619; mar. man named House. 7. Sarah, Bapt. about 1624. 8. John, Bapt. about 1627, of Watertown. 9. Benjamin, who was probably not the youngest child. Thomas Hammond, son of William and Elizabeth Paine Hammond, baptised in Lavenahm, Suffolk Co., England, Sept. 17, 1618, came to Boston with his parents in 1632. Married Hannah Cross about 1654. Thomas Hammond died in Watertown, Mass. Dec. 10, 1655-60. Hannah Cross was born April 7, 1636, in Ipswich, Mass., the daughter of john Cross, born in 1584, and Hannah or Anna Cross, born in 1596. John Cross was 50 years old and his wife, Hannah was 38 years old when they came from Ipswich, England to the town of Ipswich, Mass., in April 1634. John Cross was unusual in that he taxed himself to found a Free School. He died in 1662, his wife, Hannah in 1669.#2 HAMMOND Treadwell - Haven - Stone Thomas Hammond - Continued, Hannah Cross Hammond, wife of Thomas Hammond, died in Watertwon, Mass., Mar. 24, 1657. For Controversy among heirs of Thomas Hammond, see Bond's "Watertown", pages 778-779. Thomas and Hannah Cross Hammond had but one child, a son named THOMAS, who was born July 11, 1656, about eight months after his father died, and his mother died when he was only a few months old. In a will dated Nov. 6, 1655, Thomas Hammond mentions his wife, Hannah Cross Hammond, and provided for an expected unborn child. (Thomas, born July 11, 1656.) Lieutenant Thomas Hammond, son of Thomas and Hannah Cross Hammond, born July 11, 1656, in Watertown, Massachusetts, married first, August 21, 1677, Elizabeth Noyes, who died April 4, 1679. No children. Thomas married secondly, December 6, 1679, Saban Pickard, daughter of John and Jane Pickard, of Rowley, Massachusetts. Thomas died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, February 26, 1724-5; Sarah, his wife, died January 16, 1712-13. His father having died eight months before he was born, his mother a few months after he was born and his Grandfather William Hammond when he was four years old, his Uncle John Hammond reared him, in Watertown and gave his a good education. Young Thomas was an excellent penman and specimens of his handwriting are still in existence. He was in King Phillips's War in the Companies of Captain Joseph Syll in 1675 and Captain Joseph Cutter in 1676. An active and enterprising person, self reliant and liberal in religion. He made lots of money in business and many people said "Tom Hammond has sold himself to the Devil." He lies at rest in Rowley Cemetery in the left near the entrance. There are engraved headstones. He was a very large owner of real estate. He gave Old Cross Farm to his sons, David and Nathaniel, June 11, 1713, - 100 acres, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. This estate consisted of house, barn and upland valued at 120 pounds; and 7 cows, 2 oxen, 200 pounds. There were also a house and land in Lavenham, England which he rented for 14 pounds per year and 120 pounds personal estate. The Lavenham property inherited from his father, undoubtedly. 7 Children; 1. Hannah, Born November 15, 1680. 2. Sarah, Born January 20, 1683; Married Thomas Lambird December 19, 1699, of Rowley. 3. Thomas, Born November 17, 1685; Died October 22, 1762. 4. Elizabeth, Born May 12, 1688. 5. David, Baptized November 23, 1690. 6. Nathaniel, Baptized July 25, 1697. Jonathan, Baptized July 25, 1697. David Hammond, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Sarah Pickard Hammond, born in Watertown, Massachusetts November 23, 1690, married July 11, 1719, Mary Platts, born in Rowley, Massachusetts June 29, 1684. She was the daughter of Samuel and Phillipa (Felt) Platts of Rowley. David was a farmer. He died September 22, 1765; Mary, his wife, died March, 1747. Children: After I'd finished writing this I came across this information about Hannah Hammond - a sister of Sarah & so tried to squeeze it in - also the information about Joseph Treadwell dying at 24 & leaving two sons. Jos & Benji. As Vira [?] mentioned Sarah Treadwell going to her grandfathers with 3 small children Mary, Sarah & Benjamin. I put Benji in as a possible child, but later decided he was Joseph's son & perhaps Sarah had him to bring up - or else Vira confused him with Joseph. That's more apt to be the answer - as Elizabeth died young & that would mean Sarah had 3 left. #3. Continued. HAMMOND. DAVID HAMMOND - Continued - CHILDREN: 1. SARAH, born and baptised in Rowley, Mass. Feb. 15, 1728. Married twice: 1st intentions pub. Ipswich, Jan. 10, 1746-7 to Joseph Treadwell. 2nd. intentions pub. in Newburyport, 2. Hannah, probably older than Sarah, mar. Amos Parsons a sea Capt. and brought up Sarah Treadwell, (Sarah Hammond's child,) after the father, Joseph Treadwell, died. SARAH HAMMOND, daughter of David and Mary Platts Hammond, baptized in Rowley Parish, Mass., Feb 15, 1728, married first, (intentions pub. Jan. 10, 1746-7, JOSEPH TREADWELL, son of Thomas and Sarah Goodhue Treadwell, born Feb. 3, 1716-17 in Ipswich, Mass; died before 1764.(1755?) Sarah Hammond Treadwell married secondly to Walter Davis of Newburyport, Mass. on Dec. 25, 1769-71. one child, Anna, born in 1771, by second marriage. CHILDREN OF JOSEPH AND SARA HAMMOND TREADWELL: 1. Joseph B. ---; D. when 24 yrs. old - had two sons - Joseph & Benjamin. 2. Elizabeth, Bap. Mar. 5, 1748-9; died young. 3. Mary, Bap. Mar. 5, 1748-9; mar. Gee. Tryal Dec. 30, 1769. 4. SARAH, Born June 21, 1750, at Rowley, Mass. 5. Benjamin (?). Probably son of Joseph. SARAH TREADWELL, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hammond Treadwell, born June 21, 1750 i Rowley, Mass., married Capt. DAVID HAVEN STONE July 25, 1776, at Gen. Learned's home in Oxford, Mass. David was born Dec. 6, 1750; died Dec. 9, 1827. Sarah died Feb. 25, 1837 at the home of her daughter, Anna Eddy, in Sutton, mass. She was buried in the N. W. corner of Oxford Plain Cemetery. She was baptized in Opswich, Mass. July 7, 1751. See Vira Stone's records for interesting details of her life. Esther Gale Haven, mother of David Haven, married for her second husband William Stone, and her son by her first husband, -----Haven, took the name of his step-father, Stone, and was known as Capt. David Haven Stone. Thus the Stones' are not our ancestors except by adoption. *see next page CHILDREN OF DAVID HAVEN STONE AND SARAH TREADWELL STONE 1. David, B. Apr. 6, 1777; died Aug. 29, 1828. 2. Joseph, B. Agu. 24, 1780; died Feb. 21, 1862. 3. SARAH, B. Nov. 13, 1783; died July 18, 1851. 4. Anna, B. Oct. 27, 1787; died Sept. 15, 1857. 5. Jeremiah, B. Mar. 21, 1791; died Feb. 7, 1867. Treadwell - Haven-Stone GAZETTE TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1946 Career Ends Associate Justice Thomas J. Hammond, 69, of Massachusetts Superior Court, died today in Northampton. Jurist Dies in Northampton Judge Hammond Fails to Rally From Operation NORTHAMPTON, July 23, (UP) - Thomas Jasper Hammond, 69, of Northampton, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court since 1929, died at a hospital here today after a three-week illness. He had undergone an intestinal operation at the hospital July 4. A native of Northampton, he was educated at Williston Academy and graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School. Hammond began his studies in his father's law office - the same office in which the late President Calvin Coolidge first studied law a few years earlier, Coolidge had graduated from Amherst five years before Hammond. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1902 and three years later married the former Annie Kimball Mead of Randolph, Vt. She survives him. Judge Hammond engaged in general practice at Northampton until 1929, serving as a referee in bankruptcy from 1910 to 1912 and as city solicitor of Northampton from 1912 to 1917. A Republican and leader in Western Massachusetts politics, he was elected District Attorney of Northwestern Hampshire county in 1920 and served for seven years. In 1929 the then Governor Alvan T. Fuller named Hammond to the superior bench. During the Mexican border clash of 1916, Hammond served as a major in the 104th Infantry and was with the U.S. Army in France from 1917-1919. He was decorat[...] of the JUDGE FAILS TO RALLY Continued from Page One French Legion of Honor for his World War I Service. Presided at Many Worcester Cases By EDWARD B. CONROY Justice Hammond sat on many important criminal, civil and equity cases in Worcester County but will be remembered by many as the presiding justice at the Newell P. Sherman "American Tragedy" trial in 1935, in which the Sutton man was convicted for the drowning of his wife in Singletary Lake. Although he shunned publicity and always maintained that jury cases, whether of a civil or criminal nature, should be tried without too great a display in the public press, he realized the great public interest in th Sherman trial and made special accommodations for its coverage. He ordered the iron cage, usually used for prisoners, removed and permitted the defendant to sit within the bar enclosure. The extra space was given over to the newspaper reporters. In addition, he permitted for the first time in Worcester, the use of microphones to carry the court proceedings to press headquarters in another part of the building. His only request to the more than 50 writers who covered the trial was they stick to the facts as presented in the evidence and refrain from speculation. A veteran of the first World War, Justice Hammond took keen interest in any veterans who came before his court and in several Worcester County cases turned them from the path of crime. His last sitting in Worcester was in the jury-waived session in February, 1945, and his last criminal sitting here was in 1942. Justice Hammond was a stickler for court room decorum and S.F.R. David Haven Stone *Insert 3 1/2 HAVEN. (Taken from Barry's "History of Framingham). There is a "Haven Genealogy" by Adams. about 1847.) 1. Sargeant Richard Haven, of Lynn, carpenter came from the west of England, and settled at Lynn in 1645, on a farm near Flax Pond. It is supposed that he had brothers who emigrated to New England. Richard's will was proved June 14, 1703. His wife, Susannah died February 7, 1682. Their children: - 1 Hannah, b. Feb. 22, 1645-6, m. Nehemiah Goodall, July 30, 1673, had children in Lynn, moved a widow to Framingham and was buried Jan. 1, 1726-7. 2 Mary, b. Mar. 12, 1647, m. John Tarbox of Lynn July 4, 1667. She died at Lynn Nov. 17, 1690 leaving a numerous family. 3 Joseph, b. Feb. 12, 1649-0 d. without children 4 Richard b. May 25, 1651, m. Susannah at Lynn, Children: Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 1677, m. John Parker July 18, 1693 Joseph, b. Aug. 17, 1680 Sarah Susannah, b. Oct. 1, 1686. 5 Susanna, b. April 24, 1653, m. --- Cogswell. 6 Sarah, b. June 4, 1655, m. (John) Whitney. 7 John, b. Dec. 10, 1656. d. 1705 m Hannah Hichens at Lynn. Oct 3, 1682 * 8 Martha, b. Feb. 16, 1658-9, d. June 14, 1659 9. Samuel. b. May, d. Dec. 1, 1660. 10 Johnathan, b. Jan. 18, 1662, d. July 3, 1664. 11 Nathaniel, b. June 30, 1664. m. Elizabeth - 10 children 6 before moving to Framingham II 12 Moses, b. May 20, 1667 m. 1st Mary Ballard of Lynn. 2nd Elizabeth Bridges of Framingham Nov. 27, 1735 In the Dorchester Church, Goodman Haven was received, August 26, 1680 and in 1691 was Baptised, Susanna Haven, "now a grown maid", in the family of John Minot. Her father [died] and mother died when she was young. (Esther Gale Haven and her son David Haven must stem from one of these branches. S.F.R. See next page 000289his father's law office - the same office in which the late President Calvin Coolidge first studied law a few years earlier, Coolidge had graduated from Amherst five years before Hammond. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1902 and three years later married the former Annie Kimball Mend of Randolph, Vt. She survives him. Judge Hammond engaged in general practice at Northampton until 1929, serving as a referee in bankruptcy from 1910 to 1912 and as city solicitor of Northampton from 1912 to 1917. A Republican and leader in western Massachusetts politics, he was elected District Attorney of Northwestern Hampshire county in 1920 and served for seven years. In 1929 the then Gov. Alvan T. Fuller named Hammond to the superior bench. During the Mexican border clash of 1916, Hammond served as a major in the 104th Infantry and was with the U.S. Army in France from 1917 to 1919. He was decorat [?] of the JUDGE FAILS TO RALLY Continued from Page One French Legion of Honor for his World War I Service. Presided at Many Worcester Cases By EDWARD B. CONROY Justice Hammond sat on many important criminal, civil and equity cases in Worcester County but will be remembered by many as the presiding justice at the Newell P. Sherman "American Tragedy" trial in 1935, in which the Sutton man was convicted for the drowning of his wife in Singletary Lake. Although he shunned publicity and always maintained that jury cases, whether of a civil or criminal nature, should be tried without too great a display in the public press, he realized the great public interest in th Sherman trial and made special accommodations for its coverage. He ordered the iron cage, usually used for prisoners removed and permitted the defendant to sit within the bar enclosure. The extra space was given over to the newspaper reporters. In addition, he permitted for the first time in Worcester, the use of microphones to carry the court proceedings to press headquarters in another part of the building. His only request to the more than 50 writers who covered the trial was they stick to facts as presented in the evidence and refrain from speculation. A veteran of the first World War, Justice Hammond took a keen interest in any veterans who came before his court and in several Worcester County cases turned them from the path of crime. His last sitting in Worcester was in the jury-waived session in February, 1945, and his last criminal sitting here was in 1942. Justice Hammond was a stickler for court room decorum and permitted little bantering or verbal tilts between counsel. He insisted on opening court on time and working until the closing hour. He expected and usually obtained, the same punctuality on the part of lawyers. Considered a strict disciplinarian on the bench he was an entertaining and interesting conversationalist when away from his judicial duties and was often sought as a speaker at Bar Association gatherings. In recent years he sat more often on the equity side of the court and in this capacity presided at several intricate cases in this and other counties. The late Edward T. Esty, former district attorney and a member of the aw firm of Vaughan, Esty, Clark & Crotty was in the Northampton law office of Justice Hammond and his father before coming to Worcester. 2. 2. Moses Havan, had settled at Lynn, and had five children at the date of his father's will, in May 1701. He was nominated the Executor, and the will indicates that he was expected to remain there. He did so until after his father's death in 1703, and was appointed Executor in June of that year. He must have removed to Framingham before 10 June, 1705, as his seventh child was born there on that day. 1st wife He married Mary Ballord of Lynn. b. d. 1734 children 1. Joseph b. Feb. 8, 1689 2. Susannah, b. Oct. 20, 1690 3. Richard, b. Jan. 28, 1693 4. Moses, b. Nov. 11, 1695 5. Mary, b. Oct. 1, 1698 m Samuel Stone 6. Mahitabal, b. Jan. 30, 1702 7. Sarah, b. June 10, 1703 8. Daniel, b. June 16, 1708 2nd wife, Elizabeth Bridges of Framingham Nov. 27, 1735 3rd wife Sarah (named in his will of 1746 He died Nov. 14 1747, aged 80. He was on a com. to lay out a highway, in 1709; selectman, in 1710; constable, in 1711; moderator and selectman, in 1712; on com. to seat the meetinghouse in 1715; treasurer and moderator, in 1717; selectman, treasurer, constable and moderator in 1718; treasurer and sealer of leather, in 1719; on com. to fill vacant seats in the meeting house, in 1720; on com. to hire schoolmaster in 1723; moderator, in 1725; on a com. to locate schools, in 1726; on com. to hire schoolmaster, in 1727; selectman and moderator in 1728; moderator twice in 1730, and was also on a com. to confer with Mr. Swift about his salary. The church records show that he was chosen Deacon, 29 March 1717; that he was a delegate to the ordination of Rev. Mr. Barrett, at Hopkinton, 2 Sept. 1724; March 21, 1725 "Deacon Haven spake that he should not hold forth the contibution box, because so few came to it." His will, dated 1 July, 1746, (which was cancelled) in which he names his sons, Joseph of Hopkinton, Richard, Moses, Daniel; and his daughters, Susanna Town, Mary Ward, Mahitabal Haven, Sarah Hamanway, and his wife SARAH. His "Brother Ballord" is also named in the will. 3. Moses Haven. b. Nov. 11, 1695 in Lynn, settled in Framingham. He married Hannah Walker of Framingham Nov. 9, 1721; both admitted to full communion, 30 June, 1723. Their children;-3. Children of Moses Haven 3. 1 Abigail, b. Jan. 31, 1724 2 Isaac, b. April 15, 1726 3 Hannah, b. May 20, 1728 4 David, b. May 28, 1731 5 Jason, b. March 2, 1733 6 Abigail, b. June 9, 1739, m. John Richardson of Franklin The mother died Feb. 22, 1749. (Hannah Walker 1st wife) 2nd wife, Anna, died 12 Feb. 1778. Moses Haven was the successor of his father, as Deacon, for many years. He died March 29, 1778, aged 83. See tombstones in Framingham. 4.David Haven, of Waltham, born May 28, 1731, Married Esther Gale of Waltham, b.Dec. 21, 1730. They were married Dec. 25, 1749, died [] (buried in Charlton Cemetery). She was married [?] 4 times. 1st to David Haven 2nd to William Stone 3rd to John Todd 4th to Robert McIntyre of Charlton. He and Esther are buried in his family tomb on his farm in Charlton. Esther received 300 lbs. in father's will dated Jan. 3, 1749-50. a son David Haven, took his stepfather's name of Stone, and in 1775 the family moved to Oxford and lived on Prospect Hill and then Rocky Hill. 5. [*Captain*] David Haven (Stone). b. at Waltham, Mass. Dec. 6, 1750. married Sarah Treadwell of Sutton, b. in Rawley, Mass. June 21, 1750. They were married at Genl. Learned's home in Oxford July 25, 1776. She died at Millbury Feb. 25, 1837 where she was living with her daughter Anna Eddy, and was buried in Oxford Plain Cemetery N.W.corner of burying ground. She was baptised in Ipswich 1751, July 7th. Captain David Haven Stone left immediately after his marriage for service under Gen. Learned in Revolutionary War. He was present at Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, and as Deputy Sheriff received Burgoyne's sword, as the American Genl. Gates was too drunk to receive it. He died December 9, 1827 in Oxford. Children; 1 David, bApr. 6, 1777 2 Joseph, b.Aug. 24, 1780 3 Sarah, b. Nov. 13, 1783 4 Anna, b.Oct.27,1787 5 Jeremiah,b,Mch.21, 1791 4. 6. Sarah Stone, b. Oxford, Mass. Nov. 13, 1783, married Capt. Stephen Barton of Oxford Apr. 22, 1804,she d. July 18, 1854. ( See page 65 for Barton record.)#-4. Continued. HAMMOND. Treadwell - Haven-Stone. SARAH STONE, daughter of Sarah Treadwell and David Haven Stone, born Nov. 13, 1783, in No. Oxford, Mass., married April 22, 1804, at Oxford, Mass., CAPT. STEPHEN BARTON, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton of Oxford, Mass. Capt. Stephen was born Aug. 18, 1774 and died Mar. 21, 1862. Sarah died July 18, 1851. Capt. Stephen Barton was a Royal Arch Mason and a Representative to Mass. Legislature, and was buried with Masonic honors. 5 CHILDREN: 1. Dolly, B. Oct. 2, 1804; died Apr. 19, 1840. 2. Stephen, B. Mar. 29, 1806; died Mar. 20, 1865. 3. DAVID, B. Aug. 15, 1808; died Mar. 12, 1888. 4. Sarah, B. Mar. 20, 1811; died May 1874. 5. Clarissa Harlowe, B. Dec. 25, 1831; died Apr. 12, 1912. (Clara B.) DAVID BARTON, son of Capt. Stephen and Sarah Stone Barton, born Aug. 15, 1808, married Sept. 30, 1839 his cousin, JULIA ANN MARIA PORTER, of Vienna, Maine. She was born Jan. 23, 1814 and died July 14, 1899. David died Mar. 12, 1888. 4 CHILDREN: 1.Ada Idelia and Ida Adelia, twins, B. Jan. 18, 1847. Ada died Feb. 17, 1930; Ida died Jan. 26, 1911. 2.Stephen Emory, B. Dec. 24, 1848; died Jan. 17, 1929. 3.Mary Anna, B. Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929. IDA ADELIA BARTON, daughter of David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton, born Jan. 18, 1847, married March 22, 1879 Gustav Adolph Julius Riccius, or Millbury, Mass., born March 18, 1841; died July 6, 1891. Ida died Jan. 26, 1911. 4 CHILDREN: 1. Edith Julia, B. Feb. 13, 1881; M. Geo. [?.] King, Aug. 19, 1906. 2. Merriam Porter, B. Oct. 4, 1883. 3. Saddee Frances, B. Dec. 28, 1886. 4. Walter Harold, B. May 5, 1889; M. 1st., Ruth M. Brown, July.15,1912; Mar. 2nd., Wilhelmina [?Mange], Feb. 14, 1929. [*By Edith Riccius King*] WHALE. Philemon Whale and Sarath Cakebread (dau. of Thomas Cakebread) M. Nov. 7, 1640. Philemon Whale was in Sudbury, Mass. in 1646. He was a freeman May 10, 1648. Philemon Whale and Sarath Cakebread were married Nov. 7 1640. A culvert or bridge at the head of the mill pond is still called "Whales Bridge". Probably the home of Philemon Whale was not far from the present Concord road, near Wayland Center, and possibly stood on the old cellar hole at the right of the road, north of the Dana Parmenter house. Philemon Whale had 18 acres of land in Sudbury in 1655. At various periods in the history of this ancient family there have been manifestations of family pride in belonging to it. Special records have been made by certain families. Notes. Philemon Whale and Elizabeth married Nov. 9, 1657, M. R. Middlesex Records East Cambridge. Deaths. Whale (See Whaley, Whall) Elizabeth, wife of Philemon, June 20, 1649. Sarah, wife of Philemon (Whall) Dec. (torn) 165- (torn) (Wife Philemon Dec. "6, 1656. M. R. Whaley (See Wh[l]ale). Philemon Feb. 24, 1675 (M.R.) Whall (See Whale) Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1688 ? Widd, Whale granted 24 lbs. Loss from Indian Attack ye 21 April 1676. Hudsons Sudbury, Page 127. Elizabeth Whale, dau. of Philemon and Sarah Cakebread Whale, mar. John Moore of Sudbury. Their son Jacob mar. Elizabeth Locker, dau. of Henry Locker of Sudbury. (Hannah Brewer). The Loker or Locker family appear early in Sudbury, Mass. Elizabeth Locker, widow, died there in 1646. Henry was proprietor in 1639, freeman in 1643, mar. Hannah Brewer 24 Mar. 1647 and died 14, Oct. 1688. John took the oath of fidelity in 1645, was freeman the following year and died in 1654. He had a wife Mary. This will sees to strengthen the supposition that Philemon Whale, mentioned in the will of John Whale of Bures St. Mary and Colchester, is the man who appeared in Sudbury, Mass. I do not doubt that the Whale and Locker families which intermarried in New England, were friends in old England. The Will of Jonas Whale of Chickney in County Essex, clerk, 23 April 1621. Body to be buried in the church of Chickney. Estate to wife ffrancis and five children during her widowhood, and if it happen that said wife shall marry then the estate to be divided into two parts, one part to ffrancis my wife, the other to be equally divided among my five children, to be put into the hands of my trusty and faithful friends, John Chadwick of Broxton (sis_ clerk, and Robert Newman of Chickney, yeoman,, for the good and benefit of said children. Wife ffrancis made executrix. Witnesses: John Chadwick, Rob't Newman. Proved 21 July 1621 by ffrancis Whale the widow. The probate entry mentions "John Chadwick vicar de Chawreth als Broxted". (P.C.C., Dale 10.) Continued #2. Whale. The Philemon "son of my brother Philemon" mentioned in the will of John Whale, may be our emigrant, Philemon Whale of Sudbury, 1643. The will of Philemon Whale, Clerk, of Chickney Co. Essex (brother of John) dated 4 April 1618, proved 19 May 1620, is in P.C.C. Register Soame, vol. 53, No. 622 (printed vol. P. 208). "Philemon seems to be a frequent name in the Whale family. In the registers of St. Sepulchre, Cambridge, is the following marriage: "Philemon Whale and Sarah Smyth, lic. Jan. 26, 1635-6. J. C. Bartlett.) N. E. Historical and Gena. Register, Vol. 63, P. 36. --------------------------------- The will of Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary in the County of Essex, glover, 22 Feb. 1630. Body to be buried in the church yard of the parish of Bures aforesaid. To wife Elizabeth 12 lbs. and all household stuff during the term of her life if she continue single, but if she marry, eldest son Henrie, son John, daughter Bridgett and youngest daughter Ann to have certain household goods (enumerated). To son Henrie 12 lbs. To younger son John 10 lbs. --------------- Wife Elizabeth and two sons shall use my stock jointly together, and if either of said sons --------------------. Witnesses: John Isaack, Jefferie Hust and John Parmenter. Proved 15 April 1631 by the executors named in the will. (Archdeaconery of Sudbury, (Bury St. Edmunds) Colman, f. 16) ------------------------------------- The will of John Whale nowe of the parish of St. Mary the Virgin at the walles of the Towne of Colchester, in the County of Essex and diocese of London, yeoman, being somewhat arrassed in body, etc. 21 March 1608. To sister Johan Biscoe 40 lbs. Unto the now wife of Philemon Whale my brother 20 lbs. To Jonas Whale, son of the said Philemon, my brother, 200 lbs. To Philemon Whale, one other of the sons of the said Philemon, my brother, 66 lbs. 13s 4d. at age of one and twenty years or day of marriage. To Mary Whale, daughter of said Philemon, my brother, one hundred marks at the age of nineteen years or day of her marriage. Also to Elizabeth Whale, one other of the daughters of the said Philemon, my brother, one "hundredth" marks at the age of nineteen years or the day of her marriage. To (name omitted) Ingram, the first born child of Sara Ingram my niece, the sum of 10 lbs. at day of marriage or at the age of nineteen years. To Mr. Thomas Waldgrave of Elmeswell, 10s. To Mr. Thomas Highmans wife the elder, now or late of Nithermonford, 20s. To Anthony Colman of Wandringheild 10s. To Mr. Edward Shelton of Bures St. Marys 20s. To Annie Chitter alais Potter of Bures 20s. To Elizabeth, the daughter of the said Anne, 20s at the age of nineteen year or at the day of marriage. To William ffissher the "yonger" late of Bures 20s. To William Grome (of which child Joane Priestman is grandmother) 20s. To godchild John Tue, and ffrauncis Johnson of Bures 20s. each. To my fellow servants of Joane Biscoe, my sister, as followeth: Rachell Wade 10s., Barbara Mytch 5s., and to Harry Lowcock 5s. To each of the poor people inhabiting within the town of Colchester 10s. To Lawrence Leede 5s. To Mris Elizabeth Waldgrave, daughter of Mr. Thomas Waldgrave, 10s. To Sr. William Waldgrave my master 100 lbs. of the money which he oweth unto me. And to Sr. William Waldgrave the younger, his "waef" 40s. To the Lady Cooke, my said master's daughter 40s. To Sir Edward Cooke son of said Lady Cooke, 20s. (contd #2 Continued To my Ladie Bockingham, my master's daughter 40s. To Mr. Henry Waldgrave my master son 40s. To Mr. ffrauncis Waldgrave, my master's son 40s. which he oweth me. To Mris Bockingham 20s. To Mr. Stephen Bochingham 40s. To Sir Thomas Bockingham 40s. I do nominate and appont Mr. Robert Wade, Alderman of Colchester, and my brother Philemon Whale and William Hudson of Stoke iuxta Nayland, my executors, and William ffissher late of Bures St. Mary the supervisor of the same. To brother Philomen I give 40 lbs. To William Hudson I give other 20 lbs. To Supervisor 5 lbs. If my sister Joane die before she receive her portion, then I will give the same portion unto James Biscoe, her husband, if he shall then be living. To Richard Mason, Mathewe Brown the elder, ffrauncis George, John Whale and John Broman 10s each. To James Cadman my cloake, to my brother Philomen my nag now standing my sister Biscoe's stable. To William Peper my prayer book, to Goodman Biscoe my fustian doublet; to Goodman Dickson my fustian hose. Signed: John Whale. Witnesses: James Cadman, John Dyxon, William Pepper, Rivhard Mason. Proved 4 May 1609 by Robert Wade, Philomen Whale and Wilhelm Hudson. (P.C.C., Dorset 39) ----------------------------------------------------- CAKEBREAD. Record: Granted to Thomas Cakebread for and in consideration of building a mill 40 acres of upland or thereabouts now adjoining to the mill and a little piece of meadow which may be 16 acres or upwards, and also there is given for his accommodation 40 acres of upland. Mr. Cakebread did not live long enough to make use of his mill. His widow married Sergeant John Grout, who took charge of the property. Some of the timber in the present mill supposed to be from the Cakebread mill. Capt. Thomas Cakebread admitted freeman May 14, 1634. Proprietor of Watertown 1636z7 and of Sudbury 1640. He settled first in Watertown and probably resided a short time in Dedham as he is said to have accompanied from Watertown to Dedham Ralph Wheelock and Henry Phillips, both candidates for the office of teachers in the Church. In Mr. Haven's address in 1836 he is called a renowned soldier of Watertown, and he was invited to be at the head of the military affairs of Dedham. He moved to Sudbury and died previous to 1645, as land was then given to Sarah Cakebread. She became the wife of Captain John Grout. History of Watertown P. 149. Ensign Thomas Cakebread was Proprietor of Watertown 1642 although he had first gone to Dedham and at this date was a resident of Sudbury. He was one of the original members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. In Sept 1642, after the return of Capt. B. Pendleton to Watertown, the General Court appointed Ensign Cakebread to lead the Company of Subdbury as Ensign. His name has sometimes been confounded with that of Thomas Breadcake, a mariner, who obtained a commission against the Turks in 1644, After the decease of Ensign Cakebread, who died in Sudbury Jan. 4, 1643-4. He married subsequent to April 1637, Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Busby. His widow Sarah married Captain John Grout. It has not been ascertained that he left any sons. There was an Isaac Cakebread of Springfield in 1678 and one of that name in Hartford in 1680. (Hinman P. 466) ----------------------------------- BUSBY. Early Settlers of Watertown, by Bond, P. 149. April 8, 1637. The examination of Nicholas Busby of Nowchy in Noff (Norwich in Norfolk) weaver, aged 50 years, and Bridget, his wife, aged 53 years, with four children, Nicholas, John, Abraham and Sarah, as desirious to go to Boston, in New England, to inhabit. ( Mass. Hist. Coll. Vol. 1, 4th Series, P. 96.) They settled in Watertown where he was selectman 1640 and 1644. He died in Boston, August 28, 1657. His widow, Bridget, of Boston, on May 20, 1659 sold to John Grout, yeoman, of Sudbury, the homestall in Watertown granted to her husband,and 5 other lots of land in Watertown, 4 of which were formerly in the tenure of William Paine, a merchant, formerly of Watertown, then of Boston, (733 Bond). In October 1637 Nicholas Busby was admitted an inhabitant of Newbury (Coffin P. 24) He could have remained there only a short time as he was selectman of Watertown in 1640. The will of Nicholas Busby of Boston dated July 25 proved Sept. 10, 1657 makes his wife sole executrix. Mentions son John (in Eng.) Abraham, daughters Anne Nickerson (wife of 2m.) Katherine (Savoy) youngest, and daughter Sarah Grout. John Busby, son of his son Nicholas deceased and Sarah Grout, his grandchild. Notes from his will. Mentions money and plate books in "Phisicks" and history. Bequeathed three bibles to his three daughters, Anne and Katherine, probably in England. His daughter Sarah probably married to Ensign Thomas Cakebread, and after to John Grout (See Gen. Reg. S P 276.) October 14, 1643, the General Court granted a Bounty of 345 lbs, for making cloth. TOWNE GENEALOGY. July 1943. E.R.K. JOHN TOWNE, born in England, married ELIZABETH, and was probably the father of WILLIAM TOWNE, born March 18, 1598-9, in England and died in Topsfield, Mass. about 1672. He married JONE or JOANNA BLESSING on March 25, 1620, (she probably being of German descent) in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth County, Norfolk, England. They came to New England about 1636 and lived in Salem, Mass. for several years, then moved to Topsfield, about 1652. Of their eight children, six were born in Yarmouth, England; two, Sarah and Joseph, in Salem, Mass. Joanna died in 1682. 8 CHILDREN: 1. Rebecca, born in Yarmouth, England, baptized Feb. 21, 1621; mar. Francis Nourse or Nurse of Salem Village (Danvers) - he died Nov. 22, 1695. Rebecca was hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass. July 10, 1692. 2. John, bap. Feb 16, 1624 - no record of marriage but mention of a son, David. 3. Susannah, Bap. Oct. 20, 1625. Never married. 4. Edmund, Bap. June 28, 1628; died May 3, 1678; mar. Mary Browning who was Bap. Jan. 7, 1638. 5. Jacob, Bap. Mar. 11, 1632; mar. Catherine Simonds. 6. Mary, born in England Aug. 24, 1634; mar. Isaac Estey or Esty of Salem Village; hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass., Sept. 22, 1692. Before her death she wrote a remarkable document proclaiming her innocence, but in spite of all she had suffered, there was no bitterness in her heart. At Salem, Mass. a monument to the memory of these two sisters, Rebecca and Mary has been erected near their old homestead, (Danvers), known as The Rebecca Nurse Monument. Near by is the Rebecca Nurse house built in 1636. 7. SARAH, born about 1638, Bap. Sept. 3, 1648; mar. first, Edmund Bridges, Jr., of Topsfield, and Salem, Mass. He was born about 1637 and died in 1682. Sarah mar. secondly, in 1682, Peter Cloyes of Salem Village. Sarah was condemned to death as a witch, but the sentence was not carried out and she was either set at liberty or allowed to escape from the Ipswich Jail. She was sentenced because she fought bitterly for her two sisters. She died at Framingham, Mass. in 1703. 8. Joseph, born in Salem about 1640, Bap. with his sister Sarah Sept. 3, 1648. He married Phebe Perkins and died in 1713. His father and mother, William and Joanna Towne, lived with him in their old age. SARAH TOWNE, born about 1638 and Bap. Sept. 3, 1648, in Salem, Mass., died about 1703 in Framingham, Mass. She married first, Jan. 11, 1660, EDMUND BRIDGES JR., born about 1637; died in 1682. For her second husband, Sarah mar. Peter Cloyes, in 1682. CHILDREN OF SARAH AND EDMUND BRIDGES, JR. Continued. #2. continued. TOWNE GENEALOGY. SARAH TOWNE BRIDGES: CHILDREN OF SARAH AND EDMUND BRIDGESJR. 1. Edmund, 2. Benjamin, 3. Mary, 4. HANNAH, born about 1670, married about 1690 to SAMUEL BARTON, of Salem. He was probably born at Salem about 1664; died at Oxford, Mass., Sept 12, 1732. Hannah died at Oxford Mass. Mar. 13, 1727. Both buried in old Burying Ground in Oxford, west of the Common. 5. Caleb, SAMUEL BARTON, son of Matthew and Martha Barton, born probably at Salem, Mass. about 1664, married abut 1690 to HANNAH BRIDGES, dau. of Edmund and Sarah Towne Bridges. Samuel died Sept. 12, 1732 and Hannah died Mar. 13, 1727, both at Oxford, Mass. He was the founder of the Bartons at Oxford, Mass. in 1716. Helped found church in 1720. 8 CHILDREN: 1. Samuel, B. probably at Salem, Oct 8, 1691. 2. Mercy, B. at Framingham May 22, 1694; D. Oct. 3, 1730. Mar. her 2nd cousin, David Towne, Dec. 31, 1716. 3 children: Francis; Hannah; Deliverance. 3. Joshua, B. at Framingham Dec. 24, 1697. 4. Elisha, B. at Framingham Apr. 22, 1701. 5. Caleb, B. at Framingham Feb. 9, 1704-5. 6. Jedediah, B. at Framingham Sept. 18, 1707. 7. Mehitable, B. at Framingham Aug. 22, 1710, D. Nov. 7, 1742; mar.. at Oxford Nov. 12, 1730 to Samuel Duncan of Worcester. One child Samuel Duncan. 8. EDMUND, B. at Framingham Aug. 5, 1714. M. Apr. 9, 1739, at Salem [H]anna[h] [Moulton] Flint of Middleton, D. Dc. 13, 1799. EDMUND BARTON, son of Samuel and Hannah Bridges Barton, born at Framingham Aug. 5, 1714, married at Salem Apr. 9, 1739, ANNA FLINT, eldest dau. of Stephen and Hannah (Moulton) Flint of Middleton, born June 9, 1718; died Mar. 20, 1795. Edmund and Anna were buried near their home in the Burying Ground on the road from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. Edmund died Dec. 13, 1799. NO CHILDREN: continued - 3. Continued. TOWNE GENEALOGY. EDMUND BARTON.- ANNA FLINT BARTON: 10 CHILDREN: 1. STEPHEN, B. June 10, 1740; D. OCT. 21, 1804. 2. Mary, B. June 11, 1742; M. Obadiah Brown of Uxbridge Apr. 3, 1766. 3. Hannah, B. Sept. 22, 1744; M. Sam'l Boutell Jr. Oct. 29, 1765. 4. Jedediah, B. May 6, 1747. 5. Flint, B. Dec. 3, 1749. 6. Elijah, B. Apr. 22, 1751; drowned in June 1756. 7. Gideon, B. Apr. 22, 1753; drowned in June 1756. 8. Anna, B. Aug. 1, 1756; M. David Gibson Apr. 29, 1778. 9. Luke, B. Feg. 1, 1759. 10. Runice, B. May 22, 1761; M. Grindal Keith of Rockingham, Vt. It is interesting to note that Stephen, the first born son of Edmund and Anna Barton, was undoubtedly named for his mother's father, Stephen Flint, and he is the first Stephen of many who followed later on in the Barton family. (E.R.K.) DR. STEPHEN BARTON, born at Sutton, Mass, June 10, 1740, married at Oxford, Mass. May 28 1765, DOROTHY MOORE, born at Oxford Apr. 12, 1747, daughter of Elijah and Dorothy Learned Moore. She died at the home of her son, Capt. Stephen Barton, Nov. 11, 1838; buried at Oxford beside her parents. Dr. Stephen Barton died Oct. 21, 1804 and is buried near a boulder on his homestead farm in Windeer, Maine. He studied medicine with Dr. Green of Leicester, Mass and practised his profession at Oxford and various places in Maine. He had unusual professional ability and was extremely sympathetic and charitable. 13 CHILDREN: 1. Elijah Moore, B. at Oxford Oct. 12, 1765; D. June 13, 1769. 2. Gideon, B. at Oxford Mar. 29, 1767; D. Oct. 27, 1770. 3. Pamela, B. at Oxford Nov. 28, 1768; M. July 18, 1787, as his second wife, Benjamin Porter, and settled in Maine. 4. Clarissa Barlowe, B. at Oxford Sept. 10, 1770; M. Richard Foster. 5. STEPHEN, B. at Oxford Aug. 18, 1774; M. Sarah Stone Apr. 22, 1804; died Mar. 21, 1862. 6. Hannah, B. in Maine July 20, 1776, M. Jonathan Davis - 2nd wife. 7. Parthena B. in Maine in 1780. 8. Dorothy, twin, B. in Maine Apr. 11, 1782; M. Jeremiah Learned Oct. 7, 1796 - 3rd wife. 9. Mary, twin, B. Apr. 11, 1782; M. Nov. 17, 1805 Dan'l Batchellor. 10.Elijah Moore, B. in Maine Aug. 10, 1784. 11.Gideon, B. in Maine June 18, 1786. 12.Anna, B. in Maine in 1788. 13.Luke, B. in Oxford Sept. 3, 1791. 4 Continued. TOWNE GENEALOGY. CAPT. STEPHEN BARTON, son of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., Aug. 18, 1774; married at Oxford, Apr. 22, 1804, SARAH STONE, dau. of David Haven and Sarah Treadwell Stone; born Nov. 13, 1783: died July 18, 1851. Stephen died Mar. 21, 1862. 5 CHILDREN: 1. Dorothy, B. Oct. 2, 1804; D. unmar. at Oxford, Apr. 19, 1846. 2. Stephen, B. Mar. 29, 1806; D. Mar. 10, 1865. M. Betsy Rich. 3. DAVID, B. Aug. 15, 1808; D. Mar. 12, 1888; M. Julia A. M. Porter. 4. Sarah, B. Mar. 20, 1811; D. May 1874; M. Vester Vassall. CAPT. DAVID BARTON, son of Capt. Stephen and Sarah Barton, born at Oxford, mass. Aug. 15, 1808, mar. his cousin JULIA ANN MARIA PORTER, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, of Vienna, Maine, born Jan. 23, 1814; died July 14, 1899. David died Mar. 12, 1888. 4 CHILDREN: 1. Ada Idelia, B. Jan. 18, 1847; D. Feb. 17, 1930.M. Chas.M.Clark. Twins. 2. Ida Adelia, B. Jan. 18, 1847; D. Jan. 26, 1911;M. G.Adolph Riccius. 3. Stephen Emory, B. Dec. 24, 1848; D. Jan. 17, 1929; M. 1st. Joyce Gilmett; 2nd. Elizabeth Walker Tracy. 4. Mary Anna, B. Dec. 11, 1851; D. Jan. 20, 1929; M. John Stafford. IDA ADELIA BARTON, daughter of David and Julia Ann Maria Porter Barton, born. Jan. 18, 1847, at Oxford, Mass., mar. Mar. 22, 1879, GUSTAV ADOLPH JULIUS RICCIUS, of Millbury, Mass. born Mr. 18, 1841; died July 6, 1891. Ida died Jan. 26, 1911. 4 CHILDREN. 1. Edith Julia, B. Feb. 12, 1881; M. George Evander King, Aug.10,1906. 2. Herman Porter, B. Oct. 4, 1883. 3. Saidee Frances, B. Dec. 28, 1886. 4. Walter Harold, B. May 5, 1889; M. 1st. Ruth Brown; 2ndWilhelmina Mange, Feb. 14, 1929. [*Edith Riccius King to Saidee F. Riccius*] 12 Wyman St. Augusta, Maine. Thursday, Nov. 16, 1944 4:45 P.M. Dearest: Most time to start supper but want you to know that Mande gave me the little book, yesterday, that had belonged to little Leroy Barton, Summer's and Maria's son, and so I am sending it along to you. I think she does not like to bother to do up packages, so she gives the stuff to me to send to you, and I am glad she does, for you say she is not so hot as a package doer-upper. We have not been able to find the birth or death date of the little boy but he was only three when he died, she says, and if we ever get out to the old Windsor burying ground we may find dates we cannot find in the records. We had lunch together yesterday and then went over to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, back of the State House, and tried to get dates of births, marriages and deaths of the Barton and Porter and other families, but we had no success. We cannot understand why there are so few of our line recorded there, because there are stacks of other Bartons and Porters etc. from Portland and all over the state in the files, but very country districts such as Vienna and Mt. Vernon and Windsor, - anyway they were not there. I found a record of Pamela Barton and Mr. Porter's marriage but it must have meant marriage intentions, for we have them married in July and this said June something or other. I looked in an old register just as we were about to leave and found recorded there a record of Martha Ballard's death which read something like this : Martha Ballard, died June 1812; gy 1, (see American Advocate). The gy 1 , we found, meant she was buried in the Augusta Mt. Vernon cemetery, which bears out our theory that she lies where Maude, you and I think she does, in that old grave up there on the hill with the stone marked Ballard, over her. Her husband, Ephriam also bore the same gy 1 after his recorded death in 1821, so I guess they are both buried there. Maude and I asked at the office if they had any old newspapers there, as we thought the American Advocate must be one, and we wanted to see if we could find an article about Martha in it, since it referred us to that paper. They had no papers there but told us they would probably be in the State House Library if any existed, so we went over there and got Mrs. Fuller interested and she spent over an hour - way after closing time, looking up records for us, but she had only two Am. adv. papers of file in the library and they were dated 1820, so did us no good. She said we might be able to find copies of the paper, which was first published in Hallowell in 1810, in the Worcester or Boston Antiquarian Society. She knew there were none in existence here. So some day if you find time to phone the Antiquarian Society, you might ask if they have any such papers on file there and if they have any issues of either June or August or Sept. 1812. Daniels History of Oxford, under Ballard, says that Martha died in August 1812, so if there is an article about her death it would probably be in the August or Sept. issue, but is she died in June it would be in either the June or July issue. It seems as tho' a woman of such prominence must have had something written about her at the time of her death as she practised her obstetrics up to within a few months of her death. Mrs. Fuller knew all about her and the old diary and wanted us to let her know if we found anything about her and give her a copy for the library. She said those old papers were not often kept and there was a sad lack of them on file. So if you do not find they have any in Worcester maybe it will come right so you can inquire in Boston sometime. People often gave them to Libraries where they happened to live and itmeant nothing that they were not here in Maine. So see what you can dig up at your leisure. Must cease and start supper as it is time for Geord to come. More later. Love to you both, Sis. [*For Sarah*] #1. By Edith Riccius King Feb. 1946. PORTER GENEALOGY. 1. JOHN PORTER, born in England about 1596; died in Salem, Mass. Sept. 6, 1676, age 80; mar. Mary ----------. 8 children: 1. John Porter, 1634 - 1684, unmarried. 2. Samuel Porter, 1636 - 1660, mar. Hannah Dodge, b. July 24, 1642; d. Jan. 2, 1688; 1 child, John. 3. Joseph Porter, 1638 - 1714, mar. Anne, dau. of Maj. Wm. and Ann Hathorne; 12 ch. 4. Benjamin Porter, 1639 - 1723, unmarried. * 5. Capt. Israel Porter, 1643-1706, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Maj. Wm. and Ann Hathorne; 10 ch. 6. Mary Porter, 1645 - 1695, mar. Lieut. Thomas, son of Thos. and Hannah Gardner; 5 ch. 7. Jonathan Porter, 1647 - 8. Sarah Porter, 1649 - 1731, mar. Daniel, son of Thos. and Rebecca Andrew; 8 ch. * Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Israel and Elizabeth Hathorne Porter, was the mother of Gen. Israel Putnam, here of Bunker Hill. 2. SAMUEL PORTER, 1636 - 1660, mar. Hannah, dau. of Wm. and Elizabeth Dodge, b. July 24, 1642, d. Jan. 2, 1688. She mar. 2nd, Thomas Woodbury and had 9 ch. She had one son Samuel Porter. 1 child: 1. John Porter, b. 1638, d. March 8, 1753, mar. Lydia, dau. of Henry and Lydia Herrick, b. 1661, d. Feb. 19, 1737; 11 ch. 3. JOHN PORTER, b. 1656, d. March 3, 1753, mar. Lydia, dau. of Henry and Lydia Herrick, b. 1661, d. Feb. 19, 1737: 11 children: 1. Sergeant Samuel Porter, 1681 - 1770, mar. Sarah, dau. of John and Sarah Perkins Bradstreet; grand-dau. of Gov. Bradstreet. Sam'l mar. 2nd, Experience Batsheller; 4 ch. 2. Lieut. John Porter, 1683 - 1775, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Jonathan and Lydia Potter Putnam; 10 ch. 3. Lydia Porter, d. age 60, mar. William Lampson; 2 sons and maybe other children. 4. Hannah Porter, 1687 - 1787 (age 100) mar. Thomas, son of Thom. and Elizabeth Potter Kimball; 7 ch. 5. Elizabeth Porter, d. age 100 years, mar. 1st. Lieut. Daniel, son of John and Elizabeth Kilham Gilbert and had ch; mar. 2nd Joseph Goodhue; 7 ch. continued. #2. Continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. By E. R. K. Children of John and Lydia Herrick Porter: 6. Benjamin Porter, 1602 - 1778, mar. Sarah, dau. of Moses and Twins. Ruth Perley Tyler; 6 ch. 7. Nehemiah Porter, 1692 - 1784, mar. Jan. 3, 1716-17 Hannah, dau. of Hazadiah and Hannah Grover Smith; 8 ch. 8. Jonathan Porter, 1606 - 1759, mar. Lydia, dau. of Moses and Ruth Perley Tyler; 7 ch. 9. Mehitable Porter, 1698 - 1786, mar. Caleb, son of Caleb and Sarah Kimball; 6 ch. 10. Mary Porter, 1700 - 1795, mar. Robert Cue; 7 ch. (Mary b. 7-2-1700 11. Sarah Porter, 1706 -1794, mar. Thomas, son of Josiah and Sarah Fiske Dodge; 6 ch. (The ages of 11 children at death, 955 years, average of 87 years.) By Edith Riccius King, Feb. 1st, 1946. #1. PORTER GENEALOGY. BENJAMIN PORTER, son of John and Lydia Merrick Porter, born in Wenham, Mass. in 1692; died June 30, 1778, age 86; married Jan. 30, 1716 to Sarah, dau. of Moses and Ruth Perley Tyler, bborn 1696; died Jan. 27, 1767, age 71. Lived in Boxford, Mass., carpenter; large farm, also had land in Chester and Gilmanton, N. H.: one of the principal slave holders in Boxford; active and energetic man, left bequests to his church and pastor. (Writer of old will in Minnie Porter Whittier's possession.) Children: 1. Moses Porter, b. Nov. 18, 1719; d. Nov. 3, 1811; mar. Dec. 3, 1741, Mary Chadwick. 2. Mary Porter, b. ; d. ; mar. June 12, 1738, Thomas Chadwick. 3. Benjamin Porter, b. Oct. 6, 1721; d. May 15, 1784; mar. 1st. Nov. 5, 1744, Ruth Foster who was b. 1722; d. Nov. 1760; mar. 2nd. Apr. 28, 1763, Mary Sherwin or Sherwine, b. d. 4. Sally Porter, b. March 1726; d. ; 5. Lucy Porter, b. ; d. ; BENJAMIN PORTER, son of Benjamin and Sarah Tyler Porter, born in Boxford, Mass. Oct. 6, 1721; died May 15, 1784; mar. 1st. Nov. 8, 1744, Ruth Foster, born 1722; died Nov. 1760; mar. 2nd (intentions Aug. 28 1761) April 28, 1763; Mary Sherwin or Sherwine, b. ; d. Children by 1st wife, Ruth Foster Porter: 1. Lydia Porter, b. Nov. 4, 1745; d. : mar. Daniel Farnum. 2. Mehetable Porter, b. Dec. 24, 1747; d. ; mar. April [2?], 1764, Asa Sherwin. 3. David Foster Porter, b. Sept. 4, 1749; d. ; mar. Susan Towne. 4. Lucy Porter, b. Oct. 3, 1751; d. ; mar. Asa Barker, a Rev. soldier. 5. Sarah Porter, b. Nov. 13, 1753; d. ; mar. Samuel Kimball. 6. Benjamin Porter, b. Sept. 29, 1754 - (Aug. 20, 1755 probably correct date); d. April 11, 1837; mar. 1st. Jan. 25, 1778 to Polly Sargent, b. ; d. Jan. 10, 1786; mar. 2nd. July 18, 1787, Pamela Barton, b. Nov. 28, 1768; d. Nov 16, 1836; Ch. by both wives. 7. Ruth Porter, b. Oct. 27, 1756; d. Feb. 1779; possibly married a Thomas Chadwick. 8. Tyler, Porter, b. April 27, 1758; d. ; mar. Abigail Johnson and had dau. Ruth Porter b. 1781, d. 1849, who mar. Jonathan Poor, b. 1771, d. 1864; 5 ch: Tyler P. Poor; Jonathan D. Poor who mar. Caroline Porter; Mary Poor and Martha Osgood Poor. #2. Continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. Children of Benjamin and Mary Sherwin Porter - 2nd wife: 1. Susanna Porter, b. May 9, 1763; d. 2. Jonathan Porter, b. Aug. 29, 1765; d. June 27, 1782; 3. Mary Porter, b. July 25, 1767; d. March 5, 1824; 4. Mehetable Porter, b. Aug. 21, 1769; d. ; mar. 1792 to Stephen Peabody. BENJAMIN PORTER, son of Benjamin and Ruth Foster Porter, born in Boxford, Mass. Sept. 29, 1754 - Aug. 20, 1755 probably correct date - removed to Winthrop, Maine in 1780 and to Vienna, Maine in 1788; died April 11, 1837. married 1st. in Boxford, Mass. Jan. 25, 1778 Polly Sargent, b. ; died and buried in Winthrop, Me. Jan. 10, 1786. He bought land in Monmouth and Winthrop, Maine and finally a large tract of land in Goshen, now, Vienna, Maine. He was Lieutenant of the 1st Militia Company of Vienna, Me. He married 2nd, July 18, 1787, Pamela Barton, dau. of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton of Oxford, Mass. She was born in Oxford, Mass. Nov. 28, 1768 and died in Vienna, Me. Nov. 16, 1836, at the home of her daughter, Parthenia Porter Folsom. Pamela Barton Porter was a strong woman mentally and was a sister of Capt. Stephen Barton, the father of Clara Barton of Red Cross fame. Children of Benjamin and Polly Sargent Porter, 1st wife: 1. Betsey Porter, b. Sept. 13, 1779; d. 1858, age 80; mar. Barnard Kimball; no children. 2. John Porter, b. Dec. 27, 1780; d. Sept. 21, 1823; mar. Mary Robinson; 5 children. 3. Benjamin Porter, b. July 17, 1783; died young. Children of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, 2nd wife: 1. Polly Porter, b. May 11, 1788; d. May 1867; mar. Oct. 1803 to James Chapman, b. 1781; d. about 1864. 12 ch. 2. Jonathan Porter, b. May 5, 1790; d. Apr. 14, 1814; unmarried. 3. Dolly Barton Porter, b. Dec. 19, 1792; d. July 4, 1827; mar. Oct. 15, 1815 to Abel Whittier b. Oct. 17, 1789; d. ; 1 ch. 4. Stephen Barton Porter, b. March 9, 1795; d. ; mar. Aug. 15, 1819, Miriam Whittier, b. ; d. continued. (?) B. Wight - 1837 - 1900. Arthur U. Wight - 1876-1929. George B. Folsom, died Jan. 31, 1855, age 23 yrs. 9 mo. Louise A. (Folsom) wife of Darius J. Raymond - d. Mar. 15, 1902, age 55 ys. 8 mo. John F. Gordon - 1858-1934. Betsey Kimball - wife of James Kimball, died Mar. 31, 1866 - 83 yrs James Kimball - died Feb. 6, 1852, age 66 yrs. David Gould - died Dec. 21, 1865, age 73 yrs, 10 mos Hannah Gould - his wife, died Oct. 24, 1882, age 79 yrs. Ira Seavey died Mar. 25, 1895, age 96 yrs, 4 mo. Sarah Seavey, his wife, died Feb. 1, 1886, age 90 yrs. 7 mo. [there were a few notes written in pencil that was unreadable]PORTER GENEALOGY. By Edith Riccius King. Feb. 1946. The following pages are devoted to an incomplete and brief history and genealogy of the children and their descendants of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, of Vienna, Maine. We are greatly indebted to Minnie Porter Whittier for her assistance and kindness in contributing much of the material used in these records. Pamela Barton, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Dorothy Moore Barton, born at Oxford, Mass., Nov. 28, 1768; died Nov. 16, 1836; married July 18, 1787 to Benjamin Porter, son of Benjamin and Ruth Foster Porter, of Boxford, Mass., born Aug. 20, 1755; died April 11, 1837. He removed to Winthrop, Me. in 1780 and to Goshen, now Vienna, Me. in 1788. He bought land in Monmouth and Winthrop, Me. and finally a large tract in Goshen (Vienna) Maine. He was Lieut. of the 1st Militia Company of Vienna, Me. and in Lineage Book, Vol. 129, it is recorded: "Benjamin Porter (1754-1837) served as private in Capt. John Cushing's Co. of Militia which marched on Lexington Alarm." He married first, in Boxford, Mass., Polly Sargent, Jan. 25, 1778. She died Jan. 10, 1786 and was buried in Winthrop, Maine. There were three children: 1. Betsey Porter, b. Sept. 13, 1779; d. 1859 at 80; mar. Barnard Kimball: no ch. 2. John Porter, b. Dec. 27, 1780; d. Sept. 21, 1823; mar. Mary Robinson. 3. Benjamin Porter, b. July 17, 1783; died young. Pamela Barton, 2nd wife of Benjamin Porter, was a strong woman mentally, was firm, and exercised good government in her family. Her word was always law. Her daughter Parthenia Porter writes: "My mother has told me that she never went to school only six weeks after her father moved from Oxford; she was then seven years old - she was an easy reader, a good speller and writer and very good at figures - could reckon up a web to weave in her head, when I should be obliged to take a slate and cypher it." Both Benjamin and Pamela Porter died at the home of this daughter, Parthenia Porter Folsom. Beside rearing the two living children of her husband's first wife, Polly Sargent Porter, Pamela had twelve children of her own. A record of her children and their descendants follows: 1. Polly Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, b. May 11, 1788; d. May 1867; mar. Oct. 1803 to James Chapman of Mt. Vernon, Me., son of Joseph and Mary Moore Chapman of Dover, N.H. (Older children of Jos. and Mary Chapman b. in Wakefield, N.H., the rest in Vienna, Me.) He was born about 1781; died about 1864. He was well educated, a successful school teacher, used a ferrule when necessary. He taught for thirty years in the winter season. Was a Justice of the Peace for fifty years and did more writing and married more couples than any man ever did in this vicinity. He was sent to State Legislature several times - to Portland and Augusta. Polly and James Chapman had 12, children, recorded as follows: continued. continued: PORTER GENEALOGY. By E.R.K. 1946 Children of Polly Porter Chapman and James Chapman: (Polly Porter, dau. of Benj. and Pamela Barton Porter) 1. Pamela Porter Chapman, b. March 10, 1805 in Vienna, Me.; died Sept. 12, 1827; mar. Moses Sanborn: One child, Martha C. Sanborn b. at Vienna, Me., mar. March, 31, 1843, Daniel Rich of Charlton, Mass., b. July 14, 1821: 8 children: 1. Sarah P. Rich, b. Dec. 24, 1844; m. 1869 Russell Peters; resided at Worcester, Mass. 2. Byron C. Rich, b. Mar. 30, 1846; m. Dec. 25, 1867, Francelia Law; resided at Brockton, Mass. Ch. 3 3. Ruth A. Rich, b. Dec. 8, 1848; m. William Morris; 1 child. 4. Julia E. Rich, b. Sept. 30, 1852; m. Melvin W. Pierce, resided at W. Medford, Mass. 1 child. 5. Horatio C. Rich, b. Oct. 30, 1857; m. June 14, 1881, Hattie F. Robinson: had Laura, b. 1887; Ethel F. b. 1888; a dau. b. 1891. 6. Arthur C. Rich, b. Feb 13, 1860; m. Nellie Lacount; resided at W. Somerville. Had ch. 7. Lyman W. Rich, b. Dec. 22, 1863, m. Lillian Larned, resided at Spencer, Mass. 8. Leon E. Rich, b. Feb 11, 1860? (probably an error) In her old age Martha Sanborn Rich was left destitute and deserted by her children and grandchildren - robbed of her property by one of her sons. Clara Barton, her cousin, came to her rescue, brought her to the home of Ida Barton Riccius, my mother, until arrangements could be made to take her to Clara Barton's home in Glen Echo, Maryland. Martha lived the last years of her life in comfort and peace at Clara's home and was loved and cared for and buried when she died, by Clara Barton. 2. John Chapman, b. June 19, 1806, in Vienna, Me.; died Sept. 12, 1825. A very promising young man. 3. Horatio G. Chapman, b. March 10, 1808, in Vienna, Me., died May 1829. Died suddenly. A very promising young man, fitting himself for college. 4. Lucinda Chapman, b. Oct. 4, 1809, in Vienna, Me.; died June 1829, just two weeks after Horatio's death. A splendid girl and scholar. 5. Enoch Chapman, b. June 11, 1813; in Vienna, Me., died June 1829, two weeks after Lucinda. 6. Polly Chapman, b. Dec. 1, 1814, in Vienna, Me., died in 1830. 7. Benjamin Porter Chapman, b. Jan. 20, 1817, in Vienna, Me., died in 1864; mar. Lavina Gould, 4 ch: continued.Continued: PORTER GENEALOGY By E.R.K. 1946. Children of Benjamin Porter Chapman and Lavina Gould Chapman. 1. Caroline Chapman, b. Dec, 1845; d. Oct. 29, 1922; mar. Eugene Fellows, son of Moses and Sally Phillips Fellows: 6 children: 1. Mellen Fellows, b. July 17, 1865; d. 2. George Fellows, b. Feb. 4, 1867; d. mar. Oct. 8, 1907 to 3. Aaron Fellows, b. Feb. 22, 1869. d. Jan. 24, 1934; 4. Carroll Fellows, b. Oct. 27, 1870; mar. Oct. 9, 1907 to Alma V. Keith; no ch. 5. Cora Fellows, b. Aug. 25, 1872; d. Nov. 12, 1906: mar. [K]eith. 6. Myrtie Fellows, b. Nov. 2, 1874; d. mar. Banks. 2. Ida Orana Chapman, b. May 1848 ? d. mar. David Lyon, Had a son, Lester Lyon: 3. Mary Parthenia Chapman, b. May 18 ; d. mar. John Wight, b. 1837-1900 5 Children: 1. Arthur Wight, b. Aug. 12, 1876; d. 1929; mar. Myrtie A. Fellows March 18, 1901. She was born April 10, 1882 and the dau. of Auswell F. and Augusta M. Buswell Fellows: 3 Children: 1. Donald Bradbury Wight, b. June 15, 1903; mar. Freda Foss, b. ; had 3 ch: 1. Beverly Lois Wight, b. Aug. 18, 1930. 2. Arthur Bradbury Wight, b. Feb. 5, 1932. 3. Marjorie Eva Wight, b. Dec. 19, 1935. 2. Auswell Fellows Wight, b. March 19, 1905, mar. Mabel Allen, b. ; 2 ch: 1. Robert Allen Wight, b. July 28, 1932. 2. Gerald Francis Wight, b. Jan. 15, 1934. 3. Prescott Victor Wight, b. Dec. 31, 1907; mar. Monice Flagg, b. ; 4 ch: 1. Gloria Audrey Wight, b. May 5, 1927; 2. Phyllis Irene Wight, b. June 3, 1930; 3. Prescott Victor Wight, b. March 4, 1932; 4. Beatrice Adell Wight, b. Dec. 3, 1933. continued. continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. By B.R.K. 1946. Children of Mary Parthenia Chapman Wight and John Wight: 2. Blanche Wight, b. Aug. 14, 1873; d. Sept. 19, 1942; mar. 1st. George Bent: mar. 2nd. Moses Gordon. No ch. 3. Lora Wight, b. Nov. 22, 1874; d. Feb. 12, 1911; mar. Robert Austin, b. ; d. Oct. 20, 1936: 3 children: 1. Robert Austin, b. May 1, 1899; mar. Aug. 29, 1925 to Eleanor Robertson, b. Nov. 3, 1901: 1 child: 1. Lora Ann Austin, b. Feb. 13, 1932. 2. John Austin, b. Feb. 18, 1901; mar. Mildred Rei[?]d: b. : 2 children: 1. John Austin, Jr. b. 2. Deborah Ann Austin, b. 3. Dorothy L. Austin, b. Oct. 5, 1904; unmarried. 4. Ella Wight, b. Aug. 29, 1878; d. ; married George W. Dolloff, b. ; d. ; 1 son, Herbert Delloff, b. May 28, 5. Gertrude Wight, b. July 15, 1881; mar. Wallace Kroyer, b. 4. George Shattuck Chapman, son of Benjamin and Lavina Gould Chapman, b. Dec. 8, 1857 in Mt. Vernon, Me., d. Nov. 29, 1917; mar. April 19, 1892 to Rose Norton, b. ****************************** Joseph Chapman, son of Polly Porter Chapman and James Chapman, b. Feb. 1819; died June 1831. Byron Porter Chapman, son of Polly Porter Chapman and James Chapman, b. June 1, 1821; died April 1825. James Hercy Chapman, son of Polly Porter Chapman and James Chapman, b. in Vienna, Me. May 1823-4; d. ; mar. Lydia Walcott (Lydia Stetson ? Walcott) and lived in Oxford, Maine. 7 children: 1. Clifton Chapman, b. ; d. 2. Imogene Chapman, b. June 20, 1849; d. Feb. 26, 1911; mar. Sept. 7, 1866 to her cousin, Benjamin Porter Folsom, son of Rufus H. and Parthenia Barton Porter Folsom, b. Aug. 20, 1836; d. Jan. 22, 1880: 2 children: 1. Fred Olney Folsom, b. Dec. 2, 1867; d. March 22, 1882. 2. Ella Clifton Folsom, b. Apr. 23, 1869; mar. May 16, 1889 to George Walter Abbott, b. ; d. Sept. 1903: 2 children: 1. Fred Amos Abbot, b. 2. Imogene Folsom Abbott, b. continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. By E.R.K. 1946 Children of James Hervey and Lydia Stetson Walcott Chapman: 3. Ella Ida Jane Chapman, b. ; d. ; mar. Alden; a dau. Annie Alden. 4. Elmer Hervey Chapman, b. ; d. Feb. 26, aged 28; mar. ; a dau. Twins: (5. William Chapman, b. ; d. (6. Pauline Chapman, b. ; d. 7. Hattie Chapman, b. ; d. of diphtheria, Aug. 1, 11. George E. Chapman, son of James and Polly Porter Chapman, b. in Vienna, 1830; d. 1831. 12. Parthenia Porter Chapman, dau. of James and Polly Porter Chapman, b. Dec. 3 1833; d. Dec. 27, 1853; mar. Franklin Richardson: No ch. Continued: CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND PAMELA BARTON PORTER AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 2. Jonathan Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, b. May 5, 1790; d. April 14, 1814, not married. 3. Dolly Barton Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, b. Dec. 29, 1792; died at Vienna July 4, 1827; mar. Oct. 15, 1815 to Abel Wittier, b. Oct. 17, 1789: 1 daughter: 1. Fidelia Porter Whittier, b. Oct. 12, 1816; d. mar. ; to Thomas Buswell, b. d. 4 children: 1. Evaline Buswell, b. ; died when a young woman. 2. Charles Buswell, b. ; d. mar. Clara Smith, b. ;d. no children: Lived in Worcester, Mass. 3. Adella Buswell, b. ;d. was given to Edward Howard at her mother's death and he gave her a good education. She mar. Jenks, and had a son Harvey Jenks who mar. Florence and had a dau. Cynthia Jenks who mar. continued. continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. Children of Fidelia Porter Whittier and Thomas Buswell: con. 4. Augusta Buswell, b. July 7, 1845; d. Dec. 20, 1887; mar. June 26, 1866 to Auswell F. Fellows, b. Jan. 26, 1846; d. Dec. 20, 1915; He was son of Jonathan F. and Rachel T. Prescott Fellows: 5 children: 1. Ellery D. Fellows, b. Oct. 9, 1867; d. Nov. 27, 1879. 2. Cora L. Fellows, b. Jan. 14, 1870; d. Aug. 22, 1872. 3. Albert L. Fellows, b. June 30, 1873; d. Feb. 25, 1902 4. Bertha M. Fellows, b. Jan. 8, 1875; d. Jan. 4, 1880. 5. Myrtie A. Fellows, b. April 10, 1882; mar. March 18, 1901 to Arthur Wight, a cousin, b. Aug. 12, 1871; d. Feb. 9, 1929; He was the son of Mary Parthenia Chapman and John Wight. Myrtie A. Fellows and Arthur Wight had 3 children: 1. Donald Bradbury Wight, b. June 15, 1903; mar. Freda Foss, b. Aug. 9, 1907; had 3 children: 1. Beverly Lois Wight, b. Aug. 18, 1930. 2. Arthur Bradbury Wight, b. Feb. 5, 1932. 3. Marjorie Eva Wight, b. Decf. 19, 1935. 2. Auswell Fellows Wight, b. March 19, 1905; mar. Mabel Allen, b. ; 2 children: 1. Robert Allen Wight, b. July 28, 1932. 2. Gerald Francis Wight, b. Jan. 15, 1934. 3. Prescott Victor Wight, Dec. 31, 1907; mar. Monice Falagg, b. ; 4 children: 1. Gloria Audrey Wight, b. May 5, 1927; mar. Edwin Kelly; a dau., Joyce Elaine Kelly, b. 2. Phyllis Irene Wight, b. June 3, 1930. 3. Prescott Victor Wight, Jr. b. March 4, 1932. 4. Beatrice Adell Wight, b. Dec. 3, 1933. 4. Stephen Barton Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, b. in Vienna, Mo., March 9, 1795; d. mar. Miriam Whittier, Aug. 15, 1819: She was born ;d. 5 children: 1. Artemas Porter, b. June 5, 1820; d. ; 2. Martha Whittier Porter, b. Feb. 4, 1822; d. ; m. Nathaniel Moore and had 5 children. She had a good education, a good teacher and beloved by all who knew her. Moved to Minnesota with their family and she died with cholera on passage from Illinois to Minnesota. Taken ashore, buried in Galena, Illinois. continued.Continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. Children of Stephen Barton Porter and Miriam Whittier Porter: con. 3. John C. Porter, b. July 20, 1827; d. ; had college education, was teacher of mathematica several years in N.Y. Health failed, and was carried to father's Minnesota home and soon died. He mar. a N.Y. woman. 4. Charles Porter, b. Sept. 1, 1829; d. ; mar. and lived in Minnesota. Well educated and successful. 5. George Porter, b. Sept. 1, 1834; d. ; mar. and lived in Minnesota. Successful teacher. Stephen Barton Porter served in the war of 1812 and was Lieut. of a Company. He and his three sons went to Minnesota and he took bounty land while his sons bought adjoining land. They owned large farms. 5. Tyler Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born in Vienna, Me. April 6 1797; d. June 24, 1835; mar. Aug. 20, 1817 to Mary Whittier, dau. of Thos. Whittier, b. at S. Newburg. Me. Oct. 31, 1799; d. at Chelsea, Mass. June 14, 1887. She mar. second, March 18, 1838, John M. Hussey and had two children: Russell and William Penn Hussey. 7 children of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter: 1. Jonathan Porter, b. at E. Dixmont, Me. Dec. 13, 1818; d. mar. Sarah Folson, dau. of Benj. and Sarah Chadburn Folsom, b. ; d. ; had one son: 1. John Tyler Porter, b. ; d. without issue. 2. Thomas Whittier Porter, (Colonel), b. Mt. Vernon, Me. Nov. 13, 1820; d. at Chelsea, Mass. June 23, 1896; mar. June 16, 1844, Almdra Dexter, b. Albion, Me. Sept. 25, 1822; d. Nov. 4, 1857; dau. of Isaac and Selina Cole dexter: 3 ch. Mar. 2nd. Almdra Loring Gardner, at Carmel, Me. Nov. 13, 1858; b. at N. Dixmont, Me. Nov. 13, 1838; d. at Chelsea, Oct. 14, 1896. 3 ch. Thomas Whittier Porter served as Colonel in Civil War. Brought his cousin Orestes Porter's body home after he died in the army. 3 children by 1st wife: Almira Dexter Porter: 1. Henry Knox Porter, b. July 31, 1846; d. Nov. 7, 1927; m. Sept. 6, 1893, Gertrude Louise Copeland, b. Apr. 30, 1863: 3 children: 1. Louise Porter, b. July 25, 1894; m. Leslie C. Dunn: 2 ch: Robert L. Dunn and Stephen P. Dunn. 2. Henry Whittier Porter, b. Jan. 12, 1896; m. Dorothy K. Marsh: 4 ch: Henry K. Porter; Thos. M. Porter; Allan K. Porter; Mary Elizabeth 3. Porter.3.Tyler Copeland Porter, b.Jan.25,1899. 2. Frank Morris Porter, b. Feb. 16, 1852, m. Melissa Smith, born 1851; 2 children: 1. Mabel Porter, b. 1877; mar. Locke J. Cremin. continued. continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. Children of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter: continued. (Ch. of Frank Morris and Melissa Smith Porter - con.) 2. Almira Dorcas Porter, b. Aug. 29, 1889; mar. Frederick A. Lowe, b. Sept. 11, 1869: d. Jan. 16, 1934; 2 ch: Frederick A. Lowe; Dorothy May Lowe. 3. Edward Cooke Porter, b. Jan. 25, 1854; mar. Bertha Winchester. Ch. of Thos. Whittier Porter and Almira Loring Gardner Porter: 2nd. wife: 1. Annie Gardner Porter, b. March 21, 1861; mar. June 9, 1891; to James Geddes, b. Feb. 8, 1860, son of John Smith and Ann Judson Rigby Geddes: 5 children: 1. John Whittier Geddes, b. May 1, 1892; mar. 1916 Ruth Illathera Ryder, b. Aug. 1, 1892: 2 ch: 1. Ruth Porter Geddes, b. July 21, 1917. 2. Anne Geddes, b. April 7, 1925. 2. Helen Higby Geddes, b. Feb. 24, 1894. 3. James Gardner Geddes, b. Apr. 29, 1896; mar. 1920 to Katharine Elizabet Artz, b. Dec. 17, 1897: 3 ch; 1. Elizabeth Artz, b. May 24, 1923. 2. Susan Geddes, b. April 29, 1927. 3. Helen Geddes, b. Aug. 18, 1932. 3. Pamela Barton Porter, dau. of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter, born Sept. 23, 1822; d. ; m. William Gray of Lynn and had a son and dau. 4. Byron Porter, son of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter, b. July 10, 1825; d. ; studied medicine and became an esteemed physician in Newport, Me. 5. Dolly Ann Porter, dau. of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter, born Nov. 15, 1827; d. Dec. 15, 1912; mar. Ezekiel Weston, b. d. Oct. 16, 1916: 2 children: 1. Francis Weston, born about 1843; 2. Byron Weston, b. Oct. 15, 1850; mar. to Catherine Bonn: 4 children: 1. Arthur Porter Weston, 2. Edith F. Weston, 3. Ethel Cunningham Weston, 4. Gladys M. Keating Weston, 6. Henry Clay Porter, son of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter, b. Jan. 7, 1832; died Feb. 11, 1832. 7. Mary Porter, dau. of Tyler and Mary Whittier Porter, b. March 7, 1833; d. Mary Whittier Porter mar. 2nd. March 18, 1838, John M. Hussey and had two children: Russell Hussey and William Penn Hussey. continued.continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. 6. Benjamin Porter, son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born June 25, 1799; died May 31, 1868; mar. 1st. Oct. 24, 1819, Phebe Gould, b. 1803; d. Aug. 23, 1844. Mar. 2nd. Abigail Kimball, b. 1833; d. Jan. 13, 1898. Benjamin Porter was most always in town business; sent once to the State Legislature, active in town affairs and held various town offices. Children of Benjamin and Phebe Gould Porter - first wife: 1. Augusta Porter, b. March 22, 1821; d. ; mar. Rotheus M. Byram, a Universalist preacher and lived in Chelsea. 3 ch: 1. Ada Byram, b. ; d. ; mar. 1st. a sea captain, Phinney, who was killed. Had a dau. Blanche Phinney who mar. Arthur Wells and had three daughters: 1. Edith Wells, b. ; m. and had child. 2. Ada Wells, b. ; m. and had ch: 3. Maretta Wells, b. ; m. All lived in or near Philadelphia, Pa. Ada Byram Phinney's 2nd. husband was named Eaton. 2. Rotheus Byram, b. ; d. ; mar. ; lived in New York City. 3. Eugene M. Byram, b. 1837; d. March 3, 1841. 2. Benjamin Franklin Porter, b. April 13, 1824; d. ; mar. Abby Dutton and lived in Vienna, Ne. 2 children: 1. Benjamin Franklin, b. ; d. May 1, 1940; mar. Mary Isabel Taft, b. March 17, 1865; d. and had 4 children: 1. Agnes Porter, b. 2. Beatrice Porter, b. 3. Benjamin Franklin Porter, b. 4. Byron Porter, b. 2. Bertha Porter, b. June 22, 1862; d. Dec. 19, 1896 mar. Hiram Comstock, b. July 21, 1858; d. July 6, 1929 children: 1. Wesley Comstock, b. 2. Bertha Comstock, b. 3. Addie Comstock, b. 4. Benjamin Franklin Comstock, b. 3. [?] Porter, b. May 1828; d. April 1, 1838. continued. continued. PORTER GENEALOGY. E.R.K. 1946. Children of Benjamin and Phebe Gould Porter - 1st wife: continued. 4. Adeline Porter, b. Sept. 1833; d. April mar. William Denning and lived in Springfield, Mass. Had 6 daughters: 1. Ella or "Nell" Denning, b. ; mar. Judson Chamberlain and had dau. who mar. and had ch: 2. Flora, b. 3. Villa, b. 4. Maude, b. 5. Etta, b. 6. Rose, b. 5. Russell Streeter Porter, b. Nov. 1837; d. 1876; mar. 1st. Martha Leighton: a son, Fred M. Porter: mar. 2nd. Nell Gorden and had a son Rotheus Porter. 6. Viola Porter, b. June 1841; d. ; mar. Silas Taft of Oxford, Mass. May 26, 1861 - his 3rd wife: 2 children: 1. Viola A Taft, b. July 25, 1862; d. Sept. 15, 1862. 2. Mary Isabel Taft, b. Mar. 17, 1865; d. ; mar. her cousin, Benjamin Franklin Porter, b. ; d. May 1. 1940: 4 children: 1. Agnes Porter, 2. Beatrice Porter, 3. Benjamin Franklin Porter, 4. Byron Porter, Children of Benjamin and Abigail Kimball Porter - 2nd. wife: 1. Laforest Porter, b. May 27, 1852; d. June 11, 1917; mar. Dec. 24, 1878, Jennie Rosina French, b. April 1, 1861; d. Nov. 19, 1924. 3 children: Two children died in infancy: Minnie Evaline Porter, b. July 8, 1890, in Vienna, mar. Arthur Greenleaf Whittier, b. Nov. 27, 1884. They were married Nov. 25, 1914: Two children: 1. Porter Barton Whittier, b. Aug. 4, 1917; mar. Feb. 20, 1946, to Ruth A. Wyman, dau. of Mrs. Leah C. Wyman, b. 1. Wanda Evaline Whittier, b. Feb. 10, 1947 2. Ray Greenleaf Whittier, b. Feb. 26, 1922; d. July 7, 1945. 2. Phebe Evaline Porter, b. Dec. 16, 1853; d. Jan. 27, 1933. m. James Porter Davis, her cousin, b. Feb. 26, 1858; died Jan. 20, 1914: No children. continued.Children of Hiram and Bertha Comstock; [?]er V. Comstock 0 Dec. 27, 1883 - April 7, 1884. [Benj]amin A. Comstock - Sept. 22, 1891 - Feb. 15, 1913. [?]e Comstock 0 Wife of Wyman D. Huey - 1887 - 1925. [Ada] B. Marr, 2nd. wife of Hiram A. Comstock - Dec. 20, 1867 - Jan. 20, 1935. E.R.K. 1946. Porter Geneology. 7. Byron Porter, (Doctor), son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born May 11, 1802; died Feb. 1871; at Worcester, Mass.; mar. Eliza J. Morse in 1831. He was a Doctor, settled in Dixmont Maine and practiced in Dixmont, Bangor and Waterville, Me. He went from Dixmont to Hampden, next to Bangor, then to Waterville, where his health failedm then went to Vineland, N. J. and last to Worcester, Mass. where he died. He retired from his profession with a competency; accumulated a good property, enough to make wife and family comfortable. Always in some business - never idle. 6 children: 1. Parker Cleveland Porter, b. June 10, 1833; d. [] ; Served in the Rebellion as a Surgeon. Married [] ; Had a son, [] ; Lived in Chicago. [Twins:] 2. Octavia F. Porter, b. [] ; d. [] ; mar. William Reed, a Congregational Preacher. Octavia a twin. 3. A twin to Octavia died in a few hours. 4. Emma L. Porter, b. [] ; d. [] ; mar. John Blaisdell. Two children: Both died. 5. Mary Eva Porter, b. [] ; d. [] ; mar. Joseph Brown and lived in Beverly, Mass: 2 children: 1. Porter Emerson Brown, b. [] 1879; died Sept. 20, 1934; mar. and had children: He was quite a noted humorous novelist. 2. Marjorie Brown, b. mar. 6. Lizzie May Porter, b. [] ; d. [] ; unmarried. 8. Parthenia Barton Porter, twin, born July 4, 1805. (twin to James Porter). She was the dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter. She married 1st. Sept. 9, 1831, Rufus H. Folsom, b. March 17, 1809; died May 18, 1869. Parthenia Porter Folsom Mar. 2nd. [] Seavey. She died Oct. 25, 1892, age 87 years. 5 children: ( By 1st husband:) 1. James H. Folsom, b. July 9, 1833; d. [] ; mar. Aug. 23, 1866 to Louise A. Smith, dau. of Thos. Smith of Mt. Vernon, Me. b. [*1846*] ; d. [*Mar. 15, 1902 age 55 yrs 8 mo.*] ; 3 children: 1. Carrie L. Folsom, b. March 9, 1871; mar. John Frank Gordon, b. [*1858*] ; d. [*1936*] ; 1 child: continued.Porter Geneaology. E.R.K. 1946. 7. Byron Porter, (Doctor), son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born May 11, 1802; died Feb. 1871; at Worcester, Mass.; mar. Eliza J. Morse in 1831. He was a Doctor, settled Dixmont, Maine and practiced in Dixmont, Rangor and Waterville, Me. He went from Dixmont to Hampden, next to Bangor, then to Waterville, where his health failedm then went to Vineland, N. J. and last to Worcester, Mass. where he died. He retired from his profession with a competency; accumulated a good property, enough to make wife and family comfortable. Always in some business - never idle. 6 children: 1. Parker Cleveland Porter, b. June 10, 1833; d. ; Served in the Rebellion as a Surgeon. Married ; Had a son, ; Lived in Chicago. (2. Octavia F. Porter, b. ; d. ; Twins:( mar. William Reed, a Congregational Preacher. Octavia a twin. ( (3. A twin to Octavia died in a few hours. 4. Emma L. Porter, b. ; d. ; mar. John Blaisdell. Two children: Both died. 5. Mary Eva Porter, b. ; d. ; mar. Joseph Brown and lived in Beverly, Mass; 2 children: 1. Porter Emerson Brown, b. 1879; died Sept. 20, 1934; mar. and had children: He was quite a noted humorous novelist. 2. Marjorie Brown, b. mar. 6. Lizzie May Porter, b. ; d. ; unmarried. 8. Pathenia Barton Porter, twin, born July 4, 1805. (twin to James Porter). She was the dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter. She married 1st. Sept. 9, 1831, Rufus H. Folsom, b. March 17, 1809; died May 18, 1869. Parthenia Porter Folsom Mar. 2nd. Seavey. She died Oct. 25, 1892, age 87 years. 5 children: ( By 1st husband: ) James H. Folsom, b. July 9, 1833; d. ; mar. Aug. 23, 1866 to Louise A. Smith, dau. of Thos. Smith of Mt. Vernon, Me. b. 1846 ; d. Mar. 15, 1902 age 55 yrs; & me. 3 children: 1. Carrie L. Folsom, b. March 9, 1871; mar. John Frank Gordon, b. 1858 ; d. 1936 ; 1 child: continued. Porter Genealogy. continued. By E.R.R. 1946. Children of James [H]. and Louise A. Smith Folsom: (Child of Carrie L. Folsom Gordon and John Frank Gordon:) 1. Shirley Gordon, b. Feb. 3, 1896; mar. May Neal; 2 ch: 1. Madeline Gordon, b. 2. Marjorie Gordon, b. Nov. 9, 1940; 2. Elvena S. Folsom, dau. of James H. and Louise A. Folsom, born June 16, 1873; died Dec. 14, 1873. 3. Carroll Barton Folsom, b. April 10, 1875; d. Sept. 25, 1942; unmarried. 2. Benjamin Porter Folsom, son of Parthenia and Rufus H. Folsom, born Aug. 20, 1836; d. Jan. 29, 1880; mar. Sept. 7, 1866 to Emogene Chapman, dau. of J. Hervey Chapman, b. June 20, 1849; d. Feb. 26, 1911: Two children: 1. Fred Olney Folsom, b. Dec. 2, 1867; d. March 22, 1882. 2. Ella Clifton Folsom, b. April 23, 1869; mar. May 16, 1889 to George Walter Abbott, b. ; d. Sept. 1903. 2 children: 1. Fred Amos Abbott, b. ; d. ; mar. 2. Emogene Folsom Abbott, b. 3. Julia E. Folsom, dau. of Parthenia and Rufus H. Folsom, both Oct. 29, 1838; died Nov. 24, 1865: unmarried. 4. Danforth T. Folsom, b. March 7, 1843; died March 8, 1866. 5. Carrie L. Folsom, b. Sept. 15, 1845; d. May 26, 1866; mar. Nov. 1864 to Leander Harding. (Parthenia Barton Porter Folsom mar. 2nd. Cotton. Seavey. No children.) 9. James Porter, (twin of Partheina Barton Porter,) son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born July 4, 1805; died Aug. 30, 1877; married Jan. 1827 to Lurinda Gould, b. Dec. 18, 1807 ; died Dec. 6, 1883 3 children: 1. Horatio C. Porter, b. Jan. 16, 1830; d. June 25, 1905; mar. Anna E. Dearborn, b. April 16, 1835; d. April 19, 1901: No children. 2. Orestes Harlowe Porter, b. Sept. 10, 1836; d. gen. Hospital Baton Rouge [???]; mar. Rachel Allen, b. ; d. ; Mar. 8, 1863 No children. Orestes served in the Civil War and died in service. His cousin, Col. Thomas Porter brought his body home for burial. Co. I. 21 Maine Reg. continued.Porter Genealogy. E.R.K. 1946. 7. Byron Porter, (Doctor), son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born May 11, 1802; died Feb. 1871; at Worcester, Mass.; mar. Eliza J. Morse in 1831. He was a Doctor, settled in Dixmont, Maine and practiced in Dixmont, Bangor and Waterville, Me. He went from Dixmont to Hampden, next to Bangor, then to Waterville, where his health failedm then went to Vineland, N. J. and last to Worcester, Mass. where he died. He retired from his profession with a competency; accumulated a good property, enough to make wife and family comfortable. Always in some business - never idle. 6 children: 1. Parker Cleveland Porter, b. June 10, 1833; d. ; Served in the Rebellion as a Surgeon. Married ; Had a son, ; Lived in Chicago. (2. Octavia F. Porter, b. ; d. ; Twins: ( mar. William Reed, a Congregational Preacher. Octavia a twin. ( (3. A twin to Octavia died in a few hours. 4. Emma L. Porter, b. ; d. ; mar. John Blaisdell. Two children: Both died. 5. Mary Eva Porter, b. ; d. ; mar. Joseph Brown and lived in Beverly, Mass: 2 children: 1. Porter Emerson Brown, b. 1879; died Sept. 20, 1934; mar. and had children: He was quite a noted humorous novelist. 2. Marjorie Brown, b. mar. 6. Lizzie May Porter, b. ; d. ; unmarried. ********************************* 8. Parthenia Barton Porter, twin, born July 4, 1805. (twin to James Porter). She was the dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter. She married 1st. Sept. 9, 1831, Rufus H. Folsom, b. March 17, 1809; died May 18, 1869. Parthenia Porter Folsom Mar. 2nd. Seavey. She died Oct. 25, 1892, age 87 years. 5 children: (By 1st husband: ) 1. James H. Folsom, b. July 9, 1833; d. ; mar. Aug. 23, 1866 to Louise A. Smith, dau. of Thos. Smith of Mt. Ver- non, Me. b. 1846 : d. Mar.15, 1902 age 55 y.o. 8 mo. 3 children: 1. Carrie L. Folsom, b. March 9, 1871: mar. John Frank Gordon, b. 1858 ; d. 1936 ; 1 child: continued. Porter Genealogy. By E.R.K. continued. 1946. Children of James H. and Louise A. Smith Folsom: (Child of Carrie L. Folsom Gordon and John Frank Gordon: ) 1. Shirley Gordon, b. Feb. 3, 1896; mar. May Neal; 2 ch: 1. Madeline Gordon, b. 2. Marjorie Gordon, b. Nov. 9, 1940; 2. Elvena S. Folsom, dau. of James H. and Louise A. Folsom, born June 16, 1873; died Dec. 14, 1873. 3. Carroll Barton Folsom, b. April 10, 1875; d. Sept. 25, 1942; unmarried. 2. Benjamin Porter Folsom, son of Parthenia and Rufus H. Folsom, born Aug. 20, 1836; d. Jan. 29, 1880; mar. Sept. 7, 1866 to Emogene Chapman, dau. of J. Hervey Chapman, b. June 20, 1849; d. Feb. 26, 1911: Two children: 1. Fred Olney Folsom, b. Dec. 2, 1867; d. March 22, 1882. 2. Ella Clifton Folsom, b. April 23, 1869; mar. May 16, 1889 to George Walter Abbott, b. ; d. Sept. 1903. 2 children: 1. Fred Amos Abbott, b. ; d. ; mar. 2. Emogene Folsom Abbott, b. 3. Julia E. Folsom, dau. of Parthenia and Rufus H. Folsom, born Oct. 29, 1838; died Nov. 24, 1865: unmarried. 4. Danforth T. Folsom, b. March 7, 1843; died March 8, 1866. 5. Carrie L. Folsom, b. Sept. 15, 1845; d. May 26, 1866; mar. Nov. 1864 to Leander Harding. (Parthenia Barton Porter Folsom mar. 2nd Cotton ? Seavey. No children.) ********************************** 9. James Porter, (twin of Partheina Barton Porter,) son of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born July 4, 1805; died. Aug. 30, 1877; married Jan. 1827 to Lurinda Gould, b. Dec. 18, 1807; died Dec. 6, 1883 3 children: 1. Horatio C. Porter, b. Jan. 16, 1830; d. June 25, 1905; mar. Anna E. Dearborn, b. April 16, 1835; d. April 19, 1901: No children. 2. Orestes Harlowe Porter, b. Sept. 10, 1836; d. Gen.hospital Baton Rouge ?.] mar. Rachel Allen, b. ; d. Mar. 8, 1863 No children. Orestes served in the Civil War and died in service. His cousin, Col. Thomas Porter brought his body home for burial. Co. I. 21 Maine Reg. continued.[*qr. Mathy of Maude Mosher as Augusta. Me.*] Copy of letter from Jules Golay to Honnah McCausland Barton. Washington, D. C. Nov. 27, 1868. Dear cousin Hannah, I ought to have written you sooner, but days and days have passed away long and sad, and it is now over two months since poor Mattie left us for a better world. She was not very well when she went away, but not worse or did not appear worse than in the spring of 1867 when she left for Maine. They told me in Massachusetts that she had frequent hemorrhages through the summer, but fearing to alarm me, kept it from me, and when I was making preparations for her return to Washington, had hired a house, etc., etc., she was dying in Mass........ She was hopeful of recovery till the last minute, and died very easily. I do not believe that she ever realized how near death she was, but I feel and I know that her heart, her soul is still living, she is not gone but has changed her form, she is now among the angels still loving us all, who are loving her so dearly. Our poor little Nettie was very sick, it seemed as if the darling little one know that her mother was gone and she pined away til no one expected her to live, and the doctor had given her up, but thanks to the good care of dear aunt Julia she is much better and almost well now. The only thing to be regretted is that aunt Julia, lame and old, made herself lamer and injured her health taking care of her days and nights, and I am obliged to take her away from her. I have sent a lady for her and in the future will try to keep her with me in Washington in the same house where I am boarding. When little Nettie is large enough to travel with her papa, we shall both go to Maine to see our friends who were so kind to us and to dear Mattie. When Nettie will be here I shall have some pictures taken and will send you one. I have some pictures of Mattie, will have if I can get a good one taken and will of course send you one. Clara is sick, she went to Boston to see some good doctors. Aunt Sally her sister is always here and is pretty well. I am still holding my same position but now Washington looks very sad to me and the sunshine of my life seems all gone. I hope this letter will find you all well, Grandpa, uncle Thod, little Vic and yourself, and I do hope to see you all again some time. Please give my love to all the friends inquiring about me. I shall be glad to hear from you often and in the future will answer you sooner. With my kind regards for all your family and a great share for yourself, I remain your affectionate friend and cousin, Jules Golay. Porter Genealogy. By E.R.K. 1946. continued. Children of Leander A. and Mary Dore Poor: continued: 1. Howard W. Poor, b. Aug. 6, 1867: mar. July 25, 1900 to Edith Holden, b. Aug. 29, ; 2 children: 1. Leander Holden Poor, b. Jan. 1, 1902; mar. 2. Theodora Poor, (adopted) b. Jan. 12, 1906; mar. 2. Effie Poor, dau of Leander A. and Mary Dore Poor, b. Jan. 31, 1869; died Jan. 20, 1891; unmarried. 3. Eva May Poor, b. Oct. 3, 1870; died July 19, 1871; 4. Nina Poor, b. Nov. 18, 1871; died Dec. 28, 1936; unmar. 5. Charles Summer Poor, b. March 11, 1874; d. Dec. 5, 1915; mar. June 19, 1900 to Julia Busker, b. 3 children: 1. William Bunker Poor, b. Oct. 11, 1901; 2. Effie Marian Poor, b. June 19, 1903; 3. Louis Summer Poor, b. Jan. 15, 1910; 6. Carrie Poor, b. Feb. 6, 1877; mar. Harry Gohl Jan. 22, 1908; 3 ch: b. [] ; d. [] 1. Robert Edgar Gohl, b. Jan. 10, 1909; mar. [] [] ; d. Aug. 30, 1940: 1 chukd: 2. Donald F. Gohl, b. Nov. 10, 1911; 3. Howard Summer Gohl, b. Jan. 25, 1916; 7. Martha V. Poor, b. Dec. 9, 1880; 2. Caroline Julia Helen Poor, dau. of Caroline Porter and Johnathan D. Poor; born June 9, 1835; died [] ; mar. 1st. Samuel Lord: Mar. 2nd, Simeon D. Holman of Auburn, Marr. who died in Leicester, Mass. in 1870: A son: 1. Albert Holman born in Dudley, Mass. in 1867. 3. Martha Osgood Poor, (Mattie) dau. of Johnathan D. and Caroline Porter Poor, born April 3, 1837; died Nov. 13, 1863; mar. Dec. 2t, 1866 to Jules Golay, born [] 1842; died July 10, 1890. He was a native of Geneva, Switzerland and came to America to serve in the Civil War where he was very severely wounded and nursed back to health by Clara Barton of Red Cross fame. He married again after his first wife died and had a daughter, Cornelia Golay who mar. Francis Lane Benedict of Machiasport, Maine. 1 child by his first wife, Martha Osgood Poor Golay: continued:continued. Porter Genealogy. E.R.K. 1946. Child of Martha Osgood Poor and Jules Golay: 1. Antoinette Golay, "Nettie", dau. of Martha Osgood Poor and Jules Golay,born Nov. 13, 1867; mar. Sept. 25, 1895 to David Wilson Kuhn, born Nov. 6, 1866 [*d. Jan. 23, 1947*] : 3 children: 1. Katherin Kuhn, b. July 13, 1896; mar. July 28, 1920, Frederick Buecher, b. Oct. 31, 1898; died Nov. 1936: 2 children: 1. Frederick Buecher, b. July 11, 1921; 2. James Buecher, b. Dec. 7, 1928; 2. Ruth Kuhn, b. March 15, 1899; mar. George Wick, b. March 21, 1897; mar. Mar. 20, 1918: 3 children: 1. Antoinette Wick, b. Jan. 15, 1919; mar. in 1942 to Rufus Sogbam; 2. George Wick, b. Dec. 7, 1921; mar. Kathleen Coates in 1944: 1 child: 1. Mary Hitchcock Wick, b. Mar. 12, 1945; 3. David Wick, born Feb. 27, 1927; 3. James Anthony Kuhn, born Jan. 28, 1907; 4. Russell Streeter Poor, son of Caroline Porter and Johnathan D. Poor, born March 4, 1839; died [] ; mar. 1st. Isabel Winslow and had a son Fred Poor: died [] Mar. 2nd, [] ; and had a son, 1. Lawrence Poor, b. [] 1881; mar. and had a son: 1. Russell Poor, b. [] 1911. 2. Alice Poor, b. [] 1883; mar. S. Conkling; *** 12. Julia Ann Maria Porter, dau. of Benjamin and Pamela Barton Porter, born Jan. 23, 1814; died July 14, 1899; mar. Sept. 30, 1839, David Barton, her cousin, born, Aug. 15, 1808; died March 12, 1888. 4 children: Twin: 1. Ada Idelia Barton, twin, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Feb. 17, 1930; mar. Dec. 4, 1869 to Charles Monroe Clark, b. [] 1848; died Nov. 6, 1916. 5 children: continued. continued. Porter Genealogy. By E.R.K. 1946. Children of Ada Idelia Barton and Charles Monroe Clark: 5 children: 1. Charles Barton Clark, b. and d. in 1870. 2. David Barton Clark, b. May 29, 1871; mar. Edna Lizetta Powell, b. Oct. 17, 1872: 4 children: 1. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. Dec. 22, 1895; died Dec. 23, 1895. 2. Muriel Josephine Clark, b. Apr. 11, 1898; mar. Norman McCann, b. [] 1896: No ch. 3. Elizabeth Mathews Clark, b. Nov. 13, 1901; died June 27, 1902. 4. Dorothy Barton Clark, b. Jan. 16, 1909; married July 17, 1937 to Kenneth Neil Low, b. Feb. 2, 1908: [] Children: 1. Virginia Barton Low, b. March 21, 1938; 2. Elizabeth Clark Low, b. July 25, 1942; 3. 3. Mary Josephine Clark, b. June 27, 1873; died Feb. 14, 1935; unmarried. 4. Harry LeRoy Clark, b. May 29, 1875; d. March 26, 1937; mar. 1st. Louise ---; divorced; mar. 2nd. March 30, 1902, Charlotte Harrison, b. Oct. 3, 1880. 5. Lyman Eddy Clark, b. [] 1882; d. [] 1885. Twin 2. Ida Adelia Barton, twin, born Jan. 18, 1847; died Jan. 26, 1911; mar. March 22, 1879 in Oxford, Mass. to Gustav Adolph Julius Riccius, b. March 18, 1841; d. July 6, 1891: 4 children: 1. Edith Julia Riccius, b. Feb. 13, 1881; married Aug. 19, 1906 to George Evander King, b. March 30, 1879: No ch. 2. Hermann Porter Riccius, b. Oct. 4, 1883; unmarried. 3. Saidee Frances Riccius, b. Dec. 28, 1886: unmarried. 4. Walter Harold Riccius, b. May 5, 1889; mar. 1st. July 15, 1912 to Ruth Brown, divorced: mar. 2nd. Feb. 14, 1929 to Wilhelmina B. Mange, b. Sept. 26, 1899. No ch. 3. Stephen Emory Barton, born Dec. 24, 1848; d. Jan. 17, 1929; mar. 1st June 23, 1870 to Joyce Wilmot, b. Aug. 24, 1848; d. April 12, 1881: 4 children. Married 2nd. Oct. 13, 1884 to Harriet Elizabeth Walker Tracy, b. July 27, 1849; died June 20, 1931; widow of Seymore Tracy: No ch. 4 Children by 1st wife: Joyce Wilmot Barton: 1. Irving Wilmot Barton, b. Jan. 11, 1872; d. Jan. 21, 1872. 2. Ida Myrtis Barton, (Changed later to Myrtis Wilmot Barton), b. March 23, 1873; mar. June 11, 1900 to Stephen Lathrop Butler, b. Apr. 8, 1971; d. May 2, 1945: 1 child: continued:Continued. Porter Genealogy. By E.R.K. 1946. Child of Murtis Wilmot Barton and Stephen Lathrop Butler: 1. Joyce Wilmot Butler, b. June 27, 1903; mar. Sept. 11, 1926 to Dwight Hughes, b. Apr. 15, 1891: 2 children: 1. Jere Hughes, b. Nov. 8, 1927; 2. Stephen Barton Hughes, b. Feb. 15, 1929; 3. Edith Joyce Barton, b. Apr. 3, 1875; d. June 15, 1876; dau. of Stephen Emory and Joyce Wilmot Barton. 4. Lauretta Gertrude Barton, b. Dec. 7, 1876; d. Apr. 5, 1883; Fell beneath a loaded wagon on way to school and was killed. 4. Mary Anna Barton, (Mamie) born Dec. 11, 1851; died Jan. 20, 1929; mar. March 22, 1879 to Jogn H. Stafford, b. Sec. 15, 1850, died March 21, 1929. Mary Anna Barton and her sister, Ida Adelia Barton were married at the same time in Oxford, Mass. 2 Children: 1. Stephen Barton Stafford, b. Dec. 3, 1880; mar. Helen Louise Richardson, b. [ ] 1887; divorced: 4 children: 1. John Kenneth Stafford, b. [ ] 1919; died Jan. 20, 1929. 2. Donald Barton Stafford, b. Dec. 10, 1912; mar. to Santina Forchielli, b. 3. Martha Stafford, b. and d. in 1913. 4. Stephen Phillip Stafford, b. Oct. 11, 1914; 2. Anna Gertrude Stafford, b. May 11, 1883; mar. Aug. 24, 1903 to Guy Willard Olney, b. July 15, 1881: 2 childrenL 1. Helen Gertrude Olney, b. Oct. 9, 1904; unmarried. 2. May Barton Olney, b. July 8, 1908; mar. Jan. 16, 1937 to Raymond E. White, b. 2 Children: 1. Raymond Olney White, b. Oct. 31, 1940; 2. Stephen Barton White, b. Aug. 2, 1945. ***[*Saidee*] [?]s and dates of birth and death of tombstones in old cemetery up on hill beyond Frosts house. [?] Porter - July 4, 1805 - Aug. 30, 1877. [?] Gould, wife of James H. Porter - Dec. 19, 1807 -- Dec. 6, 1883. [?] H. Porter, son of James H. and Lurenda G. Porter, a member of CO. I, 21 Maine Reg., died in the General Hospital at Baton Rouge, La, Mar. 8, 1863; age 26 yrs., 5 mo. [?] Porter, wife of James P. Davis, Dec. 16, 1854 -- Jan. 27, 1933. [?] Davis - Feb. 26, 1858 -- Jan. 30, 1914. [?] Comstock - July 21, 1858 -- July 6, 1929. [?] Porter, wife of Hiram A. Comstock - June 22, 1862 -- Dec. 19, 1896. [???] of Samuel-Amelia P. Barton. Stephen Ira. b Aug 4, 1864 d. Feb 3, 1882 Miriam Amelia. b Aug 5, 1877 d Oct 5, 1877 Walter S. b. Mar. 12, 1872 d June 14, 1872 Myrtle A. b May 26, 1868 d Sept 22, 1869 Bessie A. b Nov 2 & d Mar 3 1865 Amelia L. Parke Barton. b Apr 4, 1842 D. Aug 21, 1877. Samuel Barton b May 31, 1839 d Mar 29, 1908 Clarence W. Barton b May 16, 1875 - mar. Jesibell Whe[???], b Oct 3, 1880. a daughter. Miriam Josephine b. Aug 22, 1907, d Jan 28, 1920 Frances M. Vassall b. Mar. 21, 1834 d Mar 26, 1926 Bernard Barton Vassall. b Oct 10, 1835 d Mar 23, 1894 Ira Stetson Vassall. b Aug 16, 1840 d Apr. 9, 1865 Sally Barton Vassall b Mar 20, 1811 d May 24, 1874.Riccius Fredericke Riccius. b. May 25, 1837 d Sept. 30, 1917 Agnes, his wife - b June 7, 1844 d Jan 8, 1894 Agnes - probably a dau. of Freddie & Agnes d. May 24, 1883 - age 19 yrs 4 mo. Edward Riccius b Oct 28, 1815 d. Dec 25, 1884 Augusta, his wife, b June 25, 1817 d Mar. 2, 1893 List of some of the *twins* born into the Barton - Porter family. [E].R.K. (Rufus and [ ] born Aug. 11, 1774, children of John and Abigail Dana Barton. (Phoebe, (Hannah and [ ] born June 16, 1777, children of Reuben & Olive Jennison Barton. (Thankful (Dorothy and born Aug. 24, 1776, children of Dr. Stephen & Dorothy Moore (Mary [ ] Barton. (Lucy and [ ] born Nov. 2, 1812, children of Gideon & Sarah Pierce Barton. ( Dorothy ( (Dorothy and born Feb. 3, 1836, children of Gideon & Sarah Pierce Barton. (Sarah (Ida and [ ] born Jan. 18, 1847, children of David and Julia A. M. Porter Barton. (Ada (Octavia F. and born ---, children of Dr. Byron and Eliza Moore Porter. ( --- died at birth (Parthenia and born July 4, 1805, children of Benjamin & Pamela Barton Porter. (James (Laurinda and born March 14, 1804, children of Clarissa Barton and Richard (Pamela [ ] Foster. (Lucy and born Jan. 14, 1838, children of Samuel P. & Harriet Perkins Barton. (Dolly ([Elizabeth Mabel] [*Ruth Dana Haigh*] and [ ] born [Jan. 23, 1882,] [*Sept 1891*], children of Alfred and Mary Barton (--- [ ] Dana. [*Dorothy (was to have been her name had she lived)*][*For Saidee*] On Tombstones in Qunt Fannie Medicke's lot in Hope Cemetery. Emile, wife of Gustav Riccius, died July 21, 1879, age 68 yrs. 2 mo. 18 da. (Probably born May 3, 1811.) Pauline M. Frances Medicke 1845 - 1901. Earnest W. Medicke 1845 - 1927. Earnest F., son of Earnest W. and Frances Medicke , died June 2, 1875, age W yrs. 2 da. (Born about May 21, 1873, possibly.) Ida Frances, wife of John Ranser, died July 22, 1891, age 19 yrs. 5 mo., 9 da. ( Born about Feb. 13, 1872 ) Frances Rauserm died May 30, 1892, age 10 mo. 15 da. ( Born July 16,1891) Pauline, wife of Otto Riccius, died June 16, 1889, age 44 yrs. 2 mo. 18 da. (Born about March 29, 1845 ) Copied from stones in N. Oxford Cemetery. Riccius Riccius Fredericke Riccius. b. May 25, 1837 d. Sept. 30. 1917 Agnes. his wife. b. June 7, 1844 d Jan. 8. 1894 Agnes. (probably a daughter of Frdke + Agnes) d. May 24.1883. aged 19 yrs 4 mos. Edward Riccius. b. Oct. 28, 1815 d. Dec. 25, 1884 Augusta. his wife b. June 24, 1817 d Nov. 2. 1893Phone Main 40 STEPHEN E. BARTON Insurance of all Kinds No. 85 WATER STREET Boston Boston, Mass., [...]191 Also W A N T E D The Children, grandchildren and other descendants of the brothers and sisters of Clara Barton, so as to bring this collection down to date ([1949] (1940 - 1941). i.e. Descendants of Stephen B rton,3d and his wife Elisabeth (Betsey Rich) BARTON. Descendants of David and Julia A.M.(Porter) BArton; Descendants of Mrs S rah (Barton) Vassall. I only know that Mrs Myrtle (Barton) Butler was the only child of her father Stephen Barton, 4th and that the Riccius children probable are of the Vassalls family. [An] Am I correct even about these ?