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3. John, [b. Aug. 22, 1790; nu Hannah Dodge of Bennington, Feb. 22, 1816; d. May 13, 1877; moved to Sutton, where most of his life was spent; was Deacon of the Baptist church there; his wife d. Oct. 11, 1883. Their children were:—
Sallie D., (b. Sept. 16. 1816; m. Win. T. Bean of Sutton.)
Roxana, (b. Oct. 12, 1818; m. Hon. Amos Jones of Suttou, afterwards of San born ton Bridge, now Tilton.)
Gideon D., (-b. Oct. 21, 1820: in. Melvina Bean; lives in Sutton.)
John A., (d. inf.)
Charity Adeline, (b. Dec. 31,1824; in. 1st, Benj. P. Sargent; 2nd, William Coburn; d. July 1, 1889.)
John S., (d. childhood.)
Hannah M., (b. May 2,1829; m. Moses Pillsbury of Sutton.)
Mary Ann, (d. inf.)
Benjamin Dean, (June 15, 1833; m. Ellen A. Carr of Antrim, Nov. 29, 1860; lives in Bennington; no children.)
Mary Ann, (b. Jan. 6, 1836; m. fieo. S. French of Sutton; d. July 29, 1879.)
Frances C., (b. Dec. 1, 1840; m. Lucien Smith of Brent- wood.)] 		Felch John
 
502 (III) John Felch, son of Henry FELCH Felch (2), was born in Reading,.

Massachusetts, February 26, 1660, and died in Weston, Massachusetts, April 9, 1746, aged eighty-six years. He married, May 25, 1685, Elizabeth Gowing, of Reading. He was a farmer. At some time between 1703 and 1709 he removed to Weston, formerly part of Watertown, and resided there the remainder of his days. The inscription on his gravestone in the Weston burying ground reads: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mr. John Felch, who departed this life April the gth in the 86th year of his age." On the gravestone of his wife: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth Felch, wife of Mr. John Felch, who departed Apl 10, 1746, in the 86th year of her age."' His son John administered the estate. . The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Felch, born in Reading, were: i, Elizabeth, born February 23, 1686. 2. John, born February 17, 1688, removed to Canterbury, Connecticut. 3. Samuel, born February n, 1690, died November, 1725; married, May 6, 1714, Katharine Smith, daughter of Francis and Ruth Smith, ofReading. 4. Hannah, born August 3, 1692, married, January 4, 1715, Thomas Clapp. 5. Mary, born March 17, 1695. 6. Daniel, born June 3, 1697, died July T5. I7°3- 7- Nathaniel, born April 27, 1699. married, October 29, 1732, Mary Hanks, of Lynn; ancestor of the Maine branch. 8. Ebe- nezer, mentioned below. 9. Abigail, born June 15, 1703.

10. John, b. 26 Feb., 1659, at Reading; d. at Boston, 9 Apr., 1746, aged 89 yrs. He m. 25 May, 1685-6, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Brock) Gowing, who d. at Western, 10 Apr., 1746, aged 86 yrs. They had 9 children.

John Felch. 1660-1746. Son of Henry. Born at Reading Feb. 26, 1660. Married May 25, 1685, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Gowing. About 1709 he removed from Reading to Wes- ton and there died April 9, 1746. His wife, Elizabeth, died one day later, and a double headstone marks their graves at Weston. Under date of Sept. 12, 1730, he deeded all his lands in Natick to his son Ebenezer. 		Felch John
 
503 (V) Captain John Felch, son of Ebenezer Felch (4), was born in Natick, Massachusetts, 1729-30, and like his father was one of the leading citizens. He was selectman, assessor, member of the school committee and, like his father, teacher of the Natick school. He married Mary Bacon, of Natick, a descendant of the immigrant, Michael Bacon, of Dedham, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was thesame. (See Bacon family in this work). She died August 26, 1813, aged seventy-six years. John Felch was captain of the Natick company, and when the Lexington alarm came on April 19, 1775, he went with Captain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel Samuel Bui- lard's regiment. In 1776 his eldest son John was drafted, and the captain took his place as substitute in the ranks in June, 1776. The son was then but sixteen years old, the father was forty-five or more. Captain John Felch was in Captain Aaron Gardner's company, Colonel Brook's regiment, and was killed in the battle of White Plains, New York,October 28, 1776. His gravestone at North Natick gives his age as forty-seven. Children, all born in Natick: I. Mary, born June 4, 1757, died July 12, 1841, aged eighty-four; married Thomas Cool- idge, September 19, 1776, and had seven children, many of whose descendants still live in Natick. 2. John, born March 28, 1760, mentioned below. 3. Ruth, born December 9, 1762. died June 23, 1852, aged eighty-nine; married, September 9, 1784, James Eames; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, and thence to Newry, Maine; had nine children. 4. Zeruiah, born April 30, 1765, died March 3, 1850. aged eighty-four; married. May 18, 1786, Ethel Jennings; had seven children. 5. Asa, born July 9, 1769, died March 21, 1846. aged seventy-seven; married Lavinia Newton at Wayland, Massachusetts, about 1792; had five sons and three daughters; among these children were Isaac Felch. who was the father of Lucy E., Sarah G., Isaac K.. Charlotte K., Laura E. and Henry F. Felch. of Natick. Asa's home was what was later known as the Deacon Wright place on the Worcester turnpike ; Asa sold it to his son-in-law, Rev. Isaac Jennison. 6. Levi, born June 8, 1773,.died September 19, 1861, aged eighty; married, April 16,1816, Patty Coggin, widow, and had three daughters, two of whom lived at Park- ersburgh, Iowa; Levi removed from Natick to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he died.

John. b. April 6, 1729. m. April 28, 1757, Mary Bacon. He was of Natick, innholder. He was Captain in militia and was on the Crown Point and other Colonial military expeditions. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was killed at the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. Left 6 children. His widow, Mary, died at Natick, Aug. 26, 1813, aa. 76. 		Felch John
 
504 (V) John Felch, son of Joseph Felch (4), was born at Seabrook, New Hampshire, July, 1773. He received .a good education in the public schools and became a school teacher in Deering and Weare for several winter terms. He worked at farming during the summer seasons from early youth. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was said by a contemporary to have "had the best intellect in the family." All of his brothers located in Weare. He settled in Deering, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Orthodox church. In politics he was a Democrat. He removed to Francestown to conduct the farm of his wife's parents and to care for them in their old age. When they died the farm came to him. He married, December 22, 1796, Olive Thompson, who was born August 7, 1778, at Ded- ham. Massachusetts, died November 24, 1860, at Francestown, daughter of Samuel and Olive (Felch) Thompson. Her mother. Olive, was daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Fisher) Felch. of Natick, and Walpole, Massachusetts. Her only sister, Mary Felch, born at Dedham, December 27, 1779, married Benjamin Felch, of Weare, brother of John. April 14. 1/99. Samuel Thompson built and occupied a log house on what is known now as the Bryant farm quite early. The present house was built for Mr. Thompson by Mr. Benjamin Deane. After working a year, clearing his farm, Thompson brought his family to Francestown about 1785. He was born May26, 1749, and died January 30, 1825.

Children of John and Olive Felch, of Deering: i. Olive, born March 7, 1798, married, May i, 1823, Samuel Gould. 2. Asenath, born February 26, 1800, married, November 17, 1822, Daniel Hadley. 3. Mary,born January 26, 1802, died January 29, 1890; married, March n, 1824, Whitcomb May, of Hancock, New Hampshire; children: i. Mary E. May, born December 10, 1824; ii. Betsey F., December 12, 1826; iii.Charles P. O. May, February 22, 1829; iv. Nathaniel H., October 16, 1831, died March 19, 1854; v. Samuel May, February 18, 1835, died February 19, 1835; vi. Thomas M. May, June I, 1836, vii. John E. May, April 30, 1841; viii. George D. May, September 22, 1843. 4. Irene, born June 9, 1804, died June, 1881; married, August 5, 1840, Rufus Moore. 5. Charlotte, born March 26, 1806, married, November 17, 1825, William Baldwin. 6. John Thompson, mentioned below. 7. Samuel, born March 24, 1810, died in Florida. 8. Luke, born July 28, 1812, died August n, 1876; married (first), Mrs. Lucy Ann Burn- ham; (second). Elizabeth Wardwell; (third), Mrs. Elizabeth Mann. 9. Hill, born November 17, 1814, died at New Orleans, 1834, in the regular army. 10. Chelmsford, married Elizabeth Mace, of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

All settled in Weare, except John, b. July, 1773, who located in Deering, m. Olive Thompson, Dec. 22, 1796. This John "was a soldier in the war of 1812, had a good education for a man of his times, taught school extensively, and seems to have possessed the best intellect in the family." So writes a, kinsman and friend. 		Felch John
 
505 (VI) John Felch, son of Captain John Felch (5), was born in Natick, Miarch 28, 1760, and died there March 6, 1830, aged nearly seventy. Married, November 16, 1788, Hannah Loker. (See Loker family in this, work). After his father went into the army in 1776 he took his place as head of the family and carried on the farm. In 1780 he enlisted as private in Captain Joshua Fisk's company, Colonel AbnerPerry's regiment, for a week's service in Rhode Island. They had three sons and four daughters, among whom were: John, Levi, Oliver, Hannah, Eunice. Felch John
 
506 The last named was the John Felch of Francestown. He was b. Feb. 23, 1763; m. Ruth Sweetzer, March 8, 1787; settled in the north part of this town, near Deering line, where he lived till 1814, when he moved to Sutton, and died there of spotted fever in 1816. His wife d. Sept. 5, 1826, aged 63. The children of John and Ruth (Sweetzer) Felch, were as follows, all being born in this town:—

1. Amos, [1). July 1, 1787, in. Betsey Kelley; lived in Newbury, and d. there April 29, 1876, aged nearly 89.]
2. William, [b. Nov. 23, 1788; was a soldier in the war of 1812; settled in Cleveland, Ohio; is said to have descendants now living there.]
3. John, [b. Aug. 22, 1790; nu Hannah Dodge of Bennington, Feb. 22, 1816; d. May 13, 1877; moved to Sutton, where most of his life was spent; was Deacon of the Baptist church there; his wife d. Oct. 11, 1883. Their children were:—
Sallie D., (b. Sept. 16. 1816; m. Win. T. Bean of Sutton.)

Roxana, (b. Oct. 12, 1818; m. Hon. Amos Jones of Suttou, afterwards of San born ton Bridge, now Tilton.)
Gideon D., (-b. Oct. 21, 1820: in. Melvina Bean; lives in Sutton.)
John A., (d. inf.)
Charity Adeline, (b. Dec. 31,1824; in. 1st, Benj. P. Sargent; 2nd, William Coburn; d. July 1, 1889.)
John S., (d. childhood.)
Hannah M., (b. May 2,1829; m. Moses Pillsbury of Sutton.)
Mary Ann, (d. inf.)
Benjamin Dean, (June 15, 1833; m. Ellen A. Carr of Antrim, Nov. 29, 1860; lives in Bennington; no children.)
Mary Ann, (b. Jan. 6, 1836; m. fieo. S. French of Sutton; d. July 29, 1879.)
Frances C., (b. Dec. 1, 1840; m. Lucien Smith of Brent- wood.)]

4. Daniel, [b. Aug. 8,1792; was a soldier in the war of 1812; went to Ohio with his brother William, since which time nothing further can be learned of him.]
5. Benjamin, (b. Aug. 21, 1794; in. Dolly Andrews; lived in Wilmot; d. May 28, 1877.]
6. Rhoda, [b. May 12, 1796; m. Rev. Elijah Watson; d. 1868.]
7. Betsey, [b. April 1, 1798; d. inf.]
8. David, [b. April 12, 1799; d. at the age of 14.]
9. Samuel Barnet, [b. Feb. 24, 1801 ; m. 1st, Betsey Keyser; 2nd, Partridge; d. in Illinois, June 4.1873.]
10. Maky Boyu, [known as Polly; b. June 24, 1803; m. Nehemiah Emerson of Andover.]
11. Susan Emekson, [b. Feb. 10, 1806; m. Solomon Dodge of Bennington; d. Feb. 10, 1887.] 		Felch John
 
507 i. John Elmer, born February 13, 1862, attended public and Allen school of West Newton; married at Saxonville, August 6, 1883, Nellie L. Whitney; children: i. Marguerite Mae, born May 20, 1890 Felch John Elmer
 
508 (VIII) John Francis Felch, son of Oliver (7) and Hannah Washburn (Fuller) Felch, was born on the old homestead in North Natick, town of Natick, October 7, 1839. He learned the trade of shoemaker, as did also his brothers and most other boys of his day, and when a young man began to manufacture boots and shoes. As stated in the sketch of his elder brother, Oliver Amandus Felch, the factory of Felch Brothers was built in 1864 and the firm did a thriving shoe manufacturing business for many years. He remained in business until his death, October 8, 1899, and was succeeded by his son, Walter L., the present owner. He was a man of high character, spotless integrity and attracted many friends. He was a faithful member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cochituate, Massachusetts. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and served the town as selectman and held other positions of trust and honor in the community.

He was married November 4, 1860, by Rev. David Mason, at Cochituate, Massachusetts, to Mary Lucy Loker, born December 25, 1842, daughter of Jefferson and Caroline (Whee- lock) Loker. Jefferson Loker was born March i, 1807, in the village of Cochituate, town of Wayland, Massachusetts, and died March 25, 1900. He was a farmer, and member of the Cochituate Methodist Episcopal church. Caroline (Wheelock) Loker died June 18, 1878. Their children were: i. Abbie Ann Loker, married George Kemp; ii. Willard Wesley Loker; iii. Mary Lucy Loker, born December 25, 1842; iv. Ellen Frances Loker. married Henry C. Dean; v. Leonard Loker. Paul Loker was the father of Jefferson Loker and grandfather of Mrs. Felch. Children of John F. and Mary Lucy (Loker) Felch: i. John Elmer, born February 13, 1862, attended public and Allen school of West Newton; married at Saxonville, August 6, 1883, Nellie L. Whitney; children: i. Marguerite Mae, born May 20, 1890; ii. Gladys lola, born February 28, 1898, died August 15, 1899; iii. Enid Whitney, born December 6, 1900. 2. Walter L., born September 9, 1863, educated in the Natick public schools and the Allen School of West Newton, learned the business in his father's shoe factory and since May, 1903, has been the proprietor of the Felch Brothers factory and business; married Lauretta Bent, of Sudbury, March i, 1886. 3. Grace, born April 12, 1865, married, August i, 1883, John M. Adams, a boot and shoe salesman for J. B. Lewis, Boston; children: i. Bessie Caroline Adams, born November 30, 1885, graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1907; ii. Charles Mlaxwell Adams, born May 15, 1889, student in Natick high school; iii. Mary Louise Adams, born March 7, 1892, student in Natick high school; iv. Eva Belle Adams, born November 28, 1896; v. Marie Felch Adams, born March 2, 1899. 4- Louise, born September 16, 1870, married. November 20, 1889, Charles A. Goodnow, buyer of Clark Hudson & Co., Boston; son John Ruyter Goodnow, born August 5, 1898. 		Felch John Francis
 
509 2. John H., born July 24, 1834, who resides in Hancock, New Hampshire, has served as a selectman and representative to the legislature. He married Abigail Tuttle and has had children : Lucinda Katherine, died in 1890; Edgar B. and Arthur T. Felch John H.
 
510 (VI) John Thompson Felch, son of John Felch (5), was born in Deering, New Hampshire, March 13, 1808. When a boy he moved with his parents to Francestown and attended the public schools of that town. During his youth he removed to Concord, Vermont, living with Ezra Wilson, from whom he learned the trade of carpenter. He worked at this trade until he was twenty years old, attending the winter termsof the common schools at Concord. Then he returned to Frances- town and bought the old Thompson farm, known as the Bryant place, inherited by his mother from her father. Later he bought the adjoiningfarm known as the Captain Martin place, making a total of three hundred acres. From the time of his marriage in 1838 to about 1859 he conducted general farming and traded in cattle, sheep and stock. He also followed his trade of carpenter and built many of the dwelling houses in that town. ' He sold his place to Mr. Phelps, and in 1859 bought the James Quigley farm of about three hundred acres and conducted it successfully until his death, June 20, 1887. The farm is now owned and occupied by his son, Samuel Lewis Felch. Mr. Felch was a man of fine physique and personal appearance; six feet inheight. He served in the militia in his younger days, was a member of the Congregational church of Francestown, and in politics was a Democrat. Both Mr. and Mrs. Felch were prudent, industrious and worthy. He married, June 4, 1833, Sarah Lewis, who was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire, February 23, 1804, and died at Francestown, April 6, 1889, the daughter of Captain Samuel and Betsey (Martin) Lewis, of Greenfield. Her father was a farmer. She was granddaughter of the first settler of the town, a woman of education, superior ability and excellent memory. Children,' born in Frances- town: i. John Thompson, Jr., born March 12, 1834, died March 5, 1835. 2. Samuel Lewis, born December 26, 1835, married, December 10, 1891, Georgiana Felch, of Weare, New Hampshire. 3. Sophronia Thompson, born March i, 1837, married, October 27, 1858, Nathaniel C. Locke, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; resided later at Salem; children: i. Albert Nathan Locke, born November 4, 1865, married, April 28, 1896, Alice Griswold, of Salem; ii. Sally Abbie Locke, August 7, 1873, married, December 6, 1899, Charles A. Archer, of Salem, and have Phebe Waldo Archer, born November 7, 1902. 4. Elizabeth Irene, born January 27, 1839, died November 14, 1903 ; married, October 3, 1867, Alfred W. Savage, of Greenfield, New Hampshire; children, i. Ella Lizzie Savage, born May 10, 1869, married, April 16, 1889, Harvey W. Donaghy, of Halifax, Nova Scotia (children: Harold Alfred Donaghy, born July 16, 1890; Ruth Charlotte Donaghy, January 20, 1894; Karl William Donaghy, born March i, 1896). 5. John Parker, born July 8, 1840, died January 2, 1896; married, January 30, 1866, Anna Maria Kendall, of Andover, Massachusetts, reside at Westford, Massachusetts; children: i. John Kendall, born October 27, 1866, married, July4, 1897, Mary Abbie Day; ii. Charles Dutton, September 2, 1868, married, October 6, 1897, Martha Gleason Turner; iii. Lizzie Maria, January 23, 1870, married, September 18, 1900, Ralph Bridgeford; iv. Samuel Lewis, October 19, 1872, married, June 16, 1903, Estelle Gertrude Hutchins and have Lewis Hawthorne, born November 4, 1905; v. Alfred Whittemore, February 24, 1874, married, October 12, 1898,Alice Arietta Mason; vi. Emma Florilla, December 16, 1875, married, March 27, 1902, Fred Austin Parker and have Florilla Bernice Parker, born September 12, 1902, and Albert Austin Parker, born September 9, 1903; vii. Frank Parker, September 22, 1876, married, June 26, 1895, Cora B. F. Wilson and have William Parker, born October 18, 1896, Minnie Fletcher, February 7, 1898, and Martha Beatrice, June 4, 1900; viii. Harry Curtis, March 10, 1878, married, November 3, 1900, Clara Ellen Turner and have Gladys Lucile, born January 4, 1902, and Marion Flavia, April i, 1907; ix. Edward Arthur, April 14, 1882; x. Nellie Etta, October 17, 1883; xi. Grace May, September 2, 1885; married, June 5, 1906, Oscar Elmer Hodson. 6. Sarah Hannah, born January 6, 1846, married, September 22, 1867, David W. Kennedy, of Francestown; reside in Medford, Massachusetts; children: i. Geraldine Sophronia Kennedy, born August 10, 1870, married, October 22, 1889, Nathaniel H. Cushing, of Medford, and have Geraldine Laura Cushing, born October 28, 1890, and Marian Ellsworth Cushing, July, 1895; ii. Alfred Warren Kennedy, born July 16, 1872, married, June 23, 1902, Mary Winn Mansfield, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have Lewis Mansfield, born September 5, 1903, and Sarah Margaret, December 27, 1904; iii. Alice Josephine Kennedy, August 19, 1874; iv. Lewis Richardson Kennedy, July 13, 1876, died August 28, 1894. 7. Mark Curtis, mentioned below.

JOHN THOMPSON FELCH, son of John and Olive (Thompson) Felch of Deering, was born March 13, 1808, and married Sally, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Martin) Lewis of Greenfield, where she was born, Feb. 23, 1804. The date of his marriage was June 4, 1833, and for several years following, he lived on the Thompson or Bryant place, and afterward on the Phelps place. The last twenty-eight years of his life, were spent on the James Quigley place, now occupied by his son Lewis. Mr. Felch and his wife, were prudent and worthy people. She as will be seen, was a granddaughter of Samuel Martin, and to her superior memory we are indebted for much that we have learned of that esteemed settler of the town. She died in Francestown, April 6, 1889. John Thompson Felch, died here June 20, 1887. Children were:—

1. John Thompson, [b. in Francestown, March 12, 1834, d. in Francestown. March 5, 1835.]
2. Samuel Lewis, [b. in Francestown, Dec. 26, 1835, m. Georgiana Felch of Weare, Dec. 10, 1891, lives on the home place.]
3. Sophronia Thompson, [h. in Fraucesiown, March 1,1837, m. N. C. Locke of Hopkinton, N. H., Oct. 27, 1858, res. in Salem, Mass.
4. Elizabeth I., [b. in Francestown, Jan. 27, 1839, m. A. W. Savage of Greenfield, res. in Milford.]
5. John Parker, [b. in Francestown, July 8, 1840, m. Anna Maria Kendall of An clover, Mass.. Jan. 30, 1866, is a fanner, res. at Westford Mass.]
6. Sarah Hannah, [b. at Francestown, Jan. 6, 1846, m. David Kennedy of Francestown, res. in Medford, Mass.]
7. Mark C., [b. in Francestown. March 4,1848, in. 1st, Laura Griffin of Antrim, 2nd, Mary J. Colburn of Medford, Mass., is doing a thriving business as meat dealer at Wolburn, Mass. The bell of the "new church" edifice in Francestown, was donated by him upon the completion of that building.] 		Felch John Thompson
 
511 (V) Jonathan, fourth son and sixth child of Joseph and Mary (Hoyt) Felch, was born in Weare in 1768, and died there in 1852. He.was a tanner and shoemaker, and an excellent farmer, as well. Politically he was a Democrat, and his religious affiliations were with the Universalist Church. He married Abigail Favor, a descendant of an immigrant from the Island of Jersey, who was probably of French origin. She died in 1862, aged eighty- four years, having been the mother of six children : John, Betsey, Olive, Leonard, Nancy and Abigail. The latter attained an age of over ninety-six years.

6. Jonathan Hoyt, born May 20, 1768, died January 27, 1852; married Abigail Favor. 		Felch Jonathan Hoyt
 
512 (VI) Leonard, fourth child and youngest son of Jonathan and Abigail (Favor) Felch, was born in Weare, May 21; 1801. He succeeded to the possession of the homestead, which lie cultivated until 1857, when he sold the property to his son Hiram M., and removing to Hopkinton, New Hampshire, died there February 17, 1878. In politics he was a Democrat, and in his religious belief a Free Will Baptist. His first wife was Katherine Blodgett, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, daughter of Ebenezer Blodgett, a Methodist minister, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She died in 1851. and he married (second), Mrs. Sarah (Danforth) Palmer, who survived him. By his first wife he had children: i. Lydia Ann, who died at the age of two and a half years. 2. John H., born July 24, 1834, who resides in Hancock, New Hampshire, has served as a selectman and representative to the legislature. He married Abigail Tuttle and has had children : Lucinda Katherine, died in 1890; Edgar B. and Arthur T. 3. Hiram Moody. Felch Leonard
 
513 6. Levi, born June 8, 1773,.died September 19, 1861, aged eighty; married, April 16, 1816, Patty Coggin, widow, and had three daughters, two of whom lived at Park- ersburgh, Iowa; Levi removed from Natick to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he died. Felch Levi
 
514 4- Louise, born September 16, 1870, married. November 20, 1889, Charles A. Goodnow, buyer of Clark Hudson & Co., Boston; son John Ruyter Goodnow, born August 5, 1898. Felch Louise
 
515 i. Lydia Ann, who died at the age of two and a half years. Felch Lydia Ann
 
516 (VII) Mark Curtis Felch, son of John Thompson Felch (6), was born in Frances- town, March 4, 1848. He received his education in the common schools of his native town and in the Francestown Academy. He then worked one year in Lowell as clerk for Daniel Gage, dealer in meats and provisions, returning home to work on the farm and deal in cattle. When he came of age he bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, adjoining that of his father and known as the Charles Quigley estate. He cut off much lumber to good advantage and in addition to his farming traded in horses and cattle. In August, 1872, he removed to Somerville, Massachusetts, where he spent three years building houses to sell. He then bought the plant of A. G. Carter, wholesale butcher, on Beech street, Woburn, built a new slaughter house and began business there. He built up a large trade in Woburn and adjoining towns. After six years in this business, he added a refrigerator to his plant and became local agent of the Swiftsof Chicago, selling on commission for the sixteen years following and since he has been a wholesale dealer in beef, hay and grain. He has also bought c?.rloads of cows and horses to sell in Woburn and vicinity. At present Mr. Felch is in the hay and grain business with his place of business on Prospect street. He was formerly a partner in the Locke Regulator Company of Salem, a firm making damperregulators, steam valves and various steam appliances, composed of Nathaniel C. Locke, Albert N. Locke and Mr. Felch. After five years in this business he sold his interest to his partners. Mr. Felchis a Congregationalist in religion ; he gave the bell for the Congregational church in his native town. In politics he is independent ; formerly a Democrat and has attended as delegate various Democratic senatorial and other nominating conventions. He has been a member of the common council of the city of Woburn and for two years of the board of aldermen. He was made a Mason in Good Samaritan Lodge of Reading, Massachusetts. He married (first), at Somerville. March 11, 1870, Laura Griffin, who was born at Antrim, New Hampshire, November 24, 1850, and died April 12, 1887, daughter of Solomon Hopkins and Eliza (McCoy) Griffin. Her father was a farmer. He married (second), April 30, 1889, Sarah Josephine Colburn, at Merrimack, New Hampshire, the daiJghter of Ephraim and Charlotte (Barron) Col burn, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Ephraim Colburn was a plow manufacturer and farmer. Children of Mark C. and Laura Felch: i. Morris Wilbur, born October 5, 1873, at Somerville. died October 13, 1905.2. Alice Gray, born February 7, 1875,' married, September 4, 1905, Ernest H. Wellman, of Washington, Maine. 3. Emma Laura, born February 3, 1876, married, August 15, 1901, George Dur- ward, of Woburn, and had Laura Elizabeth Durward, born April 29, 1903. 4. Elsie Elwood, born August 30, 1877, died August 17, 1903; married, March 19, 1900. Harry Kimball, of Boston, and had Emily Hazel Kimball, born August 5, 1902. 5. Kate Dinsmore, born June 16, 1879, died November 18. 1880. 6. Edith May, born February 16, 1881, died March u. 1881. 7. Mark Curtis, Jr., born July 7, 1882, died December 27, 1895. 8. Gara Edith, born August I, 1884, married, June 13, 1905, Henry Kenty, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and had Mary Josephine Kenty, born February 4, 1907, died February 7, 1967. Child of Mark C. andSarah J. Felch: 9. Edna Barron, born April 21, 1891.

(For first two generations see Henry 2).

7. Mark C., [b. in Francestown. March 4,1848, in. 1st, Laura Griffin of Antrim, 2nd, Mary J. Colburn of Medford, Mass., is doing a thriving business as meat dealer at Wolburn, Mass. The bell of the "new church" edifice in Francestown, was donated by him upon the completion of that building.]

Added (ADV 10/25/09).

MARK C. FELCH DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Was a member of Sinking Fund Commission

ONE TIME ALDERMAN

Death of Relatives Probably Cause of His Decline

Former Alderman Mark C. Felch, for many years a resident of Woburn, and one of her best known citizens, a member of the sinking fund commission, died at his home, 26 Beach Street, this morning after a long illness.

Mr. Felch was 61 years old. For more than three years he had made a vain struggle for life. In October, in a hope of checking the disease which had overtaken him, he had one of his legs amputated. The operation was not successful, however, and he never regained his health.

Mr. Felch came to Woburn many years ago from Francestown, New Hampshire. He purchased the slaughtering business of Alfred G. Carter and later became a successful tradesman in cattle.

ACTIVE IN BUSINESS

He was for many years the local manager of the John P. Squire & Company business on High Street, and after that carried on an independent business on Prospect St. He suffered several bereavements in his family, and these were undoubtedly the cause of his decline in health.

He gave up all business in October, 1907, to put himself under the surgeon's knife, and since then he has struggled in vain to preserve his life and close up his business affairs.

Mr. Felch was a man of sterling integrity, and under a rather austere and at times a gruff manner there was a most kindly and sympathetic heart. He was greatly attached to his family, and the loss ofseveral of his children was a blow from which he never recovered.

In business affairs his word was as good as his bond, and while he would do his best in a fair way to make a good trade, yet he would never take an underhand advantage of anyone, or resort to any business trickery. 		Felch Mark Curtis
 
517 3. Mary, born January 25, 1802, died January 19, 1890; married, March 11, 1824, Whitcomb May. Felch Mary
 
518 4. Mary, died unmarried August 6, 1813. Felch Mary
 
519 I. Mary, born June 4, 1757, died July 12, 1841, aged eighty-four; married Thomas Cool- idge, September 19, 1776, and had seven children, many of whose descendants still live in Natick. Felch Mary
 
520 (VII) Oliver Felch, son of John Felch (6), was born in Felchville, Natick, Massachusetts, December 27, 1805. He married, November 10, ,1833, Hannah Washburn Fuller, who was bom March i, 1808, and is now in her hundredth year with the full expectation of completing it. They were married at the parsonage in Needham on Sunday morning, and she has lived ever since on the old Felch homestead, 416 North Main street, Natick. Oliver Felch was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker, and in accordance with the custom of his time followed farming in summer and made shoes and boots in the winter season. He died March 14, 1898. Children, born at Natick: i. Lucy Ann, born June 13, 1835. 2. Oliver Amandus, bom November 17, 1836, mentioned below. 3. John Francis, born October 7, 1839, mentioned below. 4. Hannah Maria, born October 15, 1843. 5. Charles Benjamin, born May i, 1845. 6. Mary, born September 17, 1847. 7- George, born February 16, 1850. 8. Harrington, born September 17, 1851. Felch Oliver
 
521 (VIII) Oliver Amandus Felch, son of Oliver (7), and Hannah Washburn (Fuller) Felch, was born on the old homestead at North Natick in the town of Natick, November 17, 1836. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. During his boyhood, like most boys of Natick at that time, he learned how to make shoes and helped his father. At the age of twenty he began to- manufacture onhis own account, buying one roll of leather at .a time. His business was interrupted during the Civil war, but in 1864 the large factory on North Main street, known; for a full generation as Felch Brothers' shop, was built and the firm of Felch Brothers began business there. The original firm consisted of John F. Felch and Oliver A. Felch. In 1873 Harrington Felch, another brother, was admitted. The firm of Felch Brothers was one of the most prosperous and continuously successful concerns in the business of shoe manufacturing in Natick. Oliver A. Felch retired from the Ifirm in 1903, when thebusiness was sold to his nephew, Walter L. Felch, son of John F. Felch.

He is a member of Meridian Lodge of Free Masons of Natick; of Parker Royal Arch Chapter, Natick; of Natick Commandery, Knights Templar, Natick; and of the various bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry to the thirty- second degree in Boston. He is a member of Takawambait Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Natick Encampment, Natick. In politics he is a Republican. He is president of the board of trustees of the Fiske Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Natick. He is a trustee of the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, and for a period of twenty years was a director of the Natick National Bank. He is a trustee and president of the North Cemetery Association, and has held many other positions of public and private trust. No man is more generally known and esteemed in the town. Enterprising in business, popular in clubs and social life, influential in party and town affairs, he is counted among the foremost citizens of the town. His influence has always been on the right side, and he has been a source of strength, especially to the temperance cause in a community where public sentiment is nearly evenly divided. He has been for many years a leader in the church, generous in supporting its benevolences, liberal also in private charity. His house is on the site of Ebenezer Felch's (4) homestead. Oliver A. Felch married, at Worcester, Massachusetts, June 10, 1862, Martha White Gleason, who was born August 7, 1843, and died November 5, 1898, daughter of Phineas Merrill and Sallie (White) Gleason. Children, born in Natick: i. Sarah Alice, born April 30, 1870, died July 30, 1872. 2. Anna Isabella, born July 9, 1873, died June 16, 1896. 3. Frederick Oliver, born November 9, 1874, died January 24, 1880. 4. John Edwin, born June 23, 1876, died April II, 1897. 5. Albert Amandus, born October 27, 1878, mentioned below. 6. Charles Henry, born July 12, 1882, died April 3, 1885. 		Felch Oliver Amandus
 
522 3. Ruth, born December 9, 1762. died June 23, 1852, aged eighty-nine; married, September 9, 1784, James Eames; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, and thence to Newry, Maine; had nine children. Felch Ruth
 
523 6. Samuel, born July 12, 1662, died January 14. 1683. Felch Samuel
 
524 5. Sarah, born about 1727, died January 13, 1811, unmarried.

21. Sarah, bapt. at Salem Village, 21 Apr., 1728; d., num., 13Jan., 1811, at the old homestead, aged 81 yrs. (It is not yet determined which wife was the mother of this child, nor the date of her birth.) 		Felch Sarah
 
525 6. Sarah Hannah, born January 6, 1846, married, September 2, 1867, David W. Kennedy. Felch Sarah Hannah
 
526 2. Stephen, born September 10, 1731, removed to Walpole, Massachusetts; was of peculiar characteristics, fond of mathematics and casting horoscopes; had five daughters, Hannah, Olive, Abi, Polly and Rebecca.

Stephen, b. Sept. 10, 1731. m. 1754, Hannah Fisher. Settled at Walpole. d. June 12, 1823. Left 5 daughters. He served for 8 months, as sergeant in Col. Ebenezer Nichols' regiment in the campaign of 1758 against the French. 		Felch Stephen
 
527 2. Walter L., born September 9, 1863, educated in the Natick public schools and the Allen School of West Newton, learned the business in his father's shoe factory and since May, 1903, has been the proprietor of the Felch Brothers factory and business; married Lauretta Bent, of Sudbury, March i, 1886. Felch Walter L.
 
528 2. William, [b. Nov. 23, 1788; was a soldier in the war of 1812; settled in Cleveland, Ohio; is said to have descendants now living there.]
 		Felch William
 
529 4. Zeruiah, born April 30, 1765, died March 3, 1850. aged eighty-four; married. May 18, 1786, Ethel Jennings; had seven children. Felch Zeruiah
 
530 35. Betty, b. 3 Dec., 1781, at Seabrook, N. H. She lived in Sea- brook, N. H., and d. there 13 Nov., 1856, aged 74 yrs.; m. In 1800 Thomas Chase, who d. 8 Aug., 1883. Felch or Falch Betty
 
531 33. Daniel, b. 13 Oct., 1771, at Seabrook, N. H.; d. 30 June, 1839, aged 67 yrs.; m. 18 Mar., 1793, Jenny Eaton, who d. 6 June, 1840. Felch or Falch Daniel
 
532 31. Hepsibah, b. 15 Oct., 1765; d. 10 Nov., 1840; int. of marriage published at Salisbury, 2 Feb., 1791, to Benjamin Joy, jr., who d. 31 Mar., 1830. Felch or Falch Hepsibah
 
533 34. Jacob Falch was born at Seabrook, N. H., 3 Feb., 1777 ; died in Newburyport, 28 Jan., 1856, aged 78 years ; married at Salisbury, 5 Aug., 1802, Hannah Wharf Harris, who was born at Salisbury, 2 Feb., 1783 : died at Newburyport, 30 Jan., 1880, and was the daughter of Nathaniel (Giles, John, John, Thomas, Thomas) Harris and his wife Sarah (Joseph, jr., Joseph, Sergt. Hugh, Cornet George, Hugh) March. Sarah (March) Harris married, second, Samuel Falch, jr., 21 Dec., 1788 (brother of Jacob), thereby becoming a sister-in-law to her own daughter. Jacob Falch settled early at Kensington, N. H., where he was a resident taxpayer 1808-1819. A family tradition persists that he was an officer of militia during the War of 1812, stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., but this has never been proved.

Children, by his wife Hannah :—

36. Sarah (called Sally), b. about 1803, probably at Hampton Falls, N. H.; d. 17 Nov., 1892, at Newburyport, aged 89 yrs.; m. at Ipswich, 27 Oct., 1822, Moses Floyd. Had: Caroline b. Ncivlmry. 16 Apr., 1827; m. Thomas Lambert Nelson, brother of John B. Nelson mentioned below.
37. Jacob, b. at Seabrook, N. H.
38. Joseph Harbis, b. 25 Apr., 1804, perhaps Kensington, N. H.
39. Charlotte, b. 1807, probably at Newburyportj d. unm., 17 Oct., 1892, at Newburyport, aged 85 yrs.
40. Gorham, b. 1809, at Kensington, N. H.; d. unm. at Newburyport, 17 Apr., 1881, aged 72 yrs.
41. Mary M., d. 29 Aug., 1887; int. at Newbury, 18 Apr., 1840, to William L. Shun'. Had: Ellen Augusta, b. at Newbury, 6
Oct., 1840; m. George Dallas Janvrin, son of Capt. George Janvrin. She d. 16 May, 1869.
42. Clara M. (called Clarissa), b. at Kensington, N. H., about 1818; d. 14 Mar., 1901, aged 82 yrs.; m. at Newbury, 18 July, 1849 (int . Newburyport, 12 May, 1849), John B. Nelson, aged 30 yrs., son of Samuel and Sarah Nelson of Newburyport. Had: William T. Nelson, now dead.
43. William Alfonzo, b. at Kensington, N. H., 1819; d. 8 Mar., 1880, at Newburyport, aged 61 yrs.; m. at Newbury, 19 Dec., 1844 (int. 30 Nov., 1844, at Newburyport), Lucy M. Page of Newburyport. He m., second, Abby Goodwin, and had: Bernice.
44. Emeline Morrill, b. at Kensington, N. H., 24 Deo., 1819 (according to her own statement); d. 30 Nov., 1909, in Lexington, at the home of her son. She m. at Newbury, 10 Dec., 1843, Hiram Janvrin, who was b. 16 July, 1820, at Newbnry, and d. 12 Jan., 1892, at Newburyport. Had: Hiram Gilmore, b. 5 June, 1845, at Newburyport.
45. Lucy Goff, b. Nov., 1823 (city clerk of Boston gives Ipswichas place of her birth)! d. 23 Oct., 1883, at Charlestown, aged 60 yrs., lacking one month. She m. Benjamin W. Coffin, who d. at Charlestown, 9 Mar., 1886, aged 62 yrs.

(1)Salisbury Records.
(2)Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury. 		Felch or Falch Jacob
 
534 30. Jamina, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 16 Apr., bapt. at Salisbury, Mass., 25 Apr., 1762;1 d. 15 Nov., 1816, aged54yrs.; m. Belcher Dole, 23 June, 1791, at Salisbury." Felch or Falch Jamina
 
535 28. Jenne, b. at Hampton Falls, N. H., 23 June, bapt. at Salisbury 3 July, 1757; d. 11 Mar., 1836, aged 78 yrs.; m. Jeremiah Brown, who d. 16 Feb., 1846. Felch or Falch Jenne
 
536 27. Nicholas, b. 12 June, 1755, at Hampton Falls N.H.; bapt. 21 Dec., 1755, at Salisbury; d. 13 Apr., 1841, aged 85 yrs. He m. about 1779, Sarah Gove, who d. 20 Oct., 1849. He was a Revolutionary soldier in the N.H. Continental line; name appears on the N.H. pension rolls, 1840; res. at Seabrook. Felch or Falch Nicholas
 
537 32. Phinas, b. 7 Mar., 1768; settled in Kensington, N. H., and d. at Danville, N. H., Apr., 1840, aged 88 yrs.; m. at Hampton Falls, N. H., 19 Mar., 1795, Sarah Ward, a descendant of Thomas Ward. Shed. 1864.
 		Felch or Falch Phinas
 
538 23. Samuel, b. perhaps at Hampton Falls, N. H.; bapt. 23 Apr., 1727, at Salem Village.

23. Samuel Falch (or Felch), born at Hampton Falls, N.H., bapt. 23 Apr., 1727, at Salem Village (now Danvers); died in that part of Salisbury now Seabrrok, N.H., 3 June, 1811. He lived in the south end of Seabrook, N.H., about one0half mile from the present Salisbury line (the southern part of Seabrook, N.H., was originally a part of Salisbury, Mass.), and died at the old Felch homestead, "which he divided into five equal parts and conveyed in severalty to his five sons by deeds dated 29 Nov., 1808." He was a fisherman and farmer. He signed the Association Test as a resident of Seabrook, N.H., with his brother Joseph and others, Apr. 12, 1776. He married at Seabrook, N.H., 1 Jan., 1755, Jemima Selley (later spelled Cilley), who was born Apr. 5, 1787, at Salisbury, and died there 5 June, 1817. She was the daughter of Thomas (Benoni) Selley by his second wife Lydia (Edward jr., John, Edward) French.

Children:-

27. Nicholas, b. 12 June, 1755, at Hampton Falls N.H.; bapt. 21 Dec., 1755, at Salisbury; d. 13 Apr., 1841, aged 85 yrs. He m. about 1779, Sarah Gove, who d. 20 Oct., 1849. He was a Revolutionary soldier in the N.H. Continental line; name appears on the N.H. pension rolls, 1840; res. at Seabrook.
28. Jenne, b. at Hampton Falls, N. H., 23 June, bapt. at Salisbury 3 July, 1757; d. 11 Mar., 1836, aged 78 yrs.; m. Jeremiah Brown, who d. 16 Feb., 1846.
29. Samuel, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 18 Nov., bapt. at Salisbury, Mass., 25 Nov., 1759;1 killed at Salisbury, by a cart passing over his body, 17 July, 1818, aged 59 yrs.; m. Sarah (Joseph, Joseph, Hugh, George, Hugh) March, Mar. 21, orDec.1.1788, at Salisbury, the widow of Nathaniel Harris.
30. Jamina, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 16 Apr., bapt. at Salisbury, Mass., 25 Apr., 1762;1 d. 15 Nov., 1816, aged54yrs.; m. Belcher Dole, 23 June, 1791, at Salisbury."
31. Hepsibah, b. 15 Oct., 1765; d. 10 Nov., 1840; int. of marriage published at Salisbury, 2 Feb., 1791, to Benjamin Joy, jr., who d. 31 Mar., 1830.
32. Phinas, b. 7 Mar., 1768; settled in Kensington, N. H., and d. at Danville, N. H., Apr., 1840, aged 88 yrs.; m. at Hampton Falls, N. H., 19 Mar., 1795, Sarah Ward, a descendant of Thomas Ward. Shed. 1864.
33. Daniel, b. 13 Oct., 1771, at Seabrook, N. H.; d. 30 June, 1839, aged 67 yrs.; m. 18 Mar., 1793, Jenny Eaton, who d. 6 June, 1840.
34. Jacob, b. 3 Feb., 1777, at Seabrook, N. H.
35. Betty, b. 3 Dec., 1781, at Seabrook, N. H. She lived in Sea- brook, N. H., and d. there 13 Nov., 1856, aged 74 yrs.; m. In 1800 Thomas Chase, who d. 8 Aug., 1883. 		Felch or Falch Samuel
 
539 29. Samuel, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 18 Nov., bapt. at Salisbury, Mass., 25 Nov., 1759;1 killed at Salisbury, by a cart passing over his body, 17 July, 1818, aged 59 yrs.; m. Sarah (Joseph, Joseph, Hugh, George, Hugh) March, Mar. 21, orDec.1.1788, at Salisbury, the widow of Nathaniel Harris. Felch or Falch Samuel
 
540 38. Joseph Harris Felch (or Feltch), born probably in Kensington, N. H., 25 Apr., 1804 ; died at Newburyport,'25 Sept., 1882 (buried in Oldtown graveyard, Newbury); married, first, 16 Apr., 1834, Mary Haskell, daughter of John (Caleb, Daniel, Joseph, William) Has- kell and his wife Margaret (Thomas) Clouston of New- buryport. Mary Haskell was born 5 July, 1804, at New- buryport, and died there 9 Apr., 1861. He married, second, at Charlestown, 30 Jan., 1866, Leah (Osgood) Fol- som, widow and second wife of Levi G. Folsom and daughter of Capt. John S. (Samuel, Reuben, Joseph, William, John, William) Osgood and his wife Leah Pres- cott of Gilmanton, N. H. She was born 23 Sept., 1816, at Gilford, N. H., and died at Charlestown, Mass., 29 Aug., 1887, aged 70 years. He was a farmer of Newbury and Newburyport. Children:—

46. Joseph Haskell, b. at Newbury, 20 May, 1837; d. 19 Jan.,1870, in Cummington, aged 32 yrs.; buried in old town graveyard, Newbury, beside bis parents. He graduated from Williams College, class of 1863; graduated Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1866; also graduated from Princeton in 1866; ordained (Congregationalist) June 29, 1867; pastor of the Village Congregational Church, Cummington, Mass., 1867 until his death in 1870.

47. Mary Anna, b. 10 Sept., 1843, at Newbury. 		Feltch or Felch Joseph Harris
 
541 46. Joseph Haskell, b. at Newbury, 20 May, 1837; d. 19 Jan.,1870, in Cummington, aged 32 yrs.; buried in old town graveyard, Newbury, beside bis parents. He graduated from Williams College, class of 1863; graduated Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1866; also graduated from Princeton in 1866; ordained (Congregationalist) June 29, 1867; pastor of the Village Congregational Church, Cummington, Mass., 1867 until his death in 1870. Feltch or Felch Joseph Haskell
 
542 47. Mary Anna Feltch, born at Newbury, 10 Sept., 1843; died at Newburyport, 6 Aug., 1894 ; married at Newburyport, 6 Sept., 1863, Nathaniel Henry Pettingell, who was born in Newbury, 11 Sept., 1835, and died in South Newmarket, N. H., 12 Nov., 1874. He was the son of Cutting (Josiah, Cutting, Nathaniel, Matthew, Richard) Pettingell and his wife Olive (John) Smith of Newburyport. Both are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport.
Children, born in Newburyport:—
48. Agnes Leah, b. 17 May, 1866; d. at Newburyport, 27 July, 1880.
49. Frank Hervey, b. 2 Jan., 1868.
50. Walter Feltoh. b. and d. 10 Mar., 1889, at Newburyport.
51. Willie Feltoh, b. and d. 25 Sept., 1869, at Newburyport.
52. Walter Joseph, b. 2 Jan., 1871; d. 29 Sept., 1911, at Newburyport.
53. Cutting, b. 24 Dec., 1872. 		Feltch or Felch Mary Anna
 
543 I couldn't find any evidence of how they were married until I came across his Fleming's WWI Draft Registration. I am assuming they were divorced at some point seeing that it seems he died much than her second marriage (ADV 10/15/09). Ferguson Jessie May
 
544 1. Anthony1 Fisher lived in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the parish of Syleham, County Suffolk, England, on the south bank of the Waveney River, which separates Suffolk from Norfolk, on a freehold estate called " Wignotte." His wife was Mary, daughter of William and Anne Fiske, of St. James, South Elmsham, County Suffolk, —an old Puritan family of that county, which had sufferedduring the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's reign. The Parish Records of Syleham contain several references to Anthony Fisher and his descendants which are annexed in the language of the Records, namely :—

Anno Domini 1585. Joshua Fysher et Maria Fysher, Gemini, baptisadi fuer 24th die Februarii ano super dicto.

Anno Domini 1591. Antonius Fysher bapt. erat 23 Aprilis anno sup. dicto.

Anno Domini 1599. Cornelius Fysher the sonne of Antho- nye Fisher was bap. the six daye of August!.

Anthony Fysher was buried the eleventh day of April 164o.

Anno Domini 1621. Joshua Fysher, the sonne of Joshua Fysher, was baptized on the ii daye of Aprille.

Anno Dom. 1633. — Amos Fysher and Anne Lord were married September 24.

Joshua Fysher and Anne Luson were married yth February Anno Dom. 1638.

This Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, had four sons and two daughters, as appears from the Candler Manuscript [No. 6071, Harleian Collection, p. 384] in the British Museum, a reference to which will be found beyond. The author of that Manuscript was Matthew Candler, a prominent Puritan minister, settled at Codenham, County Suffolk, from which vicarage he was ejected for nonconformity in 1662, by Bishop Wren. Candler was a nephew of Mary Fiske, wife of Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, and consequently first cousin of Anthony Fisher, Senior, of Dorchester, and Joshua Fisher, Senior, of Medfield. Thus Mathew Candler (b. 16o4 ; d. 1663), was not only likely to be acquainted with the leading Puritan families of Suffolk, but was a cotemporary and near relation of our kinsmen who came to New England in the " Great Puritan Emigration." His statements in regard to them are therefore worthy of confidence, especially as they are corroborated in some detail by their brother Cornelius in his will dated 1638, to which reference is made. Whence it appears that in 1638 both Anthony and Mary (Fiske) Fisher, of Syleham, were alive, and also their six children, whose names are given in the Candler Manuscript.

Cornelius Fisher, M. A., of East Bergholt, in his will, dated May 23, 1638, refers to members of his father's family byname, thus :—

''To my three brothers Joshua, Anthony and Amos, and my two sisters, Marie Brigge and Martha Bucingham .... My father and mother during their natural lives .... My part in one tenamemt and certain land in Sileham called Wignotte .... My wife Elizabeth .... copyhold land in East Bergholt."

His will was admitted to probate in London, in December, 1641, in which year he probably died. From the Parish Records of Syleham it appears that Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, died in 1640, and we knowfrom other sources that his eldest son, Joshua, removed in that year to New England with his family. Candler states that Elizabeth, the widow of Cornelius Fisher of East Bergholt, married Rev. GeorgeSmith, of Dedham, in the same county. Of the two daughters of Anthony Fisher, Mary Brigge and Martha Buckingham, I have no further information, not having inquired in regard to them, though possibly their children may have come to New England and been identified with the Buckingham and Briggs families here. — Account of Col. Horace N. Fisher, of Brookline, Mass.

ACCOUNT OF THE CANDLER MANUSCRIPT.

It is the work of one of the Puritan divines of the century before the last, one of the very few ministers of that class who paid any attention to historical or genealogical inquiry. His name was Matthias Candler; born February 24, 1604; educated in the University of Cambridge ; became M. A., and in 1629 was presented to the vicarage of Codenham, in Suffolk, a place in the hundred of Bosmere, near to Needham-Market and but a few miles north of Ipswich. His father was a schoolmaster at Yoxford, and his mother a member of a large family named Fiske, some of whom had been sufferers in the persecution of the Protestants in the reign of Queen Mary, and others, his near relations, had removed themselves, in the time of the great Puritan emigration, to New England. He died in March, 1663, havingbeen for many years a most influential minister. The Manuscript is divided into two nearly equal portions. The second portion is a great curiosity. It consists of accounts of families to whom the author was himself allied, or with whom he was well acquainted, — but many of such, who, though persons of good condition, clergymen and merchants, were not of the rank of those whose descents the Heralds took cognizance, and concerning whom it is therefore easy to obtain information, but the rank immediately below them .... There were several branches of it [Fiske Family] in the southern parts of the county of Suffolk, all springing from a Richard Fiske, who lived at the Broad Gates, in Laxfield or Loxfield, the great-grandfather of Candler's mother. Fox, in his account of the burning of John Noyes, speaks of Nicholas Fiske, who was one of the sons of Richard.

Two other of his sons, Robert and William, fled in the time of that terrible persecution. Sibil, the wife of Robert, was in great danger in those times, as was her sister, Isabella, originally Gold, who was confined in the Castle of Norwich, and escaped death only by the power of her brothers, who were men of great influence in the country. From Robert sprang all of the name who were in the earlyemigration. Robert Fiske had by Sibil Gold, his wife, four sons and one daughter. .... William is described by his grandson as of St. James, in South Elmham, and it is said of him, that he fled with his father. His wife was Anne, daughter of Walter Ansty, of Tibnam Long Row, in Norfolk. They had John, Nathaniel and Eleazar, Eunice, Hannah and Esther. Eunice died unmarried; Esther married John Challie of Red Hall, and Hannah, William Candler, and was the mother of our genealogist. Of the children of John, all that lived to grow up, four in number, transferred themselves to the new country. John Fiske, the father, died in 1633. His wife was Anne, daughter of Robert Lantersee.

Two other of the early settlers from these parts of England were related to the Fiskes. These were Joshua and Anthony Fisher, who took their freedoms, Joshua in 1640, and Anthony in 1646. They were brothers, sons of (Anthony) Fisher of Syleham, by his wife Mary, who was probably another daughter of William and Anne Fiske of South Elmham; but this is another instance in which we regret that Candler did not draw his pedigrees with more precision. Candler does not give us any further information respecting them ; but we may form some idea of the class of society from which they sprang, from the notice which he takes of two of their brothers, who appear to have remained in England : Cornelius, who was M. A., and taught the school at East Bergholt ; and Amos, who farmed an estate called Custridge Hall, in the parish of Weeley, which is in the hundred of Tendring, between Colchester and the sea. Cornelius left no issue, and his widow remarried with George Smith, a clergyman, who was one of the ministers of Dedham, a famous seat of Puritan piety. Amos married Anne Morice, the relict of Daniel Locke, and had several children settled in those parts of Essex, of whom it is not known that any of them followed in the steps of their two uncles. — Joseph Hunter's Suffolk Emigrants ; from Colls. of Mass. Historical Society, X, Third Series, 137-173. 		Fisher Anthony
 
545 3. Anthony2, son of Anthony (1), of Syleham, County Suffolk, England, was baptized there April 23, 1591 ; came to New England with his first wife Mary and children, probably from Yarmouth in the shipRose, arriving in Boston, June 26, 1637, and settled in Dedham. He subscribed to the Dedham Covenant, July 18, 1637. Jan. 1, 1638, he was one of the committee " Choesen to contriue the Fabricke of a Meetinghouse to be in length 36 Foote & 20 : foote in bredth, & betweene the vpp & nether sell in y* studds 12 : foote, the same to be girte and to order men to worke vpon the same in all workes as they are seu'ally apted accordingly." On July 28, 1638, he was assigned his houselot: "Anthony Fisher twelve Acres more or lesse made vp good by an inlargm'" Rune in amongst the Rockes, & for woode & timb' as it lyeth betweene Mr John Allin through out towards the South & Thomas Wighte through out towards the North. And abutts vpon the Waest towards the East & the Waest in the Rockes towards the West the limitts marked & dooled accordingly. / The highwaye leading towards the Ragged playne runing through the Same :/ And a certaine pcell of ground allowed out of the first line vnto / the Said Thomas Wight for a seat /(f of an house, a yearde Roome & Easement of water at the Brook as it is set out ther." (Lands Granted vnto Sundry men, p. 5 of Book 2 of Dedham Town Records). His meadow was assigned " The 28th of y* 5* Month (July) 1638 " : "Assigned vnto ...... Anthony Fisher — 7 a": — : 20 TM. as it lyeth next Tho: Fisher," between Thomas Fisher and Thomas Wight. " The 27* October being ?*8t h Month. 1640 ..... Graunted vnto Ant": Fisher Fifteene acres of planting grownd to lye vpon y* Southeast side of mr Allin our Pastor his farme to be set out by m' Wheelocke Thp: Wight & Robte Hinsdell. ' ' This was east of the highway leading from Dedham to Medfield. He received six acres of plowing land " on the South playne, " March 1 6, 1640-41 ; purchased the right of four acres of uplandof Ralph Wheelock, Nov. 25, 1642 ; was granted four acres of plow land on Feb. 6, 1642-43, and eight acres of woodland, Feb. 4, 1644-45. He bought a farm of 150 acres, a houselot and other lands in Dedham, of the estate of Samuel Cooke, of Dublin, Oct. 19, 1652.

By the attorney, William Parks, of Roxbury, it is described as follows, viz.: " Abutting at the back of the Rock's toward's the west, & the Meadow lying beneath the Same toward's the North, next Charles River, as i' lyeth by saide River abutted & bounded betwixt a little brooke & certain Rock's. Item. One house lott containing twelve Acres of upland more or less as " Lyeth in the Smoothe Plaine in Dedham aforesaide, betwixt the house lott of Daniell ffisher toward's the East & the highway toward's the North & west & the Rock's toward's the South ' ' ; also six acres in Rosemary Meadow ; Upland between the way to the meadows and Eleazer Lusher ; twelve acres in the Broad Meadow ; six and a half acres, one half rood, of woodland ; four acres in Cedar Swamp ; one half part of ten acres, three roods, in the Great Plain ; and six acres in Rosemary Meadow; for which he gave ¿67 14s. " This lot, I should think from the description given, and the lot of Daniel Fisher, known to be the estate of Mrs. Rodman, on Lowder Street, are located on the easterly side of the Hartford Turnpike, principally the northeasterly angle of said turnpike and Lowder Street." Eleazer Lusher probably bought a large interest in this property, from the following :

In ans' to the petition of Willjam Parks, of Roxbury, and of Anthony Fisher, of Dedham, and Eleazer Lusher, craving this Courts conaru1- atjon of certajne lands, sold to y" peticoners Lusher & Fisher, by Wm Parks aforesaid, attourney to Sanmell Cooke, of Dublin, in Ireland, gent, deceased, by order & power by letter of attourney front the sajd Cooke, the Court graunts their request, allowes of and continues the sale of the sajd Parks of y* sajd Cooks lands in Dedham to the sajd Lusher & Fisher. [Oct. 26, 1652 : Mass. Col. Rec., IV, Part I, 117. Sec also III, 290.]

" 16 of 2-60. Assemb vpon occasion : Eld' Hunting, Lieft: Fisher, Job Haward, Ens. Fisher, Nath. Coaleburne, Pet: Woodward Xl Elea Lusher Granted to An t bo. Fisher seuio (v?0? his A Fisher to request) libertie to haue 4 Acres of Land, (being have land east of pt of the deuident of the 500 Acres. in pt of his Mtdfield road. owne & pt by purchase of Joh. Dwight) to be layed out to him. neere our pastors Far1ne ; east of the high way leading from Dedham to Metfield. to be layed out to him by the apointm1 or direction of Deac. Chickering, Lieft Fisher pvidetl no pt of this grant entrench vpon mrAllins Farme."

June 22,1660, it also "granted .... 2 acres of upland in pt of his own diuident belonging to the deuident aforesd. (of 500 acres granted 1652) and eleuen acres more of the same Land & 3 roodes and 5 pole being by him purchased of John Dwight being pt of the same diuident to be layed out to him vpon the southeast side of Charles Riuer. ouer against the Farm e now in the possession of Daniell Morse."

His wife Mary joined the Dedham Church, March 27, 1642 ; but he was not " comfortably received into ye church," " on account of his proud and haughty spirit," until March 14,1645. He was made a freeman, May, 1645 ; was chosen Selectman of Dedham ("to act in town affaires") in 1646 and 1647, County Commissioner Sept. 3, 1660, and a Deputy to the General Court, May 2, 1649; was Woodreeve in 1653, 1654, 1655, 1657, 1658, 1661 and 1662. From a minute in the handwriting of Eleazer Lusher, bearing date March 9, 1652, we would infer that Anthony gave the bulk of his property to his sons and they bound themselves to support their mother, if she were left dependent. " A Bond to make from Daniell, Antho: Natha: & Cornell : Fisher, to their mother, to paye tenn £ per am1 : at 2£. 10s. the quarter ofthe yeare in paymt to her h1st content. dureing her naturall life. after their Father's decease. ' ' About this time the following agreement was made: " Clna- than Dunckley is according to ye Court order in that case provided. placed in seruice for one whole yeare next ensueing to dwell wth Anthoney Fisher senior, and the said Anthoncy Fisher doth couenant & agree to pay to the said Elnat ha n orhis assignes the summ of g£ for ye yeares seruice vizt 2,£. 5s. each quarter of ye yeare." Yet we find in the Dedham Records that his property was assessed on Feb. 20, 1656-7, at /n7 3s. We have beenunable to learn the date of the death of the wife Mary ; but he married again " the 14th of (9 mo:) 1663" (Nov. 14, 1663), Isabell, widow of Edward Breck of Dorchester (who had died Nov. 2, 1662), "she being by her first marriage the widow of John Rigbe1i, and probably the latter's second wife;" Anthony "being at the time of the marriage about 72 years of age." He was chosen commissioner, March 5, 1666, and selectman of Dorchester, Dec. 5, 1664, Dec. 4, 1665, and Dec. 3, 1666. He died at Dorchester ; " Mr Anthony Fisher Departed out of this Lüe in the 8ot h year of his age (April 18) 1671." His widow, " The Widow Fisher Departed this Life the 22d (mo: 4) called June, 1673."

The inventory of his estate, showing only personal property in Dedham and Dorchester, was presented by Ensign Daniel Fisher, July 26, 1671, and an agreement for the distribution was made as follows :"July 26, 1672, We whose names are hereto written being ye sons and ye daughters of our kte deceased father Anthony Fisher, sometimes called ' of Dorchester,' deceased," etc., and signed by Daniel, Nathaniel, and Cornelius Fisher, Daniel Morse, and Joanna Fisher. " In Anthony Fisher we find an Englishman of strong, positive points of character, with liberal means for the times, of favorable consideration by his fellow-settlers as a citizen." (B. ?. Dewing.)

Children by first wife, and born in England :
8. ANTHONY3, m. Joanna Faxon, Sept. 7, 1647.
9. Cornelius3, m. 1st, Leah Heaton, and 2d, Sarah Everett.
10. Nathaniel3, m. Esther Hunting, Dec. 26, 1649.
11. DANIEL3, m. Abigail Marriot, Nov. 16, 1641.
LYDIA3, m. Dan1el Morse, of Sherborn. [Morse's Sherborn, p. 178; Morse Memorial, p. 20.] 12.
JOHN3, d. in Dedham, July 15, 1638.

Anthony Fisher. 1591-1671. Son of Anthony Fisher, who, in the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, lived in England, in the parish of Syleham, county of Suffolk. His estate, known as Wignotte, was upon the south bank of the Waveney river. This Anthony Fisher died April 11, 1640. His will was probated in London in December, 1641. His wife was Mary, daughter of William Fiske* of the parish of South Elmham St. James, Suffolk co. The Fiskes were an old Puritan family of Suffolk, descended from Daniel Fisc, who received a grant of land from King John in 1208, through Symond Fiske of the manor of Stadhaugh in Suffolk.

Anthony Fisher, the emigrant, was baptized at Syleham, Eng., April 23, 1591. He came to America with wife Mary, and children, probably in the "Rose," arriving at Boston, June 26, 1637. He settled at Dedham. His wife, Mary, was received into the Dedham church March 27, 1642, but Anthony was one of the men who did not bow promptly to the Puritan despotism. He proved very obstreperous. The minister and deacons had a great deal of trouble with him. He was " proud " and "haughty " and did not become sufficiently " humbled " to be " comfortably received into ye church " until March 11, 1645, when he was about 54 years of age, and, probably, as a necessary prelude to holding office. He was selectman at Dedham in 1646 and '47, Deputy in 1649, and held various other offices there. He was also selectman for several years at Dorchester. His wife, Mary, dying, he married (2) at Dorchester, Nov. 14, 1663, Isabel, widow of Edward Breck. He died at Dorchester, April 28, 1671. His widow, Isabel, diedJune 21, 1673. 		Fisher Anthony
 
546 11. Daniel3, son of Anthony2 (3), "of Dorchester," was b. in England about 1619 ; came with his parents to Dedham in 1637 ; was admitted to the Dedham church in 1639, with the singularly complimentary notice by the pastor :

"8ly Daniel Fisher who appeared to be a tender hearted & hopeful Christian young man : as allso divers of ye church yt had long knowne him testified, & so was easily and gladly received."

We find him first mentioned in the Dedham town records as Sergeant Daniel, being one of those assembled at the town meeting, 17. 3. 1639 (May 17), and was chosen measurer, May 30, 1640. He was made afreeman May 13, 1640; joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, May, 1640, and was first sergeant of the Company in 1655. He m., Nov. 16, 1641, Abigail, dau. of Deacon Thomas and Susanna Marriott, of Cambridge ; she joined the Dedham church, March 5, 1647. Daniel d. Oct. 8, 1683 ; his widow, three days later. " He took an active part in the first organized efforts of society and the church at the time of the settlement of Dedham ; his being- the eighth name on the roll of the church (1638), with the complimentary endorsement before related."

He assisted in " laying out the bounds of this Towne com- pleate," July 14, 1641, and was granted six acres of upland upon the plain lying southwest of Mr. Cook's farm, Nov. 2, 1642, and had four acres of woodland, Feb. 4, 1644-5. Sergeant Daniel was chosen a town surveyor, 1643, 1644, and 1648, and becoming selectman of Dedham, Jan. 1, 1649-50, served the town for thirty-two years. He was represen- tative to the General Court, 1658 to 1682, excepting two years, 1659 and 1670 ; clerk of the writs, Jan. 1, 1672-3; State surveyor, county commissioner, 1668, 1670, and 1683 ; and speaker of the House of Deputies in 1680, 1681 and 1682 ; afterwards he was one of the Court of Assistants, in which office he died in 1683. He was a man of high patriotic spirit, and is said to have been learned in the law. (Dexter's Centennial Sermon, p. 26.)

He is mentioned as Ensign Daniel in the proceedings of the town meeting of Jan. 10, 1658-9, and we read " Ensign Daniel Fisher to be their captaine," in the proceedings of Oct. 15, 1673.

"The Millitary Company of Dedham being destituí of Comission officers, the Court judgeth 1t meet to choose £ appoint Ensign Daniell Fisher to be their Captaine Sarg* W", Avery leiftenant, & NathanielSternes to be their ensign Oct 15 1673." [Mass. Col. Rec., IV, Part II, 567.]

We can gain some light as to his age from the following : " Daniell Fisher being aged about 43 yeares, being prsent at both these meetings testify th.e same," Jan. 29, 1661-2. Also a deposition of Daniel Fisher, aged 51, on Court files of Suffolk County Court, 1669. Fac-similes of his signatures will also be found in Hill's Dedham Records, IV, 271, 277. In a letter of Walt Winthrop to Fitz-John Winthrop, of New London, May 18, 1683, we find this item : " Our election is as formere, only Mr Woodbridg and little Fisher aded." (Mass. Hist. Colls., 5th Ser., VIII, 436.)

The following named appointments reveal his estimate by the Government as a representative at that time : In May, 1663, he was chosen one of the committee of thirteen to draw up an answer to a letterwritten by King Charles II, to be submitted to the next General Court; in June, 1665, he was selected with Gov. Bellingham, Major Willard, Edward Collins and Edward Jackson to serve as a committee " to peruse those objections which His Majesty's Commissioners hath made against our laws and to consider what is necessary to be done thereto, and present the same to the Court." In the same year, withLieut. Joshua Fisher, he was appointed to lay out 5oo acres of land granted on petition of William Hudson. Ap1il 29, 1668, he was chosen with Capt. Foster, as county commissioner for Suffolk County; also as one to settle the Chickering estate ; was chosen to arrange matters in organix- ing the town of Wrentham; to settle d1fferences at Mendon ; was appointed with Isaac Aldington, attorney for theColony, to draw up charges and implead in the case of Wharton, Paige and others, in a matter of much interest; was on the committee to settle a serious difficulty with the people of Salem; was to return a list of soldiers who were entitled to a bounty for services in Philip's War; was on a committee with Edmund Quincy to divide an estate in Newbury; was authorized to marry persons by request of Dedham people. " Capt Fisher is nominated to mary Persos and to giue oath and the Con- stobile is desired to present him to the Court that so he may beimpoured."—Dedham Records, Jan. 1, 1676-7. Was chosen to search out defamers of government or governor; one of the committee from Massachusetts to dispose of conquered lands taken in Indian wars; and to arrange matters between the Indians and the inhabitants of Sherborn and Marlborough. He also took part in the effort to secure and retain the Massachusetts Charter, as appears by the following extract:

'' The securing of our original patent being matter of great importance, and the former provision in that respect, made in the year 1664, being at an end by the decease of most of the persons betrusted in that order, this Court doth therefore order that the patent be forthwith sent for, and committed to our present honored Deputy Governor [Thomas Danforth], Capt. John Richards, and Capt. Daniel Fisher, with Major Thomas Clarke, one of the last committee who are to take care of the same ; to whose wisdom we refer it, to dispose of it as may best tend to prevent any inconvenience relating thereunto.'' He was on the committee '' to consider our laws already made, that may need emendation, or may not so clearly be warranted from the word of God, and to draw up such laws and orders, as, being presented by them at the next Court of Election, may then be considered, and upon further deliberation, be confirmed. '' He assisted also in the division of grants to sufferers in Philip's War, in Medfield and Sherborn, etc. Toward the close of the long struggle for the preservation of the Colonial Charter, Daniel Fisher became prominent. He was one of the ¡our whom Randolph accused of high crimesand misdemeanors. (Seealso Palfrey's History, Vol. III, p. 365 ; 25Oth Anniversary of Dedham, pp. 65, 66, 209; S. F. Haven's Centennial Address at Dedham, pp. 41-2 ; Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts, Vol. II, pp. 335, 336, note. Roberts' Hist. of Anc. & Hon. Artillery Company, pp. 100, 101 ; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1862, Vol. XVI, p. 316.) .

' ' Such being his public position, it is a matter of surprise to me that I can find nothing in regard to his private life, although I have made extensive search." (Dewing.) On Jan. 16, 1681, the records state " Cap' Fisher hath liberty to take timber of the Commons for two or thre hundred rayles and posts proportionable and for boards to finish his house and barne. ' ' Dorchester Records containthe following: "At a meeting of the Select men the 27 (4) -1670 at Captin Fosters hous, at the motion of Ensigne Daniell Fisher of Deadham, ther was granted to him and his Brothers, soe much Seare Céder as they shall make vse off for Shingle ( vnless the Select men p'hibitt him) in a Swamp or Swamps neer pole-plaine and a quantity of Greene Cedar for Clobord to the quantity of a thousand or two thousand of Cloboard."

Dedham " 18, 5 : 60 : ?ss?mb : after pnblike lueeteing Eld' Hunting, Lieft: Fisher, Pet Woodward, Ens. F1sher, Nath. Coaleburne & Elea Lusher

The Fishers Libertie is granted to Ens. Fisher & Nathanell Fisher. 1teert Chs river to haue all the denidents due to Cornellins Fisher. over agains James Jordan and Thomas Jordan in the 500 acre Daniel Morses deuident layed out neere or adjoyneing to the grant farm of Antho. Fisher senio neere to Charles Riner. ouer against Daniell Morses Farme."

' ' He lived in Dedham on Lowder street, the homestead being the estate now owned by Mrs. Rodman, (a descendant of the Fishers.) I understand by tradition (deemed reliable) that his home stood where her stable now stands. " ( B. H. Dewing. ) His property was assessed at L139 on Feb. 20, 1656-7. It may be presumed that he died suddenly, as he left no will for the settlement of his estate, which was administered upon by his sons Daniel and John. The inventory, made Nov. 19, 1683, (Suffolk Pro., file 1319) gives personal property and real estate to the value of over L530.

There is some question as to the parentage of Ensign Daniel, some contending that he was the Daniel, son of Amos, of Custridge Hall, Essex, England, and that he came to New England with his uncles and cousins in 1636 or 1637. But from the following we would conclude that .he was one of Anthony's sons:

Letters of administration were granted "to'Ensign Daniel Fisher and Nathaniel Fisher sonnes of Anthony Fisher of Dorchester." (Suffolk Pro., Liber VII, fol. 122.) Nathaniel Fisher (9), in his will appointed his'' brother-in-law Elder John Hunting and brother Daniel Fisher Executors,'' and the inventory of the estate was presented by Elder John Hunting and Captain Daniel Fisher. Also see extract from Dorchester Records, supra, and account of John Fisher (12.)

About 1671, Col. Goffe and Col. Whalley, two of the regicide judges of Charles I, were hidden "by Captain Daniel in a little wood back of his house on Lowder street, near a pond. While there secreted, Captain Daniel's daughter, Lydia, carried them their food. Goffe was subsequently sent disguised as a serving-man on horseback to Hadley, where Captain Daniel had friends, remaining there a year in their care." (See under 25 i, Lydia4 Fisher.) Children b. at Dedham were:

-Abigail, b. Aug. 2, bapt. Aug. 23, 1646; 1n. Lieut. John Baker, of Dedham, Dec. 17, 1668; d. Jan. 13, 1723. (Baker's Descendants of Edward Baker, pp. 83-96.)
-25. Daniel*, b. Feb. 26, bapt. March 17, 165o; m. Mary Fuller, Jan. 19, 1675.
-25 1/2. Lydia*, b. July 14, bapt. Aug. 1,1652; m. Nathaniel Chickcring, Dec. 13, 1674; d. July 17, 1737. (Dedham Register, Vol. III, p. 117.)
-26. Amos4, b. Nov. 8, 1654; m. 1st, Mary Ellis, March 12, 1680; m. 2d, Ruth Adams, Dec. 22, 1691; d. in 1736.
-27. John, b. July 2o, 1656; m. Rebecca Ellis, June 15, 1681; d. Jan. 25, 1736.
-ESTHER4, b. Aug. 5, bapt. Aug. n, 1661; m. Thomas Fuller, April 25, 1688; d. April 3, 1747. (Dedham Register, Vol. IV, p. 161.)
-JEREMIAH4, b. Dec. 12, 1658 ; a soldier in Captain John Jacobs' company in King Philip's War, June 24, 1676; assigned his wages (I2s) Aug. 24, 1676 (Hodge's Philip's War, 285, 368); d, Sept. 19, 1676.
 		Fisher Daniel
 
547 25. DANIEL4, son of Captain Daniel (11) and Abigail (Marriott) Fisher, was b. in Dedham, Feb. 26, 1650; m. there, Jan. 19, 1675, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Flower) Fuller,of Dedham, who wasb. there March 26, 1655. (Dedham Register, vol. IV, p. 159.) The first mention of Daniel in the Dedham Town Records is as follows : "En Dani Fisher is creditor to the Towne for his sonne catching Jaybirds: the sume of one sailing twpopenc,'' Dec. 16, 1661. He was a volunteer in King Philip's War and received pay for services from Jan. 24 to Dec. 27, 1676; constable in 1685, 1686, and 1698. Is first mentioned on the records as sergeant, Aug. 5, 1696 ; as captain, March 4, 1700. Daniel was first elected selectman Jan. 6, 1689-90, and served also in 1693, 1695, 1696, 1697, 1700, 1701, and two years more; was representative 1700 to 1704, and 1712 and 1713. On Jan. 23, 1681, Dedham " Granted to Daniell Fisher timber upon the Town Commons to make Boards to Finish his house." Later he inherited the homestead of his father where the rest of his life was spent.

John Fairbanks, an enterprising explorer, informed the selectmen of Dedham of some good land twelve miles from Had- ley; and he, with Lieut. Daniel Fisher, was sent out to find it. They returned withthe report of good land. This was Pocumtuck (Deerfield). It was probably through his intervention, that, at a later date, his sister Lydia was selected to become the confidential attendant of Goffe and Whalley, the regicides, when they were concealed in the house of the Rev. Mr. Russell at Hadley. He had often occasion to pass through Hadley on his way to Deerfield. It was this Daniel Fisher of whom the familiar story has been told, of leading Sir Edmund Andros through the streets of Boston, April 19, 1689. " Daniel Fisher had not forgotten the proscription of his father. He was a stout, athletic man of a resolute spirit. When the news of the tumult of the 18th of April reached Dedham, Captain Fisher instantly set off for Boston, and came rushing in with the country people, who were in such a rage and heat as made all tremble again. Nothing would satisfy the country party but binding the Governor with cords, and carrying him to a safer place. Soon was Captain Fisher seen among the crowd, leading the pale and trembling Sir Edmund by the collar of his coat from the house of Mr. Usher back to Fort Hill." (Haven's Centenial Address at Dedham, pp. 42 and 76, etc.)

Captain Daniel d. on the homestead in Dedham, Nov. 17, 1713. His grave is marked by stones in the Parish burial ground. His widow d. March 19,1726. Of her the Rev. Samuel Dexter wrote in his diary : " March 19th 1726. This Day dyed Mrs. Mary Fisher, in ye 72d Year of her Age. She dyed in a good old age . . . She was of a Weakly Constitution, & had gone thro' a great deal of weakness. She had beenConfined abt 3 weeks before she dyed but one Week of ye time to her bed. She was a woman of a good Character. She had obtain'd a good report of all men, & of ye Truth itself a hearty Lover of ye Truth & ye sincere profession of it a Careful & Tender Parent to her Children - a good friend to C Ministers, & particularly to one y was Unworthy of her Love." (New England Historic- Genealogical Reg., XIV, 108.)

The will of Daniel Fisher (Suffolk Pro., vol. 18, fol. 137), made Sept. 15, 1713, gave the homestead in Dedham to his son, Jeremiah, after his wife's death, she in the meantime to have the use and improvement of it. The homestead then consisted of a dwelling house, mill house, barn, yards, gardens, orchards, pasture and woodland. To son Daniel he gave land in Clapboardtrees and meadow in Fowl meadows in Dorchester ; to Nathaniel, £150 ; to daughter Mary Huntington, £100; to daughter Margaret Gay, £10, and £40 "at such times as she shall happen to be a widow ; " to daughter Abigail, £50 ; and the personal property, to Jeremiah, two-thirds, and David, one-third. Children, b. in Dedham, were :

61A. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1676 ; d. April 30, 1752 ; m. John Hunting, of Needham, February 23, 1698. [Hunting Gen., p. 8.] 62. Jeremiah, b. June lo, 1679; m. Deborah Richards, Dec. 16, 1702.
63. Danieil, b. Jan. 7, 1682 ; m. Esther Fisher, Nov. 25, 1703. Hannah*, b. Oct. 10, 1684; m. Jeremiah Richards, of Roxbury. [Richards Gen., p. 124.]
64. NATHANIEL4, b. Apr1l 5, 1687 ; first minister to Dighton.
MARGARET4,b. Feb. 28, 1690; d. Feb. 13, 1773 ; m. Nathaniel Gay, of Dedham, Feb. 28, 1690; he was a son of Nathaniel and Lydia Lusher (Starr) Gay, of Dedham. [N. E. Historic-Genealogical Register, XXXIII, 47.]
Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1694; d. Nov. 3, 1767; m. Captain Samuel Morse, of Medfield. [Tilden's Medfield, p. 441.] 		Fisher Daniel
 
548 36. JOHN5, son of Captain John (19) and Rebecca (Ellis) Fisher, b. in Dedham, now Needham, May 2, 1688; m. April 28, 1709, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Paine) Hunting, who was b. Feb. 2, 1683. He taught school -in Dedham in 1714 ; was town clerk, moderator, etc., in Needham, where he passed his life on a farm in the south part, bordering on the Charles River. Selectman 1732-36, 38, 45-47, 50, Representative 1735 to 1741 and 1751. He d. May 6. 1752 " of smallpox then prevailing extensively about Boston." They had:—

58. SAMUEL6, b. Aug. 5, 1711 ; m. 1st, Sarah Whiting, and 2dly Mary Chickering.
ELIZABETH6, b. May 3, 1713; m. Caleb Wheaton Sept. 8, 1736.
REBECCA6, b. February 28, 1715; d. May 19, 1716.
59. John6, b. Jan. 30, 1717 ; m. Mary Fuller, May 22, 1740.
REBECCA6, b. Oct. 22, 1718 ; d. May 2, 1720.
60. Ebenezer", b. May 5, 1721; m. 1st, Sarah Chubb, and 2dly, Azuba (Clark) Sanders. 6l. 'nathaniel", b. Feb. 1, 1723 ; m. 1st, Mary Januarin, and 2dly, Hannah Willard.
ABIGAIL6, b. June 30, 1725; m. Eleazer Kingsbury, of Needham, Dec. 4, 1744; d. Mar. 13, 1744-5.

1 Since the receipt of Mr. Fisher's manuscript, a third marriage of Nathaniel Fisher has been established, viz: Nov. 27, 1777, to Elizabeth (Newell) Whiting, of Dedham. She was born April 20, 1735, daughter of Josiah Newell of Needham: married Jonathan Whiting, Jr., of Dedham, who died Aug. 5, 1770. She "closed the scene of life, June the 10th, Anno Domini 1814, Aged 79 years," and is buried beside her first husband, in the cemetery at Dover. By this, the third marriage, there were no children. 		Fisher John
 
549 36. Joseph, son of Vigilance (15) and Hannah (Lyon) Fisher, b. at Dedham, Aug. 28, 1699 ; m. 1st, at Dedham, Dec. 9, 1726, Mary, daughter of John and Ann Eaton (Whiting) Lewis, of Dorchester, who wasb. April 1, 1701 [Dedham Register, Vol. IV, p. 146], and d. at Walpole, Oct. 26, 1740. He m. 2d, at Dedham, May 17, 1744, Rebecca, probably daughter of John and Mary (Fisher) Hunting, and widow of Ebenezer Hartshorn, who was b. Sept. 19, 1702, and d. at Walpole, June 9, 1796, aged 93 years. (See No. 61A ; Hunting Gen., p. 8.) Joseph Fisher, of Walpole, sold to Samuel Doggett, of Dedham, July 24, 1753, twenty rods of land in Dedham, with house and well, for /'13 6s. 8d. [Suff. Deeds, 99-261.] He was a physician, residing in Walpole, and d. Jan. 17, 1776 ; deacon in the Walpole church. His willgave his wife all the estate except £20 to grandson Fisher Hartshorn ; at his wife's death the estate to be divided between the heirs of daughter Mary Hartshorn and daughter Hannah Felch, grandson Fisher Hartshorn to draw an equal share. The inventory, dated April 10, 1776, showed personal effects valued at £108 18. 1 ; homestead and buildings, .£271 10s.; and a piece of meadow £42 10s. Children,b. in Walpole, were :

Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1728; m. John Hartshorn, of Walpole, Sept. 19. 1751
Hannah, b. Sept. 20, 1734; m. Stephen Felch, of Walpole, in 1754. 		Fisher Joseph
 
550 3. Joshua*, son of Anthony (1) and Mary (Fiske) Fisher, of Syleham, England, was baptized there, Feb. 24, 1585 ; m. 1st, ; m. 2d, Feb. 7, 1638, at Syleham,

England, Anne Luson, a sister of John Luson, who also came to New England, settled at Dedham, and received his house- lot there at the same time as the Fishers. Joshua Fisher came to New England in 1639, with his second wife, (Anne Luson), and daughter Mary. His son Joshua had preceded him, arriving some time in 1638; for on "The First of ye nth Month (1638)," Jan. 1, 1638-9, Joshua, Jr., enters upon the lot granted the smith and is to hold it and make improvements for ' ' the behalfe of his Father wch is expected this next somer." Joshua was made a freeman, May 13, 1640; was a blacksmith by trade; settled first in Dedham, from there going to Medfield at its settlement in 1650. He drew his houselot in the center of the town of Medfield, where the house of William P'. Hewins now stands. Was the first deacon in the Medfield church, and was a selectman in 1653 and 1655. The value of his property in 1652 was ¿180. In 1656 Joshua and Anne Fisher deeded part of the homestead and other property to their son, John Fisher (7); for an account of which see under John (7). The Medfield homestead was inherited by JohnJ (7), John' (16), Samuel" (37), and finally John* (78), who, dying childlessin 1802, left it to his nephew, Samuel Hill, of Medway. Joshua d. in Medfield, Nov. 9, 1674; his widow d. Jan. 27, 1676-7. His will Is as follows :

" la the year of our Lord one thousand Six hundred seventy four

the second daye of May, 1. Joshua ffisher of Medfield Senior

brought to old age and being thourby with the inffirmities . . . wife Ann . . . the bed with all belongings in the little chamber next to. the stairs and all soe two good blankets more and two pay res of sheets & two pillows and that trunke now standing in the bed Chamber below marked A : F : with what soe ever is now in it and all hir wearing apparrell as well Linen as Wooling and one payer of

andirons .... and payer of tongs one Trammel and two

heaters one payere of pothookes two brass vessel les .... bellows .... two chairs two fouer Sooted stolles two chushings such us she shall chuse and three puter dishes two of the .... and one .... and three bushels of Endian corne and forty pound wayt of butter and forty pound of chese and fifty pound wayght of porke and one cow such as she shall chuse and all nty are wood that 1s cut out when god shall take me away whether in the woods or in my yard and soe much more of my moveable goods as shall be vallued at ten pound in such as she shall chuse or also soemuch in good and merchantable wheat as com to ten pound, aud fifteen pound in good and curant new England mon y and further my will and desire is that my above said wife may live in that end of the house that I live in according to the will of my son John ffisher Deceased until! such time as the heirs shall cum of age (and then to iujoy .... with the benefit of any one now of the apple trees in the orchard) and then to live in theother end and there to in joye During the terme of her naturall life all such Liberties and prevelidges as are Enjoyed in my deed of gift {formerly made to my son John ffisher

Unto my daughter Marcy Battle the wife of Thomas Battle and her heires ffor ever thirty pound .... to grandson Joshua ¿do it being already in his hands payd to him out of that Estate which I had in his fathers hands .... to Mary Clap my grand daughter aud wife of Thomas Clap ¿$ .... to Abigail Houghtou, wife of John Houghtou

my grant child ¿5 John ffisher grand child, son Joshua

ffisher /5 to Hannah B. . . (? writ1ng unintelligible) grand

child ¿s John ffisher son of my sou John ffisher all land in

Medfield, etc. . . further that John ffisher sou of my son John ffisher within the space of two years after he shall co1n to one and twenty years of age shall pay /'40 to his brother Jonathan ffisher.... Vigilance ffisher my grand child sou of my sou Joshua ffisher 41«.

and I constitute appoint and ordain my trusty and well

beloved cosen Daniel ffisher of Dedham and Joshua Fisher my Grande child Executors of this my last will

John Wilson

Ralph Wheelocke CL

His widow Anne made her will, dated April 8, 1675, proved Feb. 1, 1676-7, in which she gave "daughter Battle 2os.; grandson John Fisher, the son of my late son Lievtenant Joshua, .¿5 ; grandson John and granddaughter Elizabeth Fisher, children of my late son John Fisher, 20s. apiece ; rest and residue to grandson Joshua Fisher (son of my late son Lieut. Joshua Fisher) whom I have brought up from his childhood, whom I make my sole Executor." Ch1ldren b. in England, and by first wife, were :

Elizabeth-*, bapt. at Syleham, England, July 3,1619 ; probably married aud settled in England ; no record of her in New England.

6. Joshua.', bapt. at Syleham, April 2, 1621 ; m. 1st, Mary.Aldis,

Nov. 15, 1643; m. 2d, Lydia Oliver, Feb. 16, 1654.

61. Marvj, b. ; m. Thomas Battelle, Sept. 5, 1648; d. Aug. 7,

1691.

7. Johnj, b. ; m. Elizabeth Boylston, April 6, 1658. 		Fisher Joshua
 
551 6. Joshua, son of Joshua (2), of Medfield, was baptized at Syleham, England, April 2, 1621, and came to New England in 1637. The Dedham Records contain the following : "Dedham. The First of ye 11th Month 1637. That w was agreed upon ye last meeteing was now Reade & confirmed. Upon a motion made by Anto Fisher It is condescended that Josua Fisher may enter upon the Smithes Lott & ther fitt himselfe ye building & otherwise for to doe some worke of ye trade for ye Towne in the behalfe of his Father w is expected this next somer. Provided ye yf he cometh not in such a tyme as may be conceived fitting by our sayd society Then the sayd Josua shall leave ye sayd Lott & ye Towne to be at liberty to put in another Smith : allowing unto the sayd Josua his wholl Charges upon the same to be alowed by2 : Judicious men." About this time he signed the Dedham Covenant, but we cannot learn the exact date. In August, 1639, he joined the Dedham church ; the following year became a member of the Ancientand Honorable Artillery Company and was its second sergeant in 1648 ; and was made a freeman May 2, 1649. Joshua married 1st, Nov. 15, 1643, Mary, dau. of Deacon Nathaniel and Mary Aldis, of Dedham. She died Sept. 3, 1653 ; and he m. 2d, Feb. 16, 1654, Lydia, widow of Samuel Oliver, of Boston.

Upon the Petition of Dedham for Eleazer Lusher to be their Captaine, Josua Fisher their lief tenant, & Henry Philips their ensign, their petition is granted. [Oct. 18, 1648 : Mass. Col. Rec., II,.257, and III, 139.]

To the honoured Gouerner Majestrats and deputies assembled at the General! Court at Boston

The petition of the Towne of Dedham
Humbly Sheweth :
That wheras our band of Trayned Souldiers have bin yet : defectivc for want of Queers established : to exercise them : and as we humbly conceive that we have some amongst us that may be fitt. to exercise our Company we have with one consent made choyce of Eliazer Lusher to be our Captaine : and Joshua Fisher to be our Leiftenant aud Henry Phillips to be our Ensigne humbly desyringe this Honor Court : that you would be pleased to Ratifie and confirme them in the said places if you shall thinke good : And your petioners shall pray et

William Bullard. clarke of ye Trayne band

The deputies have graunted this pet. wth Refferanee to the concurrance of o honord magists
William Torrey by order &c

The mag' consent hereto Jo: Winthrop. Gou

19 (8) 48 (Mass. Arch., LXVII, 43, See Col. Rec., Ill, 139.]

So by the title of "Lieutenant Joshua" he was thereafter known throughout the Colony. At the town meeting in January, 1648-49, he was chosen selectman and continued in that office 22 years. He also tries his hand at surveying, for the records state that Jan. 7, 1649-50, he "is deputed and undertaketh to take and make a true platt of ye out most Lines of the Towne." We find him later regularly chosen town surveyor, and the records show him at work in other parts of the Colony, one large work being the surveying of 8000 acres completed in May, 1665, "at a place called Pocumptuck " (Deerfield),"it lyinge northward from Hadley about tenn or twelve mile," being the land given Dedham in the exchange for the land they claimed at Natick.

It is ordered by this Court, that whereas there was graunted to Dedham eight thousand akers of land the last session of this Court, Ensigne John Euerard & Jonathan Danforth are hereby appointed to lay out the same according to graunt. [Oct. 21, 1663: Mass. Col. Rec., IV, Part II, 91.]

This tract of land, conteyuig eight thousand acres, being layd out according to this plott given into the Court & remayning on file, beginning att A, & so running to L, by the Foote of a mountejne, south & by west two miles forty sixe rod ; from L to K, along by the same mounteine five miles forty rod south & by east two degrees easterly ; From ? to I, u?o? a streight Iine two miles & a halfe & ahalf west halfe a point southerly ; From H to I, upon a streight line south halfe a point easterly, fower miles; From G to H, norwest fower degrees, westerly three hundred sixty two rod ; From E to G. S. S east three degrees southerly, one hundred & sixty rod ; from E to F south southeast, west three degrees southerly, eighty eight rod ; from D to E south west one hundred and eight rod ; from ? to D south south east eighty rod ; From ? to ? south & by west three degrees westerly, five hundred & eighty rod ; from A to ? west north west two degrees westerly, one mile twenty rod. This tract of land is laid out at a place called Pecumptick, to answer the grant of the honoured Generall Court made to Dedham for the lands at Natick, which the Indians are setled upon, by the Courts order, it lyinge northward from Hadley about tenn or twelve mile. Layd out as above said May, 1665,

By me, Joshua Fisher.

The Court allowes & approoves of this returne, provided they make a toune of it, to mainteine the ordinances of Christ there once wthin five yeares, & that it interfere not wth Majr Genll Dennison & Hadley grant. [Oct. 11, 1665: Mass. Col. Rec., IV, Part II, 282.]

Probably referring to the above, Temple's History of North Brookfield, p. 54, says :

"The compass was first brought into use in laying out land grants in this region, by Lieut. Fisher, of Dedham, when he surveyed the Deerfield lands in 1665. They had a chain to measure distances, andsome prominent object was selected as starting and turning point. The chief concern was to get the full quantity named in the grant."

"Att a Generall metting of the Inhabatance the 23 of the 11 mo 1656"

holding the office also in 1658, 1662 and 1663. We also find him going to the General Court as deputy from Dedham in 1653, '58, '62, '63, '64, '67, '68, '71, '72. With Eleazer Lusher he undertook to "erect a sawe mille upon Neponset River or any pt thereof ....... in the Ceader swampe already granted," March 4, 1658-9. He also kept the "publicke house ;" May 9, 1649, petitioning to be freed from the custom on wine. [Colony Records, III, p. 159.]

In ansr to ye request of the selectmen of Dedham, desiring, in regard of theire remotenes from Boston, Left Joshua Fisher might have liberty to sell some strong waters, to supply ye necessity of suchas shall stand in neede thereof in that toune, the Court graunts theire request. [Oct. 19, 1658: Mass. Col. Rec., IV, Part I, 352.]

The Dedham records state that on Nov. 30, 1672, "the Administrators to the Estate, of Lieft Joshua Fisher, Declare that they find not themselves, in a capassity to keep the Ordinary any Longer, To which wee doe Order them, to take downe the signe that stand before the house that Lately was Lieft Fishers. "We find two depositions in the records : "The testimony of Joshua Fisher aged about 40 yeares .... Joshua Fisher deposed to the truth of what is above written : 28: January 1661." "The testimony of Joshua Fisher aged about 41 yeares," March 5, 1661. He was therefore born about 1620, and was probably baptized the following April at Syleham. He died at Dedham Aug. 10, 1672; and his widow died Feb. 2,1683. His son, Capt. Joshua, succeeded his father as inn-holder, and is so described in hiswill. The site of the tavern was near the junction of High and Court streets in Dedham. In the Dedham records, Jan 11, 1646-7, his house is spoken of as on land adjoining the road to "the landing place" on Charles River, Bullard street, north of High street. There was a drinking-room in the brew-house, and one small beer vessel among his effects, perhaps the same Madam Knight calls the "pewter engine," at the time of her visit.

In the Dedham records, under "the sumes of mens estats," we find his property assessed at £216 10s., Feb. 20, 1656-7. His homestead was appraised in 1648 at £40 36s.; on Sept. 20, 1651, at .£31. Lieft. Fisher agreed to shingle the meeting house at Dedham, Jan. 17, 1651-2, and have it done by June 24, 1652, for .£15 ; later on we read, "for covering the Meeting house. nayles & other charges" £20. In 1642 the town granted him a lot of eight acres, and another of six acres, and the next year an additional lot. In the Division of 500 acres he receives fifteen acres, March 7, 1652-3. In the Records of the General Court: "granted 1664.27, (3) to Lieut. Joshua Fisher of Dedham, 300 acres upon Medfield line toward the South, and Tyng's farm toward the West, and an acute angle toward the East. This land he seems to have sold to Nicholas Wood. He appears to have previously received a grant of 900 or 500 acres west of this grant, which he had before sold to Edmund and William Sheffield." (Morse's Sherborn, p. 268.)

Roberts' History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company says of him :

" From the Colonial archives of Massachusetts Bay we learn that in 1648 he was appointed lieutenant of the military company in Dedham, and usually after this time he is styled ' Lieutenant, and when he is not his name is connected with some survey that identifies his individuality. In 1650 he was appointed by the General Court to run the line between Sudbury and Watertown ; in 1656 was appointed to lay out Mr. Alcock's land, also Mr. Bradstreet's eight hundred acres ; in 1664 the General Court granted him three hundred acres of land for surveying the south line of the patent of Massachusetts Bay, next to Plymouth ; in 1666, he settled the controversy between Mr. Z. Gold and Gov. Endicott as to land bounds, and laid out Gov. Endicott's farm on Ipswich River; in 1667 was appointed, with others, to lay out the town of Mendon ; also to lay out Dedham's eight thousand acres, near Hadley. In 1670, the General Court ordered a further survey of the line between Massachusetts and Plymouth, andOct. 11, 1670, the bill, forty shillings, of Lieut. Fisher, for doing the same, was paid to his children. The survey was reported to the General Court May 15, 1672, and Lieut. Fisher died in August of that year. From the records of Dorchester, we lear n that Lieut. Fisher was employed to run the line between Dedham and Dorchester; in 1670, to run the line from ' Blue Hill' to Plymouth; in 1661, Dorchester paid him for a new map of the town, and in 1670 for a second revised map." ....

"A maker of artistic maps." (Hon. Chas. Levi Wood- bury's MSS.)

The following items from the Dedham Records give some particulars of him during a short period, and show how he figured in his own town affairs :

"libettie is yet further giuen to Lieft Fisher to take Lt Fisher vpthatptof the 5oo acre deuident. that he purchased of Will Avery notwthstanding the limitation of time set" (18. 5:60:).

Dedham Records state that on Nov. 14, 1660,

" Lieft Fisher & Serg' Ellice are deputed to treat (& Committee to buy if it may be) to couclude wlh the Ind1ans or Sagamore Wolomonup- that clayme right at wolomonuppucke to buy them pucke all out. and cleere the place from all Indians title."

31. of 1o. 166o (Dec. 31, 166o):

" Lieft Fisher prsents his bill wherein it apeeres Lt Fisher's that he is Credit' to the Towne for Select mens dyet for layeing out the 2000 Acres at Naticke and other Journeyes upon Townes service. and for fyer wood & house roome at the last generall meeteing 4—11—7

And by his bill debter as receaved by bills & the rent of the heard-yarde. and debts assigned to him . 2— 4—2

upon ballance of these accounts rest due to him 2— 7—5."

" At a Generall meeteing of the Towne 1-11-1660

It is agreed. & by voate declared in refference to the layeing out of the devident of 500 Acres formerly granted, that the Surveyor Lieft Fisher shall be alowed 3d p Acre for his owne labour & Arts in respect of what he hath allready done therein. & what is yet wanting to pfect the same."

"At a meeting of the select men the 9 (4) 1662: Upon a motion made by lieutenant Joshua Fisher of Dedham to rent the meadows which are in Dorchester neare Dedham bounds above Dedham: It is ordered bythe select men the 9 (4) 1662 ; that William Sumner and Ensigne Capen or either of them have by this order power aud are desired to bargaine with afore sayd Leiutenant Fisher for as many parcells of meddow and for what prise and pay they shall judg meet; aud if the afore sayd Fisher will not give what in reason they inge meet: then they to take ther best Chapman only they are to agree or bargainefrom yeare to yeare and they shall be payd for ther paines oat of the towne rate." [Dorchester (printed) Records, p. no.] In the Dorchester town rate for 1662 is this item: "I to Lieft Fisher for towne plott 02—00—00," showing that he received £2 for making the plot or map of Dorchester as required by law.

The Inventory of his estate, made Aug. 20, 1672 (Suffolk Pro., VIII, folio 239 et seq.), covers many pages. Among the articles enumerated are the following: Meadow of 12 acres abutting upon the houselot, £60; all the houses at home, the dwelling house and leantoos adjoining, the brew house, the shop, and barn, £120; the orchard on the south side of the street, .£35; eleven acres in the broad meadows, £12; one piece of woody land near Thomas Fisher's, £4; land in the Clapboards, £3.17; common rights, £3 ; cedar swamps near the town, £3.5. The total value of the estate was £1145. 6. 5. Daniel Fisher, Thomas Battelle and Joshua Fisher, the administrators, filed a bond Sept. 5, 1672, for £2200. In the division of the estate, made Nov. 23, 1672, the widow was given ''a trunke with what is in it, prissed at £22.18 and 50£," and the thirds of all the houses and lands, or instead £10 per annum. The remainder was divided into seven parts: two to Joshua, the eldest son, and one each to John, Vigilance, Mary, Abigail, and Hannah; the signers to the agreement being Joshua Fisher, William Avery for John Fisher, Thomas Fuller for Vigilance Fisher, Thomas Clap, John Holtou, and Daniel Fisher for Hannah Fisher. Children, all born in Dedham, were:

-MARY, b. March 23, 1644; m. Thomas Clapp, Nov. 1o, 1662. (Clapp Genealogy, p. 1o7-9.)
-Joshua, b. Oct. 3o, 1645; d. Jan. 14, 1646.
-Hannah, b. Feb. 14, 1647; d. Sept. 4, 1648.
-ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 29, 1649; m. John Houlton, of Dedham, March 1, 1667.
-13. JOSHUA4, b. Jan. 9, 1651; m. Esther Wiswall.
-14. JOHN4, b. Feb. 18, 1652; m. Hannah Adams, March 6, 1674. HANNAH4, b. Jan. 19, 1653; m. [William?] Burroughs.
-15. VIGILANCE4, b. (by second wife) Not. 21, 1654. JAMES4, b. March "1, 1657; d. Sept. 27, 1658. 		Fisher Joshua
 
552 61A. Mary, daughter of Captain Daniel, 2d (25) and Mary (Fuller) Fisher, was b. in Dedham, Sept 27, 1676, and d. April 30, 1752. She m. at Dedham, Feb. 23, 1698, John, son of John and Elizabeth (Paine) Hunting, who was b. March 3, 1672; resided in Dedham. Of their children :

-Rebecca Hunting, b. Sept. 19, 1702; m. 1st, Ebenezer Hartshorn ; m. 2d, May 17, 1744, Joseph Fisher (37), of Walpole ; d. Jane 9, 1796, aged 93.
-Margaret Hunting, b. May 27, 17o5; m. John Lewis; she d. May 5, 1733.
-Hannah Hunting, b. Sept. 7, 17o7 (?) ;d. June 22, 1746:111. Jonathan Lewis.
-John Hunting' b. July 21, 17o7; joined the church at Dedham, March 19, 1727 ; d. Sept. 1o, 176o.
-Hester(or Esther) Hunting, b. _____ ; united with the church in Dedham, June 29, 1735, "daughter of John Hunting;" m. Daniel Fisher (under 63), Dec. 17, £741.
-Daniel Hunting, b. Oct. 3, 1713; d. Oct. 5, 1713.
-Mercy Hunting, b. Oct. 3, 1713.
-Abigail Hunting, b. Oct. 3, 1713: m. Israel Hunting, June 11, 1747; res. at Dedham. [Hunting Gen., p. 12.] He joined the Dedham church, from church in Needham, Aug 1, 1756; she joined Oct. 24, 1756." Feb. 17, 1788. Israel Hunting dismissed in order to Embody in a Chh. with others in New Loudon." He d. April 15, 18o2. 		Fisher Mary
 
553 34. NATHANIEL5, youngest son of Captain Daniel (17) and Mary (Fuller) Fisher, was b. in Dedham, April 5, 1687 ; graduated from Harvard College, 1706; and was called, June, 1710, to settle as pastor in the South Precinct of Taunton which, two years later, was incorporated as the town of Dighton. He was ordained Nov. 26, 1712, and continued " not far from fifty years."

" It is a mortifying fact that one who for so long a time was the only minister of the town, ' a good man and worthy minister of the gospel,' as all transmitted accounts are ready to pronounce, should sleep in its ancient burial place without stone or slab to mark the spot of his repose. The evidence that there was such a minister in Dighton, who undertook not only to teach the people in the way of truth and holiness, but to rear a family to 'God, is in the graveyard: ' Here lyeth the body of Nathaniel, ye son of ye Rev. Nathaniel Fisher and Elizabeth, his wife, died Aug. 1, 1728, aged 3 years.' ' In memory of Nathaniel, ye son of Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Fisher and Elizabeth his wife, died Nov. ye 2d, 1748, in ye 15th year of his age.' ' In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, ye wife of ye Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Fisher, who died Sept. ye 23d, Anno Domini 1765, in ye 70th year of her age'."—Emory's Ministry of Taunton.

Mr. Fisher d. about 1777. Rev. John Smith was settled as colleague in 1772, and succeeded Mr. Fisher, continuing until December, 1801. 		Fisher Nathaniel
 
554 15. Vigilance4, son of Lieut. Joshua Fisher (6), of Dedham, was a tailor by trade, and settled in Dedham. He m. 1st, at Dedham, Nov. 27, 1678, Rebecca Partridge, who d. Aug. 15, 1694; 2d, at Dorchester, by the Rev. Mr. Danfprth, June 14, 1696, Hannah Lyon, of that town. He d. April 10, 1713. He left no will; his estate was appraised, April 24, 1714, at £117 138. In the division the widow's third was set off, and James, the second son, took the rest of the estate, valued at £70, paying the other heirs their shares. Hannah Lyon was probably the daughter of Jacob1 and Mary Hewins, the first of the name in New England; b. April 29, 1665, having previously married a Lyon. [Morse's Brigham, Pettee, Hapgood Genealogy, p. 165.] Their children were :

-Lydia, b. Aug. 26, 1679; d. June 25, 1711.
-Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1681; he declined to take the real estate in the settlement of his father's estate in 1714; no more known.
-34. James, b. April 4, 1686; m. Hannah Onion, April 6, 1721. Rebecca', b. June 25, 1687; d. young.
-David, b. Nov. 12, 169o; d. March 6, 1691.
-35. Abigail, b. Aug. 26, 1692; m. Benjamm Gill, of Stoughtoun Sept. 24. 1728.
-Benjamin, b. (by second wife) Nov. 29,1697; d. Jau. 24, 1698.
-36. Joseph', b. Aug. 28, 1699; m. Mary Lewis, Dec. 7, 1726.
-Mary, b. Oct. 29, 17o2.
-Hannah, b. Oct. 29, 17o2; m. John4 Rockwood, of Hopkinton, March I, 1733. [Morse's Sherboru History, p. 219.] -Ebenkzer, b. Jan. 5, 1709. 		Fisher Vigilance
 
555 During the 1900 Census she was working as a servant for the Emory S. and Mary E. Rathbun in Montville, New London, CT.

During the 1910 Census Mary Jane Vibber was in "The Home for the Incurables" Bronx, NY, now St. Barnabas Hospital.

On April 15, 1911 a petition was presented to the Court in Motville by Florence B. Vibber of New York City, N.Y. wherein:

"respectfully represents that Mary Jane Vibber died intestate on the 8th day of April A.D. 1911 possessed of estate and that she last dwelt in Montville, Conn. in said district.

Wherefore, your petitioner prays the Court to grant administration upon the estate of said deceased, Mary Jane Vibber.

Dated at Montville, Conn. this 15th day of April A.D. 1911

(signed) Florence B. Vibber"

Florence B. Vibber executrix 22 April, 1911 by appt. by court 305 West 111 St., N.Y.

On the documents appears the names and addresses of the two children:

William Horace Vibber
Ensley, Alabama (<---Suburb of Birmingham, AL)

Florence Baxter Vibber
305 N. 111th Street
New York City, NY 		Fitch Mary Jane
 
556 In Memory of Mercy
Wife of Thomas Veber who died
Feb 19, 1825 in the
79th yr of her age 		Fitch Mercy
 
557 second source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Alice J.
 
558 source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Alice J.
 
559 11. Benjamin2, b. 25 June, 1662; m. 26 Sept., 1690, Experience Child, dau. of Richard Child of Water- town. Removed to Worcester, where he d. 3 May, 1741. Issue, nine children. (See Bond's Watertown,p. 221).

ORTHOGRAPHY of the FAMILY NAME, FLEGG-FLAGG.

The family name, as found in the English records and as spelled by the earlier members of the family in America, was FLEGG, and such was the spelling used as far back as the twelfth century. (See Chapter I). FLEGGE was another mode of spelling, used often in the English records, and we even find FLEG, FLEGE, FLEGH, FLEGHT, FLEGGH, and FLIGHT to have been made use of, as the family name. But FLAGGwe never find until about 1700, when our ancestors in New England seem, by common consent, to have abandoned the less euphonious FLEGG.

Concerning this change of spelling, Dr. Bond, in his History of Watertown, Mass., says: "This orthography (FLAGG) of the name has been adopted in the text, because it has become the prevalent, almostthe universal, usage, for the last few generations. There is, however, very little doubt but that it is erroneous, and that the correct orthography is FLEGG. In the early records of the town (Watertown) and of the county, for eighty years or more, the name is, almost without exception, written FLEGG, with some variations, always retaining the E."

In "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," published 1860 by James Savage, Vol. II, p. 171, is
found the following:

"THOMAS FLEGG (FLAGG)— In the records of Water- town the name is spelled FLEG or FLEGG, in conformity, — as in our English patronymics is so usual — with its geographical derivation, but, in general,at other places, conforming to the sound.

There exists a German family name, FLAGGE, which may easily be confused with our own family name, especially if, by a process of being Americanized, its final syllable is incorrectly silent in pronunciation.

Members of the FLEGG family, still using the ancient and correct orthography, are William Martin FLEGG, and his son James Minter FLEGG, of London, England.

"FLEGG is an old English surname, the family having its origin, tradition says, in one RAWL FLEGG, a Norse viking who ravaged the eastern coast and made settlement in Norfolk about 868. There was theseat of the family and there are located (1905) FLEGG Hall and the hundreds of East and West FLEGG, old civil divisions of the county." (Extract from article in Vermont Antiquarian, March, 1905, by Chas. Allcott Flagg, of Washington, D. C., furnished through courtesy of John Henry Flagg of New York City and of Dr. John S. Flagg of Combridge, Mass).

Benjamin Flagg, son of Thomas Flagg (1), was born June 25, 1662. He removed to Worcester and settled there as one of the early proprietors, was admitted a freeman April 19, 1690, and died there May 3, 1741. He married, September 26, 1690, Experience, daughter of Richard Child, of Watertown. She died at Worcester, 1747. Children of Benjamin Flagg and wife Experience:

1. Benjamin, born August 25, 1691 ; died at Worcester June 12, 1751 ; selectman, captain, sheriff.
2. Experience, born May 5, 1693; married, October 26, 1713, Caleb Ball, of Concord.
3. Abigail, born April 16, 1694-5.
4. Bartholomew, born November 16, 1697, mariner of Bristol.
5. Elizabeth, born December 28, 1699; married Peter King.
6. Gershom, mentioned below.
7. Mary, baptized April 9, 1704.
8. Ebenezer, born January 21, 1705-6.
9. Richard, born May 30, 1708; lieutenant Holden company, died November 12, 1799. aged ninety-two years ; he settled in Holden, and his son was Colonel Samuel, who was selectman of Worcester 1790-1808; owned 240 acres on Green street. 		Flagg Benjamin
 
560 Most nfo from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008

"Enterprising in mind, active and useful in society, kind and helpful to such as were in difficulty, willing to aid in the establishment of useful societies, and in the support of religious institutions, he was suddenly taken form his family and friends and in death is much lamented."

Benjamin Flagg (5), son of Stephen Flagg (4), who was born May 25, 1766, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He settled in the north precinct of Shrewsbury, now Boylston. He married August 26, 1787, PcrsisDakin, at Boylston, and she died March 24. 1848. aged seventy-nine years, at Boylston. Their children were :

Lucretia, born November 24, 1787;
Joseph, of whom later;
Hepzi- bah, December 13, 1791;
Benjamin, January 2, 1794;
Judith, March 13, 1796;
Levi, April 21, 1/98;
Seth, July 15, 1800;
Sally, February 19, 1803;
Persis, March 5, 1809. 		Flagg Benjamin
 
561 Her name was thought to have been Elenor (as per David Vibber and Eloise Cram's memory in 2008), but the 1900 census says Ellen E. In 1900 she had 2 children and both were still alive. One of the childs names, our ancestor, was thought to ahve been Mary Addie; but the 1900 census shows us Sadie M.A.. In the 1880 Census, she is listed as Addie M. Lane. In the 1880 census She is listed as Ellinor E. Lane. She is listed as being 1 years old in the Boylston, Worcester, MA Census of 1850, born in Massachusetts. She is listed as Elenor E. in the 1850 census. Ellanor E. in 1860 Census. Eleanor E. inthe 1870 census. Shows up as Elinor in Boyston, MA Vital records. Flagg Elinor E.
 
562 second source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg George A.
 
563 source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg George A.
 
564 For more information on Gershom and Hannah and their children, and family and descendants of their son Solomon, see Ina Ruth N. Flagg’s article “The Flagg family of Wellesley” that appeared in the New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. Jul 1872, vol. 136, pages 220-241.

Gershom was admitted to the Shrewsbury, MA, church 30 Apr 1723, was selectman and assessor for Shrewsbury in 1728.306

On 6 Jan 1724/5 when Gershom was 22, he married Hannah Keyes, daughter of Maj. John Keyes (14 Aug 1674-31 Mar 1768) & Mary Eames (Mar 1676/7-16 Apr 1772), in Shrewsbury, MA.306 Gershom and Hannah were married by Rev. Job Cushing of the Congregational church. Born on 9 Jul 1706 in Marlboro, MA.

Gershom Flagg, son of Benjamin Flagg (2), born in Watertown, Massachusetts, July 11,1702, removed to Worcester with his father and settled in the adjoining town of Shrewsbury. He had lot No. 36 in Shrewsbury in 1729. He married Hannah, daughter of Captain John Keyes, January 6, 1725. Their children, all born in Shrewsbury, were:

1. Persis, born June 8, 1726.
2. Stephen, mentioned below.
3. Jotham, born July 30, 1730; married Rebecca Kendall.
4, Solomon, born March 6, 1733.
5. Gershom, Jr., born January 1, 1735.
6. Thankful, born January 21, 1739. 		Flagg Gershom
 
565 Hepziabeth on Birth Vital and Hepzibah on Death Vital. She died age 19 5 months. Flagg Hepzibeth "Hepzibah"
 
566 Could she have been adopted? She did not show up in the 1869 Census. There is however a Levi (Male) in the 1860 Census that does not appear here. Flagg Jennie
 
567 "a Senior Sophister in Harvard College" Flagg John
 
568 All info from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008

Joseph Flagg, son of Benjamin Flagg (5), was born at Boylston. Massachusetts, October 22, 1789. He settled in his native town and was a farmer. He was a highly respected citizen. He married Patty Hastings, December 26, 1815. Their children, all born at Boylston, were:

Persis, December 23, 1816;
Levi Lincoln, of whom later;
Mary Martha. March 23, 1820;
Edward Whipple, June 7, 1822;
Ezra Hastings. November 1, 1823;
Seth Alden, December 22. 1825;
Henry Martin, August 19, 1830;
Cleora Maria. August l, 1833. 		Flagg Joseph
 
569 His middle initial is well documented in Census records as W. I recently found it as Walter on myheritage.com, Gail Tyson's site. 9/28/2008 Flagg Joseph Walter
 
570 second source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Joseph Walter
 
571 source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Joseph Walter
 
572 source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Joseph Walter
 
573 Levi (male) only appears in the 1860 Census and not the 1870 Census. Could he have died young? It is odd though that a Jennie (female) appears in the 1870 Census and was born the same year. Flagg Levi
 
574 He had his family living with him during the 1850 Census in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts. He was listed as a farmer and had two boarders of which neither could read or write. Mary Brine, age 30, and Charles Marcasty, age 22, both born in Ireland. Charles was listed as a farmer. The 1850 census has them all listeed as being born in Massachusetts.

He had his family in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusettes during the 1860 Census. At that time he had 7 children and 2 boarders. The boarders were both born in Ireland. Catherin Collins, age 17, had been married within one year of the cnsus and was working as a domestic. William Dugan, age, 24, was working as a farmhand.

Two more children appear in the 1870 Census, but Levi does not. Levi must have died. He only had one boarder, Franklin Lawrence, age 40, who was born in Ireland.

His middle initial is well documented in Census records as L., but i recently found it as Lincoln on another myheritage.com site by gail tyson on 9/28/2008.

Levi Lincoln Flagg, son of Joseph Flagg (6), was horn in Boylston, Massachusetts, September 20. 1818. He attended the district schools of his native town and of Shrewsbury and then went to work in the good old way, as a farm hand. For the first two years he worked for neighboring farmers for the sum of eight dollars per month with board. His next position brought him one hundred and sixty dollarsper year. With money saved by frugal management from this small income, he bought the homestead of his father and thereafter he divided his time between the farm and the livestock business, in both of which he was successful financially. He is living on his farm at Boylston, at present, active in spite of his advanced age.
He is a Republican in politics and has always been active in public affairs. He was assessor for twenty-five years, representative to the general court and for a period of thirty years was on the board of selectmen of the town of Boylston, a remarkable tribute on the part of his fellow-townsmen to his ability and good judgment, such as few men in any town of the Commonwealth have ever received. Aservice of thirty years is sometimes found in the offices of town clerk or town treasurer, but the instances of such long service as that of Mr. Flagg in the office of selectman are very rare in the past as well as in the present generation.

He married. 1847, Caroline Barnes, who died in 1872. Their children are:

Elinor E.. married Preston P. Lane, and they have two children :
Christopher L. ; Arthur, married Elizabeth Blackman, and they have two children;
Joseph Walter, married Isabel Whitten ;
George A., of whom later;
Alice J married George Hazzard, and died, leaving four children;
Jennie L;
Mary M., married Merritt Stewart, and they have seven children.

2.) Caroline E., born Aug. 16, 1823, married Levi Lincoln Flagg, and settled in Boylston, where she died July 2, 1871, aged 49 years. Mr. Flagg has been much employed in town affairs, and is one of the most influential and respected citizens of Boylston. He has served many years as Selectman, Assessor, Town Treasurer, &c., and represented the town in the General Court. They have had eight children, all of whom are now living. 		Flagg Levi Lincoln
 
575 second source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Levi Lincoln
 
576 source from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Levi Lincoln
 
577 All info from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008 Flagg Persis
 
578 All info from Gail Tyson on myheritage.com 9/28/2008

Stephen Flagg, son of Gershom Flagg (3), born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, July 22, 1728, settled there and married. December 6, 1750, Judith, daughter of Eleazer Taylor. She died in Boylston, February 21, 1810, aged eighty years. Their children, all born at Shrewsbury, were:

1. John, October 4, 1751.
2. Solomon, August 13, 1753, died 1756.
3. Stephen, March 23, 1755. died 1758.
4. Judith, March 6, 1757; married 1777 Samuel Andrews.
5. Stephen, mentioned below.
6. John, December 21, 1760: died January 30, 1785.
7. Solomon, April 21, 1764; died July 5, 1810; married, October 17, 1789, Rebecca Dakin.
8. Benjamin, May 25, 1766.
9. Lucretia, June 2, 1768.
10. Gershom, September 2, 1770. 		Flagg Stephen
 
579 "JOHN FLEGG, of Whinbergh and Edlings Close, in Yaxham, county Norfolk, by his will, dated 3 Sept. 1613, and proved in Norwich, 16 Feb. 1617, gave his close called "Edlings," in Yaxham, to his three children, Allan, Bartholemew and Rebecca; also, special legacies to Rebecca and nephew, Edward Bennington; " All other goods" to Allan and Bartholemew. His son Bartholemew was executor. He married Aveline, widow of J. Robinson and daughter of Bennington, and had issue," Flegg John
 
580 "RICHARD FLEGG, of Shipdham, county Norfolk, in his will, proved 28 May, 1587, mentions his wife, Margaret, son Richard and daughter, Alice; Allan Flegg, his grandchild, son of John Flegg; Alice and Richard, children of his son Ralph. By Margaret, his wife, he had issue," Flegg Richard
 
581 "THOMAS FLEGG, of county Norfolk, died 1471, leaving issue a son," Flegg Thomas
 
582 THOMAS FLEGG, baptized at Whinbergh, 1615, sailed for America in 1637, when twenty-one years of age, and settled in New England, at Watertown, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the founderof the American branch known as the FLAGG family. [See Chapter III].

Very nice read in "Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg Born 1730 of Lancaster..." Chapters III (page 18) & VII (page 131). Update all this info to this document at some point. Possiblepictures tooo!

Thomas Flagg (i), immigrant ancestor of Jonathan Nelson Flagg, of Worcester, is the progenitor of all the colonial families of this name in Massachusetts. He was born doubtless in England, and came to America in April, 1637, in the service of Richard Carver, of Skratby, England, where Flagg may have come from also. Flagg was twenty-one years old, hence his year of birth was 1616. He settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was yeoman, lieutenant, proprietor and town officer there and selectman in 1671, 1674, 1675, 1676, and 1678. He lost his left eye by a gunshort wound previous to 1659. He died February 6, 1697-8. His will, dated March 5, 1697, and proved February 16, 1697-8, bequeaths to wife Mary ; sons Michael, Thomas, Eleazer, Allen and Benjamin; daughters Mary and Elizabeth Bigelow and Rebecca Cooke; grandchildren John Flagg and heirs of deceased son Gershom. The widow Mary, born 1619, made will December 30, 1702. proved April 21, 1703 ; names children Mary and Elizabeth Bigelow; Rebecca Cook and Benjamin Flagg. Children of Thomas and Mary Flagg,

1. Gershom, born April 16, 1641.
2. John, born June 14, 1643; died February 6, 1696-7.
3. Bartholomew, born February 23, 1644-5.
4- Thomas, born April 28, 1645.
5. Michael, born March 23. 1650-1 ; died October 16, 1711 ; was one of the earliest proprietors of Worcester at the first attempt to settle.
6. Eleazer, born May 14, 1651. ancestor of many Worcester county families.
7. Elizabeth, born March 22, 1654-5 ; died August 9, 1729; married Joshua Bigelow, settler at Worcester and Westminster. 8. Mary, born June 14, 1657; died September 7, 1720.
9. Rebecca, born September 5, 1660; married Deacon Stephen Cook.
10. Benjamin, mentioned below. n. Allen, born May 16, 1665; died November 17, 1711. ( 		Flegg Thomas
 
583 "William Flegg [mentioned at end of Chapter I], living in county Norfolk in the reign of Henry IV, was of the landed family, seated in Norfolk since 1160, of which we treat in the previous chapter. This William's father, whose name has not been ascertained, left issue, " Flegg William
 
584 "William Flegg [mentioned at end of Chapter I], living in county Norfolk in the reign of Henry IV, was of the landed family, seated in Norfolk since 1160, of which we treat in the previous chapter. This William's father, whose name has not been ascertained, left issue," Flegg William
 
585 "WILLIAM FLEGG, who died in 1426, leaving issue, " Flegg William
 
586 author of the "Land of Beulah," of Detroit, Mich.; Foote C. C.
 
587 2621. vii. MARY, b. Dec. 21, 1817; m. Apr. 19, 1846 to Rev. Henry vibber Gardner, b. Mar, 1817; he d, Nov. 7, 1894; she d. Sept. 1, 1892. Foote Mary
 
588 F. E. FORTUNE, 76, BLACK RIVER, DIES
(Special to The Times)

Black River, Oct 22 - Frank E. Fortune, 76, died at his home in this village Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lois Vebber.

He was born in L???ysville June 23, 1852, a son of Henry and Nancy Bennett Fortune. In 1870 he married Miss Addie Bullis who died nine years ago. Mr. Fortune conducted a farm for many years. Twenty years ago he moved to this village and until he retired five years ago was employed as a carpenter by the St. Regis Paper company.

He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lois Vebber; one grandson, Ray Vebber of Black River; two great-grandsons, Richard and Robert Vebber, both of Black River; one half-brother, John Kohler of Carthage.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2. Rev. Joseph Parkin, pastor of the Black River Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Interment we be in the Black River Cemetery. 		Fortune Frank E.
 
589 Children:
Jesse Foster
James Foster
Eleanor Foster
Elijah Foster
Thomas G. Foster
Samuel Foster
Sarah Foster 		Foster Benjamin
 
590 Unmarried Fox Betsey
 
591 Ill. EZEKIEI, (14), b. aboutt 1721, son of Samuel Fox and Margaret Brintnal ; married Mehitabel Lamaon of Boston. He inherited the old homestead mansion and a large portion of the land connected withit, being that portion of the farm that lay to the north and west, He was a member of Rev. Mr. Jewett's church at the time the old meeting-house stood on the site of the Raymond Hill Cemetery. He waschosen an elder in 1778. He was active in the affairs of the church and
society, and held important offices in the town. In a deed, dated 26 April, 1787, he conveyed to his son, Samuel, " for the consideration of the love and parental affection I have to my son all that part of my farm beginning at the corner by the New London and Colehester road, where the road from that turns to my house., thence northerly to the old orchard, thence by the fence to the woods, thence easterly in a straight line to a highway leading from my house to my mills, thence by said highway till it comes to my brother, Samuel, deceased, land, thence by said Samuel's land to the first-mentioned highway, and thence to the first point of beginning." She died 20 Jan., 1776, aged 56 years. He died 20 March, 1800. 		Fox Ezekiel
 
592 She is listed as Keron Fox on page 431 and Karon Fox on page 432 by Baker. Fox Karen
 
593 Unmarried. Fox Mehitabel
 
594 Unmarried Fox Sally
 
595 II. SAMUEL (3), b. 24 April, 1681, son of Samuel Fox and Mary Lester; m. Margaret Brintnal, b. in 1680. He lived on the homestead farm bequeathed to him by his father. The old house, and the first built by Samuel Fox, Sr., stood a few rods west of the present house in Montville, and was destroyed by fire about 1760. The present house was erected soon after and is now occupied and owned by descendants in the paternal line of the fifth generation. Margaret Fox, the wife of Samuel Fox, was received into the church by Rev. James Hillhouse, 4 July, 1725. She died 24 Sept., 1752, aged 72 years, He died 12 Feb., 1754, aged 72 years. Both were buried in the old Fox burying-grouud on the homestead farm. An old and very large chestnut tree is still standing by the side of the road not far from the buryiug-groud that was standing when they were living.

Children.
9. Samuel, b. about 1707; m. Abigail Harris.
10. Margaret, b. 21 April, 1709; m. Nathaniel Comstock.
11. Elizabeth, b. about 1711; m. Isaac Avery.
12. Hannah, b. ___________; m.
13. Benjamin, b. 29 Aug., 1715; m. Abigail (Fox) Brockway.
14. Ezekiel b. about 1721; m. Mehitabel Lamson. 		Fox Samuel
 
596 WILLIAM FREEBORN, aged 40, his wife MARY, aged 33, and their two children, were passengers for New England in April, 1634, in the Francis of Ipswich. William Freeborn was admitted a freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts September 3, 1634. He was an inhabitant of Boston, and was "disarmed November 30, 1637, in consequence of having been seduced and led into dangerous error by the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson." Having licence to depart, he removed to the Colony of Rhode Island, and settled on the island of Aquedneck, where he was one of the nineteen original settlers who, in March, 1638, signed a compact incorporating themselves into a "body-politic." He had a grant of land in Portsmouth, December 18, 1639, and was a deputy from that town in 1657. He diedApril 28, 1670, aged 76. His widow, Mary, died May 3, 1670, aged 69.

COMPACT SIGNED AT PORTSMOUTH, R. I.

The 7th of the first month (March), 1638. WE, whose names are underwritten, do here solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Body Politic, and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His, given us in His holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.

Exod. xxiv., 3, 4.
2 Chron., x\., 3.
2 Kings, xt., 17.

WILLIAM CODDINCTON, JOHN CLARKE, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, JR., JOHN COGGESHALL, WILLIAM ASPINWALL, SAMUEL WILBORE, JOHN PORTER, JOHN SANFORD, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, JR., ESQ., THOMAS SAVAGE, WILLIAM DYRE, WILLIAM FREEBORN, PHILIP SHERMAN, JOHN WALKER, RICHARD CARDER, WILLIAM BAULSTONE, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, SEN., HENRY BULL, RANDALL HOLDEN.

WILLIAM CODDINGTON was elected Judge.
WILLIAM ASPINWALL " " Secretary.
WILLIAM DYRE " " Clerk. 		Freeborn William
 
597 Children:
Richard H. Fry
Lovina Fry
Deborah Fry
Thomas W. Fry
Hannah Fry
Mary Fry
Amanda Fry
Victoria Fry 		Fry Isaac
 
598 The 1840 census shows three daughters in the family and one son. The s on could be Daniel Fry but the daughters are a mystery.

Children:
Isaac Fry
Daniel Fry
Joseph Fry
Julia Fry
Martha Fry 		Fry Isaac
 
599 His widow d. March 19,1726. Of her the Rev. Samuel Dexter wrote in his diary : " March 19th 1726. This Day dyed Mrs. Mary Fisher, in ye 72d Year of her Age. She dyed in a good old age . . . She was of a Weakly Constitution, & had gone thro' a great deal of weakness. She had been Confined abt 3 weeks before she dyed but one Week of ye time to her bed. She was a woman of a good Character. She had obtain'd a good report of all men, & of ye Truth itself a hearty Lover of ye Truth & ye sincere profession of it a Careful & Tender Parent to her Children - a good friend to C Ministers, & particularlyto one y was Unworthy of her Love." (New England Historic- Genealogical Reg., XIV, 108.) Fuller Mary
 
600 "Daniel, oldest child of Daniel and Sarah (Kimball) Gage, was born Mar. 12, 1676. He married Martha Burbank, Mar. 9, 1698, and resided in Bradford, Mass."

Daniel Gage, son of Daniel and Sarah Gage, married Martha Burbank, March 9, 1698. They lived in the north-west part of what is now Bradford, Mass., on the banks of the Merrimack, on what was then themain road to Methuen. He owned a ferry, which was known as "Gage's," or the "Upper Ferry." On the place where they lived there was recently (1879) standing the oldest house in the town, known as the "Gage House." His wife died Sept. 8, 1741. His death occurred March 14, 1747.

The children of Daniel and Martha Gage were;-

Mehitabel, born Dec. 29, 1698
*Josiah, " 1701
Martha, " April 7, 1703
Lydia, " May 24, 1705
**Moses, " May 1, 1706
Daniel, " April 22, 1708

*Josiah settled in Pelham, N.H.
**Moses Gage remained on the homestead in Bradford. He was the father of ten children, seven of whom were sons. His tenth child, Thaddeus Gage, settled in Sanborton, N.H., (now Franklin). Some of hisdescendants now (1894) reside in Penacook, N.H., Mr. Isaac K. Gage of that place being a grandson.

Sarah, born Feb. 19, 1709
Jemima, " Dec. 2, 1711
Naomi, " Feb. 25, 1714
Esther, " May 15, 1716
***Amos, " July 28, 1718
Abigail, " Dec. 22, 172 d. young
Mary, " Aug. 31, 1722
Abigail, " March 13, 1724 or 1725

***Amos Gage, with his brothers, Josiah and Daniel, settled in Pelham, N.H., a town which according to its population, has probably been the home of more Gages than any other in this country.

Of the daughters of Daniel and Martha Gage, Jemima married Richard Kimball Nov. 8, 1733; Naomi married David Hall, Sept. 22, 1737; Esther married Jonathan Currier of Methuen, Mass., Aug. 1, 1739; Mary married Gideon Hardy, May 24, 1744.
 		Gage Daniel
 

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