Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. and Their
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i % ) - ' - . / * ! ~v J / ' >r / • \ . 1 ' \ ' i > \ V ! I Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofsom00pott_0 / 0 GENEALOGIES OF SOME AND THEIR DESCENDANTS T O T H E PRESENT GENERATION. BARRETT, BLOOD, BROOKS, BROWN, BERKELEY, BUTTRICK, CONANT, DAVIS, FARRAR, FLINT, HARTWELL, HAY"WARD, HOSMER, IIUBBARD, JONES, MINOTT, POTTER, PRESCOTT, WHEELER, WILLARD, AND WOOD. EDITED BY CHARLES EDWARD POTTER. > ? X> > , 3 y i > ’ VOL. I. P, O S T O N : ALFRED Ml'DGE- & SON, PRINTERS, 2 4 Franklin Street. " 1 8 8 7 . PI^IRTCRS ; CilBOSTON^J) PREFACE. IIE desire to know of the principal incidents in the lives of our progenitors, as well as the places of their births, and their origin, has induced a goodly number to make such researches for . of those persons and families migrated to this country became the S personal accounts who and first settlers, as the records preserved have afforded though in many cases these permanent ; investigations have discovered but a meagre account, yet they have nevertheless encouraged the compilation of many of the family genealogies that have been published. It is the purpose of this work, "Old Families of Concord, Massachusetts, and their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation,” to give genealogies of some of the families who first settled there, and of their descendants; but it is in no wise intended to give an account of Concord, its settlement, history, or growth, excepting as may appear in the personal relations of some herein noted. The genealogical tallies begin with items respecting the families of Barrett, Blood, Brooks, Brown, Bulkeley, Buttrick, Conant, Davis, Farrar, Flint, Hartwell, Hayward, Hosmer, Hubbard, Jones, Minott, Potter, Prescott, Wheeler, Willard, and Wood, all of whom were known early in the settlement. "The plantation of Musketaquid (Concord) was settled by Rev. Peter Bulkeley, from Odell, England, associated with Simon Willard, a merchant from Horsmonden, England, who brought with them about twelve families, other families joining the plantation within a few years succeeding. Excepting Bulkeley and Flint, they were plain people, of humble station in their own country, and of small means, who hoped in the New World to better their condition, and to enjoy unmolested the simpler form of religious worship that their tastes and consciences approved.” The original homes of the pioneers had been widely separated : Rev. Peter Bulkeley came from Bedfordshire; Simon Willard, James Hosmer, and probably Luke Potter were from Kent; William Buttrick, Thomas Flint Derbyshire. from Kingston on Thames ; and and William Wood, probably from To make a record of the descendants of any one of these families to the present time, extending as it does over a period of more than two hundred and fifty years, and to make such a record tolerably complete, is a matter attended with much difficulty. As much as could be obtained from imperfect records, and that which has come from various other sources, are recorded. That the early settlers in many cases are not directly connected with English ancestry is readily explained by the experience of Samuel Gardner Drake, as given in his "Founders of New England”: — "Whoever goes to England expecting to find the genealogy of any particular family settled in America at an early date, is pretty sure, in at least nine cases out of ten, to meet with disappointment. The reason of this uncertainty is easily explained. In the first place, persons who emigrate are not often possessors of real estate, and lienee deeds and wills seldom furnish indications referable to them ; they leave no deeds or wills in the fatherland by which they can be traced. In the next place, very few emigrants from England were landholders, for the reason that for ages little or no land has been for sale in quantities within the reach of persons of moderate estates. As the great body of emigrants to New England took no pains to transmit to their descendants any account of their ancestors, or even the places whence they came, it is pretty evident they had nothing to expect from the one, or any special regard for the other.” PREFACE. "Thus genealogy becomes a science, and the learned pursued it as a useful and necessary branch of it is generally pursued. There are those who it knowledge ; and as such pursue with a notion that they are heirs to a great estate in England, left by some unknown ancestor. They may thus add something to the science of genealogy, and enlarge their own knowledge, while they will find no necessity to enlarge their pockets.” Many works of this class have proved a disappointment to those for whom they were primarily designed, owing to the complicated manner of indicating the succession of families. The compiler believes that his simple method of tabulating the records (patent applied for) will make it an easy matter to trace out the direct lines of descent, and the collateral branches as well. A particular advantage, aside from the readiness with which family connections are traced, is that all the essential genealogical facts of each family are discovered at the first glance, while the blank spaces indicate if any data is wanting. In these blank spaces the names or dates missing may be written, if ever ascertained; or in the cases of the persons now living, the records of the facts of marriage and death may be inserted as they occur; and there is added also to the volume several pages in blank, particularly intended to be used for the record of future generations of any families that the possessors of the volume may wish, together with any biographical notes desired for preservation. The compiler desires particularly to acknowledge his indebtedness for the very considerable assistance rendered to him by Mr. Charles Francis Potter, of Boston, to whose indefatigable efforts (and at his own expense) many of the complete records of families in the work are due; and to Mr. George Tolman, the accomplished genealogist of Concord, for his valuable aid, not forgetting also Shattuck’s "History of Concord,” and Walcott’s " Concord in the Colonial Period," — works to which every one must refer for information respecting Concord and its history. 1 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES EDWARD POTTER Frontispiece. AMOS BARRETT, No. 2812 . Facing page 108 CHARLES BARRETT. No. 1722 I 10 II. FOREST HALL, New Ipswich, N. 1 1 GEORGE BARRETT, No. 1718 1 12 GEORGE II. BARRETT, No. 2987 . 1 13 Hon. JOS. BARRETT, No. 1911 1 14 Capt. RICHARD BARRETT, No. 2125 116 Major SAMUEL BARRETT, No. 2717 117 WILLIAM BARRETT, No. 2148 1 18 Rev. NATHAN BROWN, D. D., No. 3514 . 120 Gen. GEORGE S. GREENE, No. 1743 123 CHAS. A. JONES, No. 4773 . 1 25 Deacon CIIAS. FRANCES POTTER, No. 5211 126 HENRY POTTER, No. 500(5 . 127 , , OLD FAMILIES, CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS. BARRETT. w 0 7 2 3 4 0 . Married . To whom . Marriages o Names Nos. Births Deaths t | PU 8 1 1592 1762 Mary -1663. 5 Humph rey Barrett England,o Nov. 7, ; ! V I.9 HUMPHREY AND MARY ( ) BARRETT. John, 2 England, -1690. 0 Thomas, 3 1652 Elizabeth ; : “ 1. -1694. 5 Humphrey, Jr., 4 1630 Jan. 3, 1715-16 July 17, 1661 Elizabeth Paine ; y 10 ' 5 “ Mar. 23,1674-5 2. Mary Potter. No. 545. 5 ( BARRETT. 3. ELIZABETH ) THOMAS AND ( Oliver, 6 Concord, about 1648 Sept. 13, 1671 Unmarried. “ “ 1650 July 18,1711 Dec. 4,1671 James Smeadley; 1650-1724; son John and Ann. Mary, 7 I HUMPHREY AND ELIZABETH (PAINE) BARRETT. 4. Mary, 8 Concord, Nov. 9, 1662 1688 Mar. 4, 1688 Josiah Blood. No. 51. HUMPHREY AND MARY (POTTER) BARRETT. 5-545. 5 Joseph, Capt., 9 Concord, Jan. 31, 1679 Apr. 4, 1763 Dec. 24, 1701 Rebecca Minott. No. 506. 5 Benjamin, 10 “ May 7, 1681 Oct. 25, 1728 Jan. 3, 1704—5 Lydia Minott. No. 507. CAPT. JOSEPH AND REBECCA (MINOTT) BARRETT. 9-506 10 Mary, 11 Concord, Apr. 6, 1706 Sept. 25, 1778 Dea. George Farrar. No. 301. Joseph, 12 “ Jan. 30, 1707-8 Married. Had issue, two daughters. - BeheCCa (no issue'), 13 “ July 12,1710 Feb. 8, 1733 Jan. 31, 1731-2 Elnathan Jones. No. 4745. 16 Oliver, Lieut., 14 “ Jaxi. 17, 1712 Apr. 4, 1788 Dec. 8, 1737 Hannah Hunt; 1716-74; dau. John and Mary (Brown). 18 Humphrey, 15 “ Aug. 28, 1715 Mar. 24,1783 Dec. 9, 1742 Elizabeth Adams; 1722-91; dau. Daniel and Elizabeth (Minott). 14 Elizabeth, 16 “ Jan. 9, 1717 Apr. 23, 1799 1736 Col. Charles Prescott. No. 596. [(Wheeler). 21 John, 17 “ Feb. 14, 1719-20 Apr. 19, 1790 Nov. 15, 1744 Lois Brooks; 1723-1805; dau. Joshua and Lydia Samuel, IS “ July 6, 1725 Jan. 18, 1727-8 BENJAMIN AND LYDIA (MINOTT) BARRETT. 10-507. 23 Benjamin, 19 Concord, Nov. 15, 1705 Oct. 23, 1738 About 1730 Rebecca Jones. No. 4278. U 30 Thomas, Dea. 20 Oct. 2, 1707 June 20, 1779 “ 1730 Mary Jones. No. 4281. U 35 James, Col., 21 July 31, 1710 Apr. 11, 1779 Dec. 21, 1732 Rebecca Hubbard. No. 462. U 10 Lydia, 22 Aug. 2, 1712 June, 1802 Jan. 13, 1732 Dea. Samuel Farrar. No. 303. Rebecca, 23 u Mar. 29,1714 Prob. young. u 48 Timothy, ( 24 Jan. 2, 1710 Jan. 4, 1800 1. Mrs. Dina Witt; -1754. (no issue), 25 Sept. 27, 1758 2. Anna Vaughn; -1779. (no issue), / 26 3. Rebecca Brown. u Mary, 27 Dec. 27, 1717 1737 Aaron Parker; 1713-62. 48 Stephen, 28 C ( Apr. 18,1720 1750 Elizabeth (Hubbard) No. 464. | May 15, How. Notes. — The Genealogical Tables are continued in this uniform manner throughout. 1 The figures to the left of the lines indicate the pages on which the descendants are recorded.