Ms. Sherrill Redmon Director, Sophia Smith Collection Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
Dear Sherrill,
It’s our family’s pleasure to send you our collection of the HOWLAND – SARGEANT – PACKARD FAMILY PAPERS for the Sophia Smith Collection. My brothers, Craig Newell Packard and Howland Sargeant Packard, are donating this collection in memory of our mother, MIRIAM SARGEANT PACKARD, who was a pivotal and critical part of the preservation of these materials.
The documents in this collection date from 1800 to 1990. All of these items were carefully saved by several generations of family women, beginning with sisters PRISCILLA, CYNTHIA, AND MARY SPOONER, my great-great-great grandmother. Priscilla’s sister Mary Spooner saved her sisters’ letters and they were apparently returned to Priscilla after Mary’s death sometime during or after 1894 – she lived to be 100-plus.
Subsequent generations of women and my father Kenneth Newell Packard saved them carefully too:
On the Howland-Peirce-Sargeant side they were saved by ELIZABETH HOWLAND, Priscilla’s daughter; ANNIE (also called ANNA) CALDER PEIRCE HOWLAND, Elizabeth’s daughter-in-law and wife of her son Hubert; and GRACE (HOWLAND) SARGEANT, my grandmother and Miriam Sargeant Packard’s mother.
On the Packard-Hudson side they were saved by LILIAN FRANCES PACKARD, my great-grandmother; MARJORIE THOMPSON PACKARD, my father’s aunt and Lilian’s daughter; BERTHA (NEWELL) PACKARD, my grandmother; and KENNETH NEWELL PACKARD, my father.
Elizabeth Howland’s original letters dated 1833 to 1857 are included in the collection. As an introduction to the family, I am including the first three chapters of my compilation of these documents, including transcriptions of all of the old letters and some of the other materials. I hope this will make them accessible for my extended family and for future researchers. When I have finished the complete compilation, I will send you an entire copy.
I am shipping a total of four boxes, which are numbered “1 of 4, 2 of 4,” etc. Two of the boxes contain the oldest documents. The other two are plastic file “crates” with file folders
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of letters and other documents, labeled by year and/or by the name of the person whose information appears inside.
Each of the old original documents is wrapped in tissue paper and there is a copy of the document immediately in front so you can see what it is without having to touch the original. In addition, I have transcribed all the old letters and created cover sheets for each of the other documents showing the authors and putting these items in context as much as possible. These also appear in front of each original document for easy reference.
Each of the file folders contains sheets at the beginning for each letter’s author. These sheets contain the name of the writer, information on birth/death/marriage, a photograph if available, and a sample of that person’s handwriting.
At the end of the list of documents is a list showing other reference books and documents and where they were sent: New Bedford, Massachusetts Historical Society; Brockton, Massachusetts Historical Society (for North Bridgewater books); New Bedford Whaling Museum; Oberlin College; New York Historical Society; Vermont Historical Society; and Dartmouth College Library. Also attached is a flash drive with a copy of this transmittal letter and its attachments.
I wish to retain the Intellectual Property Rights for all of this material during my lifetime and then I wish the Intellectual Property Rights to pass to my daughter, Jennifer Elizabeth Franco, for her to retain during her lifetime. At that time, they will be passed to the Sophia Smith Collection.
Please note that there are four women’s diaries that are not yet included with this material. I’ll be forwarding those to you as soon as I finish with them. They are each approximately 8-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide by 1-1/2 inches deep:
1. Annie Calder Howland’s diary Dated January 1899 through 1903 2. Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant’s diary Dated 1900 through 1904 3. Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant’s Dated 1905 through 1909 4. Miriam (Sargeant) Packard’s - ` Dated 1934 describing European trip
Please let me know if you have any questions. I’d be delighted to talk with you or future researchers about any of this material and about our families.
We thank you very much for saving this material in the Sophia Smith Collection so it can be available for researchers in perpetuity.
Sincerely yours,
Miriam (Packard) Houghton
ATTACHMENT: List of all items transmitted; Signed Certificate of Gift form and Flash drive with Transmittal Letter and other documents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS HOWLAND – SARGEANT – PACKARD FAMILY PAPERS Also incorporating the Spooner and Peirce Families From 1800 to 1990
NOTE: The originals of penmanship pages numbers 1 through 5 were donated to the New Bedford Historical Society in December 2008.
1. Copy of penmanship page dated May 25th, 1800 at the Phenix School in New Bedford, Massachusetts by PRISCILLA SPOONER – July 22, 1796 to July 1939 (age 42)
2. Copy of penmanship page dated August 25, 1810 in New Bedford, Massachusetts by PRISCILLA SPOONER
3. Copy of penmanship page dated August 30, 1811 in New Bedford, Massachusetts by CYNTHIA SPOONER, Priscilla’s sister – August 17, 1799 to September 29, 1842 (age 43). She never married.
4. Copy of penmanship page dated November 29, 1811 in New Bedford, Massachusetts by CYNTHIA SPOONER
5. Copy of penmanship pages dated June 5, 1812 in New Bedford, Massachusetts by CYNTHIA SPOONER
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6. Folders with letters and genealogical and other information on the following families:
A. PEIRCE FAMILY:
See Appendix A for detailed list
B. HILL FAMILY:
See Appendix B for detailed list
C. HOWLAND, SARGEANT AND SPOONER FAMILIES
See Appendix C for detailed list
D. PACKARD FAMILY
See Appendix D for detailed list
7. General material included:
Original libretto for Patience or Bunthorne’s Bride by Gilbert and Sullivan, produced under the direction of R. D’Oyly Carte, copyright 1881 by J.M. Stoddart & Co.
Original of The Mother’s Reply handbook by Nellie M. Smith, A.M., copyright 1914, courtesy of The New York Social Hygiene Society, Inc.
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Original of Sex in Life handbook by Donald M. Armstrong, M.D. and Eunice B. Armstrong, A.M., copyright 1916 by the American Social Hygiene Association, Inc.
Original of Girls – A H ome Guard by Anna L. Brown, M.D., Backing Up The Government Series, issued by The Social Morality Committee of the War Work Council of the National Board, Young Women’s Christian Associations, New York City 1918
Originals of an assortment of sheet music owned by GRACE EDGERTON (HOWLAND) SARGEANT
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Appendix A – PEIRCE FAMILY
(Note that the spelling of the family name varies from PEIRCE to PIERCE to Pearce). IT IS PRONOUNCED “PURSE.”
DOCUMENTS SENT:
Pedigree Chart dating back to the early 1700s Extract from Southeastern Massachusetts Genealogy – Biography, Vol. I, J.H.Beers & Co., Chicago, 1912, apparently researched at the Essex Library in Tiverton, Rhode Island. (page titled “Southeastern Massachusetts”), beginning with ALFRED PIERCE of Attleboro, tracing the line and name. Copies of information on Capt. Michael Peirce, son of Rev. James Peirce of Exeter and Cambridge, England, born 1615, who came to America in 1645 to Hingham, later at Scituate, Massachusetts 1647, who commanded a company in King Philip’s War. A handwritten copy of his will, 1675 A handwritten copy of Obadiah Peirce’s will, Somerset, Mass., 1834
INFORMATIONAL NOTE FOLLOWS IN BOXES:
“This branch of the Pierce family in America is one of long standing and among the first settlers of New England. The name has been variously spelled, but the change to Pierce has been made in the last three-quarters of a century. In the Old World the members of this family have been quite prominent, and the name can be traced through a long and distinguished line back to the days of the Norman Conquest. Brave Galfred, born 972, who left his Normandy castle to come over with venturesome Rollo, assumed the name of Percy. From him the line is traced to the American progenitor as follows:
William, his son; Allan, son of William; William, son of Allan; Agnes, daughter of William, who married Josceline De Louvaine, who was Prince of Normandy, but who on account of his marriage relinquished his own name and assumed that of Perci; however, he kept his royal coat of arms of Brabant; Lord Henry of Petrovith, who married Isabelle De Bruce;
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William, third Lord of Petrovith, who married Ellen De Baliol; Henry, who married Eleanor Plantagenet; Henry, first Baron of Alnwick, who from youth to old age was a warrior and was one of the victors at the battle of Dunbar and was highly distinguished throughout the Scotch war during the reign of Henry I. He married Lady Eleanor Fitzalan. Henry, second Lord of Alnwick, born 1299, who in 1346 was the chief of forces and gave battle to the Scots at Neville’s Cross, where he took the King, David Bruce, prisoner. He married Idonea De Clifford, and died in 1351. Henry, who in 1346 accompanied King Edward III to France and was at the victory at Crecy and afterward held high offices under the King. He married Mary Plantagenet. Henry, first Earl of Northumberland, who fell at the battle of Branham Moor in 1408. He married Margaret Navill (sic … possibly Nevill?). Henry, born May 30, 1364, who fought in the battle of Shrewsbury against the Crown, 1403. He married Elizabeth De Mortimer. Henry, second Earl of Northumberland; according to an old ballad of which he and his bride were the hero and heroine, he fell fighting for Lancaster. His bride was Leady Eleanor Nevill. Sir Ralph, who fell at Towton field, 1464, fighting with his father and brothers for the house of Lancaster. Peter, son of Sir Ralph, who was standard-bearer for Richard III, 1485, Bosworth Field. Richard Percy, son of Peter, founded the Hall at York, England. Richard Pearce, Jr., resided at the home of his father in York. He spelled the name Pearce, which name and way of spelling continued to within the last three-quarters of a century, since when some members of the family have used the form Pierce. NOTE from the Pedigree Chart and many other family documents that CHARLES MASON PEIRCE used yet another form of the name – PEIRCE
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Appendix B – HILL FAMILY
DOCUMENTS SENT:
Copy of an article “Historical Review of Old Rhode Island families” with a picture of Col. Thomas J. Hill Peirce, direct line descendant of Cap’n Michael Peirce, Peregrine White and Joseph Hills)
Handwritten dates for the following: Benjamin Hill Born September 10th (?), 1768 David Hill Born June 5, 1770 ? Lyda or Lydia Hill Born April 21, 1772 Deceased February 28, 1792 Cromwell Hill Born July 9th, 1774 ? Ephraim ? Hill Born April 14th, 1776 Asa Hill Born August 8th, 1771 William Hill Born May 10th, 1781 Sarah Hill Born September 1st, 1783 Deceased June 3, 1817 Hanah Hill Born September 6th, 1786 Ira Hill Born April 29th, 1789 Deceased June 29th, 1796
Cromwell Hill July 9, 1774 to December 23, 1822 Cynthia Hill June 10, 1771 to Dec.16, 1848 Wife of Cromwell Hill
THOMAS JEFFERSON HILL Mar.4, 1805-Jul. 24, 1894 Son of Cromwell and Cynthia Hill One of the oldest, best-known and most successful business men of Providence, descended on both sides of his family from old Rhode Island and Massachusetts families. SEE RELATED ARTICLE INCLUDED.
Betsey (Brown) Hill March 11, 1798 to June 9, 1859 Wife of Thomas J. Hill, married October 12, 1825. Olive L. (Farnham) Hill February 5, 1822 to Nov.16, 1866 Second wife of Thomas J. Hill, married December 9, 1861. Copies of marriage certificates for Thomas J. Hill’s marriage to both Betsey and Olive are included in this material.
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Several articles from THE WARWICK BEACON, Rhode Island about Hillsgrove, named after Thomas Jefferson Hill
INFORMATIONAL NOTES FOLLOW IN BOXES:
CHILDREN OF THOMAS J. AND BETSEY (also spelled “Betsy”) HILL: • 1) James Brown August 20, 1827 to Sept.21, 1827 • 2) Abby Ann April 19, 1829 to June 23, 1829 • 3) William Wallace Hill July 5, 1830 to Dec.23, 1871 • 4) Amanda Elizabeth Hill Aug.7, 1836-Sep.12,1875 • 5) Albert Hill March 3, 1834 to Nov.5, 1889 • 6) Thomas Henry May 10, 1840 to July 23, 1840
CHILDREN OF AMANDA ELIZABETH HILL and CHARLES M. PIERCE (or PEIRCE) JR.:
• 1) Annie Calder August 23, 1861 Married Hubert Marston Howland Their daughter GRACE EDGERTON HOWLAND • 2) William Copeland Nov.21, 1863 Married Sept.27, 1887 to E. Louise Baker Their children Thomas J.H., Emma I., William C. and Ruth C. Pierce • 3) Mary Averic Heneken July 21, 1865 Married Nov.6, 1881 Lieutenant Percy H. Brereton • 4) Emily Hill September 11, 1867 Married January 21, 1892 Thomas Potter Davis • 5) Albert Brown December 26, 1869 Unmarried – family says he was gay and lived most of his adult life in Paris • 6) Elizabeth Sawyer July 19, 1840 Married Walter Wood
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Appendix C HOWLAND, SARGEANT AND SPOONER FAMILIES
DOCUMENTS SENT:
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution) Ancestral (NSDAR) Chart of GRACE EDGERTON HOWLAND, compiled by Kenneth Newell Packard, husband of Miriam Sargeant Packard. Family Record (probably from a bible?):
• Births: Charles H. Howland February 25, 1824 Married Elizabeth Howland Born April 7, 1830 (same last name, but an unrelated Howland family) Arthur Melville Howland September 16, 1858 Hubert Marston Howland October 1, 1860 (Charles and Elizabeth’s son) Gertrude Stanley Howland September 22, 1863
• Marriages: Charles Henry Howland January 30, 1850 To Elizabeth Howland
• Deaths: Arthur M. Howland October 10, 1860 Hubert M. Howland July 6, 1885 (age 24) Charles H. Howland December 19, 1891 Elizabeth Howland February 15, 1911
A blue folded sheet of notepaper in Elizabeth Howland’s handwriting also showing:
John Howland was born April the 17th, 1861 Anne Howland “ “ June the 8th, 1766 Deceased May 22nd, 1832
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Micah Spooner No date Patience Spooner “ “ February the 25th, 1861 Joshua Howland No date Perry Smith “ “ March 9th, 1767 Phebe Smith “ “ “ 24th, 1763 Abraham Howland was born March 2nd, 1734 Deceased May 27th, 1832 Priscilla Howland “ “ July 21st, 1796 Deceased July 19th, 1839 Benjamin Howland “ “ July 15th, 1796 Deceased February 13th, 1851 Joshua Howland, Jr. “ “ No date Selvester Howland “ “ No date Charles M. Howland “ “ February 25th, 1824 Deceased December 19th, 1891 Elizabeth Howland “ “ April 7th, 1830
Genealogy for BETSY BROWN, who married Thomas Jefferson Hill (spelling of her name appears both as BETSEY and BETSY in different documents).
Various birth, death and marriage dates
Genealogy of Hendrickson, Peirce, Gray and Hastings Families compiled by Harriet Roddy, with a note inside from Howland H. Sargeant (Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant’s son), dated September 5, 1974.
Original U.S. Citizenship Certificate for ABRAHAM HOWLAND dated April 21, 1810 at New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was born March 2, 1794 and died May 27, 1842 (aged 48). He married PRISCILLA SPOONER on October 14, 1827 when he was 33 and she was 31. This was issued under “An Act for the relief and protection of American Seamen.” He was a whaler.
Original – List of children of PATIENCE (CRAPO) AND MICAH SPOONER, written in 1906 by Elizabeth Howland, their daughter Priscilla’s child.
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Original CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION application for Miriam (Sargeant) Packard detailing her link to MICAH SPOONER, with an envelope in her mother, GRACE (HOWLAND) SARGEANT’s writing “Important – Miri (her nickname for her daughter, Miriam, and Anne (Sargeant) FARNSWORTH (her youngest child).
Original envelope and letter from CYNTHIA SPOONER to her sister, Mary, dated January the 4th, 1833 from Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Original letter from PRISCILLA (SPOONER) HOWLAND to “Dear Friends” dated June 29th, 1834 from Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Original Citizenship Certificate for CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND dated April 10, 1838. He was born February 25, 1824 and died December 19, 1891 (aged 67). He married ELIZABETH HOWLAND on January 30, 1850.
Original Inventory of PRISCILLA SPOONER’s effects, drawn up for her daughter, Elizabeth Howland on August 5th, 1839 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Original combination envelope/letter from BENJAMIN HOWLAND from Semprovinz to “Dear Cousin” dated September 27th, 1841
Original of ELIZABETH HOWLAND’s certificate of academic achievement dated “Dartmouth, 3rd Mo. 8th” 1845
Original of ELIZABETH HOWLAND’s certificate to teach dated “Dartmouth 3rd Mo. 8, 1948
Original of ELIZABETH HOWLAND’s recipe book (undated). She married CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND (same last name, but not related) on January 30, 1850.
Original of two envelopes in ELIZABETH HOWLAND’S handwriting to her maternal aunt, Mary Spooner (one from South Dartmouth, Massachusetts and the other without a return address)
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Original letter from ELIZABETH HOWLAND to her aunt, Mary Spooner, dated February 5th, 1850 from Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. In the middle of this letter, she casually mentions that “I was married Wednesday.”
Original envelope and letter from ELIZABETH HOWLAND’s cousin, LYDIA LENT dated May 28th, 1850 from LeRoy
Original letter from ELIZABETH HOWLAND to her aunt, Mary Spooner, dated January 1st, 1851
Original letter from ANNA ENTRICAN to ELIZABETH HOWLAND dated January 11th, 1854 from LeRoy, beginning “Dear Mrs. Howland.”
Original letter from ELIZABETH HOWLAND to her aunt, Mary Spooner, dated January 10th, 1857 from New Bedford, Massachusetts
Original of poem in CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND’s handwriting
Original newspaper notice of CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND’s death. He died December 19, 1891 aged 67.
Please note that there are four old family diaries written by my mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother that are not yet included with this material. I’ll be forwarding to you as soon as I finish with them. They are each approximately 8-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide by 1-1/2 inches deep:
Annie Calder Howland’s diary Dated January 1899 through 1903 Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant’s diary Dated 1900 through 1904 Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant’s Dated 1905 through 1909 Miriam (Sargeant) Packard’s - ` Dated 1934 describing European trip
27. GRACE EDGERTON (HOWLAND) SARGEANT:
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Certificate of Birth August 7, 1881 in New Bedford, Massachusetts Copy of an article about her wedding on November 17, 1909 to Moses Motley Sargeant 1920 Women’s Voting Registration. This was the first time women were able to vote and she clearly thought this Registration important enough to save. The College Club of New Bedford membership booklet 1926-1927 The College Club of New Bedford membership booklet 1929-1930 The Allcott Club membership booklet 1927-1928. Grace (Mrs. M.M. Sargeant) was President The Allcott Club 1928-1929. Grace was President again. Copy of a postcard package from Oxford, England written by Grace to her aunt, Gertrude S. Howland at 74 Sycamore Street, New Bedford, MA in May 1935. She was visiting her son, Howland Hill Sargeant, who was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1932 to 1935. New Bedford Standard-Times, January 1, 1942 with a picture of Grace Sargeant at the Annual Meeting of the YWCA, with which she was very involved as a former Peresident and Director Copy of an article about a small turnout at Presidential Primary voting in New Bedford in June 1948 showing Miriam Sargeant Packard (Grace’s daughter) and her two children, along with a picture of Grace Sargeant, who was also voting that day. Death Notice of Grace Sargeant, January 19, 1965 Information on Willis Eugene Lougee, 1897 – 1942. He was the second husband of Annie Calder (Peirce) (Howland), Grace’s mother.
LETTERS, AS FOLLOWS (pages with handwriting samples, pictures when available and birth/death dates of all authors are at the end of this transmittal package).
1900 Dated and undated letters from Grace Howland Sargeant to her mother, Annie Calder Howland, while she was attending Wellesley College.
1901 Letters from Grace Howland Sargeant to her mother while at Wellesley College
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1908 Diary of trip by Emma (Peirce) Barrows, daughter of William Copeland Peirce. She took this trip because her parents hoped she would “forget about” William Barrows, but she married him anyway in 1910 and they were happily married for more than 58 years. Emma was born in about 1889 and lived to be just a few months short of 100.
1917 to 1932 Letters written by:
Amanda Elizabeth (Hill) Peirce Annie (also called Anna) Calder Peirce, who married Hubert Marston Howland Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Moses Motley Sargeant Willis Lougee, second husband of Annie Calder (Peirce) Howland Kenneth Newell Packard, Miriam Sargeant’s husband
1933 (January through March) Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio, by:
Annie (also called Anna) Calder Peirce, who married Hubert Marston Howland (she was “GRAM”) – second husband Willis Lougee Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Moses Motley Sargeant Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth
1933 (April through September) Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio, by:
Annie (also called Anna) Calder Peirce, who married Hubert Marston Howland Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Moses Motley Sargeant Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth, from age 11
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1933 (October through December) Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio, by:
Annie (also called Anna) Calder Peirce, who married Hubert Marston Howland Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Moses Motley Sargeant
1934 (January through July) Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio and while she was on her trip to Europe with her brother, Howland:
Moses Motley Sargeant Miriam herself Howland Hill Sargeant
1934 (August through December) Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio:
Moses Motley Sargeant Dorothy (Ebersole) “Dodo” Gould, Miriam’s oldest friend Miriam Sargeant Packard Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth
1935 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard at Oberlin College, Ohio:
Moses Motley Sargeant Miriam herself Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth Dorothy “Dodo” Gould Mary Averic Heineken (Peirce) Brereton (“Aunt May”)
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1936 Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard at Oberlin College:
Moses Motley Sargeant Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Dorothy “Dodo” Gould
1936 Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard while she was at Oberlin College, Ohio and after she graduated:
Moses Motley Sargeant Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Dorothy “Dodo” Gould
1937 to 1940 Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard by:
1937 Dorothy “Dodo” (Ebersole) Gould 1938 Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant 1938 Gardner French Packard 1939 “Dodo” and Anne Sargeant Farnsworth 1940 “Dodo”, Grace Sargeant and Anne Farnsworth
1941 to 1946 Letters written to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard by:
Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth Dorothy (Ebersole) “Dodo” Gould
1953 to 1958 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard and:
Dorothy “Dodo” Gould Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Elizabeth Sawyer (Peirce) Davis (“Aunt Diddie”)
Probably 1953 to 1953 Undated letters written by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard
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1959 to 1962 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard and:
Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Howland Hill Sargeant
1963 to 1970 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard and:
Grace Edgerton (Howland) Sargeant Howland Hill Sargeant Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth Miriam (Packard) Houghton
1973 to 1983 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard and:
Kenneth Newell Packard Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth
1984 to 1990 Letters written to or by Miriam (Sargeant) Packard and: Kenneth Newell Packard
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INFORMATIONAL NOTES ON HOWLAND, SARGEANT AND SPOONER FAMILIES:
Tracing back to Charles Henry Howland (The Whaler) and thence to Richard Warren (who came over on the Mayflower)
Ancestors of MIRIAM (Sargeant) PACKARD, Howland Hill Sargeant and Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth
Parents: Grace Edgerton Howland August 7, 1881 to January 18, 1965 (Age 84) Married November 17, 1909 Moses Motley Sargeant October 3, 1876 to February 26, 1946 (Age 70)
Grandparents: Hubert Marston Howland October 1, 1860 to July 6, 1885 (Age 24) Married May 13, 1880 Anna Calder Peirce August 23, 1861 to October 20, 1933 (Age 72)
Great Grandparents: Elizabeth Howland April 7, 1830 to February 15, 1911 (Age 81) (Priscilla’s Daughter) married January 30, 1850 (same last name, but not related!) Charles Henry Howland February 25, 1824 to December 19, 1891 (Age 67) [NOTE: There were many other Howland families in New Bedford at this time. Eight Howland families controlled more than 50% of U.S. whaling during the mid-1800s.]
Great-Great Grandparents and parents of Charles Henry Howland: Joshua Howland Jr. Born 1796 died ? Selvester Smith Born 1793 died ?
Great-Great-Great Grandparents: Joshua Howland, Born 1754 died 1822 EUNICE’S PARENTS: Eunice Wood No dates available John Wood & Eunice Shaw
EUNICE’S GRANDPARENTS: GREAT GRANDPARENTS: Joseph Wood & Mary Brownell John Wood & Mary Church
EUNICE’S GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS: Joseph Church , born about 1638 & Mary Tucker, born 10-8-1640 died 3-21-1710
HER GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS: Richard Church & Elizabeth Warren
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EUNICE’S GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS: Richard Warren, d.1628 and Elizabeth ? ___ ? b.England ca.1616, d.3-9-1669 or 1670 at Hingham. Richard Warren came over on the MAYFLOWER and his wife and daughters on the ship ANNE.
Tracing back to the Spooners: Ancestors of Miriam (Sargeant) Packard Howland Hill Sargeant and Anne (Sargeant) Farnsworth
Parents: Grace Edgerton Howland August 7, 1881 to January 18, 1965 (age 84) Married November, 17, 1909 Moses Motley Sargeant October 3, 1876 to February 26, 1946 (age 70)
Grandparents: Hubert Marston Howland October 1, 1860 to July 6, 1885 (age 24) Married May 23, 1881 Annie Calder Peirce August 23, 1861 to October 20, 1933 (age 72)
Great Grandparents: Elizabeth Howland April 7, 1830 to February 15, 1911 (age 81) (Priscilla’s Daughter) Married January 30, 1850 … Charles Henry Howland February 25, 1824 to December 19, 1891 (age 67) (same last name, not related)
Great-Great Grandparents: Priscilla Spooner July 22, 1796 to July 19, 1839 (age 42) ** See next page tracing Priscilla Spooner to Ann Peck from Nottinghamshire, England. Married October 14, 1827 (Priscilla was 31; Abraham was 33) Abraham Howland March 2, 1794 to May 27, 1842 (age 48) (His brother Benjamin Howland born July 15, 1796 Died February 13, 1852 – age 55); His parents were Joshua Howland, Jr. and Selvester Smith?
Great-Great-Great Grandparents: Micah Spooner May 22, 1754 to October 9, 1824 (age 70) Married July 20,1777 Patience Crapo February 25, 1761 to May 5, 1855 (age 94)
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Micah Spooner, Private in Captain Thomas Crandon’s Company, Colonel John Hathaway’s Regiment. First on duty with the Minutemen called out on the occasion of the Lexington alarm in 1775. Entered service August 7, 1780 and discharged August 8, 1780. Service six days on an alarm at Rhode Island.
Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents: Nathaniel Spooner September 10, 1716 to March 6, 1799 (age 83) Married June 29,1749 Hannah Blackwell February 21, 1719 to February 22, 1795 (age 76)
Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents: William Spooner February 13, 1689 to ? ____? 1750 (age 61) Married November 25, 1713 Mercy Delano
Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents: Samuel Spooner January 14, 1655 to _____ 1739 Married (? Date ?) Experience Wing August 4, 1668
Tracing Priscilla Spooner back to Ann Peck, who was born in 1598 in Scooby, Nottinghamshire, England:
• Ann Peck (b. 1598 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, d. 1650 in Salem, Plymouth, MA) married John Spooner (b. 1594 in Buckingham, England, d. July 6, 1628 in Leiden, Holland) on December 24, 1616 in Leiden, Holland.
• Ann Peck was the niece of William Brewster, the famous Pilgrim who came on the Mayflower.
• Ann had migrated to Amsterdam and then Leiden with the original Pilgrim contingent.
• John Spooner's first wife, Suzanna Bennett, died before he went to Holland in 1609. He was a ribbon maker, and we don't know why he went there.
• After John died, Ann and their two sons, Thomas (b. ??) and William (b. January 1, 1621/22 in Leiden, Holland, d. March 8, 1683/84 in Bristol, MA) left on a ship in 1637 for the New World and settled in Salem.
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• William married Elizabeth Partridge in 1642, but she died. He married Hannah Pratt (parents named Bathsheba and Joshua Pratt - Jewish names, by the way) on March 18, 1651/52.
• William and Hannah had two children: Samuel (1654-1739) and Isaac (1668- 1709).
• Samuel Spooner married Experience Wing (1668-1731) in 1680 or 1710 (weird).
• Samuel and Experience had eleven children. Oldest was William (1688/89-1749).
• William Spooner married Mercy Delano. They had six children.
• Their second child, Nathaniel (1716-1799), married Hannah Blackwell in 1749. They had four children (William, Nathaniel, Micah, and Phillip).
• Micah (May 22, 1754-October 9, 1822) married Patience Crapo in 1777. They had 11 children, one of whom was Priscilla Spooner (1796-1849).
• Priscilla Spooner married Abraham Howland in 1827.
Some Sargeant family ancestors:
The name of Sargent may have been derived from the ancient Latin term “servientes armoram,” a military application, or perhaps from “servieus ad legen” – sergeant of the law. The English equivalent for serviens (sergent or sergeant) first appeared in the reign of Henry III of England (1216 – 1272). The first of the name in England probably accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066, and it has since undergone many changes in its orthography - some 32 in all, commencing with Sariant and ending with Sargent or Sargeant. Ten or eleven of this name emigrated from England between the years 1633 and 1684. (Source: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Vol.III, compiled under the editorial supervision of Ezra S. Stearns, 1908.)
This branch of the family can be traced back to William Sargent of Bath, England (1602 – 1675).
William Sargent Born in Bath, England in 1602. Died 1675 (his will was proved on April 18, 1675).
He was the son of Richard Sargent, an officer in the Royal Navy. He was a seaman in his younger years – he was designated as a “seaman” or “mariner” in his will and other documents. Whether or not he came to America in 1630 with John Perkins (whose daughter William married) is unknown. He and John Perkins were two of the original founders and settlers of Agawam (now Ipswich, Massachusetts) in 1633. The first record of William is in the General Court records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in April 1633, which by an
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act of said Court (a forerunner of the current legislature) protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam in their rights. William “Sarjeant” was one of them:
“No less person than John Winthrop, son of the Governor, was selected as leader of this expedition (to found Agawam). He was but twenty-seven years of age, yet a man of large practical sagacity, and undoubted gifts of leadership. Twelve men were assigned him, with the promise of more when the ships arrived, but of these twelve, the names of only nine have been preserved. These were …………… and William Sargeant.” (Source: Winthrop’s History of New England, Ed. 1853, I:120, Para 101.)
William married 1) Elizabeth Perkins about 1633 after coming to America. She was born in 1618 at Newent, Gloucestershire, England. Her father, John Perkins’s family (included five children), was among one of the earliest to immigrate to America, sailing from Bristol, England on December 1, 1630 in the ship Lyon, bound for Boston. Roger Williams was a fellow passenger. After a stormy passage of 67 days, they arrived at Nantasket on February 5, 1631 and on the 6th came to anchor in Boston.
Her death occurred before 1670, when William married 2) Joanna Rowell, who survived him.
When William and Elizabeth decided to move on from Agawam (Ipswich) is not known, but records and deeds show him to have been among the earliest settler of Wessaucon, now Newbury, in 1635. William was at Winnacumet, Now Hampton (New Hampshire) in 1638, at South Salisbury in 1639.
After much moving, he and Elizabeth appear to have spent the remainder of their days at Salisbury New Town (now Amesbury and later Merrimac, New Hampshire) until his death in 1675. (Source: History of Hampton, Joseph Dow.) In History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, 1635 to 1845, by Joshua Coffin, 1845, one page was originally assigned to each person and William’s name was spelled as SARGEANT.
It’s interesting to note that when Elizabeth’s father, John Perkins, died in 1654 at the age of 64, he left Elizabeth one cow and one “heyfer,” with the “proffits or increase to be equally divided amongst her children.”
William Sargent and Elizabeth Perkins had at least nine children:
. Mary Born about 1634, married Philip Challis . Elizabeth Birth date unknown. Died July 14, 1641 at Salisbury. . Thomas Born April 11, 1643. Married Rachel Barnes January 2, 1667. He was a farmer, held public office and was a Lieutenant in the Militia. . William Born November 2, 1645. Died 1712 (will probated March 31). Married Mary Colby on September 23, 1668. . Lydia Born June 17, 1647. Died 1661. . Elizabeth Born August 22, 1648. Died September 4, 1649. Died young. . Sarah Died December 29, 1651. Died young. HOWLAND-SARGEANT-PACKARD – APPENDIX C – Howland, Sargeant and Spooner Families Page 14
. Sarah Born February 29, 1652. Married Orlando Bagley. . Elizabeth Born about 1653. Married Samuel Colby prior to 1670. At the date of William’s will in April 1675, they had two daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth.
William Sargent, Jr. and Mary Colby’s children:
. William Born April 19, 1669. Lived all his life in Amesbury. . Philip Born August 12, 1672. Same as above. . Charles Born January 31, 1674. Same as above. . Jacob Born March 13, 1687. Died April 10, 1749. Married Judith Harvey on December 7, 1710. She died in June 1749.
Jacob Sargent and Judith Harvey’s nine children:
Jacob was a surveyor highways in 1727 and he was the first holder of the position of Assessor in 1730.
. Winthrop Born October 28, 1711. Married Phoebe Healy on June 13, 1738. He was a farmer and held office. . Jacob Born November 18, 1713. Died 1787, unmarried. . Judith Born March 27, 1716. Married 1) Francis Towle in 1738 and 2) Enoch Colby, 1748. . Sarah Born March 8, 1718. Married Jarvis Ring May 24, 1736. . Theophilus Born 1720. . Elizabeth Born July 23, 1722. . Dorothy Born February 28, 1725. . Tabitha Born November 1726. Married 1) John Foss and 2) Hezekiah Underwood. . John Born about 1727.
Winthrop Sargent and Phoebe Healy had eight children (information is not available on all of them):
. Moses Born May 2, 1743. Married Sarah Varnum, born January 29, 1754. Moses was a farmer, he held office and was a soldier in the Revolution. . John Also known as Captain John. Born March 17, 1746. Died 1834. Married 1) Mary Turner, born April 9, 1752, in about 1769. She died June 22, 1823, aged 71. 2) Hannah Holmes Shannon about 1825. . Abraham Born February 28, 1748. Died March 1822. Married Lydia Richardson.
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Captain John Sargent enlisted in the Militia twice in November 1775 and was discharged after service, and then again in October 1, 1776 and October 1, 1777. During this last enlistment, he was present at the surrender of General Burgoyne. He was a Constable in 1784, 1785 and 1796, was one of the Surveyors of Highways in 1801 and Tax Collector in 1812.
HE CHANGED THE SPELLING OF HIS NAME TO “SARGEANT” AROUND 1807.
“Captain John” Sargent (later Sargeant around 1807) and Mary Turner’s three children:
. Sarah Born July 24, 1773. Died 1860. Married 1) Jacob Pearley, who died in 1797. 2) Josiah Shannon, by whom she had three children. Their second son, Josiah, born October 15, . Josiah October 15, 1775. Died 1817. Married Sarah Brackett, who died in 1851. . Moses Born April 3, 1778. Died April 29, 1857. Married Sarah Shannon November 4, 1800. She died January 10, 1843.
Moses was named Executor of his father, Captain John’s, estate since there was apparently no will. Moses announced a public auction of John’s personal effects on February 14, 1835; the auction took in $100.98.
On June 18, 1823, Moses purchased farm in Candia. In addition to being a farmer, he also held town office, probably Treasurer.
Moses Sargeant and Sarah Shannon had only one child:
. Rufus Sargeant Born November 29, 1801 in the house that Captain John had built for Moses and Sarah. Died 1855 in California. Married Ruth Wadleigh on September 18, 1823, who was Born June 3, 1805. She died in 1848.
Ruth died in 1848 and Rufus left for the California Gold Rush shortly thereafter. The more normal course of conduct, with a 15-year-old daughter and a twelve-year-old son, would have been to remain in Candia and probably remarry.
Rufus Sargeant and Ruth Wadleigh’s four children:
. Cyrus Sargeant Born August 24, 1824. He provided much of the financial support for his nephew, Jesse Sargeant and his great-nephew Moses Motley Sargeant to attend Dartmouth College, and for his great-niece, Theodosia Sargeant, to attend Wellesley College . HOWLAND-SARGEANT-PACKARD – APPENDIX C – Howland, Sargeant and Spooner Families Page 16
. Sarah A. Born February 13, 1827, died 1885. Married Isaac W. Bird on November 19, 1846. Children were Frank Wadleigh, Sargeant C., Jesse Wadleigh, and E. Everett Bird.
. Theodosia Grant Born January 24, 1833, died January 1, 1876. Called “Dosia.” Married Daniel F. Emerson, of Candia, brother of Lydia Emerson (grandmother of Moses Motley Sargeant), on April 14, 1855. She and Daniel lived with Jesse and Lydia at the Candia farm all their lives. Children were Ruth A., Harvey M., Sarah W. and Carrie L. Emerson.
. Jesse Wadleigh Born May 20, 1836, Father of Moses Motley Sargeant, grandfather of Howland Hill Sargeant, Miriam Sargeant Packard and Anne Sargeant Farnsworth. Died November 22, 1918. Married Lydia Ann Emerson on December 15, 1858.
No-one knows who brought up “Dosia” and Jesse after their father, Rufus, left for the California Gold Rush in 1848 after the death of his wife, Ruth. Their oldest sibling, Cyrus, was 24 and their sister, Sarah Bird was 22, living in Newton (Massachusetts) with her husband, Isaac Bird. Rufus was an only child. His father, Moses, was alive when Rufus left for California, living in the family farm, but he was widowed and 70 years old.
It appears that Dosia went to live with relatives until her marriage on April 18, 1855 and that Jesse went to live with his grandfather, Moses, on the family farm, where Jesse eventually spent his entire life – he and his wife Lydia lived there with Jesse’s sister “Dosia” and her husband, Daniel Emerson. When Moses died in 1857, apparently by arrangement with the other siblings, Jesse inherited the farm at the age of 21.
For about 10 years between his father’s leaving for California and his own marriage late in 1858, he worked for wages for others in town. In Reminiscences of Candia, Wilson Palmer says of Jesse: “Then there is Jesse Sargeant, who has continued all his married life to sit under his own vines and fig tree. Upon his ancestral acres he has gotten out of life a generous share of solid comfort. Mr. Sargeant knows what it is to work and work hard. In his earlier days, he wrought long and well for others on those stubborn acres on the North Road, and the lesson he then received of unremitting industry has served him well on his home place.”
Jesse saw no military service in the Civil War, but in the spring of 1864 he went to Washington and to Camp Culpepper, Virginia. His letters indicate that he was concerned about a military draft and was trying to find civilian work with the military in order to avoid a draft possibility so he could stay to work the farm and support his wife and four-year-old son, Frank. He stayed three or four weeks, found no work and eventually went home.
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Jesse Wadleigh Sargeant and Lydia Emerson’s five hildren:
. Frank Wadleigh Born March 7, 1860. Died October 20,1933. . Abraham Emerson Born March 30, 1863. Died in infancy. . Cyrus Emerson Born January 21, 1865, died in 1930s. Married Alice M. Seavey on April 12, 1893, who was born August 19, 1867. They had three children: Jesse W., born October 9, 1896 and died 1945, Josephine M., born August 30, 1899 and died 1952, and Alice, born June 14, 1901. She married Andrew Aylies of Glens Falls, New York and they had one son, Andrew Jr., born August 12, 1931. . Frederick Eaton Born May 20, 1869, died December 17, 1907. Married Emily H. Ramsey February 22, 1901. She moved to California after his death on December 17, 1907. . MOSES MOTLEY Born October 3, 1876, died February 26, 1946. Died February 26, 1946. Married Grace Edgerton Howland on November 17, 1909.
Moses (called “Mot” by his close friends) and Grace were in Candia, New Hampshire during much of World War II, according to Miriam (Sargeant) Packard, my mother and Moses’s and Grace’s daughter. They lived at the old homestead, growing crops. Howland and Miriam Sargeant picked blackberries there as children with Moses. Miriam said the farm now has a golf course.
Following a long line of Emerson uncles and cousins, Moses attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. During college, he continued his high school interest in tennis, as well as in later life, and he took a keen interest in track. His specialties were the 100 and 220 yard dash. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Sphinx.
On graduation from Dartmouth, he was first associated with the Burbank brokerage and real estate firm in Boston. During the winter months, he taught in the evening school of Cambridge. Subsequently, he worked for Glaeser, Thompson Company in Boston and then for Edgerly and Crocker, for whom he later moved to New York City as their representative there. During his residence in New York, he was engaged principally in stock brokerage and was successively associated with Shoemaker and Company, then with Hollister, Lyon and Walten, and with Francis Marden. He was actdive as a member of the Broadway Tabernacle and the New York Athletic Club.
He married Grace Edgerton Howland in November 1909 and I assume they lived in New York for nine years before they moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Grace grew up. He was an active member and one of the original founders of Pilgrim Church. In 1920, he became the Proprietor of the long-established firm of Paisler and Willis, dealers in building materials and supplies for masons and continued there until he retired in 1942. Among his other interests was his membership in the Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
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His loyalty to his Alma Mater never wavered through his life. He followed the Dartmouth football team each year through its schedule and attended games whenever possible. Just before his death in February 2946 he was looking forward eagerly to the prospect of a reunion with his college roommate, Dr. Walter Adams. (Thanks to Winthrop T. Sargeant for much of this information. His extensive research and the large volume of material he made available to many of the extended family members is invaluable in setting the lives of these Sargeant ancestors in context. Winthrop was Frank Wadleigh Sargeant’s oldest child and Moses’s oldest brother.)
Moses Motley Sargeant married Grace Edgerton Howland on November 17, 1909. She was born on August 7, 1881 and died on January 18, 1965 at age 84.
Moses Motley Sargeant and Grace Howland’s three children:
. Howland Hill Sargeant Born July 13, 1911. Died February 28, 1984. . Miriam Sargeant Born April 29, 1915. Died February 17, 2005. Married Kenneth Newell Packard on November 26, 1936. . Anne Sargeant Born September 18, 1922. Died November 7, 1977. Married Thomas W. Farnsworth on December 31, 1942.
Miriam and Kenneth Packard’s children:
. Miriam Packard Born May 22, 1942 Married 1) Ian Ramon Brown of London, England on August 4, 1963 2) Robert Jaquette Houghton, October 2, 1971 Daughter Jennifer Elizabeth, Born July 9, 1974 Married Eric Joseph Franco, October 31, 2004
. Craig Newell Packard Born November 28, 1943 Married: 1) Gail Kort on August 17, 1965 2) Lura Mumma on October 5, 1979 3) Joan Dubinsky on June 16, 1991 Sons: Boris Born July 9, 1969, who Married Meghan Carr on May 24, 2008 Son Ansel Kort-Packard born October 11, 2009 Marko Bowen Born February 20. 1972
. Howland Sargeant Packard Born June 21, 1948 Married Jo Ellyn Robb, December 20, 1971 Sons Clynt Harvey Born June 21, 1971 Keith Robb Born July 31, 1972 Married Theresa Sells on October 14, 2000 Son Kyle Robb born April 15, 2007 Son Adam Davis born November 20, 2009
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Appendix D – PACKARD FAMILY (including Kingman, Thompson/Thomson, Hudson and Bartlett families):
EARLY PACKARD MATERIAL SENT:
“Lines composed by T. Tompson somewhere between 1798 and 1828.
April 26, 1841 Deed from Silas Packard selling several lots of land in North Bridgewater
Two undated items (probably around 1844): A letter to Charles Thompson Packard from Anna E. Holbrook and a “Parting Hymn” written by Charles T. Packard
Five (5) undated essays written around 1844 by Charles Thompson Packard while a student at the Adelphian Academy
Four (4) letters to “Mr. Editor” at the Adelphian Academy:
September 10, 1844 Composition No. 1 – “Description of a Loafer” September 27, 1844 Composition No. 2 – “History of a Cent Written by Itself” October 11, 1844 – “Pride and Humility” November 11, 1844 composition No. 5 signed by “Toby Soapsuds”
Warrant created December 19, 1844 by Charles Thompson Packard
Warranty Deed dated July 2, 1847 whereby Silas Packard sells part of a lot he owned to his son, Charles Packard (Charles Thompson Packard’s father) for $100.
Deed to Village Cemetery in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts from Charles Packard (Charles Thompson Packard’s father), SIGNED December 20, 1848, selling a lot to the Cemetery Association for $220.
Copy of a January 5, 1862 letter and its typed transcript from FRANCES BARTLETT (HUDSON) PACKARD, wife of Charles
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Thompson Packard, while she was at Camp Hicks, Frederick City, Maryland during the Civil War. This is a wonderful account of a day at the camp.
Certification dated May 18, 1863 that Captain Charles T. Packard of Company B of the 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers was wounded and still suffering from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 18, 1862.
Letter dated May 24, 1863 from “Camp 12th Mass” to Captain Charles T. Packard from “John B.” saying he has made a tent and the “boys” all want the Capt to come back.
Pension Certificate dated December 3, 1873 stating that Frances B. Packard, wife of Charles T. Packard, was entitled to a pension of $20 per month commencing on January 26, 1873 and “to continue during dependence.”
Enlistment certification dated June 26, 1861 showing that Charles T. Packard, age 33, occupation Clerk, mustered into the service of the United States for three years.
Letter to Frances Bartlett (Hudson) Packard dated December 4, 1903.
OTHER PACKARD MATERIAL SENT:
Packard coat of arms
Register of early Kingman Family births, deaths, marriages
Copies of excerpts from HISTORY OF NORTH BRIDGEWATER, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to the present time with Family Registers by Bradford Kingman, Boston, 1866.
Copies of excerpts from GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILIES who have settled in the North Parish of Bridgewater, to which is added an Historical Sketch of North Bridgewater, by Moses Cary, Boston 1824.
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Picture of Simeon Packard at the age of 74, the father of all the Packards in America, who came with his wife and one child in 1638 from Windham, near Hingham, England to Hingham, Massachusetts, but soon removed and settled in that part of Old Bridgewater now called West Bridgewater.
FAMILY REGISTER of Births, Marriages and Deaths, including HUDSON family and PACKARD family dates.
Miscellaneous genealogical information about HUDSON and PACKARD family members
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION application for Lilian Frances Packard (same last name as the man she married, Gardner French Packard, but not related, showing relationship to Captain Thomas Thompson, who served and was wounded in the Civil War.
Programme dated March 9, 1915 of a concert where Miss Marjorie Packard, daughter of Gardner French and Lilian Packard, played the piano.
Receipt for piano bought by Gardner French Packard on December 16, 1915 and an envelope showing he gave it to his daughter, Marjorie on March 25, 1918.
Calling card/commemorative card of 25 years of marriage for Mr. and Mrs. George Winslow Perkins.
Clippings of the 50th anniversary celebration of Gardner French and Lilian Frances Packard, November 1931 and one showing the death of Lilian from a December 15, 1937 newspaper.
Clippings reporting the death of GARDNER FRENCH PACKARD in 1939.
Eulogies for Gardner French Packard.
Will of Gardner French Packard dated August 20, 1937.
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Telegram to Edward Clarence Packard from his son, Gardner French Packard, announcing the birth of Stanley Hudson Packard, January 18, 1886.
LETTERS FROM STANLEY to his parents in 1958.
Articles about Donald Packard, Stanley’s brother.
INFORMATIONAL NOTE ABOUT SIMEON PACKARD FOLLOWS IN BOX:
Simeon’s father owned and worked a farm and was also a carpenter. Simeon, in addition to working on the farm, helped his father making nails for carpenters, then often making the nails they used. He supplemented the scanty public school opportunities of those days by study in the little shop, fastening his book upon the chimney of the forge to con it as he worked the bellow, repeating to himself the lesson as he shaped and cut the nail on the anvil. Before his 20th year, he taught district schools at Marshall’s Corner and Brockton Heights.
He was 19 when his father died at the age of 50. By arrangement with his brothers, half the farm came into his possession. He built a house 40 rods west from the one in which he was born and October 18, 1821 he married Harmony when he was 24 and she was 20 and took her the same day to the new home. Harmony was the daughter of Abel and Lucy (Washburn) Kingman. They lived together for 54 years in that home until May 21, 1875, rearing six children.
Together, he and Harmony joined the First Church in North Bridgewater on May 4, 1828. Simeon was elected a deacon on January 4, 1837 and in 1839 he was elected superintendent of the Sabbath school.
Not of a sanguine temperament, he had been accustomed to be provident, without withholding or grudging needful expenditures and without being anxious for the morrow. To the end of his life he had great delight in flowers, and was generally observant of natural objects and phenomena, seeing more than most do in meadow and pasture, in woods and field. See further quotations from printed materials in the file.
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DOCUMENTS SENT ON STANLEY HUDSON PACKARD:
Birth certificate, January 18, 1886.
Miscellaneous pictures of Stanley.
Eulogy for Stanley.
Certificate from Probate Court appointing Bertha as Stanley’s Executrix.
Stanley’s will dated August 22, 1950.
Memory book from Stanley’s funeral.
DOCUMENTS SENT ON BERTHA FRANCIS NEWELL and HER FOSTER FAMILY ANCESTORS:
Granddaughter of David F. Foster, Born ___??_____- and died September 12, 1923. He was the son of David Choate Foster; he married Sarah D. Wells.
Daughter of Amelia Francis (Foster) Newell. She was born _??__, 1860 and died March 31, 1915. She was called “Millie.”
Letters from Amelia (“Millie”) Newell dated 1884, 1901, 1915.
Certificate of Membership in the First Universalist Church of Roxbury, Massachusetts for Bertha Newell, June 3, 1906.
List of Wedding Guests at Bertha’s wedding in 1907.
Letter from Amelia to Bertha dated June 9, 1914.
Pictures of Bertha Newell Packard, about 1948 and 1957.
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FILES SENT FOR KENNETH NEWELL PACKARD AND MIRIAM SARGEANT PACKARD
With various documents and pictures.
See files following GRACE HOWLAND SARGEANT for letters written by Miriam Sargeant.
INFORMATIONAL NOTES:
Overview of Ancestors of KENNETH NEWELL PACKARD
Parents: Stanley Hudson Packard January 18, 1886 to April 5, 1954 Married October 5, 1907 Bertha Francis Newell September 18, 1886 to July 2, 1974
Kenneth’s Grandparents: Gardner French Packard June 21, 1856 to July 26, 1939 Married 1881 Lilian Frances Packard September 5, 1854 to December 9, 1937
[Gardner French Packard’s ancestors:
Edward Clarence Packard, son of Simeon & Harmony Married Susan Adeline Kingman 1852 He died September 25, 1906
Simeon Packard, son of Isaiah & Betsy Born August 22, 1797 Married Harmony Kingman October 18, 1821 He died October 16, 1889
Isaiah Packard, son of Simeon & Mary (Perkins) Married Betsy Packard 1792
Simeon Packard, son of Zaccheus & Mercy Married Mary Perkins 1761
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Zaccheus Packard, son of Samuel & Sarah Married Mercy Alden 1725
Zaccheus Packard, 8th child of Samuel Packard Married Sarah Howard About 1685
[Lilian Frances Packard’s Ancestors – same last name, but a different branch of the Packard family:
Father Charles Thompson Packard, Captain in the Civil War, where he lost an eye. He was born in 1828 and was mustered into the U.S. Army in 1861 at the age of 33. He died in 1873 at the age of 45. Married Frances Bartlett (Hudson) 1851. She was born August 16, 1831 and died September 14, 1914.
Children Lilian Frances and Franklin Ames Packard (he was a Civil War Major and a pay officer).
Charles Thompson Packard was a Captain in the 12th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster. Charles received head wounds at the Battle of Fredericksburg which resulted in the loss of an eye and in his death a few years later at the age of 45.
Frances and her daughter, Lilian, spent the winter of 1862 at Camp Hicks in Frederick City, Maryland during the Civil War. After Charles died, Frances and Lilian went to live with “Auntie Ames,” who was Martha (Thompson) Ames, wife of Franklin Ames and sister of Charlotte (Thompson) Packard, Frances’s aunt.
Charles Thompson Packard’s parents were
Charles Packard and Charlotte (Thompson), marriage date not known. Charles was son of Silas Packard (born 1765) and Chloe (Willis) born 1789, who married in 1818. Silas and Chloe had four children: Chloe, Silas, Charles and Abigail. (Bridgewater History, page 261).
Silas’s parents: Abiah Packard and Eunice Howard, who married in 1764.
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Chloe Willis’s parents: Nathan Willis and Martha Howard, who Married in 1754.
Charlotte Thompson’s parents: Captain Thomas Thompson and Martha Kingman, marriage date not known.
Captain Thomas Thompson’s parents: Thomas Thompson and Elizabeth (Betsey) Strowbridge, who married in 1754.
Frances Bartlett Hudson’s parents were:
Lucien Hudson and Hannah Bartlett Willis, who married in 1828. After Hannah died, he married Sarah Ann Summers. He was in the West Indies fruit trade, with an office in Brooklyn, New York. He spent some time in Cuba and died there.
Frances lived in Cuba as a little girl and after her father and stepmother died, she lived with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hudson at 138 Willow Street, Brooklyn until she married Charles Thompson Packard.
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Descendants of Kenneth Newell Packard:
Kenneth Newell Packard, son of Stanley & Bertha Born May 4, 1910 Married Miriam Sargeant November 28, 1936 Died August 29, 1991
Miriam Packard, daughter of Kenneth & Miriam Born May 22, 1942 Married 1) Ian Ramon Brown, August 4, 1963 2) Robert Jaquette Houghton, October 2, 1971 Daughter Jennifer Elizabeth, Born July 9, 1974 Married Eric Joseph Franco, October 31, 2004
Craig Newell Packard, son of Kenneth & Miriam Born November 28, 1943 Married: 1) Gail Kort on August 17, 1965 2) Lura Mumma on October 5, 1979 3) Joan Dubinsky on June 16, 1991 Sons: Boris Born July 9, 1969, who Married Meghan Carr on May 24, 2008 Son Ansel Kort-Packard born October 11, 2009 Marko Bowen Born February 20. 1972
Howland Sargeant Packard, son of Kenneth & Miriam Born June 21, 1948 Married Jo Ellyn Robb, December 20, 1971 Sons Clynt Harvey Born June 21, 1971 Keith Robb Born July 31, 1972, who married Theresa Sells on October 14, 2000 Son Kyle Robb born April 15, 2007 Son Adam Davis born November 20, 2009
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MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON PACKARD ANCESTORS
SAMUEL PACKARD Born September 17, 1612 in Parish of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk County, England; died April 7, 1684 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Father GEORGE PACKARD, Mother MARY WITHER). Married ELIZABETH STREAM, who may have remarried to John Washburn in 1685 or 1686.
Samuel Packard, wife and daughter Elizabeth, came from Windham near Hingham, England in the ship DILIGENCE of Ipswich, John Martin, Master. There were 133 passengers. It sailed on April 26, 1638 and landed in Boston on August 10, 1638 (almost 4 months).
Samuel Packard first settled in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1638. From thence, he removed to West Bridgewater, now Brockton, Massachusetts. Samuel was a constable and tavern-keeper. All of this name who have gone from the Bridgewaters were probably descendants of his and, in fact, nearly all of the Packard names in this country can be traced to that place. (References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 585; M.F. King’s Annals of Oxford; and Banks’s Planters of the Commonwealth, page 190.)
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SAMUEL AND ELIZABETH’S 14 CHILDREN (birth order established from Samuel Packard’s will and Records of Baptism from Rev. Peter Hobart’s Journal: (NOTE: We are descended from ZACCHEUS.)
Elizabeth Packard Born 1635 in Wymondham, England, died 1684. Married Thomas Alger on November 14, 1665 Samuel Packard Born July 19, 1646, died 1698 Mary Packard – no dates Married Richard Phillips Hannah Packard No birth date (born in Weymouth, Mass,) died April 20, 1727 (?). Married Thomas Randall in 1671 Isreal (sic) Packard No birth date, no death date Jael Packard No dates Married John Smith, November 15, 1672
Deborah Packard No birth date, died 1720 Married Samuel Washburn in 1671 ? Zaccheus Packard Born April 20, 1651, died August 3, 1723 Married Sarah Howard
Jane Packard No birth date, died young Abigail Packard No birth date, died young Deliverence Packard Born July 11, 1652, died 1729 Married Thomas Washburn in 1680 (brother of Samuel Washburn, who married sister Deborah ?) Thomas Packard No birth or death dates John Packard Born July 20, 1655, died 1720 Married Judith Winslow on April 12, 1688 Nathaniel Packard No birth date, died 1720 Married Lydia Smith
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ZACCHEUS PACKARD: Born April 20, 1651 at Bridgewater, Mass. and died August 3, 1723 at Bridgewater. Married SARAH HOWARD on October 21, 1725 at Bridgewater. She was born August 20, 1648 in Bridgewater, no death date. Her father was JOHN HOWARD and her mother was MARTHA HAYWARD.
ZACCHEUS AND SARAH’S 9 CHILDREN (all born in Bridgewater) (NOTE: We are descended from ZACCHEUS.):
Isreal Packard Born April 27, 1680, no death date Married Hannah Crossman in 1703? and then Susanna Field. Sarah Packard Born August 19, 1682, died February 14, 1754 Married Josiah Edson on July 17, 1704 Jonathan Packard Born December 7, 1684, died 1750 Married Susanna Hayward on December 24, 1710? and then Abigail Thompson David Packard Born February 11, 1687, died November 3, 1755 Married Hannah Ames on December 17, 1712 Solomon Packard Born March 20, 1689, died 1782 Married Sarah Lathrop on November 16, 1713? then Susanna Kingman and then Dorothy Perkins James Packard Born June 2, 1691, died November 24, 1765 Married Jemina Keith on June 7, 1722 Zaccheus Packard Born September 4, 1693, died November 8, 1775 Married Mercy Alden on October 21, 1725 John Packard Born October 8, 1695, died June 3, 1738 Married Lydia Thompson on February 2, 1726 Abiel Packard Born April 29, 1699, died June 1, 1776 Married Sarah Ames on January 11, 1723
(References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 586; Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; L.E. Packard of Clinton, Mass.; Ivan Packard of Omaha, Nebraska; and Packard family history researched by Charlotte Pike Packard of Arkansas in 1942.)
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ZACCHEUS PACKARD: Born September 4, 1693 at Bridgewater, Mass. and died November 8, 1775 at Bridgewater. Married MERCY ALDEN on October 21, 1725 at Bridgewater. She was born October 30, 1696 at Bridgewater and died March 12, 1775 at Brockton, Mass. Her father was ISAAC ALDEN and her mother was MEHITABLE ALLEN.
ZACCHEUS AND MERCY’S 6 CHILDREN (all born in Bridgewater) (NOTE: We are descended from SIMEON.):
Eleazar Packard Born September 24, 1727, died 1803. Married Mercy Richards in 175_ ? Benjamin Packard Born August 5, 1730, died September 19, 1730 (young) Jesse Packard Born October 26, 1731, died March 29, 1732 (young) Seth Packard Born May 23, 1733, no death date Simeon Packard Born May 30, 1736, died October 23, 1815 Married Mary Perkins on July 6, 1761 Mercy Packard Born 1738, died December 31, 1775 Married Ezra Warren in 175__
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 587; E.R. Packard; Ivan Packard of Omaha, Nebraska; J.E. Packard, Jr., of 54 Plaza Sevilla Court, Apartment 74, Treasure Island, Florida 33706 (this address from about approximately 1985; and Lorene Saxton of Sacramento, California.
SIMEON PACKARD Born May 30, 1736, died October 23, 1815 Married MARY PERKINS on July 6, 1761. She was born February 16, 1739 at Bridgewater and died October 22, 1820 at North Bridgewater. Her father was MARK PERKINS and her mother was DOROTHY WHIPPLE.
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SIMEON AND MARY’S 12 CHILDREN (NOTE: We are descended from ISAIAH.):
Simeon Packard Born April 10, 1762, died October 22, 1782 while in the Army Huldah Packard Born February 20, 1764, died March 5, 1816 Married Howard Cary on December 15, 1785 ISAIAH PACKARD Born September 18, 1765, died March 18, 1816 Married Betsy Packard (same last name, but not related) on December 30, 1792 Mehitabel Packard Born June 18, 1767, died May 3, 1789 Mary Packard Born April 8, 1769, no death date Married Noah Packard (same last name, but not related) on May 13, 1790 Zenas Packard Born May 22, 1771, died April 20, 1824 Married Deborah Thayer on October 12, 179__ Barnabas Packard Born November 28, 1772, died 1795 Married Melatiah Packard (same last name, but not related) on October 2, 179__. MOVED TO MAINE with Alden and Benjamin Olive Packard Born May 28, 1774, no death date Married David Ford on April 24, 1794 Rhoda Packard Born July 21, 1776, no death date Alden Packard Born March 10, 1778, no death date Married Persis Howard on March 20, 1805 Benjamin Packard Born August 7, 1780, no death date Married Nancy Richards on March 30, 1809 Patty Packard Born June 3, 1783, died 1823 Married Nehemiah Lincoln on January 10, 18__
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 591 and Mitchell’s History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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ISAIAH PACKARD ISAIAH PACKARD Born September 18, 1765, died March 18, 1816. Married BETSY PACKARD (same last name, but not related) on December 20, 1792. She was born in 1767 and died on August 26, 1832. Her father was ABIAH PACKARD and her mother was EUNICE HOWARD.
ISAIAH AND BETSY’S 7 CHILDREN (NOTE: We are descended from SIMEON):
Hezekiah Packard Born December 17, 1793, died January 9, 1857. Married Matilda Gurney on April 20, 1820. Zibeon Packard Born September 31, 1795, no death date Married Mehitabel Bicknell on January 4, 18__ SIMEON PACKARD Born August 22, 1797, died October 16, 1889 Married Harmony Kingman on October 18, 1821 Betsy Packard Born March 11, 1799, died October 4, 1802 (young) Betsy Packard January 28, 1804, died February 3, 1830 Married Addison Shaw on December 13, 1825 Lucius Packard Born June 3, 1807, no death date Married Rhoda Shaw on January 1, 1833 Isaiah Packard Born March 18, 1816, died young
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 598 and Mitchell’s History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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SIMEON PACKARD Born August 22, 1797, died October 16, 1889 Married HARMONY KINGMAN on October 18, 1821. She was born in 1802 at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts and died May 21, 1875 in Brockton. She is buried at Union cemetery, Brockton, Mass. in Lot 861. Her father was ABEL KINGMAN and her mother was LUCY WASHBURN.
SIMEON AND HARMONY’S 6 CHILDREN. Simeon was a carpenter, school teacher, farmer, and a church deacon in Porter Church in Brockton, Massachusetts. (NOTE: We are descended from EDWARD CLARENCE.):
Abel Kingman Packard Born March 19, 1823, died August 16, 1903 at Bridgewater, Mass. Married Caroline Carleton on November 14, 185_ Lucy Washburn Packard Born November 25, 1824, died August 9,1910 at Bridgewater, Mass. Married Enoch Mayhew on September 27, 1852 EDWARD CLARENCE PACKARD Born October 21, 1826, died September 25, 1906 at North Bridgewater. Married Susan Kingman on May 6, 1852. Harmony Frances Packard Born January 9, 1829, died October 6, 1912 Married Samuel Howard on November 23, 185__ Simeon Franklin Packard (Harmony’s twin) Born January 9, 1829, died May 10, 1901 Married Louisa Keith on January 25, 1855 Matilda Perkins Packard Born July 17, 1833, died July 17, 1888 Married Bradford howard on November 23, 18__
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 605 and Kenneth Newell Packard, living at 54 Dory Road, Warwick, Rhode Island 02886 from 1974 to 1990, then in Sacramento, California until his death on August 29, 1991.
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EDWARD CLARENCE PACKARD Born October 21, 1826, died September 25, 1906 at North Bridgewater. Married SUSAN KINGMAN on May 6, 1852. Her father was AMBROSE KINGMAN and her mother was ESTHER EDSEN.
EDWARD AND SUSAN’S 3 CHILDREN. (NOTE: We are descended from GARDNER FRENCH.):
Clarence Franklin Packard Born ?? 1853, died young. Gardner French Packard Born June 21, 1856; died July 26, 1939 in Brockton, Mass. Buried in Union Cemetery, Lot 861 Mary Kingman Packard Born July 21, 1858, died May 18, 1943. She never married.
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater, Page 614 and Kenneth Newell Packard, living at 54 Dory Road, Warwick, Rhode Island 02886 from 1974 to 1990, then in Sacramento, California until his death on August 29, 1991.
GARDNER FRENCH PACKARD Born Born June 21, 1856; died July 26, 1939. Married LILIAN FRANCES PACKARD (same last name, but not related) on November 16, 1881. Her father was CHARLES THOMPSON PACKARD and her mother was FRANCES BARTLETT HUDSON. She was born September 5, 1854 in North Bridgewater and died on December 9, 1937 at Watertown, Mass. Frances died in Roxbury on September 14, 1914.
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GARDNER AND LILIAN’S 3 CHILDREN. (NOTE: We are descended from STANLEY HUDSON): All children were born in Boston, Mass. He was Sales Manager of American Thread Company I Boston. For 27 years, he was organist and Musical Director at Eliot Church in Roxbury, Mass. He was also a Deacon and the Parish Clerk.
STANLEY HUDSON PACKARD Born Born June 21, 1856; died July 26, 1939. Married BERTHA FRANCIS NEWELL. Her father was FRANKLIN NEWELL and her mother was AMELIA (“MILLIE”) Foster. She was born September 28, 1886 in Boston and died July 2, 1974 in Alexandria, Virginia. She and Stanley are buried in Union Cemetery, Lot 861. Marjorie Thompson Born October 28, 1888, died February 25, 1978. She never married. Donald Kingman Packard Born January 16, 1893, died February 11, 1974.
References: Kingman’s History of North Bridgewater and Kenneth Newell Packard, living at 54 Dory Road, Warwick, Rhode Island 02886 from 1974 to 1990, then in Sacramento, California until his death on August 29, 1991.
OTHER DATES:
Edward Clarence Packard was Simeon’s son – it’s Simeon in the house photo (Simeon born 8-22-1797 to 10-16-1889). Sister Mary Kingman Packard born 7-21-1858 to 18 May 1943 unmarried. Younger brother Clarence Franklin Packard born July 21, 1853 and died young.
Simeon was Gardner French and Mary’s grandfather.
GARDNER FRENCH PACKARD 6-21-1856 (or 1855 from Dad’s sheets?) to 7-26-1939. He was a merchant
Wife LILIAN FRANCES (or Francis?) 9-5-1854 to 12-9-1937. They married 11-16-1881. He lived almost 2 years after her.
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HUDSON DATES:
Hannah Barlett Willis married Lucian (or Lucien?) Hudson in 1828. Hannah’s parents were Zebulon Willis who married Susanna Bartlett in 1792. Hannah was born ?? and died in 1832 in New York.
Lucian Hudson was born ?? and died December 15, 1841 in Baracoa, Cuba!
Their son, Lucian Bonaparte Hudson, born 1829 in New York, died ?.
Their daughter, Francis (or Frances?) Bartlett Hudson, married Charles Thompson Packard of North Bridgewater, Mass. on June 18, 1852 in Brooklyn, New York. Francis was born August 16, 1831 and died September 14, 1914 in Roxbury, Mass. They had a son, Lucian Hudson Packard, born March 14, 1859 and died October 22, 1859 (only 7 months old).
CHARLES THOMPSON PACKARD’S DATES:
Charles Thompson Packard (the younger) was born in 1828 and died January 25, 1873 in Brockton, Mass. His father was also CHARLES THOMPSON PACKARD, born April 27, 1794, who married CHARLOTTE THOMPSON, daughter of Captain Thomas Thompson on October 29, 1818.
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RELATED MATERIALS DONATED TO OTHER MUSUEMS OR HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
DONATED TO THE NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
1. PIERCE GENEALOGY, No. IV, Being the RECORD OF THE POSTERITY OF CAPT. MICHAEL, JOHN AND CAPT. WILLIAM PIERCE, who came to THIS COUNTRY FROM ENGLAND, By Frederick Clifton Pierce, of Rockford, Ill., Author of History of Grafton, History of Barre, Mass.,l Compiler of Harwood, Gibson, Peirce, Pierce and Pearce Genealogies, Albany, N.Y., Published for the Author by Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1889. Donated in December 2008
“I love the lineages of heroes; but I love merit more, Patents of nobility are but phantoms; true worth is within, Kings are nothing but men, and all men are equal.
King Frederick of Prussia.”
“To My Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas A. Pierce, this work is most respectfully dedicated by their son, THE AUTHOR.”
“Concerning this nebular history, then; is it a human invention or is it a divine record? Is it “a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing,” or is it a plan of infinite imagination signifying immortality?”
Prof. BENJAMIN PEIRCE, of Harvard University.”
2. NEW BEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL Report of Scholarship and Deportment for the Six Months Ending February 10, 1871. Donated in March 2006.
3. THE HISTORY OF NEW BEDFORD, Bristol County, Massachusetts, including a History of the Old Town of Dartmouth and the present townships of Westport, Dartmouth and Fairhaven, from their settlement to the present time by DANIEL RICKETSON, PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1858. Donated in January 2006.
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DONATED TO THE NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS WHALING MUSEUM IN JANUARY 2006:
Log book WRITTEN BY CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND, Quartermaster aboard the BARQUE DIMON. The log covers 1845 to 1847.
Charles Henry Howland was born February 25, 1824 in New Bedford and died December 19, 1891, also in New Bedford. He was my mother, Miriam Sargeant Packard’s Great-Great Grandfather.
Notes about the Log:
CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND’S JOURNAL OF A WHALING VOYAGE ON THE BARQUE DIMON 1845 – 1847 He was aged 21 in 1845.
1. A bark or barque – a popular whaling vessel carrying three masts, with square sails on the fore and main masts, and fore-and-aft-rigged sails on the mizzenmast. Easier to handle than other whaleships, it became very popular in the mid-nineteenth century when many ships were re-rigged. A bark could undertake voyages of up to four years and usually carried four or five whaleboats.
2. On American whaling ships it was the duty of the first mate to keep the log. (The Whalers, 1979, Time-Life Books Inc.)
3. Whaling was a family concern. The Whalers shows a decorative plaque dated 1857 on page 27 which “displays the burgeoning importance of New Bedford as a whaling port.” The plaque identifies some private ensigns and ships of the town’s 100 whaling merchants. Many names appear more than once in the listings. Eight Howlands controlled some 50 ships.
4. Page 42 of The Whalers shows a picture of “an inbound whaler … steering across the mouth of the Acushnet River, where lay the ports of New Bedford and Fairhaven. In 1854, when this picture was painted by William Bradford, these two New England towns sent forth a whaling fleet of 359 ships – more whalers than all other American ports combined.”
5. “Not only did the people of New Bedford make a living from whaling: they made a superlative living, and their town, a village in comparison with New York, London, Boston or Paris, was one of the wealthiest per capita in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lectured there, remarked that the New Bedford merchants “hug an oil cask like a brother.” (The Whalers, page 62)
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6. “Perseverance was assuredly a hallmark of the Yankee whaleman … by the mid-19th Century the whale hunter averaged a grinding 42 months on each cruise on the great (Pacific) ocean. “There is his home,” wrote Herman Melville. … The whaleman’s life was shaped by tedium and terror, by loneliness and exhilaration, by the pleasures of exotic islands, and a head-on clash of cultures that all too often ended in violence. Only men of patience and fortitude could survive such voyages and muster the will to return again and again.
EXCERPTS FROM QUARTERMASTER CHARLES HENRY HOWLAND’S LOG ON THE BARQUE DIMON
FLYLEAF: Charles H. Howland Dartmouth Mass. In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and forty five
COVER PAGE: A Jernal of A Whaling voyage Kept On Board of the Barque Dimon Capt Abner Smith by Charles H. Howland Qrmaster In the year Lord 1845
PAGE ONE: “Remarks on board Barque Dimon of New Bedford” Entries begin June 15th, 1841
PAGE TWO: “Barque Dimon From Bermuda for the Western Isles”
PAGE 17: Off Area on the Western Island Saturday, September 6th 1845
PAGE 21: Barque Dimon on cruising ground in the N. Atlantic (sic)
PAGE 31: Barque Dimon in South Atlantic Ocean autumn journal 1845
PAGE 45: Crossing the Atlantic Ocean February 5, 1846 Latitude ? Longitude ?
PAGE 49: Bark (sic) Dimon to the Eastern of the Cape of Good Hope February 27, 1846
PAGE 51: Barque Dimon in Mozambique Channell Steering NE (sic)
PAGE 53: Laying To Anchor at the Island of Johanna March 23, 1846
PAGE 55: Of Aldabra Island April 3, 1846 (off the coast of Tanzania, part of the Seychelle Islands)
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PAGE 61: Torn out
PAGE 65: Last entry for Part 1 of the Journal Off Between Comoro and Aldabra (Northwest of Madagascar) May 16th, 1846
PART TWO
PAGE ONE: Barque Dimon off Zanzibar June 25th, 1847
PAGE FOUR: Barque Dimon of Seychelle Islands July 12, 1847
PAGE 28: West coast of Ceylon December 9, 1847
PAGE 30: Journal entries end
AND WRITTEN ACROSS SEVERAL PAGES AT RIGHT ANGLES:
“Saw sperm whales”
DONATED TO THE BROCKTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY in December 2008. The City of Brockton incorporated the town of North Bridgewater:
1. HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, including an extensive FAMILY REGISTER, by Nahum Mitchell, published in Boston: Printed for the Author by Kidder & Wright, 32 Congress Street, 1840.
2. HISTORY OF NORTH BRIDGEWATER, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to the present time, with FAMILY REGISTERS, by Bradford Kingman, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Corresponding Member of Wisconsin Historical Society; Author of Kingman Memorial, published in Boston: Published by the Author, 1866.
This book has the name “Franklin Ames” engraved on the cover. From what I can deduce, he was a distant cousin of our branch of the Packard family. David Packard married Hannah Ames on December 17, 1712. David was born February 11, 1687; I don’t have a death date. It appears that Hannah and Franklin Ames’s father, Daniel, were second cousins.
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DONATED TO THE VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY in April 2006:
THE HISTORY OF VERMONT from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by W.H. Carpenter and T.S. Arthur. Published in Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1853.
DONATED TO THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE RAUNER SPECIAL COLLECTION LIBRARY IN HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE in January 2006:
Letters to Moses Motley Sargeant and transcripts which I included in a compilation of memorabilia about my uncle, Howland Hill Sargeant, that I completed in 1998:
Letter dated March 19, 1895 Letter dated June 12, 1895 Letter dated 12 December 1895 Letter dated 11 January, 1896 Letter dated March 4, 1896 Letter dated March 16, 1896 Letter dated June 12, probably 1896 Letter dated 18 September 1896 Letter dated December 17, 1896 Letter dated February 11, 1897 Letter dated April 17, 1897
Also two letters from a friend of Moses Motley Sargeant’s named “Pete,” who may also have been a Dartmouth graduate, as follows:
Letter from Pinkerton Academy dated July 19, 1897 addressed “Dear Mott” Letter from 528 West Monroe Street dated October 31, 1898 addressed “Dear “Old Fossil”
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