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GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE OTIS FAMILY.

BY HORATIO N'l~~IS, ESQ., MEMBER OF THE N. E. RIST. GENEALOGICfr. SOCIETY. [For explanation of the plan, see Vol. 1, page 21.]

OTTYS. Az. a cross engr. ar. betw. four crossiets fitchee or. OTTYIiJ. Ar. a saltire engr. bebw. four crosses crossiet fitchee az. Burke's General Armory.· "The family of Otis," says Tudor, " has produced some eminent persons, and its several branches are now widely extended." " And, (observes the historian of Scituate,) though they cannot exhibit a line of illustrious: names, yet they are such as partook in the perils of founding and defending this country, in times when courage, constancy and patience were indeed common vir­ tues." " We recognize with pride, borne upon our annals, the name of"Otis. The enthusiastic patriot, the brilliant orator who was among the first to warn his countrymen of their danger in the stormy p~riods preceding the Revolution, was a descendant of the associates of Rev. Peter Hobart in founding this town. Is it not possible that something of that ardent love of freedom, and strong aversion to despot~c power, which have distinguished the descendants, may have been derived from an intelligent and independent ancestry."t In this Table will be found sketches of the ext~rnal circumstances of some - chronicled wonders that such a man was born, and died, ran through such a circle of honors, and obtained such a mausoleum to his memory. But the history of mind we have not, and it is to be regretted that we have no reliable authority from which to trace out the development of those virtues which hallow the memory of our fathers; facts shewing the transfer of the qualities of parents to the1r children, those laws which govern the transmission of physical and mental qualities through su.ccessive' ..generations. . . In the histories. of those families and individuals that have been made, it is seen that the mental and physical qualities, the forms of body· and face; the tastes, talents, propensities, modes of' thinking and acting; the intellectual and other peculiarities, have descended throughout the whole line of their progeny, from their pilgrim ancestors, and remain stamped even upon the present generation. . . And if it is true tp.at children are the very transfer, or image of their parents; reflected in all their shades of feeling and phases of character; inheriting the same tastes; governed by the same sentiments and passions; debased by the same vices; ennobled by the same virtues; adorned by the

* Though we give Burke's d~~cription of the "Ottys" arms, we have given an engra- ving somewhat different. ' t Hon. Solomon Lincoln, Centennial Discourse at Hingham. 18 282 Plte Otis Family. [July,

same charms and graces; and endowed with the same talents and intellec­ tual powers, then these laws of nature ought to be deeply regarded by man, for they affect his posterity to the latest generation. . . Let an-y

(1) JOHN OTIS! was born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, 1581, came to Hingham, New England, and drew house lots in the first division of lands in that town, 1635, and is the first ancestor of whom we have any know­ ledge. Tudor in his life of Otis says, he with his family came from Hing­ ham in Norfolk, England, in company with the Rev. Peter Hobart. The idea that he came from Hingham in England, may haye arisen from the fact that most of the ea17ly settlers of that town in New England came from the former place. It is conjectured that h~ left his native place, and lived for a time in Hingham, previous to embarking for America. He wa."I a substantial yeoman, and probably left his country, partly to accompany his pastor, a staunch non-conforming clergyman. The faithful page of history has informed us of the perse~utions of the Puritans, which were carried on with so much fury and unrelenting zeal; of the sufferings of our fathet:s, in establishing themselves in a howling wilderness, far dis:­ tant from their native home; and how much they had to contend with from the warfarel of the savages, from famine and disease. It is probable that Mr. Otis endured his portion of these trials and hardships. It has not been ascertained with certainty when he landed, or in whose company he came. The first that we hear of his name is in the good com­ pany of the Rev. Peter Hobart and his twenty-nine associates who drew house lots on the 18 Sept., 1635, at Hingham.* The same year he re­ ceived a grant of land, and the last of several grants is dated 5 ¥arch, 1647.t He took the Freeman's oath 3 March, 1635-6. His place of residence at Hingham was at Otis Hill, still so called, south-west of the harbor, a beautiful slope of land, then covered by a heavy growth of forest ~...... ~ ~ ~. ees. r ,~" V,His name often appears on the Records of Hingham. In 1641 he was ~ lltl of the persons chosen to " make a Rate." lj minute of the baptism of Mary Otis is made in the Manuscript Jour- ~ nil. f the Rev. Peter Hobart; "Mary Otis was baptized May Ist I653." cS 1$ Journal proceeds, "Tabitha Lyon being scalded in a kettle of waterl at ~ -. Oattisses house, died a few hours after." -0 r. Otis was married to his first wife, Margaret, in England, and she 0'4. ed a~ Hingham, ".June, 1653," according to Deane, but "July 9,1654," 'accordmg to Tudor. He then removed to Weymouth, and married a s~c?nd wife w~o survived him, but her name does not appear. In the di- V\SlOn of certam lands at Weymouth, about 1663, two lots were assigned to "widow Oatis;" viz., in the first division, " widow Oatis 2 - 5 acres -lot No. 41;" in the second division, "widow Oatis 2-15 acres -lot No.2." This is the only instance in which the name appears on the Records of Weymouth .

.. See note A. at the end of the memoir. t ,Hingham Records, folio 12. 1848.] The Otis Family. 283

Hobart's Journal records the death of Mr. Otis "at Waimouth, May 31st, 1657," aged '7 (t His will is dated at Weymouth, the day previous to his death, and is proved 28th of July in the same year, and gives legacies to daughter Margaret Burton, to daughter Hannah Gill, and to her two chil­ dren, Mary and Thomas; to daughters Ann and Alice (Otis); to wife 40s., son John, executor. It is recorded in the 1st Vol. of the Suffolk Register of Probate. Tudor says "as his Will bears his mark in place of signature, it appears he was unable to write, a deficiency not so singular at that tim.e, as it would be at present:" This opinio'n of his ignorance is now known to be an errol'. As his will was signed about the day of his death, doubtless he was unable to give his signature because of severe sickness. It. appears he signed his name as a witness to the will of Thomas Collier, who died at Hingham about 1646. The following is a fac simile of his Autograph.

The children of John Otis were, (?). I. JOHN,2 who, born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, 1620, accompanied his parents in their emigration to New England, and settle­ ment of Hingham. The family residence was at "Otis Hill," where he resided until after his father's death, and is mentioned on the Records of Hingham, as being a landholder there, 1668-9. The name of his first wife is not known. In 1662-3 he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, who came over in 1633. In 1661, John Otis rempved to Scituate, where he received a grant of land. He bought of Deacon Thomas Robinson the house on the south of Coleman's Hill, formerly the residence of Gen. Cudworth, and resided there. Previous to this, in 1656, a tract of land three miles square was granted to Mr. Hatherly; this tract was divided into 40 parts, and 27 of them assigned to the" Conihassett partners." The boundary of this tract next to Scituate is called the" share line." Mr. Hatherly, in 1663, having repurchased 10 shares, sold 23 shares to John Otis and others for £69. This tract. now makes a part of Abington and Hanover. - He took the oath of fidelity at Hingham, 1662. In 1678 he went to Barnstable, and settled on land called .. Otis Farm," opposite "Hinckley lane," near the Marshes, west Parish. He left there his son John, returned and deceased at Scituate, 16 January, 1683. His monument is in the old burying ground in " meeting-house lane," one mile south of the harbor, broken and def~ced, but legible. His will, dated Scituate, 1683, gi.ves to eldest dau. Mary, wife of John Gowin, and daus. Hannah and Elizabeth, £50 each; houses­ and lands at Hingham and Barnstable, to John, Stephen, James and Job; to Joseph, house and lands in Scituate, after his mother's death. (3) II. RICHARD,2 went with his father to, Weymouth ,about 1654, and in 1662, settled at Dover, N. H. He made his will before he left Wey­ mouth, which is recorded in the Boston Probate Records. The accounts given of him by Tudor and Deane, that he was carried captive to Canada, are incorrect. He was killed at Dover, on \he Cocheco, by the Indians, 1689. His son Stephen was killed at the same time; and his wife and child were captivated, and sold to the French in Canada. The French Priests educated this child.in the Romish religion, baptized her by the name of Christina, and she married a Frenchman, by whom she had two children. In 1714, being a widow, she returned to New England, abjured the Romish 284 The Otis Family. [July, faith, and married Capt. Thomas Baker, who had been taken at Deerfield in 1704. She lived in Dover, where she was born, till the year 1773. ~he was the occasion of the masterly letter of Governor Burnet, ,'to a Romlsh Priest." Richard Otis had sons, Richard, Stephen, who m. Mary Pitman, 16 April, 1674, and was killed by the Indians in 1689; Solomon, b. 1663, ~nd d. 1664; Nickolas, killed 1696; Experience b. 1666; and perhaps others. On the 26 July, 1696, some Indians in ambush shot upon the peopl~, returning from meeting, when ~icholas Otis was killed, Richard OtIS 'Wounded, and Nicholas Otis, Jr., captivated and carried to Penobscot, from whence he soon found his way home. Descendants of his are living in New Hampshire and other places.* (4) III. MARGARET,2 m. Thomas ~urton of Hingham. (5) IV. HAN,NAH,2 m. Thomas Gill of Hingham. He received, 1635, a grant of house-lot now corner of Main and South street; and they had eleven or more children, from 1643 to 1661. She d. 24 Jan. 1675-6. (6) V. ANN.2 (7) V~. ALICE.2 JOHN,2 (2) who m. Mary Jacob had, (8) I. MARY,3 mentioned in Hobart's Journal as being baptized in 1653, and in her father's will as the eldest daughter, m. John Gowin. (9) II. ELIZABETH,3 m. 1st. Thomas Allyn, 9 Oct. 1688, and 2d, David, -son of Thomas Loring, 2d, of Hull, 20 July, 1699. on III. JOHN,3 b. ·at Hingham, 1657, m. Mercy Bacon, of Barnstable, 18 July, 1683. He s. at Barnstable, and his talents soon made him one of the most respectable individuals in the county. He was employed in a variety of trusts, which he discharged with fidelity and skill. For twenty years he was Representative to the General Court; above eighteen years commander of the Militia of the county; for thirteen years Chief-Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and first Judge of Probate. In 1706 he was chosen one of His Majesty's Council, and sat at that honorable Board twenty-one years, till death gave him a discharge from every labor, and laid his earthly honors in the dust. This was a combination of offices, and the union of legislative and judicial powers, sometimes allowed in the same individual in the early stages of our settlements. The successful discharge of such various employments is an evidence of his capacity and integrity, which, joined to his wit and affability, secured him great influence. Such was his sagacity and prudence that 'he often comp05ed differences both in Church and State. He had fine talents for conversation, his pleasantness and affability made him agreeable, his wit and humor often enlivened the company, which was improved by his wisdom. He was strict and exem­ plary in the performance of religious duties, and was as remarkable for his .humility and modest worth among Christians, as for his intellectual powers and active services among his fellow men. He d. Sept. 23d, 1727, reo 70, the age of man, but very old, if he lives "the longest, who lives the most usefully." . (11) IV. A DAUGHTER,s (probably Hannah) b. 1660. on V. STEPHEN,3 b. at Hingham, 1661, and m. Hannah Ensign of Scituate, 1685. He had from her an estate, most of which was left to his son Ensign. She was the oaly daughter of John Ensign, son of Thomas, one of the "Conihasset Partners," 1646, and was h. 1669. Her father

* See Note B at the end of the Memoir. [Ephraim Otis, of Kittery, Maine, a descend­ ant of Richard, has a further account of this branch of the family, which he was to have sent me, but I have not yet received it. - H. N. Otis] 1848.] The Otis Family. 285 was one of the. heroes that fell in the Rehoboth battle, * and his will, made ()n the eve of their march, gives " to my mother Elizabeth all the lands which my father gave m,e in his Will, during her life - and afterwards the same to my daughter Hannah." Capt. Stephen Otis was commander of the l\f.ilitia of the Town, then considered a most honorable station. "Capt. Stephen Otis's new-house" is mentioned on the Records, 1691. His business was that of a tanner. He d. 26 May, 1733, at Scituate, and his monument is in the old burying­ ground near the harbor. His will is dated 1729. 'rhree of the name of Ensign Otis, in succeeding generations, have occupied the original Ensign house-lot. (13) VI. JAMES,3 b. at Scituate, 1663, and s at Weymouth, 1690; joined the Canada expedition, under Sir W m. Phipps, was at the taking of Port Royal, and was killed in the attack on Quebec. He made his will just pre­ vious to joining the expedition, and it is dated 3 August, 1690. on VII. JOSEPH,8 b. at Scituate, 1665, m. pOI'othy Thomas of that place. His residence at Scituate was on the south of Colman's Hill, the fonner residence of Gilbert Brooks, Esq. He held the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth Co., from 1703 to 1714. In 1709 the town of Scituate "voted that the Society empower Joseph Otis, Esq., to finish t.b.e meeting house by pewing it, and also to appoint. two and two to a pew, (where they do not agree to couple themselves,) each couple paying the cost of building the pew." In 1710, he was elected under the governor's order representative to "the great and General Court," and again in 1713. He held other town offices. He removed to New London about 1721, w here many of his relations and acquaintances lived, and where he d.1754. From the records of Colchester, Ct., it appears that in 1724 he purchased of Capt. Samuel Gilbert a house and farm of 280 acres, lying in the east part of the town of Colchester, on the old county road, for "770 pounds lawful money of New England." He is described in the deed as of''' Scit­ uate." This l~nd Joseph deeds to his son Nathaniel, in 1735 - 6, "for and in consideration of the love, good willand affection"'"Which I h~ve for, & do bear unto my beloved s

* Better known as " Pawtucket Fight," in which Capt. Michael Pierce with above sixty ofbis men were slain on a Sabbath-day, March 26th, 1676.-En. t The house erect~d on this land by Nathaniel, has been occupied successively by five generations. t Judicial Hist. of Mass. By Emory Washburn, Esq. 8vo. Boston. 1840. 286 The Otis Family. [July,

1700. In 1710, he bought the" farm, warehouse, &c., of William Ticknor, for 400 pounds." He d. 1758, aged 91. HON. JOHN,s (10) m. Mercy Bacon, and had, (~~)* I. JOHN/ b at Barnstable, 14 Jan.,1687, grad. H. C. 1707, ill .. Grace Hayman of Brist~l, R. I. He was repre~entative from. Ba~nstable, and member of his" Majesty's Honorable COllncll from 1747 tIll hIS death, which took place May 4th, 1758. He was also king's attorney. a~) II. SOLmfON, b. at Barnstable, 13 Oct., 1696, grad. H. C. 1717, m. Jane Turner of Scituate. He held numerous offices in his native town, such as ReO'ister of Deeds, County Treasurer, Special Justice of Peace for the County~ &c., and d. 2 Jan., 177$. '> (~) III. NATHANIEL,4 b. at Barnstable; 28 May, 1690, and s. at Sand­ wich, where he m. Abigail, dau. of Rev. Jonathan Russell, who w,as or­ dained at Barnstable in 1683. " She was every way a woman of merit and excellence; of exceedingly good natural abilities, very inquisitive, possessed of natural dignity and respectability, and was a person of considerable read­ ing and extensive observation. She had all along in life been much con­ versant among ministers, gentlemen of the court, and persons of the first respectability. She was ever learning and imbibing something profitable,. and took singular delight in the conversation of instructive characters."t After her husband's death she resided at Newport with her son, and d. at the house of her son-in-law, Edmund Freeman, in Mansfield, Ct., 20 March,. 1774. Mr. Russell Freeman of Sandwich, Ms., grandson of Edmund, has in his possession a letter from Major Jonathan Otis, dated Newport, April 11, 1774, announcing his mother's death. Nathaniel Otis was Register of Probate for Barnstable Co., and d. at Sandwich, Dec., 1739. (~) IV. JAMES/ colonel and judge, b. at Barnstable, 14 June, 1702, m. Mary Allyne in Wethersfield, Ct. She was b. at Plymouth, 1702, and was connected with the founders of the old colony, who arrived in the first ship, Mayflower. By the records of Plymouth it appears that in 1699, 1\1r. Jo­ seph Allyne m. Mary Doten, dau. of Edward, and granddau. of Edward Doten, who came in th!3 Mayflower. Mr. Allyne's children, b. in the "Al­ lyne House" at Plymouth, were Elizabeth, 1700; Mary, 1702; a woman of very superior character. A good portrait of her in the costume of that time is now in the possession of her grandson, the Hon. H. G. Otis of Bos­ ton. Mr. Allyne removed with his family from Plymouth to Wethersfield,. Ct. Mr. Otis rose to be a man of great distinction and influence, of superior genius, but more indebted to the native energy of his mind, than to a regu­ Jar education, for t~e acquirements he possessed. He was distinguished for his knowledge of law, and had studied with diligence its principles as con­ nected with political institutions. This had prepared him for a clear per­ ception of the effects that would have resulted from 'the execution of the ministerial plans against the colonies, and he ardently engaged in asserting

* It will be perceived that the series of regular numbers is in.terrupted here; the num­ bers from l6 to 2l, inclusive, being wanting. This interruption is occasion~d by leaving out the children of " (9) II. ELIZABETH," it being found that the record of her family was. incorrect j and besides, our limits do not allow of our following out the female branch­ es. It will also be perceived that the children of" (10) HON. JOHN,S" do not stand in their natural order; but as this cannot lead to any mistake, and another arranO'ement could not be made without much loss of time, it was judged inexpedient to re·arr~nO'e the fam- ~-h ~ t Hist. of Three of the Judges of King Charles L 1848.J The Otis Family. 287

their rights. He was elected a member of the provincial legislature in 1758, made Speaker of the House in 1760, and continued in that office two years, when he was negatived by Gov. Bernard. In 1763 he was appoint­ ed Judge of Probate for Barnstable Co.; Chief-Justice of the Court of' Com­ mon Pleas, Feb, 1764, and continued at the head of that court until the Revolution. The same year he was chosen Speaker of the House, aIHl also one of his Majesty's Council, ,but was negatived by the Governor, owillg to his opposition to the measures of government. He was elected, into the Council every succeeding year, and was negatived as regularly as chosen, until 1770; when Lieut. Gov. Hutchinson approbated the choice. Mr. Otis sat at the council board during the first years of the war, of which body he was president and the oldest member. He served on many committees of the legislature during the period from 1760 to 1775, which reported some of the most remarkable of those sincere and masterly state papers which wel'e produced during the period preced­ ing the epoch of the American Revolution. His name has frequently been mentioned in terms of high esteem as a compeer with Adams, Quincy, and Hancock. He d. Nov. 9, 1778, havi~g lived long enough to see his coun­ try glorious in her struggles for freedom, with a prospect full in view that . her mighty efforts to secure independence would be crowned with success. (26) V. MERCY,4 15 Oct., 1693. (27) VI. l\fARy,4 b. 10 Dec., 1685, m. -- Little. CAPT. STEPHEN/ (12) who m. Hannah Ensign, had, em I. ENSIGN,4 b. at Scituate, 1691, and m: Hannah, dau. of Samuel Barker, Esq., and Hannah, dau. of Rev. Jeremiah Cushing. He s. at Scit­ uate, neal' the haI'bor,--a tanner, and occupied. the original Ensign house~lot. He had large estates from his father. He was representative from Scitu­ ate, 1751, 2, and 3. (29) II. JOHN,4 b. 1694, m. Leah, dau. of Dea. Samuel Stodderof Hing­ ham. She was b; 1696. He lived in Boston, where he kept a public houf;e, about 1750. _ (30) III. HANNAH,4 b. 1696. (31) IV. MARy,4 b. 1697. (~) V. ISAAc,4 1\'1. D., b. 1699, m. Deborah, dau. of Dea. Daviq. Jacobs, and SaI'ah, dau. of John Cushing, 1718. Deacon Jacobs was grandson of Nicholas Jacobs of Hjngham, whose dau. Mary, m. 2d, John Otis. Dr. Isaac Otis was the first regularly bred physician who s. in Scituate. He commenced practice in 1719, when the town "voted a settlement of £100 to encourage him to remain in the Town." He was a gentleman of uncommon accomplishments of person and mind. He d. 1786. (33) VI. STI<:PHI<:N/ b. 1707, d. in ~cituate, 1755. Gn VII. JOSEPH,4 b, 1709, m. Lucy Little. He was Representative from Boston, and keeper of the jail. Gn VIII. JOSHUA,4 b. 1711, m. Hannah Barker, s. in Scituate, and was a ship carpenter. JUDGE JOSEPH,S (14) who m. Dorothy Thomas, had, Gjld I. NATHANIEL,4 b. at Scituate, 1689, m. Hannah, dau. of Col. John That.cher of Yarmputh, had eighteen children. She died at Colches­ ter, 1776, aged 90. He removed to Colchester, Ct., about 1716, and s. on lands which his father purchased of Capt. Samuel Gilbert. The deed is witnessed by Michael Taintor and James Otis, and for the sum of "£770 lawful currency of N. E.," gives 280 acres of land and appurtenances, On this land Nathaniel erected a house which is yet standing. and which has been the residence of four successive generations. On the 29th May, 1736, ~88 The Otis Family,. [July, he received a commission, signed by Gov. Talcott, appointing him "Cornet of the Troop in the County of Hartford." He also held numerous offices in the town, and d. 1772, aged 83. Clh) II JAMES/ b. at Scituate, ]692, m. Sarah Tudor of New York, d. at'Saybrook, Ct., 1754. She d. at Colchester, 15 Feb., 1788, aged 91. (38) III. ELIZABETH,~ m. Luke Lincoln of Leicester, Ms., and left 'ehildren. '(39) IV. RACHEL,4 m. -- Harris. (40) V. SARAH,4 m. John Thompson, and s. at Hebron, Ct. A dau. Abigail m. Jonathan Peters of Hebron, and left descendants. (41) VI. DOROTHY,4 m. -- McLane, -- Latham, and - Bissell. (42) VII. MARY,4 m. Joseph Hinckley of Barnstable, 1725. (43) VIII. MERCY,· m. Nathaniel Waterman of Scituate, a man of firm­ ness and zeal in the Revolutionary War. He descended from Robert Wa­ terman of Plymouth, who m. E,lizabeth Bourne, 1638. (44) IX. ANN,4 m. Mr. -- Cleaveland. :( 45) X. __,4 m. -- Clap. '~A~) XI. JOSEPH,4 b. 1712, m. Elizabeth, dau. of David Little of Scitu­ ate, and sister of Rev. Mr. Little, former mimster at Colchester. He s. at New London, (afterwards Montville;) Ct., and d. 1793. He was the exec­ utor of his father's will. JOB,S (15) who m. Mary Little, had, (47) I. MERCY,4 b. 1700. (lt~) II. J OB,4 b. ] 702, m. Thankful Otis; s. at Scituate, trader. (49) III. ABlGAIL,4 b. 1703. (50) IV. Mary,4 b. 1705. a;l) V. EPHRAIM/ b. 1708, m. Rachel Hersey of Hingham, s. in Scit- 1l'ate, a physician. (52) VI. RUTH,4 b. 1712, m. Dr. Benjamin Stockbridge of Scituate. They had a son Charles, b. 1734, wbo practised medicine. U:5) VII. DAVID/ b. 1716, m. Susan Hadden, and s. at Jordan, New York. (54) VIII. SARAH,~b.1719. (55) IX PRIscILLA,4b.172l. HON. JOHN,4 (22) wbo m. Grace Hayman, had, ' (lJl;) I. JOHN,o b. 1714, m. Temperance Hinckley. He s. at Barnsta- ble, and d. 1792. SOLOl'iON,4 (23) who m. Jane Turner, bad, (57) I. JANE,o b. Dec. 10, 1725, d. reo 10. (58) II. MARY,o b. Aug. 29, 1727, d. Oct. 15,1730. (59) III. JOHN,o b. Sept. 24, 1729, d. young. (60) IV. MERCY,o b. Jan. 18, 1731, d. 17 Mar. 173l. (61) V. SOLOMON,D b. Jan. 1, 1732, m. Susanna Davis. He succeeded his father as Register of Deeds for Barnstable Co., and d. May~ 1788. (~~) VI. MERCY,o b. 1735, m. Adine Hinckley, 16 Dec.,1762. They had three sons, and she d. Feb. 19, 1793. (~) VII. AMos,o b. 14 June, 1737, m. Catherine Delap, 7 Nov., 1767. He was a mariner and d. Dec., 1771. NATHANIEL,4 (24) wbo IIi. Abigail Russell, had, (64) I. MARTHA,o b. 1717, m. Edmund Freeman, H. C. 1733. He was h. 1711. She d. at Mansfield, Ct., 22 Jan., 1790, reo 72. They had 8 sons and 2 daughters. Nine of them lived to adult, and most of them to an advanced age. All the sons (one d. in ~nfancy) were in public life, and the youngest dau. m. Roger Hovey, and s. m Vt. (65) II. NATHANIEL,o b. 1718, joined the body of troops under Admiral Vernon, which, in 1740, took the town of Porto Bello, and destroyed its 1848.] The Otis Family. 289 fortifications. There was an extraordinary mortality among the troops, and he was among those who d. before the siege terminated. (Of nearly 1000 men from New England not a hundred returned.) (~~) III. JONATHAN,5 b. 1723, at Sandwich and m.-He lived at Ne'Y­ port, R. 1, where he was commander of the militia. In 1778 he removed to Middletown, Ct., and d. there 1791. COL. JA;\IES,4 (25) who m. Mary Allyne, had, aI7) I. JA:v£ES,o "The Patriot," who was b. in the family mansion at Barnstable, 5 Feb. 1724-5, H C. 1743. He m. Ruth Cunningham, 1755. She was the dau. of a merchant, very beautiful, and was possessed of a dowry, which in those times" was considered very large. This was sacredly preserved by her husband, and after her decease, it was divided between her daughters. She d. 15 Nov., 1789, reo 60. The life of James Otis has been given to the world in a variety of forms. That by Wm. Tudor is the most extensive and elaborate, and has been the foundation of others more succinct. "Sparks' American Biography," 2d vol. 2d Series, contains a most admirable and correct account of him. In this place we can only say of the distinguished. patriot, that he was one

* Wl' have the good fortune and great satisfaction of possessing a most curious little vol­ ume, once belonging to JAMES OTIS. On its title·page is his name in his own hand­ writing. - ED. 290 The Otis Family. [July, people that assembled to bear him, we are not left to conj~ctur~. President Adams has given it to us in his own fervent manner: -'" OtIS was a flame of fire; with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and date~, a profUSIOn ?f legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurlt!, and a r~pId torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before hIm. AmerIcan Independence was then and there born. The seeds of pat.rio~s and heroes, to defend the Non sine Diis animosu8 infans; to defend the VIgorous y?uth, were then and there sown. Every man of an immense crow~ed aud!ence appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms gamst Wrlts ~f Assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of OppOSI­ tion to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, he grew p.p to manhood and declared himself free * * * *. I do say in the most sol~mn m~nner, that Mr Otis's oration against Writs of Assistance, breathed mto thIS na­ tion the breath of life. " His ex~·tions on this single occasion secured him a commanding popu­ larity with the friends of their country, and the terror and vengeance of her enemies; neither of which ever deserted him. At the next election, in :May, 1761, he was chosen to represent the town of Boston in the Legislature, in which body the powers of his eloq~e~ce, the keenness of his wit, the force of his arguments, and resources of hIS mtellect gave him great influence. !t'or the detail of his course, during the period in which he was a RepreseQJative, we must refer the reader to his biogra­ phers. He was a member of the" Stamp Act Congress," held at New York in 1765. In 1770, he was attacked by a royalist by the name of Robinson, cruelly beaten, his head cut open; he was found bleeding and faint, a spectaele of ruin; in short he was but the wreck of what he once had heen. His wounds, though not mortal, had destroyed his reason, and the great man was no longer feared by his enemjes, -the enemies of liberty,-but lived a melan­ cho]y monument to his friends for several years. The manner of his death was a singular coincidence with a wish he had often expressed to Mrs. Warren. "My dear sister, I hope, when God Al­ mighty, in his righteous providence, shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning." This was a fearful- a singular wish. And what is still more singular and fearful, that wish was granted. On the 23d of May, 1783, as he was standing at the door of a house in Andover, he was instantly killed by a flash of lightning. There is a degree of consolation blended with awe in the manner of his death. The end of his life was ennobled, when the ruins of a great mind, instead of being undermined by disease, were demolished at once by a bright bolt from H(>~v~n. M~. Adams, then minister to France, wrote, "It was with very afflictmg sentIments I learned the death of Mr. Otis, my worthy master. Extraordinary in death as in life, he has left a eharacter that will never die, while the memory of' the American Revolution remains; whose foun­ dation he laid with an energy, and with those masterly abilities, which no other man possessed." The works of Mr. Otis were 110t numerous. He published" A Vindica­ tion of the Conduct of the House of Representatives," 1762; "The Rights of the Colonie~,': 1764, occasioned by the Stamp Act - a master-piece, both' of good wrIting and of argument-long a text-book of the best author­ ity with the patriots of the Revolution; "Considerations, &c.," 1765; and 1848.] The Otis Family. 291

politic!1l speculations in the Boston Gazette. Besides his legal and political knowledge, he was a complete master of classical literature. He published a t~e~tise entitled "The Rudiments of Latin Prosody, &c.;" and compose,t1 a sImIlar work on Greek Prosody, which perished with aU the rest of hIS papers. The chief defect of his character wa, his irascibility. His merits are well summed up in the followinO' extract ii'om the work of Tudor: "In fine he was a man of po~erful genius and ardent temper, with wit and humor that never failed. As an orator, he was bold, argumentative, impetuous, and commanding, with an eloquence that made his own excite­ ment irresistibly contagious. As a lawyer, his knowledge and ability placed him it the head of his profession. As a scholar, he was rich in ac­ quisition, and governed by a classic taste. As a statesman and civilian, he was sound and just in his views. As a patriot, he resisteu all allurements that migh~,,~~eaken t11.e cause of that country to which he devoteu. his life, and for ow':· t~ll he sacrificed it. The future historian of the United States, in considering the foundation" of American Independence, will find that one of the corner-stones must be inscribed ,,,itll the name of Jarnes Otis." a:o) II. JOSEPH/ b ..at Barnstable, 6 March, 1725-6. His first wife was Rebecca Sturgis, his second, Maria 'Val tel'. He was for many years a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; a member of the Legislature; and Brigadier-General of the Militia. Washington appointeu him Collector of Customs for the district of Barnstable, an office which he held for many years. He was of very essential service in the Revolutional'y ".,. aI', in op­ posing aU attempts of the English to destroy a privateer, with their boats, which sought refuge in Barnstable lrarbor. He died in the peace of the Christian faith, 24 Sept., 1810, reo 84. His last wife d. 1826. ({~6) III. MERCY/ b. 14 Sept., 1728, m. Gen. James Warren, of Ply­ mouth, a lineal descendant of' Richard Warren, who came over in the May­ flower. He succeeded Jo::eph 'Vanen as President of the Provincial Congeess; and d. 1808, reo 83. She had an active, as well as· a powerful mind, and took a part in the politics of the day. She held correspondence with some of the active statesmen of the times. 'Vith a brother who was for so many years the chief leader and auviser in all the councils of opposi­ tion, and with a husband earnestly engageu. in the same cause, she could not fail to become acquainted with all the principles and occurrences of that period, in which her disposition led her to be deeply interested.· She w)'ote several satirical pieces, poetical and dramatic; a forcible poetical satire in the shape of a drama, called the " Group;" the" Adulator;" two tragedies, of five acts each, called the " Sack of Rome," and "The Ladies of Castile." These productions are full of patriotic feeling and heroic sentiments. They were written during the Wat', and publisheu as early as 1778. The writer was master of rhythm; and a century hence they will be sought ,for and read with enthusiasm. She wrote political speeches for some of the members of the Convention, calleu for adopting the Federal Constitution, 1788; and the speaker was detected in his borrowed plumage by the eloquence of the style of his oration, and from his ignorance of some of her classical allusions. She also wrote the history of the Revolutionary War, which she putlished in three volumes octavo, in 1805; an excellent work of its kind - rather combined with a free spirit of democracy. In drawing the portrait of John Adams, she exhibited him as inclining to aristocrat.ic principles, which pro­ duced a sharp correspondence between the statesman and historian, but which was amicably settled, and notes of cOlll'tesy passeu. between them. She held a free pen, and was a little too suspicious of aristocratic feelings. 292 The Otis Family. LJuly,

This history shows great research and sound judgment. It is s~ldom t~at women have written of battles with any success, even in fictIon. MISS Porter is perhaps an exception, and certainly Mrs. Warren shows that. she had some idea of a fight. She was in advance of the age as a female wflter, and it was settled almost as common law, that women were not to presume to teach the reading world, particularly in the graver matters of history and politics. She d. in the autumn of 1814, reo 86, having possessed as good a share of intellect, as much information, and more influence, arising from mental superiority, than falls to the lot of more than one woman in one age. (70) IV. MARY,s b. 9 Sept. 1730, m. John Gray. (71) V. HANNAH/ b. 31 July, 1732. (72) VI. N ATHANIEL/ b. 9 July, 1734, d. 13 Jan., 1735. (73) VII. MAR.THA,s b. 9 Oct., 1736, d. 25 Nov., 1736. (74) VIII. ABIGAu",5 b. 30 June, 1738, d. 30 July, 1738. (75) IX. ELIZABETH,5 b. 1 Sept., 1739. . ([11) X. SAMUEL ALLYNE,5 b. at Barnstable, 24 Nov., 1740;grad. H. C. 1759. He was first m. to Elizabeth, the only dau.* of Hon. Harrison Gray, Receiver General of Ms., ancI second to Mary, the widow or Edward Gray, Esq., -and dau. of Isaac Smith. He commenced the study of law, with a view to its practice, but he abandoned this, and engaged in mercan­ tile pursuits in Boston. He was a representative from Boston to the Gen­ eral Court, 1776, and a member of the Convention which framed the Consti­ tution of Ms. During the Revolution, he was a member of the Board of War and at one time Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1787 he was appointed by the Governor one of the commissioners to negotiate with the in~urgents in " Shay's Rebellion." He was elected a member of Con­ gress in 1788, and after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, was chosen Secretary of the Senate of the United States, an office which he filled with scrupulous fidelity and amenity of manners, without being absent from his post a single day during a period of tbirty years, and till death, amidst the .collision of party strife, to the entire sati$faction of .all. He was esteemed for his probity and attention to all his public duties, and for his bland and courteous manners. He d. at Washington, April 22, 1814, reo 73. (77) XI. SARAH/ b. 11 April, 1742, d. 5 May, 1742. (78) XII. NATHANIEL,D b. 9 April, 1743, d. 30 April, 1763. (79) XIII. A DAUGHTER/ d. early. ENSIGN,4 '( 28) wbo m. Hannah Barker, had, (80) I. ENSIGN/ b. 1723. (I~\) II. JOHN,D b. 1725, m. Jane Turner. (i!t~) III. IGNATIUS,5 b. 1732, m. his second cousin, Thankful Otis. She was b. 1734. and d~ 1826, reo 92. Their residence at Scituate was near " Halifax Hill." He was a warm Whig, and took an active part in the Revolution, and thereby lost his ,property and his reason. He remained insane until 1802, which was the year of his death. a~D IV. N OAH,D b. 1735, m. Phebe Cushing. He was one of the Com­ mittee of Correspondence and of Inspection during the Revolution, and had the command of a body of men, which kept guard day and night. (84) V. AMos/ b. 1739, d. wi~hout issue. DOCT, ISAAc,4 (32) who m. Deborah Jacobs, had, a~) I. ISAAC,5 b. at Scituate, 1719, gruel. H. C. 1738, m. 31 April, 1746,

* Pl'es. Adams says she was a "beautiful" woman. Her family, like many others was unfortunately divided in the Revolution, and her own father became a refugee, and left the country. - ED. 1848.] The Otis Family. 293

Mehitabel, dau. of Capt. Jonathan Bass. She was b. 1728, and d. 1800, reo 72. He was in the practice of medicine at Bridgewater, and d. 1785, reo 66. (86) II. JOSIAH,5 b. 1721, d. early. (87) III. J OSIAH,.5 b. 1725, d. early. (88) IV. 'VILLIA;\I,5 b. 1726. m. and d. without issue. ai2) V. STEPHEN/ b. 1728, m. Elizabeth 'Vade. He s. at Hanover, and d. in early life. (90) VI. JA)1ES,5 was b. 173:t, d. early. , (i~~-) VII. J.UIES,5 b. 1734, m. Lucy, daughter of Ezekiel Cushing, of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, .Me, 1762. She was b. 1736, and was the granddaughter of Rev. Jeremiah Cushing, who graduated H. C. 1676, preached in Scituate, and d. 1705. I-Ie was the third physician of Scituate, and commenced practice about 1760. Before his father commenced prac­ tice in 1719, for nearly a century, the ministers were the physicians. He wa!5 in the French War, and served as surgeon's mate at Crown Point, 1758, in Col. Bayley'S regiment. In 1774 he was on a 'committee, appointed by the town, who reported that "the arbitary measures of the British Parliament are subversive of those rights and liberties which our fathers have handed down to us." He was also one of the Committee of Inspection, who reported all who were inimical to the Continental Association. (92) VIII. THO)IAS,5 b. 1736, d. early. (93) IX. THOl\IAS,5 b. 1738, d. early. JOSEPH/ (34) who m. Lucy Little, had, (io~) I. J OSEPH/ b. 1734, m. Abigail Otis. (JO'7) II. JOHN~5 b. 1736, m. first, vViennet Atkins, of Boston, and second, widow -- Vinal. - Olt) III. BARNABAS,5 b. 1739, m. Polly Records, and s. in Plymouth. (97) IV. CHARLES,5 d. early. (98) CHA¥ES,5 d. early. JOSHLc\./ (35) who m. Hannah ,Barker, had, (99) I. JOSHUA,s b. 1737, d. early. (100) II. GEORGE,5 b. 1744, d. early. om III. JOSHUA,5 b. 1748, m. Mary Thaxter of Hingham. They s. in Scituate, and he d. 1822. NATHANIEL,4 (36) :who m. Hannah Thatcher, had, (102) I. LYDIA,5 b. 20 Jan., 1716-17, m. Abner Kellogg, and afterwards Capt. Amos Thomas, and left numerous descendants. (103) II. HANNAH,5 b. 29 Feb., 1717-18,.. m. Benajah McCall, and left descendants. (104) III. DOROTHY,5 b. 16 April, 1721, had t.hree husballds; namely, Asahel Bigelow, Isaac Day, and Joseph Langrill, and left many descendants. (105) IV. DESIRE,o b. 20 ¥ay, 1723, m. Dea.lchabod Bartlett, and left children. (106) V. NATHANIEL,5 b. 20 Aug., 1725, at Colchester, Ct., and d. 24 Jan., 1740-1, reo 16. He was pursuing his studies, preparatory to a colle- .O'iate course, with a Rev. Mr. Jewett of .Montville, when one day he rup­ tured a blood vessel, cutting wood in strife with another young man. To such violent exertion he was unaccustomed. His remains were taken to Colchester for interment, and in the old burying-ground at that place there is a monument to his memory. (107) VI. DELIGHT/ d. a youth. O~g) VII. JOHN/ h. 1 April, 1728, m. Prudence, daughter of' Michael Taintor, 20 Dec., 1750. She was b. 20 Aug., 1729, and d. 7 June, 1823, at the advanced age of 94. She had been blipd a few years previous to her death. He was a farmer, and a surveyor of land. He held numerous 294 The Otis Family. [July, town offices. His" List" for 1772 was "two heads, one house, two fire places, 22 acres plow, 80 do. mow and pasture land, 50 do. Bush pasture, 18 do. Bog-meadow, 4 oxen, 8 cows, 3 horses, 1 colt, ~ swine." He took the oath of fidelity, Dec. the 17th, 1782. He was an excellent pen:na~, as is seen ftom various specimens of his writing now in existence. HIs rIg~lt hand was strtle!,- with the palsy, and he then wrote by binding, a pen to hIS arm. A mClnuscript work of h:s is now in existence on the Elements of Geometey and Surveying, written at the age of twenty. He resided at Colchester on the estate he received by deed from his parents in 1769, and d. of an apoplexy, Oct the 24th, 1804, ::e. 77. (109) VIII. MERCY,5 b. 3 July, 1734, m. Nathaniel Bartlett. JAMES,4 (37) who m. Sarah Tudol', had, . (UO) I. JA:lIES/ b. 1714, and was accidentally killed at a military pa­ rade at New London, Ct., ::e. 21. He had just been elected captain of a company, and in the careless discharge of fire arms usual on such occasions, he received a musket charge in his head, killing him instantly. m~) II. JOHN,5 b. 1732, at New London, m. Lucy Darrow. He s. in Whittingham, Vt., soon after the Revolutionary War, where he d. in 1816, re.84. (112) III. BETTy,5 who m. Jonathan Bigelow, 1758, had two sons and seven daughters. om IV. STEPHE~} b. 30 Sept., 1738, m. Lucy Chandler of Duxbury, Ms.,1762. She was born in 1738, and d. 4 l\1arch, 1837, at the great age of 98 years, 8 months, and 2 days. They lived at Colchester, where their children were born. He took the oath of fidelity, 1781, and freeman's oath, 1782. He was i'n the old French War under Gen. Putnam; was stationed at Fort Stan wix, and was at the taking of Montreal. He was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and saw the burning of New London. He d. at Halifax, Vt., ::e. 93 years and 51 days. Gl~) V. RICHARD,5 b. 1744, m. Mary Hinckley of Lebanon, Ct. He s. at Fort Ann, New York, and d. about 1825. J OSEPH,4 (46) who m. Elizabeth Little, had, (~~g) I. J OSEPH,o b. 1739, at N~w London, Ct., m. 1st, Lucy Horton of N. L., 2nd, widow -- Carew of Norwich, 3rd, Abigail Hurlbert of Westfield. His la:.;t wife survived him. He d. at Westfield, Ct., 1823. mn II. NATHA:NIEL/ b. 1742, m. Arney Gardner of Norwich. He s. at Montville, Ct., d. in 1834, at Perry, Genessee Co., N. Y., ::e. 92. om III. DAVID,5 b. 1743, m. Mary Day of Colchester, Ct., and 2nd, Abigail Smith of Montville. He s. at Galway, Saratoga Co., N. Y. G~~) IV. JAl\IES/ b. 1746, m. 1st,' Sarah Holmes of Montville, 2nd, Mary Phelps of Wethersfield, 3rd, Belinda Clapp of South Hampton, Ms. (119) V. JONATHAN,5 b. 1753. He entered the armies of the Revolu­ tion, was in a number of engagements, and was killed in 1777, at the battle of Stillwater. (120) VI. BARNABAS,o b. 1755, andd. in Ohio. (121) VII. SHUBAEL,'" b. 1759. He was killed at Rhode Island in the American Revolutionary War. om VIII. WILLIA:U/ b. 1762, m. ---- and s. in Ellisburgh, Jef- ferson Co., N. Y. J OB,4 (48) who m. Thankful Otis, had, (123) I. JOB,5 b. 1729, d. and left no children. (124) II. LEMuEL,o b. 1729, d. and left no children. om III. DAVID,o b. 1731, m. Mary Vinal. 1848.] The Otis Family. 295

(126) IV. THANKFUL,s b. 1734:, m. her second COUSIn, Ignatius Otis. She d. in 1826. O~D V. PRINCE,s b. 1736, m. Ruth Otis. G;n VI. ABIJAH;5 b. 1738, m. Mary Turner. (129) VII. MARY.s (130) VIII. HANNAH,5 b. (131) IX. ELLIS,'" b. DoC'I'. EPHRAIM,4 (51) who m. Raehel Hersey, had, (132) I. MARy/b. --, and m. William, 3d son of Jedidiah Lincoln, of Hingham. Their sons were Wm. Otis, Henry, H. C. 1786, and Solomon, father of the present Hon. Solomon Lincoln of Hingham. e~) II. EPHRABI,s b. 1735, m. Sarah Harris. Her mother, Martha Jenks, wife of David Harris, was granddaughter of Governor Joseph Jenks of Rhode Island, and d. 1826, reo 101 y. 7 mo. and 1 day. He graduated H. C. 1756, and received the degree of M. D. at Yale C. 1759. He was surgeon in the French "Var, at Fort William Henry, 1757. He settled at Scituate, and his practice was very extensive. He was on the first commit­ tee appointed by the town, 1774, to act in reference to the Revolutionary War. O~1) III. CHARLES/ b. 1740, m. 1st -- Ellis, 2d -- Tilden, 3d -- Hammond. He d. in Connecticut. (135) IV. J A:MES,5 b. 1743; and perhaps there were others. DAVlD,4 (53) who. m. Susan Hadden, had, (136) I. ISAAC,5 b. 1768, -so at Hingham. JOHN, (56) who m. Temperance Hinckley, had, (l37) I. JOHN,6 b. 17 Dec., 1742, d. 6 Jan., 1742-3, at Barnstable. (138) II. JOHN,6 b. 19 Feb., 1743, m. Hannah Churchill. They s. at Plymouth, and had three daughters, one of whom m. Solomon Hinckley. It is thought they had also a son John, who d. at Plymouth in 1822. He d. 1798, at Plymouth. (139) III. HAYMAN,6 b. 27 Oct., 1747, d. 5 Nov., 1747. (140) IV. HAYlVIAN,6 b. 8 l\farch, 1748, d. in infancy. MERCY/ (62) who m.. Adine Hinckley, had, (141) 1. ADINE,6 b. 21 May, 1768, s. at Barnstable. (142) II. SOLOMON,6 b. 3 March, 1770, d. at Fredonia, N. Y. (143) III. ROBINSON T.,6 b. 3 June; 1773, s. at Barnstable. AMOS,S (63) who m. Catharine Delap, had, (144) I. A!.\'IOs,6 b. 12 Sept., 1768, m. 1st, Nancy Farnsworth, 2nd, Sally Farnsworth. He s. in Barnstable. (145) II. SOLOMON,6 b. 30 Sept., 1771, m. Hannah Nye. He d. at Barnstable, June, 1823. MAJOR JONATHAN,5 (66) who m. ----, had, (146) I. NATHANIEL,6 b. 1755, and d. in 1817, in South Carolina. (147) II. JOSEPH,B b. 1757, d. 1786, at l\fiddletown, Ct. HON. JAMES,s (61) who m. Ruth Cunningham, had, (148) I. JAl\lES,6 b. 1755. He was a boy of very bright parts, and of some eccentricity of character, but his career was terminated before a just estimate could be made of his future promise. He entered at the beginning of the war, as a volunteer midshipman, and d. after being a short time in the service, reo 21. It is said he d. on board the "Jersey Prison Ship," in 1777. (149) II. ELIZABETH,6 m. Capt. -- Brown, an officer in the English army, of a good family in Lincolnshire. He was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, and afterwards placed in command of one of the fortresses on the coast of England. She left the country with her husband during the 296 The Otis Family. [July,

War, and did not return to it again, except for a short visit in 1792: She was, in 1821, still living, a widow in England. Her alliance wIth the British officer deeply offended her father, and in his will, he left her but five shillings. (150) III. l\IARy,6 * m. Benjamin Lincoln, - H. C. 1777, - eldest son of General Lincoln of Revolutionary notoriety. She possessed fine t~lents and an agreeable character, and d. at Cambridge in 1806. He wa~ n~ the profession of the law, and d. reo 28. They had two sons, - BenJamm .. a physician. H. C. 1806, who died at Demarara in 1813; and Ja~es OtIs, H. C 1807, a lawyer, who d. in 1818, leaving a widow and two chlldren" GENERAL JOSEPH,5 (68) and his wife, Rebecca Sturgis, had (151) I. REBECCA,6b.25Aug.,1754. __ (152) II. JAMES,6 b. 20 Sept., 1755, graduated H. C. 1,,5. He was lost at sea about 1790~ ) (153) III. ELIZABETH,6 b. 12 Jan., 1760. (154) IV. J OSEPH,6 b. 17~, d. in infancy. (155) V. A DAUGHTER.6 .~ By his second wife, Maria Walter, he had, (156) VI. JOSEPH,6 b. Sept., 1771, m. 1st, Ann Stoll, 2nd, -- Munr.o, 3rd, ----. He was postmaster at Travellers' Rest, S. C., and d. m 1839, at Louisville, Ky. (157) VII. NATHANIEL WAI,TER,6 who was b. Jan., 1773. His first wife was Nancy Bourne of Barnstable; his second, an English lady in Havana. He s. in Matanzas, Island of Cuba, and finally in New Orleans, a planter. A dau. m. Quincy Thaxter of Hingham. (158) VIII. JOHN,6 b. April, 1774, now living on the "Otis farms," Barnstable. (159) IX. THOMAS,6 b. Nov., 1775, d. 14 Aug., 1803, at Albany, N. Y. (160) X. CHARLES,6 b. July, 1777, d.14Aug., 1794, in Charleston, S.C. (161) XI. A SON,6 b. Feb. 1779,d. same day. (162) XII. WILLIAM,6 b. Feb., 1783. He was for many years a clerk in the U. S. General Land Office, Washington, and d. 7 April, 1837, reo 54. (163) XIII. ARTHUR,6 b. Dec., 1784, d. 24 July, 1801, in the Havana. (164) XIV. J\iARIA,6 b. 1788, m. Rev. Philip Colby. She had many accomplishments, and was of eminent piety; d. 20 l\:Iay, 1821, reo 33. (165) XV. MARY A ,6 b. --, m. Hon. Ebenezer Gay, of Hingham. He was a grad. H. C. 1789. MERCY,5 (69) m. Gen. James vVarren, and they had, (166) I. James.(l (167) II. 'Vinslow.6 (168) III. Charles"~ (169) IV. Henry.6 (170) V. George.6

LTo be continued.]

* It was this individual to whom John Adams refers in one of his letters to Tudor in this passage: " Aft.er my return from Europe, I asked his [James Otis's1 dauO'hter whether she had foun~ amo,ng her father's mam~scripts a ~reatise ou ~reek Prosody. '" With hands and eyes uphfted m a paroxysm of gnef, she CrIed, C Oh, SIr, I have not a line from my father's pen. I have not even his name in his own hand-writinO'.' When she was a little calmed, I asked her, C Who has his pa~ers ? .Where ar~ they 1: "'She answered,' They are no more. In one of those unhappy dIspOSItions of mmd whICh distressed him after his great misfortune, and a little before his death, he collected all his papers and pamphlets and committed them to the flames. He was several days employed in it.'" Novanglus &c. 231.-ED. . , i850.] The Oti8 Family. 143

GENEALOGY OF THE OTIS FAMILY. BY HORATIO N. OTIS. (Continued from Vol. II. p. 296.) IT is not pretended that this memoir is entirely perfect and free from error. Yet the author has spared neither labor nor expense to make it complete; and the difficulties of such investigations can only be appreci~ ated by those who are accustomed to them. Much yet remains to be known; and it is requested that anyone who may discover errors, can supply facts, dates, names, etc., in the many instances wherein the geneal­ ogy is deficient, will communicate with the author at New York. HON. SAMUEL ALLYNE5 (76), who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Harrison Gray; and, 2d, Mary, widow of Edward Gray, and dau. of'Israel Smith, had: mn I. HARRISON GRAY,6 b. 8 Oct., 1765, m. Sally, dau. of William Foster, Esq., merchant of Boston, 31 May, 1790. She was b. 10 Jan., 1770, and d. 6 Sept., 1838, reo 66 years and 8 months nearly. A very just tribute to her memory may be found in a Philadelphia paper of the time. Mr. Otis d. 28 Oct., 1848, Saturday, at 2 o'clock, A. M., at his residence in Beacon Street, Boston, in the 84th year of his age. He graduated at H. C. 1783, read law with John Lowell, was admitted to the Bar 1786, and was chosen Representative in Congress for the Suffolk District in 1797, as soon as he was constitutionally qualified by age, as the successor of Fisher Ames, which station he held during the whole of the Admini~tJ'ntion of John Adams - eight years. For many years he was an active and elllCif'nt member of one or other branch of the State Legislature; - Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1803 to 1805, and for six years President of the Senate. He also, at different periods, held the office of Judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and third Mayor of the city of Boston, Jan., 1829. He was elected a Senator to the 16th Congress, 1817, which station he held for five yeare, when he resigned, June, 1822. In 1823, after the long administration of Gov. Brooks, he was the Fed­ eral candidate for Governor of the Commonwealth, but the strong rally of the Democratic party in that year, brought into office Gov. Eustis in oppo­ sition to him. He was one of the prominent members of the convention that met at Hartford in Dec., 1814, to deliberate on the condition of public affair,~;­ and many years since he wrote and published a series of letters, in a pam­ phlet form, in vindication of the views and proceedings of that convelll:v:~. On retiring from the mayoralty, he withdrew from all public employ­ ment, and resided till his decease in his elegant maJlsion in._Boston. om II. SAMUEL ALL YNE,6 b. 1768, m. Elizabeth Coffin; and, 2d, Elizabeth Coffin Marquand. He was bred to commerce, and established in business with the brightest prospects at Cape Francois, when the insurrec­ tion burst forth which drove him, and all the whites who escaped massacre, from the island. He afterwards settled in Newburyport, Ms., where he d. in 1814. (174) III. GEORGE,6 b. --, d. early. JOHN,5 (81) who m. Jane Turner 1 Dec., 1746, at Scituate, had: Gm I. ENSIGN,6 b. 9 Jan., 1747, m. Lucy Lapham, 4 March, 1775. He s. at Scituate, where he d. 25 Aug. 1830, reo 84,; (176) II. JOHN,6 b. 16 April, 1750, d. unmarried. 144 The Otis Family. [April,

5 IGNATIUS/ (82) who was b. 2 Feb'y. 1731, and m. THANKFUL OTIS , (126), had: (177) I. AMOS,s b. 1757, d. early; (178) II. OLIVER,6 b. 1759, d. early; * III. THANKFUL,6 b. 1761, m. George Torry, 22 Sept., 1782 ; IV. FANNY,s b. 1763, d. unm. 7 April, 1834, reo 71 ; (M~) V. AMOS,6 b. 1765, m. Thankful Taylor, and s. in New Castle, Me. He d. in 1809; (~~) VI. OLIVER,s b. 1768, m. Elizabeth Stanchfield. Her father was the first settler in Leeds, Me., and her grandfather came from England, and was the first settler in New Gloucester. Mr. Otis was a farmer at Leeds, and, in 1838, was living at Hallowell, (the residence of his son, the Hon. John Otis), a man of wealth; (181) VII. JOB,s b. 1778, d. in Scituate, unm. CAPT. NOAH,S (83) who m. Phebe Cushing, 1 May, 1766, (he d. 6 Nov., 1798, and she d. 1805,) had: (182) I. NOAH,s b. 27 Nov., 1766, d. without issue; (A~) II. JOHN,6 b. 17 Feb., 1769, m. Hannah Clapp, 19 April, 1795; She d. at Scituate, 19 Feb., 1837. He was a sea captain; III. PHEBE,s b. 15 Dec., 1770; IV. SARAH,6 b. 8 Sept., 1774 ; V. DESIRE,6 b. 30 July, 1779, m. James Curtis, of Marshfield, 23 Feb., 1802. DOCT. ISAAC/ (85) who was b. 8 Oct., 1721, and m. Mehitabel Bass, had: (184) I. BETHIA,6 b. 1747, m. John Hudson, of Bridgewater, 1769. She had four sons and six daughters, and d. 1825,.re. 78 ; (~) II. J OSIAH,6 b. 1749, m. his second cousin, Susanna, daughter of Hon. Hugh Orr, 1772. She was b. at East Bridgewater, 1752, and d.20 Dec., 18:36, reo 84. He s. at Bridgewater, in the practice of medicine, and there d. 25 March, 1808, reo 59 ; n~n III. ISAAC,6 b. at Bridgewater, 24 Sept., 1752, m. Ruth Brown, of R. I., 1781. She d. at Cumberland. In 1787 he m. a widow Hopkins, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Briggs. He removed with his family to Orange Co., N. Y., 1814, where he d. 2 Nov., 1838, reo 86; (187) IV. NABBY,6 a t.win of Isaac, d. early; (188) V. HANNAH,6 b. 1755, d. early; (189) VI. NABBY,6 b. 17€)7, d. early; n~) VII. JACOBS,s'b. 1758, m. Sarah Smith Barker. Their children were b. in Providence, R. I. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and now lives in Sullivan Co., N. Y. and draws a pension; (191) VIII. THOMAS,6 b. 1761, d. early; G~~) IX. GALEN,6 b. 1763, m. Joanna, daughter of Deacon David Til­ den, of Hanson and Boston. He s. at Woolwich, Me., a physician, and d. 26 Aug., 1836. STEPHEN,5 (89) who m. Elizabeth Wade, had, b. at Scituat.e: (193) I. CHARLOTTE,6 b. 1763, m. 1783, Snell Wade, son of Issachar, of Scituate. He d., and she m. 2d, -- Cole. She was livino. at Lancas- ter, Ms., in 1840; e (194) II. DEBORAH,6 b. 1765, m. Jonathan Copeland, of West Bridge-

'*' The intermission of the numbers here, and in several succeeding instances is caused by the discovery of additional names since the plan was arranged. ' 1850.] ,The Otis Family. 145

water, 1784. He was b. 1755, and d. 1838, reo 83. They had five sons and two daughters, b. from 1785 to 1804; O~~) III. WILLIAM,6 b. 16 Jan., 1768, m. Phi1en~ Shaw, of Wrentham, Ms., 7 Oct., 1792. She was b. 1772, and d. at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1836. He removed from Cummington to Ohio, 1825, and was engaged in com­ mercial pursuits on Lake Erie; , O~~) IV. PAUL,6 b. 1771, m. 1st, Penelope Nichols, 5 Nov., 1791. She was b. 15 April, 1769, and d. 24 April, 1792. He m. 2d, Mrs. Lucy Bai­ ley, Aug., 1795. She was b. 9 March, 1776, and d. 21 Aug., 1805. By her he had three sons and two daughters. His third wife was Mable Litch­ field, whom he m. 15 Feb., 1806. She was b. 12 Oct., 1784, and survived her husband. The Records of Scituate note the death by small pox, in 1792, of three of Paul Otis' children; (197) V. A DAUGHTER,6 - m. a Mr. Howard. DOCT. JAMES,5 (91) who m., 3 Oct., 1761, Lucy Cushing, had: (198) I. Lucy,6 b. 15 June, 1763, m. Thomas Barker Briggs, of Scitu­ ate, and had Thomas, Cushing Otis, Henry, Deborah and Charles; (m) II. JAMES,6 b. 21 April, 1765, m. Joanna Gardner. He resided at Lyme, N. H., and d. in Boston, 1836 ; (200) III. HANNAH,6 b. 24 Feb., 1767, m. 11 Sept., 1795, Rev. Nehe­ miah Thomas. He grad. H. C. 1789, and was ordained over the first church and society in Scituate, 1792. In the space of one year he lost a promising son, and his amiable consort; and his dau., Lucy, was hopelessly bereaved of her reason at the "time of her mother's decease. He d. Aug., 1831, of an apoplexy, one afternoon, while at the beach with his sister-in­ law, Miss Elizabeth Otis, for the benefit of fresher air. She d. 28 March, 1831. They had Henry, d ..at College, 1813; Harriet; Lucy Otis; and Francis, H. C., 1829; (201) IV. CUSHING,6 b. 7 March, 1769, m. 18 October, 1806, Abigail, dau. of J udge Nathan Cushing, of Scituate. He grad. H. C., 1789, took his degree of M. D., 1792, when he commenced practice at Scituate. He was Fellow of the 1\1. M. Soc.~ and represented Scituate in the IJegisla­ ture, 1809, 1812, '13 and '14. In 1823, he was elected to the State Sen­ ate. The Church found in Hon. Mr. Otis a warm friend and supporter. He d. in Oct., 1837, reo 69. Of his daughters, Abigail Tilden,7 was b. 25 Jan., 1811. m. Judge Williams, a man of wealth, now deceased; (202) V. ELIZABETH,6 b. 25 April, 1771. She d. at Scituate, unmar- ried, 4 April, .1846, reo 75 ; _ (203) VI. NABBY,6 b. 11 Oct., 1773, m. 30 Oct., 1800, Capt. Seth Foster; (204) VII. THOMAS,~ b. 15 July, 1776, m. Charlotte Downs, of Boston. He was an Importer of Dry Goods in Boston, firm of Otis & Holburn. They dissolved abont 1800, and he established in New York, the house of Otis & Swan. Otis went to Manchester, as buyer, acquired a fortune rapidly and retired. He d. at N. Y., 29 Oct., 1841, reo 65, leaving his vast property to his two daughters, with the exception of some bequests men­ tioned in the papers at the time of his decease. His only son, Thom­ as, d. in early life, and his dau. Helen, m. Jacob R. LeRoy. JOSEPH/ (94) who m. Abigail Otis, had: (:~g) I. J OSEPH,6 b. 1776, m. ----, in Boston and s. at Ellsworth, Me. The town of Otis 1n that State was formerly owned by, and from him had its name; (206) II. BILLINGS,6 b. 1778, d. early; (207) III. CHARLES,6 b. 1781, s. in Boston. 19 146 .The Otis Family. [April,

, JOHN;'; (95) who was b. 9 July, 1754, (and d. 11 July, 1832,) had, by his first wife, Winnet Atkins, the following children: I. WINNET,6 b. 12 June, 1780, m. Nathaniel Peirce, 11 May, 1800 ; II. MARCY,6 h. 20 Feb., 1782, m. Noah Cudworth, 15 Sept., 1801 ; III. POLLY,6 b. 10 Feb., 1784; IV. SALLY,6 b. 15 Dec., 1786, m. Cotton Bailey, 15 Nov., 1813 ; (208) V. J OHN,6 b. 9 Jan., 1788, m. Lydia Bailey, 30 Sept., 1819 ; VI. BETSEY,6 b. 26 Sept" 1791, m. Nahum Vinal, 6 June, 1832; VII. NABBY,6 b.1l March, 1793; VIII. SOPHIA,6 b. 5 April, 1794; (209) IX. SILAS,6 b. 12 April, 1795 ; (210) X. JOSEPH,6 b. 28 Jan., 1799, m. Sarah N. Jackson, and has five or more children, at Scituate. BARNABAS,5 (96) who was b. 6 Feb., 1756, and m. Oct., 1781, Polly Rickard; [She was b.12 July, 1754, and d. ~5 April, 1831. He d. ~8 lVlareh, 1847, at Plymouth. He m. his second WIfe, Fanny Totman, of SCIt­ uate, 23 Aug., 1832, and she d. 10 Jan., 1844, reo 58 y. & 7 m.] Had: I. HENRY,6 b. 14 Sept., 1782, and d. 22 July, 1783; (211) II. BARNABAS,6 b. 12 March, 1785, went to sea, July, 1800, and, on May 29, 1803, was impressed by a British frigate. He remained on board three months and a half, when he escaped from this service to the Island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies. He d. at sea 18 May, 1812, after sailing from the West Indies, three days from a port called St. Marks, in Cape Francis, or Hayti, reo 27. (212) III. HENRY,6 b. 6 Feb., 1787, and d. 26 July, 1802, in the Island of Martinieo; IV. MARY,6 b. 17 Oct., 1790, m. Elias Williams, of Taunton. She d. in King's and Queen's Co., Va., 3 Oct., 1813, leaving Hen?'Y 0., b. 16 Feb., 1811, and Augustus, b. 24 July, 1812. JOSHUA/ (101) d. 6 Dec., 1822, m. Mary Thaxter, (she d. 12 June, 1842, reo 92,) and had, b. at Scituate: I. GEORGE,6 b. 20 Nov., 1770; II. MARY,6 b. 28 June, 1773, m. SamI. Foster, of Kingston, 3 April, 1792 j (~~~) III. GEORGE WASHINGTON,6 b. 26 July, 1775, m. 1st, - Clev- erly; 2d, -- Waters. He s. in Boston, and is a Justice of the Peace; (214) IV. JOSHUA,G b. 27 March, 1778, "Capt. Joshua Otis, Jr., d. 1801, reo 23 ;" [Ree. Scit.] (215) V. EZEKIEL,6 b. 8 Feb., 1783, m. and d. 4 Nov., 1820, reo 37 ; (216) VI. SAMUEL,6 b. 18 May, 1785, d. in Scituate, 21 Oct., 1826, re.41; VII. SALLY BARKER,6 b. 3 Dec., 1789; VIII. ABIGAIL THAXTER,6 b. 23 Feb., 1792. JOHN,5 (108) b. 4 June, 1727,* who m. Prudence Taintor, had, b. at Colchester, Ct. : (217) I. HANNAH,6 h. 29 Feb., 1752, O. S., m. Martin Kellogg. She d. 1790, reo 38, and left Sally, who m. Amasa Foot; and Fanny who m. a Methodist minister. She had also, William, who d. youn o" ' (218) II. NATHANIEL,6 h. 19 June, 1753, m.lVlary, dau.~flsrael Foot, of Colchester, 5 Nov., 1778. She d. reo 84. A sister of Mrs. Otis d. at Lyme, 1846, at the advanced age of 99! a~other sister is now living, over .90 years of age~ He took the oath of FIdelIty at Colchester, 19 Sept., 1780,

* The date in the family Bible, and no doubt correct; the date " 1 April 1798" pre- viously given, was taken from Town Records. ' , 1850.] The Otis Family. 147 and was made Captain of a military company. He resided at Hartford two or three years, and finally s. at New London. His name is met with on the Records as "Surveyor of Land for N. L. County." He was sta­ tioned at Horse Neck during a part of the Revolutionary War, and d. in the peace of the Christian, 18 March, 1834, reo 81. A son, Asa,7 and two daughters, reside in New London; . (219) III. SARAH,6 b. 24 May, 1755, m. Israel Foot, 5 Nov., 1778. She d. 1781, of consumption, reo 26. Her children were Sarah, d. in in­ fancy, and Sarah, b. 1 Feb., 1781, m. a Mr. Hale; (220) IV. ANN,6 b. 15 March, 1757, m. Daniel Wattles, of Lebanon, Ct. She was living with her daughter, at Rochester, N. Y., and being blind, her garments took fire, causing her death, in 1837, reo 80. She had eleven children, several of whom d. in infancy; (221) V. JOHN THACHER,6 b. 31 Oct., 1758, m. 29 Sept., 1782, Louisa, dau. of Dea. Noah Pomeroy. She d. at Colchester, 1840, reo 80. He d. at the same place, on Sunday, 18 Sept., 1842, reo 84. The following trib­ ute to his memory appeared in a paper at the time of his death: He was a patriot of the Revolution. On the news of the battle of Lex­ ington, Otis, then less than eighteen years of age, sought the first opportu­ nity to display himself, and started with a small band, and joined the Amer­ ican Army at Cambridge. He was at Concord, among those on the night of the 4th of March, who helped to take possession of Dorchester Heights. An engagement was hourly expected; but the British evacuated the city, and the American troops marched into Boston. In August, 1777, after the evacuation of Ticonderoga, Mr. Otis was among the many who flocked to the standard of the newly appointed com­ mander of the Northern armies, Gen. Gates. The company under Capt. Amos Jones, to which he belonged, marched to the Patriot army, at Sara­ toga. He was in one or two engagements, at the battle of Stillwater, and at the surrender of Burgoyne. He bore honorable testimony to the cour­ age of Putnam, at Cambridge: that he was brave and true to his country. Dea. Otis' life was active, his character energetic, and his body and mind sound until almost the close of 1ife. He was systematically de­ voted to the great end of existence and the duties of life. He was useful as an officer in the church. He had seven children; Charles P.,7 grad. Y. C., 1829, was Principal of Bacon Academy ten years, a man of much worth, d. 7 Jan., 1837; and Israel T.,7 grad. at Williams College, 1828, and at Andover 1834, is a min­ ister at Rye, N. H. ; (222) VI. CHARLES,6 b. 29 Oct., 1760, m. widow Elizabeth Sweetland, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Gould, of East Haddam, Ct. He took the oath of Fidelity at Colchester 17 Dec., 1782, and s. at Hamilton, N. Y., where he d. in Oct., 1844, re.84. A dau., Hannah,7 m. John Blish; and his son, Charles G./ m. and is now living at Earlville, N. Y., a Justice of Peace. (223) VII. PRUDENCE,6 b. 23 Nov., 1762, m. Ambrose Dutton. He d. 28 Oct., 1841, reo 82. She is now living at Colchester, Ct., the mother of seven children, viz.: Epaphroditus,7 Phebe,7 Sophia,7 Francis,7 Russell,1 Ambrose,7 and James.7 (224) VIII. MARCY,7 b. 17 Sept., 1764, m. 1st, Daniel Cone, and had two children. She m. 2d, Dr. Amos Skeel, of Williamstown, Ms., had four children, and d. 1813. (225) IX. JAMES,6 b. 6 June, 1767, m. 18 Nov., 1792, Dorothy Foot. She d. 1848. He was made a freeman at Colchester, 1792, and d. 2 148 The Oti8 Family. [April;

March, 1845, reo 78. He had two sons, Joltn Nelson,1 d. young; and Jam~s Foot/ of rare talents as a musician, m. Eliz. H. Hammond, and d. 5 April, 1846, leaving children. (226) X. EUNICE,6 b. 28 Nov., 1'Z70, m. Daniel Gardner, and had three sons and three daughters. She is now living at Eaton, N. Y. (227) XI. DAVID,6 b. 20 Aug., 1773, m. Fanny, dau. of Capt. Amos Fowler, of Lebanon, Ct., who was b. 28 June, 1783. She is descended on her father's side from John Fowler, an adherent of Cromwell, who escaped to this country to shun the ordelian law of the British hierarchy, and was at Guilford, Ct., 1639, when the first church was organized. Her grandfather, Abijah Fowler, one of the first settlers at Lebanon, m. Abigail Bigelow, 1745, and had seven children, the youngest of whom ,was Amos (her father) b. 17 March, 1758, and d. 30 Nov., 1837, reo 80. Her mother, ,Rebecca Dewey, dau. of John Dewey and Rhoda Gillett, and grand-daugh­ ter of one of the first proprietors of what was called the" Clark and Dewey Purchase," was b. 4 July, 1759, and is now living. Mrs. Otis has four brothers: Hon. Orin Fowler, of Fall River, Ms., Gen. Amos, Henry, and Anson, of Lebanon, Ct. The brothers of this Otis family (now all deceased except one) bore a strong resemblance to each other in a peculiarly marked physiognomy, which they derived from the Thacher family through their grandmother, Hannah. I am not aware of any paintings of portraits of them, and it .may be interesting to some of their numerous descendants to know that the lith­ ographic portrait of Dr. James Thacher, accompanying his Medical Biogra­ phy, resembled 1\1:1'. David Otis in a remarkable degree. He was a man of great industry - but was a cripple the latter part of' his life, from the effects of a fever. His sterling hOl1esty, his plain, strong common sense, made him beloved and respected. He lived a life of piety, and d. in faith and hope on the 13 May, 1847. He had- children: Alfred/ m. Sophia Jane Worthington; Clarissa; 7 Rhoda Emmeline/ m. Ambrose Dutton, and d. 1843, leaving one son; Orin F.,1 grad. at Y. C. 1840, a minister of the Congregational Church at Chepachet, R. I.; BenJamin F.,1 m. France s Jane Clark; Harriet Newell,7 m. Russell Dutton; Horatio N.T • and Sm'ak7 ,' (228) XII. AMOS, 6 b. 18 April, 1776, m. - Huntly ' and now the last surviving brother, is s. at Colchester, Ct. ' JOHN,S (111) who m. Lucy Darrow, had: (~~~) I. JAMES,S m. Lucy Otis, of Norwich, Ct. He resided at Brattle­ borough, Vt., and d. at Royalton, N. Y., 1826 ; (230) II. CHRISTOPHER,S m. Mary Baldwin, of Stafford Ct. He s. at Whittingham, Vt., and d. about 1820, without issue' ' (~n III. JOHN,S m. Nancy Angel, and d. at Syra~use, N. Y., 1844 ; (232) IV. SARAH,6 m. James McCullock, of Pelham, Ms. She d. at Coleraine; 15 Sept., 1846, reo 87. STEPHEN,s (113) who m. Lucy Chandler, had, h. at Colchester: Grg) I. ARAUNAH,6 b. 6 Jan., 17 G3, m. Betsey Adams. He enlisted when 18 years of age, in the Revolutionary army; s. at Rutland, N. Y., So farmer, and d. 1833 ; (234) II. CAROLINE,6 b. 18 Dec., 1764 ; (~~) III. CALVIN,6 b. 16 Oct., 1766, m. Widow Vanhantier, of N. Y. He was a carpenter in N. Y., and d. 1834; (236) IV. ELCE, b. 12 Sept., 1768; (~~) V. CHANDLER,6 b. 18 April, 1770, m. Abigail Coe, s. a farmer, at Lyden, N. Y.; (238) VI. LUCY,6 b. 4 Jan., 1772 ; 1850.] The Otis llamily. 149

(~~O VII. STEPHEN,6 b. -, 1774, m. Phebe Glynn, and s. at Halifax, Vt. ; om VIII. SETH,6 b. 24 June, 1777, m. Chloe Taylor, 1803. He s. a merchant, at Watertown, N. Y., 1806, was Commissioner· of loans, High Sheriff, &c. He now resides in Chicago, Ill. ; (m) IX. NATHANIEL,i1 b. 26 Nov., 1778, m. Judith Martin. He lived at Smithfield, N. Y., and removed, in 1846, to Beloit, W. T. He has been a ~aptist minister for more than forty years. He belonged to the BerkshIre Asson. of B. ehh., N. Y.; (242) X. JAMES,6 b. 5 Nov., 1780, m. Bethia Lee, and was living, in 1846, at Sullivan, Mad. Co., N. Y. A son James m. Mary Lee; (~~O XI. JOSEPH,6 b. 5 Feb., 1782, m. Violetta Hinsdale, of Bristol, Vt. He went as volunteer under Capt. Saxton, and was in the action at Platts­ burg, 11 Sept.,1814. This action it is known resulted in the complete triumph of the Am. arms in that quarter. In 1839, he removed to Bris- . tol, W. T. RWHARD,5 (114) who m. Mary Hinckley, had: (~~) I. J OSEPH/ h. 1 Dec., 1769, m. 1st, Rachel Cook, of Fort Ann; 2d, Hannah Spencer, of Greenville; 3d, widow Sarah· Smith, maiden name, Cook; (~~) II. MATSON,6 b. --, m. Deborah Wetherel, of Fort Ann. He was Fving at Ripley, N. Y., 1834 ; (246) III. J OEL,6 b. --, m. Martha Clarke, and s. at Fort Ann, N.Y. ; (:~) IV. AMOS;6 b. --, m. Delia Grover, of Sudbury, Vt. He was a volunteer at Platsburgh, 1812, was made captain of a company, and d. at Fort Ann, soon after returning home; (248) V. RICHARD,6 b. --, m. Eunice Huntley, and s. at Fort Ann; C:~~) VI. JARED,6 b. --, m. Lorinda Chapin, of Fort Ann, and s. at Columbia, Chenango Co., N. Y.; (250) VII. SARDIS,6 b. --, m. Sarah Cone, and s. at Fort Ann. DEA. JOSEPH/ (115) who m. Lucy Horton, widow Carew, and Abigail Hurlbert, (he d. at Sujjield, Ct., instead of Westfield,) had: (251) I. JOSEPH,6 b. --,1768, m. Nancy Huntington, of Norwich, Ct. She d. in the peace of the Christian faith, 27 Aug., 1844, at Norwich, where she was born. She was a lady of many estimable qualities. He left home quite young, and resided at Norwich about two years; went into the mer­ cantile business at Charleston, S. C.; and in 1797 removed to New York. Here he remained a prosperous commission merchant 43 years, respected by all who knew him, for his firm integrity and correct business habits. In 1840, sickness rendered a change necessary, and he retired from the city and active business, to Norwich. (252 II.• JAM~S,6 b. 1770, d. reo 21; (253) III. OLIVER,6 b. 1773, now living with his nephew in New York State; C:~) IV. SHUBAEL,6 b. 1776, m. 1st, Abigail Thomas. He is living at Hinsdale, Ms., with his third wife; V. A DA UGHTER,6 m. Benjamin Snow, of Norwich. DEA. NATHANIEL,s (116) who m. Arney Gardner, (she d. Aug., 1815, reo 72,) had: (~) I. NATHANIEL,6 b. 25 Feb., 1765, m. Martha Gates, of Colchester, Ct. He d. in Dec., 1828, at Perry, N. Y. ; (256) II. AMOS,6 b. 27 Aug., 1766, was drowned 27 May, 1786, in " Gardner's Lake ;" (~) III. ASAHEL,6 b. 1 May, 1768, m. Mary Chester, 15 Jan., 1792, and d. in N. Y. State, 12 Jan., 1837 ; 150 The Oti8 Family. [April,

IV. ELCY,6 b. 8 July, 1770, d. Sept., 1795; V. MABEL,6 b. 28 A.pril, 1772; (258) VI. ISAAC,6 b. 18 April, 1774, drowned with his brother; (~n VII. DAVID G.,6 b.l May, 1776, m. Anna Perry, of Petersham, R. I. She was b. 15 Aug., 1779. He resides at Salem, Ct.; (260) VIII. SHUBAEL,6 b. 2 May, 1778, s. at Waterford, and d. 25 Aug., 1840 ; - IX. AMY,6 b. 25 June, 1782, m. Oliver Baker; s. at Salem; (261) X. JOSEPH,6 b. 1 May, 1784, d. 29 May, 1786; XI. ELIZABETH,6 b. 26 May, 1787; XII. ANNA,6 b. 23 April, 1789 ; DA VID,o (117) who m. Mary Day and Abigail Smith, had: I. LOVINA,6 b. 29 July, 1767, m. Andrew W. Durkee; s. at Sennett, N. Y., where she d.; (262) II. ISAAC,6 b.19 Sept., 1768, m. Susan Hedden, d. at Jordan, N. Y., leaving one SOll, Herod; ; (~~) III. DA VID,6 b. 6 May, 1770, m. Melancy Smith, and s. at Camil­ lus, N. Y.; (264) IV. JOSEPH,6 b. 7 July, 1771, m. Huldah Hill, fl. at Fabius, N.Y., and has one SOll, Joseph 7 ; (~~) V. PEREZ,6 b. 16 March, 1773, m. Deborah Gillett, and s. at Gal­ way, N. Y.; VI. MARY ANN,6 b. 3 Nov., 1774, m. Charles Kellogg. He was b. at Sheffield, Ms. 3 Oct., 1773 ; s. at Kelloggsville, N. Y. She d. 13 Oct., 10844, at Ann Arbor, :lVIich., leaving eleven children; (~~) VII. ABU AH,6 b. 8 June, 1776, m. Eleanor Austin, of Sheffield, Ms., and s. at Howard, N. Y.; (~rz) VIII. JACOB,6 b. 21 Aug., 1777, m. Annis Austin, of Sheffield, Ms. He d. at Truxton, N. Y., 1830; IX. ACHSAH,G b. 12 Jan., 1780, m. a Mr. Fillmore. She d. at Oak Orchard, N. Y. ; (268) X. SHUBAEL,6 b. 2 April, 1781, m. Sarah Hartshorn; s. at DI­ sterville, N. Y., and has children; (269) XI. SELAH,6 b. 10 March, 1783, m. Betsey Hartshorn; has been P. M. at Ulsterville, N. Y.; JAMES,o (118) who m. Sarah Holmes, Mary Phelps and Belinda Clapp,. had: (270) I. JABEZ,6 --, m. Lucy Ely, and s. at West Springfield, Ms; He had two sons, Francis7 and Ely,7 and perhaps others' (~n II. SAMUEL,6 --, m. Sybil Nott, of West Sp~ingfield, and s. at Chester, Ms. ; (~m III. JAMES,ss--' m. Lucy B~oad, of Springfield, where he s. ; (273) IV. JOHN, --, m. -- Vlbber, of East Hartford, and s. at Glastonbury, Ct. He had a large family; (274) V. SUMNER,G , s. at Montgomery, Ms. WILLIAM,o (122) of Ellisburgh, N. Y., had: (275) I .•TOHN,6 --, m. and has a family; (276) II. RALPH.6 DAVID,o (125) who m. Mary Vinal, (he was b. 1747, instead of 1731 and d. at Scituate, 14 Dec., 1828, reo 81,) had, b. at Scituate: ' . mD I. DA VID,6 b. 3 March, 1774, m. Ruth Otis, 17 Nov., 1803 . II. POLLY,S b. 16 Feb., 1776, m. Abner Bailey, 25 Oct., 1798. ' III. DEBORAH,6 b. 20 Oct., 1777 ; , IV. ELISHA,6 b~ 15 Nov., 1778, d. early; 1850.] Tlte Otis Family. 151

V. MARY,6 b. 9 Jan., 1779, m. Charles Ellms, 24 March, 1801 ; (278) VI. JUDITH,6 b. 15 March, 1782, m. 'Benjamin Clapp, 14 Aug., 1803 ; VII. BETTY,6 b. 31 July, 1785 ; VIII. ELCE,6 b. 4 Jan., 1788, m. Calvin Peirce, 9 Aug., 1807 ; n~~) IX. HOWLAND6 b. 7 Feb., 1790, m. Elizabeth Waterman, 1814, s. at Scituate; (280) X. JOB,6 b. 21 Jan., 1792, d. early; XI. ANNE VINAL,6 b. 2 May, 1794; XII. EUNICE,6 b. 27 May, 1796, m. Benjamin T. Totman, 10 Dec., 1820 ; (281) XIII. ADAM,6 b. 2 Oct., 1798, d. 11 March, 1831, reo 32. PRINCE/ (127) who m. Ruth Otis, (he d. 24 July, 1801,) had, h. at Scituate: I. RUTHY,6 b. 29 Oct., 1779 ; (~~~) II. PRINCE HOWLAND,6 b. 24 Feb., 1781, m. Hannah Luke, and s. at Cambridge, Ms. ; (283) III. LEMUEL,6 h. 6 Sept., 1783, m. Catharine Norton, and s. at Richmond, Va. He had two sons, and perhaps more; (284) IV. BENJAMIN,6 b. 21 Aug., 1786, d. early. ABIJAH,5 (128) who m. Mary Turner, 22 March, 1795, (she d.19 Aug., 1841,) had: I. MARY TURNER,s b. 20 Nov., 1795; GWr) II. ABIJAH,6 b. 24 Feb., 1797, m. Mary -. He was a mariner. His farm at Scituate was three-fourths of a mile southwest from the har­ bor. He d. of consumption, 11 Nov., 1846 ; (~) III. JOHN TURNER,6 h. 30 April, 1799, m. 6 Dec., 1821, Sarah W. Jenkins. He d. at Boston, 9 Aug., 1830, reo 31; IV. RACHEL T.,6 b. 27 Oct., 1800, m. Henry Wade, 13 Jan., 1828 ; a~&) v. JOB PRINCE,6 b. 11 March, 1802, m. Hannah Briggs, 5 O~t. 1825. He m. 2d, Lydia Clapp, 15 June, 1828, and she d. 16 Feb., 1834, reo 26;' • (288) VI. AMOS 8HA W,6 b. 13 Sept., 1804, m. Nancy Brown, 20 March, 1831, and d. 16 May, 1840, reo 35 ; VII. DEBORAH,6 b. 12 Sept., 1806, m. Barnabas W. Briggs, 17 Jan., 1831. DOCT. EPHRAIM/ (133) who m. Sarah Harris, had: I. POLLY,6 b. 5 Aug., 1770; (:s~) II. EPHRAIM,6 b. 23 Dec., 1772, m. 1st, Mary Cornwell; 2d, Re­ becca Underhill, ,poth of whom he survives. He s. at DeRuyter, N. Y., a physician, with an extensive practice; (~rs) III. DAVID HARRIS,6 b. 4 April, 1775, m. Sarah Rogers. He is a wealthy farmer, living at Danby, N. Y.; IV. AMEY,6 b. 29 April, 1777 ; (~m V. GEORGE ALEXANDER,6 b. 29 Aug., 1781, m. Lucinda Smith, and s. in Boston. He is known as the author and translator of a number of works, one of the principal of which is that of Botta's History of' the War of American Independence, from the Italian; (~~n VI. J OB,6 b. 25 June, 1783, m. Deborah Davis. He was an apoth­ ecary and chemist at New Bedford, and in 1834, removed to Scipio, N. Y.; VII. STEPHEN,6 b. 26 July, 1785;' (~n VIII. DANIEL,6 b. 6 Nov., 1788, m. Mary Green, and now resides at Scituate, Ms. CHARLES,/) (134) who m. Mrs. Sarah Tilden, 7 Dec.; 1786; and 2d, Elizabeth Hammond, 12 Dec., 1798, had by Sarah: 152 The Otis Family. [April,

(294) I. CHARLES TILDEN,6 b. -, m. Miss Ripley, of Ki~gston. He lived at Boston, and s. at Mason, N. H., and had a son Charles, b. 1818. AMOS,6 (144) who m. Nancy Farnsworth, and 2d, Sally Farnswort~, had five children by each, b. at Barnstable, viz. : (295) I. JOHN/ b. 23 Dec., 1798, m. Anna Hinckley. She was b .. 9 Oct., 1801, the daa. of Adine Hinckley, (141). He was a sea Captam, and d. at Barnstable, 2 Jan., 1829, leaving Rebecca,s b. 12 Feb., 1828; (296) II. AMOS,7 b. 17 Aug., 1801, m. Mary, dau. of Adine Hinckley, [141J by his second wife, Abigail Smith. She was b. 1 l\Iay, 1810, the younO'est of eight children. He is Cashier of Barnstable Bank, Yarmouth Port,i::>Ms., and has Abby,S b. 2 Nov., 1832 ; (297) III. CATHERINE,1 b. 27 April, 1804, m. Joshua Thayer, of Barn- stable, and had son John O.,s b. Sept., 1830 ; (298) IV. JANE,7 b. 2 April, 1806, m. P. Scudder, of Barnstable; (299) V. NANCY F./ b. 29 July, 1808 ; (300) VI. SALLY/ b. 12 June, 1811 ; (301) VII. BETSEY/ b. 7 March, 1813, m. Nathaniel Hinckley, and had· Benton, b. July, 1834 ; (302) VIII. JAMES,1 b. 16 April, 1815, is a sea captain; (303) IX. MARIAH W./ b. 24 April, 1820 ; (304) X. Lucy A./ b. 7 April, 1823 ; SOLOMON,6 (145) who m. Hannah Nye, had: (305) I. LOT NYE/ b. 1 March, 1799, m. Abigail Childs, and s. a far- mer, at Barnstable. He has Helen,s b. 1828; William,S b. 1834. (306) II. SOLOMON,1 b. 11 July, 1813; is a seaman, s. at Barnstable; (307) III. SARAH H.,7 b. 6 Jane, 1815, m. B. Lothrop, of Barnstable; (308) IV. JOSEPH/ b. 1818, m. Jane, dau. of Robert Brooks, of Co· hassett, 30 Dec., 1841. JOSEPH,6 (156) who m. Ann Stoll and Miss Munro, had, b. at Charles­ ton, S. C.:' (309) I. RICHARD WILLIAM/ b. 1796, m., d., and left one child in Kentucky. He was a Drag Broker in N. Y., and afterwards P. M. at Travellers' Rest, S. C. ; (310) II. JOHN ALEXANDER/ b. 1801, m. in 1835, and s. in Charles- ton, S. C.; (311) III. WALTER MUNRO/ h. 1808, is a merchant at Charleston. NATHANIEL W ALTER,6 (157) who m. Nancy Bourn, had: (312) I. CHARLES JOSEPH,7 b. 1802. He resided at Matanzas, Island of Cuba, and finally s. in N. Y., a commission merchant, where he d. 1837; (313) II. A DAUGHTER/ --, m. Quincy Thaxter, of Hingham; (314) III. HORATIO AUGUSTUS/ resided at Matanzas, and d. in New Orleans, previous to 1840. HON. HARRISON GRAY,6 (172) who m. Sally Foster, had: (315) I. ELIZABETH GRAY/ b. 1 June, 1791, m. George W., son of Theodore Lyman, and d. at St. Croix, 'V. I., 20 Dec., 1824. She had three sons and two daughters; (~~g) II. HARRISON GRAY,7 b. 7 August, 1792, m. Eliza Henderson, dau. of W. H. Boardman, of Boston. He grad. H. C. 1811 read law with his father and H. Binney, Esq., and was admitted to the' bar 1814. His death occurred suddenly at Springfield, 3 January, 1827 . (317) III. SALLY,1 b. 22 Dec., 1793, m. Israel Thorndik~, of Beverly, d. 2 Dec., 1819, had one son and three daughters; (318) IV. MARY FOSTER,7 b. 15 June, 1795, d. 17 Jan. 1796. (319) V. ALLEYNE/ b. 16 July, 1796, drowned 1806; , , 1850.] The Otis ·Family. 153

(320) VI. GEORGE/ b. 1797, d. the next year; (321) VII. SOPHIA HARRISON,7 b. 29 March, 1799, m. Andrew Ritchie, 9 Dec., 1823, has two sons and one daughter; . (gi5) VIII. JAMES WILLIAlH/ b. 18 May, 1800, m. Martha, dau. of Wil­ ham Church, of Providence, R. I., Jan. 1825. He resides in N. Y.; (~n IX. WILLIAM FOSTER,7 h. 1 Dec., 1801, H. C., 1821, m. Emily, dau. of Josiah Marshall, 18 l\lay, 1831. She d. 17 Aug., 1836, reo 29 ; (324) X. ALLEYNE/ b. 27 Aug., 1807, grad. at H. C., 1825, resides In Boston; (325) XI. GEORGE HARRIsoN,7 b. 4 Sept., 1810, d. 25 Oct., 1833. SAMUEL ALLYNE,6 (173) who m. 1st, Elizabeth Coffin, had: (326) I. GEORGE,7 b. 1797, grad. H. C., 1815, at which college he was Professor until he accepted the call as Pastor of Christ Ch., Cambridge. " He d. 1828, in the discharge of his ministerial duties, and left, in the vir­ tues of the people, the most beautiful memorials of their worth;" (327) II. ELIZABETH/ m. Henry W. Delavan, of Albany, N. Y., and d. ; (328) III. SAMUEL ALLYNE/ --, resides at Nashville, Tenn., a mer­ chant; (329) IV. MARIAN/ --, m. Wm. Hill, of Cambridge, thrEe children; (330) V. JAMES FREDERIC,7 (first named Tristram Coffin,) --, m. Sm;an Higginson, resides in New York, an editor; (331) VI. JOSEPH MARQUAND/ --, m. --, and resides in Taunton, lVIs., and has children. ENSIGN,6 (175) who m. Lucy Lapham, had: Gm I. ENSIGN/ b. 13 Aug., 1777, m. Luey, dan. of Capt. James Little, 17 Sept., 1801, she d. 29 Aug., 1841. He was a merchant at Scituate, and ~ 19 De~, 1822; . (333) II. LucY/ b. 25 Aug., 1789, m. Anthony Chubbuck, 24 1\lay, 1807, and has a ,family. He was son of David, who d. at Quincy, and descended from Thomas Chubbuck, an early settler in Hingham; (334) III." GENNE," 7 and (335) IV. ABIGAIL/ twin~, b. 16 Nov., 1794, JANE m. John Beal of Scit. Harbour, and Abigail m. Millon Litchfield, 5 Dec., 1819. . I AMos,6 (179) who m. Thankful Taylor, had: (336) I. ISAAC,1 b. 1792, d. early; (337) II. WILLIAl\I,1 b. 1795. s. at Farmington, N. H. ; (338) III. Al\'IOS,7 b. 1802, s. and d. at I .. eed~, Me., unmarried; (339) IV. ASON,7 b. 1804, d. 1810. OLIVER,6 (180) who m. Elizabeth Stanchfield, has had.: . (340) I. ENSIGN,7- b. 1795, m. Martha Davis, s. at Leeds, 1\le., and has on~ son, John Harrison,S b. 1826, and a daughter; (~n II. JOHN,1 b. 1801, m. 1st, Harriet Frances, dau. of·Col. Wm. Oli­ ver Vaughan, and granddaughter of Benjamin Vaughan, LL. D., the corres­ pondent of Dr. Franklin, and editor of his works, and once a member of Parliament. He m. 2d, Ellen, dau. of Capt. S. C. Grant, 21 Aug., 1848. He grad. at Bowdoin College, 1823, read law with Hon. Peleg Sprague, and commenced practice at Hallowell, Me., 1826. He represented Hallow­ ell in the Legislature several years; and in 1841 he was appointed. "one of the Commissioners on the part of Maine. to advise with the Executive of the U. S.," on the North~Eastern boundary question. In 1848, he was elected a Representative to the 31st, Congress, from the Third Congl'ession­ al District of Maine; (342) III. OLIVER,7 born 1803, d. early; (343) IV. OLIVER,7 b. 1808, d. early; 20 154 Phe Otis FamilJu. [April; .

(344) V. HARRISON G.,7 b. 1810, d. early; (345) VI. AMos,7 b. 1812, is a physician in Monroe, Me. CAPT. JOHN,6 (183) who m. Hannah Clapp, had:. . (346) I. JOHN CUSHING/ b. 11 Nov., 1796, m. Philema Payne, 9 J1}ly, 1826, and has three children, resides at Scituate; . (347) II." NOAH,7 b. 6 March, 1801, d. at sea, 17 June, 1826; (348) Ill. HANNAH,7 b. 13 July, 1803 ; (349) IV. FRANKLIN,7 b. 16 Feb., 1806; (350) V. SALLEy7, b. 31 Jan., 1809; (351) VI. HARRISON,7 b. 5 April, 1811, d. early. DOCT. JOSIAH,6 (185) who m. Susanna Orr, had: (352) I. THOMAS,7 } twins b 1778 { d. early; (353) II. MEL VILLE,7 ,., m. Sophia, dau. of Capt. Isaac Whitman, 1809, and s. at East Bridgewater, ~ls. She d. 1826, reo 42. Their son, Cushing, b. 1811, m. and has a family; (354) Ill. ABIGAIL,7 b. 1781, and was the second wife of Capt. Wm. Vinton, whom she m. 1803. She died 1816, leaving four daughters; (355) IV. BASS,7 b. 1784, m. Miss Pierie, of Philadelphia. He is a portrait painter, and resides in Boston; (356) V. CLARISSA,7 b. 1786, was the third wife of Capt. Wm. Vinton, m. 1817, and had three sons and one daughter; (357) VI. WELCOME,7 b. 1790, d. in Connecticut. CAPT. ISAAC,6 (186) by his first wife, Ruth Brown, had: Ggg) I. WILLIAl\II} b. 1 March, 1781, m. 1st, Clarissa Gale;' 2d, Eliza­ beth Pierson, and s. at Mount Hope. He has nine ~ons now living. By his second wife, he had, b. at Cumberland, R. I. : (~g&) II. ISAAC,7 b. 21 Aug., 1788, m. Tryphena, dau. of Capt. Oliver Smith, of Pelham, Ms., 25 June, 1812. He was Postmaster from 1819 to 1832, at Otisville, a town in N. Y., named from him. He removed to Philadelphia in 1832, and was elected an Alderman of that city 1835. He was one of a Committee on the part of the city. in erecting Girard Col· lege. In 1841, he was appointed by the President, :M:arshal of U. S. for· the Eastern District of Pa., which office he held two years. He resides in N. Y., a merchant; (360) Ill. GALEN,7 b. 1799, m. Fanny King, of Sullivan Co., N. Y., and has had five or more children, was P. M. at Otisville. JACOBS,6 (190) who m. Sarah Smith Barker, has had: (361) I. ISAAC;7 (362) II. SEWALL7; (363) m. JACOBS,7 a physician; (364) IV. BARKER7; (365) V. ALANSON,7 . DocT. GALEN,6 (192) who m. Joanna Tilden, had: (366) I. ISAAc,7 -, m. Susan Phillips, and s. in Me . (367) II. CHRISTOPHER,7 b. 24 Sept., 1800, m. 1st; 'Sarah Cartel'; 2d, ; (3~8) m. NATHANIEL T./ b .. 25 May, 1802, m. 22 Feb., 1827, Mary Robbms, of Watertown, Ms., reSIdes at Buffalo, N. Y., "city sexton and coffin maker." Has one son, Nat?aniel,8 b. 22 Feb., 1830, and one dauO'htel\. WILLIAM:} (195) who m. PhIlena Shaw, had: 0 (369) I. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS,7 h. 2 Feb., 1794, m. Eliza Procter of Manchester, ~s., 22 Dec., 1825! s. ,at North Bloomfield, 1820, and' at Cleveland, OhIO, 1837, where he IS a merchant, with three or more chil­ dren; 1850.] The Otis Family. 155

(370) n. PHILENA,7 b. 1796, m. Silas Andrews, 1838, and s. in Hart­ ford, Ct. ; (371) III. SOPHRONIA,7 b. 1798; (372) IV. WILLIAl\'[ CUSHING,7 b. 5 March, 1801, m. Mary Croft, of Painesville, Ohio, 1829, and s. in Lower Sandusky, a cabinet-maker, with two children; (373) V. WILLIAl\'[ HARRISON,7 b. 13 June, 1803, m. Minerva Dille, of Euclid, Ohio, 1831, and has two or more children; (374) VI. ARMENIA,7 b. 1805, d. 1806; (375) VII. WILLIAM SHAW CHANDLER,7 b. 24 Aug., 1807, m. '1st, Hannah Mygatt, 1836. She d. 1840; he m. 2d, a dau. of Darius Lyman, of Ravenna, Ohio. He grad. at Williams College, 1830. He is prosecut­ ing' attorney of Summit Co., living at Ackron, Ohio; (376) VIII. WILLIAM FRANCIs,7 b. 24 June, 1810, m. the widow of his brother Lucius, and s. at Cleveland, a physician; (377) IX. WILLIAM LuCIus,7 b. 12 July, 1813, m. Isabella Murrell, of Bowling Green, Ky., 1839, and d. in Portage Co., Ohio; (378) X. CAROLINE,7 b. 1816, m. a Mr. Bates. PAUL,6 (196) had the following children: (379) I. ELY/ b. 25 April, 1792, d. 25 Nov., 1792; (380) II. HENRY,7 b. 18 July, 1796, d. 10 Feb., 1834; (381) III. BEN.T. BAILEY/ b. 11 July, 1799, m. Mary Carter, 1822, s. at Worcester, Ms., and has ten children, some of whom are m. and have families; \ (382) IV. HARVEY/ b. 19 Sept., 1802, s. at Kingston, N. Y.; (383) V. WILLIAM/ b. 16 April, 1807, m. Mary Boynton, resided at Hubbardston, Ms., and s. at Claremont, N. H., and has children; (384) VI. Lucy BAILEY/ b. 22 May, 1809, m. Wm. Ross, of Worces­ ter, Ms. ; (385) VII. MARY F} b. 25 Oct., 1811, m. Mr. Mussey, of Leominster; (386) VIII. SILAS D./ b. 26 June, 1814, m. and s. at Lowell, and has a family; (387) IX. ROLAND L./ b. 11 Sept., 1816, m. Elizabeth Thompson, and s. at Leominster, Ms., and has several children; (388) X. P AUL/ b. 18 Oct., 1818, m. and s. at Worcester. JAMES,6 (199) who m. Joanna Gardner, had: . (389) I. JAMES A. G./ b. 1800, m. and resides in Boston, a publisher- and bookseller, of the firm of Otis, Broaders & Co. ; . (390) II. WILLJA::\I G.,r b. 1802, m. Joanna S. Kent, 1834, s. at Lyme, N. H., and has children; , (391) III. I'SAAc H./ b. 1805, d. at Lyme, N. H., 1826; (392) IV. THEODORE/ b. 1811, grad. U. C., 1834, read law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 1838, is attorney and counsel­ lor, and a justice of peace in Boston. J OSEPH,6 (205) who s. at Ellsworth, Me., had: (393) I. JOSEPH RusSELL/ b. 1805, H. C. 1825, is an attorney at Ells- worth; (394) II. JAMES,7 b. 1807 ; (395) III. JOHN AMORY/ b. 1814; (396) IV. CHARLES/ b. 1822. GEORGE WASHINGTON,6 (213) of Boston, has, besid.es daughters: (397) I. GEORGE WASHINGTON,7 b. 1800, m. S. S. MonrQe, of New Bedford, Ms. He grad. at H. C. 1818, is a member of the M. l\1. S., and resides in Chelsea, in the practice of medicine; (398) n. JOSHuA,7 b. 1816, lost at sea·; 156 The Otis Family. [ April,

(399) III. JA)lES.T

J ,UIES,G (229) who m. Lucy Otisl bad: (400) I. CIIARLES7; (40.1) II JOSEPH I-J.7; (402). III. J,UIES H.T ; T (403) IV. CH ESTER ; 7 (404) V. SIIUBAEL ; • (405) VI. A DA UGHTIm/ rn. LewIs Fuller, of Vt. JOIIi'\,G (231) who m. Nancy Angell, had: (406) I. JOlIN ANGELL/ 0. 1811, m. Miss Cooley, s. an attorney at law at Laureni'l, N. Y., and d. 1834, leaving children; (407) II. RUSSELL,7 d. eal'ly; (408) III. FREDERICK,1 s. at Oneida, N. Y.; (WO) IV. FRA.~KLIN/ d. enl'!y; (410) V. ELEANOR/ rn. an~ resides at Syracuse, N. Y., with children. ARAUNAH,6 (~33) who rn. Betsey Adams, had: (411) I. J OEL/ b. 1805, m. in 1828, and has children, s. at Rutland, N. Y.; (412) II. ARAUNAH,7 b. 1807. CALVIN,6 (235) who m. - Vanhantier, had: (413) I. JAMES,7 b. 1792, was a drummer in the war of 1812, and was killed at Fort Miami ;.... __ (414) II. CHARLES,r b. 1800, m. in N. Y., was a Methodist minister, and d. at N atches. CHANDLER,6 (237) who m. Abigail Cor, had: (415) I. JOHN,7 b. 1797, m. and has children, s. at Leyden, N. Y. STEPHEN,6 (239) who m. Phebe Glynn, had: (416) I. CHANDLER/ b. 1803, m. l\1ary Minor, of Halifax, Vt., s. at Troy, N. Y., and has two sons; . (417) II. SAMUEL/ b. 1805, m. Lydia Baldwin, of Sheridan, N. Y., s. at Albany, and has children; (418) III. ELISHA,7 b. 1811, m. Susan Houghton, and has sons. SETH,6 (240) who m. Chloe Taylor, has had: (419) I. ALFRED/ b. 1804, s. at Marseilles, Ill.; (420) II. SETH T.,T b. 1811, m. Frances Louisa Kellogg. She was h. 6 lVlarch, 1818. He was U. S. consul at Basle, Switzerland, appointed in 1843, and now resides at Chicago; (421) III. EDWIN,7 b. 1822, d. Jllly, 1845. NATHANIEL,6 (24-1) who m. Judith Martin, has: (422) I. GEORGE WASHINGTON/ b. 1807, is living with his second wife in W. T., with children. JOSEPH,6 (243) who m. Violetta Hinsdale, has; (423) I. ALBERT,T b.1807, m.l\Iary Jewell, of Bolton, Vt., and has four sons. J OSEPH,6 (214) who m. 1st, Rachel Cook, ha.d: (424) I. ENOS/ m. Almira Fuller, s. at Rome, N. Y.; (125) II. LEVI,7 m. Clarissa J ewelt, s. at Orleans, N. Y.· (426) III. ASA/ m. and s. at Pamelia, N. Y.; , (427) IV. Al\IOs,T m. and s. at Rome, N. Y.; (428) V. JOSEPH,7 m. and s. at Rome; (429) VI. LYMAN,T m. and s. at Rome. MATSON,6 (245) who m. Deborah Wetherell, has: (430) I. ASA/ m. :1\1iss Goodale, s. at Sharon, N. Y.; (431) II. ORRA7; (432) m. WILLIAM/ is under-sheriff at Detroit. 1850.] The Otis Family. 157

CAPT. AMos,6 [247J who m. Delia Grover, had: (433) I. ORRIN/ s. at Eagle, N. Y.; (434) II. AMos7; ( 435) III. ORVIL7; (436) IV. MADISON,7 m. and s. at Gainsville, N. Y. JARED,6 [249J who m. Lorinda Chapin, has: (437) I. PARLEY,7 s. at Columbia, N. Y.; (438) n. DARIUS C.7; (439) III. RANSO:\I.7 SHUBAEL,6 [254J who m. 1st, Abigail Thomas, has: (440) I. SETH/ m. and s. in N. Y. State; ( 441) II. Lucy/ m. a Field; (442) III. ANN/ m. a Tremain; (443) IV. ELIZABETH/ m. Joseph Otis Huntington, of Norwich, Ct.; (444) V. LUCRETIA/ m. Otis Hall ; (445) VI. SARAH7; (446) VII. JOSEPH/ s. at Hinsdale, lIs. NATHANIEL,6 [255J who m. l\-Iartha Gates, had: (447) I. AMOS/ b. 1791, m. - Davidson, and s. at Perry, N. Y.; (448) II. ISAAC/ b. 1794, m. Lydia Sterling, of Colchester, Ct., and s. in Michigan; (449) III. JUSTIN,7 b. 1798, m. and s. at Pike, N. Y., has three sons and one daughter; I) (450) IV. DAVID/ b. 1800, d. 1836, at Rochester. ASAHEL,6 [257) who m. Mary Chester, had: (:~~) I. JOSEPH/ b. 24 Sept., 1792, m. Nancy Billings, of Montville, Ct., was Postmaster at Berlinville, Ohio, and d. April, 1844; (452) II. CHARLES,7 b. 4 Oct., 1795; (453) III. LEVI/ b. 5 Sept., 1798, m. Nancy Bishop, is a merchant at Batavia, N. Y., with a family; (454) IV. MARYAN/ b. 22 Dec., 1800; (455) V. ASAHEL J.,7 b. 4 April, 1803, m. Mary Ann Allen, is a cler­ gyman, in --, Ohio, and has three sons, besides daughters. DEA. DAVID G.,6 [259J who m. Anna Perry, has: (456) I. ELSA ANN,7 b. 12 Aug., 1799, m. 29 Dec., 1819, Giles Miner, who was b. 19 July, 1790. She d. 3 Jan., 1841; a dau., Ann, m. Nathan A. Crocker; (457) II. RUTH PERRY/ b. 19 May, 1801 ; (458) III. ANSTRUS G./ b. 15 Nov., 1803, m. 10 Feb., 1825, Alfred Loomis, who was b. 7 July, 1802; (459) IV. ·AMEY BAKER,7 b. 17 June, 1805; . (460) V. FRANCES ELIZA,7 b. 23 Feb., 1807 ; (461) VI. DAVID PERRY,7 b. 28 Feb., 1809, m. lst, Hannah, dau. of Peter Comstock, of Lyme, Ct., 21 March, 1832. She was b. 20. Nov., 1811, and d. 17 June, 1836; he m. 2d, Julia Ann Florence, of N. J.,4 Oct., 1837, b. 5 l\-Iarch, 1819. He is a merchant at Salem, Ct., and has four children; (462) VII. JOHN DARIUS,7 h. 25 March, 1815, m. Harriet N., dau. of Jared Turner, 3 Feb., 1836. She was b.24 May, 1817, s. at Waterford, Ct., two children. DAVID,6 (263) who m. MelanGY Smith, has had: (463) I. LORRAIN/ b. 1808, d. 1837 ; (464) II. NORMAN/ b. 1811, m. Samantha Paddock of Orvill, N. Y.; (465) III. NEWTON/ b. ]813, a merchant at DeWitt, N. Y. PEREZ,6 (265) who m. Deborah Gillett, had: 158 Phe Otis Family. [April,

(466) I. ORAN GRAY,T b. -, m. Lucy; dau. of David Kingman, of Bridgewater, Ms. She d. 1833. He grad. at Union Colleg?, 1816, ~ead law at Herkimer, with Simeon Ford, and commenced practICe at LIttle Falls, N. Y., and finally s. at Ballston Spa, which place he represented in the Legislature 1832-3. He d. at Hartford, Ct., 1836, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. He had sons, Ckades,8 Hobert,S James,s Fessenden8 and George K,8 a broker at St. Louis: some of whom are m. and have children; (467) II. DAVID DAY,T b. 19 Dec., 1806, m., 1843, Miss Wardwell, and s. at Watertown, N. Y., a merchant; (468) III. CHARLES/ d. at five years of age; There were also, of this family, in addition to the above, two sons and eleven daughters, by same mother. ABIJAH,6 (266) who m. Eleanor Austin, has: (469) I. JAMES A.,T b. 1807, a manufacturer; (470) II. FRANCIS, 7 b. 1809, a manufacturer; (471) III. ASAHEL,T b. 1812, is a clergyman; (472) IV. ABIJAH/ b. 1815, is a physician. JACOB,6 (267) who m. Annis Austin, had: (473) I. ,AUSTIN W./ b. -, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rufus Clark, of New York. He was P. M. at "Otis Mills," N. Y., and now resides in New York, a merchant; (474) II. WILLIAM H./ b. --, m. Elizabeth Allen, 1846, s. in N. Y., a merchant; (475) Itl. CHARLES/ a merchant in New York. SAMUEL,6 (271) who m. Sybil Nott, had: (476) I. HosEA/ lived in New York, a " comb maker," in 1832; (477) II. HOLMEST; (478) III. WILLIAMT; (479) IV. QUARTENT; (480) V. SAMUELT; (481) VI. WARREN-.T JAMES,6 (272) who m. Lucy Broad, had: (482) I. JAMEST; 7 (483) II. ALONZ0 ; (484) III. WILLIAM/ d. early; (485) IV. JOSEPH/ d. early. DA VID,6 (277) who m. Ruth Otis, had: (486) I. DAVID/ b. 14 Aug., 1804, m. Lucy O. Chubbuck 1832 was Repre~entative from St. George, Me., in the Legislature, 1838~9 ; , (487) II. MARY VINAL,T b. 11 Sept., 1806; (488) III. ELISHA,T b. 8 Jan., 1809 ; (489) IV. BENJAMIN,1 b. 24 May, 1811 ; (4-90) V. MATILDA W ADE,1 b. 30 Aug., 1813 ; (491) VI. ANN SMITH/ b. 4 July, 1816 ; (492) VII. ABIGAIL RUTH/ b. 16 April, 1820 ; (493) VIII. THOMAS,1 b. 23 March, 1823. HOWLAND,6 (279) who m. Elizabeth Waterman, has: (494) I. HOWLA~D,7 b. 1816, m. and s. at S~ituate, ~ith a family; ~ 495) II. EDWIN, b. 1818, m. and has chIldren, IS a shipwright at SCItuate. PRINCE HOWLAND,6 (282) who m. Hannah Luke, has: (496) I. BENJAMIN HOWLAND/ b. at Canton, 6 May, 1817 ; (497) II. JOSIAH LYMAN,7 b. at Augusta, Ga., 25 June, 182l. . ABIJAH6 (285) and Mary, have had (seven b. in Scituate) : 1850.] The Otis Family. 159

(498) I. JAMES,7 b. at Leeds, England, 16 March, 1825 ; (499) II. ABIJAH/ b. 13 July, 1828; (500) Ill. MARY WATSON/ b. 30 July, 1830 ; (501) IV. MARTHA WATSON,7 b. 31 July, 1832; (502) V. Wm. WATSON,7 b. 29 Aug., 1834; (503) VI. LAURA COOPER,7 b. 20 Aug., 1836; (504) VII. LYDIA,7 b. 21 Sept., 1838 ; (505) VIII. AS'()N/ b. 20 Jan., 1841. JOHN TURNER,6 (286) who m. Sarah W. Jenkins, had: (506) I. JOHN l'URNER/ b. 3 July, 1822, m. Lucretia Oakes Bailey, of Cohasset, and is an eqgineer ; (507) II. SARAH JENKINS/ b. 9 July, 1824 ; (508) III. SAMUEL JENKINS,7 b. 9 Sept., 1827 ; (509) IV- SARAH W./ b. 9 Jan., 1830 ; (510) V. GEORGE,7 b. 23 Dec., 1830, d. 5 March, 1831. JOB PRINCE6 (287) and Lydia Clapp, had: (511) I. JOB PRINCE,7 b. l\lay, 1833; (512) II. LYDIA CLAPP/ b. Oct., 1834. DOCT. EPHRAIM,6 (289) who s. at DeRuyter, N. Y., has had: (513) I. SAMUEL F.,r on whom the Hamilton College conferred the honorary degree of A. M., in 1846. He d. the same year, having the fair­ est hopes, and being on a visit at Boston, with a view to be married; (514) II. ISAAC7; (515) III. STEPHEN.7 DAVID HARRIS,6 (290) who m. Mary Rogers, has had: (51-6) I. STEPHEN,7 m. and d. soon after; (517) II. WILLIAM/ m. and has a family; (518) III. EPHRAIM,7 d. early; . (519) IV. HARRIS FOSTER/ m. and has children. GEORGE ALEXANDER,6 (291) who m. Lucinda Smith, has bad: (520) I. GEORGE ALEXANDER/ b. 1804, H. C. 1821, m. Anna M. Hickman. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1825, counsellor and attorney at Boston, Editor of the Commercial Gazette, and d. 1831. His only son, George A., is at Princeton College; (521) II. BARNEY,7 b. 1808, a lawyer in Boston, and d. 1834; (522) III. EDMUND BURKE/ b. 18 :March, 1822, H. C. 1842, admitted to the bar 1846, and is s. at Boston, counsellor and attorney at law; (523) IV. JAMES EUGENE/ b. 5 May, 1827 ; (524) V. JENKS HARRIS,7 b. Dec., 1829, H. C. ; (525) VI. LUCINDA,7 m. Rev. Thorndike Jameson, of Providence, R. I.; (526) VII. SARAH/ m. A. H. Everst, of Cincinnati, Ohio; (527) VIII. GEORGIANA.7 J OB,6 (292) who m. Deborah Davis, has had: (528) I. SAMUEL/ d. early; (529) II. JAMES/ in California; (530) III. SAMUEL D./ in California; (531) IV. JOSEPH.i DANIEL,6 (293) who m. Mary Green, has had: (532) I. EPHRAIM/ b. 18 June, 1819, H. C. 1841 ; (533) II. THoMAs/ b. 12 .July, 1822 ; (534) III. 'JOHN FOTHERGILL/ b. 15 Sept., 1824; (535) IV. DANIEL G.,7 b. 8 Sept.., 1826; (536) V. SARAH H.7 HARRISON GRAY/ (316) who m. Elizabeth H. Boardman, had: 160 The Oti8 Family. [April,

(537) I. ELLEN,s --, d. young; (538) II. HARRISON GRAYs; (539) III. ARTHUR HENDERSON,S a passed midshipman U. S. N. ; (540) IV. EDMUND DWIGHT.s JAMES WILLIAM,7 (322) who m. Martha Church, has had: (541) I. SALLY,s m. George T. Lyman; (542) II. W;\I. CHURCHS; (543) III. MARTHA CHURCH,s d. early; (544) :r.,V. JAMEss ; (545) V. FRANCIS ALLEYNE.s WILLIAM FOSTER,' (323) who m. Emily Marshall, has had: (546) I. EMILY M.s ; (547) II. MARY ALLEYNEs ; (548) III. GEORGE HARRISON,S d. 1848, reo 12. ENSIGN,7 (332) who m. Lucy Little, had: (549) I. JAMES LITTLE,S b. 11 March, 1803, m. Amelia qoleman, and d. 22 April, 1832, and left two children. He was a sea captam ; (550) II. Lucy LITTLE,s b. 2 Feb., 1805 ; (551) III. HANNAH ENSIGN,s b. 7 March, 1807, m. 1828, Geo. Allen, who succeeded to the mercantile business of his father-in-law; (552) IV. LYDIA JAMES,s b. 5 Feb., 1809, m. Henry Vinal, 20 Aug.; 1829; (553) V. JOHN ENSIGN,b b. 26 March, 1811, d. 9 Feb., 1835 ; (554) VI. HENRY THOMAS,s b. 7 Dec., 1813, d. 10 March, 1841, in the W. I.; (555) VII. ABIGAIL BROOKS,S b. 2 Jan., 1816; (556) VIII. JANE TURNER,S b. 8 Nov., 1818. HON. JOHN,7 (341) of Hallowell, Me., has had: 8 (557) I. WM.OLIVER ; (558) II. SARAH MARIAs; (559) III.• 10HN,s d. young; (560) IV. FRANCIS,s d. young. WILLIAl\I,7 (358) who .m. Clarissa Gale, has: (561) I. HARRISON GALE,S m. Mary Ann Otis,s (575) is a merchant in New York; , (562) II. WILLIAM BROWN,S grad. at Williams College, 1836, m. Ann E. Taft, and is Rector of Trinity Church, Morestown, N. J. ; (563) III. ISAAC LEWIss ; (564) IV. JOHN PICKERING,s m., and is a merchant in New York; (565) V. PURSON N.s; (566) VI. GALENs ; (567) VII. JOSIAHs ; (568) VIII. CHARLESs ; (569) IX. HENRY.s ISAAC,7 (359) who m. Tryphena Smith, has had: (570) I. W.l\I. SMITH,s b. 20 Sept., 1813, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Leon­ ard Everet.t, Esq., of Canton, Ms., 23 June, 1835, and d. at Westfield, }vIs., of typhus fever, 13 Nov., 1839 ; (571) IJ. ELIZA,s b. 1814, m. Daniel Carmichael; (~72) III. CAROLINE,s b. 1817, m. Rufus P. Mason, of Walpole, N. H.; (<>73) IV. TRYPHENA S., s b. 1819, m. Lemuel Cobb, of Sharon, }VIs.; (574) V. lSAA.c,s b.1820,'m. Reb~c~a D. McCalla, of Philadelphia. He d. 25 Oct., 1841, III New York, of bIlhom; fever; (575) VI. MARY ANN,s m. Harrison Gale Otis, (561) ; 1850.] The Otis Family. 161

(576) VII. ISAAC, 8 (fi~st named JAMES,) m. Eliza. dau. of Theron Skeel; (577) VIII. DANIEL C.,8 m. Clara Otis; (578) IX. BENJAMIN F .,8 d. 24 July, 1831, at Philadelphia; (579) X. JOSEPH SANFORD8; (580) XI. JOHN BRECKENBRIDGE,8 d. 23 Jan., 1839. JOSEPH,7 (451) who m. Nancy Billings, bad: (581) I. JAMES,8 s. at Vermilion, Ohio, a merchant; (582) II. LUCIUS B.,8 is solicitor in chancery, prosecuting attorney for Sandusky Co., Ohio, resides at Lower Sandusky; (583) III. FREDERICK R.,8 s. at Berlin, Ohio; (584) IV. JOSEPH EDW ARD.s NOTE A. 1 "(1) John Otis. " For a list of the names of the twenty-nine associates of Rev. Peter Hobart who drew House-Lots, 18 Sept., 1635 (intended to be given here) see Register, Vol. II. p. 250. On the Records of Hingham, Vol. I. p. 10, is the following note: "June 1635, John Otise is to have five acres of the meadow called Home-meadow next to the Cove." . This evidently shows that he was in Hingham previous to the settlement of Rev. Mr. Hobart and his company in the town, for he (Hobart) arrived at Charlestown in this same month of June, and settled in Hingham in Sep­ tember following. On the 4 June, 1636, he had a grant of 16 acres of land; also, 10 acres for planting ground on " 'Veari-all-Hill." He was chosen, 30 Aug., 1641, to serve on the Grand Jury at Boston "the 7 month next according to or­ der of Court:" Jan., 1647, "John Otis," (thus written on the records) and others were" chosen Townsmen to order all the affairs of the Town" for the year; and in Dec., same year, he was one of seven to "order the pru­ dential affairs of the town." Hobart's Journal records, 15 Mch., 1646, "all the Houses of Thomas Loring & John Otis were burnt to the ground, being the Sabbath-day in the morning." His wife d. 28 June, 1653. It has been supposed by many, and so stated in some local histories, that John Otis is the ancestor of all bearing the name in this country. This is an error. About the year 1720, one Robert Otis emigrated from Ireland, and settled at the mouth of the Connecticut River. He m. Margaret Sabin of Lyme, 8 Aug., 1737, and had three sons, whose descendants live in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylva­ nia. Rev. Erastus Otis, (the gentleman who furnished me with this in­ formation) a grandson of the above Robert, was b. at Canaan, N. H., 1783, and is a minister of the Methodist N. E. Conference, living at Wilbraham, ]\-Iass. As to the orthography of the name - the first John wrote his name Ottis (see his autograph) : in the list of freemen of Massachusetts colony, . Col. Records, Vol. I. p. 153, John Ottis was admitted 3 March, 1635-6. The names contained in this Record are not autographs, but they were written by the Secretary according to the sound, as the names were pro­ nounced to him. On the early records of Hingham the name is found in various ways, but most commonly ftnd in many instances, Ottis,. occasion­ ally, Otis,Oattis, Oatis, &c. (See Note B.)

NOTE B. "(3) II. RICHARD2." It was the intention to give in this place further facts in relation to Richard, to have been furnished by descendants who 21 162 The Otis Family. [ April,

have in their possession, it is understood, much that would throw.li&ht on this branch of the family. But they h~ve not done so. Some 1OCl~e.nts attending his death by the Indians in 1689, and the captivity of the wifi of !tis son Stephen and their infant daughter, may be found ~n B.el~ap's New Hampshire. I was led into an error in saying that" hIS WIll ~s r~­ corded in the Boston Probate Records;" it is so asserted by Deane 10 hIS History of Scituate, but no record of such will is found. It is also stated, on the same authority, that he was "in Weymouth with his father" before he went to New Hampshire. There is no evidence that he ever was a resident of Weymouth, or that he was at that place at any time. He was admitted an inhabitant of Boston 1655, two years before John d. at Wey­ mouth. The Hon. Mr. Savage, who has bestowed much attention on this subject, doubts whether he was ever there, and he also, on sufficient grounds in the author's view, is of the opinion that Richard was not a son oftke first John. It seems very improbable that Richard was at Weymouth at any time, but still less likely that he was son of John, who must have named him in his will, from which, if we judge by the flu'r daughters and five grandchildren, referred to so distinctly, we can hardly account for the omission of the name of any son but John. It is probable he had for his wife Rose Stoughton. This is presumed to be the case from a MS. in the British Museum, communicated to 1\lr. Sav­ age by his friend, Rev. Joseph Hunter, being a history of the family of Stoughton, written by Sir Nicholas Stoughton, Baronet, who was b. 1634; the latest date in the MS. is 1672. Anthony, his father, an ensign in the Parliamentary Army, was b. 1598, m. Agnes, dau. of Robert Pierce, and had, besides Sir Nicholas, Rose, b. Nov., 1629. In 1643, the father of Rose, about approaching his end, (for he d. 1644) entrusted his daughter to his kinsman, Capt. Israel Stoughton of Dorchester, (who had gone home "about merchandize," to bring to New England out of the perils of the civil war then raging ; and, says the 1\IS., "now living there, the wife of Otis with several children." If the Otis here referred to was not Richard, what Otis was it? Since the above was written, I have received from H. G. Somerbl Esq., now in England, the substance of his investigations of the Otis pedlg~ee. The Arms of OATES.* Argent, two Bendlets engrailed, Az. a Cock in chief, Gules, a Canton Ermine. Crest-a Cubit Arm in Armor proper, charged with two Bendlets engrailed Az., the hand grasp­ ing a dirk also proper, Pom,el & Hilt Or. . • • . • OTES of ...•• in the county of York, living in the reigns of Henry VIn., Edward VI., and 1st Queen Mary, 1553. = .-- I J Tho!nas Otes, admitted of Lincoln College, JOhn Otes - Lawrence Otes of Woolley, in the Oxf01~d, 1575, then aged 21 ; of Almondsburr.1 living -I West Riding of the County of York, 4th 23 Elizabeth 1581; of North Crossland, 9:U .38 Eliz: James 1st, 1606, also in 1626, when he Elizabeth, 15~8 ; of Thornhill, Co. York, temp. 1596. took administration to his brother Tho- James I.; seized of lands in Lillesden, Co. I mas; he was seized oflanda there 1641, York, died ante May, 1626, s. p. Administra- J 16. Charles I. tion granted to Lawrence Otes. ( 1st dau. of George Greene = William Otes, b. before 1596, of age living at Woodsome 1613 of Long­ of Nether Denby, in the I ley 1616, both in the parish of Almondbury, Co. York, afte~wards of parish of Kirkheaton, Co. I Nether Denby, Gent., was seized of Freehold and copy hold Estates at York, E!l-rlsheaton, Dudworth; Loug Liversedge, and the parish of Giggler­ WIck, Co. York, bur. at Kirkb.eaton 6 June, 1659. Will dated 4 Jan ______J 1659, proved at London 10 Aug. 1660. • Jihn Otes, living 1628. '*' From Whitaker s History of Leeds. 1850.] The Otis Family. 163

Capt. Thomas Otes, of Morley, was an officer in the Parliamentary army; and at the Restoration, it is supposed, he t()ok refuge in a foreign country. . The Manor of Otes, according to tradition, took its name from John Otes, who, with others, held the Manor of Little-Laver of the Lord Seals, in the time of King Edward II. (1307 to 1327.) * At Marsham, about twelve miles from Norwich, where the notorious Titus Otes was born, the parish register records the birth of John, son of William Otes, born 1608, m. Elizabeth Sarapen in 1631 - first child, a dau. named Mathew, b. 1633. This John Otes continued to reside at Marsham, and had several children born after 1635. The above is the nearest approaching to the name Otis to be found in the Herald's Visitation of every county in England, or.in any county His­ tory. "But," Mr. Somerby writes, " I am convinced that the family, (the above) is in no way connected with yours. The name is, and always has been Q[ one syllable, while yours is distinctly two. Surnames in England previous to 1630 do not vary so much as many people imagine." At the Rolls office in London, there is a large quantity of MSS. taken from the Tower, where they have lain for more than two hundred years. These are the Subsidy Rolls, and cont~in the names and places of residence of most of the people of England from Henry VIII.'s time down to Charles II. Among the Somersetshire families is found the Otis name. The following are extracts from these Rolls: John Ote, sen., of Ling, temp. Henry 8. (1509 to '47) exact date not known, roll much decayed ; Thomas Otys of West Camel temp. Henry 8 ; John Otys of Berrington, Chandler, 3rd Edward 6. A. D. 1550; Annys Otys, widow, of West Camel," ". " Editha Otye, of Rastlinge, had lands in Ling in 1597 ; John Otye of Ling, 1597 ; John Oatey of Ling, 1626. The following are extracts from early Wills of Somersetshire, deposited in the Consistorial Episcopal Court at Wells, Co. Somerset: Anthony Otye of Othery, Will dated 1598, son Anthony, daughters Anne & Joane. Richard Otis of Glastonbury, Will dated 17 Nov., 1611, gives to his sons Stephen & John all his wearing apparel; - to son Thomas; - to two daughters, bedding &c.; remainder of goods to his wife. Stephen Ottis of Glastonbury, will dated 1637, son Richard - daughters Frances, Judith, Hannah - wife Elizabeth. . It now remains to hear the result of an examination of the parish regis­ ters of Othery and Glastonbury, to prove beyond doubt, what appears prob­ able from the above, that our John was of Glastonbury, Co. of Somerset­ shire, (which place it will be recollected is in the south-west part of Eng­ land, and near Barnstaple, his traditionary birth-place); and that Richard was a nephew, instead of son, of John. No lengthened pedigree in England, however, can be expected, for the records do not go back much beyond 1600. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. "(2) JOHN2," was m. to his only wife, Mary Jacob, 1652-3, instead of 1662-3. He took the oath of fidelity at .Scituate, 1662. " (4) MARGARET2," d. 21 Oct., 1670. Of he},' children, Hannah was

'*' Morant's History of Essex, pub. 1768. 164 The Otis· Farri'ilY. [April,

baptized 30 May, 1641; Phebe, 12 May, 1644; Ruth, 2,0 Aug.: 1646, ~. next year; Sa1'ah, 13 May, 1649. Of these four, three were ahve when the grandfather made his Will. "(8) MARY,3" m. Col. John Gorham, 24 Feb., 1'674, and had 5 sons and 4 daughters b. from 1675 to 1695. " (12) CAPT. STEPHENS." His daus., "( 30, Hannal~4 " b. 16 May, 1686, instead of 1696, m. John Richmond, 28 Nov., 1709; "(31) M ary4" b. 7 July, 1689, instead ofI697;" (33) Stephen4" was b. 3 Nov., 1697, instead of 1707. "(14) JOSEPH,3" was baptized at Hingham 3 June, 1666, m. 20 Nov., 1688, Dorothy, second dau. of Nathaniel Thomas of Marshfield, instead of Scituate. She was b. 6 Nov., 1670, the fourth of 10 children; her mother was Deborah Jacobs of Hingham (d. 1696) to whom her father was m. 19 Jan. 1663-4. Mrs. Otis' ancestors successively owned and resided on the estate, now the home of the Hon. Daniel Webster. She d. 18 Feb., 1756. On Mr. Otis' removal to New London, 1721, he bought of James Harris a tract of 650 acres of land" lying in the North Parish in New London, ad­ joining to a pond called Obplmtksok," now Gardiner's Lake, a mile or more in length. This land was purchased by Thomas Stanton of Stonington, of Owaneco, chief Sachem of lVlohegan, 11 Nov. 1698, and by him sold to Lieut. James Harris, and by him to Joseph Otis. He was received to the commu­ nion of the Church at New London 19 Nov., 1722. He was much in public employment, Moderator of town meetings, on' Parish and Church commit­ tees almost yearly-agent of the parish" to manage the case pending between Rev. Mr. Hillhouse & Sd. North Parish at the Superior Court," &c. He d.11 June 1754, reo 89; and his Will is dated 9 Jan., 1754. The record of his family was incorrectly given after "(35).". It is as follows: " (36) " I. NATHANIEL,4 b. 30 Jan" 1689-90 ; " (37)" II. JAMES,4 b. 21 Jan., 1692-3 ; III. DEBORAH,4 b. 24 April, 1694, m. David Clapp, of Scituate, and left children. IV. MARY,4 b. 20 Mch., 1695-6, m. John Thompson, of Hebron, 5 Nov., 1724,and had Samuel, b. 1725; Otis, b. 1728; and Abigail, who m. Jona­ than Peters; V. DOROTHy~4 b. 24 Apr., 1698, m. 1st, Patrick McClanen; 2d, Carey Latham; 3d, John Bissell, Esq., of Bolton, Ct.; VI. ELIZABETH,~ b. 2 Sept., 1700, m~ Luke Lincoln,2 Mch., 1719, at Scituate. She d. before 1754, leaving children, one of whom, Mark, s. at Leicester, :Ms. ; VII. ANNE,4 b. 21 Sept., 1702, m. Robert Clell~nd (or Cleveland). He d. about 1782, Dea. Nathl. Otis his Executor; VIII. BETHIA:t:I,4 b. 20 Nov., 1703, m. 1st, Rev. Mr. Billings; 2d, Rev. Mr. Moseley. She d. before 1754, leaving children; , IX. DELIGHT,4 b. 19 Dec., 1706, m. Jabez Lathrop. She d. before 1754. X. HANNAH/ b. 10 Dec., 1709, d. reo 16. " (46)" XI. J OSEPH,~ b. 1 Oct., 1712; XII. RAcHEL/ b. 1 Dec., 1713, m. Jonathan Harris. "(15) JOB,3" was b. 20 March, 1677, instead of" 1667." "(24) NATHANIEL,4" had ch~ld~e~ as follows: I. Abigail/' b. 19 Aug., 1712, d. 3 Nov., 1712; II. Abzga~l, b. 10 Dec., 1713; III. Nathaniels b. 16 AJ?ril, 1716, d. 6 Sept., 1716; IV. Martha,S b. 11 Dec., 1717; V. Nathanzel,5 b. 8 Sept., 1720'; VI. Jonathan/> b. 30 April, 1723. " (28) ENSIGN,4', m. 1st, Mary Barker, 6 Jan., 1713-4, and had t Desire, b.8 Dec., 1714, d.19 Apr., 1722. Hem. 2d,Hannah Barker, and had by 1850.] 165 her, II. Ensign,Ii., b. 25 Apr., 1723; III. Jokn/' h. 11 April, 1725, m.',Jane Turner, 1 Dec., 1746; IV. Desire," b. 27 Apr., 1729, m. Nath1. Chittenden, 15 July, 1749; V. Mary/, a twin sister, d. 16 July, 1729; VI. Ignatius/; b. 2 Feb., 1731 ; VII. Noah/,; VIII. Amoi. "(32) Doct.lsaac,4" was m. 25 May, 1719, and d.ll Nov., 1777, instead of 1786. His children: I. Josiah,!; b. 1720, d. 26 March, 1723; II. Isaac/' h.8 Oct., 1721; III. Deborah} b. 16 Oct., 1723, m. 8 Sept., 1744, Thos. Rogers, Jr., of Marshfield; IV. Josiah,5 b. 4 May, 1725, d. 23 Jan., 1744; V. William,5 b. 23 May, 1726; VI. Stephen/ h. 4 Nov., 1728; VII. Hannah/ b. 9 March, 1730; VIII. James,5 b. 22 April, 1733, d. 13 May, 1733; IX. James,5 b. 3 Sept., 1734; X. Thomas/ b. 29 May, 1736, d. 10 June, 1736; XI. Thomas/' b. 20 June, 1738, d. 3 Aug., 1738; XII. Nabby/ b. 12 Aug., 1739, d. 18, Nov., 1739. "(36) N.A.THANIEL,4" 2d line, instead of " had eighteen children," read m. Hannah, dau. of Col. John Thacher, of Yarmouth. She was one of a family of eighteen children, and was b. 1689 ; d. 6 May, 1780. He remov­ ed from Scituate to New London, Ct., where he with his wife was received to the communion of the Church 19 Nov., 1722. He was appointed on a Committee 22 Jan., 1721-2, to act in the" prudential affairs" of the Parish; was chosen Clerk of the Parish 31 Jan., 1722-3, and l:;tlso for 1723' and 1724. At this last date, he removed and settled about eight miles north, on the old county road in the town of Colchester. He d. 15 April, 1771- "(51) EPHRAIM/" was not a "physician." He was b. 28 July, 1708, m. 17 Feb., 1732. "(156) JOSEPH,6" is not dead as stated, but is still a resident of Louis­ ville, Ky.

1851:] The Otis, ~'(J., Genealogy. 177

THE 0 TIS .G E'N E A LOG Y . (Continued. from Vol.. IV, p. 165.) RICHARD OTIS, OF DOVER; N. H., AND ius DESCENDANTS.*

[BY HORATIO N~ OTIS, OF NEW YORK.]

The great advantages of the method employed for refel:euces in the following memoir, has been very generally acknOWledged. It is the same as before used in OUt' work, which was at the same time fully explained j but as some of ollr readers may not be able to refer to what has gone before, it is thought necessary again to explain the plan, especially as the placing of the figures for forward references, have, to ac­ commodate in prinjng, bpen placeli immediately after all names of individuals whose descendants are given; iristead, as heretofore, of interpolating them into the regular series.- This being reineniQerpd, it will be instantly perceived, wheth,cl' descendants of anyone are given in the 'pedig-ree, or whether they are not given. Example. ---:- In the following. Memoir, RICHAHD OTIS is No. (1,) his first child. is No. (2J -I. and, so on through all his descendants; Thus, (2) - I. RICIIARD 2 (10) shows that the 2d Richard Otis, or Richard, Jr., is No. ·2 in the regular s'eries, the 1st in the family of his father, of the 2d ergeneration, and that his family are given immediately following No. (10) in the series. .Hence, it is .momentarilv obvious, in the system em­ ployed, how far 'any' individual is removed from his or her first known progenitor, that is, what generation the individual is j whether the 1st, 2d, &c., child. and whether he or she has descendants given in the memoir, and if any descendants, where to filld them. The advantage of the figure showing the number of the generation of any individ­ ual, is very apparent especially in extensive pedigrees. It being of a different font from the serial number, and placed exponentl!J, cannot lead to the slightest confusion.-ED. FEW Families in New Hampshire or elsewhere suffered more from the constant and cruel assaults of the Indians, than the family of Riehard·OtiEl. He himself, with one son and one daughter were killed in 1689, his wife and child captured and sold to the French. At the same time a number of his grand-children were carried captives; and a few years after, some of his children and grand-children were killed, and others made prisoners by the Indians. In a word everyone. of his children (alive in 1689) and many of his grand-children - what few escaped with their lives - suffered in their persons and property from the warfare of the savage foe. They lived in constant peril and alarm, their houses were fortified for defence against the Red man, and in their acts of devotion, they carried their arms in their hands. It has been generally supposed that Richard Otis was a son of John Otis the first, (of Hingham, Ms., 1635,) whose Genealogy has already been published; but there are many circumstances 'which make it likely that he was the son of Stephen Otis, the brother of John. The ,Yill of Stephen, dated 1637, and recorded in the Consistorial Episcopal Court of Wells, County of Somerset, England, mentions only one son, RICHARD; three dalwhters, and wife Elizabeth. His grandfather, Richard Otis (see Reg. Vot 4, p. 163) was of Glastonbury, county of Somer:::et, Eng., and his ,V ill, dated 17 Nov., 1611, mentions Stephen, John and Thomas,t and two daughters, leaving a wife.

~ Much credit is due to Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago, Ill., M. C., for his valua­ ble assistance in the preparation of this Genealogy. We are also indebted to Mr. Alonzo H. Quint. of Dover, N. H., Col. Benjamin Bean, of C011WUY, and Hon. Job Otis, of Strafford, N. H. j Hon. Oomyn Baker, and S. J ndd, Esq., of Northampton, Mass., for important information. t This would seem to favor the tradition in one branch of the Otis Family, that John of Hingham, lcft two brothers in England j one, Stephe~, there remained.. and the other went to Ireland a descendant of whom, about 1720, enllgrated to Amertca, whence the family of Robert Otis of Lyme. Ct. Thomas might have been the ,: Capt. Thomas Otis of MorJey," an officer'in the Parliamentary Army, who, at the Restoration, " took refuge in a foreign country." 7 178 The Otis Genealogy. [April,

The first mention made of his name on any records in New England, so far as ascertained, is in 1655, when in May he was admitted an inhabitant of Boston. The t:ame y~ar he was at Dover among a list of those qualified to'l,'ote. It is probable he went to Dover in 1655, as it was the usage at that place to convey lands to actual settlers at the time of settlement. The first conveyance of land to him was 9 (26) 1655, when we are informed, that "tenn accers at Cochecae" were laid out to "Richard Otis - forty Rod by the cartway on the west side of the land from his house, and forty Rod noreth est from his house and forty Rod apeice one the other too sieds.l' In the year 1656, "it doth appeare in euidence, that Richard Otis had fifty Acer8 of Land giuen unto him &c." It was laid out and bounded by Wm. vVentworth, Ralphe Hall, and John Hall. The same year, a hundred acres of land on the ., Great Hill " was granted by the selectmen and laid out to him. In 16~1 he took a new deed for his lands (or lease rather) from i\fr. Mason. Some did this but the majority would not, (see Belknap.) This accounts for the Rents, (merely nominal) being paid to Mr. :Mason, by his daughter Experience, and also for the fact that his name is not found among the Petitioners to the King in 1680. The autograph of Richard Otis cannot be obtained. Although his signature often appears, it is always by his mark.(*) He was taxed at Cochecho in 1656, and so onward while the tax lists remam. He was one of those who about the years 1660-65, were much dissatis­ fied with the Church at Dover. The opinions of the Quakers were spreading there, and the cruel severity of their opposers drove many away from the church, who merely sympathized with the Friends. Richard Otis was not a Quaker himself, but his son Richard 2 became one. He, (Richard 1) was fined for non-attendance on public worship in ] 663, in company mith many others of the minority, some of whom were well known for piety, but who disliked the Established Church. June 30, 1663, the Grand Jury presented" Richard Oatis and his wife and his servant maide for not coming to meeting for seueral mO together." "The Court finds 13 days that Richard Oatis omitted coming to meeting, and sentence him to pay 58 pro day [which] hl 3£ 5s." His wife received the same sentence, " and [to pay] ffees off' Court," andtheir "maide" was referred to the As­ sociates, - Court Records oj Exeter, N. H. The Probate Records, the remains of which are at Exeter, were two thirds destroyed by a fire in Portsmouth, many years ago. One )Vill re­ mains, dated 1655; but there are no others for several years following, and but few fOl' some twenty five years. On these Records, Richard Otis' name occurs, 29 Nov., 1676, as Administrator of the Estate of 'Vm. Roberts; of Oyster River (now Durham) who was killed by the Indians in 1675' he conveys to James Smith, certain lands at Oyster River, by" virtde of power and an order at a County Court held at Portsmouth 27 June, 1676."

(*) Richard Otis was one of "the Selektmen of Dover," in 1660 as appears by a Petition, or " _t\ polog-y" as it is styled, headed as follows: - ' The Apolog,11 in ye belwlfe '![ ye Towne of Do~el", O{joynst :lje Compla.ynts ofp.etended Ago grievancps (made b.1J the Inhabitants of OlJster BlUer .A ga.1Jnst ye' sa.yd ,towlle) Ordered to be presentpd by ye Deputie ojye towne to ye Honored Coartte held att Boston, ye 30th cif ye 3 mo., (1610.") The" A polop:y" is signed by the "~elektmen," four io number, the last of whom is Richard Otis. Why. he made a mark mstead of wI:iting out his name, may be ('onjec­ tured. as the rep-son IS oot very apparent, hecause Ius mark - consistioO' of two letters r 0 - are as well formed as any letters of the time. 0 EDITOR.' 1851.] 1.'lze Otis Genealogy. 179

That Richard Otis was thrice married, we can come to no other conclu­ sion, both from collateral evidence and tradition. From the evidence already adduced, (see Reg. Vol. 4, p. 162,) and from the fact that the name Rose is. often found among his descendants (no slight evidence when we remember the tenacity of the olden custom of perpetuating names) there can be no doubt that his first wife was Rose, duu. of Anthony Stoughton, and sister of Sir Nicholas Stoughton, Bart., whom he married as early as 1651. (R) From the following it is clear that his second wife was Shllah, widow of James Heard: -" Nov. 5, 1677, Richard Otis, husband of Shuah, formerly widow of James, son of John Heard of Piscataqua, and James Chudburne," undertook to administer on the Estate of the said James Heard, 'who died intestate. This was done in the County Court of York, Me., but is found at Exeter Probate Office. The records show that Shuah was a widow, Nov. 1, 1676. The last notice of James, as living, is 1668. and he proba­ bly died about IG75. He left one son, John, * born about IG67 ; Richard Otis being appointed his guardian - and daughters, Elizabeth, married to Samuel Small; Abigail, married to Job Clements, and was a widow in 1721. His third wife was Grizet Warren. This is on the authority of :Mrs. Bean, mentioned in the N. H. Hist. CoUs., as having died at one hundred years of age,t who mid that her grandmother's maiden name was Grizet Warren, from Massachusetts, and that her grandfather (Richard Otis) married her as his third wife when he was a little over sixty years of age t she being about twenty four. The descendants of Mrs. Bean are quite confident that the captive wife of Richard Otis was a Warren, and they never heard her called by any other name than Grizet. After exhausting

(a) !f the name Rose came into the Stoughton family by the marriage of Anthony Stoughton, Esq., of Raltoo, with Sarah Lloyd, niece of Judge Rose, it would hardly suit the period of our author, we apprehend; as the said Anthony's grandfather was living in. 1624, and a son Anthony, who married in 1748. This note is given only with the hope of eliciting information. EDITOR. * John Heard (son of James and Shuah) married 1st, Phebe ---. Children Dor­ cas, b. 26 Fehy. 1690; Shuah, b. Jan. 25, 1694; Phebe, b. 15 .Jan., 1692; James, b. 21 Jan. 1696. His wife died 4 July, 1696. He m. 2d,July 1698, Jane, daughter of Nicho­ las Cole, and relict widow of Joseph Littlefield. Children, Jane, b. 18 June, 1699; Mary, b. 24 Aug.. 1700; Abigail, b. 15 April, 1702. Of these children, Dorcas m. --­ Tucker; Phebe m. --- Stevens; Shuah m. Nathan Bartlett, and had twelve chil­ dren ; .James married and died before 1739, leaving Sarah and Phebe;. Jane m. 15 Nov. 1719, Tristram Coffin, of Dover, and had nine children, the last survivor of whom, (Deborah) died in Dover, in 1838, aged 100 years i Mary m. Henry Baxter, I July, 1722 ; Abigail m. --- Hubbard. t Mary (Baker) Bean was the daughter of the captured Christine Otis, and she died ,near the present house of her grandson, Col. Benjamin Bean, in Conway, N. H. Her memory was retentive, and she was intelligent to the last of her long life, dying at 100 years of age lacking ten days, Feb. 6, 1826. She had a peculiarly happy faculty of re­ lating her family history, and this opportunity together with the fact of his having the Family Records in his possession, has enabled Col. Bean to throw much light upon this subject~ confirming historic and doubtful recol'ds, and furnishing addi tional facts to the story of other days. But for the information from this family, this narrative could not have been written in its present connected form. t This would seem to show that Richard Otis was born about 1626, while Riehard, (lon of John 1, of Hingham, was b. 27 Feb. 1616--17, as is found from the records of Glastonhury in England. Ano setting aside the improbability of a man born early in 1617, having been the father ofa child "three months old" in June,1689, John Otisl in his Will, made 1657, does not mention Richard, who if a son and then living in N. E., would not in all prol1ability have omitted to do so, while his jour daughters and five grand children are so distinctly referred to. 180 The Otis Genealogy. [ April, all our resources for the Genealogy of this Grizet, (8upposed to be a nick­ name for Grace) 'Varren, we had abandoned the subject, when it was discovered among some old papers, that Richard Otis had business with one .Tames "r arren, Sr., of Maine, in 1684. This called to our mind the meeting in Kittery, Maine, in 1674, described in the Memoir of Charles Frost, July No., 18·t9, of the Genealogical Register, where "James Wan'en, as abettor, is sentenced to ride tlte wooden horse." And from the Kittery and York Co. Records, as extracted by Mr. A. H. Quint; - as follows: "James 1Varren had a grant of land in Kittery, 15 Oct. 1656. He may have been there earlier; probably, resided then in nerwic~, part of Kittery. March 25th, 1701, he deeds land in York to his son GJlbert. In 1697, Nov. 3, James 'Yarren was a ~urety at the proLate of the Will of Charles Frost. 1700, Dec. 9, was dated the "rill of James 'Warrcn, Sr., of Berwick, in the Province of 1Vlassachusetts, proved 1702, Dec. 24. In it he gives to sons Gilbert, James, daughters 1Vlargaret and Grizel, grand-daughter Jane Grant, and grandson James Stagpole; wife Margaret, and son James, Executor. [By the records as copied by Mr. Quint, what we call Grizet, might have been mistaken for Grizel, the t being.made like an l, not being crossed.] * In this will, no names of husbands or wives or their children are found, and no place of residence. That left to daughter Grizel was a few shil­ lings in money - merely nominal. In 1712, Dec. 13, Margaret, widow as above, made her will, giving an to sons Gilbert and James. Of course the children of James and Marga­ ret 'Yarren were, Gilbert 2 (born 1656, as appears by deposition); James '). (who by his wife Mary, had 1Vlnry 3, b. 23 Feb. 1692 ; Margaret3, b.5, Nov., 1694 ; James 3, 8 June, 1698 ; Rachel 3, 26 Aug., 1700, d. 13 Sept. 1703; Gylbert,s 30 April, 1703; Jolm,3 16 Dec., 1705;) Margaret2; '1. '1. 2 Grizel ; A dau. m. - Grant; A dau. m. -- Stagpole. Add also the fact that in a petition of John, son of Shuah and James Heard, in 1706, regarding property, no mention is made of his mother as living, while we know the last wife of Richard Otis lived in Canada to an advanced age, - and we think the evideI).ce is pretty conclusive, that the third wife of Richard Otis was the above Grizel, dau. of James Warren. By his first wife he had seven children; by his third, byo daughters, Hannah and Christine - and from the faet that Hannah was about two years old at the time of the death of the father in 1689, we infer that the date of the third marriage was about 1686. The following are the facts concerning the attack and slaug11ter at Dover, resulting in the death of Richard Otis and twenty-two others, and the captivity of twenty nine persons. (t) Stimulated with the thirst of taking vengeance

* Per Gbntra. Sylvester Judd, Esq .. of Northampton, says, ,: The name Grizet is a new one to me. I have met with Grizzel several times, but never with Grizet." [It was often the case in the writings of that day, that the Is were crossed and the ts went without that mark. What the name of that female may have heen we cannot pretend to decide, but our belief is that it was Grizet-an ancient name for the gold­ jinch. - EDITOR.]

t Charlevoix (Historie et Descript. Gen. de la Nouv. France, ~c.) though he has with consiil,erahle minuten~ss des~ribe~ the l:esult~ of. less important ~xpeditions agains.t N~w En~land than thIS was! IS .entlrel,Y SIlent m hIS ~xcellent and mteresting work, of' tIllS agamst Cochecho. ThIS sIlence m that author, IS probably to he accounted for in the fact, that it was entirely an Indian undertaking. EDITOR. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 181 on Major Waldron,* for his sei~ure of their brethren thirteen years be­ fore, - an event remembered by them with deep though silent resentment, a plan was laid by the Indians to, surprise the settlement at Dover. In that part of the town which lies about the first Falls in the river Cochecho, were se~eral garrisoned houses (see map),. the three on the North side were RIChard Waldron's, Richard Otis'l', and John (or Elizabeth) Heard's.t Waldron's was on the west side of the road just above the falls; Otis's on the e~st side about half way up to "Garrison Hill," and Heard's on top of the hIll. John Ham, son of John and grandson of 'Villiam, now lives near the spot where stood Otis's garrisoned house, and his farm is, a part of that once owned by Otis. Mr. Ham is now above 70 years of age, and hi$ great grandfather, Benjamin Ham, hau it from the Otis family. These garrisoned houses were surrounued with timber 'walls, the gates of which, as well as the house doors, were secured with bolts and bars. The neighboring families resorted to these houses at night for safety. Approaching the place with professions of peace, the Indians sent two of their squaws to each house to ask lodgings for the night, with the intention of opening the doors after the inmates were asleep, and giving the signal by a whistle to the savages to rush in. The stratagem succeeded. On the night of Thursday the 27th of June, 1689, in unsuspecting con­ fidence the families retired to rest. ""\Yhen all was quiet, the gates were opened, and the signal was given. The Indians rushed into Major Wal­ dron's house first, and though 80 years old, he with his sword kept them at bay until stunned by a hatchet. They then cut him in pieces and set the house on fire. Otis's garrison met with the same fate. He was shot as he was rising up in bed, and his son Stephen, and daughter Hannah were killed, the latter - then two years old - by dashing her head against the cham­ ber stairs. Another account is, that Richard Otis was shot whilst looking out the window on the first alarm. The wife and infant child (of three month's old) of Richard Otis, with the children of his son Stephen, and others - 29 in all-were carried captive to Canada, where they were sold to the French - the first English prisoners ever carried to that coun­ try. Three daughters of Richard Otis by his first wife, then young, were also taken, but were re-captured in Conway by a company of men who col­ lected and pursued them. It was the custom of the Indians to divide their prisoners into different parties, and to take them to Canada by different routes. Mrs. Otis married a Fre.nchman in Montreal, whose name was pronounced

* Always spelt Waldem, ?r Walderne, hy himself, I ?elieve, at least ~is signature is as we here present it l1676) m many old documents wluch I have exammed. EDITOR.

[See pedigree of Waldron next page onward.] 1 Heard's garrison was saved through the instrumentality of Elder Wm. Went­ worth the ancestor of every Wentworth now in this country. He was one of the first settle;s at Exeter but removed to Dover and became a ruling Elder in the church there. He was a very us~ful and good man, and died at an advanced age at Dover, in 1697, (see Reg. for Oct. 1850.) He was awakened by the n?ise of t~e barking o~ a dog, jus~ as the Indians were entering pushed them out, and falhng on hIS back, set hIS feet agamst the gate and held it till 'he had alarmed the people; two balls were fired through it but both missed him. 7* ~ ,- , ,------~~,------.------~00 Anne = Richard Waldron, born = William Waldron, d~ughterof Stone,= ~ 2d wife, I 1609, came over in 1635. came over with his T of or near Bristol. I Returned to England, in brother. Represented L._, r- .J 1637; married and came Dover in G. C., in 1640. Prudence= Richard Scammon daughter, came to Dover, back to Dover, where he Recorder of the Prov- I and resided with her uu­ was killed by the In- ince of Maine nnder cle Richard, until her r---"-r I dians in 1689. Sir Ferdinanda Georg-e. William, I Jane= Thomas Dean. marriage with -- Hall. llYas drowned while b. 1644 She married for a second 1 -1 crossing a river in Ken­ husband - Packer. Esther, or Hester, mar. 1st, Maria died nebunk alone, in Sept. Henry, son of Henry Elkins, when about 1647. Humphrey, of Hampton. 2d, Abram 14 years of ~ b. 1640, d. in ~aco,1 Jan. ;::,.. Lee, a chymist, who was age. 1727. (\) killed by the Indians at the same time with Major Wal- ~..... dron. The Indians took 00"". her captive. After she was __------A---,------T '""T"I------...... , liberated she married Rich­ Paul died Timothy, Ellenor, dau. - Richard. b. = Hannah daugh- Elizaheth m. John, daughter. married ~ ard, son of Richard Jose, of (\) at College died young, ofMlljorWm. 1650, d. Nov. I ter of President son of Capt. W m. Hev Joseph, son of ;2 Portsmouth, sheriff of the (\) before grad­ Vaughn 2d 3d, 1730. Cutt, 1st wife. Gerrish. Capt. Wm. Gerrish. ~ Province, of N. H. She sur- uating. wife. \ 8" vived Mr. Jose, and married I Samuel, b. 1682, died aged II months. again, and died in the Island About the same time his mother died. ~ of Jersey. I

~------,_----I A I I------~ Richard, b. 21 = Elizabeth, only Margaret, b. William, b.4 Aug. = Eliza Allen, Anne, h. 169~, Abigail, b. 1702, Eleanor b. 1704, Feb. 1694; d. child of Col. 16 Nov. 1695, 1697. Pastor of of Martha's married Rev. mar. Judge Ri('h. died Aug. 1724, 23 Aug. 1753, Thomas West- married Ele- the New Brick Vinyard. Henry Rust. Saltonsfall, of Ha- from drinking fGrand-father brook. azar Russell. Church, in Middle verhill. ('old water, af- of the present St., Boston. ter dancing at Maj. Waldron Portsmouth. U. S. Marine ~ Corps, 1851.] > 1-0.., ...-~ . 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 183

COCHECHO IN 1689.

COMMON. 1660

Scale, one eighth ot 8 mile to an Inch. A. Otis's Garrison. 1. Waldron's Garrison. 2. John Ham's House, now. 3. Heard's Garrison. - This was on a small r-ise, or hill, called the Little Rill, and afterwards Garrison Hill. Its height has become somewhat reduced. 4. Varney's Hill, ~ow improperly calIed Garrison Hill. S. Varney's House, said now to be 154 years. old. 6. Coffin's Garrison. OJcheclw boom was where the road crossed the river, where now is the Northern Bridge. 184 The Otis Genealogy. rApril,

by Mrs. Bean, as if spelled Rubatoy. The English translation of the French Priest, Mons. Seguenot's letter to Christine, of 7th June, ~ 7~7* makes, it Robitail. He speaks of the death of a daughter of Chnst,m~, who had married and removed to Quebec, and of M~s. Robltail (Otis) as then alive. She lived until she was about nmety years of age, and died in Canada, but as Mrs. Bean used to say, "she was bed-ridden the last nine or ten years of her life." She had children by her last husband, but how many, is not known. OIle of them, a son, named Philip, came from Montreal to Brookfield, Ms., after 1716, to see his half sister Christine; worked a year on her farm, re­ turned to Canada, and soon after died. After the breaking up of the settlement at Cochecho, by the Indian massacre of 1689, little or no business was done there till some years had passed. In 1705, Susannah, widow of Richard Otis2, who had been settling the estate of her husband, was also appointed to admin­ ister upon the estate of Richard the first. His property was appraised by Thomas Tebbets and Tristram Heard, and is thus described; "To his whome plantation that the sd Richard Liued and died upon, Leying on the West side of the highway leading from Cochecho into the woods, containing by estimation 52 acres." Also an orchard of ten acres, and " an hundred Acres of Wilderness land, &c." He had by his first wife at Dover, (2) I. RICHARD 2, (10) b. --, whose wife was Susanna , (3) II. STEPHEN2, (15) b. 1652, m. Mary Pitman, 16 April, 1674, (4) III. SOLOMON2, b. 1663, d. 1664, (5) IV. NICHOLAS2, (18) b. m. --, and was killed by the Indians, 26 July, 1696. (6) V. EXPERIENCE2, (18), b. 1666, m. Samuel Heard, 2 (7) VI. JUDITH , (18), m. (ensign) John Tuttle, Jr. (8) VII. ROSE2, (25) m. John Pinkham, and had 10 children. By his third wife he had, (9) VIII. HANNAH2, b. 1687, killed as heretofore described, 28 June, 1689. (10) IX. CHRISTINE2, (33) b. March 1688-9, m. in Canada, -­ Le Beaw, 2d, 'Capt. Thomas Baker, of Northampton, Mass. RICHARD OTIS,2 (2-1) was wounded by the Indians on Sunday, 26 July, 1696, as the people of Dover were returning from public worship. The Indians were in ambush, shot upon them, and killed his brother Nicholas, carrying captive, Nicholas Otis, Jr., to Penob­ scot. He had a grant of land at Dover, 1694; was a blacksmith as his father was before him. Mter the birth of his second child a~d per­ haps earlier, he became a "Friend." He was the only son of Richard Otis, the first who left male descendants in this country or female either, if we except Mary, the daughter of Stephen. There can be no doubt of this, for an e~amina!ion. of the Records clearly shows that all the other sons had eIther dIed III the Indian wars childless or if they had children, they were either killed or carri~d captiv~ and remained among the French or II\dians in Canada. ' He was dead (intestate) in 1701, and letters of Administration were granted to Susannah, his widow, 5 Jan. 1701. The inventory

'*' Three copies of this letter, and the reply of Gov. Burnet thereto are in the Boston ~thenreum. This correspondence it is said will soon be published in the N. H. Rist. ColI. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 185

was returned 1702, and the estate settled, 11 Dec. 1702. In 1706, Susannah, as Administratrix, sold several tracts of land in Cochecho. After his death, his first and third sons removed from Dover, leaving the second son at that place, who resided in that part of Dover'now known as the town of Madbury, and there died. What the family name was of his wife Susannah, we have been un­ able to .ascertain. She married in 1703, John Varney, but left no ot~er chIldren. In 1704 she petitions to be appointed Guardian to her chIldren by her first husband, and her petition was allowed. Children: (11) I. ROSE,8. (12) II. RICHARD,8 (42) m. Grace , and was in Charlestown, Mass., about 1720. (13) III. REBECCA, 8 b. 1695 - 5 -11. (14) IV. STEPHEN8, (48) b. 1698-6-22,m.,)st, Mary Young, 30 Jan., 1719-20; 2d, Catherine Austin, July 30, ]736, dau. of Nathaniel and Catharine (Neale) Austin,· (b. 12 Jan'y, 1715,) 3d Elizabeth

(15) V. NICHOLAS,8 (53.) b. 1701-2-8, went to Newport, R. I. STEPHEN OTIS, 2 (3 --II.) m. Mary Pitman, dau. of William Pitman, (dead in 1682) of Oyster River, (now Durham, which was then a part of Dover, as were also lVladbury, Lee, Somersworth, Rollinsford, and parts of Newington - Bloody Point - and Green­ land.) What became of his wife we cannot learn. Little is known of him or his family with certainty. He was killed as has already been mentioned, in the attack on Dover, 27 June, 1689. He had a farm where he lived at Dover, 1685-6, just above his father's fortified house, having received it, as was asserted, as a gift from his father. His son-in-law took possession of it about the time Cochecho was resettled, under the title inherited from Stephen, 2 fortifying his title by deeds from the Canada heirs, and quit-claims from the others. The follow­ ing is a synopsis of two deeds, taken in Canada, found recorded at Exeter, N. H., the originals of which are in possession of Walter Sawyer, Esq., of Dover, who with his brother, Hon. Thomas E. Saw­ yer, is a descendant of Stephen Otis. "Stephen Otis of Kebeck, in Canada," Oct. 1, 1710, conveys to Nathaniel (sirnamed Paul) Otis of J\lount Royall, his right and title in New England, "to houses, lands, and other goods whatsoever"­ he owning" as a good, perfect and absolute estate of inheritanc~ in fee simple." Then follows the acknowledgment in French, that" Joseph­ Marie-Autes, aupres-nommes," who was" English by birth" appeared before the Royal Notary, Du Breiiil, &c. "Autes" is so spelled be­ cause the French au answers very precisely to the then pronounced o in Otis; and "aupres - nommes," answers very well to our phrase above named. Nathaniel (sirnamed Paul) Otis, in 1714, releases to his brother-in­ law Ebenezer Varney, (son of Humphrey Varney) this land,giving the boundaries, with " all sorts of buildings and to other goods." This

'*' I find the following notice of a Mr. Austen of Dover, but whether he were the same whose dau. married Stephen Otis, I have not learned.- EDITOR. We hear from Piscataqua, that about 10 days ago, one Mr. Austen of Dover, going over the river upon the ice on horseback to Berwick, in the Night, hap­ pened to land about a Mile and a half ·distant from the place he designed for; and perceiving his mistake went upon the ice again as the nearest way, but un hllppily came to an opening where he and his horse fell in and were both drown­ ed.-Indept. Advert'r., 20 Feb., 1749. 186 Tlte Otis Genealogy. [ April,

is siO'ned by himself and wife' "Paul Hottesse" and "Marie Eliza- bethb Hottesse." - From the "ddescribed boundaries, this Ian WIt . h out doubt had been the property of Stephen 2 Otis. Here is the autograph of " Paul Hotesse" as signed to this release.

These Canada Otises, were of Dover, were the grandchildren of the first Richllird, and "inherited" an estate from somebody. But little reflection is necessary to arrive at the conclusion that they could not have been the children of any other than Stephen 2; and we be­ lieve that they were carried away in 1689, among the "29 capti­ vated" -nearly all of whom were from the Otis Garrison, as near as we can ascertain. Supposing Stephen of " Kebeck" to have been 21 years of age at the time he gave the deed in 1710, it carries the date of his birth back to 1689 at least. Their change of name is easily accounted for - when Catholics receive to their baptism a person who' has been christened as a Protestant, they generally give at the bap­ tism a new name, either additional or as a substitute. If we are cor­ rect, Stephen Otis and J.\'Iary Pitman had children, (16) I. STEPHEN,8 (Joseph-Marie) carried captive to Canada, 1689. (17) II. NATHANIEL S (Paul) carried captive to Canada in 1689, and the author of the letter given below, m. and had children in Canada. (18) III. MARYs, (54) m. Ebenezer Varney of Dover, N. H., and left many descendants. The following is a copy of a letter from Paul to his sister Mary, the original of which is well preserved - the writing good and legible indicating a person of some education: " Montreal, May 1st, 1725. "My MOST DEAR SISTER: - I would not lett slip so fair an oppertunity of writing to you as that of Mons'r leguille, without assur­ ing you of my love and to lett you know the Joy that I have had in receiving of your news by one of those Gentlemen that is come here, who says he is one of yo r neighbours. I was in hopes of having ye pleasure to go to see you, but my affairs will not admit of it, for you know my Dear Sister, those Journeyes are not made without great Cost; but the great distance that there is between us dont hinder me of having the same Tenderness for you, as if I was near your dear person. I am allways in hopes of having the consolation of seeing you before I Dye. What Joy will it be to see a Dear Sister I never saw, for my Love is as great as if I had been bro't up near you. Per­ mission is not easyly obtained to go such a Journey. I pray you Dear Sister, if you do me Honnour of writing to me, to lett me know all the News that concerns me relating to all our relations; my Dear Sister I've a favor to ask of you which is ye gift of a Seal, that at least every time I write to you, you may know by the seal that it is yo'r dear Brother that writes to you. My Grandmother [this of course refers to the wife of Richard \ who was captured at the massacre in 1689, and was then alive] Salutes you as also my little children who * * * * * their dear uncle and their dear aunt. I kindly 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 187

salute my d.ear brother, and all yo'r Dear Family, and all my kindred, and am, wIth much Tenderness my Dear Sister Yo'r most Humble and Affectionate brother, '

It is difficult to account for the statement of Paul, that he had never seen his sister unless he was carried from Dover when an infant, or that he was born after his mother went to Canada, a posthumous child of Stephen 2. NICHOLAS OTIS, 2 (5-IV.) had a grant of land at Dover, 1694, was killed by the Indians, 26 July, 1696, and his inventory was re~ turned 18 May, 1697, by "Nathaniel Heird and George Ricard." In the settlement of what little property he had, no children are men­ tioned. The name of his wife is not known. "NICHOLAS OTISs Jun.," (no doubt his ~on) is recorded as having been captured in 1696, and "carried to Penobscot, from whence he soon found his way home." If he ever returned to Dover -of which there is some doubt --he had no family, and was dead in 1722. EXPERIENCE OTIS, 2 (6 - V.) m., 1685--6, Samuel, son of John and Elizabeth Heard.t Samuel was dead in 1696, as the inventory of his estate was returned, 20 July, same year. On the 20 March, 1685--6, as found by the Exeter Records, Richard Otis "of Coche~ cho, blacksmith," conveyed to his daughter Experience, a tract of land containing 20 acres more or less, "she paying to the heirs of Robert Tufton :Mason (see Masonian controversy in Belknap, date 1681) every year 20d lawful money, and Is, for every dwelling house put on the premises." This waa no doubt intended as a marriage settlement upon his daughter. For on the same day, John Heard makes a con­ veyance of land to his son Samuel; - " "Whereas there is an intention

* "Paul Otis" had impTO"\"ed wonderfully in chirograpl1Y since he signed the release above as ".Paul Iiotesse" in 1714, or else this letter was written by an amanuensis. t John Heard, at one time a resident of Sturgeon Creek, (Kittery, Me;,] where he owned property; at Dover, 1643, he had a grant of land at Co('hecho, in 1652, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Benjamin Hull. He d. 17 Jan'y, 1687 (the" master Heard" of Pike,) and his Will is dated 21 April, 1687, wife Elizabeth Executrix. At the time of the seizure at Dover, 1676, Elizaheth Heard concealed H youn~ Indian in her house, and aided him to escape. For this act of kindness, she, in 1689, received an ample requital. {See letter of Hiehard Waldron. Jr., dated June 28th, 1689, Vol. 21, Mass. Historh-al Coli actions, pages 87 and 88, also Dr. Belknap, Vol. 1, p. 251.] Coming up the river from Portsmonth in a boat with her children and some others~ on the very night of the assault, she was alarmed by a strange uproar, and made directly for Waldron's garrison, where she hoped to find safety. In so doing she threw herself into the hands of the enemy, who had at that moment possession of the house. They not only saYed her life, but permitted her to escape without molestat!on. !he Indian she had f~rmerly be­ friended was one of the party; hc recogmzed hIS benefactress, and hiS influence with the others procured for her this important favor. Theil' ('hildren were Ben­ jamin, b. 20 Feb'y, 1644; Mary. m. John Ham; Abigail, m. Jenkins J-ones j Elizabeth, m. James Nute, Jr. ; Hannah; John, b. 24 Fcb'y, 1659; wounded 4 July, 1697, when his wife was killed by the Indians; Joseph, b. 4 Jan., 1661 j Samuel, b. 4 Aug., 1663, m. Expcrience Otis; Catherine; Tristram. h. 4 March, 1667, killed 1723; Nathaniel; Dorcas; Experience; James; and WilIiam.­ Mrs. Heard is said to have been "a grave and pious woman, eyell the mother of virtue and piety." She died 30 Nov. 1706. 188 The Otis Genealogy. [April,

of marriage betwixt Samuel Heard son of John Heard, of Cochecho yeoman, and Experience Otis, spin~ter, daughter of Richard Otis, &c." John Heard conveys to his son and heirs by Experience, 30 acres of land ; witness, Stephen Otis. She was wounded by the Indians, 1696, at Dover, with two others, as the people were returning from public worship, as stated in Pike's Journal, in N. H. Hist. ColIs., "Experience Heard, alias Jenkins, who was scalped by the Indians, 26 July, 1696, recovered, and lived to have one child, died 8 Feb'y, 1699, chieft.y of her wounds bleed. ing." Thus it appears that .she afterwards married a Jenkins. One of her children was, JOHN HEARD3, b. 1692, who, 2 July, 1706, chose his uncle Tris· tram as his guardian. JUDITH OTIS,2 (7 - VI) m. (ensign) John Tuttle, Jr., son of Judge John and Mary, of Dover. He was murdered by the Indians, 17 May, 1712. His father, John Tuttle, was Lieutenant, Deputy to the Convention in 1689, to resolve upon a form of Government, Town Clerk, 1686- 1717 , Judge of Court of Common Pleas 1695, and died, 1720. Children, (19) I. MARY, S b. 7 Jan'y, 1697--8. (20) II. THOl\fAS,s b .15 March, 1699-1700, m. Mary Bracket. His Will is dated 1 April, 1772, proved 12 March, 1777, he being" advanced in years," gave to Ebenezer, homestead and" the great Bible," and property to the other children. They were Mary,4 b. 1723--12--29,* m. Daniel Twombley; Hope,4 b. 1725--8--25, m. Robert Scammon; Sarah,4 b. ] 727--4--16, m. John Hanson; Elisha,4 b. 1729-~2--14 ; Samuel,4 1731-1-3; Thomas,4 b. 1733-4-21; Abigail,4 1735-2-25, m. Nathan Varney; Ebenezer,4 b. 1737-2-5, m. Deborah , and had Thomas,5 Tobias,5 Ebenezer,5 Abigail 5 ; Reuben,4 b. 1739- 3-26; Batllsheba,4 b. 1741-7-28, m. Joseph Varney; Tabitha,4 b. 1744-<-7 -18. (21) IIL3 JUDITH, b. 10 May, 1702. (22) IV. JOHN,3 b. 8 May, 1704, m. , ",Yill dated 15 July, 1773, and proved 1774, from which we learn that his children were Paul,4; Silas,4 wife Elizabeth, ",Yill dated 1797 and had John,o William,5 Levi,S Silas,s Rose,s m. Caswell,' Elizabeth s; Job4; Doro. thy,4 (Jacobs); Prudence 4 (Bunker); Hannah 4 (Langly); Ann\ (Leighton); :lVIartha 4, (Jacobs); a dau.4, (Messerve.) (23) V. DOROTHY,3 b. 21 March, 1706. (2-1-) VI. NICHOLAS,s b. 27 July, 1708. (25) VII. JAl\IES,s b. 9 Feb. 1710-11. , ROSE OTIS,2 (8-VII) m. John Pinkham, son of Richard the first settler at Dover. He received land from his father in 1Gil' "and is to support him." They had, ' (26) I. RICHARD,s whose ,,,ife was Elizabeth; a son Jolm,4 b.19 Aug. 1696. (27) II. THOMAS,s wife Mercy, and they had Richard, 4 Benjanlin,4 and Ebenezer.4 (28) III. AMOS,3 wife Elizabeth, and they had Hannah,4 b. 10 Jan. 1713-14; Joanna, 4 b. 11 Aug. 1718. (29) IV. OTIS,S (67) m. Abigail Tibbetts, 1721-9-22. She was born 1701-6-12, third dau. of Ephraim and Rose (Austin) Tibbetts. (30) V. SOLOMON,s

*" It is usual to write 29 (12),1723, or 29: 12 mo. 1723, instead of placing the day of the month and month after tae year. - EDITOR. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 189

(31) VI. JAl\rES,s wife Elizabeth, and had James,4 b. 21 July, 1714; Ursula,4 4 Oct. 1716 ; Mary,4 14 Sept. 1719; Lois,42 March, 1721-2 ; Hannah,4 16 Sept. 17.25. (32) VII. ROSE,s (71) m. 1st, James Tuttle, (b. 7 April 1683) brother to John, who m. her aunt Judith. He d. 1709, and she m. 2d, Thomas Canney, who descended from Thomas of Piscataqua, 1631. (33) VIII. ELIZABETH.s (34) IX. SARAH.s (35) X. JOHN.s . CHRISTINE OTIS,2 (10 - IX) born at Dover, N. H., in March 1688-9, and when the town was taken and destroyed by the Indians on the night of 27th June following, she was carried captive with her mother to Canada. The French Priests took this child, then three months old, under tl!eir care, baptized her by the name of Christine, and educated her in the Romish Religion. She passed some time in a nunnery, but declined to take the veil. About the age of sixteen, she m. a Frenchman, whose name was recorded on the Brookfield, Mass. Records, Le-bue * and in Col. Stoddard's Journal, (see Jan- uary number of this Genealogical Register,) Le-Beau. • But her desire to see New England was so strong, that upon an exchange of prisoners in 1714, being then a widow, she left her chil­ dren who were not permitted to come with her, and returned home, where she abjured the Romish Faith. 1\1. Siguenot, her former con­ fessor, in 1727, wrote her a flattering letter, warning her of her dan­ ger, repeating many gross calumnies which had formerly been vented against Luther and the other reformers. This letter being shown to Governor Burnet, he wrote her a sensible and masterly answer, re­ futing the arguments, and detecting the falsehoods it contained. Both these letters, written in French (as neither Christine at that time, nor the Priest understood English) were translated and printed. She had three children by her French husband, and the Priest speaks of the happy and Christian death of one of her daughters, who had married and removed to Quebec with her husband, - of the "watchfulness of her grand-mother, in having withstood her voyage to England," and not suffering her to follow her mother thither, - that he had been her confessor "for many years before her marriage, and before her going down to Quebec, where she lived with her hus-· band "peaceably and to the edification of all the town." The Priest also speaks of Christine while she lived in Canada, as being" sober, living as a true Christian and good Catholic, having no remains of the unhappy Leaven of the Irreligion and errors of the English; out of which Heresy" Mr. Meriel had brought her and her mother, - and that all the members of the "mystical Body of about two hun­ dred women of the best fashion of Ville Marie, as well as all Mount­ Real were edified with her carriage." Christine's .mother was opposed to her leaving Canada, and would say to her, "what do you think you can do in New England? You know nothing about making Bread or Butter, or managing like

:Jff Sharrington is a name handed down among the descendants of Christine, and this name or one pronounced nearly as this is spelled, is supposed to have been the Christian name of her French husband. An old citizen of Dover, Doct. Ezra Green, who died in 1846, at 101 years of age, said that the name Sharington was from Christine's first husband, whose name might have been pronounced Sharring. ton 01' something like it in English, and so have been the same name with a different spelling. The original name given to Christine's son, Col. Otis Baker was, Otis Archilaus Sharrington, and his descendants have only this traditio~ as to the origin of the middle names. "Charleton" is said by others to have been the first name of her husband. Dr. Green thought" Charlington.a 8 190 The Otis Genealogy. [ April,

New England folks," - she having been brought up in the city of :M:ontreal, where bread and butter were purchased ready made for the table. In her petition (see below) she says she had been back to Canada in an unsuccessful effort to get her children, but does not ment­ ion the year of her going back. The J ourna.I of Col. Stoddard, (before referred to) is full of incidents about" Madam Le-Beau," whom he brought home, (but not without great opposition from the Priests) with other prisoners, in a ship to Boston. Capt. Stoddard was accom­ pained by Capt. Thomas Baker, as an Assistant, who, after his escape, was thrice employed to go to Canada to redeem prisoners. Soon after her return to New England, she married Capt Thomas Baker, and lived for a time in Northampton, where was ,born her ,first child, and where says the Obituary notice in the Boston Post at the time of her death, " she joined the church under the care of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard." This gentleman was one of the most able minis­ ters of his times, and his descendants include the large families of Edl"ards, Dwight, and others, among the most powerful, intellectually, of any in New England. No man would be more likely to take an interest in a person so peculiarly situated as Christine was than Mr. Stoddard, and it is in the higest degree probable, that the tradition of her conversion to the Protestant faith under his teaching is true. But unfortunately the record of admissions to his church and bap­ tisms for nearly the whole of the long period of his ministry is irre­ coverably lost. From the Brookfield Records of Lands, p. 240, is taken the follow­ ing* "Dec. 9th, 1714, - Then granted to Margarett Otice, alias, Le-bue, one that was a prisoner in Canada, and lately come from thence, forty acres of upland in Brookfield, and twenty acres of meadow; provided she returns not again to live in Canada, but tarries in this Province or territory, and marries to Capt. Thomas Baker." There can be no doubt that" Margarett Otice, alias Le-bue," and :M:argarett Baker were one and the same person with Ohristine Otis. The de~ds (many of them) given by Thomas Baker, of Brookfield, from 1715 to 1730, recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds at Springfield, do not have the signature of"his wife to any of them, but in the body of the deed it is sometimes found, and in all instances written Margarett." This seems to have been her legal name, and her original name at Dover, and this name, baptismal probably, was in some degree restored when she became a Protestant, at least by others if not by herself. It is the opinion of some that Margarett was her Canada name. Yet 'the French Priest in his letter calls her Christine, and while yet a Catholic she names her first child, born in New England, Christine, from herself. Whichsoever name she re­ ceived in Canada, it is certain that she was called and was known only by her d~scenda?ts as Christine, a name common among her de­ scendants, whIle few If any have the name of l\largarett. Our previous remarks concerning her Warren ancestors show that her grand-mother Warren, and one of her mother's (Grizet's) sisters, were named Mar­ garett. Rev. Dr. Belknap! (who must have personally known her) says, (Vol. I., note to page 203.) "The French Priests took this child under their care, baptized her by the name of Christina," &c. '* Brookfield, .where Capt. B~ker and his wife settled as early as 1717. was a part of HampshIre County, untIl 1731, when Worcester county was incoI'i;orated. The church and many of the Town Records, for the first 40 years were destroyed by fire many years since. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 191

Her husband Capt. Thomas Baker, was born at Northampton, Mass., 14 May, 1682, the son of Timothy Baker, who was the son of Ed­ ward Baker, a freeman at Lynn, 1638. Edward went to Northamp­ ton about 1658, the fourth or fifth year of its settlement, where he had grants of land from the town. He remained there a number of years, was selectman, &e.; returned to Lynn and there died, March, 1687. His wife was Jane . He left in Northampton two sons; Joseph 2 and Timothy 2; and had sons, Edward 2 and Thomas 2 at Lynn; John,2 who it is believed, settled in Dedham, where his descendants are very numerous; and perhaps others. His will is dated 16 Oct., 1685, but he names in it only two or three of his chil­ dren, as he had given them portions by deeds. He appointed" a decent funeral, suitable to my rank and quality," and exhorted his children to live in peace and the fear of God. Joseph Baker,2 m. Ruth Holton, 5 Feb., 1662, and had Joseph, b. 20 Jan., 1664; Ruth, 6 May, 1668; Mary, 5 Sept., 1670; Samuel, 11 Sept., 1672; Joseph, 25 Jan., 1675. Of these, Ruth m. Ebenezer Alvord, 1691, and Joseph was slain by the Indians, while at work in his meadow, 1675. Timothy Baker,2 was a le:;tding character in Northampton, often selectman, on important Committees of Town and Church, was called, "Mr." from the first, then " Ensign," and finally, "Lieutenant." The final record is, "30 Aug., 1729, Lieut. Timothy Baker died." He m. 1st, Grace Marsh, 16 Jan., 1672, and had Grace, 1673, d.10 Feb., 1673 ; and Timothy, 1675, d. in infancy. His wife d. 31 May, 1676, and 1678 or 9, he m., 2d, Sarah Atherton, the wid. of Rev. Hope Atherton, minister of Hatfield, who was chosen chap­ lain of Capt. Lathrop's Company, which was cut to pieces by the In­ dians at Bloody Brook, (Deerfield.) She was a dau. of Lieut. John Hol­ lister, of Wethersfield, and m. Mr. Atherton, in 1674. She had by him three children. Timothy Baker had by her, John,S 3 Feb., 1680 ; THOMAS,S 14 May, 1682; Edward,S 12 Nov., 1685, (left no male issue) ; Prudence,S 14 ~Iay, 1687; Deliverance,s 13 Nov., 1689, d. 1710. Capt. John Baker,S (eldest son of Timothy) m. Rebecca Clark and settled on the old homestead - became one of the most influen­ tial men in the town; had 7 sons, viz: John, Noah, Aaron, Elisha, Stephen, Timothy, Elijah, and two daughters. All the sons except Timothy, (who .lost his life in the expedition against Louisburg, in 1745,) married and settled in Western Massachusetts, all lived to be 80 years old or over, and all left numerous families, whose descendants are scattered allover the United States, from Vermont to Texas. Elijah was the grand-father of the Hon. Osmyn Baker, late M. C., from Amherst, lIass., now of Northampton. Capt. Thomas Baker, was an adventurous character, and had no fixed residence, except at his father's house in Northampton, until the consummation of his romantic affair with Christine Otis. After his I birth, his name does not appear again on the Northampton records, until the record of the birth of his daughter, spelled by the clerk" Ohris­ tian." From the fact of finding this record at that place, it is inferred that he had not then fully established himself at Brookfield. He was among the captives who were taken at the destruction of the toWl1 of Deedield, 29 Feb., 1703-4, and was carried to Canada. He had not been in captivity long, when he with others, determined on making their escape. They had not however, proceeded far in their elopement, when they were overtaken and carried back, and threatened with im­ mediate death by being burnt at the stake; and would have been, had not some of the French interceded in their behalf. 192 The Otis Genealogy. [ April,

Not intimidated by their former bad luck, they made a sec~nd attempt, which proved successful,* not without however, suffermg everything but death itself. They had a long and dreary march through the woods, over mountains, and through swamps and val~eys, before they arrived at the frontier settlement. They were entIrely without provisions, only such as they gathered from the desert through which they had to travel; and they were on the point of giving up, when they prayed that some deliverance might appear, and behold a large bird, such as they had never before seen, fell befOl'e them. This they instantly seized, tore in pieces, and ate without cooking. This is the story of his escape from captivity, told by some of his descendants, and which corresponds in its main features, with the ac­ count given by Capt. Baker himself, in his Petition, as found in the Archives of Massachusetts. This Petition is dated at Brookfield, 6 June, 1718 and represents, that he was a soldier under Capt. Welles, and was taken prisoner at Deerfield, in Feb., 1703, (this was 1704, new style, but in 1703, when the legal year, both in this country and in England began on the 25 March) that he lost his arms and part of his clothes, and was carried to Canada; that he escaped from Mon­ treal the next summer, in order to come home and give intelli­ gence of an expedition aga~nst these towns under Chevalier Boncour; that he was retaken, and the Indians made preparations to burn him alive, but he got out of their hands, and ran to the house of one LeCair, who ransomed him by advancing five pounds, which he promised to repay. He was put in irons by order of the Governor of Canada, and made a close prisoner four months. After which he was .a prisoner at large, until he escaped a third time, and got safe to his country. He prayed for an allowance, and the General Court granted Ten Pounds. "About the year 17.20, [this date should be 1712,J Capt. Thomas Baker of Northampton, in the County of Hampshire, in Mass." set off with a scouting party of thirty four men, passed up Connecticut river, and crossed the height of land to Pemigewas~et River. He there dis­ covered a party of Indians, whose sachem was called '\Yalternum­ mus, (t) whom he attacked and destroyed. Baker and the Sachem, levelled and discharged their guns at each ot11er at the same instant. The ball from the Indian's gun grazed Baker's left eye-hrow, but did him no injury. The ball from Baker's gun went through the breast of the Sachem. Immediately upon being wounded, he leaped four or five feet high, and then fell instantly dead. The Indians fled to the river; Baker and his party pursued and destroyed everyone of them. They had a wigwam on the bank of the river, which'was nearly filled with Beaver. Baker's party took as much of it as they could carry away, and burnt the rest. Baker lost none of his men in this skirmish. It took place at the confluence of a small river with

*" Sometime in Mayor June"1705, Joseph Petty, John Nims, Thomas Baker, and Martin Kellog~, Jr., made their escape from Montreal, and got home to Deer- field." &c. - Rev. vr. Stephen Williams' Journal. .

(t) He was chief of the Pequakets, the tribe with which Capt. Lovewell had such a terrible and bloody encounter in 1725, and was probably succeeded by Paugus who fell in the fight with Lovewell. Waltanummon, as his' name is spelt in our recor(ls was one of the prominent chiefs who met Governor Dudley, at Falmouth, in '1703, at which time and place were assembled, a great number of Indians, and a treaty was concluded.- Book of the Indians, Book iii. Chap. IX. 1851.] The Otis Genealog1J. 193

the Pemigewasset, (between Plymouth and Campton) which has ever since had the name of Baker's River." *' Capt. Baker and his men, went down the Merrimack to Dunstable, and thence to Boston, and made application for the bounty, May 8th, 1712. They brought but one scalp, yet claimed pay for several, as they believed they had killed some whose scalps they could not get. This occasioned some delay, and the men came home. On the 10th of June, the General Court granted 40 pounds, or pay for four scalps, not because they believed so many Indians had been killed, but they were willing to reward the bravery and enterprise of Capt. Baker, and his 32 men. They allowed Capt. Baker's company wages from 24 Mch, to the 16th of May, 1712.-MS. letter of Sylvester Judd, Esq. The account given by Mrs. Bean, the daughter of Capt. Baker, adds some incidents to this affair. She said that the enemy were com­ posed of a large body of French and Indians, who were coming down from Canada to kill and destroy the English; that they were iIi their boats sailing down the River: that Baker, having previously discovered them, secreted his men in ambush, on the the banks of the river, and at a signal given, his men fired upon them in their birch canoes, killed and wounded so many, sank their boats and so disconcerted them, that the remainder made a precipitate retreat to Canada. Capt. Baker was well acquainted with their chief, " Waternomee," who was richly attired, his Blanket covered with silver brooches, his Powder horn and all his various trinkets, Capt. Baker took, and they are still among his descendant. Long afterwards, he used to show them to the Indians ; they would shed tears, and make gestures, as though they would some time kill him, when war once more arose. In Sept., 1727, Capt. Baker was tried for blasphemy, before the Superior Court at Springfield. (This was the year in which the Priest wrote the letter to his wife.) The charge against him was as follows: "there being a discourse of God's having, in his Providence put in Joseph Jennings, Esq., of Brookfield, a Justice of the Peace, Capt. Baker used the following words -" If I had been with the Almighty, I would have taught him better." Verdict of the Jury­ "not Guilty." This Jennings was a representative from Brookfield, some years; probably a rival of Capt. Baker, and he appears to have been sus­ tained by a majority of the people. It is likely that Capt. Baker's daring, headstrong spirit, continued until middle life or after. He was the first Representative to the General Court from Brookfield, 1719, and did not represent the town again after that year. Capt. Baker and his wife, continued to reside at Brookfield, until about 1732. Having become old, and wishing to retire from farming, he sold his possessions in Brookfield, to a Col. Sheldon, a man of business, a speculating man, quite popular, and considered good at that time; but he failed before paying for his land. Capt. Baker consequently lost a large part of his property, and this accounts for their pov-erty as set forth in the accompanying petition of Christine to the Legislature for'a Tavern Licence. They were living at Brookfield, in 1731; at Mendon, 1732; at Newport, R. I., 1733; and removed to Dover, N. H., about 1735, where, on the 11 May, 1735, Christine was admitted to the church, " recommended from ye church at Mendon, Mass." The tradition is,

'*' Farmer's and ]fOOI"S Call., Vol. S,p.lOO, and Vol. l,p. 128. 8* 194 The Otis Genea'lo flY. [April,

that Capt. Baker, died at Roxbury, of the "Lethargy," to which dis­ ease he had been some time subject - at which place he was on a visit to some cousins of his, by the name of Sumner.* The time of his death is not known, but it was sometime prior to l\'Irs. Bean's marriage, about 1753, as she and her mother were then living with Col. Otis Baker. He was" past hi~ labour," in 1735. The following is' the Petition of Christine Baker, and the order of the General Assembly, of N. H.; the original of which is in posses­ sion of the family of her descendant, the wife of Hon. Paul Went­ worth, of Concord, N. H. : - To his Excellencie, Jonatltan Belcher, Esquire, Governo'J' and Gom­ mander in Ohi~f in and over his Maj'ties Province of New Hampsl e, The Honourable the Oouncil .And House of Represent­ tatives, Now Oonven'd in General Asseembly. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF CHRISTINE BAKER, THE WIFE OF CAPT. THOMAS BAKER, OF DOVER, IN NEW HAMPS'E AFFOR SAID, MOST HUMBLY SHOWETH :--- That your Petitioner in her childhood was captivated by the In­ dians in the Town of Dover affore said, (where she was Born) and carried to Canada, and there Brot up in the Romish Superstition and idolitry. And was there Maryed and well settled, and had three clrildren; and after the Death of her husband, she had a very Great Inclination to see her own country; And with Great Difficulty ob­ ta.ined permission to Return, leaving all her substance and her chil­ dren, for by no means could she obtain leave for them; And since your Petitioner has been maryed to Capt. Baker, she did undertake the hazzard and fatieug of a Journey to Canada againe in hopes by the interest of friends to get her children, but all in vaine - so that her Losses are trebbled on her; first the loss of her house well fitted and fu~nished, and the lands belOIiging to it; Second, the Loss of Considerable part of her New England Substance in her last journey to Canada; and thirdly, the Loss of her children. Yet still she hath this Comfort since her return : That she is alsoo returned into the Bossum of the Protestant chu~ch; for weh. she Imost heartily thanks Almighty God. And now your Petitioner having a large' family to support, and by ~the Changes and chances of fortune here is Reduced to very low Cir· :cumstances; and her husband past his Labour. Your Pet'r Lately Imade her case known to several Gent. in the Government of the Massa. who out of a Charitable Disposition did supply YOI'. Petitioner ,w.ith something to set her in a way to subsist her family; And also a{i-vis'd to keep a house of Entertainment; And the Gen'llAssembly of ihat Govermt. took your Petitioner's case' into their consideration, ana made her a present of 500 acres of land in the Frovince of Maine, and put it under the c~:~ and Trust. of CoIl. Wm. Pepperell, Esq., fot' the use of your PetitItlOner (exclusIve of her husbands having any· thing to do with it.) . N0W your Petitioner by the help she hath had, has bot. a lot of land ·amd Built a house on it on the Contry Rhoade from Dover meet-

~"George ~umner, from D!>rchester, lived 'in. Northampton, Mass., a few years; and while there, he married Mary Baker, a sIster of Timothy Baker Nov. 7, 1662. H-e returned to Dorchester, and I have a minute, that he moved t~Mil. ton, Mass., th-en an adjoining town to Dorchester. His children were cousins of Capt. Thomas Baker of Dover." - Manusc'ript'Zetter of Sylvester Judd. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 195

ing house to Cochecho Boome; and have bedding and other necessa­ ros fit for a Public house for Entertainment of Travellers, &c. And Your Petitioner at the Gen'll Quarter Sessions of the Peace Last yr. [September] did apply to the Justices of Said Court for a licence for a Public house, having first obtained the approbation of the select men as the Law Directs, (and the select men denied it to him that had the Public house there before) : Nevertheless the Justices granted a licence to the former Tavernor and Denied it Your Petitioner. So that she is put by the doing of what her friends advised her for the support of her Family. Therefore she most humbly prays the assist­ ance of your Excell'cie and the hon'ble the councill, and House of Representatives to Enable her by a Private act, to Keep a house of Public Entertainment, Giving Security from Time to Time for keep­ ing good orders as other Ta'vernors doth : And your Petitioner as in duty Bound Shall ever Pray.

In the house of Representatives .the above Petition Read, and voted that the prayer of the Petition be granted, and that the. Petitioner have Licence to keep. a house of Public Entertainment for four years free of excise, and .alsoo have liberty to Bring in a Bill accordingly. Giving security to keep good orders as other Tavernors doth. JAMES JEFFRY, Olerlc Ass. May the 8th, 1735. She opened her" House of Entertainment," authority for which was granted by the General Assembly, and kept it for many years. It stood on the South-east corner of Silver and Pleasant Streets, Dover, on the lot where Jeremy Perkins store now stands, and faced both streets. The" Dover Meeting house" was then on Pine Hill, and the" Cochecho Boome," somewhere near the upper Bridge. She died 23 Feb., 1773, and an obituary notice of her is to be found in the Boston Evening Post, of March 15, 1773. Her children by her second husband, Capt. Thomas Baker, were, (all born in Brookfield except the first.) (36) I. CHRISTINE8 (83) (her birth is recorded on the Northampton, Mass., Records,5 June 1716, as "Christian, dau. of Capt. Thomas Baker and Margarett, his wife," although her name was so spelled on the records, she was called by the family, Christine), m. Capt. Dudley Watson, of Dover. (37) il. EUNICE8, (94) m. Doct. Cheney Smith, of Dover. (38) ill. Lucy8, (100) m. Joshua Stackpole, of that part of Somers- worth, now called Rollinsford. " (39) IV. CHARLESs, (102), b. 1721-2", m. (1) Love ,(2) Sarah Carr, of Newberry, Mass., and widow of Francis Roberts of Somers­ worth. Died at Somersworth, N. H., Sept. 26, 1784. His wife died Oct. 21, 1807, 1E 85. (40) V. MARyS, (108), b. 16 Feb. 1725-6, m. Capt. Benjamin Bean, of Epping, N. H~, 1753. Died at Conway, N. H;, 6 Feb., 1826. (41) VI.' OTISs, (113), (the name originally given him, was OTIS ARCH­ ELAUS SHARRINGTON. But as he became of age, he dropped the two middle names,) b. 1727, m. (1) Lydia, dau~ of Dea. Gorsham Went­ worth of Somerworth; grandson of Elder W m. Wentworth by Ezekiel; 196 The Otis Genealogy. [April;

2d Tamsen dau. of James and Mehitable Chesley, who was the wid. of John Tw'ombly. Died at Dover, N. H., Oct. 27, 1801. His wife died 6 Nov., 1801. , 8 (42) VII. ALEXANDER DOUGLASS , b. 1729, was "a pious and de­ voted young man; a calm and deliberate Christian," and d. unmarried, 23 Sept., 1756, in the 27th year of his age, as per Dover Tomb stone. He was a Blacksmith by trade. 8 RICHARD OTIS , (12 - II) The first trace of him that we dis­ cover, is from the Exeter Records: "Richard Otis, of Charlestown" Middlesex County, Mass." conveys to Stephen Otis, his brother, of Dover, N. H., all "my right to land of my father, Richard Otis, or of my grandfather, Richard Otis, or of my uncle, Nicholas Otis," Oct. 30, 1722. From the town and church records of Charlestown, it is found that his wife, Grace, d. 9 Dec., 1721; that a " young child," d. 11 Dec., 1721. Where or when he d. has not been ascertained. His children were, (43) I. GRACE\ b. 11 May, 1716. (44) II. RICHARD\ bap. 26 March, 1718, was at New London, Ct., about 1750-5, and afterwards of Preston, and he d. in Stonnington, Ct. His wife was a Dayton, by whom he had, EphraimG, Richard", and Williams, who m. and settled in Western, N. Y., and James 5, m. Orphana Randall, and had at StonIlington, Ct., Ransford', 'who m. and s. a farmer at Springville, Erie Co., N. Y., 'Where he was murdered by a man named Major McEllroy, 23 April, 1840, in the barn of Otis, and the barn set on fire and consumed. McEllroy was employed on Mr. Otis's farm; was tried, found guilty of the crime, and was ex­ 6 ecuted at Buffalo, N. Y.; Ephraim Randall , b. 30 Jan., 1785, has no ch. Now resides at Norwich, Ct., a merchant. (45) ,III. MARY\ b. 8 Sept. 1720. 8 REBECCA OTIS , (13-III.) m. Richard Canney, of Dover, and had children, ' (46) I. OTIs\ b. 23 Jan'y 1718. (47) II. RICHARD\ b. 11 March, 1720-1. (48) III. JUDITH\ b. March 1722-3. 8 STEPHEN OTIS , (14-IV.) m. (1) Mary Young, 30 Jan. 1719-20; (2) 30 July 1736, Catharine, dau'-of Nathaniel and Catharine (Neale) Austin, (b. 12 Jan., 1715.) (3d) Elizabeth . He received in 1721, at Dover, land granted to his father in 1694; and in 1722, all his brother Richard's right and title in the old estate. In 1733, measures were commenced by himself and brother, to recover some portion of the old estate, which they claimed by right of inheritance and which from some cause, (if they had ever been in possession) had passed out of their hands: - "Stephen Otis, of Dover, and Nicholas Otis, of N ew~ort, R. I.,. tailor, for the recovery of lands belonging to our father, RIchard OtIs, and our grandfather, Richard Otis" they agreed to share in the expenses. (See Mary (Otis ) Varney beiow.) He lived in that part of Dover which was incorporated under the name of Madbury, as a separate town, 31 May, 1751, having for some time previously had that name as a parish; at which place his will was made 2 May, 1759, and proved 29 Aug., following. He is called a weaver, and gives something to each of his sons and to his "present wife Elizabeth," the rest of his property for life' and at her death to go to his children" born of her body," viz: - S~sannah and "the one of which she is now pregnant." His chil. were by first wife (49) I. JOSHUA', (122) b. about 1720, m. Jane Hussey, of Dover about 1745, and soon after removed to Barrington. ' 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 197

(50) ll. STEPHEN4, (132) b. 1731, m. Molly Elwell, of Barrington. (51) ID.. JOHN4, unmarried, enlisted in the Revolutionary War and never returned. By his third wife he had, (52) IV. SUSANNA4, m. Aaron Davis, of Madbury, 7 Nov., 1776. (53) V. A CHILD\ posthumous. NICHOLAS OTISs, (15-V) as is seen above was at Newport, R. I., 1733. He was a ship-caulker; went to sea, and it is believed, com­ manded a ship which sailed from Providence, R. I., and was lost with ~is ship at sea. He had but one child, which was left an orphan quite young, named, (54) I. NICHOLAS\ b. 22 May, 1765, m. Cynthia Windsor, of Provi­ dence, R. I. He was taken when a child by a relative to N. H., where he lived until about eighteen years of age. He was in Green­ field, Mass, a few years, and was a school teacher, in Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he d. 1809. She d. 1847, .IE 82. Their children were, Windsor?, h. 6 July, 1790, m. Chloe Campbell 1808, d. in Ohio, 1815 6 and left two daughters and one son, Calvin Nicholas , who resides at Buffalo, N. Y., an architect; Sarah5, h. 6 Dec., 1791, d. 1823; J)ex­ ter5, h. 6 Feb'y 1795, m. Polly Wait, 6 July, 1816. He was a ·preacher, and d. in Ohio, 19 March, 1845, leaving two sons and five daughters; Oanduce5, b. 23 March, 1799, m. Pardon Cornell, 1819, and d. 1830. . MARY OTISs, (18 - III) m. Ebenezer, son of Humphrey Varney, who was a Quaker! (as most 'of his descendants have been) and son­ in-law to Elder Edward Starbuck (marrying his youngest dau. Esther) and father to Peter, Ebenezer, John, Joseph, and Abigail. From records it is evident, that Ebenezer Varney took possession of the "Hill" or Otis estate, about 1696, (about which time Cochecho was resettled) under the title inherited from his wife's father,. fortifying his title by deeds from the Canada Otises and quit-claims, from other hejrs of Richard lOtis. This property was for some time in dispute '( see StephenSOtis) as was the case in several other instances, the In­ dian troubles overturning proof and destroying evidence of titles • .This property has remained in the Varney family until the parents of the present generation of heirs sold their share, old house (150 years old) and all to John Ham. Of .their numerous descendants a large part were or are farmers, and as respectable as any similar number of persons. Children born at Dover, (55) I. MARY4, b. 1693-4-:-6, m. 1713-10-17, Wm. Horn. She d. ll 1735-9-18, and left Sarah , b. 1714, m. 1st Isaac Hanson; 2d, Sam'l Gould. (56) II. SARAH', b. 1695--9-10, m. Samuel Gaskill, of Salem. (57) ill. STEPHEN4, (141) h. 1697-9-7, m. Mercy Hanson. (58) IV. ABIGAIL\ (151) h. 1699-2-11, m. Wm. Frye, jr. (59) V. JOHN4, h. 1701-11-15, m. 1723, Sarah, dau. of Timothy Rob- inson. (60) VI. EBENEZER4, (159) 1704-3-21, m. Eliiabeth Hanson. (61) VII. NATHANIEL4, (169) b. 1706-1-17, m. Content Gaskill. (62) VIII. THoMAs4, (180) b. 1708-2-7, m. Dorothy Martin. (63) IX JUDITH4, (191)b.1710-2-11, ill. Tobias Hanson. (64) X. SAMUEL4, (198) b. 1712-2-2, m. Mary Varney. (65) XI. MARTHA\ (207) b. 1713-14-1-18, m. John Twombly. (66) XII. PAUL\ (208) b. 1715-16-1-18, m. Elizabeth Mussey. (67) XIII. ANNE4, (213) b. 1718-5-6, m. Solomon Hanson. 198 The Otia Genealogy. [April,

OTIS PINKHAMs, (29 - IV.) m. Abigail Tibbetts, 172~-9-~2. She was b. 1701-6-12 the dau. of Ephraim and Rose, (AustIll) TIb. betts. The inventory of his property (amounting to £1100) was reo turned 1764, Nov. 30. Children born at Dover, were, . (68) I. SAMUEL', b. 26 Sept. 1722. (69) II. ANN!, b. 30 April, 1724. (70) III. ROSE\ b. 18 March, 1825-6. (71) IV. PAUL\ b. 4-3-1730, m. Rose dau. of Joseph Austin. He d. 1819-3-16, and had, Nicholaso, b.1755-11-3, d.1770-10-1; Joseph6, b. 1757-8-14, m. Elizabeth Green, 1788, d. 1845, having had Nich. ll ll 6 olas , 1789 ; Jeremiah Green , 1791; Sarah , 1794, m. Joseph Tut· ll 6 tIe; Elizabeth , 1797 ; Joseph6, 1800 ; Hannah , 1804, m. Levi Sawyer; ll ll Rosee , 1807, m. Sam'l Dunn; Rebecca , 1809, m. Jacob K. Purinton; 5 Otiso, b. 1759-8-25, lost at sea, 1786; Silas , b. 1764-11-9, d.1796· 9-10; Rosellb.1766-12-1, m. Jonathan Hanson; Paul5, b. 1768-12-1. ROSE PINKHAMs, (32 - VII.) m. 1st, James Tuttle, he was born 7 April, 1683, d. 1709, was grandson of John Tuttle the .first settler of the name in Dover, who was there in 1642, and d. in 1662, whose wife was Dorothy and who had children, viz: Thomas, (accidentally killed in 1664 by the falling of a tree,) John, (Judge and father of James,) and two daughters, the oldest of which was married before 1663, and the youngest was yet under eighteen. Rose by her first husband had, (72) I. PHEBE', b. 26 Sept., 1706, m. Moses Varney, grandson of Humphrey and probably son of Peter, 1728-1-16. She d. 1776-6-21, 5 and had JamesG, Peter , Elijalt5, Sarah5, m. Solomon Piper; Lydia", m. Solomon Varney, Mosess, Ilumphreys, Phebe , b. 1741, m. Joseph Rick· ' ford, Mordecaill, BenJamin5, Betsey5, m. Nicholas Hanford. (73) II. ELIJAH', (223)b. 14 May, 1708, m. Esther Varney. Rose Pinkham, m. 2d, Thomas Canney, who descended from Thomas Canney, of Piscataqua, 1631, and of Dover, 1633, whose 2d wife was Jane, and of whose children were Thomas, (died before 1677 and left six children, and his widowm. John Wingate.,) Joseph, (who m. 1670, Mary Clements, dau. of Job,) and Mary, who m. Jerem.y Tibbetts, and had five children (see Farmer's Gen. Reg.) By her 2d. husband she had, (74) III. THOMA.S\ b. 1712-9-4. (75) IV. SUSANNA\ (226) b. 1715-2-4, m. Isaac, son of Tobi2s and Ann (Lord) Hanson, 1741-16-2. He d. 1758, Jan'y 15, "in an ap· perplect fit." 4 (76) V. MARTHA , h. 1718-6-17, m. Moses Meader. (77) VI. BENJ.LMIN\ b. 1720-11-2, d. unm. 1776-5-18. (78) VII. ROSE', b. 1722-6-21. (79) vrn. WILLIAM4, b . .1724-2-7. (80) IX. JOSEPH', b. ]725-5-3. (81) X. JOHN', b. 1728-5-1. 40 (82) XI. MARy , b.1729-7-1. (83) XII. ELIZABETH\ b.1731-11-7. CHRISTINE BAKERS, (36-1) m. Capt. Dudley Watson of Dover. He was baptized at Dover, 17 Oct., 1736, and was dead 4 June, 1777, as his son Thomas, as Administrator, then liberated a slave be­ longing to his estate.. She ,\yas admitted to the chh. at Dover, 14 Nov., 1736, as the wife of Capt. Dudley Watson. Her name here, as in the record of her birth at Northampton, is spelled Christian. She was a widow, and had been, not far from five years when she d. 18 March, 1776. Children born at Dover.

:II: See Wingate note, page 332, Gen. Register, for 1850. Why does not some one write the very interesting history of this Wingate family 1 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 199

(84) I. DUDLEY4, bap. 17 Oct., 1736. (85) II. LucY4, bap. 18 Feb., 1739, m. Aaron Ham, lived in Roches­ ter and had 4 daughters. She d. about ten years emce. (86) III. DAVID\ bap. 14 June, 1741, d. young. (87) IV. THOMAS', bap. 10 Aug., 1743, m. at Dover, 31 Dec., 1770; Abigail Horn, and had AaronlS ; DudleylS, d. at Rochester; AbigailS ; Lydia'i and a dau. who m. Benj. Horn. (88) V. SAMUEL\ bap. 7 April, 1745, d. young. (89) VI. WINTHROP\ m. Mary Horn, 12 Mch., 1776, and had at Do­ 6 ver, Samue1 , WinthropS, Daniels, and two daus. 4 (90) VII. MARy , bap.15 April 1750, m. 14 Mch., 1775, Heard Roberts, of Dover first, and Rochester afterwards, and had 4: sons and 1 dau. (91) VIII. HANNAH\ bap. 17 May, 1752, m. 1 Aug., 1771, Nathaniel Ham of Dover, and had 3 sons and 1 dau., now all dead. (92) IX. OTIS BAKER\ bap. 30 Sept., 1753, m. Charity Horn, of Dover, s. in Sandwich, where he died March 11, 1815, aged 62 years. His wife died Sandwich, July 22, 1848, aged about 85 years. Their children were Christines (died about 4 years old ;) Polly', born about 1789, m. David Ethridge of Sandwich, where both now live; Chris­ linea born June 23, 1791, married her cousin Paul Horns (son of Paul Horn of Dover, m. Hannah Smith·) born ~fay 10, 1785, and 6 both now live at Sandwich and have Amasa , Otis Baker6, Mar­ 6 6 S garet , William , Julia E ., and John F\ still living; James H6., born 1793, m. Sarah Keazer of Groton, ){ass., and both live at Sandwich; DavidS born 1795, lives single at Sandwich; Jonathan6 born 1796 m. (1) Adeline Tibbets of Dover, N. H., and (2) Eliz­ abeth Burnham6 of Dover, N. H., ';v here they now live; Esther6 born 1803 and lives single at Sandwich, N. H.; Sophias bor.n 1806 and lives single at Sandwich; Eleanor HS., born 1813 and lives sin-

o gle at Sandwich~ " (93) X. SARAH\ bap. 18 July, 1756, m. Richard Garland of Bartlett, N. H. He was b. at Rochester, 28 May, 1763; now living a Pen­ sioner at the foot of the White ~Iounta.ins, where he has remded for 60 y.ears; is still quite active. She d. 17 Feb., 1814, and they had 5 sons and 3 daus. Isaac Meserve of Bartlett, N. H., m. his grand­ daughter. (94) XI. LYDIA\ b. 24"'Feb., 1760, m. Richard Hayes of ~fadbury, and had six sons and five daus. She d. 22 Apl., 1850, reo 91. EUNICE BAKERS, (37-II) m. Doct. Cheney Smith, who practised in Dover as early as 1735. He d. between 1756 and '59, and had (95) I. MA.RY·, bap. 31 lV1ch., 1740, d. unm. 22 Mch., 1795. (96) II. EUNICE\ bap. 18 Sept., 1743, m. 2 Sept., 1780, Benj. Church. (97) III. SARA.H\ baptized Feb. 23, 1746, lived when young, with her aunt Bean at Epping, N. H., and married Capt. Crocket, a wealthy farmer of Meredith, N. H., where some of her descendants now live. (98) IV. LucY\ baptized 16 July, 1749, probably the one who married __ Smith, and lived the latter part of her life with her daughter Eunice5 Smith who was the first wife of Spencer WentworthiS of Dover, baptized June 10,1779, who moved to Jackson, N. H., some 40 years aO'o and lives there now, son of Ephriami of Rochester, N. H., grands~n of Ephriams of Dover, who was the son of Ephraim! and grandson of Elder William Wentworth of Dover. Spencer and 6 ll 6 6 Eunice Wentworth had William , Samuel , Charles , Lydia , Chris­ 6 til1e~, ~f&ry Jane-5, and Florida ; and he married fo~ a second wife, iS Nancy Gannet of Tamworth, N. flu and had Chandler , Nancy6, and 200 The Otis Genealogy. [ April,

one other child. This Smith who m. Lucy4 was a great traveller, an· 5 tiquarin, and genealogist, and he had a son Pearson , who was in the same business and was travelling at last ad vices. (99) V. HANNAH4, bap. 17 June, 1753, m. Paul Horne of Dover, (his, 5 first wife.) They had Susan , m. Noah Robinson of Barnstead and left ch.; Mar,!!, m. fst., -- 'Valbridge, 2d., her cousin David, son 5 of Winthrop Watson; Benjamin , m. his cousin Hannah Horne, and 5 now lives in Dover; Paul , born May 10, 1785, m. his cousin Chris· tine5, daughter of Otis B. Watson4 of Sandwich, N. H., where both now live; Eunice5, m. Paul Hayes, son of James, and lives with her son-in-law Jerry Kingman, Esq., of Barrington. (100) VI. CHENY4, bap. 29 June, 1755, died a soldier'of the Revolution. 3 Lucy BAKER , (38-III) m. Joshua Stackpole of (then Somers· worth, now) Rollinsford. Mter her death he m. a second time. She had ch., (101) I. SAMUEL\ (228) b. Oct" 1740, m. Zervia, dau. of Isaac and Joanna Watson, bap. 5 Oct., 1755. (102) II. LucY\ m. 1st., William Watson, 2d, Gersom Horn, of Dover, who was b. 1733, and d. 25 Jan., 1800. Her children were, BENiAl\HN5, m. Patience, dau. of James Leighton of Barrington. 6 Both d., leaving Lilias , m. Solomon Cate; Jeremy", m. Hannah, dau. 6 6 of Daniel Hall of Barrington; Jacob , m. --Willey; Abigail , m. - Geer of Dover. HlRAM5, lives in Barrington, unmarried; WILLIAM5, d. unmarried at sea; NATHANIEL5, m. and d. in Danvers, Ms.; JOHN5, d. unmar­ ried at sea; FREDERICK5 ; FENTON 5, d. unmarried in Salem; JOSEPH5, d. in Dover, unm. ; ELIZABETH5, m. Ezekiel Varney, and s. in Port­ 5 land; ABIGAIL , m. -- Tracy, d. in Dover, no ch. 3 CHARLES BAKER , (39-IV) m. 1st, Love , of Berwick,Me., said by some to be Downs, and by others Wentworth. His 2d wife, (b. Feb., 1721-2, d.21 Oct., 1807,) was Mary, dau. of John and Elizabeth Carr, of Newbury, Mass., sister of Dr. Moses Carr,* born at Newbury, Nov. 25, 1715,practiced medicine in Somersworth, N. H.

* There was a James Carr, (whose son we know not) Married Ruth Moody, at Newbery, Ap. 25, 1712. Dr. Moses Carr came to Dover when very young, and was an inmate of Capt. Benj.Wentworth's3 house, for seven years, and finally married his wife's neice, Mary, dau. of Paul Gerrish, of Dover, who m. John Leighton's (the old Sheriff of York Co.: living at Kittery, and marryinO' Oner Langdon of Portsmouth, 13 June, 1686) daughter Mary, born at Kittery, May 7,1693. Their children were John Carr, born Oct. 26, 1741; Paul Carr, June 6, 1743, and died Sept. 5, 1753; M~ry Carr, born Oct. 21, 1744, married John, son of Judge Ichabod and Abigail4 Wentworth Rollins; Moses Carr, born May 28 1746, married Hannah Hamilton, whose mother was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Millet, R~presentative from Dover at vario~s times from 1731 to 1755, Judge of Supenor Court from 1740 to 1742 and dIed 1763, and whose daughter Abi­ gail was second wife of Col. John4 Wentworth of Somersworth' James Carr, born April 22, 1748, m. Susanna5 daughter of Col. John Went~orth~ of Som­ ersworth, by his second wife, whose descendants are given in the Wentworth Genealogy in the Oct. 1850 No. of this Register, where the wife of Oliver P. Carr of Coffeeville, should be corrected from Armine6 to her sister Mercy R.6 Wentworth!, from Feb. 2~: 1~09, and daughter of John5? son of Bartholomew4, and grandson ·of Lt. BenJamm3 who was the son of BenJamin2 and grandson of Elder William Wentworth of Dover i Betsey, born June 26 1749 married James, son of Judge Ichabod and Abigail Wentworth4 Rolli~s' Sa~ah Carr born Sept. 17, 1751, and died July 4, 1755; Daniel Carr, born Jude 2 1753 and died June 30, 1753; Hannah Carr, born Dec. 9, 1754, and m. Reuben'Tibb~ts of Berwick, Me., and had Paul Carr Tibbetts and John Tibbets m. Hannah daugh­ ter of Ja~es Rollins by his second wife (both liv}ng at Lisbon, Maine;) Sarah m. - RIchardson, and· a daughter m. -- SmIth of Bath, Me.; Sarah Carr, 1851.] The Oti.s Genealo {/y. 201

60 years, was Judge of Common Pleas, 1776 to 1784, and died 30 March, 1800. Her first husband was Francis Roberts, of'Somers­ worth, by whom she had Frances, John, Betsey, (m. John Ham, of Rochester,) Mary, (m. Col. Jonathan Palmer, of Wakefield,) and Sally, (m. Capt. John Stillson, of Portsmouth, N. H.) Charles Baker, resided at Somersworth, where both his wives and he d., and where all his children were born. He d. 26 Sept. 1784, 1E 63. By his first wife he had, (103) I. CHARLES', m. Eunice Allen, of Durham, N. H., lived and died in Brookfield, N. H. They had Loves, Daniels, Mehitables, and Ma­ ryli. Nothing further known. (104) II. THoMAs\ m. Mary Allard, or Brookfield, lived and died in Wolfborough, N. H., and had Thomass, MaryS, Charles5, Jonathans, JohnS, MargaretS, BenjaminS, and Loves. Nothing else known. (105) III. CHARITY\ m. Samuel Roberts, of Alfred, Me., and had Sam­ uelS, SallyS, Patiences, Loves, JohnS, Mary5. Nothing else known. By his second wife he had, (106) IV. DOUGLASS\ b. Jan. 18, 1762, and d. in Shapleigb, Me.,. April 26, 1844, m. in S., 4 Feb'y 1798, Mary Bagley, who was b. in. Ber­ wick, Dec., 9, 1770, and d. in S., 4 Jan., 1848. They had Sara/b,s, b. April 5, 1800, m. 13 Sept., 1823, Samuel Roberts, of Alfred; Ahira5, b. Dec., 23, 1801, m. 1st, 13 Nov., 1825, Aphra Bean, of Alfred, who d. Jan'y 20, 1848, m. 2d, Sept., 3, 1848, Rhoda 1V. Ross, of Shapleigh, where he now lives; Samuel5, b. 6 Oct., 1803, d. 20 April, 1815; Mary5, b. 24 May, 1806, d. May 2,1849; Theodate 5, b.

13 Sept., 1809, m. 13 Nov., 1842, James Bedell, of Sanford, Me'D 5 where she now lives; John , b. 23 March, 1813, d. 12 April, 1815. (107) V. MOSES\ b. 24 March, 1766, in Somersworth, where he lived until Feb'y, 1847, when he moved to Gorham, }\tIe., and there d. the ensuing 25 of March. He was one of the New Hampshire Coun­ sellors, 1838 and 1839. He m. 25 Feb., 18'00, Sarah Thoms of Gorham, (born 8 Sept., 1781,) where she still lives. They had Sally Oarr5, b. 4 Dec., 1800, m. J. H. Clement, of G., 21 March, 1827; Samuel Thoms5, b. 23 Dec., 1802, m. Ellen McDuffie, of Alton". N. H., 6. Dec., 1826, and now lives in Bradley, Me.; 1l1ary Ann5,. b. 15 Aug., 1804, m. Theophilus Dame, of Rochester, N. H., 28 Oct., 1824, now of Gorham, (son of Hon Richard Dame of Rochester, JudO'e, Representative, Senator and Counsellor, d. 19 Sept., 1828, JE 72;) Elizabeth L5, b. 8 July, 1809, m. James W. Shapleigh, of Elliot, 5 Me., 17 Mch. 1841; Ohristine Olis , b. 3 Jan., 1812, m. Moses Fogg, of G., 12 Feb'y 1839; Adaline Francis5, h. 24 May, 1820, and m. Joseph Plummer, of :Milton, N. H., 30 Oct., 1844. (108) VI. DANIEL\ twin of Moses, still living at Gorham, m. Betsey 5 Clement, of Dover, N. H., 4 lVlay, 1796.. They had lra , b. 23 Sept., born Nov. 29, 1756, married Dr. Nathaniel Low of South Berwick, Me., father of Sarah Ann m. Joseph Murphy of Lyman,. Me., and of Dr. Low of Dover married Mary' Ann, daughter of William Hale; Paul Carr, born Nov. 6, 1758 ~ Susan Carr born Feb. 25, 1761. married Elijah Clements. ' Dr. Mos~s Car had a brother .Tames, whose dau·.. m. Joseph Wingate, of Hal­ lowell. whose son, Gen. Joshua Wingat.e, m. Jrrlia, dau. of Gen. Henry Dearbon .. Mrs. Wingate now lives a widow at Portland, a;nd is s~ster of Gen. H A. S. Dearborn of Mass. Dr. Moses also had another&lster, beSIdes Mrs. Baker Anna who m. Daniel, son of Rev. James Pike. His dan. Elizabeth, m. Benjami'n4 so; of Mark 'Ventworth8, who was the son of Benjamin:t, and m. Elizabeth4, d~u. of Capt. Henjamin8, and grand dau. of Ezekiel Wen:tworth2• This Benj lmin4, and Elizabeth Pike, had two children, one dan. d. young) and Daniels Wentworth whose son Daniel6, now lives in Lebanon, Me. ~ 9 202 The Otis Genealouy. [April,

5 1798, m. Betsey Hanscom, of G.; Sarah Oarr , b. 4 May, 1800, d. 1820; John5, b. 12 Sept., 1804, m. 1831, Eliza Robert.s, of West­ brook, lives in Portland, Me.; Jacobs, b. 19 June, 1808, smgle; Bet­ se,!!, b. 1 Aug., 1815, m. Nov., 26, 1840, Almond Hobson of Buxton, now of Portland, Me. Daniel Baker4 is the only living grand-child of Capt. Thomas Ba- ker, and Christine Otis. . 8 MARY BAKER , (40-V) born at Brookfield, Mass., 16 Feb'y, 1725-6, m. Capt. Benjamin Bean, of Epping, N. H., about 1753. His mother being left in rather destitute circumstances, when he was but nine years of age, he was bound out to labor. [Another account says that, prior to his enlisting in the French War, he went out to Havannah, and remained there some years. Those who dispute this; say that it was his father who was at Havannah.] . At the end of his term, he enlisted to serve in the French War, and went to Dover as his place of rendezvous, where he contracted an acquaint­ ance with Mary BakerS. He was present at the capture of Louis­ burg, and distinguished himself there. After peace was declared, he went into the masting business, upon the Salmon Falls River, in Somersworth and Berwick; and in passing through Dover, renewed his acquaintance with his future wjfe. He resided at Epping, until about 1771, when he went to Bow, N. H., where he resided at the epoch of the Revolution; and when the pledge was carried around by the selectmen, (as required by the Committee of safety) to see who in Bow were favorable to the Revolution, the fifth volume of the American Archives, shows that he was one of the number. He was a Captain of the. Militia and was one of the most active and efficient officers in obtaining recruits and furnishing sup­ plies for the army. He was wiLh Stark at the battle of Bennington, also went with the volunteers to meet Gen. Burgoyne, and was at the capture with his sons, Ebenezer and Benjamin. The hardships and fatigue of that campaign laid the foundation for a disease o~ which he died the following :mmmer, aged upwards of 50 years. His father was a seaman, and was a man of some property at one time, but which he lost with the loss of a ship at sea. He was reo turning from a voyage to his home at Exeter in a small boat which he had taken at Portsmouth, and had his son Benjamin with him, then only nine years pf age. When within a few miles of home, he fell out of his boat and was drowned in Exeter River. After his death, his widow married Jeremy Bean, (supposed to be a cousin of his) and had children. His name was Benjamin, and tradition makes him one of two ·brothers who emigrated to 1\lassachusetts not long after the landing of the Pilgrims* one of whom married an Irish girl under the following circumstances. She could not pay her passage and so had to be sold. As he wanted a house-keeper, he bought her

'*' BEAN was pronounced, formerly, as though written Bane' and in fact we ?ften find it so written. The.re was a Capt Joseph Bane, a pretty prominent and Important character, about Plscataqua at the close of the Indian War century. In a case of title to lands, Bane !lays, that ,; in 1691, he was with Theodore Atkinson, late of New Castle. ~. H., Esq., said Atklnson's wife, .and Mrs. Eliza­ beth Alcock, of Por~smouth, widow, and many others at the house of Joseph Moulton, of York, 1':1 the county of York, when they were taken captive by a large num~er of !nd1ans j, that he. was sold to an Ar,naroscoggen Indian, with wh~m h~ hv~d t~1l 1699. The eIght years of Bane s captivity, was probably durmg hIS mmoflty. He was af~~.rwar(ls much employed as an interpreter. See BOOK OF THE INDIANS, Book 111 lOS. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 203

and paid for her in staves; and he was so well pl~ased with her that he married her, and had by her children, whose deseendants (though not embracing Capt. Bean,) are now very numerous and respectable. Capt. Bean's mother, who afterwards married Jeremy Bean, was much celebrated in her times for her courage, judgment, perseverance, and piety. She was Mehitable Mahew, from Cape Cod, and had by her first husband (Benjamin) seven or eight children, four at two births within fifteen months. Mrs. Mary Beans died at her residence in Conway near the present house of her grandson, Col. Benjamin Bean, Feb. 6, 1826, lacking 10 days of being one hundred years of age. On the next anniversary of' her birth, all of her descendants had made prepara­ tions to visit her. She could see to thread a needle without glasses to the last day of her life, and retained her memory to the last also. It would have been a great relief to the historians of the present day could her historical narrations as given to admiring neighbors, have been committed .to paper. But for them, as transmitted to us by her grandson, Col. Bean, from his own memory merely, we should never have been able to have connected Richard Otis of Dover with his numerous descendants of the present day. Children: (109) I. EBENEZER BEAN,· b. 5 Sept., 1755, m. Catharine, dau. of Joseph and Abigail Kilgore of Lovel, Me., 1787. He was one of the very first to espouse the cause of his country on the battle-fields of the Revolution. On the morning of the battle of Bunker Hill, he went to the hill at the command of Col. Prescott, to work upon the breast-work, and he was in the redoubt slightly thrown up and com­ manded by Gen. Warren, where the enemy aimed their heaviest and most fatal guns. He had his gun shot off in his hand, and thirteen balls fired through his clothes, but one of which injured him, and that but slightly. In the scarcity of ammunition, he was engaged in throwing stones until the enemy entered, and then he was pursued as he took a circuitous route to his pack which he had stowed away in the morning; but, it having been stolen in the time of the engage­ ment, he contented himself with carrying from the hill, the overcoat of his' captain, which had been abandoned. He was at the capture of Burgoyne, and one of a scouting party that captured fifty-four In­ dians. He served 18 or twenty months in all, at different times, but enlisted for longer periods, and was honorably discharged at the re­ quest of his father, that he might assist in taking care of the fam­ ily in the absence of his father and brother. Soon after the close of the war and the death of his father, he removed with his widowed mother from Bow to Conway, N. H., where he died 3 March, 1846, in the 91st year of his age. His children were,' I. JosephS, b. 4 Feb., 1788, m. 3 June, 1.819, Sally Knox, and has three sons and four daughters; II. lJIlehitables, ·b. 24 July, 1790, living unmarried at Conway; III. HannahS, b. 10 Mch., 1793, d. 19 May, 1807; IV. Benjamin6, b. 6 :May, 1795, m. Sarah, dau. of Ephraim and Abigail Garland, Nov., 1828. Col. Bean resides at Conway, N. H., and has 6 6 6 6 6 children, Ebenezer , Catharine , Benjamin , Eliza Ann , Geo. W ., Ab­ bey H6., Sarah6; V. Mar'!l, b. 28 Jan., 1798, m. Nathaniel Merrill of Gray, Me., 1844, and d. Dec., 1848; VI. Ebenezer5, b. 13 Sept., 5 1800, d. unm. 1827; VII. Abigail , b. 12 Oct., 1802, m. Sylvanus Eastman of Lovell, Me. She d. Uct., 1832, leaving 2 ch., Eben-­ 5 ezer6, and Catharine6; VIII. Martha , b.17 Nov., 1805, m. Rev. J. Caruthers of Portland, Me., Oct., 16, 1848. (110) II. BENJAMIN BEAN 4, b. July, 1757, m. Susan Carr after the Rev- 204 The Otis Genealogy. [ April,

olution, at Bow, N. H., and lived in Piermont, where he died 2 July, 1835. He had six sons and six daughters. He served through the whole war of the Revolution. At Bennington, he was in the staff, and commanded a party who were ordered into the rear of the enemy's breastwork, and there carried it at the point of the bayonet. (111) III. MARY BEAN4, b. May, 1759, and d. 23 April, 1849, unmarried. (112) IV. lVIEHITABLE BEAN4, b. 1761, and m. Hubbard Colby of Eaton. Both are now deceased. She d. in 1828, surviving her husband about two years. They had ch., r. Polly 5, b. -1792, and is still living, sm­ gle; II. Abrallam:\ b. 26 May, 1795, m. Mary Ann, dau. of the late Hon. John lVlarch of Eaton, N. H. They have had five sons and three daus. He has often represented Eaton in the N. H. Legisla­ lature; III. Pllebe 5, b. 1798, thrown from a sleigh and killed, 1824; 5 IV. Benjamin , b. 1800, m. Phebe Foster, of Eaton, N. H., and they 5 have three sons and four daughters; V. Mellitable , b. 1802, m. Ebenezer Burbank of Albany, N. H., and they have three sons and two daughters; VI. Oli'l.,'(j5, b. 1804, m. Barnet W. Burbank, of Fair­ field, 1\1e. (113) V. DOUGLAS BEAN4, b. May, 1764, m. Betsey Foster of Peacham, Vt., and d. in Conway, 23 Feb., 1809, leaving one dau., who m. Parley Foster, and now lives a widow in Berlin, Vt., near Montpelier. COL. OTIS BAKERS, (41-VI) was member of the Provincial House of Representatives at Portsmouth, N. H., 1768, 1770-2-3, and also in 1775, when the Provincial Government was abandoned. Dec. 21, 1775, he was chosen a Representative to the revolutionary legislature at Exeter, which resolved itself into an independant State Government, and elected him one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he had held under the colonial govern­ ment from the ·organization of Strafford Co., in 1773, and so contin­ ued to hold it until he was elected a state senator in 1785, which office he held two years. He was one of the N. H. Committee of Safety from 1776 to 1777, and h~ :-ucceeded Col. John4 Wentworth* of Somersworth (the 4th in descent from Elder William by his son Ezekiel, and grandson Capt. Benjamin) in command of the old second N. H. Regiment.t The family Bible gives his death, Oct. 27th, 1801, of bilious fever, aged seventy-five years. His first wife was Lydia4, dau. of Deacon Gershom8 Wentworth of Somersworth (grandson of Elder vVilliam by Ezekie12) who could not have lived long after the birth of her child in 1755, as her father's will, dated August 2, 1758, speaks of her as then deceased, and he wills to her only child Sarah, land in Canterbury, N. H. The Autograph of Col. Otis Baker, 1771. -6ts/J~fo+:?~ • *' See Wentworth Genealogy, Oct. No. of Genealogical Register, 1850. t Nov. 10, 1772, Rev. Jeremy Belknap, preached a sermon on Military Duty, from John 18: 36, before his Excellency John Wentworth, LL. D., Governor of his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, at a review of the second regiment of foot in said Province. This sermon is in the Mass., Historical Society Library and from the pamphlet we extract the following: "Province of N. H. - At a me~ting of the Commissioned officers of the second regiment of the Militia of said Province, at Dover, on Wednesday, 11th of Nov., 1772: - Voted unanimously, That Lt. Col. Otis Baker, Esq., wait on the Rev. Mr. Jeremy Belknap, and return him the thanks of said officers for the sermon preached by him to said officers yesterday, and request a copy thereof for the press. John Wentworth, of Somersworth, Col." 1851.J The Otis Genealogy. 205

His second wife was Tamsen, widow of John Twombly, and daughter of James Chesley,· born 1728, and died Nov. 6, 1801, 10 days after her husband. She had (~esides Sarah and Hannah who d. young) a daughter, Tamsen, b. Sept., 18, 1756, by her first mar­ riage, and who was adopted by Col. Otis Baker, who m. Joseph Wal­ dront, son of Richard and brother of Colonel John. By his first wife he had, (114) I. SARAH\ b. 8 June, 1755, m. Ichabocl Horne (he was b. 1745, and d. 16 Sept., 1821,) lived in Dover,and had 22 children, 10 of whom died in infancy. She died March, 1825. Of their children, Lydia5, b. 11 Jan., 1773, is still living, m. (22 July, 1807) Capt. William Twambly, '*' From manuscript notes of first settlers of Dover by Mr. A. H. Quint, we gather the following: - Philip Chesley was of Dover, 1644, and lived at Oyster River; first wife, Elizabeth, second, Joanna. He had children; Tlwmas2, m. Elizabeth Thines, about 1663, had children, and was killed by the Indians, 1697; Philip2, b. 1644, m. Sarah --, died about 1697. Will dated 18 Dec, 1695; Esther2, m. John, grandson of Deacon John Hall, and had children; Mary2, m. Ralph Hall, son of Dea. John Hall. Philip Chesley'!. had Capt. Samue!,3, whose wife was Elizabeth, and he was killed by the Indians, 15 Sept. 1707, and his widow m. Amos Pinkham, and had Philips; Eben­ ezer3; and Jamess. James Chesleys, m. Tamsens Wentworth, grand-daughter of Elder William, by Eze~ kiel2• He was killed by the Indians, 15 Sept., 1707, and his widow, Tamsen, married John Hayes of Dover, b. 1686, son of John, who settled in Dover about 1680. Her second husband (Hayes) died 3 JUly, 1759, having had a second wife. She must have m. soon after his death, as her first child (John Hayes) was born 9 Oct., 17ll. James3 left but one child. James4, born 18 May, 1706, and d. 10 Oct., 1777. James4 m. Mehitable Waldron, of' whose parents is the following tradition: She was the daughter of John Waldron, who is spoken of in John Heard's Will, as "my prentice." When a boy, he was taken away in .an unfair* manner, from a sea-port in England, by a sea-faring man of Dover, by the name of Heard, " Master Heard," prob­ ably, with whom he afterwards lived at Dover as a chore-boy. .Poorly clad and fed, he used to drive the cows past the house of a Mrs. Horne (Probably the widow of Wm. killed in 1689, and who had John, William and Thomas) who lived where Stephen Palmer of Dover (who m. a Horne) now lives, just opposite the Heard garrison, from whom he received many kindnesses, which were continued until he became a man, and finally her husband. He was a distant relative of old Major Richard Waldron, mas­ sacred in 1689. The children of this John Waldl'On, (m. to widow Horne,) were, I. SARAR2, II. BRIDGET2 ; both (the fQrmer aged 7, and the latter 5,) were killed in this way; they were turning the calves into a pasture near the house, when nine Indians sud­ denly appeared, seized them and cut off their heads, directly before the door, with an axe upon a log, and in the sight of' their mother in the house, who dared not give any alarm. They carried off the heads with them, but they were found by their father some weeks afterwards in some bushes, where the Indians had thrown them after tak­ inO' off their scalps; and he buried them with their bodies; II!. RICHARD 2, m. -- Smith of Durham, and lived where Taylor Page of Dover, now lives, above Garrison Hill. T.heir children were, (1) Col. JohnS, m. 1st., Joanna Shepherd, and had five children; 2d., Polly Winn, and had four children; 3d., Margaret Frost of New Castle, born 3 Dec., 1747, (m. Hon. t Joseph Waldrons, m. Tamsen Twambly, dau. of Capt. John, and had Mary4, Jan. 13, 1773, d. young; Moses4, July 7, 1774, lives in Rochester; Joseph4, April 10, 1776, m. Betsey, dan. of Winthrop Watson (son of Co~. pudley Watson, who .married Christine the oldest child of Capt. Thomas and Chnstme Baker) and had Ulne chil­ 4 dren; Ja:nes4, Aug. 23, 17?8, d. 1814, single; .Sarah , M'ch ~3, 1781, m. Geo. W. Quimby, and now lives .a WIdow at Dover (our mfor~ant;) Ohve\ and Saml!el\d. young' Olive4 2d. AprIl, 1687, m. James Ham, and hves m Rochester; Mehltable4, July 25, 1789; ~. Henry Quimby and lives in Dover; Mary4 2d, h. M'ch 14, 1796, m. John Plummer, had 7 children, and d. 1836. J,osepb Wald!:,ons, born May,l~, 1744, and ~. April 8, 1821. I1is wife was bom Sept. 18, 1756, d:.M'ch II, 1823. He hved near OlIver S. Horne's ~resent farm. o • It ~a~ have been very UNFAIR, so far as the consent of the .boy was cODoerne.dj but it may also be a fact not generally known, ~hat many ~oung ohildren, Bom~ doubtless orphans, or who!e parents, if living, were from misfortune or otherWISe, not a.ble to provl

6 a Revolutionary soldier, who d. Sept., 1827, - Elizabeth , d: reo 2 j NancyS and Sall!/, twins, b. April, 1777, the first m. James K~~ball, d. Feb., 1849, the second d. of consumption, reo 21; Damel, b. March, 1779, m. Sally Watson, and had two sons, and d. April, 5 1850, on the farm of his father; Mehitable , m. Jonathan Ham, she d. 1825, and he m. her sister Susan; Otis6, 1784, lives unm. in Dover; Samuels, lives in Haverhill, Mass., m. and has 4 daus. 6 all m.; Gershoms, m. Eleanor Horne, d. without issue; Elizabetlt , m. Aarons son of Thomas4 and grandson of Dudley 8Watson, live in Dover; Susans, b. 1795, lives in Dover, the 2d wife of Joshua Ham; Thomass, m. the dau. of Joseph Waldron, Junr., both now dead. (115) II. There was an ALEXANDER DOUGLASS4, bap. Jan. 2, 1757, (named for his uncle, Alexander Douglass8) who must have been the son of the first wife, as the second wife had her first child, Tamsen, by Capt. Twambly, Sept. 18, 1756. He d. in infancy. By his second wife he had, (116) III. LYDIA4, b. 12 l\Iay, 1759, m. Capt Samuel Wallingford, (son of Judge Thomas Wallingford, of Somersworth) June 16,1775, who, afterwards served with great distinction as Lt. of the Marines under the celebrated John Paul Jones. He aided in the capture British brig " George," and was killed on board the ship "Ranger," in her suc· cessful engagement with the "Drake,"* on the British coast, April 24, 1778, leaving an infant son, George Washington Wallingford. She was m. a second time, by Rev. Jeremy Belknap, to Col. Amos Cogswell of Dover, Nov. 20, 1785, son of Nath. Cogswell of Haver·

John Wentworth5, Jr., of Do,-er, July, 1771, and who died Jan. 10, 1787,) and died 30th Sept., 1805; 4th., Mary, widow of Rev. -- Prentisst of Reading, Mass. (I) Col. John Waldrons was a<: the Provincial Legislature at Portsmouth in 1774, and at the Revolutionary convention at Exeter, in 1775, and a Rep. from Dover in 1782, 1783, '85, '86, and 1788, in which year he was chosen senator, and held that office again in 1790, '91, '92, 1803, '4, '5, and '6. He was chosen Representative again in 1797, '98,1801, '2, '3, and 1815. He d. Aug. 31,1827, aged 87, and of his grand-chilo dren is the Hon. Ezekiel Heard of Dover. (2) HannahS m. Capt. John Hayes of Lebanon, Me., and had 11 ch. (3) BetseyS, m. Capt. E~~sha Shapleigh of Kittery, and had 10 children. (4) MarYS, m. Capt. EliJah Clements of Somersworth, and had 2 children. (5) JosephS, b. 16 May, 1744 (0. S.,) m. Tamsen (b. Sept. 18, 1750,) dau. of John Twambly [who lived in that part of Dover known as Littleworth, near where Israel Ricker now lives 1whose mother was the second wife of Col. Otis Baker. They had 10 children, and among them Mrs. Geo. W. Quimby, now living in Dover, N. H., to whom we are indebted for many of the facts in this note. (6) RichardS, m. Betsey, dau. of Job Clements of Dover, which Job was grand· father to Charles Clements, now of Dover. They had five children. (7) Samue13, m. -- Gage. No children. (8) Jamw, m. Betsey Pickering and had one child. IV. JOHN2, had JohnS, William3, Ephraim3, BddgetS, and Ebenezer8. V. BETSEy2, m. -- Kimball, lived in Farmington, and had children. VI. MEHITABLE2, m. James Chesley\ whose family is the subject of this note. They had (1) Tamsin4, m. 1st., John Twa'llbly, son of John, and 2dly., Col. Otis Baker; (2) Hannah4, m. Rev. Avet·y Hall, a long time minister in Rochester N. H., and had two children; (3) Ebenezer\ d. suddenly unmarried; (4 & 5) Jadtes and Otis both died of consumption, unmarried. Mehitable, wife of James Chesley4 d. 21 Aug't, 1776; and he m., when quite 70 years of age, just six months and 6 d~ys before his death (Oct. 10, 1777,) Lydia, dau. of Isaac Horne, when she was 22 years of age. As administratrix of his estate she made her mark ('see Life of Dr. Belknap by his grand-daughter, page 163.) '*' The I.at.e Dr. Ezra Green, .of Dover, N. H., (uncle of. James D. Green. late Mayor of Cambrtdge, Mass., m. Adahne, daaghter of Hon. Damel M. Durell of Dover, N. H., and grand-daughter of Hon. John5 Wentworth, Jr.,) born at Malden Mass. June 17, 1746 (0. S.,) was surgeon on board the" Ranger," at the time of this ~ngage;nent. pCaleb Prentiss was the 7th minister in the First Parish of Reading, now South Reading ordained 25 Oct., 1769, d. 7 leb., 1803. - See Flint's Bi-Centennial, p. 34. 'EJ)1!OB. 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 207 hill, Mass., who m. Judith Badger, and grandson of John, of Ipswich, Mass., whose father was William of Ipswich, son of John, who emigrated to that place from London, in 1635, and made freeman, Mch. 3, 1635-6. His father Nathaniel, had 19 children, all of whom were baptized in the Con­ gregational Church of Haverhill, Ms., and of whom, fourteen at least were sons, and he gave eight sons to his country during the Revolution, who performed in the aggregate, over thirty-eight years of service.* They all survived and were, Hon. Thomas, of Gilmanton; Hon. Amos, of Dover; Capt. Nathaniel P., of Atkinson; Moses, of Canterbury; Dr. William, of Atkinson; John, of Landaff; Dr. Joseph, of Tamworth; and Ebenezer, of Wiscassett; Amos enlisted in a regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Ger­ rish, organized 22 June, 1775, and was Ensign in a company commanded by his brother Thomas, [see Democratic Review, for April, J 849, pages 365 and 366.J He continued in the service of his country, until the close of the War, and .June 9, 1783, on the banks of the Hudson River, he, as Capt., with his brother Thomas, as Major, and an unknown relative, by the name of Samuel Cogswell, as Lieutenant, assisted in the formation, among the Massachusetts troops, of the Society of Cincinnati. He represented Dover in the Legislature, in 1807, 8, 9 and 10, 1812, 1814, 1815, and was Sena­ tor in 1818, 19, and 20. He was Presidential Elector, in 1816. Col. Amos Cogswell, was born at Haverhill, Mass., Oct. 2, 1752, and d. 8,t Dover, Jan. 28, 1826. She died at the house of her daughter Lydia, (who married Hon. Paul Wentworth,6 of Sandwich, N. H.,) 14 Feb., 1828. The N. H., Leg­ islature, Jan. 17, 1787, " Voted, that Lydia Wallingford, alias Cogswell, be allowed half pay, as the widow of officers who d. in the land service, pro­ vided it can be ascertained that Congress will admit the same as a charge against the United States."

By her first husband, Capt. Samuel Wallingford, t she had, * See Gen. Reg., Vol. 4, page 291, and Hist. of Atkinson, N. H., in Vol. 6, N. H. Hist: Collections. t Col. Thomas Wallingford was a merchant at Somersworth, and was among the wealthiest men in the Province of New Hampshire, [see Annals of Portsmouth] said to have been born at Bradford, Mass., and to have been a son of John Wallingford, of Dover in 1687. He was the Representative from Dover a great many years, com­ mencing~vith 1739. He was one of the Judges of the Superior Court, from li48, to the day of his death, ~hich was whilst on a visit to Portsmout!l, 4 Aug., 1T71, aged 74 years. His first W:Ife was, p~obably, Margaret Clements. HIS second :WIfe was -.- Pray. His third WIfe was ElIzabeth Swett, of York, Me., (who had prevIOusly marned Dr. Mark Prime, and had Joseph and Olive) by whom he had only Samuel, born "on Wednesday, Feb'y ye 4th~ 1755," !l~d Olive~ yo~ngest c~ild, wife ?f John C~shing of South Berwick and who IS now hvmg. Hls wldow Ehzabeth, dIed at BerWIck, Dec. 3 1810 1E 93.' His estate was divided among thirteen children or their heirs, 8 Dec., 1779 viz: 1. Moses Dow, of New Durham, for his wife; 2. Thomas, oldest son, and whose inve~tory was returned Nov. 8, 1792, (whose dau. Abigail, m. Pl'· Kittre~ge, of Dover') 3. Hannah, m. - Brown; 4. Margaret, m. -- Goodwm: of BerwIck; 5. Rachel' m. Silas Nowell; 6. Mary, m. William Pearne; 7. Col. John Wentworth4, of Some;sworth, for his third wife (who was Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Amos Cole, of Dover having by bel' first husband, Mary, 22 Aug., 1756, Ambrose, 27 Jan., 1758, Eliz­ abeth '4 June 1760, and Amos, 1 April, 1762; she m. Col. W., 1 June, 1768, and d. 11 July '1776 re.' 40, leaving Abl'l\. Wentworth5, b. 14 April, 1769, m. 1st, William Pitt Mou'iton ~nd 2d, John S. Durell, and d. July, 1846, without issue, and Capt. Samuel Wentwo~'th5, b. 21 Sept., 1770, m. the widow of Capt. Samuel Gerrish, of Dover, [who was Sally Brewster, of Portsmouth] and d. Oct. 1826, with no descendants now liTing r) 208 The Oti8 Genealogy. [ April,

I. George W. Wallingfordo,· b. 19 Feb:, 1776. Grad. !I ..C., 1795, a Law. yer at Kennebunk, Me., d. 20 Jan., 1824, m. 1st, AbIgaIl ~haqb~urne of Berwick, Me., daughter of Jonathan Chadbourne who marrIed Ehzabeth, daughter of Judge Ichabod and Abigail4 Wentworth ~ollings) and had Elizabeth6 m. Dr. Samuel Dow, of Dover, both d. chIldless; 2d, Mary 6 Fisher, of Kennebunk, and had Lucretia , m. Francis M. Sabine, of Ban. fl fl 6 gor; George W6., now of Kennebunk; Olive ; Sophia ; Helen • By her second husband, Col. Amos Cogswell, she had, II. SOPHIA,5 b. 20 July, 1786, m. 28 Oct., 1804, Jacob M. Currier, of Dover, 2d wife. He was b. 15 March, 1771, m. 1st, Sally Chase, 13 Sept., 1796. (She was b. 24 Sept., 1773, d. 30 Nov., 1803, leaving John, b. 11 July, 1798, m. Nancy Pierce, 23 June, 1828. resides Dover; Thomas b. 28 May, 1801, and lives single at Conway, N. H.,) and 2d, he m. Sophia Cogswello as above, and d. 30 March, 1837. She d. 18 Sept., 1817, leav.. 6 ing El/zabeth , b. 7 Oct., 1805, m. Joseph G. Moody, (then of Augusta, now of Boston,) Nov. 1826, and d. 15 July, 1833, leaving one daughter'; 6 Sophia , b. 10 April, 1807, and d. in Dover, unm., 19 Oct., 1835; Sarah 6 Ohase , b. 18 Nov., 1808, m. 8 .May, 1832, Joseph B. Upham, of Ports. mouth, son of Hon. Nathaniel Upham, of Rochester, had one son, [see 6 Gen. Reg. of 1847, pages 43, and 365;] Jacob Francis , b. 2 Oct., 1810, 6 d. 6 Feb., 1811 ; Harriet Amanda , b. 30 Nov., 1811, m. John Morris, of New York, 27 Dec., 1836, and d. at Wolf borough, N. H.,9 Oct., 1844, leaving two dau's. at that place; Jacob M,6 b. 11 Feb., 1814, m. in 1844, Emily Johnson, and d. in Florida, 20 Oct., 1847, leaving one son; Mary 6 Frances , b. 14 June, 1815, d. 14 June, 1822. III. Elizabetho, b. 8 June, 1788, and d. 18 Nov., 1804. IV. Franciso, b. 16 April, 1790, m. Elizabeth Smith (b. 20 May, 1794) widow of John Tibbetts, of Dover, and now lives at Boscawen. They had Sophia6, m. S. W. Brown, now of Hebron, Ills., Amosfl, an Attorney at Law, Hebron, George W6., of Hebron, Lydia B6., b. 7 March, 1832, Annette FG., 5 June, 1834, Joseph S6., 29 Oct., 1836. 5 V. Abigail , b. 29 Oct., 1791, m. Doct. Burleigh Smart, of Kennebunk, and there d. 21 June, 1827, leaving Washington Irving6, and Marth!6, both unmarried. 5 VI. Lydia , b. 30 May, 1793, m. Hon. Paul Wentworth6, then of Sand­ wich, now of Concord, N. H., 30 March, 1814. He was the youngest of seven children, for many years a member of the N. H. Legislature, from Sandwich, N. H. His father, Hon. John Wentworth5, jr., was a distin­ guished lawyer of Dover, H. C., 1768; member of Congress, 1778, and a leading man of his State and times. Paul and Lydia Wentworth have 8. Heirs of Abigail, m. Edward Sanders i 9. Olive, m. John Cushing of South Berwick, ~o now lives with her daughter who married H. H. Hobbs, Esq.; 10. Lydia, m. Samuel Lord, drowned May 17, 1773, aged 38 j and afterwards John' Costello,s dancing master, who hung himself. II. Heirs of &muel, m. Lydia Baker4, dau. of .Col. Otis Baker4. 12. Ebenezer, m. Mary Wentworth4• 13. Heirs of Mark. Of the births of the above, the records give only the following, a~d they are given as of the wife Marga. ret: we h!1v~ only Hannah, b. 5 May, 1720 i J~dlth, 25 March,1722 i Ebenezer, 21 July, 1724; Ablgall, 30 Sept., 1726. Ebenezer Walhngford, (12) of Somersworth, m. in May, 3 1749, Mary Wentworth , b. at Somersworth, 29 July, 1725, about 6 weeks. after. her father, Capt. Benjamin4, (m. ~liz~beth Leighton, of Kittery) son of Ezckiel2, died. Ebenezer, d. May, 1775, ,and hls Widow d. 10 Dec., 1815, and her mother· (the widoW' of Capt. Benj. Wentworth3,)d. at her house, the last week in Oct., 1779: Their chilo dren were Thomas, b. 17 Sept., 1755, and d. single, 17 Sept., 1772 childless and Amos, known: in. his days as "Master Wallingford," b; 6 March~ 1762: and d.lO'Jan., 1837, m.Phebe Brewster, 28 Nov., 1785, who d.20 Oct., 18~7. The children of Amos and Phebe, are Polly, b. 20 Sept., 1786; Betsey, 9 Oct., 1789, m. Nathaniel G. Pike, Town Clerk of Rollinsford, and gr~ndson of Rev. James, of Somersworth, and who have John,G., M.D.,.gradnate of Bo.wd.om ; Amos, a celebrated Pr.eceptor.; and Martha. 1851.] The Otis GenealolJY. 209

had nine children, six yet living, one of whom is the Hon. John Wentworth, M. C., from Chicago, Ills., Dart. ColI. 1836, and m. Marie, dau. of Riley Loomis, of Troy, N. Y., 13 Nov., 1844, and another, Col. .Joseph Wentworth, of Sandwieh, N. H., present Sheriff of Carroll Co., and m. Sarah Payson, daughter of Moses Jones, of Brookline, lVlass., May 7, 1845, (See Wentworth Gen. Vol. iv. Reg.) (117) IV. EBENEZER BAKER\ (son of Col. Otis B.,) b. 22 Dec., 1760, m. Mary Conner, (born 4 Nov., 1769) dau. of John/C. She is now liv­ ing with her son, Samuel Wallingford Bakerll, in N. Y. city, in the 82d year of her age, the only survivor of the fourth generation of this Baker family. He d. at Dover, on the old Homestead, 2d June, 1834. Their children were, 5 I. Mehitable , b. 7 April, 1793, m. 4 Jan., 1816, Asa Swazey, of Dover. She d. 25 Sept. 1835. He was b. 9 Feb'y, 1794, d. 31 Aug., 1825. They had Mary B6., b. 9 July, 1816, d. 1818; Edward R6., b. 7 Aug., 1818, m. Charlotte Betts, s. in Troy, N. Y.; George6, h. 10 Feb'y, 1820, m. Julia Bushnell; James G6., 26 Oct. 1822, m. Sophia Blake; :lVlary6, b. 1823, d. 1824,. S II. Sharrington , b. 28 Feb'y 1795, m. Mary Ann Varney, 12 Dec., 1821. She was b. 30 Nov. 1799, and d. 29 June, 1846. He is one of the selectmen at Dover, N. H., and has Samuel Will., b. 9 May, 6 1823; Mary6, b. 18 Aug., 1826; John C6.: b. {) Nov., 1828; Asa , b. 21 April, 1831; Mehitable6, b. 20 Mch, 1833; George E6., b. 22 Oct., 1837; Ebenezer6, b. 17 May, 184:1. III. 1Jfar!/, b. 10 Aug., 1798, d. young. 5 IV. Samuel Wallingf01'd , b. 17 lVlarch, 1800, m. Desdemona Cushman, of Montpelier, Vt., and resides in N. Y., a merchant. 15 Capt. Baker and his wife have had children, William Spofi'ard , b. 22 15 Dec., 1823, m. Mary Thompson, of N. Y.; Sharrington , d. young; Sharrington6, 2d, b. 22 June, 1831. V. Thomas', d. young. (118) V. JOHN BAKER\ (son of Col. Otis Baker,) born 12 Dec., 1762, m. the widow of his brother Otis·; both d. in Rochester, N. H., and left Sophias, m. -- Allen. (119) VI. MEHITABLE BAKER\ h. 21 April, 1765, m. Capt. Wm. Twomb­ ly, a Revolutionary soldier; they had Jamess, WilliamS, Charless, Thomass, Christine5• After her death he m. 22 July, 1807, Lydia Horne5, (b. 11 Jan., 1773) dau. of Ichabod, who m. Sarah., dau. of Col. Otis BakerS. She still lives a widow in Dover. He d. Sept., 1827. (120) VIT. OTIS BAKER\ b. 3 Aug., 1766, m. Lois Twambly. He d. at Rochester, and she afterwards m. his oldest brother John4. They had 5 Lydia5, m. Timothy Hanson, of Rochester; Tamson , m. Wm. Heard, 5 of Rochester, both deceased; John , m. his cousin, --Twambly, of R., and has a family of children. (121) VIII. JAMES CHESLEY BAKER\ h. 15 April, 1768, m. Sally, dau. of Nathaniel and Mary (Libbey) Horne. He d. 7 June, 1810, and she died about 1835. They had Mary5, b. 26 May, 1797, m. John H Wheeler, of Dover, who was b. 29 Aug., 1800, and is a druggist, as his father, John, was before him, and their children are John B6., Sarah EG., James H enry6. Their only son and only other child was Thomas5, b. 30 July, 1801, d. Oct., 1802. (122) IX. THOMAS BAKER\ b. 21 Jan'y, 1770, grad. H. C., 1795, studied medicine, but never practiced on account of ill health. He died unm. 20 April, 1803. JOSHUA OTIS4, (49 - I.) m. Jane Hussey, of Dover, about 1745, and in 1752, removed to that part of Barrington, N. H., now called 210 The Otis Genealo [J'!J~ [April,-

Strafford, where he purchased land, 1 May, 1752, of William King­ man, " adjoining Rochester, and of land that James Shute .settled and lives on." He signed the pledge to support the Revol~tlOn, 1776,­ as did most of his brothers and sons, many of them servmg the cause in active -service. He d. 1810, and his wife d. 1790, both at B. Children, (123) I; NICHOLASs, (V.) b. 29 March, 1746, m. Esther Beny, of Bar. rington, dau. of Nathaniel Beny. (124) II. MICAJAHs, (244) b. 21 l\'Iay, 1747, m. Sarah, dau. of Joshua Foss, of Barrington. (formerly of Rye) 1769. (125) III. ELIJAH5, (250) b. ]0 June, 1749, m. Dorothy Locke, 19 July, 1771, she was the dau. of Jethro Locke, of Rochester. (126) IV. MARY'\ m. Elder Winthrop Young, removed to Canterbury he d. 8 Jan., 1833, she d. 11 April, ]849, JE 98, and they had Ben­ 6 6 6 Jamin , b. 1779, m. and settled in Vt., Otis , b. 1781, Jonathan , h. 6 1785, Winthrop6, b. 1783, Deborah , 1777, m. John Bean, of Gil­ 6 manton, N. H., now a widow, Elizabeth , b. 1787, Mary6, b. 1789, m. 6 Elder Samuel Hill; Hannah , b. 1791 ; Mercy6, b. 1793. (127) V. SARAHS, h. 18 May, 1751, m. John B. Parshley, s. in Barnstead, _ had a large family. He d. 3 April, 1829, JE 82 ; she d. 6 July, 1825. (128) VI. STEPHENs, (264) b. 24 June, 1761, m. Hannah, dau. of Solomon Emerson, of Madbury, 30 Nov., 1786, s. at Barrington. (129) VII. PAULS, b. 4 lVlarch, 1755, m. Elizabeth Parshley. "The his­ tory of his services in the Revolutionary War, as he gave it to me was as follows: He enlisted under Capt. Ballard, at Amesbury, Mass., the next week after the battle of Bunker Hill, for eight months. In 1777, he enlisted for three years under Capt. Drew, went to Ticon­ deroga, and then to Fort Ann, and was with the army in their retreat before Burgoyne to the Mohawk; was in the battle at Fort George, at Bemis Heights, and one in the" Genesee country," with the In­ dians. He was under Col. Hale, until the retreat from Ticonderoga. Then under Col. George Reid, by whom he was led into the battle of Monmouth. When in the Genesee country, he said that Capt. Cher­ ry and he stood behind a white oak tree; he loaded his gun and put out his head to see and there came a ball between his head and the tree, tearing off the bark of the tree. This was the nearest that any ball came to him. This is surprising considering the number of bat­ tles he was engaged in, some thirteen in all. At the time of the retreat he went with a scouting party and found a small body of British hid in a cornfield. They crawled on their hands and knees and got just upon them; one clubbed his gun and surrendered and the rest ran. Mr. Otis said he discovered them first and resolved 'to have his man and got him.' He s. in Gilmanton, 1812, obtained a pension 1818, and d. at the house of his son-in-law, E. F. Gilman, at Gilmanton, 17 July, 1848, JE 9:3 and 4 mo. His wife at the time of her death, (8 Nov., 1837, JE 84,) of ten children, had six living, forty-six grand­ children and fifteen great grand children. Their children were, I. 6 Sarah , b. 1781, m. Jeremiah Kenniston, of Northwood, and had Gil­ 7 man'1, SamueF, Mark , Betsey7, Elsey'1, Sarah7, Mary7, and 2 others d. young. II. Phehl' b. 1783, m. Peter Blaisdell, of Pittsfield. In. 6 Samuel , b. 13 Jan., 1785, m. Jane Allen, of Gilmanton, where he d. 16 Aug., 1816; his widow is now living; children, Charlotte7, h. 9. Dec., 1806, Serena G7., 31 Dec., 1808, m. Samuel S. Dow, Nashua,

* Vol. V., American Archives, published by order of Congress. 1851.] TIle Oti8 Gene,alogy. 211

1 ch., Nancy S7., 24 Nov., 1810, m. Ira H. Pennock, 1 dau., Samuel S7., 28 Jan., 1813, d. young, :Mary S7" 28 Oct., 1816, Sarah A7., 24 Dec., 1818, m. Wm. Henry Gilman, 2 ch. IV. Olit:e6, b. 1786, 6 m. Joseph Bunker, of Barnstead, 9 ch., and she d. 1830. V. Paul , b. 1787, unmarried, went to Canada. VI. .Daniel7, b. 1788, m. Ly­ dia Allen, went into the army 1812 and d. at Burlington, Vt., and had ch. b. at Barrington, Mary7, Louisa7, m. Augusta Durant, of Boston. 7 John • VII. Betsey6, b. 1790, m. Eliphalet F. Gilman, of G., she d. 26 Nov., 1831, and left Mary Dane7, m. John L. Coffin, of Con­ cord, and had 2 ch., Fanny Larcom7, m. John S. Osburn, of London, 6 N. H., 1 ch. VIII. Susan , b. 1 Mar., 1792, m. Benjaman Pearl, 6 of Porterfield, Me., 7 ch. IX. Hannah , b. 4 June, 1794, unm., at 6 G. X. John , m. Phebe Lougee, Gilmanton, and has one son Orrin7." [Ms. letter of Daniel Lancaster, author of HistorY'of Gil- manton, 8 "0., 300 pp.] _ (130) VIII. JOSHUAD,(275) b. 30 March, 1764, m. Lydia Meader, 15 March 1787, and s. in Peacham, Vt., she is now living at Parishville, N. Y. (131) IX. JAN ED, m. Moses Meader, Jr., of Durham, 9 July, 1777, re- . moved to Alton, and are now both dead. (132) X. REBEccAa, m. -- Wilkinson, of Alton, where they both d.* STEPHEN OTIs4, (50 - II.) went from Dover and settled in Bar­ rington with his brother Joshua, where he m. Molly Elwell. He d. 13 March, 1817, re 86, and she d. 13 Aug., 1818. Children, (133) I. JOHND, b. 16 March, 1759, m. Hannah Fecker, at B. He was an ensign, was in the Revolutionary war, received a Pension, re­ 6 moved to Swanton, Vt., and there died. He had Stephen • s. in Vt.; 6 6 John , m. Mrs. Hayes, both d. in Barrington; Joshua , settled in Vt.; Merc!/, m. John Hill, of Strafford; Mary6, m. David Hill, 4 July, 6 6 1802, both deceased; Susannah , m. James Howard; Rebecca ; 6 Hannah , m. Moses Hayes, 16 June, 1814. (134) II. HEZEKIAHD, b. 2 May, 1765, m. Abigail Pearl, of Barrington, and removed to Fairfield, Somerset Co., Me., where he now lives. 6 He has had BenJamin , b. 1784. m. Rose Hussey, 180U, lives in Gar­ land, 1\1e., and has had Benjamin7, Reuben H.7, George 'V.7, m. Rachel Rogers, Joel W7., m. Frances Kooler, s. in Levant, Me., Benjamin p7, 6 and 6 daus., all m. and have ch.; Thomas , b: 1788, m. Wealthy Trask, by whom he had, in Kingfield, Me., Benjamin T7, b. 1810, Hiram'T, b. 1814, s. at Freeman, 1\'le., Thomas P7.; Isaac B7, and two daughters; 6 William , b. 1798, m. Mary Varney. 1822, and lives at Stetson, Me., wIth 14 children, - of whom Benjamin7, b. 1823, William7, b. 1824, Elihu7, b. 1829. George A7., PearF, Solomon'1, and daus. Christine7, 6 and 6 others; John , (a twin of William) m. Mary Stephens, 1821, settled at Fairfield, Me., where were born to them John P7., 1825; Benjamin F7, Thomas P7., "\yilliam'1, Hezekiah7, and 4 daughters; Abraham 1F, b. 1800, m. Lydia Hussey. 1824, s. in Fairfield, Me., 7 and has Hezekiah7, Eben H7., Walden'1, I very7, Abraham , and Olive' ; Hezf'kialt 6, b. 1807, m. Lydia Jewell. 1825, lives at At~em~, Me., and 6 William'i, Sewell7, Henry1, John7, and 6 daughters; Stephen , h. 1808, m. Isabel Huff, 1832, s. in Norridgewock, Me., and has Olive'1, Pt'arI7, 6 Josiah7, Stephen S7, and 4 daus.; Rachel , m. Samuel Berry. of Strafford, N. H. ; AMgail6, m. Daniel Canney. of Farmington; llfaryG. Eliza,6. (135) III. THOMAsa, h. 2 June; 1767. m. Deborah Meader, lived in Wis­ cassett, and d. in Bath, Me., It-25, lea ving.R~·chard6, and 2 dau.

'*' " Rebecca Otis, of Barrington, and Aaron Whi,tehonse, of Roche~ter, m. 1'; Nov., 1785." Who was she 1 . 212 The C?tis Genealogy. [ April,

(136) IV. ELWELL5, b. 12 April, 1773, m. Sally Evans, 179~, now liv­ ing at Rochester, N. Y.,) s. in Waterville, Me., and was klll~d by the fall of a tree in 1811. He had sons, lras, who d. of Cholera III N. Y., 1832 ; Williams, and Stephens, both of' whom reside at Rochester, N. Y. ; and four daughters, who married, and have families. (137) V. BENJAMIN5, b. 17 March, 1780, m. Lydia Hossom, at Water- ville, Me., and d. in the war of 1812, leaving no children. 6 (138) VI. SARAH , m. Jonathan Scruton, 20 July, 1788, both now dec'd. (139) VII. CONTENTS, m. Joseph Holmes, 10 Dec., 1784, and has chi!. (140) VIII. HANNAHs, m. Isaac Willey, bothdec'd, leavi~gchildren. (141) IX. REBECCA''', m. Samuel Gray, and both d. in Farmington, N.lI. 4 STEPHEN VARNEy , (57 - III.) m. Mercy, dau. of Tobias Hanson, by his second wife, Ann Lord. She was b. 1699 - 6 - 4, and died 1790,11-4. He d. 1771,-3-21. Children, 5 (142) I. STEPHEN , b. 1723,-7 -1~, m. Deliverance, dau. of Nathaniel and Abigail (Giles) Lamos, (he d. 1787, - 3 - 30) and had Hannahs, b. 1752; Stephens, 1754 ; .Mercys, 1756, m. Jonathan Jenkins; J oshua6, 1758; Elizabeth6,1761, m. Jabez Jenkins; Ephraims, 1763; Eu­ 6 nice , 1765, m. James Roberts; Abigail", 1768, m. John Jenkins, Jr.; s 6 Sarah , 1771, m. Moses Hanson, Jr.; Nathaniel6, 1776; Deliverance , 1778, m. John lVleader. (143) II. NATHANIELs, b. 1725-3-31, m. Abigail, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Bracket) Tuttle. He d. 1808, and she d. 1793. Children b. 6 6 in Dover, Nathan , 1764, d. 1780; Judith , 1766, m. Cyrus Beede; Hope6,1768, m. Ebenezer Jenkins; Reuben6,1771, m. Elizabeth 6 Jenkins; Kezia , 1774; AbigaiJS, 1780, m. Jesse Kimball. (144) III. DANIELs, b. 1726 -11-28, m. Martha, dau. of James and Sa­ rah (Ley ton) Clark. He d. 1802, and she d. 1819; children at 6 6 6 Dover, Daniel , 17116, m. Susanna Hanson; James ; Sarah ; Deliv­ erance6 ; Aaron6 ; Mercy6. (145) IV. AARONS, b. 1728-6-15, d. unm. (146) V. l\IERCYS, b. 1730 - 3 -15. m. Jonathan Dame, and d. 1810. (147) VI. JUDITHs, b. 1731-11-14, m. Enoch Hoag, 1757, and d. 1816. He d. 1817,-4-26, children at Dover, (some oftlieir descendants are belieyed to be the. Hoags of Sandwich, N. H.,) Mary6, m. Isaiah 6 6 Goulu; Enoch , m. Keziah Lamos; Stephen , m. Martha Beede; 6 6 6 Mercy6, m. Ebenezer Pinkham; Harriet , Ann , John , Moses6, 6 6 Lydia6, Joshua , John • (148) VII. MOSESs, b. 1734-9-10, m. Mary Estes, 176\, dau. of Stephen 6 and Mary (Robinson) Estes. Children, Samuel , 1762, d. 1782; l S 6 Richard" 1763, m. Mary Beede; Ruth , m. James Wigging; Joshua , 17()7; AnneS, 1769; Josepho, 1771,m. Hannah Bassett; Mary,Ju­ 6 6 dith , Sarah , m. Paul Varney. (149) VIII. JmmuAS. b. 1737-2-7, m. Anna Robertg, 1768, dau. of Moses and Elizabeth (Whitehouse) Roberts. He d. ]823, children at Dover, 6 MOt"es , 1770, d. 1788 ; Mary6, 1772, m. James Lamos; Christopher6, 6 6 6 6 ]774; Jedediah , 1776; Isaiah , 1778; Huldah , 1780; Jesse , 6 6 1782 ; Ezra , 1786; Hannah'l, 1787, Moses , 1790; Eliza6• (150) IX. TOBIAss, b. 170H-~-10, m. Eunice Cartland, and had Pelatiah5, 6 1773, Jonathan , 1775, Tobia~6, Lydia6, Charles6, m. Hannah Dame, 6 6 .Tonathan ; Lydia , m. Otis Meader. (151) X. JOSEPHS, b. 1740-8-7, m. Bathsheba, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Rraekett) Tuttle (b. 1741, d. 1821) he d. 1780, and had Levi6, S 6 1772; Tabitha , Enoeh • ABIGAIL VARNEY\ (58-IV) m. William, son of William and 1851.] J.'he Otis Genealo Oy. 213

Hannah Frye, 1724, he was born 1694, she d. ] 766, children born at Kittery, Me., (152) I. MARYS, b. 1725-5-25, d. 1730-9-16. (153) II. 1\iARTHAs, b. 1726-9-5, m. 1751, Muzzey Gould, removed to 6 6 6 Salem, d. 1765, and had Elihu ; Isaiah , m. Mary Hoag; Stephen , 5 (154) III. EBENEZER , b. 1728, d. 1728. (155) IV. HANNAHs, b. 1729-10-6, m. 1751, Elijah Jenkins, d. 1754-3-4. (156) V. JOHNs, b. 1731, '2-11-12, d. at Salem, 1765, unmarried. (157) VI. EBENEZERo, b. 1734-6-30, m. (1.) 1760, Mary, dau. of Joshua and Eliz'h (Estes) Buffum. She d. 1764, leaving two ch. He m. (2.) :Mary Hussey. (158) VII. MARYS, b. 1737-8. (159) VIII. ABIGAILs, b. 1741-1-26, m. at Kittery, Joseph Meader, 1767. EBENEZER VARNEY4, (60-VI) m. 1729-30, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth Hanson. She was dau. of Eliz. Hanson, the account of whose captivity is in Belknap'S History,* b. 1710, d.1759. Children, . (160) I. ABIGAILs, m. James Hanson, 1756-11-24. (161) II. JEDEDIAH5, b. 1732, m. Mary Hanson, d. 1799. (162) III. EBENEZERs, m. Mary tlussey, d. 1802, and had ch. b. in Ro­ 6 6 chester, Caleb , 1756, m. Huldah Hussey, Benjamin , 1759; Eben­ 6 6 ezer ; Elizabeth • (163) IV. THOMAS5, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel and 1\iary Varney. She 6 d. 1772, and had Jeremiah , h. 1766, d. 1809,. Mary6, m. Hanson Evans. / (164) V- NICHOLAS5, s. in Falmouth, Me., 1764. (165) VI. SUSANNAH5, b. 174.4-5-20, m. Benj. Austin, Jr., 1759, s. at Falmouth. (166) VII. JOHN5, m. 1782, Miriam, dau. of Thomas and Hannah (Saw­ yer) Hanson. He d. 1790, and she d. 1815, 2 children. (167) VIII. HAN,SON5, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Elijah and Mehitable (Wey­ 6 6 mouth) Jenkins, ch. at Dover, Ebenezer , 1779, 1\lehitable , Mary6, 6 6 Elijah , Sarah • (168) IX. ISAAC5, b. 1752, m. Lydia Rogers, 1781. He d. 1826, and 6 6 had at Dover, William , Aaron6, Mehitable , Timothy6, Mary6. (169) X. HANNAH5, b. 1754, d.-- NATHANIEL VARNEY4, (61-VII) who m. Content Gaskill at Salem, 1727. She d. 1776-6-9, children, (170) I. P_<\.TIENCE5, b. 1728-6-15, m. -- Rogers, s. at Hampton. (171) II. LYDIA5, b. 1729-12-20, m. Isaac Rogers, 1751-6-28, and had 6 6 6 6 6 6 Paul6, Levi , Hannah , Nathaniel , Thomas , Sarah , Lydia , Mar­ garet6. (172) III. OTISs, d. young. (173) IV. HEZEKIAHS, b. 1733-10-28, m. Hannah Rogers, 1757, and had 6 ch. b. in Berwick, Me., Jonathan6, 1759, m. Dorcas Allen, Isaac , Sam­ 6 6 6 6 uel6, Abel6, Lydia6, Nath'16, Hannah , Hezekiah , Aaron , Sarah , Pa­ 6 6 tience , Aaron • (174) V. DAVIDs; d.-. VI. (175) MARGARETs. (176) VII. NATHANIELs, m. Mary Southwick, at Salem, 1761.

'*' The principal fa?t~. only, ar~ give.n by Dr. Be~knap. A full and a~thentic narrative of her captiVlty was prmted III Danvers, III 1780, and was reprmted at Dover in 1824, and again reprinted at "Boston, Antiquarian book store, 56 Cornhill 1839." This last edition was stereotyped, and with above thirty other similar ~arratives was published in a duodecemo volume of' 360 pages, entitled "INDIAN CAPTIVI TIES."- EDITOR. 10 214 The Otis Genealogy. [April,

5 (177) VIII. OTIS5 ; (178) IX. SILAS ; m. --; (179) X. DA!ID5. (180) XI. BETHIAs, m. (1) Daniel Hussey, who d. 1785,8 eh. b. m Som- ersworth. (2dly) Jacob Tabor at Vassalboro', Me. . THol\IAS VARNEY\ (62-VIII) by his wife Dorothy Martm, hal (181) I. EL'IZABETH6, b. 1729-30. (182) II. ZACCHEUS', b. 1731, d. (183) III. EZEKIELs, b. 1733, d. young. (184) IV. THoMAs~, b.,173~, d. young. 5 (185) V. EZEKIEL , b. 1736-9-26, m. Susanna Hanson, 1761. (186) VI. ZACCHEUSs, b. 1738, d. unm. (187) VII. MARYs, b. 1740. (188) VIII. MARTHAs, b. 1742-3-11-16, m., 1762, Elizabeth Hanson. (189) IX. THOMASs, b. 1744, '5-12-3, m. Huldah Hanson, 1769, and 6 6 6 fl 6 6 had Oliver , b. 1770, Nicholas , Sarah , James , Silas , Samuel , Abi­ 6 6 gail , Isaac • (190) X. SARAHS, b. 1746. 5 (191) XI. HULDAH , m. Benjamin Winslow of Falmouth. JUDITH V.~RNEY4, (63-IX) m. Tobias Hanson, 1726 (b. 1702) and had, 6 (192) I. ANNEs, m. 1763, Joseph Cartland, and had, b. at Lee, Sarah , 6 6 6 Tobias , 1766, Hannah , Jonatltan , 1769, m. Elizabeth Austin, 6 6 Lydia , John • (193) II. MARyS, Jedediah Varney, he d. 1799, she d. 1798. (194) III. ELIZABETHs, m. Ruben Tuttle, 1762, and d. at Falmouth. (195) IV. AARONS, m. Abigail Caldwell, 1772, d. 1825, no ch. (196) V. PATIENCES, b. 1743, m. Benjamin ]\-leader, (b. 1736, d. 1827,) 6 she d. 1825, and had Hannah , 1763, m. David Roberts; :Mary6, 1765, m. Paul Bunker, a blacksmith, removed to Sandwich, N. H., where 6 both d., leaving Huldah7 and Patience7 ; Tobias , 1767, Micajah&, 6 6 6 6 Hanson , Judith , Stephen , m. Sarah Whitehouse, Ephraim , 1785, removed to Sandwich. 5 (197) VI. MosEs , b. 1744-12-3, m. Mary Hanson. (198) VII. MERCYs, m. Benjamin Connor. SAMUEL VARNEY4, (64-X.) m., 1736, Mary, dan. of Joseph and Abigail (Robinson) Varney, which Jo~eph was son of Peter, and gr.­ son of Humphrey V. He d. 1759, and she d. 1763, children, 5 (199) I. SOLOMON , b. 1737, m. Lydia, dau. of Moses and Phebe (Tut­ tle) Varney, 1760, no children. 5 (200) II. SARAH , b. 1739, m. Thomas Varney;;, (163) 2 rh. 6 (201) III. TIMOTHYs, b. 1742, m. Abigail Hussey, and had Hannah , 6 1765, Samuel , Huldah6, Mercy6, Timothy6, Abigail6• (202) IV. SAl\1UEL 5, b. 1743, d. 1767. (203) V. SIMEONs, b. 1745, d. 1761. (204) VI. AMOSS, h. 1748, m. Mary Dame, 1772, and had at Dover, 6 6 6 6 6 Miles , 1775, Festus , Achsah , Othniel , Rhoda , m. Levi Hayes, 6 6 Molly6, Amasa , m. Comfort Hill, Oeorge , m. Betsey Varney. (20~» VII. SHUBAELs, b. 1751-9-1, m. Sarah Cloutman, 1779, ch. at 6 Dover, - Solomon , 1780, Elias6, John6, :Mary6, Nathan6, Mercy6, Benaiah6, (206) VIII. MARy5, b. 1755, d. 1775. (207) IX. JOSEPHS, b. 1757-11--16, m. Sarah, dau. of the late Hon. Daniel Beede,* who was b. at Kingston, N. H., 21 July, 1729. '*" He moved to Sandwich, N. H., 1767, among its first settlers which town was not in~orporated until 25 Oct., 1768. He first settled upon the farm many years occupled by Paul Wentworth, Esq., of Concord, (and built the present house} and now by his son, Cel. Joseph ,Wentworth, Sheriff of Carrol Co. He lived, d. 1.851.] The Otis Genealogy. 215

6 They both died at Sandwich. Children, b. at Dover, Eli , b. 1786, 6 m. Charlotte Varney, Noah , who now lives upon the old homestead inherited by his mother from her father, adjoining the farm owned by 6 Paul Wentworth; Noah , Cyrus6, Simeon6, Daniel6, Beede6• MA.RTHA VARNEY\ (65-XI) m., 1734, John, son of John and grandson of Ralph Twombly, b. 1712, eh. (208) I. ANNES, b. 1740--3--10, m. Zaeeheu~ Purinton; she d. 1799, 6 6 and had at Dover, Micajah , b. 1761, m. Mary Austin, Sarah , 1763, G 6 m. SamI. Varney, Daniel , 1765, John , 1767, m. Phebe Beede, G G 6 6 6 James , 1769, Lydia , Zaccheus , Anna , Peaee • This John Purin­ tonG, m. Phebe, d. of Hon. Daniel Beede; moved to Sandwich, N. H.; was a hatter there, and died April 24, 1813, and was buried in the Wentworth farm burying ground. He had two children, a daugh­ 7 ter , married a General MOhtgomery, of Haverhill, N. H., and is now a widow there; and John Twambly7, died at Sandwich, N. H., where he was a hatter, July 17th, 1825, aged 29 years, leaving a widow who afterwards married Augustine Blanchard, of Sandwich, but no child­ ren. He was buried by the side of his father. His mother, wife of JohnS, went to Haverhill to live with her daughter7 where she married a Dr. Coone, who was also a Methodist preacher. Johntl built the house now owned by Dr. James Norris, and situated but a few rods from the Wentworth House built by his father-in-law Judge Beede. PAUL V ARNEY\ (6 6-XII) m., 1742! at Smithfield, Elizabeth, dau. of James and Elizabeth (Whitehouse) Mussey. She was b. 1720, and d. 1763, he d. 1782; children, (209) I. MICA.rAHs, b. 1744--3--12, d. 1765, unm. (210) II. JACOBS, b. 1754--7--9, d.1823. (211) III. MARYS, b. 1756, m. 1778, Stephen, son of Jacob and Sarah (Hanson) Sawyer, b. 1752. She d. 1843, and had at Dover, Eliza­ 6 6 6 beth , b. 1778, m. Abner Chase; Nahum , 1779, Justin , 1781, Hosea6, 6 6 6 6 Walter ,*" 1784, Benaiah , Ruth , Levi , m. Hannah G. Pinkham; 6 6 Edward6, Lydia , Thomas Elwood , b. 1798--11--21, a Lawyer, Rep­ resentative, Whig Candidate for Governor of N. H. in 1851, m. 1st, Elizabeth Watson, 2d, Elizabeth Moody. (212) IV. JA)lESs, b.1759--5--10, m. 1793, Sarah, dau. of Elijah and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Allen. She was b. 1754, he d. 1815. Theyhad, 6 Charlotte6, 1793, m. Eli Varney; Matilda ,1797, m. Cyrus Bangs. (213) V. PAULS, b. 1762--1--25, m. Temperance Varney. . ANNE VARNEY\ (67-XIII.) m. Solomon Hanson. He was b. 1719, the son of Thomas and Margarett (Maul) Hanson, and great­ grandson of Thomas, the original settler at Dover. She d. 1780, and had, (214) I. ZACCHEUS5, b. 1742--9--17, m. Sarah,dau. of Jacob and Susanna and was bllried upon it. He was a delegate from Sandwich, ,to the Revolu~ion­ ary Convention that met at Exeter, 21 Dec., 1775, and which resolved Itself into an Independent State Government. He with Col. Otis Baker, of Dover, and ten others, protested against this movement, and the protest may be found in the American Archives, Vol. IV., p. 1000, yet they all ardently supported the revoilltiou when once determined on. He fl'equently represented Sanuwich, and in 1795, was appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held to the day of his death, 7 April, 1799. He belonged to the Quaker denomination, and left a large family of children in Sandwich, among whom was a very distingllished Quaker preac~er, the late Cyrus Beede, whose son Stephen married a datto of the late Judge RIChard Dame, of Rochester, and who has fre­ quently represented Sandwieh,in the Legislature. '*' This is the gentleman who has in his care the Friends Records at Dover, is very kind in this matter; an estimable member of the Friends Society. 216 The Otis Genealogy. [April,

(Estes) Sawyer, (b, 1744, d. 1829~) He d. 1829; and they had at 6 Dover, Susanna6, 1768, Sarah , Ezras, Amoss, Stephens, 1779, m. S Eunice Wentworth, Abijah , m. Hannah Bean. 5 (215) II. ABIJAH , d. 1781--1--16. 5 (216) III. JACOB , b. 1747--2--19, m. Phebe Jenkins, 1777, dau. ofWm. and Phebe (Hoag) Jenkins, b. 1746, d. 1815. He d. 1810, and they 6 6 had, b. at Rochester, Abijah , Phebe , killed 1843, by Andrew How­ 6 6 ard, who was hanged for the crime; William , Jacob!!, Solomon • (217) IV. SOLoMoNJ,.m. 1776, J\1ary Chase, s. in Hampton, 1783. 5 (218) V. OTIS , m. Ruth Gove, s. in Falmouth, 1782. 5 (219) VI. lVIARy , m. Nathaniel Meader, 1770--11--6, and had at Roches- 6 6 6 6 ter, Anne , Jedediah , Elizabeth , Otis • 5 (220) VII. SARAII , m. Oliver vVinslow, of Falmouth. 5 (221) VIII. JUDITH , m. James Torrey, of Falmouth. 5 (222) IX. ANNA , b. 1757, d. 1843--12--23. (223) X. MARTHA5, b. 1760. ELIJAH TUTTLE4, (73-11.) m. Esther Varney, (d. 1802-2-8.) He d. 1787-10-23, and his Will was proved 21 Nov., 1787. Chil­ dren, 5 (224) I. JAl\IES , m. Rose Pinkham, 1763-1-6,andd.1816. She d.1790. 5 (225) II. BENJAMIN • III. SAMUELs. (226) IV. 'VILLlA~, m. 1782-3-27, Ann Hanson, he d. 1834, and she 6 6 d. 1832, leaving Phebe , b. 1783, m. Howard; Joseph , b. 1786, m. Sarah Pinkham, 1814, and had Elizabeth7, Asa C.7, Ste­ 7 7 6 phen , Wm. Penn , and Joseph E,7 ; Rose , b. 1791-4-29, m. Nath'l 6 Jenkins; Sara/t , 1793-7-1; Ira!!, b. 1798-6-18, d, 1839. SUSANNA CANNEY\ (75-IV.) m. 1741-10--12, Isaac, son of Tobias and Ann (Lord) Hanson. He d. 1758, Jan. 15. Of their children, i (besides Susanna , who m. Richard Hanson, and a dau.5 who m. a Titcomb,) (227) I. ISAAC 5, m. Jones, and d. in Farmington, leaving chiI'n. 5 (228) II. LYDIA , m. Benjamin, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Watson, he was b. 1734, April 3, and was third in descent from Jonathan 'Vatson, who was in Dover, 1675. They had, 6 I. BenJamin , b. 27 June, 1772, (d. in Dovel., 16 Nov., 1847,) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard and Hannah (Goodwin) Whitehouse, (b. 26 July, 1772,) and had John7, b. 1799, (wife a Whi~ehouse, both d. leaving John AndrewS;) Benjamin7 ; Lydia7 ; (m. Jeremy Perkins, of Dover, and have had Charles Edwins, d.; Sarah Elizabeth8 ; Jerry WilliamS, d.; Lydia AugustaS; Isabellall, d.; Daniel Libbey8; John HenryS, d. 1849; Isabellas ; Ann Louisas, and EllenS;) An­ 7 7 drew ; Susan ; SamueF, d. Oct., 1810; Sarah Hanson7, b. 7 Oct., 1810, (m. Oliver L. Reynolds, liye in Dover, and have had, Cecilia Amanda8, b. 13 March, 1832, and d. in Dover, after an illness of 22 months, of consumption, 1 March, 1850. She was a lovely girl, and S 8 an earnest Christian; Juliette , b.29 Nov., 1833; Benjamin Oliver , 7 b. 3 Dec., 1836;) Elizabeth , b. 4 Feb., 1813, (m. Thomas E. Saw­ yer, and d. in Dover, 1 Dec., 1847;) Isaac7 ; Seth7, b. 22 April, 1815, (m. Ann, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah Watson, and widow of Henry Berry, her dau. Ellen Berry now living. She d. 20 Nov., 1850,of consumption, and had Benjamin8, 28 Jan., 1847, d. 1848· Benjamin S.8, b. 11 June,1849. ' 6 II. Samuel , b. 7 July, 1774, m. Pricilla Hodgdon, now dec'd; he d. 14 April, 1847, their children were, Nancy7, m. Stephen Davis, both dec'd, leaving one dau., Ann Elizabeth8; Elizabeth7 Horace p7, 6 Lydia , who live in Dover. . , 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 217

8 III. Susan , twice m. (1st,) to Lewis Wentworth, who d. in Brook- field, leaving a dau. Susan7, and one more. 6 IV. Isaac , b. 1777; V. Jonn7, b. 1781, d. at sea, 18 Nov., 1799. VI. A dau6" drowned in childhood. 6 VII. Sa'l'ah , m. Samuel Hanson, no children. LIEUT. SAMUEL STACKPOLE4, (101-1.) m. Zervia, dau. of Isaac and Joanna Watson. (bap. 5 Oct., 1755, and d. 1820.) He entered the Revolutionary Amry as Lieutenant, and d. in Rochester, N. H. ; children, (229) I. DOUGLASS5, m. Sarah Low, of So. Berwick, l\ie., and had Pa­ 6 6 melia , d. a child. 11 Nov., 1798; A.lexander , of Haverhill, Ms., m. 6 6 Abigail ; Sharrington , lives in Maine, no children ; Joseph , m. Lydia Wentworth, lives at Gt. Falls, and has Sarah F.7, Thomas7, Joseph7, James'i; Grienleaf, lives in Maine. (230) II. JOANNA5, m. David Kimball, of Gilmanton, N. H., and have 6 6 6 6 had Ezra , d. s. p.; Frances , unm'd. ; Samuel , d. young; Sophia , m. Thomas Adams, of Gilmanton, and had issue, Sophia'i, m. Rev. Elliot Colby Cogswell, of New Market, N. H., graduate of Dartmouth College, in 1838, and youngest son of Dr. Joseph Cogswell, now liv­ ing with his wife at Tamworth, N. H., and born at Haverhill, Ms., in 1764, son of Nathaniel and Judith (Badger) Cogswell, of that place; Hazen7, D. C., 1847; Martha H.7, m. Nealley, of Iowa; Mary 6 6 6 Frances'i; Lydia , m. Mace Getchell; Hazen , d. unm'd.; Thomas , m. Sophronia Richardson, of Gilmanton, and had Georgiana'i, Sophia 7, Hazen7, d. ; Hannah'i; Marl, d. unm'd ; Hannah6,m. Clark, 6 Canterbury, and have lVIartha'i, Joanna'1, and Caroline7 ; Ruth , m. 6 --- Taylor, of Me.; Martha , d. unm'd. (231) III. JOSEPH5, b. 1770, d. unm'd, May, 1798, in Baltimore. (232) IV. LYDIA5, d. unm'd, 1849, at Great Falls, N. H. (233) V. THOMAS5, m. Sarah Morrill, lived at No. Berwick, and had 6 Ann Almira , m. John Lang, of Vassalboro', and has had 7 children; 6 6 John , m. Widow Abigail Chase, 3 ch. at Scarboro; Theodate , m. Alton Pope, of Hallowell, now of Vassalboro', and have ch.; Peter 6 MOl'ril6, m. Mary Dow, he d. 1848, leaving ch.; Clwrles , m. and 6 lives in Phil. Pa.; Miriam , m. Samuel Taggard, of Charlestown, 6 6 Ms.; Thomas Winslow , m. -- Winslow, of Vassalboro'; Lavinf1 , 6 6 m. Jacob Pope; Miriam , m. -- Weeks; Sarah Elizabeth , m. --. (234) VI. SAMUEL5, b. 28 April, 1776, m. Rosanna, dau. of Paul and Mehitable Nute, (b. 4 Feb., 1777,) live in Rochester, and have had, Otis6, b. 1797, m. 1st, Lucy, dau. of Tristram Heard of Rochester ; 2d, Mary, dau. of Isaac' Brown, had 5 ch. by 1st .wife, .all d. young, 6 and 2 ch. by 2d wife; Joseph , b. 1799, m. 1st, ElIza Kmg, and now 6 6 lives in N. Y., with his 2d wife; Oharles , b. 1801, d. 1818; Eliza , 6 b. 1804 m. Samuel Tibbets, of Rochester, 4 ch.; 'l'homas , b. 1806, 6 6 m. Fra~ces Courrier, of Portsmouth, 1850; Sophia ; Setlt , b. 1811, 6 d. 1840; Paul Augustine , b. 1814, a Physician in Dover, N. H., m. 1845, Elizabeth Garland, dau. of Charles P., and Elizabeth Hills, (b. 6 in Haverhill, Ms., 1828, and two ch.;) Noah , b. 1820. (235) VII. OTISo, d. in Lynn. JE 15. (236) VIII. TAMsEN°, a twin of Otis, m. Jonathan Morrill, of Berwick, removed to Vt. (237) IX. JOHN5, unmarried, in Demarara. 6 (238) X. AMOS6, m. Sar~h :Morrill, of Barnstead, Rnd had Julia , who m. Jacob Coffin, and s. In Alton, 2 ch. 10* 218 The Otis Genealogy. [April,

(239) XI. SUSAN5, m. Wm. Sargent, of Great Falls. NICHOLAS OTIS5, (123 - I.) m. Esther Berry. She d. 2 Jan., 1831. He s. at Barrington, where he signed the Pledge to support the Revolution, 1776, and there d., 3 Dec., 1822. Children, (besides Samuel6, Abigail6, and Molly6,) (240) I. JOSEPH6, b. Aug. 1768, m. Elizabeth Berry, and d. at B., 25 7 Jan., 1847. and had John7, Nicholas , Asa7, all m. - and daus. Betsyr, and Sally7. (241) II. ESTHER6, m. Robert Beny, of B., now live at Thornton, N. H. (242) III. HANNAH6, m. Ebenezer Foss, of Strafford. He d. 26 Jan. 1841. (243) IV. ELIZABETH6~ m. Mark Gilman, Barnstead. (244) V. JANE6, m. Joseph Cater, of Farmington. ELDER MICAJAH OTIS5, (124 -II.) m. 1769, Sarah, dau. of Joshua Foss. She was b. at Rye, 30 Dec., 1748, and d. 20 Jan., 1827. He signed the Pledge to support the American Revolution, at Barrington, 1776, where he lived an ordained Preacher of the Free Will Baptist denomination, and d, 20 May, 1821. Children, (245) I. J OB6, b. 23 Aug., 1770, m. Sally, dau. of Ephraim Kimball, of Dover, 12 Oct., 1795. She was b. in Rochester, 7 Feb., 1776. Hon. Job Otis, was chosen selectman in B., 1808, which office he held four years in succession. Representative from B., 1819 and 20, (in 1820 the North west part of Barrington was incorporated into a town, and called Strafford,) Rep. from S. 1822, '23, and also in 1828 and 1833. In 1834, and '35, he was of the Cohncil Board of N. H., and now lives at S., in the 81st year of his age. He has had Ephraim K7, d. young; Hannah7, d. young; Sarah7, b. 31 Mch., 1798, m. Daniel Winkley of S., 1816, and has Otis P.s, and Daniels; Maria Henrietta7, b. 11 l\1ay, 1802, m. Nathaniel Locke, Esq., of Strafford, 1825, and they have 4 daughters; Abigail K7, b. 18 Jan., 1809, m. Paul T. Winkley, 1837, live in Newbury, 1\1s, with one son and four daus. , 7 7 Micajah7, and Job , twins, d. in infancy; Andrew Jackson , b. 8 Aug" 1815, m. 15 Feb., 1842, Sarah How Kimball, of Hiram, Me., is a Justice of the Peace, has been one of the General Staff, Post Master at Strafford, and has one son, John LangdonS; Joshua7, an adopted son of Job6, m. Rebecca F. Ricker, is a Justice, and resides at S. (246) II. JOSHUA6, b. 31 Jan., 1773, m. 1st, 26 Nov~, 1799, Abigail, dau. of David Young, of Barrington, 2d, Abigail, dau. of Eleazer Cate. His first wife d. 11 Oct., 1818, and he d. 19 July, 1839, leaving 7 eh. by 1st wife, and 1 by the last, viz: Charlotte7, m. Ephraim Cate, Esq.; Polly7, m. Ezra Stanton, Esq., Dec., 1810; Matilda7, m James 7 Va~ne:r' of Rome, Me.,; El1'za , m. John Montgomery, he d. 1846; Ab~ga'tl7, m. Paul Perkms, now of Lowell, Mass.; Elmira7, m. Fran­ 7 cis Plumer, of Somersworth; Lav1:na , m. Ephraim K. Meder, of Rochester; Sarah Ann7, m. Geo. W. Howard. (247) III. SUlON6, b. 13 Oct., 1777, m. 1st, Abigail, dau. of Joseph Giles of Rochester, 4 March, 1803, 2d, Betsy Walker, dau. of Wm. 'V., of Barnstead, 3d, Catherine, widow of Timothy Jenkins of Lee. His first wife d., 13 Mch., 1813; his 2d, 6 Aug., 1831. 'He has been Justice of Peace, and lives at Lee, N. H., and has had children Ira7, b. 23 July, 1803, d. in Barnstead, 9 April, 1841; Thos. Jejf;rson1, b. 6 Oct., 1806, of Lee, N. H., m. Olive J. Goodwin, 1830 and has A~gustus f., S~lvanus HS., Joseph L. GS., John· ps., Ch~rles 88., Olive Ja~e ; S~mon7, b. 10 Mch., 1R16, m,. Maria Wiggan, of Lee; he was kIlled, 27 Nov., 1846, by the burstmg of a gun, leaving five 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 219

daus. ; Joseph?, b. 6 May, 1812, m. Sarah Baker, 1842, and has one child, Josephs, at Lee; Stephen7, b.16 June, 1809, s. Nova Scotia; Abigaib, b. 27 Mch, 1827, m. Timothy Davis, 1839, of Barnstead, now of Lee, and have 4 children. (248) IV. DAVID6, b. 19 April, 1780, m. Nancy Libby, of Limmington, Me., where they lived and died - he, 17 Oct., 1844, and she, 14 Sept., 1843, JE 55. He was a Captain of a company of Light Infantry, and his children were James7, m. Mary Clark, of Cornish, Me.; 7 Stephen : m., lived in Boston, and went to California; Louisa7, m. William Paine, of Standish, Me. (249) V. STEPH~N6, b. 7 Aug., 1787, m. Joanna, dau. of John B. Parsh­ ley. He was Captain of a Company of Light Infantry at Strafford, where he d. 7 Jan., 1834. His widow m. Benjamin Foss, who d. Dec., 1849, and she now lives with her son Stephen. Capt. Stephen 6 Otis , had two sons, Alfred Harrison7, b. 29 Nov. 1813, m. Emily Dunn, of Dover; has been Representative to the Legislature, from Dover, and now lives a Dry Goods merchant at Boston; Stephen 7 Decatur , unm. at Rochester; Napoleon Bonaparte?, b. 1824, d. 2826. 6 (250) VI. LYDIA , b. 7 l\lay,)775, m. 1st, Arthur Danielson, who d. in Me., and had Stephen 0.7, m. and resides in Portlarld, Me.; Rujul, d. at Dorchester, Mass.; Sall!}7, m. Staats M. Brasbridge, of Straf­ ford; she m. 2d, John Yeaton, March, 1811, who d. 16 Dec., 1844, 7 and had Merc'll, d. 8 Sept., 1837, JE 25; Harriett , m. Mr. Edgerly, of New Durham. . ELIJAH OTISa (125-III) m. 19 July, 1771, Dorothy, dau. of Jethro Locke, she d. at Rochester, 1824. In 1776, he enlisted" dur­ ing the war," was at the battle of Bennington under Genl. Stark, and was discharged at the close of the war, and received a pension. He took the oath of fidelity at Barrington, 1776, was a blacksmith, lived at Rochester, N. H., and in 1827, removed to Durham, and died at the house of his son-in-law, Dea. Henry Gray, 8 April, 1838, reo 89. He had 14 children living at one time, viz: 6 '(251) I. LElIUEL , b. 24 Nov., 1774, m. Leah Peirl of Rochester, 9 Nov., 1796, and lives at Farmington with daus. Luc'!/, l>. 6 Sept., 1797, m. 7 Jeremiah Ricker of Farmington, no ch.; Jemima , b. 12 May, 1801, 7 m. Howard L. Otis of Rochester, ] 2 April, 1832; Melinda , m. John 7 Reirl of Rochester, 1834; Clarissa , b. 11 July, 1799; Hannah7• (252) II. HANNAH6, m. John Gray, d., had 10 ch. and she d. at_Sheffield, Vt., June, 1817. 6 (253) III. JANE , a twin of Hannah, m. Nathaniel Ham, had five eh., and now lives a widow in Sheffield, Vt. (254) IV. PAUL6, b. 28 Meh., 1777, m. Mary Foss, 5 July, 1798, settled at Sheffield, Vt., and she d. 10 Jan., 1837. He has had, Dorotll'l/, m. John Gray of Rochester; Lyd£a'l, d. young; Joseph .Y7., m. Judith Chesley of Sheffield; Tlwmas F7., m. Sarah Foss; JJ;Iartha7, m. John 7 7 Sulloway of Wheelock, Vt.; Hannah , d. young; Lydia , d. young; Hannnh F7., m. Willard Nutter of Rochester, and he d. 1843; Har­ 7 riet7, m. Jonathan Clark of Lawrence, Mass.; and a child , d~in in- ~~ . (255) V. J OHN6, b. 1779, by his wife Hannah Howard, had 2 eh.; he d. in Farmington, 31 Dec., 1825. (266) VI. JETHR0 6, b. 1 :March, 1781, m. Esther Howard of R., 31 Mah. 1802, resides at Rochester and has had Nehemiah7, d. in infancy; Ephraim7, b. 9 Nov., 1805, m. Sarah Mendum of Kittery, Me., 6 Jan., 1830; was Armorer of the U. S. Sloop of War Concord 2 1-2 220 Tlte Otis Genealogy. [April,

years now Master Blacksmith at Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a Justice Peac~, Co. York, has been Town Clerk of Kittery, Selectman, &c., and has James F8., William8, Charles E8., George W8., Robert F8., and two daus; Martha7, b. 7 Dec. 1807, m. Jonathan Ham, 16 Jan., 1831, of Farmington, he d. 20 May, 1841, and she m. 2d. Lewis Varney, 1843, 5 children; Howard Locke7, 15 Sept., 1809, m. Jemima, dau. of Lemuel Otis, 12 April, 1832, live at Farmington, 7 and has one son and 3 daus.; Rujus , H5 Sept., 1811, m. Adah Per­ kins of Wakefield, 7 April, 1834, was a seaman on board the sloop of War Concord 2 1-2 years, has 3 sons and 3 daus. at Rochester; Hannah7, 23 Sept., 1813, m. Lewis Ham, 1839, of Rochester, and has 4 ch.; Wz'llz'am Plummer7,8 April, 1815, m. Elizabeth Johnson of Northwood, N. H., 4 July, 1839, 4 ch., -he enlisted in the Mex­ ican War, and there d. 1 June, 1848; Wi'llard7, 8 April, 1818, m. Elizabeth M. Gove, 1841, resides, a machinist, at Newburyport, Ms., with 4 ch.; Sarah7, b. 30 April, 1820, m. Mr. Downes of Newbury­ port, and has 4 ch.; James H7., b.1822, d. 1845; Doroth'!/, 15 Aug., 1825, m. Lemuel Willey of Dover, s. at Hampton }.... alls, N. H. (257) VII. THo~u.s6, b. 9 Feb., 1783, m. Polly Lee, 26 Mch., 1811, (b. 29 July, 1789) and resides in New Boston, N. H. Their ch. have 7 been Peter , b. 26 April, 1812; Mar'!l, b. 29 Nov., 1813, d. 1822; Rannah7, 6 Mch. 1817, m. Wm. Flint of Bedford; Sarah L7., 13 May, HH 9, m. James G. Holden of Rollinsford; Thomas7, 20 Feb., 1821; Mary Jane7, 24 Jan., 1824, m. Henry F. Straw; Harriet N7., 15 May, 1826; Wm. L7., 21 April, 1829; James L7., 7 June, 1831; Elizabeth7, 5 Nov., 1834. (258) VIII. MICAJAH6, b. 6 Dec., 1785, m. 1st., Hannah Allard, 23 Jan.; 1806, d. 1845, and he m., 2d., Polly Brock, lives at Farmington and 7 has Thomas Je.fferson , b. 9 Dec., 1806, m. 1st. Susan Nutter of Far­ mington, March 31, 1830, and has Orrin K8., b. 1827, m. Sarah Gar­ 8 8 land, Melissa , 1830, Lorenzo D ., 1836, RosettaS, 1833, George W8., b. 1843, He m 2d., Almira Canney, 1846, and has Thos. JS., and WilliamS. William .iF., b. 6 Nov., 1809, m. Sarah 1V. Deland of Brookfield, 22 Feb., 1835, and has Ai DS., WashingtonS, John DB., Adelias, Roesalonas, Serenas, HannahS, Olives. (259) IX. JOSHUA6, b. 1786, m. Lovey Elkins, (now deceased) and he d. in Dover, 1 Aug., 1826, had 3 ch., Elbridge7, lived at Boston, and d. --; another son d. 1826, and a dau., Mary Jane, IlOW living. (260) X. ELIJAH6, m. 13 May, 1811, Jane, dau. of Joshua Otis, she d. --; he enlisted in the war of 1812, and was not heard of after­ wards. An Elijah Otis, m. Jane Marden, at Portsmouth, 21 March, 1815. Who was he? (261) XI. WILLIAM6, b. 16 May, 1790, m. Hannah Bolles, 4 Nov., 1814, s. in Medford, Ms., and has, Mary7 and Elizabeth7 twins b. 31 Aug. 1818, William7 and Theresa7, twins, b. 21 Aug' 1821. ' (262) XII. DOROTlly6, b. 2 Mch. 1792, m. Deacon Henry Gray, Dec. 31, 1812, now of New Durham, N. H., and had Simon S7., Solomon Lt., .1.l1artha P7., Betsey Y7., Rq,nnah J7., Wm. Henr,'f/, Otis Mr., llfary Ann7, Wendell S7,Doroth,!/, Joshua sr., Lavina A7.; she d. 11 Sept., 1840. He m. a 2d time and had 4 children. (263) XIII. SI:MEON6, m. Joana Wallingford, of Alton, N. H., 1 July, 1816, resides in Dover, and has children. _ (264) XIV. MARTHA6, drowned when a child in attempting to cross a riv­ er at Strafford, N. H. 15 LIEUT. STEPHE~ OTlS , (128-VI.) m. Hannah, dau. of Solomon 1851.] The Otis Genealogy. 221

Emerson of l\fadbury, 30 Nov., 1786, lived at Barrington, N. H., on the farm of his father, where he d. 4 Dec., 1835. She d. in Me., 24 Aug., 1848, re 82. Children, 6 (265) I. DANIEL , b. 29 April, 1787, m. Betsey Jeffrey, 15 Nov., 1810 ; resides at Great Falls, N. H., and has had, Lovering", b. 10 June, 1813, d. 18 Oct., 1846; John (Jr., b. 20 April, 1815, m. Abbey Rynes, 1840, and lives in Somersworth, 2 ch.; William Sr., b. 18 April, 1821, m. Betsey Berrey, 1841, he d. 17 Oct., 1844, and she d. leav­ ing no ch.; Walter", b. 12 Nov., 1823, m. Sarah Rand, of Rochester, lives in l\ianchester, N. H., 2 ch.; Hannah7, b. 16 Dec., 1810, m. Trueworthy Tuttle, 1841, d. no ch.; Adeline7, b. 8 Feb., 1819, m. Geo. Cheney, s. in Lowell, Ms., Sarah Ann7, 18 Sept., 1828, m. - Thompson; Betset/, 29 Oct., 1831 Mar'i, 16 Dec., 1833. 6 (266) II. JOSEPH , b. 3 Aug., 1788, m. Lucy Place, 25 Oct., 1812; re­ side at Rochester, and have Maria G7., m. Brewster Hayes, Clarissa D7., m. George 'Vilkinson, and Rosa7. 6 (267) III. SOLOMON , b. 25 Dec., 1792, m. at Trenton, N. J., Sarah Boor­ ham. 4 May, 1817. Children, Jane D7., b. 30 Aug., 1819; Charles R7., b. 11 July, 1821; Mar'!l, b. 30 July, 1823 ; Ann Elizabeth7, b. 24 Aug., 1825; John Henry7, b. 4 Oct., 1830; Emeline7, 1 April, 1828; Garret S7., 1833; Jacob B7.• 1835; Oatherine7, 1838; Mar1·a7• 6 (268) IV. SUSAN , b. 3 Jan., 1793, m. Elder John Winkley, of Strafford, 9 Nov., 1815, and has Jeremiah7, 1816, m. Betsey Hill. 6 (269) V. MosEs , b. 6 Mch. 1798, m. Lucy Eton, 1824, d. in Washing­ ton, N. J., 24 Oct., 1828, and left one son, George7, b. 1826. (270) VI. P OLLy6, b. 12 Dec., 1800, m. Thomas Chesley, of Dover, 26 Sept., 1821. He d. 1845; she lives in Dover, and has Horatio7, b. 1821, m. lVlary A. Seward, 1844. 6 (271) VII. HANNAH , b. 16 May, 1802, m. Amos F. Stearns, of Cam­ bridge, Mass., 1824, and has 11 children. 6 (272) VIII. MARTHA , b. 8 Aug., 1804, m. Jonathan Hodgdon, of Bar­ rington, 25 Mch. 1824, and has 4: ch. at Dover. (273) IX. SAI"Ly 6, b. 3 Jan., 1805, m. Isaac Foss, of Barrington. He d. 5 Dec., 1843. She lives in Rochester, and has !5 children. 6 (274) IX. SOPHIA , b. 7 May, 1808, m. Hiram Hodges, 1.830, now of In­ diana, 7 ch. 6 (275) XI. STEPHEN , b. 30 Aug., 1810, m. Abigail, Ham, 1832, and has at Sanford, Me., David M7., Francis E7., John F7., Oharles H. 0 7., Mary Jane7, Olara7, Abbey F7., Ervin 0 7. JOSHUA OTIS 5, (130-VIII.) m. Lydia Meader, 15 Jan., 1788, now living. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and a volunteer from Vt., in the war of 1812. He resided at Barrington seven years after his marriaO'e, removed to Wheelock, Vt., thence to Danville, re­ sided fifteen yea~s at Peacham, Vt., and d. at Parishville, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., 4 Mch., 1834. Children, 6 (276) I. SUSAN , b. 7 Nov., 1788, m. Phineas Lee, and had Susan, Jane, Abner, and Martha. 6 (277) II. JANE , a twin of Susan, m. 1st Elijah Otis, 13 May, 1811, and 2d, -- Rollins, and had three sons by last husband. 6 (278) III. STEPHEN , d. unm. in the army during the war of 1812, in Franklin Co., N. Y. 6 (279) IV. SAMUEL , b. 16 Dec., 1792, m. Lucy Ayres,. s: in St. La~-. renee Co. N. Y., and had fifteen ch. seven now hvmg: Jerome, 7 7 7 Stephen , 'Oarlisle7, Luc,!/, Marie7, Susan , Lydia7, Samue}7, Darius , and oth~rs which died young. 222 The Otis G~nealoglJ· [ April,

(280) V. DANIEL 6 b. 6 Dec., 1794, in. Wheelock, Vt., m. Sophi~ Butler, s. in East Pierpont, N. Y.; was III the war of 1812, and III conse­ quence of wounds receive,d was discharged about the close of .the war, and now receives a pension. He has had Ceylon?, b. AprIl, 1818, m. 1st Delana Rice,22 Oct., 1840, who became delirious and drowned herself, and a dau. 5 months old, 1847; he m. 2d, Mary Jane Read, of Buffalo, N. Y., 1849; Ashbe(1, b. 18 Sept., 1820, d. 18 Jan., 1821; Daniel7, b. 9 Sept., 1821, m. Philena Banister, 1842, and has 2 ch.; John7, b. 12 May, 1823, m. Mandana Banister, 1844, 3 ch. and s. in Ills.; Adaline M7., b. 25 Aug., 1825, m. 5 April, 1847, James Wol­ cott; Angeline 8 7., 8 July, 1827, d. 1841; Roxana 07., 5 July, 1830. 6 (281) VI. JOSHUA , d. at the age of 7 years. (282) VII. JACOB 6, b. 11 June, --, m. Elcy Bryant, and has Abraham7, Isaac7, and Jacob7, and three daus., and lives in lVIichigan. (283) VIII. JOHN6, m. Louisa Preston, and had Stephen7, Edmund:r, Hi.:. ram7, Preston7, John7, and Louisa7, resides in St. Lawrence Co., N.Y. (284) IX. GEORGE W ASHINGTON6, m. Eliza Holmes, and s. in Lowell, Mass., and has 4 ch., Geo. w: 07., Pamelia7, Laura Ann7, and.El­ bridge7• 7 (285) X; BETSEy6, m. Jacob McDaniels, and has George", John , Lydia7, 7 Louisa7, Mary", and, Ceylon • . 6 (286) XI. THOMAS JEFFERSON , m. Rebecca Pratt, and has had 4 ch. a son Edmund. 6 (287) XII.' JAMES MADISON , m. has three sons, and s. in Indiana.

NOTE FROM ENGLISH RECORDS, &C.

The name Otis. - Hereditary surnames, were not assumed in England till after the Nor­ man Conquest (1066) and then only gradually and by families of rank; so that it is difli cult to trace the pedigree of any family beyond the 13th century. Another difficulty arises from the loose orthography which obtained up to the time of Elizabeth and even hter. At the commencement of the 15th century there was much confusion in family names, and surnames were not permanently settled before the era of the Reformation. In Hollingshed's copy of the Roll of" Batte! Abbey," is" Fitz-Otes." As Latin was the language employed by the clerks of early times, proper names were almost uniformlr Latinized from the 11th to 16th century. Camden gives a list of Latinized surnames in hiS " Remains," p. 130. In Wright's" Court Hand Restored" is a more copious list, in which is " Filius Odonis - Fitz - Otes." The method adopted by the old Normans to distinguish families was prefixing to their names the word Fitz, a corruption of Fils and that derived from the Latin Filius, as the Scotch employed Mac -the Welsh Ap-meaning respective­ l,Y, the son of. Verstegan supposes that those names with Fitz superadded, to have been Netherlanders. Our investigations among English records are too limited to enable us to trace any lengthened pedigree of the Otis Family previously to the arrival in this country of the emigrant ancestor. And it would be useless to speCUlate upon the origin of the name Otis, or, without any evidence of the fact from historical r~cord~, to jump to the conclusion tb~t we must needs be descended from. some stalwort Nornlan who" hacked his way to eml· nence and fortune through the serried ranks" of the Saxons at Hastings because a name similar to that we bear happe~s. to be on the ~attle R?ll .. Even. identity of surnames is not always proof of the consangUlmty of the parttes bearmg It, for III some instances two fam­ ilies have derived their surnames from one place. Names of the monosyllabic kind were bon'owed generally by the Anglo-Saxon race from local places - other names from Natural objects, as coney, otter, &c., many floom avocations, etc. We have already expressed the opinion that the families of Oates and Otes were in nO way connected with the family of Ottis or Otis. The former are and always have been of one syllable, while the latter are distinctly two. Besides, affinity of Aloms in Heraldry distinguishes families with nearly if not quite the certainty of surnames. It will be seen on examination that the arms of these two families are widely different in their chiuacter and bearings. . . Extracts from the Parish Re~ister of ~t. John the B~ptist, Glastonbury, Co. of Somer­ set, England. The register commences m 1608. Baptt81Tl,s: 1851.] The Oti8 Genealogy:; 223

Alicia Oattis, dan. of John, 23 June, 1604. Elleanor Ottis, dau. of James, 15 April, 1609. William Ottis, son of James, 5 Dec., 1610. Joan Ottis, dau. of John, 15 Dec., 1~10. Joan Ottis, dau. of John, 1 Dec., 1612. Elizabeth Ottis, dau. of John, 12 Nov., 1614. Maria Ottis, dau. of James 2, Jan. 1615. Richard Ottis, son of John, 27 Feb., 1616. Hannah OUis, dan. of J'Ohn, 16 Aug. 1618. James Ottis, son of James, 31st May, 1617. Flora W?ttis [Ottis?J. dan. of James,'3 John Ottis son of John, 14 Jan., 1621. April, 1612. Joan Ottis, dau. of James, 23 July, 1621. Marria.ges: - William Oattis and Agnes Awstin, 7 Jan., 1606. Jam~s Oattis an.d Flor~ Aw~tin, 1 Aug., 1608. Bur~als: - Mana Oattls, wIfe of William, 1 Dec., 1605. Joan Ottis, llau. of John, 22 Dec., 1611. Joan Ottis, dau. of John, 21 Dec., 1612. Agneta Ottis, widow, 6 June, 1614. Elizabeth Ottis dau. of John, 31st March, 1615. James Ottis, son of James, 14 March, 1618. Extracts from the Parish register of Othery, near Bridgewater, Somersetshire : Elizabeth Otis, dau. of Anthony, Baptised 19 Oct., 1561. Thomas Otis, son of " " 21 Aug., 1567. Sibella Otis dau. of " " 16 Oct., 1569. John Otis, son of " "29 April, 1627. Joan Otis, dan. of " " 3 May, 1629 ; buried 6 Sept., 1630. Anthony Otis, son of" buried 18th Jan., 1653. From this it is seen that the derivation of John Otis of'Hingham, Mass., is not from Barnstable, in Devonshire, or from Hingham, in Norfolk, but from Glastonbury, in the Co., Somerset. Glastonbury is about five miles S.S. W. from Wells, the seat of the Bishop, so a much more probable place for breeding early non-conformists. Besides, Glastonbury was one of the very highest spots for sanctification in the days of prevalence of the Romish superstition. It will be seen that John had a son Richard, but we have heretofore given our reasons for believing he was not the Richard of Dover, N. H. If Richard Otis of Dover, be not a son of John of Hingham, Mass., born (as above) in England, 27 Feb., 1616-'17, it may be some gratification to presume that the same John, (the fil'st) was_probably son of Richard of Glastonbury, (whose Will is dated 1611) and that Stephen (Will dated at G., 1637,) was his brother, each giving a son the name of the grandfather. Leclifard, a Lawyer getting into difficulty, or out of oceupation among the colonists,went borne and "wrote a book against them," * wherein he say", ,. they refuse to baptise old Ottis grand children, an ancient member of their own church." And Tudor, in his life of Otis, says, "as twelve years after a minute of the baptism of Mary Otis Ldau. of second John] is made in the Journal of Rev. Peter Hobart, the difficulty, whatever it was, had been removed." "Old Ottis "-Johnl- had grand children by one, jf not two daughters before Lechford wrote. MaryS (Gill,) mentioned in the grandfather's Will, and old enough to marry John Beal, 14 Nov., 1660, was not baptized before Jan., 1644, and her sister SarahS, who m. John Longley, 3 Jan., 1666, was baptized at the same time. (The other child, Thomas GIlls, m. Susanna Wilson, in Dec., 1673,) The refusal of Lechford therc· fore may be applied to both these children, We know, that unless one of the parents was of the church. the offspring would not be admitted, in those times, to baptism. Many in­ stances are known, where, three, four, and even six children were baptized at once, after the father or mother had just united with the church. Notice.-It is proposed to publish in pamphlet form, a con'ected and enlarged edition of the GenealoO'v heretofore printed, being the descendants of John Otis. This is presumed to be sufficignt notice to all descendants who may see this, to send a full account of their families to the compiler of this, or to the Editor, Mr. Samuel G. Drake, Boston. Who was James Otis, 2d Lieutenant in Capt. John Jones company of Col. James Reed's regiment 2d reO'iment under Gen. Washington at Cambridge, 1776 ? 'Who ,~as Jos~ph Otis, private, wounded at Morrisianna, Feb., 1781, residence, Branford, Ct. Enlisted 1 January, 1777 for the war and received half pension ?

* Plaine Dealing, Newes f,'om N. E., written in 164].

ERRATA. - The Otis Genealogy, should be entitled, Otis, &c. Geneaology. On the map of Cochecho in 1689, " Wentworth property" should read" Western part of Wentworth property." . PaO'e 184. The Canada husband of Christine Baker2, born March, 1688-9, should be Le- Beau';'instead of Le Beaw Plltge 180. The word Grizel, Grizet. Page 188. Judith should read Judith3• PaO'e 186. "Hottesse," should read Hatesse. Pa:;e 187. Second line of Heard note, should read" at Dover,1643; had a grant of land" &c., instead of " at Dover, 1643, he had," &c. 224 [ April,

NOTE TO THE GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR OF THE ROG­ ERS FAMILY. Although the Publishing Committee of the Register, as they have an­ nounced, do not feel themselves responsible for articles which appear over the signatures of contributors, yet they feel constrained to notice some statements in the article on the Rogers family, pp. 105-152, of this number. The statement that Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, Mass., was a descend­ ant of the l\iarian Martyr, or in other words, that John Rogers of Dedham, Eng., the father of N athaniel, '~laS a grandson of the Martyr, is believed to be dependant wholly on tradition for its authority. The enqui­ ries which have been bestowed upon this subject by genealogists in Eng­ land and in this country have failed to verify this tradition, which cannot be traced beyond the time of Hutchinson. That it may be verified by future enquiries, is possible. But while it. rightfully belongs in the cate-, gory of traditions, it should be suffered to remain there. ~ In the same class with the above belongs the statement on page 10D, th~t " the identical Bible which belonged to the Proto-martyr is now owned by a descendant at Lunenburg, Mass." The relationship, as stated on page 118 between Richard R., of Weatn­ ersfield and John of Dedham, England, is believed to be conjectural. Candler, almost a cotemporary, calls them brothers; while Cotton Mather intimates that John of Dedham was "eosin" to Ezekiel of Rowley. Oousin would seem to be an uncertain designation. Neither is it by any means a well ascertained fact that Richard of Weathersfield, was a son of the Martyr.-PuB. C01\I. HIST. & GEN. REG.

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY OF THE PRATT FAMILY. Phineas Pratt died in Charlestown, April 19, 1680, aged 90. He was. one of the "first English Planters of New England." He came over il1 Weston's company about 1622. He saved Weston's men from exterminati", by informing the Plymouth colonists of the" straits his associates were jn. Aaron Pratt, his son, died at Cohasset, February 25, 1735, aged 81. _, Aaron Pratt, 2d, died l\'Iarch 28, 1766, aged 76. Thomas Pratt, son oi Aaron 2d, died October, 1818, aged 83. Benjamin Pratt, now living i'.· Coh~ssett, age~ 84, has now living six brothers and sisters, whose averagl~ age IS '76. Aaron Pratt 3d son of Aaron Pratt 2d, has nine children no'\\ living, whose average age is 76 years and six months. The average aO'e, of the fathers of five generations is nearly 83 years. 0 Ephriaim Pratt of Plymouth, died 1804, aged 116. His descendants numbered nearly 1500. Jonathan Pratt died at Cohassett ao'ed 94. Une other member of the Pratt family lived to the age of 100.' 0 .A genealogy of this family is now being prepared for publication. The Pratt family have been mostly farmers of industrious habits and have made little or no use of medicine. - Puritan 0/ Recorder. '

London, Nov. 12th, 1783.-Yesterday, John Adams, Esq. the Ameri­ can Commissio?-er, made his appearance in th~ House of Lords, by th( members of whICh 3;ugust body, he w,as treat~d WIth every mark of respect. !he famous Ben,edtct ~rnold, ,e~perienced dl~erent usage, when he fourill It prudent to retIre WIth preCIpItancy, after Just peeping into the House. This shows the natural abhorrence entertained by m,ank j;q--l " apostacy. - Massachusetts'J$py, 8 {an. 1784. ' ..