THE FALES FAMILY
OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND
ANCESTRY OF HALIBURTON FALES OF NEW YORK
BY DE COURSEY FALES, A. B.t LL. B.
PRIVATELY PRINTED 1919
To
My NEPHEW AND GODSON
SAMUEL FALES
OF THE TENTH GENERA·r10N
I LOVINGLY DEDICATE
THIS BOOK
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I have great pleasure in acknowledging here the able and untiring assistance in my authorship of this book of my friend Doctor Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, author of many volumes of prose and verse, eminent successor in the field of Nova Scotia history of my distinguished relative Honorable Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton. DE COURSEY FALES. NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER, 1919.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE FALES FAMILY 9-158 FIRST GENERATION 9 SECOND GENERATION . . 23 THIRD GENERATION 31 FOURTH GENERATION 49 FIFTH GENERATION 55 SIXTH GENERATION 81
SEVENTH GENERATION . 123 EIGHTH GENERATION 151 ADDITIONAL NOTES 1 53 THE HALIBURTON FAMILY . 159-217 NOTES ON THE OTIS FAMILY 199 SOME HALIBURTON LETTERS . 205
THE MAYFLOWER ANCESTORS OF HALIBURTON
FALES . 219-222 VARIO US ANCESTRIES OF HALIBURTON FALES . 223-247 WILLS AND INVENTORIES . 249-305 INDEX • . 307-332
ILLUSTRATIONS
SAMUEL FALES, 1775-1848 . . Facing Title Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, Painted in 1806
HOUSE OF NEHEMIAH AND DAVID FALES • . • 48 COLONNADE Row, BosToN . . . go
MRS. SAMUEL FALES, 1773-1839 • 94 Portrait by Alvan Clark
STEPHEN SMITH FALES, 1783-1839 • 119 Portrait, Painted in Holland in 1804
Lucy ANN CHARLOTTE AuGus-rA FALES (MRs. ANDREW DUNLAP), 1802-1887 123 Portrait by G. P. A. Healy SAMUEL FALES DUNLAP, 1825-r905 127 Portrait by G. P. A. Healy
SAMUEL BRADFORD FALES, 1804-1880
HALmURTON FALES, 1815-1869 . Portrait by G. P. A. Healy HALmuRTON FALES, 2n r51 Portrait by Herman G. Herkomer, Painted in 1910
HALIBURTON FALES, 3D • Portrait by Underwood and Underwood
DE COURSEY FALES 158 Portrait by Lydia Field Emmett, Painted in 1919
JUDGE THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON, 1796-1865 r88
THE FALES FAMILY
FIRST GENERATION THE New England Fales family is one of the large interesting group of English Puritan families that settled and were long conspicuous in the now ancient town of Dedham, Massachusetts, a town among the rich est in historical traditions of all the early settled eastern Massachusetts towns.
I }AMES 1 FALES was settled in Dedham at least as --- ...... ~ - .. ·- - -~ early as 1651, for the Selectmen's records of that year give his name as one of the inhabitants to be called to the general Town Meeting. What his native place in England was we do not certainly know, although a state ment came many years ago into print that he was di rectly from Chester, either from the city or somewhere else in the county, we do not know which. After care fully examining Omerod's notable "History of Chester" and other \vorks on the county and the town we are convinced that wherever the chief location of the Fales family in England may have been, it was not the county 10 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY of Cheshire, though of course the founder of the Ne,v England family himself may have lived there and from there have come dire~tly to Massachusetts as the state ment we have referred to says. In Guppy's " Homes of Family Names", we find the name "Failes" given as more or less common in the county of Norfolk, but in Suckling's " Antiquities of the county of Suffolk", we find a John "Fale" mentioned as Rector of the parish of Flixton in that county in the year 1 5 1 1.* In a list of clergymen ejected from their livings in Suffolk by the " Presbyterian Anabaptist, and other religious sects and parties, " between 1643 and 1646, appears the name of a Rev. J. "Fale" of Fressingfield,t and in a list of names in the parish of Dennington, Suffolk, of men who prom ised in 1651 to be loyal to the Commonwealth, is the familiar name "Thomas Fales"·+ . In our search for some traces of the Fales family in Chester, we have examined, for instance, "A List of the Freeholders in Cheshire _in 1578 ", and·" A List of the Wills, Inventories, etc., now preserve~ at the Diocesan Registry, Chester, from the year 1621 to the year 1700, inclusive" (printed for the Record Society for the publi cation of original documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire in 1902), and in these important works we do not find the name Fales once mentioned. A certain member of some branch of the Dedham Fales family, * Suckling's " Antiquities of the County of Suffolk," page 352. t Hollingsworth's "History of Stowmarket," Suffolk, page 17 5. + See the " New Eng1and Historical and Genealogical Register," vol ume 44, page 366. FIRST GENERATION 11 not the Bristol branch, once wrote in a private letter : " The family comes from Chester, England, and takes its name from or gives its name to the river Fales, a rivulet about fifteen feet wide. It took me a year to find it." If such a stream as the ''river Fales" exists in Cheshire, it is too insignificant for Omerod, who dis cusses the rivers of Cheshire at some length, to mention, and we have found no evidence whatever to make us believe that any Fales family ever existed in the county at all. The origin of the name Fales, as of many other Eng lish surnames, is very doubtful. Barber's " British Family Names, their Origin and Meaning", makes it possibly originate, like "Falls" and "Fallows", in the Norman name "Falaise ", which is kindred to the Flem ish "Fallais ", "Falise ", or "Falloise "; or else in the Anglo-Saxon "Felce". In Baring-Gould's entertaining "Family Names and their History", we find the conjec ture that it is identical with the ancient Norman word "Fail" or "Fayle ", which this author says is the Nor man name of our familiar Beech tree. On the 11th of January, 1654-5, a little more than three years from the date of the meeting at which the name of Jam._es..Fale.s was presented as one of the inhab itants of Dedham, he, John Houghton, and Jonathan Fair banks, Jr., were formally admitted "townsmen", and no doubt, immediately thereafter appended their names to the Covenant of the Town. It has frequently been stated in print that Fales sl_g~~d the Covenant at the 12 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY incorporation of the town in 1636, but while the Cove nant was drawn up at the time of the incorporation, and signed by all the men who were then candidates for permanent residence in Dedham, it is evident that many of the signatures we find appended to it as it appears in the Dedham Archives were added much later, James Fales's, with John Houghton's and Jonathan Fairbanks's, being appended only when these men were formally ad mitted townsmen.* Precisely how soon after his settlement in Dedham, James Fales received his first allotment of land there, we have found no record to show, but it was probably very soon. In any case, on his marriage in 1655 he would have been entitled to a grant, for the first settlers of Dedham agreed, says the historian of the town, "that each married man should have a house lot of twelve acres, part upland and part meadow." At a town meet ing held on the 23d of January, 1656, he was given also a share of thirty-eight and a half acres in· the town's com mon lands, and on the 10th of March, 1657, he was granted three acres of land more. At the time of his grant of common land, his previous estate was declared to be worth forty-two pounds, sixteen shillings. Where he received his first land and built his earliest house does not seen1 doubtful, his house was built in the
* The Covenant of the town was not the Covenant of the church, it was, however, an agreement which men signed at their formal admission to residence, that they would live righteously and in Christian charity with their fellow townsmen. See the printed Dedham records. FIRST GENERATION 13 south-eastern part of Dedham, in what is now known as the Ashcroft section, on the present Cedar Street, and it is likely that it stood on the site of a well remem bered Fales house on Cedar Street that was taken down in 1874. As early as 1663, however, Mr. Fales removed to what is now the centre of the town of Wal pole, a location from six to eight miles distant, in a south-westerly direction, from the place where he had first lived. The only near neighbors he had in this new home ,vere Thomas Clap, Samuel Parker, and Quinton Stockwell, all like him with families constantly increasing in size. In the Dedham records in 1663, we find the following entry which shows us how and when he received part of his Walpole lands: "Granted unto James Vales a perceil of Lande att ye easte end of ye Lands hee have at att ye Sawe Mille in sattisfaction for his purchis Lande that was due to ye halfe Lott he live uppon, as it shall be layd out by Joshua Fisher and Edwarde Richardes." In a history of. the town of Wal pole, recently published, we find mention of the building of a saw-mill in this part of Dedham, and the History then goes on to say: "The first human habitation built by the early settlers in what is now Walpole territory, in all probability was at or near this old mill, followed by that of James Fales, on Spice or Spring Brook, to whom, according to first records, the Indians became a constant menace and source of danger." In 1670, the History further tells us, "our first settler, James Fales", was chosen surveyor of a tract of land in the town called 14 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Woollomonpuck, the records calling him in this relation, "surveyor for ye Familyes att ye Sawe Mille and Wollo- 1nonuppoage."* In 1677, James Fales, senior's, dwelling house was valued at five pounds, James Fales, junior's at two pounds, and their neighbors, Thomas Clap's and Samuel Parker's, each, at two pounds. An interesting article in the Dedham Historical Regis ter, volume 1, pages 106-108, by Mr. George W. Humphrey, written about 1890, is devoted to a group of old chestnut trees, which were long striking objects in the Dedham landscape, and these trees, the writer says, are believed to have stood on land that was first owned by James Fales. "The old chestnuts", writes Mr. Humphrey, "so familiar to residents of Dedham, and of which we present a pen and ink sketch by Henry Hitchings, are upon the farm owned by Ebenezer Paul, on Cedar Street, in the eastern part of the town. At * The volume from which the above quotations are made is entitled "A History of Walpole, Massachusetts, from Earliest Times". It is by Isaac Newton Lewis, A.M., LL.B., and was published by the First Historical Society of Walpole, in 1905. This History says: "Dedham and Dorches ter, ranging side by side from north to south, with their division line in what is now Walpole territory, were among the first municipal corporations of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in America. The former was called 'Contentment', the latter 'Dorchester New Grants' or 'Grants be yonde the Blew Hilles'." From the original town of Dedham, in Suffolk County, were set off, Medfield in 1650, Needham in 1711, Bellingham in 1719, Walpole in 1724, Dover in 1784, and from Bellingham, Wrentha1n in 1735. Suffolk County was incorporated May 10, 1643, Norfolk County, in which most at least of the old town of Dedham now is, was not incor porated until March 26, I 793. Consequently the early Dedham Probate Records are to be found in Boston. FIRST GENERATION 15 the present time there are but two trees standing out of a group of five or six, which thirty years ago \Vere apparently in the full vigor of life, and these two are now dead. The largest one measured twenty-two feet and six inches in circumference, at a distance of about four feet upon the ground. At five feet a large branch strikes out, and above this the circumference is increased to twenty-four feet, while its companion is fifteen feet in circumference at the same distance from the ground. The height of the trees is about eighty feet and they are nearly as broad as they are tall. The age of the larger one, judging by the average yearly growth of the chestnut, may be about two hundred and fifteen years. These trees are first mentioned in a tra dition of the Fales family, as nut-bearing, and as a play place or resort in the boyhood of Samuel Fales, who was born in 1746-7. This shows that even in that day they were large enough to attract attention. They seem today fitting representatives of the grand old for ests which existed at the birth of the town, before the woodman's axe first disturbed this solitude." " According to a tradition in the Fales family, " continues Mr. Humphrey, "the land upon which these trees stand was first owned by James Fales, who came to America from Chester, England. The date of his birth is unknown. He married in Dedham, July 28, 1655, Ann Brock, sister of Rev. John Brock of the Isles of Shoals, and daughter of Henry Brock." With evi dent inaccuracy Mr. Humphrey continues: " Mr. Fales 16 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY built a house on what is now Sprague Street, opposite Greenlodge Street. " The land on which the trees stood, this writer adds, passed from the first James Fales to his son, James, from him to his son Captain. David Fales, from him to Deacon Samuel Fales, from him to his only child Nancy Fales, who was married first to Deacon Joseph Swan, Jr., secondly to Joseph Daniels, from her to her daughter Adeline Swan, who became the wife of Leonard Alden, and from her to her son Samuel Fales Alden, from whose ownership it passed to Ebenezer Paul. The exact age of James Fales when he came to Dedham, we have no means whatever of knowing, but from the fact that when he died in July, 1 708, he is called in the town records "James Fales the aged", we may reasonably consider that he was -at his coming somewhere between twenty-six and thirty-three years old.* On the 28th of July, 1655, a little less than seven months after he became a townsman, as ·Mr. Humphrey's article states, he married Anne Brock, younger daughtei: of Henry and Elizabeth Brock of Dedham, and as the issue of the marriage he had probably eight children. Of the births of all of these except Peter, who is believed to have been a son of Anne as we know he was of James, we have a clear record in the archives of the town, the baptisms of the first two, James and John, being also • There is apparently a tradition in the family that Fales was over ninety when he died, if this was so he must have been born somewhere about 1618. FIRST GENERATION 17 recorded in what remain to us of the church registers.* Whoever of these children were baptized, and we sup pose all were, in the Dedham church, were baptized, it is likely, on the ground of their mother's church membership, this we know being true in the cases of the sons James and John. It is possible that James Faies himself may never have become a church member, but that he may have done so before 167 3, is possible, for on the 7th of May of that year he was admitted a freeman of the colony, and church membership was long prerequisite to .this priv ilege ~nd the standing it gave. Anne Fales, wife of James, was admitted to church membership on the 25th of May, 1656. The lack of uniformity in the spelling of proper names in England and among the early American colonists who came from England in the seventeenth century has often been remarked, and a conspicuous il lustration of it is seen in the records concerning the Fales family that Dedham has preserved. Whether the signature of James Fales attached to the covenant of the town as we find it displayed in the local archives is an autograph or not, the spelling is clearly "Vales". A strong though rather inelegant signature of James Fales, which is undoubtedly an autograph, appears in the Massachusetts State Archives appended to a petition to
* Book 2 of the Dedham church records having been lost many years ago, we have no record of baptisms in Dedham from May, 1671, to May, 1724. 18 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY the General Court for the establishment of a township on the northerly side of the Charles river, under date of May 7, 1662. In this instance our Dedham colonist writes his name plainly, "Fales". In a declaration of Dedham inhabitants to the General Court on the 3rd of May, 1665, however, his signature, which is so small and cramped as to be almost undecipherable, seems to be and is generally considered "Vayles ".* In the various early local records of Dedham the name is more fre quently spelled Vales (or Vale) than Fales, but it like wise occasionally appears as "Falls". In the deed of his property which James Fales gave his son Ebenezer on the 14th of July, 1705, although we have not the orig inal document, the copy which appears in the registry of deeds gives the name uniformly throughout the in strument and in the signatures of both the grantor and his wife as Fale. To this instrument, possibly because of age and ill health, both Fales and his wife make only their mark. In the muster rolls of the French and Indian war, in which a good many young men of the Dedham Fales family served, the name is spelt in an amusing variety of ways. It appears as Bail, Failes, Faills, Fails, Fales, Falle, Falles, Falls, Vaile, and Vails. In the records of the second and third genera tions of the family as always, we believe, in still later
* For the first of these autographs see Massachusetts Archives, volume 112, page 142, for the second, Massachusetts Archives, volume 106, page I 10. The signature in the first is reproduced in Hill's Dedham "Town and Selectmen's Records ", volume 3, page 22 1. FIRST GENERATION 19 times, the name is so uniformly spelled Fales that we can hardly doubt that that was originally the name in England. James Fales* " the aged" died, the Dedham records tell us, July 10, 1708; his widow, Anne Fales, died December 22, 1712. Fales died intestate, for on the 14th of July, 1705, he and his \vife Anne "out of that love we have and do bear to Ebenezer Fale of said town of Dedham, and on account of that trust we do repose in him to provide for us \vhat is suitable the term of our life," gave to their youngest son, Ebenezer, and his heirs and assigns forever " all and in singular the whole of our housing and lands and stock." The Brock family into which James Fales married, Cotton Mather in his " Magnalia" tells us came from Stradbroke, in Suffolk, about 1637, but the most con spicuous home of this family was clearly the county of Chester. In Omerod's History of Chester (volume 2, page 444) we find given a pedigree of " B:r.9c;k of Upton ", compiled from the visitation of 1663 and from monu- 1nents and parochial registers, which shows the family's i1nportance in Chester. In an appendix to Glover's Visitation of Cheshire in 1580 we find John Brocke of Upton, gentleman, marrying Anne Gamal somewhere about 1590, while Omerod makes the founder of the family he describes a John Brocke of Upton, whose wife was Parnel Vawdrey. Whether Henry Brock of * ln the record of his death James Fales's name seems to be spelt " Falls " 20 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Dedham was of this Chester family or not we do not know, if he ,vas, he may have had a right to its arms, which, allowed by Dugdale in 1663, were: "Gules, on a chief Argent, a lion passant Gules." Crest: "A demi lion rampant, Gules, in the dexter paw a dart, Or, feath ered Gules." The records we have of the family of Henry Brock of Dedham, give as its members only himself and his wife Elizabeth, and their three children, a son John and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne. John Brock, the only son of the family, was born, so Mather says, in Strad broke in 1620, came to New England when he was about seventeen, was received into the Dedham church, April 3, 1640, was admitted to Harvard College we suppose in 1642, and was graduated at that college in 1646. Two years after graduation he entered the Congre gational ministry and began to preach at Rowley. From this Massachusetts town he soon went to the Isles of Shoals, but in 1662 he became pastor of ·the church at Reading. In this sacred office he died June 18, 1688. Who his first wife was we do not know, but he had of this marriage a daughter who was married to a Mr. Baker; apparently he had no sons. His predecessor in the pastorate of the Reading church was the Rev. Samuel Haugh, and this clergyman's widow he married for a second wife. Rev. John Brock made his will at Reading on the 13th of June, 1688, and this testament was admitted to probate November 6, 1688. In making his will he remembers his two "dear sisters", Elizabeth FIRST GENERATION 21
Gowen and Anna Fales. The first chapter of the fourth book of Cotton Mather's famous " Magnalia" is entirely devoted to the life of the Rev. John Brock. In his biography Mather classes his subject among the "learned men who have been the issue and the honour of Har vard College." Of Brock's piety he says appreciatively, his goodne~s was above his learning, and his chief learn ing was his goodness. Of the two daughters of Henry Brock, who like their brother were probabli ~~orn in England, Elizabeth was married in Dedham October 31, 1644, to Robert Gowen, and Anne bec~e James Fales's \vife. The ,vife of Henry Brock, mother of his children, as we suppose, was received into the Dedham church March 29, 1660, Henry Brock himself was received . .-into the church De cember 24, 1641. Henry Brock.made his will April 22, 1646, and this instrument was admitted to probate October 19, 16 5 2. In his will the testator mentions his wife Elizabeth, his son John, and both his daughters, Elizabeth and Anne. Henry Brock and his wife are said in the Dedham town record to have died in 1652, but at precisely what times in the year the records do not say.
Children of James1 and Anne (Brock):
2 i. James/ born July 4, baptized July 5, 1656; married Deborah Fisher. 3 ii. John, born October 5, baptized October 17, 1658; married Abigail Hawes. 22 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
u1. Mary, born August 30, 1664. 4 iv. Peter, born 1668 (probably); married Abigail Robbins. v. Hannah, born January 16, 1672-3; married January 22, 1691, to Thomas Bacon. She died at Wrentham in April, 1 7 1 I . vi. Martha, born October 28, 1675; married May 7, 1701, to Joseph Cowell. vii. Rachel, born June 19, 1680. 5 viii. Ebenezer, born February 1, 1681-2; married ( 1) Deb- orah , ( 2) Sarah SECOND GENERATION
2 1 1 2 JAMES FALES (James ), eldest son of James and Anne (Brock) Fales, was born in Dedham July 4, 1656, and baptized there the next day. He married in Ded ham October 20, 1679, Deborah Fisher, baptized Febru ary 24, 1661, daughter of Anthony and Joanna (Faxon) Fisher, and became the owner of a valuable property in the part of Dedham that after other towns had been set off from the original plantation still remained Dedham. Like his father he lived to an advanced age, like him also taking a prominent part in all local public affairs. No record of military service performed by him, we be lieve, remains. In the Massachusetts Archives (volume 112, page 142) under date of May 7, 1662, as we have said, is a petition signed by James Fales and others, where a strong, clear autograph of Fales may be seen. James2 Fales made his will December 29, 1741 (proved April 6, 1742), in it mentioning his wife Deborah, and his children in the order of th~ir births. This order is: James; (the heirs of) Samuel; Stephen; Timothy; Nehemiah; Nathaniel; Deborah ; and David. He mentions also his grand-daughter Sil~nce, daughter of his deceased son Samuel. His sons Stephen and Nehemiah he appoints his executors. He died March 24 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
4 or 5, 1741-2; when his widow Deborah died we do not know. Deborah Fisher, wife of James2 Fales, was the sixth child of Anthony Fisher, 3d. (Anthony, Anthony), of Dedham, and his wife Joanna (Faxon), and was baptized in Dedham, as we have said, February 24, 1661. Her father came to New England with his parents Anthony, 2nd, and his first wife Mary, from Syleham, County Suffolk, England, in the ship Rose, arriving at Boston, June 26, 1637. Settling in Dedham, the Fisher family at once took rank among the most influential families of the town, in time, like the Faleses intermarrying with most of the other important families.* Children of James 2 and Deborah ( Fisher) :
6 i. James3, born August 13, 1680; married ii. Samuel, born December 29, 1683. 7 iii. Stephen, (1) married Anna , (2) Abigail (Brackett) Eaton. 8 iv. Timothy, born August 18,t 1690; married Alethea Paine. 9 v_. Nehemiah, married Mary Carew. vi. Deborah, married November 1, 1720, or February 23, 1721, ~ both dates being given, to Mr. Matthew Barnard of Boston. * The Fisher Genealogy was published in Everett, Massachusetts, by Philip Adsit Fisher, in 1898. See also the Dedha1n Historical Register, vol. 3, pp. 187-192. t We take this date not from any public record but from manuscript notes kindly furnished us by Mrs. Evelin Bradford Bache of Bristol. SECOND GENERATION 25
10 vii. David, born 1702; married ( 1) Sarah Metcalf, (2) Mrs. Mary Damon.
2 1 3 J OHN FALES (/ames ), second son of James and Anne (Brock) Fales, was born in Dedham October 5, and baptized October 17, 1658. He married April 15 or June 20, 1684, Abigail Hawes, daughter of Edward and Eliony (Lumber) Hawes,* born at Wrentham October 2, 1662, died October 16, 1732, "in her 60th year." John2 Fales acquired property and lived in that part of Dedham that became Wrentham, where he died June 7, 1735. His will, made in Wrentham April I, r 7"35 and proved July 4 of the same year, makes clear that he had when he died but three sons, and we have no record of his ever having had daughters. "I having no wife," he says, "she being taken away by death and has left me three sons, therefore I do divide my estate among my three sons, and endeavour to make them as equal as I can, but I would have respect to my youngest son, who took care of me in my old age." He then bequeaths his property to his sons John, Joseph, and Daniel, in this order, each of whom he designates" my well-beloved son". He mentions also his son Joseph's daughter Abigail, to whom he leaves "a platter that was her grandmother's, marked E. H." A John Fales, possibly a member of the Wrentham family, was a member of a committee appointed by the legislature in 177 5 to provide a seal for the Province of * See the Dedham Historical Register, volume I (1890). 26 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Massachusetts. Other members of this committee were James Bowdoin, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, James Otis, John Adams, John Winthrop, Sam uel Adams, Charles Chauncy, and Thomas Adams. In all, there were twenty-eight. The recommendation they offered was accepted and the seal accordingly made.
Children of John2 and Abigail (Ha,ves):
i. John,3 born April 22, 1685. ij._. John, born April 17, 1689. iii. Joseph, born September 8, 169 1. iv. Daniel, born December 4, 1699.
3 1 4 PETER FALES (/ames ), who we suppose was the third son of James1 and Anne (Brock) Fales, is said to have been born some time in 1668, and to have married, probably in 1689, Abigail Robbins, who we suppose was a sister of William Robbins of Reading and Ded ham, whose wife was Priscilla (Going). Although no record of Peter's birth has been found, we know from a deed he gave his son-in-law Ebenezer Robbins in 1722, in which he mentions the fact, that he was James Fales's son. Peter Fales settled near his father in the Walpole section of Dedham, and there after his death his son P eter3 continued to live. The elder Peter Fales died intestate at Walpole, August 10, 1725, and an order for the distribution of his estate was given by the judge of probate, Samuel Sewall, July 17, 1727. In this order SECOND GENERATION . 27 his children as given below are all mentioned. Abigail Fales, wife of Peter,2 survived her husband, but for how many years we do not know.*
Children of Peter2 and Abigail (Robbins): i. Peter,3 Jr., born August 18, 1690, married July 30, 1724, Sarah Allen of Weston. ii. Abigail, born June 21, 1692, married to Benjamin Gill of Stoughton. 111. Sarah, born December 18, 1694, married to Benjamin Morse of Wrentham. 1v. Hannah, born September 7, 1696, married to Edward Baily of Dorchester. v. Mary, born 1698, married January 12, 1719-20, to Ebenezer Robbins of Walpole, son of William and Priscilla (Goicg) Robbins. vi. Elizabeth, born February 2, 1701-2, married January 4, 172 7-8, to Robert Allen. .. Vil. Jemima, born April 20, 1707, married September 23, 1731, to Peter Lyon, Jr., of Walpole. On the 17th of April, 1727, Jemima Fales, "a minor, aged • In Bristol, Rhode Island, records, facts are to be found concerning a family of Faleses_ there, descended from Peter, conspicuous mention of which is made in " Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island", in three volumes, published by J. H. Beers and Co. of Chicago in 1908. It is from the record given in volume three of this publication (pages 1424-1428) that we have decided on Peter's place in the Dedham Fales family. Other recent works giving light on certain branches of the Dedham family are: " Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts", published by the Lewis Publishing Company in four volumes ; and " Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the State of Massachusetts", in four volumes, published by the same company. 28 THE BRISTOL FALES FAivIILY
about twenty years," her father being dead petitioned the court to have Daniel Morse of Walpole appointed guardian for her during her minority. Her petition was granted.
2 1 1 S EBENEZER FALES (James ), youngest son of James and Anne (Brock) Fales was born in Dedham February 1, 1681-2, and as we have seen succeeded to the chief part of his father's estate. In the town of Walpole he became a highly important man, taking a prominent part in all public affairs and having many local trusts reposed in him. When early in 1724 it was decided in Dedham to petition the General Court to set off as a separate town the district in which he lived, he was ap pointed one of the seven petitioners. On the 10th of December, 1724, the General Court ord~red that "Mr. Ebenezer Fales, a principal inhabitant of the town of Walpole, be and hereby is directed and impowered to Notify and Summon the Inhabitants duly Qualified for Voting, to assemble and to meet together for choosing of Town Officers to stand unto the next Annual Election according to Law." At the meeting convened in accord ance with this order Mr. Fales was chosen moderator. On the 30th of March, 1725, he was one of a committee appointed to arrange for and oversee the building of a meeting house. In April, 1725, he was one of two men in Walpole chosen to serve ,vi th a committee of Dor chester men to settle the boundaries between Walpole and Dorchester. In January, 1726, he was chosen as SECOND GENERATION 29 receiver of the Town's money, and in May of the same year he was appointed one of t,vo persons to ask the Rev. Joseph Belcher to become pastor of the newly established Walpole church. For the building of the meeting-house Mr. Fales contributed the largest sum of any of the Walpole citizens except one, his contribution being eight pounds, fifteen shillings, and elevenpence. For a parsonage for Mr. Belcher, he and Thomas Clap, on the to,vn's authority, purchased "the old Peter Fales place." As early as 1733 he was appointed one of the deacons of the church. Deacon Ebenezer2 Fales married twice, but promi nent as he was in Walpole we do not know the maiden name of either of his wives. His first wife's Christian name was Deborah, and his second ,vife's Sarah. Deacon Fales made his will July 11, 1754 (proved Au gust 1, 17 55), mentioning in it his well-beloved wife Sarah, and his beloved sons Ebenezer, Jonathan and James. The last of these sons he appoints his sole executor. Of himself he says, he is "indisposed in body by reason of lameness, but of sound disposing mind and memory." He died July 19, 1755; his wife Sarah predeceased him by five days. Concerning some of the descendants of Deacon Ebenezer2 Fales much imformation is given in Cutter's "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts," volume 2, pages 650-652. In the Revolutionary struggle thirteen Faleses of Wal pole served their country's cause. 30 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Children of Ebenezer2 and Deborah :
1. Ebenezer,3 born May 28, 1712; married August 8, 1733, ~Iary Fales, daughter of James3 (Jame.r, 1 James ). ii. Benjamin, born July 1, 1714; died April 22, 1731. iii. Jonathan, born June I 8, 17 I 7.
Children of Ebenezer2 and Sarah :
iv. James, born June 5, I 720. v. Sarah, died May 14, 1723. THIRD GENERATION
3 1 6 ]AMES FALES (James,2 James ), eldest son of James2 and Deborah (Fisher) Fales, was born August 13, 1680, and died January 19, 1770. He made his will April 19~ 1768 (proved February 2, 1770), in it mention ing his son Eliphalet, and his grandsons, Ebenezer, Benjamin, Eliphalet, and Jonathan Fales, and his grand daughters Mary Smith, Sarah Fales, and Deborah Fales, all of whom were children of his deceased daugh ter Mary, who had been married, as we have previously shown, to his first cousin Ebenezer Fales, Jr., son of his uncle Eb~nezer.2 To her father's first cousin, Mary Fales had been married August 8, 1733. The name of James3 Fales's wife we do not know. From unprinted Suffolk Court records we find that on the 21st of Sep tember, 1780, James Fales "timberman", who we sup pose was James3 rather than James,2 brought suit against John Martin of Andover, claiming that Martin had re ceived money from him for timber, which the Andover man had not delivered.
Children of J ames3 and i. Eliphal et.4 ii. Mary, married to Ebenezer3 Fales. 32 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
3 2 1 7 5TEPHEN FALES (James, James ), third son of James2 and Deborah (Fisher) Fales, was born at some date between December, 1683, and January, 1690. He married ( 1) Anna , ,vho was admitted to the Ded~m church April 30, 1726, and who is recorded as having died March 18, 1752. He married (2) May 20 or 28, 17 54, Mrs. Abigail (Brackett) Eaton, born December 21, 1713, daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail Brackett, and widow of William Eaton of Dedham, to whom she had been married February 15, 1738.* Stephen Fales died probably early in 1770, for administration on his estate was granted his son Stephen February 9, 1770. Mrs. Abigail Fales died in Dedham February 8, 1789.
Children of Stephen3 and Anna: i. Stephen,4 Jr., born June 7, 1722, baptized April 24, I 726 ; married October 18, 1748, Margaret Metcalf, bornf.( q5tober 9, 1725, daughter. of Nathaniel and MaryJ\letcalf. Stephen• Fales died probably early in 1788, for his widow Margaret was concerned in the settlement of his estate in April, 1788. Marga ret Fales, wife of Stephen, was received into the Dedham church April 28, 1765. She died Novem ber 19, I 800, "of a palsy". ii. Anna, baptized April 24, 1726, was married January 3, 1739-40, to John Fuller. iii. Deborah, baptized April 24, 1726, was married Novem ber 2 I, I 74 5, to Jeremiah Whiting, Jr. * See "Eaton Family of Dedham", by John Eaton Alden, reprinted from the " Dedham Historical Register " in I 900. William Eaton died March 22, 1 75 I. THIRD GENERATION 33
Children of Stephen3 and Abigail (Brackett) : iv. Joshua, born May 6, 1755. v. Abigail, born March 17, 1757.
3 1 8 T1MOTHY FALES (James,2 James ), fourth son of James2 and Deborah (Fisher) Fales, was born in Ded ham probably August 18, 1690, and died at Taunton, April 30, 1777. Educated at first in the schools of Dedham, probably under schoolmasters who were grad uates of Harvard, he himself entered Harvard, we sup pose in 1707, for he graduated there in 1711. In three years from the time of his graduation he received in course his master's degree. In 171 2 he went to Bristol, then a town of Massachusetts, but now of Rhode Island, into which State it was incorporated with Warren, Tiv erton, Little Compton, and Cumberland on the 27th of January, 1746-7.* It is said that Mr. Fales went first to Bristol to teach the children of a Judge Hubbard, who lived on the beautiful neck of land known as Poppa squash, but the next year after his coming there he became schoolmaster of the town, the people voting July 13, 1713, that if an agreement could be reached with him he be engaged as schoolmaster for a year. In 1717, we suppose, he married at Bristol, Alethea Paine born August 28, 1697, daughter of Hon. Nathaniel Paine, one of the first settlers of Bristol, and his ,vife * An act authorizing the placing of the records of Bristol County at Taunton was passed by the Massachusetts General Court, November 6, 17 46, consequently the earliest wills and deeds of Bristol, Rhode Island, are at Taunton. 34 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Dorothy (Rainsford), and as issue of the marriage had eight children. Mrs. Alethea Fales, who was received into the church by baptism May 13, 1741, died at Bristol, September 19, 17 4 7. Of the long, active career of Timothy Fales we have a good deal of knowledge. Whether he continued to teach at Bristol after the year for which he was first en gaged we cannot tell, but we know that very soon after, we suppose before his marriage, he entered for a few years on a seafaring life. How many years his appren ticeship to the sea lasted be£ ore he became captain of a ship we have found no records to show, but on the 13th of August, 1720, Isaac Gorham, formerly of Bristol but then of New Haven, Connecticut, deeded to "Captain Timothy Fales, mariner", a piece of property in Bristol, the consideration on the Captain's part being seventy pounds. On the 15th of April, 1720, Isaac Waldron of Bristol deeds Fales another piece of property, for a hun dred and eighty pounds, and on the 20th ·of June, 1721, Isaac Gorham again deeds him land (for twenty-eight pounds), and in both these deeds as in the first one, the grantee is called "Captain Timothy Fales, mariner." By 1724, however, Mr. Fales ~ust have permanently left the sea, for on the 23rd of June of that year we find him receiving a commission as justice of the peace. Similar commissions were given him October 10, 1729, January 12, 1738-9, March 1, 1743-4, and November 24, 1761. From June 15, 1725, to June 18, 1735, he was THIRD GENERATION 35 comn1issioned notary public nine times.* January 12, 1738-9, March 1, 1743-4, and November 24, 1761, he ,vas further commissioned Justice of the Quorum. Of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and the Court of Sessions of Bristol County the first session after the re moval of the courts from Bristol to Taunton was held on the 9th of December, 1747, and of both these courts Mr. Fales was appointed clerk. In the History of Bris tol County, Massachusetts, it is said that Samuel Fales, Timothy's grandson, was the second clerk of these courts, appointed to this double office in 177 4, we are theref ore left to suppose that Timothy Fales remained clerk of the two courts from 1747 until 1774. May 23, 1760, however, he ,vas appointed, together with George Leonard, Ephraim Leonard, and James Williams, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but this office he resigned January 24, 1761, "as he had assumed it to fill a vacancy." In 17 53, at its June term, the Superior Court "appointed George Leonard, Timothy Fails, and Sam uel White, Esquires, a committee to endeavor the more thorough strengthening and securing the Gaol, that if possible prisoners may not be able to make their escape by reason of insufficiency thereof." The Sessions records of Bristol County contain the following: " Bristol ss. To William Taber of Dartmouth Y eon1an Greeting: You are hereby required in his Majesty's name to make
* These dates are June 15, I 725, June 21, I 726, June 28, 1727, June 12, 1728, January 5, 1731, July 4, 1732, June 21, 1733, June 18, 1734, and June 18, I 735. 36 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY your appearance before George Leonard, Ephraim Leonard, and Timothy Fails, Esq., Gent. Referees at ye house of Mr. Jonathan Carver, in Taunton, ye 5th Day of this present July at one ye Clock in ye afternoon to give evidence of what to questions you shall be asked by ye above said Gentlemen Referees: Relating to the Refarance : hereof fail not as you will answer your de fault in ye pains and penalty in ye Law in that behalf made and provided. Dated at Dartmouth this 8th Day of July in ye 30th year of his Majesty's reign, A. D. 1756. " Benjamin Akin Town Clerk." Of the sea ventures in which Captain Fales embarked after he gave up teaching we should like to know much more than we do. The fact that in and after 1720 he was able gradually to acquire important properties shows that whatever ventures he made were highly successful. It is quite true that on the death of Mrs. Fales's father in 1723, his ·daughter and son-in-law received a portion of Mr. Paine's estate,* but it is quite evident that Captain Fales himself made a good deal of money b<:!fore he left the sea. As is very well known, at an early date Bristol began to be a conspicuous place of trade by schooners and sloops with the West Indies, and it is likely that
• On the 29th of l\iarch, I 73 5, Timothy Fales, Esq., and Alethea his wife deed to Jasiel Perry- a tract of land and cedar swamp at Attleborough which land had been set off to them in the division of their honoured father Nathaniel Paine's e&tate. THIRD GENER./\TION 37
Captain Fales during the years he spent on the sea was engaged chiefly in the West Indian trade.* At precisely ,vhat period of his life Captain Fales, like the other chief men of Bristol, began to own slaves we do not know, but for many years until his death he was a slave-owner. In his will, as ,ve shall see, he leaves his son Nathaniel, along with half his " stock of creatures ''. half his "outdoor moveables " in Bristol, half his wearing apparel and his gun and sword, his negro Sambo. To Jonathan, similarly, he leaves half his stock of creatures, half his outdoor moveables in Bristol, half his pew in the Bristol meeting-house, and his negro Ben. To his daugh ter Elizabeth, the child of his second marriage, he leaves two-thirds of the household goods in Taunton he had purchased since his marriage ,vith her mother, his best bed and furniture, his best looking-glass, a dozen leather chairs he had brought from Bristol, half his pew in the Taunton meeting-house, one cow and his negro boy London. In the inventory of his• estate after his death we do not find Sambo and Ben mentioned, for both had no doubt been disposed of after his will was made but before his death. As a matter of fact Sambo had clearly been given or sold to Nathaniel, for as we shall later see, • An entry jn the account book of William E1lery of Newport, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, dated September, I 72 5, has been found, which charges "Timothy Failes of Bristole" with one hogshead of rum, containing a hundred and sixteen gallons, at four and sixpence a gallon, the total charge being twenty-six pounds, two shillings. Whether this purchase of Mr. Fales was made before or after he left the sea we have no means of knowing. THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Nathaniel Fales lost a servant Sambo, by drowning or in a snow-storm, on the first of February, 1769. In the inventory of Timothy's estate we do find London men tioned, in the same line with the testator's brown mare, the negro's valuation being sixty pounds, while the brown mare's was only nine. A negro woman of " Captain Fales ", the Bristol town records tell us, died there on the 24th of September, 1742, and another negro woman of" Esquire Fales", we learn from the Taunton records, was drowned at Taunton sometime in October, 1770. Probably early in 1747, Timothy Fales removed from Bristol to Taunton, the inclusion of Bristol in the colony of Rhode Island in January, 1747, most likely making it desirable for him as an official of Bristol County, Massa chusetts, to reside in Taunton rather than in the town where he had spent so much of his life.* In Plymouth, on the 11th of July, 1748, he married as a second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, who was the daughter of Rev. James Gardner, deceased, formerly minister (for thirty two years) of the church at Marshfield, and widow of Nathaniel Thomas, Esq., of Plymouth,t of whom she • He gave a deed of property in Bristol, he being then in Bristol, in March, 1746. t Nathaniel Thomas's parents were Nathaniel Thomas and probably his second wife, Anna (Tisdale) Leonard, who died September, 1733, aged 61, and was buried in the North Burying Ground (" on the Plain") in Taunton. For Elizabeth Thomas's marriage to Timothy Fales see" Early Massachusetts 1(arriages prior to 1800 ", Book 2, page 1 1. Nathaniel and Lucy Thomas, young children of Elizabeth by Nathaniel Thomas, both died in 1743. See" Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth." THIRD GENERATION 39 had been the third wife, and to whom she had borne three children, Nathaniel in 1742, Lucy in 1743, and John in 1745. To Timothy Fales, Elizabeth (Gardner Thomas) bore one child, Elizabeth, who is conspicuous ly mentioned in her father's will. In the correspondence of General John Thomas of Kingston, Massachusetts, an eminent soldier of Plymouth County who died at Chambly, on the river Sorel, in Canada, where he had gone as commander-in-chief of an ill-fated expedition to that point in 1776, we find an in teresting autograph letter from Timothy Fales regarding his daughter Elizabeth. General Thomas had married Hannah Thomas, a step-sister of Elizabeth Fales, and after her mother's death in August, 1767, Elizabeth had evidently been more or less under Mrs. John Thomas's care. On the 27th of April, 1769, Elizabeth was at her sister's in Kingston but did not wish to remain there, and having received an appeal from his daughter to allow her to come home, Mr. Fales wrote General Thomas a very solicitous letter.* From the letter we learn that Elizabeth had been receiving marked atten tion, contrary to her father's judgment and strong wish, from some man, probably in Taunton, whom her father regarded as quite unworthy of her, and • This interesting letter of Timothy Fales is preserved in the unprinted correspondence of General John Thomas in the archives of the Massa chusetts Historical Society. For General Thomas's career, see Marcia Thomas's "Memorials of Marshfield", Davis's "Landmarks of Plymouth," and Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd series, vol. 18 (1903, 1904), pages 420, 421_ 40 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY had manifested a headstrong unwillingness to give the suitor up. How the affair ended we have not been able to discover, for soon after her father's death we entirely lose sight of Miss Fales. Complete knowledge of the properties o,vned by Timothy Fales in Bristol and Taunton may be had by critical examination of the deeds received or given by him in these towns where he lived. He began to buy land in 1721, and continued to buy and sell until as late as December 16, 1776. His latest transaction of this kind, we believe, was a sale he made of a piece of land with a smaU dwelling house on it in Taunton, on the date just mentioned, to his grandson Judge Samuel Fales. By his will he bequeathed his mansion house in T-aunton, with all the lands belonging to him in that town, which comprised "about twelve acres bought of Mr. Mason, de ceased, and the land bought of Thomas ·cobb, Esq., and also the land purchased of Mr. Benjamin Wilbore," to his daughter Elizabeth. On examining the deeds given him of these several properties we discover that on the 11th of June, 1755, he had bought two and a half acres and about nineteen rods, for £ 46. 13. 4, from Thomas Cobb, on the 30th of April, 1756, about twelve acres, for £75, from the heirs of Lieutenant John Mason, and on the 10th of March, 1758, for £17. 6. 8, three quarters of an acre from Benjamin Wilbore; thus. by following the description of the lands, as it is recorded, we could, if we tried discover the exact location of the lands he bequeaths his daughter, and not only so but the location THIRD GENERATION 41 of his Taunton house. Whether Elizabeth Fales really entered into possession of this valuable Taunton property we have not been able to discover, nor if she did how long she possessed it. We do know, however, that on the 8th of August, 1783, Nathaniel Fales, his father's sole executor, sold to Charles Barstow of Taunton, wig maker, for £ 6 5. 19. 6, "a certain tract of land with all ye buildings thereon in said Taunton," which had be longed to Timothy Fales's estate, and which we must believe was the property, including the mansion house, Timothy had left his daughter Elizabeth in his will. From this transaction, in which Elizabeth's name does not at all appear, we can hardly help believing that at the date of the sale of the Taunton property Elizabeth Fales was dead. Alethea Paine, the first wife of Timothy Fales, was the seventh child of Hon. Nathaniel2 Paine of Bristol, of the Rehoboth Paines, a councillor of Massachusetts for twenty years, and his wife Dorothy (Rainsford), a daughter of Jonathan Rainsford of Boston, and was born August 28, 1697. Hon. Nathaniel Paine was appointed a councillor of Massachusetts in 1 703, and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bristol County in 1710, both which positions he held until his death in 1723. For a few years before his death he was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Alethea's brother Stephen3 Paine graduated at Harvard in 172 r, and like wise became a judge of the Inferior Court ; her brother Nathaniel3, also, was an important public man. The 42 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY family which Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declar: ation of Independence, represented began not at Reho both, with Stephen Paine, but at Eastham, Massachusetts, with Thomas Paine, another English Puritan emigrant of the seventeenth century. The second wife of Timothy Fales died at Taunton August 21, 1767 ; a record of her death is preserved in the Taunton City Hall. Timothy Fales made his will at Taunton January 30, 1762, the witnesses attesting his signature being James Williams, Thomas Cobb, and Robert Treat Paine. As executors he appoints his wife, James Hovey of Plymouth, and his son Nathaniel Fales of Bristol. The will was proved at Taunton July 7, 1777, and administered by his son, who presented an inventory to the court on the 25th of February, 1779. The burial place of Timothy Fales was almost cer tainly" The Plain" in Taunton, what ·is now called the "North Burying Ground", but if his son Nathaniel ever erected a tombstone at his grave, the.tombstone has dis appeared. Nor can we find any stone to mark the grave of his second wife, Elizabeth, who was also probably buried there.*
* It has been thought by some of the descendants of Timothy Fales that their ancestor, although dying at Taunton was taken to Bristol for burial. This seems to us unlikely, among the few vital records preserved in the City Hall at Taunton is a statement left in writing by George God~ frey, a citizen of the town of much repute, that at the request of Mr. Fales's heirs he had acted as a bearer at the funeral of Timothy Fales. Mr. Godfrey gives the date of Mr. Fales's death as May 3 or 4, 1777, but he must mean by this the date of burial. THIRD GENERATION 43 In a sketch of Stephen Fales, one of the great-grand sons of Timothy (born May 3, 1790, died September 3, 1854), written by Colonel Albert H. Hoyt, M.A., we find the following: "Stephen Fales was a descendant of Timothy Fales of Bristol, Rhode Island, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 171 1, who was distinctly remembered by one of his own grandsons as a portly old gentlemen, wearing a cocked hat, a gold-headed cane, blue velvet coat and breeches, knee and shoe buckles, and a queue, in the style of Sir Roger de Coverley."* Of the Harvard Class of 1711, in which Timothy Fales was graduated, no faculty records remain, so we are entirely without information concerning Fales's college career. The class comprised twelve members, four or five of whom became ministers, one, Elisha Williams, becoming the third president of Yale College. The names of the members of the class, in the formal order in which the ancient catalogue gives them, are : William Sanford, John Rogers, Increase Walter, John Wain wright, Thomas Cushing, Joseph Russell, John Chip man, Elisha Williams, Samuel Blake, Joseph Dorr, Thomas Cheever, Timothy Fales.
Children of Timothy3 and Alethea (Paine): i. Timothy,• born September 14, 1718, baptized by Rev. Nathaniel Cotton some time in December, 1721, died in June, 1739. 11 ii. Nathaniel born July 4, 1720, married Sarah Little. • " Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," volume 2, pages 234-239. 44 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
111. Alethea, born August 2 5, baptized September 2, 1722, died probably July 20, 1733. iv. Mary, born September 12, 1724, married ( intention February 27, 1744) to William Bosworth. 12 v. Jonathan, born May 25, 1727, married Hannah Peck. VI. Deborah, born August 1, 1731, died unmarried August 22, 1799, "aged 68." In her will, made August 29, 1754, proved May 7, 1759, the widow Elizabeth Vernon of Bristol mentions her Kinsmen Jonathan Fales and his sister Deborah. On the I 1th of September, 1777, the Selectmen of Taunton, Rich ard Godfrey, Simeon Williams, Benjamin Williams, and Apollos Leonard, petition the Hon. George Leonard, Esq., Judge of Probate for Bristol County, Massachusetts, to appoint Nathaniel Fales, Esq., guardian to Deborah, his sister, she being a " non compos mentus person, and not of sufficient under standing to take care of the estate that was given her by her late father in his last will and testament." VII. Samuel, born September 28, 1733, died August 8, 1737. viii. A daughter, born probably in May, 1739, died July 1, 1740, "aged 14 months."*
Child of Timothy3 and Elizabeth (Thomas): 1x. Elizabeth. As both the town and church records of Taunton were burned in 1838, any public record there may have been of Elizabeth Fales's birth, *In the Bristol Vital Records we find it stated that a daughter of Captain Fales, who was probably Alethea, died July 20, 1733; a son, who was of course Samuel, died August 8, 1737 ; and a child died July I, 1740. THIRD GENERATION 45 baptism, marriage, or death has been destroyed. The latest knowledge we have concerning this daughter of Timothy Fales is of an agreement she made September 29, I 777, with Captain Pelatiah Eddy of Taunton for the services of the negro slave London her father had left her, for the remainder of the war of the Revolution. The instrument of agreement made by her with Captain Eddy is as follows : "Know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth Fales of Taunton in ye County of Bristol gentlewoman in consideration of -Ninety pounds Lawfull money paid me in hand by Pelatiah Eddy of Taunton aforesd gentn it being in full consideration for my negro servant named London who is about twenty four years of age and I do hereby acknowl edge my selfe fully satisfied and do hereby give sd London his time forward and do fully discharge sd London from me my heirs and assigns. The true meaning of what is above written is sd London is by my Consent engaging in ye Continental army for three years or during ye war & sd Eddy to pay me sd sum above mentioned for sd London serving for ye Company Lately commanded by Elisha Barney and is for sd servant engaging as above said this Instrument to be in full force & vertue as witness my hand & seal this 29th Day of September one thousand seven hundred seventy seven. "Elizabeth Fales "Seth Padelford Recorded October 6, I 777 per James Williams Regr " The subsequent fate of London, who appears as a private in the Continental Army, is told in print in 46 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
the record of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the war of the Revolution. London Fales, the record says, joined the army November 4, I 777, and died on the 15th of July, 1778.
3 1 9 NEHEMIAH FALES (James,2 James ), fifth son of James2 and Deborah (Fisher) Fales, was born probably about 1692, and married first, by Rev. Joseph Belcher, January 31, 1720-21, Mary Carew of Dedham. He married, secondly, by Rev. Samuel Dexter, June 27, 1745, Susannah Searls of Dedham. His will, made June 21, 1774, proved March 18, 1776, mentions his wife Susannah, his sons, Samuel and Nehemiah, his daughter Eleanor Douglas, his daughter Susannah Blake, and his granddaughter Mary Farrington, "on her mother's account". This granddaughter was the daughter of his deceased daughter Mary, who was born November 1, 1729, was married March 7, 1750-51 to Jonathan Farring ton,Jr., and died March 13, 1752. In the old Dedham burying ground are to be found tombstones to Nehemiah Fales, who died June 6, 1806, aged 57; to Sarah, his wife, who died May 22, 1845, aged 93; to Elizabeth Fales, daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah," who was found murdered May 18, 1801, in the 19th year of her age;" and to Timothy Fales, son of Nehemiah and Sarah, who died November 1, 1803, in his 23rd year. Until Septem ber, 1865, the descendants of Nehemiah3 Fales occupied a fine house on the present Cedar Street, which was built at some unknown period, probably on the site of the first James Fales's earliest house. Two illus- THIRD GENERATION 47 trations of the Fales house on Cedar Street, occupied by Nehemiah Fales's descendants until September, 1865 (said to have been the home also of Captain David3 Fales and his family) are to be found in the Dedham Historical Society's library. The house was taken down in August, 1874.
Children of N ehemiah3 and Mary (Carew):
i. Eleanor, ◄ born February 1, 1721-2, married to Douglas. ii. Samuel. iii. Nehemiah, born November 8, 1724. iv. Mary, born November 1, I 729, married March 7, 17 S1, to Jonathan Farrington, Jr.
Child of Nehemiah3 and Susannah (Searls): v. Susannah, born April I, 1746, married to Blake.
IO DAVID3 FALES (fames/ James1), sixth and young est son of James2 and Deborah (Fisher) Fales, was born it is said in 1702, and married, first, June 20, 1 728, by Rev. Samuel Dexter, Sarah Metcalf, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Metcalf, born December 1, 1703 ; secondly, March 5, 1745-6, by Rev. Samuel Dexter, Mrs. Mary Damon. "Captain" David Fales died January 23 or 24, 1793, aged, the town records say, " some years more than 90 " ; his widow Mary, "relict of Captain David Fales", died December 24, 1793. In his will, made April 23, 1789, proved February 12, 1793, David Fales, "gentleman", mentions his wife Mary, his sons Samuel and Nathaniel, his daughter Sarah Humphrey, widow of 48 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMIL\:y Jonas Humphrey, and his daughter Mary White, ,vife of John White. We have said that the Fales house on Cedar Street, which was taken down in 1874, was probably occupied not only by Nehemiah3 Fales and his family, but by Captain David3 Fales and his family. A memorandum found among the papers of Mr. Samuel6 Fales of Bos ton, says: " Nov. 18, r 788 I came to Boston in company with my Grandfather Nathaniel Fales, son of Timothy Fales of Bristol. We lodged at Mr. Nehemiah Fales in Dedham. Mr. Nehemiah occupied one half the house and Mr. Samuel Fales (late Deacon at Dedham) occupied the other half. If I recollect, Mr. David Fales, father of Samuel, lived with him, who I think my Grand father called his uncle David."
Children of David3 and Sarah (Metcalf)! i Sarah·t, married to Jonas Humphrey, and had a daugh ter Mary, married to Hon. John En~icott. ii. David, died July 24, 1736. iii. David, died February I 1, 1738-g. iv. David, born March 16, 1738-9. v. David, born February 28, 1742-3. vi. Samuel.
Child of David3 and Mary (Damon): vii. Nathaniel, born January 20, 1760, married February 17, 1780, Mary Everett of Dedham, and had a son Nathaniel,5 who settled at New London, ~ew Hamp shire.
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4 1 II Nathaniel Fales ( T£mothy,3 James,2 James ), second son of Timothy3 and Alethea (Paine) Fales, was born at Bristol July 4, 1720, and baptized some time in December 172 1. He married first ( date of marriage not recorded) Sarah Little, born October 15, 1718, daughter of Edward and Mary (Walker) Little of Bris tol, secondly November 21, 1791, Mrs. Ann (Pearse) Cary, born September 21, 1725, daughter of Richard, Jr., and Susanna (Lawtoh) Pearse of Bristol, and widow of Colonel Nathaniel Cary, who served with distinction in his native state in the Revolution, and who died prob ably in 1 784. Sarah (Little), first wife of Nathaniel Fales, died May 16, 1787, "aged 69 ". Ann (Pearse-Cary) Fales, second wife, died September 21, 1798, "aged 72".* Mr. Fales himself died December 3, 1801, "aged 82 ". Nathaniel Fales was one of the most prominent men not only in the County of Bristol but in the State of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century. He owned * Ann Pearse was Colonel Nathaniel Cary's second wife, his first wife was Elizabeth Wanton. Colonel Cary had an only daughter, Abigail, child of his first wife, who became the wife of William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 50 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY much property in Bristol and was foremost in all the chief activities of the county and the tovvn. In a vol ume recently published entitled " Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island" he is described as "one of the representatives in the Colonial Assembly for a number of years through the middle of the eighteenth century," his name, it is added, " appearing as of record as one of the committee of the town [ of Bris tol] appointed to take action relative to the occasion of the Boston "Tea Party."* In the General Assembly of Rhode Island he served as a deputy from Bristol in 1756, 1757, 1777, 1778, and 1784, in the first of these years being one of the deputies appointed as a commit tee "to proportion into the several counties in the colony the rate ordered to be assessed and levied on the inhabitants by the General Assembly." _ On the 18th of November, 1746, Taunton having five days before been made the county seat of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Fales was appo1nted clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and was sworn to the per formance of the duties of this double office. It was on December 9, 1747, however, that these courts met for the first time in Taunton, and when they did Nathaniel's • Later on, the writer of this article says of the Bristol Fales family at large:" The Fales name appears in the legislative halls of both the Colony and the State. Here, too, the family allied itself by marriage with some of the [other] first families of the town ... among them the Smiths, Howes, and Wardwells. Among the descendants of Timothy Fales were men who figured prominently in the maritime interests of that town and Cuba." FOURTH GENERATION 51 father Timothy was appointed clerk of both courts in stead of the younger man. From 1750 to 1756 Nathaniel Fales was a Justice of the Peace, but in the latter vear he was commissioned J a Justice of the Inferior Court. This commission he received twice again, in the years I 7 5 7 and 1761. In 1762 and continuously from 1765 to 1782 he served as Chief Justice of this court, the clerk of the court between 1772 and 1782 being his friend and neighbor Daniel Bradford. From 1784 to 1792 he was Vice-President of the " Catholic Congregational Society of Bristol", which body was incorporated in October, 1784. Judge Fales, like his father and others of his relatives in Bristol, owned slaves. A "servant" of his, Sambo, was drowned or lost in a snow storm February 1, 1769, and another "servant," Reuben, died April 30, 1786, aged 25. Of these two slaves, Sambo, as we have already seen, had been a slave of Judge Fales's father. Nathaniel Fales made his ,vill February 22, 1800 (proved December 22, 1801,) leaving his son Samuel sole execu tor. In the North Burying Ground in Bristol, near the graves of Nathaniel Fales, 2d, and his wife, rest on the ground flat tombstones, bearing inscriptions to the mem ory of Judge Fales and both of his wives. These inscrip tions are as fallows : "In me1nory of the Hon. Nathaniel Fales, Esq., who on the 3rd of Dec. 180 r, and in the 8 3d year of his age, ended an active and useful life. For n1any years he sus tained several important publick offices, the duties of 52 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY ,vhich he discharged with ability and fidelity. He 1nani fested through life a sincere regard for the institutions of the Christian Religion by constantly attending public worship and by maintaining devotional exercises in his family. In these and by a life of industry, temperance, and economy he has left an example worthy of imitation." "Here lies interr'd the Remains of Mrs. Sarah Fales, the amiable consort of Nathaniel Fales, Esq.; she de parted this life May 16th Anpo Domini 1787, in ye 69th year of her age." "Here lie the remains of Mrs. Ann Fales, consort of Nathaniel Fales, Esq.; ,vho departed this life September 21, 1798, in the 73d year of her age." The bodies of Judge Fales and his wives were almost certainly buried in the old burying ground near the Bris tol Common, and these tombstones at some later date re moved to the North burying ground.
Children of Nathaniel4 and Sarah (Littl_e):
i. Sarah,5 born February 12, 1740-1, married, March 22, I 764, to Colonel Peter Church, and bore him seven children. She was dead when her father's will was made. ii. Alethea, born March 6, 1742-3, married, March 20, 176 5, to Colonel William Throop, Jr., to whom she bore eighteen children. 111. Dorothea, born June Io, I 744, married, October 1 7, 1771, to Jonathan Diman, to ·whom she bore eight children. FOURTH GENERATION 53
13 1v. Timothy, born February 7, 1745-6, married Hannah Reynolds. v. Mary,5 born October 12, 1747, n1arried (I} to William Ingraham, (2) January 19, 1786, to Robert Peckham, to whom she bore three children. Her home as Mrs. Peckham we believe was in Petersham, Massachusetts. 14 VI. Nathaniel, born May r 1, r 7 49, married Elizabeth Bradford. 15 vii. Samuel, born September I 5, r 7 50, married Sarah Cook. 16 viii. Thomas, born October 22, 17 52, married Sarah Bowen. 1x. Elizabeth, born November 1 1, 17 54, married to Stephen Paine, to whom she bore one child Elizabeth. She also was dead when her father's will was made, but her daughter Elizabeth was living and was the wife of James W. Bridgham. The inscription on Mrs. Paine's tombstone in the North burying ground in Bristol is: "Here lies the body of the amiable Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Stephen Paine, and daughter of Nath1• Fales, Esq., of Bristol; who ended all her cares in quiet Death, January 17, A.D. 1777. In the 2 3 d year of her age.'' 17 x. Stephen, born April 15, 1756, married Hannah Smith. 18 xi. William, born March 6, 17 5 8, married Mary Smith. 19 xii. John, born June 13, 1760, married Martha Finney. x111. Hannah born October 13, 1763, married, as his second wife, October 2, I 790, to William Coggeshall, sixth in line of descent from Governor John Coggesha11 of Rhode Island, to whom she bore six children. Nathaniel Coggeshall, her fifth child, born February 5, 1800, died November 15, 1868, married for a second wife Harriette Turner Bradford, 54 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
daughter of Captain Leonard Jarvis Bradford and Sarah (Turner) his wife. Harriette Turner Brad ford was the seventh in descent from Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. To Nathaniel and Harriette Turner (Bradford) Cogge shall were born two children: Sarah Leonard Brad ford, born July 2 1, I 8 34 ; and Evelin Bradford, born December 3, 1841. The latter was married at Bris tol December 14, 1871, by the Rev. George L. Locke, Rector of St. Michael's Church, to Henry Wood Bache, born January 27, 1839, died November 7, 1878. Of this marriage there is one daughter, Evelin Coggeshall Bache.
I2 JoNATHAN4 FALES ( T£mothy,3 James,2 James'), third son of Timothy3 and Alethea (Paine) Fales, was born at Bristol May 25, 1727, and married December 20, 1750, Hannah Peck. He died at ~ristol, May 8, 1777, "aged 50 years"; his widow Hannah died March 2 3, 181 7, " aged 90 years." Children of Jonathan 4 and Hannah (Peck):
20 i. Jonathan,5 Jr., born October S, 1751, married Elizabeth Wardwell. ii. Ameratia, born March 1 8, baptized March 3 I, 17 54. FIFTH GENERATION
13 T1MOTHY5 FALES (Nathaniel,4 Timothy,3 James,2 1 4 James ), eldest son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) Fales, was born February 7, 1745-6, and married Hannah Reynolds, who was received into the Bristol church March 25, 1757. Timothy's baptism is recorded as of an adult, December 1784. At his death Timothy Fales left two daughters, Sally and Dolly, who were both re membered in their grandfather Nathaniel's will. Both Timothy5 and Hannah Fales were buried in the old burying ground near the Common, where a handsome table tombstone marks their graves and that of their daughter Sarah, who was later buried beside them. The inscription to Timothy Fales records his death as having taken place December 25, 1784, that to his wife gives the date of her death as October I 7, r 8 1 r, she being in her 53d year, and that to their daughter Sarah as November 1, 1838, her age being 55. (Next to this Fales family in the old burying ground lie Nathaniel Howland, who died at sea March 13, 1804, aged 32, his wife Hannah, who died July 7, 1819, aged 46, and a son of Nathaniel and Hannah Howland named Frederick). 56 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
In 1778 Timothy Fales served for a few weeks in the Revolution as a sergeant in the company of Captain Ezra Ormbsee, in the regiment of Colonel Nathaniel Miller.
Children of Timothy5 and Hannah (Reynolds) :
i. Sarah,6 died November 1, 1838. In 1814 Miss Sarah Fales owned property which is thus described : '' One farm bounded west on the Back Road, east on Kickemuet River, north on land of Nathaniel Fales, and south on land of Thomas Fales, con taining forty-seven and a half acres, having there on one dwelling house of wood, two stories, and one crib, being the same set off to said S. Fales in the division of the estate of Timothy Fales. Valued at $3,300." ii. Dolly.
14 NATHANIEL5 FALES (Nathanz"el,4 T£mothy,3 fames,2
1 fames ), second son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) Fales was born May 11, 1749, and married some time in 1773, Elizabeth Brad£ ord, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Church) Brad£ ord, born at Bristol June 5 or 16, 1750. He died at Bristol February 12, 1834, "aged 85." His widow died April 29, 1837, "aged 86 years, 10 months, and 13 days." His latest residence seems to have been the house still standing, beyond the North burying ground, that at his death became the property of his son Charles and that is still owned by Charles's descendants. FIFTH GENERATION 57
Nathaniel Fales, 2d, although less prominent in pub lic affairs than his father, Judge Fales, was one of Bris tol's largest land owners and most active business men, and one of her most influential and honoured citizens. As a young man of from twenty-seven to thirty years of age he served as a private in the war of the Revolution, and in old age he received a pension for that service. The record of these facts that has come to us from Washington is as fallows : " Nathaniel Fales residing at Bristol, aged eighty-three years, made declaration for pension, December 8, 1832. In December 1776 he belonged to the Militia Company of Capt. William Throop; Joseph Reynolds and Jona than Dimond were also officers at that time. The British fleet had taken possession of Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay, and had a detachment at the north end of Rhode Island and could make a descent within thirty minutes. A constant guard was therefore neces sary. From December 1776 to November 1779 he was constantly drafted and in the public service one month at a time to stand guard, &c., one-half the time, or about seventeen and one-half mos., he served as a private. The company belonged to Col. Nathan Miller's regiment. Peter Church was Lt. Col., and Peleg Heath was Major. During his various drafts he was stationed at Mount Hope Point, Poppersquash Point battery, in the Neck to the north of the town, at the fort on the highlands near Bristol, and in Bristol town. 58 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
"He was born in Bristol May 11, 1749 and had always resided in that to,vn. He had a record of his birth but no documentary evidence of his service. Rev. Henry Wight and Thomas Church made affidavits of acquain tance. The following copy is certified by William Throop, Town Clerk: 'Nathaniel Fales son of Nathan iel Fales Esq. and Sarah, his wife, was born May 11, 1749.' In an amended declaration Nathaniel Fales cer- tified that he actually served December 1776, Febru ary, April, June, August, October and December 1777; and in the same company, January, March, May, July, September and November 1778, and January, March, July, and September 1779 ; in all 17 months service. "Joseph Munroe of Bristol, aged seventy, deposed that he and Fales belonged to the same militia company, that their duties were constant, and that they served monthly tours in two classes, and he knew that Fales served as much as any man. In Sullivan's expedition of r 778, Fales was unable to leave home on account of sickness in his family, but furnished a substitute, and immediately entered service personally at home in such duties as were needed, in the vicinity of his family. "Jonathan Fales of Bristol, aged eighty-one, deposed that Nathaniel Fales and himself always resided in the same town and near together; during the Revolution, both belonged to the same militia company; the men1- bers were drafted alternately one month at a time from December 1776 to late in 1779. He saw Nathaniel FIFTH GENERATION 59
Fales many times at guard posts and- on duty, and be lieved he served one-half the time. "August 1, 1836, Elizabeth Fales, residing in Bristol, aged eighty-six, made declaration for pension as widow of Nathaniel. She stated that Nathaniel Fales died Febru ary 12, 1834, and submitted a certified copy of her marriage record as follows:-' Mr. Nathaniel Fales, Jun. and Miss Elizabeth . Bradford married 26 September 1773, per me John Burt pastor Church in Bristol.' "William Throop testified that Nathaniel Fales was his uncle." In the" list of land, lots of ground with their improve ments, dwelling houses, and slaves, [the last two words crossed out] owned by Nathaniel Fales on the first day of February, A.D. 1814, lying and being within the First District of the state of Rhode Island and county of Bristol," we find enumerated the various properties owned in Bristol by Nathaniel Fales: (a) "One tract of land bounded west on the Middle Road and on land of heirs of Timothy Fales, north on the School lane highway, east on land of said heirs of Timothy Fales, deceased, and South on land of Pardon Gray, containing eighteen acres, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two stories, one barn, one crib." (b) " Twenty nine and a half acres of land bounded east on Middle Road on land improved by S. Bourn, west on land of William D'Wolf and of Peter Church, north on land of said D'Wolf and the heirs of Timothy Fales, and south on land improved by said S. Bourn and on School lane." 60 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
(c) "One lot in the compact part of the town, bounded east on Hope Street, west on land of Samuel Wardwell, north on land of Jonathan Russell, and south on land of Samuel R. Pain, containing thirty-t,vo rods." ( d) " Lot on piece of land bounded south and west on Bristol Harbour, north on land of Thomas Church and the mill pond, and east on land of John Reed and on the cove or salt water, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two stories, one grist mill, with the water privilege (being the same conveyed by Benja min Reed), said lot containing half an acre of upland. ( e) " Twenty-five and a half acres, bounded east on the Main Road, west on land of Daniel Bradford, north on said Brad£ ord and south on the heirs of L. J. Bradford.'' (f) "Sixteen acres, bounded west on the Main Road, north on land of John M. Coggeshall, east on said Coggeshall and on land of Nicholas Peck, with one dwelling house of wood, one story, thereon." (g) "Fifteen acres, bounded east on the Back Road, south on School land, west on land of Nicholas Peck, and north on heirs of John Fales." (h) "Fifty-five acres, bounded west on Back Road, north on land of the heirs of John Fales, deceased, east on Kickemuet River, and south on land of Thomas Fales, with one dwelling house of wood, one story, and one crib." (i)" Part of the Bowl ing farm, bounded west on the Back Road, north on land of Thomas Fales, east on Kickemuet River, and south on land of said Thomas and of the heirs of Timothy Fales, containing one hundred and one acres." (j) " Forty- FIFTH GENERATION 61 seven acres, bounded west on Middle Road and on 1and of Benjamin Bosworth, south on land of Samuel Rey nolds and of Pardon Gray, east on land of said Gray and said 'Reynolds and on the Back Road, and north on ]and of Jonathan Reynolds." These properties together were valued at $23,400. In the North burying ground in Bristol are handsome table tombstones in memory of both Nathaniel5 Fales and his wife. The inscriptions on these tombstones are as follows: " In memory of Nathaniel Fales, Esq., Who departed this life February 12th, 1834, in the 85th Year of his age." " In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Fales, Widow of Nathaniel Fales, Esq., Who departed this life April 29, I 8 3 7, in the 87th year of her age." ( Other records that we ~ave seen give Mr. Fales's age more scrupulously as " 86 years, 8 months, and 21 days", and Mrs. Fales's as " 86 years, 10 months, and 13 days"). Elizabeth Bradford was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, in the si~th generation from that notable ma~. The Bradfords were of A usterfield, Yorkshire, where the Pilgrim Governor was born ~n 1588. The governor's second wife was the widow Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, whose marriage to Governor Bradford took place August 14, 1623. His eldest son by this marriage was William,2 deputy gov ernor of the colony, born June 17, 1624, who married, first, Alice Richards, daughter of Thomas Richards of 62 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Weymouth, and in this line, through Samuel,3 Gershom;' Daniel, s Elizabeth6 Brad£ ord came. Much genealogical information concerning the family of Nathaniel 5 and Elizabeth (Bradford) Fales has been obtained directly from an ancient Fales Family Bible, owned now by Alexander Griswold Fales of Bristol.
Children of Nathaniel5 and Elizabeth (Bradford):
i. Nancy,6 commonly called Ann, born January 23, 1774, married as his third wife, October 3, 1805, to William Coggeshall. She died, without children, October 6, 1854. 21 ii. Samuel, born August 2 3, 177 5, married Abigail Hali burton. iii. Bradford, born March 23, died October 8, 1777. The inscription on his tombstone says that he died "aged six months and fifteen days." 1v. Bradford, born October 22, 1778, died at Havana June 21, 1799, "aged 21." v. Elizabeth Bradford, born February 27, · 1781, married February 28, I 799, to _Hezekiah Munro. She died April 13, and was buried at Bristol April 16, 1837. Her husband died April 26, 1852. The Munros had a daughter Annie Fales Munro. vi. Mary Reynolds, born January 7, 1783, died February 19, 1803. vii. Priscilla, born November 10, died November 11, 1785. 22 viii. George, born December 1, 1787, married Ann Rush. 23 ix. Charles, born December 6, 1789, married Lydia M. Bosworth. FIFTH GENERATION 63
x. Nathaniel Little, born July 30, died September 22, 1791.
15 SAMUEL5 FALES (Natlianz"el,4 T£mothy, 3 _fames,2 _fames,1) third son of Nathanie14 and Sarah (Little) Fales, was born at Bristol September 15, 1750, and graduated at Harvard in 177 3. Three years later he received from his alma mater in course the degree of M.A. Becoming a lawyer, he settled at Taunton, where he spent a long, active, and very successful life. He married at Tiverton, Rhode Island, in 1781, Sarah Cook, daughter of John Cook of Tiverton, and in Taunton had fifteen chil dren, who as they grew up intermarried with other notable families of Taunton like the Padelfords and Leonards. From 1774 until 1804, it would seem, Samuel Fales nominally filled the office his grandfather had so long filled of clerk of the Inferior Court and the Court of Sessions. From 1805 to 1811, however, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and from r 813 to I 817 a Councillor of Massachusetts. To his great activity in legal affairs he united persevering industry in the pursuit of con1mercial business and agri culture, and of the town of Taunton he was long perhaps the most important citizen. In his chatty " Reminis cences of Taunton," Mr. Charles R. Atwood describes Judge Fale_s's dwelling. " The next building [ on the north side of Main Street] was", he says, "the imposing and elegant mansion of Judge Fales. This ,vas two 64 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY stories high . . . . with a long building connected with the main house in the rear, also two stories high, with a large number of rooms for servants in the upper story. Adjoining were the carriage houses, barns, and sheds. There was a fine front yard with a handsome and sub stantial fence; also a sidewalk, with a large open space bet\veen that and the street, wide enough for a carriage way, along the whole frontage. On the border, near the street, there was a row of splendid elm trees, making fine and grateful shade the whole distance. This house was considered at that time to be the palace of the town. It was handsomely fitted and furnished within, and the Judge and his family were on the highest seats in the temple of the aristocracy, and ranked among the most prominent dignitaries in the town." The Judge also, Mr. Atwood says, was the senior member of a firm which did a very large general business· in Taunton, the firm of "Fales and Seabury." Of groceries and liquors the firm made a specialty, and the best rum and the choicest wines that were known in New Eng land could always be obtained from them. Besides all this, Judge Fales had a large farm, about a mile from " the Green " on the Providence Road, the place being known as the " Barney farm." Here its owner raised root crops and hay and fine apples in great abundance, for the Judge, says the enthusiastic Mr. Atwood, was an energetic farmer. In 1790 Brown University at Providence conferred on Judge Fales the honorary de gree of A. M. Between March 27, 1776, and July 6, FIFTH GENERATION 65
1779, the Judge did important service as a captain in the Revolution. Soon after Judge Fales's death the firm of Fales and Seabury went out of existence, much of the Judge's property in Taunton was sold, and his widow and her unmarried children, it is said, removed to Bristol. Judge Fales died in Boston, where he was serving on the Massachusetts Council, January 20, 1818; his wife Sarah died September 24, 1823. . Both are buried in the North cemetery, " on the Plain," with a ,vhite table tombstone, on which high tributes to them are in scribed. Their former residence in Taunton had been purchased by them, it would seem, although not until 1814, from the estate of Robert Treat Paine, who died in that year. It stood east of "the Green", so some other authority than Mr. Atwood states, and after the death of Judge and Mrs. Fales became the Wash ington Hotel. On the site still later was reared the "Taunton Banking House." On his tombstone we find the following tribute to Judge Fales: " Useful and honorable activity distin guished the progress of his life. Having sustained for many years various important offices in the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive departments of the Governn1ent with fidelity and· honour, he died while attending his duties as Councillor of this Commonwealth, and though his tedious toils and hoary hairs seemed to demand a more peaceful succession of closing years, his friends are 66 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY resigned and consoled in the hope of his resurrection to immortal blessedness." The tribute to Mrs. Fales, on the same stone, says : " Among the benevolent and the liberal she ever shone conspicuous, the Christian spirit· enlightened the path of the mortal pilgrin1age, and at last sustained and blessed her with its holy peace and inspiring hopes." Judge Fales and his wife were both baptized by the Rev. John Foster in Taunton, October 3, 1792.
Children of Judge Samuel,5 and Sarah (Cook): 24 i. Nathaniel,6 born February 20, 1782, baptized October 3, 1792, married Sarah K. Padelford. ii. Sarah," Sally", born June 20, 1783, baptized October 3, 1792, married to Hon. Nathaniel Hazard of Newport, R. I. iii. Betsey, '' second daughter ", born June_ 8, 178 5, died July 26, 1786, "aged 13 months and 18 days." iv. Betsey, '' third daughter", born May 1, r 787, died June 24, 1787, "aged I month and ~4 days." v. Fanny Maria, born May 12, 1788, baptized July 6, 1794, died October 6, 1803. vi. Eliza, born May 2, 1790, baptized October 3, 1792, married to George Leonard, M. D., of Taunton. vii. Samuel Cook, born June 10, 1792, baptized October 3, 1792, died October 26, 179 5. v111. Harriot Little, " sixth daughter " born September 28, 1794, died October 26, 1795, "aged I year and 1 month." 1x. Samuel (probably "Samuel Cook "), married Sarah West, daughter of John West of Taunton. FIFTH GENERATION 67
x. Harriot Little, baptized July 29, 1802, n1arried to Hon. James L. Hodges of Taunton. xi. John Williams, baptized July 29, I 802, died unmarried. xii. Almira, baptized July 29, 1802, married to Jeremiah Niles Potter of Rhode Island. x111. Fanny Maria, baptized October 7, I 804, married as his first wife to Rev. Swan Lyman Pomeroy, born March 4, 1799, to whom she bore six children, only one of ,vhom, Mary, born about I 824, lived to matur ity. Mary Pomeroy was married to Rev. Orlando Henry White. See the Pomeroy Genealogy. xiv. Edward Pope, baptized October r, 1809, died unmarried. xv. Ann Russell, married ( 1) to Erastus Learned, son of Rev. Erastus Learned of Canterbury, Connecticut, (2) to Judge Jonas Cutting of Maine.
i:6 THOMAS5 FALES (Nathaniel,4 Tz"mothy,3 James,2 James,1) fourth son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) Fales, was born October 22, 1752, and married at Warren, Rhode Island, April 10, 1777, Sarah Bowen. He died at Bristol, November 14 or 15, 1830, "aged 78 ". His wife Sarah died August 1, 1819, "aged 60". She was received into the church November 1, 1812. In the Revolution Thomas Fales served a few days in 1780, under Captain Throop. In the list of properties owned by him in 1814 we find: (a)" One farm bounded north on the School lane, east on the Back Road, south on land improved by Shearjashub Bourn, and west on land of the heirs of Timothy Fales, deceased, containing thirty acres, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two stories, one barn and one crib, said dwelling house 63 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY partly finished." (b) ''Sixty-seven acres of land bounded west on Back Road, north on land of Nathaniel Fales, east on Kickemuet River, and South on said Nathaniel Fales." (c) "Ten acres of land (bushes) bounded west on Back Road, north on land of Thomas K. Munro, east and south on the heirs of John Fales, deceased." (d) " One farm containing one hundred twenty-five acres of land bounded west on the Back Road, north on land of the heirs of Timothy Fales, deceased, and of Nathaniel Fales, east on Kickemuet River, and south on land of Lemuel C. Richmond, one old dwelling house, untenant able, one barn and one crib." (e) "Eighteen acres of land, h?unded on Middle Road east, on land of Joseph Reynolds north, on land of Jonathan Fales west on land of the heirs of Benjamin Bourn, deceased, south;" these properties together having a value of $16,500.
Children of Thomas5 and Sarah (Bowen):
i. Robert,6 born in 1779, died as the result of a fall from a tree, possibly in 1785.* ii. Sarah Ann, born in I 781, died December 2, I 8 36. She was married to Joseph Mason, who died Septem- * The Bristol Vital Records as they are printed mention the death of a Robert Fales "aged 50" in 1785. It seems highly probable that this entry is printed incorrectly, that the person mentioned was the Robert ahove, aged not 50 but between 5 and 6. Unless Robert "aged 50" was this Robert he must have been a colored servant of some one of the Fales families. Mention is also made in the Vital Records of a Robert Fales's having been lost at sea with the sloop Minerva, December 29, 1807. FIFTH GENERATION 69
her 4, 1855, aged 75. She had a son Robert Fales Mason, who died March I 3, I 829, in his 19th year. 111. William, born March 13, 1782, died in some foreign country January 18, 1802, "aged 20." An inscrip tion to his memory will be found in the North bury ing ground in Bristol. iv. Nathaniel, born about 1783, died August 6, 1785, '' aged 2 years." ~s V. Thomas, born May 29, 1786, married Mary Bourn. vi. Mary, born 1788, married December 17, 1806, to Charles Mason. 26 vii. Lemuel born N ovem her I 791, married Hannah Vaughn. v111. Elizabeth ("Betsey"), died unmarried. It is probably she who as "Miss Betsey Paine Fales" was baptized in Bristol February 1, 1824. ix. Abigail, born probably in 1796, died January 27, 1807, " aged 1 1 years ", and was buried in the North bury ing ground. x. Julia Ann, born in 1798, married January 17, 1819, to Clark L. Vaughn, born about 1797. She was re ceived into the Bristol church November 1, 1812. She died January 10, 1880, "aged 82." Her hus band died November 17, 1864, "aged 67." The Vaughns had three children, Julia Ann, Thomas Fales, and Mary Bowen, all baptized in Bristol June 20, 1830. xi. Nathaniel, born about 1799, commonly called "Colonel " married Martha Peck, born in 1804, ,vhose mother was a Howland. Nathaniel Fales was prominent in the Rhode Island State militia. In I 820, '21, and '22 he was an ensign in the Third Bristol Company, in 1823, and 1824 he was a captain, in 1825 he was 70 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
major of the First Brigade Newport and Bristol Counties' Fourth Regiment, in 1826 and '27 he was Lieutenant-Colonel, and in I 828 Colonel. He died at Bristol December 13, 1875, "aged 75 years and 6 months," and was buried in the North burying Ground. His wife Martha was received into the church May 7, 1820. She died, childless, in 1878, and was also buried in the North burying ground. xii. Abigail, born March 25, 1807, married to Cyril R. Grant. She died November 2, 1898, "aged 91."
17 STEPHEN5 FALES (Nathanz"el, 4 Tz"mothy, 3 James,Z 1 James ), fifth son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) Fales of Bristol, was born at Bristol April 15, 17 56, and mar ried, probably about 1780, Hannah Smith of Taunton, born about 1751, daughter of Job and Hannah (Barney) Smith. Job Smith, with a commission as captain in the militia, is said to have rendered service in_ Nova Scotia against the French. He is also said to have been a royalist in the. Revolution. His wife Hannah (Barney) belonged to a family that held an honorable position in Bristol and other counties, her mother being a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Danforth) Barney and a grand daughter of Rev. Sa1nuel Danforth, the fourth minister of Taunton. Mrs. Fales was also descended from Rev. John Wilson of the First Church, Boston, whose father was Rev. William Wilson, D. D., a priest of the Church of England, a grand-nephew of Edmund Grindall, Arch bishop of Canterbury in the time of Queen Elizabeth.* * The wife of Rev. John Wilson of the First Church, Boston, was a daughter of Sir John l\.lansfield. FIFTH GENERATION 71
On the 17th of September, 1776, Stephen Fales en listed as a private in Captain Thomas Allin's company of Colonel John Cook's regiment in the ,var of the Rev olution, his service lasting for thirty-two days. During this time he was stationed at Newport, Rhode Island. In 1778, also, he seems to have served for a few days in Captain Ezra Ormsbee's company, Colonel Nathan Miller's regiment. In early manhood, but precisely when we do not know, he settled as a merchant in Bos ton, his place of business in 1789 and for a few years after being at 56 Cornhill, now Washington Street, and his dwelling house at number 3 or 4 Church Square. In 1803 his place of business was 66 State Street, and his house in Cole Lane, but in 1805 and 1806 his shop is given as number 79 State Street, and his dwelling as 3 Pinckney Street. Soon ~ter 1806 he disappears from the Boston directory, and we presume he then re moved to Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. At this southern town he must have died in 1821, for on the 12th of November of that year administration on his estate in Massachusetts wa.s granted in Suffolk County to Asa Warren Paine, of Boston, attorney-at-law, William Augustus Fales, son of the deceased Stephen declining administration and petitioning the appointment of Mr. Paine, whom he describes as a creditor of his father. Of this estate in Suffolk County no inventory is recorded. When Stephen Fales's wife Hannah died, or ,vhere, ,ve do not know. Of children of Stephen and Hannah we 72 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY find no mention save of three sons, all of whom were graduated at Harvard College. On the 3rd of April, 1795, Stephen Fales and his wife Hannah, with others, gave a deed of land to the deacons of the Congregational Church in Brattle Street, but we have seen no other deeds in which Stephen Fales's name figures. In 1785, Stephen Fales purchased pew num ber 61 in King's Chapel. Of the family to which Mrs. Stephen Fales belonged, a little more may properly here be said. She had two brothers, Abiel and Barney Smith, prosperous merchants in Boston. Abie] Smith, the elder of these, born at Taunton February 9, 1746, was graduated at Harvard in 1764, and married, we suppose at Scituate, a few years before coming to Boston, Lydia, born probably in 1753, one of the many daughters of Ephraim and Rachel (Hersey) Otis of Scituate. In Boston Mr. Smith accumulated a handsome fortune, and dying childless in 1815 he not only remembered m_any of his own and his wife's relatives, but left to Harvard College, to help in maintaining there a teacher or professor of French or French and Spanish, the sum of twenty thousand dollars "in the three per cent funded stock of the United States." Barney Smith, younger brother of Abiel Smith and Mrs. Fales, was born in 1763, and married in Boston (intention recorded October 8, 1783) Anna Otis, a sister of his brother Abiel's wife, who was born at Scituate in 1755. As a young man he also came to Boston, and FIFTH GENERATION _73 there acquiring wealth finally purchased the Governor Hutchinson estate at Milton. For nearly eight years he and his family lived abroad, and in London and Paris his daughter Lydia received part of her education. In Boston both Barney and Abiel Smith, like Mr. and Mrs. Fales, attended King's Chapel, and on the register of the Chapel their deaths are recorded. The Smith fam ilies are buried in tomb number 100 in the "Central Graveyard," the little burial ground on Boston Common. Abiel Smith died in Boston November 23, 1815, "aged 70 years"; Barney Smith died at Milton in July, 1828, and was buried in Boston. At the time of his death he was President of the Boston City Bank.*
Children of Stephen5 and Hannah (Smith):
i. Henry,6 born March 20, 1781, was graduated at Harvard in 1803, and died, we suppose unmarried, in 1812. In I 807 he appears as an attorney at 79 State Street, Boston, but where he may have practiced after that we do not know. ~7 ii. William Augustus, born September S, 1786, married Mary Ann Gray. ~8 iii. Stephen, born May 3, I 790. iv. A child, name not known.
18 W1LLIAM5 FALES (Nathan£el,4 Tz"mothy,3 James,2 1 fames ), sixth son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) * Barney Smith's daughter Lydia became the wife of Hon. Jonathan Rus sell, a distinguished man in Massachusetts, and some valuable information concerning the Smith family will be found in the Russell Genealogy. 74 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Fales, born March 6, 1758, married in 1782 Mary Smith, born July 18, 1764. On the 17th of November, 1789, Mary wife of William Fales, was baptized as an adult, she "being dangerously sick of cancer." At the same time her two sons, Stephen Smith and William, were baptized. William Fales died at Bristol January 22, 1797, "aged 38 ", but in spite of her bad health, Mrs. Fales lived on until October 5 or 6, 1814. Both hus band and wife are buried in the North burying ground, in Bristol but their names and the dates of their deaths are recorded on the large monument reared by their son William Fales, Jr. (or his family) in the Juniper Hill burying ground. On the 3rd of May, 1802, Levi D'Wolf, Esq., peti tioned to be appointed guardian of the five children of William Fales, deceased, namely, Stephen S. Fales and William Fales by their own choice, and Lydia, Edmond, and Charlotte by request of their mother Polly Fales, widow. The petition was granted.
Children of Williams and Mary (Smith):
29 i. Stephen Smith, 6 born November 24, 178 3, married Phebe Wardwell. ii. Edmond, born 178 5, died young by a fall from an apple tree. iii. Isaac, born February 6, died September 17, 1786, " aged 6 months." 30 iv. William, Jr., born March 5, 1788, married Harriet Sisson. · FIFTH GENERATION 75
v. Lydia Smith, born November 15, 1790, baptized April 17, 1791, married February 14, 1816, to Captain Zechariah French, born September 18, 1786, died at sea March 31, 1822. Lydia Smith (Fales) French died March 1, 1877. Inscriptions to both may be seen in the Juniper Hill burying ground. vi. Edmond, born May 5, baptized July 28, 1793, died July I 1, I 808, and is buried in the North burying ground. vii. Charlotte M., born April 7, baptized July 26, 1795, died unmarried, Decemher 3 or 6, 18 7 5, aged '' So years and I I months."
19 JoHN5 FALES (Nathaniel,• Timothy,3 James,2 James,1) seventh son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Little) Fales, was born at Bristol June 13, 1760, and married Martha Finney, who was received into the Bristol church June 2, 1805, and died at Providence April 13, 1843. He died at Bristol October 4, 1813, his estate being ad ministered by his wife Martha and John Paine. In the War of the Revolution John Fales served as private and sergeant under Captain William Throop, from Octo ber, 1775, to October, 1779. In 1814 his property in Bristol, then in possession of his heirs, comprised (a) " One farm on Bristol N eek, bounded west on the Back Road and on land of T. Fales, north on land of Thomas nd Fales, of Thomas K. Munro, of Hezekiah Munro, 2 , and of Joseph Munro, east on Kickemuet River, and south on land of Nathaniel Fales,-containing eighty eight acres, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, 76 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY two stories, one barn, one crib, one chaise house." (b) " Lot of land bounded east on the Back Road, west on land of Nicholas Peck, north on land of John M. Cogges hall, and south on land of Nathaniel Fales,"-the whole valued at $6,500.
Children of John 5 and Martha (Finney): i. Charlotte,6 born January 5, 1784, married to Rev. Otis Thompson of Rehoboth; Massachusetts. ii. Fidelia, born December 27, 1785, married in Decem ber, 1809, to John Paine. iii. Timothy, born July 23, 1788, married Celinda Hatha way of Raynham, Massachusetts, and had one child, Sarah (or Susan) Ann. He was lost in a sloop in December, 1811, and administration on his estate was granted his widow in Warren, Rhode Island, November 7, 1812. As Mrs. Fales qid not find it convenient to act, the court, February 6, 1813, granted administration to John Fales of Bristol. iv. James Gibbs, born October 10, 1789, died October 20, 1790. v. James, born January 20, 179 I. vi. Betsey Bradford, born March 29, died May 2, 1792, "aged 5 weeks.'' vii. Abigail Finney, born March 23, 1794, married (1) January 23, 1813, to David Maxfield, (2) December 24, 1822, to Nathaniel Bosworth. She had by her first husband a child Martha Fales or Martha Finney Maxfield, born November 20, I 813, who was married April 8, 1838, to Hon. Massadore Bennet of Dighton, Massachusetts, and died February 20, 1892. FIFTH GENERATION 77
viii. Nancy C., born March 23, 1796, died December 23, 1799. ix. Joseph Jackson, born April 10, 1798, died in infancy. x. Joseph, born May 9, 1799. xi. Henry DeWolf, born February 8, 1800, died in infancy. 31 xii. Henry, born May 10, 1801, married Abigail Diman. xiii. Martha Gibbs, born March 10, 1802, died November 20, 1804. xiv. Betsey, 111arried to Comfort Paine.
20 JoNATHAN5 FALES, JR., (Jonathan/ TZ:mothy, 3 1 James,2 James ), son of Jonathan and Hannah (Peck) Fales, was born at Bristol October 5, 1751, and baptized February 12, 1752. He married, June 29, 1775 (by the Rev. John Burt), Elizabeth Wardwell, daughter of John Wardwell, deceased. He died at Bristol June 22, 1842, "aged 91." The entry of his death in the Town Book of Bristol reads: "Jonathan Fales died June 22 [1842] in the 91st year of his age, having been born on the 5th of October, 17 5 1 ."* His wife Elizabeth, who was born about 1762, died October 23, 1831, "aged 69." She was received into the church November 29, 1786. As a young man of from twenty-four to thirty Jonathan Fales served as a private in the war of the Revolution. When he was eighty-three, like his cousin Nathaniel he came on the national pension list. His war record may be seen in the state archives at Providence. He served as a
• The printed Vital Records of Bristol erroneously make him a son of N athaniel.4 78 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY private in Captain William Throop's company, from 1775 to 1781. In 1814 the Bristol tax-list schedule gives his various properties as follows : Property " south of Church Street and on lands of Benjamin Wyatt, Benjamin Pit man, Nathan Bardin, James D'Wolf, and Royal Thresher; West on Hope Street and on lands of the heirs of Sam uel Oxx and on land of the Jail ; North on lands of William Oxx, said James D'Wolf, the Jail land and the wife of Nathaniel Smith; and East on High Street and on land of S. Wyatt,-containing one acre and a half, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two stories, 28 feet in length by 28 feet in depth, one barn and one crib. " Lot of land bounded West on the Main Road, North on land of William Reynolds and Joseph Rey nolds, East on lands of Thomas Fales, and South on land of the heirs of John Usher, deceased,-containing Six teen acres, tillage and Salt marsh. "A tract of land bounded East on Middle Road, South on Crooked Road and on lands of the heirs of Edward Tolbee, Nancy Lindsay, Edward Church, Isaac Manchester and Charles Collins, West on lands of the heirs of Benjamin Bosworth, and North on land of the heirs of Benjamin Bourn,-containing Eleven acres pas ture Land. "Also the undivided third part of Ten acres of Land bounded West on Wood Street, North on land of Peleg Slocum, Thomas Greene, Rescom Hart, and Benjamin FIFTH GENERATION 79
Norris, East on land of Joseph Brown, and South- on land of James D'Wolf and John W. Bowen, swamp and meadow land." Value of all $7,600.
Children of Jonathan5 and Elizabeth (Wardwell):
i. William,6 born January 14, 1776, died probably in December, 1777. ii. Jonathan, 3rd, born January 6, 1779, baptized with his three sisters July 16, 1786, married Rebecca , who died April 29, r834, "aged 55." Mrs. Rebecca Fales was received into the church July 20, 1806, and died, the church record says, April 13, 1832. J onathan6 Fales himself died at St. Croix, June 26, 1801. His widow Rebecca had a child Jonathan7 baptized November 21, 1802, the boy's father Jona than being then dead. iii. Elizabeth, baptized July 16, 1786. iv. Hannah, baptized July 16, 1786. v. Amarentia, baptized July 16, 1786, probably mar ried to Winchester Heath, for Nancy Fales, daugh ter of Winchester Heath and Amarentia his wife, was baptized October 20, 1823. vi. Phebe D., baptized July 13, 1788. vii. Henry, baptized October 17, 1790. In the list of Bris tol properties drawn up for taxation in 1814 is mentioned a lot of land belonging to Henry Fales, bounded " East on High Street, South on Church Street, West on land of James D'Wolf, and North on land of Winchester Heath," containing 29 rods and 183 feet, and valued at $350. He was of Buffalo, New York, May 2, 1820. 80 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
v111. Timothy (twin with Nicholas), baptized November 4, 1792, was of Buffalo, New York May 2, 1820, and of Detroit, Michigan, October I, 1822. On the 2 nd of May, 1820, he gave power of attorney· (record in Bristol) to Henry Fales of Buffalo. ix. Nicholas (twin with Timothy), baptized November 4, 1792. x. Ann, baptized August 9, 1795, probably married to Jeremiah Bosworth. Jeremiah and "Nancy" Bos worth had children Sarah and Nancy, both of whom were baptized October 20, 1823. x1. Mary, baptized June 2 5:, 1797. SIXTH GENERATION
21 SAMUEL6 FALES (Nathan£el,5 Nathan£el,4 TZ:mothy,3 James,2 Jamer), eldest son of Nathaniel5 and Elizabeth (Bradford) Fales, was born at Bristol, Rhode Island, August 23, 1775, and about 1794 removed to Boston, where he entered on a long, active, successful business career. In 1796 he appears, in the earliest Boston Directory, as a merchant in partnership with George Athearn, a man of whom ,ve know very little, the firm, "Fales and Athearn", being located on " Nathan Spear's Wharf." Between 1800 and 1803 the firm seems to have dissolved, for in the latter year Mr. Fales appears as "shopkeeper" at 11 Cornhill, and he so remains until somewhere between 1810 and 1813, when he is described as a Dry Goods merchant, located at 5 Merchants Row. After 1816, for a few years, he appears indefinitely as "merchant," at 3 Central Street, but later, as early at least as 1830, his place of business is 62 Broad Street. After 1835 no place of business whatever is given him in the Directory. Between 1844 and 1846, however, he is mentioned as President of the Union Bank. When we come to speak of Mr. Fales's holdings in ships we shall see that he had some business connection 82 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY with George Athearn as early as 1794, but precisely how or ,vhen he entered into partnership '\\1.th this man we do not know. Of the firm of Fales and Athearn a few advertisements are found in the Independent Chronicle newspaper in 1798 and 1799. In these adver tisements the firm announce that they have for sale on Nathan Spear's Wharf, Russia iron, old sables (flat and square), the best duck, West India rum, brandy, gin, brown and loaf sugar, molasses, Bohea tea, beef, ginger, sherry wine, herrings, and some other things. In 1799 they further announce that they have, landing from the sloop Dolph£n at Long Wharf, eighty-nine hogsheads and fourteen tierces of Havana molasses. At this time, therefore, Mr. Fales was evidently engaged in the West India trade, but after his separation from Athearn he must have gone also into some branch of the wholesale or retail dry goods trade. Later, he probably resumed trading with foreign ports. From some valuable manuscript notes ~oncerning the Fales family made by Miss Georgiana Haliburton, a niece of Mrs. Fales, which notes were long ago deposited by Miss Haliburton in the archives of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, and from other sources, we learn that soon after he came to Boston Mr. Fales formed a partnership likewise with a man named John H. Keith, and that the partners began business in a store owned by David Townsend at number I 1 Marl borough Street. From the 1st of July, 1797, they con ducted their business in a store at number 18 Cornhill, SIXTH GENERATION 83 where they remained until 1800. Among the Fales papers is preserved a document which declares that the men dissolved· partnership on the 28th of August, 1801, and this is the year given by Miss Haliburton as the year when they discontinued their business connection.* After 1801, Mr. Fales conducted the business alone at number 11 Cornhill (later 100 and 102 Washington Street). While this partnership lasted the two men kept house together, probably over their store, having one servant, "a faithful, honest coloured man named Anthony Parsons," their clerk and bookkeeper being Alexander Adee, " a very honest man and very true to the interests of his employers." After this, for a certain length of time but for how long we do not know, Samuel Fales and his younger brother George were connected in business. Among the Fales papers that have been preserved is the formal instrument of dissolution of the partnership between the brothers. This bears date October 1, 1811, and is a mutual agreement between "Samuel Fales of Boston, merchant of the one part and George Fales of said Boston, merchant of the other part." The instrument declares that " the said Samuel and George have for some time past carried on trade in copartnership under the • An advertisement in the M assacltusetts Mercury of November 24, 1 797, says: "Just received and for Sale by Fales and Keith., No. 18 Comhill, a few Bales Rose Blankets, all sizes, some of which are very elegant. A variety India Cottons by the bale or single pieces. Also Fresh Hyson Tea of a superior quality, and a few gross of Mackaboy and Rapee Snuff." 84 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
firm of 'Samuel Fales and Company.'" We learn also frotn a paper connected with the instrument of dissolu tion that there had been " several adventures of goods shipped by Samuel Fales and Company at different times to the Havanas on their account and in concern with Mr. Samuel Sanford, which were consigned to Messrs Packard, Thomas, and Gowen." In 1802 Mr. Fales began to buy real estate, his first purchase being a lot of land with a brick dwelling, two tenements, and other buildings on it. This land lay on the east side of Comhill, now Washington Street, and ran through on ~he back to Devonshire Street.• For the property he gave the former owners, Benjamin Whitwell, Esq., of Augusta, Maine, and William Whit well of Boston, merchant, seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-three dollars, at once, however, heavily mort gaging the property to the same men. His third pur chase was the brick house with a stable in the rear, on Common Street, where he afterward live9 so long. For this he paid fourteen thousand dollars. May 9, 1820 he purchased of Josiah Knapp for a hundred and thirty dollars Tomb Number 16 in the burying-ground at the south-east corner of the Common. In 1836 he bought of James Weld, for four thousand and fifty dollars, land and buildings on Broad Street and India Wharf. These,
• This Washington Street property of Samuel Fales is said to have comprised what later became and now is numbers 246 and 248. On Devonshire Street it included numbers 69, 71, and 73. At an auction held on May 28, 1881, it was bought in by C. E. Cotting, for $23,000. SIXTH GENERATION 85 however, were only a few of his transactions in real estate, his purchases and sales of valuable properties in Boston continued until nearly the time of his death. In ships also he had considerable holdings. On the 18th of January, 1794, he and D. Scudder, as joint own ers, registered the sloop Hannah, 99 tons; June 28, 1794, he, J. Tisdale, and George Athearn registered the schooner William, 56 tons, and three days later, Messrs. Athearn, Fales, J. Fisher, and N. Small registered this same ship. August 28, 1822, Samuel Fales and Samuel Sanford registered the brig Paragon, 154 tons; which ship was captured by pirates on the coast of Africa on the 26th of March, 1829. October 7, 1822, Fales and Sanford registered the brig Pedlar, 125 tons, a vessel which had been built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1815. In 1828 this ship capsized and was lost at sea. April 21, 1827, Messrs. Fales and Sanford registered the brig Ivory, 192 tons; this vessel also, with all its crew, and the ship's papers, was lost at sea in 1831. On the 22nd of January, 1833, Fales and Sanford registered the ship Herald, 241 tons. This vessel they transferred to others on the 1st of September, 1834.* As early as 1830, it is probable, and it may be earlier, Mr. Fales ceased trading, but in 1831 he became inter ested in manufacturing. In the latter year the " Yark Manufacturing Company" was formed and at the
• For the years between I 798 and 1805 no shipping records remain in the Boston Custom House. With the exception of these years, we have examined all the records of registrations of ships that occur up to 1836. 86 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY meeting to organize, held on July 21st, he was appointed a director in this enterprise. His fellow directors were Charles Bradbury, Pliny Cutler, James Johnson, Edmund Munroe, Charles W. Cartwright, and Ebenezer T. Andre,vs. The number of sh~res Mr. Fales held in the company was twenty-five. On the 18th of July, 1845, at a meeting of the directors, Mr. Fales was appointed President of the Company, and this position he held until July 13, 1847, when the directors learned from him that declining health would make it impossible for him any longer to act in any official capacity in connection with the company. On the 15th it was voted by the stockholders " that the thanks of the stockholders of the York Manufacturing Company are due to Samuel Fales, Esq., our late President, for his faithful atten tion to the duties of his office until by a visitation of Providence his health became so feeble as to oblige him to resign his office." It was further voted " that the clerk be requested to transmit to Mr. Fales a copy of the above vote of thanks." Mr. Fales was thus a director of the company for twenty-six years. In 1831 the "Amoskeag Manufacturing Company" was· founded and Mr. Fales was also an original stock holder in that company. For twelve years Mr. Fales was also president of the Union Bank. This bank, which in 1865 became the " National Union Bank," was organized in 1792, and was the first of a series of banks founded under peculiar charter provisions. It was not to issue bills of less de- SIXTH GENERATION 87
nomination than five dollars, nor to owe more than twice its capital in addition to its deposits. One fifth of its funds was always to be appropriated to loans out of Bos ton, made exclusively for the benefit of the agricultural interest in sums of not less than a hundred dollars nor more than a thousand dollars secured by mortgage of real estate and to run for a term of not less than one year. The successive presidents of the bank up to 1894 were, Moses Gill, Oliver Wendell, Samuel Brown, Thomas L. Winthrop, Samuel Fales, Chester Adams, Thaddeus Nichols, George C. Richardson, Charles L. Young, and George Whitney. Mr. Fales was president from October 1834 to October 1846. In 1814, what is now the Tremont National Bank was incorporated under the name of the "Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank", and among its original stockholders, all of whom were leading merchants or moneyed men of the highest stand ing in Boston, Mr. Fales was one. He was also one of the first directors of this bank. Another bank in which he was a stockholder was the Atlantic now the" Atlantic National" Bank, which was chartered by the Massa chusetts legislature in 1828.* In 1833 and 1834, Mr. Fales was an alderman of the city of Boston, and as an alderman, Miss Haliburton in her notes on the Fales family says, "he urged on the • See for these banks," Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County," Volume 2, (1894). For the name of Samuel Fales, see pages 231, 246, 247,275. See also for the bank," Memorial History of Boston," Vol. 4, page 153. 88 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY board that the new part of Tremont Street, beyond the railroad crossing, near Indiana Street or Indiana Place, should be made eighty feet wide. The city fathers would not listen to the proposed width but Mr. Fales lived long enough to see the city have to take the land back and make the street wider, though not of the width he at first had proposed. One point he with two other gentlemen carried, and that was that instead of portion ing Blackstone Square and Franklin Square off into house lots the spaces were left for future open places or ornamental squares. For many years the two squares were left uncared for, except that they were inclosed by unpainted board fences." Summing up his character, Miss Haliburton says: " Mr. Fales was a very patriotic man, proud of his country and very proud and careful of the reputation of the good city of Bostqn." Quoting a characterization of him that no doubt appeared somewhere in print after his death, she describes him as " a man of sterling worth, good and true in all the rela tions of life, both public and private, honorable and up right in all his dealings, and one of Boston's much esteemed merchants." In the Boston newspapers of the period of his death we have found merely the formal notice of that event: "On Sunday morning [August 6, 1848], Samuel Fales, Esq., in the 73d year of his age." In a publication entitled " Our First Men, a Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility," put into print in 1846, facts concerning Mr. Fales are given briefly as follows: " Began as a shopkeeper in Washington Street. SIXTH GENERATION 89
He is now President of the Union Bank." His property is said in this publication to be worth two hundred thousand dollars. In March, 1833, the Massachusetts Historical Society purchased for six thousand, five hundred dollars from the Provident Institution for Savings the second story of the building at the north end of the Chapel burying ground, with certain privileges besides, for a library, and most of the leading men of Boston subscribed for the purchase. Mr. Fales's subscription was thirty dollars. In the course of his long life in Boston Mr. Fales had but two chief places of residence,-from 1801, probably, until 1815, he lived over his store, at number I I Corn hill, the north part of which is now Washington Street,
11 on the 2 d of April, 1815, he purchased of Winslow Lewis, for fourteen thousand dollars, "a certain piece of land with a brick dwelling house thereon, situated on Common Street," and in that year or the year after moved to this new location. The present Tremont Street in Boston in the course of years has undergone many changes of name, on the 6th of July, 1824, that part of it now known as Tremont Row, and the whole length of the street as far as the present Common Street, and through that to Washington Street, received the name of Common Street. A little less than five years later, on the 2nd of April, 1829, from Washington Street at the south to Court Street at the north it was given its present name. The block on "Common Street" to which Mr. Fales moved in 1815 or 1816 was that which extends 90 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY from Mason Street on the south to West Street on the north, a block which ,vas then and for many years afterwards the most aristocratic place of residence in Boston. Soon after 1809, when the famous architect Charles Bulfinch planned the construction of many of its houses and of the colonnade before them, until the visit of LaFayette to Boston in 1824 and probably much later, it was popularly known, as "Colonnade Row." After LaFayette's visit, when from the balconies of the houses of the Row many of the fashionable women of Boston gave the distinguished Frenchman as he passed in procession enthusiastic greetings, it came to be known also as "Fayette Place." As a consequence of these changes, Mr. Fales's latest place of residence is given in the Directory, sometimes as Common Street, sometimes as Tremont Street, sometimes as Colonnade Row, and sometimes as Fayette Place.* The Tremont Street " Colonnade Row" is said to have contained twenty-four houses, with a colonnade "con sisting of nearly eighty slender, light gray sandstone columns " in front of the whole row, many of the houses, as well as the general colonnade, having been planned as we have ·said, by Charles Bulfinch. The houses * The number first given Mr. Fales's house when the street on which it was situated was named Tremont Street was 171, this was afterward changed to i74. Miss Haliburton says in her notes that the house was built by Captain Winslow Lewis for himself in 1814, and had been fur nished luxuriously with imported furniture. The furniture like the house was bought by Mr. Fales. Miss Haliburton further says that the house was taken down in 1866.
SIXTH GENERATION 91 looked out on the Mall, bordered by two rows of beauti ful shade trees, where the wealthy and fashionable men and women of Boston were long accustomed to prome nade. "The year 1810," says Miss Ellen Susan Bulfinch in 1896, in her Life and Letters of Charl&s Buijinch, "saw the erection of a long row of private dwelling- ,.. - houses 6n the Common, or what is now Tremont Street. This extended between West and Mason Streets, where a few of them are still standing, although much altered in appearance by their adaptation to business purposes. With their fine view of the broad green spaces of the Common opposite and its lofty trees, these houses were favorite residences in their day,· and probably from the columns supporting the balcony along the front the block received the name of Colonnade Row." To his niece Miss Apthorp in London, Bulfinch himself writes in 1812 : "You ask me if we have Balloons in America. We have seen them exhibited in a large open space which we call the Common, a beautiful piece of ground of forty-five acres, on one side of which is our Mall, a neat and elegant walk, opposite which are blocks of superb brick buildings, whose situation is truly delight ful, overlooking the Common and Mall to the distant view of Roxbury and Brookline,. separated from the Common by Charles River." The Row, says Mr. Sam uel Arthur Bent, in the eleventh volume of the Bostonian Society's Publications, "was probably the most famous residential block that Boston ever had. The houses were four-story brick dwellings of uniform design, with 92 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY a colonnade consisting of nearly eighty slender light gray sandstone columns, usually four before each house, and were designed by Charles Bulfinch." The Row, Mr. Bent says, was at the zenith of its glory as a place of aristocratic residence between 1830 and 1845. It was occupied by Boston merchants and gentlemen, who after thev., had made their fortunes moved here fron1 less con- spicuous streets " to pass the autumn of life in an envi- ronment of refinement, beauty and culture." Among the occupants of the Row at different periods Mr. Bent enumerates Dr. George Amory Bethune, Mr. George Brinley, Bishop Manton Eastburn, Thomas A. Goddard, Amos Lawrence, "merchant prince and philanthropist," William Lawrence, Thomas Lee, Jr., John Lowell, Jere miah Mason, John Parker, Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkman, Joseph Warren Revere, Jeffrey Richardson, president of the Suffolk Bank, Henry Sayles, partner in· business of Gardner Brewer, General John S. Tyler, and Benjamin F. White. In his list this writer rather st_rangely does not mention Samuel Fales, but he does speak of the senior Haliburton Fales as having lived there, and speaks in the following way: "No. 174 [in the block] has a claim to special mention because it was long the home of Haliburton Fales, described by one who knew him as 'of the same tribe' as that delightful humorist Judge T. C. Haliburton of Nova Scotia, the author of 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker,' about eighty years ago." In 1815, Mr. Fales became a proprietor (and pew owner) of King's Chapel; from 1842 to 1847 he was a SIXTH GENERATION 93 vestryman of this church. His pew, number 9, the fifth pew from the door on the right hand aisle, he acquired in conjunction with Mr. Joseph Coolidge, who was a vestryman of the Chapel from 1802 to 1834, and who died in 1840, aged 67. The pew had in earlier times been owned successively by Samuel Wentworth, father of Lady Wentworth, William De Blois, William Stack pool, and Samuel Swett; after Mr. Fales's death it was owned by the Fales heirs until 1854, when it was bought by William Gray. Samuel Fales married at King's Chapel, Boston (by Rev. James Freeman) August 23, 1801 ; Abigail Hali burton, third daughter of William and Lusannah (Otis) Haliburton of Windsor, Nova Scotia, born at Windsor June 15, 1773, died in Boston November 29, and was buried in the family tomb at Mount Auburn December 1, 1839. When Mr. Fales first met his wife she was visiting one or the other of her mother's sisters, Mrs. Abiel or Mrs Barney Smith, in Boston.* An outline * Abie! and Barney Smith, rich merchants of Boston, who as we have previously seen, had a sister in Boston, the wife of Stephens Fales, Sam uel Fales's uncle, had married, as we have also seen, like William Hali burton, into the family of Ephraim Otis and his wife Rachel (Hersey) of Scituate. Of the large family of Ephraim and Rachel Otis, two mem bers, Lusannah and Rachel, spent their married lives and died at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Rachel having been married there in 1769. As the Hali burton sketch, which will later be reproduced in this volume, indicates, one of the descendants of Lusannah Otis, Sir Arthur Haliburton, was raised to the British peerage, while a descendant of Rachel Otis, who was married to Benjamin DeWolf, was the wife of William Henry, 19th Earl of Erroll, the Countess of Erroll's mother having been the wife of 94 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY sketch of the Haliburton family to ,vhich Mrs. Fales belonged, which was first published in the " New England Historical and Genealogical Register " for January, 191 7, will be reproduced in a later part of this book. Mrs. Fales was an aunt, much beloved by him, of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, the Hon. Charles Stephen Gore, G. C. B. and K. H., 3rd son of the 2nd Earl of Arran. Of Mrs. Abiel Smith, the older of the two aunts in Boston of Mrs. Sam uel Fales, there is conspicuous mention in the "Recollections of Samuel Breck," published in 1877. Her entertainments were many and lavish, and were much talked of in the town, and she was evidently a kind and gen erous hostess and friend. As the Smiths had no children, when Abiel Smith died, a little less than two years after his wife, he left legacies to many of Mrs. Smith's relatives as well as his own. To Dr. Ephraim Otis, his wife's eldest brother he leaves $6,000, to be equally divided among his six chil dren after his decease ; to the heirs of his wife's sister Mary Lincoln, deceased, he leaves a certain sum; to Lusannah Haliburton he leaves $5,000, to be equally divided after her death between ber son William Hersey Otis Haliburton and her daughter Mrs. Abigail Fales, giving also $ 1 ,ooo to William Hersey Otis Haliburton alone ; to the heirs of Mrs. Rachel DeWolf of Windsor, Nova Scotia, he leaves $4,-000; and to Ruth Otis, Mrs. Abigail Otis, Priscilla Clapp, and the heirs of Charles Otis, of the same large family further generous sums. Among his own relatives he remembers his nephews William Augustus Fales and Stephen Fales. To his niece Lydia Smith, daughter of his brother Barney, because she was named for his" late dear wife," he leaves a legacy of $20,000. His will was made October 6, 1814, and proved November 27, 1815. Abiel Smith and his wife, and Barney Smith and his wife, and the three children of the Barney Smiths, all had their portraits painted by Gilbert Stuart. The children of Barney Smith were, Lucinda, born May 19, I 784, married December 10, 1843, to her first cousin George Alexander Otis, son of her uncle Dr. Ephraim Otis; Lydia, born October 13, I 786, married to Hon. Jonathan Russell; Henry Barney Smith, born October 26, 1789, died in 1861, probably unmarried. ftfl:j,alf:1 c.7;,~ (J/~.cf~fdM) 1773-/839
SIXTH GENERATION 95 noted jurist and author, creator of "Sam Slick the Clockmaker," and great-aunt of Judge Haliburton's children, the youngest of whom, Sir Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, was in 1898 raised to the British peerage as "Baron Haliburton of Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion of Canada." A charming letter from Abigail Haliburton's parents to their daughter, in response to the young lady's an nouncement to them of her desire to become the wife of Samuel Fales, is preserved among Mrs. Fales's descend ants. It is as follows :
"Windsor, 25 July 1801. "Dear Abby " Your Letter by Captn Barker did not come to hand till late last evening. He sails this morning from Campbell's creek, and the time scarce sufficeth to pack up and send on board the things you wrote for. " You may Imagine, Dr Girl, our Sensations at the receipt of a Letter announcing and asking consent to an intended union that Threats perpetual separation from our only surviving Daughter, whose company, converse, and music had become more and more endearing and whose presence became daily more interesting to both, and more so now to the mother on account of William's long absence and my engagement with George to take the charge of his Business until his return next spring from England. 96 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
" Melancholly prospects these, for a feeble old woman advancing fast in years and Infirmities. As for the Father, He feels not, or feeling scorns to own it. But we are Parents anxious as fond, and as such more solici tous for our Daughter's wellfare than for any Interests of our own. "You are now Dear Child at years of discretion and do not lack discernment. If you see in Mr. Fales those qualities and accompanyments which afford a well grounded prospect of happiness, you have our approba tion and of course our consent. " Remember however that Matrimony is no trifling connection. It is a Copartnership that cannot be Dis solved at pleasure. Each one should put into the joint stock, Industry, Economy and prudent foresight, Sincer ity, Justice, generosity and tender compassion, much Patience, mutual forbearance and great Fear of offence, Each striving to deserve and claim the Esteem of the other by virtuous honorable conduct and all those inno cent endearments which sweeten the Cup of life. " This is the Pleasing side of the Picture, and God forbid you should ever see the reverse, the very appre hension would fill our souls with Terror. "Do you therefore Do your best in the Fear of God, and we as fond Parents will hope the best. Our affec tionate regard shall be unto him as to you, and the hap piness of both shall be the burthen of our prayers to the throne of Grace. SIXTH GENERATION 97
"Commend us to Mr. Fales as Parents worthy of Esteem, and assure him that we shall be impatient for the time when we shall see Him, and the Dear Friends you have named, within our cottage at Windsor. " You know the warmth of our affection for our Friends in Boston, commend us sincerely to each Person in terms proper to the occasion. " God Bless prosper and direct you in all things, Sayeth your ever affectionate Parents "W. Haliburton Lucy Haliburton "Miss Abby Haliburton " P. S. Miss Dewolf had closed her Letter before yours arrived last night."
An interesting letter, also, from the eminent Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to his uncle by marriage ·samuel Fales after the death of Mrs. Fales, is preserved by the descendants of Samuel Fales, and is as follows : "Windsor, Nova Scotia, 19th Dec. 1839 "My dear Sir- " I have just received from Haliburton a note informing me of the melancholy tidings of the decease of my very kind and very dear aunt, the only sister of my poor father, and the nearest, dearest, and best friend I had. I loved her as a child, and feel her loss propor tionately severe, having flattered myself ,ve should have been spared to have met again in the spring, to which I 98 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY looked forward with much pleasure. I feel that to you and your united and excellent family it is a heavy and irreparable blow, as it is to us all, but amidst this tribula tion and affliction it must be a consoling reflection that they have always been so devoted to her, exhibited such filial affection, and proved by their tenderness and care how worthy they were of such an excellent mother. Their conduct towards her has been beyond all praise, and has endeared them still more to me, pray assure them how much I feel for and with them, how much I admire their unremitting, untiring care of her, and what a consolation it is that her virtues have been hereditary. To you I feel it is impossible to offer any consolation while the wound is still fresh and bleeding, beyond the hope we all entertain that she has exchanged a world of care and pain for one of bliss and happiness and the knowledge that you are blessed with a most amiable and charming family, which that you may long live to be happy, as you have reason to be proud of~ is the earnest prayer of yours always " Thos. C. Haliburton. " I had intended to have written Haliburton and his sisters but my heart is too full, and I am unequal to the task, when more composed I will do so." . An earlier letter to Mr. Fales from the genial Judge is as follows : "My Dear Sir- " I received your letter by the Mark with the SIXTH GENERATION .99 enclosures, and regret very much your intention of visit ing Saratoga instead of Nova Scotia. As our little flock will be added to this summer* I shall defer my visit to Boston until last of May next year before which time I will have the sitting of the Court altered, and I then hope to have the pleasure of escorting you down to this Province. Tell Mrs. Fales we have wonderful mineral springs here, and faith quite as strong as the waters, and that for people who can sometimes fancy themselves sick (I don't mean to insinuate) why they will make them fancy themselves well, quite as much as any republican spring in the world- " I delivered your message to Georgina, respecting Miss Parker and her six little step children-Ready made articles are sometimes convenient but suit the taste not so well as those made to order. "Wishing you an agreeable summer " yours try. "Thos. C. Haliburton. " 15th June, 1832."
Besides many family letters written by Samuel Fales, especially to his son Haliburton, which have been pre served, we have a few written by his wife. On the second anniversary of her marriage, August 23, 1803, Mrs. Fales was visiting in Bristol, her husband being in Boston. Her eldest and then only child Augusta was • Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, who was raised to the peerage in 1898, was born September 26, 1832. 100 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY with her and in an affectionate letter to Mr. Fales his wife speaks of the baby's interest in its uncle " Charley " Fales. We have visited, she says, " your aunt Childs at Warren, Aunt Diamond at Bristol, the widow Mary Fales, Mr. Bourn, Your Father's neighbor here, and twice have ridden horse back round your father's farms. This day I go to Betsey's to spend a week, and on Sat urday week if no accident happens you may expect to see us in Boston." She sends her love to Mrs. Abiel Smith" and the rest of our relations." '' You had better purchase," she says in a postscript, " 5 or 6 hundred cu cumbers and 6 or 8 pound of peppers for pickles. Let Lucy make as strong a brine as she can make and put them in till I come home, the cucumbers in one thing the peppers in another. She need not take the seeds out of them but now and then shake them up for fear of any scum rising. Be so good as to let her green two or three hundred her own way for my brother George and his wife." · On the 10th of July, 1808, sbe was boarding in Ded ham, her children Augusta and "Sam" being with her. I " have found the place," she ,vri tes Mr. Fales, " more agreeable than I expected, my chamber I like better than any room in the House. It is larger than our front parlor, very airy and pleasant, four windows, three doors, and a fire place, neither curtains or carpet and very little furniture. I was certainly much mistaken in telling you the yard front of the house was not inclosed, there is a pretty little railing round it and the yard runs to a con- SIXTH GENERATION t 01 siderable distance back of the House, so as to form a charming range for the children. Mr. and Mrs. Smith appear to be good-natured worthy people, their daughter an agreeable girl, the two Miss Edes are also agreeable women. There is a young man by the name of Cogges hall who (it seems) is out of Health and studying law. His graces and politeness I presume he reserves wholly for the bar, to the Miss Thomsons and my Ladyship he cant afford even a passing bow." She desires Mr. Fales to come out by the stage and is rather disappointed he has not already done so. "Mr. Smith," she writes," says you can be accommodated very well and I promise if it will suite you to spare one of the beds in my chamber, indeed I shant feel contented unless you come to see me, without you wright very often. Sam says the bed dont lay good, he wants papa to come and see him and I know who could say the same." " Get a thimble £or Augusta," she continues, "and a skain of nice pinke sewing silk, with one of navy blue and two dozens and a half of our white mettle buttons for Sam's cloaths and send by the stage." In a letter dated June I 1, 1809, she writes from Bos ton to her husband, who ,vas then either in New York or in Philadelphia: "I have the pleasure to inform you our little folks are in charming health and spirits, they have not had the measles nor do I think they will, nor has Augusta the smallest appearance of having taken the chicken pox, notwithstanding Sam had it so very bad and her playing and sleeping with him. Their cough is 102 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY so much better that I can scarcely believe it the whoop ing cough, this will be gratifying to you, I know, for when you left home they were far from being well and you could not be otherwise than anxious. Barney Smith I hear has arrived at New York, probably you will have seen him tho' by this. I take it you are on your way to or at Philadelphia. Last evening I past at Abiel Smith's which is the only time I have been out since you left me, they said a thousand fine things of my Dear Fales that was very agreeable to me ( excuse me I am inter rupted). " Nine o'clock " 'Twas Billings Otis, he has just arrived from Halifax, he brought letters from George for both you and me. My beloved mother is rather better but poor George has met with another severe loss, one of his little girls died about a fortnight after its mother and one of the others is dangerously ill. Poor fellow, he is. very. unfortunate, has been sick himself and all his family, even to his servant. He is very urgent with me to visit Nova Scotia, Otis tells me my friends all expect me, but that is a subject I cannot determine till I see you. Dear Fales when may I expect you? If you knew how very solatory everything appears in your absence you would hasten as soon as possible to your affectionate Abigail Fales." In a postscript she adds : " The children are very solicitous for your return and have given Mama a great many kisses for their dear Papa. Little Sam SIXTH GENERATION 103 wanted to guide my hand to write a great deal of fond prattle which he had over and which I have promised to remember till I see you. Good night dear Fales. " Ever your A. F." In an undated letter to her "dearest much loved and ever Honrd Parents" Mrs. Fales mentions the recent death of Abiel Smith. Five of her children, one after the other, had been very sick, little Susan Maria she " had no expectation would have survived her illness;" she thanks God, however, that now they are all per fectly well. "Halliburton, our youngest boy," she says, "is just about running alone and is I think the most beautiful creature you ever saw, he looks just like my dear Mother and his uncle William. If 'tis in my power to leave him this Summer I shall try very hard to n1ake you a visit, his father I suppose would hardly hear of my taking him with me. I do long most earnestly to see some of my dear Scotia friends, yet they will not see me there without some of my children's accompany ing me. Mr. Fales does sometimes talk of it, yet I can never seriously flatter myself you will ever see him." She speaks also of her uncle Abiel Smith's having left legacies to his wife's relatives, and says: "Thank God my dear Parents will be the easier for it." Of the domestic life of the Fales family in Boston it would be impossible to speak in other than the pleasant est terms. Kindness, cultivation of mind and manner, serious attention to the duties of religion, fine taste in literature and the arts, distinguished both parents and 104 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY children. The daughters were musical and were gener ally admired in what was known as the best society of the Boston of their day; the sons were men of aristo cratic bearing, great ease and fluency in conversation, but of such genuine kindness of heart that they were not only adored by their parents and sisters, but most affectionately regarded by their friends and acquaintance at large. The Samuel Fales household, indeed, ranked conspicuously among the most attractive households of Boston in the first half of the nineteenth century. Mr. Samuel Fales's portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart, in 1806, and in the "Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart," by George C. Mason, published in 1879, we find the following mention of it. " Mr. Fales took some friends to see it while it was still in the artist's studio, to get their opinion of it. When they had gathered in front of the picture, Stuart asked in a jocose way whether they thought it a good likeness of ' the Great Mogul,' as he facetiously styled his sitter. The verdict was most satisfactory, and Stuart as he cleaned his brushes and laid down his palette said there was nothing more to be done to it." When this was written, the portriat, "as bright and fresh apparently as when first painted," seventy-three years before, was owned by his son Sam uel Bradford Fales of Philadelphia. It is now owned by Haliburton Fales of New York. Mr. Samuel Fales died at his residence in Boston on the 6th of August, 1848, and was buried in his tomb at SIXTH GENERATION 105
Mount Auburn on the 8th.* His will, made March 9, 1844, with a codicil January 5, 1847 (proved September 11, 1848), mentions his sons Samuel Bradford and Hali burton Fales; his daughters Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta Dunlap, widow of Andrew Dunlap, Esq., de ceased, Susan Maria Fales, unmarried, Eliza Anne Bridgham, wife of Samuel Bridgham of New York ; his nieces Betsey B. Coggeshall, Mary F. Church, Hope Walker, and Ann F. Munroe; and his late wife's nieces, daughters of George Mordaunt Haliburton,-Georgiana Haliburton, unmarried, and Maria Bayard, wife of Sam uel Bayard, M. D., of St. John, New Brunswick. His executors were his son Haliburton, and his son-in-law, Samuel Willard Bridgham. The inventory of his estate exhibited October 16, 1848, shows real and personal property to the value of $286,700. This property in cluded a large amount of real estate in various parts of Boston, his dwelling house at 121 Tremont Street, his horses and carriages, and plate, his pew at King's Chapel, and his tomb in Mount Auburn cemetery. Besides his house on Tremont Street he still owned the property on Washington Street, where he had once lived, now num bered 246 and 248, running through to 69, 71, 73 Devon shire Street. This property was sold at auction, May * The Fales tomb at Mount Auburn is in Lot 518, on Beech Avenue. Above the tomb stand two handsome monuments, on one of which are inscriptions to Samuel and Abigail Fales, their daughters Frances Mary and Susan Maria, their son Haliburton and his wife Elizabeth Jane, and their grandson Samuel. The other monument is a memorial to Mr. Sam uel Bradford Fales. 106 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
28, 1881, to C. E. Catting of Boston, for twenty-three thousand dollars.
Children of Samuel6 and Abigail (Haliburton):
32 i. Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta,7 born December 22, 1802, married to Andrew Dunlap. 33 ii. Samuel Bradford, born June 20, 1804. iii. Susanna Maria, born November 21, baptized December 19, 1809, died March 7 and was buried at Mount Auburn March 10, 1853. On the chief monument reared above the Fales family tomb, where she lies, is the following inscription to her memory: "Her life was a beautiful example of filial devotion and of untiring and generous friendship. Her highest joy was in sweet ministration to others, quickened and ennobled by a lofty intelligence and a firm judg ment. Her death was hopeful and resigned. " ' Go to thy grave in all thy glorious prime, In full activity of life and power, The Christian cannot die before his time, The Lord's appointed is the Servant's hour.' " 1v. Frances Mary, born March 31, baptized April 28, 1811, died April 29 and was buried May 2, 1820. The place of her burial was the small burying ground on Boston Common, but on the 8th of November, 1836, the body was removed to Mount Auburn. 34 v. Eliza Ann, born October 4, 1813, married to Samuel Willard Bridgham. 35 v1. Haliburton, born February S, 1815, married Elizabeth Jane Beale. SIXTH GENERATION 107
22 GEORGE6 FALES (Nathan£el,5 Nathan£el,4 T£mothy,3 1 5 fames,2 James ), fourth son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Bradford) Fales, was born at Bristol December 1, 1787, and married in Philadelphia, December 11, 1830, Ann Rush, born October 1, 1800, daughter of Lewis and Mary (Marshall) Rush. Mr. Fales died in Philadelphia January 14, 1879, and was buried at Laurel Hill ceme tery in that city. His wife died January 15, 1887. Through the influence of his brother Samuel, George Fales came in early life to Boston, and for some years was in partnership with his brother in the business the latter had founded. On the 1st of October, 1811, how ever, articles of dissolution of the firm were signed, and it is possible that George may have gone into business with a man named Cheever, for it is said by his descen dants that he was for a time junior member of a dry goods firm styled "Cheever and Fales." From Boston he removed, but just when we do not know, to Phila delphia, and there founded a successful dry-goods com mission business in connection with Z. Lothrop, under the firm name of " Fales, Lothrop, and Company."* In time the name of the firm changed, first to " Fales, Wharton, and Company," then to "Wharton, Atkinson, and Company," and then to " Vanuxem, Wharton, and Company," but through these various changes, al though after the first change Mr. Fales's name ceased to appear, he retained his connection with it until • It is said that George Fales went to Philadelphia to act as agent for the New England mills in which his brother Samuel was interested. 103 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY the first of January, 1879, about two weeks before his death. In his will Mr. Fales remembered Elizabeth B. Cogges hall, widow, Mary P. Church, wife of Peter Church, Hope P. Walker, widow, Ann F. Munro, and Nathaniel L. Munro, children of his sister Elizabeth B. Munro, widow of Hezekiah Munro, late of Bristol, deceased. He also made unconditional bequests to his brother Charles Fales, and to each of the children of Charles, except Charles, Jr., to whom, however, he left a legacy in trust. He further left bequests to all the children, but without mentioning their names, of his deceased brother Samuel of Boston. The Rush family into which George Fales married were adherents of the German Reformed Church, and George Fales and his wife Ann were married by the Rev. Gilbert Livingstone, pastor of the F"irst Reformed Dutch Church, Crown Street, Philadelphia. Colonel Lewis Rush, father of Ann (Rush) Fales, was born January 16, 1764, married December 12, 1792, Mary Marshall, who died November 19, 1849, and himself died late in September, 1836. Lewis Rush was a cap tain in the Philadelphia militia in 1799, and later was promoted successively major and colonel. In the first year of the war of 1812 he was colonel commanding all the Pennsylvania militia. His sword is in possession of Dr. George Fales Baker.
Children of George6 and Ann (Rush): SIXTH GENERATION 109
1. Lewis Rush,7 born October 3 r, 1831, died, unmarried, August 27, 1866. ii. George, Jr., born August 10, 1833, died July 15, 1845. See United States Gazette July 21, 1845. iii. Mary Marshall, born October I 1, 1835, died Decem ber 20, 1838. 36 iv. Henrietta Rush, born April 28, 1838, married to Alfred Gustavus Baker. v. Bradford, born January 9, 1843, died December 8, 1859.
23 CHARLES6 FALES (Nathaniel,5 Nathaniel,4 Tz"mothy,3 1 5 James,2 fames ), fifth son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Bradford) Fales, was born December 6, 1789, and mar ried December 22, 1816, Lydia M. Bosworth, born Octo ber 17, 1795, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Bosworth of Warren, Rhode Island. In early life, it is said, like his brothers he was attracted to Boston, but the life of a farmer attracted him most and he soon returned to Bris tol and took up his permanent residence there. In time he became owner of the farm now owned and occu pied by his great-grandson Alexander Griswold9 Fales, which with the house and other buildings on it had been purchased on the 23rd of April, 1828, by Nathaniel5 Fales from five heirs of Daniel Bradford, Esq., deceased. He died February 24, 1875, "aged 85 years and I month." His wife Lydia M. died January 24, 1874, "aged 78," administration on her estate being exercised by her hus band. The tombstones of both are in the North burying ground, near their former home. 110 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Children of Charles6 and Lydia M. (Bosworth): i. George Augustus/ born February 18, r818, died July 6, 1873, "aged 55." 37 ii. Charles, Jr., born June 14, 18 19, married Caroline La Croix. iii. Mary Ann Frances, born December 2 3, 1820, died September 21, 1822. iv. Sarah Little, born December 9, 1822, married June 8, 1846, to Henry Green Ballou, born July 25, 1806, and had five children. See the Ballou Genealogy, ( 1888), page 509. v. Nathaniel Little, born August 22, 1824, died Decem ber 4, 1839, "aged 16." vi. Mary Ann, born October 21, 1826, died January 1, 1844. vu. Elizabeth Bradford, born January 12 or 13, 1828, married (1) October 10, 1847, to Benjamin B. Church, (2) to George "w. Allen of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vlll. Abby Bosworth, born January 29, 1830, died February 13, 1841. ix. Frances, born June 20, 1831, died February 26, 1833. x. Alexander Griswold, born December 23, 1832, died July 5 or 6, 1867. xi. Lydia Bosworth, born May 25, 1834, married (1) Nov. 16, 1858, to Benjamin F. Porter, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and had one child, (2) to Edward L. Markham. She died September 10, r902.
24 NATHANIEL6 FALES (Samuet,5 Nathaniel,4 Timothy,3 1 5 James,2 James ), eldest son of Judge Samuel Fales of Taunton and his wife Sarah (Cook), was born February SIXTH GENERATION 11 1
20, I 782, and baptized October 3, 1792. He was a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1802. He married, but at what date we do not know, Sarah K. Padelford, daughter of Judge Seth Padelford of Taunton (a gradu ate of Yale of 1770), and became, like his father, a lawyer. In I 804 he succeeded his father as clerk of the Inferior Court and the Court of Sessions of Bristol County, Massachusetts, and this office he held until 1816. He wa-s also active in the Bristol County militia, in which he rose to be colonel. In his "Reminiscences of Taun ton," Mr. Atwood has given us an amusing description of Colonel Fales, whom he remembered well. Fales Iived, he says, in a large two story house, the land in the rear of which, as "all the ad joining land running parallel with Main Street and reaching to land now occupied by the Broadway stone church, was owned by Judge Fales." The colonel, presented, Mr. Atwood tells us, a very im posing appearance as an officer on horseback, and among the men of his regiment was very popular. In his profession of the law, however, he was not very diligent or successful, and his administration of the clerkship of the courts was far from satisfactory. In later life he aban doned the practice of his profession entirely and did no public business of any kind. He died some time in 1852.* * See "Reminiscences of Taunton" by Charles R. Atwood (1880), pages I 00-104. A humorous quatrain came long ago into print, the origin of which we should like much to know. It is sometimes, though probably mistakenly, 112 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Of the children or later descendants of Nathaniel6 Fales we know almost nothing. He had an infant daughter buried at Taunton, but the inscription on her tombstone is now illegible, and the date of her death we cannot tell. His second son, born February 9, 1812, died May 30th of the same year and, was likewise buried at Taunton. April 1, 1821, "Sarah Fales, grandchild to Sally Fales" was baptized at Taunton, and it seems likely she was Nathaniel's6 child. On the 14th of Feb ruary, 1826, a Sally W. Fales of Taunton was married to Charles Richmond, which Charles Richmond, as we suppose, had earlier married (March 12, 1809), Sally Cobb. On the coast of Africa, according to Taunton records, a Timothy Fales, who may have been Nathan iel's6 son, died December 15, 1823. In the Newport, Rhode Island, records we find that a Nathaniel Fales of Taunton and Elizabeth A. Shaw of Newport were mar ried by Rev. Leland Howard, July 6, 1839, and had chil dren born as follows: Theodore C., May ~' 1840; Sarah ascribed to a witty nephew of the Fales clerk of the courts whom it com memorates, but it seems to have gone far afield as early as when Timothy Fales was clerk of the courts of Bristol County, and we know of no nephew of his who was likely to have composed it. It would seem, indeed, to be more in order as amusingly reflecting on the administration of the clerkship of the courts of Colonel Nathaniel than that of his father or great-grand father, but there are reasons to believe that it originated much earlier than this Nathaniel Fales's time. It is as follows : " The Children of Israel asked for meat And Jehovah sent them quails, The courts of Bristol wanted a clerk And the devil sent them Fales." SIXTH GENERATION 113
E., April 27, 1842; Melvina S., February 3, 1846; Nathan iel E., May 2 2, r 84·9 ; Hattie S ., September 8, 18 5 r, but whether these were descendants of Nathaniel6 or not we cannot tell.
25 THOMAS6 FALES ( Thomas,s Nathan£el,4 TZ:mothy,3 1 5 James,2 J ames ), fourth son of Thomas and Sarah (Bowen) Fales was born May 29, 1786. He was a sea captain and was lost at sea August 2, 1817, "aged 31." He married at Bristol January 27, 1808 (by Rev. Henry Wight), Mary Bourn, daughter of Judge Shearjashub and his wife Ruth (Waldron) Bourn. The widow Mary (Bourn) Fales, "an adult", was baptized in St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal parish, Bristol, February 28, 1830. On the r2th of September, 1817, letters of administra tion were granted to John Wardwell, Thomas Church, and Mary Fales, on the estate of Captain Thomas Fales, Jr., who died August 2, 1817. In her old age Mrs. Mary (Bourn) Fales lived with her son Rev. Thomas Frederic Fales, at Waltham, Massachusetts. She died May 13, r 868, "aged 84 ", and is buried near her son in Mount Feake cemetery, Wal tham.
Children of Captain Thomas6 and Mary (Bourn):
i. Sophia Bourn,7 born September 16, 1810, baptized, an adult, in St. Michael's parish, Bristol, January 24, 18 30. She died, unmarried, at Bristol, January 26, 1891, "aged 80." 114 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
ii. Mary, married to Dr. Joseph Chapline Hays, and lived at Hagerstown, Maryland. 38 111. Thomas Frederic, born December 24, 1816, married Margaret Preston Nelson.
26 LEMUEL6 FALES ( Thomas,S Nathan-iel,4 T£mothy,3 1 fames,2 fames ), fifth son of Thomas and Sarah (Bowen) Fales, \Vas born at Bristol in November, 1791, and died at Warren, Rhode Island April 16, 1878. He married, April I 1, 1816 (by Rev. Henry Wight), Hannah Vaughn, born February 27, 1798, daughter of Gideon and Patience Vaughn (said to be of Exeter, Rhode Island). From 1818 to 1822, inclusive, he was a lieutenant in the Third Bristol Company of Rhode Island militia. From Bris tol at some early period in his career he removed to Warren, Rhode Island, and there he spent the rest of his life. In the South burying ground of Warren he and his wife and several of their children are buried.* Lemuel Fales's will was executed at Warren February 1 1, 1869, and proved July 1, 1878. In . it the testator remembers his beloved wife Hannah, and in the follow ing order his children, Caroline, wife of Mervin Chase, Catherine, wife of Samuel Allen, Martha, wife of Joseph Bowen, Patience, wife of Seth Baxter, Jr., William C. Fales, Smith B. Fales, Samuel S. Fales, James M. Fales, and Thomas J. Fales. His wife Hanpah he makes his sole executor. Mrs. Lemuel Fales died March 11, 1876. * A. Rosanna Fales who was married at Warren December 8, 1816, to Robert Ballot, with little doubt was or had been a servant in some one of the Fales families of Bristol. SIXTH GENERATION 115
Children of Lemuel6 and Hannah (Vaughn):
i. William C., born December 29, 1818, married April 10, 1845, Elizabeth Carpenter. ii. Caroline, married September 2 7, 1848, to Mervin B. Chase of Fall River, Massachusetts. 111. Catherine, married to Samuel Allen. iv. Mary Ann, born about 1821, died unmarried September 22, I 844, "aged 23," and is buried at Warren. v. Martha, married January 1, 1848, to Joseph Bowen of Barrington, Rhode Island, son of James. vi. Smith Bowen, born February 10, r826, married Adaline F. Luther, born May 27, 1836, died October 24, 1913. He died August 20, 1896. Both are buried at Warren. vii. Patience Carr, born January 16, 1828, married to Seth Baxter, Jr., born in August, 1828, died April 19, 1881. She died January 16, 1881. The Bax ters had a son Lemuel, who died at the age of fifteen months, and a son Seth R., born May 18, 1867, died December 17, 1880. The family are all buried at Warren and a tall monument marks their graves. v111. Lemuel, Jr., born about I 831, died in California August 1 5, 18 5o, in his 19th year. A tombstone to his memory was erected in Warren. 1x. Samuel Sheffield, born March 6, 1833, died Feb.ruary 5, 1912. He married Annie E. , who died December 7, I 87 I, "aged 38.'' Administration on his wife's estate was given Samuel S. Fales Febru ary 5, 1872. The Samuel S. Faleses had children buried with them in Warren (in the lot with the Seth Baxters) : Fannie, born in 1864, died July 14, 116 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
1 869, '' aged 4 years and 9 months " ; Lena, born in February, 1869, died February 27,. 1871, "aged 2 years and 9 days "; Harry, born April 16, died April 21, 1871. x. James Martin. xi. Thomas Jefferson, born July 14, 1836, is one of the very few persons bearing the name Fales still living in Bristol.
27 WILLIAM AuausTus6 FALES (Stephen,s Nathaniel,• 1 5 Timothy,3 James,2 James ), second son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born September 5, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1806. At graduation he had the honour of delivering the English poem. In 1807, he delivered a Fourth of July oration at Lenox, Massachusetts, which will be found in print_ In 1810 he appears as an attorney practising at 14 Old State House, Boston, in 1813 at Suffolk Inns, in 1816 at 90 Court Street, and in 1820 at 76 State Street. From 1805 to 1815 we find him owning a brig named The Perseverance. In 1813 he had some sort of business partnership with George A. Otis. As to his residence, in 1813 he lived at Brattle Square, in 1816 in Chambers Street, and in 1820 in Brattle Street. Whether he continued to live in Boston or to practise law there after 1820 we do not know; his death occurred in 1824. William Augustus6 Fales married Mary Ann Gray, b,orn November 27, 1793, died February 22, 1850, daugh ter of Edward Gray, whom Loring's "Hundred Boston Orators" calls "a polished gentleman of great blandness of manners, and highly esteemed," and his wife Susanna SIXTH GENERATION 117
(Turell), daughter of Joseph and Mary (Morey) Turell;* and at his death left four children. In 1828 Mrs. Mary Ann Fales lived at Brattle Square, Boston, but in 1832 she resided at Brunswick, Maine. On the 15th of October,· 1832, she petitioned in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, to be appointed guardian for her daughters Mary T. Fales and Jane M. Fales, minors, over the age of fourteen, and for her daughter _Caroline, a minor under fourteen, her two older daughters desiring such appointment. The court granted her petition. Children of William Augustus6 and Mary Ann (Gray): i. Edward Gray,7 graduated at Bowdoin College in 18 32, and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He be came a lawyer and practised at Baltimore, but died at Baltimore, probably unmarried, in 1842. ii. Mary Turell, married to Thomas Gray, M. D., of Boston. iii. Jane Minot, born probably in 1 82 I, married in the Unitarian Church, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 26, 1844, to George Whitefield. Lamb of N evy Orleans, Louisiana, son of George and Jane Lamb, born probably in 1819. 1v. Caroline Danforth, lived most of her life, we believe, in Boston, but as she was buried in the Cambridge Cemetery, Decembe~ 7, 1904, she may have died in * Edward Gray, born July 16, 1764, "married April 15, 1790, Susanna Turell, daughter of Madam Turell, a character famous in Revolutionary days." He was a graduate of Harvard and a man of note. He is known as the" honest lawyer." Se~" The Gray Genealogy," by M. D. Raymond, 1887. See also Loring's "The Hundred Boston Orators." 118 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Cambridge. Apparently, however, none of her near relatives lived or died in Cambridge.
28 STEPHEN6 FALES (Stephen,5 Nathaniel,4 Timothy,3 1 5 James,2 James ), third son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born in Middle Street, now Hanover Street, Boston, May 3, 1790. He was prepared for College at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1810, at Commencement delivering the Latin Salutatory Oration. Soon after graduation he was called to a tutor ship in the classics at Bowdoin College, and here he stayed two years. He then studied law in the office of Jeremiah Mason at Portsmouth, and soon was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. In 1819 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and practised there with Francis A. Blake. In 1821 he settled at Dayton, Ohio, where he was elected to the State Senate. In 1831 he returned to Cincinnati and became associated in practice with Hon. Nathaniel G. Pendleton, but from about 1842 was occupied chiefly in the care of a large estate at Cincin nati owned by David Hunt of Mississippi. He died suddenly at Cincinnati September 3, 1854, we believe unmarried, and was buried at Cincinnati. Stephen Fales was a man of exceedingly amiable qualities and was very highly respected. A sketch of him, written by Colonel Albert H. Hoyt, M. A., appears in the second volume of "Memorial Biographies of the New Eng land Historic Genealogical Society," published in 1881, and a briefer sketch in the American Biographical Dic tionary, published by Swift & Co., of Boston, in 1857. o.f'l~z, CJmit~JdM 1J83-1839
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29 STEPHEN SMITH6 FALES ( W£lliam,5 Nathan£el,4 1 5 Timothy,3 James,2 James ), eldest son of William and Mary (Smith) Fales, was born at Bristol November 24, 1783, and married in 1804, Phebe Wardwell, born February 17, 1784, died September 26, 1839, "aged 55." Stephen Smith Fales died June 22, 1839," aged 55," both he and his wife are buried in the North burying ground at Bristol. Most of their children were born at Bristol, but one at least was born in Cuba. In connec tion with the record of Stephen Smith Fales's death in the Town Book of Bristol the Town Clerk has written: " Mr. Fales was a native of this place and an able ship master,* for the last twenty years he resided ,vith his family in the Island of Cuba, from whence he recently returned and spent his last moments in his native place in the society of his friends and connexions." Interesting portraits of Stephen Smith and Phebe (Wardwell) Fales are in the possession of their great grandson Edward Fales Coward of New York. The portrait of Stephen Smith Fales was painted in Holland in 1804; the portrait of Phebe Fales was painted in America.
Children of Stephen Smith6 and Phebe (Wardwell):
39 i. William/ born April 4, 1805, married Martha Balch Wilson. • Speaking of Mark Anthony DeWolf's sons, whose names are so con spicuously identified with the history of Bristol, Professor Wilfred H. Munro says : "Following the natural trend of Bristol boys of that period 120 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
ii. Eliza Wardwell, born January 2, I 807, married Febru ary 14, 1833, in Cuba, to John Black Mayo. 111. Mary Smith, born December 17, 1808, married May 29, 1825, to William James Brown. She died April 29, 1871. 1v. Harriet, born August 4, 1811, married December 1, 1829, to William Munro, Jr. v. Thomas James, born June 18, 1815, married in Cuba Anna Gray, and had one child. vi. Hannah Drury, baptized at St. Michael's Church, Bristol, April 30, 1818. 40 vii. Charles Joseph Ernest, born August 7, 1825, married Susan James Usher. v111. George Henry, died at the age of ten years. ix. Seraphina Wardwell, died in infancy. The dates of the births of the last two of these children have not been found.
30 W1LLIAM6 FALES, JR., ( William,5 Nathaniel,4 Tim 1 5 othy,3 J ames,2 J ames ), fourth son of William and Mary (Smith) Fales, was born March 5, r 788~ and married March 21, 1811, Harriet Sisson, who was baptized as an adult at St. Michael's Church, Bristol, April 16, 1820. Property owned by William Fales in Bristol in 18 14 is described as fallows : "Lot of land bounded east on High Street, south on Union Street, west on the heirs of James Wilson, and north on land of Joseph Waldron, containing forty rods, having thereon one dwelling house of wood, two stories, 38 feet in length
[about I 764] they took up their father's calling. All who reached manhood became shipmasters and nearly all of them attained large riches." SIXTH GENERATION 121 by 34 feet in depth, the chambers in the house unfin ished. Value $2,400." The dates of the deaths of William and Harriet (Sisson) Fales we do not know.
Children of William6 and Harriet (Sisson):
i. Edmond,7 born February 16, 1813, died November 9, 18 3 1, is buried in the old cemetery in Bristol near the Common. ii. William, born May 4, 18 I 5. iii. Harriet, baptized at St. Michael's Church April 30, 1818. iv. William Bradford, baptized at St. Michael's Church June 19, 1818.
31 HENRv6 FALEs(john,5 Nathaniel," Tz"mothy,3 James,2 1 5 fames ), son of John and Martha (Finney) Fales, born at Bristol May 10, 1801, married January 26, 1822, Abi gail Diman, daughter of Jeremiah and Abigail (Munro) Diman, who was descended also on her father's side from Captain Mark Anthony DeWolf and his wife Abigail (Potter) of Bristol. The date of Henry Fales's death, we do not know but his widow was married, secondly, September 14, 1843, to Thomas Waldron, to whom she bore no children. The Diman family of Bristol, with which the Fales family, as we have seen, was otherwise than in the case of Henry Fales intermarried, was another of the more important families of Bristol. An interesting account of a certain branch of it, one member of which, Hon. Byron Diman, born in 1795, was in 1846 governor of Rhode Island, is found in the· Wight Genealogy, page 122 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
1 14. The Bristol Diman fan1ily was connected not only with the Faleses, but conspicuously, as we have said, with the De Wolfs, and through them with the Herreshoffs. The Bristol De Wolf family has had an historian in the person of Rev. Calbraith Bourn Perry, D. D., whose book is entitled " Charles D'Wolf of Gaudaloupe, his Ancestors and Descendants. Being a complete Geneal ogy of the Rhode Island D'Woils, the descendants of Simon De Wolf, with their common descent from Bal thasar De Wolf, of Lyme, Connecticut."
Children of Henry6 and Abigail (Diman):
i. Joseph Henry,7 born in 1824, died August 2, 1834. ii. Edward Taylor, born in 1826, died December 30, 1829. iii. Mary Abby, died October 17, 1830. G..F.A .Heal:J kyAuv &AartoHe--~9ak (J//m.A1ub~1-[d)unlaji:) 1802-1887
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32 Lucv ANN CHARLOTTE AuGUSTA7 FALES (Samuel,6 Nathaniel,5 Nathaniel,4 Timothy,3 James,2 Jamest), eldest daughter of Samuel6 and Abigail (Haliburton) Fales, was born in Boston December 22, 1802, and baptized at King's Chapel February 13, 1803. She was married September 20, 1824, to Andrew Qunlap, Esq., a notable member of the Massachusetts bar, only son of James Dunlap, merchant of Salem,* a native of the North of Ireland, and his wife Sarah (Stone); to whom she bore two children. Andrew Dunlap was born at Salem September 21, 1794, and having been prepared for college by the Rev. * James Dunlap, son of Andrew and Margaret (Leman) Dunlap, was born in Ireland November 14, 1767, and emigrated to Salem, Massachu setts, in the summer of 1 790. His schooling he had received at Belfast, and before he came to Salem he had passed a year in Liverpool, England. In Salem he associated himself in the ship-chandlery business with a Captain James Robinson, who was at that time keeper of a public house in the town. He married October 13, I 793, Sarah Stone, eldest child of Captain. Robert and his wife Anstiss (Babbage) Stone. He died at Salem April 22, I 800, aged between thir_ty-two and thirty-three. To him and his wife there were two children born: Andrew, September 21, 1794; Anstiss Stone, October 22, I 799. Of these children, Andrew married September 20, 1824, Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta Fales; Anstiss Stone was married June 18, r 822, to Benjamin Barstow, merchant of Salem. 126 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY source of his eloquence. What he did, he did with his whole heart, and no man's heart beat quicker than his at the call of pariotism or philanthropy. He was fearless in his conduct, kind towards inferiors, and frank and amiable towards all. His public addresses were in a style vigorous, warm, and often impassioned, like his whole character.* In the responsible duties of a wide practice he was invariably prompt, conciliating, and hon orable, as he was able, learned, and indefatigable. His arguments to the Court and jury often attested, not only a large acquaintance with the books of his profession, but also with those of literature and general knowledge." Of the treatise he had edited, Mr. Sumner said that even if Mr. Dunlap's eloquence and patriotic fervor were unknown, this work alone would perpetuate the author's memory. The second edition of the "Treatise *Ina letter in the Salem Commercial Advertiser of April 29, 1835, supposed to have been written by Henry Fields, Esq., we find the follow ing: " In my poor estimation Dunlap is one of the few orators we have in the country. To this you will demur, but no matter! You will demur still more strongly when I tell you your ' Godlike Daniel ' is no orator. I have listened to Dunlap when the blood has leaped in my veins, ' For he has wit, word, worth, Action, utterance, and power of speech, To stir men's blood.' Indeed this is the precise character of his eloquence, as Hazlitt said of Chatham, calculated to make men act, and not like that of Burke to make them think. Like Chatham he would rouse the fury of the multitude, while your Webster, like Burke, might as well attempt to speak into life the very stones in the public streets. I dare tell you Webster is no orator like those master spirits, with whom he has by his admirers been unjustly compared: no orator like Demosthenes or Pericles." 1825-1()0.5
SEVENTH GENERATION 127 on the Practice of the Courts of Admiralty" was edited by the author's son, Samuel Fales Dunlap, and pub lished in 18 50. In the possession of the Fales family of New York are two notable autograph letters to Andrew Dunlap, one from President John Adams, written at Quincy, Massa chusetts, July 13, 1822, the other from Thomas Jeffer son, written at Monticello July 28, 1822. Andrew Dunlap died at his mother's house in Salem, July 27, 1835, and was buried at Salem; Mrs. Dunlap died in New York City January 22 and was buried in her father's tomb at Mount Auburn January 26, 1887.
Children of Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta7 (Fales) and Andrew Dunlap:
i. Samuel Fales Dunlap, born July 2 3, baptized at King's Chapel August 21, 1825, died unmarried March 31, 1905. He graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was for a little over a year attached to the American Legation at Berlin. He wrote and published " The Origin of Ancient Names" (1856), "Vestiges of the Spirit-History of Man" (1858), and two or three other volumes.* He also, as we have seen, edited the second edition of his father's "Admiralty Prac tice." He died in New York City, and was buried in the Fales tomb at Mount Auburn April 4, 1905. * The Catalogue of the Boston Public Library gives also of Samuel Fales Dunlap's works "The Ghebers of Hebron," "The Mysteries of Adoni," and" The Son of the Man." 128 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
ii. James Andrew, born October 17, 1830, baptized at King's Chapel January S, 1831, was buried in the Fales tomb at Mount Auburn November 8, 1836.
33 SAMUEL BRADFORD7 FALES ('Samuel,6 Nathanzel,5 3 1 Nathaniel,4 Timothy, James,2 James ), elder son of Samuel6 and Abigail ( Haliburton) Fales, was born in Boston June 20, 1804, and baptized in the parish of King's Chapel, in that city, four days later. From the Boston Latin School he went to Harvard, where he graduated in 1825, after that studying medicine for two years. In 1832 he went to Philadelphia and entered commercial life there, but in about two years he retired from business, and thereafter spent his life in artistic pur suits, especially in accumulating valuable works of art. When he died he had one of the most valuable art collections in America, a small portion of which he be queathed to his relatives, the greater part, however, being sold at auction in New York in November, 1881. He died, unmarried, in Philadelphia after a· short illness on the 14th of September, 1880, and was buried in the family tomb at Mount Auburn four days later. In a sketch of Mr.• Fales's life which prefaced the catalogue of his collection at the time of its sale, the chief facts of his life are coherently given. He was, says the sketch, a son of the late Samuel Fales of Boston, a successful and highly esteemed merchant in that city who died in 1848, on his father's side being descended from William Bradford, first governor of the Plymouth SEVENTH GENERATION 129 Colony, and also from James Fales of Dedham, an Eng lish Puritan who settled in Massachusetts at an early date. On his mother's side he traced his descent from Ephraim Otis of Scituate, related to James Otis of Rev olutionary fame, and also, through the Haliburtons, to Walterus de Haliburton of Scotland, who lived in 1207. Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author of "Sam Slick", so well known in early American literature, was his first cousin. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and subsequently entered Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1825. He afterward studied medicine for two years with Dr. John Gorham of Bos ton, but having no taste for this profession discontinued his reading and in 1832 went to Philadelphia, where he entered on an importing and commission business, being associated with Eliphalet Williams, under the firm name of "Fales and Williams." The partnership thus entered into expired by limitation in 1834, and was not renewed, the senior partner then retiring from mercantile pursuits. He next turned his attention to the fine arts, and studied for a number of years, but finding his health impaired gave this up. Nevertheless, desiro~s of occupying his mind, he began to make a collection of engravings, then of paintings in oil and water colors, bronzes, and articles of vertu. His devotion to art was in time recognized by his being elected a director of the Pennsylvania Acad emy of Fine Arts, which position he held during the presidency of the Honourable Henry D. Gilpin. While a director of the Academy he procured many fine paint- 130 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY ings, "the works of celebrated artists of Europe then exhibiting at the Academy." On the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Fales " ranged himself on the side of the government, and by his unselfish devotion to the interests of the soldiers, won for himself a proud and enviable record. For five years, his entire time, day and night, ,vas devoted to the welfare of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and its adjuncts. He was Treasurer of its funds, which ,vere raised by the voluntary contributions of private citizens neither City, State, or Federal patronage being given to it. By his personal exertions the greater part of the funds were collected ; and when all is taken into consid eration, the enormous operations of this saloon, with its three hospitals, its bathing facilities and other accommo dations afforded the sick and weary soldiers, the funds necessary to carry on this enterprise could not have been meagre. As many as seven thousand men were fed on its premises within twenty-four hou~s, and scarcely a day elapsed during the long period of the four years of the war and the year subsequent when the troops were mustered out and were returning from the field that the beneficent aid of this noble monument of the patriotism and philanthropy of Philadelphia was not called into play. Through all these years Mr. Fales worked unwear iedly as Corresponding Secretary and General Financial Agent of the enterprise. In October, 1865, his associ ates of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon passed a series of resolutions, which were beautifully engrossed 180-1- -16'8()
SEVENTH GENERATION 131 and presented to him, testifying to the prominent part he had taken in the great work. He was likewise the recipient of many complimentary letters, especially from his college classmates, who bore witness to the fact that in his unselfish devotion to the soldiers' comfort he had reflected the teachings and honored the escutcheon of his alma mater. He was one of the very few civilians who have been honored with a membership in the Mili tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and he was for some time a member of the council of that commandery."* The finely illustrated catalogue of Mr. Fales's great art collection, which covers two hundred and thirty-five pages, enumerates in his collection paintings, ancient and modern, engravings, etchings, illuminated books, cut and engraved glassware, ceramics and rare curios, both European and Asiatic, bronzes, statuary, furniture, fish ing tackle, and canes. t In reminiscence of Samuel Bradford Fales, another of his contemporaries has written: "I recall certain peculi arities of the late Mr. Fales of Philadelphia, whose collec-
* The tombstone erected to his memory over the family tomb in Mount Auburn says that he was elected a companion no. 364 of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania, A11gust 29, I 866. t This catalogue will be found in several libraries. The collection was sold at Chickering Hall, 845 and 847 Broadway, New York, beginning Wednesday, October 26, 1881. Copies of the engraved testimonial to Mr. Fales, which was presented to him October 25, I S63, will likewise be found in libraries. 132 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY tion of glassware, bric-a-brac, and pottery was sold sev eral years ago. Mr. Fales used to view the kleptoma niacs who visited his house with a strange sense of humor. Mr. Fales's collection filled his entire house from garret to cellar, and consisted in part of Continental ware in china, glassware, and crystals, some rare speci mens of which he obtained at the Vienna exhibition. It was his plan if he found a rare piece to trace the others of its class until all were secured. In some instances a number of replicas would be obtained. Some fine speci mens of Satsuma ware were included in his collection. Mr. Fales was an ardent lover of his treasures and was wont to go about with a strange visitor, and while the latter handled the gems of his _collection would hold his silk skull-cap ready to intercept the article before it should reach the floor, in case it was clumsily handled. When a stranger was found who took hold of the objects with the confidence of the connoisseur he at once deliv ered up the keys of his cabinets and withdrew, apparent ly delighted to find any one really familiar with the wares. Many and many a loss did Mr. Fales suffer at the hands of kleptomaniacs. The off enders were gen erally persons of good position ; he knew them and he used to remark in an extenuating way: 'They wanted it. I wouldn't sell it. No one else had it. So they had to take it.' And then he would add quickly with a chuckle: 'They little knew I had four others just like it packed away!' Mr. Fales once told me that a certain piece, whose departure he was unable to trace, was shown SEVENTH GENERATION 133 him within a year of its disappearance in a moment of forgetfulness by the man who had taken it, and who was overwhelmed with mortification when Mr. Fales claimed the specimen." Samuel Bradford Fales's residence in Philadelphia was number 707 Vine Street.
34 ELIZA ANN7 FALES (Samuel,6 Nathaniel/' Nathan 1 iel,4 Timothy,3 James,2 James ), youngest daughter and fifth child of Samuel6 and Abigail (Haliburton) Fales, was born in Boston October 4, and baptized at King's Chapel October 31, 1813. She was married at King's Chapel October 3, 1839, to Samuel Willard Bridgham, Jr., of New York, her second cousin, a great-grandfather- of both having been the first Nathaniel Fales. Mr. Bridgham, who was a son of General Samuel Willard Bridgham, the first mayor of Providence, and his wife Elizabeth (Paine), was born September 24, 1813, was graduated at Brown University in 1832, and was first in business in Boston, then becoming a clerk with and later partner of his brother-in-law Ed\vard B. Little, of the firm of Jacob Little and Company, bankers and brokers in Wall Street, New York. Mr. Bridgham's New York residence was 24 Waverley Place. He died in New York December 2, 1870, but was buried at East Provi dence. Mrs. Bridgham died August 28, 1895, at East Providence and was buried also at that place.*
* For the Bridgham family, and especially Samuel Willard Bridgham, with portraits of himself and his wife, see "Representative Men and Old 134 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Children of Eliza Ann7 (Fales) and Samuel Willard Bridgham:
1. Samuel Willard Bridgham, 3rd, born November I I, 1842, graduated at the Columbia School of Mines in 1868. He married January 7, 1869, Fanny Schermerhorn, but had no children. He died February I 1, 1915. ii. Joseph Bridgham, born October I 5, 1845, graduated at Brown University in 1867. He married June 28, 18 70, Florence Madeline J enckes, and had three children: Samuel Willard Bridgham, born May 22, 1872; Ida Florence Bridgham, born April 28, 1875 ; Eliza Haliburton Bridgham, born November 9, 1882. The date of Joseph Bridgham's death we do not know. iii. William Haliburton Bridgham, born March 3 1, 1849, graduated at Columbia University in 1871. He mar- ried April 28, 1906, Mrs. Honorie Guardjulia Vail, who died in Europe July 23, 1916. He died in Europe July 29, 1916, leaving no children.
35 HALIBURTON7 FALES (Samuel,6 Nathaniel,5 Nathan 3 2 1 6 iel," T£mothy, James, James ), younger son of Samuel and Abigail (Haliburton) Fales, was born in Boston February 5 and baptized at King's Chapel March 5, r815. When he was ten or eleven years old he was sent to the "Round Hill School", at Northampton, the found-
Families of Rhode Island," volume 1, pages 81, 8 5. Henry Bridgham, one of the founders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos ton, was the original ancestor of the Bridgham family in Massachusetts ; he settled at Dorchester as early as I 641. SEVENTH GENERATION 135 ers of which, as is ,vell known, ,vere Dr. Joseph Greene Cogswell and the Hon. George Bancroft. Of this not able school so much has been written in connection with the lives of its eminent founders that we need not sav.. much of it here. It was founded in 1823 with great enthusiasm on the part of the young educators whose project it was, and with the highest and most rational ideals in the intellectual, moral and physical education of boys at an early age. From the first, its success was unqualified, the best families of Boston, New York, and other parts of the country, north and south, eagerly sending their sons to it for longer or shorter periods to be trained. In a pamphlet outlining its system, pub lished in June 183 r, shortly before the withdrawal of Mr. Bancroft from its teaching staff, a list of the boys who had been enrolled in the school from the beginning is given, and among the youthful Amorys, Appletons, Channings, Crowninshields, Forbeses, Grays, Higgin sons, Lawrences, Lowells, Lymans, and Motleys of Bos ton, and Brevoorts, Cannons, Howlands, Livingstons, Newbolds, Townsends, Van Rensselaers, Wattses, and Wards of New York, we find in its proper alphabetical place the name of Haliburton Fales.* One of the insti tutions of the school was an annual pilgrimage of the • In his " Life and Letters of George Bancroft," M. A. DeWolfe Howe says of the school ; " In certain essentials - especially that of the social character of its support-it was the prototype of two or three of the most prosperous boys' schools of this later day. The very names of its pupils might be mistaken for those of the boys now at one of the existing schools drawing chiefly upon Boston and New York." 136 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY boys to other parts of New England, horses and wagons being provided for only about half the number, this ar rangement obliging all to take turns in walking. One such expedition is described by an old boy, Thomas Gold Appleton, in a" Sheaf of Papers," and possibly the same expedition is the subject of a boyish letter to his· father from Haliburton Fales, written at Northampton, August 20, 1826. In early manhood Mr Fales formed a business partner s'1,ip in Boston with Thomas W. Sears, but this was dis solved on the 4th of September, 1837. Although in his maturer years not much engaged in business, Fales .be came, like his father, a stockholder in the York Manu facturing Company, and as early as 1847 was active in connection with the general affairs of that company. He was likewise a stockholder in and director of the Saco Water Power Company, which in 1867 was sold in part to the Pepperrell Company and in part to the Laconia Company. He was also interested in ships, the Enock
Talbot1 which was lost at sea, and the Samuel Fales, sold in the China Seas during the Civil War, being wholly or in part his property. Of the ship Samuel Fales, a painting made in 1858 by Edward Moran, N. A., was owned during his lifetime by Samuel Bradford Fales. Of this painting Mr. Moran says: "The Samuel Fales is [here] represented as entering Boston Harbor. She is in the act of going about; her top gallant sails are loose. On the right is Fort Independence and the city of Bos ton, in the middle distance, on the left of the ship Sam-
SEVENTH GENERATION 137 uel Fales, is a frigate at anchor. Still farther to the left is Deer Island, a pinky beating to windward-also the Nellie Baker coming in from Nahant." In 1850 Mr. Fales's estate was publicly valued in Boston at a hun dred and seventy thousand dollars. Not a little of Haliburton Fales's experience of life was gained in travel. As a very young man he made a a trip to Windsor, Nova Scotia, to see his Haliburton relatives there, this very likely being his first journey far from home. In 1839 he visited Cincinnati, and four years later, starting from Philadelphia, he made an inter esting journey through what is now the Middle West. On that trip, crossing the Alleghany Mountains he vis ited Pittsburgh, went to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was introduced to Henry Clay, to Frankfort, Cincinnati, Louisville, North Bend, where he saw the tomb of Presi dent Harrison, the Mammoth Cave, which he thoroughly explored, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis, Montrose, Nauvoo, Burlington, Galena, the Falls of St. Anthony, Mackinaw, Detroit, Buffalo, Hamilton, Ontario, Queens town, and Toronto. In all his travels he habitually kept careful diaries, and his diary kept on this trip furnished material for a series of graphic articles from his pen which were published in the Boston Even£ng Transcript after his return, in the early part of 1844. The years 1844 and 1845 gave him his first experience, and a very rich experience, of foreign travel. Sailing from Boston April 1, 1844, on the Cunard steamship Caledonia, he saw Liverpool, Chester, and London, in 138 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
England, and then crossing the Channel visited Paris, Versailles, many of the towns of the Chateau region and of Brittany, Belgium, the German Principalities, Switzer land, the Italian Lakes, Milan, Verona, Venice, Tuscany, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Pompei, and the island of Malta. Going to Egypt he visited Cairo, the Pyramids, Thebes, Philae, the temples of Isis, Camak, Abydos, and the tomb of Beni Hassam. From Egypt he went to Athens and Constantinople, and so to Bavaria, Munich, Vienna, Dresden, and Berlin. After this he saw much of England, Scotland and Ireland, and made another visit to Paris. He reached Boston again on the 22nd of November, 1845. Of all this varied tour he kept a detailed and faithful record, not only in diaries but in a remarkably interesting series of letters to his family at home. With the most finished appreciation of all that ~he countries of the old world he visited afforded, particularly in the realm of art, and with a graceful liter ary style, his record of travel if it had ever been published would have made a charming addition to works descrip tive of foreign travel in the nineteenth century. In this lengthy tour, which lasted for nearly twenty months, Mr. Fales covered a distance, he says, of nineteen thousand, six hundred and ninety-eight miles. On the 8th of April, 1847, Haliburton Fales married (by the Rev. Dr. Camp) at "Wilton Plantation," the residence of Dr. William Mills, Jr., near Yazoo City, Mississippi, Elizabeth Jane Beale, born March 2 5, 182 I, second daughter of Joseph and Margaret (McDowell) SEVENTH GENERATION 139
Beale of Philadelphia. Until 18 54 the Faleses resided in Boston, but in that year they removed to New York City, where Mr. Fales leased a house in Waverley Place. In that house they lived until April, 1862, when they removed to 383 Fifth Avenue (which at that time was considered far up town). Three years after purchasing and settling in this new home, with his wife and two sons, Mr. Fales again took passage for Europe. Start ing from New York on the 26th of May, 1865, the fam ily travelled abroad until November 10th of the same year, during the summer visiting almost all the places Fales had visited alone on his former tour. Four years later,. on the 3rd of June, 1869, with a servant, the family sailed for Europe again. Arriving at Liverpool after a very rough voyage, they went to the English Lakes. At Lake Windermere Mr. Fales was soon attacked by an illness which defied all medical skill, and on the 16th of July to the unspeakable sorrow of his wife and young sons he died. He had a winning personality and great social charm, and his death plunged all his friends into the greatest grief. He was buried at Windermere, but the next year his body was brought to America and on the 23rd of April, 1870, deposited in the tomb at Mount Auburn. Of the family at large of Samuel Fales of Boston a great mass of charming correspondence has been pre served. Most of its members were faithful letter writers and were devoted to each other and there were few im portant events in their lives that they did not minutely 140 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY describe in closely ,vritten epistles, penned either at home or abroad. Of his last voyage across the Atlantic we have an interesting account in a letter from Halibur ton Fales to his sister Mrs. Bridgham, the details of which the latter on the 22nd of July, 1869, communi cated to their elder sister Mrs. Dunlap. Of Mr. Fales's sad death and burial at Windermere a pathetic account is giv~n in a letter from his young son Samuel to his cousin "Willie" Mills, written the day of the funeral, July 17, 1869. "I was afraid mother would die of grief," Samuel touchingly writes, "she is still in a dread ful state, I don't know whether ,ve shall ever get her home." "Write to me, dear Fellow," he says," for I am near mad. Tell all the boys of my grief." Haliburton Fales made his will in New York Decem ber 29, 1868, and added a codicil January 15, 1869; the will was probated in Boston April 7, 187 3. In his testa ment Mr. Fales describes himself as "merchant, formerly of the City of Boston, but now of the City of New York;" he mentions as his chief heirs his wife Elizabeth and his two sons, Samuel and Haliburton, who ,vere then both under twenty-five yea:s of age and unmarried. As trustees of certain funds he nominates Samuel W. Bridg ham," gentleman," of New York, his sister's husband, and Josephj3eale, Esq., M. D., of Philadelphia, Surgeon in the United States Navy, a brother of his wife. As ex ecutors he appoints his wife Elizabeth and his brother- in-law, Samuel Willard Bridgham. Mrs. Haliburton Fales died in New York September 30, 1900, and \Vas buried SEVENTH GENERATION 141 four days later in the family tomb at Mount Auburn. The !1,eale family in America to which Mrs. Haliburton Fales belonged was founded in Pennslyvania by William Beale, a member of the Society of Friends, who came from Elf's Hole, Calne, Wiltshire, England, and settled on Valley Creek, Downington, Chester County, Pennsyl• vania, in the year 1 7 30. William Beale was born Octo ber 14, 1709, and died January 27, 1800. He married first, Mary Jenkins, who was born June 9, 1715, and died October 25, 1771. He married secondly, at Caln meet ing, in Pennsylvania, March 23, 1774, Rachel Lewis. Of his first marriage were born to him ten children, the third of whom was John Beale, born February 12, 1740, who married September 11, 1764, Tamar Burgoyne, and died January 25, 1777, from typhus fever con tracted in the war of the Revolution. Of the seven children born to John and Tamar Beale, the sixth was Joseph, born June 25, 1774, died December 18, 1841, who married October 25, 1810, Margaret McDowell, and was the father of Elizabeth Jane (Beale) Fales. The parents of William Beale, the founder of the Pennsylvania family, are said to have been Thomas Beale, a Wiltshire man, and his wife Catharine (Cope) , who were married in 1700, and had five children. Of these five children William Beale was the youngest. The parents of Mrs. Hali-: burton Fales, during their lifetime and the infancy and young womanhood of their daughter, lived at 232 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, bet\veen Sixth and Seventh streets. When Mr. and Mrs. Beale died their daughter went to 142 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Mississippi to stay with her older sister Harriet, who was the wife of Dr. William Mills.*
Children of Haliburton7 and Elizabeth (Beale) : i. Samuel,8 born May 4, 1848, died unmarried in New York June 20, 1892, and was buried at Mount Auburn. He was a man of much personal charm, was warmly attached to his family and friends, and very popular in general society. He was a member of the Union and Calumet clubs of New York. 41 ii. Haliburton, Jr., born December 2 7, 1849, married Margaret Ketchum Corse.
36 ✓ HENRIETTA RusH1 FALES ( George,6 Nathaniel,5 1 Nathaniel,4 Timothy,3 fames,2 James ), second daughter v • Dr. William Mills, Jr., of "Wilton plantation" on the Yazoo river, Mississippi, had married, as we say, Harriet Beale, an older sister of Mrs. Haliburton Fales, and had gone from Philadelphia to-Mississippi to prac tise. When Dr. Mills died Mrs. Mills came north again, and was married to William Henry Law, Esq., of Norwich, Connecticut. To Dr. Mills she bore two sons, William and John Beale Mills, and to ~r. Law a son William Henry Law, Jr., an obituary of whom, published in Yale Alumni Weekly after his death, describes him as having been born at Norwich, Connecticut, July 25, 1856, having graduated at Yale in 1878 and at the Yale Law School in 1880, and having died at the New York Hospital January 3, 1915. After finishing his law studies, the obituary says, Mr. Law practised at New Haven until 1890, when he removed to New York City, where he continued to practise until his death. Mr. Law was twice elected to the Connecticut legislature and was twice alderman of his ward in New Haven. In 1884 he was auditor of Connecticut, and in 1897 assistant tax-commissioner of New York. In the course of his life he travelled much in Europe and in Mexico. He was a member of the New England Society of New York, and of the Union, University, and Yale clubs of that city. He died un married. SEVENTH GENERATION 143 of George6 and Ann (Rush) Fales, was born in Phila delphia April 28, 1838, and married July 8, 1862, to Alfred Gustavus Baker, a Philadelphian of high standing, born December 17, 1831, educated at the University of Penn sylvania, died December 20, 1892. Mrs. Baker died December 16, 1897.
Children of Henrietta Rush7 (Fales) and Alfred Gus tavus Baker:
i. George Fales Baker, born July 14, 1863, a notable phy sician and public man of Philadelphia, of Mayflower ancestry, who married December 31, 1900, Lillie Ingham Walker, daughter of William and Eliza (Ackley) Walker of Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. Dr. Baker is a Fellow of the College of Physicians, a member of many learned societies, and president of the American Academy of Music in Philadelphia. He is the owner of valuable property in Bristol which has been in the Fales family for several generations. 11. Anne Henrietta Rush Baker, born December 9, 1868, married May 23, 1895, to John Frederick Lewis, A. M., of Philadelphia, born September 10, 1860; admitted to the Pennslyvania bar in 1882; special lecturer on admiralty law in the University of Penn sylvania; president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; officer in many philanthropic and learned societies. Children: Alfred Gustavus Baker Lewis, born May 20, 1897; John Frederick Lewis, Jr., born May 29, I 899. 144 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
37 CHARLES 7 FALES, JR., ( Charles,6 Nathaniel,5 3 1 Nat!zaniel,4 Timothy, James;-' James ), second son of Charles6 and Lydia M. (Bosworth) Fales, was born at Bristol June 14, 1819, and married at Cumberland, Rhode Island, in 1841, by Rev. J. N. Parker, Caroline M. La Croix. He died August 19, 1885, "aged 66 years and 2 months."
Children of Charles7 and Caroline (La Croix) : i. Ellen Whitney,8 born April 15,-1842, married to E.T. Baldwin. ii. Frederic Nathaniel, born April 9, 1844, married in 1869, Henrietta Gladding of Warren, Rhode Island, and had children: 1. Alexander Griswold9; 2. Nathaniel Bradford; 3. Charles Winthrop, died at the age of I year and 6 months. iii. Mary Ann, born October 2 3, 1846, married in I 867 to Samuel F. Hall of Providence, Rhode Island, and had six children. The Charles Fales Farm at Bristol is· owned and occu pied, as we have previously said, by Alexander Gris wold9 Fales, one of the few male representatives of the Fales family now living in Bristol. His brother,_ Nathaniel Bradford Fales also lives at Bristol.
38 REV. THOMAS FREDERIC7 FALES ( Captain Thomas,6 5 1 Tltomas, Nathaniel;" Timothy,3 James,2 J ames ), only son of Captain Thomas6 and Mary (Bourn) Fales, was born at Bristol December 24, 1816, and baptized as an adult in St. Michael's parish January 24, 1830. On the register SEVENTH GENERATION 145 of St. Michael's parish his name appears, perhaps through mistake of the rector, as Thomas "Smith " Fales. Mr. Fales, who was long known as one of the most excel lent of the Massachusetts clergy of the Protestant Epis copal Church, was educated for the ministry at the General Theological Seminary, New York, and was ordained by Bishop Griswold of the " Eastern Diocese," deacon July 22 or 24, 1840, and priest July 21, 1841. On the latter date he received the degrees of B. A. from Bristol College, Pennslyvania, and M. A. from the Uni versity of New York. For a short period after his ordination he served as assistant to the Rev. John Bristed at Bristol, but in 1 843 he began to hold ser vices at Brunswick, Maine. When the parish of St. Paul's, Brunswick was organized, on the 22nd of Feb ruary, 1844, he became its :first rector, but in six years he removed to Christ Church, Waltham, Massachusetts, of which parish he was the faithful rector for forty-one years. He died in this rectorship November 27, 1898. On the 9th of February, 1890, his lofty character and devoted service in the ministry were eulogized by a com memorative sermon in Christ Church, by the Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks of New York.* Mr. Fales married, but at what date we do not know, Margaret Preston Nelson, a descendant of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, " whose enter- * This sermon was printed and copies of it may be seen in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society and in other places. See for facts of Mr. Fales's early life, Wheeler's "History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell," Maine, (1878), pages 403, 404. 146 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY prise did so much towards settling the Kennebec Valley " in Maine. Mrs. Fales was born, probably at Richn1ond, Maine, September 15, 1827, and died, probably in Wal tham, March 30, 1908. With her husband, her husband's mother Mary Fales, her own mother Margaret H. Nel son (born 1806), and her aunt Mrs. Mary Ann Elder (born 1812), she is buried at Mount Feake cemetery, Waltham. Mr. and Mrs. Fales had no children. A memorial pulpit to Mr. Fales was placed after his death in the church of which he was so long rector.
39 W ILLIAM7 FALES ( Stephen Smith,6 William,5 3 1 Nathaniel/ T-imothy, James/ James ), eldest son of Stephen Smith6 and Phebe (Wardwell) Fales, was born at Bristol April 4, 1805, and married at Matanzas, Cuba, December 1, 1829, Martha Balch Wiison, daughter of Calvin and Submit Wilson, born at Windsor Locks, Con necticut, October 22, 1808, died August 16, 1873. William Fales went in early life to Mata~zas and there entered upon an importing and exporting trade, by means of which he accumulated a considerable fortune. In or shortly before 1845, he returned to Bristol to live, and in his native town bought the handsome house 509 Hope Street, now owned by the Misses Wardwell, and became one of Bristol's most substantial and honored citizens. He was a member of St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal parish and had much to do with the building of the church in which the parish now worships. He died of heart trouble November 18, 1863. His wife Martha, SEVENTH GENERATION 147 who as we have said was born in Connecticut, was early left an orphan and was taken by relatives to live at Matanzas. Although William Fales and his wife were both Protestants, their seven children born in Cuba were baptized in the Roman Catholic Church at Matanzas. Their daughters Josephine Bristed and Mary Almy ,vere born in Bristol, and they were baptized probably in St. Michael's parish. The daughters of this family are said to have had much beauty. · William Fales and his wife and many of their descend ants are buried in the Juniper Hill burying ground at Bristol, where a fine central monument and other tomb stones bear inscriptions to their memory. Administra tion on the estate of Martha B. Fales was granted to Orrin L. Bosworth January 9, 1888. A bust of William7 Fales made in Italy is owned by his grandson Edward Fales Coward.
Children of William7 and Martha Balch (Wilson): i. WilJiam Edward,8 born September 9, 1830, died at Sara toga, New York August 27, 1877. He married (1) in 18 5S, Emelyn Carlton, daughter of George A. Carlton of La Crosse, Wisconsin. She died April 7 18 56, and he married ( 2) Helen L. Conyers, who after his death became the second wife of Jose Martinez Fortun (whose first wife was Mary Almy Fales, as given below). Of his first marriage William Edward8 Fales had one daughter, who died in infancy. ii. Edward Spaulding, born at Matanzas August 7, 1833, studied for a while at Brown University, but before 148 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
graduation left college and went to New Bedford, Massachusetts. There he studied law and wrote for local newspapers. Later he settled in Rio de Janeiro as representative of Messrs. Lanman and Kemp, chem ists, and became an active and prominent citizen of the Brazilian Capital. He was an expert linguist, and an exceedingly popular man. His death occurred at Brooklyn, New York, February 4 (one record says December 29), 1875. He married in 1850, Imogene Corinne Franciscus, born probably in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1837, died in 1902. Children: 1. William Edward Sanford,9 born in 1851, graduated with honors at the Columbia School of Mines, gradu ated also at the Columbia Law School. He prac tised law in Brooklyn, and was for a long time active in local politics there. He was also for some years American Consul at Amoy, China. He married three times, and by his first wife "Agnes ,_, had children. 2. Harrison Colby (some records call him'' Harrison Gray Otis"), who is an active business man in New York. He married and has children. 3. Ethel born May 3 1, 1868, died April 3, 1889. iii. Howard, probably twin with Edward Spaulding, died December 29, 1875. iv. Charles, born September 20, 1835, died July 20, 1836. v. ✓Ellen Susan, born June 28, 1837 (baptized at Matan zas "Elena Susana"), married at St. Michael's Church, Bristol December 4, 1861, to Edward Coward, born near Liverpool, England, in I 8 30, died at Spring Lake, New Jersey, August I 1, 188 I, aged 5 I. Her only child is Edward Fales Coward, born September 6, 1862, graduated LL. B. at Columbia U niver- SEVENTH GENERATION 149
sity in 1883, and for more than thirty years has been dramatic critic of important New York newspapers and periodicals. As an amateur actor he has played with distinction more than a hundred and seventy parts, and he is the author of many plays and poems. He married December 4, 1900, Mabel Ridgway of Philadelphia. Children : 1. Edward Fales Coward, Jr., (deceased); 2. Thomas Ridgway Coward, prepared for college at Groton School and entered Yale Uni versity; 3. Eleanor Josephine Fales Coward. vi. Caroline Sophia, born September r S, 1839, married to Charles Gordon Crocker, born at Taunton, Massa chusetts. She died February 2 or 3, 1898. No .. children. Vil. Leonora Francesca, born· April 2, r842, died suddenly at Bristol, unmarried, January 1 5, r 878, and was buried at Juniper Hill. Her estate was adminis tered by her brother-in-law Charles Gordon Crocker. Vlll. Josephine Bristed, born September 20, 1845, mar- ried April 23, 1878, to Walter Sibbald Wilson of New York City, born at Poughkeepsie, New York, August 9, 1844, died in New York City July 3, 1917. Mrs. Wilson died March 4, I 9 I I. Both she and her husband are buried at Juniper Hill. They had no children. ix. Mary Almy, born September 24, I 848, married to Jose Martinez Fortun of Remedios, Cuba, and had one child, a daughter Martica Fales Fortun, born August 4, 1876, who died two days after her mother. Mrs. Fortun died at Bristol January 19, 1878, and was buried at Juniper Hill. 150 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
40 CHARLES JOSEPH ERNEST7 FALES ( Stephen Sm-ith,6 5 3 2 1 W£lliam, Nathaniel,~ Tz"mothy, James, James ), third son of Stephen Smith6 and Phebe (Wardwell) Fales, was born in Cuba August 7, 1825, and as a boy was sent by his brother William to a school in Germany. In mature life, it is said, he spoke nine languages. " For many years_" he acted as Spanish Consular Agent at Bristol. He married May 15, 1855, Susan James Usher, daughter of Allan T. and Mary J. Usher. He died November 17, 1892.
Children of Charles Joseph Ernest7 and Susan James (Usher):
i. Emma Carlton,8 born October 9, 1856, died February 16, 1918. ii. Ernest Edmond, born January 22, 1860. iii. Harriet Munro, born November 11,- 1862, married January 19, 189 S, to Frederic M. Dixon of Bristol, and has a son Frederic M. Dixon, Jr. iv. Allen Usher, born September 2 8, I 864. He,:,,n-,z,-,_ G.HerkQWUJt"
EIGHTH GENERATION
41 HALIBURTON8 FALES, JR., (Halz"burton,7 Samuel,6 5 4 1 Nathan£el, Nathan£el, T£mothy,3 James,2 James ), younger son of Haliburton7 and Elizabeth Jane (Beale) Fales of Boston and New York, was born in Boston December 27, 1849, but removed to New York with his parents in 1854. He was graduated at Columbia University, New York, in 1872, and at the Columbia Law School in 1874, the same year being admitted to the New York bar. He is a member of the Union, University, and Brook clubs of New York. He married June 1, 1882, Margaret Ketchum Corse, daughter of Israel, Jr., and Catherine (Ketchum) Corse of New York City.
Children of Haliburton8 and Margaret Ketchum (Corse):
i. Haliburton,9 3rd, born April 2, 188 5, was fitted for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp shire, and graduated at Yale in 1908. He is a mem ber of the Union and University clubs of New York, and the Apawamis club. He married October 19, 1910, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Ellen Owen Dexter, daughter of Lewis and Edith Topliff (Todd) 152 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Dexter of Providence, Rhode Island. Children: Sam uel,10 born July 17, 191 I; Elizabeth, born May 21, 1915; Ellen Dexter, born November 14, 1916. 11. De Coursey, born June 1, 1888, was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp shire, and graduated at Harvard in 1911. In 1914 he was graduated also from the Columbia Law School in New York and was admitted to the New York bar. In the war of 1914-1918 he was commissioned en sign in the National Naval Volunteers, August 14, 1917. He obtained his full lieutenancy November 28, 1918. He is a member of the Union, Knicker bocker, Essex Fox Hounds, and New York Yacht clubs of New York. He married at Bernardsville, New Jersey, June 2, 1917, Dorothy Mildred Mitchell, daughter of Clarence Blair and Lucy Mildred (Matthews) Mitchell of Bernardsville. Child: De Coursey, ' 0 Jr., born March 9, 19 J 8. © lJ'nd~od & Una,u,wood Stuclios,N..Y.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
I The age of James1 Fales when he came to Dedham, as we have previously shown, is entirely a matter of con jecture. Jonathan Fairbanks, Jr., who was admitted townsman at the same time as Fales, was born probably about 163 I or 1632, and on mature consideration we can not reasonably consider James Fales's birth to have oc curred much, if any, earlier than 1630. This date would make Fales about twenty-five when he was admitted a townsman, and when he married. The date of his and Jonathan Fairbanks's admission as townsmen was Jan uary 1, 1654-5, not as we have said on page 11, January 11th. In the Dedham town records of 1659-1673, more than fifty mentions of James1 Fales are to be found. These mentions, however, chiefly concern his relation to various taxations in the town.
2 The Fales house on Cedar Street, Dedham, a pen cil drawing of which, owned by the Dedham Historical Society, is reproduced in this book, was clearly owned and occupied by James 2 Fales, before it became the home of his sons Nehemiah and David. In 1684, as the 154 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Dedham records tell us, the present Cedar Street, on which the house stood, was projected "to the houses of James Vales and J osia Fisher." The road, ho,\1ever, appears not to have been finished until 1704. That this Fales house was built on the exact site of the earliest house of James1 Fales we cannot be sure, but we have found no evidence of any other site than this for the original house. On pages 15, 16 we have dissented from Mr. George W. Humphrey's statement that the earliest Fales house was built on Sprague Street, opposite Green lodge Street, but in this dissent we may be wrong, Mr. Humphrey may have had reasons for his statement that are not known to us now.
3 In Chief-Justice Sewall's famous Diary, under date of September 14, 1719, the Judge records that in return ing to Boston from Wrentham, where he had been pre siding at court, he "baited at Dedham Hamlet, ·Mr. Fales," afterwards dining, apparently at the same place, "in company of the Select-men." Which member of the Dedham Fales family thus accommodated Judge Sewall on his trip from Wrentham to Boston we cannot now tell.
4 The "probable" date of Timothy3 Fales's birth, as we have given it on pages 24 and 33, is August 18, 1690. That Timothy was born in 1690 we think admits of no doubt, but that he was born on the 18th of August of that year we cannot be sure. It will be noticed on ADDITIONAL NOTES 155 page 27 that this is precisely the date of Peter Fales, Jr's. birth.
5 On page 36, in the Sessions record of Bristol County which we have reproduced there and on the pre ceding page, the dates July 5th and July 8th should of course be transposed. We have printed the record ex actly as we found it in Taunton.
6 On page 38 we have shown that Elizabeth, second wife of Timothy3 Fales, was a daughter of Rev. James Gardner of Marshfield. Rev. James Gardner, who was British born, made his will November 29, 1737 (proved at a court held at Scituate September 21, 1739). He mentions in his testament his wife Mary, his two sons Thomas and James, and his daughters, whose names he does not give.
7 We have said 011 page 49 that the date of marriage of Nathaniel~ Fales is not recorded. In the Bristol Vital Records as printed, the intention of marriage is given, though with a date that is possibly not correct, but the date of marriage we have nowhere been able to find. The n1arriage undoubtedly occurred, however, as we shall indicate on the charts, at some time in the year 1740. The date of intention of marriage as printed is August 16, 1740. Since the sketch of Nathaniel4 Fales on pages 49-52 was printed we have found in the Columbian Cent-inel 156 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY of Wednesday, December 9, 1801, the following obituary of him: "At Taunton, on the 3d inst., Nathaniel Fales, Esq. of Bristol (R. I.) Aet. 82. He was a Judge, Town Coun sellor, and Representative for a number of years, and performed his duty with zeal and integrity. He has left his friends and a numerous posterity to mourn his loss as an affectionate parent, an industrious farmer, and as a respectable member of society. Drawing a conclusion from his past life, we trust that he is gone to that place where he will reap the reward of his labours." How it was that Judge Fales died at Taunton, we cannot tell.
8 ~- On page 56 we have shown that Mrs. Nathaniel5 Fales before her marriage was Elizabeth Bradford, daugh ter of Daniel and Mary (Church) Bradford of Bristol. Daniel7 Bradford, born in I 720, married (1)at Bristol Octo ber 1, 1749 (by Rev. John Burt), Mary (Reynolds) Church, widow of Constant Church, to whom she had been mar ried January 25, 1732. The parents of Mary (Reynolds Church) Bradford, who was born at Bristol November 20, 1716, were Benjamin and Susannah Reynolds, her paternal grandparents were Nathaniel and Priscilla Rey nolds. The children of Daniel and Mary ( Reynolds Church) Bradford as given in the "New England His torical and Genealogical Register," volume 4, page 239, were: Elizabeth, born June 5 or 16, 1750, married to Nathaniel5 Fales; Priscilla, born March 12, 1752, married ADDITIONAL NOTES 157 as his third wife, January I 5, 177 5, to Col. Sylvester Child of Warren. On page 100, we have found mention by Mrs. Samuel Fales of Boston in a letter to her husband of a visit she had recently made her husband's "Aunt Childs" at Warren. This aunt of Mr. Fales was Pris cilla (Bradford), Mrs. Sylvester Child.
9 On page 100 we have also found mention by Mrs. Samuel Fales of a visit she had paid her husband's "Aunt Diamond." This aunt of Samuel Fales was of course Dorothea5 (Fales), daughter of Nathaniel4 Fales, who as we have seen on page 52 was married October 1 7, 17 7 I, to Jonathan Diman of Bristol.
IO The dates of births of the children of William7 and Martha Balch (Wilson) Fales, given on pages 147, 148 and 149 may not all be correct. Several of these have been taken solely from inscriptions in the Juniper Hill burying ground at Bristol; the date of birth of Howard Fales, for example, who we suppose was a son of William and Martha, is there given as August 7, 1833, and from some private source we have learned that Edward Spauld ing was born the same date. It may be true that these brothers were twins, but such fact we have not learned from any other source. On her individual tombstone we read that Josephine Bristed Fales was born Septem ber 20, 1846; while in the inscription to her memory on the family monument we find Mary Almy's birth given as September 24, 1846. Of these dates, one of course 158 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY is incorrect; on the whole it seems probable that the sisters were twins. If this is true, then the dates we have given of their births on page 149 are both entirely wrong. One of the chief difficulties we have experi enced in making the foregoing genealogy accurate is the marked variation in dates given by different authorities for the same events. Lydza .Field Emmf!l:1:
THE HALIBURTON FAMILY
BY
ARTHUR WEN'IWORTH HAMILTON EATON DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW
REPRINTED, WITH ADDITIONS AND CHANGES, FROM THE
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
FOR JANUARY, 1917
A.K.MS Oft, BARON HALIBURTON (SIR ARTHUR LAWRENCE HALIBURTON, G. C. B.) Arms : Argent, on a bend azure, between two beavers sable, three lozenges of the field within a bordure ermine charged with four thistles leaved and slipped and as many maple leaves slipped alternately, also or. Crest-A stag at gaze gorged with a chap let of maple leaves between two branches of maple all proper. Supporters-On either side a wildcat, guardant proper, gorged with a chain gold, pendent therefrom an escutcheon azure, charged with a maple leaf or. Motto-Watch weel. Burke's Peerage.
THE HALIBURTON FAMILY
I ANDREW 1 HALIBURTON,* who spent many years of his life in Boston, Massachusetts, was probably born in Roxburghshire, one of the extren1e southeasterly counties of Scotland, about the end of the seventeenth or the be ginning of the eighteenth century, but came to Boston some time before February 23, 1719/20. On this date he married in the Massachusetts capita], the Rev. Ben jamin Colman of the Brattle Street Church officiating, Naomi or probably AMY FIGG, who is believed to have been a widow, but of whose previous history nothing is known. Even the date of her death is not found in the Boston records, but her life with Andrew Halibur ton could not have exceeded or much exceeded ten years in length, for on the 22nd of February, 1730/1, Mr. Haliburton married in Scituate, as a second wife, a woman of exceptionally fine character and interesting antecedents, ABIGAIL OTIS, daughter of Job and Mercy (Little) Otis of Scituate, concerning whom and whose descendants we shall have something to say further on * His name is frequently spelled Halyburton or Hallyburton. 162 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY in this book. The second Mrs. Haliburton was born at Scituate August 28, 1703, and died probably at New port, Hants County, Nova Scotia, not long before 1769. Andrew Haliburton died, probably in 1745, as we shall see later, in the island of Jamaica, and Mrs. Haliburton, who was visiting that island with him,* returning to Boston, became on the 18th of October, 1756, the sec ond wife of Dr. Edward Ellis who has the distinction of having been Surgeon-General of the Massachusetts troops at the famous first siege of Louisburg, in the year 17 45.t Of the immediate ancestry of Andrew Haliburton nothing certain is recorded but a tradition has been current among his descendants that his father was one of the Duke of Marlborough's captains and was killed at the siege of Dunkirk, the son after this being brought up by his paternal grandfather. That he was a cadet of that branch of the Haliburton family known as the Hali burtons of Hadden in Roxburghshire is also a family tradition, and that his boyhood was spen~ on the Scot tish border is certain from the fact that he told his chil-
• In the General Registry Office, Jamaica, is recorded the burial, in St. Andrew's Parish, September 2, I 745, Andrew Hallaburton, probably An drew Haliburton of Boston. ( Vtile t"nfra) cf. p. 34 of manuscript notes on the Avery and other families, by the late J. Herbert Sawyer of Brookline, Massachusetts, in the Library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. t The Boston church home of Andrew Haliburton and his second wife was King's Chapel. In I 747 the widow Abigail Haliburton subscribed £, 1 oo, old tenor, towards rebuilding King's Chapel, and in April and May of that year the heirs of Andrew Hallyburton are said to have owned half a pew in the church, one Cooper owing the other half. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 163 dren that in early life he had lived in Scotland but had gone to school every day across the border, in England. Of the Scottish Haliburtons, as of other distinguished Lowland families of North Britain, a great deal of inter est is of course known. Like the Hamiltons and Doug lases and other gentle families they were spread through out various shires of Scotland, Berwickshire and Rox burghshire, at the extreme southeast of the country, furnishing seats for several cadets of the house. As is well known, one of Sir Walter Scott's great-grandfathers was a Thomas Haliburton, who in his day owned the lands about Dryburgh Abbey, in Berwickshire, he being a representative of the Haliburtons of Newmains and Mertoun, of that shire. Another branch of the family was located at Hadden, an ancient village in Roxburgh shire, five miles northeast of Kelso, and as we have said, family tradition makes Andrew of Boston a cadet of this branch. Of the Haliburton family in general, Sir Walter Scott, whose worldly ambition, his son-in-law Lockhart says, "was grafted on that ardent feeling for blood and kindred which was the great redeeming element in the social life of what we call the middle ages," in recording minutely his various ancestries writes with the greatest interest.*
• The original of the name Haliburton or Halyburtori, says Sir Walter, "is uncertain; probably at first they've been only Burtons, aud come from England with Malcolme Kenmore, or with Edgar Atheling, about the year of our Lord I I 60; but since there can be nothing determined as to its ety mology but what is conjectural, I shall pass it. I find none of yt name in any MS untill the year 1250." 164 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
His "Memorials of the Haliburtons," printed by James Ballantyne and Company of Edinburgh at the Border Press in 1824, gives many facts concerning the family in several of its branches, though it does not by any means attempt to be a complete genealogy of the house at large. In the course of his scattered notes Sir Walter transcribes a manuscript that he says appears to have been drawn up by his father, Mr. Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, " in answer to the inquiries of Mr. William Haliburton of Halifax [sic], Nova Scotia, who claimed a descent from the Haliburtons of Hadden," the manu script being "the scroll of a letter addressed to Mr. Brown of Melrose," to whom it would seem Mr. William Haliburton of Nova Scotia had written in the hope of getting some definite information concerning his ances tors of the Haliburton name. After brief glances at the family of Alexander, Lord Haliburton of Dirleton and Pitcurr, who died about 1742 or 1743, leaving one son and three daughters, the family of Thomas Haliburton of Newmains, and the Haliburtons of Inchdarney, in East Lothian, the manuscript gives a few minor facts concerning the Haliburtons of Hadden. Reviewing the Haliburtons at large, the author of the manuscript says : " Berwickshire seems to be the first place where we find any of them, which probably might be owing to their attachment to the powerful family of the Douglases. They extended themselves from thence to East Lothian, Roxburghshire, and the County of Angus, or the Mearns, and seem to have been HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 165 both powerful and wealthy. But what ,vould it avail your correspondent to get a catalogue of names, or of the honours they possessed, the offices of trust they held, with the gallant actions they performed! These men, however considerable, and however much respected while living, are now dead and gone, and their families extinct. The very name of Haliburton is now a rarity here, and except John Haliburton of Muirhouselaw, there is not one of that name in Scotland who is proprietor of a sin gle acre of land. Pitcurr, the chief of the family, is no longer Haliburton, as through a female succession that estate has now descended to the second son of Lord Aboyne, who to his own name Gordon has added Hali burton; and the estate of Eaglescamie, in East Lothian, is in the same state, being now in the possession of Mr. Lindsay. There were several families in the shire of Angus in the neighborhood of Dundee, of the name of Haliburton, but these are all gone, and their properties sold and in the hands of others, and John Haliburton, late Provost of Dundee, is the only one of these who remains. The same is the case with the families of Newmains, in Berwickshire, in the south. Of that fam ily, Mr. Simon Haliburton, a clergyman, who has one son, a captain in the East India Company's service, [ sav ing whom] not one of the male line exists..... "But as Mr. Haliburton seems to have been at con siderable pains in his inquiries, and may wish to know something in general respecting that tribe to which he belongs, I take the liberty to subjoin the following re- 166 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY marks. In Berwickshire, and not far from the town of Greenlaw, there are two farms, the one of them called the Meikle (large), and the other the Little Haliburton. These lands seem to have been the earliest possessions which the Haliburtons had, and whether these lands gave rise to the surname of Haliburton, or that the Halibur tons after acquiring them affixed that name, is not a clear point. It is, however, a known fact that the Haliburtons long remained the proprietors of these lands, which are now the property of the Earl of Marchmont; and it is a very probable conjecture that your correspondent may be descended from some of these people, who upon the loss of their possessions might advance nearer to the borders of the kingdom, which, in £ormer times, had its peculiar advantages, and thus it may have happened that Mr. Haliburton's grandfather or rather some of his pre decessors, may have resorted to Hadden." · In his own memoirs of the Haliburtons, Sir Walter Scott gives the names of five different ~nights of the name, mentions of whom he finds in Scottish history. In the Dictionary of National Biography we find sketches of six eminent men of the Haliburton name, the last of whom is Judge Thomas Chandler Halibur ton, great-grandson of the founder of the Boston family. Of his first marriage Andrew Haliburton of Boston had at least three children born, and of his second, be fore January, 1743, six children more. In less than three years after the birth of his youngest child, it would seem almost certain for the benefit of his health, with his HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 167 wife Abigail he went to the island of Jamaica, and in that island, as we have previously shown, he very soon died. How soon after his burial Mrs. Haliburton returned to Boston we cannot tell, but her children being young she probably spent very little time longer there. One of the chief physicians of Boston, and very likely a friend of ~r. and Mrs. Haliburton, was Dr. Edward ~is,* who owned and occupied a house at the south west corner of the present Washington and Winter Streets. On the 19th of February, 1744/5, Governor Shirley commissioned Dr. Ellis Surgeon-General of the Massachusetts troops sent to help capture Louisburg, and on the 25th of February, 1744/5, also commis sioned him major and captain in the Third Massachu setts Regiment.t When the siege of the French fortress began Ellis went to Cape Breton, but before his service against the French was ended his wife died. Mrs. Ellis
*Dr.Edward Ellis, eldest son of'Dr. Robert and Elizabeth (Pemberton) Ellis, was bom in Boston February 23, 1698/9, and was baptized in the Old South parish. His father was" chirurgeon" in the expedition against Port Royal in 1710. He married (r) Mary (Willard) Cuyler, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Mills) Willard, and widow (with a romantic history) of a young West India planter named Cuyler. By his first wife Dr. Ellis had three daughters, Maria, bom May 1, r 730, Sarah, born August 22, 1733, and Elizabeth, born March 22, r 734/5. For the Ellis family see Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb's "Early New England People," pp. 5-37 • In a private letter to the compiler of this article Miss Titcomb once wrote: "The ac count [of the Ellis and Haliburton connection] which I put into 'Early New England People' was written by Harriet Prescott Spofford's grand mother, who was a granddaughter of Dr. Edward Ellis." t Register, vol. 24, pp. 3 76, 3 7 1. 168 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY at her death left three young daughters, and for a time, together with two children of a deceased sister of Mrs. Ellis named Hope, whose husband seems to have been a Hollander, these girls were cared for by Thomas Kilby, a wido,ver, whose wife had been a sister of Dr. Ellis, and who himself had been left with two motherless children. Before long it was arranged between Mr. Kilby and Mrs. Haliburton that the latter should remove her large family to Dr. Ellis's house and should also care there for Mr. Kilby, and the Kilby, Ellis, and Hope children. Mrs. Haliburton's own family consisted, it is said, of four children of her own, a daughter of her late husband by his first wife, and a daughter of that wife by a former husband, and in charge of this mixed household, now numbering at least fourteen, Dr. Ellis found Mrs. Hali burton when after a somewhat prolonged stay in Cape Breton or Nova Scotia he returned to his native town.* Soon, some business connected with the property of the Hope children required that Dr. Ellis should go to Holland, and for that country he embarked. On the night of February 7, 1753, as Drake tells us,* a destruc tive fire occurred near Marlborough Street. It started in an outhouse, and burned two stables, Mr. Sellon's blacksmith shop, and the dwellings of Dr. John Cutler and Dr. Edward Ellis. Her home being thus destroyed, Mrs. Haliburton with fine determination and courage,
* Cf. Miss Titcomb's "Early New England People," pp. 25, 26. * History and Antiquities of Boston, p. 633. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 169 feeling that Newport, Rhode Island, offered some ad vantages as a place of residence, removed her household to the Rhode Island town. When Dr. Ellis returned to America, he found Mrs. Haliburton at Newport, and on the 18th of October, 1756, he and Mrs. Haliburton were married by the Rev. Dr. MacSparran in the parish of St. Paul, Narragansett.* When the offer of lands in Nova Scotia to New Eng land people was made by Governor Lawrence and his Council, a large number of Rhode Island as well as Con necticut and Massachusetts people determined to remove to the Acadian province; and, with many others in New port, Dr. Ellis and his wife migrated. July 21, 1761, Ellis received a grant of 500 acres at Newport, Nova Scotia, and there he settled.t He probably made in all three journeys to Holland on business; at any rate, after
* Updike's Narrangansett Church, second edition, vol. 2, p. 555. The parish register says that Mrs. Ellis " was Daughter of Mr Job otis of Scit uate in ye Province of ye Massachusetts and had for her first Husband one Mr Hallyburton who died in Jamaica where they lived a while." t Of Dr. Eilis's three daughters, Maria, the eldest, had already married Capt.-Lieut. Edmund Watmough, an Englishman, who had come to New port, Rhode Island, and had secured there a commission in the " Rangers." In 1761 Captain Watmough, whose name appears among Falmouth grantees as "Edward Watemough," secured a grant of 500 acres at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, having probably been in Nova Scotia at an earlier date, with a corps of the" Rangers," and having then learned the value of the French lands. After the removal of the Ellises to Nova Scotia, the second daughter, Sarah, became the second wife of Mr. Isaac Deschamps, who had come to Wind sor, Nova Scotia, as a young man an.d in 1785 rose to be chief justice of the Province. The third daughter, Elizabeth, was married (1) September 25, r757, to Capt. Peter Jacob Dordin, who died January 23, 1769; and (2) at Newport, Rhode Island, January 17, 1773, to Peter Francis Christian de 170 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY the death of his wife Abigail, which occurred probably not long before 1769, he ,vent to Amsterdam, where he died at the age, it is said, of seventy years. Children by first wife :
1. Mary,2 died November 6, 1721, aged about 10 months; buried in King's Chapel burying ground. ii. William, baptized in King's Chapel Parish July 17, 1724; probably died young. 1n. Rooksby (a daughter), baptized in King's Chapel Parish January 28, 1725/6; died unmarried in Boston March 14, 1801, aged 75.* Children by second wife : iv. Andrew. The only known public record of this child is in the suit brought in I 746 by Andrew Oliphant against Mrs. Abigail Haliburton for her children's board.t He probably died at sea. Les Dernier of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Ellis had several chil dren by each husband. Her daughter, Harriet de Les Dernier, was married to William Pepperrell Prescott and was the grandmother- of the well-known writer, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Another daughter, Anne Maria de Les Dernier, was married, as his second wife, to Lieut. Pierson Titcomb, and was the grandmother of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, author of " Early New England People," a book in which much information about the Ellises and allied ·families may be found. * That Rooksby or Ruxby was a daughter is shown by her appearance as a woman sponsor at the baptism in King's Chapel Parish of Richard Hunter, child of James and l\1ary Hunter, May 17, 1749. In the record of her death she is called Rushy. t Vide supra. Perhaps this Andrew is the son of whom Harriet Prescott (in Miss Titcomb's Early New England Families, p. 37) writes: "Her other son, - a wild, headstrong boy, as I have heard, - left home at an early age, and was seen or heard from no more." HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 171
v. Abigail, born in Boston between 173 I and 1735 (whether she was older or younger than her brother Andrew is uncertain); living July 5, 1803, when she made her will; was married ( 1) at Newport, R. I., July 24, I 7 54, to Capt. Frederick Hamilton, perhaps son of the Frederick who married in King's Chapel, Boston, May 29, 1734, Mary Jeffries; (2) as his second or third wife, to Jacob Sheafe, a prominent merchant of Portsmouth, N. H ., born in I 71 5, died June 26, I 79 I (Wentworth Genealogy, vol. 2, p. 307), who had mar ried July 24, I 740, as his first or second wife, Hannah Seavy, born in 1719, died at Portsmouth November 12, 1773. In her will of July 5, 1803 Mrs. Abigail Sheafe leaves to her son-in-law, James Sheafe, Esq., a certain piece of land or house lot in Newport, R. I., which she had received by the will of her first husband, Frederick Hamilton, and to her nephew, Andrew Halliburton, all her books and plate, except one "silver cann." She mentions also her sister, Priscilla Card. vi. Isabella, baptized in Christ Church Parish, Boston, Octo ber 3, 1736. vii. ... ·Priscilla, baptized in Christ Church Parish, Boston, April 30, 1738; living January 6, 1804, when she was mentioned in the will of her second husband ; was married (1) in Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., July 24, 1754, to Robert Pate; (2) not later than December 22, 1766, to Jonathan Card, Sr., of Newport, who in his will, dated January 6, 1804 and proved October 16, 1805, left to his wife Priscilla during her life real estate and personal property, prescribed that after her death his executors should pay £ 50 to her 172 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
granddaughter, Elizabeth Miller, and bequeathed the residue of his estate to " Jonathan Card, my nephew, son of my brother John." Priscilla (Haliburton) (Pate) Card had issue by her first husband. 2 viii. William, born in Boston April 16, 1739 and baptized in King's Chapel Parish May 20, 1739. 3 ix. George, baptized in King's Chapel Parish, Boston, Jan uary 23, 1742/3.
2 1 2 W1LLIAM HALIBURTON (Andrew ), born in Boston April 16, 1739 and baptized in King's Chapel Parish May 20, 1739, died at Windsor, Nova Scotia, February 22, 1817. He married April 9, 1761, his first cousin, Lusannah Otis, born at Scituate, Mass., April 15, 1738, died September 9 or 10, 1821, daughter of Ephraim and Rachel (Hersey).* William Haliburton's name appears on ~ muster roll, dated Boston February 28, 1759, of a company of foot under Captain Joseph Billings in Captain Joseph Williams's regiment, raised in Massachusetts for the re duction of Canada. In this company he served as a private, from Boston, from April 13 to November 23, 1759, a little more than seven months. On July 21, * Rachel Otis, sister of Mrs. Lusannah (Otis) Haliburton, was married at Windsor, Nova Scotia, March 16, 176g, to Benjamin DeWolf, born Octo ber 14, 1744, son of Simeon and Parnell (Kirtland), and became the ances tress of an important family of DeWolfs at Windsor, for which see Eaton's Hist<>ry of Kings County, Nova Scotia, pp. 630-632. In Register, vol. 41, p. z21, it is stated that Jehiel DeWolf married Rachel Otis, but this is in correct. For Jehiel DeWolf's marriages see History of King's County, p. 637. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 173
1761 he appears with his stepfather, Dr. Edward Ellis, and many other Rhode Island people, in the great grant of the township of Newport, Nova Scotia, and thither he and his wife shortly after their marriage removed. Until the spring of 1763, probably, they lived on their Newport grant of 500 acres; but on May 1, 1763 Mr. Haliburton exchanged his Newport grant for the land of Jonathan Babcock, in what is now Windsor, Nova Scotia, and at or near the village of this name he built a new house and spent the rest of his life.* In Windsor he began
* In his Sketch of the old Parish Burying Ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia (1889), pp. 91, 92, Dr. Hind writes: "Before me lies a covenant bearing date May 1st, 1763, by which William Hallyburton, Gentleman, ex changes his farm lot on ' the River Kennetcook, Letter F ., Number 3, the 2nd Division, with the Marsh and Dyke with the same,' for the ' Farm lot, on the River Pisiquid, Letter A., No. 3, in the second Division, exclusive of the Dyke, Marsh, and Village Lot drawn with the same,' belonging to Jon athan Babcock. This covenant was witnessed by Ed ward Ellis and George Hallyburton, and certified by Isaac Deschamps on the 5th of July, 1764. The writing of both William and George Hallyburton is very good." From Mr. George Mullane the compiler of this article learns that in the Crown Land Office at Halifax there is recorded a grant to William Hally burton, in March, I 772, of ¾ acre in the township of Winfisor. (Book 9, fo. 293, and Book 10, fo. 16.) There is also a grant to William Hallibur ton, April 22, I 783, of 30,000 acres on the Kennetcook River. (Book 13, fo. 26.) A petition from William Haliburton to the House of Assembly, dated March, I 796, and covering about twelve pages of letter paper, refers to certain lands granted to him and others in Douglas, Hants Co., and also to a petition of Hector McLean for himself and others respecting lands said to have been granted to Lieutenant-Colonel Small in trust for the disbanded 84th Regiment. The petitioner intimates some irregularity in the proceed ings relative to those lands and certain defects of title, and prays the inter position of the Assembly in the matter. He complains of hard usage by the former soldiers. 174 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
the study of law, and in time he became judge of pro bate for Hants County, an office which he held until his death. In an interesting Haliburton manuscript deposited many years ago in the Library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society Miss Georgianna Hali burton ( v£de infra, 5, i) wrote:* " William was a boy of fine intellectual promise, but showed no special inclina tion to aay one pursuit. He was fond of adventure, and a pioneer's life would have suited him ,vell. He began the study of medicine and surgery; but when he was nineteen an expedition was formed against the Indians, and throwing aside his studies he went as a volunteer surgeon with a company of young men and joined the * Miss Georgianna or Georgina4 Haliburton, elder daughter of George3 Haliburton, spent much of her life, and died, in Boston. She was closely associated with the family of Samuel6 Fales and before -her death, which occurred in 1888, wrote the manuscript referred to above, and also one giving some facts concerning the Samuel Fales family. These manuscripts are both in the Library of the New England Historic G~nealogical Society in Boston. In a chart of the Haliburton family that was no doubt prepared by Miss Haliburton, we find the statement that Andrew1 Haliburton of Boston was son of an Andrew born about 1644, died in I 700, but of the accuracy of the statement we are not sure. The chart says that Andrew 1 of Boston was born in 1700, and that his first wife Naomi (whom the chart calls " Mary") bore him : Mary ; William ; Ruxby ; Sarah ; Betsy ; and 4>ne child more, whose name is not known. The chart further states that Mary was married and lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Boston records, however, do not corroborate some of these statements. Miss Georgianna Haliburton owned and was buried July 12, 1888, in Lot 3572, l\1t. Auburn Cemetery. A tombstone which she erected in her lot bears the names of her father and mother, but gives no dates for either. Her own name was never carved on the stone. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 175 expedition. After some months campaigning he re turned unhurt, and his mother, feeling great anxiety lest his love of adventure should increase, strongly encour aged his early attachment to his cousin Lusannah Otis .... At last the marriage took place, and the couple had a long and happy married life." Miss Haliburton then narrates the settlement of the young couple in Nova Scotia. She says that they sailed from Boston to Hali fax, taking with them provisions for eighteen months, tents, furniture, spinning wheels, a loom, farming imple ments, and two negroes from the household of Mrs. Haliburton's father. From Halifax they travelled on horseback a distance of f arty miles, along the narro,v French road, the wife seated on a pillion behind her husband. For a few months they and their servants lived in tents, but finally they built a two-story frame house, the foundation and posts of which were logs, the walls being clapboarded. Mr. Haliburton's death oc curred, it is said, sometime in February 1817. In this narrative by Miss Haliburton there are, pro bably, some inaccurate statements. It is known that Dr. Ellis and his family sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, for the Nova Scotia shore of the Bay of Fundy, as did a great many other people in 1760 and 1761; and it is probable that the Haliburtons also reached Newport, Nova Scotia, by the same route. It would be very un reasonable to suppose that they sailed from Boston to Halifax, for the road from Halifax to Newport and Wind sor was at that time almost impassable, and the other 176 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY settlers from Rhode Island sailed up the Bay of Fundy to the Avon River and landed somewhere near Fort Edward, in the township of Windsor. From a letter from Hon. Charles Morris to Mr. Isaac Deschamps, dated March 31, 1761, it appears that a certain Captain Maloney, who was then concerned in bringing settlers from Con necticut and Rhode Island to Nova Scotia., was ordered to bring Dr. E1lis and his family to Newport, Nova Scotia, if they were ready to come.* In the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society is a long manuscript letter from William Haliburton to Rev. Jeremy Belknap, dated September 1, 1796, in which the writer describes a " floating anchor" and a movable apparatus for putting out and taking in the anchor in all weathers, which he had lately invented. Children:
i. William,3 born September 2, 1762 or r763, died April 16, 1764. ii. Lusannah ("Lucy") Hamilton, born May 16, 1765; died, probably unmarried, after August 1790. Like her sister Charlotte, she made visits to her aunt Mrs. Jacob Sheafe at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and from Portsmouth in the Summer of I 790 went to Tobago to visit Charlotte. A letter written by Charlotte at Tobago May 6, I 798, seems to indicate that Lucy had lately written her and so was then alive, but the date of her death we do not know. 4 iii. William Hersey Otis, born September 3, 1767. * Hind's "Old Parish Burying Ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia" p. 56. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 177
iv. Charlotte, born September 20, I 770, died in England. Of this interesting young member of the Haliburton family we have a good deal of knowledge from Hali burton correspondence preserved by the Fales family. She spent much time with her aunt, Mrs.Jacob Sheafe, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and there she was married in or shortly before March I 790, to Alex ander Lyon, a prosperous sugar planter in the island of Tobago. To this island she went, but before May 1798, Mr. Lyon had died, she had been married to Daniel Campbell, and Mr. Campbell also had died. Mrs. Campbell herself died in London some time before January 8, 1800. By her will she left nine hundred pounds sterling as a fund for the use and benefit of William Haliburton of Windsor and his wife Lusannah. v. Abigail, born June IS, 1773, married (as previously) to Samuel Fales. vi. John Gustavus, born January or June 23, 1775, drowned at sea December 22, 1797. 5 vii. George Mordaunt, born June 30, 1777.
3 GEORGE 2 HALIBURTON(Andrew•), baptized in King's Chapel Parish, Boston, January 2 3, 1742 / 3, died, prob ably at Exeter, New Hampshire, between November 6, 1813 and April 3, 1814. He married first, at Horton, Nova Scotia, September 27, 1766 (Horton township book), Ann Avery, born at Lebanon, Connecticut, June 25, 1747, died in 1802, daughter of Robert* and Ann * Robert Avery was a grantee at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1761, and had previously lived at Lebanon, Connecticut. For him and his family see Eaton's History of King's County, Nova Scotia, pp. 549, 881. 178 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
(Cushman); and secondly Mary Gale, widow, of Exeter, New Hampshire, who died at Exeter September 30, 1842, her will of June 2, 1841 mentioning her children, Enoch Gale, Amos Gale, and C. P. Gale (deceased), Martha, widow of C. P. Gale, and Mary and Charles, children of C. P. Martha Gale. Without doubt George Haliburton went to Nova Scotia in 1761 with his mother and stepfather and his brother William. He received no grant of land, nor does he seem to have been a farmer, but from 1769 to 1774 he served as schoolmaster for Windsor and New port under the direction and in the pay of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1769 Rev. Joseph Bennett, missionary of this Society at Windsor, wrote to the Society that Mr. Watts, the Society's schoolmaster, " being better provided for, has quitted the school and Mr. Halliburton is put in his room." In 1766 George Haliburton was registrar of probate for King's County,* Isaac Desc;hamps being judge of " His Majesty's Court of Wills." The next year, however, George Deschamps, son of Isaac, suc ceeded George Haliburton as registrar of probate. A plan in the Crown Land Department at Halifax, dated April 10, 1775, is signed "p. me George Hallyburton, Dep. Sur.," the inference from this being that a deputy surveyorship in the Province was held by him.t In the
* Hants County, in which Windsor and Newport are situated, was then a part of King's County. It was not set off as a separate county until 1781. t Rind's "Old Parish Burying Ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia," p. 92. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 179 census of King's County for 1770 the family of George Haliburton is given as consisting of one man, one woman, two boys, and one girl. At what time George Haliburton removed from Nova Scotia to New England is not known, but in 1797 he bought a house in Exeter, N. H., and in that year, for the first time, was taxed in that town. It was probably this George Haliburton who on June 24, 1804 was a sponsor at the baptism, in King's Chapel Parish, Boston, of Samuel Bradford Fales (vz"de supra, 2, v. 2 ). In his will ( vz"de z"n.fra) he calls himself "Mariner," and according to the late J. Herbert Sawyer, who spent much time gathering facts concerning this branch of the Haliburton family, he became a sea captain and sailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.* In his will, dated November 6, 1813 and proved April 3, I 8 14, " George H a1liburton t of Exeter," N. H ., " Mariner," mentions his wife Mary, whom he appoints sole executrix, and to whom he leaves the residue of his personal estate not otherwise bequeathed and all of his
~ Cf. also Miss Titcomb's Early New England People, p. 37. t The Portsmouth Haliburtons for a long time, as the will of this testa tor and that of his son Andrew (6) show, commonly spelled their surname "Halliburton." In her later y-ears Miss Georgina Haliburton (11, ii), granddaughter of Andrew (6), is said to have reverted to the traditional spelling with one l, "Halibarton." In Nova Scotia the spelling '' Halli burton" has been uniformly used for the family of Dr. John Halliburton, wh.o married Susannah Brenton and came from Newport, Rhode Island, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1782, while the name of the family treated in this article has in later times rarely been spelled otherwise than "Haliburton." However, in early records, both in Nova Scotia and in New England, the spelling "Hallyburton" is frequently found in the family of Andrew 1 of Boston. 180 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
real estate for life; his sons George Halliburton, Andrew Halliburton, and John Halliburton (if he be living), who, together with the children of his daughter Ann McClin tock, deceased, are to receive all his real estate at the death of his wife; his granddaughters Ann McClintock, Caroline McClintock, and Emily McClintock; his daugh ters-in-law Mary Halliburton and Elizabeth Halliburton ; and his wife's son Charles Pinkney Gale. At the settle ment of the estate of the widow, Mary Haliburton, in February and March 1843, the real estate of her late husband, George Haliburton, which had been in her possession, was appraised at $900; and Andrew Hali burton agreed to take it at this valuation and to pay to the other heirs as follows ; to George Haliburton of Maine, $225; to John Haliburton or his heirs, $225; and to each of the [three] daughters of his deceased sister, Ann McClintock, $75. Of the three· daughters of Ann McClintock, deceased, Ann was then the wife of Jenness, Caroline was the wife of . Perkins, and Emily was unmarried.
Children by first wife:
i. George,3 born at Horton, Nova Scotia, September 21, I 767 ;* living in 1843, when he is called "of Maine;" m. Mary , who was living in I 81 3. ii. John Olive [sic], born at Horton, Nova Scotia, July 16, I 769. Apparently his father in 18 1 3 and his brother
* The Horton town records give September 21, 1767, as the date of birth. In the Newport records September 22 is given as the date. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 181
Andrew in I 843 did not kno,v whether if he was liv ing or dead. 111. Ann, born probably at Horton, Nova Scotia ; died before November 6, 1813 ; married McClintock ; re sided at Effingham, N. H. Children: 1. Ann, mar- ried not later than I 843 Jenness. 2. Caroline, married not later than 1843 Perkins. 3. Emily, living unmarried in I 843. 6 iv. Andrew, born at Horton, Nova Scotia, September 4, 1 771.
4 WILLIAM HERSEY 0TIS3 HALIBURTON ( William,2 1 Andrew ), born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 3, 1767, died there in the summer of 1829.* He married first, probably in 1794, Lucy C. Grant, born about 1774, died March 8, 1797, in her 23d year (grave-stone at Windsor, Nova Scotia), daughter of Major Alexander and Sarah (Kent) ;t and secondly, at Windsor, probably late * In the Boston Columbian Centinel of August 1, 1829, is printed the following obituary notice : " In Windsor, Nova Scotia, after a most pain ful illness, W. H. 0. Halliburton, Esq., Chief Justice of Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, for the middle division of Nova Scotia, aged 62." t Major Alexander Grant was a Scotch veteran, who had served under Wolfe at Quebec in 1 7 59 (3 Proceedings of the Royal Society oj Canada, vol. 3, p. 44), and fought on the British side in the American Revolution, probably in the 42d Regiment. He" fell dead in gallantly storming Fort Montgomery." From 1777 to 1783 his family is said to have lived at Newtown, Long Island, New York. In the latter year Mrs. Sarah Grant, widow of Alexander, went with her three daughters to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in company, it is believed, with Col. Joshua Chandler, a Loy alist from New Haven, Connecticut, and his family, and, no doubt, with other Loyalists. Early in March, 1787, Colonel Chandler, with his son 182 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY in 1803,* Susannah (Francklin) Davis, born August 23, 1765, died about 1851,t daughter of Lieutenant-Gov ernor Michael and Susannah ( Boutineau) Francklint and widow of Benjamin Davis of Pennsylvania. William, his daughter Elizabeth, and Mrs. Grant, embarked in a vessel at Annapolis Royal for St. John, New Brunswick, Colonel Chandler and prob ably also Mrs. Grant intending to appear before a commission that was to sit at St. John to determine Loyalist claims. The vessel was driven by a violent storm on the rocks at Musquash Point, about nine miles from St. John, and in trying to secure it so that the party might land safely, young William Chandler was crushed to death in the waves. The rest of the party reached the shore safely; but the snow was still deep, there were no roads, and after wandering about for hours Colonel Chandler and his daughter and Mrs. Grant perished "in the woods at Partridge Island, near St. John," on March I I, 1787. Their bodies were found soon afterwards and were buried in the old cemetery in St. John, at the head of King Street. At the time of her death Mrs. Grant was but 38 years of age. Her daughter Elizabeth, born, it is said, in 1775, was married to Ensign Thomas Chandler, son of Colonel Joshua. Cf. The Chandler Family, 1883, pp. 252-257, 480. * This marriage was published in the l.7n#ed States Ch.ronzcle of Febru ary l 6, I 804. t A statement has been printed that she survived her husband twenty two years . .,. t Michael Francklin, a Devonshire man, came to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from .England in 1752, and died at Halifax November 8, 1782. He mar ried in Boston, January 21, 1762 (according to Windsor, N. S., town records), or February 7, 1762 (according to Boston town records), Susannah Boutineau, born about 1740, died at Windsor, Nova Scotia, April 19, 1816, in her 76th year, daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Faneuil) Boutineau, and granddaughter of Benjamin Faneuil. At Halifax Mr. Francklin en gaged in trade, his business prospered, his popularity became great, and in time he entered public affairs. In 1762 he became a member of the Coun cil, and in I 766 lieutenant-governor, filling this office actively and intelli gently until 1776. The Francklins long made their chief home at Windsor, and were among the most active supporters of the Anglican Church in that town. Lielltenant-Governor Francklin gave the land for the parish church ( Christ...Church) and churchyard at Windsor, and Mrs. Francklin gave, HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 183
Mr. Haliburton studied law in the office of William Stearns, Esq., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a fellow student of his there being the noted Nova Scotia lawyer, Hon. Simon Bradstreet Robie. He was appointed, November 2, 1786, clerk of the peace for Hants County, and, together with Hon. Samuel George William Archibald, afterwards master of the rolls, was made K. C. on May 21, 1817. On March 17, 1824, he was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the middle division of the Province,* and he held this office until his death. He served also with distinction for eighteen successive years, it is said, as a member of the Legislature. Like most members of the Haliburton family he was a staunch supporter of the Anglican Church. April 28, 1801, an acre of land opposite the church for a parsonage, and in 1815 a complete set of service books, including a handsomely-bound folio Bible, for use in public worship. Their children were: 1. James Bouti neau, born July 31, 1763. 2. Elizabeth Mauger, born September 3, 1764. 3. Susannah, born August 23, 1765 .. 4. Ann, born August 31, 1767. 5. Joshua Mauger, born September 1, 1869. 6. Michael Nickleson, born Au gust 20, 1773. 7. John Robinson, born July 6, 1774. 8. George Sackville Germain, born January 15, 1777. 9. Mary Phillipps, born October 7, 1779. 10. Sarah Nickleson, born December 21, 1780. * On the same day Jared Ingersoll Chipman was appointed to the cor responding judgeship for the eastern division of the Province and Thomas Ritchie to the similar office for the western division. The judge or" chief justice" of one of these divisions was only chief of the minor justices of the peace in his division, who were taken from various walks of life and not from the legal profession only. Murdoch, the historian of Nova Scotia, says in his history (vol. 3, p. 439) : "Although educational establishments had, as yet, effected little for the people, yet in 1819 men like Ritchie, Robie, Haliburton, aad Archibald, natives of the province, exhibited states manlike ideas, a power of subtle reasoning, and much eloquence." 184 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Only child, by first wife: 7 i. Thomas Chandler,4 born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, De cember 17, 1796.
5 GEORGE MoRDAUNT3 HALIBURTON (Wz"ll-iam,2 An drew1), born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, June 30, 1777, died at 204 Harrison Avenue, Boston, May 31, 1861.* He married first Christina Maria Loup, a woman of Swiss extraction; and secondly, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 3, 1810 (records of St. Matthew's Parish, Halifax), Maria Cunningham Peoples, "spinster," who is said to have lived apart from her husband for some years and to have died at Baddeck, Cape Breton, January 19, 1865, aged 79.t In the first decade of the nineteenth century George Mordaunt Haliburton repeatedly advertised dry goods and groceries for sale at his shop, at the corner of Hollis and Sackville Streets, Halifax. About 1831 he removed to Boston, and until 1839, at least, held a position in the Boston custom house. Later he probably again kept a shop, and in the notice of his death he is called " mer chant." Administration on his estate was granted to his son, George Mordaunt Haliburton, Jr. * He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. In the burial notice in the records in the Boston City Hall he is said to have died May 20, 1861, but May 31 is probably the correct date. t In the record of the death of George Mordaunt Haliburton he is said to be a widower. His second wife is said to have been a Boston woman, the daughter of the captain of a merchantman. Her surname, of which the proper spelling is probably" Peoples," is not, however a Boston name, but is found in early records of Falmouth (now Portland), Maine. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 185 Soon after coming to Boston the Haliburtons con nected themselves with St. Matthew's Church (Protestant Episcopal) in South Boston, the family consisting, ac cording to the registers of this church, September 1, 1838, of four males and one female. From May 1835 to May 1838 Rev. Horace Lorenzo Conolly was rector of St. Matthew's. He is said to have been an Irishman, and was educated probably at Trinity College, Dublin. After he left South Boston he seems to have settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and there to have been on friendly terms with Hawthorne; and in the biography of Longfellow, written by Samuel Longfellow, it is stated that the story which suggested to Longfellow the poem " Evangeline" was told by Mrs. Haliburton to Mr. Conolly, was repeated by Mr. Conolly to Hawthorne, and then was told by Haw thorne and Conolly to Longfellow at the Craigie House. Children by first wife : i..· Georgianna,• born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, about 1803; died unmarried at 30 Kneeland Street, Boston, July 9 (or I 1), 1888, aged 85; buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. On February 27, 1862, she made a will, in which she mentions her sister, Maria Sanby Bay ard; her sister's four children, one of whom was Henrietta Cooper Bayard ; her cousin, Haliburton Fales (whom she appoints executor), and his sons, Samuel and Haliburton, Jr. ; the sons of her cousin, Eliza Ann (Fales) Bridgham; and her five brothers, William Hersey Otis, George Mordaunt, Thomas Andrew, Charles William Robinson, and Alfred Fales Haliburton. This will was superseded by a later one, 186 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
dated November 14, 1887 and proved December 24, 1890, in which she leaves $100 to her brother, W. H. 0. Haliburton of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, all the residue of her estate, both real and personal, going to Rufus J. Smith of Boston, grocer, who is to pro vide during her lifetime for his mother, Mrs. Eliza beth Maria Smith of Boston. On account of Miss Haliburton's advanced age, on December 12, 1887, George A. Sawyer of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was appointed her guardian. ii. Maria Sanby, living in I 862 ; was married March 8, I 8 3 I, to Samuel Bayard, M. D., of St. John, New Brunswick, born at Wilmot, Nova Scotia, March 1, 1790, son of Col. Samuel Vetch and Catherine (Van Horne).* They had at least four children, one of whom was Henrietta Cooper. 8 iii. William Hersey Otis, born probably at Windsor or at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1808. Children by second wife : iv. John Gustavus Peoples, baptized in St. Matthew's Parish, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 26, 1811. He practised law at Sydney, Cape Breton, but nothing has been learned about his family. He is not mentioned in the will made by his sister, Georgianna Haliburton, Feb ruary 27, 1862.t *Cf.Eaton's History of King's County, Nova Scotia, pp. 103-104, 134. t In Boston, December 22, 1890, Henrietta W. Haliburton of Boston was appointed guardian of Georgianna Haliburton, born August 7, 1871, a minor child of Thomas H. Haliburton, late of Baddeck, Cape Breton, de ceased, and his widow, Catherine Haliburton, Albert and Lilla A. Day of Boston, becoming sureties with said Henrietta. These Haliburtons are probably descendants either of John Gustavus Peoples Haliburton or of his brother, Alfred Fales Haliburton. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 187
9 v. George Mordaunt, baptized in St. Matthew's Parish, Hal ifax, Nova Scotia, August 29, I 8 13. vi. Thomas Andrew, baptized in St. Matthew's Parish, Hal ifax, Nova Scotia, March I 9, 18 I 5 ; living in Boston in I 844, when he appears in the Directory as a clerk, with an address at 90 Milk Street; living as late as 1862, when he is mentioned in the will made by his sister, Georgianna Haliburton. vii. Charles William Robinson, living in 1862. 10 viii. Alfred Fales, baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, May 29, 1820.
3 1 6 ANDREW HALIBURTON (Georgi', Andrew ), of Ports mouth, New Hampshire, born at Horton, Nova Scotia, September 4, 1771, died at Portsmouth, where he was buried May 4, 1846, (Records of St. John's Church, Portsmouth). He married first, May 8, 1796, Elizabeth Underwood, who was living in 1813; and secondly, June 29, 1823, Sarah Ann Manning, who died March 2, 1877, aged 75, daughter of Thomas and Statira.* Andrew Haliburton was for some years president of the Portsmouth Bank. In his will, dated May 23, 1843, and proved May 12, 1846, he bequeathed all his property to his wife (subject to the payment of $50 a year to his daughter, Mary Ann Haliburton), with reversion at his wife's death to his daughter, Mary Ann, and his son, James P. * These are the parents of Sarah Ann (Manning) Haliburton according to the official record of her death. In the Wentworth Genealogy, vol. 1, p. 515, she is said to have been the daughter of Capt. Thomas and Mar garet (Purcell) Manning. 188 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Children by first wife : i. Mary Ann,4 baptized November 11, 1797, "aged one year;" died unmarried, probably in Boston, May 7, 18 88 ; buried probably at Portsmouth, New Hamp shire. In her will, dated in Boston December 23, 1882 and proved June 11, 1888, she mentioned con spicuously her niece, Georgina Haliburton of Ports mouth ( 1 I, ii). ii. George William, baptized April 5, 1806, "aged 6 years last May;" died January 7, 1842. iii. Elizabeth, baptized April 5, 1806, "aged 4 years;" died in 1807, " aged 6." Child by second wife :
II iv. James Pierrepont, born at Portsmouth, New Hamp shire, July r, 1824, and baptized August 8, 1824.
7 THOMAS CHANDLER4 HALIBURTON ( William Hersey 3 2 1 Otis, William, A ndrew ), born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, December 17, 1796, died at his residence, Gordon House, Islesworth, County Middlesex; England, August 27, 1865. He married first, in 1816 (probably in the early summer), Louisa Neville, who died at Windsor, Nova Scotia, November 29, 1841, only daughter of Capt. Lawrence Neville of the Second Life Guards and Nine teenth Light Dragoons;* and secondly, in England, in 1856, Sarah Harriet (Owen) Williams, daughter of * Judge Haliburton met this lady when as a young law student he was visiting England. Her father, Captain Neville, is said to have served in India, and both her parents are said to have died before her marriage to Judge Haliburton. ·.-. -~··.• . <':l~. ;:". .. - . -. : ~:· .:~ .~·:: .,
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William Mostyn Owen, Esq., of Woodhouse, Shropshire, England, and widow (after 1844) of Edward Hosier Williams of Eaton Mascott, Shewsbury, Shropshire. He was graduated at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1815, and was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1820. For some years both before and after his admis sion to the bar he evidently lived at Windsor, but as early as 1824 he was practising law at Annapolis Royal.* From 1827 to 1829 he was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Annapolis County, but in the latter year he was made a justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the middle division of the Province, and then he probably returned to Windsor to live. On the abolition of the Court of Common Pleas he was ap pointed, in 1841, a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia; but in 1856 he resigned this position and re moved to England, where he resided for the remainder of his life. From 1859 to 1865 he sat in the House of Commons, as a Conservative, for Launceston, County Cornwall. Judge Haliburton gained great distinction as an au thor. He published a two-volume historical and sta tistical account of Nova Scotia, but his literary fame rests chiefly on his humorous writings, in which he narrates the sayings and doings of Sam Slick of Slickville, whom he represents as a Yankee pedlar who travelled through
* Judge Savary states that he removed to Annapolis Royal in July 1821, but his children continued to be baptized at Windsor until July 1823. Cf. the Calnek-Savary History of the County of Annapolis, pp. 418-426. 190 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Nova Scotia selling wooden clocks. He "was the first writer who used the American dialect, and according to Artemus Ward founded the American school of humour."* Though an aristocrat and a Tory, Judge Haliburton was conspicuous in Nova Scotia for his advocacy of pro gressive and liberal measures. His sarcastic designation of the "Old Council of Twelve," at Halifax, in 1827, as " twelve dignified, deep-read, pensioned old ladies, but filled ,vith prejudice and whims, like all other antiquated spinsters," was never forgotten or forgiven by this body to the end of its existence. He had a well-deserved rep utation for oratory, but his early oratory, at least, was of "the studied and ornate kind-which prevailed more in his time than it does now." Although he went to Eng land with the wide reputation which he had attained as an orator, a jurist, and a man of letters,t his English par-
* In the Dictionary of National Biography, from which this quotation is taken, may be found an excellent sketch of Judge H;aliburton's life, with references to other biographies of him and with the titles of sixteen of his books. t Hon. Col. Charles Fox is said to have introduced "Sam Slick the Clockmaker," to English court circles. In a volume of minor poems called "A Bundle of Faggots," Walter Savage Landor wrote: " Once I would bid the man go hang From whom there came a word of slang ; Now pray I, though the slang runs thick Across the Atlantic from Sam Slick, Never may fall the slightest hurt on The witty head of Haliburton, Wherein methinks more wisdom lies Than in the wisest of the wise." HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 191 liamentary career was without distinction. The chief scholastic honor conferred on him was the degree of D. C. L., which he received from the University of Ox ford in 1858. A portrait of Judge Haliburton by a painter named Betham hangs in the Legislative Council Chamber at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Clifton, his former estate at Windsor, is visited by many who hold in mem ory the great names of the past. Children by first wife:
i. Susanna Lucy Anne,5 baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, June 2, 1817; died September 11, 1899; buried at Windsor ; married in 1848, as his second wife, to Hon. John Wesley Weldon of St. John, New Brunswick, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick and Speaker of the House of Represen tatives.* Child: Haliburton, died August 3, 1873, aged 24 ; buried at Windsor. ii. William Neville, baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, December 1, 1819; died young. 111. Thomas (twin) baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Janu-. ary I 8, I 821 ; died in Massachusetts, in an asylum for the insane, Nove1nber 3, 1847, aged 26. He was buried first, November 6, 1847, in the Samuel Fales Tomb at Mount Auburn Cemetery, but on the 14th of N ovem her 1866, his body was transferred to Lot 3730 (St. Paul Lot), where a tombstone to his mem ory stands. The inscription on the stone says he died November 4, 1847, aged 26. It is said that at one time this young man had studied "art" in Italy. • Judge Weldon's first wife was Frances Chandler Upham~ 192 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
The record of his burial is to be found on the regis ter of St. Matthew's Church, South Boston. 1v. Lewis (twin), baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Jan uary 18, 1821; buried two days later. v. Augusta Louisa Neville, baptized at Windsor, Nova Stotia, July 3, 1823; died at Torquay, County Devon, England, October 11, 189r; married shortly before September 1, I 8 54 to Alexander Fowsden Haliburton, who died January 29, 18 7 3, an Englishman who lived for some years at Baddeck, Cape Breton, and who is said (3 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, vol. 3, p. 44) to have been" of Whitley and Torquay [Eng.]." vi. Laura Charlotte, baptized at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, September 8, 1824; died at Nice, France, late in December 1910; married in December 1851 to William Cunard, born in April 1825, second son of Sir Samuel and Susan (Duffus). In England the residences of the Cunards were .Orleans House, Twickenham, and 95 Eaton Square, London, S. W. Children: 1. William Samuel, born in 1856. 2. Ernest Haliburton, born in 1862.- 3. Cyril Grant, .. born in 1867. 4. Alice Mary. Vll. William Frederick Neville, baptized at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, December 1, 1826; buried April r 1, 1827, aged 10 months. V1ll. Emma Maria, baptized at Annapolis Royal October 18, 1828; married to Rev. J. Bainbridge Smith.* • Nicholas Daniell Davis married at Dover, County Kent, England, No vember 27, 1883, Sarah Augusta Haliburton Smith, eldest daughter of Rev. John Bainbridge and his wife Emma Maria (Haliburton) Smith. Mr. Davis died at Bath, Somersetshire, England, September 29, 1915. His wife and a daughter survive him. See" Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," for April, 1918. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 193 ix. Amelia Mackay, baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, June 17, 1830; married in 1849 to Rev. Edwin Gilpin (afterwards D. D., and for a long time, until his death, Dean of the Anglican pro-cathedral at Halifax, Nova Scotia), born June 10, 1821, son of Rev. Edwin and Gertrude (Brinley). They had issue. x. Robert Grant, born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, June 3, 1831, and baptized there March 21, 1832; died un married in 1898. He was a Doctor of Civil Law. In his lifetime he was recognized as a scientist of consid erable note and was the author of many scholar! y monographs. He lived chiefly in Canada, but spent much time in the United States. xi. Arthur Lawrence, born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Sep tember 26, 1832, and baptized there July 13, 1833; died s.p. in London, England, in 1907; married No vember· 3, 1877, Mariana Emily (Schuster) Clay, daughter of Leo Schuster and widow of Sir William Dickason Clay, 2d Bart. He served on the Com missariat Staff of the British Army from 18 5 5 to I 8 70, and was then trans£erred to the Civil Service as Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport; he was Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office in London from 1878 to 1888, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War from 1888 to 189 5, and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War from 1895 to 1897. He received the degree of D. C. L. from King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieuten ant for London, and was created Companion of the Bath in I 880, Knight Commander of the Bath in 1885, and Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in 1897. He was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom 194 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
on June 13, 1898 as Baron Haliburton of Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia, and Dominion of Canada, being the only native Nova Scotian who has been thus honored. His rise to the ranks of the peer age is said to have been due largely to his magnetic personality. His London residence was at 57 Lown des Square, S. W. His arms are given in Burke's Peerage, edition of 1904. No children.
8 WILLIAM HERSEY 0TIS4 HALIBURTON (George Mor 1 daunt,3 William,2 Andrew ), of Clements, Annapolis Royal, and Wolfville, Nova Scotia, born, probably at Windsor or at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1808, died May 24, 1890. He married first in 1832 Mary Ryerson of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, who was buried at An napolis Royal May 7 or 9, 1844, "aged 35;" and sec ondly, in 1848, Susanna Ried of Carlisle, England. On September 2, 1890, on petition of the children of William Hersey Otis Haliburton, who is declared to have last lived at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and to have died May 24, 1890, George A. Sawyer of Cambridge, Massa chusetts, was appointed administrator of the estate of the deceased. (Suffolk Co., Mass., Probate Records.) Children by first wife, baptized at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia: i. John William,5 baptized November 9, 1834, the parents living at Clements.* * The baptism of this child is recorded on the register of St. Luke's parish, Annapolis Royal. A later entry on that register records his burial as occurring November 3, 1843. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 195
ii. James Loup, baptized June 24, 1837, the parents living at Annapolis Royal. 111. Maria, baptized January 29, 1840. 1v. Hersey Otis, of Granville, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, baptized May 2, 1844. Children by second wife: v. William, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, baptized at Anna polis Royal, Nova Scotia, June 26, 1850; married Ella McCormick. Children: 1. Susanna.6 2. Mary Letitia, married to Claude King. 3. William Mor daunt, married Beryl Sweeney. vi. Louis, a sea captain, of New York City, and later of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, married Clara Harris. vii. Mary Isabella, baptized at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, March 7, 1855; married at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, June 23, 1892 to Aubrey Brown of King's County, Nova Scotia. They lived at Wolfville and Digby, Nova Scotia. vtn. Laura Cunard, baptized at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, May 26, 1863; married to Herbert W. Moore. They lived at Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Child: Helen Mari~.
9 GEORGE MoRDAUNT4 HALIBURTON ( George Mor
2 1 daunt,3 W£llz"am, Andrew ), was baptized in St. Mat thew's Parish, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 29, 1813. He married in St. Matthew's Parish, South Boston, Jan uary 13, 1846, Charlotte Colston. He removed to Boston, probably with his parents, and became a seller of books and periodicals, appearing in 196 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY the Directory in 1845 as having a shop at 12 State Street and as living at 10 Crescent Place. In 1846 he was of the firm of Redding and Company, and his house was at 41 Bedford Street. On October 19, 1853, being called "trader," he received a mortgage from Alexander Will iams, bookseller. He was confirmed in St. Matthew's Parish, South Boston, March 24, 1839. Children, born in Boston and baptized in St. Mat thew's Parish, South Boston:
i. Thomas Andrew,s born July 11, 1847. ii. Louisa, born November 7, 1849. 111. George Colston, born November 8, 1851; died at Dor chester, Massachusetts, March 11, 1853.
IO ALFRED F ALES4- HALIBURTON ( George Mordaunt,3 1 Wz"lliam,2 Andrew ), baptized at Windsor, Nova Scotia, May 29, 1820, died about 1906, aged 86.- He married at Sydney, Cape Breton, Elizabeth Plant, daughter of Samuel (an Englishman who had come to America as agent for the General Mining Association.) He was a pupil at the Windsor (Nova Scotia) acad emy, and, after his father removed to Boston, he attended for two years the Boston Latin School. Later he re turned to Nova Scotia, and was articled to Judge Lewis Morris Wilkins at Windsor. After being admitted to the Nova Scotia bar he practised law at Sydney, Cape Breton, with his brother, John Gustavus Peoples Hali burton. Some time after his marriage he removed to Baddeck, Cape Breton, where he was sheriff, registrar of HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 197 deeds, and collector of customs. Finally he became ser geant at arms in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Children: i. Mordaunt Plant,5 died unmarried. 11. John Peebles, of Boune Bay, Newfoundland, married Children: 1. John Plant.6 2. Ella Frances. 3. Thomas Chandler. Several others. 111. A daughter, died in infancy. iv. Douglas. v. Alfred Andrew, married Children: 1. Alfred Francis.6 2. Marion Frances. 3. Arthur John. vi. William Plant, died unmarried at sea. vii. Samuel, died unmarried at sea. viii. Horatio Henry, married Children : 1. Mary Al- freda. 6 2. Edward. 3. Gordon. Six others. ix. Amelia Maria. x. Elizabeth. xi. Frances, married to her cousin, James Fraser.
II }AMES PIERREPONT4 HALIBURTON (Andrew,3 George,2
1 Andrew ), born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in June 1824 and baptized August 8, 1824, died in July 1849 and was buried July 31, 1849. He married Susan Ham ilton Peters* of Brooklyn, New York, who died April 8, 1898, having married secondly, November 18, 1856, George Wallis Haven of Portsmouth, A. B. (Dartn1outh * Mary, younger sister of Susan Hamilton Peters, was married (1) in 1853 to Gilbert W. Bowne, who died six months later; and (2) in 1859, to Gen. Harmanus B. Duryea of Brooklyn, New York, to whom she bore sons, Pierrepont Haliburton and Harmanus Barkeloo. 198 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
College, 1828), A. M. (honorary, Harvard, 1889), lawyer, born at Portsmouth June 24, 1808, died there August 9, 1895.* In his will, dated October 23, 1848 and proved at Ports mouth September 11, 1849, James Pierrepont Haliburton leaves to his mother, Sarah Ann Haliburton, his pictures and paintings, which at his mother's death are to go to his wife, Susan Hamilton Haliburton. He mentions his daughter Mary, at that time his only child; and appoints as sole executor his friend, Ichabod Goodwin, to whom he leaves his gold-headed cane. The witnesses are James W. Emery, Martha E. Emery, and Harriet P. Pierrepont. Children: i. Mary P.5 born about 1846; died "at 1_0 years of age:• She is also said to have died February 16, 1860, aged 13. ii. Georgina, born May 1, 1849; died unmarried at Ports mouth, New Hampshire, October 11, 1910. For many years she spent her winters •in Boston and her summers in Portsmouth, and in both cities she was widely known. The Portsmouth Herald of October 1 1, 19 r o, closed an obituary notice of Georgina Hal iburton with these words : " Her death is the ending of an honorable and distinguished Portsmouth family.'' • George Haven, M. D. (Harvard, 1883), son of George Wallis and Susan Hamilton (Peters) (Haliburton) Haven, was born July 13, 1861, and died September 27, 1903. He became a leading physician in Boston. In his will, dated Ma:y 22, 1901, and proved November 5, 1903, he left the income from a large portion of his estate to his half-sister, Georgina Haliburton. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 199
NOTES ON THE OTIS FAMILY The Massachusetts Otis family, with which the Hali burton family has been shown to be doubly connected by marriage, was founded in America by JOHN OTIS, ,vho was born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, in 1581, and came to Hingham, Massachusetts, where he partici pated in the :first drawing of lands in that town, Septem ber 18, 1635. John Otis married his first wife, Margaret, in England, and by her had six children: JoHN, 2 JR., born in Barnstable, Devon, in 1620; Richard; Margaret; Hannah; Ann; Alice. Of these children, JoHN,2 JR., the eldest, married in 1653 Mary Jacob, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Jacob, and had among his children JoB,3born in Scituate March 20, 1677, married about 1700 Mercy Little, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Sturte vant) Little, born in 1678. The children of JoB3 and MERCY (LITTLE) OTIS, with the dates of their births, were as follows: Mercy,4 December 12, 1700; Job, Jr., March 28, 1702, married Thankful Otis; ABIGAIL, August 28, 1703, married to ANDREW HALIBURTON; Mary, No vember 26, 1705; EPHRAIM, July 28, 1708, married Rachel Hersey; Ruth, March 13, 1712; Sarah, February 27, 1714, died August 9, 1715; David, August 5, 1716; Sarah, April 16, 1719; Priscilla, November 18, 1721. JoB 3 OTIS, "yeoman," made his will March 30, 17 5 2, in it remembering his beloved wife Mercy, his son Ephraim, his daughter Mercy, his daughters Abigail and Sarah, 200 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY the children of his daughter Ruth, deceased (namely Charles, Ruth, and Mercy Otis, and Elizabeth Stock bridge), his daughter Priscilla, and his eldest son Job. His will was proved May 13, 1760. He died, it is said, in 1758. EPHRAIM 4 OTIS, son of Job3 and Mercy (Little) Otis, born July 28, 1708, married September 6, I 7 33 (intention February 17, 1732) RACHEL HERSEY, daughter of James and Mary (Hawke) Hersey of Hingham, born May 29, 1714, died December 26, 1793, and is buried in the Otis burying-ground at Norwell. Ephraim, ◄ who was a farmer at Scituate, himself died December 14, r 794, and is buried beside his wife. A deed of Ephraim4 Otis "yeoman," to his son Ephraim,5 Jr., "physician and surgeon," then of Taunton, which bears date August 19, 1770, is re corded at Plymouth. Another deed from Ephraim• to his son Dr. Ephraim signed by both Ephraim4 and his wife Rachel, was given on the 21st of February, 1780. Ephraim4 Otis was a first cousin of Judge James Otis, father of James Otis the patriot, and of Samuel Alleyne Otis, father of Harrison Gray Otis, Ephraim's children, there£ ore, were second cousins of James and Samuel Alleyne Otis, and his grandchildren, among whom was Mrs. Samuel Fales of Boston, were second cousins of Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, who died in Boston October 28, 1848. No complete list of the children of Ephraim4 and Rachel (Hersey) Otis has yet anywhere been discovered, but from various sources the following list, with dates of HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 201 births so far as they can be made out, has been compiled: EPH~AIMs OTIS, JR., physician and surgeon, baptized at Scituate June 9, 1734, was graduated A. B. at Har vard in 1756, and received a master's degree from his alma mater in 1816. His medical education he received wholly or in part, it is said, at Yale, which college he left in 1759 (See Scituate Vital Records and N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. vol. 2, p. 295 ). He married at Providence, Rhode Island, October 22, 1769, Sarah Harris, who died in 1826, "aged 101 years, 7 months, and I day." He practised as a physician probably first at Providence, then at Taunton, and then for the rest of his life at Scituate, where he was born. He made his will October 21, 1813 (proved December 2, 1816), and died, according to Scituate Vital Records (the date taken from Friends' Meeting records), October 21, 1816. In his will he men tions his wife Sarah, his da11:ghters Amy Otis and Mary Foster, and his sons George Alexander, David Harris, Job, Ephraim, and Daniel. The births of his children, so far as we know them, were: Mary (Polly), born in Providence August 5, 1770; Ephraim, born in Provi dence December 23, 1772; Amy, born April 29, 1777; George Alexander, born August 29, 1781, married his first cousin Lucinda Smith, daughter of Barney and Anna (Otis) Smith of Boston; Job, born June 25, 1783. The dates of the births of David Harris and Daniel we do not know. MARY5 Oris, born about 1736, was married to William Lincoln of Hingham, born August 5, 1729, died No- 202 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
vember 17, 1792, to whom she bore six children. She died September 12, 177 3, "in ·her 37th year." LusANNAH 5 OTIS, born April 15, 1738, was married, as previously given, April 9, 1761, to her first cousin WILLIAM HALIBURTON. Her name has often mistakenly appeared in print as Susannah. J RACHEL5 OTIS, born in 1740, if her age at death as given in the manuscript De Wolf genealogy is correct, was married at Windsor, Nova Scotia, March 16, 1769, to Benjamin De Wolf of Windsor, born in Connecticut October 14, 1744; and became the ancestress of a nota ble family at Windsor. The exact date of her birth we do not know, but if she was born in 17 40, and her brother Charles's birth is also given correctly, these two children of Ephraim Otis of course were twins. She died at Windsor August 13, 1818, "aged 78." Her husband died September I or 2, 1819, "aged 75.'~ Of the children of Rachel (Otis) and Benjamin De Wolf, the eldest, Sarah Hersey Otis De Wolf, born May 14, 1770, was married to Nathaniel Ray Thomas, Jr., son of Nathaniel Ray Thomas the noted Loyalist of Marshfield, Massachusetts, who at the Revolution fled to Nova Scotia and settled at Windsor. The third daughter, Rachel Otis De Wolf, born February 1, 1773, was married October 14, 1802, to Hon. James Fraser of Nova Scotia, and had a daughter Sarah Rachel Fraser, born September 7, 1803, who be came the wife of Hon. Charles Stephen Gore, G.C.B. and K. H., third son of the second Earl of Arran, and wat, the mother of Eliza Amelia, married to William HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 203
Henry, nineteenth Earl of Erroll. Mrs. Gore died at Hampton Court Palace in 1880. The youngest daughter of Rachel Otis (De Wolf) and Hon. James Fraser, was Catherine Fraser, born July r 6, r 81 3, and married July 16, 1835, to the Rev. Thomas G. Suther, who afterwards became Anglican Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland. Mrs. Suther died at Aberdeen April 1, 1880. CHARLES5 OTIS, "born in 1740," and if so twin with Rachel, died before October 6, 1814. He married ( 1) Ellis; (2) February 8, 1787, Sarah Tilden; (3) December 12, 1798, Hammond. He died somewhere in Con necticut. See mention of him in New England Histor ical and Genealogical Register, vol. 2, p. 29 5. PRISCILLA5 OTIS, born about 1742, was married to William Clapp, and died August r5, 1836, "aged 94." William Clapp was born December 3, 17 33, and died, the Clapp Genealogy says, though it gives no date, aged about 74. She had children: William, Otis, and Allen. See mention of Priscilla in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 2, p. 295. ]AMES5 OTIS, born in 1743. See New England His torical and Genealogical Register, as above. RuTH5 OTIS, mentioned as "Ruth Otis" in Abiel Smith's will. She was probably unmarried, but if mar ried was the wife of an Otis. ABIGAIL5 OTIS, was married to Joseph Otis, and lived with her husband in Boston. She had at least three chil dren. See Boston Probate records and records of King's 204 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Chapel. Her son Billings Otis is mentioned on page 102 of this book. ANNA5 OTIS born in 1748 or 1749, died January 18, 1749 or 1750, "aged 3 months." Her gravestone is in the Stockbridge family burying ground at Norwell. LYDIA5 OTIS, born probably in 1753, was married to Abiel Smith, son of Captain Job and Hannah (Barney) Smith of Taunton, born probably in 1745, graduated at Harvard in 1764. In Samuel Breck's ".Recollections, with Passages from his Note Books," edited by Horace E. Scudder and published in 1877, we find conspicuous mention of the Abiel Smiths and their relation to the Boston society of their day. Lydia (Otis) Smith was buried, according to the King's Chapel register, January 4, 1814, "aged 70." Abiel Smith was buried November 23, 1815 also "aged 70." Both are buried in tomb number 100 in the burying ground on Boston Common. Por traits of Mr. and Mrs. Abiel Smith were painted by Gilbert Stuart. ANNA5 OTIS, born in 1755 (See "Genealogy of the Russell Family descended from John Russell of Wo burn," pages 48-5 3) , was married (intention recorded in Boston October 8, 1783) to Barney Smith, brother of Abiel, who was born in 1763. Mrs. Barney Smith died in Boston December r4, 1843. Barney Smith "of Mil ton" made his will in Boston April 6, 1824 (proved August 12, 1828). He was buried in tomb number 100 on Bostop Common (which had been bequeathed to him by his brother Abiel) on the 5th of July, 1828. His HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 205 burial is recorded on King's Chapel register, the record stating that he died at Milton. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Smith, their two daughters, and their son, all had their portraits painted by Gilbert Stuart. See "Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart," by George C. Mason, 1879. The Barney Smiths had children: Lucinda, born May 19, r 784, married December 10, 1843, to her first cousin George Alexander Otis, son of Dr. Ephraim and Sarah (Harris) Otis, born August 29, 1781 (remembered as the translator of Botta's History of the United States), and had children ; Lydia, born October 13, 1786, married to Hon. Jonathan Russell and had four children; Henry Barney, born October 26, 1789, died in 1861.
SOME HALIBURTON LETTERS Certain letters preserved by the Fales family are in teresting for the light they throw on the fortunes of some members of the Haliburton family of Windsor, Nova Scotia, and for glimpses they give of social life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as in the far off tropical island of Tobago, in the latter part of the eigh teenth century. We have previously spoken of visits made by Lucy and Charlotte Haliburton, older sisters of Mrs. Samuel Fales of Boston, to their aunt, Mrs. Jacob Sheafe of Portsmouth; in 1789 Charlotte wrote from Portsmouth to her sister Lucy at home as follows: 206 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Portsmouth, November 1, 1789. My dear Lucy, I begin to think you have forgot you have such a sister as Charlotte or that she is not worth remembering, it is almost three months since I have had a letter from any of the family. I write so often that I am sometimes at a loss for a subject that is new to entertain you with ; if I was to inform you of deaths, births, or marriages it could not be interesting, as you do not know the parties, but of one person whose name will never die I must say something, that is the great Washington. Last Sat urday his arrival was announced with the ringing of bells, firing of guns, and every sign of extravagant joy. He entered the town at two o'clock, escorted by one thousand light-horsemen, the gentlemen of the town, and the artillery. He went directly into the town house and stood in the balcony to see the differ ent companies of horse go through their maneuvers and to gratify the applauding multitude with a sight of their idol. He walked to his lodgings, bowing to the ladies as he passed. At night the town house was illuminated, and fireworks from different parts of the town. Next morning he paraded to church, preceded by the President, Vice President, the marshal and his two aids. We sat in the Governor's pew and I had an opportunity of having a full view of this celebrated man. He is tall and graceful, with a great deal of gravity in his countenance, and does not look moved at anything. My buckles have come from New York, they are very beauti ful and costly, they are silver, with a rose top and bottom, with a rim of gold inside. They are very large and very much ad mired, the price was three pound fourteen. I have had a very fashionable bell hoop given me, 'tis an English one and comes down to the bottom of my petticoat and I assure you I made a tolerable figure at church, with my straw coloured gown, and HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 207 petticoat, blue satin shoes, with white straps, pink sash with the thirteen stripes on each end, new white kid gloves, double ruf fles of blond lace, very handsome white satin hat lined with pink, and gold buckles on my wrists. You may very easy guess to whom I am indebted_ for these advantages in dress. So much for my dress, 'tis very like you will say I was con ceited or I should not have been so particular in my description of it, but I consider to whom I write, 'tis one who I know is anxious even in trifles if it concerns me, there£ ore an apology is need less. Aunt has with difficulty made out to write the particulars of an affair which if I had had my will should never have been mentioned, not for any want of respect or attention to my parents, but 'tis a mark so far above my speculation that I some times think what I have heard and seen is all a dream and my only reason for not wishing them to know it was for fear of a disappointment. In that case if they had not known of it, I alone should have felt it, but as it is we must trust to providence and think whatever is is right. I wish you and papa would write to my uncle, and if you have time to write to but one let it be to him. I think, Lucy, if you did but reflect a moment, grati tude would have suggested it to you that it was your duty, nor ought you to have been reminded of it by me. Aunt desires her love to you all, her lameness prevented her from being as particular in her letter as she could wish. She desires you would write her everything you know about Aunt Card and Uncle Halliburton. Her compliments to those she was former ly acquainted with. Her health is not worse but her lameness is no better. My uncle is much as usual and I am as well as ever I was. My love to papa, mama, and all the children.
I remain
Your affectionate sister Charlotte. 208 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Mrs. Sheafe was naturally anxious to settle her Hali burton nieces favorably in life, and the attention paid Charlotte by a young English captain named Fisher about this time evidently gave her and Mr. Sheafe great satisfaction. Fisher came to Portsmouth in a fine ship of which he was part owner, and apparently fell in love with the charming Windsor girl at first sight. A letter from Mrs. Sheafe to Charlotte's parents, at Windsor, describes Captain Fisher and tells of his formal request that he might be permitted by her guardians to sue directly for her hand.
Portsmouth, November 5th, 1789. Dear Brother & Sister, I would inform you that a gentleman of the name of Fisher, belonging to Bristol, has made his address to Charlotte. He asked the consent of Mr. Sheafe and myself, which he obtain'd as far as he had the power. He is a gentleman, and of a very good family. He was here in a large ship that he and his two brothers own' d. His father is living but retir'd from busi ness. He has three sons and a daughter, he has put his sons into good business and made his will, when he gives his children £s,ooo each. Both Mr. Fisher's parents are living, they [are] Quakers, but the sons are not. He sailed for Bristol the 9th September, was to go from there to Naples, and to return here in June after touching at Newfoundland. He told us in that time we could inquire about him and family. He does not in tend to go to sea after he is married, as his circumstances are easy. He will settle in America if it is most agreeable to her. He desired you might be informed of these things and your consent obtained. HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 209
I should be glad to be informed about Sister Card and Brother George and familys. Mr. Sheafe joins me in love to all, he and I are very infirm, this is the first time I could hold a pen for ~ long time. Charlotte is well and appears contented. I am dear Brother and Sister Your Most affectionate Abigail Sheafe. Mr Fisher's Christian name is Lewis, and [he is] about 6 feet high, [and] 24 years old.
A little over a month later Charlotte herself gave her sister Lucy a glowing account of Captain Fisher's atten tions to her. Portsmouth, December 15, 1789. My dear Lucy, Yesterday I was agreeably surprised with the arrival of Capt. Crane and Mrs. Dorton. He brought me a letter from papa and yourself, but as it was under cover to Mr. Smith I took mine out and sent his on. I find 'tis in vain to make any request to you or papa, for you will not comply with what I ask you ; when I have so often urged you to write to your uncle you wont pay any attention to it and he takes it very unkind. You know 1 am under his protection and tho he dont say anything, he feels hurt. Dont let me have cause to remind [you] of it again. By what I can learn Windsor is as poor as ever. I think Mrs Deschamps must be a good deal reduced or she would not send her silver urn to Boston to be sold. Mrs Dorton tells me papa keeps a chaise and two horses, which I can hardly believe, but I am glad if 'tis so for mama's sake. Inclosed is a letter from your aunt, the contents no doubt will surprise you. A copy of the same was sent by the way of 210 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Shelburne. If you are surprised at our description of him you would be more so if you was to see him, he looks so noble and so genteel. I believe since I have mentioned him I must give you a description of his cabin, for I was on board his ship at an entertainment he gave on my account. He desired me to chuse whom I pleased and he would invite none else. He waited upon me on board a ship that appeared like [a] mountain to me, went down a beautiful staircase with turned banisters, and a carpet on the stairs, went through an entry handsomely painted, papered, and carpet on that, to a very large cabin. I must first begin with the windows, which were four in number, a pair of very large looking-glasses and very fashionable chint~ window curtains festooned with cord and tassel, and white fringe sette of the same kind, mahogany chairs with hair bottoms, mahogany tables, on 2 cases silver-handled knives and forks. The chim ney-piece was mahogany, done with gold, with a neat little brass stove and a marble hearth. The doors of his state-room and closet were mahogany, wrought in a variety of figures, and some glass let in. The pictures round the cabin were done with red paint and the prettiest I ever saw. Six silver candlesticks with wax candles were lit in the cabin; tea and coffee and different kinds of nice cakes, silver tea-pot, coffee-pot, cream-pot and sugar dish. In his stateroom a handsome bureau, a bed with the curtains festooned and fringed, and the prettiest book-case I ever saw, filled with well chosen authors. After tea we danced on the quarter-deck, there was an awning all over it, hung round with lights. We danced till 12 and then sat down to a very elegant supper. And now if you aren't tired of Cap tain Fisher's cabin I am, so I will say no more about it. The assemblies have begun, tomorrow night I shall go with Mrs Tompson. I was invited to a dance Thanksgiving night at Mrs Boyd's, but I was confined with the influenza and could not go. I have sent you by Capt Crane my hood, riding habit, and HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 211 buskins, they are useless to me and I did not know but they might be of some service in the family. I would have sent my sirtute but as I did not know what might happen I deferred it till another time. Tell William and Nabby I dont think them worth being affronted with for not writing to me. • Indeed I dont know how I came to expect it, her head is so full of Le fargue and his whole study is how to get money. 1\sk papa to write to your uncle. My love to papa and mama, the 2 boys, and yourself. Your affectionate sister C. Halliburton . .Aunt and uncle send their love, they are much as usual.
Why Charlotte never became the wife of Captain Fisher we have found nothing in the preserved corre spondence to show. Possibly the young man after leav ing Portsmouth found some still more adorable creature in another port and suffered his affection for Miss Hali burton to cool; Charlotte, however, soon recovered from any grief she might have felt at losing him, for early in 1790 she was married to a gentle.man named Lyon who owned a sugar plantation in the West Indian island of Tobago, and thither with her husband she promptly went. Soon after the newly wedded pair arrived at To bago, Mr. Lyon wrote Mr. and Mrs. Sheafe as follows:
Tobago, 10th• April, 1790. Dear Sir & Madam, I have the pleasure to inform you that Mrs. Lyon and myself arrived here safe after a passage of four weeks. The first part of 212 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY it Mrs L. was a little affected by the roughness of the sea & weather, but soon recovered, and landed very much improved, in every ap pearance of health. We staid a week in the Town, where she was visited by every Lady of note in the Island whose attentions (tho not more than I expected) was pleasing and flattering in the high est degree, and made a deep impression on my Charlotte. We have been at home for some time. My friends had made every exertion to get my house ready for our reception; it is not yet quite finished, but so much so as to enable us to live in it com fortably. Charlotte says she likes her situation, is contented & happy, and only wishes for the society of one of her sisters to render her situation completely blessed. You would be sur prised to see the alteration that has already taken place in her, the gay, lively, volatile Charlotte, fond of parade, balls and amusements, was tired in one week we remained in and about Town, and sighed for ;home & retirement, and tho she promised all the Ladies to return their visits in a short time, now declares she cannot think of leaving home these six months. I shall cer tainly endeavour to make that as agreeable to her as possible, but she will enjoy it the more that she sometimes leaves it and mixes in our little gay world. She has been, she says, better than she ever was in her life, 'till within this· week, when some business calling me from home for the first time, she imprudent ly, not knowing the danger, left the windows of her chamber open in the night, by which means she has caught a cold and sore throat that prevents her from being able to write you her self but which I hope will soon be removed, and you may de pend on her writing you by the first vessels after this. She desires me to make her most affectionate compliments to you both, and begs you'l believe she retains the most grate£ ull sense of the many obligations she lyes under to you; in this I most heartily join her, and request you'l be so good as make our HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 213 joint compliments to Mr & Mrs Jacob Sheafe, junr., as well as all the rest of your good family, and believe me to be with the greatest respect, Dear Sir & Madam Your most obedient servant Alexr Lyon.
This letter of Mr. Lyon's was sent by Mr. and Mrs. Sheafe to Mr. and Mrs. Haliburton, at Windsor, who on the 29th of July following wrote very anxiously to their daughter and her husband for further news of Charlotte's health, and since Tobago was then the scene of fierce popular disorders, for assurances of hers and· Mr. Lyon's general weHare. At this time their daughter Lucy was on her way to visit the Lyons, and they are naturally concerned, also, to know how soon she will arrive. In the early part of July, 1790, Lucy started from Portsmouth to visit Charlotte. Be£ ore she sailed, but at precisely what date we do not know, she wrote her parents at Windsor the following letter: My dear parents are anxious, I know, to hear from both their girls. I can inform you of their health. Since I have been here two vessels have arrived from Tobago, they bring ac counts of the town being burnt, but this affects not them, as their estate lies at such a distance, but may prevent your hear ing for a time, as their letters were probably destroyed in the fire. George Turner saw both Mr. & Mrs. Lyon, says they were well five weeks since. Charlotte is delighted with the place & well she may [be], such a husband & such a situation may content any reasonable woman. He is indeed from Aunt's 214 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY description everything good and amiable. His fondness for Charlotte made him buy two horses, which he took with him. He gave Captain Wardrobe fifty guineas for their passage and his complaisance in detaining his ship near three weeks. The English name for the town is Scarborough but the French call [it] Port Louis. Mr. Lyon's plantation is at a place called Hanover Bay, there is a much shorter way to it by water, but that is not permitted. Mr. Lyon has a sugar plantation called Caledonia, this he does not improve. The one he lives on he has not named, as it should be called by whatever name his wife pleased. It must indeed be a sweet spot, the river running by their door, from which they have what fish they want. They live quite after the English manner, make their own beer, which is bottled and preserved with care. They keep four cows, churn every other day. His plantation does not raise fruit, but he lives on such a friendly way with the gentlemen around him that he has great plenty from them. Aunt tells me this estate brings him a clear five hundred per annum. And now, my dear papa and mama, have you not reason to be thankful to the great Disposer of all for his great mercies, how well has He provided for those you thought most helpless. Those that put their trust in God and endeavour to do what they think to be their duty will not be forsaken by him. My uncle and aunt have acted the part of indulgent parents to both sisters, especially to Charlotte in endeavouring to provide for her happiness both here and hereafter. My aunt gave her the best books, instructed her in every duty, and I have the happi ness to inform you that Mr. Lyon appears to be a religious man. I wish my dear papa could see my uncle, you would I am sure love [him] better if possible than you do. I am truly sorry they have not letters from Charlotte. Mr. Lyon's father is dead, I have not heard of any other relation of his but a half HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 215 brother that he is very fond of. Archie Lyon lived in the town, the late fire has destroyed his house. Trains of powder were laid to almost every genteel house in town, as the fire crossed the street in so many different directions. This was done by soldiers. The confusion was very great and even the governor was obliged to take off his hat and be very civil to them. They are to be sent to France. Mr. Lyon tells aunt they have a minister that preaches at the different plantations in turn, for the Church was in the town. Mr. Ogden, the Church minister married them. This is wrote at different times, as you will see. I expect to leave this place tomorrow in a brig of Mr. Jake Sheafe's. I saw the captain last night, middle-agd, a grave, civil man, has a ve7. good char acter, says they have made one third of the cables into a room for me, with a sliding door. This man has been ten voyages to Tobago. Give my best love and compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, their friendly and polite attention to me will ever be gratefully remembered. Love to Miss Bell. Give my kind love to Susan and the rest of the family [and] to Mrs. Dewolf and family, I shall write to both when I get home, and compliments to all who think me worth enquiring after. Will and the dear little boys must write to me, may this find you all as well as it leaves me. God preserve and keep you all in health and every other blessing, Prays your ever affectionate Lucy.
On the 14th of August, Lucy wrote her aunt Mrs. Benjamin De Wolf, at Windsor, for the benefit of all her relations and friends, that she had safely reached * This word, uncertain in the letter, should probably be cabin. 216 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY her destination. It will be noticed from her letter that the Lyons had before this time named the plantation on which they lived. Charlotteville 14 August, 1790. Tis with pleasure I now inform my dear Friends of my arrival after a tedious passage of thirty-nine days. Mr. Quincy, Captn Richardson, and Mr. Campbell came on board in a barge for me. They were very polite and as attentive to me as possible. I staid five days at Montpellier, which is really a pleasant place. Mrs Hamilton insisted a great deal on my going with her to Rysland, but I was so anxious to be at home I did not go. A horse with five servants was sent by Mr Lyon for me - Char lotte tells me they never travel with less. His brother was so polite as to be my escort. Mr Lyon met us at Kendall place and received me in the most affectionate manner. He is really one of the best of men. So much attention & kindness I never before received. He tells me he is much fonder of Charlotte than he was when first he married. I do not think tis possible for any couple to be happier than they are. She scarce can form a wish that is not instantly gratified. Their house is in great forwardness & when finished will really be an elegant one, a two story house, which is not common in this country. Hand some galleries all round with jalousies, a large beautiful portico in front, floored with blue & white marble tile, and the out houses, stores, cotton, and sick houses are all exceedingly con venient. They keep two most excellent horses and three mules. The day I came they gave me two beautiful negroes, Patty and Christmas. I want for nothing this country can afford, they both are as good as possible. One beautiful piece of furniture in this country I believe you never saw, is glass shades for the candles. They are above two HALIBURTON ANCESTRY 217 feet high and shaped like a barrel, no genteel family can be without them. They have the handsomest candlesticks I ever saw, they are oval & the work is very beautiful. They cost fourteen pounds apiece. She has two pair of them & two of elegant cut glass that look nearly as well. Pardon me if I have dwelt too long on trifles, but it was your desire that I should be very particular, &c. And now give me leave to enquire after you and Mr Dewolf, with all the rest of your amiable family. Believe me I shall ever be grateful for favours received. Long, very long, will they remain engraved on my heart. 1£ it should pl~se the Almighty ever to grant me the power, all obligations shall be returned. I doubt I have already tired your patience, and will not write more than, Love and compliments, in which Mr and Mrs Lyon join. Lucy H. Haliburton.
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Through the Brad.fords, Haliburton Fales traces to John Alden, Governor William Bradford, William Mullins, and Thomas Rogers; through the Littles to James Chilton, and Richard Warren ; and through the Otises, also, to Chilton and Warren.
JoHN ALDEN, born about 1599, was of Southampton, England, at which place he joined the Mayflower while she lay at that port before her voyage to America. He was engaged as a cooper, and became a useful member of the Mayflower company. At Plymouth he married Priscilla Mullins.
WILLIAM BRADFORD was baptized at Austerfield, York shire, England, in 1590. The trade he followed while he lived at Leyden was that of a fustian weaver. He was chosen the second governor of Plymouth Colony, in which capacity he served 1621-1633, 1635-1636, 1637- 1638, 1639-1644, 1645-1657. His first wife, Dorothy (May) was accidentally drowned December 7, 1620, his 222 HALIBURTON ANCESTRY second wife, Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, whose first husband was Edward Southworth, died March 26, 1670. Governor Bradford himself died May 9, 1657. JAMES CHILTON came to Plymouth with his wife and his daughter Mary, leaving, Bradford says, a married daughter at Leyden. Mary Chilton became the wife of John Winslow. The age, antecedents, and early history of James Chilton are unknown.
WILLIAM MULLINS had been a tradesman of some means at Darking, in Surrey, before he sailed for America; he was one of the Merchant Adventurers of the Mayflower company. He died on the ship- in Ply mouth harbour soon after the company arrived. His wife's first name was Alice, and one of his daughters was Priscilla, who became the wife of John Alden.
THOMAS RoGERs's birthplace, antecedents, age, and early occupation are unknown. He had a son Joseph who came with him, and a son and at least one other child who came to the colony later.
RICHARD WARREN was from London. His wife and five daughters came later than he, and he had two sons born at Plymouth. VARIOUS ANCESTRIES
OF HALIBURTON FALES
ALDEN ANCESTRY
John Alden = Priscilla Mullins About 1599-1687 Both came in the Mayflower. 1644 Elizabeth Alden = William Pabodie About 1624-1717 About 1620-1707 1679 Priscilla Pabodie = Rev. Ichabod Wiswall About 1637-1700 1716 Priscilla Wiswall = Gershom Bradford About 16go-1780 1749 . Daniel Bradford= Mary (Reynolds) Church About 1721-1810 1716-1772 1773 Elizabeth Bradford= Nathaniel Fales, Jr.
1801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1775-1848 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849- ( 225) BEALE ANCESTRY
1700 Thomas Beale = Catharine Cope From Wiltshire, England. 1736 William Beale = Mary Jenkins
1764 John Beale= Tamar Burgoyne 1740-1777 1746-
1810 Joseph Beale = Margaret McDowell 1774-1841
1847 Elizabeth Jane Beale= Haliburton Fales 1821-1900 1815-186g 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 226) BRADFORD ANCESTRY William Brad£ ord = -1596 He lived and died at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.
1584 William Bradford= Alice Hanson (probably) -1591 He lived and died at Austerfield.
1623 Gov. William Bradford= Alice (Carpenter) Southworth 1590-1657 About 1590-1670 He came in tlie Mayflower.
Before 1651 Deputy-Gov. William Bradford = Alice Richards About 1627-1671
1689 Samuel Bradford = Hannah Rogers About 1668-1 714 1668-1780
1716 Gersho1n Bradford = Priscilla Wiswall 1691-1757
1749 Daniel Bradford = Mary (Reynolds) Church About 1721-1810 1716-1773
1773 Elizabeth Bradford= Nathaniel Fales, Jr. 1750-1837 1749-1834 Continued on page 228 ( 227) 228 BRADFORD ANCESTRY-Continued
1801 Samuel Fales == Abigail Haliburton 1775-1848 1773-1839
1847 Haliburton Fales== Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869
1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849- CHILTON ANCESTRY James Chilton = -1620 Both came in the :Mayflower. Mary Chilton= John Winslow -1679 1597-1674
165 I Mary Winslow= Edward Gray -between 1663 and 166 5 About 1629-1681 1682 Sarah Gray= Samuel Little 1659-1737 About 1657-1708
1717 Ed,vard Little= Mary Walker After 1691-
1740 Sarah Little= Nathaniel Fales 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford
18o1 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1775-1848 1773-1839
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse
( 229) FISHER ANCESTRY Anthony Fisher= Mary Fiske -1640 He lived in Syleham, County Suffolk, England. Anthony Fisher, 2d = Mary 1591-1671
1647 Anthony Fisher, 3d= Joanna Faxon -1670 -1694
1679 Deborah Fisher= James Fales 1661-
1716 ~imothy~Fales = Alethea Paine 1690-1777 1697-1747
1740 Nathaniel Fales= Sarah Little 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford 1750-1837
1801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 I 821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse
( 230) GRAY ANCESTRY 1651 Edward Gray= Mary Winslow About 1629-1681 -between 1663 and 166 5 1682 Sarah Gray= Samuel Little about 1657-1708 1717 Edward Little= Mary Walker After 1691- 16g3-1740 1740 Sarah Little= Nathaniel Fales 1720-1801 1772 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford 1749-1834
1801 Samuel -Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale _1815-186g 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margai;-et Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 231 ) HALIBURTON ANCESTRY
I 731 Andrew Haliburton= Abigail Otis -1745 1703-before 176g
1761 William Haliburton= Lusannah Otis 1739-1817 1801 Abigail Haliburton= Samuel Fales 1773-1839
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ke~chum Corse 1849-
( 232) HERSEY ANCESTRY William Hersey= Elizabeth -1758 1665 James Hersey= Mary Fearing 1642 or 43-1684 1647-1705
1705 James Hersey= Mary Hawke 1682-1723 1685-1770
1 733 Rachel Hersey= Ephraim Otis 1714-1793 1708-1794 1761 Lusannah Otis= William Haliburton 1738-1821 1801 Abigail Haliburton= Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-186g 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 233) JACOB ANCESTRY Nicholas Jacob= Mary 1653 Mary Jacob= John Otis, Jr. 1620-1683
About 1700 Job Otis = Mercy Little 1677-175& 1678-1755 1731 Abigail Otis= Andrew Haliburton I 703-before 1769 -1745 1761 William Haliburton= Lusannah Otis 1739-1817 1738-1821 1801 Abigail Haliburton= Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1775-1848 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869
1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 234) LITTLE ANCESTRY-Number I
1633 Thomas Little= Anne Warren -1672 About 161:2-
1682 Samuel Little= Sarah Gray About 1657-1708 1659-1737 1717 Edward Little =Mary Walker After 16g1- 1693-1740
1740 Sarah Little= Nathaniel Fales 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford 1750-1837
1801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 235) LITTLE ANCESTRY-Number II
1633 Thomas Little=Anne Warren -1672 About 1612- 1672 Ephraim Little= Mary Sturtevant 1650-1717 1651-1718 About 1700 Mercy Little= Job Otis 1678-1755 1677-1758 1731 Abigail Otis= Andrew Haliburton 1703-before 1769 -1745 1;61 William Haliburton= Lusannah Otis 1739-1817 1801 Abigail Haliburton= Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales=Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 236) MULLINS ANCESTRY William Mullins= Alice Both came in the Mayflower. Priscilla Mullins== John Alden About 1599-1687 Both came in the Mayflower.
1644 Elizabeth Alden == William Pabodie About 1624-1717 About 1620-1707
1679 Priscilla Pabodie = Rev. Ichabod Wiswall About 1637-1700
1716 Priscilla Wiswall= Gershom Bradford About I 690-I 780
1749 Daniel Bradford= Mary (Reynolds) Church About 1721-1810
1773 Elizabeth Bradford= Nathaniel Fales, Jr. 1749-1834
1801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton
1847 Haliburton Fales=Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900
1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.=Margaret Ketchum Corse
( 237) OTIS ANCESTRY-Number I John .Otis= Margaret 1581-1657 -1653 He came from Barnstable, Devon, England.
1653 John Otis, Jr.=Mary Jacob 1620-1683 , About 1700 Job Otis=Mercy Little 1677-1758 . 1678-1755 1731 Abigail Otis=Andrew Haliburton 1703-before 1769 -1745
1761 William Haliburton= Lusannah Otis 1739-1817 1738-1821
1801 Abigail Haliburton=Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 238) OTIS ANCESTRY-Number II John Otis = Margaret
1653 John Otis, Jr.= Mary Jacob 1620-1683 About 1700 Job Otis= Mercy Little
1733 Ephraim Otis= Rachel Hersey 1708-1794 1714-1793 1761 Lusannah Otis= William Haliburton 1739-1817
1801 Abigail Haliburton= Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-186g 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 239) P ABO DIE ANCESTRY 1608 John Pabodie = Isabel Brittaine -before April 27, 1667 They were married at Nosely, Leicestershire, England. 1644 William Pabodie = Elizabeth Alden About I 620-1 707 About 1624-1717
1679 Priscilla Pabodie = Rev. Ichabod Wiswall About 1637-1700
1716 Priscilla Wiswall= Gershom Bradford About 1690-1780
1749 Daniel Bradford= Mary (Reynolds) Church Abo11t 1721-1810
1773 Elizabeth Bradford= Nathaniel Fales, Jr. 1749-1834
1801 Samuel Fales=Abigail Haliburton 1773-1839
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900
1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 240) PAINE ANCESTRY Stephen Paine= -1679 -1660 Nathaniel Paine= Elizabeth -1678 Nathaniel Paine, Jr.= Dorothy Rainsford 1661-1723 -1755 about 1716 Alethea Paine= Timothy Fales 16g7-1749 1690-1777 1740 Nathaniel Fales= Sarah Little 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford
1801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1775-1848 1773-1839
1847 Haliburton Fales=Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 241 ) RICHARDS ANCESTRY Thomas Richards= W elthean Before 1651 Alice Richards= Deputy Gov. William Bradford About 1627-1671 1689 Samuel Bradford = Hannah Rogers About 1668-1714 1668- 1716 Gershom Bradford = Priscilla Wiswall 1691-1757 About 16go-1780
1749 Daniel Bradford = Mary (Reynolds) Church About 1721-1810 1716-1772 1773 Elizabeth Bradford = Nathaniel Fales~ Jr. 1750-1837 1749-1834
1801 Samuel Fales = Abigail Haliburton 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
(_242) ROGERS ANCESTRY Thomas -1621 He came in the Mayflower. 1639 John Rogers= Ann Churchman -1692 1666 John Rogers= Elizabeth Pabodie About 1640-1732 1647-between 1677 and 1679. 1689 Hannah Rogers = Samuel Bradford 1668- About 1668-1714
1716 Gershom Bradford == Priscilla Wiswall 16g1-1757 About 16go-1 780
1749 Daniel Bradford = Mary (Reynolds) Church About 1721-1810
1773 Elizabeth Brad£ ord = Nathaniel Fales, Jr. 1749-1834
I 801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869
18S2 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse
( 243) WARREN ANCESTRY-Number I Richard Warren= Elizabeth -1628 -1673 He came in the Mayflower.
1633 Anne Warren= Thomas Little About 1612-
1682 Samuel Little= Sarah Gray About 1657-1708 1717 Edward Little= Mary Walker After 1691- 1740 Sarah Little= Nathaniel Fales 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford 1749-1834
I 801 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton
1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1815-1869 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.=Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 244) WARREN ANCESTRY-Number II Richard Warren = Elizabeth -1628 -1673 He came in the Mayflower.
1633 Anne Warren= Thomas Little About 1612- 1672 Ephraim Little= Mary Sturtevant
About 1700 Mercy Little = Job Otis 1678-1755 1677-1758 1731 Abigail Otis= Andrew Haliburton 1703-before 1769 -1745 1761 William Haliburton= Lusannah Otis 1739-1817 1801 Abigail Haliburton = Samuel Fales 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale 1821-1900 1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
( 245) WINSLOW ANCESTRY Kenelm Winslo,v = Catharine -1607
r594 Edward Winslo\v = Magdalene Ollyver 1560-before 1631 John Winslow= Mary Chilton 1597-1674 -1679 Bi~other of Governor Edward Winslow.
1651 Mary Winslow= Edward Gray -between 1663 and 1665 About 1629-1681
1682 Sarah Gray = Samuel Little Abo11t 1657-1708
1717 Edward Little=Mary Walker After 1691-
1740 Sarah Little= Nathaniel Fales 1720-1801
1773 Nathaniel Fales, Jr.= Elizabeth Bradford
Continued on page a47
( 246) WINSLOW ANCESTRY-Continued 247
18o1 Samuel Fales= Abigail Haliburton 1773-1839 1847 Haliburton Fales= Elizabeth Jane Beale
1882 Haliburton Fales, Jr.= Margaret Ketchum Corse 1849-
The official record of the marriage of Nathaniel Fales, Jr., and Elizabeth Bradford, as taken from Bristol Town ship Book, number 2, page 60 (reversed paging), is as follows: "Mr Nath11 Fales Junr & Miss Elizabeth Brad ford both of y' town were married ye 26th of September I 773."
WILLS AND INVENTORIES
WILLS AND INVENTORIES
DEED OF HIS HOMESTEAD GIVEN BY JAMES1 FALES 2 TO HIS SON EBENEZER , JULY 14, 1705
Know all men by these presents that I James Fale in the Town of Dedham in the County of Suffolk in her Majties Prov ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Cooper and Anna his Wife out of that Love that we have and do bear to Ebenezer Fale of said Town of Dedham our Son, and on the Account of that Trust we do repose in him, to provide for us what is Suitable the term of our Life Have given and granted made over and Confirmed, and by these presents freely and fully clearly and absolutely give and grant make over Demise Enfeoff and Confirm to sd. Ebenezer Fale to him and his heirs and Assigns forever All and in Singular the whole of Our Housing and Lands and Stock vizt A Dwelling house a Barn and Orchard and about Twelve Acres of Meadow and upland in said Town bounds of Dedham at a place Commonly called and Known by the Name of the Saw Mill, it is bounded by the Road, N. W., and Spice Brook S. W. & on Thomas Clap N. E. and his own Land S. And more Fourteen Acres on the South side of said Spice Brook bounded by his own Land n. & Land 252 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Formerly laid out to Joshua Fisher in pt. E. and common in part, and more Four acres and a half of Meadow at Rock Meadow, bounded by Medfield line W. and the Meadow former ly of said Joshua Fisher N. and now a parcel of Meadow of Stop River being bounded by said River S. and W. and parcel of Meadow at Stop River being bounded by said River S. and W. and Wast Land on other parts of the Way to Wrentham going through it And more two Acres of Land abutting on Naponset River and wast Land on other parts And more Nine Acres of Land more or less on the plain near the Great Cedar Swamp bounded by marked Trees, All the several parcels being in Dedham bounds and near said Saw Mill~ And more three Cow Comon Rights in all the Common Lands in the To,vn bounds of said Dedham ; all which parcels of Lands and Meadows &c We said James Fale and Anna Fale do Avouch and Declare to be our own Free and clear to Dispose of before the Signing this present Instrument. And do Warrant the same all and in Singu lar TOGETHER with all Rights, benefits profits privilidges, and all appurces thereto belonging. And also all the Stock and Tackles and Husbandry tools Vizt. All & singular housing and Lands Goods & Chattles Except the Cloathing bedding & other house hold stuff within Doors, and in them not to have any share either at or after his Father's decease All the Rest or above named we sd James Fale & Anna Fale do Warrant to sd. Eben ezer Fale Our Son To HAVE and To HoLD to him & to his heirs and Assigns As his & their proper Estate & sound Inher- itances in Fee Simple forever & to be forever free Acquit of & from all & all manner of Debts Actions Leases Mortgages & all other Legal Lett hinderances Molestation or Incum brances from any other person, And do herewith give and render sizen and Law ful possession of the above Demised premises AND IN CONFIRM- WILLS AND INVENTORIES 253
ATION hereof have set to our hands and Seals Dated this Four teenth day of July in the Fourth Year of Her Majties Reign Anne Queen of England &c annoq Domini I 70 5 - James Fale X senr. his mark and a Seal Anna X Fale her mark and a seal Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of Joshua Clap John Huntting junr. Ebenezer Huntting Suffolk ss. Dedham 20th December 1706. James Fale Senr. and Anna Fale his Wife personally appeared before me the Subscriber & acknowledged this Instrument. to be their own Voluntary Act and Deed Josiah Chapin Justice December the 26th. 1706. Revd. & ac cordingly Entered and Examined WAddington Davenport Regist :
\VILL OF JAMES2 FALES
IN THE NAME OF Gon AMEN The Twenty ninth Day of December annoq Dom. one thousand seven hundred & forty one, I James Fales of Dedham in his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Gent. being aged sick & weak of Body but of sound and perfect mind & memory and knowing that thro' age & weakness of my nature I have but a little while to Live and being desirous to Settle what outward Estate the Lord hath lent me, Do make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following hereby Revoking all and every Will & Testament heretofore made by me in Word or Writing First and Principally I Commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator & Redeemer and my Body to the Earth to be decently Buried at the discre- 254 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY tion of my Executors hereinafter named Imprs. I will that all my Just Debts that I owe shall be well & truly paid. Item I give to my Son James Fales to his Heirs forever the sum of T,venty Shillings besides what is hereafter mentioned, and three of my Common Rights in Dedham. Item I give to my Grand Daughter Silence Fales the sum of Fifteen pounds and Fifteen pounds to be Equally divided among the Heirs of my Son Sam uel Dec'ed. Item I give to my son Stephen Fales and his Heirs forever half my Cedar Swamp in Town and out and three Common Rights in Dedham. Item I give to my Son Timothy Fales the sum of Twenty shillings and no more he having bad his full share of my Estate already. Item I give to my son Nehemiah Fales to his Heirs forever half my Cedar Swamp in Town & out and three Common Rights in Dedham. '. Item I give to the Heirs of my Son Nath11• Fales the sum of Thirty shillin~s to be divided among them and no more, my said Son having had in his Life Time his full Share of my Estate already. Item I give to my daughter Deborah Barnard ~he sum of Twenty shillings besides what is hereafter mentioned. Item I give to my Son David Fales to his Heirs forever the sum of Twenty shillings besides what is hereafter mentioned. I Do Constitute & appoint my two Sons Stephen & Nehemiah to be Executors to this my Last Will & Testament and if it shall please God that my beloved Wife Deborah shall Survive me I will that she shall have the Improvement of all my Estate after my Just Debts & Funeral Charges are paid, and that my said Executors shall take care of & Provide for the necessity and Comfortable Subsistence of my said Wife and that my sd. Executors be rea sonably paid for all the Cost & Charge they shall or have been at towards the Support of my Wife and my Self so far as the Income of my Estate next hereafter mentioned falls Short of WILLS AND INVENTORIES 255 the same, and that my part of the Dwelling House, & Barn & Homestead Lands not dispos'd of as above or otherwise shall be sold by my Executrs aforesaid if they see cause to Defrey the Charge above mentioned, Funeral charges Just Debts and Legacies above mentioned, and if my said Executors see good they shall have my Homestead Lands viz. the Lands on that side of the way where the part of my Dwelling House & Barn stands both Pasture Meadow & Orchard valued to them at Twenty pounds acre, and all the Lands, Orchard, Meadow & Pasture, on the other side of the way and all the Lands un disposed of web I bought of Samuel Stearns valued to them at Twelve pounds acre, and so Keep the said Lands & Buildings themselves at the Value aforesaid and so take out their own Just & Reasonable Charges if any there be or has been towards the Support of my Self & Wife aforesaid my said Executors p3.ying all my Just Debts Funeral Charges & Legacies above mentioned and Divide the Overplus if any there be Equally among my sons following viz. James, Stephen, Nehemiah and David and their Heirs together with my Daughter Deborah Barnard who is to have an Equal Share in the Division above mentioned & likewise one half of my Indoor Moveables, the other half to be divided among my Sons above mentioned Viz. James, Stephen, Nehemiah & David, and I will that my Out door Moveables be disposed of by my Executors aforesaid to pay Debts and Defrey Charges aforesaid after my Wife's de cease, and Lastly I will that the Legac= _., & overplus above mentioned be paid in three years after my Wife's decease, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the Day & year above mentioned. 256 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Signed Sealed & declared by James Fales to be his Last \\7ill & Testamt.
in presence of us Mem 0 • the Word, and overplus Abraham Chamblett was Interlin'd in this side Jonathan Farrington between the fourth & fifth Israel Everet Line before Signing & declaring of this Instrumt and on the other side the word been or has been was Interlin' d at the same time JAMES FALES and a Seal Examd Andw Belcher Regr.
Suffolk ss. By the Honoble. Josiah Willard Esqr. Judge of Pro. &c. The foregoing Will being presented for Pro bate by the Executors therein named -Abraham Chamblett Jonathan Farrington & Israel Everet made oath that they saw James Fales the Subscriber to this Instrument Sign & Seal & heard him publish & declare the same to be his Last Will & Testament and that when he so did he wa~ of sound disposing mind & memory according to these Deponts. best discerning and that they set to their hands as witnesses thereof in the said Testator's presence, Boston April 6, 1742 J. Willard Attr Andw Belcher Regr.
WILL OF TIMOTHY FALES
In the Name of God Amen I Timothy Fales of Taunton in the County of Bristol in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay WILLS AND INVENTORIES 257 in New England being in perfect health of body and of a sound Disposing mind (Blessed be God) nevertheless considering ye uncertainty of Life and the Real Certainty of Death do upon mature Consideration make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form Fallowing That is to say I Recomend my soul into the hands of God who Gave it Hoping thro the Imputed Righteousness of Christ Jesus (on whom only and alone I Rest the Infinite Concern of my !mortal soul to all eternity) To obtain salvation. - My Body I Recomend to the earth to be Buried in Decent Christian manner at the Dis cretion of my executors hereafter named & they to pay all my Just Debts & funeral Charges And as to the Worldly Goods and Estate of which I am Posse'd I Give and dispose off the same in manner Following, . t V1Z. I Give to my Beloved Wife Elizabeth Fales all the House hold Goods & servants she brought with her belonging either to the estate of her Former Hus band Nathaniel Thomas Late of Plymouth Esqr. Deceased and also what happened to her of the estate of her Honrd. Father the Late Revd. James Gardner Deceased nothing of either of those estates excepted or Re served. I also Give her one Third part of the House hold Goods that I have purchasd: since our Intermarriage with the use of one half of my Pew in Taunton Meeting House During her natural life and one milch Cow Chaise & Chaise Horse. I also Give her the Improvement of one third of all my Real es tate in Taunton aforesd. Consisting of a House barn and Lands and also six Pounds Lawfull money of this Province to be paid her yearly and for every part of year in Proportion by my son Nathaniel Fales Esqr. of Bristol, and six pounds the same money to be paid in Like manner by my son Jonathan Fales 258 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY of Bristol and also f ourty shillings Like money to be paid in the same manner by my daughter Mary's Husband William Bosworth of Bristol all which sums are in satisfaction of her Right of Dower in my estate. Item I Give to my son Natha. Fales {besides what I have already Given him and over and above the Real estate of his Honrd: Mother Alethea Fales Deceased scituate in Bristol) Thirty Acres and an half of Land which I purchased of Charles Church Esqr: and Hannah his wife with the Dwelling House Barn and Cribb and all Buildings thereon standing Reference being had to the Deed for the bounds thereof Provided be pay my wife Elizabeth Fales the sum of six Pounds per Annum During her Life and in the same Proportion for a Less part of a year Commencing from the day of my Death & if he neglect to pay the same sums as they become Due then I Give to my said Wife the Improvement of one third part of said House & Lands During her Life as her Right of Dower I also Give my said son one half of my out Door moveables in Bristol and stock of Creatures negro Sambo and one half of my wearing apparel Gun and s\vord.- To him and his Heirs forvever. Item I Give to my son Jonathan Fales ye ·House and Land I bought of the estate of the Revd. Mr. Natba. Cotton Decasd. ,vith all the buildgs: thereon standing. Also a Lot of Land in Bristol which I purchsd. of the Heirs of the Revd. Mr. Spara hawk Containing abt. Ten Acres also about eleven Acres which I bought of Isaac Royal Esqr. and a Lot of Land That was the estate of Mr. Wm. Markes abt. sixteen Acres also 1'wenty acres at the farm (so Called) part of the fourty seven acres which I purchased of Dorothy Williams all scituate Bris tol Reference to the several Deed for the bounds of the pieces of Land aforesd. To him and to his Heirs forever Provided he WILLS AND INVENTORIES 259 pay my wife Elisa. Fales the sum of six pounds Lawfull money of this Province per Annum during her life & in the same Pro portion for a Less part of a year Commencing from the Day of my Death, and if he neglect to pay the same sums as they become Due ; Then I Give to my said wife the Improvmt. of one third part of said House and Lands During her life as her Right of Dower therein. Also I Give my sd. son Jonathan one half of my Pew in Bristol meeting House one half of my out door moveables in Bristol and stock of Creatures and negro man Ben. and One half of my wearing apparel Gun and sword to be equaly Divided between him and his Brother Nathaniel Fales aforsd. Item. I Give to my Daughter Mary now the wife of William Bosworth (besides what she has already had) The lot of Land I bought of Allen Cary Deceased with all the Buildings thereon standing Reference being had to the Deed thereof for the bounds, and also Twenty seven acres of Land part of the f ourty seven acres bought of Dorothy Williams. Provided William Bosworth of said Bristol the Husband of my said Daughter Mary or the said Mary pay my said wife Elizabeth Fales the sum of f ourty shillings per annum During her life and in the same proportion for a lesser part of a year Commencing from the Day of my Death And if he or she neglect to pay the same sum as it becomes Due then I Give my said wife the Im provement of one third part of said House and Lands During her Life as her Right of Dower therein. And I Give my said Daughter one half of my Pew in Bristol meeting House and one half of the household Goods That I brought from Bristol Remaining and not Given away afterwards by this will. Item. I Give to my Daughter Deborah Fales the Land pur chased of Mr. William Munro scituate in Bristol Containing 260 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY about fifty seven acres To be Improved for her support During her natural Life and if she Dies leaving Lawfull Issue then thirty acres of said Land I Give to her and her Heirs forever. and the Remaining Twenty seven acres to be equaly Divided among my other Children and their Heirs and if she Die with out Lawfull Issue then the whole of said Land to be equally Divided between all my Children and their Heirs. And I Give to my sd. Daughter the other half of my houshold Goods which I brought from Bristol not otheTwise Disposed of in this will. Item. I Give to my daughter Elizabeth Fales my mansion House in Taunton with all the Lands belonging to me in said Taunton vizt: about Twelve acres bought of the Heirs of Mr. Mason Deceased and the Land bought of Thomas Cobb Esqr. and also the Land Purchased of Mr. Benja. Wilbore Reference being bad to the Several Deeds for the bounds of sd. Lands also one half of my Pew in the meeting House in Taunton & the other half at the Death of her mother Two thirds of the Houshold Goods purchased since my marriage with her mother also my best bed and and furniture best Looking Glass and Dozen of Leather Chairs of my furniture brought from Bristol one Cow & negro boy London Reserving the Improvement of one third of sd. House and Lands to my wife as above. I hereby appoint my well beloved wife aforesd. and James
Hovey of Plym0 • and my son Natha. Fales Esqrs. to be the executors of this my will and hereby Impower and Direct them and the surviver of them to sell a piece of Land lying in Bristol aforesd. Containing Thirty Two acres which I bought of Thomas Kinnicut Commonly known by the name of the Common lots (Reference to said Deed for the bounds) for the payments of my Debts and funeral and other Charges and the Residue if any should Remain I Give to my Daughter Elizabeth to be for her better suppt. & education. WILLS AND INVENTORIES 261
I also appoint my wife and James Hovey Esqr: aforesaid and the survirer of them to be the Guardian of my Daughter Eliza. Fales till she shall marry or arrive to the age of Twenty-one years and in Case my said wife shall Remove from Taunton, (Then if necessity Require and my said Daughter cannot be suitably educated and has not sufficient for her maintenance then in such Case and not otherwise) I hereby Impower said Guardians or the surviver of them if they shall think it best To sell my said Daughters estate and put the money to Interest and one third of the Income to be paid my said wife annually for her own use During her life and the other two thirds for the use and education of my said Daughter Elizabeth the principal to be p~id her on her marriage Day or arriving to the age of one and Twenty which shall first happen and in Case her mother dies before my Daughter is married or Twenty one years old then the Income that was her mothers Thirds be applyd to her use and the principal to be paid her on her marriage Day or age of Twenty one years as aforesd. and if said estate is not sould then to be Improved. to her best advantage and Kept in Repair and if my Daughter Elizabeth Dies unmarried and Leaving no law full Issue and doth not Dispose of her said estate and her mother Living then said estate to be Divided among my other Children and their Heirs. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal This Thirtyeth day of January In the Second year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Franc and Ireland &c Annoque Domini 1762 Signed, Sealed, Published & Declared to be his last Last Will & Testament in Presence of us James Williams Timothy Fales [SEAL]
Tho5• Cobb Robt. Treat Paine 262 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Bristol SS July 7th 1777 Then before the Hon11 George Leonard Esqr. Judge of the Probate of wills &c for the County of Bristol Came James Wil liams and Thomas Cobb Esqrs. two of the wittnesses to the be fore written Instrument and made Oath that they were present & saw Timothy Fales the subscriber thereto who is since deceased sign seal and heard him Publish & declare sd Instrument as his Last will & testament and that he was of a sound & disposing mind & memory when he so did and that they with R. T. Paine Esq signed as witnesses at the same time & all in ye presence of ye Testator George Leonard J of Probate
A True Inventory of all the Estate that Timothy Fales Esqr late of Taunton in the County of Bristol died seized of as was shewn to us Long Oval red Cedar table 60/ £ 3. o. - Square table 1, 5/ one looking Glass crack'd one, 30/ 2. I 5. - Large Japan Glass 9£ one Gilt Do 10£- 10/ 19. 10. - 12 Leather bottom Chairs 9£ Oval table :20 / IO. a. - 2 black walnut pictures 2/ 2 gilt Do 10 o. 12. - One high Case of Draws 9£ one easy Chair 7£ 10/ · 16. IO. - A Dressing table 40/ 8 black Chairs 40/ 4. o. - Old arm'd Chair 2/ one small oval table or stand 10/ o. 12. - Small framed table 20/ 2 old armed Chairs 4/ I. 4. - 6 old black Chairs 8/ 8 green bottom'd Cltairs 4£ 4. 8. - One old large oval table 20/ I. o. - Old easy Chair and writing Chair twenty shillings I. a. - A large square stand 24/ a small Do 10/ I. 14. - One framed Oval table in the bed room 21/ [. [. - Looking Glass in the bedroom 60/ 7 day clok. 12£ I 5. O. - A foot wheel 12/ Japan bread basket Io/ I. 2. - Japan Servar 20/ black Walnut Do 3/ I. 3. - A Case with thirteen bottles 24/ silver headed sword 70/ 4. 14. - WILLS AND INVENTORIES 263 a Sea Chest I 2/ small trunk 2/6 Desk 12/ £1. 6. 6 Tin Chest 8/ warming pan 30/ tin watering pot 8/ 2. 6. - Glass lanthom 10/ 2 small China Tea po~ 6/ o. 16. - China sugar pot 6/ 6 China Cups and five Saucers 9/ o. 15. - Five blae Do Cups and Saucers 12/ o. 12. - 4" " Cups and five Saucers 6/ Vinegar Cruit 1/ o. j. - Salt Sellar 1/ China mug 6/ small China bowl 4/ o. II. - I I cream Coloured plates 22/ large Delph Bowl 6/ I• 8. - Three Cream coloured Bowls 6/ 2 Cream coloured platters 12/ o. 18. - Large " Sone" Do 6/ one small Do 2/ o. 8. - One pr of butter boats 2/ large China bowl 4/ o. 6. - One fluted tea pot 2/ & small D 1/6 mustard pot 1/ o. 4. 6 2 black tea pots 3/ black tin tea pot 2/ o. 5- - Stone butter boats and Cups 1/6 2 cream coloured mugs 1/6 o. 2. 6 4 wine Glasses 4/ 4 Cannisters 6/ o. IO. 0 turtile Coloured Coffee pot 1 / a turtile shell coloured bowl 1 / 2 ad- plates 2/ o. 4- 0 Blue Delph punch bowl with handles 3/ o. 3- 0 3 cream coloured plates r / one green butter leaf /6 o. I. 6 2 blue Deph Dishes 1 / 1 China spoon servar 4/ o. 5- 0 2 Brown Cups /6 6 blue delp plates 3/ o. 3- 6 Glass flowered tea bottle 6/ 2 glass Cannisters with handles 7/ o. I 3. 0 A pair of 8 square Glass Decanters 7/ a" stoped" Do 1/ o. 8. 0 Stade sarcer /4 Stone jar 2/ pickle pot 3/4 o. 6. 0 4 large picture in frame 12/2 small Do 1/6 o. 13. 6 Two pictures with frames I/ the map of the world 4/ o. 5. 0 Old spinning wheel 3/ beaver hat 40/ 2. 3- 0 Two pr of thread Stockings 7/ 2 pr of black stockings 10/ o. I 7. 0 A pair of mittens and Garters 3/ black Coat 12/ o. 15. 0 Velvet Jacket 24 black breeches 2 7/ 2. I I. 0 Blue Coat 36/ blue waistcoat 24/ blue great Coat 36/ 4. 16. 0 Chintz gown 9/ Russet gown 36/ shoe buckles 12/ 2. I 7. 0 Silver knee buckles 10/ mourning stone ring 40/ 2. IO. 0 Gold sleeve buttons 16/ silvir bowed Spectacles 4/ I. o. 0 One shirt 24/ money scales and weights 9/ I. I 3. 0 Black silk Stockings 12/ mouse trap 1/8 o. I 3. 8 2 Stone iron Jugs 3/ 3 pr of Curtain rods 18; I. I. - 264 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Iron seal beam 6/ one piece of maahagony wood 3/ [,o. 9. o Coarse flax hatcb.el I 8/ a fine hatch el 18/ I. 16. 0 A Case of white handle knives and forks 30/ I. IO. 0 3 Case knives and five forks horn handles 5/ o. 5. 0 A bow saw 12/ hand saw 9/ white kitchen table 3/ I. 4. 0 Kitchen oval table 9/ 7 old kitchen Chairs 8/ o. I 7. 0 Hand Bellows 3/6 4 brass Candle sticks 14/ o. I 7. 6 3 flat Irons 12/ box iron & 2 heaters 9/ Grate I/ I. 2. 0 Spit and fire Serenes 7/ " I rod" dogs 3/ small Andirons 4/ o. 14. 0 One pr of large Do 9/ small Do brass tops 6/ o. 15. 0 Fire slice 9/ large tongs 5/ brass headed shovel and tongs 9/ I. 3. 0 Small Chamber tongs 1 /6 2 trammels and part of another 20/ I. I. 6 2 Sieves 5/ Coffee mill 1/ steelyards 3/ o. 9. 0 Brass scales and weights 1/6 o. l. 6 " Boll" mettle skillet I 2/4 brass Do 7I 4 iron pans I 8/ I. I 7. 4 Iron tea Kettle 8/ brass skimmer 3/ Toaster 4/ o. I 5. 0 Small gridiron r/6 old Do 2/ pot and hooks 8/ o. I I. 6 Lignum vitee mortar and pestle 15/ spider 2/ o. I 7. 0 Iron pot and hooks 5/ Do Kettle 6/ brass Do 3£, 3. l I. 0 Small brass 37/ 2olb of old Brass and Copper 16/8 2. I 5. 8 Chapping knife z/ gimblet /6 tin Candle box I/ o. 3. 6 2 pudding pots 3 / 7 butter pots 9/ o. 12. 0 2 earthen Juggs 1/8 a pitcher /8 green stone Jugg 3/ o. 8. 5 2 tin sheets I/ part of a pair of horse traces 7/ o. 4. 4 2 butte rings and two wedges 6/ 2 prs of small Cops and pins 5/ o. I I. 0 2 iron shovels 16/ 2 pitchforks 5/8 2 spades 5/ I. 6. 8 One ax 4/ narrow hoe 4/ 2 broad hoes 7I o. 15. 0 Do narrow hoe 2/ garden hoe 2/6 four poles 6/ o. IO. 6 2d Ax 3/ 2 Rakes 2/ I piggin 1/ oval tub 6/ o. 12. 0 wooden " " 1 / Cream Coloured mug 18/ I. 8. 0 Washing tub 5/ Churn 4/ "Onered" Cow 9£, 12/ IO. I. 0 hammer I /6 tin Cullender 3/ o. 4. 6 Tin tunnel 1/ plate cover /8 I 1 pewter plates 25/ I. 6. 8 Steel snuffers 1/6 2 new pewter dishes 6/6 I. 8. 0 9 old plates 8/ 3 pewter Dishes 1 8/ 7 old plates 3/6 I. 14. 6 Old pewter bason and dish 4/ old quart pot 2/4 o. 6. 4 4 large pewter Dishes 43/9 14 Junk bottles 7 / 2. IO. 9 WILLS AND INVENTORIES 265
Saddle and· bridle 36/ Corn basket & "band" Do 3/ £1. 19. - Three Cyder barrels 1£ 19/ 3 salt barrels 8/ o. 17. - Three old barrels & one old Hogs hed 4/ wine Cask 2 o. 6. - Cyde Hogshead 8/ o. 8. - Molasses 3/ 2 Cedar meat Tubes I 4/ o. 17. - Old sea chest 4/ 13 flour barrels 11/ o. I 5. 0 Old hogshead 1/6 3 biscuit casks 1/6 o. 3. - Old peck and old pail 1/ part of a running teakle 2/ o. 3· - 2 live hogs weighed 260£ 3-19-4 one Cow sold 9/ 12. 9· 4 Old Cart wheels with all the appurtenances 50/ 2. IO. 0 Plow 24/ Close stool 2/ a set of Cart Boxes 6/ I. I 2. 0 Chaise with all its appurtenances 27£ 27. o. - Wheel barrow 8/ sled 4/ I 77 feet of pine boards 10/6 I. 2. 6 Brown mare 9£ negro man named London 60[, 69. o. 0 4 Diaper napkins I 4/ I 2 damask Do 72 / 4. 6. 0 6 Damask Do 32/ 4 best Damask Do 36/ 6. IO. 0 3 old Diaper Do 9/ large Damask table Cloth 72/ 4. I. 0 Old Diaper Do 3/ 4 table Cloths 12/ 4 Pillow Cases 24/ I. 19. 0 Two Cotton sheets 22/ 2 Cotton Do 26 2 Do old 14/ 3. 2. - Two tow Do 20/ one Do 10/ bed quilt 3£ 4. IO. - Old light coloured Do 24/ dark Do 20/ 2. 4. - New Chintz Do 5£ fringed rug 40/ 7. o. - Three woollen blankets £4- 10/ 2 Do 50/ 7. o. - 2 old English Do 24/ ironing Cloth 5/ I. 9· - Large new blanket 30/ Copper plate Curtains £4-4/ 5. 14. 0 One suit of yellow Do 48/ 2. 8. 0 One large green table Cloth 15/9 o. I 5. 9 Do old one 6/ o. 6. 0 Bed bolster and pillows £ 1o-16/ IO. 16. 0 Bedsted from Plymouth lacing bottom o. 12. 0 Bed from Bristol pillows and bolsters £9-6/ 9. 6. - Bedstead and sacking bottom I 5/ 0. 15. - 3d Bed £11-11/ and the bedsted and sacking bottom 15/ 12. 6. - 4th Bed £7-4/ the 5th bed 7£ bedsted and blanket 20/ I 5. 4. - Great Bible 42/ 2d Vol Mr. "Flandes" works r 5/ 2. 17. - 12 bound books 24/ silver Tankard 18£ 19. 4. 0 Two silver porringers £8-Io 4 silver spoons 49 IO. 19. 0 266 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
One Do 13/ 5 Tea spoons 17/4 two silver pepper boxes £5-10 7. 10. 4 8 pieces of old Carpets 6/ o. 6. o .£428. 7. 5 Appraised by us this 26th day of August Anno Domini 1777 Benja. Williams Simeon Williams John Adams
To Cash in hand £,10. o. - Danl Briggs Note with the Interest 4. I 5. 6 John Thomas Note 3o9. 3. 6 John Adams Note and Interest 38. IO. 0 John Whites Do & Do I. 15. 0 Wm Burtts D & Do I. 14. 0 Jona Fales's Do & Do 1 5- 17. 3 Jona Fales 2d Do & Do 30. o. - Jona Fales Junr Do & Do 7. 13. I Joshua Wilbore Do & Do 5. o. 0 Joshua Wilbore's 2d Do &c 3• 3• I Ephraim Spooner Do & Do 39. 4. 0 Abigail Dean's Note &c I. IO. - Elijah Dean's Do &c 9. 5. 6 Wm Burtt's Note with 2. I 5. 7 N athl. Leonard's Note 6. o. 0 Elisha Forbes Esq note & interest 9• 18. IO Charles Barstow's note & Interest 62. 9. 9 Charles Barstow's second Note 3. 9. 9 Wm Robinson's note & Interest 4. 6. 7 Wm Robinson's 2d Do o. 5. 5 Thomas Cobb's Esq Note & Interest 34. 2. IO Nathl Fales Note 15. o. 0 £615. 19. 19 Brought down 42 8. 7. 5
Bristol Ss Feby 25th 1779 £1044. 7. 2 WILLS AND INVENTORIES 267
Then Nathl Fales Executor of the last Will and Testament of the above named Timothy Fales Esq made Oath that the before written In ventory contains the whole of that Estate sd Deceased died seized of so far as it is come to his hands and knowledge and when he finds any more that he will reveal the same to be of record herewith. Benja Williams J. Prob.
WILL OF NATHANIEL FALES In The Name of God Amen. I, Nathaniel Fales of Bristol in the County of Bristol, and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Esqr. Con sidering the uncertainty of this mortal Life ; and being of sound and perfect mind and memory ; Blessed be Almighty God therefor. Do make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following (viz): First, I order and direct my Executor hereafter named to pay all my just debts, which are few and small, and Funeral Charges, out of my personal Estate. Also, I give and devise to the children and heirs of my late Daughter : Sarah Church, deceased, one undivided, fifth part of a Lot of Land my Honoured Father bought of Thomas Kinni cut known by the Name of my upper Farm, or Common Lotts., Reference to said Kinnicut, Deeds for the Bounds said Lott contains about thirty acres. Also, I give and devise to William Throop J unr, Son of rny daughter Alethea Throop, deceasd, one undivided fifth part of the said Common Lots above described to him his heirs and assigns. I also, give and devise to my daughter Dorothy wife of Jona than Diman one undivided moiety of a Lot commonly called my Two acre Lot, now in the occupation of said Diman to her her heirs and assigns. 268 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Also, I give and bequeath to Sally Fales and Dolly Fales, Daughters of my son Timothy Fales deceased Fifty dollars Each to be paid them by my Executor hereafter named within one year after my decease. I also give and devise to my Daughter Mary wife of Robert Peckham one undivided fifth part of the above Common Lot, containing. Thirty Acres as aforesaid To her and her heirs and assigns. I also give and devise to my Son Nathaniel Fales his heirs and assigns one undivided fifth part of all my Real Estate. Estate lying and being in the Town of Bristol however Bound ded and described Excepting the afore discribed Thirty Acres or Common Lot, and the moiety of said Two Acre Lot, above men tioned, Provided Nevertheless that my said son Nathaniel Shall pay to the heirs of my son William Fales deceased The sum of Twelve Hundred dollars within Six months after my decease; which said sum is on account of and in part of what he has already received more than my other Sons : but Should he neg lect to pay or Secure the same Sum To the heirs of my said Son William Fales deceased within Six months after my decease then my will is and I hereby direct and order That the above devise To my said Son Nathaniel Shall be Equally divided be tween him and the heirs of my said Son William. Also I give and devise to my son Samuel Fales one undivided Fifth part of all my real Estate in the Town of Bristol How ever discribed or wherever the same Lieth Excepting the afore said Common Lot and the moiety of said Two Acre Lot. To him, his heirs and assigns. I also give and devise to my Son Thomas Fales, one undi vided Fifth part of all my Real Estate in the Town of Bristol however described or wherever the same lieth (Excepting the WILLS AND INVENTORIES 269 aforesaid Common Lot, and the moiety of said Two Acre Lot ; to him his heirs and assigns. Also I give and devise to Elizabeth Bridgham wife of James W. Bridgham the only child of my Daughter Elizabeth Paine deceasd one undivided Fifth part of The afore discribed Com mon Lot, to her her heirs and assigns : I also give and devise to my Son Stephen Fales his heirs and assigns one undivided Fifth part of all my Real Estate in the Town of Bristol however the same may be discribed or wherever the same lieth Excepting the aforesaid Common Lot, and the moiety of said Two acre Lot. Also, I give and bequeath To the Children and Heirs of my Son William Fales Deceased To be Equally divided among them The Sum of Twelve Hundred dollars to be paid them by my son Nathaniel as aforesaid within Six months after my de cease. But should he Neglect to pay Said Sum as afored, Then I give and devise To the Heirs of my said Son William To them and their assigns, the one-half of the undivided Fifth part, of my Real Estate afore devised to my Son Nathaniel Fales. I also give and devise to my Son John Fales his heirs and assigns one undivided Fifth part of all my Real Estate ; Situate Lying and being in Bristol however The same is or may be cli scribed, Excepting the said Common Lot, and ye moiety of Said Two acre Lot otherwise devised. Also I give and devise to my Daughter Hannah ,vife of Wil liam Coggeshall one undivided fifth part of the afore mentioned Common Lot, to Her and her Heirs and assigns. Furthermore, I hereby remit to my said Sons all demands That I have prior To the date hereof against them or any of them for rents or other Charges ; and should any or Either of my sons, or their heirs in the Right of their :F'ather bring 270 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY any account against my Estate after my decease for any demand prior to the date hereof This my will is That he or they are hereby Totally debarred and Excluded from the aforesaid de vise, or Bequest, but the same devises Shall accrue To and be Equally divided among the other of my Sons, That may be liv ing and I give and bequeath to him or them That Shall bring such account One Dollar each. Each in Lieu of the said device by him or them forfeited as aforesaid. I do hereby nominate and appoint my son Samuel Fales to be the Sole Executor of this my last will and Testament, who is hereby impowered to collect all my debts of every kind and nature -And my said Executor is hereby directed to divide among my daughters all my personal Estate of what name or nature Soever Equally after paying out of the same my just debts and funeral Charges and the Legacy to the Daughters of my said Son Timothy Deceased. And in order to prevent any altercation in Law-Respecting the division of my real Estate among my Sons according to the afore mentioned devises, provided They should not be able to make a division among themselves, I hereby direct and order That a division be made in the following manner, (viz) by two discreet disinterested men chosen by my sons or the major part of them. They being all notified and the two men Thus chosen shall appoint a Third person alike discreet and disinter ested which three men thus appointed Shall proceed to appraise and divide my Real Estate according to the intent and design of this Instrument and my said Sons are hereby directed to Establish the division So made by a deed under their hands and Seals. And I do (after sincere and mature deliberation), Ratify this WILLS AND INVENTORIES 271
Instrument to my last will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Twenty Second day of February in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred. Nathaniel Fales. [SEAL] Signed, Sealed, Published and declared by the above named Nathaniel Fales Esqr, to be his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto Subscribed our Names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator. Joseph Scott. Jno. W. Seabury. Sam1, San£ord. At a court of probate (Specially) held at Bristol on Tuesday the Twenty Second day of December A. D. 1801, John W. Seabury &: Samuel Sanford made solemn oath that they saw the Testator Nathaniel Fales Esqr. Sign, seal publish and de clare the foregoing Instrument to be his last will and Testa ment and that he was of sound, disposing mind & memory when he so did and that they together with Joseph Scott subscribed there to as witnesses at the same time in the presence of the Testator. Recorded January 14th, 1802 By Jona. Russel prot Clerk.
An Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of Nathaniel Fales Esqr. late of Bristol deceasd as shown to us the subscrib ers by Samuel Fales Esqr. as Executor of the Last will & Tes tament of said Nathaniel Fales. Dol. Real Estate; 414 Acres & 22 rods of land valued at 18711 00 Notes ; 1 note dated December 18th 1 799 5 dollars 5 00 Interest on do for two years 60 272 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
1 Note dated Septr. 18th I 79 5 98 dollars Interest on do for six years & three months 1 Note dated March 20th 1801 .... 4 70 dollars l 00 I ndorsed on do I oo do } 370 Interest on do for nine months 16 75 1 note dated April 13th I 791. 22 doll, 50 cents 22 50 Interest on do for 10 years & 8 months 14 20 I Note dated May 20th 1798 $102.92} Indorsed on do 8-42 94 50 Interest on do for 3 years & 8 months 20 II 1 note dated, April 14th. 1797 $10.33 IO 33 Interest on do for 4 years & 8 month 2 88 1 Note dated June 24th 1799 $20 20 00 Interest on do for two years & six months 3 00 1 Note dated June 30th. 1798-$16.70 16 70 Interest on do for three years & six months 3 15 1 Note dated June 15th I 799 $20 20 00 Interest on do 2 years & six months 3 00 1 Note dated August 26th. 1799 $170 170 00 Interest on do 2 years & 4 months 23 So 1 State note dated December 11th 1797 $175.59 Interest on do for 4 years 28. 8 203.67 valued at 6/8 on the pound Footing carried to Last page 19730 13 Inventory of Sundry article Shewn, by Samuel Fales Esqr. as the Property of Nathaniel Fales. Esqr. Deceasd (viz) 122 Sheep, viz 66 prime sheep 21 old do .... & 35 Lambs 203 33 Ton of Hay in Barn 15 00 I Old Cart 12 00 1 oxen $28 3 cows $35 63 00 1 iron Barr 2 00 1 Cider press IO 00 1 old chaise & part of a harness 18 00 1 old plow Share & 3 iron wedges 75 1 iron chain I 50 WILLS AND INVE~TORIES . 273
I old mare 10 00 I six year-old mare 24 00 1 yearling colt IO 00 Half stack of Hay in meadow 6 50 1 Stack Salt hay on John Fales land 2½ tons 6 75 1 Stack good Pecks Lot (half) 12 00 1 maple desk 5 00 1 maple table 3 50 1 do Large do 2 50 1 maple round Top Stand I 00 1 do Square Top do 50 2 do Square Table, at $1.00 1 round tea do at 42 cents 2 42 1 do with Leaves small & Old 42 1 Small old fashioned Candle Stand 25 I Old dining Table four feet Broke I 00 1 round tea Table 50 1 cabinet 50/100, 1 old chest 25/100 75 1 case Black walnut drawers 2 50 6 Framed maple chairs with Bottoms at $1.00 6 00 4 Bannister back chairs at 2 5/1 oo I 00 3 Large Elbow chairs 75/100 2 25 6 Framed Chairs old. 3 3/ 1 oo 2 00 I iron pot 41/100 1 iron kettle at 7 5/100 I 16 1 small iron kettle 11/100, 1 bake pan 33/100 44 2 Tea kettles 42/100. 1 Bake kettle 50/100 92 3 Skillets 75/100 2 spiders 33/100 I 08 2 iron Basons at 16/100 32 1 pr Handirons at 33/100 33 1 pr iron dogs 75 1 small Brass kettle wd 9.¾, lb. 2 25 1 pr Steelyards, large 2 00 1 small Spinning Wheel 50 1 Reel 25 1 Gilt framed picture old I 00 1 Large fire Board 50 1 pr Brass Candlesticks 50 1 mortar 58/100 5 wine glasses 25/100 83 4 tea pots 20/100 6 Earthen plates 33/100 53 274 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
9 patty pans tin 25/100 1 horn glass 25/100 50 I Looking [glass] 2 feet 2 50 I black frame do I 00 1 head of a glass 33/100 1 axe 41/100 74 1 old desk 25/100 6 old Bannister back chairs 25/100 50 3 old chairs some broke 50 1 old meal chest 50 1 coffee Mill 16/100 1 Large Iron Kettle $2.00 2 16 2 iron Tram rods $ 1 .oo 2 50 2 pr. large Kitchen Handirons do $1 one toaster 50/100} I Bread Trough 33 I old gridiron-8/100, 1 old Lanthorn 8/100 16 1 Feather Bed wd. 48Ib 16 00 1 Do. Striped Tick wd 36Ib 12 00 1 Do. poor feathers wd 40Ib 4 00 3 Bolsters & three pillows wd 26th IO 84 4 old Coverlids 4 00 3 Old Blankets & one Flannel sheet 2 00 Som~ old curtains 33 1 Bedstead $1.7 5 1 old do & part $I .25 3 00 1 Wood horse 50 1 Bedstead & cord I 00 1 cheese press I 50 2 Stacks Com Fodder IO 00 60 Bushels com at 7 5 cents 45 00 1 co-verlid $2 1 pr. Blankets $ 3 5 00 1 Spread 2.50 1 Striped do. $2 4 50 1 pr. Flannel Sheets I 00 2 pr Sheets 3 00 11 old do 2 00 10 old Towels $1.00- 1 table cloth $1 2 00 1 Kid Broad Cloak 6 00 1 old shirt 12-½ 1 mans gown I 00 2 old Silk hose 66 1 Neckcloth 25/100, 4 linnen caps 25;100 50 1 pillow case 20 / 1 oo, 3 linnen Shirts $1. 5o I 70 I great coat $ 5 - I woolen gown $ z 7 00 WILLS AND INVENTORIES 275
1 close Bodied coat 2 00 2 waist coats & 1 pr. Breeches I 00 3 pr. linnen stockings 75 2 pr. worsted do 83 2 pr. Baise & 1 pr. linnen drawers 50 2 Baise Robins 50 2 pr. Shoe & I pr knee buckles 25 1 wig & Hat I 25 1 pr Shovel & Tongs I 25 1 Hearth Brush & Bellows 66 3 pewter platters & I 5 plates wt 30Ib at 121/2/100 3 75 1 Large chest & Lock I 00 1 Feather bed & 1 Bolster and 2 pillows } 21 50 wt 30Ib at 50/100 1 under Bed tick & 1 old pillow case 50 56oz I 3pwt. I 2grains silver at $I.Io 62 42 98 lb Sheeps wool at 37½/too 36 75 9 Sheep in hands of Sam'l Luther } pr. Receipt at 1.66 a bead 1 pew in Bristol Meeting House 100 00 I Hhd. water cider I oo gallons 4 5° 3 Bushels of rye at $1 3 00 40 bushels potatoes at zo/100 8 00 200 B undies of flax Estimated at ½ lb. each } deduct one third for dressing say 66;3 at 10d 9 26 15 Bushels Barley at 83¼/100 12 50 4 Bushels flaxseed 3 33 1 pr. Small Handirons 33 Half of 2 stacks of hay 12 00 8 Harrow teeth 2 00 1 Hogshead good cider 1 oo gals 9 00 1 pair horse chains I 50 $9oo 95½ Brought from value of Real Estate and Notes 19750 13 20631 8½ Cash in the hand of the Executor t deposited by the deceasd S 132 50 Bristol January 14th - I 802 276 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Cost appraising $ I 8 } Shearja Bourn } Sept? 8 Thos Church Appraisers Stamps 0:50 John Howland $26:50 WILL OF NATHANIEL FALES, JUNIOR I, Nathaniel Fales of Bristol in the County of Bristol, and State of Rhode Island &c being far advanced in life, of sane mind, though weak and dibilated in body and in view of ap proaching dissolution, do make this my last will and testament, in manner following, that is to say. I give and bequeath to my beloved Son Charles Fales, the Farm where he now lives in said Bristol, bounded as follows. Beginning near the South West corner of the house, and bound ed Westerly and Northerly on the High way Easterly on land of Nathaniel Fales 2d and on land of Joseph Mason and wife. Southerly on land of said Mason and wife, Elisha Franklin, and the heirs of Pardon Gray, deceased and running Westerly to first boundary. Also another parcel of land, in said Bristol, lying on the North erly side of School lot land so called, and runn~ng Easterly to land of Clarke Vaughn and wife, thence Northerly and thence Easterly to the highway, thence Northerly to land of Thomas I. Coggeshall, thence Westerly to land of Henry D'Wolf, thence Southerly and thence Westerly to land of Peter Church, thence Southerly to the first boundary .-Also, the Twenty eight acres of land which I purchased of Daniel Bradford, in the farm where I now live to him the said Charles Fales, the aforesaid three parcels of land and to his heirs and assigns for ever. Provided however, and the above bequests are upon this con dition, that the said Charles, shall relinquish and quit claim to himself and my other children the land which I conveyed to him WILLS AND INVENTORIES 277 by Deed dated September 25th 1816. and said to contain Seventy four and a half acres. he the said Charles to hold the same number of acres, in the above bequests, with the dwelling house and other buildings, as an equivalent for the relinquish ment aforesaid. And the remainder of the lands in the afore said bequests to be appraised to the said Charles by the Com missioners which may be appointed or agreed upon to make division of my estate among my general devisees and to be taken by said Charles towards his share in the following residu ary devises, at the appraisment there of as aforesaid, it being my intention that said Charles for reasons that must be obvious to my family shall have said Seventy four and a half acres (he making the converyance as aforesaid) over and above an equal share, with my other children in the residue of my estate. I give devise and bequeath to my children, Samuel Fales, George Fales, Charles Fales, Ann Coggeshall, Widow, and Elizabeth Munro, now the wife of Hezikiah Munro, all the rest and residue of my estate, both Real and personal to be divided among them, share and share alike and to their heirs and assigns forever. As to my aged Wife, the wife of my youth who has traveled and toiled with me during our protracted lives, trusting to my dutiful children and recommending her to their care and atten tion, to do and provide for her during the remainder of her life, in every way for her comfort and ample support, and I hereby order and require my Executors· hereafternamed to pay her an nually Five hundred dollars, in Quarterly payments the first payment to be made in six months after my decease, instead of her right of Dower in my estate. I hereby constitute and appoint my three Sons. Samuel Fales of Boston, George Fales of Philadelphia and Charles Fales of 278 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Bristol aforesaid, Executors to this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all Wills heretofore by me made, ratifying and declaring this, and this only as and for my last Will and Testament, this 6th day of February 1834.
Nath1• Fales [SEALJ
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Nath1 Fales, as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who, in his presence, and in the presence of each other, at his request, signed our respective names as witnesses thereto. Wm. Throop Peter Church. Seth Lincoln.
At a Court of Probate held in Bristol, in and for the Town of Bristol, on Monday the third day of March A. D. 1834 the afore going instrument was presented by Charles ~ales as the last Will and Testament of Nathaniel Fales late of said Bristol Esquire deceased, the said Charles Fales being named in said Will as one of the Executors thereto - And it having been the request expressed in writing of the widow and all the parties int~rested in said Will, that the same should be approved, and notice having been con£ essed by all said parties at this term of said Court of Probate. Said Court proceeded to prove the same, and William Throop and Peter Church, two of the subscribing witnesses to the said Instrument being present declared on oath that they in the presence of each other, saw and heard him the said Nathaniel Fales sign, seal, pronounce, publish and declare the said Instru ment to be his last Will and Testament, and at the time of the WILLS AND INVENTORIES 279 executing and publishing the said Instrument appeared to be of sound mind, memory and understanding. And the Court having examined the said instrument and the evidence relating to the execution thereof, do consider that the same is proved. Whereupon the said Court do approve and allow, the said instrument, and order the same Record, as for the last Will and Testament of the said Nathaniel Fales. By order of said Court, Wm. Throop Clk. Recorded by Wm. Throop Probt. Clk. March 4th, 1834.
An Inventory of all the goods and chattels, and rights and credits which were of Nathaniel Fales of Bristol deceased shewn and set forth to us by Charles Fales Executor on the estate of said Nathaniel Fales. Taken and appraised by us by virtue of Warrant of Appraisal, directed to us by the Hone. Court of Pro bate of the said Town of Bristol. Hay in Gallop lot one Stack Three Tons@ I 1 33 one do. 11,~ do@ 12 18 Barn West side 2½ do.@ 14 35 do. East side 2¼ do. @ I 4 31 50 Barn Meadw Stack 11,~ do@ 12 15 00 50 Bushl. Oats 20 30 do. wheat 1 5 35 Wardl. land Stack hay 2½ T.@ 10 25 do. do. part do. 1 ton Io IO Barn yard do. 5 5 " mow 3½@ 14 49 6g bushl. rye 34 do. straw 6. 40 The above was equally owned between the deceased and Charles Fales half of which is 148 25 Borland Farm Stack of hay 18 Gray Lot, 2 West Stacks 3 Ton @ i 21 " " East do. 2½ do. 9 22 50 280 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Hay Home place Lower meadow 11;2 ton@ 7 IO 50 Third lot 2 ton @ 1 o 20 00 Camfield 2 ton @ 9 18 00 Hayseed ¾@6 4 50 Barn yard West Stack I T.@ 10 IO South do. 6- North do. 6 12 West mow 7 Ton@ 15 105 East do. 2¼ @ 8 20 Scaffold hay seed ½ ton @ 5 2 50 Sheep, Gallop lot 44 @ 2.50 I 10 4odo.@2- 80 66 Young ewes@ 2-6o old do.@ 1.75 237 59 lambs@ 1.33 78 66 Neat Stock Black & white yearling calf 6 pair old Stags 48 one white do. 25 Beef Ox 40 I pair red 3 year old steers 35 do do do 2 do do 28 1 red Beef Cow 20 I brown do 28 48 Cow & calf 23 pied & spotted Cow 17 Red & white do 18 Brown white bellied do 18 Brown white face do 17 light brindle do 10 Old black do 12 22 Old Brown do 13 White 3 year old heifer 15 Red 3 Yr. old do. 16 do. do. 2 yr. 8 24 One Sow & 6 pigs 16 hog 12 28 7 shoats 60 lb each@ 5cts. 21 21 Geese 10.50. 16 Turkeys 12 22 50 White horse 8-Little do 9 17 Colt two years old 30 Yellow mare 20 - 20 800 lb. pork, ham & shoulders @ Sets. 64 Cheese press 1 -2 pair shears 25c I 25 WILLS AND INVENTORIES 281
String sleigh bells 50 585¼ lb. wool@ 35c. 204 75 pair steelyards 25 2 com baskets 25c.- I do 12c 37 2 tubs 1 - tin ware 50c. I 50 20 pieces Iron Ware 5 Brass Kettle I Tin Baker & oven I 25 6 kitchen flag bottom chairs 2 Round kitchen table I Square do do I Waggon body I 00 Cider press & Mill 13 Hogshead cider 5 93 bushl. Onions @ 20c. - 18 60 100 bushel Oats 40$ Ox cart 10 50 00 Ox Yoke 25c. Old cart r - I 25 Grind stone r'2c. ½ bushl. beans 50 62 70 Bushel Rye 35 2 flails IO 175 Bushl. com@ 75c. - 131 25 Old sythes & sneads 40 Augers and other Carpenters tools I 50 Cross cut saw 25 3 draft chains r.50 - 2 shovels 25c. I 75 3 Manure forks 75c. old hose 50c I 25 2 rakes & 2 hay forks 50 20 sheep skins @ 75 15 horse chains 2 5c horse waggon 5 5 2 5 Old wheels 1. 50 2 ploughs 6 7 50 Horse harrow I -Old waggon 50c I 50 Harrow frame 50c. - Sleigh 1 I 50 0 ld chaise carriage 2 lot old Iron 2 Chaise & harness IO Saddle & bridle 25 Lot Potatoes 300 bushl. @ 20 60 2 pair Iron dogs I 50 282 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
2 pair shovel & tongs 50 12 Earthen milch pans 60 Pewter ware I Two Lignumvitae mortars 50 1 desk 2. 50 side board 1 5 17 50 6 armed chairs- I 50 I 5 pair sheets 7 50 8 lb. geese feathers@ 33c. 2 67 Bed bedding & bedstead 8 do do do IO One table 25 2 Turkey feather beds & bedding 5 Bed - bedding & bedstead 12 Desk 2.50- 6 fancy chairs 1.50 4 1 table 1.50 I do 1 2 50 Work stand 50c. One clock 1 2 12 50 Looking glass I 9 silver tea spoons 2 4 large do 3 8 pillow cases I 33 17 napkins 2 - 6 table cloths 3 - 5 00 Bed, bedstead & bedding 15 Bed 10 - High case draws 3 - 13 6 Joiners chairs 1.50. 1 armed do 25c. I 75 2 pine chests 75 Small table & stand 50 Bed bedding & Bedstead 15 00 looking Glass 2.50 small clock 50c. 3 Case & bottles 25 18 cheeses 15olb.@ 4cts. 6 Crockery ware 3 empty casks I A Body Pew C. C. S. Meeting house 25 Amt. carried forward $2279 85 Notes with interest to April 7th. 1834 Thomas I. Coggeshall $I389 53 David Maxfield 586 45 James Maxfield 59 2 3 WILLS AND INVENTORIES 283
Samuel Randall 84 4 John Munro 107 94 Samuel Coggeshall 822 27 John Bradford 107 50 Horace Peck 270 76 Samuel Coggeshall 32 35 Lemuel Fales 102 22 Do Do 14 80 Benjamin B. Waldron 67 52 Benjamin Harding 19 90 James B. White 53 75 Crawford Easterbrooks 109 44 John Burgess 413 17 Joseph Sherman 75 91 Hezekiah Munro 163 83 Do. Do. 166 50 Do. Do. 41 51 Do. Do. 36 33 Henry Peck 254 37 Bank Stocks viz! 6 shares U. States Bank 600 3 do. Tremont Bank Boston 300 1 o do. Eagle Bank, Bristol 250 Cash on hand 35° whole amt. notes &c .... $6479 32 Amt. from last page 2279 85 Whole amt. personal estate $8759 17 Wm. Throop 1 Lemuel Fales Appraisers Peter Church Appraisers fees $ 1 3.- Bristol May 5th. 1834.- At a Court of Probate held in Bristol on Monday May 5th. 1834, the foregoing Inventory of the personal estate of Nathaniel Fales, Esq., de ceased, was presented by Charles Fales Executor to the Will of the said Nathaniel Fales, who was engaged on the same, and after consideration it was allowed and ordered Recorded.- Witness, Wm. Throop Prob. Clk. 284 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
WILL OF SAMUEL FALES
BE IT REMEMBERED, that I, SAMUEL FALES, of the City of Boston, Merchant, make this, my last will, in manner following: that is to say. I order that all my just debts be paid, with convenient speed. There are ten shares in the capital of the Union Bank, in Boston, standing in my name as Trustee, the income of which, according to the directions of my deceased wife, was to be en joyed, during life, by Georgiana Halliburton, of Boston, Single woman; and after her decease, the said shares were to be equally divided and distributed to and among our children, who shall survive the said Georgiana. These shares I assign and direct my executor to transfer unto my son, Halliburton Fales, and my son-in-law, Samuel W Bridgham, of New York, for the pur pose of executing and fulfilling the wishes and directions of my wife, in relation thereto. I give three hundred dollars to each of my four nieces, Betsey B Coggeshall, Mary F Church, Hope Walker, and Ann F Mun roe, all of Bristol, in the State of Rhode Island. To Maria S Bayard, wife of Dr. Samuel Bayard of St John, New Brunswick, I. give one hundred dollars. For the use of Georgiana Halliburton, I give one thousand dollars to the said Halliburton Fales, and Samuel W Bridgham, in trust, the income of which, the said Georgiana shall enjoy; during her life; and at her decease, my will is, that the principal be equally divided among my children, who survive her. I give and devise to the said Halliburton Fales and Samuel W Bridgham, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, my dwelling house, and land and stable attached thereto, situ- WILLS AND INVENTORIES 285 ated on the easterly side of Tremont Street, in said Boston, in Trust, to permit and allow such of my children as may wish, and can agree among themselves, or either of them, to use and occupy said estate, for such period of time as they, or either of them, shall desire to make said estate their permanent residence or habitation, at the annual rent of one thousand dollars : the occupant paying the taxes, during his, her or their occupancy of said estate; and the rent so paid, after deducting the repairs and insurance, shall be equally divided among my children, or their heirs. And when it shall happen that neither of my chil dren are willing or desirous to take said estate as and for their permanent place of habitation, then, it is my will that said Trus tee shall and may sell the same, at and for the best price to be obtained therefor : and divide the proceeds of the sale equally among my children or their heirs ; and said Trustees are hereby authorized to execute and deliver any and all deeds and convey ances, requisite to convey the said estate to a purchaser. My Tomb, in Mount Auburn, in the town of Cambridge, shall belong to my children, jointly, and be retained and used as a family burial place. All the residue of my estate, real, personal, and mixed, shall be divided into as many equal parts as I shall leave children surviving me, the issue of a deceased child always representing the Parent. The advances I shall· have made in my life time to my chil dren, for the purpose of establishing them in life, and charged against them in my books, shall be included in the computation of said residue : and the advances made to each child shall be included in his or her respective share, as forming part thereof. The shares of my children in this residue shall be formed in the manner I have hereinafter directed: that is to say. For 286 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY and in part of the share of my daughter, Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta Dunlap, widow of the late Andrew Dunlap, Esquire, deceased, I give and devise to Nathaniel Thayer and Hallibur ton Fales, of said Boston, Merchants, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, my warehouse and land, numbered sixty two, in Broad Street, in said City; which warehouse and land is to be estimated and computed, in the formation of my said daughter's share, at the value of four thousand Dollars: in trust to receive the rents and profits thereof, during the lifetime of the said Lucy ; and after deducting therefrom all. necessary charges for repairs, insurance, &c, to pay the net income into her proper hands, or upon her sole and separate receipt or order. I also direct that the residue of the share, which, upon an equal division of my estate, in the manner hereinbefore directed, would belong to said Lucy, shall also be taken, held and managed as a trust fund, for the use of said Lucy: which shall be invested in the purchase of Real Estate, Public Stocks, or in the Capital of some Bank or Rail Road Corporation : the net income of which trust-premises shall be paid into the proper hands of said Lucy, or upon her sole and separate receipt or order, from time to time, made as said income shall become payable during her life. At the decease of said Lucy I direct that the real and personal estate constituting the principal or share above de vised, shall be divided equally among her children, who shall survive her, and arrive at the age of twenty one years. And in case no issue is left by said Lucy, at her decease, or leaving issue, they shall die before attaining majority, then I direct that it be disposed of conformably with her last will. And in de fault of such disposition, then her heirs at law shall take the same. For and in part of the share of my daughter, Susan Maria WILLS AND INVENTORIES 287
Fales, I give and devise into Andrew I Hall and Samuel W Bridgham, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, my house and land, situated on the east side of Washington Street, and extending through to the west side of Devonshire Street, with all the buildings thereon : in trust : the rents and profits of which, after deducting all necessary expenses for repairs, in surance, &c, are to be paid into the proper hands of said Susan, during her life, or upon her sole or separate receipt or order. the said house and land to be estimated, in computing the share of the said Susan, at the value of eighteen thousand dollars. The residue of the share, which, upon an equal division of the residue of my estate, in the manner hereinbefore directed, would belong to the said Susan, shall be taken, held and managed by the said Hall and Bridgham, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, in trust, for the said Susan, and shall be invested in the purchase of Real Estate, or in public stocks, or in the capital of Bank or Rail Road Corporations, or in loans on mortgages : the net income and profits of which shall be paid into the proper hands of said Susan, or upon her sole and separate receipt or order, from time to time, made as the said income shall become payable. At the decease of the said Susan, it is my will, that the Real and personal estate constituting the principal or share, above devised, shall be divided, equally, among her children, who shall arrive at the age of twenty one years. In case no issue shall be left by said Susan, at her decease, or leaving issue, they shall die in minority, then the trust premises shall be disposed of according to her last will ; and in default of such testamentary disposition, to go to her heirs at law. For and in part of the $hare of my daughter, Eliza Ann 288 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Bridgham, wife of Samuel W Bridgham, of New York, I give and devise to Nathaniel Thayer, Broker, and Nathaniel Mer riam, Gentleman, both of Boston, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, my house and land, situated on the westerly side of Washington Street, at the corner of Williams' Court, and extending, westwardly, to include all my land on Williams' Court, in said Boston : in trust to receive and pay out the in come and profits thereof, after deducting the necessary expenses for repairs, insurance, &c, into the proper hands of said Eliza, or upon her sole and separate receipt or order : said building and land are to be estimated, in computing the share of the said Eliza, at the value of eighteen thousand dolJars. The residue of the share, which, upon an equal division of the residue of my estate, in the manner I have hereinbefore di rected, would belong to the said Eliza, I direct shall also be taken, held and managed by the said Thayer and Merriam, as a trust fund, for the use of said Eliza, and shall be invested in the purchase of real estate, or in public stocks, or in the capital of some band or rail-road corporation, or be loaned upon mortgages, the net income and profits of which shall be by them paid into the proper hands of said Eliza, or upon her sole and separate receipt or order, from time to time made, as the said income shall become payable. And should the said Samuel W Bridg ham survive his wife, the said Eliza, I direct the said Thayer:_ and Merriam to pay to the said Bridgham, the income and pro duce of the trust premises herein devised for said Eliza's use, from and after the death of said Eliza, during his life ; and upon the death of the survivor of them, the said Samuel and Eliza, the trust premises are to be divided equally among the children of the said Eliza, who shall arrive at the age of twenty one years. And should said Eliza die, leaving no issue, or leaving WILLS AND INVENTORIES issue, they shall not attain majority; then the same is to be dis posed of according to said Eliza's last will ; and in default of such disposition, then to go to her heirs at law. The property constituting the respective shares of my daugh ters, or the income or profits which shall be from time to time payable therefrom in the hands of their respective Trustees, shall not be at the disposal of or subject to, or liable for the debts, engagements or liabilities of their present or any after taken husband : but shall be absolutely at their own disposal, in the same or like manner as if they and each of them were sole and unmarried. I give and devise unto the said Thayer and Merriam, and the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns, ten thousand dollars of the share, which, upon the division of the residue of my estate, would belong to my son, Samuel B. Fales: to be held by them in trust, for the said Samuel ; and the same shall be invested in real estate, public stock, or in the capital of Bank or Rail Road, Corporations, or loaned on mortgages, the net income and profits of which shall be paid into the hands of the said Samuel, during his life, when and as it accrues : upon bis sole receipts~ to be from time to time given ; and at his decease, the trust premises shall be divided equally among his children; should he die leav ing no issue, then it shall be disposed of as he shall order by his last will. And in default of such order and direction it shall go to his heirs at law. The residue of the share belonging to the said Samuel I give and devise to him absolutely, his heirs and assigns forever: and as a part of said share, said Samuel shall take my undivided moiety of warehouse and land numbered thirty nine and forty one, Cornhill Street, in Boston, and be charged four thousand dollars there£or. 290 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Of the share which, upon the division of the residue of my estate would belong to my son, Halliburton Fales, I give and devise to the said Nathaniel Thayer, and Nathaniel Merriam, and the survivor of them, his representative and assigns, ten thousand dollars, in trust for the use of said Halliburton; and which shall be invested in the purchase of Real Estate, in pub lic stocks, or in the capital of Bank or Rail Road corporations, or be loaned on good mortgages : the net income and profits of which trust fund shall be paid to said Halliburton, during his life, when and as it accrues, upon his sole and separate receipt, from time to time given; and at his decease the principal or capital sum shall be divided equally among his children. And should he die, le.aving no issue, then my will is that it be paid, equally, among his heirs at law, provided said Halliburton, in the case of his leaving no issue, shall not have made a testa mentary disposition of the same. The residue of the share belonging to the said Halliburton, I give and devise to him absolutely, his heirs and assigns, forever : and my undivided moiety of warehouse and land, numbered forty nine and forty seven, on Cornhill Street, in Boston, shall form a part of said Halliburton's share and be taken at the value of four thousand dollars. It is my will that the trustees, in this will appointed shall not be required to give bonds for the faithful performance of the duties required of them, in the execution of said trusts, and that neither of them shall be answerable for the other: nor shall they or either of them be ~nswerable for any losses which are not occasioned by their own wilful negligence and default. And in case it shall be at any time necessary to appoint a new Trustee or Trustees, £or the execution of the trusts de clared in this will. I hereby authorize the Judge of Probate to WILLS AND INVENTORIES 291 appoint such person or persons as he shall deem competent and suitable for the purpose, upon the nomination of the party bene ficially interested in the execution of the trust. I hereby constitute and appoint Halliburton Fales and Sam uel W Bridgham, ·executors of this, my last will, and for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of my estate and appor tioning and distributing to and among my children, their respec tive shares, I hereby authome and empower my said executors to grant, bargain, sell and convey any real estate other than that of which I have by this will made a specific disposition, which I may leave at my decease, whether I am now the owner thereof or shall hereafter purchase the same, either by public or private sale for the best price to be had there£ or : and also to execute and deliver any and all deeds and conveyances which may be requisite to convey the same or any part thereof, to a purchaser. I hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of March, A D eighteen hundred and forty four.
Signed, sealed and declared by the said Samuel Fales, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of Sam Fales. [SEAL] us, who in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto set our names, as witnesses
F G Tuckerman Wm: Sohier W D Schier 292 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
This is a Codicil to the last will of me, Samuel Fales, of the City of Boston·, dated on or about the ninth day of March, eigh teen hundred and forty four. Whereas in and by said will, I have directed that particular portions of my real estate should be taken by my children re spectively, as part of their several shares, at prices or sums, mentioned or fixed, in and by said will : and the effect of this requirement may cause an unequal distribution of my estate among my children, which I am desirous to prevent. Now I declare my will to be that said several portions of my real estate, so assigned by my said will to my children respect ively, shall be charged to and taken by them at the price or valuation thereof affixed to each in the Inventory of my estate, taken by the usual order of the Probate Court. PROVIDED, hqwever, that if either of my said children shall within twenty days after the return of said Inventory into the Court of Probate, notify the executors of said will, or the ad ministrator of my estate, with the will annexed, that he or she is dissatisfied with such appraisement, then the said executors or administrator shall appoint, with the approval_ of the Judge of Probate, having jurisdiction of my will, three impartial and com petent persons to make a new appraisement of said parcels of Real esta~~: and according to this second valuation and ap praisement the ~id parcels of Real Estate shall be taken by and charged to my said children respectively, at the prices and value affixed thereto, as if the same prices and sums had been inserted and mentioned in my said will, instead of those l have therein directed to be regarded as the value of the said different parcels of my real estate. I hereby ratify and confirm my said will in all particulars which are not effected by this Codicil, and WILLS AND INVENTORIES 293
IN WITNESS HEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fifth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty seven.
Executed and published by Sam1• Fales, as and for a codicil to his last will, in presence of us, who, at his request, in his Sam Fales. [SEAL] presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereto set our names, as witnesses. Geo H Kuhn. Benj F Hall. W. D. Sohier.
WILL OF SAMUEL BRADFORD FALES
I, SAMUEL BRADFORD FALES, of the City of Phila delphia, gentleman, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say : 1. I order and direct that my remains shall be interred in the family vault at Mount Auburn, in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and that all my just debts and .funeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently may be. 2. I give and bequeath to my brother, HALIBURTON FALES, of Boston, Massachusetts, all the bronze articles of virtu and bronze ornaments in my possession at the time of my decease; the portrait of my father, painted by Gilbert Stewart; my best dressing case, silver mounted, made by Mecke, of London, with its contents, and one of my gold watches, to be selected by himself. 3. I give and bequeath to my sister, Lucv ANN CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA DUNLAP, of Boston, aforesaid, a book of engravings, in blue and gilt binding, and marked S. B. Fales, containing 294 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY views in Scotland and Ireland, and two large cut-glass cologne bottles. 4. I give and bequeath to my sister, SusAN MARIA FALES, of Boston, aforesaid, a book of engravings, in blue and gilt bind ing, and marked S. B. Fales, containing views in France and Germany ; and a rich Bohemian colored glass claret pitcher. 5. I give and bequeath to my sister, ELIZA ANN BRIDGHAM, of New York, a book of engravings, in blue and gilt binding, and marked S. B. Fales, containing views in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, etc. ; and an ebony toilet box, containing six small cut glass bottles. 6. I give and bequeath to my sister-in-law, ELIZABETH J. FALES, wife of my brother, Haliburton Fales, of Boston, afore said, a book of engravings, in blue and gilt binding, and marked S. B. Fales, containing views in Asia Minor, Greece, Russia, etc. 7. I give and bequeath to my nephew, SAMUEL FALES DuN LAP, of New York, a book of engravings, in blue and gilt bind ing, and marked S. B. Fales, containing views ·in England and Wales; a russet colored leather travelling dressing case, and all the medals in my possession at the time of my decease. 8. I give and bequeath to my brother-in.:.}aw, SAMUEL W. BRIDGHAM, of New York, four proof prints, which I highly prize, viz. : - " A Madonna," " Chickens for Sale," " The Soldier's Dream," and "The Highland Cottage," by Landseer, and a russet colored leather case, containing three ivory brushes. 9. I give and bequeath to MARY ANN HALIBURTON, daugh ter of the late Andrew Haliburton, of Portsmouth, New Hamp.. shire, the sum of One Hundred Dollars, for the purchase of some article as a remembrance of me. 10. I give and bequeath to my warm and steadfast friend, WILLIAM W. WooDNUTT, the sum of One Hundred Dollars, WILLS AND INVENTORIES 295
£or the purchase of a splendid dressing case, as a small token of my regard. 11. I give and bequeath to BENJAMIN REYNOLDS, the gun which I purchased of him; the mahogany case containing the same, with the apparatus therein contained; a leather gun case, and the game bag which has been used and soiled. 12. I give and bequeath to THOMPSON H. REYNOLDS, my single-barrelled long plover gun, and a shot pouch and powder flask, to be selected by him from my sporting wardrobe. 13. I give and bequeath to EDWARD REYNOLDS, my rifle and rifle belt, with seal-skin pouches; also, a small rifle powder flask. 14. I give and bequeath to HANNAH H. REYNOLDS, widow of Joel Zane Reynolds, a book of engravings, in red and gilt binding, and marked S. B. Fales, containing miscellaneous en gravings, as a small token of my regard; also, all the furniture of which I may die possessed, (excepting my old sporting ward robe), consisting at present of a large wardrobe, tables, chairs, etagere, bedstead and bed clothes, washstand and appurtenances, carpets, curtains and their appurtenances, and the looking-glasses in my room ; and I further give and bequeath to her any two small articles of virtu or ornament not herein devised to any one else, to be selected by herself as a remembrance of me. 15. I give and bequeath to ZEBEDIAH LOTHROP, of the firm of Fales, Lothrop & Co., of the City of Philadelphia, and JAMES C. DONNELL, Cashier of the Bank of Commerce, of the said city, the survivor of them and his heirs, successors and assigns, the sum of Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, in trust, to in vest the same in Real Estate, Public Stocks, Bank Stocks or Bonds and Mortgages, and to pay over the net income and profits thereof, as the same shall be received, to the aforesaid HANNAH H. REYNOLDS, during the term of her natural life, and 296 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY upon her sole receipt therefor ; and I direct the said trustees to receive of and from NATHANIEL THAYER and NATHANIEL MERI MAN, of Boston, aforesaid, trustees under the Will of my late father, or of and from whomsoever may be trustees in their stead at the time of my decease, the sum of Ten Thousand Dol lars, held by them in trust for me, or whatsoever the said trust fund may then amount to, and to hold and invest the same as part of the trust estate hereby created ; and I direct that the residue of the said sum of Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars shall be made up from and out of the estate left to me absolutely; and upon the decease of the said HANNAH H. REY NOLDS, I order and direct that the principal of the said Trust Estate hereby created shall be disposed of as follows : - I give and bequeath the one equal third part to my nephew, SAMUEL FALES, son of my brother, Haliburton Fales. I give and bequeath the one equal third part thereof to my three nephews, SAMUEL, JosEPH and WILLIAM HALIBURTON BRIDGHAM, share and share alike, it being my will and intention however, that none of the principal thereof shall be paid to either of them until his arrival at the age of twenty-one years, but that the net income and profits of the .same shall be re ceived during their minority by their father, SAMUEL W. BRIDG HAM, upon his sole receipt or order, and expended by him for their use and benefit ; and that upon the arrival of each of them at the age of twenty-one years, the above-named trustees, their heirs, successors or assigns, shall pay over to him the one equal third part of the fund hereby le£ t to the said SAMUEL, JOSEPH and WILLIAM HALIBURTON BRIDGHAM. Should any one of my said nephews die before the arrival of his brothers at the age of twenty-one years, then his share shall pass to the two sur vivors, share and share alike, and should two of them die before WILLS AND INVENTORIES 297
the arrival of either of the three at the age of twenty-one years, then the survivor shall receive the whole of the said fund, upon arriving at the age of twenty-one years, and should all three of the said nephews die before attaining the age of twenty-one years, then I order and direct the said trustees, their heirs, successors and assigns, to pay over to my sister, ELIZA ANN BRIDGHAM, if living, the said part of the hereby created Trust Estate, and if she should then be deceased, I direct the same to be paid to my legal heirs. I give and bequeath the remaining one equal third part of the said Trust Estate, hereby created, to KATE REYNOLDS and ANNA REYNOLDS, daughters of Benjamin Reynolds, of Philadel phia, share and share alike, the net income and profits thereof to be paid during their minority to their said father, for their maintenance and education, and the principal thereof to be paid to them in equal shares as they respectively reach the age of twenty-one years ; and if either of them should die before at taining that age, then the survivor shall receive the whole, upon arriving at the said age; and if both of them should die in their minority, I order and direct the said trustees, their heirs, suc cessors and assigns, to pay over this part of the said Trust Fund to my legal heirs. 16. I give and bequeath to my brother, HALIBURTON FALES of Boston, aforesaid, and to my uncle, GEORGE FALES, of Phila delphia, the survivor of them, and his heirs, successors and assigns, the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, in trust, to invest the same in Real Estate, Public Stocks, Bank Stocks or Bonds and Mortgages, and apply the net income and profits thereof to and for the use and benefit of my cousin, BRADFORD F. MUNRO, for and during the term of his natural life, and from and after his decease to pay over the principal thereof to and among my right heirs~ 298 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
17. I give and bequeath to my brother, HALIBURTON FALES, of Boston, and SAMUEL W. BRIDGHAM, of New York, the sur vivor of them, and his heirs, successors and assigns, the sum of Eleven Hundred Dollars, in trust, to invest the same in Real Estate, Public Stocks, Bank Stocks or Bonds and Mortgages, and apply the net income and profits thereof to and for the sole use and benefit of my uncle, GEORGE MORDAUNT HALIBURTON, of Boston, paying the same, as they accrue, to him or his order, and from and after his death I direct the said principal sum to be paid to my nephew, SAMUEL FALES DUNLAP, of New York. 18. It is my will and desire that none of the trustees ap pointed in this Will . shall be required to give security for the faithful discharge of bis duties as trustee, and that none of them shall be answerable for each other's doings therein, nor any of them for any losses that may accrue, except from wilful negli gence and default. 19. I nominate and appoint my uncle, GEORGE FALES, of Philadelphia, and my brother, HALIBURTON FALES, of Boston, the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revok ing all other Wills by me at any time hereto£ ore made.
IN WITNESS whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-nine. SAMUEL B. FALES. [SEAL]
Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared as his last Will and Testament by the above-named SAMUEL BRADFORD FALES, in our presence, who, at his request, in his presence and in presence of each WILLS AND INVENTORIES 299
other, have hereunto set our names as witnesses on this said Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-nine. (The word " Trustees '' in the eighth line from the end being first altered to "Trustee"). JOSEPH SILL, HENRY VANUXEM. HIRAM B. TILDEN.
I, SAMUEL B. FALES, the above-mentioned testator, do make and publish this Alteration and Codicil to my last Will, dated August I I th, A. D. I 849, as follows : - Whereas, I did, by the Fifteenth Item or Article in said Will, give and devise the sum of Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars to Z. Lothrop and J. C Donnell, in trust, for certain purposes therein named. In lieu and stead of said sum of Fif teen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, I give and bequeath to my trustees hereafter named, the sum of Thirty Thousand Dol lars, to be derived from the same sources and applied to the same uses and purposes as in the said Article specified. 2. I nominate HENRY V ANUXEM, Merchant, now residing in Camden, New Jersey, and LEWIS STOVER, Attorney-at-Law, of Philadelphia, trustees, in the place and stead of Z. Lothrop and J. C. Donnell, both now deceased. 3. I give, devise and bequeath to my brother, HALIBURTON FALES, of the City of New York, the one equal undivided inter est or share in Store Building and Lot, Nos. 31 & 41 Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts, which I hold in common with him. I also give and bequeath to him my engrossed Testimonial pre sented me by the Committee of the Union Volunteer Refresh- 300 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY ment Saloon, of Philadelphia, and also my Silver Badge of the said Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, trusting that be will preserve them as a memento in our family, and so dispose of the said Testimonial and Badge, that should there be no direct issue of our family and name to inherit them, they may be pre sented to Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, or to some other public institution. 4. I give to my nephew, SAMUEL FALES, son of Haliburton Fales, of New York, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, ($5,000). 5. I give and bequeath to my sister, ELIZA ANN, now inter married with Samuel W. Bridgham, of New York, my Military Badge, No. 364, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 6. I give and bequeath to CAROLINE CowARD, of Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, unmarried, now living with Mrs. Hannah H. Reynolds, No. 707 Vine Street, the sum of Five Hundred Dol lars, in consideration of her care and attention to my rooms for over fifteen years. 7. I nominate and appoint in addition to the two Executors already named, HENRY VANUXEM, of Camden, New Jersey.
IN WITNESS whereof, I have this Third day of April, A. D., Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-seven, ( 1867), hereunto set my hand and seal. SAMUEL B. FALES. [sEAL]
Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by SAMUEL B. FALES, the above-named testator, as and for a Codicil to his said Will and Testament, hereby republishing the same, so far as not altered and amended by this Codicil, in the presence of him WILLS AND INVENTORIES 301
and of each of us, who have hereunto subscribed as witnesses, at his request. WM. P. ATKINSON. GEORGE F. JONES. ALFRED G. BAKER. Having omitted to express in the above Codicil the disposi tion of two portraits in oil, viz., one of Kate Reynolds and the other of Anna Reynolds, daughters of Benjamin Reynolds, late of California, I hereby desire it to be understood that the_ said pictures, painted by T. B. Welch, shall be given and delivered to HANNAH H. REYNOLDS, and in case of her decease, they shall be given to her son, BENJAMIN REYNOLDS, and in case of his death, I wish them to go to his children. SAMUEL B. FALES. APRIL 3d, 1867. Witnesses present : HENRY VANUXEM, JOSEPH T. DAVIS. Now, December 23d, 1869, I add this further Codicil to my above Will, hereby confirming the same, except as altered or amended by this Codicil. My brother, Haliburton Fales, being now deceased, I nominate and appoint SAMUEL W. BRIDGHAM, my brother-in-law, of the City of New York, and LEWIS STOVER, Attorney-at-Law, Philadelphia, my Executors, in the place and stead of George Fales and my deceased brother. SAMUEL B. FALES. [SEAL] Signed and Sealed in the presence of THOMPSON REYNOLDS, } ROBT. F. S. HEATH. Witnesses. 302 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Proved before the Register of Wills, for the City and County of Philadelphia, October 2d, I 880, and Letters Testa mentary thereon issued to LEWIS STOVER, one of the Executors therein named. Of the other Executors therein named, Samuel W. Bridgham, George Fales and Haliburton Fales, being then deceased, and Henry Vanuxem having renounced his right to act.
Registered in the Office of said Register, at Philadelphia, Pa., in Will Book No. 99, page 72, etc.
WILL OF WILLIAM HALIBURTON
In the Name of God. Amen. I, William Haliburton of Windsor in Hants County Nova Scotia Esquire being weak of Body declining in health but of sound Intellect. Do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner and f onn following.
To Say, whereas my Daughter Charlot Campbell By her last Will and Testament dated in London, Great Brittain on the fourth Day of January 1800 Bequeathed as follows "I hereby leave as follows after the payment of Debts Funeral expences and Legacies viz. To my dear Parents William and Lucy Hal lyburton the whole of my remaining Property ; and on the Death of either of my Parents, I leave his or her half to my sister Abigail and to her the other half when the surviving Parent dies." And she appointed John Campbell Esquire of Sloan Street Her sole Executor and of the monies aforesaid after all deductions there came to my hands the sum of Nine hundred and Eighty two Pounds currency of Nova Scotia which WILLS AND INVENTORIES 303
were put out at Interest on such securities as could be had in a Country where there were no Banks or funding System. The Principal made payable to William Luscanna and Abigail Hali burton and to the Survivor of them ; the Interest payable half yearly to her Parents. And whereas the said Charlot Campbell in her last will aforesaid: Did not provide the means of carry ing her said Will into effect, and whereas the system of surviv orship opened a Door to Delay payment on the Death of either Parent. Therefore I, William Haliburton as Trustee for my Daughter Abigail (since married to Samuel Fales of Boston in the State of Massachusetts Merchant) called in some of the monies aforesaid and let the same out again, payable to me in my own name, Say Three hundred Pounds in the hands of George M. Haliburton secured by his Mortgage to Andrew Baur assigned to me. Also Six hundred and Eighty two Pounds like currency in the hands of W. H. 0. Haliburton Esquire of Windsor holding the same for the uses and purposes declared in this my last Will and Testament. Item of the monies aforesaid say £982 I give and bequeath unto my said Daughter Abigail Fales, If living at the time of my Death, the one half of said sum being Four hun dred and ninety one pounds payable to her in three months after my Death with lawful Interest by my Executors herein after named; or if my said Daughter Abigail be living at the time of her Motp.ers Decease which ever may first happen, I bequeath to her the Sum of £49 I payable in three months after such Death with Interest after such Death. And to en able my Executors to effect the purposes of my said Will with- out delay, I do hereby empower and authorize my said Execu tors or either of them to demand and call in the £300 due me on the mortgage of George M. Haliburton or to assign and sell the same with the monies due and payable thereon to any 304 THE BRISTOL FALES FAMILY
Persons inclined· to vest their money on such good security and increased with part of the monies in my Son Williams hands to pay the first bequest as aforesaid and after the decease of both Parents to pay the residue of said Nine hundred and Eighty two Pounds £491 to Abigal Fales pursuant to the intention of my said Daughter Campbell as above expressed in her said Will. Item having promised my Farm N° 31 in the Township of Rawdon to my Son William in satisfaction of Forty Pounds which he paid to Benjamin Dewolf Esquire and other monies by him advanced for me. And as he has hitherto neglected to draw the Deed thereof I do therefore Devise the said Farm N° Thirty one containing nearly six hundred Acres of Land (in his Possession now being) unto my Son W. H. 0. Haliburton his Heirs and Assigns. To have and to hold the same unto him his Heirs and Assigns for ever. Item after Just Debts and Funeral expences paid, all other my Estates Real and Personal whether in Possession remainder Reversion or expectance not herein before disposed of I give devise and bequeath the same unto my beloved Wife Luscanna Haliburton, To her her Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for ever.
Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint the Reverend Wil liam Colsel King of Windsor Clerk and my Son W. H. 0. Hali burton of Windsor Esquire to be executors of this my last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking and annulling all other and former Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twentieth Day of April A D. one thousand Eight hundred and Sixteen. WILLS AND INVENTORIES 305
Signed Sealed published and Signed declared by the said William W. Haliburton [SEAL] Haliburton as and £or his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto set our Names as Witnesses thereunto in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other Joseph Sentell Alexander Rickards James W Chandler
INDEX
INDEX
AEOYNE APPLETON Lord 165 Thomas Gold 136 ADAMS APTHORP Chester 87 Miss 91 John 26, 266 ARCHIBALD President John 127 Hon. S. G. W. 183 Samuel 26 AR.RAN Thomas 26 Earl of 94, 202 ADEE ATHEARN Alexander 83 George 81, 82, 85 AK.IN ATHELING :Benjamin 36 Edgar 163 ALDEN ATKINSON Elizabeth 225, 237, 240 William P. 301 John 221, 222, 225, 237 ATWOOD John Eaton 3 2 Charles R. 63, 64, 65, 111 Leonard 16 AVERY Samuel Fales 16 Ann 177 ALLEN Ann (Cushman) 177 Catherine (Fales) 114 Robert 177 George W. 110 Robert 27 Samuel 114, 115 BACHE Sarah 27 Evelin Bradford 24 ALLIN Evelin (Coggeshall) 54 Capt. Thomas 71 Henry Wood 54 ANDREWS BAILY Ebenezer T. 86 Edward 27 310 INDEX
BAKER BAYARD Alfred Gustavus 109, 143, Maria 105 301 Maria Sanby 185, 284 Mrs. Alfred Gustavus 143 Dr. Samuel 105, 186, 284 Anne Henrietta Rush 143 Col. Samuel Vetch 186 Dr. George Fales 108, 143 BEALE BALDWIN Elizabeth Jane 106, 138, 225, E.T. 144 226, 228-245, 247 BALLANTYNE Harriet 142 James & Co. 164 John 141, 226 BALLOU Joseph 138, 141, 226 Henry Green 11 o Margaret (McDowell) 138 BANCROFT Thomas 226 Hon. George 135 William 141, 226 BARDIN BELCHER Nathan 78 Andrew 256 BARING-GoULD Rev. Joseph 29, 46 Sabine 11 BELKNAP BARNARD Rev. Jeremy 176 Deborah 254 BELL Mathew 24 Miss 215 BARNEY BENNET Elisha 45 Rev. Joseph 178 Jacob 70 Hon. Massadore 7 6 Mary (Danforth) 7 o BENT BARSTOW Samuel Arthur 91, 92 Benjamin 123 BENTLEY Charles 41, 2 66 Rev. Dr. William 124 BAUR BETHAM* 191 Andrew 303 BETHUNE BAXTER Dr. George Amory 92 Lemuel 115 BILLINGS Patience (Fales) 1 14 Capt. Joseph 172 Seth, Jr. 114, 115 BLAKE Seth R. 115 Francis A. 118 BAYARD Samuel 43 Catherine (Van Horne) 186 Susannah 46 Henrietta Cooper 18 5, 186 Susannah (Fales) 47
* The name here and in the text given Betham should probably be William Beetham. This painter exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, from 1834 to 1853. See" Royal Academy Exhibitors, 1769-1904," Vol. I, p. 166. INDEX 311
BOSWORTH BRADFORD Abigail 109 Daniel 51, 56, 60, 62, 109, Benjamin 61, 78, 109 156, 225, 227, 237, 240, Jeremiah 80 242, 276 Lydia M. 62, 109 Dorothy (May) 2 2 1 Mary (Fales) 259 Elizabeth 53, 56, 61, 62, 156, Nancy 80 225,227,229,230,231,235, Nathaniel 76 237,240,244,246,247 Orrin L. 147 Gershom 62, 225, 227, 237, ·Sarah 80 240, 242, 243 William 44, ~58, 259 Harriette Turner 53, 54 BoURN John 283 Benjamin 68, 78 Capt. Leonard Jarvis 54, 60 Mary 69, 113 Mary (Reynolds-Church) 56, Mr. 100 156, 225, 227, 237, 240, Ruth (Waldron) 113 242 Shearjashub 59, 67, 113, Priscilla 156 276 Samuel 62, 227, 242, 243 BOUTINEAU Sarah (Turner) 5 4 Joseph 182 William 227 Susannah 182 Governor William 54, 61, 128, Susannah (Faneuil) 182 221, 222, 227 BoWDOIN Deputy Governor William 61, James 26 227, 242 BOWEN BRECK James 115 Samuel 94, 204 John W. 79 BRENTON Joseph 1 14, 1 1 5 Susannah 179 Martha (Fales) 114 BREWER Sarah 53, 67 Gardner 92 BOWNE BRIDG-HAM Gilbert W. 197 Eliza Ann (Fales) 1 o 5, 133, BRACKETT 134, 140, 18 5, 287' 288, Abigail 32 297,300 Eliza Haliburton 134 Ebenezer 32 Elizabeth (Paine) 133, 269 BRADBURY Henry 134 Charles 86 Ida Florence 134 BRADFORD James W. 53, 269 Alice (Carpenter-Southworth) Joseph 134, 296 61, 222 Gen. Samuel Willard 133 312 INDEX
BRIDGHAM CAMPBELL Samuel Willard, Jr. 105, 106, Archie 216 133, 140, 284, 287, 288, Charlotte (Haliburton) 1 1 7, 294,298,301,302 302-304 Samuel Willard, 3rd 134, 296 Daniel 177 William Haliburton 134, 296 John 302 BRIGGS CARD Daniel 266 John 172 BRINLEY Jonathan 17 1 George 92 Jonathan, Jr. 172 BRISTED Mrs. Jonathan 171, 172, Rev. John 145 207 BRITTAINE CAREW Isabel 240 Mary 24, 46 BROCK CARLTON Anne 15, 16, 20, 21 Emelyn 147 Elizabeth 16, 2 o, 2 1 George A. 147 Henry 15, 16, 19, 20, 21 CARTWRIGHT John 19 Charles W. 86 Rev. John 15, 20, 2:1 CARVER BROWN Jonathan 36 Joseph 79 CARY Mr. 164 Abigail 49 Samuel 87 Allen 259 William James 1 2 o Mrs. Ann (Pearse) 49 BULFINCH Col. Nathaniel 49 Charles 90-92 CHAMBLETT Ellen Susan 9 1 Abraham 256 BURGESS CHANDLER John 283 Elizabeth 18 2 BURGOYNE James W. 305 Tamar 141, 226 Col. Joshua 181, 182 BURKE Ensign Thomas 182 Edmund 126 William 182 BURT CHAPIN Rev. John 59, 77, 156 Josiah 253 BURTI CHASE William 266 Caroline (Fales) 114 Mervin B. 114, 115 CAMP CHATHAM Rev. Dr. 138 Earl of 126 INDEX .313
CHAUNCY COGGESHALL Charles 26 Elizabeth B. 105, 108, 284 CHEEVER Evelin Bradford 54 Thomas 43 Hannah Fales 269 CHILD Harriette Turner( Bradford) 54 Col. Sylvester 157 Governor John 53 Mrs. Sylvester 157 John M. 60, 76 CHILTON Nathaniel 53, 54 James 221, 222, 229 Samuel 283 Mary 222, 229, 246 Sarah Leonard Bradford 54 CHIPMAN Thomas I. 276, 282 Jared Ingersoll 18 3 William 53, 62, 269 John 43 COGSWELL CHURCH Dr. Joseph Greene 135 Benjamin B. 110 COLLINS Charles 258 Charles 78 Constant 156 COLMAN Edward 78 Rev. Benjamin 161 Hannah 258 COLSTON Mary F. 105, 284 Charlotte i:95 Mary P. 108 CONOLLY Mary (Reynolds) 156, 225, Rev. H. L. 185 227,237,240,242,243 CONYERS Peter 52, 59, 108, 276, 278, Helen L. 147 283 COOK Sarah 267 Col. John 71 Thomas 58, 60, 113, 276 Sarah 53, 63 CHURCHMAN COOLIDGE Ann 243 Joseph 93 CLAP, CLAPP COOPER 162 Allen 203 COPE Joshua 253 Catherine 226 Otis 203 CORSE Priscilla 94 Catherine (Ketchum) 151 Thomas 13, 29, 251 Israel, Jr. 151 William 203 Margaret Ketchum 142, 151, COBB 225,226, 228-245, 247 Sally 112 CoTTING Thomas 40, 112, 260-262, 266 C. E. 106 COGGESHALL COTTON Ann (Fales) 277 Rev. Nathaniel 43, 258 314 INDEX
COWARD DAY Caroline 300 Albert 186 Edward 148 Lilla A. 186 Edward Fales 147-149 DEAN Edward Fales, Jr. I 49 Abigail 266 Eleanor Josephine Fales 149 Elijah 266 Thomas Ridgway 149 DE BLOIS CRANE William 93 Capt. 209, 210 DE LES DERNIER CROCKER Anna Maria 17 o Charles Gordon 149 Harriet 170 CUNARD Peter Francis Christian 170 Alice Mary 19 2 DESCHAMPS Cyril Grant 192 George 178 Ernest Haliburton 19 2 Isaac 169, 176, 178 Sir Samuel 192 Mrs. 209 Susan Duffus 192 DE WOLF, D'WOLF William 192 Abigail ( Potter) 12 1 William Samuel 192 Balthazar 12 2 CUSHING Benjamin 93, 172, 202, 217, Thomas 43 3o4 CUTLER Charles 122 Dr. John 168 Eliza Amelia 2 02 Pliny 86 Henry 276 CUTTING James 78, 79 Judge Jonas 67 Levi 74 CUYLER Mark Anthony 119, 121 Mary (Willard) 167 Parnell (Kirtland) 172 Rachel (Otis) 94,202,215 Rachel Otis 202 DAMON Sarah Hersey Otis 2 02 Mary 25, 47 Simeon 172 DANFORTH Simon 122 Rev. Samuel 70 William 59 DANIELS DEXTER Joseph 16 Edith Toplifi (Todd) 15 1 DAVIS Ellen Owen 151 Benjamin 182 Lewis 151 Judge 124 Rev. Samuel 46, 47 Nicholas Daniell 19 2 DIMAN, DIMOND Susanna (Francklin) 182 Abigail 77, 121 INDEX 315
DIMAN, DIMOND EATON Abigail Munro 12 1 William 32 Hon. Byron 12 1 EDDY Dorothy (Fales) 267 Capt. Peletiah 45 Jeremiah 12 1 EDES Jonathan 52, 57, 157, 267 Misses 101 Mrs. Jonathan 10, 157 ELDER DIXON Mary Ann 146 Frederic M. 1 5o ELLERY Frederic M., Jr. 150 William 3 7, 49 DONNELL ELLIS J.C. 299 Mrs. Abigail 167 DORDIN Dr. Edward 162, 167-170, Capt. Peter Jacob 169 173, 175, 176 DORR Elizabeth 167, 169, 170 Joseph 43 Elizabeth (Pemberton) 167 DORTON Maria r67, 169 Mrs. 209 Dr. Robert 167 DOUGLAS Sarah 167, 169 Eleanor 46 Rev. William 2 15 DRAKE 168 Mrs. William 2 15 DUNLAP EMERY Andrew 105, 123-127, 286 James W. 198 Mrs. Andrew 105, 127, 140, Martha E. 198 286 ENDICOTT James 123 Hon. John 48 James Andrew 128 ERROLL Samuel Fales 127, 298 Countess of 93 Sarah (Stone) 123 Earl of 203 DURYEA EVERET, EVERETT Gen. Harmanus B. 197 Israel 256 Harmanus B. 197 Mary 48 Pierrepont Haliburton 197 FAIRBANKS EASTBURN Jonathan 11, 12 Bishop Manton 92 Jonathan, Jr. 153 EASTERBROOKS FALES Crawford 283 Abby Bosworth 1 1 o EATON Abigail 25-27, 32, 70 Abigail (Brackett) 24, 32 Abigail (Diman) 122 Dr. Arthur Wentworth H. 159 Abigail (Finney) 7 6 316 INDEX
FALES FALES Abigail (Haliburton) 1 o 5, r 06, Lieut. Decoursey I 5 2 123,128,133,134,303,304 DeCoursey, Jr. 152 Abigail (Robbins) 27 Dolly 55, 268 Agnes 148 Dorothea 52 Alethea 44, 5 2 Ebenezer 18, 19, 22, 28-31, Alethea (Paine) 36, 41, 43, 49, 251, 252 2:$8 Edmond 74, 75, 121 Alexander Griswold 62, 109, Edward Gray 117 110, 144 Edward Pope 67 Allen Usher 15 o Edward Spaulding 147, 148 Almira 67 Edward Taylor 122 Ameratia 54, 79 Eleanor 47 Ann, Anne, and Anna 1 7, 19, Eliphalet 31 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 62, Eliza or Elizabeth 27, 31, 39, 80, 251-253 40, 41, 44-46, 53, 66, 69, Ann (Pearse-Cary) 52 79, 152, 155, 260, 261 Ann (Rush) 108, 143 Eliza Ann c 06, 133 Ann (Russell) 67 Elizabeth (Bradford) 59, 61, Benjamin 30, 31 62, 81, 107, 109, II0 Betsey 66, 77 Elizabeth (Gardner-Thomas) Betsey Bradford 76 39, 4 2 , 44, 257-2 59 Bradford 62, 109 Elizabeth Jane (Beale) 1 o 5, Caroline 115 141 Caroline Danforth 1 I 7 Elizabeth (Wardwell) 77, 79, Caroline Sophia 149 120 Catherine 115 Ellen Dexter ·15 2 . Charles 56, 62, 100, 108-110, Ellen Susan r 48 144,148, 276-279, 283 Ellen Whitney 144 Charles Joseph Ernest 120, Emma Carlton 150 150 Ernest Edmond 150 Charles Winthrop 144 Fannie 115 Charlotte 74, 76 Fanny Maria 66, 67 Charlotte M. 75 Fidelia 76 Daniel 25, 26 Frances 110 David 16, 23, 25, 47, 48, 153, Frances Mary 105, 106 254, 2 55 Frederick Nathaniel 144 Deborah 23, 24, 29-32, 254, George 62, 83, 107-109, 143, 2 59 277, 297, z98, 302 Deborah (Fisher) 31-33, 46, George Augustus 1 1 o 47 George Henry 12 o INDEX . 317
FALES FALES Haliburton 92, 97, 99, 103, John Williams 67 105, 106, 134-140, 142, Jonathan 30, 31, 44, 54, 58, 151, 185, 219, 220, 223, 68, 77, 79, 256-258, 266 22 5, 2 2 6, 228-245, 247, Joseph 25, 26, 77 284,286,290,291,297-302 Joseph Henry 122 Haliburton, Jr. 104, 142, 151, Joseph Jackson 7 7 185, 2 25, 226, 228-245, Josephine Bristed 149, 157 2 47 Joshua 33, 252 Haliburton, 3rd 15 1 Julia Ann 69 Mrs. Haliburton 141,142,151, Lemuel 69, 114, 115, 283 Mrs. Haliburton, Jr. 151 Lena 116 Hannah z2, 27, 53, 79 Leonora Francesca 149 Hannah (Drury) 12 o Lewis Rush 109 Hannah ( Peck) 5 4, 7 7 Lydia 74 . Hannah (Reynolds) 55, 56 Lydia Bosworth 110 Hannah (Smith) 71-73, 116, LydiaM.(Bosworth)110, 144 118 Lydia Smith 7 5 Hannah Vaughn 114, 115 Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta Harriet Munro i: 50 :coo, IOI, i:06, I2J Harriet (Sisson) 12 1 Margaret 32 Harriot Little 66, 67 Martha 22, 115 Harrison Colby 148 Martha B. (Wilson) 157 Harry :r16 Martha (Finney) 75, 76, 121 Hattie S. 113 Martha Gibbs 7 7 Henrietta Rush 109, 142 Mary 22, 27, 31, 44, 47, 53, Henry 73, 77, 79, 80,121,122 69, 80, I 13, I 14 Henry DeWolf 77 Mary Abby 122 Howard 148, 157 Mary Almy 147, 149, 157 Isaac 74 Mary Ann 110, 115, 144 James 9, 11-21, 23-26, 28, Mary Ann Frances 11 o 3o-33,46,47,76, 129, 153, Mary Ann (Gray) 117 154,230, 251-256 Mary (Bourn) 1oo, 113, 144, James Gibbs 76 :r46 James l\f. 114 Mary (Carew) 47 James Martin 1 16 Mary (Damon) 48 Jane Minot 117 Mary Marshall 109 Jemima 27 Mary Reynolds 62 John 16, 2 1, 2 5, 26, 5.3, 60, Mary (Smith) 74, 119, 120 68, 7 5, 76, 121, 269 Mary Turell 117 Rev. John 10 Melvina S. 113 318 INDEX
FALES FALES Nancy r6, 62 Samuel ( son of Haliburton) Nancy C. 77, 79 140, 142, 185, 300 Nathaniel 37, 41, 43, 44, 48- Samuel(son of Haliburton3d) 52, 65, 67-7°, 73, 76, 77, 152 81,109,112, 133,155,156, Mrs. Samuel (of Boston) 82, 229-231, 235, 241, 244, 9 4, 9 5' 9 7' 9 9' l O 2' I O3' 246~ 254, 257, 258, 260, 157' 200, 205 266-269, 271,272 Samuel Bradford 104-r 06, Nathaniel, Jr. 53, 56-59, 61- 128, 130-133, 179, z89, 63, 107,109,225,227, 229- 298-301 231,235,237' 240-244, 246, Samuel Sheffield 114, 1 15 247,276,278,279,283 Samuel & Company 84 Col.Nathaniel 69, 7 o, 110-112 Samuel, Heirs of 23 Mrs. Nathaniel 23, 75,156 Sarah 29-31, 46, 48, 52, 56, Nathaniel Bradford 144 66, I 12 Nathaniel E. 113 Sarah Ann 68 Nathaniel Little 63, 110 Sarah ( or Susan) Ann 76 Nehemiah 23, 24, 46-48, 153, Sarah (Bowen) 68, 113, 114 2 54, 2 55 Sarah (Cook) 65, 66, 110 Nicholas 80 Sarah E. 112 Patience Carr 1 1 5 Sarah (Little) 52, 55, 56, 58, Peter 16, 22, 26, 27 63, 67, 7o, 73, 75, IIO Peter, Jr. 154 Sarah (Metcalf) 48 Phebe D. 79 Seraphina Wardwell 120 Phebe (Wardwell) 119, 146, Silence 23, 254 150 Smith Bowen 114, 1 15 Priscilla 6 2 Sophia Bourn 1 I 3 Rebecca 79 Stephen 23, 24, 32, 33, 43, 53, Robert 68 70-73, 93, 94, 116, 118, Sally 55, 268 2 54, 2 55, 2 69 Sally W. 112 Stephen, Jr. 32, 118 Samuel 15, 16, 24, 44, 46-48, Mrs. Stephen 93 2 54 Stephen Smith74,119,146,150 Judge Samuel of Taunton 35, Susan Maria 103, 105, 106, 40,53,63-66,268,270-272 286,287 Samuel of Boston 62, 81-go, Susanna (Turell) 117 92, 93, 95-98, 100-107, Susannah 47 I 23, I 28, 133, 134, 139, Susannah (Searls) 47 174, 225, 228-245, 247, Thomas 53, 56, 60, 67-69, 277' 284, 2 9 1 - 2 93, 3o3 75, 78,114,268 INDEX 319
FALES FIELDS Capt. Thomas 113, r 4-5 Henry 126 Rev. Thomas Frederic 113, FIGG I 14, 144-146 Amy or Naomi 161 Mrs. Thomas Frederic 146 FINNEY Thomas James 1 2 o Martha 53, 7 5 Thomas Jefferson 114, 116 FISHER Timothy 23, 24, 33-46, 49- Anthony 24, 230 51, 53, 55, 56, 59, 76, 80, Deborah 21, 23, 24, 230 I 12, I 54,230,241,254, 2 56, J. 85 261,262,267,268,270 Joanna (Faxon) 24 Timothy, Heirs of 60, 67, 68 Josiah 154 William 53, 69, 73, 74, 79, Capt. Lewis z 08-2 1 1 119-121, 146, 147, 157, Mary 24 268,269,302,303,305 Philip Adsit 24 William, Jr. 74, 120 FISKE Mrs. William 146, x47 Mary 230 William Augustus ;r., 73, 94, FORBES 116 Elisha 266 William Brc1dford 1 2 1 FORTUN William C. 114, 115 Jose Martinez 147, 149 William Edward 14-7 Mrs. Jose Martinez 149 William Edward Sanford 148 Martica Fales 149 FALES & ATHEARN 81, 82 FOSTER FALES & KEITH 8 3 Mary 201 FALES & SEABURY 64, 6 5 Fox "FALES" Hon. Col. Charles x90 Ben 37 FRANCISCUS London 37, 45, 46 Imogene Corinne 148 Reuben 51 FRANCKLIN Rosanna 114 Ann 183 Sambo 37, 38, 51, 258 Elisha 276 FANEUIL Elizabeth Mauger 183 Benjamin 182 George S. G. 183 FARRINGTON James Boutineau 183 Jonathan, Jr. 46, 47 John Robinson 183 Mary 46 Joshua Mauger 183 FAXON Mary Phillipps 183 Joanna 230 Lt. Gov. Michael 182 FEARING Michael Nickleson 183 Mary 233 Sarah Nickleson 183 320 INDEX
:FRANCKLIN GODDARD Susannah 183 Thomas A. 92 Susannah (Boutineau) 182 GoDFREY FRASER George 42 Catherine 203 Richard 44 James 197, 202, 203 GOODWIN Mrs. James 203 Ichabod 198 Sarah Rachel 2 02 GORE FREEMAN Hon. Charles Stephen 94, 2 oz Rev. James 93 Mrs. Charles Stephen 2 03 FRENCH GoRHAM Lydia Smith (Fales) 75 Isaac 34 Capt. Zechariah 7 5 Dr. John 129 FULLER GOWEN John 32 Elizabeth 2 1 Robert 21 GRANT GALE Major Alexander 181 Amos 178 Mrs. Alexander 18 2 Charles 178 Cyril R. 70 Charles Pinkney 178, 180 Lucy C. 181 Enoch 178 Sarah (Kent) 181 Martha 178 GRAY Mary 178, 193 Anna 120 GAMAL Edward 116,117,229,231,246 Anne 19 Mary Ann 73, 116 GARDINER Pardon 59, 61, 276 _Dr. Sylvester 145 Sarah 229, 231, 235, 244, 246 GARDNER Dr. Thomas 117 Rev. James 38, 155, 257 William 93 Mrs. James 155 GREENE Thomas 115 Thomas 78 GILL GRINDALL Benjamin 27 Archbishop 70 Moses 87 GRISWOLD GILPIN Bishop A. V. 145 Rev. Dr. Edwin 193 Gertrude (Brinley) 193 HALIBURTON Hon. Henry D. 129 Abigail 62, 93, 95, 97, 170, GLADDING 171, 177, 211, 225, 228- I{enrietta 144 245, 247' 302 INDEX 321
HALIBURTON HALIBURTON Lord Alexander 16 4, 165 John 165, 180 Alexander Fowsden 192 John Gustavus 17 7 Alfred Andrew 197 John Gustavus Peoples 186, Alfred Fales 185, 186, 196 196, 197 Alfred Francis 197 John Olive r8o Amelia Mackay 19 3 John Plant r97 Amelia Maria 197 John William 194 Amy or Naomi 174 Laura Charlotte 192 A,.ndrew 161-167, 174, 179, Laura Cunard 195 181, 187, 197, 199, 232, Lewis 192 234, 236, 238, 245 Capt. Louis 19 5 Andrew, Jr. 170, 171 Louisa 196 Mrs.· Andrew 162, 164, 167- Lucy 205, 206, 209,213,215, 169 217,302 Lord Arthur 93, 95, 99, 160, Lusannah Hamilton 176 1 93, 194 Lusannah (Otis) 93, 94, 97, Arthur John 197 172,213,303 Augusta Louisa Neville 19 2 Maria 195 Betsy 174 Maria Sanby 186 Catherine 186 Marion Frances 197 Charles W.R. 185 Mary 170, 174, 180, 198 Charlotte 176, 177, 205-209, Mary Alfreda 197 211, 214 Mary Ann 186, 187 Douglas 197 Mary Isabella 19 5 Edward 197 Mary Letitia 195 Elizabeth 180, 188, 197 Mary P. 198 Ella Frances 19 7 Mordaunt Plant 197 Emma Maria 192 Priscilla r 7 r Frances 197 Robert Grant 193 George 95, 102 Rooksby or Ruxby 170, 174 George Mordaunt 105,298,303 Samuel 197 Georgiana 82, 83, 87, 90, 99, Sarah 174 105, 284 Sarah Ann 198 Henrietta W. 186 Sarah Ann (Manning) 187 Hersey Otis 19 5 Rev. Simon 165 Horatio Henry 197 Susan Hamilton 198 Isabella r 7 r Susanna 195 James Loup 195 Susanna Lucy Ann 191 James Pierrepont 187, 188, Thomas 163, 164, 191 197, 198 Thomas Andrew 185,187,196 322 INDEX
HALIBURTON HATHAWAY Judge Thomas Chandler 92, Celinda 76 94, 95, 97, 98, l 29, 166, HAUGH 184, 188-191, 197 Rev. Samuel 20 Thomas H. 186 HAVEN Walterus de 129 Dr. George 198 William 93, 163-166, 170, George Wallis 198 172-176, 178, 195, 202, Susan Hamilton 198 213, 232-234, 236, 238, HAWES 2 39, 2 45, 3oz,3o3, 3o5 Abigail 21, 25 William, Jr. 176 Eliony (Lumber) 25 Mrs. William 103 HAWKE Mary 233 2 William Frederick Neville 19 HAWTHORNE William Hersey Otis 94, 103, Nathaniel 18 5 176, 181, 183, 194, 211, HAYS 3o3, 3o4 Dr. Joseph C. 114 William Hersey Otis, Jr. 18 5, HAZARD 186 Hon. Nathaniel 66 William Neville 191 HEATH William Plant 197 MajoI 57 HALL Robert F. S. 301 Andrew I. 286 Winchester 79 . Benjamin F. 293 HERSEY Samuel L. 144 Elizabeth 233 liALLIBUltTON James 200, 233 Dr. John 179 Mary (Hawke)- 200 HAMILTON Rachel 199,200,233,239 Capt. Frederick 17 1 William 233 HAMMOND 203 HIND HANCOCK Dr. Henry Youle 173 John 26 HODGES HANSON Hon. James L. 67 Alice 227 HOLLAND HARDING Mercy 162 Benjamin 283 HOPE !I.ARRIS Mrs. 168 Clara 195 HOUGR'I'ON Sarah 201 John 11, 12 HART HOWARD Rescom 78 Rev. Leland 1 1 2 INDEX 323
HOWE JENCKES M.A. DeWolfe 135 Florence Madeline 134 HOWLAND JENKINS Frederic 55 Mary 141, 226 Hannah 55 JENNESS John 276 Ann (McClintock) 180, 181 Nathaniel 5 5 JOHNSON HOYT James 86 Col. Albert H. 43, 118 }ONES HUBBARD George F. 301 Judge 33 HUMPHREY KEITH George W. 14-16, 154 John H. 82 Jonas 48 KENMORE Sarah 47 Malcolme 163 HUNT David 11S KILBY Thomas 168 HUNTER KING James 170 Claude 195 Mary 170 Rev. William Colsel 304 Richard r70 KINNICUTT HUNTTING Thomas 260, 267 Ebenezer 2 53 KNAPP James 260, 261 Josiah 84 253 John KUHN HUTCHINSON George H. 293 Governor 73
LA CROIX INGRAHAM Caroline 11 o, 144 William 53 LA FAYETTE General 90 JACKSON LAMB President Andrew 124 George 117 }ACOB George Whitefield 1 1 7 Mary 199, 234, 238, 239 Jane 117 Nicholas 199 LANDOR JEFFERSON Walter Savage 190 Thomas 127 LAW JEFFRIES William Henry 142 Mary 171 William Henry, Jr. 142 324 INDEX
LAWRENCE LOCKE Amos 92 Rev. George L. 5 4 LEARNED LOCKHART Erastus 67 John Gibson 16 3 LEE LONGFELLOW Thomas, Jr. 92 Henry W. 185 LEONARD LOTHROP Apollos 44 Zebediah 107, 295, 299 Ephraim 35, 36 Loup George 35, 36, 262 Christina Maria 184 Dr. George 66 LOWELL Nathaniel 266 John 92 LEWIS LUTHER Alfred Gustavus Baker 143 Adaline F. 115 John Frederick 143 LYON John Frederick, Jr. 143 Alexander 177,211,213, 215- Rachel 141 217 Winslow 89 Mrs. Alexander 2 12-2 14, 2 16, LINCOLN 217 Mary 94 Archie 215 Seth 278 Peter, Jr. 27 William 201 LINDSAY Mr. 165 MACSPARRAN Nancy 76 Rev. Dr. 169 LITTLE MALONEY Edward 23, 49, 229, 235, 244, Capt. 176 246 MANCHESTER Ed ward B. 133 Isaac 78 Ephraim 199, 236, 245 MANNING Rev. Gilbert 108 Margaret (Purcell) 18 7 Jacob 133 Sarah Ann 187 Mary (Sturtevant) 199 Capt. Thomas 187 Mary (Walker) 49 MANSFIELD Mercy 199, 234, 236, 238, 239, Sir John 70 2 45 MARCHMONT Samuel 229, 231, 235, 244, Earl of 166 246 MARKES Sarah 43, 49, 229-231, 235, William 258 241,244,246 MARKHAM Thomas 235, 236, 244, z45 Edward L. 1 1 o INDEX 325
MARLBOROUGH MILL.5 Duke of 162 John Beale 142 MARSHALL William 140, 142 Mary 108 Dr. William, Jr. 138, 142 MARTIN MITCHELL John 31 Clarence Blair 152 MASON Dorothy Mildred 15 2 Charles 69 Lucy Mildred (Matthews) George C. 104 152 Jeremiah 92, 118 MOORE Lieut. John 40 Helen Marie 19 5 Joseph 68, 276 Herbert 195 Mr. 260 MORAN Robert Fales 69 Edward 136 MATHER MORRIS Dr. Cotton 19, 20 Hon. Charles 176 MAxFIELD MORSE David 76, 282 Benjamin 27 James 282 Daniel 28 Martha F. 76 MULLANE MAYO George :173 John Black 120 MULLINS MCCLINTOCK Alice 222 Ann 180 Priscilla 221, 222, 225, 237 Caroline 180 William 221, 222, 237 Ella 195 MUNRO, MUNROE Emily 180, 181 Annie Fales 62, 105, 284 McDOWELL Bradford F. 297 Margaret 141, 226 Edmund 86 McLEAN Elizabeth (Fales) 277 Hector 173 Elizabeth B. 108 MERRIAM Hezekiah 62, 108, 277, 283 Nathaniel 288-.290, 296 Hezekiah, 2nd 7 5 METCALF John 283 Margaret 32 Joseph 58, 7 5 Sarah 25, 47 Thomas K. 68, 7 5 Thomas 47 Prof. Wilfred H. 119 MILLER William 120, 259 Elizabeth 17 2 MURDOCH Col. Nathan 57, 71 Beamish 183 326 INDEX
NELSON OTIS Margaret H. 146 James 26, 129, 200, 203 Margaret Preston 1 I 4, 14 5 Job 161, 199, 200, 201, 234, NEVILLE 236,238,239,245 Capt. Lawrence 188 Job, Jr. 199 Louisa 188 John 199,238,239 NICHOLS John, Jr. 199, 234 Thaddeus 87 Joseph 203 NORRIS Lusannah 93, 172, 175, 202, Benjamin 79 232-234,236,238,239,245 Lydia 72, 73, 204 OGDEN Margaret 199 Rev. Mr. 215 Mary 199, 201 OLIPHANT Mercy 199, 200 Andrew 170 Mercy (Little) 161, 199, 200 0LLYVER Priscilla 199, 200, 203 Magdalene 246 Rachel 93, 172, 202, 203 ORMSBEE Rachel (Hersey) 72, 93, 172, Capt. Ezra 56, 71 200 OTIS Richard 109 Abigail 94, 161, 162, 199, Ruth 94, 199, 200, 203 203, 232, 234, 236, 238, Samuel Alleyne 200 2 45 Sarah 199 Alice 199 Sarah (Harris) 205 Ann 199 Thankful 199 Anna 72, 204 OWEN Amy 201 William Mostyn 189 Billings 102, 204 Oxx Charles 94, 200, 202, 203 Samuel 78 Daniel 201 David 199 David Harris 201 PABODIE Ephraim 72, 93, 94, 129, 172, Elizabeth 243 175, 199-202, 233, 239 John 240 Dr. Ephraim 94, 200, 205 Priscilla 225, 237, 240 Ephraim, 3rd 201 William 225, 237, 240 George Alexander 94, 116 PACK.ARD 201,205 Thomas & Gowen 84 Hannah 199 PADELFORD Harrison Gray 200 Sarah K. 66, 111 Judge James 200 Judge Seth 45, 111 INDEX 327
PAINE PERRY Alethea 24, 33, 230, 241 Rev. Calbraith B. 1 2 2 Asa Warren 7 1 PETERS Comfort 77 Mary 197 Dorothy ( Rainsford) 34, 41 Susan Hamilton 197 Elizabeth (Fales) 269 PIERREPONT John 7 5, 76 Harriet P. 198 Nathaniel 241 PITMAN Hon. Nathaniel 33, 36, 41 Benjamin 78 Robert Treat 42, 65, 261 John 124 Samuel R. 60 PLANT Stephen 41, 42, 53, 241 Elizabeth 196 Thomas 42 Samuel 196 PARKER POMEROY Rev. J. N. 144 Mary 67 Samuel 13, 14 Rev. Swan Lyman 67 John, Jr. 92 PORTER PARKMAN Benjamin F. 110 Dr. Samuel 9 z POTTER PARKS Jeremiah Miles 67 Rev. Dr. Leighton 145 PRESCOTT PARSONS Harriet ( de Les Dernier) 1 7o Anthony 83 William Pepperrell 17 o PATE Robert 171 QUINCY PAUL Mr. 216 Ebenezer· 16 PECK RAINSFORD Hannah 44 Dorothy 241 Henry 283 Jonathan 41 Horace 283 RANDALL Martha 69, 70 Samuel 283 Nicholas 60, 76 RAYMOND PECKHAM M. D. 117 Mary (Fales) 268 REED Robert 53, 268 John 60 PEOPLES REVERE Maria Cunningham 184 Joseph Warren 9 2 PERKINS REYNOLDS Caroline (McClintock) 180, Anna 297, 301 181 Benjan1in 156, 297 328 INDEX
REYNOLDS ROGERS Hannah 53, 55 Thomas 221, 222, 243 Hannah H. 300, 301 ROYAL Jonathan 61 Isaac 258 Joseph 57, 68, 78 RUSH Kate 297, 301 Ann 62, 107 Samuel 61 Col. Lewis 108 Susannah 156 RUSSELL Thompson 301 John 204 William 78 Jonathan 60, 2 7 1 RICHARDS Hon. Jonathan 73, 94, 205 Alice 61, 227, 242 Joseph 43 Thomas 61, 242 RYERSON RICHARDSON Mary 194 Capt. 216 Jeffrey 92 RICHMOND SANFORD Charles 112 Samuel 84, 85, 271 Lemuel C. 68 William 43 RICKARDS SAWYER Alexander 305 George A. 186, 194 RIDGWAY J. Herbert 162, 179 Mabel 149 SAYLES RIED Henry 92 Susanna 194 SCHERMERHORN RITCHIE Fanny 134 Thomas 183 SCOTT ROBBINS Joseph 271 Abigail 26 Walter 163, 164 Ebenezer 26, 27 Sir Walter 163, 164, 166 Priscilla (Going) 26, 27 SCUDDER William 26, 27 D. 85 ROBIE Horace E. 204 Samuel Bradstreet 18 3 SEABURY ROBINSON John W. 271 Capt. James 123 SEARLS William 266 Susannah 46 ROGERS SEARS Hannah 227, 242, 243 Thomas W. 136 John 43, 2 43 SEAVY Joseph ~22 Hannah 171 INDEX 329
SELLON SMITH Mr. 168 Lucinda 94, 201, 205 SENTELL Lydia 73, 94, 205 Joseph 305 Mary 3 1 , 53, 74 SEWALL Mr. 101, 209 Chief Justice 2 6, i: 54 Nathaniel 78 SHAW Rufus J. 186 Elizabeth A. 11 2 Sarah Augusta Haliburton SHEAFE 192 Abigail 171 SOHIER Jacob 171, zo7, 208, 213 W. D. 291, 293 Jacob, Jr. 215 William 291 Mrs.Jacob 176,177,205,207, SOUTHWORTH 208, 213 Alice (Carpenter) 6 r, 227 James 171 SPARAHAWK SHERMAN Rev. Mr. 258 Joseph 283 SPEAR SHIRLEY Nathan 82 Governor 167 SPOFFORD SILL Harriet Prescott 16 7, 17 o Joseph 299 SPOONER SISSON Ephraim 266 Harriet 74, 1 2 o STACK POOL SLOCUM William 93 Peleg 78 STEARNS SMALL Samuel 255 N. 85 William 183 SMITH STOCKBRIDGE Abiel 72, 94, 102, 103, 203, Elizabeth 200 204 Ruth 200 Mrs. Abiel 93, 94, 1 oo STONE Barney 73, 94, 201, 204, 205 Anstiss 123 Mrs. Barney 93, 94, 201, 204, Anstiss (Babbage) 123 205 Capt. Robert 123 Elizabeth Maria 186 Sarah 123 Hannah 53, 70 STORY Hannah (Barney) 70, 204 Hon. Joseph 124 Henry Barney 94, 2 o 5 STOVER Job 70, 204 Lewis 299, 301, 302 Rev. John Bainbridge 192 STUART Mrs. John Bainbridge 192 Gilbert 104, 2 04, 2 o 5 330 INDEX
STURTEVANT TISDALE Mary 236, 245 J. 85 SUMNER TITCOME Hon. Charles 125, 126 Lieut. Pierson 1 7 o SUTHER Sarah Elizabeth 167, 168, 17 o Bishop Thomas G. 203 TOLBEE SWAN Edward 78 Adeline 16 TOMPSON Joseph, Jr. 16 Mrs. zro SWEIT TOWNSEND Samuel 93 David 82 TUCKERMAN TABER F. G. 291 William 35 TURELL THAYER Joseph r 17 Nathaniel 286, 288-290 Mary (Morey) 1 r 7 THOMAS Susanna 117 Anna (Tisdale-Leonard) 38 TURNER Mrs. Elizabeth (Gardner) 38 George 213 Hannah 39 TYLER General John 39 Gen. John S. 92 John 266 Lucy 38, 39 UNDERWOOD Nathaniel 38, 39, 257 Elizabeth 187 Nathaniel Ray 202 UPHAM Nathaniel Ray, Jr. 202 Frances Chandler 191 THOMPSON USHER Rev. Otis 76 Allan T. 150 THOMSON John 78 Misses 101 Mary J. 150 THRESHER Susan James 120, 150 Royal 78, 2 78 THROOP VAIL Alethea (Fales) 52, 267 Honorie Guardjulia 134 William 58, 59, 278, 279, 283 VANUXEM William, Jr. 267 Henry 299-302 Capt. William 57, 67, 78 VAUGHN Col. William, Jr. 52 Clarke 276 TILDEN Clark L. 69 Hiram B. 299 Gideon 114 Sarah 203 Hannah 69, 114 INDEX 331
VAUGHN WATTS Julia Ann 69 Mr. 178 Mary Bowen 69 WEBSTER Patience 1 t 4 Daniel 126 Thomas Fales 69 WELD VAWDREY James 84 Parnel 19 WELDON VERNON Haliburton 191 Elizabeth 44 John Wesley 191 WENDELL Oliver 87 WAINWRIGHT WENTWORTH John 43 Lady 93 WALDRON Samuel 93 Benjamin B. 283 WEST Isaac 34 John 66 Joseph 120 Sarah 66 Thomas 121 WHITE WALKER Benjamin F. 92 Hope 105, 284 James B. 283 Hope P. 108 John 266 Mary 229, 231, 235, 244, 246 Mary 48 WALTER ;Rev. Orlando Henry 67 Rev. Increase 4.3 Samuel 35 WANTON WHITING Elizabeth 49 Jeremiah, Jr. 32 WA.RD WHITNEY Artemas 190 George 87 WARDWELL WHITWELL . Elizabeth 54, 77 Benjamin 84 John 77, I 13 William 84 Misses 146 WIGHT Phebe 74, 1 19 Rev. Henry 58, 113, 114 Samuel 60 WILBORE WARREN Benjamin 40, 260, 266 Anne 235, 236, 244, 245 Joshua 266 Richard 221, 222, 244, 245 WILKINS WASHINGTON Judge Lewis M. 196 General George 206 WILLARD WATMOUGH · Daniel 167 Capt. Edmund 169 Judge Josiah 256 332 INDEX
WILLARD WINSLOW Mary (Mills) 167 Edward 246 WILLIAMS Governor Edward 246 Alexander 196 John 222, 229, 246 Benjamin 44, 267 Kenelm 246 Dorothy 258, 259 Mary 229, 231, 246 Edward Hosier 189 WINTHROP Eliphalet 129 John 26 Elisha 43 Thomas L. 87 James 35, 42, 45, 261 WISWALL Capt. Joseph 172 Rev. Ichabod 225, 237, 246 Sarah Harriet (Owen) 188 Priscilla 225, 227, 237, 240, Simeon 44, 266 242,243 WILSON WOLFE Calvin 146 General 181 James 120 WYATT Rev. John 70 Benjamin 78 Martha Balch 119, 146 s. 78 Submit 146 Walter Sibbald 149 YOUNG Rev. Dr. William 70 Charles L. 8 7