THE DESCENDANTS of Roger Chandler of CONCORD, MASS. 1 6 5 8 Compiled by CHARLES H. CHANDLER Printed by Herald Printing Co. Provo. Utah 1949 THE DESCENDANTS of Roger Chandler of CONCORD, MASS. 1 6 5 8 EXPLA..~ATORY PRE.l<'ACE The publication now of this compilation may be -considered as a mem­ orial to Charles Henry Chandler by his two children, for they are certain that he would well Ji.ke to have it all easily accessible thus to anyone interested. Charles H. Chandler was born at New Ipswich, New H!l!IIlpshire, in 1840, and that was his home until 1868. After attendance at district schools and New Ipswich Appleton Academy, he taught in many smaller or l'arger districts or village schools there or in neigh-boring towns, and in the New Ipswich academy, acting indeed as its principal for the 1864 year while the principal was absent in war service. He then entered Dartmouth College, from which he graduated as class valedictorian in 1868. He was principail of several academies in that region, the last one being St. Johnsbury Academy at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, from the summer of 1869 until early soring of 1871: then he took position as professor of sc:ence or mathematics at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he worked until the summer of 1881. Then he changed to- Ripon College, Ripon, WiscOnsin, where he was professor (and through most of the time also secretary of the faculty) through twenty-five years, until retirement from teaching in 1906. There­ after he resided again usually at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, until his death in March, 1912. (That occurred unexpectedly from heart fail­ ure, without a moment of warning or discomfort, which interupted a pleasant conversation while making a -brief call at the residence of a niece.) In his last few years the New Ipswich Historical Committee •having guaranteed the actual cost of printmg, had persuaded him to undertake voluntarily the compilation of a complete History of New Ipswich, which became abOut eight hundred pages. One-fourth of that related fully tlle history and development of the town, and the "!"emaining three-fourths was intended to give detailed genealogy and personal history of every family that had at least two successive generations of voters resident in N ~w Ipswich. This had entailed much detailed search by him through the town records of many other New England towns also. But when his death interrupted it was found th:at he had the compilations nearly complete, and most of them done in typewritten fo11:n ready for printing office. Therefore ·by spending the following summer at New Ipswich his daugh­ ter Edith Chandler was able (with assistance on some features by mem­ bers of the local committee) to finish in final form the remainin[ sec­ tions, and it all went through the press, appearing as of date 1914. 1.t has often been commended as being among the best of such histories published by any New England town. This explanation shows his experience, accuracy, and efficiency in that type of work. He had always been enthusiastic in genealogic matters, and before 1900, indeed to some extent Jong ,beofre 1890, ha-d in leisure hours begun to collect and put in written form as atuch as he could readily find and verify of the records of his paternal and maternal an-cestors. The earl­ iest of Chandler na:ne proven to be an ancestor was Roger Chandler, who at age about twenty-one years was resident at Concord, Massachu­ setts. in 1658. After 1900, by occasional search""S thro11gh town records an-d .by very ,;nuch correspondence earlier and later with descendants in New Eng­ land or scattered through the continent, he attempted to complete a full list, with genealo~y and hrief biographies. of all the descendants of that Ro_;:er Chandler, both those still of the Chandler name and the others, twice as many, that are children of daughters and therefore now have di-fferent surnames; and also a little concerning the ancestors of each. 2 In 1906 he had himself put ali this in typewritten form, regularly ar­ ranged and like a printed book. And in his last five years he had ob­ tained many further notes or addenda, which he had inserted or in- ~~~ . Thereafter the volume was in the care of his daughter Edith, who made further additions if news of such happened to reach her. This {all she transferred it all to my care, and I have made some few other ad­ ditions, and have now put the whole in regular order, nearly unifOrm and ready for printing. But except for these minor additions by her or myself, as here presented, here it is tn precisely the form chosen -by hiun, and is verbatim as written by him. Of course we are now unable to have it all finally reviewed and checked against inconsistencies or accidental mis­ copyings, as he would himself have enjoyed doing. But apparently he had examined almost every small detail to excellent verification. From a few of the branches he had been una;ble to obtain any in­ formation, or very little; and from some others nothing since about 1895. But in most parts this compilation can properly be considered as complete from the first .American beginnings until about the year 1900. For some of the ,branches it is fairly filled until 1910. Without long effort or repeated correspondence not feasible for us, his daughter and I have not filled it out for the subsequent years, except . for a few small branches. But in case mistakes should be found •by any one in any of our limited later additions, or in some possibly unverified original item, we shall be very glad to be notified of any such corrections. Elwyn F. Chandler. December 1, 1945. My brother prepared this volume and had nearly completed ar­ rangements for its printing and distribution, but illness and death stopped the work for a time. So I am now arranging for its printing and dis-. tribution, where· I hope it will ·be of interest to many. I have not tried to add later data, but I shall be glad to hear of any, or of any corrections. Edith Chandler Rollow, 666 East Center -Street, Provo, Utah March 29, 1949 ABBREVIATIONS AND SYSTEM OF NUMBERING In the short biographies of individuals through this compilation, for •brevity b., m., and d., have regularly been used for ·bom, married, died, Also sometimes when it was definitely known that a person never bad any children, this is indicated by s.p. ("sine prole.") For any one of these, briefly mentioned as one of the children of his parents -but for whom as an individual later in the volume there is an in­ dividual page or long biography, attention is called thereto and it is de­ noted as further following ·by the sign F at righthand. margin of page closing the item first mentioning him. The Chandler family-tree or reference index of a dozen pages at the •beginning of this book gives only first names of each because each was a Chandler; except of course the later names of daughters who married, which are shown with the sign :It:· (Thus, Mary, 2:ttHeald denotes that Mary, 2 married Heald; Elizabeth, 15! Bryant, that Elizabeth, 15 mar­ ried Bryant.) Each Chandler, beginnin,sC with Roger as 1 and. down to 501 on a fin3.l page of the book, was given by the original compiler a personal number so as to assist in cross-consultation fro:n one section to another of this book; such number precedes the nailile of each at its first mention as one of the children in his father's biography, and heads the page of his own biography in a 1ater part of the volume. That number is at- 3 Lac11t!u to his name in the family-tree index. Though a few others of Chandler name in the youngest generation that are listed herein did not happen to be given a personal number because having no iong in­ dividual biography in later part of book; and of course there are a very great num,ber not at all mentioned herein now because born since 1912. Similarly the original compiler assigned personal numbers (with other names than Chandler) to about seven hundred and fifty others who, being descendants of daughters, have other surnames. The most numerous set of these happen to be Fai.rbanks, whose numbers here total 57, ,but there are (besides the five hundred Chandlers) about 113 different ·surnwmes to which he thus assigned sets of persOnal numbers, and there are individuals from a:bout thirty of these who have para­ graph or page-Jength . biographies. The individual paragraph for any one of these is headed at ,middle of page thus: 13 Fair.banks ( 40) to specify that this is number 13 of the Fair­ banks group, ·but descended from Chandler number 40. Thus a,bout twelve hundred and fifty have personal numbers herein. And also an uncounted number (proba,bly a thousand or many more) are included in this compilation though without having been :given personal numbers. They are mentioned as children of those who have individual paragraphs; or some of them are ancestors of those whom the family married. The generation numbers, I.. II., III., down to VIII., are placed at the upper lefthand corner of each page; and also head the columns of the Chandler family-tree. The latest generation any of whose numbers have individual personal biographies written is VIII., the eighth generation.