Chapter V: Front Matter (5)

The following details are published not as being complete, but with the hope that the publication of them may be as a magnet attracting to itself, and thus supplying the wanting links which might otherwise perish from the chain of a family history. Any information, however slight, respecting any of the lines, whether direct or collateral, hereby brought to light, will be welcomed by the author of this article, or the editor of this journal.

We are still in the dark as to the family history of not a few among the first fathers of New England. Much of this darkness might be dispelled were all the written memorials still extant sought out, compared, and committed to the keeping of the art preservative of all arts. Winthrop in his Journal speaks of a letter from the Yarmouth pilgrims to their brethren, with their names, as printed at London in 1630. The instructions to Endecott, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay, were "Keep a daily register in each family of what is done by all and every person in the family."

In Young's Chronicles of Plymouth, (p. 36) and of Massachusetts Bay, (p. 157), lists of names of emigrants are referred to, but the lists themselves are not given.

Notwithstanding several good works upon the Huguenots have recently appeared, much genealogical labor remains to be performed in tracing the lineage of particular families to France, and investigating their condition there before their emigration. I have often sought, though without success, for the records of the Old French Church in Boston, which stood on the site of the Universalist Church in School street.

NOTES.

1. Neither the family name of Stephen Butler's wife nor any other particulars respecting him have been ascertained, except the record of the births of his children, which is extracted from the city registers of Boston, formerly kept in the Old State House. As he became a father in Boston within little more than twenty years after its first settlement, it may be presumed that he was an emigrant from Europe.

2. Benjamin Butler. The different dates in this and similar cases denote the births of different children bearing the same name; the former in all probability died before the birth of the latter.

3. James Butler probably died before 1692, if the Grace Butler, married to Andrew Rankin, April 15th, of that year, by Simon Bradstreet, was his widow.

4. Information as to the kindred of Abigail Eustice may doubtless be found in the public records of Boston.

5. James Butler was a proprietor in a rope-walk at West Boston; was married April 6, 1710, by Rev. E. Pemberton of the Old South. He was probably admitted to the First Church Jan. 24, 1703-4. A folio Bible with Clarke's annotations, now in my possession, as an heirloom from my father and grandfather, bears the name of this James Butler, my grandfather's grandfather, and the date 1713, doubtless written by his own hand.

6. Grace Butler was married Dec. 26, 1706, to Thomas Jackson, by Benjamin Wadsworth, minister of the first church. She had several children, Grace, Thomas, and Elisabeth, and died March 15, 1759.

7. Eliza Butler was admitted to the first church Nov. 25, 1706, and was married to Capt. Ephraim Savage, Jan. 8, 1712. Nothing further is known of her.

8. James Butler was by trade a goldsmith. About 1750 he removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but proving unfortunate in his enterprise, soon returned to Boston. He afterwards lived awhile in Sutton, Ms., but died in Boston, in 1776, aged 63.

9. Although I have abstained from full details of collateral lines, I am constrained to give them respecting Elisabeth Davie, since her line of ancestry is so long.

John Davie of Exeter, Eng. = = Julian Strode.
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John. Mary, = = Humphrey, a London
| merchant.
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John, removed from = = Elisabeth Richards. Ann, d. Sept.
London and settled | 12, 1662.
in Groton, Ms., 1662. |
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(a) John, graduated (b) Humphrey of Mary. William. Elisabeth. Sarah.
at Harvard,1681, Dorchester, = = (c) Hannah Gedney.
became baronet |
in 1713, presented |
books to Yale College. |---------|
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Elisabeth, d. Feb. == (8) James Butler.
15, 1739.

(a) The lineage of this nobleman, his heraldic emblazonings and the like, may be found in Burke's Peerage of England; "vix ea nostra voco."

(b) Humphrey Davie was a captain in the London trade. Hence his daughter had many fine dresses. One of these now belongs to her granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah Kingsbury of Oxford, Ms.

It is of brocade, with many-colored figures embroidered upon a ground of green. It has two skirts, each of seven breadths, a long bodice to be worn with a satin stomacher, sleeves short at the elbows, with flowing ruffles. A silver tabby christening, or to use a better expression, _baptismal_, blanket, now in my possession, is said to have been made of another of my great-grandmother's dresses. There is a family tradition that these dresses were pawned by her husband after her death, and redeemed by her son.

(c) Hannah Gedney's lineage so far as I can trace it is as follows;

John Gedney, b. 1603; d. Aug. 5, 1688; == Mary ----.
admitted to church in Salem, Nov. 19, 1637. = = Catherine ----.
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Sarah. Eli. Bartholomew, Eleazer. John, lost at sea, = = ----.
baptized, June |
14, 1640, |
Freeman,1669; d. |
March 1, 1698. |
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William, b. 1668; m. 1690; d. 1730. = = Hannah Gardner.
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Hannah, == (b) Humphrey Davie.

10. James Butler was brought up to the trade of a hatter; was married May 10, 1763, by Rev. Andrew Eliot of New North Church; in Aug., 1774, fled with his wife and six children under ten years of age, to Georgetown, Me., a four days' voyage. He was driven to this flight by the Boston port-bill, which brought all business to a stand. After remaining four years in Maine, he returned to Boston, and soon removed to Oxford, Ms.; where he resided till his death, Dec. 20, 1827, aged 88.

11. Mary Sigourney was great-granddaughter of a Sigourney, who, being a Huguenot, fled from Rochelle in France, with his wife and four small children, in 1685. This first emigrant was among the first settlers in Oxford, Ms., and some of his children married there. Through fear of Indians, he removed to Boston. I have made out an extensive table of his posterity, but on account of its length, must refrain from inserting it here, except so far as relates to my own family. Among the descendants of this Huguenot exile, are the Brimmers, the Inches, and the Dexters, of Boston; the Commander of the Schooner Asp, killed by the British in the Potomac, in 1813; and the husband of our most popular poetess.

---- Sigourney, = ----.
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Andrew, m. ab. = Germaine ----.
1701, at Oxford. |
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Anthony, b. Boston, Aug. 17, 1713, =[W]Mary Waters.
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(11) Mary, b. March 23, 1741; m., May 18, 1763; = (10) James Butler.
was early taught French by her grandmother,
as the tongue of her ancestors;
consulted by Dr. Holmes as to Huguenot
annals; had the covenant propounded to
her at the New North church, Feb. 22, 1761.

12. James Davie Butler was born in Boston, Oct. 5, 1765. In 1786, left a school he was teaching in Oxford, to be a volunteer against Shays. Emigrated to Rutland, Vt., in Aug., 1787; was at first a hatter; in 1792, became a merchant, and continued in trade fifty years, till his death, June 3, 1842.

He was married, Aug. 22, 1802, to the widow Rachel Maynard, and March 15, 1827, to Lois Harris. He represented the town of Rutland in the Vermont Legislature, for the years 1812 and 1813. In the year 1814, he was a member of the State Council.

His first wife was daughter of Capt. Israel Harris of Williamstown, Ms., who went with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys to take Ticonderoga, and was an officer in the battle of Bennington.

13. This infant of days may be noticeable as being the seventh of those who, in one unbroken line during one hundred and eighty-one years, have born the name of James.

FOOTNOTES:

[V] This and the other figures at the head of names refer to the notes following this Table.

[W] Mary Waters was of Welsh extraction. She owned a copy of Flavel in two volumes folio, (London, 1740,) which is now in my hands. One of her brocade dresses is still preserved by Miss Mary Butler of Rutland, Vt.

THE MINOT FAMILY.

BY LEMUEL SHATTUCK, ESQ.

_Explanation of the Plan in preparing the Memoir_.

In the following Memoir the numbers inserted in the parentheses on the left, are the numbers of the paragraphs, each, generally, containing a notice of one entire family. The Roman numbers immediately after indicate the generation of the family, including the first person named. The descendants are doubly numbered--first in consecutive order, and secondly by each family separately. The figures in brackets after the name refer back to these numbers of the descendants, indicating the family and connections to which the individual belongs. The numbers inserted in the parentheses on the right, against the name of a child, show the subsequent paragraph where a notice of the family of such child may be found.

It is impossible to present a memoir of this kind, which shall be entirely free from error, perfect and complete. In existing families, births, marriages, and deaths, are constantly occurring, and in more ancient ones new facts are often discovered. Such facts it is desirable to have entered; and such a plan as would allow their insertion without re-writing the memoir will be preferred. By leaving some space in the original entries, the plan admits of correction, amplification, and extension, without marring its simplicity and beauty.

MEMOIR.

(1) All by the name of Minot in America are supposed to have descended from George Minot, whose posterity forms the subject of this Memoir. There was a Thomas Minot, probably a brother, who was a proprietor of Barbadoes in 1638, but I can neither trace his history, nor ascertain that he left posterity. None of the name could be found in the New York or Philadelphia Directories for 1846. The family are all descended from Thomas Minot, Esq., Secretary to the Abbot of Walden, England, by whom he was advanced to great possessions.

FIRST GENERATION.

(2) I. Elder George Minot was the son of Thomas Minot, Esq., of Saffron-Walden, Essex, England, and was b. Aug. 4, 1594. He was among the first Pilgrim emigrants to Massachusetts, and the first settlers of Dorchester. His place of residence was near Neponset Bridge, and he owned the land which has been known as "Squantum." He was made a freeman in 1634, and represented the town in 1635 and 1636. He was a ruling elder in the church thirty years, and d. Dec. 24, 1671, in the 78th year of his age. He left a will, which is recorded in the Suffolk Records, Vol. VII. p. 189. The inventory of his estate amounted to £277. 7. 7. "His death," say the records, "was much lamented by the town, whose weal he sought and liberties defended." He was a cotemporary with Elder Humphrey; and it is said the following lines were once to be found on a gravestone in the ancient burying-ground in Dorchester:--

Here lie the bodies of Unite Humphrey and Shining Minot,
Such names as these, they never die not.

Mr. Minot's wife, Martha, d. in Dorchester, Dec. 23, 1657, a. 60. He left the following children;

2--1 John, b. April 2, 1626, m. Lydia Butler, May 19,
1647. (3)
3--2 James, b. Dec. 31, 1628, m. Hannah Stoughton, Dec. 9,
1653. (4)
4--3 Stephen, b. May 2, 1631, m. Trucrosse Davenport, Nov. 10,
1654. (5)
5--4 Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1635, m. Hannah Howard, June 23,
1670. (6)

SECOND GENERATION.

(3) II. Capt. John Minot [2--1] was m. by Governor Dudley to Lydia Butler of Dorchester, May 19, 1647. She d. Jan. 24, 1667, at the birth of her sixth child. He m. a second time Mary Biggs of Boston, widow of John Biggs who d. in 1666, and the daughter of John Dasset. He d. in Dorchester, Aug. 12, 1669, a. 43. She d. about 1677. They both left wills. His is recorded in Suffolk Records, Vol. VI. p. 39, and hers, Vol. VI. p. 262. His estate was prized at £978. 5. An anecdote in relation to John Minot is found in Dwight's Travels, Vol. III. p. 125, and in Hutchinson's Hist. Mass. Vol. I. p. 288. He left the following children;

6--1 John, b. Jan. 22, 1647, m. Elisabeth Brick, March 11,
1670. (7)
7--2 James, b. Sept. 14, 1653, m. Rebecca Wheeler. (8)
8--3 Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1657, d. single, Nov. 23,
1678, a. 21. She was engaged to be married, but d. unmarried,
leaving a will, in which she directed that at her funeral her
betrothed husband, "John Morgan Jr. be all over mourning, and
follow next after me."
9--4 Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1662, m. Mary Clark, Dec. 1,
1686. (9)
10--5 Samuel, b. July 3, 1665, m. Hannah Jones of Concord. (10)
11--6 An infant, d. in infancy.

(4) II. James Minot [3--2] d. in Dorchester, March 30, 1676, a. 48. He left no will. His estate was prized at £555. 18. 6. He m. 1st, Dec. 9, 1653, Hannah Stoughton, dau. of Col. Israel Stoughton, and sister of the Hon. Wm. Stoughton, Lieut. Gov. of Massachusetts. She was b. April, 1637, admitted to the church, 1662, and d. March 12, 1670, a. 33. He m. 2nd, Hephzibah Corlet, sister of Arnis Corlet, May 21, 1673, in Cambridge. After Mr. Minot's death, she m. Daniel Champney, June 4, 1684. Mr. Minot had the following children;

12--1 Israel, b. Oct. 18, 1654, d. unmarried.
13--2 George, b. Nov. 14, 1655.
14--3 Hannah, b. ---- --, 1657, d. Feb. 16, 1659.
15--4 James, b. April 2, 1659, m. Rebecca Jones, Feb. 9, 1686.
(11)
16--5 William, b. Sept. 18, 1662.
17--6 Elisabeth, b. Dec. 27, 1663, m. John Danforth, Nov. 21, 1682.
18--7 Mehetabel, b. Sept. 17, 1668, m. 1. Thomas Cooper, 2. Solomon
Stoddard, Esq.

(5) II. Stephen Minot [4--3] d. in Dorchester, Feb. 16, 1671, a. 40, intestate, leaving an estate of £651. 4. 7. He m. Truccrosse Davenport, Nov. 10, 1654. She d. Aug. 3, 1692, a. 58. They had

19--1 Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1657, d. Oct. 11, 1683.
20--2 Jonathan, b. Sept. 11, 1658, d. Nov. 29, 1658.
21--3 Elisabeth, d. Nov. 24, 1663.
22--4 Mehetabel, b. June 4, 1665, m. Edward Mills of Boston. She
d. Aug. 16, 1690, leaving one son, Stephen Mills.
23--5 Elisabeth, b. June 10, 1672, after the death of her father. She
and Stephen Mills inherited Mr. Minot's property.

(6) II. Samuel Minot [5--4] d. in Dorchester, Dec. 18, 1690. He m. Hannah Howard, June 23, 1670. They had two children;

24--1 George, b. ---- 1675.
25--2 Samuel, b. Nov. 23, 1688, d. June 1, 1689.

THIRD GENERATION.

(7) III. John Minot [6--1] d. Jan. 26, 1690. His will is recorded in the Suffolk Records, Vol. VII. p. 64. His estate was prized at £680. 17. He m. Elisabeth Brick, March 11, 1670, who d. April 6, 1690. They both d. in Dorchester of the small-pox. Their children were

26--1 John, b. Oct. 10, 1672, m. Mary Baker, May 21, 1696. (12)
27--2 Israel, b. Aug. 23, 1676.
28--3 Josiah, b. Dec. 27, 1677.
29--4 Jerusha, b. Jan. 28, 1679.
30--5 George, b. Aug. 16, 1682.

(8) III. James Minot, Esq., [7--2] was b. Sept. 14, 1653, and graduated at H. C. in 1675. He studied divinity and physic. He kept the grammar-school in Dorchester in 1679, but soon after removed to Concord, where he was employed as a teacher and physician. In 1685, he was hired to preach in Stow, "for 12. 6 per day, one half cash and one half Indian corn;" and again in 1686 for "what older towns had given their ministers--£13 for 13 sabbaths." In 1692 he had another application to preach there, which he declined. Relinquishing the profession soon after, he was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1692, and a Captain of the militia, then offices of much distinction. He represented the town several years in General Court, was much employed in various public trusts, and distinguished himself for his talents and excellent character. He d. Sept. 20, 1735, a. 83. He m. Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Timothy Wheeler, the founder of the ministerial fund in Concord, and inherited the homestead of his father-in-law, near the residence of the Hon. Daniel Shattuck, where he d. She d. Sept. 23, 1734, a. 68. The following are the epitaphs on the gravestones erected to their memories, now standing in the "Hill Burying-Ground," in Concord.

Here is interred the remains of
JAMES MINOTT, Esq., A. M. an
Excelling Grammarian, Enriched
with the Gift of Prayer and Preaching,
a Commanding Officer, a Physician of
Great Value, a Great Lover of Peace
as well as of Justice, and which was
His greatest Glory, a Gent'n of distinguished
Virtue and Goodness, happy in a Virtuous
Posterity, and living Religiously, Died
Comfortably, Sept. 20, 1735, Æt. 83.

Here is interred the body of
Mrs Rebecca Minott ye virtuous
Consort of James Minott Esq.
(and daughter of Capt. Timothy Wheeler)
She was a person of
Serious piety and abounding
charity, of great usefulness
in Her Day, and a pattern
of Patience and holy
Submission under a long
Confinement, and resigned Her
Soul with Joy in her
Redeemer Sept 23, 1734
aged 68.

The following were children of James Minot, Esq.;

31--1 Rebecca, b. Feb. 9, 1685, m. Joseph Barrett,
Dec. 27, 1701. (13)
32--2 Lydia, b. March 12, 1687, m. Benjamin Barrett,
Jan. 3, 1705. (14)
33--3 Mary, b. Nov. 16, 1689, m. Ebenezer Wheeler,
Sept. 26, 1706.
34--4 Timothy, b. June 18, 1692, m. 1. Mary Brooks--2.
Beulah Brown. (15)
35--5 James, b. Oct. 17, 1694, m. 1. Martha Lane--2.
Elisabeth Merrick. (16)
36--6 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 29, 1697, m. Daniel Adams,
April 23, 1715. (17)
37--7 Martha, b. April 3, 1699, m. James Lane,
April 30, 1719. She d. Jan. 18, 1739, in Bedford, a. 40.
38--8 Love, } twins. b. April 15, 1702, m. John Adams,
Dec. 13, 1722. (18)
39--9 Mercy,} m. Samuel Dakin,
Dec. 13, 1722. (19)
40--10 Samuel, b. March 25, 1706, m. 1. Sarah Prescott,
2. Dorcas Prescott. (20)

In the above family, two sisters married two brothers by the name of Barrett; two other sisters married brothers by the name of Adams; a brother and a sister married a brother and sister by the name of Lane, and two were born the same day and married the same day.

There are few parents who have so great reason to be "happy in a virtuous posterity," as had these. One son was a minister, another was a deacon, and eight of the grandchildren were deacons or married to deacons; several were clergymen or married to clergymen. Very many of the great-grandchildren sustained the same offices, or were otherwise distinguished in military, civil, or religious life. A large proportion of those who arrived at mature age professed religion; and the succeeding and numerous families were among the most respected, useful, and influential in the towns in which they lived. Very many distinguished men descended from them; among whom were Rev. Stephen and Hon. Timothy Farrar of New Ipswich, N. H., Roger Minot Sherman, of Fairfield, Ct., and several eminent physicians by the name of Adams; and Hon. Roger Sherman, and several other distinguished men of New Haven married descendants.

(9) III. Stephen Minot [9--4] d. in Sudbury street, Boston. He left a will, recorded in Suffolk Records, Vol. XXXI. p. 82. He was a merchant and member of Brattle Street Church; married Mary Clark, dau. of Capt. Christopher Clark, Dec. 1, 1686. They had the following children;

41--1 Rebecca, b. Aug. 20, 1687, d. Aug. 26 of the same year.
42--2 Stephen, b. Oct. 27, 1688, m. 1. Sarah Wainwright; 2. Mary
Brown. (21)
43--3 John, b. Dec. 27, 1690, d. at Brunswick, Jan. 11, 1764.
44--4 Mehetabel, b. Dec. 6, 1692, was engaged to be married to
Richard Bills, when her father made his will.
45--5 Lydia, b. May 15, 1695, m. Joseph Eaton, May 10, 1720; had
one dau.
46--6 Rebecca, b. Nov. 6, 1697, m. Samuel Miller, Oct. 8, 1724.
47--7 George, b. Jan. 21, 1700, d. Nov. 13, 1702, of the small-pox.
48--8 Peter, b. March 4, 1702, d. Oct. 30, 1702, of the small-pox.
49--9 George, b. Jan. 29, 170-, m. Elisabeth Moore of North
Carolina, by whom he had a son who d. in infancy, and a
dau. Sarah who m. Nathaniel Taylor, Esq., an officer of the
customs in Boston. Mr. Minot d. Jan. 18, 1785. He was a
merchant, and owned the T wharf in Boston.
50--10 Christopher, b. gr. at H. C. 1725, was an officer of the
customs in Boston until 1776, when he removed to Halifax,
where he d. unmarried, May 12, 1783, a. 77.
51--11 Peter, b. m. was drowned at Halifax with his wife.
52--12 James, b. was a merchant at Jamaica where he d. unmarried.

(10) III. Samuel Minot [10--5] m. Hannah Jones of Concord. He d. young, and his only son Jonathan Minot was in Concord, in 1707, being then 14 years old, when he chose his uncle John Minot of Dorchester his guardian.

(11) III. James Minot [15--4] lived in Concord, where he m. Rebecca Jones, Feb. 9, 1688. She was the dau. of John Jones. He d. leaving one son, and she m. for her second husband Capt. Joseph Bulkeley, March 9, 1696, by whom she had several children. She d. July 12, 1712, a. 50. Two of her children, Rebecca and Dorothy, mentioned below, were by Capt. Bulkeley, her second husband, and are therefore not numbered with the Minot Family, not being descendants. That there may be no misunderstanding, their surname is inserted.

54--1 Jonathan, b. m. Elisabeth Stratton,
Jan. 26, 1714. (22)
54--2 Rebecca Bulkeley, b. Dec. 25, 1696, m. Joseph Hubbard,
Nov. 10, 1713.
54--3 Dorothy Bulkeley, b. Jan. 7, 1699, m. Samuel Hunt,
Nov. 14, 1716.

About 1725 Jonathan Minot of Westford, (then part of Chelmsford,) and Joseph Hubbard sold to Thomas Jones of Concord, "the whole of the right of their mother, Rebecca Bulkeley, deceased in Acton, allowed to the heirs of her father John Jones, and to Dorothy Hunt, deceased, the former wife of Samuel Hunt, one of the heirs of Rebecca Bulkeley." Joseph Hubbard was the ancestor of most of the name in Concord.

FOURTH GENERATION.

(12) IV. John Minot [26--1] m. Mary Baker of Dorchester, where he lived as a farmer. She d. Feb. 18, 1717. He m. for his 2nd wife Hannah Endecott, Nov. 14, 1717, and d. soon after. His wife administered on the estate, prized at £1221. He had the following children all by his first wife;

55--1 Elisabeth, b. June 6, 1699, d. young.
56--2 John, b. June 1, 1701.
57--3 George, b. Sept. 7, 1703, m. Abigail Fenno, Dec. 24, 1724.
(23)
58--4 Mary, b. Dec. 10, 1705, d. in infancy.
59--5 Mary, b. March 9, 1708.
60--6 Elisabeth, b. Feb. 23, 1711, m. Thomas Wyer, Jan. 27, 1729.

(13) IV. Capt. Joseph Barrett, son of Dea. Humphrey Barrett, and a grandson of Humphrey Barrett, who came from England to Concord ab. 1640, b. in Concord, Jan. 31, 1678, m. Rebecca Minot [31--1] Dec. 27, 1701. He was a farmer and lived where Abel B. Haywood now [1847] lives. He d. April 4, 1736, a. 58. She d. June 23, 1738, a. 53. Their children were

61--1 Mary, b. April 6, 1706, m. Dea. George Farrar. (24)
62--2 Joseph, b. Jan. 30, 1708, m. and settled in Grafton, where he
d. leaving two daughters.
63--3 Rebecca, b. July 12, 1710.
64--4 Oliver, b. Jan. 12, 1712, m. Hannah Hunt, Dec. 8, 1738. (25)
65--5 Humphrey, b. Oct. 24, 1715, m. Elisabeth Adams, Dec. 9, 1742. (26)
66--6 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 9, 1717, m. Col. Charles Prescott. (27)
67--7 John, b. Feb. 14, 1720, m. Lois Brooks, Nov. 15, 1744. (28)
68--8 Samuel, b. July 8, 1725, d. Jan. 1728.

(14) IV. Capt. Benjamin Barrett, brother of the preceding, b. May 7, 1681, m. Lydia Minot [32--2] Jan. 3, 1705. He was a farmer, and lived in Concord, where James Barrett now (1847) lives, and where he d. of the pleurisy fever, Oct. 28, 1728, a. 47. His widow m. Samuel Stow. Mr. Barrett had the following children;

69--1 Benjamin, b. Nov. 15, 1705, m. Rebecca Jones. (29)
70--2 Thomas, b. Oct. 2, 1707, m. Mary Jones. (30)
71--3 James, b. July 31, 1710, m. Rebecca Hubbard, Dec. 21,
1732. (31)
72--4 Lydia, b. Aug. 2, 1712, m. Dea. Samuel Farrar, Jan. 31,
1732. (32)
73--5 Rebecca, b. March 29, 1714, m. Elnathan Jones, Jan. 31,
1732. She d. Feb. 8, 1733, without issue.
74--6 Timothy, b. Jan. 13, 1716, m. widow Dinah Witt, lived in
Paxton, was a deacon, had one dau., Persis, b. Feb. 3, 1752,
who m. Ithamer Bigelow of Shrewsbury, Feb. 16, 1769, had 7
children. Mrs. Barrett d. ab. 1754. He was afterwards twice
m. but had no other children. He d. Jan. 4, 1800, a. 83.
75--7 Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1717, d. without issue.
76--8 Stephen, b. April 18, 1720, m. Elisabeth Hubbard, then widow
Howe of Concord, and settled in Paxton. He left 3 sons and
1 daughter; Stephen, Israel, Benjamin, and Lydia. The sons
removed to Whitestown near Utica, N. Y., all married and had
families. The dau. m. Israel Stone of Portland, and went to
Ohio. She had a large family.

(15) IV. Rev. Timothy Minot [34--4] gr. H. C. 1718, m. 1. Mary Brooks, who d. Feb. 15, 1760, a. 61, and "her name," says the record of her death, "is like precious ointment." His 2nd wife was widow Beulah Brown of Sudbury, who d. April 13, 1786, a. 92. He d. Nov. 30, 1778, a. 86. A biographical notice of this distinguished man is given in Shattuck's History of Concord, p. 244. He gr. H. C. 1718. His children were

77--1 Timothy, b. April 8, 1726, m. Mary Martin. (33)
78--2 Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1730, m. Tilly Merrick, July 30, 1752.
(34)
79--3 Stephen, b. Jan. 30, 1732, gr. H. C. 1751, was about to settle
as a minister at Portland, but d. Sept. 3, 1759, a. 27.

(16) IV. Hon. James Minot [35--5] d. in Concord, Feb. 6, 1759, a. 64. He m. 1. Martha Lane of Billerica, Nov. 14, 1716. She d. Jan. 18, 1735, a. 40. He m. 2. Elisabeth Merrick of Brookfield, in 1736. She d. Jan. 26, 1746. He m. a third wife, but her name is not recorded. The following epitaph is copied from his gravestone in the "Hill Burying-Ground," in Concord; and tradition awards to him all the praise it pays to his distinguished character. He held a military commission thirty years.

Here lye the remains of Col. James Minott
Esqr.} who departed this life Feb. 6, 1759
in the 65th year of his age. He was of
Honl. Descent, early improved & advanced
in Civil and Military Affairs. Divers years
Represented this Town at the General Court
was a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Hon.
His Majesties Council for many years, which
Offices he Sustained until his death.
In all which Stations and relations of life he
behaved as the Christian, the Patriot, and the
benevolent friend, and as he merrited so he
was much loved and honored in his life
and Lamented at his death.
Memento mori.
'From death's arrest no age is free.'

The following were the children of Hon. James Minot, the first three by his first, and the last two by his second wife;

80--1 John, b. Aug. 31, 1717, m. Sarah Stow, Jan. 26,
1744. (35)
81--2 Rebecca, b. May 15, 1720, m. Benjamin Prescott, Aug. 12,
1741. (36)
82--3 James, b. Jan. 20, 1726, m.
(37)
83--4 Martha, b. Feb. 1, 1738, m. Rev. Josiah Sherman, Jan. 24,
1757. (38)
84--5 Ephraim, b. June 17, 1742, m. Abigail Prescott, Sept. 25,
1764. (39)

(17) IV. Capt. Daniel Adams lived in the south part of Lincoln, then within the limits of Concord, on the road from Waltham to Stow, where he d. Feb. 9, 1780, a. 90. He was the son of Joseph, and grandson of John Adams, one of the eight sons of Henry of Quincy. He m. Elisabeth Minot, [36--6] April 23, 1715. She d. Nov. 12, 1764, a. 67. They had the following children;

85--1 Daniel, b. Oct. 15, 1720, m. Keziah Brooks and two others.
(40)
86--2 Elisabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1722, m. Humphrey Barrett, Dec. 9,
1742. (26)
87--3 Joseph, b. Oct. 5, 1724, m. Mary Eveleth of Stow, ----
1746. (41)
88--4 Rebecca, b. Sept. 2, 1727, m. Nathan Brown, March 10,
1747. (42)
89--5 James, b. March 19, 1732, m. 1. Keziah Conant--2. Delia
Adams. (43)
90--6 Lydia, b. Sept. 1, 1735, m. Abel Miles, Feb. 26,
1756. (44)
91--7 Martha, b. April 13, 1738, m. Joseph Wellington, April 1,
1760.
92--8 Mary, b. May 18, 1730, m. 1. Peter Hubbard--2. Capt.
Timothy Wheeler, who had Martha, m. Joel Dix, who died in
Boston in 1837, Joseph, and perhaps others. He was captain
of the militia in Concord on April 19, 1775. See Hist. of
Concord, p. 107.

These individuals had 69 children, averaging eight and five eighths each.

(18) IV. John Adams, a brother of the above, lived near the centre of Lincoln, where he d. Oct. 25, 1725, a. 28. He was buried in "Hurd Burying-Ground" in Concord. He married Love Minot, [38--8] sister to his brother's wife. They had two children.

93--1 John, b. Nov. 11, 1723, m. Lucy Hubbard, Dec. 12, 1749. (45)
94--2 Lucy, b. Jan. 23, 1725, m. Rev. Wm. Lawrence of Lincoln. (46)

(19) IV. Capt. Samuel Dakin was b. in Concord and lived in Sudbury. He went as commander of a military company, commissioned by Governor Pownall, and was slain in a battle with the French and Indians at Half Way Brook, near Lake George, July 20, 1758. He m. Mercy Minot, [39--9] Dec. 13, 1732. Their children were

95--1 Oliver, b. March 30, 1727.
96--2 Mercy, b. Sept. 12, 1729, d. young.
97--3 Samuel, b. May 17, 1731.
98--4 Amos, b. Jan. 29, 1732.
99--5 Mercy, b. April 24, 1733.
100--6 Elisabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1734.
101--7 Beulah, b. March 22, 1735, m. Thomas Baker, Jan. 15, 1755.
102--8 Timothy, b. June 7, 1737.
103--9 Hannah, b. Aug. 28, 1739.
104--10 Mary, b. Aug. 1741.
105--11 Samuel,} twins. b. June 21, 1744, m. 1. Ann Wheeler,
} 2. Mehetabel ----.
106--12 }

(20) IV. Dea. Samuel Minot [40--10] was a deacon in the Concord church, where he d. March 17, 1766. He m. 1. Sarah Prescott of Westford, March 7, 1732, who d. in childbirth, March 22, 1737, a. 24, having had three children. He m. 2. Dorcas Prescott, sister of his first wife, in 1738. She d. June 16, 1803, a. 91. They had the following children;

107--1 Samuel, b. Dec. 23, 1732, m. Elisabeth Davis, lived in
Boston, had several children, all of whom d. young except
Joanna.
108--2 Jonas, b. April 25, 1735, m. Mary Hall of Westford.
(47)
109--3 Sarah Thankful, b. March 4, 1737, m. Dea. Ama Dakin of
Mason, N. H.
110--4 Dorcas Prescott, b. March 24, 1739, m. Thomas Barrett, Jr.,
Jan. 15, 1761.
111--5 George, b. Oct. 23, 1741, m. three wives by the
name of Barrett. (48)
112--6 Rebecca, b. Jan. 14, 1744, m. Charles Barrett of New
Ipswich, 1799.
113--7 Daniel, b. Aug. 29, 1748, d. Dec. 20, 1753, a. 5.
114--8 Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1755, m. Elnathan Jones.

(21) IV. Stephen Minot [42--2] lived in Boston. He m. for his first wife Sarah, eldest daughter of Col. Francis Wainwright. They lived together ten months, when she d., Oct. 21, 1711, in childbirth, leaving one child, Stephen. He m. for his second wife, Mary, daughter of Capt. John Brown of Marblehead, Jan. 1, 1713. They had the following children;

115--1 Stephen, b. Sept. 21, 1711, m. Sarah Clark, June 10, 1736.
(49)
116--2 John, b. 1712, d. in infancy.
117--3 John, b. 1714, d. in infancy.
118--4 John, b. 1716.
119--5 Mary, b. May 28, 1718.
120--6 William, b. 1720.
121--7 Elisabeth, b. June, 1722.
122--8 Mehetabel, b. 1724. m. Walter Logan, Esq., an
officer of the Customs of Boston. He d. in Glasgow in
Scotland, Nov. 10, 1788.
123--9 Jane, b. Sept. 11, 1726, m. Capt. Nathaniel Williams of
Roxbury. He d. 1774. They had one child, who d. in infancy.
She m. again Elisha Brewster, merchant of Middleton, Ct., in
1778.
124--10 George, b. 1728, d. in infancy.
125--11 George, b. 1730, gr. H. C. in 1752.
126--12 Sarah, b. 1732.

(22) IV. Jonathan Minot [54--1] lived in Westford, where he d. He m. Elisabeth Stratton of Concord, Jan. 26, 1714, by whom he had children.

127--1 Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1714, m. Elisabeth ----.
128--2 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 30, 1717.
129--3 Rebecca, b. April 2, 1719.
130--4 Jonathan, b. Jan. 19, 1723, m. Esther Proctor of
Chelmsford. (50)
131--5 Anna, b. Sept. 13, 1725.
132--6 John, b. Dec. 16, 1730.

(To be continued.)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF DECEASED PHYSICIANS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

BY EBENEZER ALDEN, M. D.

(Continued from page 64.)

IV.--DR. HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

Few physicians have enjoyed a more enviable reputation than the subject of this Notice. He was the personal friend of Professor Nathan Smith of Dartmouth College, who was accustomed to speak of him in terms of the highest respect, and not unfrequently to allude, in his lectures, to his medical opinions and modes of practice.

Although Dr. Wells was in the habit of keeping a record of his more important cases, and of his views on medical subjects, he published but little, and his papers having become by an unfortunate accident a prey to the devouring element, materials are wanting from which to prepare a notice adapted to do full justice to his merits.

Soon after his death, Rev. Samuel Willard, D. D., of Deerfield, published in the Franklin Herald a brief but very just obituary notice of him; and more recently Dr. Williams has prepared a memoir, which has been transferred to his Medical Biography, from his address before the Massachusetts Medical Society.

From these sources principally, the following facts have been obtained.

Dr. Wells was born in New York, in 1742; studied medicine partly under the direction of Dr. Hull at Lebanon, Ct., and completed his medical studies in New York, having made himself well acquainted with medical science.

At the age of twenty-one, he commenced the practice of his profession in New York, and according to the custom of that day, had under his charge an apothecary's shop. After a short residence there, he removed to Brattleborough, Vt., where he continued eighteen years, and acquired an extensive practice and high reputation.

In the year 1782 he removed to Montague, with a view of obtaining a more central situation as to his business, and, perhaps, to diminish somewhat his labors in advancing life.

In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and Dr. Williams states, that in 1806 he received the honorary degree of M. D. from Dartmouth College, which may be a mistake, as his name does not appear in the Triennial Catalogue.

In his profession, Dr. Wells attained the most distinguished rank. His natural powers were good; his medical reading extensive and judicious; his application methodical and patient. His eminent skill, however, in the management of disease, was derived chiefly from his own observation and experience. Possessing a clear and discriminating mind and an accurate judgment, his practical deductions were remarkably just. In difficult cases, his advice was much sought and highly appreciated. Punctual in his professional engagements, courteous in his manners, modest and unassuming in his intercourse with his medical brethren, he was highly respected by the profession and the public.

As a man, he was much beloved. He professed a firm belief in the gospel, and was much attached to the moral and religious institutions of his country. He was a pattern of temperance; his general influence was salutary; and his example such as might be safely imitated.

He was a kind husband and father. He was not exempt from domestic affliction, three of his children being deaf mutes.

In the latter years of his life, he suffered much from disease, which he bore with exemplary resignation, and, having passed the allotted period of human life, died August 24, 1814, at the age of 72; leaving behind him that _good name_ which is _better than precious ointment_.

V.--DR. GRIDLEY THAXTER OF ABINGTON.

He was a native of Hingham; born in 1756; studied medicine with his brother, Dr. Thomas Thaxter of Hingham; and was a surgeon on board some armed vessels during the Revolutionary war.

About the year 1780, he settled in Abington, and as a physician for more than half a century enjoyed a very extensive practice. He probably rode more miles, and visited more patients, than any other physician who ever resided in the county of Plymouth.

He retained his faculties in very vigorous exercise until within a few years of his death, when he became superannuated, and suffered under alienation of mind, probably in consequence of bodily injury occasioned by a fall.

He was remarkable for his iron constitution and power of endurance. He rarely used a carriage in making his professional visits, preferring to ride on horseback as long as he was able to attend to business.

In his habits he was frugal and temperate, never using distilled liquors, not merely from choice, but from necessity, they being extremely offensive and odious to him.

He was much beloved by his patients; was an estimable citizen, and worthy man. His professional charges were moderate, especially for attendance on persons in straitened circumstances.

He was a pleasant companion; a kind father, and fast friend.

His first wife was the daughter of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, by whom he had a numerous family.

Ezekiel Thaxter, M. D., (H. C., 1812,) now resident in Abington, is his son.

He died Feb. 10, 1845, aged 89.

VI.--DR. EZEKIEL DODGE CUSHING, OF HANOVER.

Dr. Cushing, a classmate and personal friend of the writer, was descended from

1. Mathew Cushing, a son of Peter Cushing of Norfolk, Eng., who was born in 1588, and in 1638 came to Boston, in the ship Diligent, with his wife and five children; namely, Daniel, Jeremiah, Matthew, Deborah, and _John_2. They settled at Hingham in the autumn of that year. Matthew Cushing died at Hingham in 1660; his widow survived to 1681, aged 96.

2. John Cushing{2} was born in England, in 1627, married Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, and settled in Scituate. He was many years a deputy in the Colony Court, and Representative to the Court at Boston after the Colonies were united, in 1692 and several succeeding years. He died 1708, and his wife in 1678.

3. John Cushing{3}, son of the above, was born 1662, and died 1737. He was Chief-Justice of the Inferior Court of Plymouth, from 1710 to 1728; and Judge of the Supreme Court, from 1728 to the time of his decease. John Cotton says, "he was the life and soul of the Court." He married Deborah Loring of Hull, in 1687, who died 1713. Their children were Sarah, Deborah, John, _Elijah_4, Mary, Nazareth, Benjamin, Nathaniel.

4. Elijah Cushing{4}, settled in Pembroke, and married Elisabeth Barker, 1724. They had sons, Elijah, _Nathaniel_5, Joseph, (H. C., 1752,) and daughters, Mary, wife of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Deborah, wife of Rev. Dr. Shute, and Elisabeth, wife of Major Cushing, all of Hingham.

5. Nathaniel Cushing{5} had sons, _Nathaniel_6, Benjamin, and Charles.

6. Nathaniel Cushing{6}, Esq., father of the subject of this Notice, resided at Pembroke, now Hanson; married Mary, daughter of Rev. Ezekiel Dodge of Abington, who graduated at H. C., 1749, and died 1770, aged 48. Their children were _Ezekiel Dodge_7, Mehetabel, Lucy, George, and Elijah.

7. Ezekiel Dodge Cushing{7}, was born in 1790; graduated at Harvard University, in 1808; commenced the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. Gad Hitchcock, of his native town; and after one year, became a pupil of Dr. Nathan Smith, Professor in the Medical School of Dartmouth College, where he received the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, in 1811.

His education was extended by attendance on the Hospitals and Lectures in Philadelphia. He then visited London and Paris; in the former city, acting as a dresser in St. Thomas' Hospital, while attending the Lectures of Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, and others; and in the latter, was present when it was occupied by the allies, witnessing daily in the crowded hospitals a most extensive surgical practice.

Thus furnished for the practical duties of his profession, he returned to his native country and settled in Boston, where he acquired the reputation of an able and successful physician, and obtained a respectable circle of business.

After a few years, perhaps being too impatient "to bide his time," and desirous of pursuing a more active life, he removed to Hanover, where his services were much sought, and highly appreciated in a widely extended circle. He was frequently called to advise with his professional brethren in cases of difficulty, and to them as well as to his employers, his opinions gave great satisfaction. It could not well be otherwise, for he possessed eminent skill and tact in his profession, and with it that urbanity and kindness of manner, which secured the confidence of all with whom he had intercourse.

Just as his reputation had become established, and when his prospects for long life and extended usefulness appeared most fair, he was smitten with disease, appearing first in the form of an epileptic affection, and then of partial paralysis, which issued in an entire loss of tone in the digestive organs, and ultimately terminated in his death, on the fifth of April, 1828, at the age of 38.

Thus died an amiable man and accomplished physician. Possessing naturally a vigorous constitution, he probably in early life exposed himself to unnecessary dangers; and when disease fastened upon him its iron grasp, relying too much on his former experience, he failed to exercise that care in his own case, which he would have recommended to others in like circumstances. His memory will be cherished by all who knew him, and his virtues may well be emulated by every aspirant to honest fame, in the profession of which he was an ornament.

He married Delia Sawyer, daughter of Capt.---- Sawyer of Boston, and left seven children; all of whom, except two who died young, with their widowed mother survive to mourn his early death.

The following lines of his Epitaph, written by one who knew him well, are remarkably just.

"Where'er the scenes of woe were laid,
His presence brightened hope and health;
Enough for him that duty bade,
Without the _line_ of sordid wealth."

See History of Scituate, and a Dissertation of George C. Shattuck, M. D., in the Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Vol. IV.

SKETCHES OF ALUMNI AT THE DIFFERENT COLLEGES IN NEW ENGLAND.

REV. ETHAN SMITH OF BOYLSTON, MS.

Ethan Smith was born in Belchertown, Ms., Dec. 19, 1762, and while young, was a soldier for one summer in the Revolutionary war, and was at West Point when the traitor Arnold sold that fortress to the British. Having attended to the preparatory studies, he entered Dartmouth College in 1786, and graduated in 1790. Soon after taking his degree, Mr. Smith was licensed to preach, and spent the first Sabbath of October, 1790, at Haverhill, N. H., where he was first settled in the ministry. In about a year from that time, he was married to Bathsheba Sandford, second daughter of Rev. David Sandford, of Medway, Ms. He remained at Haverhill nine years, and was then dismissed for want of support. He was installed in the ministry at Hopkinton, N. H., March 12, 1800, and continued there about eighteen years, during sixteen of which he was Secretary of the New Hampshire Missionary Society. He was afterwards settled at Hebron, N. Y., about four years; at Poultney, Vt., about five years; at Hanover, Ms., a number of years; and then spent a season as a city missionary in Boston. Occasionally, he has since preached as a supply, but has now retired from the labors of the ministry, and resides with his children. Mr. Smith has always been a laborious, and, in many respects, a very successful minister of Christ. His publications are as follows; namely, 1. A Dissertation on the Prophecies, 2 editions; 2. A View of the Trinity, 2 editions; 3. A View of the Hebrews, 2 editions; 4. Lectures on the Subjects and Mode of Baptism, 2 editions; 5. A Key to the Figurative Language of the Bible; 6. Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey; 7. A Key to the Revelation, 2 editions; 8. Prophetic Catechism; 9. Two Sermons on Episcopacy; 10. Farewell Sermon at Haverhill, N. H.; 11. First Sermon after Installation at Hopkinton; 12. Two Sermons on the Vain Excuses of Sinners, preached at Washington, N. H.; 13. Sermon on the Moral Perfection of God, preached at Newburyport, Ms.; 14. Sermon on the Daughters of Zion excelling, preached before a Female Cent Society; 15. Sermon on the happy Transition of Saints, preached at the funeral of Mrs. Jemima, consort of Rev. Dr. Harris of Dunbarton; 16. Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Stephen Martindale, at Tinmouth, Vt.; 17. Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Harvey Smith, at Weybridge, Vt.

The Genealogy of this branch of the Smith family is as follows; namely, Joseph Smith removed from Wethersfield, Ct., to Hadley, Ms., about the year 1659. He had four sons, who lived to maturity; namely, Joseph, _John_, Jonathan, and Benjamin. _John_ was born 1686, settled in Hadley, and died 1777, aged 91 years. He had five sons, and five daughters. The sons were, John, Abner, father of the late Rev. Abner Smith of Derby, Ct., Daniel, Joseph, who was father of Rev. Eli Smith of Hollis, the late Rev. Amasa Smith, and the late Rev. Dr. John Smith of Bangor, Me., and also _Elijah_. _Elijah_ was born 1723, was married, in 1751, to Sibil, daughter of Daniel Worthington of Colchester, Ct., and had by her six sons and three daughters. He served as Captain in the French war, in 1756, under Gen. William Johnson, in the Regiment of Col. Ephraim Williams. He was deacon of the church in Belchertown, Ms., and died April 21, 1770. He was "a man," says Rev. Mr. Forward, in the Church Records, "of sound judgment, ready utterance, pleasing deportment, and ardent piety." His children were Asa, father of Rev. Asa Smith of Virginia, and Rev. Theophilus Smith of New Canaan, Ct.; Sibil, wife of the late Joseph Bardwell of South Hadley, Ms.; Sarah, wife of the late Elijah Bardwell of Goshen, Ms., and mother of Rev. Horatio Bardwell of Oxford, and of Sarah, wife of the late Rev. Wm. Richards of the India Mission; Elijah, Elisabeth, _Ethan_, Jacob, now deacon of the church in Hadley, and father of Elisabeth, wife of the late Rev. William Hervey of the India Mission, of Esther, wife of Rev. Mr. Dunbar of the Pawnee Mission, of Martha, wife of Rev. O. G. Hubbard of Leominster, Ms., and of Miranda, wife of Rev. P. Belden of Amherst, Ms.; William and Josiah;--all of whom lived until the youngest was 56 years of age, and all had large families of children, and their mother saw of her descendants of the fifth generation, before she died, at the age of 101 years, May 26, 1827.

_Ethan_, the particular subject of this Sketch, married, as stated, Bathsheba, daughter of the late Rev. David Sanford of Medway, Ms. Their children were Myron, born at Haverhill, N. H., 1794, and died 1818, aged 24; Lyndon Arnold, born at Haverhill, 1795, graduated at D. C., married a daughter of Rev. Dr. Griffin, and is now settled as a physician, in Newark, N. J.; Stephen Sanford, born at Haverhill, 1797, and is now pastor of the Congregational church, Westminster, Ms.; Laura, who died in infancy; Carlos, born in Hopkinton, 1801, graduated at Union College, and is now pastor of the Presbyterian church in Massillon, Ohio; Grace Fletcher, wife of Rev. Job H. Martin, died in Haverhill, Ms., 1840; Sarah Towne, 2nd wife of Rev. J. H. Martin of New York; Harriet, wife of Rev. William H. Sanford of Boylston, Ms.; and Ellen, wife of C. B. Sedgewick, Esq., of Syracuse, died May 23, 1846, aged 33.

The wife of Mr. Smith died in Pompey, N. Y., April 5, 1835, aged 64; he is still living.

REV. ASA RAND OF PETERBOROUGH, N. Y.

Asa Rand was born at Rindge, N. H., August 6, 1783, being the youngest son and ninth child of Col. Daniel and Mrs. Susanna Rand. Daniel Rand was the eldest son of Solomon Rand, of Shrewsbury, Ms., who married a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Dodge of Abington, Ms. Solomon's father also resided in Shrewsbury, and married a daughter of Capt. Keyes of that place; who, in the early settlement of the town, lost his unfinished house by fire, when his two sons, a hired man, and a journeyman joiner perished in the flames. Mrs. Susanna Rand was the only daughter of Daniel Hemmenway, also of Shrewsbury. Col. Rand was one of the early settlers of the town of Rindge, where he ever resided after his marriage, in 1767. He died in 1811, aged 69. The ancestors of both the parents of the subject of this Sketch, it is believed, were emigrants from England; but their genealogy we can trace no farther back with certainty.

After enjoying the usual advantages of a common school, Mr. Rand prepared for college principally at Chesterfield Academy, New Hampshire, under the instruction of Hon. Levi Jackson. He entered the Sophomore Class in September, 1803, and was graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1806. After leaving college, he taught the children of the Hon. Elijah Paine and a few others, at Williamstown, Vt., about nine months; studied theology with Rev. Dr. Burton of Thetford, seven months; and in January, 1808, received the approbation of an association as a preacher of the gospel.

He preached several months in 1808 to the Congregational church and society in Gorham, Me., which were in a state of serious and alarming division. Having received a unanimous invitation from both, he was ordained their minister Jan. 18, 1809; where he was favored with a prosperous and happy ministry during thirteen years. His health, however, was precarious for the greater part of that time, and in June, 1822, he resigned the charge of an affectionate and united people to a successor, believing that his work as a public speaker was done.

In August, 1822, he took the editorial charge of the Christian Mirror, on its first establishment at Portland, Me., Mr. Arthur Shirley being proprietor and publisher. In July, 1825, finding his health still suffering on the sea-coast, he removed to the interior of Massachusetts, and took charge of the new Female Seminary at Brookfield.

In July, 1826, he succeeded Gerard Hallock, as co-editor and co-proprietor with Nathaniel Willis, of the Boston Recorder; Dea. Willis having the charge of the printing and publishing, and Mr. Rand of the editorial department. He was also acting-editor of the Youth's Companion and Education Reporter, published by the same company; each being the earliest paper of its kind established in the country. On leaving the Recorder, in 1831, Mr. Rand continued the Reporter till it was transferred to William C. Woodbridge and united with the Annals of Education. He was also publisher and principal conductor of the Volunteer, a monthly religious magazine; which, at the end of two years, was united with the Evangelical Magazine, at Hartford, Ct.

In April, 1833, Mr. Rand removed to Lowell; where he had a connection with a bookstore and printing office, and the publication of the Lowell Observer, a weekly religious paper, which was subsequently transferred to Mr. Porter, publisher of the N. E. Spectator at Boston.

On the restoration of his health, he returned in 1835 to his chosen employment of public preaching. He lectured in the employment of anti-slavery societies in Cumberland county, Maine, and the counties of Hampshire and Hampden, Massachusetts. From September, 1837, he ministered to the Congregational church in Pompey, N. Y., five years; and is now preaching to the Presbyterian church in Peterboro, Madison Co., N. Y.