Generation Seven

481. Abigail7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, William5, Enoch4, Enoch3, Edmund2, John1)218,218,218 was born on 28 February 1753.218 She and Rev. Ezra Weld were married; She was his third wife.218 She died on 8 July 1788 at age 35.218

The two known children of Abigail7 Greenleaf and Rev. Ezra Weld were as follows:

483. Thomas7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, William5, Enoch4, Enoch3, Edmund2, John1)218,218,218 was born in 1755.218 He and Anna Quackenbos were married on 13 October 1791.218 He died in 1798.218

He and Anna Quackenbos lived at New York.218

Thomas Greenleaf son of Joseph and Abigail, was a printer. In 1787 he purchased the New York Journal and published it weekly. He also published The Argus, or Greenleaf's New Daily Advertiser, as a daily. The Washington administration was violently opposed to his paper.282

The four known children of Thomas7 Greenleaf and Anna Quackenbos were as follows:

486. Eunice Payne7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, William5, Enoch4, Enoch3, Edmund2, John1)218,218,218 was born on 7 August 1762.5,218 She and William Prentiss were married on 15 May 1790.218 She died on 11 April 1803 at age 40.319

William Prentiss218,319,319 was a merchant at London, England.319

The only known child of Eunice Payne7 Greenleaf and William Prentiss was:

497. Mary7 Browne (William6, Richard5, Richard4, Elizabeth3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)37 was born on 27 November 1733 in Essex County, Massachusetts.37 She and William Gerrish were married in Essex County, Massachusetts.37

William Gerrish. Wealthy shipbuilder from Newburyport.

The only known child of Mary7 Browne and William Gerrish was:

500. Sarah7 Longfellow (Mercy6Clarke, Henry5, Elizabeth4Somerby, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)50,50,50 was born on 16 November 1737.50 She and General Joseph Cilley of Nottingham, New Hampshire were married.50

The only known child of Sarah7 Longfellow and General Joseph Cilley of Nottingham, New Hampshire was:

501. Joseph7 Gove (Jeremiah6, Judith5Sanborn, Judith4Coffin, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)128,129,129 was born on 5 June 1726.128 He and Susanna Pevere were married say 1760.128 He died on 24 November 1802 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, at age 76.128

The six known children of Joseph7 Gove and Susanna Pevere were as follows:

509. Winthrop7 Gove (Edward6, Judith5Sanborn, Judith4Coffin, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)128,129,129 was born on 3 November 1732 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.128 He and Elizabeth Griffith were married on 9 December 1779 in Seabrook, New Hampshire.128 He and Elizabeth Ring were married.128 He died on 3 June 1808 in Seabrook, New Hampshire, at age 75.128

Revolutionary War Capt. CS PS NH.128

Elizabeth Griffith128 was born on 17 January 1751/52.128 She died on 19 January 1820 at age 68.128

The five known children of Winthrop7 Gove and Elizabeth Griffith were as follows:

There were no known children of Winthrop7 Gove and Elizabeth Ring.

513. Daniel7 Ayer (Sarah6Little, Daniel5, Mary4Coffin, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 28 January 1742/43 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. He and Sarah Adams were married say 1775. He died on 6 June 1805 in Plaistow, New Hampshire, at age 62.

Sarah Adams was born on 3 September 1743 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts.

The only known child of Daniel7 Ayer and Sarah Adams was:

514. Tristram7 Coffin (William6, Daniel5, James4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)289,289,289 was born on 30 November 1751 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.289 He and Elizabeth Marquand were married on 27 June 1774 in Massachusetts.320 He and Susan Jones were married in Massachusetts.320 He died on 30 March 1834 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 82.320

Elizabeth Marquand320,320 died on 7 November 1779 in Massachusetts.320

The only known child of Tristram7 Coffin and Elizabeth Marquand was:

There were no known children of Tristram7 Coffin and Susan Jones.

524. Richard7 Merrill (Dorothy6Carr, Lydia5Coffin, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)321,321,321 was born on 6 November 1732 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.321 He and Mary Pilsbury were married on 24 December 1755 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.322 He died in 1791.

Mary Pilsbury was born on 9 March 1736/37 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died after 1791.

The 11 known children of Richard7 Merrill and Mary Pilsbury were as follows:

526. Moses7 Merrill (Dorothy6Carr, Lydia5Coffin, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 9 June 1737 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He and Phebe Coffin were married on 7 April 1756 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He and Susannah Grant were married on 25 November 1769. He died before 1795.

Phebe Coffin was born in July 1734.

The 10 known children of Moses7 Merrill and Phebe Coffin were as follows:

Susannah Grant died after 1795.

The three known children of Moses7 Merrill and Susannah Grant were as follows:

529. James7 Merrill (Dorothy6Carr, Lydia5Coffin, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)295,326,326 was born on 3 November 1744 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.326 He and Ellis Cooper were married on 11 November 1768 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.295 He and Betsey Bailey filed marriage intention on 18 January 1775 in Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.327 He died in 1821 in Campton, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

The two known children of James7 Merrill and Ellis Cooper were as follows:

Betsey Bailey was born on 16 August 1747 in Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She and French were married before 1775. She died in 1804 in Campton, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

The three known children of James7 Merrill and Betsey Bailey were as follows:

530. John7 Whittier (Sarah6Greenleaf, Judith5Coffin, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)293,293,293 was born on 22 November 1760 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.293 He and Abigail Hussey were married on 3 October 1804 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.237 He died on 11 June 1830 in Massachusetts at age 69.237

Abigail Hussey291,291 was born on 3 September 1779 in Somersworth, New Hampshire.237 She died on 28 December 1857 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 78.237 She emigrated on 6 July 1836 from Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.237

The four known children of John7 Whittier and Abigail Hussey were as follows:

760. i. John Greenleaf8 Whittier293,293,293 was born on 17 December 1807 in near Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.291,328,293 He died on 7 September 1892 in residence of Miss Sarah Grove, Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, at age 84 . He died at 4:30 AM.237

Who is the best American poet? Shortly after the close of the Civil War, this question was asked (when conversation on politics and finance began to lag) by one among a group of prominent men. Horace Greeley, who was one of the party, replied with the name of Whittier; and his judgment was instantly approved by all present. This shows his standing with typical Americans of his own times. On the primitive homestead in the beautiful Merrimack valley, about five miles distant from the market town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, the subject of this sketch was born, descended from Quakers and Huguenots.

Although when young, he had but little to read--the Bible, 'Pilgrim's Progress,' and the weekly newspapers; and a little schooling in the district school house--yet the boy's poetic fancy and native sense of rhythm were not inert. A great stimulus came in the way of Burn's poems, a cheap edition of which fell into his possession. Of our leading poets he was almost the only one who learned Nature by working with her at all seasons, under the sky and in the wood and field.

A piece of verse sent by young Whittier to the Newburyport "Free Press" led William Lloyd Garrison, its editor, to look up his contribution and to encourage him with praise and counsel. From that time we see the poet working upward in the old-fashioned way. Supplementing his training by a year or more in the academy, and by a winter's practice as a teacher, he entered upon a journalistic career of varied experiences. His first work was a book of legends, in prose and verse. He now was doomed to years of disfavor through his efforts for the abolition of slavery, and he should be crowned as poet laureate by all anti-slavists. Whittier was the secretary of the first anti-slavery convention. We are told that from 1832 to the close of our dreadful war in 1865, his harp of liberty was never hung up. Not an important occasion escaped him, and every significant incident drew from his heart pertinent and often very impressive verses.

In 1831 Garrison had begun the "Liberator," with the watchword of unconditional surrender, and he was re-enforced by Whittier, with lyre and pen. 'Snow Bound' was received with a warm welcome.

He supplied his verse on the instant, and, of course, were not polished so finely as Longfellow and his compeers; slight changes would have made that eloquent lyric, 'Randolph of Roanoke,' a perfect one. Skilled in prose, the best articles and essays from his pen are written with a true and direct hand, through rather barren of the epigram which enriches the prose of Lowell, Emerson and Holmes.

Johnson's tribute, a complement to Parkson's paid honor is 'The poet of freedom, humanity, religion; whose words of holy fire aroused the conscience of a guilty nation, and melted the fetters of slaves.' He has tried to make the world a little better, . . to awaken a love of freedom, justice and good will, and his name will be enrolled 'as one that loved his fellow men.' In this person a grace is added to his poetry by the avowal, 'I set a higher value on my name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration than on the title pages of my books.'

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, poet, was born in the East Parish of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Dec. 17, 1807; son of John (1760-1830) and Abigail (Hassey) Whittier; grandson of Joseph (1716-1796) and Sarah (Greenleaf) Whittier and of Samuel and Mercy (Evans) Hussey; great-grandson of Joseph Peaseley, from whom the Quaker element in the family was derived, and great-grandson of Thomas Whittier of Southampton, England, who sailed in the Confidence, April 24, 1638, for Boston, Mass.; settled in Salisbury, Mass., whence he was sent as a deputy to the general court; married a distant relative, Ruth Green, and in 1647 located permanently in Haverhill. The surname of his paternal grandmother, Sarah Greenleaf, was originally Feuilleverts, the family being of French Huguenot extraction. John Greenleaf Whittier's boyhood was spent in the simple, rural surroundings of a country home, where he did his share of the many rough tasks incident to farm life, incurring, when about seventeen years of age, injuries from overwork, which resulted in permanent frailty. His educational advantages were naturally meagre. Until 1820 he had attended only the district schools and had had access to but few books of the quality to appeal to his literary tastes.

The first pregnant event in his early career was the awakening of his poetic instinct by reading the poems of Burns, a copy of which had been given him by his teacher, Joshua Coffin, who became an antiquary of note, and to whom Whittier subsequently addressed a poem entitled "To My Old Schoolmaster." The impulse inspired by the poetry of Burns found its expression in many crude attempts at verse making, of which scarcely a remnant remains, Whittier's first published poems being "The Exile's Departure," and "The Deity," which appeared in the Free Press of Newburyport, respectively, June 8 and June 22, 1826; Their publication led to the second, and not less vital incident in his development. William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press, sought out his young contributor at Haverhill, the meeting resulting in a lifelong friendship based upon mutual and active interests in the national problems of the day.

Thus it was partly due to Garrison's influence and partly to that of Abijah W. Thayer, editor of the Portland Gazette, to which Whittier also contributed some of his early verses, that the latter was finally permitted to begin a classical education. Through his own efforts Whittier earned sufficient money to attend Haverhill academy for six months in 1827 and for a similar period in 1828, meanwhile teaching a district school in West Amesbury, Mass. Under various pen-names, including "Adrian," "Donald," "Timothy," "Micajah," and "Ichabod," be contributed poems to the Boston Statesman, the National Philanthropist and the Gazette, Mr. Thayer of the last publication proposing in 1828 to bring out by subscription a volume entitled "The Poems of Adrian," but the enterprise did not materialize. Whittier was at this time also becoming known as a prose writer: The materials he had collected for a history of Haverhill, He gave, in 1828, to one B. L. Mirirk, by whom the work was completed (1831). From December, 1828, to August, 1829, Whittier edited the American Manufacturer of Boston, a political journal devoted to the interests of Henry Clay, and during this period wrote his famous poetical tribute to "Harry of the West." After leaving the editorship of the Manufacturer, Whittier was engaged in managing his father's farm until the latter's death in June, 1830, and also edited the Haverhill Gazette, January-June, 1830. In the following July he assumed charge of the New England Review of Hartford. Conn., with which he remained until January, 1832.

His first book, Legends of New England, in Prose and Verse, appeared in 1831, also his poem "Moll [p.398] Pitcher," and from 1831 to 1835 he contributed both prose and verse to the Hartford Pearl, the Columbian Star, the Connecticut Mirror, the Ladies' Magazine, the Haverhill his and the New England Magazine. In 1832, Whittier returned to Haverhill, and henceforth gave his most earnest attention to politics. In his view the possession of artistic powers implied a divine commission to lift and invigorate mankind, and his heart and mind became absorbed in the agitation against slavery, although he fully realized that the rôle of an abolitionist meant death to both his poetical and political ambitions. A radical change naturally followed in the character of his writings, his poetical talent now becoming valuable only as the means by which he could personally best advocate the cause of anti-slavery, for thirty years his lyrics on freedom appealing to an ever-widening audience. Closely identified with him from the first in his work as a reformer was his friend Garrison, to whose views Whittier became an ardent convert. He published his first anti-slavery pamphlet, "Justice and Expediency" in the spring of 1833, which, as "Justice the highest expediency," became the watchword of his political party. He was a delegate to the National Anti-Slavery convention at Philadelphia in December, 1833; and became an opponent of the Colonization society, to which he had previously been friendly. He was made corresponding secretary of the Haverhill Anti-Slavery society in 1834; represented Haverhill in the general court, 1835; and encountered the riot at Concord, N.H., Sept. 4, 1835. He was again editor of the Haverhill Gazette, May-December, 1836; the family removing in July to Amesbury, Mass., where his sister Elizabeth was soon after elected president of the local Women's Anti-Slavery society.

He became assistant editor and subsequently editor of the National Enquirer of Philadelphia, an anti-slavery publication, subsequently called the Pennsylvania Freeman, his office being destroyed by a mob, May 17, 1838, and in February, 1840, formally severed his connection with the paper on account of ill health. Meanwhile he attended county, state and national anti-slavery conventions; was officially connected with several organizations, being a secretary of the American Anti-Slavery society, 1837; was actively influential, in 1837, in securing in the Massachusetts legislature the passage of the resolutions favoring abolition in the District of Columbia; became a member of the "new organization," so-called, of abolitionists favoring political action, and in 1839 was deputed by the American AntiSlavery society to solicit seventy public speakers in Pennsylvania to promulgate the cause throughout the country. In 1837 appeared the first edition of Whittier's poems (published without his knowledge), entitled Poems written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States between the years 1830 and 1833, and a second volume was published by the Anti-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania in 1838. He contributed to the first number of the Democratic Review, October, 1837, which magazine continued to publish nearly all his anti-slavery writings until 1847; was a founder of the Liberty party (being known as its "Laureate"); supported James G. Birney for the Presidency in 1840 and 1844, and declined the candidacy of his party for election as representative in the 28th congress from the North Essex district in 1842. In 1843 his Lays of My Home and Other Poems was published, being the first book from which the poet received any remuneration. He was editor of the Middlesex Standard, 1844-45, changing its name to the Essex Transcript and making it an organ of the Liberty party; presented with Henry Wilson, a petition to congress, signed by 65,000 names, against the admission of Texas a State, and was a delegate to the Liberty convention at Washington, December, 1845. He penned many satirical writings during the early political campaigns of the Free-Soil party: was corresponding editor of the National Era of Washington, 1847-60; was active in effecting the election of George S. Boutwell as governor of Massachusetts in 1850, and also in persuading Charles Sumner to accept the Free-Soil candidacy for U.S. senator, and took a prominent purl in the Fremont campaign.

His poem Ichabod, written in response to Webster's speech of March 7, 1850, created a popular furor in Washington, and in after years the poet himself felt its denunciation unjustifiably bitter. He contributed regularly to the Atlantic Monthly from its inception in 1857, notably the campaign songs of 1860, his" Barbara Frietchie," and many of his famous "In War Time" poems, which won him an invitation from Brigadier-General Rice to visit the Army of the Potomac in 1864. The final achievement of emancipation, to the accomplishment of which Whittier had devoted his life, from 1833, called from the poet his celebrated "Laus Deo," which was first published, Feb. 9, 1865. He was a presidential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in 1865, and vice-president of the meeting held at Faneuil Hall, Boston, in June, 1865, to consider plans for reconstruction. From 1865 to 1870, Whittier was engaged in writing his Snow-Bound, the Tent on the Beach, and Among the Hills; was active in securing the rescinding of the resolution of censure passed upon Sumner by the Massachusetts legislature in 1873, and upon the death of Sumner was commissioned by the state to write an ode for his memorial [p.399] service.

In 1875 he received a letter of thanks from the Waldensian synod for his poem, "The Vaudois Teacher," which, translated into French, had become a household favorite among the Waldenses, declined the commission to write the ode for the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876, which was eventually written by Bayard Taylor, Whittier agreeing to write the hymn for the same occasion, after Taylor's withdrawal of his hymn, already prepared in compliance with a previous commission. In December, 1877, upon the occasion of Whittier's seventieth birthday, many notable tributes to his talent were published in the Literary World, and on the anniversary day, December 17, a dinner was given in his honor, at Hotel Brunswick, Boston, by the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, on which occasion be received a memorable ovation. His eightieth birthday was also fittingly celebrated in Boston, and a testimonial portfolio containing Senator George F. Hoar's address on the occasion, and several hundred autographs of prominent officials and citizens, was presented to Whittier. The last years of his life were passed quietly at the home of his cousins at "Oak Knoll," Danvers, Mass., with occasional journeys for the benefit of his health. His home in East Haverhill became the property of the Whittier Memorial association. His valuable colonial histories were presented to the Amesbury and Haverhill public libraries. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Harvard and by Haverford in 1860, and that of LL.D. by Harvard. 1886, of which institution he was an overseer, 1858-64. He was a member of the American Philosophical society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His distinguished coterie of friends, to whom he addressed poems or lines on various instances, included Garrison. Channing, Rantoul, Sumner, the Sewalls, Lydia Maria Child, Bayard Taylor, James T. Fields and Mrs. Fields, Agassiz, Holmes and Bryant.

His poems, in general, embrace the purely descriptive; the narrative, or legendary, in which element he was one of the first to perceive poetical significance; the historical, and these touching directly or indirectly upon the question of slavery, the last class comprising by far the greatest proportion. Whittier edited: "Literary Remains of Jetta G. C. Brainard, with a Biographical Sketch" (1832); "Views of Slavery and Emancipation," by Harriet Martineau (1837); "Letters from John Quincy Adams to his Constituents" (1837); "The North Star; the Poetry of Freedom, by her Friends" (1840); "A Visit to the United States in 1841" by Joseph Sturgé (1842); "The Patience of Hope," by Dora Greenwell (1863); "Child Life, a Collection of Poems" (1871); "The Journal of John Woolman" (1872); "Child Life in Prose," with Lucy Larcom (1874); "Songs of Three Centuries," an anthology (1876); "Letters of Lydia Maria Child" (1883); "American Literature, and Other Palpers" by E. P. Whipple (1887). He is the author of the collected and separate works (exclusive of those already mentioned): Moll Pitcher (1832) republished with the Minstrel Girl (1840); Mogg Megone (1836); Miscellaneous Poems (1844); The Stranger in Lowell (1845); Voices of Freedom (1846); The Supernaturalism of New England (1847); Poems (1849); Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal (1849); Poetical Works (London, 1850); Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1850); Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850); The Chapel of the Hermits and Other Poems (1858); Literary Recollections and Miscellanies (1854); The Panorama, and Other Poems (1856); Poeticed Works (1857 rev. ed., 1867); The Sycamores (1857); Home Ballads, Poems and Lyrics (1860); Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl (1866); Prose Works (2 vols., 1866); Maud Muller (1867); National Lyrics (1867); Ballads of New England (1870); Two Letters on the Present Aspect of the Society of Friends (1870); Miriam, and Other Poems (1871); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems (1872); Complete Poetical Works (1874; 1876; 1880; 1881); Mabel Martin, and Other Poems (1874); Hazel Blossoms (1875); Vision of Echard, and Other Poems (1878); The River-Path (1880); The King's Missive, and Other Poems (1881); The Bay of Seven Islands, and Other Poems (1883); Poetical Works (1885); Poems of Nature (1886); Saint Gregory's Guest, and Recent Poems (1886); Poetical and Prose Works (7 vols., 1888); At Sundown (1890-1892); Poetical Works, with Life (London, 1891). See: "Poets and Poetry of America" by R. W. Griswold (1856); his "Life, Genius, and Writings "by W.S. Kennedy (1882); "Biography" by F. H. Underwood (1884); "The Poet of Freedom" by W. S. Kennedy in "American Reformers" Series (1892); "A Memorial, from his Native City, Haverhill, Mass." (1893); "Life" by W. J. Linton (1893); "Notes on his [p.400] Baltimore, Md., and of William and Ann Maria (Rodgers) Pinkney. He was educated under private tutors and in Baltimore college; employed in a banking-house, studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1846, beginning practice in Baltimore. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1847-48; the Democratic candidate for congress in 1851 and 1857, unsuccessfully contesting the seat in the latter year; comptroller of the state, 1854-55; a delegate to the Democratic national convention, 1868, and appointed U.S. senator from Maryland to succeed Reverdy Johnson (q.v.), serving July 14, 1868-March 4, 1869. He was governor of Maryland, 1871-74, and U.S. senator, 1875-81, serving on the commissions to select a site for the naval observatory and to frame a code of laws for the government of the District of Columbia. He was mayor of Baltimore, 1881-83; attorney-general of Maryland, 1887-91, and head of the law department of Baltimore from March, 1900. Governor Whyte was twice married, first, in 1847, to Louise D., daughter of Levi Hollingsworth, and secondly, April 27, 1902, to Mary, daughter of William McDonald and widow of Raleigh Thomas. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Maryland, 1874, and was a delegate to an American conference, held in the interest of commercial advancement.

Selected Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Farewell

Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone

To the rice-swamp dank and lone.

Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings

Where the noisome insect stings

Where the fever demon strews

Poison with the falling dews

Where the sickly sunbeams glare

Through the hot and misty air;

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

From Virginia's hills and waters;

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone

To the rice-swamp dank and lone

There no mother's eye is near them,

There no mother's ear can hear them;

Never, when the torturing lash

Seams their back with many a gash

Shall a mother's kindness bless them

Or a mother's arms caress them.

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

From Virginia's hills and waters;

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

Oh, when weary, sad, and slow,

From the fields at night they go

Faint with toil, and racked with pain

To their cheerless homes again,

There no brother's voice shall greet them

There no father's welcome meet them.

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

From Virginia's hills and waters;

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone

From the tree whose shadow lay

On their childhood's place of play;

From the cool spring where they drank;

Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank;

From the solemn house of prayer,

And the holy counsels there;

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

From Virginia's hills and waters;

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone;

Toiling through the weary day,

And at night the spoiler's prey.

Oh, that they had earlier died,

Sleeping calmly, side by side,

Where the tyrant's power is o'er

And the fetter galls no more!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone;

From Virginia's hills and waters

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone;

By the holy love He beareth;

By the bruised reed He spareth;

Oh, may He, to whom alone

All their cruel wrongs are known,

Still their hope and refuge prove,

With a more than mother's love.

Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone,

From Virginia's hills and waters;

Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

 

Barbara Frietchie

Up from the meadows rich with corn,

Clear in the cool September morn,

The clustered spires of Frederick stand

Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.

Round about them orchards sweep,

Apple and peach trees fruited deep,

Fair as the garden of the Lord

To the eyes of the famished rebel horde,

On that pleasant morn of the early fall

When Lee marched o'er the mountain-wall;

Over the mountains winding down,

Horse and foot, into Frederick town.

Forty flags with their silver stars,

Forty flags with their crimson bars,

Flapped in the morning wind: the sun

Of noon looked down, and saw not one.

Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,

Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

Bravest of all in Frederick town,

She took up the flag the men hauled down;

In her attic window the staff she set,

To show that one heart was loyal yet.

Up the street came the rebel tread,

Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.

Under his slouched hat left and right

He glanced; the old flag met his sight.

'Halt!' -- the dust-brown ranks stood fast.

'Fire!' -- out blazed the rifle-blast.

It shivered the window, pane and sash;

It rent the banner with seam and gash.

Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff

Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf.

She leaned far out on the window-sill,

And shook it forth with a royal will.

'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,

But spare your country's flag,' she said.

A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,

Over the face of the leader came;

The nobler nature within him stirred

To life at that woman's deed and word;

'Who touches a hair of yon gray head

Dies like a dog! March on!' he said.

All day long through Frederick street

Sounded the tread of marching feet:

All day long that free flag tost

Over the heads of the rebel host.

Ever its torn folds rose and fell

On the loyal winds that loved it well;

And through the hillgaps sunset light

Shone over it with a warm good-night.

Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er,

And the Rebel rides on his raids no more.

Honor to her! and let a tear

Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier.

Over Barbara Frietchie's grave,

Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!

Peace and order and beauty draw

Round thy symbol of light and law;

And ever the stars above look down

On thy stars below in Frederick town!

 

Disarmament

'Put up the sword!'

The voice of Christ once more

Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon's roar,

O'er fields of corn by fiery sickles reaped

And left dry ashes; over trenches heaped

With nameless dead; o'er cities starving slow

Under a rain of fire; through wards of woe

Down which a groaning diapason runs

From tortured brothers, husbands, lovers, sons

Of desolate women in their far-off homes

Waiting to hear the step that never comes!

O men and brothers! let that voice be heard.

War fails, try peace; put up the useless sword!

Fear not the end. There is a story told

In Eastern tents, when autumn nights grow cold,

And round the fire the Mongol shepherds sit

With grave responses listening unto it:

Once, on the errands of his mercy bent,

Buddha, the holy and benevolent,

Met a fell monster, huge and fierce of look,

Whose awful voice the hills and forests shook,

'O son of peace!' the giant cried,

'thy fate Is sealed at last, and love shall yield to hate.'

The unarmed Buddha looking, with no trace

Of fear and anger, in the monster's face, In pity said,

'Poor fiend, even thee I love.'

Lo! as he spake the sky-tall terror sank

To hand-breadth size; the huge abhorrence shrank

Into the form and fashion of a dove

And where the thunder of its rage was heard,

Circling above him sweetly sang the bird:

'Hate hath no harm for love,' so ran the song, '

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!'

 

The Frost Spirit

He comes, -- he comes, -- the Frost Spirit comes!

You may trace his footsteps now

On the naked woods and the blasted fields

And the brown hill's withered brow.

He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees

Where their pleasant green came forth,

And the winds, which follow wherever he goes,

Have shaken them down to earth.

He comes, -- he comes, -- the Frost Spirit comes!

From the frozen Labrador,

From the icy bridge of the northern seas,

Which the white bear wanders o'er,

Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice,

And the luckless forms below

In the sunless cold of the lingering night Into marble statues grow!

He comes, -- he comes, -- the Frost Spirit comes!

On the rushing Northern blast,

And the dark Norwegian pines have bowed

As his fearful breath went past.

With an unscorched wing he has hurried on,

Where the fires of Hecla glow

On the darkly beautiful sky above

And the ancient ice below.

He comes, -- he comes, -- the Frost Spirit comes!

And the quiet lake shall feel

The torpid touch of his glazing breath,

And ring to the skater's heel;

And the streams which danced on the broken rocks,

Or sang to the leaning grass,

Shall bow again to their winter chain,

And in mournful silence pass.

He comes, -- he comes, -- the Frost Spirit comes!

Let us meet him as we may,

And turn with the light of the parlor-fire

His evil power away;

And gather closer the circle 'round,

When the firelight dances high,

And laugh at the shriek of the baffled

Fiend As his sounding wing goes by!

 

The Pumpkin

Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,

The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,

And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold,

With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold,

Like that which o'er Nineveh's prophet once grew,

While he waited to know that his warning was true,

And longed for the storm-cloud, and listened in vain

For the rush of the whirlwind and red fire-rain.

On the banks of the Xenil the dark Spanish maiden

Comes up with the fruit of the tangled vine laden;

And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to behold

Through orange-leaves shining the broad spheres of gold;

Yet with dearer delight from his home in the North,

On the fields of his harvest the Yankee looks forth,

Where crook-necks are coiling and yellow fruit shines,

And the sun of September melts down on his vines.

Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,

From North and from South comes the pilgrim and guest;

When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board

The old broken links of affection restored;

When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,

And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before;

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye,

What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?

Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling,

When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!

When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,

Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!

When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune,

Our chair a broad pumpkin, -- our lantern the moon,

Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam

In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!

Then thanks for thy present! none sweeter or better

E'er smoked from an oven or circled a platter!

Fairer hands never wrought at a pastry more fine,

Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking, than thine!

And the prayer, which my mouth is too full to express,

Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less,

That the days of thy lot may be lengthened below,

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,

And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset sky

Golden-tinted and fair as thy own Pumpkin pie!

 

Flowers in Winter

How strange to greet, this frosty morn,

In graceful counterfeit of flower,

These children of the meadows, born

Of sunshine and of showers!

How well the conscious wood retains

The pictures of its flower-sown home,

The lights and shades, the purple stains,

And golden hues of bloom!

It was a happy thought to bring

To the dark season's frost and rime

This painted memory of spring,

This dream of summertime.

Our hearts are lighter for its sake,

Our fancy's age renews its youth,

And dim-remembered fictions take

The guise of present truth.

A wizard of the Merrimac, --

So old ancestral legends say, --

Could call green leaf and blossom back

To frosted stem and spray.

The dry logs of the cottage wall,

Beneath his touch, put out their leaves;

The clay-bound swallow, at his call,

Played round the icy eaves.

The settler saw his oaken flail

Take bud, and bloom before his eyes;

From frozen pools he saw the pale Sweet summer lilies rise.

To their old homes, by man profaned

Came the sad dryads, exiled long,

And through their leafy tongues complained

Of household use and wrong.

The beechen platter sprouted wild,

The pipkin wore its old-time green,

The cradle o'er the sleeping child

Became a leafy screen.

Haply our gentle friend hath met,

While wandering in her sylvan quest,

Haunting his native woodlands yet,

That Druid of the West;

And while the dew on leaf and flower

Glistened in the moonlight clear and still,

Learned the dusk wizard's spell of power,

And caught his trick of skill.

But welcome, be it new or old,

The gift which makes the day more bright,

And paints, upon the ground of cold

And darkness, warmth and light!

Without is neither gold nor green;

Within, for birds, the birch-logs sing;

Yet, summer-like, we sit between

The autumn and the spring.

The one, with bridal blush of rose,

And sweetest breath of woodland balm,

And one whose matron lips unclose In smiles of saintly calm.

Fill soft and deep, O winter snow!

The sweet azalea's oaken dells,

And hide the banks where roses blow

And swing the azure bells!

O'erlay the amber violet's leaves,

The purple aster's brookside home,

Guard all the flowers her pencil gives

A live beyond their bloom.

And she, when spring comes round again,

By greening slope and singing flood

Shall wander, seeking, not in vain

Her darlings of the wood.

 

Maud Miller

by John Greenleaf Whittier

Maud Muller on a summer's day

Raked the meadow sweet with hay.

Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth

Of simple beauty and rustic health.

Singing, she wrought, and her merry gleee

The mock-bird echoed from his tree.

But when she glanced to the far-off town

White from its hill-slope looking down,

The sweet song died, and a vague unrest

And a nameless longing filled her breast,-

A wish that she hardly dared to own,

For something better than she had known.

The Judge rode slowly down the lane,

Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane.

He drew his bridle in the shade

Of the apple-trees, to greet the maid,

And asked a draught from the spring that flowed

Through the meadow across the road.

She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up,

And filled for him her small tin cup,

And blushed as she gave it, looking down

On her feet so bare, and her tattered gown.

'Thanks!' said the Judge; 'a sweeter draught

From a fairer hand was never quaffed.'

He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees,

Of the singing birds and the humming bees;

Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether

The cloud in the west would bring foul weather.

And Maud forgot her brier-torn gown

And her graceful ankles bare and brown;

And listened, while a pleased surprise

Looked from her long-lashed hazel eyes.

At last, like one who for delay

Seeks a vain excuse, he rode away.

Maud Muller looked and sighed:

'Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!

'He would dress me up in silks so fine,

And praise and toast me at his wine.

'My father should wear a broadcloth coat;

My brother should sail a pointed boat.

'I'd dress my mother so grand and gay,

And the baby should have a new toy each day.

'And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor,

And all should bless me who left our door.'

The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill,

And saw Maud Muller standing still.

'A form more fair, a face more sweet,

Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet.

'And her modest answer and graceful air

Show her wise and good as she is fair.

'Would she were mine, and I to-day,

Like her, a harvester of hay.

'No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs,

Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues,

'But low of cattle and song of birds,

And health and quiet and loving words.'

But he thought of his sisters, proud and cold,

And his mother, vain of her rank and gold.

So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on,

And Maud was left in the field alone.

But the lawyers smiled that afternoon,

When he hummed in court an old love-tune;

And the young girl mused beside the well

Till the rain on the unraked clover fell.

He wedded a wife of richest dower,

Who lived for fashion, as he for power.

Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow,

He watched a picture come and go;

And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes

Looked out in their innocent surprise.

Oft, when the wine in his glass was red,

He longed for the wayside well instead;

And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms

To dream of meadows and clover-blooms.

And the proud man sighed, and with a secret pain,

Ah, that I were free again!

'Free as when I rode that day,

Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay.'

She wedded a man unlearned and poor,

And many children played round her door.

But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain,

Left their traces on heart and brain.

And oft, when the summer sun shone hot

On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot,

And she heard the little spring brook fall

Over the roadside, through a wall,

In the shade of the apple-tree again

She saw a rider draw his rein;

And, gazing down with timid grace,

She felt his pleased eyes read her face.

Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls

Stretched away into stately halls;

The weary wheel to a spinet turned,

The tallow candle an astral burned,

And for him who sat by the chimney lug,

Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug,

A manly form at her side she saw,

And joy was duty and love was law.

Then she took up her burden of life again,

Saying only, 'It might have been.'

Alas for the maiden, alas for the Judge,

For rich repiner and househole drudge!

God pity them both and pity us all,

Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies

Deeply buried from human eyes;

And, in the hereafter, angels may

Roll the stone from its grave away!

  • 761. ii. Mary Whittier237,237,237 was born on 3 September 1806 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.237
  • + 762. iii. Mathew Franklin Whittier, born 18 July 1812 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; married Jane E. Vaughan.
  • 763. iv. Elizabeth Hussey Whittier237,237,237 was born on 7 December 1815 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.237 She died on 9 September 1864 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 48.237

541. John7 Coffin (Stephen6, Stephen5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 1 December 1762 in Essex County, Massachusetts.41 He and Anna Pettengill were married say 1795 in Essex County, Massachusetts.41

John was a gentleman of the old school, courteous and high minded. He was a Country Squire and did considerable writing of legal documents. He was a large property owner. He carried on a boat-building business, and also did some farming and operated a gristmill, which was standing until recently, when it was torn down.41

The five known children of John7 Coffin and Anna Pettengill were as follows:

  • + 764. i. Joseph Moulton8 Coffin, born 4 February 1798 in Essex County, Massachusetts; married Hannah Buswell.
  • 765. ii. Beulah Coffin.41
  • 766. iii. John Coffin.41
  • 767. iv. Samuel Pettengill Coffin41 died in West Indies . The cause of death was He was young when he died.41
  • 768. v. William Boardman Coffin.41

549. Isaac7 Coffin (Simeon6, Daniell5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)294,294,294 was born on 1 June 1756 in Alfred, York County, Maine.294 He and Lydia Hubbard were married say 1780.329 He died on 16 April 1841 in Lyman, Maine, at age 84.329

Lydia Hubbard329 died on 9 February 1834.329

The eight known children of Isaac7 Coffin and Lydia Hubbard were as follows:

  • 769. i. Hannah8 Coffin329,329,329 was born in 1781.329 She died on 14 January 1852.329
  • 770. ii. Peter Coffin329,329,329 was born in 1782.329 He died on 13 July 1859.329

He was a preacher among the Shakers of Alfred, Maine.329

  • 771. iii. James Coffin329,329,329 was born on 13 June 1791 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine.329
  • 772. iv. John Coffin329,329,329 was born on 22 December 1792 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine.329
  • 773. v. Mary Coffin329,329,329 was born on 4 May 1795 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine.329
  • 774. vi. Isaac Coffin329,329,329 was born in 1796 in Alfred, York County, Maine.329
  • 775. vii. Eleanor Coffin.329,329,329
  • 776. viii. Lydia Coffin329,329,329 and Hines were married.329

556. Tristram7 Coffin (Simeon6, Daniell5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)294,294,294 was born on 14 October 1773 in Alfred, York County, Maine.294 He and Joanna Moulton were married on 30 January 1802.330 He died on 29 June 1859 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine, at age 85.330

Joanna Moulton330,330 was born; of Standish.330 She died on 13 April 1849.330

The 13 known children of Tristram7 Coffin and Joanna Moulton all born in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine, were as follows:

  • 777. i. Daniel8 Coffin330,330,330 was born on 6 November 1802.330 He and Jael Hodgkins were married.330 He died on 18 May 1868 at age 65.330
  • 778. ii. Ebenezer Moulton Coffin330,330,330 was born on 8 December 1803.330 He and Thira Myrick were married on 26 November 1829.330 He died in October 1855 in Burnham, Maine, at age 51.330
  • 779. iii. Eleanor Coffin330,330,330 was born on 2 January 1805.330 She died on 16 December 1826 at age 21.330
  • 780. iv. Jacob C. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 5 November 1806.330 He and Jennett Blethen were married on 26 November 1838.330 He died in September 1864 at age 57.330
  • 781. v. Mary L. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 5 February 1808.330 She and Benjamin Libby were married on 5 March 1837.330
  • 782. vi. Josiah M. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 10 January 1810.330 He and Lydia R. Stevens were married on 26 November 1840.330 He died in 1891.330
  • 783. vii. Simeon Coffin330,330,330 was born on 4 July 1811.330 He and Lydia Hodgdon were married in October 1852.330 He died in May 1859 in New York at age 47.330
  • 784. viii. Wealthy W. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 5 March 1813.330 She and Joseph Morse were married on 10 April 1836.330 She died in 1847.330
  • 785. ix. Fanny H. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 21 August 1815.330 She and Joseph McAllister were married in May 1848.330 She died in July 1862 at age 46.330
  • 786. x. Nancy S. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 16 January 1818.330 She and Joseph Morse were married in 1856.330
  • 787. xi. Caroline Coffin330,330,330 was born on 21 October 1819.330
  • 788. xii. Emily Coffin330,330,330 was born in 1821.330 She died on 10 August 1823 at age 2 years.330
  • 789. xiii. Joanna Coffin330,330,330 was born in 1825.330 She died . The cause of death was died young.330

557. Moulton7 Coffin (Simeon6, Daniell5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)294,294,294 was born on 7 October 1775 in Alfred, York County, Maine.294 He and Susan Brown were married in November 1798; Moved to New York.294

The only known child of Moulton7 Coffin and Susan Brown was:

  • 790. i. Lauren8 Coffin331,294,294 was born on 15 January 1804.331 He and Nancy Vinyard were married on 20 November 1826.331

559. Simeon7 Coffin (Simeon6, Daniell5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)294,294,294 was born on 29 June 1780 in Alfred, York County, Maine.294 He and Mary Shaw were married on 25 July 1804.330 He and Ann S. Morton were married on 20 February 1840.330

Mary Shaw; of Standish330 died on 6 July 1839.330

The 11 known children of Simeon7 Coffin and Mary Shaw were as follows:

  • 791. i. Joseph8 Coffin330,330,330 was born on 14 March 1805 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Martha F. Higgins were married on 14 November 1831.330 He died in 1888 in Plymouth, Maine.330
  • 792. ii. Sargent Coffin330,330,330 was born on 29 December 1806 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Emily Morton were married in March 1833.330 He died on 2 August 1845 in Jackson, Maine, at age 38.330
  • 793. iii. Phebe Coffin330,330,330 was born on 24 December 1808 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 She and William F. Higgins were married in January 1831.330 She died on 5 July 1854 at age 45.330
  • 794. iv. Enoch S. Coffin330,330,330 was born on 4 September 1810 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Martha Jones were married on 8 March 1832.330 He died on 18 February 1885 at age 74.330
  • 795. v. Isaac Coffin330,330,330 was born on 22 July 1812 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Susan Evans were married in March 1838.330 He died in 1882.330
  • 796. vi. Salome Coffin330,330,330 was born on 10 June 1814 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Hezekiah Whitcomb were married on 7 November 1832.330 He died in 1893 in Kansas.330
  • 797. vii. Mary Ann Coffin330,330,330 was born on 13 February 1816 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 She died on 18 June 1830 at age 14.330
  • 798. viii. Eleanor Coffin330,330,330 was born on 28 November 1817 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 She died in 1888.330
  • 799. ix. Simeon Coffin330,330,330 was born on 30 November 1820 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.330 He and Jane A. Boothby were married in May 1846.330 He died on 31 March 1847 at age 26.330
  • 800. x. James M. Coffin332,332,332 was born on 25 December 1825 in Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine.332 He and Elizabeth H. Philbrick were married on 17 March 1850.332 He died on 29 June 1891 in Pittsfield, Maine, at age 65.332
  • 801. xi. Darius Coffin332,332,332 died . The cause of death was died young.332

Ann S. Morton; of Standish330 died on 7 May 1856.330

There were no known children of Simeon7 Coffin and Ann S. Morton.

Known children of Simeon7 Coffin all born Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine include these four:

  • 802. i. Alonzo8 Coffin332,332 was born on 25 July 1841.332
  • 803. ii. Mary Ann Coffin332,332 was born on 16 April 1843.332 She died on 7 November 1862 at age 19.332
  • 804. iii. Frank Coffin332,332 was born on 25 March 1845.332 He died on 2 July 1863 in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, at age 18.332
  • 805. iv. Milton Coffin332,332 was born on 25 February 1848.332

568. Moses7 Merrill (Phebe6Coffin, Abner5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 5 July 1758. He and Abigail Honeyford were married on 11 January 1781 in North Yarmouth or Cumberland, Maine. He and Knight were married on 26 September 1795. He died after 1813.

Abigail Honeyford was born on 14 January 1759. She died on 23 April 1795 at age 36.

The eight known children of Moses7 Merrill and Abigail Honeyford were as follows:

  • 806. i. Lydia8 Merrill was born in 1782. She and Ebenezer Roberd were married on 13 July 1801.
  • 807. ii. William Merrill was born on 7 March 1783. He died on 21 November 1783 at age 8 months and 14 days.
  • 808. iii. Moses Merrill was born on 27 May 1784.
  • 809. iv. John Merrill was born on 30 May 1786.
  • 810. v. Abigail Merrill was born on 1 March 1789.
  • 811. vi. David Merrill was born on 28 September 1790.
  • 812. vii. Polly Merrill was born on 7 August 1792.
  • 813. viii. Richard Merrill was born on 23 April 1795. He and Hannah Sawyer were married on 9 April 1815.

There were no known children of Moses7 Merrill and Knight.

569. Jacob7 Merrill (Phebe6Coffin, Abner5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born before 1760. He and Hannah Littlefield were married on 8 March 1787. He died on 14 July 1792.

Hannah Littlefield was born in 1761. She died in 1849. She was also known as Hannah Litchfield.

The three known children of Jacob7 Merrill and Hannah Littlefield were as follows:

  • 814. i. Jacob8 Merrill was born on 14 October 1787.
  • 815. ii. Moses Merrill was born on 9 June 1789 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 816. iii. Hannah Merrill was born on 4 June 1791. She and Nickerson were married.

570. John7 Merrill (Phebe6Coffin, Abner5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 28 January 1760. He and Sarah Henshaw were married say 1784. He died in October 1844 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, at age 84.

Sarah Henshaw was born on 22 December 1767. She died on 22 March 1843 at age 75.

The 12 known children of John7 Merrill and Sarah Henshaw were as follows:

  • 817. i. Joseph8 Merrill was born on 2 December 1785 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. He and Sally Smith were married on 8 October 1792. He died on 10 November 1855 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine, at age 69.
  • 818. ii. John Merrill was born on 26 August 1787 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. He and Lydia Beane were married. He died in New Sharon, Franklin County, Maine.
  • 819. iii. Sarah Merrill was born on 5 October 1789 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. She and John Beane were married on 15 January 1815. She died in Byron, Oxford County, Maine.
  • 820. iv. Phebe Merrill was born on 7 March 1792 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. She and Alamon Read were married. She died in Byron, Oxford County, Maine.
  • 821. v. William Merrill was born on 5 November 1793 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. He and Abigail Townes were married on 6 April 1819. He and Rebecca Goddard were married on 8 October 1837. He died on 25 February 1856 in New Sharon, Franklin County, Maine, at age 62.
  • 822. vi. Amos Merrill was born on 8 January 1794 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. He and Sally Gordon were married. He died in New Sharon, Franklin County, Maine.
  • 823. vii. Stephen Merrill was born on 29 May 1796 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. He and Emily Allen were married on 21 January 1837. He died on 31 December 1864 in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, at age 68.
  • 824. viii. Mary Merrill was born on 11 April 1798 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. She and Joseph Wight were married. She died on 23 August 1880 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, at age 82.
  • 825. ix. Elizabeth Merrill was born on 20 March 1800 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. She died on 9 January 1880 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, at age 79.

She was also known as Betsey Merrill.

  • 826. x. Samuel Merrill was born on 11 May 1801 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. He and Sophia Allen were married. He died in 1870 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine.
  • 827. xi. Nathaniel Merrill was born on 10 January 1805 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. He and Nancy Jackson were married. He died on 1 April 1878 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, at age 73.

He was also known as Nathan Merrill.

  • 828. xii. Franklin Merrill was born on 8 August 1807 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. He and Louiza H. Town were married. He died on 26 February 1881 at age 73.

572. Richard7 Merrill (Phebe6Coffin, Abner5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born in 1762. He and Mary Mitchell were married on 19 March 1795 in North Yarmouth or Freeport, Maine.

Mary Mitchell was born circa 1771 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.

The 11 known children of Richard7 Merrill and Mary Mitchell were as follows:

  • 829. i. Martha8 Merrill was born on 20 July 1792.
  • 830. ii. Rufus Merrill was born on 27 September 1796 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 831. iii. Moses Mitchell Merrill was born on 20 May 1798 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine. He died on 21 July 1864 at age 66.
  • 832. iv. Rachel Merrill was born on 23 April 1800.
  • 833. v. Sarah Merrill was born on 15 July 1802. She and Aaron Jackson were married.
  • 834. vi. Joshua M. Merrill was born on 1 January 1813.
  • 835. vii. John Hase Merrill was born on 8 December 1815 in Byron, Oxford County, Maine.
  • 836. viii. Octavia Merrill was born circa 1817. She and Joseph Simpson were married.
  • 837. ix. Lydia Merrill was born circa 1817 in Byron, Oxford County, Maine. She and Moses Cutting were married.
  • 838. x. Louise Merrill was born circa 1821 in Byron, Oxford County, Maine.
  • 839. xi. Mary Merrill was born circa 1823 in Byron, Oxford County, Maine. She and Aaron Cutting were married.

574. William7 Merrill (Phebe6Coffin, Abner5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born circa 1764. He and Anna Merrill were married on 17 October 1797 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.333

Anna Merrill333,334,334,334 was born on 10 January 1773 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.334 She was also known as Sally A. Merrill.

The nine known children of William7 Merrill and Anna Merrill were as follows:

  • 840. i. William Pilsbury8 Merrill was born on 12 September 1798 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 841. ii. Jeremiah Merrill was born on 2 April 1800 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 842. iii. Charles Thoytes Merrill was born on 15 February 1802 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.

He was also known as Charles Keyes Merrill.

  • 843. iv. Ambrose Talbot Merrill was born on 3 October 1803 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 844. v. George Merrill was born in August 1805 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 845. vi. Joseph Merrill was born on 3 August 1807 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
  • 846. vii. Lydia Merrill was born on 1 June 1809 in Rumney, New Hampshire.
  • 847. viii. Asa Merrill was born on 24 July 1811 in Rumney, New Hampshire.
  • 848. ix. Richard Merrill was born on 6 October 1813 in Rumney, New Hampshire.

577. Betsey7 Coffin (Tristram6, Joseph5, Steven4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born on 13 October 1778 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.335 She and William Merrill were married on 30 September 1802 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.335 She died on 10 September 1849 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 70.335

William Merrill was born on 21 February 1779 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.335 He died on 14 February 1852 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 72.335

The only known child of Betsey7 Coffin and William Merrill was:

  • + 849. i. Julia Ann8 Merrill, born 21 February 1806 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; married Charles Hopkinson.

580. Thomas7 Coffin (Peter6, John5, Nathaniel4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1) was born in July 1777.336 He and Hannah Kilborn were married say 1820.

The only known child of Thomas7 Coffin and Hannah Kilborn was:

  • 850. i. Charles Carleton8 Coffin was born on 26 July 1823 in Boscawen, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.336 He and Sallie Russell Farmer were married on 18 February 1846.336 He died on 2 March 1896 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, at age 72.336

COFFIN, Charles Carleton, author, was born in Boscawen, N. H., 26 July 1823; son of Thomas and Hannah (Kilburn), grandson of Peter and Rebecca (Hazeltine), great-grandson of John and Judith (Greenleaf), great-great grandson of Nathaniel and Sarah (Brocklebank) Dole and great-great-great grandson of Tristram Coffin, Jr., who settled in Salisbury, Mass., in 1642, when ten years old, with his father Tristram of Brixton, England. Charles was brought up on his father's farm, attended the district school, and had one winter's instruction in the village academy. He learned surveying and found employment with the surveying parties laying out the first railroads in New Hampshire. In 1849 he put up a telegraph line connecting the Cambridge observatory with the telegraph lines in Boston to secure uniform time for despatching the trains. He also had charge of the construction of the telegraph fire alarm in Boston. In 1854 he was employed as a writer on the Boston Journal and was assistant editor of the Boston Atlas. He made a tour of the United States in the interest of the Journal in 1858 and his letters attracted much attention. In 1861 he became the war correspondent, and his letters signed "Carleton" were vivid descriptions of passing events at the front. In 1866 he went to Europe and reported the Austro-Prussian war, returning home through Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, India, China and Japan, crossing to San Francisco and overland to Boston. His letters to the Journal kept its readers in touch with the whole world. He lectured extensively in the United States after 1868 and represented Boston in the state legislature for two terms, 1884-85, and in the senate in 1890. His early association with veteran Revolutionary heroes and his subsequent experience as an army correspondent, furnished him an immense fund from which to draw in writing his books for boys. On Feb. 18, 1846, he was married to Sallie, daughter of John Farmer of Boscawen, N. H., and Mr. and Mrs. Coffin celebrated their golden wedding in 1896. He was a member of the New England historic genealogical society, to the library of which he gave many valuable manuscripts relating to the civil war and also the key of the slave pen at Richmond, Va. He was also a member of the American geographical society and of the American association for the advancement of science. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Amherst in 1870. Among his books are The Great Commercial Prize (1858); Days and Nights on the Battlefield (1864); Following the Flag and Winning His Way (1865); Four Years of Fighting (1866); Our New Way Round the World (1869); The Seat of Empire (1870); Caleb Krinkle (1875); Story of Liberty (1878); Boys of '76 (1879); Old Times in the Colonies (1880); Life of Garfield (1880); Building the Nation (1883); Drum Beat of the Nation (1887); Marching to Victory (1888); Freedom Triumphant (1891); Life of Lincoln (l892); Daughters of the Revolution, 1769-1776 (1895); and Dan of Millbrook (1896). He died in Brookline, Mass., March 2, 1896.

581. Joanna7 Coffin (Peter6, John5, Nathaniel4, Judith3Greenleaf, Edmund2, John1)337,337,337 was born on 11 April 1773.337 She and Edmund Carleton were married on 25 January 1797 in Massachusetts.337 She died on 3 September 1847 at age 74.337

Edmund Carleton338,338,338 was born on 13 May 1772 in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts.337,338 He died on 2 November 1838 in Massachusetts at age 66.337 He emigrated in 1795 from Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.337

Edmund taught school in Boscawen in 1792; studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittredge of Dover, who certified to three years of study, 17 Aug. 1795, and the same year was moderator of a town meeting in Dover. He moved to Haverhill in 1795, and began the practice of medicine, where he continued forty-three years, and became a noted physician. He graduated from medical school of Dartmouth College 22 Aug. 1804, and became an honorary member of Dartmouth Medical Society, 25 Nov. 1819. Bank director. First president of the Haverhill Antislavery Society.337

The nine known children of Joanna7 Coffin and Edmund Carleton all born in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, were as follows:

  • + 851. i. Edmund8 Carleton, born 29 October 1797; married Mary Kilburn.
  • 852. ii. Rebecca Carleton337,337,337 was born on 27 August 1799.337 She died on 28 April 1803 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 3.337
  • 853. iii. Peter Carleton337,337,337 was born on 13 November 1801.337 He and Elizabeth Kilburn were married; They had two children.337 He and Sarah Ann Wilder were married; They had no children.337 He died on 7 August 1856 at age 54.337
  • 854. iv. Charles Carleton337,337,337 was born on 31 March 1804.337 He and Marinda Bell were married; They had five children.337,339 He and Marinda Fox were married; They had one child.337 He died on 1 December 1857 at age 53.337
  • 855. v. Rebecca Carleton337,337,337 was born on 11 July 1806.337 She and Jotham Clark Cutler were married.337 She died on 23 May 1884 in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, at age 77.337
  • 856. vi. Arthur Carleton337,337,337 was born on 16 February 1810.337 He and Sarah Ann Atherton were married; They did not have children.337 He died in 1883.339
  • 857. vii. Abigail Carleton337,337,337 was born on 6 January 1812.337,340 She died on 9 February 1817 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 5 years, 1 month and 3 days.337
  • 858. viii. Joanna Carleton337,337,337 was born on 6 April 1814.337 She and William Wilder were married; They had two children.337
  • 859. ix. Abigail Carleton337,337,337 was born on 26 August 1817.337 She died on 7 May 1819 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 1 year, 8 months and 11 days.337

583. Stephen7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)341,341,341 was born on 15 October 1735 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5,64 He was baptized on 19 October 1735 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.341 He and Eunice Fairbanks were married on 11 January 1758 in Massachusetts.341 He died on 8 June 1802 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, at age 66.341

He and Eunice Fairbanks relocated in 1771 to Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.341

He was the fifth child of Dr. Daniel Greenleaf, of Bolton. He married Eunice Fairbanks, of Boston, where he resided until the autumn of 1771, when he removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, having purchased a tract of land of about eight hundred acres, then known as "The Governor's Farm," comprehending what is now the whole of the East Village of Brattleboro. Here he built mills, and opened, as is supposed the first store in Vermont. His dwelling house occupied the present site of the "Phoenix House." The sawmill stood upon land afterwards occupied by the paper mill, and the gristmill was erected upon the spot afterwards used for the machine shop of Hines, Newman, Hunt & Co. That part of the village where the railroad depot is situated was used by Mr. Greenleaf as a goat pasture, Flat Street for a garden, and the rest of the land in the village not covered with forest as a cow pasture. For some time after Mr. Greenleaf moved into the place his was the only family residing within the limits of the village, and there were not more than twenty families in the town. He built the first dwelling house, the first sawmill, and the first gristmill erected in the village.

An old bill of lading found among the papers of his son Stephen, shows how intimately religious feeling mingled with the business transactions of life. Mr. Greenleaf, when living in Boston, was a shipping merchant, and received the following bill of lading, dated 26 Aug. 1767: "shipped by the grace of God, in good order, by Stephen Greenleaf, Jr., In the good ship Betsey, whereof is now master, under God, for this voyage, Thomas Robson, now at anchor in the harbor of Boston, and by God's grace bound for London, two bags containing Spanish mills and dollars, etc., etc. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety, Amen."

Eunice Fairbanks died on 8 March 1826.5

The 11 known children of Stephen7 Greenleaf and Eunice Fairbanks were as follows:

  • + 860. i. Stephen8 Greenleaf, born 31 January 1759 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married Anna Sargent; married Cynthia [_____].
  • + 861. ii. Eunice Greenleaf, born 19 August 1761 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married George Dickson.
  • + 862. iii. Daniel Greenleaf, born 16 January 1764 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married Huldah Hopkins.
  • + 863. iv. Samuel Greenleaf, born 25 April 1765 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married Rhoda Louise Knight.
  • + 864. v. Susanna Greenleaf, born 19 November 1767 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married Dr. Simon Stevens.
  • + 865. vi. James Greenleaf, born 9 December 1770 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married Sarah Bullock.
  • 866. vii. Elizabeth Greenleaf was born on 18 June 1774 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.342 She and James K. Goodenough were married. She died on 25 March 1847 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, at age 72.342
  • + 867. viii. Dr. Christopher Greenleaf, born 26 November 1776 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont; married Tabitha Dickinson.
  • 868. ix. Joseph Greenleaf was born on 28 February 1779 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.343 He and Lydia Warner were married before 1814. He and Ruth Perry were married in 1815.344 He died in February 1842 in New York.344
  • 869. x. Polly Greenleaf was born on 1 March 1781 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.343 She and Oliver Dean were married. She died on 3 November 1822 at age 41.344
  • 870. xi. Thomas Lee Greenleaf was born on 4 September 1783 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.343 He and Sarah Marshall were married on 30 March 1806.344 He died on 2 August 1865 in Sackett's Harber, New York, at age 81.344

He was a baker for many years. He lived in Watertown, New York for a while.

584. Elizabeth7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)256,256,256 was born on 30 October 1729 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.256 She and Peter Joyslin filed marriage intention on 10 December 1748 in Massachusetts.256 She and Peter Joyslin were married on 5 January 1748/49 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.256,345,346 She died in 1828.5

She and Peter Joyslin immigrated in 1774 to Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.347

Greenleaf book gives birthdate, and children's names as: Daniel, Peter, Samuel, Calvin, Susan, Percy, Nabby.256

Peter Joyslin345,346,345,345 was born on 7 December 1724 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.345 He died on 9 December 1802 in Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 78.5 He was also known as Peter Joslyn.346 He may have been born in 13 December 1730.

The 15 known children of Elizabeth7 Greenleaf and Peter Joyslin were as follows:

  • 871. i. Silence8 Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 9 July 1749 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.347,348 She and David Goodridge were married on 22 August 1772.347
  • 872. ii. Daniel Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 23 June 1751 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.347
  • 873. iii. Nathaniel Joyslin was born in 1753.349
  • 874. iv. Esther Joyslin was born in 1753.349
  • + 875. v. Elizabeth Joyslin, born 8 July 1753 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married John Day.
  • 876. vi. Mary Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 5 June 1755 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.347,350 She and Job Boynton were married on 18 March 1773 in Massachusetts.347
  • + 877. vii. Alice Joyslin, born 7 October 1757 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Amos Raymond.
  • + 878. viii. Peter Joyslin, born 12 October 1759 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Sarah Kidder.
  • + 879. ix. Persis Joyslin, born 26 February 1762 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Phillips Sweetster.
  • 880. x. Anna Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 12 February 1764 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.347,350 She died in 1774.347
  • 881. xi. Dorothy Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 12 February 1764 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.350 She and John Kidder were married on 25 February 1784.347 She died in 1811.347
  • 882. xii. Samuel Joyslin347,347,347 was born on 2 August 1766 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.350 He and Lettice Carlisle were married.347
  • 883. xiii. Calvin Joyslin was born in 1768.349
  • 884. xiv. Susannah Joyslin.
  • 885. xv. Nabby Joyslin.256

585. Dr. Daniel7 Greenleaf Jr. (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)256,211,211 was born on 2 September 1732 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.256 He and Anna Burrell were married 4 or 5 May 1763.256 He died on 18 January 1777 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 44.341

Dr. Daniel Greenleaf, Jr. studied medicine, and afterwards went to England, whereon 5 May 1763, he married Anna Burrell. Returning to America he practiced medicine in some part of Worcester County, Massachusetts, until his death which took place 18 Jan. 1777.

Copy of will of Daniel Greenleaf Jr. Probate Records at Worcester, Massachusetts, Vol. XIII. p. 390. "I, Daniel Greenleaf, Jr., of Bolton, in County of Worcester, etc., Physician, being engaged to go into the Continental Service as chief Surgeon in the Regiment whom Jonathan Smith, Colonel (commanded), considering the vicissitude and danger these persons are exposed to who are engaged in war, especially as the present war is, being of health of body, and sound and perfect mind and memory, etc. To loving wife, Ann Greenleaf, one half real and personal estate except legacies hereinafter mentioned, as long as she remain my widow. And if she marries, use of one third of the real, and one third of the personal, estate forever. To son Daniel £13-6-8, to purchase a Silver Tankard, also my watch and stone ring. To daughter Silence £6-13-4, to purchase a silver Kan. To daughter Eleanor £6-13-4, to purchase a silver Kan. The Real Estate may be sold, if thought best, and the money put out on good security, said money to be equally divided among my three children. Wife to be their guardian so long as she remains my widow. If she marries, Samuel Baker to be guardian. Live stock, husbandry utensils, physical books, medicines, surgery instruments, and chaise may be sold and divided. To Ann Burrell, my wife's daughter, £6-13-4, to purchase for her a piece of plate as she shall choose. Other books to be divided between my wife and children, etc.

Witnessed.

Signed 22 July 1776.

JONATHAN LORING.

Probated 4 March 1777.

ELIZABETH LORING.

THOMAS LORING.

Amount of inventory taken at Bolton, 1 March 1, 1777, £720-5-5."351

Anna Burrell341 was born in England.256

The three known children of Dr. Daniel7 Greenleaf Jr. and Anna Burrell were as follows:

586. Israel7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)341,341,341 was born on 29 March 1734 in Bolton, Worcestor County, Massachusetts.6,341 He was baptized on 31 March 1734 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.341 He and Prudence Whitcomb were married on 28 November 1754 in Massachusetts.341,297,6 He and Ursala Woods were married on 10 March 1785 in Massachusetts.341,352 He died on 4 March 1824 in Columbus, Brookfield, Channange County, New York, at age 89.6

He was a Methodist.6 He was a farmer.341 He began military service on 28 July 1780 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, He was a private in Capt. Thomas Brintnall Co., Col. Cyprian Howe's Regiment from Middlesex County.6 He ended military service in January 1782 in Massachusetts; He was a private in Col. Bery Tuppers 1st Regiment, Massachusetts.6

Israel Greenleaf was a farmer, and resided in Bolton for many years. About the year 1791, he removed to New Marlborough, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Later he moved to Whitestown, in the State of New York; and thence, about the year 1800, he removed to Brookfield in the State of New York, now the town of Columbus, in Chenango County, where he resided until his death, which took place 4 March 1824, at the advanced age of 90 years. He was a very active and business-like man, and accumulated a considerable property. He owned several farms in and about Bolton, while he resided there, and was very successful in some land speculations in the State of New York. He purchased a large tract of land where the City of Utica is built, which he sold at a large advance. He then purchased largely in the town of Rome, which he turned to advantage, and then purchased at Chenango.

In person, Mr. Greenleaf was about six feet in height, very slim, and upright; he had keen blue eyes, rather small. He was rather prematurely bald, and wore a skullcap. In his later life he was a religious man, and was in communion with the Methodist church. When 84 years of age he would mount a spirited horse with as much agility as a boy of sixteen. He delighted much in riding, and generally kept spirited horses.

He owned a large farm at Bolton, Massachusetts. Also lived at New Marlboro and Whitestown, New York. Fought in Revolutionary war. Private from 28 July - 1 Nov. 1780. Capt. Thomas Brintnell Co., Col. Cyprian Howe's regiment from Middlesex County. Private from Jan. 1781 - Jan. 1782 Col. Bery Tuppers 1st reg. Massachusetts. He was in the service for 3 months, 8 days. The company was raised to reinforce Continental Army at Rhode Island for three months.353 He was six feet tall, slim, small but keen blue eyes. He also wore a scull cap to cover early baldness. He had exceptional stamina and agility. Israel was a Methodist. He owned a large farm in Bolton, Massachusetts. He lived also in New Marlborough and Whitestown, New York. In the Revolutionary war he served as private from July 28 to November 1, 1780 under Capt. Thomas Brintnoll Co., Col. Cyprian Howe's Regiment from Middlesex County (Muster Rolls 17, page 83). He also served as private from Jan. 1781 to Jan. 1782 under Col. Bery Tuppers 1st Regiment, Massachusetts.6

Prudence Whitcomb was born in Bolton, Worcestor County, Massachusetts. She died on 15 September 1784 in Massachusetts.6,341

The 14 known children of Israel7 Greenleaf and Prudence Whitcomb were as follows:

  • 889. i. Daniel8 Greenleaf354,354,354 was born on 6 May 1756 in Massachusetts.354 He died on 22 July 1774 at age 18.354
  • + 890. ii. Betsey Greenleaf, born 16 March 1758 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Daniel Lewis.
  • + 891. iii. John Greenleaf Sr., born 26 March 1760 in Bolton, Worcestor County, Massachusetts; married Rebecca Lewis; married Anna Millington.
  • + 892. iv. David Greenleaf, born 9 March 1763 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Phebe Jones; married Parmela Gove.
  • + 893. v. Israel Greenleaf, born 25 or 29 Jan 1765 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Sally Hoadly.
  • + 894. vi. Levi Greenleaf, born 19 February 1767 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Mary Willard; married Margaret Smith.
  • 895. vii. Sarah Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 20 April 1769 in Massachusetts.355 She died on 2 December 1800 at age 31.355
  • + 896. viii. Tilly Greenleaf, born 25 March 1770 in Massachusetts; married Mary Spofford; married Elizabeth Dickinson.
  • 897. ix. Rebecca Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 10 August 1771 in Massachusetts.355

Died in infancy.355

  • 898. x. Silas Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 30 September 1772 in Massachusetts.355

Died in infancy.355

  • 899. xi. Oliver Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 18 October 1773 in Massachusetts.355

Died in infancy.355

  • 900. xii. Oliver Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 31 March 1775 in Massachusetts.355

Died in infancy.355

  • 901. xiii. Joshua Greenleaf355,355,355 was born on 12 August 1776 in Massachusetts.355 He and Dency Hollister were married on 8 September 1799.355 He died on 1 October 1860 at age 84.355
  • + 902. xiv. Prudence Greenleaf, born 19 February 1778 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Alvin Lamb; married Sampson Spaulding.

Ursala Woods341 was born on 24 February 1763 in Massachusetts.341 She died on 22 June 1844 in Massachusetts at age 81.341

The eight known children of Israel7 Greenleaf and Ursala Woods were as follows:

  • 903. i. Daniel8 Greenleaf356,356,356 was born on 1 January 1786 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.356 He and Betsey [_____] were married.356 He died on 20 August 1812 in Mississippi at age 26.356

Daniel Greenleaf was employed as a teacher near Natchez, in Mississippi. He was six feet two inches, broad shoulders, rather spare, walked slightly stooping; very long arms, his fingers when extended touching the knee joint; head medium size, high forehead, large blue eyes, Roman nose, small mouth.357

  • 904. ii. Isaiah Parker Greenleaf356,356,356 was born on 25 November 1788 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.356 He and Patty Williams were married on 29 March 1822.356 He died on 6 May 1853 at age 64.356

He was a farmer.356

  • 905. iii. Stephen Greenleaf356,356,356 was born on 12 September 1790 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.356 He and Pollina Anderson were married on 29 August 1816.356 He and Amanda A. Fountain were married on 29 August 1858.356 He died on 14 September 1868 in Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, at age 78.356

He was a merchant, and in person was about five feet eight inches in height, fair complexion, gray eyes, light hair originally, high forehead, somewhat bald.

Among the papers of the Rev. Jonathan Greenleaf, D.D., are many interesting letters from Mr. Greenleaf, who gave him much valuable information for his 'Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.' Several manuscript copies of a genealogy which he compiled in 1838, and which bore this quaint inscription, 'A record of Stephen Greenleaf, the first Greenleaf of the male line born in North America, together with a record of his posterity by families to the present time, Dec.20, 1838, by Stephen Greenleaf, son of Israel,' had been given by him to various members of the family. Rev. Jonathan Greenleaf was favored among others. A pleasant feature of these manuscript copies were occasional jottings from his pen, written on the back of a page of family record, a few of which are as follows :-

What will be said of this old coon when he is gone? I have every confidence that my children will do ample justice, but I wish to be a little in advance, so here it comes without alloy

The tree has decayed, the leaf is now dry,

Put the spirit has tied to regions on high.

And now, loving friends, why sorrow and sigh?

Dry up all your tears, for you, by and by,

Will meet with your friends in the regions of light;

Take the straight, narrow way, and strive to do right.

I am one of twenty-two;

My name grows on a tree.

I walk erect like you;

Please tell my name to me.

Answer: My father has 22 children.

Name, Greenleaf.

Of twenty-two I am

1 Likewise the third of

8 The third of eight combined with

1 Most strange to tell produces 8.

Explanation: My father had 22 children, my mother 8, and I was the third of my mother; then self and wife also had 8 children.

Like the Israelite, ' he pitched his tents in many places.' From New York he moved to Cincinnati, from there to Indiana, thence to St. Louis, and finally to Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa.358

  • 906. iv. Polly Greenleaf356,356,356 was born on 22 August 1792 in Massachusetts.356 She died on 9 March 1877 at age 84.356
  • + 907. v. Esther Greenleaf, born 1 December 1797 in New York; married Chauncy Baker.
  • 908. vi. Joseph Greenleaf359,359,359 was born on 16 October 1799 in Whitestown, New York.359 He and Electa Coates were married on 13 February 1820.359 He died on 20 April 1855 in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, at age 55.359

He was a jeweler.359

587. David7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)341,341,341 was born on 13 July 1737 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.341 He and Mary Johnson were married on 2 June 1763 in Massachusetts.341 He died on 11 December 1800 in Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, at age 63.341

He was bred a goldsmith, which business he followed for the most of his life. He married Mary Johnson, of Norwich, Connecticut, 2 June 1763, daughter of Ebenezer and Deborah (Champion), and it appears their first child, Mary, was born there, and probably the second (David), also. We find he purchased land and dwelling of John Moore, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1 Nov. 1769 (Worcester Records), and that he and his wife Mary were in Lancaster, or Bolton, l769-1770-1771-1772. 1 Jan. 1772, he sells land in Lancaster, with buildings, to Calvin Greenleaf (Worcester Records). 11 Nov. 1772, "David Greenleaf and Mary, his wife, of Bolton, Massachusetts, conveyed to Daniel Greenleaf, Physician, of Bolton, Massachusetts, a parcel of land, with dwelling, situated in Norwich" (Norwich Records). From this, it appears that David and Mary returned to Bolton. David served several enlistments as a private in the Massachusetts militia.

The first record of David's owning land in Coventry, Connecticut, is in 1778 when he purchased of Daniel Robertson, Jr., land, house, and blacksmith shop. 28 Feb. 1791, he sells this land to his son David, of Hartford, who sells it 15 Jan. 1805 to William and Susanna Lyman, of Coventry (Coventry Records).360,361

Mary Johnson341,341,341 was born on 7 April 1738.5,360 She died on 1 May 1814 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, at age 76.360,341

The only known child of David7 Greenleaf and Mary Johnson was:

588. William7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)341,64,341 was born on 23 August 1738 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.341 He was baptized on 27 August 1738 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.341 He and Sally Quincy were married on 19 December 1763 in Massachusetts.341 He died on 13 January 1793 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 54.341,64

He was also known as General William Greenleaf.341

General William Greenleaf was bred to the business of a druggist in Boston, where he married Sally, the seventh child of Edmund Quincy. Dorothy, the fifth child, married John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts. Some years after his marriage he removed to Lancaster, Worcester County, where he resided until his death. Mr. Greenleaf was much in public life, being Sheriff of the County of Worcester for many years, and a Brigadier General in the militia of the State.

8 Sept. 1777. -As one of the Selectmen of Lancaster, he makes returns, -under an order for a census of the male citizens of military age (sixteen years old and upward).

Lancaster, 19 Nov. 1781. -On Thursday morning last, a considerable number of the most respectable inhabitants of this place assembled at the Sun Tavern to celebrate the capture of Cornwallis, when, after mutual congratulations on this happy event, the company, conducted by William Greenleaf Esq., formed and marched in procession through the principal streets of the town, preceded by an advance guard, fieldpiece, and band of music, with American colors displayed. Having fired sundry salutes, followed with three huzzas, the company returned to the "Sun," where an elegant dinner was provided for them and such gentlemen from the neighboring towns as were pleased to favor them with their company. After dinner the following toasts were drank, each being followed by a discharge of a fieldpiece with three cheers.-Massachusetts Spy, 22 Nov. 1781.

During the exciting times of the Shay Insurrection Colonel William Greenleaf was sheriff of the county. On Wednesday, the 22d of November 1786, he had, from the courthouse steps in Worcester, read the riot act and harangued the crowd, an armed mob, there congregated to prevent the sitting of the Court of General Sessions. One of the orators of the insurgents, in reply, took the occasion to state that among many grievances which they found too oppressive for human endurance, and from which they were resolved to have speedy relief, were the sheriff himself and his exorbitant fees. Colonel Greenleaf coolly rejoined: "If you deem my fees for execution oppressive gentlemen, you need not wait longer for redress; I will hang you all for nothing, with the greatest pleasure."

An interesting list of official prices current at the close of the second year of the war is found in the Lancaster town records, beautifully engrossed; it is entitled, "Regulating Act, 1777." The Selectmen and committee for the town of Lancaster having met, agreeable to the order of the General Court, proceeded to set the price of the necessary and convenient articles of life as follows, viz.: -Here follows a long list, commencing,

s. d. Farming Labor in the Summer Season,

June. July, and August, per day 3

September 2-2

October and November 1-10

December, January, and February 1-6

March and April 1-10

May 2-2

FOOD.

Cheese good new milk, per pound 6

Butter by the single pound 9

Peas, good and clean, per bushel 6-8

Beans, per bushel 5-4

Potatoes, per bushel 1-6

Mutton and veal, per pound 3

Wheat, flour, manufactured in this State, per hundred 20

Milk in the winter, per quart 2

Flip made of New England rum, half a pint of rum in a Mugg 9

Flip made of West India rum, a mugg 1

Dinner, roast or boiled 1

All other meals in proportion.

CLOTHING.

Good stockings, men's, yarn, a pair 6

Shoes for women ware, cloth or leather, a pair 5-8

To cutting out a man's coat 10

To cutting jackett and briches 5

Making a man's coat, lined and full trimmed 8

Making a man's jacket with sleeves 3-6

Making ditto cloth breeches 4

Making ditto buck skin ditto 6

And many other things specified.

Examined and entered by me, William Greenleaf, Town Clerk. Lancaster, 28 Feb. 1777.362

Sally Quincy341,341 died on 12 March 1790.5

The eight known children of William7 Greenleaf and Sally Quincy were as follows:

  • 912. i. William8 Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 26 January 1766 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.363 He died either 27 June 1849 or 1850 in Ware, Massachusetts.363
  • 913. ii. Edmund Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 10 December 1767 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.363 He died on 9 November 1789 in Massachusetts at age 21.363
  • 914. iii. Elizabeth Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 2 September 1769 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.363 She died in 1814.363
  • 915. iv. Infant Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 8 August 1771 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died in infancy.363
  • 916. v. Sarah Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 21 February 1773 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.363 She was baptized on 28 February 1773 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.363
  • 917. vi. John Hancock Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 30 April 1775 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.363 He died on 28 January 1852 at age 76.363
  • 918. vii. Infant Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 15 November 1776 in Massachusetts; died in infancy.363
  • 919. viii. Daniel Greenleaf363,363,363 was born on 9 October 1778 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.363 He died on 22 December 1824 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 46.363

589. Calvin7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)341,341,341 was born on 31 March 1740 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.5,364 He and Rebecca Whitcomb were married on 17 November 1762 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.5,364,1 He died in August 1812 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 72.5,364

Calvin served as a private in Capt. Ephraim Hartwell's company of guards at Rutland, Massachusetts, 1779.364

Rebecca Whitcomb1,1 was born on 28 June 1745 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.5,1 She died on 4 September 1787 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 42.5,364,1

The 11 known children of Calvin7 Greenleaf and Rebecca Whitcomb were as follows:

  • 920. i. Calvin8 Greenleaf Jr was born on 1 November 1763.365 He died in 1785.365
  • 921. ii. Rebecca Greenleaf was born on 20 June 1765.365 She died circa 1776.365

Died at age eleven.

  • + 922. iii. John Greenleaf, born 20 March 1767 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Abigail Townsend.
  • 923. iv. Dorothy Greenleaf was born on 2 September 1769.365 She died circa 1776.365
  • + 924. v. Daniel Greenleaf, born 2 November 1771 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; married Sarah Townsend.
  • 925. vi. Sarah Greenleaf was born on 11 January 1774.365

Died in infancy.

  • + 926. vii. Betsey Greenleaf, born April 1776; married Levi Moore.
  • 927. viii. Asa Greenleaf was born on 29 September 1778.365

Died in infancy.

  • 928. ix. Dolly Greenleaf was born on 11 February 1780.365 She and Martin Houghton were married.
  • + 929. x. Elias Greenleaf, born 10 January 1782; married Nancy Townsend.
  • 930. xi. Moses Greenleaf was born on 18 January 1786.365 He and Experience Sawyer were married on 1 October 1814.365 He and Lucy Sawyer were married in 1835.365 He and Lucy Sawyer were divorced. He died on 12 August 1863 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 77.365

Both Moses and his wife Experience became insane. Moses remained so for about three months. In his second marriage he and his wife could not agree, so they parted in 1837.

590. Mary7 Greenleaf (Daniel6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)298,298,298 was born on 3 July 1742 in Massachusetts.298 She and Joseph Wheeler were married on 8 January 1760 in Massachusetts.366,298 She died on 28 August 1783 in Massachusetts at age 41.5

Joseph Wheeler298,367,367 was born on 13 March 1734/35 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.5,367 He and Marguerita Olivier were married on 20 May 1784 in Massachusetts.368 He died after 1785. He was graduated in 1757 in Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368

The 10 known children of Mary7 Greenleaf and Joseph Wheeler were as follows:

  • 931. i. Elizabeth8 Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 31 December 1761 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368 She died on 18 July 1782 at age 20.368
  • 932. ii. Mary Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 7 April 1763 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368 She died on 4 May 1799 in Kingston, Jamaica, at age 36 . The cause of death was of yellow fever.368
  • 933. iii. Theophilus Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 22 December 1764 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368
  • 934. iv. Daniel Greenleaf Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 14 March 1768 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368
  • 935. v. John Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 17 May 1770 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368
  • 936. vi. Moses Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 4 April 1772 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368 He died on 27 March 1838 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 65.368
  • 937. vii. Clarissa Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 1 February 1774 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368 She died on 26 May 1844 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 70.368
  • 938. viii. Abigail Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 29 February 1776 in Harvard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.368
  • 939. ix. Levi Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 22 October 1779 in Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts.368 He died on 8 March 1871 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 91.368
  • 940. x. Sophia Wheeler368,368,368 was born on 20 January 1782 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.368

620. Thomas7 Greenleaf (John6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)303,303,303 was born on 15 May 1767 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.303 He and Mary Denning Price were married on 19 April 1787 in Massachusetts.303 He died on 4 January 1854 in Massachusetts at age 86.303

Hon. Thomas Greenleaf graduated from Harvard College in 1784, and in 1806 was appointed a Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was admitted to the Bar in Suffolk County, 1809, and was Representative to the General Court from 1808 to 1820; a member of the Executive (Governor Brooks) Council, 1820 to 1822; and was for twenty-five years or more chosen moderator of town meetings at Quincy. During the progress of rioting known as "Shay's Rebellion," 1786-87, he served in the ranks, and went in pursuit of the rebels. On arrival at Groton the troops were told their services were not needed, as the rebels had already dispersed. (New England Genealogical Register, Vol. VIII.) His name appears also as serving in the War of 1812. Mr. Greenleaf married Mary D., daughter of Hon. Ezekiel and Ruth (Avery) Price, of Boston. Mr. Price was for many years clerk of the court in Boston.

In Vol. XVIII. pp. 119-123 of the New England Genealogical Register may be found a map showing the "Ground Plan" of the old church at Quincy, Mass. and the pew No.18 which he occupied. Also the pew No. 2 of his cousin Daniel, and pew No.70 of his cousin John Greenleaf (sons of Hon. William). Daniel bought and occupied the pew (2), and the large and beautiful estate of Moses Black, the original estate of Edmund, ancestor of the Quincy family.

On the death of the Hon. Thomas Greenleaf, 4 Jan. 1854, a funeral discourse on "The Christian Standard of honor," was delivered by the Rev. W. P. Lunt, a copy of which may be found at the library in the State House, also in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. VIII. pp. 196-197.

His daughter, Mary Ann Wroe married Dr. Ebenezer Woodward, of Quincy, Massachusetts. Her husband, after providing liberally for her, his sister, and other relatives, bequeathed the larger part of his great wealth to the town of Quincy, to establish and maintain forever an institute for the education of females from the ages of ten to twenty, who are born in Quincy, and none others; the property to be managed by the Selectmen, together with the clerk and treasurer, and the school by the ministers of Quincy. All ornamental as well as useful branches the donor wished to have taught in the institute, which is to be located on the Greenleaf farm. In case the town declines the bequest on these terms, or fails to comply with the conditions of the will, the property is to go to Dartmouth College without restrictions.369

Mary Denning Price303,303,303 lived in Quincy, Massachusetts.303

The three known children of Thomas7 Greenleaf and Mary Denning Price were as follows:

  • 941. i. Ezekial Price8 Greenleaf was born on 22 May 1790 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5 He died on 4 December 1886 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 96.5

Ezekiel Price Greenleaf born 22 May 1790, son of Hon. Thomas and Mary Deming (Price). For fifty years was a resident of the picturesque town of Quincy, Massachusetts. He lived the life of an anchorite, and was brimful of eccentricities. Parsimony was his most salient characteristic. With hundreds of thousands of dollars behind the stout granite walls of the Safe Deposit Company, he would deny himself nearly all the privileges and most of the necessaries of life. His neighbors in Quincy regarded him as inordinately irrational as regards his habits and dress. But when he died he owed nobody. His latter years were spent chiefly during the summer in the pretty little country village of Nunda; in New York State. There, also, he pursued his hermit-like methods. He lived in a little wooden house; what company he had was confined to an old and trusted servant. What Mr. Greenleaf ate he raised himself in the little garden hard by. He positively refused to be Companionable to his neighbors. Since 1872 he spent his winters at 72 Waitham Street in Boston. This uncommon personage was ninety-six years and six months old when he died. He had nearly all his life been hale and hearty, strong and muscular; for the past two years of his life, however, he failed rapidly, and he died of old age. It was simply the going out of the lamp of life. He died as easily as a child would go to sleep.

He was the last remnant of a union between the Greenleaf and Price families, and with him the family in his line became extinct. He was born on Beacon Street in Boston, where the Athenaeum now stands, and in which his picture hangs on its walls. He was a student of physiological literature. There is a little nook in one corner of the library where it was his wont to sit for hours at a time, apparently engaged in deep study. Mr. Greenleaf was educated in the Latin School in Boston. His education was made as thorough as was practicable in the early days of tuition in Boston. He was prepared for a business career, but subsequent events proved that he was not suited to it.

At an early age he engaged in mercantile pursuits in South Carolina. It is not known whether or not he was successful in the venture; however, he returned to Boston shortly afterwards and entered the flour trade, under the firm name of Apthorp & Greenleaf. About 1830 the firm failed. In the meantime his father had taken up his residence in Quincy, and the young man went there to live. He never entered business again, -that is to any extent. During the half century that he lived in Quincy, Mr. Greenleaf passed his time in profound study and working in the garden attached to the house. He seldom went anywhere, and was rarely seen on the street. People called him a misanthrope. The first two decades of his residence in Quincy he was poor. When he went to live at his father's house Dame Rumor says he hadn't a farthing, but his father had money, and so had his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Greenleaf. He and two sisters were the only heirs to their personal effects. Their deaths brought Mr. Greenleaf, as nearly as can be learned, into the possession of property worth in the neighborhood of $40,000. When his sisters died he naturally came into possession of their property, and this rapidly accumulated wealth in his hands. Mrs. Appleton, the last of his two sisters, died in August 1885. She was his sole companion in the winter residence on Waltham Street. It was principally through his saving habits that at the time of his death Mr. Greenleaf was worth about $500,000. This sum has since then increased in volume, and has been turned over to Harvard College, to aid that institution in preparing young men to fight the battle of the world with credit to them. The amount named by the Treasurer of Harvard College as having been received from his estate, was seven hundred and eleven thousand dollars ($711,000). So it will be been that Mr. Greenleaf's idiosyncrasies were not without a method, after all. This noble gift is the sequel. Whether or no he has cherished this effort at benevolence, and denied himself even the privileges of life to accomplish it, is not known. But there can be no doubt of the ultimate purpose of his life.

Despite his peculiarities he bore an excellent character. He displayed sterling qualities while laboring under adversity. He was a firm believer in industry and perseverance. Concerning poverty, his theory was, the more you help poverty the more poverty there would be. He never forgot the division his Uncle Daniel made of the poor. His uncle said there were three classes,-the Lord's poor, the Devil's poor, and the poor devils. The Lord's poor were victims of extenuating circumstances. The Devil's poor became poor through their devilment; and the poor devils were made so by their indolence.

His will is dated 19 Feb. 1870, George T. Bigelow, Richard Cranch Greenleaf, and Stephen H. Williams being the executors. There are a few private bequests, which are mostly revoked in the codicil. The testator gives 'all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate, real, personal and mixed, to the president and fellows of Harvard College, to have and to hold the same to their successors and assigns forever, absolutely, and in fee, in trust, nevertheless, for the uses and purposes herein set forth: The said president and fellows are to take and to receive said property and estates, and to hold, manage, and invest the same according to their best judgement and discretion, taking care, however, to keep said property and estates as a distinct and separate investment, apart from all other investments made, so that the same may at all times clearly appear on their books of account. The said trust fund thus held and invested is to he called and known as the 'Price-Greenleaf Fund'; the net income derived from said fund to he used and appropriated by said president and fellows as follows: viz., A sum equal to but not exceeding $3,000 a year shall be divided in 300 shares each, to be paid each year to an undergraduate of insufficient means to pursue his studies in the academic department of the college, preference being given to those who by industry and good conduct, and zealous effort, shall he deemed by the president and dean of the college entitled to encouragement, etc. The rest of the income is to be appropriated for the maintenance and support of the library of the college, etc.; but no part of the income is to be applied in the erection of any building.'

The testator describes himself as formerly of Quincy, but now of Boston.

GREENLEAF, Ezekiel Price, philanthropist, was born in Boston, Mass., May 22, 1790; son of the Hon. Thomas and Mary Deming (Price), grandson of Dr. John and Priscilla (Brown), great-grandson of the Rev. Daniel and Elizabeth (Gooking) and a descendant of Edmond Greenleaf, 1635. He attended the Boston Latin school, and as a young man engaged in mercantile pursuits, first in South Carolina and then in Boston. Failing in business in 1830 he took up his residence in Quincy, Mass., and there lived the life of an anchorite for half a century. By his will dated Feb. 19, 1870, the bulk of his estate was left to Harvard for scholarships and for the maintenance of the college library, "to be called and known as the 'Price-Greenleaf Fund.'" When the fund was turned over to the college treasurer it amounted to $711,000. He died at Boston, Mass., Dec. 4, 1886.

  • 942. ii. Elizabeth Greenleaf was born on 19 July 1794.5 She and William Greenleaf Appleton were married on 19 February 1835.5 She died in August 1885 at age 91.5
  • 943. iii. Mary Ann Wroe Greenleaf was born on 19 April 1796.5 She and Ebenezer Woodward were married.

622. Elizabeth7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)303,303,303 was born on 6 March 1749/50 in Massachusetts.303 She and Samuel Eliot were married on 1 May 1771 in Massachusetts.303 She and Edward Pope were married on 2 June 1785 in Massachusetts.370 She died on 4 December 1841 in Massachusetts at age 91.370

Samuel Eliot303 was born on 17 June 1748 in Massachusetts.303 He died on 2 March 1784 in Massachusetts at age 35.370

The six known children of Elizabeth7 Greenleaf and Samuel Eliot were as follows:

  • + 944. i. Samuel8 Eliot, born 8 March 1772 in; married Mary Johnson.
  • + 945. ii. Elizabeth Eliot, born 2 January 1774; married John Ritchie.
  • + 946. iii. Mary Eliot, born 19 September 1775; married James G. Almy.
  • 947. iv. Andrew Eliot was born on 14 November 1777.5 He died on 4 August 1783 at age 5.5
  • + 948. v. Susanna Eliot, born 19 December 1779; married John Rounseville Spooner.
  • + 949. vi. William Greenleaf Eliot, born 25 December 1781 in; married Margaret Greenleaf Dawes.

Edward Pope was born on 25 February 1739/40.5 He and Elizabeth Bullard were married. He died on 10 June 1818 at age 78.5 He was also known as Judge Edward Pope.

The four known children of Elizabeth7 Greenleaf and Edward Pope were as follows:

  • + 950. i. Edward8 Pope, born 18 July 1787; married Charlotte Ingraham.
  • 951. ii. Thomas Pope was born on 7 April 1789.5
  • 952. iii. Juliana Pope was born on 10 October 1791.5
  • 953. iv. Infant Pope was born on 2 April 1795.5 She died on 2 April 1795.5

623. Mary7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 15 May 1752.5 She and Daniel Bell were married on 20 April 1775. She died on 5 October 1836 at age 84.5

Daniel Bell was born on 28 December 1752.5 He died on 15 October 1791 at age 38.5

The nine known children of Mary7 Greenleaf and Daniel Bell were as follows:

  • 954. i. Daniel8 Bell was born on 20 April 1776.5
  • 955. ii. William Greenleaf Bell was born on 28 March 1778.5
  • 956. iii. Charlotte Williams Bell was born on 31 July 1780.5
  • 957. iv. Mary Brown Bell was born on 17 August 1781.5
  • 958. v. George Bell was born on 15 November 1783.5
  • 959. vi. Henry Bell was born on 27 July 1786.5
  • 960. vii. Rufus Bell was born on 14 April 1788.5
  • 961. viii. Harriet Bell was born on 8 August 1790.5
  • 962. ix. Deziah Barker Bell was born on 23 October 1791.5

624. Susanna7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 6 February 1754.5 She and Duncan Ingraham were married on 26 July 1774.5 She died on 24 February 1832 at age 78.5

Susanna Greenleaf born 6 Feb. 1754, daughter of Hon. William and Mary (Brown); married Capt. Duncan Ingraham, of Greenville Farm, near Poughkeepsie, New York. They had twelve children, one of whom, Susan Coburn, married Dr. Samuel Perry; another, Sophia May, married the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase; another, Maria, married Leonard Kip; and of their children, one was Leonard Kip, the author, and another the Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, Bishop of California.5

Duncan Ingraham was born on 2 December 1752 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5 He died on 16 June 1804 in Greenvale Farm, near Poughkeepsie, New York, at age 51.5

Com. Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, who distinguished himself in rescuing Martin Koszta, the Hungarian refugee, at Smyrna, 4 April 1854, was a nephew of Capt. Duncan Ingraham, who was fifth generation from William Ingraham, who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1653. He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, on 2 Dec. 1802, and was the son of Nathaniel Ingraham of the same place. He belonged to a family eminently naval in its character. His father, when but twenty years of age, took part as a volunteer with his intimate friend, John Paul Jones, in the engagement of the Bon Homme Richard with the Serapis, off the British coast. His uncle, Capt. Joseph Ingraham, United States Navy, was lost in the old ship Pickering, which foundered at sea in 1800, and was never heard of. His cousin, William Ingraham, a lieutenant in the navy about 1784, was killed at the age of 24 by the Indians at Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The officers and entire crew, except Jewett and Thompson, of the ship Boston, from Boston and bound to Pacific Coast, were massacred on Christmas Day, l802. Having been invited on shore to a feast, they were betrayed and murdered.

Duncan N. Ingraham was sent at an early age to Boston to be educated in the family of his grandfather, and entered the navy as midshipman in 1812. He served continuously in the navy of his country from that time until the secession of his native State, South Carolina, in 1860. In 1815 he was promoted to a lieutenancy. In 1838 he was promoted to commander, and served two years on the Brig Somers, blockading the Mexican ports. At the capture of Tampico, Captain Ingraham was sent ashore, and receiving the letters of capitulation himself, was sent by Commodore O'Connor with dispatches to Washington.

In 1852 he was ordered to command the Sloop of War St. Louis, in the Mediterranean Squadron. While at Smyrna he with great promptness and decision rescued Martin Koszta, a Hungarian refugee, who had become a citizen of the United States, from the Austrians, threatening the Austrian vessels, although greatly outnumbered by them in guns and men. For this brave action the United States Government presented him with a medal. The working classes in England, in token of their admiration, presented him with a magnificent chronometer. The Citizens of New York, at a monster mass meeting, presented him with a gold medal.

At the breaking out of the Civil War he returned to the United States, and resigned his commission 1 Jan. 1861. He entered the service of the Confederate States in March 1861, and was in action several times in and around Charleston harbor. In 1863 he, with two Confederate ironclads, the Palmetto State and Chicora, broke the blockade of the harbor. In 1865, when the Confederates evacuated Charleston, Commodore Ingraham blew up his fleet and retired with General Johnston, who surrendered his command at Goldsboro, North Carolina.

Commodore Ingraham married Harriott Horry Laurens, granddaughter on the paternal side of the patriot Henry Laurens, President of hue Continental Congress. The issue of this marriage was eleven children, a number of who are living in Charleston, South Carolina. He died at Charleston, 16 Nov. 1891. (Part of above from the Baltimore Sun, 23 June1885.)

William Ingraham, second son of Sir Arthur (whose eldest son was created a Peer of Scotland, Viscount Irwin Lord Ingram), married 14 March 1656, Mary Barstow; issue, six children. (1) William, born 9 Feb. 1657; died soon. (2) William, born 27 Jan. 1658. (3) Timothy, born 2 July 1660; died 1748. (4) Jeremiah, born 20 Jan. 1664. (5) Mary, Born 26 June 1666. (6) Elizabeth, born 1 Feb. 1669.

Timothy, son of William, born 2 July 1660; died, 1748. Married Sarah Cowell, daughter of Sarah (Wilson) and Edward CoweIl (Sarah Wilson was daughter of Joseph Wilson) ; issue, eight children. (1) Joseph, born 5 May 1689; married 3 Sept. 1713, in Boston, 1, Mary McFarland, 2, Hannah Young. (2) Timothy, born 7 June 1691, in Bristol, R. I. (3) Jeremiah, born 18 Jan. 1697. (4) Edward, born 2 Nov. 1699. (5) John, born 8 Dec. 1701. (6) Joshua, born 1 Feb. 1705. (7) Isaac, born 17 May 1706. (8) Sarah, born 23 Sept. 1708.

Joseph, first son of Timothy, born 5 May 1689; married, 3 Sept. 1713, Mary McFarland, in Boston, Massachusetts issue, nine children. (1) Mary, born 1714; died May 1800. (2) Francis, born 13 May 1716; died, 1763. (3) Elizabeth, born 5 Oct. 1718. (4) Hannah, born 23 Oct. 1720. (5) Duncan, born 29 Nov. 1726; died 9 Aug. 1811. (6) Sarah, born 18 Oct. 1730; died, 1817. (7) Rebecca, born 15 Oct. 1732. (8) Martha, born 31 Aug. 1735; died 1819. (9) Joseph, born 10 Sept. 1737; died, 1811.

Duncan, fifth child of Joseph, born 29 Nov. 1726; died 11 Aug. 1811; married, 1, Susanna Blake, 7 Dec. 1748; died, 1770; issue, six children. (1) Susanna, born 1750. (2) Duncan, born 2 April 1752; married, 26 July 1774, Susanna Greenleaf; had twelve children. (3) Polly, born 1754. (4) Henry, born 1757. (5) Nathaniel, born 1759; married 14 Aug. 1783; 1 Mary Cochran, of Boston, 2, Louisa Hall, of Charleston, S. C. (6) Joseph, born 1762; died 1800; lost in U. S. Ship Pickering; was captain in United States Navy. Duncan married, 2, Mrs. Elizabeth Tufts; died 1830. Issue (7) Francis B., born 26 Aug. 1798.

(6) Rt. Rev. Bishop Philander Chase, D.D., was fifth generation from Aquilla Chase, who came from Cornish, England, and settled in New Hampshire, in 1630. His brother Dudley was Chief Justice of Vermont, and also Senator. Bishop Chase founded Kenyon College, in Ohio, and Jubilee College in Illinois. His residence in Peoria County was called the Robin's Nest. (7) Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, D.D., Bishop of California, and author of a large number of books of Church history, was ordained deacon 1 July 1835, and priest the following November; Bishop of California, 23 Oct. 1853.

The Kip, or De Kype family, was originally settled for a long period near Alençon, in Bretagne, France. The first of whom there is any notice of in history is Ruloff De Kype, 16th century. He fled in 1562, and returned in 1569. (2) Ruloff; (3) Hendrick, born 1576; (4) Isaac; (5) Jacob, born 1666; (6) Isaac, born 8 Jan. 1696; (7) Leonard, born 1725, Loyalist during the Revolution, and his property was confiscated by the Continental Congress. He married 11 April 1763. Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Marschalk, Esq., of New York. She was born 1732; died 1818. (8) Leonard, born 1774; died 2 July 1846.

Rev. Dr. Sparrow, who married Frances Greenleaf, youngest daughter of Susanna (Greenleaf) and Duncan Ingraham, Jr., and his three sons, served in the Virginia State troops in the Civil War.371

The 12 known children of Susanna7 Greenleaf and Duncan Ingraham were as follows:

  • + 963. i. Duncan8 Ingraham, born 25 April 1775; married Mary E. De Costa.
  • 964. ii. Susan Ingraham was born on 27 October 1776.5 She died on 14 October 1777.5

She was also known as Sukey Ingraham.

  • 965. iii. William Ingraham was born on 31 August 1778.5 He died on 25 December 1802 at age 24 . The cause of death was Killed by Indians.5

Killed by Indians at Nootka Sound.

  • + 966. iv. Susan Coburn Ingraham, born 4 May 1780; married Samuel Perry.
  • 967. v. John Ingraham was born on 14 March 1782.5 He died on 17 March 1782 at age 3 days.5
  • + 968. vi. Sophia May Ingraham, born 3 February 1783 in Amsterdam, Netherlands; married Philander Chase.
  • + 969. vii. Maria Ingraham, born 17 November 1784; married Leonard Kip.
  • + 970. viii. George Ingraham, born 1 September 1786; married Clarissa Parsons.
  • + 971. ix. Charlotte Ingraham, born 25 July 1788; married Edward Pope.
  • + 972. x. Henry E. Ingraham, born 3 November 1790 in Hudson, New York; married Content Wilson.
  • 973. xi. Eliza Ingraham was born on 13 June 1793 in Poughkeepsie, New York.5 She and J. H. Jansen were married on 28 December 1824.5 She died in 1869.5
  • + 974. xii. Frances Greenleaf Ingraham, born 26 August 1796 in Poughkeepsie, New York; married William Sparrow.

625. Priscilla7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 25 October 1755.5 She and John Appleton were married on 18 March 1794.5 She died on 6 June 1826 at age 70.5

John Appleton was born on 30 March 1739 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.5 He and Jane Sparhawk were married on 6 October 1767.5 He died on 5 March 1817 at age 77.5

The two known children of Priscilla7 Greenleaf and John Appleton were as follows:

  • 975. i. Alfred Greenleaf8 Appleton was born on 21 December 1794.5 He died on 6 July 1865 in Calcutta, India, at age 70.5
  • 976. ii. Infant Appleton was born on 24 November 1796.5

626. Sarah7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 19 March 1757.5 She and Nathan W. Appleton were married on 29 June 1780.5 She and Joseph Haven were married on 3 November 1814. She died on 2 January 1838 at age 80.5

Nathan W. Appleton was born on 14 June 1755.5 He died on 15 April 1795 at age 39.5 He was also known as Dr. Nathan W. Appleton.

The seven known children of Sarah7 Greenleaf and Nathan W. Appleton were as follows:

  • 977. i. Sally8 Appleton was born on 18 April 1781.5 She died in 1790.5
  • 978. ii. Nathaniel Walker Appleton was born on 13 February 1783.5
  • 979. iii. Charles Appleton was born on 26 December 1784.5
  • 980. iv. George Appleton was born on 4 January 1787.5 He died in 1796.5
  • 981. v. Mary Appleton was born on 21 November 1789.5 She and John Welch Foster were married on 31 August 1824.5
  • 982. vi. William Greenleaf Appleton was born on 7 January 1791 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5
  • 983. vii. Sarah Appleton was born in 1793 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5

Joseph Haven died in 1838.

There were no known children of Sarah7 Greenleaf and Joseph Haven.

629. Margaret7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 22 May 1761.5 She and Thomas Dawes were married on 4 October 1781.5 She died on 21 March 1836 at age 74.5

Thomas Dawes was born on 8 July 1757.5 He died on 21 July 1825 at age 68.5

The 16 known children of Margaret7 Greenleaf and Thomas Dawes were as follows:

  • 984. i. Margaret8 Dawes was born on 23 June 1782.5 She died on 7 July 1782 at age 14 days.5
  • 985. ii. Thomas Dawes was born on 26 April 1783.5 He and Eliza Cunningham were married on 29 August 1815.5 He died on 29 July 1825 at age 42.5
  • 986. iii. Emily Dawes was born on 29 May 1785.5 She and Samuel B. Goddard were married in 1804.5 She died in 1840.5
  • 987. iv. Hannah Dawes was born on 8 January 1787.5 She and Charles H. Appleton were married on 5 November 1807.5
  • + 988. v. Margaret Greenleaf Dawes, born 6 December 1789 in; married William Greenleaf Eliot.
  • 989. vi. James Greenleaf Dawes was born on 10 July 1792.5 He died on 18 July 1815 at age 23 . The cause of death was Drowned.5
  • + 990. vii. Harrison Dawes, born 14 May 1794; married Lucy Greenleaf.
  • 991. viii. Elizabeth Dawes was born on 3 July 1795.5 She and Francis A. Blake were married. She and Joseph Robert Cowdin were married.
  • 992. ix. Anna Dawes was born on 18 July 1796.5 She died in December 1871 at age 75.5
  • 993. x. Sarah Appleton Dawes was born on 28 November 1797.5 She and James T. Hayward were married on 2 September 1828.5
  • 994. xi. Horatio Dawes was born on 7 December 1798.5 He died on 4 September 1799 at age 8 months and 28 days.5
  • 995. xii. Mary Greenleaf Dawes was born on 26 August 1800.5
  • 996. xiii. George Minot Dawes was born on 25 January 1802.5 He and Mary Elizabeth Greenleaf were married on 4 April 1827.5 He died on 19 November 1871 at age 69.5
  • 997. xiv. Rufus Dawes was born on 27 January 1803.5 He and Elizabeth Eliot Cranch were married on 18 May 1829.5 He died on 29 November 1859 at age 56.5
  • 998. xv. Susan Dawes was born on 30 January 1804.5
  • 999. xvi. Horatio Dawes was born on 20 August 1805.5 He and Eliza Cunningham were married.

631. John7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 10 September 1763.5 He and Lucy Cranch were married on 4 April 1795.5 He died on 29 March 1848 in Massachusetts at age 84.5

John Greenleaf born 10 Sept. 1763, son of Hon. William and Mary (Brown), was blind at ten years of age. He resided in Quincy, Massachusetts. Of his long and beautiful life, which closed on earth in his eighty-fifth year, on 29 March 1848, the Rev. Dr. Lunt writes: 'This venerable man had been blind from his youth, but the care which his condition required was an office of love, and never a burden, through his uniform cheerfulness and Christian goodness. Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf were among the excellent of the earth; and the memory of their quiet worth is cherished in many hearts.'

Mr. Greenleaf was quite proficient in music, as an organist and performer on other musical instruments. He was a constant attendant at church.

Lucy Cranch was born on 16 September 1767.5 She died on 18 February 1846 at age 78.5

The seven known children of John7 Greenleaf and Lucy Cranch were as follows:

  • + 1000. i. Lucy8 Greenleaf, born 14 September 1797; married Harrison Dawes.
  • 1001. ii. John Greenleaf was born on 2 July 1799.5 He died on 3 June 1826 in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, at age 26.5
  • + 1002. iii. William Cranch Greenleaf, born 4 September 1801; married Mary [_____].
  • 1003. iv. Daniel Greenleaf was born on 1 December 1803.5 He died in May 1827 in Calcutta, India, at age 23.5
  • + 1004. v. Mary Elizabeth Greenleaf, born 13 April 1806; married George Minot Dawes; married George Minot Dawes.
  • + 1005. vi. Richard Cranch Greenleaf, born 9 November 1808; married Mary Parsons Whitney.
  • 1006. vii. James Horatio Greenleaf was born on 27 December 1810.5

632. James7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 9 June 1765 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5 He and Antonia Elbertine Scoten were married in 1788.5 He and Antonia Elbertine Scoten were divorced before 1800. He and Ann Penn Allen were married on 26 April 1800. He died on 17 September 1843 in Washington, D.C, at age 78.5

James Greenleaf was appointed very early in life Consul of the United States to Amsterdam, where he amassed a large fortune. Returning to his country in 1795, he embarked in speculation with Robert Morris and John Nicholson, and became with them one of the founders of the celebrated "North American Land Company," which resulted in the ruination of its originators; afterwards he took up his residence in the District of Columbia. When the Federal Capital had been located on the Potomac, Morris and James Greenleaf purchased from the commissioners six thousand lots in the prospective city of Washington at the price of $480,000, and it is said they purchased as many more from other persons. He was the owner of the ground upon which was built years ago an Arsenal and the District Penitentiary, and upon which is now located the military post known as Washington (D. C.) Barracks. It was in the Penitentiary grounds that the persons charged with the conspiracy to kill President Lincoln, Secretary Seward, and others,-viz., Booth, Atzerodt, Harold, Payne, and Mrs. Surratt,-were executed, and subsequently buried. The last four were executed by hanging; Booth was shot. The name given to this point of land is Greenleaf's Point.

Mr. Greenleaf's second wife was Ann Penn Allen, daughter of James Allen, founder of Allentown, Penn., and son of William Allen, Chief Justice of the Province before the Revolution. Her mother was Elizabeth Lawrence, a granddaughter of the distinguished Tench Francis, the uncle of Sir Philip Francis, the accredited of "Junius."

The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 4, p. 409

GREENLEAF, James, speculator, was born in Boston, Mass., June 9, 1765; son of the Hon. Willlain and Mary (Brown) Greenleaf; grandson of the Rev. Daniel and Elizabeth (Gooking) Greenleaf; and a descendant of Edmond Greenleaf (1574-1671), who immigrated to America in 1635, and settled in Newbury, Mass. He was appointed early in life U.S. consul to Amsterdam, where he amassed a fortune. Returning to the United States in 1795 he embarked in speculation with Robert Morris and John Nicholson, and with them founded the "North American land company." Afterward he took up his residence in the District of Columbia. When the Federal capital was located on the Potomac river Robert Morris and James Greealeaf purchased from the commissioners six thousand lots in the prospective city of Washington at the price of $480,000, and as many more from other persons. Mr. Greenleaf's second wife, to whom he was married on April 26, 1800, was Ann Penn, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Allen. Her father was the founder of Allentown, Pa., and her mother a granddaughter of Tench Francis. He died in Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 1843.372

Antonia Elbertine Scoten was also known as Antonia Schotten.

The two known children of James7 Greenleaf and Antonia Elbertine Scoten were as follows:

  • 1007. i. William Christian James8 Greenleaf was born on 6 September 1790.5
  • 1008. ii. Marie Josephine Wilhelmine Matilda Greenleaf and William Antoine Schwartz were married.

Ann Penn Allen was born on 19 February 1772.

The two known children of James7 Greenleaf and Ann Penn Allen were as follows:

  • 1009. i. Mary8 Greenleaf was born on 31 January 1802.5 She and Walter C. Livingston were married.

Considered one of the belles of Washington during the J. Q. Adams administration.

  • 1010. ii. Margaret Greenleaf was born in 1803.5 She and Dale were married.

Considered one of the belles of Washington during the J. Q. Adams administration.

633. Rebecca7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)373,373,373 was born on 27 May 1766 in Massachusetts.373 She and Noah Webster were married on 26 October 1789.373 She died on 25 June 1847 in Connecticut at age 81.373

Rebecca Greenleaf married Noah Webster, the Lexicographer, who was a son of Noah and Nancy (Steele) Webster, born 16 October 1758, in Hartford (the part now forming the separate town of West Hartford), and who died in New Haven, Connecticut, 28 May 1843. His house is still standing in West Hartford on the direct road, about one-mile south of the church, which stands in the center of the town.373

Noah Webster374 was born on 16 October 1758 in West Hartford, Connecticut.373,374 He died on 28 May 1843 in Connecticut at age 84.373,374 He was buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Noah Webster

He came of substantial stock. His great-grandfather was one of the first settlers in Hartford, and Governor of Connecticut. His mother was a descendant of William Bradford, the Plymouth Governor. Mr. Webster entered Yale College in 1774. He had been but a few months in college when the thrilling story of Lexington and Concord came, followed soon by Bunker Hill.

General Washington and his staff passed through New Haven on his way to take command of the revolutionary force gathered in Cambridge.

They lodged there, and in the morning were invited to see the drill of a company of the students, who finally escorted General Washington as far on his way as Neck Bridge. Webster had the honor of leading the way, blowing a fife. In the third year of his course, on account of the war, college life in New Haven was broken up, and the classes were dispersed in various towns. Webster's class went to Glastonbury, and on the alarm by the approach toward Connecticut of Burgoyne, accompanied by a large band of savage Indians, a company went from West Hartford commanded by Deacon Webster, and in that company went his three sons, Noah among them. This company took part in the brilliant victories, which ended in Burgoyne's surrender. The following year Noah finished his college course.

Noah Webster's home

Mr. Webster produced a great number and variety of educational books before he was twenty-six years old. His famous old Spelling Book has kept its place, and between forty and fifty millions of copies have been printed. But it is on his more famous Dictionary that his real fame rests.

Of the children of Noah Webster and Rebecca, Emily S. married William Wolcott Ellsworth, LL,D., the third son of Oliver Ellsworth, second Chief Justice of the United States. He received his early education at Windsor, Connecticut, where he was born. In 1806 he entered Yale, and was graduated in 1810. He began his legal studies at the Law School at Litchfield, under the guidance of Judges Reeve and Gould, and continued them in Hartford, in the office of his brother-in-law, the late Chief Justice Williams. He was admitted to the bar in 1813 and established himself in Hartford in the practice of his profession. In 1827 he was sent to Congress by the Whigs of his district, and Continued there for five years. In 1838 he was elected Governor of the State by a large popular majority. He was continued in this office four years, being each time re-elected by the people. While Governor he was twice offered an election to the Senate of the United States, but declined to be a candidate. In 1847 he was elected by the Legislature a Judge of the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors. He remained on the bench as an associate Judge of the Supreme Court until his office expired, by limitation of law, upon reaching the age of seventy. In Judge Ellsworth were hereditary qualities of great mental and moral worth. Like his father, the Chief Justice, he was remarkable for the simplicity of his taste and habits. In manner he was dignified, and he had as fine a personal presence and bearing as any man of his time. He loved his country unselfishly; he loved his state as a patriot should; he loved his profession; he loved his church; and his love for home and the enjoyments of social life was never weakened by his public callings.

Of the children of Judge Ellsworth, Elizabeth, born 8 June 1824, married Hon. Waldo Hutchins, a prominent lawyer of New York City, and who was graduated from Amherst College in 1842. He became a law student in the office of Schell & Slosson, composed of Augustus Schell, the famous Tammany lawyer and politician, and John Slosson, who afterwards was a Judge of the Superior Court of New York. After Mr. Hutchins' admission to the bar he was taken into partnership, and the name was changed to Schell, Slosson & Hutchins. In 1850 he was elected to the New York Legislature; in 1855 a member of the First Park Commission; in 1879 he was elected to Congress, and remained there until the day on which Grover Cleveland was inaugurated President of the United States. Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford. Noah's was an average colonial family. His father farmed and worked as a weaver. His mother worked at home. Noah and his two brothers, Charles and Abraham, helped their father with the farm work. Noah's sisters, Mercy and Jerusha, worked with their mother to keep house and to make food and clothing for the family.

Few people went to college, but Noah loved to learn so his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut's only college. He left for New Haven in 1774, when he was 16. Noah's years at Yale coincided with the Revolutionary War. Because New Haven had food shortages during this time, many of Noah's classes were held in Glastonbury.

Noah graduated in 1778. He wanted to study law, but his parents could not afford to give him more money for school. So, in order to earn a living, Noah taught school in Glastonbury, Hartford and West Hartford. Later he studied law.

Noah did not like American schools. Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed into one-room schoolhouses with no desks, poor books, and untrained teachers. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books, so in 1783, Noah wrote his own textbook: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Most people called it the "Blue-backed Speller" because of its blue cover.

For 100 years, Noah's book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah's book to teach his granddaughter to read.

In 1789, Noah married Rebecca Greenleaf. They had eight children. Noah carried raisins and candies in his pockets for the children to enjoy. The Websters lived in New Haven, then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts. There, Noah helped to start Amherst College. Later the family moved back to New Haven.

When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English.

Noah used American spellings like "color" instead of the English "colour" and "music" instead " of "musick". He also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like "skunk" and "squash". It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, at the age of 70, Noah's dictionary had 70,000 words in it.

Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843 he was considered an American hero.374

Gravestone

The eight known children of Rebecca7 Greenleaf and Noah Webster were as follows:

  • + 1011. i. Emily Schotten8 Webster, born 4 August 1790 in; married William Wolcott Ellsworth.
  • + 1012. ii. Frances Julianna Webster, born 5 February 1793; married Chauncey Allen Goodrich.
  • + 1013. iii. Harriet Webster, born 6 April 1797; married Edward H. Cobb; married William Chauncey Fowler.
  • + 1014. iv. Mary Webster, born 7 January 1799; married Horatio Southgate.
  • + 1015. v. William Greenleaf Webster, born 15 September 1801; married Rosalie Eugenia Stuart.
  • + 1016. vi. Eliza Steele Greenleaf Webster, born 21 December 1803; married Henry Jones.
  • 1017. vii. Bradford Greenleaf Webster was born on 20 November 1806.5 He died in 1807.5
  • 1018. viii. Louisa Greenleaf Webster was born on 12 April 1808.5

634. Robert7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)375,375,375 was born on 16 December 1768.375 He and Hannah Arnold were married on 23 October 1796.375 He died on 28 June 1816 in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, at age 47.375

Hannah Arnold375 was born on 11 March 1775.375

The two known children of Robert7 Greenleaf and Hannah Arnold were as follows:

635. Anna7 Greenleaf (William6, Daniel5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 3 June 1772.5 She and William Cranch were married on 6 April 1795.5 She died on 16 September 1843 in Washington, D.C, at age 71.5

She was also known as Nancy Greenleaf. Anna (Nancy) Greenleaf born 3 June 1772, the youngest daughter of Hon. William and Mary (Brown) Greenleaf, married, Hon. William Cranch.

William Cranch was born on 17 July 1769.5 He died on 1 September 1855 in Washington, D.C, at age 86.5 Hon. William Cranch, the eminent jurist, who for fifty years was Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and of whose decisions in all that time only two were overruled by the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Circuit Court by President John Adams and Chief Justice by President Thomas Jefferson. He was first cousin to John Quincy Adams. His daughter, Abigail Adams Cranch, was wife of Rev. William G. Eliot, D.D., of St. Louis, Missouri. The family belonged distinctively to Massachusetts, with the early history of which colony and state it was identified. They are both buried in the Congressional Burying Grounds.

Hon. William Cranch graduated from Harvard in 1787. President Adams appointed him Junior Assistant Judge, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia in 1801. President Jefferson made him Chief Justice of the same court in 1805. He held the office until 1855.

The 13 known children of Anna7 Greenleaf and William Cranch were as follows:

  • 1021. i. William Greenleaf8 Cranch was born on 11 January 1796.5 He died in February 1872 at age 76.5
  • 1022. ii. Richard Cranch was born on 26 June 1797.5 He died in August 1824 at age 27.5
  • 1023. iii. Anne Allen Cranch was born on 28 April 1799.5 She died in April 1822.5
  • 1024. iv. Mary Cranch was born on 26 September 1801.5 She and Richard Cranch Norton were married in 1820.5 She died in June 1822 at age 20.5
  • 1025. v. John Quincy Cranch was born on 5 December 1803.5 He died on 14 January 1804.5
  • 1026. vi. Elizabeth Eliot Cranch was born on 8 February 1805.5 She and Rufus Dawes were married on 18 May 1829.5 She died in May 1860 at age 55.5
  • 1027. vii. John Cranch was born on 2 February 1807.5 He and Charlotte Dawes Appleton were married on 15 April 1845.5
  • 1028. viii. Edward Pope Cranch was born on 29 May 1809.5 He and Bertha Wood were married on 15 April 1842.5 He died on 7 December 1892 at age 83.5
  • 1029. ix. Christopher Pearse Cranch was born on 15 May 1811.5 He died on 21 July 1811.5
  • 1030. x. Christopher Pearse Cranch was born on 8 March 1813 in Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia.5 He and Elizabeth De Windt were married in October 1843.5 He died on 20 January 1892 at age 78.5

Christopher Pearse Cranch was educated at Harvard College, and prepared for the ministry at the Divinity School at Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1835. Seven years later, however, he retired from the ministry, and determined to follow an artist's career. He studied art in Italy in 1846-48, and from 1853 to 1863 lived and painted in Italy and France. Then returning to America was elected in 1864 a member of the National Academy, and made his permanent home in Cambridge, Massachusetts Among the best known of his paintings are "October Afternoon," 1867; "Washington Oak, opposite Newburg, N.Y.," 1868; "Val de Moline Amalfi," 1869; "A Roman Citizen," "Venice," "Neapolitan Fisherman," and "Venetian Fishing Boats," 1871. His daughter, Caroline A. Cranch, who studied under him and under William Hunt, has attained success as an artist; and his brother, John Cranch, was a well known portrait painter, and an associate of the National Academy.

It is, however, as an author that Christopher P. Cranch is best known, his graceful writings in prose and verse having multitudes of admiring readers throughout the English-speaking world. Perhaps his greatest work was his translation of Virgil's Æneid[:ITAL' into English blank verse, which appeared in 1872. His first book was a volume of "Poems," in 1844. Others were: "The Last of the Huggermuggers," 1856, and "Kobboltozo," 1857; volumes of children's stories, illustrated by himself; "Satan," a Libretto, 1873; "The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems," 1875, and "Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems," 1886. His attractive personality, the purity of his aims, and the spirituality of his nature, won him a confidence and regard, which his devotion to his art deepened into admiration.376

  • 1031. xi. Virginia Cranch was born in January 1815.5 She died on 30 January 1815.5
  • + 1032. xii. Abigail Adams Cranch, born 20 February 1817 in; married William Greenleaf Eliot.
  • + 1033. xiii. Margaret Dawes Cranch, born 15 April 1819; married Erastus Brooks.

636. Stephen7 Greenleaf (Samuel6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)306,306,306 was born in 1747.306 He and Mary Knight were married on 25 November 1769.306 He died in 1813.306

Mary Knight306 was born on 2 May 1749 in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine.306 She died on 11 May 1832 in Maine at age 83.306

The 11 known children of Stephen7 Greenleaf and Mary Knight were as follows:

  • 1034. i. Nathaniel8 Greenleaf306,306,306 was born in May 1770.306
  • 1035. ii. Sarah Greenleaf306,306,306 was born in 1772.306
  • 1036. iii. Mary Greenleaf377,377,377 was born in 1774.377 She died circa 1823.377
  • 1037. iv. Stephen Greenleaf377,377,377 was born on 14 November 1775.377 He died on 26 June 1835 in Westport, Maine, at age 59.377
  • 1038. v. Westbrook Greenleaf377,377,377 was born in 1778.377 He died on 26 June 1865 in Edgecomb, Maine.377
  • 1039. vi. Abigail Greenleaf377,377,377 was born in April 1780.377 She died in September 1796 at age 16.377
  • 1040. vii. Ebenezer Greenleaf377,377,377 was born in April 1782.377 He died in November 1790 at age 8.377
  • 1041. viii. Samuel Greenleaf377,377,377 was born in June 1784.377 He died in June 1801.377
  • 1042. ix. Olive Greenleaf377,377,377 was born on 11 June 1786.377 She died on 5 January 1875 in Maine at age 88.377
  • 1043. x. Thankful Greenleaf378,378,378 was born on 5 October 1788.378 She died on 16 February 1870 at age 81.378
  • 1044. xi. Ebenezer Greenleaf379,379,379 was born on 29 June 1791.379 He died on 9 July 1870 in Westport, Maine, at age 79.379

637. Samuel7 Greenleaf (Samuel6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)306,306,306 was born in 1749.306 He and Abigail Sheldon were married say 1780.306 He died in Westport, Maine.306

The only known child of Samuel7 Greenleaf and Abigail Sheldon was:

  • + 1045. i. Zebulon8 Greenleaf, born 1781 in; married Ruth Gray of Wiscasset, Maine; married Moore.

643. Ebenezer7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)380,380,380 was born in 1753.380 He and Elizabeth Chapman were married on 12 July 1775 in Pownalboro (Wiscasset), Lincoln County, Maine.380 He died on 15 August 1817.380

The 11 known children of Ebenezer7 Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chapman were as follows:

  • + 1046. i. Joseph8 Greenleaf, born 29 December 1775 in; married Tamson Stover.
  • + 1047. ii. Daniel Greenleaf, born 25 October 1777 in; married Anna Young; married Sophia Delano.
  • 1048. iii. Sarah Greenleaf was born on 1 October 1779.
  • 1049. iv. John Greenleaf was born on 6 October 1781.
  • 1050. v. Betsey Greenleaf was born on 30 November 1784.
  • 1051. vi. Dorcas Greenleaf was born on 9 March 1787.
  • 1052. vii. Ebenezer Greenleaf was born on 19 April 1789.
  • 1053. viii. Amy Greenleaf was born on 9 June 1791.
  • 1054. ix. Eli Greenleaf was born on 25 June 1793.
  • 1055. x. Anna Greenleaf was born on 9 July 1796.
  • 1056. xi. Asa Greenleaf was born on 6 April 1800.

644. John7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)381,381,381 was born on 6 November 1755 in on Gewnky Neck, Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, Maine.381 He and Anna Pierce Roberts filed marriage intention on 24 December 1781 in Maine.381 He and Anna Pierce Roberts were married on 29 December 1781 in Maine.381 He died on 5 June 1846 in Maine at age 90.381

Anna Pierce Roberts382 was born in 1761 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine.381 She died on 27 April 1853 in Maine.381

The 12 known children of John7 Greenleaf and Anna Pierce Roberts were as follows:

  • + 1057. i. John8 Greenleaf, born 12 October 1782 in Starks, Somerset County, Maine; married Martha Sawyer.
  • 1058. ii. Sarah (Sally) Greenleaf383,383,383 was born on 10 July 1784.383 She died on 11 September 1843 at age 59.383
  • 1059. iii. Anthony Greenleaf384,384,384 was born on 3 June 1786.384 He died on 9 January 1869 at age 82.384
  • + 1060. iv. Levi Greenleaf, born 22 August 1788 in Maine; married Amy Greenleaf.
  • 1061. v. Joseph Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 10 March 1790.385 He died on 17 February 1848 at age 57.385
  • 1062. vi. William Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 17 March 1792.385 He died on 4 May 1868 in Squirrel Island, near Boothbay, Maine, at age 76.385
  • 1063. vii. Stephen Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 26 August 1794.385 He died on 15 October 1881 in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, at age 87.385
  • 1064. viii. George Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 27 January 1797.385 He died in 1869 in Waterloo, Clark County, Missouri.385
  • 1065. ix. Cyrus Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 14 February 1799.385 He died on 22 May 1820 at age 21.385
  • 1066. x. Joshua Greenleaf385,385,385 was born on 23 June 1801.385 He died on 18 January 1866 in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, at age 64.385
  • 1067. xi. Rachel Greenleaf386,386,386 was born on 14 August 1803.386 She died on 26 January 1891 in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, at age 87.386
  • 1068. xii. Elias Greenleaf387,387,387 was born on 5 September 1805.387 He died on 22 March 1856 at age 50.387

648. Joshua7 Greenleaf (Joseph6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1) was born on 14 June 1765 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine.5,388 He and Hannah Williamson were married in 1790.388 He died on 29 September 1856 in Mercer, Somerset County, Maine, at age 91.388

Joshua Greenleaf in 1790 married Hannah Williamson, who was said to be the first white woman who crossed the mill stream at Mercer. Their first home was in a log house built on the intervale; for window glass they took the pelt of sheep, the wool being removed and the skin being stretched on a frame to admit light. Letters were a luxury in those days, and the nearest post office (in 1804) was in Farmington Falls, whither a journey would be made, an event of the day, to procure news of the outer world. As the children learnt to read, they would sit by the open fire, keeping it bright with birch bark, and with this light would pursue their studies, and in time, being qualified, became teachers.

Mr. Greenleaf was Deputy Sheriff for some years, and his son Seth, was coroner twelve years. Mrs. Hannah G. Ford, the daughter of Seth, and living on the old farm of her grandfather, Joshua Greenleaf, at Mercer, wrote, "I have before me three papers from three different Governors of Maine, where my father (Seth) was appointed Coroner, one from Gov. John Fairfield, another from Gov. H.D. Anderson, and one from Gov. John W. Dana, in their handwriting."389

Hannah Williamson388 was born on 14 September 1770 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine.388 She died on 1 November 1859 in Mercer, Somerset County, Maine, at age 89.388

The nine known children of Joshua7 Greenleaf and Hannah Williamson were as follows:

  • 1069. i. Amata8 Greenleaf390,390,390 was born on 1 September 1791.390 She died on 31 August 1840 at age 48.390
  • + 1070. ii. Seth Greenleaf, born 26 August 1794 in Mercer, Somerset County, Maine; married Eliza Wiley.
  • 1071. iii. Dorcas Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 6 February 1796.391 She died on 5 July 1831 at age 35.391
  • 1072. iv. James Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 15 February 1798.391 He died on 20 March 1846 at age 48.391
  • 1073. v. Betsey Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 14 April 1800.391 She died on 21 August 1868 in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, at age 68.391
  • 1074. vi. Hannah Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 17 November 1803.391 She died on 20 February 1841 at age 37.391
  • 1075. vii. Joshua Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 22 October 1807.391 He died on 3 October 1838 at age 30 . The cause of death was or 1839.391
  • 1076. viii. Seraphina Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 17 May 1809.391 She died on 7 September 1894 in Freedom, Illinois, at age 85.391
  • 1077. ix. Sarah (Sally) Greenleaf391,391,391 was born on 24 July 1811.391 She died on 26 October 1859 at age 48.391

651. Daniel7 Greenleaf (David6, Daniel5, John4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)269,269,269 was born on 20 September 1753 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.269 He and Polly Bridges were married.270 He died in 1839.269

The six known children of Daniel7 Greenleaf and Polly Bridges were as follows:

  • 1078. i. William8 Greenleaf270,270,270 was born on 27 August 1786.270 He died . The cause of death was died in infancy.270
  • 1079. ii. William Greenleaf270,270,270 was born on 21 June 1789.270

He worked as a teacher.270

  • 1080. iii. Charles Greenleaf270,270,270 was born on 9 June 1792.270 He died in Maine . The cause of death was drowned in eastern part of Maine.270

He worked as a teacher.270

  • 1081. iv. Sarah Greenleaf270,270,270 was born on 1 March 1794.270 She died on 14 November 1836 at age 42.270
  • + 1082. v. James B. Greenleaf, born 25 May 1796; married Sybil Goddard.
  • 1083. vi. Mary Greenleaf270,270,270 was born on 26 July 1801.270

655. Simon7 Greenleaf (Jonathan6, Daniel5, John4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)307,307,307 was born in 1752 in Massachusetts.307 He and Hannah Osgood were married say 1773 in Massachusetts.307 He died in 1776 in Massachusetts.307

The only known child of Simon7 Greenleaf and Hannah Osgood was:

  • 1084. i. Jonathan8 Greenleaf307,307,307 was born on 21 June 1774 in Massachusetts.307 He died in 1798 in U.S. Frigate "Essex" . The cause of death was yellow fever.307

657. Moses7 Greenleaf (Jonathan6, Daniel5, John4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)308,308,308 was born on 19 May 1755 in Massachusetts.308 He and Lydia Parsons were married on 17 September 1776 in Essex County, Massachusetts.308 He died on 18 December 1812 in New Gloucester, Maine, at age 57.308

Lydia Parsons308,308,308 was born on 3 April 1755.308 She died on 21 March 1834 at age 78.308

The five known children of Moses7 Greenleaf and Lydia Parsons were as follows:

  • 1085. i. Moses8 Greenleaf309,309,309 was born on 17 October 1777 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.309 He died on 20 March 1834 in Williamsburg, Maine, at age 56.309
  • 1086. ii. Clarina Parsons Greenleaf309,309,309 was born on 12 November 1779 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.309 She died on 12 December 1841 in Maine at age 62.309
  • 1087. iii. Ebenezer Greenleaf309,309,309 was born on 23 November 1781 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.309 He died on 29 November 1851 at age 70.309

Capt. Ebenezer Greenleaf was brought up in New Gloucester. At the age of nineteen he commenced going to sea, which he followed for his principal business for about seven years, passing through the several grades, until for some years he was master, and commanded one of the packet ships from Portland to Liverpool. After leaving the sea, he re bided at Andover, Me., then at New Gloucester, and then removed to Williamsburg, Maine, where he continued to reside till his death, employed as a farmer and land surveyor. Captain Green leaf was a stout built man, about five feet eleven inches in height, of a light complexion, light gray eyes, and light brown hair. He generally walked very quick and upright. He was considered a very good navigator, a skillful shipmaster, and a man of much personal daring.392

  • 1088. iv. Simon Greenleaf309,309,309 was born on 5 December 1783 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.309 He and Hannah Kingman were married on 18 September 1806.309 He died on 6 October 1853 at age 69.309

Hon. Simon Greenleaf received an academic education at the Latin School in Newburyport, under the tuition of Mr. Michael Walsh, who was well known in his day, and for many years of the early part of the present century, as the author of the "Mercantile Arithmetic," which was not only a popular text-book, but a counting-house companion. At the age of eighteen he entered on the study of the law with Ezekiel Whitman, Esq., then of New Gloucester, Maine, but afterwards of Portland, and a Judge of Common Pleas. He was admitted to the bar in Cumberland County, Maine, in1805, opened an office first in Standish, then in Gray, and in 1817 at Portland, Maine. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1817 at Bowdoin College, and was also in that year an overseer of the College.

At Gray, being the first and only lawyer in the place, he soon acquired a very considerable practice, which he retained and enlarged by his fidelity and skill. As his family increased he desired to extend the range of his business and increase its emoluments, and in 1818 he removed to Portland. At that time the two leading members of the bar had been drawn aside from their profession into public life. Judge Mellen was in the United States Senate, and Judge Whitman in the House of Representatives; and Mr. Orr, who had a large practice in Cumberland, was also in Congress. This encouraged the accession of other prominent men to Portland of these were Mr. Green leaf and the late Judge Preble, who came the same year. Mr. Greenleaf was not disappointed; his business and his fame increased, and the larger and more cultivated society, and its superior advantages in other respects, stimulated his susceptible powers to higher efforts. He now took rank among the foremost men at the bar, and by his winning manners and persuasive style of speaking and address, accompanied by the skill and ingenuity of his arguments, established his reputation and his practice on a firm basis.

In the act of the new state, establishing the Supreme Judicial Court, passed June 24, 1820, the Governor and Council were required to "appoint some suitable person learned in the law to be a reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court," and publish them whenever they would compose a suitable volume. His compensation was fixed at six hundred dollars a year salary and the profits arising from the publication. Mr. Greenleaf was immediately appointed reporter under this act, and entered on his duties at York, August term, 1820. He continued faithfully, promptly, and very ably to discharge the duties of this arduous and responsible office for twelve years, closing with the July term at Waldo in 1832. The cases determined during this period are contained in nine volumes, the last embracing a table of cases and a digest of the whole. The judges were: Mellen, chief justice. and Weston, judge, through the whole period; Judge Preble to 1828, and Judge Parris the remainder of the time. The reports are distinguished for the clear and concise manner in which the points of law are stated, and the arguments of counsel given. They took high rank in this class of legal productions, and were received as standards of authority throughout the Union. They were deservedly considered among the most valuable of American reports, and so highly were they esteemed that a new edition was demanded by the profession,-a very rare thing in this class of works,-which was published with annotations by Mr. Abbot, of Cambridge, a short time previous to Mr. Greenleaf's death. So conspicuous had Mr. Greenleaf become about the time that he closed his duties as reporter, that the attention of judge Story, then at the head of the Law School at Cambridge, was turned to him as the most suitable person to supply the vacancy in that department of the University rendered vacant by the death of the lamented Professor Ashmun, and he immediately determined to bring Mr. Greenleaf to Cambridge if he could. At that time Judge Story, holding his court in Portland, had an interesting case in admiralty. This branch of the law was known only in our largest commercial cities, and not to many of the profession there. And Judge Story was surprised when he found that Mr. Greenleaf brought to this case a thorough acquaintance with this very peculiar system of law, which lie himself deemed of great importance, and which, foreseeing its constantly increasing value, he wished to make prominent in the instruction of the school.

The case referred to was similar perhaps to one of which the following anecdote is related. Mr. Greenleaf's father was not only a ship carpenter, but an accurate draughtsman, and he took much pains in teaching his boys the art of constructing a vessel. Simon, in this, was his most apt scholar. It was his habit in his school days to spend his leisure hours in the shipyard, and the habit of observation, conspicuous through life, appeared very early, the benefit of which was shown in his legal practice. On one occasion he was engaged in an insurance cause; the vessel insured had been injured by pounding upon the bottom or side while lying at a wharf. The defense was that the injury was occasioned by carelessness in the insured in not securing her to the wharf, alleging the damage to have been in her side, and not her bottom. m One of the witnesses for the plaintiff was a master builder who had repaired the ship, and who, having testified that the injury was on the bottom, was thus cross-examined by Mr. Greenleaf: "You are a ship carpenter, and master of your trade?" "Yes." "In building a vessel, after laying your keel, you place a row of crooked timbers crosswise, securing them to the keel with iron bolts?" "Yes." "These you call floor timbers?" " Yes." "Between these floor timbers the end of another crooked timber is inserted, as you would insert the fingers of one hand between those of another, and these you call foothook (futtuck) timbers?" "Yes." "And so you proceed, filing in rows of crooked timbers, until you reach the top, calling the third the rising timber, then the naval timber, and then the top timber?" Yes." "Now," said Mr. Greenleaf, " state to the jury, on your oath, what kind of a timber you furnished for the repairing of that vessel. Was it a floor timber, a foothook, a rising, or a naval timber?" " It was a naval timber," said the witness. The case was clear; the jury saw it at a glance. The injury was on the side of the vessel, and not on the bottom; it was from carelessness and not accident; and the defense was sustained

In 1833 he was appointed Royal Professor of Law at Harvard College as associate to Professor Ashmun. He received at Harvard, the year of his removal to Cambridge, 1833, the degree of Doctor of Laws, and the same degree at Amherst the next year. He was appointed Royal Professor of Law at Harvard University as successor to Professor Ashmun, in 1833, which office he held two years, when he was appointed to the chair of the Dane Professorship, a worthy successor to that chair made vacant by the death of Judge Story. In consequence of ill health he resigned this chair in 1848, when he was honored with the title of Emeritus Professor of Law in the University. His connection with the Law School marked a season in its history of great prosperity. He became a mason in Cumberland Lodge, Maine, which his father was instrumental in establishing, and was the second Grand Master of the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M., of Maine.

In 1820 and 1821 he, with Asa Clapp and Nicholas Emery, represented Portland in the Legislature of Maine. As these were sessions when the new government was put in operation the duty was responsible, and, to a lawyer who was expected to pass upon the code of laws to be adopted on careful revision, arduous. Mr. Greenleaf was faithful to his trust, and beneficial to the country. With this experience he retired at once and forever from political office. Mr. Greenleaf was a grave, sedate-looking man, and very quiet in his movements. He was about five feet ten inches in height, rather stout built, full face, with a small, sharp eye, nearly black. is original hair was very dark brown; his posture a little stooping, with his head projecting forward; his countenance was expressive of benignity and intelligence.

The following are some of the works witch have proceeded from his pen: "A Brief Inquiry into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry;" published at Portland in 1820. An anonymous pamphlet entitled, "Remarks on the Exclusion of Atheists as Witnesses," 8vo; published in Boston in 1839. "Catalogue of a Select Law Library," also a "Course of Legal Studies," etc. 1 "A Letter to a Person Engaged in a Lawsuit by a Lawyer; by a Member of the Profession;" published as a tract by the American Tract Society. "An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of justice; with an Account of the Trial of Jesus;" published in Boston in 1846,and reprinted in London in 1847. "A Discourse, Pronounced at Ills Inauguration as Royal Professor of Law, in Harvard University." "A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of Joseph Story," pronounced Sept. 18, 1845. "Testamentary Counsels and Hints to Christians on the Right Distribution of their Property by Will, by a Retired Solicitor," carefully revised by a member of the American Bar; published at Troy, N.Y., in 1845. "A Treatise on the Law of Evidence," 3 vols. An edition of "Cruise's Digest of the Law of Real Property, with Notes, 1849-50."393

  • 1089. v. Jonathan Greenleaf394,394,394 was born on 4 September 1785.394 He died on 24 April 1865 at age 79.394

669. Caleb7 Greenleaf (Susanna6, Benjamin5, John4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)314,314,314 was born on 16 August 1759 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.395 He and Susanna Emerson were married on 13 December 1785.314 He died on 28 January 1836 at age 76.314

Susanna Emerson314 was born on 23 July 1762 in Massachusetts.395 She died on 29 March 1835 at age 72.314

The only known child of Caleb7 Greenleaf and Susanna Emerson was:

  • + 1090. i. Benjamin8 Greenleaf, born 25 September 1786 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; married Lucretia Kimball.

706. Joseph7 Moulton (Lydia6Greenleaf, Edmund5, Tristram4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)318,318,318 was born circa 1743 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.318 He and Lucretia Smith were married circa 1770 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts or Vermont.318 He died in 1815 in Windsor, Vermont.318

1785 Taxation list for Windsor, Vermont:

Joseph Moulton is listed as a taxpayer for the School tax.318

Lucretia Smith318 was born circa 1745 in Massachusetts.318 Ref: First Settlers of Newbury:

One of the first settlers was Thomas Smith. He might be her grandfather.318

The two known children of Joseph7 Moulton and Lucretia Smith both born in Windsor, Vermont, were as follows:

708. Samuel7 Greenleaf (William6, Edmund5, Edmund4, Stephen3, Edmund2, John1)396,396,396 was born on 11 September 1795 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.396 He and Dolly Osgood were married in Massachusetts.396 He died on 12 December 1856 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 61.396

Dolly Osgood396,396,396 was born on 20 July 1796 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.396 She died on 25 January 1870 in Massachusetts at age 73.396

The only known child of Samuel7 Greenleaf and Dolly Osgood was:

  • + 1093. i. Charles E.8 Greenleaf, born 29 November 1825 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; married Sarah C. Brown.



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