The following articles were transcribed faithfully from a Xerox copy of the originals on 7/14/1999 by Jerry Hersey Lovejoy from:

THE TOWNSMAN
Andover Historical Series
by Charlotte Helen Abbott

INDEX TO ARTICLES *

  No. 28 Christopher Osgood (A.T. 5/6/1896)

  No. 38 Lovejoy Neighbors (A.T. 7/31/1896)

  No. 64 John Lovejoy's William (A.T. 8/27/1897)

  No. 65 John Lovejoy’s Farms (A.T. 9/10/1897)

  No. 67 Ebenezer Lovejoy's Line (A.T. 9/24/1897)

  No. 82 Foster Beginnings (A.T. 7/1/1898)

  No. 100 Birds of Passage (A.T. 3/2/1900)

  No. 109 Debora Russe (A.T. 7/12/1901)

  No.128 Phelps of Andover (A.T. 3/31/1905)

  No. 129 Phelps at the Finish (A.T. 8/18/1805)
 

* Note- Only 10 articles of well over 100 were transcribed. The original collection can be found in the Genealogy Section (The Andover Room) of the Andover MA public library. I do not attest to the accuracy of the data herein transcribed, only to its replication from the original. Question marks denote legibility problem, unable to decipher word. JHL

No. 28
Christopher Osgood
(A.T. 5/8/1896)

In sketch 16, mention is made of the Ipswich Christopher and his father-in-law Philip Fowler, clothmaker, who died in 1679 in Ipswich.  Our Christopher followed his mother, who married the elderly Thomas Rowell, to Andover in 1650, shortly after his own father's death.   His sister Mary was already here as the wife of John Lovejoy, emigrant, Debora in 1663, after the death of her step-father, marrying John Russe.  Abigail married Sherburne Wilson of Ipswich (? # illegible), and the Joseph Wilson who was the first of the name in Andover, and who married John Lovejoy's daughter in1670, was perhaps the young brother-in-law or the stepson of Abigail.  Thomas Osgood, born after his father's death, married Susannah Lord, moved to Andover, where he lived until after the birth of his eleventh child in 1694, and it is suppose that he went to South Carolina in the Dorchester emigration about 1697.  He had eight daughters, whose advent among the southern cavaliers must have a windfall in the days when wives bought in England or the colonies, paid their passage by winning a dowry of fifty acres of the common land.  The Osgood girls, with their brothers held a good square mile.

Our valiant young Capt. Christopher Osgood may have inherited the "knack" of mill-building from grandsir Fowler, and, perhaps, was a partner in some of Thomas Rowell's schemes.  Rowell's Folly Brook, rising south of the old road from William to John Foster's in the West Parish near an old burial ground, perhaps emptying into the Shawshin at Frye Village, may have been the site of an early venture.  The curious old records of Hampton Court 1649 give the trials of John Bailey and Thomas Rowell of Salisbury with wives in old England.  John's spouse utterly refuses to come over, and he is let off from trying to fetch her.  Thomas has another woman to deal with.  She pleads sickness.  "He shall not be constrained to fetch her, only to use what means he can to get her across."  They are both exempted from military duty on account of age, showing that it was our Andover Thomas who had the afliction, and his wife's probable death later gave him the widow Osgood in new scenes.  Young Thomas and Valentine remain in Salisbury, while a signature here in 1690, on the paper concerning William Chandler's license, headed by his opponent Christopher Osgood, has Samuel Rowell's name.

I fancy that the family of Christopher Osgood in the early days thought more of wealth than of culture.  Christopher and Samuel Frye, his neighbor, built the Frye Village mills, perhaps grist and saw mill, with a fulling mill.  He was a tanner with John Osgood also.  Frye retains the business here, while the Osgoods continue up the Merrimac, building mills, and they seem to have been at it for eight generations.  Christopher came over to the South Church in 1710.  He had been representative to the general court between 1690 and 1709, and was in prison with John Osgood for resisting the tax of Andros in 1689.  His military record was a long service.  He lost a servant, Daniel Blackhead, in 1677, when the Barker and Phelps boys were killed by Indians and he is building blockhouses at Peter's an (?)eer's Jump Fords on the Merrimac in 1703.  His daughter Mary, wife of John Marston, lies in Salem Jail with the other witches, and father Christopher signs the petition "to favor and pitty us in our troubled state." On the great trial day, he was one of the Andover jurymen.  He was, in his early days, a plucky tempered man.  Bailey. p.607, gives his contest with Thomas Johnson over a hoe, even to blows.  He was just finishing the older fellow, when mother Margery interferes, and Thomas "sarsed" her.

Christopher married four times, Hanna Belknap of Lynn, Hanna Barker of Andover, and two Saras, one of whom is thought to have been a widow and formerly Sara Aslebe. Of his sixteen children, only thirteen were girls. Mary with John Marston, Hanna with John Carlton, Abigail with Joseph Carlton, Priscilla with James Russell, Sara with Edward Gray, Rebecca with Robert Barnard, Lydia with Sherebia Ballard, Martha with Daniel Mooar, and Mary, wife of Capt. John Foster brought the Osgoods of the West Centre and Frye Village along beside those of the Osgood District and the North Centre, in John's tribe.

Jeremiah married Lydia Poor, took Mary Chandler for a step-mother to the seven children, off to Connecticut and sent back Daniel Osgood to help at Bunker Hill, young Jerry enlisting for the war at fifteen.  Christopher, the eldest son, went on to Billerica and put up more mills on the Concord River, most of his sons being heir to that genius, one only turning inn-keeper. They went up North, each eldest son being a Christopher in unbroken line , down to Christopher A. Osgood of a Danville in some state, copied Wisconsin, by the Osgood Register.  I only know that a portion of the Wisconsin postmasters are hunting up C.A.O. for me at present, and if there are any more in the line, we shall have a report soon.  Moving from Billerica to Pembroke, Lancaster, Brookline, Vermont and West, leaving mills on all the streams they cross, Ezekiel is left behind with Rebecca Wardwell, Hanna with John Adams, Mary with William Dane, and Elizabeth with Samuel Martin.

Ezekiel with his wife Mary Barker, eight sons and four daughters, joins Nicholas Holt of Blue Hill, Maine, "so the boys could have all the land they wanted."  Samuel, with the mothers Dorothy Wardwell and Elizabeth Abbott, fill the gap here with thirteen children.  Samuel and Mary Phelps, Samuel, who died in 1860, made bricks.  He marred Lydia Noyes and sent a daughter Elizabeth with Nathan Johnson to suffer in the Border War in slavery days in Illinois.  The children of Sara, wife of Thomas Clark, still reside here.  Rebecca married David Holt, Lydia cared for Abiel Faulkner's children, Joseph going to Blue Hill with Hanna Bailey and his sister Dorcas, wife of Theodore Stevens.  Joseph sent back a grandson Nathan B. Ellis, born in 1812, still living here with his daughters.  The cousin of his mother, born the same year, son of Thomas, Rev. Samuel Osgood of New York, pastor of the church of the Messiah, writer of successful religious periodicals, indicates a development along new lines in the later generations, quite marked in the western branches, with an occasional lawyer and missionary.
                                                                                                                         C.H.A.

No. 38
Lovejoy Neighbors
(A.T. 7/31/1896)

The inter marriages with the Lovejoy family sons numerous in both the lines of George of the North and South Parishes, seem to show some relation between the Osgoods and Abbotts and the first John Lovejoy who married Mary Osgood, daughter of Christopher of Ipswich, and appeared on the list of the first seventeen of the pioneers.  He signs the 1658 petition that has the autographs of seventeen of our fathers.   I think the first Lovejoy farms will prove to be on or near the site of the present Downing place, and the second best location near the Snow farm or better still on the site of the Moses Foster estate.  These farms lay on the circumference of the Lovejoy grants at any rate, along the oldest roads.

The youngest son Ebenezer was heir to the homestead proper and married into the Foster line of Andrew; while the eldest grandson John whose bounds are near him, married the daughter of William Blunt who owned along "Missionary Ridge." South parish farmers married neighbors daughters almost without exception and so we are all double and twisted cousins over here .

Mary Osgood's life was a quiet one so far as the records and probably one of hard work as she died in 1675, while John was still acquiring acres for his boys.  Mary, her eldest, had married John Wilson down at the "Corners", but the rest had yet to be placed.  Hanna Pritchard came in 1675 to live with John "thirteen comfortable years" as he relates in the will of 1690 when the prematurely old man is ready to leave this "vale of tears" where grief waited upon him.  Three years after Mary Osgood left her baby Ebenezer to Hanna's care, Sara married William Johnson, one of the active, almost turbulent spirits that seemed to animate the boys of the John Johnson line from Ipswich. John Lovejoy, eldest son, married that same year Naomi Hoyt from Newbury or Amesbury, daughter of the emigrant John and his second wife Frances.  She was probably a woman of great beauty without moral backbone to balance.  In 1667, her sister Dorothy famous as a "new woman" having rashly "put on men's clothes."  Father Hoyt and all the neighbors swarm to the Norfolk court where Amesbury people were disciplined and "manifested the great appearance of said Dorothy's repentance."  But the hard hearts agree to whip her when she comes back into the county, if 40 shillings fine in corn and money is not paid immediately.  The neighbors help out and Dorothy settles down in feminine fashion.

John and Naomi live together only three years when he leaves her a widow with a small estate, and a young Frances, and infant John to manage.   Four years later, the sorrow of a great social tragedy broods over the two homesteads on the hill side, and cuts deep scars into the memories of two other allied families.  Frances is taken into her grandfather's home to rear, young John remaining with his mother.  The simple entry on the Town Records is all we catch of what was only one, perhaps of many such tragedies falsely called "romances," that shadowed the Puritan life in the backwoods as it does all frontier life everywhere.   But the standard at Andover and even at Newbury and the older towns was high compared with that of the old court circles and middle class life of England as the nickname "Puritan" testifies.  Public sentiment was slowly educated into decency, but the frantic, efforts of the "powers" in 1670 had little effect further. Generations of homes must come and pass before we even of today get far beyond our parents' methods and failures.

John's will does not mention widow John or grandson John except to allude to bounds, - but tells Frances to stay with grandmother and young uncle Ebenezer then seventeen till her marriage, when she will be well provided with clothes.  Thomas Osgood the Ipswich brother-in-law, who settles here, is the adviser and friend of these older brothers William and Joseph ,who are to help Ebenezer to make bargains during his "nonage," to exercise a parent's care over Frances and to do naught to grieve the mother in her old age "as you expect the blessing of God."  Ben, his fifth son, had just died a soldier at Permaquid and the father buys his land for Nathaniel now of age, who in 1694 goes to Amesbury or Haverhill for the daughter Dorothy Hoyt, of Sergeant John Hoyt of the second generation.  Her sister Naomi Hoyt also comes to marry John Barnard, and as wives and mothers do honor to the Hoyts. Sergeant Hoyt loses his home by fire and plunder in the Indian raid of 1696 and is killed on the way from Andover to Haverhill with young Peters in August. In the next generation, our young Ebenezer finds over at John Barnard's a worthy daughter Naomi.  Amy Barnard the mother lived to be 90, dying in 1762, Amy Lovejoy to 98 dying In 1795 both outliving their husbands and administering estate with credit.

Readers tell me that I keep back everything wrong in the lives of the ancestors.  Although as a rule, it is best to put by the errors, sometimes it is well to see at a distance the Lord's way of managing men in training. One of my own grandsires on the family tree was an actor in this early episode and the Lord dealt to him, a family of sons without a daughter to brighten the home, and he was followed for years by the enmity of a woman with unsparing tongue and unfailing  memory.

Christopher, Nathaniel, William, Joseph, and Ebenezer, the five Lovejoys who helped to build up the South Parish having sixty members in the Church before the West was set off and a good dozen in the volunteers in 1776. These must none in for a later sketch when the probate papers have sorted out the heirs and filled the serious gaps in our worn town books.  Of all these iron workers, tanners, lumbermen and farmers I have only traced fully two lines now resident, Ebenezer and Mary Foster, John and Hanna Foster. Anna Lovejoy the only heir in her family married George Abbott, Capt., who died in 1776, leaving his son John Lovejoy at 19 with a young brother, four sisters and his widowed mother to care for and well he did it.

The other line is that of William and Mary Farnum.  Capt. William and Sarah Frye with only two heirs, Anne who married Zebadia Abbott, trader, represented by Joseph Abbott and his late brother Herman, so well known in the South Parish,  and Phebe her sister who married the Isaac Abbott of the last sketch and now including the daughters and grandchildren of Henry W. Abbott; also the children of Mary Fiske Abbott and Nathan Shattuck represented by Mrs. Omar Jenkins of High Street.  An estate of interest just brought to notice is that of Orlando Lovejoy grandfather of John Holt, who still lives on Lovejoy land near Plato Eames's estate.  Orlando, who married Abia Gray, is in the line of Isaac 3rd and Ruth Davis, Isaac jr. and widow Mary Wardwell, Christopher and Mary Preston, Christopher and Mary Russe, all the mothers dwellers between the two Parishes with the Lovejoys from the first.  Mr. Holt's sister Ellen we all recall as the one true blonde Lovejoy in this family of the brunette strain from Gray and Davis ancestors.
                                                                                                                                C.H.A.

No. 64
8/27/1897
John Lovejoy's William

No. 38 of this series, issued July 31, 1896, gives the history of the first of John Lovejoy's alliances with his neighbors, the story of the aged man's grief, and the placing of the farms of the several sons.  John, grandson of the elder Lovejoy, who lived near the Downing estates on the hill side, about 1715 sold out to William Foster, the weaver, his share of the great division left him by his grandfather, lying near the Frye estates in North Parish, the most eastern of all the Lovejoy lands, and the mill pond and dam owned in common with his uncles, which seems now to be near the Osgood estates in Frye Village and possibly near the site of Hussey's laundry house.

            This mill privilege, with buildings thereon, seems to remain in the hands of Henry Lovejoy's son William through a bequest from Dea. William, his grandfather, and lies I 1736 west of the Shawshin.  Henry's land lay both sides the river, and a section in the centre on Roger's brook, and a lane reserved to the end of time was kept open for travellers to the corn mill of the Lovejoy's, in a sale of land to the blacksmith, David Holt, by the aged William just after his bequest to his grandson.  So it seemed after all to be nearer the centre, and lying near a highway that led from the widow Hanna Abbott's to Ballard's mills, thus placing it nearer the Little Hope brook water power on Indian Ridge slopes.  So for a long year I have tried to locate this tantalizing corn mill.

            The family of John Lovejoy disappears from our records, his daughter Frances, brought up in the home of her uncle Ebenezer, marrying a Chelmsford Foster.  To the Foster and Lovejoy marriages our homely (otherwise gifted) Abbott-Holt line owes what little beauty we have heired, and such representative types as our Dea. William Abbott of the South Parish and Dea. Ballard Lovejoy of the West are fair pictures of the comeliness of the old Lovejoy stock.  The family of the Lawrences of Groton, the handsome men and women in the descent of Caleb Abbott and his wife Lucy Lovejoy will give the less favored kin among the Abbotts some idea of what they lost by passing by the Lovejoy belles for the more solid attractions of dowry with the Holt and Ballard girls.   I myself am satisfied with my ancestors' choice of grandmothers, and the long life of both Holt and Lovejoy kin gives us time to finish what we plan, as a rule.  But I am still in search of Lovejoy corn mill, owned by the four sons of John who staid to grind for the neighbors.

 In 1760, widow Hanna Lovejoy, who, after the death of William, was with Capt. Joshua, the joint owner of the mill at that date, seems to be getting an income from it for about eleven years and her sons repair the building. All the rest of the large family of Henry, had gone north to Concord to fill the ranks of old Indian war officers, occasionally coming back for a wife, or a transfer of estate up there, for the privilege of learning a trade in busy Andover, as the generations passed on.

Martha Lovejoy started for Lunenburg with Jonathan Abbot, but came back to finish her days on the old Stephen David farm where the descendants still dwell. Our Lovejoys came and went in such an odd fashion that the present lines have birthplaces all over New England. Pembroke and York draw them away, and even Capt. Joshua wound up as a deacon at Sanbornton. Samuel, son of the old Lieutenant and Deacon William, happened to choose a Stevens, and the one son Isaac, thanks to her love of home lands staid at home. His sister Hanna married a Middleton Stiles; Debora, the exquisite housekeeper and orator, according to her descendant, the editor of the Ithaca, N. Y., Democrat, married John Phelps, went off to New York wilds early "scrubbing, her cabin floor till it fell into the cellar," and wearing equally thin the patience of her men folks with admonition.  Mary went to Lunenburg with Isaac Bailey, these all left us.  The line of William and Sara Frye with the Captain's honors, the tankards, old Pomp Lovejoy, and great estate came to Anne, wife of Zebadia Abbott, the trader, as I have told in No. 38, of the westside, and Phebe, wife of Isaac Abbott, on the east side of the Shawshin across which spread out the fair dowry.  The old houses came to us in this line of William, to whose industry and judgment in trade we owe the fine holding of Samuel Locke, those that cluster near the West church on the Frye Village road, and the Whittier house, "Draper building," the Richardson estate, and a few other solid old houses built or bought in that line of Abbotts.

In 1771, widow Hanna (EVANS) Lovejoy with a family of eight, stops grinding corn and disappears from Andover records, and I will get their destination when a day at Salem is long enough. Isaac is well place on the west side of the Merrimac, with Debora Sheldon, on his father's homestead, with lands along Blanchard's Pond brook, and Capt. Joshua, the Revolutionary veteran yet to be, seems to have control of the Shawshin mill. An almanac among others kept over from 1745 to 1760 till Ezekiel Osgood emigrated to Blue Hill, Me., tells of the building of Joshua's new house in 1756 and the raising of the new mill in 1751. If some one can place these two old buildings, we have their age. May 5th, 1760, Ezekiel records , "My Danny fell into Lovejoy's mill pond and went through the mill wheel." Daniel grew up and died in Bunker Hill days a brave soldier, years after they had "catched fish at Lovejoy's mill once on the third week in February, 1751." Ezekiel Osgood lived on the site of the Town farm, which was his grandfather Christopher's estate, so the mill seems now to be wandering back down
stream. Perhaps the new mill in 1751 was built on a new site.

Capt. Joshua's Lucy married Theophilus Frye, grandfather of our historian. T. C. Frye, and her children were born in the residence improved by Joseph W. Smith.  Dorcas was the second wife of Capt. Benj. Ames and lived on the old estate on the cross road in West Parish near the Jewish cemetery, one of the old Chandler homes and about the oldest of them now standing.  Chloe married John Poor in 1776 and it was a tradition that when a young girl she rode home from Salem with a little black boy on her saddle included among her purchases, and that he grew up to be the Salem Poor whose honorable service at Bunker Hill is given on page 324 of the Bailey History. I feel that Chloe, born in 1753, could not have raised a very small boy after she was old enough to go shoppinr on horseback to Salem; but I have no doubt her mother Lydia Abbott, born in 1723, daughter of Lieut. Henry Abbott, or Phebe Lovejoy, her aunt, the wife of Uncle Isaac Abbott, trader in Salem's day of foreign commerce. may have brought the baby home from the ship that had brought him to Salem port. He was probably part of Chloe's dowry, and won fame for her besides adding to the growing record of that faithful race of aliens, who had made our cause their own in both wars. They are our brothers indeed and I hope Pomp's Pond will long, remain the monument of another veteran who lived a freeman to the age of 102 after the death of Capt. William Lovejoy in 1752. Another link between Foster and Lovejoy kin so closely united was Rose, his wife, who was a servant of John Foster, on the old farm of "Master Billy."

     Capt. Joshua died and his one boy toes to Amherst, N. H. leaving Mary as Widow Parker and a second marriage with Jonathan Cummings, Lydia who married Abiel Holt as the grandmother of the late Mrs. Elbridge G. Manning, to represent this line. So Isaac was the one to keep the name in Andover. He lived up on the Merrimac near the family of Wm. Worse and Phebe Bodwell, and with the exception of Lydia who married Palfrey Downing and William who married Mary Dane, the connection was mainly with the new family from Newbury who were planted in Methuen across the ferry. Isaac and Mary Morse, Bodwell and Sally Poor lived many years on the river road near the Shattuck estates. William Callahan, Peter Parker, and Israel Johnson all went away with Lovejoy brides well known to our elders. Henry went to Amherst leaving William and Phebe Stiles, the father of Stephen A. Lovejoy, born 1835, the last of this line on our voting list. Harriet, wife of John Bodwell of Methuen, near 80, also represents this family line. In another sketch will be traced more of the heirs to a good name.
                                                                                                                                C.H.A.

No. 65
John Lovejoy’s Farms
(A.T. 9/10/1897)

In 1683, the patriarch Lovejoy gave a generous portion to his grandson John on condition that he pay the dowry of his sister or of his two youngest aunts, the widow Naomi to pay rent during her widowhood for the estate on his demand. In 1695 Nathaniel married Dorothy Holt and carried out the will of his father by paying the dowry aforesaid receiving land in exchange, and he swaps about with Ebenezer on the old home acres, until he is settled here at the boundary between the parishes, and begins to call in the paternal inheritance in sections. The great division of old John Frye held by grandchildren had come into the market, and 80 acres in the West Parish purchased by Ebenezer, Christopher and William Foster, the new pioneer over there from Boxford, kin to Abraham and Andrew already in our business center, gave Nathaniel his opportunity. Joseph moved along towards the Salem turnpike and held lands for his daughter Sara, wife of Joseph Clark.  They raise and baptize a large family of children here before they go north to Souhegan selling as late as 1748, the estate of Joseph,  laborer, now gentleman, valued at 452 (illegible, pounds?) to Isaac Blunt.  Her brother Ben and Joseph, in their surveys of new purchases along the old Boston road that swayed from Carter's Hill, across (?) unchard Avenue to Elm Street before they signed their last papers, always kept close at Nathaniel's heels.  He had four sons and two daughters to place .  Timothy got some of Sarah Clark's land and somewhere about was room suitable for his Tan house. He disappears from our records in the new generation and his brother Ezekiel with his wife Elizabeth Wilson are entirely overshadowed by the rising Holt' s beams.  His girls marry Haverhill and Lunenburg men and some wander to Lancaster with the Abbott emigrants.  Daniel also married and Mary Holt proved an able helpmeet.  I think these Holts all belonged on the Holt Row down on the Reading line, for several missing families besides Dan Lovejoy's seem to baptize infants and recognize baptismal covenants, etc. in our South church, but never appear on the town books.  In this way Nathaniel with his Elizabeth Swan was the head of the North Parish line so well represented by Nathaniel, Captain, schoolteacher, outliving two brides, Elizabeth Foster and one other, marrying in old age Benjamina Woodbridge. Esquire he is when in wartime he buries his three eldest. Of those born later I could only connect Elizabeth Foster Lovejoy who married Jacob Farnum in 1798, who was drowned so soon after the home was begun, the line ending in Jacob Farnum of West Newbury, a bachelor.  The other descendant was Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lovejoy, a Harvard man, trader of North Parish.

Of the children of Joseph only Lydia seems to have crossed the Shawshin to become the wife of her cousin CaIeb Johnson, a most interesting person belonging to the family of Lieut. William Johnson and Sara Lovejoy.  There is a possibility of this family being connected with another line of Johnsons from Woburn, sympathizers, if not members of the martyr Baptist associates of Bellingham and Bradstreet persecutions.  In 1714, as mentioned last week, John Lovejoy sold all his rights in the home lands to William Foster of the West Shawshin syndicate and in 1728, the fine estate so carefully builded by Lieut. William Johnson near Dea. Wm. Lovejoy's on the highway that leads to William Foster's, the Merrimac lands and Lovejoy purchase all go through Caleb and Sara's hands to the same William Foster, Pillar of Rocks near Billerica line included.  Was this homestead the old house now being painted "old fashioned" that traveled down the road to Holt' s Bridge into the hollow of the Shawshin for "Master Billy's school"?  Did Gideon, son of said William, build a new house on the old site left behind or did he keep the old Johnson place?  At any rate, when our Dea. Ballard Lovejoy came back from Brentwood after awandering from the old home he settles down at Gideon's house and about fifty years ago built his present residence.  At Joseph T. Lovejoy's near by is an old Woods house, the family of Andrew Duncklee Woods perhaps of Lovejoy kin.  This is the only old house standing on the old Lovejoy division, and the Carruth estate marks the site possibly of the house longest held in the line of Ebenezer Lovejoy, who gradually took up all the estates to spare, watching the cousins flit off to Norway and Andover, Maine, and later across the Connecticut.

 The line of Joseph remained for years about Pine swamp and Carter's Hill while the Abbotts, Fosters, and Wardwells and collateral were crowing in on the older farm lands.  Hugh Gordon came to town and Joseph and Mary Gordon, with Hanna her sister, wife of Thomas Wardwell, sell out in time to a hustling Lemuel Holt in the line of Henry, who had married Mehitabel in 1769.  Brother Asa who seems to locate near the Worthley estate was only nineteen and seems to hold on to his share in spite of Lemuel's well laid plans.  Sara Frye his wife probably brought a big dowry to help the big taxes they had begun to pay.  In fact, he buys land up around the Snow farm from Lemuel.  The famous Cuba woodlot goes to Lemuel from the Fryes, James and Sara, and is still in the market held by Blunts.  Asa raised eleven children and went through the Revolution moving to Norway, Maine about 1800, selling his pastures to our Simon Wardwell and Ruth Church, the heirs of whom held in the present Capt. Reed place, the last of Asa Lovejoy's acres. Poor Joseph and Mary Gordon had better have gone to the dry pure air of the pine hills "down East".  Consumption won many of the Lovejoy's at their prime.  John, son of Joseph, followed Jacob Holt's Rhoda to Albany, Maine, where the family went over two hundred miles one winter on a sled.  His sister Hanna and brother Abner died at maturity and in the South Church is recorded the baptism of the infant Amos, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Wardwell) "at his own house, sick with consumption and likely never to go out again."  The next year, young Elizabeth is presented after her father's death and probably the children were brought up by Samuel Lummus, the step-father.  I could not trace the children of this line to any one now resident.

Christopher and Sara Russe sent Miriam to Robert Gray, Elizabeth and Mary to Methuen with Barkers, and Margaret after some friction on the part of her father at the time of the Banns, finally married Capt. Charles Furbush. For the story of his death in camp, at Champlain see p. 225 Bailey History. Margaret's son, a Capt. At Bunker Hill later had a tragic death, killed by his insane servant while asleep early on the winter morning in February 1795.  I should like to see the record of the court on this case which might give some light on the peculiar temper of an otherwise estimable man, who like other good men in power, seems to have delighted in playing with the capricious an unmanageable creature none other cared to own out himself. He promised to make the poor man his heir and excited his cupidity.  A military prowess and training often accompanies this love of "badgering" or playing with edged tools and perhaps old Christopher Lovejoy was wise.  Margaret's grandson served at Bunker Hill and the family line of Furbush is well represented by the women who are sent to "bruise serpent's heads."
Blessings for our Grandmothers!  The three sons of this line, Hezekia, wife Hanna unknown, except from the Osgood almanac. - "Hez Lovejoy's mother died April 19, 1745."  Christopher, wife Mary Preston, and Jonathan, wife Elizabeth Phelps send children to Souhegan, Hebron, Andover, Maine, and Hollis, H.H.  Jonathan, who married Mary Austin 1741, I am confident will prove to be ancestor of Prof. Austin Phelps, whose father Eliakim is in some way in the West Parish line, guessing from the family names only.

Isaac Lovejoy, son of Christopher, married Mary Pevey  widow of  Eliakim Wardwell, and the farms held by F.F. Wardwell and John Holt on the old Boston Road lie over the possessions of their ancestors.  Isaac's Lucy raised that large family of Caleb Abbott's just under the south slope of Prospect Hill, and just here I am glad to present to you the only Andover boys of his line the sons of Nathan Abbott, the grandsons Lucy. If I had studied the school reports as carefully as I have the older records they would not have been left hidden behind their elder sisters' skirts. (Garfield must live up to his name.) Isaac and Ruth Davis left us the family of Jewett Jones and Susan, Isaac Carlton and Martha, Amos Gray and Lucy. Orlando (or Allander as Rev. Mr. Phillips had spelled it years ago) giving me more trouble than all the Lovejoys of the race. He had William, who married Phebe Stiles running in the records with William of Ebenezer's line. I have it right perhaps, in placing here the late Stephen Lovejoy an Lydia Simpson with a son Albert, and Sylvester who with Clarissa Fox was father of our voter Sylvester, and  Sylvanus who lived to 80 with Sylvanus A. and Edward, besides Mary H. wife of the late Timothy Parker Holt.  Every tree and stone wall around his little shoemaker's shop tell stories of the older days.  Pine Swamp has filled up, and where my brother used to shoot eagles, rabbits, and woodcocks, the inevitable rural hencoop bars the way. Christopher left us Abiel Osgood and sister Anne.  It was in his line that Stephen, who married Pamela Bragg came, sending back Harriet from Andover, Maine, to marry John Bodwell. I met these cousins of our Hon. Moses Stevens and Henry Bodwell lately and a neighbor who guided me there said "Nice people, very nice indeed!"  Ebenezer takes a paper by himself.
                                                                                                                                                       C.H.A.

No. 67
Ebenezer Lovejoy’s Line
(A.T. 9/24/1897)

So much interest and help has been given to my somewhat severe labor in the later generations, by members of this line now resident, that I feel like devoting a paper to their history.  They have kept the Old estates and helped us to a longer voting list than the other sons of John.  What a queer name Lovejoy is anyway!  I have not yet met it anywhere in my somewhat limited research, except in our Andover records.   He came with means and in someway connected perhaps with old Christopher Osgood of Ipswich, who set up the first clothing mill with his father-in-law, Philip Fowler.   John may have come over to help in the new venture.   He comes to Andover perhaps right from old Marlboro in England where Mary Everard, Christopher's first young bride was laid away before he started with baby Mary and her good stepmother, Margery Fowler, for the wilds of the Merrimac.   Mary (2) had a half  sister, Abigail Osgood (2) who married Sherburne Wilson, and either her stepson Joseph or a young brother-in-law, followed the Osgood's to Andover, to find Ebenezer Lovejoy's sister Mary who was married when her brother Ebenezer was two years old.  Another half sister Debora Osgood (2) married John Russe, one of the most interesting of all the collateral.  The tradition in the Russell family that Russe was only an abbreviation of Russell and that old John, the ferry man of Dover, had Indian blood in him, I throw out as without foundation. Some authorities give our John and Mary as the children of Daniel (2), son of John (1) but I think John Russe (1) of Dover will prove to be the only link.  In 1645 he petitions for 14, shillings fee for taking the magistrate to Dover and to Boston, the court  granting it with half to collect from Dover.  Savage gives John and Margaret Russe, a son Nathaniel, older than our John and Mary of Andover, and Richard of the Indian Wars, supposed to be located around Weymouth, relieved in 1678, of a bullet trophy by a Dutch surgeon was maybe another stray of the family. However, John probably moved up here about the time of the marriage of his daughter with young Andrew Foster in 1662, John (2) following with Debora Osgood (2) in 1663.  Savage gives the sons of young John Russe all to his father, making the old gentleman's death in 1692 at the age of 80 with a small son of 7, rather absurd.  His wife Margaret died in 1689, her death hastened by the terrible tragedy of Andrew Foster's sister Hanna, murdered by her husband while insane with drink.

From the beginning the standing of the Russe family seems insured by the alliances with the leading families of Osgood, Foster, and Lovejoy.  Three children born in 1673, Margaret, daughter of John Russe, wife and widow of William Peters, Mary Foster, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Russe) and Ebenezer Lovejoy, youngest heir to his father's estate and trusts, all grow up together on the old country road between our bogs of South Centre and the hills of the North Parish.  Ebenezer, after his father's death, though a lad of 17 assumes the care of his stepmother Hannah Pritchard and her comfortable maintenance, the guardianship of his young niece Frances, only 5 years his junior, and is told to listen to the advice of his Uncle Thomas and his elder brothers in business matters and do nothing to make his mother grieve in her old age. Ebenezer and Mary (Foster) in 1690 look after Hanna's cow each May-day and in 1705 nurse her through the agony of a cancer in the throat. Frances has her finery and has gone to Chelmsford with Nathaniel Foster, and Ebenezer begin to swap about with his brothers, and when Nathaniel agrees to pay the sister's dowry as they come on, he gets the homestead lands except a valuable orchard Soldier Ben had planted before he died at Permaquid, and Ebenezer takes up his residence on the fair portion now held by Dea. Ballard Lovejoy, the aged John, his cousin and Joseph Thompson Lovejoy's place with the Carruth estate and several other holdings, that were settled by John Johnson, "thrasher", and Ebenezer with Wm. Foster the weaver, Stephen Barnard from Nantucket near the Ballards and Danes, and a certain Timothy Mooar.  Foster and Lovejoy divide about 100 acres in time to heirs, Hannah Foster marrying John (3), the eldest Lovejoy heir.  Little Hanna (4) is the only survivor of this family of Dea. John Lovejoy, and when John dies, the aged Hanna being ill, asks that Col. Abbott, husband of her only child being the most proper person shall attend to his affairs.  There are the ancestors of John Lovejoy Abbott and and his uncle William, of the descendants of Dea. Joseph Poor of Danvers, represented by Mr. Briggs, of Sara, the donor of Abbot Academy and other heirs of Col. George Abbott.

Hanna Lovejoy (3) probably married her neighbor Daniel Faulkner and her sister Mehitable took young Timothy Mooar.  Ebenezer (3) builded the best of all for he chose Mary Barnard, daughter of John and Naomi (Hoyt).  She was a cousin on her mother's side to his brother Nathaniel's children of a very long lived and sensible line of women.  Mary Barnard, born in 1697, just at the close of old William's War and the downfall of the Stuarts, lived till 1795 dying at 98 after (illegible) young George of Hanover's heels lifted from her tax (illegible).  The sons of John Barnard died before him and Ebenezer filed to be executor, and caretaker of his mother-in-laws estate.  Whatever the faults of the Lovejoy's they all seemed to lack covetousness, always willing to give a fair equivalent for what they receive, and are called to many a position of trust.  Ebenezer lost four children, the eldest aged 11, in the epidemic of 1723 and buried a daughter at 24.  Jeremia and Rebecca alone survived and it looked as if the line would die out.  Rebecca married William Chandler over on the (?)idden place. His first wife was Mary Ballard, sister of Dorothy Ballard who married Jeremia Lovejoy.  They were daughters of Josia Ballard and Mary Chandler,  Josia being son of Joseph Ballard (3) and Rebecca Johnson (Timothy (2) and Rebecca (Aslebe)) and Mary, the daughter of William Chandler (3) and Mary Dane - Thomas (3) and Mary (Stevens).   Joseph Ballard, the sheriff of the witch times and Elisabeth Phelps with Dea. Joseph Stevens and Mary Ingalls were the early ancestors.   Mary Ballard was the mother of only three Chandlers.  Isaac (6) being the youngest.  Rebecca Lovejoy had four children who all went away north and left only the maiden Rebecca to inherit the homestead with her half-brother Isaac(6).  She was to have a room and a place for her loom, and a seat in the family pew until she died or married.   Isaac married Abigail Holt, daughter of James and (?) (Abbott) heirs to the Benjamin Abbott estate on Shawshin (?).  In 1827 Rebecca died in the almshouse at 60. There was a blunder somewhere, but it is with the feelings of peculiar satisfaction that I. a kinsman of Isaac and Abigail, look upon the improvements on the old homestead in a stranger's hands.  If Rebecca must go, it is justice that they all follow her in time.

Jeremia (4) and Dorothy had been dead for years, leaving at least nine of a family of eleven to grow up. Jeremia (5) disappears in Danville, Me.  His father was in the early Revolution lists and he was probably the later man named.  (Illegible) (?) went to (?)eare….with Asa French, Dorothy married Asa Towne, a carpenter who worked on the new South Church and was brought with wife and baby Dorothy back from Charlestown to be o the hillside bank of Shawshin.  Rebecca went away with Andrew Wilson Huncklee.  Hanna staid here with Andrew Palmer Wood, whose name was given wrong last week.

Joseph Lovejoy's Wood Mansion and its wandering reminds me of some deeds of a certain Peter Martin, mariner of Marblehead and what seems to be those of a son later, a baker, who lives in West Parish and swaps estates with the Blanchard's ad Boynton's, and he seems to be always reserving two selling houses with a right to move them.  Perhaps his (?) restlessness kept him in good spirits, locating new estates from time to time, perhaps it is a way they have to (?) the Shawshin of escaping the results of a lack of (?…age).  I found that he had in some way got hold of  (?) Foster and swapped about in such a way that I must take back all my theories in regard to Dea. Ballard Lovejoy's (?).  Phebe (5) married Daniel Fox. John (5) with (?..olly) Russell and Persis Bailey left us Hanna wife of Henry Callahan, while to James Ballard (5) with his wife Martha, and perhaps a second Hanna and to Ebenezer (5) and Phebe Russell we owe the present descendants.

In James (5) line Orpah (6) remained unmarried, Harriet (6), wife of Calvin Goodall, brought up her niece Susan, the daughter of Rebecca (6) and Jonas Lovering now with her aunt residing on High Street, the honored and beloved centre of Moses Farnham's home.  Hanna Richardson (6) and Bailey (6) are beyond the great lakes somewhere.  Dea. Ballard (6) with his daughter Angeline, widow of Edwin Barnard, Harriet Clark with whom he resides, Mary Gildrist of Woburn, Albert of Lowell, and George (?) of Lawrence are well known to us.

His brother Wm. (?) (6) and Mary Ann Clement sent two boys, Newton (7) to die for us at Vicksburq, and Wm. W. with a son Fred (8) living, others in Mexico and Dakota, with two best known daughters Martha, wife of Daniel Kendall, and Josephine, now among the still unforgotten dead, late wife of John Alfred Bailey of Lowell, with J. S. Ayer and originator of the Bailey association. Says his son, Alfred Lovejoy Bailey is proud of his descent.  I must leave the story of the thirteen children of Wm. B. and speak of Ebenezer (6) and wife of Selina Lynch.  So many of their dear ones grew to be promising youth and passed away in consumption before the age of 30.  Joseph T. (7) and his wife Georgianna Pettengill of Portland seem to have the latch string out still and in this youngest son of the succession of Ebenezer's, we find the humorous as well as the hospitable traits of Lovejoy and Russell.  Across the street lives the John (6) with daughter Harriet Noyes and grandson John. If his failing ear could bear it, I should like to ask about the tragedy of his brother William Russell Lovejoy's life.  Margaret Bingham and her cruel fate at the hands of a brutalized drunken thief, the suicide of her brother and the sudden death of her father while on a business trip in Chicago, will be long remembered.  Joshua and Joseph were also with him prominent business men in Boston. Jeremia who died in Reading, Sally Dinsmore, grandmother of Octavius Blunt's children, and Phebe's (6) grandson Waldo Abbott of Lynn are well known names.  George (6) has descendants somewhere.  Prof. Otis (7) of Josiah (6) lately visited his home and on account of my promise to his son, a Harvard man from California, this tale of the grandmothers in line is spun _(?). There are many more of the name I have not placed and should be glad if anyone wished to give information would send in all they know for a more finished compilation in the future.

                                                                                                                                   C.H.A.

No. 82
Foster Beginnings
(A.T. 7/1/1898)

Probably four different lines of Fosters make the story of the present residents of the name among us.  Our own two lines from Andrew and Ann, and Reginald of the Ipswich line, seem to be distinct from the earliest record, that of Andrew in 1652.  John (1) of Salem and his brother Samuel (1) of Wenham and Chelmsford furnish us with the Foster alliances of Reading and Tewksbury, while old Thomas of Weymouth, allied to the Hopestill line of Boston and Cambridge, finished his career in the vicinity of Billerica, leaving a line that possibly are represented today among us.  The study of these lines from the beginning is full of difficulty, on account of the very slack way in which they secure the estates to the heirs.  Scotch fashion, they live together and divide at some unexpected date when you get tired of hunting for them.  They hold bits of land years after they have acquired residence in other towns, and pay taxes all along the borders, besides coming up to church occasionally to get Parson Phillips or French to baptize some lonesome infant, who otherwise has no record among us.  They are all Scotch fast enough.  Nobody but a Scotchman would lease land for 1000 years, or convey a meadow with "twig and turf."  Andrew Forrester or Forster, with his neighbors Andrew Allen and Joseph Russell, are all members of the Scotch Charitable Association, once the St. Andrews Society, formed in Boston as early as 1656 to aid the war prisoners of Cromwell's fights, and other unfortunates from, Virginia and along shore, who used to walk to Boston to get a passage home.

Andrew Foster who died here in 1685 at the age of 106 according to the town record,  was perhaps a relative of the Jon and Sam of the Salem line, as his children intermarry from the first with the Chelmsford end, while naming their children in the most reprehensible way with the euphonious Abraham of the Ipswich line.  When this later line came in from Ipswich, first Ephraim and Hanna, and later with cousin William and Sara, they have no sign of an Abraham, although Ephraim is son of Abraham and grandson of old Renald (1) of Ipswich. Savage has a note somewhere or else someone has quoted him, as saying that Andrew, who was about the age of old Reginald of Ipswich was a son. He may have had a son of the name. I have thought it likely we shall find Andrew in some fashion kin to the Lynn lines of Bartholomew and Christopher, who flourished in Gloucester and Long Island.  There are traces of lands in the Lynn marshes that can cannot be accounted for, unless he, with Andrew Allen of whom he seems to buy part of his Andover farm, started at first at old Lynn. The connection of the Ingalls family with Allens may come out in old Court Records which are all we have of early Lynn since her two bad fires that took both church and town papers.

Andrew seems to be 73 when his daughter Mary is born in 1652.  His wife Ann was perhaps a second, and still very aged in 1692, when she gave up the hard and bitter wrestle with cruel superstition in Salem jail.  Andrew left her a very comfortable and pleasant home here by Rogers' Brook.  The eldest son, Andrew, who survived his poor mother only 5 short years, was neighbor to John Russe, whose estate lay along Abbott Village Hill.   Mary Russe married Andrew in 1662, his sister Hanna (2) married Hugh Stone in 1667.   This man was most likely of a Salem family resident in Beverly Village, and allied to the Boston line by names he selects.  John Stone of Salem was here very early.  John and Robert buy a house there in 1551 (A CHA typo? JHL), and owned a ferry much earlier.  He seemed to have baked bread and some one found fault with the size of the loaves. In his later days he seems to have retreated to Hull.  Our Islands along the coast were the freethinkers of the day.  John of Hull leaves a bequest to the children of his brother Simon over in England, and three years later Hugh Stone comes to Andover to get a modest share of father Foster's Indian Plain, wherever that was.  He was a carpenter also, and from his estate must have been a man of industry quite unlike his brother-in-law Lawrence Lacy, who married the young Mary (2) in 1673. I feel sure that Lawrence the scion of a house of non-producers. He loved his gun and the chat of neighbors too well. The church in his later years labor with Lawrence to get him to improve his time to better advantage.  The estate belonging to the next generation shows him in comfortable circumstances, so Mary was probably a good manager.  Inertia, in his case, may have been caused by hypochondria or despair at the uncongenial surroundings.

When Abraham Foster (2) chose a wife, he went over to Chelmsford for Esther daughter of Dea. Sam Foster of Wenham and his wife Esther Kemp (daughter of Edward Kemp also a settler from Salem).  The connection between the Kemps and our Andover line was kept up for generations, and I feel sure from this one alliance that Andrew was in some way allied to the Salem line.  John of Salem had two sons who both married Scotch Stewards or Stewarts, as did our Thomas Abbott of Andover.  Hanna Russe was brought up with a John Ross, who worked for Bradstreet, and she married him finally.  Another John Ross married Robert Russell's grand-daughter, and lived in Billerica.  The woods here were full of a Scotch colony who seemed to hang together for mutual advantage.  Sara Foster (2) married Samuel Kemp.  In the Stone family, we have six children, John, Hugh, Simon and Daniel, with two girls, Katherine and Hanna. Here in our fair meadows along the brook, on land now in possession of the John Abbott heirs (I often thought perhaps on old Burying ground hill) was Stone's house.  Miss Bailey in her story of the dreadful tragedy that came down on them the year of the Indian war, quotes freely from Mather's "Magnolia".  The first John Stone who caused the Pequod war episode by his violent temper, perhaps, in dealing with Indians may have had some stock in our Hugh. The times were those of fear and excitement that year of 1689.  Lt., Stevens, Ben Lovejoy, Eliezer Stratton, Robt. Russell all gone at the Eastward, Hanna Stone, felled perhaps by an angry blow, struck by a man insane with liquor, died in April, while in August the Peters brothers are waylaid on the riverside and killed by the Indians.  Where Hugh met the penalty exacted in those days for small and great outbreaks of the unregenerate heart, I have not learned.  His friends follow him to the end and turn sadly back to settle the affairs of the widow and children.  Nathaniel Stone of Beverly has the care of the younger children, and later on, boys drift off to the shore, where we find them with their wives, busy with fishing and new orchards at the ports,  conveying little by little the Andover appletrees to John and Stephen Abbott.  Katherine held on to a bit near the John Ballard land with a  little gully somewhere near the electric light station.  What became of her I know not.  Her brothers in 1703 were all seamen and well placed in Salem Village. The family of Lawrence Lacy has always been one of great interest to me, but at this time I cannot follow out my theory that Ephraim Lahorse and wife Ann were identical with Ephraim Lacy, son of Lawrence, and his wife Ann Hardy of Bradford.  Brother Lawrence left his sister Dorothy Farnum his watch, to sister-in-law Ann 6(pounds?), to the Farnum and Lacey nephews his various shot guns, and lands in Groton to pay funeral expenses.

The families of Andrew (2) and Abraham Foster (2) divided the lands at the centre and around Foster's Pond in such a way that Joseph (3) of Reading so called, who married Deliverance Dane settles down there on the border line. His sister Esther (3) married Daniel Kimball of the adjoining district. Andrew Foster (3) settled in the center of the town in the beginning of his career.  Some of the paternal estate seems to be in the West Parish, but most of the land in that division went to Andrew (2) and Mary (Russe) who in compliment to brother Abraham name the only son for him.  The crossing of the cousin's names is very confusing.  The West Parish section of Fosters are neighbors to Johnsons of course,  William Johnson and Sara Lovejoy provide a  Mary for Abraham (3), while Ben Johnson takes Sara Foster (3), Hanna (3) goes off with Thomas Austin to Methuen and Foster luck follows Thomas into the Merrimac one Sunday in March coming from church.  Sister Mary Foster marries Ebenezer Lovejoy, and Esther makes young Simon Stone happy.  He is the latest cousin to stay in Andover.  While the families of Andrew (2), Abraham (3), and Abraham (3), Andrew (3) are coming on to make
Andover records an enigma, a new line of Fosters from Boxford arrives in town. Reginald of Ipswich had an eldest son Abraham (2) born in England whose son Ephraim (3) born in Ipswich 1657, married Hanna,  daughter of our Robert Ames of the Andover Boxford line.  Their children came here with them to the old North Church, but I think the family always resided on the Boxford line.  Another son of Reginald, William (2), married Mary Jackson.
The son William (3) of Boxford married Sara Kimball and moved to our West Parish, into the circle of Johnsons and Lovejoys along with Andrew Foster about 1700.  He brought over a daughter Sara who became the wife of Nehemia Abbott (4) and emigrated to Westown, wherever that was; and she was mother of the Lawrence line of Groton and the Wm. Abbott line of Frye Village. William Foster's (3) daughter, Mary (4), was the wife of Timothy Abbott (3), son of the Indian captive, and the head of the long line that was raised on the   old farm near Sunset Rock.  Hanna (4) married neighbor John Lovejoy, Lydia (4) married David Blunt.  I am not yet sure of the other girls and have as yet placed but two more of the family, Capt. Asa Foster (4), who married Mary Osgood, one of the daughters of our Capt. Christopher by his fourth wife.  You will see that William Foster's line provided some rare grandmothers.  While their families are growing up, some study is needed to distinguish the children of the same name in all these lines.

                                                                                                                                              C.H.A.

No. 100
Birds of Passage
(A.T. 3/2/1900)

It all began with Nicholas Holt at 64, wanting a third wife. Roger Preston of Ipswich, who came over about 1639, and, with wife Martha, sold a very good house, barn, orchard and 2 houselots in Ipswich to Reginald Foster in 1657-8 for 50 (illegible), leased an inn and farm in Danvers Village about 1660. We have on record sons Thomas, John, Samuel, Jacob, perhaps daughters and a small Levi born in Salem in 1662. This estate seems to be near Proctor's on the Salem & Lowell R.R., says Charles H. Preston, the Danvers genealogist of the family, who has kindly furnished us with many facts slowly gathered for his family Register now being compiled. Perhaps Nicholas Holt on his journeys to Salem and old Ipswich Court, used to stop at the inn so near the old Andover trail through Middleton past Will's Hill settlement. Roger died in January,1666, and in March the widow had declared to let Thomas Johnson, the son in law of Holt, and the brother Stephen Johnson, son in law to Rev. Francis Lane, take charge of young Samuel and John, and she followed them to Andover in May as the wife of Nicholas Holt.  The lease was out and a new man Proctor had come on, and Thomas, the eldest son, was about to marry Rebecca Nourse and settle down over at the Port with the Nourse tribe, so Martha was wise perhaps to find a comfortable home for herself and Levi at Prospect Hill.  She was 20 years younger than Nicholas and there they lived happily for 20 more long years together and after Nicholas left the Andover outlook, widow Martha Holt watched the ships come up to old Lynn, for 20 more long years alone, dying at the age of 80 in 1703, all of which is in favor of a residence in old age on the sunny side of Holt's Hill.  From Bailey "Sketches" pp. 48 to 50, we get in full the tale taken from court records, of the apprenticeship of young Jacob Preston to Thomas Chandler, then experimenting an iron works at Merrimac, down river. He sold Jacob to  William Curtis of Salem to finish the blacksmith training and there he had 7 more long years to serve and to do chores early and late, all for food, clothes and lodging and the 2 suits to come at 21.  He was homesick a good deal and staid to recover and brace at brother Tom's in the village and over on horseback, he came to the Andover hills to "father Holt's," Miss Bailey gives us his suit against William Curtis who failed to redeem his promises and then a paper in Essex Courts of 1680 date gives the sequel to the uphill career of one Preston. He appears to have borrowed money from the Andover brothers, perhaps for an outfit and to have gone fishing, to the Eastware on a "ketch."  After a year's time, nothing heard meanwhile of Jacob, his ketch or his mate, the brothers settle the small estate and that is the end of his venture as far as we hear.  Perhaps he was picked up by a vessel trading along coast from Virginia to England. Perhaps he was landed at Barbadoes and got weaned from the rude blasts of New England, or maybe he turned pirate.  Levi at any rate, went to Salem to live with Thomas and only John (2) and Samuel (2) staid with us a while.

Samuel appears to have picked up somehow from somebody that undesirable barren bit of loose sand called Preston's Plain, lying between the Cemetery section and Ballardvale, where only pine was found early and where later the treacherous sands swallow up the wells of the first to raise houses at the Vale.  One farmer who owned a good deal of unproductive bog, mixed his share of the Plain with it, and raised the best rye of the section. Samuel swapped some of it for land further East, near Robert Russell's at Bare Hill and John appears to have settled in the North Precinct somewhere at the start. Samuel's home was probably near Sunset Rock from the quarrels he had with Martha Allen Carrier who is accused of afflicting his cows in the witchcraft trials of 1692.

Down in Ipswich Village early, Roger Preston had a neighbor William Goddason (alias Gudderson, Gutason, Guterson and finally Gutterson in 1684) who owned a bit of Plum Island in 1644, marks his name on a will as witness in 1646, with Roger Lanckton and James Chute, when Joseph Morse dies. The Morse emigration included besides several brothers and families, a large following of neighbors and hired men or apprentices and I am inclined to think these young men were employed by Joseph Morse perhaps as fishermen, or as farm tenants worked on his lands.  William appears on the tax lists and a Dennison petition about 1648 and very likely became free and was married near 1650.  I cannot ascertain for certainty the name of his wife, possibly Elizabeth. One Elizabeth Gutterson married John Coburn in Haverhill in 1670 and may prove to be the widow herself if not an eldest daughter born possibly about 1652. Susanna Gutterson who came first to Andover was probably born about 1654. She married our Samuel Preston at the Plain in Andover in 1672. She had brother William born in Ipswich 1658, died in 1669. John, born 1662, who came to Andover, and Mary, born 1660, who married Hanniel Clarke of a down river family.  William Goddason died in 1666 and if the widow married a Coburn of Haverhill, it perhaps brought Susanna in the range of Samuel Preston on visits to that section. That was a wild region in those days and Indians lived along the river when Susanna made her bridal trip if she had not already gained a residence here.

John Gutterson was 26 years old before he married Abigail' Buckmaster in 1688. Her sister Sarah very likely it was, married WiIliam Chandler (3), the son of the innholder, just to the south of the plain on the old Billerica Road through Ballardvale, near the Pillsbury estate so called. Possibly Gutterson and Buckmaster young people sought service here in our Chandler family, or were wards left as orphans under guardians here, from Roxbury district like those Gerry girls who were allies later on with the Preston tribe.  Elizabeth Gerry married William Abbott (2) and Sara Gerry took John Holt, stepson of the widow Preston In charge. John Preston (2), waited till John Holt died and annexed widow Sara (Gerry) Holt and the twins Moses and Aaron. This veteran of the Narragansett wars has a fine record in the early military company of a dozen credited to Andover at the Swamp fight. John Preston brought up young Moses Holt who lived to inherit the John Holt farm, but the Preston half brothers all came to an untimely end, and left only the girls. Rebecca (3) who married her cousin Joseph Preston (3) and after his death went to Windham with Robert Holt and her Preston infants, Hannah (3), with Nathaniel Farnum, and Martha (3) who all went along with parents John (2) and Sara Preston to form the new colony in Conn. The older John drew his lots at the time of the Narragansett New Hampshire allotment in 1732, but having no son, decided to pass the rights along to his nephew John Junior son of brother Samuel of Andover, and whether Amherst ever had any resident of the name I cannot determine.

Samuel Preston (2), who married as was told Susanna Gutterson in 1672 lived here till 85, dying in 1738.  Susanna died first, date unknown, and was succeeded by a widow Mary Blodgett, perhaps kin to a missing link. No one in line somehow names a son Roger in memory of the old grandfather of Salem. Jacob (3), one of Sam's sons, took the name and trade of the lost uncle, and with Sarah Wilson and four children, and brother John Preston (3) and Mary
Haynes (of Haverhill) and Lydia (3) published here to Daniel Holton of a Salem line and who travelled to Woodstock Ct., to get married, and Priscilla (3), who married George Holt, all these joined the long process to Windham and vicinity.  As the Holt boys still held out, Elizabeth Preston (3) married John Holt (3), son of Sam (2) but died right away and a friendly Mehitable Wilson mate came after her.  Then when Susanne Preston (3) had grown attractive, there was James Holt (3) waiting for her.  They did manage to get a living here and died residents, but all the children were so eager to go off that even Tewksbury and old Boxford seemed desirable in those days. One of James and Susanna (Preston) Holt's grandsons, Levi (4) of Marlboro, named for the early Levi, died in camp at 15 in the Revolution, and the poor mother riding In haste to visit him, was thrown from her horse and carried the marks on her head to death, like other patriots of her day.

Ruth Preston (3) went off with a "sailor and stranger" says the old town book as if in disapproval.  I wanted this particular Ruth for a neighbor, Eliakim Wardwell, one of the witchcraft orphans, about four years after Ruth's sailor left these parts.  Perhaps he came to bring news of Uncle Jacob, and never came back again, and four years Is a long time in which the sea could have swallowed Hugh Taylor and secured my Ruth for Eliakim.  Mary Preston we have at last heard from after 4 generations of Russells, who had lost sight of her, had given up all idea of such a find.  She married Benjamin Russell (2) it seems and went to Ashford, Conn., and with a syndicate of Pearl, Stevens, Abbott and old Norfolk County blood to help out, introduced the line of Dr. Joseph Sibley whose ancestors went around through Sutton from Salem to join our girls In Conn.  He was father to the Galena Oil Sibley brothers, one of whom, Joseph, is making eloquent speeches in behalf of expansion in our U.S. senate.  Why shouldn't he advocate expansion? You see it is in the blood. The brother, E. H. Sibley, in searching for the parentage of the Ashford Russell,, introduced to us our Mary Preston line down there. Joseph Sibley, Roger Preston, William Goddason,  Nicholas Holt and Robert Russell have a strong following of expansion heirs all over the broad domain from sea to sea and ready to pull up old stumps and plant new gardens anywhere the flag goes. Let us hope
something less barren than Preston's Plain will carry the old name. On the cradle of Holt's Hill, .Sam (3) staid with Sara Bridges and died in 1717. He was a good carpenter and he helped plan the old red school houses. His ten children expanded as soon as the widow could get quit claims drawn up and she too, found a residence with William Price of Ashford, Conn., desirable. Levi (4) went ahead to Killingly and staked his ranch bounds and came back for Elizabeth Harnden.  Samuel (4) with Mary Bridges and his brother Isaac tried Littleton.  There was Jemima (4), Elizabeth, Joanna and Sarah, but no Holts had kept pace with the demand and they sought new fields of conquest. Mary (4) got to Haverhill but Christopher Lovejoy brought her back and in her line of Isaac Lovejoy and Ruth Davis we have about all the Preston blood left here.  Ruth Preston (4) married Nathaniel Barnard and the only daughter married Isaac Shattuck of the old quaker Salem Stock, and we have I think perhaps, the family of Samuel Shattuck.

With these expanding Prestons went half the Gutterson blood.  John the brother sold the farm he owned on the Shawshin in Frye Village, to Daniel Poor, and started across river to try how far North he could go.  I found the latest Gutterson of 1796, on an old blue print map, donated the cause of history, and he was just this side the Pelham line in Methuen.  Elizabeth Gutterson (3), daughter of John (2) and Abigail, married Nathaniel Messer and perhaps was kin to one of the line here today.

William Gutterson (3) and Ruth Mosse of the old Ipswich line of 1637, raised a large family in Methuen.  Samuel (4) came across to Andover for one Lydia Stevens, either the daughter of Lydia Gray or Annis Phelps who both married a John Stevens and had daughters Lydia and Sara of the same age. Old Lydia Gray Stevens died with Sara who was wife of Israel Wood, up in Thetford, Vt. Jacob  and Nathaniel Abbott of Wilton went off with one of the Lydias and one of the Sarahs.  The.four were closely associated in alliance and recklessly used Simeon and Abiel, names peculiar to both lines of Stevens, and it is now very unlikely unless someone can come forward, with private records, that we shall identify the Lydia properly.

Samuel (4) and his Lydia settled in that part of Amherst set off to Milford, later where we find him with the two eldest sons, John and Samuel, near the time of the Revolution. The younger Josiah, born in 1786 in Milford, married Phebe Buss, daughter of Stephen Buss, and Phebe Keyes of the old Chelmsford line.  The one best known to us George Gutterson (6) was born up there in 1821 and probably inherited his love of fine gardening in the town celebrated for fruit. To him we owe the first careful culture and successful venture in strawberry market gardening in this town. He died here after a painful and lingering illness of years, and his widow and daughter Clara have a home with the son, George H. in Winchester.  He has been with his wife, Emma Wilder, daughter of a South African missionary, and a graduate of Abbot Academy,  through the usual long service in India, and is now Secretary of the American Missionary Board.  With  his ten children, two, Herbert and Wilder bearing the name of Gutterson, he is getting ready to follow on after the expanding plans of Senator Sibley, the kin of Susanna Gutterson, and we may see the grandson of old Andover helping the work in South Africa when the air gets clear of friction.  Myron Edward of Andover, allied to Elizabeth Tyler of the strong old stock of Job the emigrant, agree with me that 6000 odd does not count all of old Andover today.  The ancestors are getting in good work everywhere and we are all one, we to hold in trust what is best to recall their memory, to preserve the ancient landmark loyally and they to bring us
                                                                                                                                C.H.A.
(Note: I think I am missing a last page with a few sentences on it here.  JHL)

No. 109
Debora Russe
(A.T. 7/12/1901)

From Gosnold's visit to the Vineyard in 1602, when he was met by the band of 50 warriors, gay with copper breastplate and ear ring, to smoke the pipe of peace, to 1899 when, on a December day, alone in the old Charlestown woods by the sea, where lie the bones of the old Narragansetts, Gideon Ammons., last of the pure blood chiefs, lay down to die, at 90, - stretch the years of brave effort to recover promised rights withheld by Massachusetts from her wards. Freeman tells the story best of these survivors of that terrible winter day, when Andover boys helped crush the power of Philip, and gathered captives to be sold in the West Indies, till
Barnstable protested. "Indian servants are a great success. We cannot do our work without them. " So the remnants were left at Mashpee and other Cape settlements to learn to catch whales, while a few were bound out under guardians to trades, but were not secured by law with schooling, nor extra clothing, like the white children, and often not as well cared for as the African refugee from the Guinea Wars. The Mashpee experiment was not so well managed as was the larger reserve on the Penobscot, nor does it compare favorably with the Iroquois towns in New York.  We have cause to hang our heads - "We took all and gave naught."  In 1776, all were loyal to the new flag, and in the Canada expedition no other tribe sent such efficient soldiers.  In 1783, there were 70 widows of war, and of 22 who went in one regiment only one came home.  So the young women had to form alliances with stranded Hessians and mulattos set free by act of 1780.  In 1792, 40 or 50 old people of pure blood remained on the reserve, who could speak the ancient tongue.  Among the most noted of the leaders were Daniel Amos, in the coast trade, a man of power and character, and Israel Amos, one of the first to be elected selectman and school committee.  Many of the old stock among the youth had gone outside before the Revolution to seek a chance to get the education or trade denied them at home.  Restless as is the Indian under the routine of civilization, many seem to have failed in ambition, to make a home under such limitations, and wandered off to the camps along the Penobscot and other Maine rivers, leaving their homes on the Cape to gradually pass into the ownership of the mixed blood who now hold the estates.

Of this class probably were many like Peter Bridges, employed as an Indian servant under the guardianship of the Bridges' family here.  His descendants say he held the Indian name of Almonach when in his Penobscot home.  Of the same class was very likely the mother of Prince Ames, an Indian also, whose history has not been recovered, nor does she enter Andover records.  Debora Russe, mentioned in the last article as the last of her name in Andover, in the year 1766 enters our record as mother of the child Eunice Russe, whose father was the above Peter, or Almonach.  The only fact known in regard to her residence here is the guardianship of Ebenezer Rand, her brother-in-law, who was appointed in 1762, possibly on the death of her mother, when Debora was 18.  Why she chose to link her fortune with the Narragansett is a matter belonging to family history.  Her sister and guardian, the church and civil authority, united to oppose the marriage, honorably sought, so Debora eloped like the "Little Minister" to the far away camp home of Peter, and was married Indian fashion. Life in the wilderness at that early date was unsafe, and to Andover she returned, where her daughter Eunice was born in 1766, and as Indian chiefs, like other royalty, have but the one name, Russe was the name she carried down to the date of her marriage here.  Peter, who is described as a tall, fine looking man by his daughter, was devotedly attached to wife and child, but after the mother's death he gave up the little girl to the care of her aunt, who was bound to bring her up "civilized." He lived among the Penobscots for years, only once visiting Eunice when a small child, making the long week's journey to see her.  She was a copy of her Indian father, and I have seen the portrait of her sagacious dark face and fine head. The early companion of her mother, Eunice Blanchard, probably gave her the name she bore. As was the custom, she was placed early in the family of Sergt. Nathan Abbott, whose wife was Abigail Ames, a sister of Capt. Ben Ames, and of Nathan Ames of Groton, in whose family was then living the son of an Indian mother and a white father, called Prince Ames

In the family of Nathan Abbott (4) was his nephew (adopted son) Lea. Abbott (5), my own great-grandfather, and young Debora Jvmes., a neice from Groton. Years later she used to tell her daughter Clarissa, the late Mrs (? the lower left corner of this page is blank) of Andover, how dainty and devout was the little m       ? Russe, and how they shared the same room and worked side by side, Eunice an example to her in every way.                 ? told me by her great-granddaughter, we gathered             ?  interest in the Word of God and her power                ?  truth.  She had many friends among clergy and laity, who delighted to discuss with this prophetess the great issues of her day, for she was a woman of rare intelligence, and during her residence with her daughter, the late Mrs. Davis, whose death has been noted in our columns, she met the cultured and earnest men and women who joined in the cause of the oppressed.

In the family of Nathan Abbott was the young mulatto boy, Philip Abbott, whose name swells our record as one who lost his life at Bunker Hill.  Prince Ames, like other lads, began his military career as an officer's servant at that same battle, being with Capt. Tim Ames from Groton.  Later he joined the Andover lists as a three-years' veteran, and was with my great-grandfather and others at Bennington and other engagements.  He learned the blacksmith's trade somewhere, possibly with Ebenezer Rand at the finish in Andover.  He was a very ingenious and skillful workman, according to the old neighbors, Nathan Clark, Nehemiah Abbott, Jun., and the aged grandmother of Henry Boynton, who was Hannah Ames.  From various sources, all confirmed by Mrs. Howard of Dedham, we gather the story of the marriage of Eunice Russe at 18, in 1784, to Prince Ames, the happy home near Uncle Ebenezer on Huckleberry Hill, beside an ancient oak, now the site of old Griffin or Brown estate. Here they raised ten fine children of many shades and types, to maturity, and all able to make a successful thing of life.  Delightful are the reminiscences of the rides on one horse of the whole tribe to the South church, a long five miles from "Five Mile Pond," where Eunice Davis herself a year or two ago told me she skated in girlhood.  The old Blanchard Pond staid longest in her memory of the days of long sermons and Sunday luncheons, and I only wish I had known her earlier, this ancient cousin to any of us here, who descends from Ralph Farnum (2) and Elizabeth Holt.   Dea. Nathan and his son, Capt. Job Abbott, being double Farnums in line, always kept a watchful interest in mother and daughter while the families of Eunice senior and junior were growing up.

Prince named his eldest Peter for the chief.  He married Martha Clark, daughter of a widow slightly colored, of Newburyport, who lived awhile in the mill house in Ballardvale in 1810. They moved to Hudson, N. H., and left numerous descendants.  Anna, perhaps named for Prince's mother, married Peter Hutchinson of Windsor, Vermont.  Philip married Chloe Gerrish of Dedham. His name, probably given by Eunice in memory of the dead soldier of her girlhood days, proved unlucky.  A neighbor tells of his death from injury at a broken bridge while leading elephants in a menagerie.  George, who settled in Portsmouth, was the handsomest of the sons, being almost pure white.  Tall and distinguished looking, he returned to Boston after 60 to die with his sister, Mrs. Davis.  He was probably the son who learned the barber's trade, and had a shop in Portsmouth, visited by accident once by Mr. Eben Woodbury (who married Mehitable Ames).  Attracted by the name on the sign, he spent a pleasant hour with the white haired old gentleman, recalling early Andover days. Alexander and James both enlisted as marines in naval service during the war of 1812 and neither returned.  Lavinia, born 1803, was very handsome, with straight hair, according to Mrs. Boynton and married John Hilton of Philadelphia.  Samson was shot accidentally one day while out hunting with his brother Cyrus by a friend, at 24. Cyrus married, but had no children.

Prince Ames died suddenly of heart disease in 1816, and in 1819 Eunice, the second daughter born 1800, married Robert Amos of the Mashpee stock, resident at the Penobscot Reserve. He had a place on the Merrimac where he kept boats and bait, and there he was drowned in 1825, leaving a daughter, who married a Dedham Gerrish and a son, Charles Amos, who was trained in the family of Nathan Chandler of Concord, N. H., a relative of Mrs. "Capt. Job Abbott."

Aunt Rand died here in 1818 aged 86 (born in Pennacook in 1732). Her estate was sold to Jacob Shedd of Tewksbury, and after the second marriage of young Eunice to Rev. John Davis of the Colored Baptist Church in Boston, the mother rented her little home on Huckleberry Hill and lived with Eunice till her death near 98, about1863.  Her son, Charles Amos, now deceased, near 80, recalled the Chandlers with affection and a particularly pleasant memory of the John L. Abbott estate he visited here when a lad.  When I recall the refined face and energy, the talent and intelligence indicated by the letters of the great-granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Howard, fall of zeal for the traditions of her honorable blood of both sides, I take a peculiar satisfaction in the good work done by those two childless friends of Debora Russe, Mrs. Priscilla Rand and Abigail Ames, to whose care we owe the rare character and well trained group whose record would do credit to any Andover house. No reservation, however well conducted, will ever take the place of household training by individual families in own homes, and here we worked out early the problem of a healthy and successful amalgamation of Mongolian and Caucasian and the proper method of training the new stock for future citizens. To the women of Andover and other reformers, I call attention to the record valuable alike to historian and scientist.
                                                                                                                                                                    C.H.A.

No. 128
Phelps of Andover
(A.T. 3/31/1905)

As John (3), the eldest son of old Edward was killed at 20, while surveying grants at Black Point during, the Indian war in 1677, and his brother Edward's (3) family left Andover for Lancaster in 1708, all those we kept of the old name are from Samuel and wife Sarah Chandler.  He served in the 1695 Indian Wars, when 44 years of age, marrying late at 31 in 1682, so that his son Samuel only 11 years of age must have carried a heavy load in childhood.  Sarah Chandler was daughter of Thomas Chandler, one of the wealthiest land owners here, and I hope to get the new homestead in time, doubtless added up between paternal Chandler and Phelps division lots, west, of the Shawsheen somewhere. Samuel died in 1746 at 95, and was called a cloth weaver and husbandman. Sarah lived to 1757, dying at 95.  They sold out the old home of Edward (2) on the Hill somewhere, to Timothy Abbott, in sections between 1697 and 1710, and the original 40 acres were all doubtless included in the Abbott estate finally.  Sarah (5), the eldest child did not marry until 38, according to all we have learned from a correspondent, who descends from Samuel Fields her husband.  She was one of those rare women in early New England, who were devoted to the home, and did not leave it, until the younger children were all settled, and the parents perhaps turned over to the care of the youngest sister a home, then seventeen.

Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Lovejoy, Annis, wife of Benjamin Stevens of Methuen, and Debora who married Stephen Blanchard all left descendants in Andover, who finally crossed the Merrimac for New Hampshire and Maine.  Sergeant Samuel (4), who died in 1745 left his widow Hannah Dane, who followed him a year later.  The aged Samuel (3), who thus survived his son a year, was left in charge of his grandson, and with this grandson, the aged Sarah Chandler also resided till 1757. In this family, should be found traditions, if anywhere, but all became widely separated as we shall see, and when the lines returned from a sojourn outside, they had lost the connecting records in some families.  The brother, John (4), born 1686, a tailor died here early and his, widow, a Sarah Andrews of Boxford, we think married again, Reuben Muzzey of Kingston, N. H. (possibly it war her eldest daughter however.)  This line we find in John (5) of Milford, N. H., with a thorough going housewife, Deborah Lovejoy of Andover, whose descendant, the editor of the Ithaca Democrat of New York, writes that she was so painfully neat that she scrubbed through the floors into the cellar. John's sister Hannah married Hezekiah Lovejoy and helped build Amherst,N. H.  This family had special talents all down the line.  In fact, our lines of Phelps have helped do more for outside towns than for us. Joseph Phelps (4) started off all right with Elizabeth Abbott, but all her people, who once lived with the Phelps and Timothy Abbott on the Hill top, sold out and went to Windham County, Conn., in the great emigration between 1725 and 1730.  So when Elizabeth died here in 1718 at 35, her husband sold to Paul Abbott her brother and although the Phelps genealogy places him in Wilton, N.H., I am confident he joined the Abbotts in Pomfret, Conn. for one generation at least.  This is the family we are all needing help about.  All indicates that Joseph went to Pomfret, married a second wife, and a son Joseph Phelps married down there a daughter of his old comrade Paul Abbott, who soon sold out, and followed him to Pomfret.  Now Paul Abbott lived very near the site of the house lately held by the heirs of Jonathan Phelps on Salem street, bordering the "Brothers' Field" once part of the Paul Abbott estate, deeded to his uncle Timothy; so it seems likely that one of our latest Phelps families returned unwittingly to the site very nearly of the ancient homestead owned by Edward Phelps (2) in 1661. Henry Phelps (4), born 1693, died at 74, without children, marrying first Abigail Lovejoy and second Susannah, widow of Francis Kittredge of Tewksbury.  Her estate passed to the children of her brothers.  Thomas Phelps (4) married Mary BIanchard and Prudence Wyman.  He seems to slip off over the Tewksbury line about four years before the "Genealogy" says "he died" (1760) but I think I find traces of him later in church and tax lists.  One daughter Mary was wife of John Osgood of North Parish, another Prudence married Daniel Dane, and Hannah is needed for wife of Samuel Osgood of West Parish.  There were two sons Thomas (5) and Joseph (5). The genealogy gave Joseph (5) born 1750 as the husband of Rebecca Abbott, married 1798, and Thomas (5) born 1739 died 1797 who married Mary Shattuck 1766.

So far I had followed my notes along with the book very fairly.  After the 4th generation the printed record in the book is hopelessly mixed in Andover lines at least.  All the children of Thomas (5) son of Tom (4) were born in Andover between 1767 and 1786.  One Issac (6) appears to have married Porcas Ames, who lived neighbor to this family, who owned a place near Haggetts Pond, Iater absorbed into the farm of Joshua Phelps, still held in that family.  Henry (6), Thomas, Joseph and Solomon and their sisters left for homes unknown about 1800, selling out to the cousin Joshua who had already settled near them. The marriage of Rebecca Abbott to any of the line of Thomas (4) is a myth, as we have the proof that she married a much younger man.  After the departure of line of Thomas (4) we had left the descendants of the soldier Samuel (4) and his wife Hannah Dane, daughter of Francis Dane and Hannah Poor, married 1708.  He died a year before his aged father and his wife also died soon, so Lieut. Samuel (5) and Priscilla Chandler buried the grandparents and inherited the old estate.  Hannah (5) the eldest girl married Ephraim Abbott the Miller who lived where Peter Smith's house now stands.  His daughter Sarah planted Judge Phillips' orchard and died his faithful stewardess at 93 unmarried.  Other descendants fairly swarmed over Maine and possess the earth there today.  John Stevens took Mary (5), and Francis Phelps (5) born here 1720, married Phebe Holt in 1743, daughter of a Chandler also, and went to Hollis, N. H., and sent a line into Maine and one back to us.  Joseph (5) died in North Andover (for I saw his. gravestone) in 1802 at 78.  Lydia Osgood was one of his wives, Abigail Blanchard was also one, a widow of Andover and they appeared to have roamed over Amherst and Wilton awhile, so we lose the family.  On the children of the 6th generation from Samuel (5) and Priscilla Chandler and those from Francis (5) his brother and Phebe Holt, I feel secure and able to correct the most ludicrous errors in the "Genealogy," and will do so in a final sketch which will include the resident lines we have saved to date.
                                                                                                                                                  C.H.A.

(Note: I think the sketch she refers to in her last sentence is next up for my transcription, No. 129: Phelps at the Finish.  JHL)

No. 129
Phelps at the Finish
(A.T. 8/18/1905)

After examination of the early proprietor's books, and the deeds of those who first parted with the  land taken by Edward Phelps, I find that he bought the lot of Job Tyler in North Parish, and the division lots that fall to it after that date brought his outlying land north and east of Blanchard's lots,  and near Haggetts pond.  But he bought more of Russe and Chandler, which brought his holdings nearer the West meeting house.  Samuel Hutchinson and others took the North Parish lots, so that in the days of Samuel and Francis Phelps, the surviving members of migrations were all located around Haggetts pond and in the Merrimac woods, and having intermarried with Danes and Chandlers and Mooar, we can guess that the last holdings of Chandler Phelps; one fourth of a mile north of the church, and that of Joshua, grandfather of the late residents of this estate near the pond and the Lowell railroad, indicate the main holdings in West Parish.  John Godfrey, of lpswich, also sold 40 acres to old Edward in 1666,  apparently held by mortgage from Job Tyler, so when we, sometime in the future, proceed to locate the Tyler lots, something more definite will be found of the North Parish home of  the first arrivals of the Phelps infants.

Samuel PheIps and his wife, Priscilla Chandler lost the eldest Samuel at Lake George 1750.  His brother, Joshua, born 1738, married Lois Ballard, a daughter of old Deacon Hezekiah Ballard and Lydia Chandler, so related closely to many allied families here - Dane, Holt, Deacon Nathan Abbot, and many others, who may not know how it is they are cousins to Phelps blood.

Henry Phelps married Mary Ballard, a cousin of his sister-in-law, Hannah married Benjamin Mooar of Lewiston, Me., and Priscilla married PhiIemon Dane (called Daniel in the Phelps book). These are best known to us from continued residence.  The children of Joshua include Lois, wife of lsaac Blunt, Jr., represented still by Charles Blunt and the family of the late Samuel, Hannah married Nathan Abbott, and one of her children was our faithful carpenter Nathan, who was well known in my childhood on the list of Abotts and Clement's men. The only son who survived, Joshua Phelps, born1774, died in 1801, and his wife, Mary Gilson of Pepperell, of a family allied to other lines here, lived to 1856.  In the next generation we are all familiar with the quiet lives at the old homestead still standing in the West Parish, a fine model of its style, held by Joshua, wife Dorothy Watson, from Sandwich, N. H. He was the third of the name to hold the estate, where he died in 1873 at 76, she passing at 84 in 1880.  After a life of journeying to and fro across the country. Joshua died here from an accident, in 1886, a single man following his brother Asa, who died in 1862, in California.  Mrs. Gilman and her sister Dorothy Phelps, were the last to hold the most ancient of the Phelps' estates in direct line. Samuel Phelps, son of Joshua, was a blacksmith, latest at Syracuse, N.Y.  Mary married Levi Bean in 1819, Lydia married Jonathon Abbott, Jr., Henry, born 1807, and his wife Eliza, Merrill, well known by her remarkable strength which sustained her through long years of sorrow and care, and who recently died in North Andover with her daughter, represent the Joshua line.  Henry Phelps and Mary Ballard saved Mary who married Joseph Chandler in 1806, in the line of Mrs. Peter Smith, and Chandler Phelps, who died at 82 in 1868.

Most of Chandler Phelps' life was spent, I should judge, on what very likely was the oldest holding in West Parish of the early Samuel, if I can judge from legacies of heirs and sales to the neighbors, before his day.  He married twice, Lydia Parkhurst, a Chandler cousin, and mother of the children, and again Hannah Frye Ballard, daughter of Hezekiah.  Only two children grew up, Herman, wife Esther Merrill, and Jacob, who died at 31, leaving a widow, Rebecca (Chandler) who married John Russell of Wilton, N.H.  Herman is represented by Frank Chandler Phelps, wife Abbie T. Hardy, and several in the tenth generation in his family, and a brother, Herman, and wife AlIen Ward, I have with three children and not traced outside as yet.  Frank Phelps has our banner family in the line holding this name, though there is plenty of the blood line. Samuel, Francis, and his wife Phebe Holt, an aunt of Dane Holt on Prospect Hill farm, born 1722, had by their alliance a chance for a large and long-lived family. The Phelps' book says he lived awhile in Hollis, N. H. and died in Pepperell, Me.

So many errors cling to this line, that I hesitate to back up this statement till verified.  The date of his death l758, at 38, and the widow's second marriage (by book) with Thomas Marshall, very likely determined the home of the children who "pop up" unexpectedly in Tewksbury, Mass., when they were old enough to marry.  Timothy of Hollis and Hanover, N. H., Phebe, born 1750 outside of Andover, so here in Andover at 16, in 1766 warned by authorities as to her lack of claims on pauper accommodation, in case she came to grief, (a great benefit to genealogists was this sweeping warning out of Essex County in 1766), and Joseph, born 1748, of whom the book and I agree mainly in the two wives he annexed, Ruth French and Isabel Isabel Dutton, and he lived in Tewksbury.  His sister Phebe, the warned maiden, married Jacob Foster of Andover, who owned the farm up on the North Andover line near the Richardson stables, latest of the lucky descendants of Andrew Foster and his witch wife Ann, whose cottage stood on the training field.  No pauper in her ranks.

Joseph Phelps, by his first wife, Ruth French, left Ruth, wife of Ephraim Foster, Francis of Danvers, wife Hannah Dandee.  Isaac, born 1778, died on a voyage to the West Indies, Joseph, who married Rebecca Abbott, daughter of Moses Abbott and Elizabeth Holt, Jonathan, who married Abigail Abbott, her sister, lived on Salem street many years, dying at 88 in 1866, Samuel and wife Sally Brooks, of Lexington, Elisha and Mary French of Northfield,     Mary, wife of Amos Sheldon of Danvers and Shirley, Jacob and wife Rebecca Reed, of South Natick, these were children of Ruth French, adding two infants who died.  She saved the Phelps name.  By second wife, Isabel Dutton, Lydia, wife of a Jonathan Abbott not placed by book, Timothy, who married Dorcas Chamberlain of Dedham, Theodore, Joel, our veteran shoemaker, who lived on Central street so long, marrying twice, but left only one heir James, Hannah, born 1801, not traced, Henry, 1806, married Lydia Foster and moved to Dedham.  There, look at that record and think that all but two of the seventeen matured and thirteen were married.  We all know the happy home the sisters had together so long on Salem street, Elizabeth Holt Phelps, Belinda Jane, children of Joseph, and who kept a very successful club dining-room for students, and cut gowns for the maidens who graduated from abbott and Punchard.  Hannah Holt Phelps, of this happy, hospitable group of cousins, still survives, and resides with her eldest son, Rev. George Gutterson, whose record as an olive tree almost equals his great-grandfather's.  Her sister, Priscilla, wife of Richard Moore, so long resident, all these we have known in joy and sorrow, friends of our fathers and of us the middle-aged Abbotts and Holts and Chandlers.  These Phelps from old Henry down always had things happen to them, and I cannot do justice to the romance of the incidents kept for the family ear alone, that might fill this bare outline of a virile, long-lived gifted race of Salem Quakers.
                                                                                                                                                            C.H.A.

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