48 - NATHAN6, son of Nathan5, bap. 9 JAN 1785 at South Parish Congregational Church in Andover, MA; m. Abigail Tarr, see family (b), in Danvers, MA; d. 25 NOV 1841 in Claremont, buried beside wife in Pleasant St. Cemetery, Section B, Lot 6. The two slate stones for Nathan and Abigail are inscribed as follows:
NATHAN LOVEJOY JR
DIED
NOV. 25, 1841
Et. 57
MRS. ABIGAIL
Wife of
NATHAN LOVEJOY
DIED
APRIL 14, 1852
Et. 62
(Abigail's death also recorded in Union Church Records)
Their obituaries in the NATIONAL EAGLE of Claremont are brief. On 5 DEC 1841, it published "Nathan Lovejoy, Nov. 23, aged 57 yr., in this town.", under the headline "DEATHS". In this same column, on 15 APR 1852, it published - "in this town on the 14th inst., Abigail Lovejoy aged 62 yrs."
Nathan6 must have spent some time in Massachusetts after his marriage. While he was baptized in Andover, the death certificate for his son, Austin, indicates that Nathan6 was born in Cambridge, MA. Clarence E. Lovejoy's genealogy claims that Nathan6 was born in Claremont. This cannot be true, as he and brother, David, settled Claremont by 1807. So, Nathan 6 probably was born at or near Cambridge, MA.
Other records indicate where Nathan6 may have lived before he settled Claremont. Even though a few show his sons as born in New Hampshire, other records show that at least sons John7 and Russell7 were born in Salem, MA, or elsewhere in Massachusetts. Considering the proximity of Danvers, MA (where he married) to Cambridge (possible birthplace) and to Salem, MA (where sons were born?), it is highly probably that these places are really where the events occurred. It should be noted that Danvers was called "Salem Village" at the turn of the 19th century.
Land records at Keene, NH, for Sullivan County, indicate that Nathan6 and David6 were "of New Boston, County of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire" when they first obtained land in Claremont. Both brothers were listed as house wrights, and one record refers to Nathan6 as Jr. The earliest land transaction in Claremont by Nathan 6 and David6 was 14 MAR 1807.
These two brothers are recorded as having bought property in common and later as having separated this property piecemeal, by selling several lots to one another, until the property was no longer jointly owned.
At one point, they leased from Meigs Stevens a brook and 30 rods of land next to their own land, for a period of 30 years for the price of one kernel of Indian corn per year as rent. This lease included the right to raise a dam with a water level of 16 feet. The last land transaction recorded for the two brothers is 11 MAY 1818, when they sold 11 acres of property to the widow Meigs Stevens. Nathan6 is mentioned in Claremont Tax Records from 1805, and is listed as a member of the town council as early as 1813.
In The Lovejoy Genealogy (TLG), Clarence Earle Lovejoy included the branch of Lovejoys ending with Harry Cleveland. TLG gives Harry the designation of #6583, son of Edgar Eugene #6577, and grandson of John Eugene #6570.
The next entry, that of John Eugene's father, Nathan6 or TLG #6566, is one of uncertainty. I have made every possible effort to clear up this uncertainty.
TLG suggests that John Eugene's father, Nathan6 or TLG #6566, was possibly (1) the son of Asa #121, but all of his children moved to Maine; or (2) the son of Simeon #278. Many subsequent Lovejoy researchers have assumed that Nathan6 belonged to Simeon and Grace Lovejoy. This Nathan moved to Plymouth, NH.
The History of PLYMOUTH, NH shows Nathan6 , a grandson of Jonathan4 Lovejoy and as an early settler of Plymouth. (This Nathan’s6 birth certificate shows him to be the son of Simeon and Grace (Lovejoy) Lovejoy. Grace was the dau. of Nathan5 , shown earlier in this text.) He was born in Hebron, NH on 1 DEC 1783; m. Sarah Blackey of Centre Harbor; moved to Plymouth in 1805; d. 12 FEB 1844. As further proof that he was not the settler of Claremont his children are shown below:
1 - CHARLES7, d. young, scalded.
2 - SARAH GRACE7, b. 5 KAY 1810; m. Ephraim Worthen.
3 - LEONARD7, a sailor, left Boston for China as captain of a sailing ship. Not heard from again.
4 - CHARLES7, a sailor, supposedly d. at sea.
5 - ELMIRA7, d. I JUL 1838.
6 - JOHN7, no data.
7 - GEORGE WASHINGTON7, b. 1826; resided Plymouth and Holderness; served in Sixth NH infantry, then lst NH Cavalry in Civil War.
The U.S. Censuses taken in NH in 1810 and 1840 each show a Nathan Lovejoy and family living in Plymouth, NH, and Claremont, NH. Whereas land records show Nathan6 and brother David6 in Claremont (sons of Nathan5) and whereas Nathan6 and Abigail and Nathan5 and Mary are all buried in Claremont along with Nathan's5 dau. Judah (Judith) , it seems clear that John Eugene7 was a product of the line of Nathan6, Nathan5, Nathan4 and Apphia Hoyt, etc., to John 1. This fact has not been proven elsewhere. The evidence stated will be shown within this volume. There were a lot of Nathan and John Lovejoys about the same age living throughout New Hampshire in the early 1800's. Data has been gathered, and weighed on each of these individuals, to ensure the accuracy of the lineage in this volume, especially between John7 and Nathan6.
Nathan6 is listed with his family in the censuses of 1820, 1830 and 1840 as living in Claremont, NH. The family make-up of these census returns leaves little doubt that this is the father of John Eugene7 Lovejoy.
Nathan6 left no will. His wife Abigail petitioned the courts for administration of her husband's estate by Erastus Clark on 16 FEB 1842 (Estate Package #865). A bond of $1,000 was posted by Erastus Clark, Steven Starbird and George N. Lowell, all of Claremont, on that day, and the petition was granted the next day.
Abigail petitioned for an allowance of $25 on 16 MAR 1842, plus "articles she desires from the estate inventory". This petition was also approved in the probate court.
Abigail signed a receipt for $19.89 frcm the administration of Nathan's estate, which had been awarded by the Judge of Probate on 18 MAY 1842. Another receipt is dated 21 SEP 1842.
Nathan's estate was inventoried by William Russetin, George D. Wilson and Ebenezer B. Wallingford on 16 FEB 1842 as ordered by the court, and included: no real estate and a personal estate of $49.64. This was filed on 10 MAR 1842 and approved by the Judge of Probate on 16 MAR 1842. The actual inventory also included many carpenter's tools, bills due Nathan totalling $219.41, plus one bill owed by Altho Cressey for $3.42, which the appraisers found to be of "little or no value".
The account of the administration shows that $25 was paid to the widow, funeral charges of $400, sicknesss expenses of $ .75, leaving $19.89 which the Judge ordered paid to the widow on 18 MAY 1842. (For land and probate records for Abigail after her husband's death, see family (b). Her will, written on 10 APR 1852, can be found in full under that family.) Abigail died four days later, at almost 63 years of age. She left her house and land (1/4 of an acre) on the east side of Kilberry Street, Claremont , to daughters Abby Ann and Martha Diana Lovejoy (apparently neither was yet married). She named four sons, Russell, John E., Lothario D., and Austin L. Lovejoy, to whom she bequeathed one dollar each. Everything else went to daughters Abby and Martha, after all debts were paid.
The 1820 Census shows a foreigner living with the family. It also shows that two members of the household were Employed in trades, and two others Employed in manufacturing.
Children
(All born in Unity or Claremont, NH)
52 - JEREMIAH RUSSEL/RUSSELL7, b. 1815 in Salem, MA; m. Mary Marshall 21 DEC 1843, d. 1 MAR 1877.
53 - THADDEUS7, b. betw. 1811 and 1818 (see 1820 and 1840 NH Censuses); d. before 1840; not mentioned in his mother's will. No other record found.
54 - JOHN EUGENE7, b. 1819; m. Abigail ?, m.2 Ellen Maria Deane 5 FEB 1857; d. 26 OCT 1898, Claremont, NH.
55 - AUSTIN L. (or T.)7 , b. 30 MAY 1826; m. Eliza M. Osborne, b. 2 MAY 1820, the daughter of Steven Osborne (b. Templeton, MA, carpenter) and Mary Babcock (b. Northborough, MA). Eliza was living at Templeton at the time of their marriage.
The 1850 census for Claremont shows Austin living beside his brother, Russell. His property was valued at $700. This listing gives his occupation as factory worker, and shows the following people living with him - Eliza, his wife; his sisters Martha and Abigail; and Abigail Lovejoy, his mother, age 59.
Austin and Eliza appear in the 1860 and 1870 censuses, also, at Claremont. A publication, THE OLD MAPS OF SULLIVAN COUNTY, NH IN 1892, shows him as "A.T. Lovejoy" living at #24 Mulberry Street in Claremont. This may have been the same property left to his sisters (see ABBIE ANN7) by his mother, and sold by them in 1854. The house is now next door to the Claremont Historical Society.
The Claremont City Directory lists Austin as an Employee of Balcom Mills, and living at the same residence in 1893 and 1896. He was a spinner in these woolen mills. He died 2 FEB 1898 at Claremont of a kidney disease. Eliza is listed in the city directory, at the same address, in 1890. She died at Claremont on 30 AUG 1902, listed as formerly a resident of Baldwinsville, MA. She was a housekeeper, when she died of chronic nephritis, at the age of 82. She was buried 1 SEP 1902 in the Pleasant Street Cemetery in Claremont.
Union Church records (on file at the public library in Claremont) show an A.J. Lovejoy who had a daughter (unnamed) on 4 MAR 1890. It is possible that this man is the son of Austin L.7. Also, the same church records show Austin L.'s7 death in 1898, giving him the middle initial "J", so there could have been an Austin J.8 (Jr.).
56 - ABBIE ANN7, b. 1828; m. Austin T. Cowles, b. 1830, the son of Levi Cowles (1799-1865) and Polly (1803-1873), d. 1910; Abbie died in 1923. She was mentioned in her mother's will in 1852. She and sister Diana received everything, including the house on Mulberry Street, after all debts were paid, and each brother was awarded $1.00; the two sisters were left with a half-acre of land and a home valued together at $616.00; $236.00 in cash and all furniture and household goods.
There is also a transaction on record for Abbie and Martha Diana for sale of property on Mulberry Street on 10 MAR 1854. Two years earlier, their brother Russell had quit claimed the property to them.
Abby is shown in the 1860 Census at age 32, with husband Austin, farmer, property worth $3,000, age 30, b. NH; daughters Emma age 5 and Alice A. age 3; sister Martha D. (Lovejoy) Nichols age 29 with her son Willie T. Nichols age 4; Simeon Long, age 13, b. NY; and Hattie Greer, age 1 b. in NH.
In 1870 Census are listed: Austin T. Cowles, age 40, "works on farm", property valued at $5,800; Abbie A. age 40; Emma L. age 15 in school; and Alice age 13 in school. The 1909-10 City Directory for Claremont lists "Austin T. Cowles - real estate" with a house at 15 Putnam St.
57 - JEREMIAH W.7, b. after 1828; a stonecutter; supposed to have served in the Civil War, but no records have been located to confirm this. This Jeremiah is probably from a different family. He was married, but his wife's name and the date of the marriage is unknown. He died a widower on 2 MAR 1895 of structural brain disease at the New Hampshire Asylum in Conway, NH. His death was reported from Concord, NH.
58 - MARTHA DIANA7, b. 1831; m. William H. Nichols, (b. about 1832 in MA, probably son of Harris Nichols) before 1856; d. 10 APR 1903 at Claremont. She is buried at the Pleasant Street Cemetery. Inherited her mother's estate with sister Abbie. Martha is listed in the 1860 Census living with her sister Abbie's family, with her son Willie T. Nichols, age 4, b. NH, in Claremont. There are a number of William Nichols listed as serving in the Civil War, so perhaps her husband was away in the military during this Census. She is listed again in the US Census for 1870 in Claremont with her husband William, a farmer, and son Willie, age 14 in school, and probably her father-in-law, Harris Nichols, age 70, b. in MA, also listed with this family is Sarah Ross, age 44 b. in ME.
59 - LOTHARIO L.7, b. ?; m. Alice M. ?, mentioned in mother Abigaill's will in 1852; d. before 1887. The city directory for 1886 shows Alice living at her home on Spring Street (near Maple Street) in Claremont. Lothario not found, to date, in Census records.
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