SPOFFORD FAMILY REGISTER
Generations 1-4

ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS.

b., born; bap., baptized; pub., published; m., married; s. p., without offspring; unm., unmarried; res., residence.

The star preceding a name indicates that it is to appear as the head of a family, in the next generation.

A number in parentheses, placed before the name of a head of a family, refers to that person's name in the preceding generation, as a member of his father's family. Lines of descent may thus be easily traced.

Parents First Generation, Children Second.

JOHN SPOFFORD and ELIZABETH SCOTT. 
"She was of Ipswich and doubtless a daughter of Thomas Scott and his wife Elizabeth, who came over in the ship 'Elizabeth' in 1634, when nine years old. If so, she was thirteen years younger than her husband. This identity is confirmed by the repetition in her own family of the names of her parents, brothers, and sisters, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, Sarah, Mary." -- Savage's General Dictionary.

"Thomas and Elizabeth Scott, each 40 years of age, came in the 'Elizabeth' of Ipswich, Capt. William Andrews, the latter part of April, 1634, with their children, Elizabeth, 9 years old, Abigail, 7 years old, Thomas, 6 years old, and Isaac Mixer, 4 years old." (See Massachusetts Historical Collections, Third Series, Vol. X., p. 141.)

This Elizabeth Scott (mother of Mrs. John Spofford) subsequently married the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers (probably not the one who settled in Rowley, but a relative). She survived said Rogers, and was his widow in 1683.

John Spofford, as appears from an affidavit, was fifty years of age in 1662, hence born in 1612; his will was made Oct. 7, 1678, and probated 6th 9th month, 1678, his wife and son Thomas joint executors. For fuller notice, see Introduction, page 29.

CHILDREN.

 1.    *ELIZABETH, b. Dec.  14, 1646; m. Alex. Sessions. 
 2.    *JOHN,      b. Oct.  24, 1648; m. Sarah Wheeler. 
3.    THOMAS,    b. Nov.   4, 1650; m. Abigail Haggett (probably a daughter of Henry Haggett), 
                               Sept. 22, 1668. 
 4.    *SAMUEL,    b. Jan.  31, 1653; m. Sarah Birkbee. 
 5.     HANNAH,    b. Apr.   1, 1654. 
 6.     MARY,      b. 1656; m. (???) Hunnewell; held property in Westchester, N. Y. 
 7.     SARAH,     b. Jan.  15, 1658; d. Feb. 15, 1660. 
 8.    *SARAH,     b. Mar.  24, 1662; m. Richard Kimball. 
 9.     FRANCIS,   b. Sept. 24, 1665; m. Mary Leighton, daughter of  Richard Leighton. 
                             He (Francis) d. prior to 1724, probably childless. 

Parents Second Generation, Children Third.

(1.) ELIZABETH SPOFFORD and ALEXANDER SESSIONS. 
He was probably of Andover, Mass., the name in old records being spelled Sutchins.

CHILDREN.

 10.     ELIZABETH, b. 1672. 
 11.     JOHN,      b. 1674. 
 12.     ALEXANDER, b. 1675. 
 13.     TIMOTHY,   b. 1677. 
 14.     SAMUEL,    b. 1678. 
 15.     NATHANIEL, b. 1683. 
 16.     JOSIAH,    b. 1684. 
 17.     JOSEPH,    b. 1685. 
 18.     ABEL,      b. 1688. 

Alexander Sessions, the father, having died in 1688, his widow must have married again, as by a deed dated April, 1724,--

Elizabeth Low, of Andover, widow, conveys land in Rowley which belonged to her father, John Spofford, deceased, and also her interest in her brother Francis Spofford's estate.--Regsitry of Deeds, Essex County, Mass., Vol. LXVI., p. 53.

(2.) JOHN SPAFORD and SARAH WHEELER. 
Married March 9, 1675; lived on the site of the original settlement on Spofford's Hill, in what is now Georgetown, where he died April 27, 1696-97, being interred in the old cemetery in Bradford, where his gravestone may now be seen. His widow, Sarah Wheeler, married Caleb Hopkinson, Sr., of Bradford, now Groveland, June 12, 1701, and died Oct. 24, 1732, aged 80. Gravestone in Groveland Cemetery.

CHILDREN.

 19.    *JOHN,      b. June  12, 1678; m. Dorcas Hopkinson. 
 20.     MARY,      b. Mar.   9, 1680; m. John Hartshorn, Sept. 22, 1707. 
 21.     DAVID,     b. Nov.  23, 1681; d. 1717; gravestone in Bradford Cemetery, 
                             where the name is spelled Spafard. 
 22.    *JONATHAN,  b. May   28, 1684; m. Jemima Freethe. 
 23.    *MARTHA,    b. May   16, 1686; m. Caleb Hopkinson. 
 24.     EBENEZER,  b. June  14, 1690; d. June 29, 1690. 
 25.     NATHANIEL, b. Sept. 10, 1691; bapt. at Bradford, Feb. 24. 
 26.     SARAH,     b. Dec.  20, 1693; m. Samuel Kimball, Jan. 1, 1813. 

(4.) SAMUEL SPOFFORD and SARAH BIRKBEE. 
Married Dec. 5, 1676, occupying the "old farm" conjointly with his brother John. He died Jan. 1, 1744, aged 91; his wife died Nov. 18, 1729, interred at Bradford. Her name spelled Birkbee in her marriage record,--probably the modern Burpee. Samuel Spofford was made freeman in 1684.

CHILDREN.

 27.     SAMUEL,    b.   Sept. 12, 1677; d. Sept. 23, 1677. 
 28.    *THOMAS,    b.   June   6, 1678; m. Bethiah Haseltine. 
 29.     SARAH,     b.   Sept. 24, 1680; m. Robert Haseltine, June 
                      10, 1702. 
 30.     MARY,      b.   Aug.   7, 1682. 
 31.    *HANNAH,    b.   Feb.  12, 1684; m. Isaac Adams. 
 32.     RUTH,      b.   Nov.  18, 1687; m. Samuel Brocklebank. 
 33.    *SAMUEL,    bap. Apr.  27, 1690; m. Sarah Stickney. 
 34.     ABIGAIL,   b.   Mar.   9, 1694; m. Samuel Ames; publishment 
                      recorded May 17, 1718, name spelled 
                      Abygall. Interred in old cemetery, Bradford. 
                      They had a son, Samuel Ames. 
 35.    *MEHITABLE, bap. May   10, 1698; m. Nathaniel Harriman. 
 36.     LYDIA,     bap. July   7, 1700. 
 37.    *ELIZABETH, b.   July   5, 1702; m. Benj. Stickney. 

(8.) SARAH SPOFFORD and RICHARD KIMBALL. 
Married Sept. 17, 1682. From this couple descended a large and influential branch of the family,--among them the Mr. Edward Kimball whose name has been prominent in the work of raising church debts.

CHILDREN.

 38.     SAMUEL,    b. Mar. 30, 1686. 
 39.     RICHARD,   b. May  27, 1689. 
 40.     MEHITABLE, b. Oct. 16, 1699.  Perhaps other children. 

Parents Third Generation, Children Fourth.

(19.) CAPT. JOHN SPAFFARD and DORCAS HOPKINSON. 
Married Feb. 15, 1700; settled on the "old farm," and both died there. She was daughter of John Hopkinson, of Rowley, born Feb. 26, 1676.

CHILDREN.

 41. *FRANCIS,          b. Feb. 19, 1702; m. Priscilla Walcott. 
 42. *JOHN,             b. Mar. 19, 1704; m. Hannah Tyler. 
 43. *ABNER,            b. Aug. 21, 1705; m. Sarah Colman, of Byfield. 
 44.  SARAH,            b. Feb. 21, 1707; m. George Dickinson, 1734. 
 45.  DORCAS,           m. Samuel Bradstreet, Nov. 30, 1736; removed 
                           to Lunenburg, 1739. 
 46. *MARY,             m. Jacob Barker, of Andover. 

Second marriage with Sarah Poor, of Indian Hill.

CHILDREN.

 47. *DANIEL,           b. April, 1721; m. Judith Follansbee, 1741. 
 48. *ELIPHALET,        b. 1725; m. Lucy Peabody, Dec. 27, 1748. 
 49. *WILLIAM,          m. Abigail Perley, of Boxford. 

The father of this family died Oct. 11, 1735; lies buried in the old cemetery in Georgetown.¹ His widow married Ezekiel Hale, of Newbury, Oct. 31, 1736, this being his fourth matrimonial venture; his former wives having been Ruth Moody, of Pipestave Hill; Mary Sargent, of Amesbury; and Sarah, daughter of Parson William Balch, of Bradford, now Groveland.

(22.) JONATHAN SPOFFORD and JEMIMA FREETHE. 
Settled in Rowley, Mass. (Georgetown), where he died, as his gravestone quaintly shows, "JANUr ye 16h 1772 in ye 89h YEAR OF HIS AGE." She was of York, Me.

It is related that from lack of devotional feeling, or want of confidence in the piety of her husband,--undoubtedly the latter,--she on at least one occasion continued her work while he was conducting family worship, and that, in making her the subject of one of his petitions, he very unhandsomely characterized her by an epithet quite inconsistent with conjugal tenderness.

Divers peccadilloes or eccentricities ascribed to him by tradition,--notably, taking a young son on a coveted excursion tightly tied in a bag,--leave to later generations scant room for doubt concerning which was the greater "sinner" of the two.

This pair are the progenitors of widely scattered and very important branches of the family, many representatives of which have become conspicuously eminent in political, financial, literary, and social life.

CHILDREN.

 50. *SAMUEL, 
 51. *DAVID,            b. Dec.   4, 1710; m. Hannah Cheney. 
 52. *NATHANIEL,        b.          1712; m. Sarah Smith. 
 53. *JOHN,             b. Dec.  12, 1714. 
 54.  HANNAH,           b. Dec.  22, 1716; m. (???) Wood, of Bradford. 
 55. *ABEL,             b. Nov.  14, 1718; m. Eleanor Poor, of Newbury. 
 56. *JOSEPH,           b. July  13, 1720; m. Sarah Eams; 2d, Mary 
                           Marble. 
 57. *JACOB,            b. Aug.  17, 1722; settled in Salisbury, Conn. 
 58.  DORCAS,           b. Sept. 19, 1724; bap. at Bradford, Sept. 22. 
 59. *JOB,              b. Dec.  21, 1726; m. Mary Brocklebank. 
 60. *JONAH,            b. Apr.  19, 1729; m. Dorcas Frost. 
 61. *MOSES,            b. Jan.  19, 1732. 
 62. *JEMIMA,           b. May   30, 1733; m. Capt. Richard Peabody. 

(23.) MARTHA SPOFFORD and CALEB HOPKINSON, JR. 
Married Dec. 19, 1705; lived in Bradford (now Groveland). The husband having died April 17, 1721, she afterward married Ebenezer Kimball, of Bradford. She died Nov. 9, 1730; interred in Groveland Cemetery.

CHILDREN.

 63.  JOHN,             b. Sept. 18, 1706; m. Sarah Carleton, 1728. 
 64.  DAVID,            b. Nov.  26, 1708; m. Elizabeth Platts, 1731. 
 65.  SARAH,            b. Oct.  22, 1710; m. John Huse, 1730. 
 66.  NATHANIEL,        b. Jan.   4, 1712. 
 67.  MARTHA,           b. Oct.   5, 1714. 
 68.  EBENEZER,         b. Aug.  11, 1716; d. 1718. 
69.  SAMUEL,           b. July  14, 1718; m. Betsey Palmer, 1741. 
 70.  EBENEZER,         b. Jan.  13, 1721. 
 71.  CALEB,            b. Feb.  11, 1722-3. 

(28.) THOMAS SPOFFORD and BETHIAH HASELTINE. 
Married Dec. 31, 1701, in Essex County, Mass., probably in Bradford; removed to Boxford, Mass., where eight children were born, and thence, in the spring of 1718, to Lebanon, New London County, Conn., where two more children were born.

CHILDREN.

 72. *AMOS,             b. May  23, 1703; m. Hannah Vetch. 
 73.  BETHIAH,          b. May  23, 1705; m. Henry Bliss, No. 144 of 
                           Bliss Genealogy. 
 74.  MEHITABLE,        b. Jan. 31, 1707; m. Nathaniel Bliss, No. 145 
                           of Bliss Genealogy, Sept. 4, 1723. 
 75. *HANNAH,           b. Feb.  3, 1709; m. John Thomas. 
 76. *DOROTHY,          b. Mar. 17, 1711; m. Samuel Throop. 
 77. *THOMAS,           b. Mar. 28, 1713; m. Sarah West. 
 78.  ELIZABETH,        b. Apr.  9, 1715; bap. May 22. 
 79.  ABRAHAM,          b. Feb.  7, 1717; res. Mansfield, Conn.; commissioned by
                                      Governor Fitch, of Connecticut, as captain of a train band in the 
                                      Fifth Regiment of the Colony, May 31, 1762. 
 80. *SAMUEL,           b. Nov.  5, 1718; m. (???). 
 81.  SARAH,            b. May  13, 1723. 

(31.) HANNAH SPOFFORD and ISAAC ADAMS. 
She died in 1775, leaving a son.

CHILD.

 82.  ISAAC, b. 1713; representative of the town of Boxford, Mass., 
                1783-86, 1788; d. 1797. 

(33.) SAMUEL SPOFFORD and SARAH STICKNEY. 
Married June 17, 1717; lived in Boxford, Mass.; taxed there in 1714. She died Sept. 26, 1758.

CHILDREN.

 83.  BETHIAH,          b. Aug.  6, 1719; blind many years; remembered 
                           by the author of this work. 
 84.  SARAH,            b.          1721; bap. Jan. 15. 
 85. *SAMUEL,           b. Oct.  1, 1722; m. Mary Poor; lived in Boxford. 
 86. *THOMAS,           b. June 10, 1726; m. Roxbee Moody. 
 87. *AMOS,             b. Aug.  9, 1729; m. Abigail Pearl. 

(35.) MAHITABLE SPOFFORD and NATHANIEL HARRIMAN. 
Married Sept. 25, 1720.

CHILDREN.

 88.  ABIGAIL,          b. Oct.  8, 1721. 
 89.  NATHANIEL,        b. Mar. 22, 1722. 
 90.  MAHITABLE,        b. Mar. 10, 1727. 
 91.  SAMUEL,           b. May  23, 1732. 
 92.  MARGARET,         b. Feb. 23, 1734. 

(37.) ELIZABETH SPOFFORD and BENJAMIN STICKNEY. 
Published Jan. 25, 1730-31; he died March 12, 1756; Elizabeth, his wife, Jan. 10, 1789.

CHILDREN (BORN IN ROWLEY).

 93.  ELIZABETH,        b.   May  25,    1733; d. Aug., 1736. 
 94.  BENJAMIN,         bap. Mar.  6, 1736-37; d. Oct., 1736. 
 95.  THOMAS,           bap. Feb. 25, 1738-39; died an infant. 
 96.  BENJAMIN,         b.   Mar.  5, 1739-40; m. Sarah Metcalf; 2d, Elizabeth Stickney. 
 97.  THOMAS,           b.   Feb. 18, 1740-41; d. Sept. 25, 1758. 
 98.  ELIZABETH,        b.   Feb. 18, 1741-42; d. Sept. 18, 1758. 
 99. *SARAH,            b.   July 16,    1743; m. Jedediah Stickney. 
100.  AMOS,             b.   May  16,    1746; m. Lucy Searle. 

Parents Fourth Generation, Children Fifth.

(41.) FRANCIS SPOFFORD and PRISCILLA WALCOTT. 
Married May 28, 1722; settled in Windham, Conn.

The father of this family died Aug. 15, 1785, aged 83; he was the first of the name in the vicinity. His descendants have long preserved a chest which was pierced by bullets as he fled from the Indians to some fort or garrison, carrying it upon his back. On the records of the church in Bradford is the following entry: "11th 3d month, 1702. John Spofford and his wife, Dorcas, were accepted as children of the church, and had their son baptized, named Francis."

CHILDREN.

101. *MOSES,            b. Jan.  3, 1723; m. Abigail Bibbins. 
102. *ASA,              b. Aug.  4, 1725; m. Huldah Flint. 
103.  MIRIAM,           b. Oct. 27, 1727; m. Aaron Geer, 1758; settled in Mansfield, Conn. 
104.  MEHITABLE,        b. Dec. 10, 1729; d. Aug. 28, 1795. 
105.  HANNAH,           b. May   6, 1732; m. John Martin; settled at Mansfield, Conn. 
106.  LYDIA,            b. Mar. 25, 1734; m. David Barrows; settled at Mansfield. 
107. *JOHN,             b. July 25, 1736; m. Susanna Parish. 

(42.) CAPT. JOHN SPAFFORD and HANNAH TYLER. 
Built in 1727 and occupied for ten years the house on "the hill," in Georgetown, Mass., in which the author of this work was born, removing thence to a settlement on Connecticut River, known as No. 4,--now Charlestown, N. H.,--where he erected the first saw-mill and corn-mill by contract with a committee appointed by the proprietors. These were put in operation in 1744, but were burned April 19, 1746, by a party of Indians, who took Capt. Spafford, Lieut. Parker, and Stephen Farnsworth, prisoners, and carried them to Canada. Capt. Spafford returned Aug. 16, 1747, and petitioned the government of Massachusetts for aid,--his house burned, his lands damaged, his family numerous. The mills were destroyed again, and rebuilt in 1757, and were resorted to by the new settlers as far north as Lancaster, one hundred and twenty-four miles.

Names of persons who visited them are preserved, among them Capt. David Page, first settler of Lancaster. A visit of Gen. Bailey is thus related:--

                       "General Bailey, of Newbury town, 
                        To old No. 4, to mill came down; 
                        Good Captain Spafford--God rest his soul-- 
                        Ground his grist, but would take no toll." 

Captain Spafford was a most useful citizen, one of the ten male members who formed Rev. Bulkley Olcutt's church; twice elected to office of selectman.

CHILDREN.

108.  EUNICE,           b. Sept. 15, 1729, "at Boxford, in the Bay Province." 
109. *BRADSTREET,       b. Sept.  2, 1731, at Rowley. 
110. *PHEBE,            b. July   1, 1733, at Rowley; m. John Grout. 
111. *PEGGY,            b. June  30, 1735, at Rowley; m. Benj. Allen. 
112.  ASA,              b. Jan.  30, 1737; captured by Indians and carried to Canada, 
                               April 20, 1757; was exchanged, and while in Quebec, on his way 
                                home, he was seized with small-pox, and died there. 
113.  MARV,             b. Sept. 20, 1739, also at Rowley. 
114.  ABIGAIL,          b. Mar.  26, 1741. 
115.  RELEEF,²        b. June  30, 1744; bap. at Rowley, Oct. 5, 
                                  1748; d. October, 1758. 
116.  HARRIET,          b. Jan.  30, 1747, at Leominster, Mass. 
117.  JOB TYLER,        b. Mar.  14, 1749; d. June 15, 1750. 
118. *TYLER,            b. Apr.  28, 1752; m. Experience Crosby. 

(43.) DEACON ABNER SPOFFORD and SARAH COLMAN. 
Married Dec. 23, 1734; lived on "the hill," in Georgetown, Mass. He was a husbandman and millwright by occupation; chosen deacon of First Church, March 4, 1755; commissioned captain of militia, by Governor William Shirley, Nov. 22, 1743; killed by a fall in his mill, Sept. 12, 1777. A special permit "that the solemnities of the funeral be attended on the Lord's day after the public exercises of the day are over," signed by John Cushing, justice of the peace, is preserved by the writer. His will bears date March 1, 1773, probated April 6, 1778, his son Eleazer executor. Inventory of estate, œ1,230 18s. 2d.

His widow, Sarah (Colman), a native of Byfield, Mass., married Jonathan Wood, of Boxford.

CHILDREN.

119. *RACHEL,           b. Sept. 23, 1735; m. David Nelson. 
120. *ELEAZER,          b. Aug.  12, 1739; m. Mary Flint. 
121. *SARAH,            b. Mar.   4, 1741; m. Dudley Tvler. 
122. *JOHN,             b. Feb.  20, 1742; m. Susanna Dow. 
123. *HULDAH,           b. Nov.  11, 1744; m. Moody Spofford, Esq. (130). 
124.  ABRAM,            b. Feb.   3, 1748; died young. 
125. *PHEBE,            b. Jan.   6, 1751; m. David Adams. 
126. *ISAAC,            b. Apr.  10, 1752; m. Mary Ayer. 
127. *JACOB,            b. Feb.  26, 1755; m. Mary Tenney. 

(46.) MARY SPOFFORD and JACOB BARKER. 

CHILD.

128. ELIZABETH, b. May 18, 1740; m. Isaac Stickney. 

(47.) COL. DANIEL SPOFFORD and JUDITH FOLLANSBEE. 
A daughter of Francis and Judith (Moody) Follansbee, of Newbury. Married 1741; settled in Rowley, Mass., now Georgetown. He built and occupied for a long time the house owned by the late Sewall Spofford, near the "old farm." He was colonel of the Seventh Regiment of militia in Essex County, which marched to Cambridge, at the time of the Lexington fight, failing to arrive in season to take part in the engagement; representative of the town, 1776; member of the convention which formed the constitution in 1780; and was elected deacon of the church in Georgetown in 1781. He built several churches, and his skill as an architect may be judged of by the way in which he effected the enlargement of the meeting-house formerly occupied by the Congregational Society in Peabody.?? The building was cut in two crosswise, the ends moved apart, making room for two rows of new pews. Upon the still greater increase of the society, his services were again required to enlarge their borders, which he did by dividing the building lengthwise, and making two rows of pews with a broad aisle through its whole length. In this meeting-house the writer remembers attending religious service about A. D. 1800. It was a large unpainted structure, with many windows of unequal size, and stood upon the site now occupied by the present Congregational Church.

Judith (Follansbee) Spofford having died Feb. 28, 1799, aged 59, Colonel Spofford married Mrs. Betsey Emery, daughter of Capt. James Smith, of West Newbury, who died May 11, 1784, aged 47. She was one of a family of ten children living to maturity, the young ladies being specially noted for beauty and grace. A third wife was the widow of Rev. David Jewett, whose maiden name was Phebe Thurston, she having four Jewett children, Phebe, Eunice, David, and John. Col. Spofford died April 26, 1803.

CHILDREN.

129.  WILLIAM,           b. Mar.   6, 1742; died an infant. 
130. *MOODY,             b. June  24, 1744; m. Huldah Spofford (123). 
131. *WILLIAM,           b. Oct.   2, 1746; m. Sarah Spofford. 
132. *JUDITH,            b. Mar.   8, 1749; m. Jeremiah Dodge. 
133. *AMOS,              b. Sept. 20, 1751; m. Irene Dole. 
134. *TEMPERANCE,        b. Oct.  17, 1755; m. Jeremiah Spofford (139). 
135.  ABIGAIL,           b. Sept.  7, 1759; d. Oct. 3, 1764. 
136.  DANIEL,            b. Jan.   6, 1762; d. Nov. 2, 1764. 
137. *ABIGAIL,           b. Jan.  24, 1765; m. David Tenney. 
138. *SARAH,             b. Feb.  11, 1768; m. Wm. Perley, of Boxford. 

(48.) CAPT. ELIPHALET SPOFFORD and LUCY PEABODY.³ 
Her birth is thus recorded in Boxford: "Lowecy Dafter of Nathan and Priscilla Peabody born Sept. 24, 1728." The marriage occurred Dec. 11, 1748, and they lived in the house on "the hill" in Georgetown, built in 1727 by the redoubtable Capt. John Spafford, who became one of the first settlers of Charlestown, N. H.,--the house near the locality known in modern local nomenclature as The Bush. The wife, Lucy Peabody, having died May 28, 1766, Capt. Spofford married Apphia Spofford, who, after his decease, married Deacon Asa Parker, of Andover, March 1, 1781, and was an excellent mother-in-law of two families. Capt. Spofford died of fever, Oct. 7, 1776, in the very beginning of the Revolutionary struggle; "scared to death," according to his son-in-law, Jonathan Hale, who was noted for grotesque conceits and erratic ways, as was Capt. Spofford for sterling character and military faithfulness. His commission, signed by Governor Francis Bernard, was dated June 8, 1767. The inventory of his estate is given at œ1,550 16s. 2d.

CHILDREN.

139. *JEREMIAH,         b. Oct.  12, 1749; m. Temperance Spofford (134). 
140. *SARAH,            b. Sept. 21, 1751; m. Capt. Benjamin Adams. 
141. *LUCY,             b. Sept. 18, 1753; m. Capt. Samuel Adams. 
142.  ELIPHALET,        b. Mar.  12, 1756; d. Feb. 4, 1776. 
143.  PRISCILLA,        b. Mar.  30, 1758; d. April 19, 1759. 
144. *LEMUEL,           b. Sept. 21, 1760; m. Hannah Frazier. 
145. *EUNICE,           b. Aug.,     1762; m. Jonathan Hale. 
146.  APPHIA,           b. Feb.  28, 1765; m. Moses Wood, of Groveland; 
                           d. July 25, 1821, childless. 

(49.) WILLIAM SPOFFORD and ABIGAIL PERLEY. 
Married Nov. 1, 1750. She was of Boxford, received by the church there, and had four children baptized May 27, 1759. He died in the army during the French and Indian wars; served from May 3, 1754, to Sept. 15, 1754. His widow afterwards (Nov. 16, 1761) married Jacob Hazen, from whom are descended the Hazens of Essex County, Mass.

CHILDREN.

147.  ISRAEL,           bap. in Boxford, May 27, 1759. 
148.  SARAH,            m. (probably) Ephraim Jewett, of Maine; had a 
                                    daughter Abigail and other children. 
149.  ABIGAIL,          m. Rufus Wheeler, and a second husband in Maine. 
                                    The venerable author of this book remembered 
                                    playing, when a child, with her daughter, "little Sabra Wheeler." 
150.  OLIVE,            pub. to Jacob Stevens, of Bridgton, Me., Feb. 2, 
                           1782. 

(50.) SAMUEL SPAFFORD and (???) (???). 
Married about 1752; settled in that part of Lancaster which was set off to Boylston, in 1780. He is said to have been killed in a clay-pit, 1756, aged 56. His widow married a Mr. Richardson, and had other children.

CHILDREN.

151. *JOB,              b.          1753; m. Esther Taylor: 
152. *JACOB,            b.          1754; m. Abigail Deane. 
153. *JOHN,             b. Oct. 19, 1756; m. Lucy Robbins. 
154.  LUCY,             b.          1758. 
155. *SAMUEL,           b.          1762; m. Eunice Goddard.

(51.) DAVID SPAFFORD and HANNAH CHENEY. 
Married March 6, 1735. She died May 6, 1755.

CHILDREN.

156. *ABIJAH,           b.   Apr.  22, 1736; m. Mary Towne. 
157. *DAVID,            bap. July  23, 1738; m. Elizabeth Griffin. 
158.  MARY,             b.   Sept. 14, 1740; m. Nathaniel Bailey. 
159. *ELIPHALET,        b.   Feb.   4, 1744. 
160. *ELDAD,            b.   Jan.   2, 1745; m. Lucy Spalding. 
161.  JESSE,            bap. Feb.  11, 1753. 

Second marriage, with Mary Bailey, of Bradford, May 26, 1756. He removed to Townsend, Mass., and died there.

(52.) NATHANIEL SPAFFORD and SARAH SMITH. 
Settled in Rowley, now Georgetown.

CHILDREN.

162.  APPHIA,           b.   Jan. 12, 1734; m. Capt. Eliphalet Spofford 
                                    (48); 2d, Deacon Asa Parker, of Andover. 
163.  JERUSHA,         b. 1736; d. July 5, 1739. 
164. *JONATHAN,    b. May  28, 1740; m. Dorcas Frost. 
165. *JERUSHA,        b.   May  17, 1742; m. William McAlaster. 
166.  JACOB,            b.   Jan. 24, 1744. 
167.  MARTHA,           b.   Oct. 25, 1745. 
168.  NATHANIEL,        bap. Aug. 18, 1751. 

(53.) JOHN SPAFFORD and ANNA (???). 
Settled in Groton, Mass., presumably emigrating thither from Rowley (Georgetown), Mass.

A slight shadow of doubt rests on the identity of this John Spafford with the one of corresponding number on p. 42; but circumstances favor that theory so strongly, it has been adopted.

CHILDREN.

169.   SILAS,               b. Oct. 28, 1743, in Groton, Mass.; d. in 
                                   Sunderland, Mass., July 2, 1756. 
170.   JOHN,               b. Mar. 24, 1745, in Groton, Mass. 
171.   THOMAS,         b. Apr. 20, 1747, in Groton, Mass.; had a guardian 
                                    appointed, Dec. 3, 1761.
172.   ANNA,              b. Feb. 6, 1748; m. Monoah Bodman, of Sunderland, 
                                     Mass. 
173.  *JONATHAN,   b. Apr. 26, 1751; m. (???) Sanderson; 2d, 
                                     Widow Esther Ruddock. 
174.   LEVI,                  b. Feb. 7, 1753, in Sunderland, Mass. 
175.   SUSANNAH,    b. Mar. 1, 1755, in Sunderland, Mass.; m. Capt. 
                                     William Tryon, Deerfield, Mass. 

(55.) ABEL SPOFFORD and ELEANOR POOR. 
Settled in New Rowley, now Georgetown, Mass.; "yeoman."

He was familiarly known as "Lieut. Abel"; built and occupied a house west of Bald Pate; died Sept. 10, 1785; inventory of estate, œ1,255 9s. 3d.

She was from Indian Hill, Newbury; a woman of much ability and strongly marked characteristics. She died 1799.

CHILDREN.

176.  *MOSES,      b. Apr. 6, 1747; m. Elizabeth Morse; 2d, Hannah Kimball. 
177.   PAUL,       b. Mar. 6, 1749; died young, of palsy. 
178.  *JOSEPH,   | m. Mary Chaplin. 
179.  *BENJAMIN, | m. Polly Adams; 2d, Mrs. Wood. 
180.  *ELEANOR,    b. Oct. 9, 1763; m. Captain Howe. 

(56.) JOSEPH SPAFFORD and SARAH EAMES. 
Married Sept. 3, 1745. He owned the covenant of the Second Church in Boxford, Mass., May 11, 1746; removed to Weathersfield, Vt., when that place contained but three families. He died March 13, 1803.

CHILDREN (BORN IN BOXFORD).

181.   HANNAH, bap. May 11, 1746; lived in New Hampshire. 
182.   MARY,   b.   June 19, 1749; bap. June 25; m. Colonel Reynolds, 
                           and lived in the vicinity of Fitchburg, Mass. 

Second marriage, with Mary Marble, who died June 25, 1801, aged 72 years.

CHILDREN (BORN IN WEATHERSFIELD, VT.).

183.  *JOHN,   b. Feb. 19, 1758; m. Miss Newton. 
184.  *SARAH,  b. June 25, 1761; m. Asa Grout. 
185.  *JUDAH,  b. Aug. 25, 1762; m. Elihu Grout. 
186.  *JOSEPH, b. Apr.  4, 1770; m. Rachel Wright. 

(57.) JACOB SPAFFORD and (???) SMALLEY. 
Emigrated to Salisbury, Conn., where both died soon after the birth of their youngest child.

CHILDREN.

187.  *MERCY,           m. (???) Barber; 2d, (???) Hill. 
188.  *JONATHAN,        m. his cousin, Miss Smalley. 
189.   PHEBE,           m. Major Abijah Pratt, of Rutland; d. about 1821; her husband died 
                                  Sept. 3, 1834, aged 87. 
190.  *DAVID,           m. Betsey Jewell. 
191.  *JOHN,            b. Aug. 31, 1752; m. Mary Baldwin. 
192.  *MARY (or POLLY), m. Solomon Stanton. 
193.  *SOLOMON,         married; settled in Canada. 
194.  *JOB,             m. Hannah Chipman. 
195.  *REBECCA,         b. 1757; m. Col. Orange Train. 
196.  *TEMPERANCE,      m. (???) Stannard. 
197.  *HANNAH,          b. 1761-62; m. Samuel Chipman. 

(59.) JOB SPAFFORD and MARY BROCKLEBANK. 
Married May 13, 1746; removed to Worcester County.

CHILDREN.

198.   HANNAH, bap. at Georgetown, Mass., Oct. 4, 1747. 
199.   SAMUEL, b.   in Lancaster, Mass., Jan. 5, 1763. 

There were probably other children.

(60.) JONAH SPAFFORD and DORCAS FROST. 
Married Nov. 13, 1754; settled in Lunenburg, Mass. He died Nov. 17, 1755.

CHILD.

200.   HANNAH, b. Jan. 11, 1756. 

(61.) MOSES SPAFFORD and (???) (???). 
He was one of the pioneer settlers of Claremont, N. H. Though the bride's name is unknown, the following story of the marriage ceremony will be of interest:

"Rev. Bulkley Olcott was established in Charlestown, N. H., before the settlement of the townships on the north and west, and he was often called to attend weddings and funerals at a great distance. In such cases guides were sent to conduct him to the places and return with him, as there were no roads, and he would be in danger of being lost in the intricacies of the forest. There is a tradition that he was thus conducted to solemnize the first marriage in Claremont.

"Moses Spafford had built a log-house, and brought to it his intended. It was a very rude structure, with a stationary pine table and no furniture but such as Moses had made, and the utensils for housekeeping were not many or elegant, yet with the superadded idea that Moses was to be her constant companion, all was pronounced very good, and Moses went to Charlestown to bring up Mr. Olcott to perform the marriage service. When about starting, the lady reminded him that they had nothing to drink in the house, and that as Mr. Olcott might be faint on his arrival, it might be well to take a bottle and get a pint at Charlestown. This was done, and Mr. Olcott on his arrival was treated to a generous glass of black-strap. He then solemnized the marriage, and after refreshments, was reconducted to his home. The earliest issue of this marriage was the first white child born in Claremont, to which the parents gave the good old name of Elijah."--Saunderson's History of Charlestown, No. 4.

CHILDREN.

201.  *ELIJAH,           b. 1763; m. Caroline Shuman. 
202.  *AMHERST,    m. Hannah Emerson. 
203.  *ELIPHALET,  m. (???) Randall. 
204.   EUNICE,          One of these daughters married a Mr. Tarbell, 
205.   DOLLY,          and had sons, Moses S., Joseph S., and others. 

(62.) JEMIMA SPAFFORD and CAPT. RICHARD PEABODY. 
Resided Boxford, Mass., in the house now the summer residence of William A. Herrick. He died June 7, 1820, at the age of 89, having been a zealous patriot in the Revolution. He commanded a company, and sent his sons into the army as soon as they were old enough for military service. Mrs. Peabody died Dec. 19, 1811.

CHILDREN.

206.   HANNAH,     b. Feb. 18, 1758; d. Dec. 17, 1832. 
207.   HEPHZIBAH,  b. Apr. 13, 1759. 
208.  *STEPHEN,    b. Aug. 27, 1760; m. Anna Killam. 
209.  *JOHN,       b. July 24, 1762; m. Mary Tyler. 
210.  *RICHARD,    b. Apr. 16, 1764; m. Dolly Kimball. 
211.  *OLIVER,     b. Mar.  6, 1766; m. Peggy Stickney. 
212.  *WILLIAM,    b. Jan. 10, 1768; m. Sally Bean. 
213.  *PRISCILLA,  b. Feb.  1, 1770; m. Thomas Townsend; 2d, 
                      James Robinson, of Exeter, N. H. 
214.  *FRANCIS,    b. June  7, 1771; m. Fanny Stickney. 
215.   SAMUEL,     b. Sept. 15, 1772; died in infancy. 
216.  *SAMUEL,     b. Jan.  30, 1775; m. Abigail Wood. 
217.  *JOSEPH S.,  b. Jan.  30, 1779; m. Hannah Foster. 

(72.) AMOS SPAFARD and HANNAH VETCH. 
Married Jan. 24, 1733 (old style). He was commissioned, 1747, as captain of a troop of horse, in the Twelfth Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut. (See Colonial Records, 1744-50, p. 321.)

CHILDREN.

218.   ELIZABETH,  b. Feb. 20, 1734; d. Apr. 18, 1752. 
219.   SARAH,      b. Jan. 13, 1736. 
220.   MARY,       b. Apr.  3, 1738. 
221.  *ANDREW,     b. Mar. 22, 1743; m. Molly Chamberlin. 

(75.) HANNAH SPAFARD and JOHN THOMAS. 
Married about 1733.

CHILDREN.

222.   JOHN,     b. Oct.  6, 1734. 
223.   PELEG,    b. Feb.  1, 1736. 
224.   JAMES,    b. July 22, 1737. 
225.   DEBORAH,  b. Apr.  7, 1739. 
226.   WILLIAM,  b. Mar. 30, 1741. 
227.   HANNAH,   b. June  1, 1743. 
228.   ELIHU,    b. Apr. 20, 1745. 
229.   MALACHI,  b. Jan. 30, 1747. 

(76.) DOROTHY SPAFARD and SAMUEL THROOP. 
Married about 1726.

CHILDREN.

230.   SAMUEL. 
231.   MARY, b. Jan. 23, 1727. 

(77.) THOMAS SPAFARD and SARAH WEST. 
Married Nov. 27, 1735; resided in Lebanon, Windham County, Conn., from which place he must have removed to Sharon, Conn., as he is spoken of in Sedgwick's history of that town as one of the original purchasers in 1738. The town was divided into fifty-three shares, he drawing the thirteenth lot, which, being dissatisfied therewith, he threw into the common stock, and took a house-lot a half-mile west of the meeting-house, land formerly owned by Deacon William M. Smith. He is said in Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1726-35, to have obtained judgment against Charles Hazelton, of New London, for œ500 and costs, about 1732. He died in 1752. None of his descendants remain in Sharon.

CHILDREN.

232.   DELIGHT,  b. Sept. 5, 1736; m. Caleb Gifford. 
233.  *NATHAN,   b. Jan. 31, 1744; m. Anna Cole. 

(80.) SAMUEL SPOFFORD and (???) (???). 
He is spoken of in Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1751-57, p. 173, as administrator of the estate of Thomas Spofford, late of Sharon (probably his brother), in 1753.

Mrs. Spofford, whose maiden name is unknown, after the decease of her husband, in 1762, married Rev. Mr. Hawley, of Suffield, Conn.

CHILDREN.

234.  *AMOS,  married; lived in Ohio. 
235.  *CHLOE, m. Apr. 14, 1778, Elisha Wright. 

(85.) SAMUEL SPOFFORD and MARY POOR. 
Married November, 1752; settled in West Boxford, on the farm next but one south of the Thwing place. She was from Newbury. They were admitted to Second Church in Boxford, Sept. 18, 1763. She died March 14, 1799, aged 72 or 73 years.

CHILDREN.

236.  *STEPHEN,    b.  Mar.  31, 1754; m. Mary Chadwick. 
237.  *PARKER,     b.  Sept. 14, 1755; m. Mary Wood. 
238.   SAMUEL,    b.  Apr.  16, 1759.  Samuel died in Boxford, 
239.   MOLLY,         Feb.  12, 1846, unm. 
Two other children died in infancy. 

(86.) THOMAS SPOFFORD and ROXBEE MOODY. 
Married Dec. 5, 1750; settled in Andover, where she was admitted to First Church, Dec. 3, 1758.

CHILDREN.

240.   SARAH,      b.    Sept. 23, 1751; pub. to Ephraim Jewett, of Ipswich, May 18, 1771. 
241.  *PHINEAS,    b.    May    1, 1753; m. Sarah Chadwick. 
242.  *MOODY,      bap.  Apr.  20, 1755; m. Dolly Farnham. 
243.  *SAMUEL,     bap.  May    8, 1757; m. Lydia Peaslee. 
244.  *ISAAC,          b.    May   11, 1763; m. Mehitable Wood. 
245.   MARTHA,     b.              1764; m. Joshua Johnson. 
246.  *THOMAS,     m. Esther Pearl.

(87.)  AMOS SPOFFORD and ABIGAIL PEARL. 
Married March 7, 1754; admitted to Second Church, Boxford, Mass., June 27, 1756; lived in the first house south of the Thwing farm, in West Boxford.

CHILDREN.

           A SON, died in infancy, Jan. 14, 1755. 
247.  *BENJAMIN,   b.   Sept. 3, 1756; m. Peggy Cole. 
248.  *AMOS,       b.   Mar. 21, 1758; m. Annie Myrick; 2d, Huldah Boynton. 
249.  *SARAH,      b.   Dec.,    1759; m. Capt. Moses Carlton. 
250.   RICHARD,     b.   Mar. 10, 1762. 
251.  *SAMUEL,      b.   July 14, 1764; m. Deborah Robinson. 
252.  *DANIEL,      b.   Feb. 18, 1766; m. Phebe Peters. 
253.  *THOMAS,                         m. Elizabeth Foster. 
254.   ISAAC,         bap. May  10, 1772; d. Aug. 12, 1775. 

(99.) SARAH STICKNEY and JEDEDIAH STICKNEY. 
Married Feb. 2, 1768.

CHILDREN.

255.   DUDLEY, b. in Rowley, May 11, 1774; m. Elizabeth Davis, Mar. 2, 1797. 
       THOMAS, SOLOMON, and several other children. 

NOTE.--A son of Dudley Stickney, Matthew A. Stickney, was born in Rowley, Sept. 23, 1805; married Mary E. Smith, April 17, 1833; Lucy Waters, Dec. 25, 1838. Residence, Salem, Mass.; author of a genealogy of the Stickney family, from the pages of which we have his pedigree, from Elizabeth Spofford (No. 37), daughter of Samuel Spofford and Sarah Birkbee.

¹ Inscription on gravestone, still legible, wherein the name is thus given:--

"CaPtEn JOHn SPaFFaRD."
In his captain's commission, bearing date May 8, 1721, and signed by Governor Samuel Shute,
the name is spelled Spauford.

His will was admitted to probate Nov. 3, 1735.

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