(II) Edward S, son of Isaac and Margaret Yocom, died at Peekskill, New York, at the age of eighty-two years, and with his wife who died at the age of seventy-two years is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, New York.  He was a Baptist minister for several years, a tanner in Pennsylvania, and an officer in the state militia during the religious riots in Philadelphia.  He married Caroline Hagy, of Pennsylvania, granddaughter of William Hagy, who, accompanied by a brother, came to this country from Prussia.  William Hagy settled and purchased considerable property on Mill Creek, Pennsylvania, operated the first mill, located almost at its mouth and a short distance from where is empties into the Schuylkill River.  He also owned other property  on the creek, including a paper mill.  He was the first manufacturer of parchment paper in America.  He loaned money to General Washington during the Revolutionary War in order to purchase horses for the army, and he participated actively in that struggle.  There is a road extending from the Schuylkill River across the country named for him, Hagy's Ford Road, and the ford at the river was used by the soldiers at the time of the Revolutionary War and called Hagy's Ford.  He was highly respected by his fellow-citizens for his many sterling qualities.  He was considered a wealthy man for the times, rated at about $100,000, which was at his death divided among his six children.  His brother , aforementioned, presumably settled in Germantown, and the remains of the brothers were interred in the old cemetery of that city.  Children;  1. Mary, married (first) Benjamin Taylor, of Schoharie County, New York and (second) Sydney Tompkins, of Nyack, New York; children, two by first marriage, and three by second marriage:  i. Edward,  ii. William, iii. Arthur S., iv. Charles, v. Ella.  2. Matilda, married Vincent Minnerly, of Tarrytown; child, Elmer.  3. Edward, mar-

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ried Henrietta Barnes, of Peekskill, New York, no children living.  4. John, married Augusta Humphrey, of Tarrytown, New York; no children living.  5. William, married (first) Frances Tiffany, of California, (second) Lily Richards, of Brooklyn, New York, no children living.  6. Harriet, married David Montross, for many years, postmaster of Peekskill, New York, who died in 1911, children:  i. Frank,  i. Alice.  7. Isaac, of whom further.

          (III) Isaac (2), son of Edward S. and Caroline (Hagy) Yocom, was born in King of Prussia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1841.  He is a blacksmith and a wagon maker, and has been in business in Peekskill, New York, for forty-six years.  For forty-five years he was an active fireman, and served two terms as chief engineer of Engine Company No. 1.  He was deputy sheriff for three years, and served eight yeas as water commissioner of Peekskill.  He served continuously throughout the Civil War, enlisting August 25, 1862, as a member of Company F, Second New York Volunteer Cavalry, known as Harris Light Cavalry, being transferred August 29, 1864, to Company D, and December 26, 1864, to Company H, of the same regiment and mustered our of service, June 5, 1865.  During this entire period he was on active duty, never having been absent from his regiment but once, when he spent at home a fifteen day furlough while his regiment lay n winter quarters at Winchester, Virginia.  He performed considerable scouting duty and was in five raids; three with General Kirkpatrick, and one with General Wilson, and was with General Sheridan in his raid to Richmond.  Since the war the members of his regiment have formed the Harris Light Cavalry Association, and have adopted as their emblem the famous red necktie worn by the members of General Custer's division at the Grand Review in Washington at the close of the war, in which Mr. Yocom's regiment was the first to pass in review.  He is a member of the Vosburg Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and politically a Republican. 

          He married Mary Emily Hayes, of Yorktown, New York, daughter of Asbury B. and Eliza (Travis) Hayes, of Yorktown, New York.  Children:  1. Irene, who is superintendent of the Nurses' Club, at 1185 Lexington Avenue, New York City.  2. Caroline, married Charles Card, of Port Ewen, New York; children:  i. Emily, ii. Margaret.  3. Jane, married Charles A. Miller, of Peekskill, New York, children: i. Camilla, ii. James.  4. Rutherford B. H., street commissioner of Peekskill for the past eight yeas, served as librarian of state senate, 1908-09; married Caroline Raymond, of Brooklyn, New York; no children.  5. Emily, married Thomas J. Snowden, of Peekskill, New York, child, Emily.  6. Isaac.  7. Margaret.  8. Rachel.

LLOYD.     This is an ancient Welch name and is widely distributed throughout the United States, having been brought over by various immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and at other places in this country, and those bearing the name have been distinguished for those virtues of energy, industry and upright moral living which are found among the Welsh people.

          (I) John Lloyd came to America prior to 1688, and the first known of him here is found in the record of a conveyance of land, March 1, 1689, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, when he took title to one hundred acres.  At that time he is styled as "of Steel's Branch near Gloucester River."  About 1692 he removed to Salem County, same colony, and in that year made a contract for the purchase of some land there.  In many of his transactions the name of Obadiah Lloyd, who was presumably his brother, is associated with his.  He sold his estate in Gloucester County, May 11, 1702, having previously purchased, April 15, 1701, one hundred and thirty acres in Salem County, described as "on Salem Main Branch adjoining George Garrett."  In this Deed John Lloyd is called "husbandman," In a deed executed February 8, 1703, he disposed of one hundred acres located at "Quiahocking hereafter to be called Pleasant Village," and in this deed John Lloyd is styled "Of Manneton Precinct."  He is not recorded as holding any public offices, but he served his fellow citizens in many important private capacities.  On May 3, 1701, he was the appraiser of the estate of William Champneys, of Millbrooke, Salem County, and he wit-

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nessed the wills of George Garrett and Thomas Graves in 1714.  In 1719 he was an appraiser of the estate of Charles Hopman, of Pilesgrove.  In 1721 he witnessed the will of Thomas Craven, and in 1727 was an appraiser of the estate of Sarah Hall, widow, of Pilesgrove.  John Lloyd resided at that place, where he died in 1728.  At this time he owned two plantations, one of which, containing one hundred and twenty acres and known as the "Home Plantation," he willed to his son Obadiah; the other, comprising one hundred and forty-four acres, was given to his son, John, who at that time was residing thereon.  The name of his first wife, who was undoubtedly the mother of his children, had not been preserved.  He married (second) about 1701, Hannah, widow of John Gilman, who survived him.  Children:  1. John, of whom further.  2. Obadiah.  3. Joseph.  4. Rebecca.  The latter was the wife of Malacia Davis, who received a legacy of three pounds from her father.

          (II) John (2), eldest son of John (1) Lloyd, resided at Pilesgrove, where he died in 1730.  In addition to the farm, above cited, which he received from his father, he also received ten acres lying on "Old Man's Creek."  His wife Katharine is supposed to have been a Raines, as the will of her husband, directs that his son shall live with his uncle, Thomas Raines, "until fit to be put to trade."  Children;  1. John, of whom further.  2. Bateman, long a justice of the peace of Salem County.  3. Obadiah.

          (III) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Katharine Lloyd, was born in Pilesgrove where he resided through life, and was buried April 17, 1785.  He engaged in farming; was overseer of roads in 1729, and grand juror in 1744.  It is supposed that he became a communicant of the Moravian Church about 1766, in which year his youngest child was baptized.  He married Mary Linck and had children:  1. Hannah.  2. Elizabeth.  3. Nicodemus, of whom further.  4. John.  5. Wood.

          (IV) Nicodemus, son of John (3) and Mary (Linck) Lloyd, was born about 1762, in Pilesgrove, died in Philadelphia in January, 1844.  When a young man he removed to that city and there enlisted February 4, 1781, in Captain Bowers' company, Fifth Regiment of Foot, Philadelphia Militia, under the command of Major Richard Salter, and was mustered into service on the 5^th of March following.  After the close of the Revolutionary War he engaged in the iron business and subsequently the manufacture of stoves, which business he conducted for many years at Seventh and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, where some of his children were baptized.  He married (first) in Philadelphia, august 1, 1786, Eleanor Hersh, who died before 1829, and he married (second), April 10, of that year, in Salem County, New Jersey, Rebecca Firestone. His will bequeathed property to the Home Mission Society and the American Board of Foreign Missions.  His will mentioned wife Rebecca and sons, Thomas T. and Samuel, and a daughter Mary.  The elder son died a bachelor in 1869.  The daughter married (first) Rees Peters, who died in 1816, and (second) ---------- Primrose.

          (V) Samuel, son of Nicodemus and Eleanor (Hersh) Lloyd, died May 18, 1843, aged forty-four years, seven months.  He was a manufacturer of stoves, subsequently becoming a dealer in these goods in Trenton, New Jersey.  He married, September 28, 1826, Anna Maria Potts, born May 11, 1805, died November 15, 1880, daughter of Willian and Maria (Gardner) Potts, and had children;  1. Samuel, born October 12, 1827, died 1858.  2. Gardner Potts, September 23, 1829, died 1887.  3. Ellen Maria, May 7, 1832, married William Shreve, died 1887.  4. J. Weigard, September 12, 1834, died 1876.  5. William Potts, October 16, 1836, died 1863.  6. Joseph Potts, of whom further.  7. Thomas Jefferson, October 18, 1842.

          (VI) Joseph Potts, fifth son of Samuel and Anna Maria (Potts) Lloyd, was born August 7, 1839, in Philadelphia.  He removed to Trenton with his father when a boy.  He graduated from Trenton academy and subsequently took a position with the brokerage firm of Fish & Hatch in New

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York City, where he acted some time as cashier.  He later engaged as a broker on his own account in Wall Street and is at present head of the firm of Lloyd & Company.  His home is in Orange, New Jersey.  At the opening of the Civil War he acted as a recruiting sergeant and mustered a company of New Jersey troops in the Civil War from Trenton, New Jersey.  He is a charter member of the Central Presbyterian Church of Orange in which he has served as trustee, elder and treasurer.  Politically he acts with the Republican Party.  He married, June 20, 1866, Anna Maria Potts, born August 17, 1837, daughter of Joseph Collins and Elizabeth Patterson (Sherman) Potts.  Her father was a prominent attorney in Trenton, New Jersey.  Children of Joseph Lloyd:  1. Thomas Jay, of whom further.  2. Joseph Potts, born April 16, 1869, a graduate of Yale and member of firm of Lloyd & Company until his death in October, 1898.  3. Margaret Sherman, born June 4, 1871; unmarried, living in Orange, New Jersey.  4. Anna Maria, born 1873; wife of Rev. William Hunt, a missionary to Corea, and has Lloyd and Margaret.  5. Elizabeth Gardner, born 1875; unmarried, living in Orange, New Jersey.  6. Clifford, born 1878, resides in East Orange, member of firm of Lloyd & Company.

          (VIII) Thomas Jay, eldest son of Joseph Potts and Anna Maria (Potts) Lloyd, was born June 27, 1867, in Orange, New Jersey.  He attended private schools in that place, and prepared for college there and in Lawrenceville Preparatory School and a private school at Kingston.  Entering Yale College he graduated with the class of 1890, after which he pursued a post-graduate course in philosophy in Union theological Seminary, become a foreign missionary.  He was a charter member of Yale Union Debating Society, and after graduating taught school one year in Kingston and two years in the Manual Training School of New Haven, Connecticut.  After spending two years in the Theological Seminary, he gave up the idea of entering the ministry, and became an advocate of Socialistic principles.  In 1899 he bought a farm of ninety acres in Bloomingburg, Sullivan County, which he subsequently sold to his father, and again engaged in teaching for one and a half years in New York City.  Following this, he purchased land at Bloomingburg on which he built his present modern house.  Mr. Lloyd has been engaged in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, in city mission and pastoral work, in teaching Sunday school classes of all ages, and he has also attended the Northfield conventions.  He married, July 18, 1900, in new York City, Mercedes Andrews, born March 22, 1882, in that city, daughter of Thomas and Caroline Elizabeth (Smyth) Andrews, the latter named a daughter of James and Susanna (Gorman) Smyth; James Smyth was born in Derry, Ireland, in 1803, and his wife in Rady, Ireland, in 1807.  Children:  1. Joseph Potts, born April 17, 1901.  2. Helen Craig, August 12, 1906.  3. Clifford Edgarton, February 16, 1908.  4. Edmund Sherman, February 12, 1912. 

          The Potts family, whose history is closely interwoven with that of Lloyd, is descended from Thomas Potts, a member of the Society of Friends, a native of Harmsworth, England, near Bamley Court, Yorkshire, who emigrated to this country.  He was the father of Thomas (2) Potts, who married Sarah Beaks, and lived in Burlington, New Jersey.  Stacey, son of Thomas (2) and Sarah Potts, was born 1731, in Whitehill, New Jersey, and married Aster Pancoast.  Their second son, Willian Potts, married Mary Gardner, of Philadelphia, and was the father of Anna Maria Potts, who became the wife of Samuel Lloyd (V), and also of Joseph Collins Potts, who married Elizabeth Patterson Sherman, and was the father of Anna Maria Potts, wife of Joseph P. Lloyd (VI).  The ancestry of Elizabeth Patterson Sherman, wife of Joseph Collins Potts, is traced to Samuel Sherman and his wife Sarah (Mitchell) Sherman, who were the parents of Benjamin Sherman.  James, son of Benjamin Sherman, married Sarah cook, and their son, William Sherman, born in 1737, died November, 1800, married Esther White.  William (2), son of William (1) and Esther (White) Sherman, was born July 5, 1779, died August 22, 1821.  He married, in 1805, Olivia Ashman, and they were the parents of Elizabeth Paterson Sherman, born June 17, 1810, married Joseph Collins Potts, and died , 1855. 

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THAYER.     This old New England name has been borne by some of the ablest men of the country, and appears to have some prominence in Old England before brought to the Western World in its early settlement.  A coat-of-arms was conferred at an early date upon Augustine Thayer, of Thaydon, a village in the county of Essex, England, about eighteen miles north of London.  In early days the name had various spellings, as is common among the colonists of New England, Theyer, Their, and in its present form, was conforming to that used in the coat-of-arms.  Its representatives have been potent factors in the development of the new world in various walks of life, and have been found ready to support the uplifting influences of the world generally. 

          The first of the name to come to America were Richard and Thomas Thayer and their families.  The first record of these two families is that Richard Thayer was made a freeman in 1640, and Thomas Thayer was a freeman and received titles to lands in 1635.  From the best information obtainable Richard and Thomas Thayer and their families must have come with the Massachusetts colony in 1630, or thereabouts, and they were with other families that came from Braintree, county of Essex, England, and who named their town in the New World the same as the one they left in their native land. 

          (I) Richard Thayer was born in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, where he was baptized in April, 1601.  He came to Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and three sons and settled in Braintree, which was then a part of Boston.  In 1640 he was made a freeman there, as above mentioned, and was one of the worthy citizens of the town, residing there until his death, august 27, 1695, in his ninety-fifth year.  he was doubtless a man of more than ordinary endowments as the history of his descendants in each generation has shown men of remarkable attainment and executive ability.  He was a shoemaker by trade.  He married (first) in Thornbury, April 5, 1624, Dorothy Mortimore.  He married (Second) Jane Parker, widow of John Parker, and in 1658 joined with her in a deed to her Parker children.

          (II) Richard (2), eldest son of Richard (1) Thayer, was born in England, in 1625, probably in the county of Essex, and came to America with his parents, landing at Boston, and settling at Braintree.  He married, October 24, 1651, Dorothy Pray.  Children:  1. Dorothy, born June 30, 1653.  2. Richard, July 31, 1655.  3. Nathaniel, of whom further.  4. Abigail, February 10, 1661.  5. Joanna, December 13, 16654.  6. Sarah, December, 1667.  7. Cornelius, August 18, 1670.  The father of these children died December 4, 1705, and the mother, December 11, 1705. 

          (III) Nathaniel, second son of Richard (2) and Dorothy (Pray) Thayer, was born January 1, 1658, in Braintree, Massachusetts.  He resided in his native town throughout his entire lifetime, and was a man of worth and influence in the community.  He married, May 27, 1679, Hannah Heydon.  Children: 1. Nathaniel, of whom further.  2. Richard.  3. Hannah W.  4. Zachariah.  5. Ruth.  6. Dorothy L.  7. Lydia H.  8. David.  Nathaniel Thayer (father) died March 28, 1729, and his estate was settled by his widow, Hannah Thayer, as appears on the probate records of Braintree.

          (IV) Nathaniel (2), Eldest son of Nathaniel (1) and Hannah (Heydon) Thayer, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1680, died January 3, 1752.  Like his ancestors, he resided in the town of Braintree and was an honored and highly-respected citizen thereof.  He married (first), November 25, 1704, Sarah Wales.  She died in 1707.  Married (second) January 13, 1709, Relief Hyde.  Children of first wife:  1. Sarah and 2. Hannah.  Children of second wife:       3. Nathaniel.  4. Elizabeth.  5. Josiah, of whom further.  6. Caleb.  7. Abraham.  8. Hannah.  9. Relief.  10. Lydia.

          (V) Josiah, second son of Nathaniel (20 and Relief (Hyde) Thayer, was born November 30, 1713, in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he resided and was an active  and useful citizen.  He as elected constable in 1753, but declined to serve.  In 1756 he was surveyor of highways, and in 1774 was on a committee of fifteen to consider the public affairs of the town. In the records he received the title of "Mr.," which was a mark of distinction at that time.  He married (first) April 20, 1743, Mary Veasey,

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born august 29, 1720, died 1760, daughter of Samuel and Deborah Veasey, of Braintree.  He married (second) July 3, 1763, Rebecca Hunt.  Children of first wife:  1. Mary, born February 6, 1744.  2. Elizabeth, September 18, 1745, died young.  3. Relief, March 21, 1748.  4. Elizabeth, April 7, 1750.  5. Josiah, of whom further.  6. Lydia, October 5, 1754.  7. Timothy, June 8, 1757,  8. John, August 8, 1759.

          (VI) Josiah (2), eldest son of Josiah (1) and Mary (Veasey) Thayer, was born January 28, 1752, in Braintree, and settled in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he died February 9, 1814.  By occupation he was a farmer, and was a worthy and useful citizen.  He married (first) December 28, 1770, Avis Howard, born June 1, 1754, died November 29, 1795.  He married (second) in 1800, Lois Knight, who died February 11, 1814, three days after her husband.  Children of first marriage:  1. Sceva, born April 13, 1772.  2. Sarah, January 20, 1774.  3. Charles, November 9, 1775.  4. Hosea, March 15, 1778.  5. Stephen, of whom further.  6. Josiah, twin of Stephen, August 8, 1779.  7. Josiah, June 21, 1781.  8. Zadock, December 15, 1782.  9. Jacob, August 24, 1784.  10. Joseph, June 30, 1786.  11. Mary, April 9, 1788.  12. Asahel, January 31, 1790.  13. Martin, August 17, 1792.  14. Luther, October 8, 1794.

          (VII) Stephen, fourth son of Josiah (2) and Avis (Howard) Thayer, was born August 8, 1770, in Amherst.  He went to Boston in 1797, where he died August 30, 1828.  He married, November 4, 1804, Olive Gerald, born April 1, 1787, died March 11, 1861.  Children:  1. Caroline, born August 23, 1808.  2. Stephen Howard, of whom further.  3. Henry, July 1, 1812, was a farmer at Chatham, Sangamon County, Illinois.  4. William S., January 2, 1815, was a lawyer, and died at Rochester, New York,  .  5. Hester A., March 30, 1817.  6. Olive, May 13, 1819, died young.  7. Hannah G., April 12, 1821, married William H. Holland, and resided in Texas.  8. John W., August 3, 1824, lived in Steuben, Ohio.  9. Anna W., November 13, 1826, married Rev. Edward Ruggles, and died at Springfield, Illinois. 

          (VIII) Stephen Howard, eldest son of Stephen and Olive (Gerald) Thayer, was born January 10, 1810, in Boston, Massachusetts, died in January, 1890.  He grew up in his native city and was educated at Wilbraham Academy, Amherst and Williams College.  On account of his father's death he did not complete his college course, but went to New York and there entered the office of Horace Holden, Esq., to study law.  In due time he was admitted to the bar and began practice with his preceptor.  After the death of the latter he continued practice along with the exception of a short time when he was a partner of William H. Arnoux, afterward a Judge.  He engaged in general practice and was successful.  He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he was many years an elder, and was a member of its Board of Church Erection.  In 1862 he took up his residence in Yonkers, where he served as a village trustee.  In early life he was a Whig, and supported the Republican Party from its organization.  A man of reserved nature, he was blessed with great mental ability and large, reserved force.  He was a typical example of the New England character, industrious, well balanced and highly intelligent.  He married (first) July 22, 1840, Harriet Sophia, born July 29, 1817, died December 31, 1850, daughter of Horace and Bathsheba (Sanford) Holden, of New York City (see Holden V).  He married (second) in 1854, Elizabeth R. Cox, who survived him.  Children of first wife:  1. Stephen Howard, of whom further.  2. Sophia Howard, born June 15, 1845, died about 1883, wife of Howard Kingsbury, and left a son, Howard Thayer Kingsbury, a lawyer in New York City.  3. Horace Holden born October 30, 1847, now engaged in the real estate business in New York City.  Children of second  wife:  4, William C., professor of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  5. Elizabeth Clement, resides in New York City.  6. Gerald Russell, clerk in United States district court in New York City, resides at Grantwood, New Jersey.  7. Alfred Edward, professor of pathology at University of Alabama, Mobile. 

          (IX) Stephen Howard (2), eldest son of Stephen Howard (1) and Harriet Sophia (Holden) Thayer, was born May 24, 1842, in New York City.  He was educated in the schools of Brooklyn and Columbia College, graduating from the latter with the degree of Master of Arts in 1863.  He pursued the study of law in Columbia Law School, from which he was graduated in 1865 with the

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degree of Bachelor of Laws.  He was immediately admitted to the bar and began practice in association with his father.  This continued until 1877, when he removed to Yonkers, and since that time has been engaged in general practice there with success.  He was appointed referee in bankruptcy in 1898, when the law creating that position went into effect, and has ever since acted in that capacity.  He served as justice of the peace, and from 1888 to 1892 was city judge of Yonkers.  Mr. Thayer is a member of St. John's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, of which he was for many years a vestryman, and treasurer.  In 1863 he was a private in the Seventeenth Regiment new York Militia, which went out to join the Union forces in the Civil War at the time of the Gettysburg campaign.  He is now a member of Tremont Post, No. 590, Grand Army of the Republic; the New York State Society, Sons of the Revolution' Yonkers Historical and Library Association, of which he was for some years secretary, and is now president; the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, being chairman of its Manor Hall committee; Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club, Palisades Boat Club, New York State Bar Association, Winchester County Bar Association, and Yonkers Bar Association. 

          Mr. Thayer married, April 18, 1870, Anna Frazer, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of James and Frances Stuart (McKay) Thurber.  She died September 7, 1909.  Children:  1. Francis McKay, died unmarried in 1905.  2. Stephen Frazer, associated with his father in law practice at Yonkers.  3. Reginald Holden, a mining engineer, making his home in Yonkers.  4. Sophia Howard, died unmarried.  5. Anna Mildred, resides with her father.  6. Edgar Randolph, resides with his father.

(The Holden Line.)

          (i) Justinian Holden, the pioneer ancestor of the line here under consideration, accompanied by his older Brother, Richard, embarked for New England, April 30, 1634, at Ipswich, Suffolkshire, in the "Frances", John cutting, master.  The brothers were probably born at Cranhook, Kent, where a family of wealthy clothiers named Holden had resided for generation.  To Robert Holden, of Hockeridge, Cranhook, a coat-of-arms:  "Ermine, on a chief gules three pears slipped, &c."  was granted, may 20, 1663.  The shield is widely known in the United States at the present day among the descendants of both Richard and Justinian.  It is engraved on a silver tankard which was made in Boston in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and which is now in the possession of Edward singleton Holden, lately astronomer at the Lick Observatory. 

          Some ancient traditions., committed to writing in Massachusetts about a century ago, when stripped of extravagances, seem to contain a germ of truth, and to corroborate the evidence offered by the coat-of-arms that the Holden brothers came of good family.  These state that both the father of the brothers, and their uncle, James by name, were very wealthy, the latter being "one of the Lords of England."  The father dying, the mother married a second time, and the step-father defrauded the boys of their inheritance and put them out to learn trades.  Richard was a glazier, Justinian a carpenter.  The latter amassed what for his time and country was wealth.  His estate at his death was valued at eleven hundred and fifty-three pounds, seventeen shillings.  He was a property owner at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1642, and on May 6, 1657, was admitted a foreman of the colony.  On March 1, 1653-54, he purchased for two hundred and ten pounds, "the estate of the late Nathaniel Sparhawk of Cambridge, a house, barn and 294 acres", adjoining the Watertown boundary line.  Justinian Holden died in 1691, aged eighty years.

          Justinian Holden married (first) Elizabeth, born April 12, 1637, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Jennison, of Watertown.  She died without issue, March 18, 1672.  He married (second) Mary, born 1647, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Plympton) Rutter, of Sudbury; she survived her husband and was living in 1716.  Their children were:  1. Samuel, born April 28, 1674.  2. John, of whom further.  3. Isaac, born May 28, 1677.  4. Mary, March 21, 1678.  5. Grace, April 13, 1681, married, December 7, 1718, Benjamin eddy.  6. Joseph, September 6, 1683.  7. Elizabeth, May 6, 1686, married Philip Goodin

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1675.  He lived at various times at Watertown, Sudbury, and Concord, his descendants residing at the present time in the latter name place, and was an inn keeper in concord from 1723 to 1724.  He married, November 7, 1699, Grace, daughter of Samuel and Judith (Newcomb) Jennison.  Children:  1. John, born June 5, 1700, married, December 29, 1725, mary Wheeler.  2. Daniel, April 3, 1702, married, February 15, 1726, Anna Jones, died 1782.  3. Peter, February 1, 1704.  4. Grace, July 3, 1707, died March 8, 1724.  5. Elizabeth, July 29, 1709, married, May 31, 1728, Henry Goodin.  6. Josiah, January 29, 1711, married, January 27, 1742, Hannah Parker.  7. Judith, June 3, 1715.  8. Mary, March 18, 1718, married, August 26, 1741, John Howe.  9. Jonas, of whom further.  10. Abigail, November 7, 1723, died March 8, 1724.

          (III) Jonas, youngest son of John and Grace (Jennison) Holden, was born July 8, 1721, and was a resident of Sudbury.  He married, January 28, 1752, Abigail Kendall, also of Sudbury, who was of the fourth generation from Francis Kendall, ancestor of all of the name in New England.  She was probably the Abigail born in Lancaster, July 20, 1728, to Ralph and Abigail (Carter) Kendall.  Children:  1. Abel, born November, 1752.  2. Levi, of whom further.  3. Jonas, born 1756, married Mary Thompson.  4. Asa, May 10, 1762.  5. Joel, 1768.

          (IV) Levi, second son of Jonas and Abigail (Kendall) Holden, was born January 12, 1754, died in Newark, New Jersey, April 19, 1823.  He served as an officer of the Continental Army and Washington's life guard.  He was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati.  He married, January 15, 1778, Hannah, born July 27, 1754, died September 28, 1828, daughter of Thomas Plympton, of Sudbury, and the fourth generation from Thomas Plympton, of Sudbury, 1643, the first of the name in New England.  Children:  1. Thomas, born September 5, 1779.  2. Levi, December 27, 1780, married, Catherine (Eoff) Woodhull, died without issue, December 28, 1747.  3. Mary, November 29, 1783, married Ward Richmond, died December 23, 1844.  4. George, July 21, 1785.  5. Henry, March 10, 1787.  6. Warren, August 15, 1788, died February 18, 1816, unmarried.  7. Hannah, January 30, 1790, married Richard Duyckinck.  8. Emma, August 31, 1791, died March 21, 1863, unmarried.  9. Horace, of whom further.  10. Otis, February 16, 1796, died November 24, 1825, unmarried.  11. Harriet, December 31, 1798, married Caleb Shipman, died February 7, 1867.

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