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(III) William (2), eldest son of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Parrott) Worcester, was
born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, July
21, 1661, died at Bradford, Massachusetts,
April 23, 1706. He removed in 1662 with
his father to Rowley, Massachusetts, was
a farmer and is described in the documents
of the time as a yeoman. He married, January
29, 1690 or 1691, Martha, daughter of
Peter and Hannah (Noyes) Cheney, of Newbury,
Massachusetts. This marriage has a certain
fame in Massachusetts annals. On the same
day and at the same place as those on
which William Worcester married Martha
Cheney, his two brothers Francis and timothy
married her sisters, Mary and Huldah,
respectively. His children, born at Bradford,
were: 1. Moses, mentioned below. 2. William,
October 3, 1693. 4. Benjamin, June 8,
1695-96. 5. Sarah, February 11, 1697-98.
6. Nathaniel, October 31, 1700. 7. Mehitable,
January 16, 1702-02. 8. Abigail, May 8,
1705.
(IV) Moses, eldest son of William and
Martha(Cheney) Worcester, was born at
Bradford, Massachusetts, December 13,
1691. He lived there until 1874 when he
removed to Tewksbury and settled on a
farm which he purchased from Samuel Hunt.
This property is still in part owned by
his descendants. His name appears among
those of the original members of the church
organized in the east precinct of Bradford
in June, 1727. He married a lady of the
baptismal name of Mercie or Mercy. His
children were: 1. Moses, born at Bradford,
August 19, 1720. 2. Martha, born at Bradford,
August 26, 1723. 3. Sarah, born February
15, 1726-27. 4. William, born February
4, 1728-29. 5. Eldad, mention below. 6.
Mercy, born July, 1834.
(V) Eldad, third son of Moses and Mercia,
or Mercy Worcester, was born at Bradford,
Massachusetts, and baptized February 20,
1731-32. He removed to Tewksbury with
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his father and succeeded him in possession
of the homestead. He was admitted to the
church, November 8, 1761, and was subsequently
chosen deacon. He was elected May 25,
1778, a member of the committee "to
examine the constitution or form ofd government"
under the state organization. He married
February 24, 1761, Rebecca, daughter of
Stephen Osgood. Children: 1. Eldad, mention
below. 2. Rhoda, born March 19, 1766.
3. Lydia, born February 19, 1768, married
Joseph Bradley. 4. Samuel, born February
10, 1770, died at sea, unmarried. 5. Osgood,
born February 16, 1772. 6. John, born
April 5, 1774. 7. Rebecca, born March
12, 1776. 8. Philip.
(VI) Eldad (2), eldest son of Eldad (1)
and Rebecca (Osgood) Worcester, was born
at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, June 22,
1763, died May 5, 1853. Inheriting the
paternal homestead he was there throughout
his life of nearly ninety years. he served
in the war of the revolution, held offices
of trust in the town and was active in
the cause of education. he married, February
2, 1793, Esther Brown, born December 23,
1771, died October 3, 1818, daughter of
timothy Brown, of Tewksbury. Children:
1. Eldad, mentioned below. 2. Horatio,
born December 8, 1795. 3. Alfred, October
4, 1797. 4. John, August 28, 1799, died
July 17, 1847. 5. Caroline, June 16. 1802,
died August, 1831, married Charles Worcester,
of Tewksbury. 6. Horatio, July 9, 1804,
married Susan Pinkham. 7. Rebecca, august
21, 1806. 8. Henry Edwin, July 17, 1808.
9. George P. 10. Mary. 11. Adolphus. 12.
Annie R.
(VII) Eldad (3), eldest son of Eldad
(2) and Esther (Brown) Worcester, was
born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, February
4, 1794, died in 1847. He was educated
at the Andover (Massachusetts) Academy,
studied law, and was admitted to the bar
of Massachusetts. About 1826 he removed
to Albany, New York, where he successfully
practiced his profession until 1842. He
married, July 6, 1818, Sarah Chickering,
born at Andover, Massachusetts, June,
1795, died at Goshen, Indiana, April 3,
1869, daughter of Dean and Sarah (Farnham)
Chickering. Their children were: 1. Sarah
Brown, born at Andover, Massachusetts,
September 26, 1819, died at Schenectady,
New York, October 19, 1859, married (first)
Nicholas Bouck, (second) John C. Wright.
2. George Washington, born at Andover,
March 20, 1821, died of ship fever on
Staten Island, New York, September 28,
1849. 3. Caroline Augusta, born at Andover,
December 30, 1822, died October 18, 1897,
married Thomas Harbison. 4. Mary Louise,
born October 10, 1826, died September
15, 1827. 5. Edwin Dean, mentioned below.
6. Harriet Louisa, born in Albany, New
York, January 19, 1831, died December
3, 1868, married as third wife, William
Morgan Deeson. 7. Mary Elizabeth, born
in Albany, July 29, 1834, married Charles
Perkins. 8. Franklin Eldad, born in Albany,
May 28, 1837, died August 26, 1897, married
Emma A. Warner. 9. Maria Jane, born august
28, 1840, died June 20, 1841.
(VIII) Edwin Dean, second son of Eldad
(3) and Sarah (Chickering) Worcester,
was born in Albany, New York, November
19, 1828, died in New York, June 13, 1904.
During his early schooldays he spent much
time in his father's law office, assisting
in various technical duties, and thus
acquiring a general knowledge of legal
principles and forms,. He completed his
studies under private instruction, and
then engaged in clerical work in the office
at Albany of one of his uncles. He was
a student in the office of Rufus W. Peckham,
studying law, but he again turned to business.
After two yeas in a machine shop he was
placed in charge of the mechanical department
of the Ransom Stove Works in Albany, in
1848. He continued there until 1852 when
he entered the office of the comptroller
of the state of New York, his brother-in-law,
John C. Wright, having been elected to
that position. Afterwards he was employed
with the Albany City Bank and the Commercial
Bank of Albany. The consolidation of several
of the great railways into one system,
under the name of the New York Central
Railroad Company, afforded him an opportunity
for devising a complete system for the
accounting departments of the new organization
so that ultimately he was made treasurer
of the new company and with such men as
Erastus Corning and Henry keep directed
its affairs until the further reorganization
of Commodore Vanderbilt came into effect.
He went abroad in 1869 for rest and after
his return a plan for the
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underground railway in New York was inaugurated
by Commodore Vanderbilt and he was placed
in charge of it until it was abandoned.
In 1873 he was made chairman and treasurer
of the Lake shore and Michigan southern
Railway company, which under his supervision
was partially organized in its financial
arrangements. Mr. Worcester was a principal
representative of the various interests
with which he was connected before the
Windom committee of the United States
Senate, which inquired into the various
railroad systems of the country. He negotiated
a considerable part of the bonds of the
forty million dollar mortgage of the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company in 1873. Two years later he was
elected director of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. For many years the
friend and confidant of Commodore Vanderbilt,
Mr. Worcester was present at his death
and was a witness to his will. He was
appointed secretary of the Michigan Central
upon its incorporation with the New York
Central system in 1878, and in 1883 became
vice-president of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Companies. In December, 1903,
he completed his fifteenth year of continuos
service in the great system of railroads
which developed out of the original new
York Central, and lived to the following
year. His remains were interred in Albany
Rural Cemetery.
He married, April 10, 1855, in Albany,
New York, Mary Abigail, daughter of Warren
S. Low, of that city (see Low VIII). His
children were: 1. Edwin Dean, mentioned
below. 2. George henry, born June 6, 1857,
married October 17, 1888, Lydia Dearborn
Kimball, who died June 16, 1905. 3. Franklin
Eldred, born September 12, 1860, died
March 3, 1891. 5. Henry Augustus, born
in Albany, New York, November 18, 1862,
married, October 20, 1905, Elizabeth Howard
Whiting. 6. Wilfred James, born in Albany,
July 28, 1864, married July 17, 1897,
Susan Baldwin Kirkham. 7. Margaret Dows,
born in Albany, August 12, 18872, married
February 25, 1905, Dr. Charles Mallory
Williams.
(IX) Edwin Dean (2), eldest son of Edwin
Dean (1) and Mary Abigail (Low) Worcester,
was born in Albany, New York, February
25, 1856. He received his early education
at the Albany Boys' School where he was
graduated in 1871. During the next year
he entered Yale College, and from that
institution he was graduated in the well
known class of 1876. He was winner of
the Junior Exhibition Prize and of the
De Forest medal, and at graduation ranked
second with the honors of salutatorian,
his chum, Arthur T. Hadley (who in 1899,
became president of Yale University) having
the first place and the valedictory. He
then took the course of the Yale Law School,
where in 1878 he received the Degree of
Bachelor of Law. In the same year he returned
home to his early home in Albany, and
passed a clerkship in the office of Hand
& Hale and was admitted to the bar.
In 1882 he left Albany and spent a year
and a half in foreign travel. Establishing
himself in New York City he formed with
Thorndike Saunders and G. Creighton Webb
in May, 1884, the legal co-partnership
of Saunders, Webb & Worcester, which
continued until May 1, 1907. He then became
a member of the law firm of Worcester,
Williams, & Lehman (also of New York
City), with Stephen G. Williams and Irving
Lehman. Mr. Lehman was elected a justice
of the New York Supreme Court in 1908,
whereby the law firm was dissolved. Mr.
Worcester is at present(1912) the senior
partner in the firm of Worcester, Williams
& Saxe, 39 Broad Street, New York,
his partners being Stephen G. Wiliams,
John G. Saxe and Rogers H. Bacon. Mr.
Worcester is a member of the Century,
University, and Yale clubs of new York
City, and also of the association of the
bar, in which organization he has held
several official positions.
(The Low
Line.)
This name seems to have come to America
from England and is also found among the
Dutch immigrants at New Amsterdam. The
family herein traced was very early located
in Massachusetts, whence it has been distributed
over a wide area and has contributed much
to the general development and prosperity
of the nation.
(I) Thomas Low, of Chebacco Parish Ipswich,
now Essex, Massachusetts, was born in
England, and is believed to have been
a son of Captain John Low, master of
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the ship "Ambrose," and vice-admiral
of the fleet that brought over governor
Winthrop's colony in 1630. The cane and
Bible were said to have been the property
of Captain John have been handed down
in the families of the Essex Lows and
are still owned by one of them. The Bible
was "Imprinted at London by Christopher
Barker, Printer to the Queens most excellent
Majestie, dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe
at the signe of the Tegreshead Anno 1579".
Thomas low was in Ipswich as early as
1641, and according to his own deposition
was born in 1605. He was a maltster, and
died September 8, 1677. His wife Susannah
died in Charleston, august 19, 1684, aged
about eighty-six years. Their children:
1. Margaret, born in England, married,
April 8, 1657, General Davidson. 2. Thomas,
born 1632. 3. Sarah, 1637, married Joseph
Stafford, 4. John, mentioned below.
(II) John, second son of Thomas and Susannah
Low, was undoubtedly born in Ipswich,
Massachusetts, died there about 1695,
leaving an estate valued at one hundred
and sixty-five pounds. He was a maltster,
succeeding to the business of his father
which he continued until about the time
of his death. He married, December 10,
1661, Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth
Thorndike, of Beverly. Children: 1. John,
mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born October
18, 1667. 3. Margaret, January 26, 1669.
4. Dorcas, November 3, 1673. 5. Elias,
baptized September 1, 1676. 6. Nathaniel,
march 14, 1678. 7. Martha, born September,
1679. 8. Joseph, April 18, 1681. 9. Hannah,
July 13, 1685.
(III) John (2), eldest child of John
(1) and Sarah (Thorndike) Low, was born
April 24, 1665, in Ipswich, Massachusetts,
and baptized July 1, 1670. His wife bore
the name of Dorcas and they had children
in Chebacco: 1. John, mentioned below.
2. Thomas, born March 5, 1692. 3. Hannah,
February 1, 1694. 4. Nathaniel, baptized
November 15, 1696.
(IV) John (3), eldest child of John (2)
and Dorcas Low, was born February 22,
1691, in Chebacco, Massachusetts. He married
Anna Annable, intentions recorded April
18, 1713. They had children recorded in
Ipswich: 1. John, born May 20, 1714. 2.
Lucy, June 15, 1716, 3. Anna, March 5,
1718, 4. Stephen, baptized May 29, 1720.
5. Francis, mentioned below. 6. Jacob,
baptized February, 1725. 7. Ephraim, May
19, 1728. 8. Thomas, January 11, 1730.
9. Nathaniel, March 5, 1732. 10. Martha,
April 21, 1734, at the Hamlet Parish Church.
(V) Francis, third son of John (3) and
Anna (Annable) Low, was baptized March
18, 1722, at the Hamlet Parish Church
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, died at Barre,
Massachusetts, in 1760. His death was
the result of a fall from a haymow. Tradition
says that he owned the last slaves held
in Massachusetts, but this is manifestly
impossible because slaves were held in
that state after 1760. He married (first)
about 1751, Anna Rice, who died without
issue; married (second) December 4, 1755,
Mary, born March 27, 1735, in Weston,
Massachusetts, daughter of Nathaniel and
Abigail Jenison. She married (second)
December 22, 1762, Noah Mendall, of New
Braintree, Massachusetts, and removed
to Staten Island, where her Mendall descendants
are found to this day. By the second marriage
Francis low had three children: 1. Jenison,
born September 16, 1756, in Barre, died
in 1835, he was a soldier of the revolution
from that town (see vol. 21, p 128, Revolutionary
rolls, office of Mass. Sec'y of State),
he married (first) about 1780, Dinah Haynes,
and (second) December 27, 1804, Abigail
Blanchard, he had several children, one
of whom, Francis, married Reliance Cobb
Burrill, five children, 1. Albert, 2.
William. 3. Philip B. 4. Oscar. 5. Lyman
Haynes, the last of whom lived in New
York, and perhaps is there yet. 2. Samuel,
mentioned below. 3. Mary.
(VI) Samuel, second son of Francis and
Mary (Jenison) Low, was born October 23,
1758, in Barre, Massachusetts, died September
127, 1830. He engaged as a drummer with
the militia expecting to be called into
service during the revolution, but was
not called to the field. He married, July
25, 1780, Abigail Bacon, she died August
16, 1847. Children: 1. Francis, mentioned
below. 2. Arethusa, born march 15, 1783,
died April 28, 1821, married a Mr. Belton.
3. Hannah, died two months old. 4. Abigail,
born June 21, 1786, died in 1869, married
Lemuel Sherwood. 5. Polly, born February
1, 1789, died in 1848, married a Mr.
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Willoughby. 6. Samuel, born September
25, 1791, died in 1869. 7. Joel, born
July 18, 1794, died in 18785. 8. Nancy,
born April 5, 1794, died in 1834, married
a Mr. Kilbourn. 9. Hannah, born August
26, 1801, married a Mr. Lincoln.
(VII) Francis (2), eldest child of Samuel
and Abigail (Bacon) Low, was born January
18, 1782, in Barre, Massachusetts, died
January 21, 1834, at Albany, New York.
He married, December 16, 1804, Mary Rogers,
born March 15, 1785, in Atkinson, New
Hampshire, died November 11, 1856, daughter
of John and Betsey (Mulliken) Rogers.
Children: 1. Warren Sidney, mentioned
below. 2. Maria A., born November 1, 1807,
died at Houston, Texas, October 28, 1867,
married Benjamin Thomas, three sons, all
of whom died unmarried, and three daughters.
3. Addison, born November 21, 1809, died,
August 1, 1883, at Albany, where he resided,
married 1836, Elvira Steele, born July
6, 1812, died September 24, 1882, nine
children, five of whom died in infancy.
One son, Will Hickok Low, better known
as Will H. Low, the well-known artist,
illustrator, and author, a member of the
National Academy, was born at Albany,
May 31, 1853, and is now living at Bronxville,
Westchester County, New York, he married
Berthe Eugenie, born at Caen, France,
June 7, 1853, died at Bronxville, April
6, 1909, no issue. 4. Arethusa Ann, born
March 22, 1812, died at Albany in 1896,
married, at Albany, George Vance, who
died with a few years after marriage,
no issue. 5. Sidney, born October 10,
1814, died in infancy. 6. Francis Sidney,
born August 18, 1816, died at Jersey City,
March 24, 1871, married Hannah R. Wallace.
Children : 1. Sidney, born at Albany,
1855, died October 6, 1911, leaving a
widow and six children; Charles and two
daughters. 7. Jane Elizabeth, born June
6, 181, died December, 1898, married her
cousin, Barney W. Low, no issue. 8. Sarah,
born September 5, 1820, died 1887, married
Edward Burnet, no children. 9. William
Henry, born July 12, 1823, resided at
Albany where he died, married Aurelia
Fellows, no issue. 10. Mary, born November
3, 1825, died December 11, 1881, at Albany,
never married. 11. Helen Eliza, born October
23, 1829, died March 1906, married in
1850, James Ashton Greig, whom she survived
many years, and resided in Albany; two
children; Mary, who married Lorenzo Parlati;
and Carlisle Norwood who married a Miss
Hendee, and is supposed to be living in
Chicago.
(VIII) Warren Sidney, eldest child of
Francis (3) and Mary (Rogers) Low, was
born March 9, 1806, at Crescent (formerly
called Half Moon), Saratoga County, New
York, died February 1, 1888, at Albany,
and was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery.
From the age of fourteen top twenty-one
years he served an apprenticeship with
Warren Daniel, of Albany, to learn the
"Art of Mystery" of the moulder's
craft. Having a taste for mechanics, he
was occupied nearly all this life as a
machinist, and for several years ending
in 1848-49 was associated with his brothers,
Addison, Francis S. and William H., in
the iron foundry business carried on at
Albany under the name of Low & Company.
He was not a member of this firm; for
several years after leaving it, he was
employed by the Ransom Stove Manufacturing
company as a machinist. In 1875 he went
into the office of the secretary of the
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company at Albany to assist his son, Warren,
who was in failing health, And after the
latter's death in 1876 took his place
in which he remained until his own death.
He married (first) July 17, 1828, Mary
Armenia Walker, born March 25, 1808, died
February 20, 1861; eldest child of Ashbel
and Joanna (Lambert) Walker, Children:
1. Isabella Carson. Born May 16, 1829,
in Albany; married Theodore Sedgwick Pomeroy
and was the mother of two children: Fannie
Sedgwick, born December 6, 1856, married
June, 1900, Charles Sedgwick Rackemann,
of Boston, resides at Boston, and has
no children; and Florence, born July 29,
1862, died December 3, 1908, never married.
2. Mary Abigail, born October 30, 1830;
married, April 30, 1855, at Albany, Edwin
Dean Worcester, of that town (see Worcester
VIII). 3. Eunice Walker, born December
10, 1833, married William Henry Frame,
and died in 1856, leaving a daughter,
Julia De Forest. 4. Martha Denison, born
February 5, 1836, died January 22, 1874,
married (first) George W. Gill (second,
Charles S. Harvey, the only child of the
first marriage, Alice E., married James
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K. Stanley and has children, Harry Kelly,
Mary Worcester, and Martha Low; by the
second marriage there was a son, Robert.
5. Annie Elizabeth, born February 22,
1838; married Nicholas Groot, whom she
survived, and died at Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
1877; she had children: Mary Lambert and
Frank Nicholas. 6. Warren Sidney, born
November 26, 1841, died in 1876 in Albany;
married and had four children; i. Mary
Worcester, known as Minnie, married (first)
Henry B. Cooper, (second) Henry L. Edwards,
of El Paso, Texas and by her first marriage
she had a daughter Helen Beatrice; ii.
Warren Sherman, married and has three
children: Helen Louise, Warren Sherman,
and Edward Francis; iii. Fred A.; iv.
Lulu Randall.
BOND. This name is
said to be from the Anglo-Saxon word,
bonda, meaning a householder, proprietor
or husbandman. This word is latinized
:paterfamilias," according to one
authority, "and rightly enough as
it would seem, because much in the same
sense in composition we use husbandman
or husband or husbond." The name
Le Bond occurs in the Hundred Rolls. There
are several persons called Bonde in the
Domesday Book of England, one of whom
is somewhat contradictorily called "liber
homo." On reference to Domesday Book
it will be found that numerous estates
were held in England by families of the
name of Bond in the time of Edward the
Confessor and through later years down
to the formation of the survey by William
the Conqueror. They held estates in the
counties of Cornwall, Dorset, Essex, Kent,
Hants, Berks, Bradford, Suffolk, Gloucester,
Northampton and York, and several counties
held two or more estates. Whether these
were held by a few wealthy families or
by as many families as there were estates
has not been clearly ascertained, but
it is probably that the families were
numerous. the most distinguished family
of the name in England for the last three
or four centuries trace their lineage
to Earth and Holewood in the county of
Cornwall; some of the old writers of heraldry
speak of stips antiquissima Bondorum of
that county.
There is a tradition--a very common sort
of tradition--that three brothers of the
name of Bond came to this country about
the middle of the seventeenth century.
One of them Thomas, said to have been
a physician, settled in Virginia or Maryland.
Another of the three, John, settled in
Newbury, Massachusetts, and was proprietor
in 1662, having descendants in New England,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
The other, William, said to have been
a merchant settled in Watertown, Massachusetts,
and from him are descended most of the
family of the name of Bond in New England.
The results of the researches of H. G.
Somerly in England have tended to discredit
part of this tradition.
(I) Jonas Bond, of Bury Saint Edmunds,
county Suffolk, England, married a woman
whose Christian name was Rose, and who
surname was perhaps Wood. He probably
moved to Bury Saint Edmunds, after the
birth of his second child from Hawley
or Woolpit, where he owned some houses,
according to the evidence of his will.
He died in August, 1601, and was buried
August 5, 1801. Children: 1. Oliver, the
"eldest son". 2. John, "the
elder". 3. John, "the younger,"
baptized December 26, 1591. 4. Bartholomew.
5. William, baptized December 28, 1595.
6. Thomas, mentioned below. 7. Elizabeth,
baptized march 12, 1599. 8. Margaret,
baptized December 10, 1600.
(II) Thomas, son of Jonas and Rose bond,
was baptized September 8, 1597. On his
will his father left him the house at
Woolpit. He was by occupation a maltster
and his place of resident and also of
business was Bury Saint Edmunds. His will
was dated November 5, 1658, and proved
march 10, 1659, at the prerogative court
of Canterbury in London. He married a
woman who baptismal name was Elizabeth,
but whose maiden surname remains unknown.
Children: 1. Thomas, born September 232,
1622. 2. John, February 5, 1624. 3. William,
mentioned below. 4. Henry, April 5, 1628.
5. Elizabeth, March 12, 1630. 6. Francis,
May 31, 1632. 7. Mary, January 31, 1636.
8. Jonas, August 5, 1638.
(III) William, son of Thomas and Elizabeth
bond, and the immigrant ancestor of the
Bond family, was baptized at Bury Saint
Edmunds, Suffolk County, England, September
8, 1625. His father in his will
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gave him legacies but no lands, William
being at the time in America. He is supposed
to have come over to this country with
an aunt and is said to have been educated
for a mercantile life, but he seems to
have been employed a great deal in taking
inventories, writing wills and deeds,
and settling estates. William Bond was
selectman and town clerk of Watertown,
a captain in the militia, justice of the
peace, member of the council of safety
in 1689, often represented Watertown in
the general court and was elected speaker
in 1691-92-93-95, being the first speaker
elected under the New Royal Charter which
united Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth
Colonies into one colony. He was admitted
freeman, October 11, 1682. On October
7, 1679, he was appointed one of a committee
to rebuilt Lancaster, which had been destroyed
by the Indians, and June 10, 1686, he
was appointed by the president and council
of Massachusetts on a committee, with
general powers to order and regulate all
matters concerning the settlement of Worcester.
He married, (first) February 7, 1649,
Sarah Biscoe, or Briscoe, which is said
to have been the true orthography of those
days. She was the daughter of the "rich
tanner", Nathaniel Briscoe, who came
to Watertown previous to 1642, for in
that year he wrote and circulated privately
a pamphlet against "the way of supporting
ministers" which was by taxation.
This gave great offence and he was fined
ten pounds. In that year his barn, with
cattle and corn, amounting to one hundred
pounds was destroyed by fire. He became
so dissatisfied with the prevalent ecclesiastical
intolerance that he returned to England
in 1657 or 1662. Sarah (Briscoe) bond
died February 15, 1692, and William Bond
married (second) Elizabeth Nevinson, widow
of John Nevinson, of Watertown. He died
December 14, 1695, and she died his widow,
August 24, 1720, aged eighty-two years.
Children, all by first wife, Sarah, and
all born in Watertown: 1. William (Deacon),
December 1, 1659, died in 1724; married
June 2, 1680, Hepzibah Hastings, born
January 31, 1663-64, at Watertown, only
daughter of Deacon Thomas and Margaret(Cheney)
Hastings. 2. John, born December, 1652,
died March 1, 1690-91; married, August
6, 1679, Hannah Coolidge, born February
20, 1656-57, died 1698m daughter of John
and Hannah (Livermore) Coolidge, of Watertown.
3. Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth,
born November 30, 1656, died December
23, 1729; married, march 13, 1678-79,
Captain Nathaniel Barsham, born 1644,
died August 2, 1716, son of William and
Armabella Barsham, of Watertown. 5. Nathaniel,
born January 19, 1658-59, died in infancy.
6. Nathaniel (Lieutenant), January 9,
1659-60; died about April 1, 1700, married,
February 27, 1684-85, Bethia Fuller, born
November 23, 1661, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Fuller, of Newtown, Massachusetts.
7. Sarah, born July 27, 1661; married
January 29, 1689-90, Dr. Palgrave Wellington,
born 1653, died October 22, 1715, son
of Roger and Mary (Palgrave)Wellington,
of Watertown. 8. Jonas, (Lieutenant-Colonel),
born July 13, 1664, died April 21, 1727;
married (first) January 29, 1688, Grace
Coolidge, born February 25, 1663, died
April 11, 1699, daughter of John and Hannah
(Livermore) Coolidge, of Watertown, and
sister of Hannah, who married his elder
brother, John, married (second) Elizabeth
(Jackson) Prentice, born April 28, 1658,m
died January 25, 1740, widow of John Prentice,
son of Captain Thomas Prentice and daughter
of Edward Jackson, of Newton. Jonas bond
was a lieutenant-colonel of a regiment
of militia, was a selectman eighteen years,
represented Watertown many times in the
general court and was a justice of the
peace nearly twenty-five years. he belonged
to the military force sent into Canada
un 1690, under Sir William Phipps. 9.
Mary, born 1669, died May 21, 1700; married
June 21, 1693, Lieutenant Richard Coolidge,
born April 13, 1666, died October 23,
1732, youngest son of John and Hannah
(Livermore) Coolidge, of Watertown, this
being the third marriage alliance between
the two families. He was selectmen of
Watertown eleven years, and representative
in 1722.
(IV) Thomas (2), third son of William
and Sarah (Biscoe or Briscoe) Bond, was
born at Watertown, Massachusetts, December
23, 1654, died there December 17, 1704.
He married, September 30, 1680, Sarah,
born at New Cambridge, Massachusetts,
January 2, 1661, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Hyde) Woolson, first of New Cambridge,
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now Newton, Massachusetts, and then of
Watertown Farms, now Weston, Massachusetts.
Administration was granted to the widow,
Sarah, and her son, Thomas, of Thomas
Bond, January 22, 1704, and the inventory
showed an estate valued at three hundred
and fourteen pounds sterling, including
one hundred and seventy-seven acres of
land and dwelling. Children, all born
in Watertown: 1. Thomas, mentioned below.
2. Sarah, born December 2, 1685. Married,
February 12, 1701, James Treadway, a maltster
of Watertown, born there October 17, 1676,
son of Josiah and Sarah (Sweetman) Treadway.
3. William, born February 1, 1687, died
at Weston, Massachusetts, June 21, 1745;
he married (first) at Watertown, December
11, 1712, Mary Learned, born at Watertown,
October 10, 1688, died there April 24,
1716, daughter of deacon Benoni and Mary
(Fanning) Learned, of Watertown, married
(second) August 20, 1718, Elizabeth Benjamin,
born March 22, 1697, daughter of Daniel
and Elizabeth (Brown) Benjamin, of Watertown,
they settled in Weston. 4. Mary, baptized
December 7, 1690; married, December 29,
1709, Isaac Bigelow, born March 19, 1689,
son of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow,
of Watertown, they moved to Colchester,
Connecticut. 5. John, born July 14, 1695;
married, July 7, 1815, Ruth Whitney, baptized
July 10, 1698, died at Worcester, Massachusetts,
April 1, 1748, daughter of Benjamin and
Abigail (Hagar) Whitney, of Watertown.
John bond had taken up his resident in
Worcester not long before his wife's death.
6. Isaac, born June 22, 1698; married,
about 1725, a woman whose first name of
Margaret, and removed to Sherburne, afterwards
living in Sudbury and Natick, all in Massachusetts.
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