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restored and preserved by the Wyman Family Association as a relic and a place of meetings for the association.

From Francis and John nearly all the Wymans in America to-day trace their lineage. Francis married first, in 1644, Judith Peirce of Woburn. She died without issue. He married second, in 1650, Abigail Reed, daughter of William and Mabel (Kendall) Reed, who first came out, with a family of children, in 1635, and settled in Woburn. A few years later William and Mabel Reed returned to England, and William died there, at Newcastle-on- Tyne. The widow Reed then came back to Woburn, and here in 1660, married second, Henry Summers of Woburn.

My grandfather was in descent from Benjamin, tenth child of Francis and Abigail. Benjamin Wyman married, 1702, Elizabeth Hancock of Cambridge, daughter of Nathaniel 2d and Mary (Prentice) Hancock of Cambridge, and granddaughter of Nathaniel Hancock, founder of the Hancock family in America, who was settled in Cambridge in 1634, when he built a house on Water, now Dunster Street, in which also Nathaniel 2d some- time lived. Zebadiah, the fourth of Benjamin and Elizabeth's twelve children, married, 1733, Abigail Pierce of Woburn, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Johnson) Pierce, of Mansfield, Connecticut, Abi- gail then residing in Woburn. Zebadiah 2d, their