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 HON. EDWARD ASHTON ROLLINS.

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��mack, May 16, 1700. For more than half the time of the one hundred and eighty yeai'S of Colonial and State history of Massacliusetts, a descendant of liev. Henry Se.Tall has been on the supreme bench. Three of his descend- ants have at ditferent times been its chief justice.

93. Phillis.

94. Francis AVaiiiwright came from Chelmsford, England, to Ipswich. Mas- sachusetts, in 1635. In tig'litiiig the Pequod Indians, in 1037, he killed two with the butt of his gun. He was an enterprising and successful man. He died suddeul}^ in 8alem, in 1692.

95. Mary Howell.

96. Joseph Bowles, of Wells. Maine.

97. Hannah, died in July. 1676.

98. Thomas Bartlett. l)orn in 1594. em- igrated fi-oui Ipswich, England, in the Elizabetli, in 1634, and was one of the original proprietors of Watertown, Mas- sachusetts.

99. Elinor, born in 1588. died in 1656.

100. John Spring, born in 158!); left Ipswich, England, on the Elizabeth, April 10, 1634; and vvas one of the original proprietors of Watertown.

101. Homans, of Dedham, Mass.

102. Thomas Baker, of Koxbury. Mass.

103. Frances.

104. Edward Jackson was born in 1602, settled in Newton in 1644, and took the freeman's oath in 1645. His brother John settled there in 1639. He was a slave-holder; a representative seventeen years; bought the Mayhewfarm, of live hundred acres, of Gov. Bradstreet, in- cluding what is now Xewtonville. He died in 1681, and was buried in the cemetery at Xewton. He bequeatlied four hundred acres of land to Harvard College. Forty-four of his descendants were in the Revolutionary War.

105. Esther Honchin.

106. Hon. Samuel Wlieelwright lived and died in Wells. He was judge of probate and representative, and promi- nent in church and State atfairs. He died in 1700, and was buried in Wells, where his grave is suitably marked.

107. Marj' Stan^-an had eight children, one of whom was Mar3^

108- Hon. John Pickering was born in Portsmouth; was member of Assembly from 1697 to 1709; speaker 1697. 1698, 1699, 1704, to 1709. He was an able and influential lawyer, and won distnic- tion in the great case of Allen vs. Wal- dron, involving the title of New Hamp- shii'c.

109. Roger Plaisted vvas born in Eng- land, and became (xuite prominent in the affairs of the colony. He was killed by '

��the Indians, October 16, 1G75, and was buri(!d near South Berwick, where his grave is historically marked. Gov. Plaisted of Maine, and Gov. Goodwin of New Hampshire, are among his descendants.

110. Elizabeth Sherburn was born in England, in 1638, and died in Ports- mouth. Elizabeth's brother Henry had a daugliter Sarah, who mariied Wood- bur}' l.angdon. In-other of Gov. John Langdon; Sarah's daughter married Gov. Eustace of Massachusetts.

111. 'J'obias Langdon was boi'n in England, and tiled in Portsmouth in 1664. A marble monument has been erected on the homestead farm to com- memorate him and his decendants. This farm of live hundred acres lias been in the possession of the family for two hinidred and tiiirty years.

112. Alexander Shapleigh was born in Devonshire. England, in 1606. It is uncertain wliether lie was ever in Amer- ica. His death occured about the time of the birth of his son John, who was brought to America by his grandfather Alexander.

113. Catharine Frost, a sister of Major Cliarles Frost, was l)orn in 1632, and died in 1715. See Xo. 2.

114. William Leigl.ton. There is a tradition, that crossing from England his ship was wrecked, that he was res- cued and brought to Kittery, Maine. He died in 1666.

115. George Can- was born in England. He vvas in Ipswicli in 1633, in Newbury in 1638. In 1641 he maintained the ferry at Salisbury. December 29, 1649, he gave one (xuarter of a vessel to Wil- liam Hilton, formerly of Dover, and an ancestor ot Mrs. E. A. Pollins, '• for James in.v Indian."

116. Elizabeth (Iverney or Knight). She survived her husband William, and was administratrix of his estate.

117. Elder William Wentworth was born in England, probablv in the neigh- borhood of Alvord or Bilsbj'. He was baptized March 15, l(il5. He was a nephew of Anne Hutchinson, and a par- ishioner of Rev. John Wheelwright, Vicar of Bilsby. He was a member of the Exeter comliination in 1639; in Wells from 1642 to l(i49, and afterwards in iiollinsford, living near Garrison Hill, on land which still continues in the family. II(^ was a ruling elder in the Congregational church, and received a salary for preaching at Exeter when nearly eighty years of age. He was the ancestor of the colonial governors of the same name.

118. Elizabeth Hull. Mather's Mag_ nalia and Pike's Diary narrate her won.

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