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 GAGE GENEALOGY.

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��lie also built a large mansion house in the town of Chichester, where he died. and was burbd in the Abbey there; and Ins posterity remained in that county for

many generations, in credit and esteem, of whom there were Barons in Parlia- ment in the reign of Henry II.

John Gage, 1 1408. had a son John 2 who married Joan Sudgrovc; their son, Sir John, 8 married Eleanor St. Clere. He was knighted 1454, and d. Sept. 30. 1 186. His heir, William. Esq., 4 1). 1456, 111. Agnes Bolney. Their son, Sir .John, 5 b. 1480, married Phillippa Guilderford, and was made knight May 22. 1541. He died April 28, 1557. aged 77. leaving four sons and four daughters. Sir Edward, 6 his eldest son. created knight by Queen Mary, in. Elizabeth Parker, and had niue sons and six daughters. John Gage, Esq., 7 the eldest son, was30 years old at his father's death, and heir to fifteen man- ors, with many other Lands in Sussex, &c, but having survived all his broth- ers and leaving no issue the estate de- 5C( uded to his nephew, John, 8 who was advanced to the degree of baronet. Mar. 26, 11)22. and m. Penelope, widow of Sir George Trenchard, by whom he had four sons and live daughters. He d. Oct. 3. 1633. John, 9 his second son, of Stone- ham, in Suffolk, came to America with John Winthrop, jr.. son of the governor, landing in Salem, June 12. 1630. In 1633 they, with ten others, were the first pro- prietors Of Ipswich. His will-. Anna. d. at Ipswich June. 1658. In Nov. follow- ing, he in. Sarah, widow of Robert Keyes, who. by one account, survived him. though by another m. 3d, Mary Keyes. February, 1663, who d. Dec. 20. 1668. He removed to Rowley in 1664, and there died in 1673. having been a •• prominent man and held responsible offices of trust and fidelity."' both in [pswich and Rowley. Of his eight chil- dren, seven of whom were sons, the sec- ond. Daniel.-" of whom we find the earliest mention among the Gages of that part or -Old Rowley," which is now Bradford, Mass. \>'e then; learn from Bradford town records that he 111. Sarah Kimball. May 3, 1675, and d. Nov. 8, 1705. He had eight children, three sons of whom Daniel, 11 the oldest, b. Mar. 12. 1676, m. Martha Burbank, .Mar. '.). 1697, and about that time settled in the ex- treme northwest corner of Bradford, on the banks of the Merrimack, establishing the well known '"Gage's, or. Upper Ferry," on the then main road to Methu- en, where the grotesque ■• Gage house." as built and afterwards enlarged, now stands (1879) in dilapidation, the oldest in the town. She there d. Sept. 8, 1741. and he d. Mar. 14, 1747. Their children were —

��'■> ; m. Gideon

��Mehitabel.'- b. Dec. 29. 1698. Josiah, b. 1701, settled in Pelham.

.Martha, b. April 17. 1703.

Lydia. b. May 24. 1705.

Moses, 12 b. May 1. 1706.

Daniel, b. April 22, 1708; rem. to Pel- ham.

Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1709 or 1710.

Jemima. 1). Dec. 2.1711; in. Richard Kimball, Nov. 8. 17.J.J.

Naomi, b. Feb. 25. 1714 or 15; m. Da- vid Hall. Sept. 22. 1737.

Esther, b. May 15. 1716; in. Jona. Currier, of Methuen, Aug. 1. 1739.

Amos. b. July 28, 1718; in. Mehitabel Kimball, of Bradford, Dec. 18, 1740, in Pelham.

Abigail, b. Dec. 22. 1720. d. young.

Mary, b. Aug. 31, 17 Hardy, May 24 "1744.

Abigail. 2d. b. Mar. 13, 1724 or 25.

Moses, 12 m. Mary Heaseltine, April 12, 173;i ; retained the farm at the Ferry, and there lived and died. Their children were —

Moses. 1 ' 1 b. Mar. 7. 1735 or 36; in. 1st, Thurston, of Bradford (says tra- dition) ; in. 2d. Abigail Kimball, of Me- thuen, Nov. 1, 1770 ; lived at the Ferry.

Sarah, b. Nov. 9, 17:57.

James, b. June 10.1739; in. Rebecca Kimball. Aug. 18, 1757: rein, to Pel- ham; there d\, April 17. 1794. aged 55; his grandson. James, now in AVoodsvilie, N. H. (1879).

William, b. Aug. 16, 1741 : d. Dec. 14, 1747. aged 6 years. 4 months.

Richard, 6. July 16. 1743; d. Dec. 25, 1747. aged 4 years. 5 months.

Abigail, b. dune 25, 1744; d. Jan. 4, 1747 or 8. aged 3 years, 6 months.

Mary. b. Feb. 15. 1746; d. Jan. 23, 1747 or S. in her 2d year.

[All lour of these children being now reported traditionally in Bradford to have died of malignant throat distemper, at nearly the same time].

William. 2d, b. Nov. 24. 1748 ; 111. Rho- da Norton, a native of Newburyport, though at that time, of Bradford. Nov. 25. 1709. He built an addition to the original house, and the farm is still owned, but not occupied, by his great- grandson. Charles Hazelton. Mrs. Anna Mitchil, the daughter of his son. Daniel, b. 1800, is still living (1879) in Bradford village.

Richard. 2d. b. May 20, 1751; d. Feb. 21, 1756.

Thaddeus, 13 b. April 17, 1754 ; d. May 11, 1845.

Thus was a family in old Bradford essentially " sifted," in the Providence of God. to furnish one settler for the wilds of Sanbornton, N. H.

Thaddeus. 13 in. Abigail Merrill, of Bradford, Nov. 30, 1775, who was b.

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