Month: November 2025

By Muriel Bristol | November 30, 2025

Shubael Roberts was born in 1780, son of Joseph and Mary (Wentworth) Roberts.

Shubal Roberts headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Shubal Roberts married in Rochester, NH, April 22, 1802, Rose Tuttle, both of Rochester, NH. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony.

(The known children of Shubael and Rose (Tuttle) Roberts were: Mary Ann Roberts (1804-1859)). [Based upon census records, there would seem to have been also three other children (two sons and a daughter), of which no records have been found as yet].

Shubael Roberts signed the Rochester Division Petition of May 1802.

Daughter Mary Ann Roberts was born in Milton, September 30, 1804.

Shubael Roberts was among the fifty-two Milton petitioners that sought to have Jotham Nute appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, in August 1805.

Shubel Roberts was assessed in the Milton School District No. 4 of Dudley Burnham in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Shubil Roberts headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Rose (Tuttle) Roberts], two females aged under-10 years [Mary Ann Roberts], and two males aged under-10 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jonathan How and Enoch Bunker (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Shubael Roberts died February 11, 1812.

Daughter Mary Ann Roberts married (1st) in Dover, NH, January 10, 1828, James Plumer, both of Dover, NH. He was born circa 1796, son of Ephraim and Judith (Perkins) Plumer. Rev. Benjamin R. Hoyt performed the ceremony. (She was his second wife, his first being named also Mary A. Plumer).

Rose [(Tuttle)] Roberts headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 40-49 years [herself], and one male aged 20-29 years. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Caleb Wakeham and Eph. Plummer. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Jas. Plumer headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], and one female aged 20-29 years [Mary A. (Roberts) Plumer].

Son-in-law James Plumer died in Dover, NH, in January 1831, aged thirty-five years.

DIED. In this town, suddenly, Mr. James Plumer, aged 35 (Dover Enquirer, January 11, 1831).

Daughter Mary Ann (Roberts) Plummer married (2nd) in Dover, NH, May 15, 1836, Richard Hanson Goodwin. He was born in Wakefield, NH, December 1, 1808, son of Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin. David Root performed the ceremony. There is a duplicate marriage record from Boston, MA, dated April 19, in which she was a resident of Dover, NH, and he was a resident of Boston, MA.

Daughter Mary Ann (Roberts) Plummer married (2nd) in Boston, MA, April 19, 1836, Richard Hanson Goodwin, she of Dover, NH, and he of Boston, MA. There is a duplicate marriage record from Dover, NH, dated May, 1836. David Root performed the ceremony. Goodwin was born in Wakefield, NH, December 1, 1808, son of Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin. 

AN ACT to alter the names of certain persons. … James Plumer of Milton may take the name of John James Plumer (Dover Enquirer, July 5, 1836).

Mother Mary (Wentworth) Roberts died October 2, 1836.

Grandson Richard James Plumer Goodwin was born in Boston, MA, June 7, 1837.

Richard H. Goodwin headed a Boston household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Mary Ann ((Roberts) Plumer) Goodwin], one female aged 20-29 years, and one male aged under-5 years [Richard J.P. Goodwin]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade.

Father Joseph Roberts died January 15, 1841.

Rose (Tuttle) Roberts died September 26, 1847.

Richd H. Goodwin, a farrier, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Census. His household included Mary Ann [((Roberts) Plumer)] Goodwin, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Richd J.P. Goodwin, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and Ann Medran, aged twenty-one years (b. Ireland). Richd H. Goodwin had real estate valued at $3,000.

Daughter Mary Ann (Roberts) Goodwin died of apoplexy in Boston, MA, April 21, 1859, aged fifty-four years, six months, and twenty-two years.

DEATHS. In this city, 21st inst., Mrs. MARY ANN, wife of Mr. R.H. GOODWIN, 54 yrs., 6 mos, 22 ds. (Boston Evening Transcript, April 23, 1859).

DIED. In this city, 21st inst., Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of Mr. R.H. Goodwin, 54 yrs., 6 mos. (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), April 30, 1859).

Grandson Richard J.P. Goodwin married (1st) in Boston, MA, December 29, 1859, Josephine L. Allen, both of Boston, MA. He was a physician, aged twenty-two years, and she was aged twenty-four years. Rev. J.W. Field performed the ceremony. She was born in Boston, MA, circa 1835, daughter of Ezra and Nancy R. Allen.

R.J.P. Goodwin, a horseshoer, aged twenty-three years (b. MA), headed a Medford (Somerville P.O.), MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Josephine L. [(Allen)] Goodwin, aged twenty-five years (b. MA), Matilda Allen, aged twenty-three years (b. MA), R.H. Goodwin, a farmer, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and Kate Mahaena, a domestic, aged nineteen years (b. Ireland). R.J.P. Goodwin had real estate valued at $1,500. R.H. Goodwin had real estate valued at $700.

Son-in-law Richard H. Goodwin married (2nd) in Lynn, MA, July 19, 1860, Elisa A. (Skinner) Reynolds, he of Medford, MA, and she of Lynnfield, MA. He was a blacksmith, aged fifty-one years, and she was aged thirty-four years. She was born in Lynnfield, MA, circa 1826, daughter of Jesse and Elisa Skinner.

Richard H. Goodwin, a horseshoer, aged fifty-six years (b. Wakefield, NH), headed a Lynnfield, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census. His household included Eliza A. [((Skinner) Reynolds)] Goodwin, a housewife, aged thirty-nine years (b. Lynnfield, MA), Clarence A. Reynolds, aged fourteen years (b. Lynnfield, MA), and Susan G. Skinner, a houseworker, aged twenty-three years (b. Lynnfield, MA).

Richard H. Goodwin, a horseshoer, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Eliza A. [((Skinner) Reynolds)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged forty-four years (b. MA), Clarence Reynolds, a clerk in store, aged nineteen years (b. MA), Hellen Goodwin, at home, aged four years (b. MA), Mary A. Shackley (b. MA), a domestic servant, aged twenty years (b. MA), John C. Traverse, an engineer, aged thirty-three years (b. NY), Clara Traverse, at home, aged twenty-three years (b. MA), and George Yeaton, a laborer R.R., aged twenty-six years (b. NH). Richard H. Goodwin had real estate valued at $17,00o and personal estate valued at $3,000.

Richard J.P. Goodwin, a doctor & manufacturer, aged thirty-three years (b. MA), headed a Manchester, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Josie L.A. [(Allen)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged thirty-four years (b. MA), Alice G. Goodwin, at school, aged nine years (b. MA), Carrie J. Goodwin, at home, aged seven years (b. MA), Richard H. Goodwin, aged five years (b. MA), Mary A. Goodwin, aged four years (b. NH), Maude E. Goodwin, aged three years (b. NH), and Ellen L. Goodwin, aged one year (b. NH). Richard J.P. Goodwin had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $400.

Son-in-law Richard H. Goodwin died of heart disease in Malden, MA, February 3, 1877, aged sixty-eight years, two months, and two days. He was a married blacksmith.

Died. GOODWIN. – In Malden, 3d inst., Richard H. Goodwin, 68 years, 2 months (Boston Globe, February 7, 1877).

Richard J.P. Goodwin, a physician, aged forty-three years (b. MA), headed a Manchester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Josephine L.A. [(Allen)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged forty-four years (b. MA), and his children, Alice G. Goodwin, aged nineteen years (b. MA) (b. MA), Carrie J. Goodwin, aged sixteen years (b. MA), Richard H. Goodwin, at school, aged fifteen years (b. MA), Mary E. Goodwin, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Maude I. Goodwin, at school, aged twelve years (b. NH), Ellen L. Goodwin, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), Ezra F. Goodwin, aged nine years (b. NH), Laura A. Goodwin, aged five years (b. NH), and Beatrice E. Goodwin, aged eight months (b. NH). They resided at 76 Pearl Street.

Granddaughter-in-law Josephine L. (Allen) Goodwin died in Malden, MA, September 4, 1892, aged fifty-seven years, one month, and twenty-three days.

DEATHS. GOODWIN. – At Malden, 4th inst., Josephine L.A., wife of Dr. R.J.P. Goodwin, 57 yrs., 1 mo., 23 dys. (Boston Evening Transcript, September 9, 1892).

Richard Goodwin, a physician, aged sixty-two years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his daughters, Mary E. Goodwin, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), Ellen L. Goodwin, a dressmaker, aged thirty years (b. NH), Laura A. Goodwin, a teacher, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Beatrice E. Goodwin, aged twenty years (b. NH). Richard Goodwin owned their house at 481 Pleasant Street, with a mortgage.

Grandson Richard J.P. Goodwin married (2nd) in Farmington, NH, October 24, 1906, Lucie M. (Furber) Davis, he of Malden, MA, and she of Farmington, NH. He was a physician, aged sixty-nine years, and she was a shoe stitcher, aged fifty-one years. Rev. Edward D. Disbrow performed the ceremony. She was born in Nottingham, NH, June 12, 1855, daughter of John B. and Lavina T. (Batchelder) Furber.

Richard J.P. Goodwin, a physician (general), aged seventy-two years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of three years), Lucy M. [((Furber) Davis)] Goodwin, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and his daughters, Mary E. Goodwin, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Ellen L. Goodwin, a dressmaker (general), aged forty years (b. NH), and Beatrice E. Goodwin, a stenographer (manufacturing co.), aged thirty years (b. NH). Richard J.P. Goodwin owned their house at 481 Pleasant Street, free-and-clear. Lucy M. Goodwin was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

Granddaughter-in-law Lucy M. ((Furber) Davis) Goodwin died of uremia in Farmington, NH, February 17, 1912, aged fifty-six years, eight months, and five days. She was a housewife.

In Memoriam. Mrs. Goodwin. Mrs. Lucy M., wife of Dr. R.J.P. Goodwin of Malden, Mass., entered into eternal rest at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles I. Tuttle of High Street, this village, last Saturday morning, February 17, at 7.30 o’clock, after a few months’ illness following an operation in a Boston hospital on November third. When Mrs. Goodwin left the institution it was thought that she was on the road to recovery, and she felt that she would like to come to Farmington where she could be near her only child and her sister during her convalescence. She had been here but a short time, however, when it was found she was not gaining as she ought, and another operation was deemed advisable. This was performed, but without avail and she lingered, a great sufferer, until released by death last Saturday. Lucy M. Furber was born in Nottingham, this state, on June 12, 1855, daughter of John B. and Lovina T. (Batchelder) Furber. She was educated in the schools of her native town and at Northwood seminary. When quite young she came to Farmington, and in September, 1875, was united in marriage to James Elverton Davis, who passed away in 1901. One child, Irma, now the wife of George A. Lovering of Lincoln street, was born of this union. In October, 1906, Mrs. Davis married Dr. Goodwin and had made her home in Malden the greater part of the time since. Beside the husband and daughter, the deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Tuttle of this town, Mrs. Levi C. Tuttle of Nottingham, and one brother, John E. Furber of Wareham, Mass.; also by two grandchildren, and many less near relatives. Mrs. Goodwin was possessed of a most genial and lively disposition which endeared her toa large circle of friends who deeply regret her death, and the sympathy of all goes out to the bereaved daughter in this hour of extreme sadness. Mrs. Goodwin was a valued member of the Rebekah lodge of Odd Fellows. The funeral services were held in the Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 1.30 o’clock, Rev. T.H. Scammon officiating, with B.F. Perkins in charge. Singings was by Mrs. Glidden, Mrs. Kimball, Mr. Libby, Mr. H.A. Browne, and beautiful selections were rendered. Bearers were Edwin LeGro, Albert E. Carter, Ira Glidden and Frank Gilman. The floral designs were many and beautiful. Interment was made beside her first husband in Pine Grove cemetery. Among those who contributed flowers are the following: Mrs. Lovering, pillow; Mrs. Tuttle, mound; Dr. Goodwin and the Misses Goodwin, spray of pinks; D. of R., spray of roses; Mrs. Lilla Allen, red roses; Mrs. Ira Glidden, daybreak pinks; Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Blake, mixed pinks; Dana, Arthur, and Harry Jones, wreath; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brooks, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Berry, Miss Lilla Berry, Frank Berry Jr., spray pinks; Mrs. Fred MacKennon, spray of pinks; Agatha Schlenker, spray of pinks; Mr. and Mrs. John Cloutman, calla lilies; Julius Hollander, violets; Mrs. Ella R Davis and Mrs. Edna Garland, spray of jonquils; Carrie Gerrish, spray pinks; Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Allen, spray pinks; Mrs. Hattie Wheatley, spray pinks; Mr. John Dow, Cambridge, Mass., spray pinks; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pulsifer, spray pinks (Farmington News, February 23, 1912).

Richard J. Goodwin, a medical doctor (general practice), aged eighty-two years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his daughters, May C. Goodwin, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), and Beatrice E. Goodwin, a stenographer (brush office), aged forty years (b. MA). Richard J. Goodwin owned their house at 481 Pleasant Street, with a mortgage.

Grandson Richard J.P. Goodwin died in Malden, MA, April 19, 1920, aged eighty-two years.

MALDEN. The funeral of Dr. Richard J.P. Goodwin will be held tomorrow afternoon at his late home, 481 Pleasant st. He was 82 years old and was a surgeon in the army during the Civil War. Before moving to this city he practiced in East Boston. He is survived by six children. He was a member of the First Congregational Church (Boston Globe, April 21, 1920).

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References.

Find a Grave. (2016, November 27). Lucy M. Furber Davis [Goodwin]. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/173231470/lucy_m-davis

Find a Grave. (2013, October 20). Richard H. Goodwin. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/119006732/richard-h-goodwin

Find a Grave. (2012, December 8). Dr. Richard James Plumer Goodwin. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/101897569/richard-james_plumer-goodwin

Find a Grave. (2010, January 29). James Plumer. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/47272455/james-plumer

By Muriel Bristol | November 23, 2025

(Father Paul Jewett was one of the seventy-four inhabitants of Exeter, NH, that signed a petition to the NH Provincial Committee of Safety, July 9, 1776. They apprehended that there was then a generalized scarcity of salt, West India and other goods, “When a People is Labouring under all the Horrors of a Civil War,” and sought measures that would forbid the “secreting” or retaining of goods or charging “extravagant” prices for them (NH Colony Probate Court, 1889).

(Town records of Exeter, NH, recorded the marriage of, “Isaac, belonging to Paul Jewett, [and] Catherine, belonging to Josiah Robinson, (negroes); Nov. 21, 1776”).

Nathaniel Jewett was born in Exeter, NH, in 1780, son of Paul and Elizabeth “Betsy” ((Gilman) Gilman) Jewett. (His known siblings were Gilman Jewett (1777-1856), and Polly Jewett (1782-)).

Father Paul Jewett of Exeter, NH, has been said to have established himself in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, i.e., Milton, circa 1785-86.

Paul Jewett, Amos Witham, Reuben Jones and others were the first settlers of the section near the West Branch river. They came probably about 1785 or 1786.
Among the first who settled at Three Ponds were Samuel Palmer, Levi Burgen, John Fish, Paul Jewett, Pelatiah Hanscom, Robert McGooch, and others (Hurd, 1882).

While the Jewetts may have had land or mill interests in Milton as early as the 1780s, their primary residence seems to have remained still in Exeter, NH, during the period 1790-96.

Among the industries at Milton Mills in the early days of the town were several saw mills, a crude woolen mill, and a distillery where Stephen Watson manufactured whiskey from potatoes. Gilman Jewett, Nathaniel Jewett, Asa Jewett and a Mr. Wedgewood transformed the old woolen mill into a lathe and turning mill about sixty five or seventy years ago, after which it was operated more or less irregularly up to the year 1847, when it was purchased by John Townsend, who used the machinery for the manufacture of fine flannels, until 1861, when the mill was burned (Mitchell-Cony, 1908).

Paul Jewett headed an Exeter, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], two females [Elizabeth ((Gilman) Gilman) Jewett and Polly Jewett], and two males aged under-16 years [Gilman Jewett and Nathaniel Jewett].

Mother Elizabeth ((Gilman) Gilman) Jewett died in Exeter, NH, in 1796, aged fifty-four years. It would seem that the Jewett family moved finally to the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, i.e., Milton, after her death. At some point, either in Exeter, NH, or later, Paul Jewett married (2nd) Mary A. Avery.

… very soon after this a saw-mill was built at Milton Mills by a Mr. Nock. This mill soon went into the hands of Paul Jewett, and was subsequently known as the Jewett mill. This place was known for a long time as Shapleigh Mills (Hurd, 1882).

Father Paul Jewett signed the Salmon Falls sawmill petition of 1797. (See Salmon Falls Sawmill Petition – 1797).

Paul Jewett headed a Rochester Northeast Parish household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus [himself], one female aged 45-plus [Mary A. (Avery) Jewett], one male aged 16-25 years [Nathaniel Jewett], two females aged 16-25 years [Polly Jewett], one male aged 10-15 years, and one female aged 10-15 years. (See also Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Sister “Mrs. Polly” Jewett married in Wakefield, NH, in 1800, Noah Robinson, he of Wakefield, NH, and she of Rochester, NH. Rev. Asa Piper performed the ceremony.

Nathl Jewett, as well as his father, Paul Jewett, and his brother, Gilman Jewett, all signed the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802.

Father Paul Jewett received Milton’s first justice-of-the-peace appointment, June 9, 1802, and brother Gilman Jewett would be Milton’s first Town Clerk, at the time of its founding.

Gilman Jewett, Wm Jones, and Timth Roberts were one of nine Milton district school committees in 1804. Esqr [Paul] Jewett, John Witham, and James Berry, Jr., were another one of the nine district school committees (See Milton School Committees – 1804).

N. Jewett purchased Pew No. 36 in the Milton Town House, for $31 in 1804. It was situated on the west side of the main aisle on ground floor, behind that of brother G. Jewett, Pew No. 30, and in front of that of B. Scates, Pew No. 34 (See Milton Town House – 1804).

Paul Jewett and Nat Jewett were both assessed in the Milton School District No. 3 of Paul Jewett in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Nathaniel Jewett married in Wakefield, NH, March 18, 1810, Nancy J. Rogers, both of Milton. Rev. Asa Piper performed the ceremony. She was born in Tuftonborough, NH, June 5, 1787.

(The known children of Nathaniel and Nancy J. (Rogers) Jewett were: Eliza G. Jewett (1811–1882), James Jewett (1813–1815), Mary Rogers Jewett (1817–1850), James J. Jewett (1822–1876), David Jewett (1825–1881), John R. Jewett (1827–1858), and Nathaniel Jewett [Jr.] (1827–1828)).

Paul Jewett headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself]. one female aged 45-plus years [Mary (Avery) Jewett], and two males aged 16-25 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Obadiah Witham and Jona Young. (And on the same page as Nathl Jewett). (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Nathl Jewett headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Nancy (Rogers) Jewett], two males aged 16-25 years, one female aged 16-25 years, and one female aged 10-15 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Josiah Witham and Timo Wentworth. (And on the same page as Paul Jewett). (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Daughter Eliza G. Jewett was born in Milton, in 1811. She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth ((Gilman) Gilman) Jewett. (She had already an elder cousin of the same name).

Son James Jewett was born in Milton, in 1813. He died October 11, 1815.

Daughter Mary Rogers Jewett was born in Milton, July 14, 1817.

Nathl Jewett and brother Gilman Jewett signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Nathl Jewett and father Paul Jewett signed one of the Milton militia division petitions of November 1820. His brother Gilman Jewett joined them in signing another one. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Son James J. Jewett was born in Milton, in 1822. 

Uncle James Jewett of Alton, NH, bequeathed a farm in New Durham, NH, to his nephew, Nathaniel Jewett of Milton, husbandman, in his last will dated December 24, 1822. The 50-acre farm was known commonly as the Elkins Farm and adjoined land of Enoch Berry and David Ellis. The bequest was a conditional one, which required a payment to the estate of $200 (Strafford County Probate, 29:103).

Uncle James Jewett died in Alton, NH, January 11, 1823, aged seventy-five years.

Son David Jewett was born in Milton, June 1, 1825. Son John R. Jewett was born in Milton, in 1827.

Son Nathaniel Jewett [Jr.] was born in Milton, in 1827. He died September 23, 1828, aged one year, three months.

Nathaniel Jewett of Milton was elected 1st Vice President of the Strafford County Agricultural Society, October 7, 1829.

The Annual Meeting of the Strafford, N.H., Agricultural Society, was held at Rochester on 7th ult. The Society was addressed by Francis Coggswell, Esq., of Ossipee. The officers were elected for the ensuing year. Nehemiah Eastman, President; Nathaniel Jewett, 1st Vice President; William Hale, 2d do.; Daniel Pickering, Treasurer; Francis Coggswell, Corresponding Secretary; Thomas E. Sawyer, Recording Secretary; William Flagg, Benjamin Emerson, Stephen C. Lyford, Thomas Rust, and Samuel Stark, Jun., Executive Committee (New England Farmer, November 6, 1829).

On the following day, October 8, 1829, the Strafford Agricultural Society planned to hold their annual Strafford Agricultural Fair and Cattle Show. John Wentworth, Nathaniel Jewett, and Stephen G. Wadleigh were appointed as the committee for awards “On Steers” (Dover Enquirer, September 22, 1829; Dover Enquirer, September 29, 1829).

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. STRAFFORD COUNTY. President Hon. Nehemiah Eastman, Farmington; 1st Vice Pres., Nathaniel Jewett, Milton; 2d Vice Pres., William Hale, Barrington; Cor. Secretary, Francis Cogswell, Esq., Ossipee; Rec. Secretary, Thomas E. Sawyer, Esq., Dover; Treasurer, Daniel Pickering, Esq., Wolfeborough; Executive Committee, William Flagg, Dover, Benjamin Emerson, Esq., Gilmanton, Stephen C. Lyford, Esq., Meredith, Thomas Rust, Wolfeborough, and Samuel Stark, jr., Conway (Claremont Co., 1830).

Paul Jewett headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included two males aged 80-89 years [Paul Jewett], one male aged 50-59 years [Gilman Jewett], one female aged 50-59 years [Ann S. (Nutter) Jewett], one male aged 20-29 years, two males aged 15-19 years [Paul Jewett and Asa Jewett], and one male aged 10-14 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Steph. Shorey and Amos Witham. (And on the same page as son Nathl Jewett).

Nathl Jewett headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [Nathaniel Jewett], one female aged 40-49 years [Nancy J. (Rogers) Jewett], one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 15-19 years [Eliza G. Jewett], one female aged 10-14 years [Mary Rogers Jewett], one male aged 10-14 years [James J. Jewett], one male aged 5-9 years [David Jewett], and one female aged 5-9 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Nutter and Obadiah Witham. (And on the same page as Paul Jewett).

Father Paul Jewett emancipated his apprentice, John Doe, in February 1831, before the completion of his apprenticeship. (Doe was then about twenty years of age).

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. THIS may certify, that I, Paul Jewett, of Milton, and Mary, my wife, do hereby relinquish unto JOHN DOE, alias, JOHN AVERY, his time until he is twenty-one years of age, and give free liberty to act for himself on his own responsibility, and shall claim none of his earnings nor pay any debts of his commencing from this date, PAUL JEWETT, MARY JEWETT. Witness — Gilman Jewett, Milton, Feb, 15, 1831. 36 (Dover Enquirer, March 1, 1831).

Daughter Eliza G. Jewett married in Milton, September 22, 1833, James C. Berry. Rev. Benjamin G. Willey performed the ceremony. Berry was born in Wakefield, NH, May 30, 1805, son of James F. and Betsy (Pollard) Berry.

Married. In Milton, 22d inst., by Rev. Benj. G. Willey, Capt. James Berry, to Miss Eliza G. Jewett, both of M. [Milton] (Dover Enquirer, October 1, 1833).

Father Paul Jewett died in Milton, in November 1835.

Nathaniel Jewett employed [Ralph] Farnham, March 21-24, 1838, who charged him $1.67 per day for “hawling logs and one hand and four cattle,” i.e., for his own labor, with an additional helper or hired hand, and the use of four cattle (Farnham, 2005).

Son James J. Jewett of Milton Mills was a Senior student in the English Department at the Academical and Theological Institution at New Hampton, NH, in the year ending November 1, 1839, i.e., the 1838-39 academic year.

Daughter Mary R. Jewett married in Milton Mills, November 13, 1839, William S. Stevens. He was born in Canterbury, NH, June 21, 1816, son of Edmund and Betsy (Shepard) Stevens.

… Mr. Stevens then purchased a sawmill in Milton, N.H., [circa 1836,] where he spent three years in the lumber business. From Milton he went to Ossipee Centre, [circa 1840,] where during a period of ten years he was engaged in general mercantile business (NH Historical Society, 1902).

Nathaniel Jewett acted as executor of the estate of his father, Paul Jewett, late of Milton, in August 1839.

To all persons interested. NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber is Executor of the last Will and Testament of PAUL JEWETT, late  of Milton, in the county of Strafford, deceased, — and duly authorized to settle and adjust all claims for, and against, the Estate of said deceased. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to present them for settlement, and all persons indebted to said Estate are also requested to call and settle the same without delay. NATH’L JEWETT, Ex’r. Aug. 5, 1839. 25 (Dover Enquirer, December 3, 1839).

Nathaniel Jewett headed a Milton [Milton Mills] household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Nancy J. (Rogers) Jewett], two males aged 15-19 years [James J. Jewett and David Jewett], and one male aged 5-9 years [John R. Jewett]. Three members of his household were engaged in agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Guptill and Merrill Brackett. (The households of brother Gilman Jewett and nephew Asa Jewett appeared on the previous page).

James Berry headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Eliza G. (Jewett) Berry], one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 10-14 years, one female aged 5-9 years [Mary A. Berry], and one male aged under-5 years [Charles J. Berry]. One member of his household was engaged in Commerce and one member was engaged in Agriculture.. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Theodore Stevens and Stephen Shores.

William S. Stevens headed a Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], and one female aged 20-29 years [Mary R. (Jewett) Stevens]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade.

Nathaniel Jewett of Milton was selected for a Strafford County grand jury in January 1842 (Dover Enquirer, January 25, 1842).

Son James J. Jewett married, in 1843, Mary E. Estes. She was  born in Berwick, ME, circa 1822, daughter of James and Annie Estes.

Sons James J. Jewett, and David Jewett, both of Milton Mills, were both students at the Teachers’ Seminary and Carroll Literary Institute in the 1844-45 academic year.

This SEMINARY is located in Effingham, N.H., and, by means of Stages, enjoys a direct communication with Dover and Great Falls. Its romantic and retired situation entitles it to the consideration of parents intending to educate their children. Far removed from the temptations peculiar to large villages, situated in the midst of a quiet, orderly and pious community and surrounded my some of the most romantic scenery in New England, it becomes at once one of the most delightful and safe retreat[s] for the student.

Nathaniel Jewett was selected for the first of two twelve-man petit juries in the Strafford County Court of Common Pleas in April 1827 (Dover Enquirer, April 20, 1847).

Nathaniel Jewett died in Milton, June 2, 1847, aged sixty-six years, nine months, and twenty-nine days.

DEATHS. In Milton, … Also, June 2nd, of apoplexy, Mr. Nathaniel Jewett, aged 67 years (Dover Enquirer, June 22, 1847).

Son David Jewett married in Somersworth, NH, July 7, 1847, Susan M. Fox, both of Somersworth, NH. Rev. James T. McCallom performed the ceremony. She was born in Acton, ME, April 26, 1824.

MARRIAGES. At Great Falls, … Mr. David Jewett, to Miss Susan M. Fox (Dover Enquirer, July 13, 1847).

Son John R. Jewett of Milton, a minor over fourteen years of age, chose Benjamin Brackett of Acton, ME, to be his guardian, in August 1847.

To the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Strafford. RESPECTFULLY represents JOHN R. JEWETT, of Milton, in said county, that he is a son and heir of Nathaniel Jewett, late of Milton, in said county, deceased, and a minor over fourteen years of age; that he does hereby make choice of Benjamin Brackett of Acton, in the county of York and state of Maine, to be his guardian – Wherefore he prays that Letters of Guardianship may issue to the said Benjamin Brackett accordingly. Dated the 2nd day of August, 1847. JOHN R. JEWETT.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Strafford SS – At a Court of Probate holden at Dover in said County on the 29th day of July, A.D. 1847, it ordered that a hearing be had on the foregoing petition at a Court of Probate to be holden at Farmington, in said County, on the first Tuesday of October next, and that the petitioner notify all persons interested, to appear at said Court, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing the foregoing petition and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively fu the Dover Enquirer, a newspaper printed at Dover in said County, the last publication to be at least thirty days prior to said day of hearing. By order of the Judge , ENOCH BERRY, Register. A true copy of the original, Attest, ENOCH BERRY, Register. 10 (August 10, 1847).

(The chosen guardian, Benjamin Brackett (1814-1894), was a farmer in adjoining Acton, ME. John R. Jewett was then above district school age. He may have been employed as a resident apprentice or farm laborer on the Brackett farm).

Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of David Jewett, a farmer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Levi Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH).

James Berry, a trader, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza G. [(Jewett)] Berry, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Mary A. Berry, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Charles J. Berry, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Nathaniel J. Berry, aged eight years (b. NH), and Clara E. Berry, aged six years (b. NH). James Berry had real estate valued at $8,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Marsh, a shoemaker, aged thirty-nine years (b. ME), and Jmaes Parker, a weaver, aged twenty-five years (b. ME)

William S. Stevens, a grocer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, aged sixty-two years (b. ME), Everett J. Stevens, aged two years (b. NH), and Edmund Stevens, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). William S. Stevens had real estate valued at $6,000. – August 7.

James Jewett, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Estes)] Jewett, aged thirty years (b. NH), Frank Jewett, aged seven years (b. NH), Helen Jewett, aged four years (b. NH), Nat Jewett, aged three years (b. NH), Sally Wentworth, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Frances Pugsley, a farmer, aged eighteen years (b. ME). James Jewett had real estate valued at $7,500. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Cyrus F. Hart, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Jeremiah Goodwin, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH).

David Jewett, a farmer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Susan M. (Fox) Jewett, aged twenty-five years (b. ME), Susan A. Jewett, aged two years (B. NH), Reuben Archibald, a hostler, aged twenty years (b. ME), and Hannah Meloon, aged fifteen years (b. NH). David Jewett had real estate valued at $4,300. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Stoat, a manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b. Scotland), and Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, aged sixty years (b. NH).

Daughter Mary R. (Jewett) Stevens died of lung fever in Dover, NH, April 21, 1850, aged thirty-two years, nine months and seven days.

DEATHS. In this town, 21st inst., of Lung fever, Mrs. Mary R. Stevens, wife of Mr. Wm. Stevens, and daughter of the late Nathaniel Jewett of Milton, aged 32 years, 9 months and 7 days (Dover Enquirer, April 23, 1850).

Son John R. Jewett married in Dover, NH, January 3, 1854, Clara H. Page, both of Milton. Rev. T.G. Salter performed the ceremony. She was born in Wakefield, NH, in 1829, daughter of Joseph and Lydia S. (Remick) Page.

MARRIAGES. In this town, Jan. 3d, by Rev. T.G. Salter, Mr. John R. Jewett, to Miss Clara K. Page, both of Milton (Dover Enquirer, January 10, 1854).

James Berry, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza G. [(Jewett)] Berry, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), Charles Berry, a farmer, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Mary A. Berry, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Nathl S. Berry, a farmer, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Clara A. Berry, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Coleman, a farmer, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), and Elbridge W. Fox, a merchant, aged twenty-five years (b. NH).

Wm S. Stevens, a glue manufacturer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah Stevens, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), Everett Stevens, aged eleven years (b. NH), Mary Stevens, aged eight years (b. NH), Carrie Stevens, aged three years (b. NH), and Mary Frowton, aged twenty-eight years (b. NY). Wm S. Stevens had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $6,000.

David Jewett, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household (“Milton Mills P.O.”) at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), and Thomas Cutts, a farm laborer, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). David Jewett had real estate valued at $2,700 and personal estate valued at $1,400. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Samuel Hooper, a house carpenter, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), and Levi Wentworth, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH).

[There seems to have been some sort of transcription error by which David Jewett, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), was enumerated twice, each time with different household members, while his elder brother, James J. Jewett, aged about thirty-eight years (b. NH), was not enumerated at all. (James J. Jewett would seem to have been the “David Jewett,” whose wife, Mary E. (Estes) Jewett, aged forty years (b. NH), was omitted also, but whose widowed mother, Nancy (Rogers) Jewett, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), was included)].

David Jewett, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household (“Milton Mills P.O.”) at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Susan M. [(Fox)] Jewett, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and Adeline S. Jewett, aged twelve years (b. NH). Susan M. Jewett had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Cyrus F. Hart, a farmer, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), and Stephen Toppan, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. MA).

Joseph Page, a farmer, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household (“Milton Mills P.O.”) at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Lydia [(Remick)] Page, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), Mary A. Page, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), Sarah Page, aged twenty years (b. NH), Josiah Page, a farmer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Ed Irvin Jewett, aged six years (b. NH), Haven Jewett, aged four years (b. NH), and Isabel Jewett, aged sixteen years (b. NH). Joseph Page had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathl Dearborn, a farmer, aged ninety years (b. NH), and David Farnham, aged fifty-two years (b. NH).

Sheriff’s Sale. STRAFFORD, SS. – Taken by virtue of an execution in favor of ASA JEWETT, against JOHN R. JEWETT, and to be sold at public auction on the 18th day of August next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, at the store of Asa Jewett, in Milton, in said county of Strafford, all the right in equity which the said John R. Jewett had on the thirtieth day of August, A.D. 1859, the day on which the same was attached on mesne process, or now has, of redeeming certain mortgaged real estate situate in Milton aforesaid and bounded northerly by land of Josiah N. Witham and land of Moses H. Remick, easterly by the Salmon Falls river, southerly by the new road from Milton Mills to Acton, Maine, and land of said John R. Jewett, called the Hart lot, and westerly by the road leading from Milton Mills to Horn’s Mills, containing twenty acres, more or less, the same being a part of the homestead of the late Nathaniel Jewett, deceased. Dated the 30th day of June, A.D. 1860. ANDREW G. HALL, Dept. Sheriff. 7 (Dover Enquirer, July 5, 1860).

Sons James J. Jewett, aged forty-one years, and David Jewett, aged thirty-nine years, registered for the Class II military draft during the Civil War, in June 1862.

The NH Supreme Judicial Court heard, in June 1866, an appeal regarding a previously settled 1860 case of Asa Jewett against his cousin, John R. Jewett. (The case documents call them brothers, but that disagrees with John R. Jewett having been identified as a minor son of Nathaniel Jewett back in 1847; and one might note, parenthetically, that John R. Jewett is thought to have died already in 1858. His orphaned children were enumerated with their Page family grandparents in the Eighth (1860) Federal Census (see above)). 

Lawyers for Mary  A. Page, who was a sister-in-law of John R. Jewett, asserted that the earlier settlement between the Jewett brothers [cousins] blocked her own attempts to recover against John R. Jewett. The NH Supreme Court agreed that the earlier settlement might not have been fully “uniform,” as regards normal procedures, and might possibly be thought to have arisen out of collusion, but because that since it was a settlement of a case, rather than a judicial judgement in a case, they lacked authority to intervene or reverse the outcome (NH Supreme Judicial Court, 1867).

Son James J. Jewett also experienced financial difficulties and petitioned for bankruptcy in March 1869.

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the 2d day of March, A.D. 1869, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of James J. Jewett, of Milton, in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt, on his own petition; that the payment of any debts and delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more Assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the office of T.E. Sawyer in Dover, in said District; before Thomas E. Sawyer, Register, on the 1st day of April, A.D. 1869, at 10 o’clock A.M. J.N. PATTERSON, U.S. Marshal, N.H. Dist., as Messenger (Dover Enquirer, March 18, 1869).

At that April Court of Bankruptcy, son-in-law William S. Stevens received appointment as the Assignee in the bankruptcy proceedings of son James J. Jewett.

Assignee’s Notice in Bankruptcy. District of New Hampshire, SS. At Dover the 3d day of May, A.D. 1869 } THE undersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as Assignee of James J. Jewett, of Milton, in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, within said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own admission, by the District Court of said District. WILLIAM S. STEVENS, Assignee. 18 (Dover Enquirer, May 6, 1869).

James Berry, farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Eliza A. [(Jewett)] Berry, keeping house, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), Mary A. Berry, a milliner, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), Nathaniel J. Berry, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Nellie C. Berry, a teacher, aged twenty-six years (b. NH). James Berry had real estate valued at $6,000 an personal estate valued at $815. Mary A. Berry had personal estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Cyrus F. Hart, a farm laborer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and William S. Monaghan, a carder in woolen mill, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA).

James J. Jewett, a farmer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary E. [(Estes)] Jewett, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), Ervin Jewett, a farm laborer, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, aged eighty-three years (b. NH). James J. Jewett had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $1,183. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Moses H. Remmick, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), and Bathsheba W. [(Spinney)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged seventy-six years (b. ME).

David Jewett, a butcher, keeping house, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Susan M. [(Fox)] Jewett, aged forty-five years (b. ME). David Jewett had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $200. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of William Wentworth, a farm laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. ME), and William Brierly, works in felt mill, aged forty-two years (b. England).

The Wiggins & Stevens glue and sandpaper factory, in Dover, NH, in which William S. Stevens was a partner, burned down on July 1, 1873.

FIRE. DOVER, N.H., July 1. The main building of Wiggin &  Stevens’s sand-paper work, was burned at one o’clock this morning. Loss large; partly covered by insurance (Boston Evening Transcript, July 1, 1873).

… The [Wiggins & Stevens] firm then moved to Malden, where most of their factories are now [1899] located, but they still maintain their glue works in Dover (Corey, 1899).

The Milton Mills house formerly occupied by “Nathan Jewett,” i.e., Nathaniel Jewett, was destroyed by fire, October 11, 1873. (See Milton in the News – 1873).

New Hampshire. The house known as the Nathan Jewett House at Milton Mills was destroyed by fire on the 11th inst. Loss not reported. Insured (Boston Globe, October 23, 1873).

Son James J. Jewett died in Milton, May 4, 1876, aged fifty-four years. He was a married farmer.

Valuable Farm for sale. The subscriber offers for sale the farm formerly occupied by Stephen Toppan, but more recently occupied by James J. Jewett. deceased, situated in Milton, on the road leading from Milton Mills to Wakefield, about one mile from the enterprising manufacturing village of Milton Mills, Containing about 100 acres of excellent land, suitably divided into mowing, Tillage, Pastures and Woodlands, with a variety of FRUIT TREES. The buildings are the most Convenient for farm purposes that can be found in the Country. All of which WILL BE SOLD LOW. For further particulars inquirer of JAMES BERRY, Esq., Milton Mills, or the subscriber at Dover. W.S. STEVENS. 39tf (Dover Enquirer, September 28, 1876).

State of New Hampshire. STRAFFORD, SS. – The Judge of Probate for said county, to the heirs at law, the creditors, legatees, and to all others interested in the estate of James J. Jewett, late of Milton, in said county, deceased, decreed to be administered as an Insolvent Estate. YOU are hereby notified that the report of the Commissioner appointed to examine and allow the claims of the creditors against said estate, will be offered for acceptance at the Court of Probate to be holden at Farmington in said County, on the first Tuesday  of September next. You are also notified that Mary E. Jewett, the Executrix on said estate will at the same term of said Court render her account of administration of said estate, at which time and place you may appear and be heard. And it is ordered that said Executrix give notice, by causing the foregoing citation and this order thereon to be published three weeks successively in the Dover Enquirer, a newspaper printed at Dover, in said county, the last publication whereof to be at least seven days before said court. Given at Dover, in said county, this 4th day of August, A.D. 1877. JOHN R. VARNEY, Register. 32 (Dover Enquirer, August 9, 1877).

Widowed daughter-in-law Mary E. (Estes) Jewett married (2nd) in Milton Mills, December 25, 1877, Abram Sanborn, both of Milton. He was a harness maker, aged fifty-five years, and she was aged fifty-five years. Rev. D.B. Scott performed the ceremony.

James Berry, a farmer, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Eliza G. [(Jewett)] Berry, keeping house, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), his daughter, a milliner, Mary A. Berry, aged forty-five years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Nancy [(Rogers)] Jewett, at home, aged ninety-two years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles J. Berry, a clerk in store, aged forty-three (b. NH), and Mary A. Nutter, keeping house, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH).

Abram Sanborn, a harness maker, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Eighth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Mary [((Estes) Jewett)] Sanborn, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Asa A. Fox, a carpenter, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Francis J. Busch, Jr., works in woolen mill, aged twenty-four years (b. MA).

David Jewett, a gardener, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Eighth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Susan M. [(Fox)] Jewett, keeping house, aged fifty-four years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles E. Drew, a carpenter, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), and Elias Miller, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. ME).

WEIRS, N.H., July 27. A heavy shower, accompanied by high winds, passed over the lake this afternoon, damaging boats along the shore, and several parties offshore narrowly escaped with their lives. The steamer Lady of the Lake, when half a mile out from Wolfboro’, at 3.30 p.m., discovered a boat capsized and men clinging to the sides. The steamer hove to and promptly launched a lifeboat, but the waves and the headway of the steamer caused the boat to swamp. Another boat was lowered and the two men were picked up in a nearly exhausted condition. The rescued parties were Abram Sanborn of Milton Mills, N.H., and the other’s name is unknown (Farmington News, July 30, 1880).

Nancy J. (Rogers) Jewett died in Milton, January 9, 1881.

Abram Sanborn was elected Moderator at the Town Meeting of March 1881. Charles H. Looney was elected Town Clerk, and Ira Miller was elected Treasurer. The Selectmen elected were Henry B. Scates, David Wallingford, and Elbridge W. Fox (Dover Enquirer, March 25, 1881).

Son David Jewett died in Milton, May 29, 1881.

Daughter Eliza G. (Jewett) Berry died of a heart complaint in Milton, December 13, 1882, aged seventy years.

Son-in-law James Berry died of enteritis in Milton, December 5, 1886, aged eighty-one years, six months, and five days.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Capt. Berry, an officer of the old State militia, died recently at Milton Mills (Farmington News, December 17, 1886).

Son-in-law William S. Stevens died in Dover, NH, April 15, 1897, aged eighty years, nine months and twenty-five days.

Death of Hon. Wm. S. Stevens. Ex-Mayor Wm. S. Stevens passed away at his home, No. 713 Central avenue, at 3 o’clock this morning, aged 80 years, 9 months and 25 days. He was a native of Canterbury, this state, where he attended the public schools and obtained his early education. He left home at the age of 18 years and obtained a position as traveling salesman for the Fairbanks Scales Company which position he held for sometime. He then located at Ossipee where he spent a few years in trade, and then came to this city where he has passed nearly 50 years of his life. He has been three times married, his first wife was Mary R. Jewett, whom he wedded at Milton Mills Nov. 13, 1839. By this union he had one son, ex-Mayor Everett J. Stevens of Malden, Mass. His second wife was Mary Varney Bangs, whom he married May 7, 1851, and by this union he had four daughters, one of whom is dead. His daughters are Mrs. Charles E. Ellis of Montclare, N.J., Mrs. Nathan C. Osgood of Salem, Mass., and Miss Mary E., who resides at the parental home in this city. His last wife was Mrs. Sarah F. Chesley, whom he married Jan. 2, 1876, and by this union had no children. The deceased has served as a director of Boston & Maine and D.&W. railroads. He has been a director of Strafford National Bank since it was organized in 1865, and previous to that he was a director of the old Strafford State Bank. He was chosen president of the Strafford National Bank in 1868, and served in that position up to the time of his death. He was one of the oldest trustees of the Strafford Savings Bank, having served in that position since 1861. He was chosen mayor of this city in 1870, and served until 1871, being twice re-elected. He was chosen trustee of Pine Hill cemetery and held that position at the time of his death. For a number of years he conducted a glue and sandpaper mill on the Gulf road in this city. He was honored and respected by all who knew him, a kind husband, loving father and a businessman of the strictest integrity. His family have the sympathy of the community in their said bereavement. The time of the funeral will be announced later (Dover Enquirer, April 15, 1897).

Daughter-in-law Mary E. ((Estes) Jewett) Sanborn died of a fractured hip in Milton Mills, June 27, 1899, aged seventy-seven years, five months. She was a married housekeeper. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Daughter-in-law Susan M. (Fox) Jewett died of general debility in Union, Wakefield, NH, December 13, 1899, aged seventy-five years, seven months, and thirteen days. She was a widowed housewife. P.T. Haskill, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Abram Sanborn died of heart insufficiency in Milton Mills, April 13, 1902, aged eighty years, seven months, and one day. He was a widowed harness maker.

PROBATE COURT, Judge C.H. Wells, Presiding, W.W. Martin, Register. … Estate of Abram Sanborn, Milton., Forrest L. Marsh, Administrator. … Estate of Abram Sanborn Milton, inventory filed (Dover Enquirer, May 7, 1902).

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By Muriel Bristol | November 16, 2025

Samuel Twombly [III] was born in Rochester, NH, February 22, 1750, son of Samuel [Jr.] and Sarah (Wentworth) Twombly.

Early in the summer of 1776, Samuel Twombly, a nephew of the first settler, Jonathan Twombly, could have been seen, with a pack well strapped upon his back, wending his way up the side of Teneriffe, to search out a home for his lady love, returning and bringing her to this wild region the next year. Stephen Wentworth very soon became a neighbor of the Twomblys (Hurd, 1882; Scales, 1914).

Samuel Twombly, Jr. [III], married in Lebanon, ME, December 21, 1777, Mary “Molly” Burrows. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony. She was born July 30, 1755.

(The known children of Samuel [III] and Mary (Burrows) Twombly were: Mary Twombly (1778–1850), Samuel Twombly [IV] (1780-1868), Mehitable Twombly (1782–183?), Sarah Twombly (1785–1846), Eunice Twombly (1787–1853), Joanna Twombly (1789–1852), Louisa Twombly (1792-1816), Lucy Twombly (1795–1864), Rebecca Twombly (1798–1803), and Rachel Twombly (1801–1801)).

Daughter Mary Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, July 7, 1778.

Son Samuel Twombly, Jr. [IV], was born in Rochester, NH, March 26, 1780.

Daughter Mehitable Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, July 26, 1782. Daughter Sarah Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, March 15, 1785.

Daughter Eunice Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, March 25, 1787. Daughter Joanna Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, June 15, 1789.

Samuel Twombly headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], six females, one male aged under-16 years [Samuel Twombly, Jr.]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jona Ham and Nathl Pinkham. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).

Daughter Louisa Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, December 2, 1792.

Father Samuel Twombly [Jr.] of Rochester, NH, husbandman, made his last will, March 10, 1794. He devised the customary one-third share in his estate to his dear and well beloved wife, Sarah [(Wentworth)] Twombly, and shelter for his daughters, Sarah Twombly and Dorothy Twombly, while single:

… the one third part of the whole of my real and personal estate, to be well managed by my children to whom it is hereafter bequeathed and the product to be brought and delivered to her annually, and each year, during her life, and for her sole use and benefit, and the Stock of Cattle to be kept nearly the same s at my decease; and also I bequeath to her the use of one room in the house in which I live, with my two daughters, Sarah and Dorothy, for them to improve so long as they shall live single, that is Sarah and Dorothy, with their Mother and to her during her life, and such part of the Cellar, as shall be necessary for them.

He devised his gun to his beloved son, Samuel Twombly [III]. He devised one Spanish milled dollar to his well beloved son, Wentworth Twombly. He divided his real and personal estate into seven shares or proportions for his beloved children, David Twombly (1.5 shares), Stephen Twombly (2.5 shares), Sarah Twombly (1.0 share), Lydia Twombly (0.5 shares), Joanna Twombly (0.5 shares), and Dorothy Twombly (1 share). He named his son, Tobias Twombly, as executor. [Rev.] Joseph Haven, James Horr, and Nathaniel Hayes signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 4:132). His last will was proved in Strafford County Probate Court, March 26, 1794 (Strafford County Probate 4:133).

Daughter Lucy Twombly was  born in Rochester, NH, March 7, 1795.

Daughter Rebecca Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, July 7, 1798.

Saml Twombly headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary (Burrows) Twombly], one male aged 16-25 years, one female aged 16-25 years, one female aged 10-15 years, and two females aged under-10 years [Louisa Twombly and Rebecca Twombly]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Daughter Rachel Twombly was born in Rochester, NH, February 10, 1801. She died in Rochester, NH, March 25, 1801, aged one month.

Samuel Twombly and his son, Samuel Twombly, Ju., both signed the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802.

Daughter Sarah Twombly married in Berwick, ME, May 15, 1803, James A. Goodrich. He was born in Berwick, ME, May 20, 1775, son of Paul and Mary (Guptill) Goodrich.

Saml Twombly and his son, Saml Twombly, Jr., were among “a number of respectable inhabitants & freeholders” that sought a special Town Meeting to reconsider the proposed Meeting House site. They thought that the site should be instead ninety or a hundred rods lower down, on the south side of the brook at the head of the Northwest Pond. The special Town Meeting was held at the home of Lieut. Elijah Horn, September 1, 1803, and that meeting decided not to change the proposed Meeting House site.

Daughter Rebecca Twombly died in Milton, September 22, 1803, aged five years.

Saml Twombly, Jotham Nute, and Stephen Wentworth were one of the nine Milton district school committees in 1804.

Daughter Mehitable Twombly married, circa 1805, Jonathan Howe. He was born in Rochester, NH, July 26, 1782, son of Dr. James and Lucy (Fisher) Howe.

Samuel Twombly and his son, Samuel Twombly, Jr., were among the fifty-two Milton petitioners that sought to have Jotham Nute appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, in August 1805.

Saml Twombly and his son, Saml Twombly Jur, were both assessed in the Milton School District No. 5 of John Fish in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Son Samuel Twombly Junr married in Milton, December 25, 1809, Sophia D. Fish, both of Milton. She was born in Townshend, VT, April 6, 1792, daughter of John and Rebekah (Ober) Fish.

Daughter Joanna Twombly married in Milton, March 4, 1810, Hopley Meserve. He was born in Milton, March 31, 1789, son of Stephen and Abigail (Yeaton) Meserve.

Saml Twamb [Twombly] headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary (Burrows) Twombly], one male aged 16-25 years, two females aged 16-25 years [Louisa Twombly], and one female aged 10-15 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Sephen Wentw [Stephen Wentworth] and Saml Twombley, Jun. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Saml Twombley, Jun, headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Saml Twamb [Twombly] and Wentworth Dore.

Jonathan How headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one male aged 16-25 years, one female aged 16-25 years, one male aged under-10 years, and one female aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Goodwin and Shubil Roberts.

James Goodridge [Goodrich] headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Sarah (Twombly) Goodrich], two males aged under-10 years, and one female aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benjamin Hodsdon and John Gerrish.

Hopley Meservy headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Joanna (Twombly) Meserve], one female aged 10-15 years, and one female aged 45-plus years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ephraim Prummer [Plummer] and Daniel Hayes.

Daughter Louisa Twombly married in New Durham, NH, November 11, 1813, Ira Fish, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Boodey performed the ceremony. Fish was born in Townshend, VT, January 4, 1790, son of John and Rebekah (Ober) Fish. (He was the older brother of Sophia (Fish) Twombly).

Daughter Lucy Twombly married in Milton, December 4, 1814, Isaac Wentworth. He was born in Rochester, NH, December 6, 1782, son of Elihu and Lois (Pinkham) Wentworth.

Grandson Ezra Ober Fish was born in Milton, May 10, 1815, son of Ira and Louisa (Twombly) Fish.

Daughter Mary Twombly married, circa 1816, Jonathan Hanson.

Daughter Louisa (Twombly) Fish died in Milton in December 1816.

Daughter Eunice Twombly married in Rochester, NH, April 20, 1817, Israel Hanson, Jr. He was born in Dover, NH, October 16, 1771, son of Israel Hanson. (She was his second wife).

Widowed son-in-law Ira Fish married (2nd) in Milton, March 6, 1820, Abra Hayes. She was born in Milton, June 14, 1795, daughter of James C. and Betsy (Twombly) Hayes.

Samuel Twombly, his son, Samuel Twombly, Jr, and his sons-in-law, Jonathan Howe and Isaac Wentworth, all signed the June 1820 remonstrance petition requesting that Milton not be divided in two parts. (See Milton Anti-Division Remonstrance – June 1820).

Mary (Burrows) Twombly died August 18, 1820.

Samuel Twombly headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly], two males aged 15-19 years [Thomas B. Twombly and Josiah F. Twombly], one female aged 15-19 years, one male aged 5-9 years [Ira F. Twombly], two females aged under-5 years [Sophia Twombly and Rebecca Twombly], and one male aged 80-89 years [Samuel Twombly Sr.]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Wentworth and Wentworth Dore. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Mary [(Twombly)] Hanson headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 50-59 years [herself]. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jos. Hanson 3rd and Saml Howard (and just a few households beyond that to Israel Hanson on the same page- out of over thirty pages for Dover overall).

[N.B. There seems to be some substantial lacunae in the available documents regarding daughter Mary Twombly. No marriage certificate, newspaper notices or other identifications appear regarding either her or a spouse. She was mentioned in a Wentworth genealogy published in the next generation, as having married one Samuel Hanson and having died without children in 1849. This does not seem to be true. An alternative theory or speculation is preferred here in which she married Jonathan Hanson, who died prior to the Fifth (1830) Federal Census, as did at least four of their children, save Susan G. Hanson, who died in 1838, and a fifth, Samuel Hanson, 2nd. She would seem to have been the older woman residing after the Fifth (1830) Federal Census in the Hanson households of her younger sister, Eunice (Twombly) Hanson, in the Sixth (1840), and Seventh (1850) Census enumerations, and who died in Dover in 1850 and was buried there as the widow of Jonathan Hanson. (See the Wentworth genealogy, the Federal Census enumerations, and the newspaper obituary and gravestones of the Mary Hanson that died in September 1850, and those of her young children)].

Jona Howe headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Mehitable (Twombly) Howe], one female aged 10-14 years [Hannah Howe], one female aged 5-9 years [Mehitable J. Howe], and one male aged 5-9 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathl Davis and Ira Howe. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

James Goodridge [Goodwin] headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Sarah (Twombly) Goodrich], one female aged 15-19 years, three females aged 10-14 years, and one male aged 5-9 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ivory Hodsdon and James Hodsdon.

Israel Hanson headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Eunice (Twombly) Hanson], one male aged 40-49 years, one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 20-29 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one male aged 10-14 years [Israel T. Hanson], and two females aged under-5 years [Lucinda K. Hanson].

Hopley Meservy headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Joanna (Twombly) Meserve], three males aged 15-19 years [Stephen M.Y. Meserve, Hopley T. Meserve, and Charles Y. Meserve], one female aged 10-14 years [Louisa Meserve], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary I. Meserve], and one female aged under-5 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Moses Nute and Mary Wingate. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Ira Fish headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [Ira Fish], one female aged 30-39 years [Abra (Hayes) Fish], two males aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years [Ezra O. Fish], one female aged 15-19 years, and one male aged 5-9 years [Ira D. Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Forbes and Hiram Wiley.

Isaac Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Lucy (Twombly) Wentworth], one male aged 10-14 years, two female aged 10-14 years, one male aged 5-9 years, one female aged 5-9 years, and three females aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Saml Bragdon and Joseph Walker. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Granddaughter Mary T. (Howe) Twombly died in Milton, October 23, 1831, aged twenty-two years.

DIED. In Milton, on the 23rd inst., Mrs. Mary T. Twombly, daughter of Mr. Jonathan Howe, and wife of Mr. Stephen Twombly, aged 22 years. Although confined over seven months with a distressing complaint of the lungs, she bore it with Christian fortitude and patience; on her dying bed she observed that her greatest fear was she should not have patience to wait for the time of her departure. She frequently asked her friends if they saw any alteration – her aged grandmother informed her that she thought that she was dying. She then told her friends that death was not a terror and that she longed for the time to come. In that distressing scene she exhorted her parents and friends to get religion & be prepared to meet her in the realms above. She observed to her respected husband that it was hard parting, but she hoped that they should meet in heaven. – She retained her senses to the last, and died in the arms of her blest redeemer. Mrs. Twombly was a worthy member of the Christian Church in Milton, and was respected by all her acquaintance – Com. (Dover Enquirer, November 1, 1831).

Daughter Mehitable (Twombly) Howe died, probably in Milton, between 1830 and August 1835.

Widowed son-in-law Jonathan Howe married (2nd), August 30, 1835, Abigail Wentworth. She was born in Rochester, NH, February 1, 1789, daughter of Ichabod and Mercy (Wentworth) Wentworth.

Grandson Ezra Ober Fish died in Lincoln, ME, April 10, 1836, aged twenty years.

DIED. In Lincoln, Penobscot County, Mr. Ezra Fish, son of Hon. Ira Fish, aged 21 (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), April 27, 1836).

Samuel Twombly headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly], one male aged 15-19 years [Ira F. Twombly], two females aged 10-14 years [Sophia Twombly and Rebecca Twombly], one male aged under-5 years [Samuel Twombly], and one male aged 90-99 years [Samuel Twombly Sr.]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joshua Hanson and Dudley Wentworth.

Jonathan How headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Abigail (Wentworth) Howe], one female aged 15-19 years, and one male aged 10-14 years. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ira F. How and Ebenezer Wakeham.

Israel Hanson headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Eunice (Twombly) Hanson], one male aged 20-29 years [Israel T. Hanson], one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 10-14 years [Lucinda K. Hanson], and one female aged 60-69 years [Mary (Twombly) Hanson]. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.

Hoply Meserve headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Joanna (Twombly) Meserve], one female 15-19 years [Mary I. Meserve], one male 10-14 years [John S. Meserve], one female 80-89 years. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Goodwin and Sarah Matthews [or Mathes].

Ira Fish headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [Ira Fish], one female aged 50-59 years [Abra (Hayes) Fish], one male aged 20-29 years [Ezra O. Fish], two males aged 15-19 years [Ira D. Fish], one male aged 5-9 years [Charles Fish], and one female aged under-5 years [Louisa Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Emery and Israel Hall.

Isaac Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Lucy (Twombly) Wentworth], one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years, two females aged 15-19 years, two females aged 10-14 years, one male aged 5-9 years, and one female aged 5-9 years. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph L. Walker and Theodore C. Lyman.

Grandson Samuel Hanson, 2d, appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1843, as a farmer, east of Village.

Samuel Twombly died in Milton, December 15, 1843, aged ninety-four years, nine months, and four days.

Deaths. In Milton, Samuel Twombly, Esq., aged 94 years, 9 months and 4 days (Dover Enquirer, January 23, 1844).

Son-in-law Israel Hanson died of acute bronchitis in Dover, NH, February 21, 1844, aged seventy-three years.

Deaths. [In this town …] On the morning of the 21st inst., of Acute Bronchitis, Mr. ISRAEL HANSON, in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Hanson was a native of Dover, and had discharged his duties as a husband, father and citizen with no ordinary fidelity and success. He was kind, generous and hospitable, and his loss will be regretted and his memory cherished by a large circle of relatives and friends. – Com (Dover Enquirer, February 27, 1844).

Jonathan Howe of Milton made his last will, April 30, 1845. He devised to his beloved wife, Abigail [(Wentworth)] Howe, the use and income of the field where his dwelling house stands, sole use of the house itself, and one-half the barn, pasturing for two cows, wood sufficient for one fire, use of a horse and carriage when necessary, and four sheep, all for so long as she lived unmarried, and whatever personal property she brought to their marriage. He devised to his son, Ira F. Howe, all the real and personal estate not allocated, and that given to his wife, Abigail Howe, after he decease. He devised $12 to his daughters, Lucy Durrell, Hannah Cook and Mehitable Jane Wentworth. He devised $1 to Stephen Twombly. Joseph Cook, Jacob Davis, and John H. Davis signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 80-25).

Daughter Sarah (Twombly) Goodrich died September 11, 1846, aged sixty-one years, five months, and twenty-six days.

Son-in-law James A. Goodrich died October 14, 1847, aged seventy-two years, four months, and twenty-four days.

Mary Hanson of Dover, NH, made her last will, July 22, 1850. She bequeathed $500 to her nephew, Israel T. Hanson. She bequeathed $500 and her gold finger ring to her sister, Eunice [(Twombly)] Hanson. She bequeathed $300 to her sister, Joan [(Twombly)] Meserve, and $200 to her sister’s husband, Hopley Meserve. She bequeathed $200 to her sister, Lucy [(Twombly)] Wentworth. She bequeathed $200 and her desk to her son, Samuel Hanson, 2d, and $200 to his son, Samuel Hanson.

She bequeathed $100, her gold necklace, and her earrings to Mary [(Horne)] Hanson, wife of [her aforementioned nephew,] Israel T. Hanson. She bequeathed $100 and her best bureau to her niece, Lucinda K. Hanson. She bequeathed $100 to Jonathan Hanson, son of [her nephew,] Samuel [H.] Hanson. She bequeathed $100 to [another nephew,] Ira How of Milton. She bequeathed $100 to [another nephew,] Ezra Goodridge of Berwick, Me. She bequeathed her best table cloths, silver tea spoons and large spoons to Eunice [(Burrows)] Twombly of Milton. She bequeathed $100 to Amos Burrows. She bequeathed all the rest and residue to [her aforementioned nephew,] Israel T. Hanson, and named Dr. Jeremiah Horne as her sole executor. She signed with “her mark.” Jeremiah Horne, Nathan Horn, and Samuel R. Horn signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 60:459).

Samuel Twombly, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Fish)] Twombly, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), and Samuel Twombly, aged thirteen years (b. NH). Samuel Twombly had real estate valued at $3,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mark H. Hart, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Dudley Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH).

Jonathan Howe, a farmer, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Abigail [(Wentworth)] Howe, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), Jane Brown, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Levi W. Hayes, aged fourteen years (b. NH). Jonathan Howe had real estate valued at $200. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of David Place, a shoemaker, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), and Ira F. Howe, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH)

Israel Hanson, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Horne)] Hanson, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Eunice [(Twombly)] Hanson, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), Mary [(Twombly)] Hanson, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), and Silas Foss, a farmer, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Israel Hanson had real estate valued at $1,500. Eunice Hanson had real estate valued at $500.

Hopley Meserve, W.I. [West India] goods, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Charlestown, MA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Joanna [(Twombly)] Meserve, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), John S. Meserve, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Ruth M. [(Brooks)] Meserve, aged twenty-two years (b. VT), Amanda C. Brooks, aged eighteen years (b. VT), and Joseph H. Brooks, a clerk, aged nineteen years (b. VT).

Ira Fish, a lumberman, aged sixty years (b. VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Abra [(Hayes)] Fish, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and Charles Fish, a student, aged seventeen years (b. ME).

Isaac Wentworth, a carpenter, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Lucy [(Twombly)] Wentworth, aged fifty years (b. NH), Lois Wentworth, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Lucy Wentworth, aged twenty years (b. NH),  and Seth Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Isaac Wentworth had real estate valued at $3,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Isaac Wentworth, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and John Bragdon, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH).

Daughter Mary (Twombly) Hanson died in Dover, NH, September 19, 1850, aged seventy-two years. (Her death took place but ten days after she was enumerated in the Seventh (1850) Federal Census).

DEATHS. In this town, 19th inst., Mrs. Mary Hanson, aged 72, wife of the late Mr. Jonathan Hanson (Dover Enquirer, September 24, 1850).

The last will of Mary (Twombly) Hanson was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Farmington, NH, October 1, 1850 (Strafford County Probate, 60:461)

State of New Hampshire. STRAFFORD SS. – The Judge of Probate for said County to the Heirs at Law of the Estate of May Hanson, late of Dover in said County, deceased, testate, and to all interested therein. YOU are hereby notified that Jeremiah Horne, the Executor of the last will of said deceased will exhibit his account of the administration of the Estate of said deceased at a Court of Probate to be holden at Rochester in said County, on the first Tuesday of December next, when and where you may appear and shew cause, if any you have, against the allowance of said account. And it is ordered that the said Executor give notice, by causing the foregoing citation and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Dover Enquirer, printed at Dover, in said County, the last publication whereof to be at least thirty days before said Court. Given at Dover, in said County, this 14th day of October, A.D. 1850. 20. JOHN H. WHITE, Register (Dover Enquirer, October 15, 1850).

Joanna (Twombly) Meserve died of consumption on Bunker Hill Street in Charlestown, MA, February 22, 1852, aged sixty-two years, eight (and one-third) months. She was married.

Daughter Eunice (Twombly) Hanson died in Dover, NH, March 26, 1853, aged sixty-six years.

DEATHS. In Dover, [March] 26th, Mrs. Eunice Hanson, widow of Israel Hanson, aged 66 (Portsmouth Daily Chronicle (Portsmouth, NH), March 30, 1853).

Samuel Twombly, a farmer, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Fish)] Twombly, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH [SIC]). Samuel Twombly had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Henry D. Witham, a farmer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Benjamin F. Hayes, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH).

Hopley Meserve, a grocer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Charlestown, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census, His household included Sarah P. Meserve, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). Hopley Meserve had real estate valued at $3,000.

Ira Fish, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abra [(Hayes)] Fish, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), Maxey Ordway, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Geo Voyer, aged sixteen years (b. Canada). Ira Fish had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $300. Maxey Ordway had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $300.

Eri Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary J. [(Shute)] Wentworth, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), Hannah E. Wentworth, aged eleven years (b. NH), Isaac Wentworth, a farmer, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), Lucy [(Twombly)] Wentworth, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and Clarrissa Wentworth, aged forty years (b. NH). Eri Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $500. Isaac Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Bragdon, a farmer, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Giles Burrows, a farm laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. ME).

Daughter Lucy (Twombly) Wentworth died of consumption in Milton, September 22, 1864, aged sixty-nine years, six months, and fifteen days.

DEATHS. In South Milton, … 22d ult., Mrs. Lucy Wentworth, wife of Mr. Isaac Wentworth,  aged 59 [69] years, 6 months, 15 days (Dover Enquirer, October 6, 1864).

[Her death certificate said in error only “6” years, and her newspaper obituary said in error only “59” years].

Grandson Samuel Hanson, 2nd, died in Dover, NH, December 4, 1865, aged fifty years, six months. (He was the son of Jonathan and Mary (Twombly) Hanson).

DEATHS. In this city, 4th inst., Mr. Samuel Hanson, 2d, aged 50 years, 6 months (Dover Enquirer, December 7, 1865).

Son-in-law Jonathan Howe died of apoplexy in Milton, December 21, 1866, aged eighty-four years, five months, and nine days. He was a married farmer. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Dover, NH, January 1, 1867 (Strafford County Probate, 80:27).

Executor’s Notice. THE subscriber hereby gives notice that he has been duly appointed executor of the last will and testament, of JONATHAN HOWE, late of Milton, in the county of Strafford, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust and given bond as the law directs. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all having claims to present them to the subscriber for adjustment. IRA F. HOWE, Executor. Milton, Feb 21, 1867. 42 (Dover Enquirer, February 28, 1867).

Son Samuel Twombly died of consumption in Milton, November 26, 1868, aged eighty-eight years, eight months.

Theophilus F. Bennett, a teamster, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Charlestown, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Susan M. [(Smith)] Bennett, keeping house, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), James S. Bennett, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Theste S. [(Carey)] Bennett, at home, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Sarah M. Bennett, at home, aged nineteen years (b. MA), Hopley T. Meserve, retired, aged eighty-five years (b. NH), and Sarah [((Mooney) Smith)] Meserve, aged seventy years (b. NH). Theophilia F. Bennett had real estate valued at $9,000 and personal estate valued at $4,000.

Ira Fish, a farmer, aged eighty years (b. Townshend, VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abra [(Hayes)] Fish, keeping house, aged seventy-five years (b. Milton, NH), and Sarah Hayes, a domestic, aged fifty years (b. Lincoln, ME). Ira Fish had real estate valued at $900 and personal estate valued at $200. Abra Fish had real estate valued at $1,000.

Isaac Wentworth, a carpenter, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Clarisa Wentworth, a housekeeper, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Isaac Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $161. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ellen H. Wentworth, keeping house, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Giles W. Burrows, a farm laborer, aged forty-six years (b. ME).

Benjamin F. Hayes, a farm laborer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Twombly)] Hayes, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. NH). They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of [her mother,] Sophia [(Fish)] Twombly, keeping house, aged seventy-eight years (b. VT). Benjamin F. Hayes had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $757. Sophia Twombly had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000.

Son-in-law Ira Fish died in Patten, ME, May 24, 1872, aged eighty-two years.

Death of an Aged Citizen. Hon. Ira Fish of Patten died a few days since at the advanced age of 82 years. In 1824 Mr. Fish moved from New Hampshire to Lincoln, where he remained about twenty years, when he moved to Patten, which has since been his home. He was one of the most prominent and influential business men in that section of the county, had been several times elected to both branches of the Legislature, and frequently held other offices of public trust. He was respected by his neighbors, friends and acquaintances for his many excellent traits of character, as was especially testified by the immense throng which gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to their departed friend (Bangor Whig & Courier, May 31, 1872).

Daughter-in-law Sophia D. (Fish) Twombly died of old age in Milton, March 30, 1874, aged eighty-one years, eleven months. (She was said to have been born in Vermont State).

Administrator’s Notice. THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that he was, on the 5th day of May, A.D. 1874, duly appointed and allowed to be Administrator with will annexed of the estate of Sophia Twombly, late of Milton, in the County of Strafford, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust and given bond as the law directs. Dated this 5th day of May, A.D. 1874. BENJAMIN F. HAYES. 3w19* (Dover Enquirer, May 14, 1874).

Son-in-law Hopley T. Meserve died of pneumonia at his home at 63 Elm Street, Boston, MA, December 21, 1875, aged eighty-six years, nine months, and twenty-one years.

DEATHS. At Charlestown, Dec. 21, Hapley Meserve, 86 (Boston Post, December 24, 1875; New England Farmer (Boston, MA), January 1, 1876).

Son-in-law Isaac Wentworth died in Milton, May 22, 1879, aged ninety-six years.

Deaths. WENTWORTH, Isaac (Elihu4, Ebenezer3, Benjamin2, William1), at Milton, New Hampshire, May 22, 1879, aged 96 years, 5 mos. and 16 days, the oldest man of the name [surname] at the time of his death, and the oldest but two of the name ever living in America; and no one’s age ever reached 98 (NEHGR, July 1879).

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By Muriel Bristol | November 9, 2025

Ebenezer Wentworth [Jr.] was born in Alton, NH, June 26, 1797, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Hayes) Wentworth.

Ebenezer Wentworth married, circa 1823, Sophia Roberts. She was born in Milton, May 4, 1803.

(The known children of Ebenezer and Sophia (Roberts) Wentworth were: Mary Ann Wentworth (1824–1902), Ambrose A. Wentworth (1827–), John William Wentworth (1830–1877), Ambrose Harrison Wentworth (1832–1913), Eli Plummer Wentworth (1834–1897), Eliza G. Wentworth (1836–1857), Infant Son Wentworth (1838–1838), Matilda Jane Wentworth (1839–1857), Sophia Ellen Wentworth (1841–1843), and Luther Hayes Wentworth (1844–1917)).

Daughter Mary Ann Wentworth was born in Middleton, NH, September 4, 1824. Son Ambrose A. Wentworth was born in Middleton, NH, May 5, 1827. He died before 1832. Son John William Wentworth was born in Middleton, NH, June 8, 1830.

Son Ambrose Harrison Wentworth was born in Middleton, July 7, 1832.

Son Eli Plummer Wentworth was born in Milton, April 22, 1834.

Daughter Eliza G. Wentworth was born in Milton, March 14, 1836. Infant Wentworth was born in Milton, February 3, 1838, and died in Milton, February 5, 1838.

Father Ebenezer Wentworth [Sr.] died in Farmington, NH, July 1, 1839, aged sixty-nine years, four months, and twenty-two days.

Died. In Farmington, Mr. Ebenezer Wentworth, aged 67 (Foster Daily Democrat, July 16, 1839).

Daughter Matilda Jane Wentworth was born in Milton, December 30, 1839.

Ebenezer Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years, one male aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years, two males aged 5-9 years, one female aged 5-9 years, one female aged under-5 years, and one female aged 50-59 years. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Elizabeth Edgerly and Ephraim Plumer.

Sophia Ellen Wentworth was born in Milton, October 18, 1841. She died in Milton, May 7, 1843. Luther Hayes Wentworth was born in Milton, November 18, 1844.

Ebenezer Wentworth and Eli Wentworth were the Milton delegates to the Whig Councilor Convention for District 2, which was held at Washington Hall, at Farmington Dock, in Farmington, NH, on Saturday, February 12, 1848. The C0nvention selected Hon. Daniel Hoit of Sandwich, NH, to be the Whig candidate for District 2 Executive Councilor (Dover Enquirer, February 22, 1848)..

The Whig Councilor Convention for District 2 voted several resolutions. One of them opposed the soon-to-be-concluded Mexican-American War (1846-48).

Resolved, That we abhor this iniquitous war with Mexico. We believe it unnecessary – for it might have ben avoided; we believe it unprincipled for its abettors have given, and can give, no adequate reason for its existence; we believe it unconstitutional – for it was brought upon us by Executive presumption (Dover Enquirer, February 22, 1848).

Henry Thoreau of Concord, MA, went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War. He would publish his famous explanatory essay Civil Disobedience in the following year.

The Whig Councilor Convention for District 2 resolved also its opposition to slavery.

Resolved, That we regard African Slavery as the curse of our land. We will never consent to extend it; nor fail to use every constitutional means to abolish it where it already exists (Dover Enquirer, February 22, 1848). 

(See Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations).

Ebenezer Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Roberts)] Wentworth, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), Mary A. Wentworth, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), John W. Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Ambrose H. Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Ebenezer P. [Eli P.] Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Eliza G. Wentworth, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Matilda J. Wentworth, aged eleven years (b. NH), and Luther Wentworth, aged five years (b. NH). Ebenezer Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ira Davis, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Eri Perkins, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH).

Daughter Mary Ann Wentworth married in Milton, March 16, 1851, Simeon S. Wakeham. He was born in Milton, in 1828, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Goodwin) Wakeham.

Daughter Eliza G. Wentworth died in Milton, June 13 1857. Daughter Matilda Jane Wentworth died in Milton, December 5, 1857.

Son-in-law Simeon S. Wakeham made his last will, February 28, 1859. He devised his house, “being the same where I now live,” and the three-quarters of an acre of land on which it stood, to his beloved wife, Mary Ann Wakeham. He devised $1 to his only son, John F. Wakeham, and $1 to his only daughter, Mathilda E. Wakeham, to be paid when they come of age. All the rest and residue should go to his said beloved wife, Mary Ann Wakeham, whom he named as executrix. Ebenezer Wentworth, Daniel D. Nichols, and Ambrose H. Wentworth witnessed his signature (Strafford County Probate, 70:233).

Son-in-law Simeon S. Wakeham died of consumption in Milton, March 26, 1859, aged thirty-one years, and thirteen days. He was a married farmer. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Farmington, NH, in April 1859 (Strafford County Probate, 70:235).

DEATHS. In Milton, March 26th, Simeon S. Wakeham, aged 31 years (Dover Enquirer, April 7, 1859).

Ebenezer Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Roberts)] Wentworth, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), John Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged thirty years (b. NH), Ambrosse Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), E.P. [Eli P.] Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and L.H. [Luther H.] Wentworth, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Ebenezer Wentworth had real estate valued at $3,500 and personal estate valued at $1,000. John Wentworth had personal estate valued at $500; Ambrosse Wentworth had personal estate valued at $300; and E.P. Wentworth had personal estate valued at $400. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ira F. Howe, a farmer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and Mary A. Wakeham, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).

Mary A. [(Wentworth)] Wakeham, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included John F. Wakeham, aged six years (b. NH), Matilda E. Wakeham, aged four years (b. NH), and Daniel B. Nichols, a shoemaker, aged thirty-six years (b. NH). Mary A. Wakeham had real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her father,] Ebenezer Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and [her father-in-law,] Ebenezer Wakeham, a shoemaker, aged sixty-two years (b. NH).

Mother Betsy (Hayes) Wentworth died in Farmington, NH, July 29, 1860, aged eighty-six years, six months, and fifteen days.

DEATHS. In Farmington, July 29, Mrs. Betsy Wentworth, aged 86 years, 6 months and 15 days, wife of the late Ebenezer Wentworth (Dover Enquirer, September 27, 1860).

Son John W. Wentworth married in Milton, December 15, 1861, Mary Ann Roberts, he of Milton and she of Farmington, NH. He was a farmer, aged thirty-one years, and she was aged twenty-seven years. Rev. Ezra Tuttle performed the ceremony. She was born in Farmington, NH, circa 1834, daughter of Joseph J. and Sarah A. (Pearl) Roberts.

MARRIAGES. In Milton, Dec. 15th, by Rev. E. Tuttle, Mr. John W. Wentworth of Milton, to Miss Mary A. Roberts of Farmington (Dover Enquirer, December 26, 1861).

Daughter-in-law Mary Ann (Wentworth) Wakeham married (2nd) in Milton, February 7, 1863, Edwin McKenney, both of Milton. He was a mechanic, aged thirty-eight years, and she was a widow, aged twenty-five [thirty-eight] years. Ezra Tuttle, an F.W. Baptist clergyman, performed the ceremony. McKenney was born in Sebago, ME, March 4, 1838, son of Daniel L. and Naomi (Kilgore) McKenney. (The “Mc” prefix of “McKenney” would be dropped eventually to make “Kenney”).

John W. Wentworth, a manufacturer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census. His household included Mary A. [(Roberts)] Wentworth, a housekeeper, aged thirty years (b. NH), John J. Wentworth, aged three years (b. NH), and Carrie S. Wentworth, aged one year (b. NH).

Eli P. Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged thirty years (b. MA [SIC]), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Second (1865) MA State Census.

Son Eli P. Wentworth married in Haverhill, MA November 30, 1865, Abbie F. Parker, both of Haverhill, MA. He was a shoemaker, aged twenty-one years, and she was aged twenty-five years. Rev. R.H. Seeley performed the ceremony. She was born in Haverhill, MA, in April 1841, daughter of Leonard and Mary R. (Spiller) Parker.

The Milton Selectmen of 1865 were Jos. Hayward, J.U. Simes, and Ebenezer Wentworth. The Milton Selectmen of 1866 were J.U. Simes, E. Wentworth, and Chas. Jones.

Son Luther H. Wentworth married (1st) in Milton, June 13, 1870, Frances L. “Fannie” Hurd, he of Milton and she of Farmington, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged twenty-five years, and she was aged twenty-five years. Rev. Frank Haley, acting pastor of the Congregational Church, performed the ceremony. She was born in Buffalo, NH, circa 1845, daughter of Timothy and Eliza Hurd.

Ebenezer Wentworth, a farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Roberts)] Wentworth, keeping house, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), Ambrose H. Wentworth, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), William E. Goodwin, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Ellen A. Corson, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Ralf S. Corson, aged four months (b. NH). Ebenezer Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $1,075. Sophia Wentworth had personal estate valued at $500; Ambrose H. Wentworth had personal estate valued at $2,200. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Samuel Sanborn, a farm laborer, aged seventy-four years (b. ME), and Ira F. Howe, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH).

Edwin Kenny, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-three years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [((Wentworth) Wakeham) Kenny, keeping house, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), Ann S. Kenny, at school, aged seven years (b. NH), Frank E. Kenny, at school, aged five years (b. NH), Matilda E. Wakeham, at school, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Charles A. Corson, works in shoe factory, aged twenty years (b. NH), and Seth T. Pinkham, works in shoe factory, aged seventeen years (b. NH). Edwin Kenney had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Thomas J. Howe, a farm laborer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and John S. Varney, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).

John W. Wentworth, a shoe cutter, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Roberts)] Wentworth, keeps house, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), John Wentworth, attends school, aged eight years (b. MA), Clara Wentworth, attends school, aged six years (b. MA), Sarah Roberts, no employment, aged sixty years (b. MA), and Temperance Jones, no employment, aged fifty-three years (b. MA). John W. Wentworth had personal estate valued at $800. Temperance Jones had real estate valued at $5,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. They shared a three-family residence with the households of William Perkins, a baker, aged forty years (b. Canada), and Carl Jenson, a sole leather cutter, aged thirty years (b. Denmark).

Mary [(Spiller)] Parker, keeps house, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Her household included Abbie [(Parker)] Wentworth, no employment, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), Ely [Eli P.] Wentworth, bookkeeper, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Arthur Wentworth, at home, aged three years (b. MA), Albert Mitchell, works in shoe factory, aged twenty years (b. NH), Winchell Mitchell, works in shoe factory, aged eighteen years (b. NH), James Hayes, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Frances Burley, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and Ira Tomley, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-one years (b. MA). Mary Parker had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $600. Ely Wentworth had personal estate valued at $800.

Ebenezer Wentworth died of a spinal complaint in Milton, April 24, 1874, aged seventy-six years, ten months. (The original death certificate had a bracketed question mark next to the 1874).

Executor’s Notice. THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that he was on the fifth day of May, A.D. 1874, duly appointed and allowed to be Executor of the last will and testament of Ebenezer Wentworth, late of Milton, in the County of Strafford, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust, and given bond as the law directs. Dated this fifth day of May, A.D. 1874. JOHN W. WENTWORTH. 19* (Dover Enquirer, May 7, 1874).

Daughter-in-law Fannie L. [(Hurd)] Wentworth of New Durham, NH, divorced son Luther H. Wentworth of New Durham, NH, in Strafford County, in February 1877. She alleged extreme cruelty and adultery.

Son John William Wentworth died of consumption in Haverhill, MA, July 1, 1877, aged forty-seven years, twenty-two days. He was a married shoe cutter.

Edwin Kenney, sells carriages, aged forty-two years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary A. [((Wentworth) Wakeham)] Kenney, keeping house, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and his children, Annie S. Kenney, at school, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Frank E. Kenney, at school, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James W. Johnson, works on farm, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Luther H. Wentworth, a traveling agent, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).

Mary A. [(Roberts)] Wentworth, a housekeeper, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), and [her daughter,] Carrie S. Wentworth, attending school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), boarded in the Farmington, NH, household of Geo. E. Roberts, a shoe manufacturer, aged fifty years (b. NH), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census.

Eli P. Wentworth, a leather dealer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abbie F. [(Parker)] Wentworth, keeping house, aged thirty-nine years (b. MA), his son, Arthur H. Wentworth, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and his mother-in-law, Mary R. [(Spiller) Parker, aged sixty-six years (b. NH). They resided at 2 Cottage Street.

Luther H. Wentworth, a traveling agent, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his son, Randolph Wentworth, aged nine years (b. MA). (Luther H. Wentworth was divorced). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Ambrose H. Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), who headed the other portion of the two-family residence. His household included his mother, Sophia [(Roberts)] Wentworth, a widow, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH). She had rheumatism. This two-family residence appeared in the enumeration between the household of Mary A. Varney, keeping house, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and Thomas J. Howe, a farmer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH).

Daughter-in-law Mary A. (Roberts) Wentworth died of consumption in Farmington, NH, November 24, 1882, aged forty-one years, six months. She was a widowed lady. H.F. Parker [M.D.,] signed the death certificate.

DEATHS. In Farmington, Nov. 24, Mary A., widow of John W. Wentworth, aged 47 years, 6 months (Farmington News, December 1, 1882).

Sophia (Roberts) Wentworth died in Milton, August 16, 1883, aged eighty years, three months.

DEATHS. In West Milton, August 16, after years of suffering, Sophia, widow of the late Ebenezer Wentworth, aged 8o years, 3 mos. (Farmington News, August 24, 1883).

Son Luther H. Wentworth married (2nd) in Milton, October 8, 1887, Flora Nelson, both of Milton. He was a hotel keeper, aged forty-two years, and she was a lady, aged thirty-three years. George Lyman, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in East Hardwick, VT, October 22, 1853, daughter of Miles G. and Miranda S. (Swett) Nelson.

EAST HARDWICK. Mrs. Flora Nelson-Wentworth and husband have been in town two weeks since their return from Quebec. Some friends have had the pleasure of reading the letters of travel written on the journey, most of the trip being made by carriage (News and Citizen (Morrisville, VT), September 29, 1892).

Son Luther H. Wentworth received a five-year appointment as a Milton justice of the peace, March 10, 1897.

Son Eli Plummer Wentworth died of phthisis in Haverhill, MA, October 16, 1897, aged sixty-three years, five months, and twenty-four days. He was a married leather dealer.

ELI P. WENTWORTH DEAD. Retired Haverhill Leather Merchant Passes Away After Two Years’ Illness. HAVERHILL, Oct. 16 – Eli P. Wentworth, a retired leather merchant, died this afternoon at his home on Main st after an illness of two years. He was 63 and leaves a wife and one son, Arthur P. Wentworth, who is engaged in the sole leather business (Boston Globe, October 17, 1897).

Son Luther H. Wentworth assisted in several court trials in Washington, D.C., evidently by virtue of being a Milton justice-of-the-peace.

Personal. The Farmington News, says Judge Luther H. Wentworth with Mrs. Wentworth, returned from an extensive Southern trip last week. Most of the time during their absence was spent in Washington, D.C., and while in that place Mr. Wentworth assisted in several court trials. The above persons are well known in this vicinity (Hardwick Gazette (Hardwick, VT), April 8, 1898).

Henry W. Collomy, a sole leather cutter, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-four years), Matilda E. [(Wakeham)] Collomy, aged forty-four years (b. NH), his mother-in-law, Mary A. [((Wentworth) Wakeham)] Kenney, aged seventy-five years, and his boarder, Elizabeth J. Colbath, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). Henry W. Collomy owned their house at 21 Glen Street, with a mortgage. Matilda was the mother of two children, of whom none were still living. Mary A. Kenney was the mother of six children, of whom three were still living. Elizabeth J. Colbath was the mother of four children, of whom none were still living.

Ambrose H. Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his brother, Luther H. Wentworth, a commercial traveler, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and his sister-in-law (of seven years), Flora N. [(Nelson)] Wentworth, aged forty-five years (b. VT). Ambrose H. Wentworth owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Edwin Kenney, a carriage dealer, aged sixty-two years (b. ME), and J. William Harriman, a farmer, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH).

Abbie F. [(Parker)] Wentworth, a widow, aged fifty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her son, Arthur H. Wentworth, a sole leather dealer, aged thirty-three years (b. MA). Abbie F. Wentworth owned their house at 202 Main Street, free-and-clear. She was the mother of one child, of whom one as still living.

Daughter Mary A. ((Wentworth) Wakeham) Kenney died of old age on Glen Street in Farmington, NH, October 27, 1902, aged seventy-eight years, one month, and twenty-three days. She had resided there for seven years, i.e., since circa 1895. She was a married housewife. [Her daughter,] A.S.K. Patch, M.D., of Boston, MA, signed the death certificate.

FARMINGTON. Farmington, Oct. 31. Mrs. Mary A. (Wentworth) Kenney passed away Monday afternoon, Oct. 27, after an illness of over three years’ duration,. Mrs. Kenney was a daughter of the late Eben and Sophia Wentworth, and was born in Middleton, September 4, 1824. The family removed from the old Middleton hotel to a pleasant farm in Milton, in which town the greater part of the daughter’s life was spent. A few years ago Mrs. Kenney took up her abode with her elder daughter, Mrs. M.E.W. Colomy, the child of her first marriage, and in the long period of her increasing feebleness, she was cared for with tender faithfulness in her new home, her fine character, her gentleness and patience, and her appreciative recognition of all that was done for her comfort having met with deserved respect and filial love on the part of her children and their families. Mrs. Kenney leaves her husband, Mr. Edwin Kenney, and their two children, Frank Kenney and Dr. Annie S. Patch of Boston, beside the eldest daughter named. She is mourned also by one grandson, the only child of Dr. Patch, and Fred L. Patch of Boston. Mrs. Kenney is survived also by two brothers, Ambrose and Luther H. Wentworth of Milton and Farmington, and by children of deceased brothers in Haverhill and Boston. During the past fortnight, Dr. Patch and her son have been in town, the former giving professional care to this beloved mother. The funeral of Mrs. Kenney was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Colomy, in charge of B.F. Perkins, and was followed by interment in the family grounds in West Milton. The Rev. E.E. Disbrow was the attending clergyman, and very sweet singing was given by Mrs. A.E. Putnam and Mrs. C.H. Pitman (Dover Enquirer, October 31, 1902).

Son Luther H. Wentworth received a five-year appointment as a Farmington, NH, justice of the peace, February 20, 1907.

BOSTON MAN’S FUNERAL. Services for Charles W. Roberts Held at Farmington, N.H. FARMINGTON, N.H. Dec. 4 – Charles W. Roberts, aged 64, a retired Boston broker and real estate dealer, who died here Tuesday at the home of his cousin, Luther H. Wentworth, was buried to-day, The funeral took place at the Wentworth residence on Main st. Rev. James D. Smiley of the First Congregational church officiated. The body was placed in the receiving tomb in Village cemetery. Mr. Roberts in survived by a son, Arthur, of Boston (Boston Globe, December 5, 1908).

Abbie F. [(Parker)] Wentworth, a widow, aged sixty-nine years (b. MA), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her son, Arthur H. Wentworth, a leather manufacturer (cut soles), aged forty-three years (b. MA), and her servant, Rose Murphy, a servant (private family), aged thirty-four years (b. MA). Abbie F. Wentworth owned their house at 202 Main Street, free-and-clear. She was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.

Luther H. Wentworth, a traveling salesman, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Flora N. [(Nelson)] Wentworth, aged fifty-six years (b. VT), and his brother, Ambrose H. Wentworth, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH). Luther H. Wentworth owned their farm on North Main Street, free-and-clear. Flora N. Wentworth was the mother of two children, of whom zero were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank W. Walsh, a shoe factory foreman, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and William L. Barry, a bank bookkeeper, aged fifty-six years (b. NH).

AGAINST WENTWORTH. Bars Defeated Candidate From the Ballot. New Hampshire Board Decides on Nomination Papers. CONCORD, N.H., Oct. 24 – The ballot law commissioners, Charles C. Rogers of Tilton, John C. Bickford of Manchester and Atty. Gen. E.G. Eastman, laid down the principle today that a candidate for office defeated at the primary is barred from a place on the official ballot by nomination papers. The matter came before the board on the objections raised by Albert E. Carter, one of the republican candidates for representative in Farmington, to the validity of the nomination papers filed by Luther H. Wentworth of Farmington. Mr. Wentworth after the decision declared that there were other ways of getting on the ticket even if he had been denied the right to have its name printed thereon, and indicated that his friends would write his name on the ballot in numbers sufficient to elect him in November (Boston Globe, October 25, 1910).

Son Ambrose Harrison Wentworth died of old age in Farmington. NH, November 4, 1913, aged eighty-two years, three months, and twenty-seven days. He had resided there for ten years, i.e., since circa 1903, with his previous residence having been in Milton. P.H. Greeley, M.D., signed the death certificate.

West Milton. Many of the old friends and people of Ambrose Wentworth were saddened to learn of his death which occurred at his home in Farmington last week (Farmington News, November 14, 1913).

Son Luther H. Wentworth received appointment as a Strafford County Probate Judge, March 10, 1915.

Son-in-law Edwin Kenney died of valvular heart disease in Farmington, NH, January 26, 1917, aged seventy-eight years, nine months, and twenty-two days. He was a widowed trader. He had resided in Farmington, NH, for about four years, i.e., since circa 1912, with his previous residence(s) having been in Alton & Milton. W.J. Roberts, M.D., signed the death certificate.

In Memoriam. Mr. Kenney. Edwin Kenney, for the past three years a resident of this village, passed away very suddenly at his home near the trotting park at an early hour last Friday morning, at the age of 78 years. Death was due to heart failure. The deceased had been afflicted with heart failure for a short period but retired in his usual health at a seasonable hour on the evening before his death. his death. Shortly after one o’clock the following morning the other occupants of the house, his son Frank and the housekeeper, Mrs. Ellis, were awakened by the sound of a heavy fall and upon investigating found Mr. Kenney dead on the floor of his room. Blood was flowing from a wound on the side of his head and in consequence of this the undertaker ordered the medical referee before moving the body. Upon the arrival of the official an examination was made an showed that death had resulted from natural causes, the wound being slight and is supposed to have been inflicted when the unfortunate man’s head came in contact with the lock of a gun standing in a corner near where the body lay. Mr. Kenney was born in Sebago, Me., and was the last of four sons born to Rev. Daniel and Naomi (Emerson) McKenney. On obtaining his majority the deceased legally abolished the prefix of his surname and thereafter was known as Kenney. He leaves one son, Frank E Kenney of this village, and three grandchildren, Rev. Don Ivan Patch of Beverly, Mass., and the Misses Lucia and Ethel Kenney of Portsmouth. The funeral was held from the Advent Chapel on Monday afternoon, with former pastor Rev. A.E. Walton officiating. The body was entombed at Pine Grove cemetery (Farmington News, February 2, 1917).

Son Luther Hayes Wentworth died of myocardial insufficiency at the NH State Hospital in Concord, NH, December 1, 1917, aged seventy-three years, and thirteen days.

In Memoriam. Mr. Wentworth. Luther Hayes Wentworth passed away at the State hospital at Concord on Saturday afternoon of last week, after two years of failing health. Death came as the result of mental and physical afflictions, at the age of 73 years. Three weeks ago he was take to the Wentworth hospital at Dover, in the hope that medical treatment and trained care would serve to relieve his physical condition and thus restore his mind. However, it was decided at once that he be removed to the hospital where his death occurred. The deceased was born in Milton and resided in that town until he removed to this village about 15 years ago. He was the youngest child in a family of eleven children born to Ebenezer and Sophia (Roberts) Wentworth, and was the last surviving member of his parental family. Mr. Wentworth was descended from a family that was influential in the making of the early history of New Hampshire and bore the name of his forefathers with great pride. He possessed a kind heart and genial disposition. He was a natural salesman and in following this occupation he traveled considerably. He was a republican in politics. He leaves no near relatives, with the exception of a widow. Remains were brought to his home on  North Main street on the last train Monday night and funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. J.G. Haigh officiating. Interment was in the family lot at Pine Grove cemetery (Farmington News, December 7, 1917).

Arthur H. Wentworth, a dealer (cut soles), aged fifty-three years (b. MA), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included  his mother, Abbie F. [(Parker)] Wentworth, aged seventy-eight years (b. MA), and his maid, Rosanna Murphy, a maid (private family), aged forty-five years (b. MA). Arthur H. Wentworth owned their house at 202 Main Street, free-and-clear.

Daughter-in-law Abbie F. (Parker) Wentworth died in Haverhill, MA, July 21, 1922, aged eighty-one years.

Widowed daughter-in-law Flora L. (Nelson) Wentworth married (2nd) in Hardwick, VT, October 5, 1922, William C. Norris.

Wentworth-Norris. A quiet wedding was observed Thursday, October 5th, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Inez Lovejoy, when Mrs. Flora Nelson-Went worth was united in marriage to William Chase Norris, by the bride’s cousin, Rev. Ruth Barr, and Rev. I.M. Thompson, of the Baptist church. Only near relatives were present, twenty people being in attendance. Interesting, useful and historical presents were given the contracting parties. Following the ceremony, all passed out to the dining-room, where, after grace by Mr. Norris, cocoa was served and delicious cakes. The wedding cake recipe was one used by the late Madam Nelson. The rooms had been charmingly decorated by Mrs. Blanche Nelson-Earle, who used maple branches largely, while over the bay window arch, were fir boughs and the scarlet mountain ash berries. Miss Barr played, “God Be With Us ‘Till We Meet Again,” and the company joined in the singing. Mr. and Mrs. Earle started the newly-weds on their trip to the Southland. It is expected to include the Hudson River boat and ocean steamer to Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Norris has always been deeply interested in the M.E. church and prohibition, and somewhat in city polities in various cities of New England, where he was connected with railroads. He learned telegraphy in Minnesota, just after returning from the Civil War, and followed it almost entirely until last year. Mrs. Norris has always been interested in educational and social work and is now president of the Caledonia County W.C.T.U., and State Superintendent of Scientific Temperance Instruction in schools (Hardwick Gazette, October 12, 1922).

Flora N. [((Nelson) Wentworth)] Norris, a widow, aged seventy-five years (b. VT), headed a St. Cloud, FL, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Flora N. Norris rented her residence at 1015R Ohio Avenue, for $12 per month.

Rose E. Bolaudy, a widow, aged eighty-two years (b. MI), headed a St. Cloud, FL, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. Her household included her companion, Flora [((Nelson) Wentworth)] Norris, a widow, aged eighty-five years (b. VT). Rose E. Bolaudy owned their residence at 1210 Virginia Avenue, which was valued at $1,000.

Daughter-in-law Flora ((Nelson) Wentworth) Norris died in Kissimmee, FL, August 31, 1940.

DEATH OF MRS FLORA NORRIS IN FLORIDA. Mrs. Inez Lovejoy of this town received word Saturday, August 31, of the death of her sister, Mrs. Flora Norris. Mrs. Flora Norris of St. Cloud, Florida, died at 11:30 o’clock Saturday forenoon, August 31, at a hospital in Kissimmee, Florida. She had been in her usual health up to within a little more than a week. Mrs. Norris was born in Hardwick, on what was called the James Collier farm, October 22, 1853, the daughter of Miles and Miranda (Swett) Nelson. She was a school teacher for many years, beginning at 16 years of age, in Hardwick and surrounding towns, later taught in Nebraska and California. She married Luther Wentworth and lived in Farmington, N.H., for many years. After the death of her husband she returned to this town and bought a house in East Hardwick. On October 5, 1922 she married William Norris of St. Cloud, Fla. They spent winters in Florida but returned to Vermont each summer until the last two summers she did not feel able to undertake the journey. She has travelled a good deal and has been in nearly every state in the union, always saw something interesting and new on each journey. She was a great worker for many years in the W.C.T.U., and held many offices in the society while in Vermont and also in Florida. She was a member of Fairview Rebekah Lodge of this town. She was also a member of the Congregational Church at East Hardwick and a loyal worker in the Florida Church and different church activities. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Ines Lovejoy, of this town and a brother, Sydney Nelson, of Calais, besides nephews and nieces. Funeral services were held Monday forenoon, Sept. 2nd, with cremation (Hardwick Gazette (Hardwick, VT), September 12, 1940).

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Find a Grave. (2022, November 25). Ebenezer Wentworth [Sr.]. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/245924506/ebenezer-wentworth

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By Muriel Bristol | November 2, 2025

Ebenezer Twombly was born in 1757, son of Jonathan and Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly.

Ebenezer Twombly of Rochester, NH, enlisted in Capt. William McDuffee’s Company, in Col. Thomas Tash’s 2nd NH Regiment, September 16, 1776. They were ordered to join the Continental Army in New York. Later records indicate that he was engaged in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga.

In applying for a veteran’s pension many years later – September 5, 1832 – Ebenr Twombly, by then of Lancaster, NH, provided the following account of his Revolutionary War service:

… on the last of August or first of September [1776] he enlisted as a Soldier into the Company of Militia commanded by William McDuffee which Company belonged to the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Tash ~ that he enlisted at Rochester in the State of New Hampshire for the term of three months. He immediately Marched as he supposed for New York and arrived at Peakskill in about twenty days, remained there a short time, then the Company was moved to Tallows Point to prevent communication between the inhabitants and three english Ships then lying in the Hudson River. Soon after the Ships Moved up the river. The Company was ordered to Kings ferry where he remained until the 1st day of December, from thence he Marched to Peakskill and was there discharged the same day ~
In the year 1777 at Rochester aforesaid he again enlisted as a Soldier under Capt. Daniel McDuffee (brother to the afore namd Wm McDuffee). Same Company was attached to the regiment Commanded by Col. Stephen Evans. Twas the last of August or first of September that he enlisted for the term of three Months. Soon after his enlistment the Company was ordered to March for Bennington in the State of Vermont and their March passed through Keene, N.H., Brattleboro, Vt., to Said Bennington where they remained a few days, from thence they were ordered to Stillwater in the State of New York where he remained in Camp about twenty days while there they had an engagement or Battle with the British and Indians. I[n] the Battle he took a British Soldier and Conducted him to the Main Guard ~ Soon after this the British left their encampment & proceeded to Saratoga in the State of N. York, his Company followed them to Saratoga and there remained until the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne ~ They then Marched to Albany in the State of N. York and remained until the first day of December in the Same year when he was discharged. He does not know whether he could procure any positive proof of Service or not. Lancaster where he now resides is over one hundred Miles from the place that he lived when he enlisted and he has not been able to learn whether or those that served with him are now living and that it would be a great expense to him to obtain their testimony if they are living ~

Ebenr Twombly was one of the Strafford County petitioners that recommended, in 1783, Nathaniel Cooper of Dover, NH, to the NH President, i.e., Governor, and Executive Council as a replacement or interim Registrar of Probate.

Ebenezer Twombly married in Rochester, NH, December 21, 1790, Deborah Wentworth. She was born in Rochester, NH, December 30, 1761, daughter of Ebenezer and Dorothy (Hartford) Wentworth.

(The known children of Ebenezer and Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly were: Lucy Twombly (1795-1863), Sophia Twombly (1795-1853), Eliza Twombly (1797-c1838), Deborah Twombly (1801-1879)).

Daughter Lucy Twombly was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, February 14, 1795. Daughter Sophia Twombly was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, February 14, 1795.

Father-in-law Ebenezer Wentworth died April 24, 1797.

Daughter Eliza Twombly was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, in November 1797. Daughter Deborah Twombly was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, August 12, 1801.

Ebener Twombly headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly], one female aged 16-25 years, and three females aged under-10 years [Lucy Twombly, Sophia Twombly, and Eliza Twombly]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Ebenr Twombly was among the “respectable inhabitants & freeholders” that sought a special Town Meeting to reconsider the proposed Meeting House site, in 1803. He did not subsequently purchase a pew. (See Milton Town House – 1804).

The Milton Selectmen of 1805 were Wm. Palmer, Eben. Twombly, and John Remick, Jr.

Ens. E. Twombly was assessed in the Milton School District No. 2 of Lieut. J. Nute in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Ebenezer Twombly headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly), two females aged 10-15 years [Lucy Twombly and Sophia Twombly], and three females aged under-10 years [Eliza Twombly and Deborah Twombly]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Burgin and Joseph Balch.

Ebenezer Twombly and his eldest son, James Twombly, were among the thirty-five inhabitants of Barker’s Location, NH, that petitioned the NH legislature, June 12, 1818, for authority to tax land at 5¢ per acre for maintenance of roads. [“Barker’s Location: Triangular portion now of Lancaster north of Jefferson bounded to east by Kilkenny” – Wikipedia].

Daughter Eliza Twombly married in Lancaster, NH, August 9, 1818, Benjamin F. Hayes. He was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, April 30, 1793, a son of Clement and Joanna (Wentworth) Hayes. Rev. William Lovejoy performed the ceremony.

Mother Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly died in Lancaster, NH, August 21, 1821. Mother-in-law Dorothy (Hartford) Wentworth died in 1822.

[Dorcas Twombly married in Lancaster, NH, April 29, 1823, Samuel Banfield, both of Lancaster, NH. Rev. Joseph Willard performed the ceremony]. Daughter Lucy Twombly married Samuel Banfield. (She may have been his second wife).

Father Jonathan Twombly died in Milton, in 1830.

Ebenezer Twombly headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 70-79 years [himself], one female aged 60-69 years [Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly], two females aged 30-39 years, one female aged 20-29 years, and one male aged 10-14 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jonathan Twombly and Joseph Twombly.

Samuel Banfield headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one male aged 5-9 years, and one female aged under-5 years.

Benjamin Hayes headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Eliza (Twombly) Hayes], one male aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years, two males aged 5-9 years, and two males age under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Clement Hayes and Hiram W. Hayes.

Daughter Eliza (Twombly) Hayes died in Lancaster, NH, circa 1838. Benjamin F. Hayes married (2nd), circa 1840, Eliza E. Lucas. She was born in 1809.

Ebenezer Twombly headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 80-89 years [himself], one female aged 70-79 years [Deborah (Wentworth) Twombly], two females aged 40-49 years [Lucy (Twombly) Banfield and Sophia Twombly], one female aged 30-39 years [Deborah Twombly], and three females aged 5-9 years. Revolutionary War pensioner Ebenezer Twombly, aged eighty-one years, resided in the household. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Balch and Joseph Hanson.

Benjamin Hayes headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Eliza (Lucas) Hayes], one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 10-14 years. Four members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of George W. Perkins and George W. Lucas.

Dorothy (Wentworth) Twombly died in Lancaster, NH, August 5, 1848. Ebenezer Twombly died in Lancaster, NH, August 17, 1848.

DEATHS. At Lancaster, N.H., Mr. EBENEZER TWOMBLY, one of the earliest settlers, and a soldier of the Revolution, 89 years, 10 mos. His wife also, 86 (Boston Evening Transcript, September 6, 1848).

Revolutionary War pension accounts confirm that Ebenezer Twombly of Lancaster, NH, died on August 17, 1848, in the 3rd quarter of 1848.

Amos Balch, a farmer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Esther A. [(Woodward)] Balch, aged thirty-two years (b. ME), Adaline R. Balch, aged seven years (b. NH), Joseph L. Balch, aged three years (b. NH), Lucy [(Twombly)] Banfield, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), Delia Ann Banfield, aged eighteen years (b. NH), John A. Banfield, aged seventeen years, Sophia Twambly, aged fifty-four years (b. NH) (b. NH), Deborah Twambly, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and Diantha Hays, aged seventeen years (b. NH) Amos Balch had real estate valued at $1,000. Deborah Twambly had real estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Wilder, a farmer, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and John L. Balch, a shoemaker, aged twenty-three years (b. NH).

Benj Hays, a laborer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Lucas)] Hays, aged forty-one years (b.), Orange Hays, a laborer, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), James F. Hays, aged nine years (b. NH), Frederick Hays, aged seven years (b. NH), and George W. Hays, aged six years (b. NH) Benj Hayes had real estate valued at $400. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Timothy Lucas, a farmer, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), and Nahum D. Day, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).

Daughter Sophia Twombly died in Lancaster, NH, August 10, 1853, aged fifty-nine years.

Died. In Lancaster, N.H., Sept. 5, of consumption, Mrs. Martha, wife of Hon, James W. Weeks, aged 35 years. –  Also, Mrs. Sophy Twombly, aged 59. – Also, Mrs. Nancy, relict of Manasseh Wilder, aged 79 (North Star, September 24, 1853).

Granddaughter Delia A. Banfield married in Lancaster, NH, July 1, 1856, George W. Cummings, she of Lancaster, NH, and he of Northumberland, NH. He was born in Northumberland, NH, in 1826, son of John S. and Nancy (Schoff) Cummings.

MARRIED. At Lancaster, July 1, Mr. George W. Cummings, of Northumberland, and Miss Delia A. Banfield, of L. (Aurora of the Valley (Newbury, VT), September 13, 1856).

George W. Cummings, a farmer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Delia [(Banfield)] Cummings, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Carrie Cummings, aged three years (b. NH), Mary Cummings, aged one year (b. NH), Lucy [(Twombly) Banfield, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), Deborah Twombly, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), and Willington Willey, aged fifteen years (b. NH). George W. Cummings had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Eben C. Garland, a carpenter, aged forty-five years (b. NH), and Frank Kellum, a farmer, aged twenty-seven years (b. Ireland).

Benj Hayes, a laborer, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH< household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Lucas)] Hayes, aged fifty years (b. VT), Jas. F. Hayes, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Fred Hayes, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Geo. Hayes, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Dianthia Hayes, aged twenty-six years (b. NH). Benj Hayes had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $100. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Wm. H. Heath, a book agent, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and Lyman W. Rowell, a joiner, aged twenty-five years (b. Ireland).

Daughter Lucy (Twombly) Banfield died in Lancaster, NH, May 20, 1863, aged sixty-eight years.

George Cummings, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Delia [(Banfield)] Cummings, keeping house, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), Alice C. Cummings, at home, at home, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Mary E, Cummings, aged eleven years (b. NH), Kate Cummings, aged nine years (b. NH), George Cummings, aged seven years (b. NH), Lucy Cummings, aged two years (b. NH), and Deborah Twombly, without occupation, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Black, a famer, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), and Owen Shannon, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. Ireland).

Daughter Deborah “Debby” Twombly died of apoplexy in Lancaster, NH, November 21, 1879, aged seventy-nine years. She was single. Ezra Mitchell, Jr., M.D., signed the death certificate.

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