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The surname Kendall of England is of local derivation from the town of Kendall, Westmoreland county. The town's name was doubtless derived from that of the river Ken, on which it is located. The family in England is very large and widely distributed, many of the branches bearing arms and having distinguished members. The name is found common in Bedfordshire, at Basingbourne, Essex; in Lancashire; at Smithsby, Derbyshire; in Cornwall; in Devonshire; and Hertfordshire. In 1575, a branch of the family settled in Thorpthules, Durham, a younger son of the Kendall family of Ripon, Yorkshire, where the family lived at an early date. Among the early Kendalls who were prominent was John Kendall, a sheriff of Nottingham, killed in the battle of Bosworth in 1485, fighting in the army of Richard III. (I) John Kendall, progenitor of the American family, lived in the county of Cambridge, England, in 1646, died there in 1660. Two of his sons came to America; I. Francis, mentioned below. 2. Deacon Thomas, who was a proprietor of Reading, Massachusetts, in 1644; was admitted freeman May 10, 1648; had ten daughters and no sons, thus leaving no descendants bearing his name. (II) Francis Kendall, the immigrant ancestor, son of John Kendall (1), was born in England, and is believed to be the ancestor of all the Kendalls in America. In December, 1658, he deposed that his age was about thirty-eight years. On April 2, 1662, he deposed that his age was about forty-eight years. Possibly the date of his birth was between the two dates indicated by these statements, say 1618. He came from England before 1640. With thirty-one others he signed the town orders of Woburn, December 18, 1640. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Woburn was then a part, and where he was a taxpayer in 1645. Francis Kendall married; December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. In the record he is called Francis Kendall, alias Miles. There are several explanations of this record. It was common with emigrants to America to take assumed names to avoid vexatious laws, and there is a tradition that Kendall left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles until he was settled in this country. His brother, Thomas seems not to have used any other name. Francis Kendall was admitted a freeman, May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him: "He was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence." He served the town at different times for eighteen years as selectman, and on important committees such as those for distributing grants to the pioneers, and on building the meeting house. He was tything man in 1676. He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan church, and was fined for some infraction of church rules about infant baptism or attendance at communion or attending meetings of the Anabaptists. He was a miller by trade and owned a corn mill, which he left to his sons, Samuel and John. This corn mill, at Woburn, has been in the possession of the family down to the present time. The mill now, or lately on the Kendall place, is one built by Samuel Kendall soon after 1700 and is some distance from the location of the first mill. He died in 1708, at the age of eighty-eight according to the record, corroborating the affidavit of 1658. His wife, Mary died in 1705. His will dated May 9, 1706. His sons, Thomas and John were the executors. Children: 1. John, born July 2, 1646. 2. Thomas, born
January 10, 1648-49, mentioned below. (III) Thomas Kendall, son of Francis Kendall (2), was born in Woburn, January 10, 1648-49, died May 25, 1730. He married, 1673, Ruth Blodgett, who died December 18, 1695. He married (second), March 30, 1696, Abigail (Reyner) Broughton, who died December 31, 1716. He was a farmer at Woburn. Children: 1. Ruth, born February 17, 1675, married John
Walker, Jr. 2. Thomas, born May 19, 1677, married 1702, Sarah
Cheever; settled in Framingham, Massachusetts. 3. Mary, born
February 27, 1680, married Joseph Whitmore. (IV) Ephraim Kendall, son of Thomas Kendall (3), was born at Woburn in 1690, and was a farmer there. He married Judith Walker, of an old Walker family. Children: 1. Ephraim, born March 27, 1716; mentioned below. 2. Edward, born September 27, 1718. 3. Ezra, born January 1, 1721. 4. Reuben, born May 20, 1724. 5. Judith, born December 11, 1728. (V) Ephraim Kendall, son of Ephraim Kendall (4), was born in Woburn, March 27, 1716. He settled in Wilmington, formerly part of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war and died in the army at Lake George, July 18, 1758. He married, at Wilmington, February 24, 1736-37, Ruth Pierce (or Peirce, both spellings being used interchangeably), daughter of Lt. Ebenezer and Mary Pierce, of Wilmington. Lt. Pierce died April 16, 1766, in his eight-eighth year at Wilmington; his wife died there January 26, 1764, in her eightieth year. The heirs of Lieutenant Ebenezer Pierce united in a deed to Ebenezer Pierce, Jr., dated May 5, 1767, viz.: Samuel Wyman and wife Mary, William Johnson and wife Elizabeth, Noah Eaton and wife Deborah, Keziah Wyman, all of Woburn; Samuel Butters, Jr., and wife Ruth, Reuben Wyman, of Billerica, Catherine Wyman, of Wilmington, Increase Wyman, of Billerica, Joshua Kendall, cordwainer, of Cambridge, Jacob Barrett, of Ipswich, mariner, Joshua Pierce, of Leominster, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Pierce, of Providence, Rhode Island. Ebenezer Pierce, Jr., settle in Sutton, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Ephraim, born October 29, 1737, probably died young. 2. Ephraim, born May 14, 1741, married Susanna Perkins, baptized at Ipswich, September 11, 1743, daughter of Joseph Perkins (4), Jacob (3), John (2), and John (1); bought his farm, part of the Old Brown estate in Ipswich, November 26, 1771, of Samuel Sawyer; bought more land April 29, 1782, of Dr. Samuel Smith, Ipswich; his widow sold the farm May 28, 1916, to the county and for many years it was occupied by the old brick county building; children: i. Ephraim, born October 28, 1765, resided in Ipswich; ii. Susanna, born September 11, 1767; iii. Jonathan, born November 1, 1769; iv. Lucy, born October 4, 1774; v. Mary, born July 22, 1777. 3. Joshua, born September 29, 1746, mentioned below. His daughters are mentioned in the list of heirs given in the deed to Ebenezer Pierce, Jr. mentioned above. (VI) Joshua Kendall, son of Ephraim Kendall (5), was born at Wilmington, Massachusetts, September 29, 1746, died July 25, 1818, at West Cambridge. He early learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed it during the summer season going about the country from house to house, as was the custom, making the yearly outfit of shoes for the family. During one of his trips he stopped at the house of Josiah Shattuck, a prosperous farmer of West Cambridge. He engaged himself to work for Mr. Shattuck on the farm for the winter, and while there he became engaged to marry the young and beautiful daughter of the house, Susannah Shattuck. They were married April 26, 1770, and lived on the Shattuck homestead, which, on the death of her father, his wife inherited. The homestead in 1884 was occupied by Adolphus Brown, grandson of Joshua Kendall, and was within the limits of the town of Belmont. Joshua Kendall was both a good farmer and business man, and his farm proved profitable. For many years he supplied milk for the Boston market. At the time the Concord turnpike was put through in front of his house, he was an interested investor, although the enterprise was never a financial success. At the time the road was being constructed, he took some thirty of the workmen to board, and during that season they drank up thirty barrels of his cider. His wife Susannah died September 9, 1803, and he inherited her estate. Children: 1. Benjamin Shattuck, born July 30, 1771, died July 12,
1832; married May 1811, Hannah Stearns, of Belmont, Massachusetts; no
issue. 2. Susanna, born November 14, 1773; died November 5, 1833;
married Thomas Brown, of Weston, Massachusetts; children: i. Marshall
Brown, born December 18, 1793, died February 15, 1842; married, October
23, 1821, Louisa Lawrence, of Waltham, and had Leonard Lawrence Brown,
born August 7, 1822, married January 20, 1848, Adaline Barnes, and had
Addie Louise Brown, born November 6, 1848, died April 9, 1873; Louisa
Maria Brown, born February 18, 1824, married April 14, 1847, Samuel F.
Clark (and had Maynard Marshall Brown, born June 30, 1848, died June 15,
1861; Ira Edgar Brown, born October 18, 1852, and Leonard Brown, born
September 8, 1862); and Maynard Marshall Brown, born August 5, 1841,
died April 21, 1842; ii. Almira Brown, born January 29, 1799; died
1863. iii. Adolphus Brown, born November 29, 1800, died May 11,
1893; married November 30, 1826, Mary Warren, of Weston, and had Josiah
Kendall Brown, born September 7, 1827, died October 1884; Mary Elizabeth
Brown, born July 21, 1829; Thomas Warren Brown, born March 6, 1832;
Susanna Brown, born October 30, 1833, died December 9, 1866; (married
August 9, 1855, Henry W. Maynard, of Cambridge, and had Herbert Fuller
Maynard, born February 23, 1856); Almira Brown, born January 28, 1836
(married, November 30, 1876, ____ Porter); Charlotte Brown, born April
12, 1839, died February 3, 1841; Edward Adolphus Brown, born March 27,
1841; Emily Augusta Brown, born November 13, 1843 (married, May 27,
1869, Oliver H. Fillebrown, and had Charles Warren Fillebrown, born
April 18, 1870, died July 29, 1872, Mary Louisa Fillebrown, born January
29, 1872, William Locke Fillebrown, born October 23, 1873, Blanche
Rebecca Fillebrown, born July 4, 1875, Emilie Frances Fillebrown, born
November 8, 1877, Warren Fillebrown, Annie Louise Brown, born December
30, 1846. 3. Joshua, born February 4, 1777, died June 5,
1846. 4. Mary, born November 16, 1779, died September 3,
1849. 5. Lucy, born June 27, 1782, died June 18, 1801.
6. Betsey, born May 28, 1785, died at Ludlow, Vermont, September
1, 1854; married, October 3, 1805, Newell Bent, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, born October 9, 1778, died February 9, 1831; children: i.
Eliza Ann Bent, born August 7, 1806, died April 23, 1838; ii. Newell
Bent, born March 5, 1810, died December 18, 1872; iii. Susan Maria
Bent, born March 11, 1814, died December 21, 1874; iv. Mary Kendall
Bent, born August 12, 1822, died March 25, 1825; v. Mary Lucretia Bent,
born April 19, 1826, died February 20, 1855; vi. Fanny Loretta Bent,
born March 22, 1828, died March 6, 1896. 7. Josiah, born January
27, 1788, mentioned below. (VII) Josiah Kendall, son of Joshua Kendall (6), was born at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 27, 1788. At an early age he was apprenticed to a carpenter, but did not follow the trade. About 1821, he and his brother David purchased the Davis S. Eaton place in the northeast part of Waltham, near the home of their birth, within the limits of what is now Belmont. This farm contained about one hundred and twenty acres, which the brothers later divided. Both the brothers were industrious and their business sagacity soon made them men of importance and wealth. Josiah ran a saw mill and David's grist mill on Beaver Brook, just below Josiah's house. Although his principal income was from the mill, which was very profitable, he sold garden produce to the housewives of Boston, going himself from house to house to dispose of his stock.
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His goodness and honesty endeared him to all, and his love for his kinspeople and friends was very strong. He was tall and slim, of a rather retiring disposition. He died at his home on Mill street, Belmont, in the prime of his life, April 5, 1845, aged fifty-seven. In religion he was a Universalist and later a Unitarian. In politics he was a Whig; he was much opposed to secret societies, considering them a dangerous menace to the country. He married, May 29, 1821, Mary Ann Brown, born at Waltham, November 2, 1797, died August 10, 1850, daughter of Jonas and Relief (Pierce) Brown, of Waltham. Her father was a farmer, town officer, and a deacon of the church. Children: 1. Elizabeth Baldwin, born March 20, 1823,
unmarried. 2. Josiah Shattuck, born March 30, 1825, mentioned
below. 3. Joshua, born January 4, 1828; married, September 14,
1854, Phebe Mitchell, of Nantucket, Massachusetts; born February 23,
1828, died June 4, 1907; children: i. William Mitchell, born February
13, 1856, married, July 14, 1897, at Geneva, Switzerland, Grace Elliott,
of Detroit, Michigan. 4. Benjamin, born May 22, 1830, married,
November 11, 1852, Sarah C. Marston, of Pownal, Maine; children: i.
Susan Ring, born August 28, 1853, died October 28, 1854; ii. Frank
Marston, born September 8, 1855, died April 24, 1856; iii. Susan Ring,
born October 19, 1858, resides in California. 5. Jonas Brown, born
May 7, 1834, whose sketch follows. 6. George, born August 25,
1838, married, November 7, 1806, Harriet L. Collins, of Watertown,
Massachusetts; children: (VIII) Josiah Shattuck Kendall, son of Josiah Kendall (7), was born on the old Kendall homestead in the northeast part of Waltham, Massachusetts (now Waverly), March 30, 1825, died there March 13, 1907. He received his education in what was know as the Trapelo district just over the line in Waltham. When he was about twenty years old, his father died, and at about the age of twenty-two he bought the shares of the farm held by his brothers and sisters, who had inherited it with him, and became a successful farmer. The farm comprised seventy-five or eighty acres "more or less." He sold quite a large tract to the Metropolitan Park Commission, and another to the McLean Asylum, leaving about forty-five acres for cultivation. He conducted a successful dairy farm, selling the milk to his brothers in Boston, who were in the milk business. The garden produce was sold from house to house as his father had done. For a few years during the sixties he ran a grist mill, which had been established by his uncle David one hundred years before. Mr. Kendall was one of the finest examples of the old-fashioned New England farmer, upright and honorable, strictly honest, and although sometimes blunt in speech possessed of a kindly heart. He was a natural orator, and served the public without reward, and was honored with positions of trust and responsibility. He was an old-time Whig, but later a staunch Republican, serving as delegate many times to his party conventions. He was chairman of the board of selectman, and of the board of assessors, and member of the school committee. When he retired from public office on account of the infirmities of advancing age, about 1895, the gratitude of his fellow citizens expressed itself unanimously in the most enthusiastic kind of a public reception in the town hall. At this time an oil portrait of Mr. Kendall, given by public subscription, was unveiled as an inspiration to future generations. Mr. Kendall was brought up in the Waltham Unitarian church, but became identified with the Waverly Unitarian church, being chairman of the parish committee. He was a member of the Republican Club of Massachusetts; he belonged to the early militia. He married November 24, 1852, at Waltham, Martha Helen Wellington, born at Waltham, September 27, 1830, died at Belmont, December 10, 1899, daughter of Sullivan and Martha Howe (Hardy) Wellington, of Waltham. Children: 1. Mary Ann, born December 12, 1853,
married, November 8, 1877, Larra Watson Munroe, of Cleveland, Ohio,
a traveling salesman; resides at Dorchester, Massachusetts; children: i.
James Albert Munroe, born June 29, 1880, unmarried; ii. Walter Nathan
Munroe, born July 29, 1884, unmarried; iii. Larra Kendall Munroe, born
November 21, 1886, unmarried. (IX) George Frederick Kendall, son of Josiah Shattuck Kendall (8), was born at Belmont, Massachusetts, August 28, 1857. He was educated in the schools of Belmont, graduating from high school in 1873. He was associated with his father on the farm until his father's death in 1907, when he inherited the estate. The farm has always been profitable under the efficient management of his father and himself. He keeps an average of twenty-seven head of Ayrshire and Holstein cattle, and the dairy buildings are models of neatness and convenience. He has thirty-five acres of tillage, and raises in large quantities; corn, peas, tomatoes, beans, squash, lettuce and celery. His brother, Walter S. Kendall, who is associated with him, attends to the marketing of the produce in Boston. The house on the farm is in a good state of preservation, and contains all the original timbers. It was on the property when it was bought from David S. Eaton, and was built over one hundred and sixty years ago. Mr. Kendall is a member of the Unitarian church at Waverly, and is a member of the parish committee. In politics he is a Republican, and has served his party as chairman of the Republican town committee, and as a member of the board of registration. He is a member of Trapelo Lodge, No. 238, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has held offices in the order. He married, January 7, 1801, Carrie Francis Eames, born January 15, 1861, daughter of Henry Harrison and Hannah Shores (Eaton) Eames, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father was an ice dealer in Cambridge and superintendent of the Cambridge cemetery. Children: 1. Ella Wellington, born September 23, 1892. 2. Harrison Shattuck, born February 19, 1894. (VIII) Jonas Brown Kendall, Sr., son of Josiah Kendall (7), was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, May 7, 1834. He attended the district school until he was fifteen years old, when he entered Phillips Academy at Duxbury, Massachusetts, remaining eighteen months to study civil engineering. He then engaged at work on the farm for his mother, continuing for three years. When he was twenty years old he purchased the milk route of his brother Benjamin, and two years later sold it to Ambrose Stearns, of Lexington. He then bought another Cambridge route of Phineas Stearns, which he conducted for eight years. This he sold to Andrew Stearns and Charles Brown, of Waltham, and bought a Boston route of John Marsh. After ten years of successful business he sold out and bought his last route, which was in Cambridge, of John Lawrence, of Waltham. In 1888, he sold the business to his sons and retired from active work. Mr. Kendall is a man of quiet and retiring manner, interested chiefly in the welfare of his family. He resides at No. 21 Russell street, Cambridge, in a house which he bought in 1897. He has been a Unitarian from youth; in politics is a Republican, although he never sought public office. He is a trustee of the Belmont Savings Bank. He married (first), June 1, 1858, Joanna Agnes Lundergan, born August 1839, died March 26, 1887, aged forty-seven years, six months, daughter of ________ and Margaret Lundergan. He married (second), June 20, 1888, Harriet Isabel Thompson, born at West Newbury, Massachusetts , daughter of Peter and Sarah Gerrish (Davis) Thompson, of Byfield, Massachusetts, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Children: (all by first wife): 1. Agnes, born September 1, 1859, married October 26, 1882, Elmer A. Russell, of Waverly, Massachusetts; children: i. Edith Lois Russell, born August 26, 1883; died August 29, 1883; ii. Florence Agnes Russell, born February 14, 1888, died October 17, 1889; iii. Maud Elmer Russell, born December 11, 1890. 2. Philip Shattuck, born October 8, 1860, married January 13, 1907, Annie Lahey, of South Boston, Massachusetts. 3. Jonas Brown, Jr., mentioned below. 4. George Henry, mentioned below. 5. John Benjamin, mentioned below. 6. Mary Elizabeth, born September 3, 1869, married, June 6, 1889, Charles Frederick Slade, of Belmont, Massachusetts; children: i. Marion Kendall Slade, born July 25, 1894; ii. Esther Slade, born May 4, 1898. 7. Anna Florence, born June 26, 1871. 8. Edith Helen, born May 14, 1879. (IX) Jonas Brown Kendall, Jr., son of Jonas Brown Kendall, Sr., (8), was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, August 18, 1862. At the age of three years he removed with his parents to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he attended school until he was ten years old, when the family removed to Belmont, Massachusetts, where he completed his schooling. When he was sixteen he worked for his father, driving the milk wagon to Boston. In April 1888, he and his brothers, Philip, John B., and George H., formed a partnership and bought the milk business of their father, and have ever since been successful. Their place of business is at No. 41 Russell street, and three wagons are required for the serving of the customers. They enjoy the patronage of many of the best families of Cambridge. Mr. Kendall had charge of one of the routes. He resides at No. 7 Bowers avenue, West Somerville. He was reared in the Unitarian church, and is a Republican in politics. He married, June 6, 1906, Florence Bridges Freeman, widow of James Freeman, of Cambridgeport; she was born December 29, 1875, daughter of Esaias Brook and Mary Ann (Gason) Bridges, both natives of Sussex county, England. (IX) George Henry Kendall, son of Jonas Brown Kendall (8), was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, December 25, 1864. At the age of seven he removed with his parents to Belmont, where he entered the public schools, attending the high school three years. He assisted his father about the farm, and in the milk business, and later drove a wagon to the Boston market for his father. In 1888, he and his brothers bought the milk business from their father, and have conducted it successfully ever since. He conducts a section of their large route, the business being entirely in the city of Boston among the best people. They supply nearly five hundred patrons. Mr. Kendall is retiring in disposition, devoted to his home and business. He resides at No. 15 Windom street, West Somerville. He and his family attend the Park Avenue Methodist church. He is a Republican, but has never aspired to public office. He is a member of Caleb Rand Lodge, No. 197, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Davis Square, West Somerville. He married, May 29, 1901, Amanda Louisa Johnson, born in the city of Jonkoping, Kingdom of Sweden, August 11, 1874, daughter of Samuel Johan and Sarah Eliza (Johanson) Johanson (or anglicized) Johnson. Her father was a farmer. They have one child, Chester Brown Kendall, born September 4, 1902. (IX) John Benjamin Kendall, son of Jonas Brown Kendall (8), was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, January 1, 1867. At the age of five his parents removed to Belmont, where he received his education in the public schools, attending high school nearly four years. He then entered the grocery store of Herbert H. Russell, at Waverly, Massachusetts, where he remained seven months as a clerk. Subsequently, he accepted a position with E. A. Russell, a confectionery manufacturer of Cambridge, as clerk and salesman. He remained in his employ three years and a half, and then went into partnership with three of his brothers in the purchase of their father's milk business. Mr. Kendall is the junior partner, and attends to the financial part of the business, acting as secretary and keeping the books for the farm. He resides at No. 25 Russell street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and his family attend the Cambridge Unitarian church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the New Towne Club of Cambridge, and has served as house officer for the club. He married, July 22, 1896, Mabel Slade, daughter of Charles Horace Slade, of Belmont, Massachusetts. Her father is one of the best known market gardeners of Belmont. Children: 1. Charles Benjamin, born August 11, 1897. 2. Richard Slade, born May 21, 1901.
Source: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - W.R. Cutter -pp. 1125-1130. |
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