Settlers' Families

Extracts from" Heare Lyes Salim New Grant", 1734-1763

by David Wetherbee (1980)

He wrote this as a labor of love, and all the research materials are available in public documents. It was a limited edition, and copies were placed in the Library of Congress, New Salem Public Library, Petersham Public Library, Swift River Valley Historical Society.

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Much of this information was updated and included here by me. There are also several discrepancies in this database that were corrected by me by using New Salem Vital Records and other sources that I have found. Thanks and enjoy!

Mackentyer - a carpenter now at New Salem (Sept. 6, 1739) "his man cutt his legg wt a Ads" in Dr. Crouch's account book.

Jonathan Marsh - "warned out" of New Salem with his family, 1760. David Owen versus Jonathan Marsh, 1762, debt. (Hamp. court records)

James Meacham - son of Jeremiah, Sr. and Rebecca Hawkins Meacham, bp. Mar. 18, 1733, Salem, d. July 28, 1812, md. Lucy Rugg, Jan. 23, 1756, Hadley, b. c. 1735, d. June 22, 1803, dau. of David Rugg? Ch. b. at New Salem and Williamstown.

Hawkins - b. Mar. 24, 1757, * Williamstown, d. 1759, Williamstown.

Rhoda - bp. Nov. 19, 1758, *New Salem/Williamstown..

Annas - b. Aug. 29, 1760.

Lucy - bp. Sept. 26, 1762,* New Salem.

Elizabeth - b. Apr. 22, 1764.

Rebeccah - b. Jan. 2, 1766.

Thankful - b. Mar. 2, 1768, md. Thaddeus Loomis, 1788.

James Hawkins - b. Dec. 25, 1769, md. Nabby Warner.

Jacob - b. Sept. 22, 1771, d. 1772.

Jeremiah - b. Dec. 22, 1772, md. Parthene Joslyn, 1802.

Israel - b. Aug. 13, 1774.

He came here as a child with his father's family, perhaps in 1739, one of the first families to arrive. He had a poll but no property in New Salem in 1759. He moved to the settlement of Williamstown in 1761 which he had presumably seen when serving in the company of Capt. Nathaniel Dwight in 1755.

Jeremiah Meacham, Sr. - son of John and Mary Cash Meacham, b. c. 1710, d. 1766, md. Rebecca Hawkins, 1732, Salem, b. Mar. 30, 1712, dau. of James and Elizabeth Humphreys Hawkins. Ch. b. at Salem and New Salem:

James - bp. Mar. 18, 1733, md. Lucy Rugg, 1756.

Elizabeth - b. Oct. 12, 1735, md. Joseph Rugg, 1761, * New Salem.

Jeremiah - b. July 9, 1738. d. ?

William - b. Mar. 10, 1742, md.1st - Sarah White, md. 2nd - Sarah Cook, 177_.

Rebecca - b. July 17, 1743, * New Salem, md. John Duncan, 1769.

Mary - b. July 20, 1746, md. Moses Curtis, Jr., 1771, * New Salem.

John - b. Mar. 22, 1750, md. Sarah Hall, 1772.

Jeremiah, Jr. - bp. June 7, 1752, md. Hannah Foster, 1777, * New Salem.

Jonathan - bp. Nov. 30, 1755, md. Hannah Southwick, 1775.

He was one of the first settlers in New Salem in 1739, having bought First Div. # 33 and Sec. Div. # 46 from his father, John in 1737. She was probably the sister of Deborah Goodale, who came about the same time. Also his father came soon and one of the two polls that show on the 1759 assessment must have been the father or William (b. 1740). He lived here the rest of his life. It is likely that Meacham didn't come alone in 1739 (another myth?). Others who may have come with him are Ebenezer Felton, Sr., Isaac Goodale, David Southwick and Jonathan Southwick along with carpenters like Mackentyer and probably black slaves like "his man". In Old Salem, Jeremiah was a chair maker.

John Meacham - son of Jeremiah and Mary Trask Meacham, b. 1673, Salem, d. 1761, New Salem, md. Mary Cash, 1697, Salem, b. Apr. 29, 1675, Salem, dau. of William and Elizabeth Lambert Cash. Ch. b. at Salem:

Elizabeth - b. c. 1698.?

Isaac - b. 1700, md. Lydia Layton, 1724/25.

Jonathan - b. 1702, md. Thankful Rugg.

Edward - b. 1704, md. Jane Franklin, 1727?

William - b. 1707, md. Mary Bates, 1731.

Mary - b. Apr. 18, 1708.

Jeremiah - b. 1710, md. Rebecca Hawkins, 1732.

Joseph - b. 1712, md.1st - Hannah Langrin, md. 2nd - Sarah Wright.

Israel - b. July 18, 1715, md. Thankful Hillam.

John Meacham, Bellman of Old Salem in 1727, may have come as early as 1744, when he was "of New Salem". He was baptized at 88 years of age in New Salem church. He sold his original right to Jeremiah in 1761. Considering the numbers of his clan and their various frontier dramas, he must have been a venerated founder of the settlement through all the years of its formation.

Jonathan Meacham - son of William and Mary Bates Meacham, b. c. 1730, Salem, d. Mar. 16, 1813, Benson, Vt., md. Thankful Rugg, b. Sept. 21, 1729, d. Oct. 1, 1820, Benson, Vt. Ch. b. at New Salem, Williamstown and Benson:

William Perin* - bp. Aug. 14, 1757, New Salem, md. Eunice Olmstead.

Hawkins - b. 1759, d. ?

Lydia - bp. Jan. 23, 1759.

Jerusha - bp. May 10, 1761, New Salem, md. Stephen Olmstead.

Oliver - b. Apr. 1763.

David - b. Oct. 6, 1764, md. Rhoda Parkhill.

Isaac - b. Apr. 3, 1766, md. Phebe Thompson.

Joseph - b. Oct. 7, 1767, md. Katherine _____.

Ruth - b. Oct. 11, 1769, md. Lemuel Standish.

Matthew - b. Oct. 1771.

Diadama - b. Mar. 3, 1773, d. 1838, Benson, Vt.

Pelig - b. ?, md. Anna Sherwood.

Lydia - b.c. 1777, md. Biship Cramer, 1796.

Thankful - b. c. 1784, d. Benson, Vt., 1834.

Rebecca - b. c. 1786, md. Stephen Sherwood.

James - b. c. 1788.

He was Proprietor John's grandson, thus Jeremiah's nephew, not to be confused with Jeremiah's son, Jonathan who wasn't born until 1755. He was in Capt. Stoddard's company in 1747 "of New Salem". He was already an owner of half of Third Div.# 124 in 1758, paid a poll in 1759. He was interested in West Hoosuk (Fort Massachusetts at Williamstown) as early as 1753 but didn't move there until 1761 at which time he and Thankful were church members in New Salem. His Fort Massachusetts involvement was shared with his brother William who was killed by the Indians there in 1756. * This frontiersman moved on to Benson, Vermont later in life. *and his cousin, James Meacham.

William Meacham, Jr. - son of William and Mary Bates Meacham, b. ? Salem, d. June 7, 1756, Fort Massachusetts.

He was brother of Jonathan and nephew of Jeremiah, not to be confused with his cousin William, b. 1742, killed at Bunker Hill, 1775. As there are two other Williams to contend with, it is difficult to know which William served with the various military companies, however, this William was scalped by the Indians at Fort Massachusetts while on a scouting assignment with Benjamin King (See Perry's Origins in Williamstown). His father, William (brother of Jeremiah) is reputed to have come to New Salem too (by Meacham genealogist Greene).

William Meacham - son of Jeremiah, Sr. and Rebecca Hawkins Meacham, b. Mar. 10, 1742, New Salem, d. June 17, 1775, Bunker Hill Battle, md. 1st - Sarah White, d. 1769-1771, dau. of Thomas White? Ch. b. at Adams:

Silence - b. Feb. 16, 1769, md. Daniel Wood, 1788.

md. 2nd - Sarah Cook, b. Apr. 22, 1752, Wallingford, Conn., d. June 13, 1828, Port Henry, N. Y., dau. of Asaph Cook. Ch. b. at North Adams:

William - b. Sept. 20, 1771, md. Keziah Howe, 1796.

Jeremiah - b. Nov. 18, 1773, md. Mary Mansfield, 1802.

He was one of the first of the colonists to be born in New Salem. He served in Capt. Salah Barnard's company in 1755 and in Lt. Foster's company in 1757. He was at West Hoosuk in 1758 and apparently lived in Adams at the time of the birth of his children but was "of New Salem", again when killed in the Revolution.

Richard Moore - son of Richard Moore, b. Oct. 14, 1736, md. Mercy Eddy, 1761, Oxford, b. Aug. 7, 1735, d. March 21, 1810, Wendall, dau. of John and Mercy Eddy. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

John - bp. May 15, 1763.

Richard - bp. July 8, 1764.

Daniel - bp. June 8, 1766.

Benjamin - bp. Apr. 1770.

Mary - bp. Aug. 28, 1768.

Amos - b. March 3, 177_, Wendall.

Levi - b. Aug. 7, 177_.

Nathan - b. June 25, 178_.

He came from Oxford to Ervingshire in 1761 and was a member of the New Salem church in that year.

John Newhall - md. Margaret Shaw, 1748, Salem, bp. July 11, 1731, Salem, dau. of Benjamin and Hannah Goodale Shaw. Ch:

Mary - b. ?, md. Joshua Reynolds, 1768, * New Salem.

John, Jr. - b. ?, md. Phebe Gage*, 1787, New Salem.

He came to New Salem from Salem before 1757 when he was in Lt. Foster's company. He had one poll and real estate in 1759. He and John, Jr. probably lived here the rest of their lives, probably on Sec. Div.#30.

Aaron Osgood - son of Hooker and Dorothy Woodman Osgood, b. Apr. 15, 1706, Lancaster, d. 1769, Ervingshire, md. 1st - Eunice White, 1729, Lancaster, d. Aug. 21, 1751, Lancaster, dau. of John and Eunice Wilder White. Ch. b. at Lancaster:

Lois - b. May 3, 1730.

Aaron, Jr. - March 3, 1732, md.1st - Hannah Warner, md. 2nd - Sarah Wetherby.

Thomas - b. Apr. 3, 1734, md. Hepzibah Houlton, 1759, * New Salem.

Eunice - b. June 5, 1736, d. 1739.

Nathaniel - b. June 19, 1738, d. 1757.

Silas - b. Dec. 4, 1740.

Eunice - b. Nov. 21, 1742, md. Sampson Hunt, 1761, * New Salem.

Luke - b. June 8, 1747, md. Eunice Crosby.

Dorothy - b. Sept. 10, 1749, md. Joseph Joslyn, 1775.

Esther - b. Aug. 13, 1751.

md. 2nd - Mary Dane Ballard (widow of Jeremiah, Sr.), 1762, * New Salem.

He came to Ervingshire about 1756 although he bought land in Erving's Grant from John Erving in 1752. He was a member of the New Salem church (which served Ervingshire) in 1761. In the 1780's, he moved to New York.

Thomas Osgood - son of Aaron and Eunice White Osgood, b. Apr. 3, 1734, Lancaster, md. 1st - Hepzibah Houlton, 1759, * New Salem, d. 1767, dau. of Joseph and Rebecca Felton Houlton. Ch.:

John - bp. June 15, 1760, New Salem, d. 1760.

John - bp. Dec. 18, 1762, * New Salem.

Thomas, Jr. - bp. June 23, 1765, * New Salem.

Hepsebeth - Aug. 30, 1767, * New Salem, md. William Taft.

md. 2nd - Sarah Larnard, 1772, New Salem. Ch.:

Joel - b.?

Lucy - b. ?

Polly - b.?

Hannah - b.?

He came from Lancaster to Ervingshire as early as 1754. He and his wife were church members in 1760. Their children inherited their parents shares of real estate from grandfather Joseph Houlton in 1770. Thomas may have been the first settler of Ervingshire.

Daniel Owen - md. Abigail Chase, 1751, Uxbridge, b. Mar. 6, 1725, Sutton, dau. of Isaac and Hannah Berry Chase. Ch.:

Lydia - bp. Sept. 30, 1759, New Salem.

Hannah - bp. Mar. 15, 1760, * New Salem.

Rebeckah - b. July 6, 1761, Petersham.

He had land in Petersham in 1748. He bought Sec. Div.# 62 in 1757, which is reflected in his poll and estate in 1759 assessment. She was sister of Elisha Chase.

Joseph Owen - d. 1759, son of Samuel Owen.

He was probably of Quabbin. He served in various military operations in 1755, 1756 and was captured by the French in 1759. (Hamp. probate) Only Mrs. Joseph Owen, a church member in New Salem in 1761. She was a "sister of Mary Marks, wife of Richard Marks". In 1762, there was a court action against "Samuel Owen, Jr. and chattles of Joseph Owen, deceased." Samuel Pierce had an account with him in 1757.

Samuel Owen, Jr. - son of Samuel, Sr. and Sarah Owen, md. Mary ____.

He paid for a poll and real estate and personal estate in the 1759 assessment. To this report of Samuel, Sr. can be added only that Jr. was involved in various court actions for debt in 1761 and for "killing the King's deer" in 1760 in New Salem.

Samuel Owen, Sr. - md. Sarah ____. Ch.:

Samuel, Jr. - b. ?

Joseph - b. ?

Daniel - b. ?

He was of Quabbin in 1749, of New Salem, 1752, 1753, 1757. (Hamp. court record) and probably came from Brookfield. He or Samuel, Jr. bought Third Div. # 30 in New Salem in 1747/48; Jr. sold it in 1763. He owned real and personal estate here in 1759 assessment but strangely had no poll assessed. Samuel Owen petitioned to be dismissed from military service "that he might attend a private duty in relieving his aged and needy Parents at Home under special difficulties..."

Timothy Page - son of William, Sr. and Sarah Stevens Page, b. Apr. 5, 1739, d. Mar. 17, 1811, New Salem, md. Lydia Putnam, bp. June 14, 1741, d. June 7, 1816, New Salem, dau. of Amos, Sr. and Hannah Putnam. Ch. b. at New Salem:

William, "Jr." - bp. Mar.27, 1774, * New Salem, md. Margaret _____.

Asahel - bp. July 9, 1781, * New Salem, md. Keziah Whitney.

Hannah - b. 1776, d. 1776, New Salem.

Hannah - b. 1777, d. 1777, * New Salem.

Hannah - b. 1782, d. 1782, * New Salem.

She had been previously md. to her cousin Samuel Putnam. Timothy came here with his father's family. His account books have been preserved in Swift River Valley Historical Society, Jones Library and his family.

William Page, Jr. - son of William, Sr. and Sarah Stevens Page, b. 1735, md. _____Pierce. Ch.:

John - b. ?

Phebe - b. June 1, 1769, md. Consider Hastings, 1799*, New Salem.

Hannah - b. c. 1762, md. Amos Pierce, 1791.

Samuel - b. c. 1760, md. Elizabeth Stacy, 1779.

Lydia - b. ?, md. George Boyce, 1777, * New Salem.

He came here with his father's family from Lunenburg in 1750. He served in Lt. Foster's company and had a poll and real estate in 1759. He lived on the south part of his father's purchase prob. First Div. # 4.

William Page, Sr. - son of Samuel and Sarah Lawrence Page, b. 1708, Groton, d. Mar. 6, 1794, New Salem, md. Sarah Stevens, 1733, Andover, b. 1705, d. Dec. 6, 1784, New Salem. Ch. b. at Lunenburg:

William, Jr. - b. 1735.

Timothy - b. Apr. 5, 1739, md. Lydia Putnam.

Hannah - b. Dec. 17, 1741, md. Ebenezer Felton, 1762.

Ruth - b. Dec. 25, 1743, md. _____Pierce.

Phoebe - b. Dec. 4, 1745, md. William Smith, 1771.

Sarah - b. May 14, 1734, md. Jonathan Pierce, 1753.

Submit - bp. Nov. 24, 1751, New Salem, md. David Cleflin.

He bought in 1750, First Div.# 44 and #45 and Third Div. # 20 and #75, upon which he built the house that still stands passing from William to Timothy to Asahel 1796-1875, to A. Willard Page 1828-1885, to Alba 1854-1941, to Stanley 1888-1947, to Hubert 1922-1952 (Seven generations). He was assessed for two polls in 1759. The 1747 private way that was abandoned in 1763, ran west to east at Page's and explains why this house faces south.

Robert Pebles, "Jr." - son of Francis Hamilton Pebles, b. May 22, 1737, Worcester, d.c. Oct. 6, 1778, New Salem, md.1st - Elizabeth Cone, Groton, md. 2nd - Martha Forbush, b. 1741, d. May 27, 1834, Greewich, dau. of Robert Forbush? Ch. b. at New Salem:

Samuel - bp. July 24, 1763, md. Molly Bisbee, 1783.

John - bp. Mar. 17, 1765, md. Deborah Safford, 1789.

James - bp. Oct. 19, 1764, md. Martha Hascall, 1787.

Mary - bp. July 31, 1768, md. Lemuel Clark, 1784.

William Forbush - b. May 4, 1768, md. Elizabeth Raligh, 1790.

Patrick - b. c. 1770, md. Mary Marlin, c. 1792.

Seth, b. 1776, md. Rhoda ____.

He was from the Scotch-Irish community at Pelham. He bought Sec. Div.# 5 in June, 1759 and lived upon it, perhaps just after the 1759 assessment list was made for he doesn't appear on it. Martha may have been sister of Susanna F. Richardson?

John Perry - son of Joseph and Mary ____Perry, b. Nov. 13, 1712, Brookfield, md. 1st - Rebecca Warner, 1737, Hadley, b. May 6, 1716, Hadley, d. Dec. 23, 1746, Quebec, dau. of Samuel and Sackett ____Warner. Ch.:

Rebecca - b. May 5, 1738.

Mary - b. Jan. 26, 1740.

Amos - b. 1739.

Joseph - b.?

md. 2nd - Elizabeth Meacham, Sept. 26, 1748, Hadley, dau. of William and Mary Bates Meacham. Ch. b. at New Salem:

William - b. 1748.

John - bp. Nov. 12, 1749, md. Elizabeth ____.

Solomon - bp. Dec. 16, 1750.

Moses - bp. Apr. 8, 1753, md. Loru Hannah Pierce.

Thankful - bp. July 11, 1756.

Job - md. Elizabeth ____.

He was dismissed from Hadley church and admitted to New Salem church in 1744, but was considered to be "of Falltown" (Bernardston) at the time he and Rebecca were taken captive by the Indians at Fort Massachusetts, Aug. 20, 1746. Origins of Williamstown by Perry and Pote's Journal gives much information about this John. She died in captivity and he was exchanged after a year. He next md. Elizabeth Meacham in 1748 and they lived in New Salem until the 70's when they were of Putney, Vermont. He had one poll and real estate in the 1759 assessment. Third Div. # 96 was sold by him in 1771 and Third Div. # 94 was considered to be his land then or formerly in 1797.

Joseph Perry, Sr. - son of Joseph and Mary ____Perry, b. 1716, Brookfield, d. 1794, md. 1st - Margaret Davis, 1735. Ch.:

Lois - b. ?

Ray - b. ?

Eli - b. ?

md. 2nd - Lois Gilbert, 1746, b. Nov. 30, 1728, dau. of Thomas and Martha Barnes Gilbert. Ch.:

Sarah - b. Sept. 10, 1748, Brookfield, d. ?

Eunice - b. Sept. 25, 1750, Worcester, d. 1750, Worcester.

Asa - b. ?, md. Jane Larson, 1772.

Amaza - bp. Jan. 16*, 1755, New Salem, md. Rachel Pierce, 1780, New Salem.

Joseph, Jr. - bp. Jan. 28, 1760, md. Mary Curtis, 1780, New Salem.

Lois - bp. Dec. 27, 1761, md. Benjamin Ray*, 1790, New Salem.

Sarah - b. ?, md. William Giles, 1772, New Salem.

Ferdinand - bp. July 22, 1764, New Salem.

John - bp. May 23, 1773, New Salem, md. Hannah Curtis, 1793, New Salem.

Rebecca - bp. July 30, 1769, New Salem, md. Samuel Warden of Petersham, 1787, New Salem.

Zaccheus - bp. Apr. 19, 1767, New Salem.

He was brother of John Perry and was of Hadley in 1750. He probably came to New Salem about 1754, served in various military expeditions against the French and had a poll and property here in 1759. He probably lived here the rest of his life. His early land transactions were the probably contiguous Third Div.# 4 and #60.

Abraham Pierce, Secondus - son of Samuel, Sr. and Hannah Browne Pierce, bp. Apr. 15, 1722, Salem, d. 1834, md. Mary Proctor, 1744, Salem, b. Dec. 21, 1728, Salem, dau. of Nathan and Mary Reed Proctor. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Varney - b. May 24, 1758, md. Hannah Putnam, *1781, New Salem.

Abraham, 3rd - md. Ruth Page.

Samuel - b. ?

He was grandson of Abraham and son of the Proprietor Sameul, Sr. He probably came here about the same time as his brothers in 1751 or 1752 and remained here the rest of his life. In 1779, he sold his homestead to son, Varney. This was just south of Page, probably Third Div. # 18 of Sec. Div.# ___.

John Pierce - son of Samuel, Sr. and Hannah Browne Pierce, b. 1728, Salem, md. Eunice MacMillan, 1751, Salem, bp. Sept. 16, 1733, Salem, dau. of Jonathan and Rachel Proctor MacMillan. Ch.:

David - b. ?, md. Martha ______.

They came here with his brothers in 1751. He served in Capt. Salah Barnard's company in 1759. (There was another John Pierce in Shutesbury at this time) He lived here the rest of his life.

Jonathan Pierce - son of Samuel, Sr. and Hannah Browne Pierce, bp. Mar. 22, 1729/30, Salem, md. Sarah Page, 1753*, New Salem, b. May 14, 1734, dau. of William and Sarah Stevens Page. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Sarah - bp. Sept. 14, 1755.

James - bp. June 3, 1753*, md. Bethiah Boise, 1776, New Salem.

Jesse - bp. Apr. 15, 1759.

Isabel - bp. May 16, 1762, md. Ebenezer Whitimore, 1777, New Salem.

Ebenezer - bp. June 17, 1765.

Pheby - bp. May 15, 1768.

Lucy - bp. Oct. 13, 1771.

Child - bp. June 17, 1765.

Child - bp. Apr. 28, 1774.*

Samuel, Jr., John, Abraham and Jonathan all came here about 1751. Jonathan served in Salah Barnard's company in 1759 and continued to live here the rest of his life. All four brothers had one poll each in 1759. He probably lived in Sec. Div.# 32.

Samuel Pierce, Jr. - son of Samuel, Sr. and Hannah Browne Pierce, bp. Oct. 1723, Salem, md. Mary King, d. c. 1807, 1749, Salem, dau. of Samuel, Sr. and Mary Browne King. Ch.:

Samuel, 3rd - b. 1752, md. Betty Moor, *1777.

Amos - b. 1759, md. Hannah Page, 1791.

Stephen - b. ?, md. Abigail King.

Mary - b. 1749?, md. Alexander Conkey, 1768, New Salem.

Phebe - b. ?

Susanna - b. ?

Daniel - b. ?

Hannah - b. ?

She was the sister of Samuel King, Jr. The Pierce brothers came here in 1751. He came or visited here in 1749 "fetching another heffer from New Salem" for his mother in Salem. He kept an account book which (aside from Timothy Page's later one) is the best source of our direct information about domestic life in the 1750's and 1760's. He was also the District Treasurer. He probably lived here the rest of his life, perhaps on Third Div. # 19.

Samuel Pierce, Sr. - son of Abraham and Isabell_____ Pierce, b. May 10, 168_, d. 1744, md. Hannah Browne, 1721, b. c. 1696, d. c. 1795. Ch. b. at Salem:

Abraham - bp. Apr. 15, 1722, md. Mary Proctor, 1744.

Samuel, Jr. - bp. Oct. 1723, md. Mary King, 1749.

Daughter - bp. Aug. 1725.

John - b. 1728, md. Eunice MacMillan, 1751.

Jonathan - bp. Apr. 14, 1734, md. Sarah Page, 1753.

Isabel - bp. Apr. 24, 1732, md. Jeremiah Ballard, Jr., 1753.

James - b. ?

Hannah - bp. Apr. 24, 1737, md. William Page, Jr.

Joseph - bp. July 23, 1738.

He was a New Salem Proprietor in Old Salem and probably never came here but his widow, Hannah came here to live perhaps in the late 1750's or 1760's and lived to be 99 years old. Most of her children had moved here in the 1750's, early. She may or may not have brought here, Violet, "her negro woman servant", who md. Fortune in 1749 in Salem. *Violet appears in 1762 account to "Sister King" (In New or Old Salem?)

Nathaniel Powers - son of Joseph and Hannah Whitcomb Powers, b. July 15, 1720, md. Mary Hoar, 1743, dau. of Benjamin Hoar. Ch.:

Hannah - b. Aug. 30, 1747, Littleton.

Mary - b. Jan. 19, 1748/9.

Simon - b. Oct. 30, 174_.

Simon - b. Dec. 1, 17__.

Child - bp. July 14, 1751, New Salem.

Joseph - b. ?

He lived in Quabbin.

Reubon Powers - son of Joseph and Elizabeth _____Powers, md. Isabel Wheeler, 1741, probably in Littleton. He moved to New Salem or Roadtown (that section of Shutesbury that eventually was annexed to New Salem in 1824).

("Proctor's House" must have been built (and rented out?) by Proprietor Thorndike Proctor of Old Salem, in order to satisfy the conditions of his right).

Amos Putnam, Jr. - son of Amos, Sr. and Hannah ______Putnam, b. 1723, Salem, d. c. 1797, md. Lydia Trask, 1753, New Salem, b. 1733, Salem, d. 1809, Houlton, Maine, dau. of John and Elizabeth Reed Trask. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Hannah - b. June 15, 1754, md. Varney Pierce, 1781.

Amos - b. Sept. 9, 1755, d. 1775, Lexington.

Jacob - b. Nov. 2, 1758, md. 1st - Sally *Putnam, 1784?, md. 2nd - Rebekah *Patrick, 1787

Sarah - b. July 16, 1762, md. Joseph Houlton, *1780/1782

Aaron - b. Apr. 10, 1767, d. 1768, New Salem.

Aaron - b. July 19, 1773.

Lydia - b. Nov. 24, 1770.

Samuel - b. abt. 1772*.

Amos, Jr., Joshua and Uzziel were all sons of Amos, Sr., a Proprietor who lived in Old Salem. They inherited his lands in 1774 but had long before moved here. Amos, Jr. md. in 1753 and this seems to be the first New Salem record of him. He had a poll and property in the 1759 assessment. Widowed Lydia moved to the new settlement of Houlton, Maine in 1805 with her sons and nephew. He probably lived on First Div. # 10. Amos was a husbandman in Old Salem.

Joshua Putnam - son of Amos, Sr. and Hannah _____Putnam, b. 1733, Salem, d. Apr. 12, 1805, New Salem, md. Eunice Trask, 1762, New Salem, b. c. 1742, d. Jan. 23, 1782, New Salem, dau. of John and Elizabeth _____Trask. Ch. b. at New Salem:

John - b. Nov. 2, 1762.

Eunice - b. May 15, 1766, md. Samuel Kendall, Jr., 1785.

Joshua - b. Feb. 8, 1772.

Elizabeth - b. 1774, md. Samuel Rice.

She was the sister of Lydia Trask Putnam. He served in Lt. Foster's company in 1757 and recorded as "Josiah" in Salah Barnard's company in 1758. He had a poll and property in 1759 and probably had come here at the same time that Amos did. He probably lived on First Div. # 13.

Uzziel Putnam - son of Amos, Sr. and Hannah ______Putnam, b. 1735, Salem, d. Feb. 9, 1796, New Salem, md. Mary Ganson, 1760, New Salem, dau. of Benjamin Ganson. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Samuel - b. Oct. 1767.

Daniel - bp. Apr. 22, 1764, md. *Mary Putnam, 1789.

Joseph - b. Oct. 18, 1773, md. Hannah Snow Kellogg, *1797.

Uzziel, Jr. - bp. Nov. 8, 1761, md. Mary Trask, 1782.

John - bp. Nov. 18, 1770.

Mary - bp. Mar. 1780, md. ? Shaw or R. Cowles?

He was the youngest of the three brothers who probably came about 175_. He served in Lt. Foster's company and had a poll and property in 1759. He became Deacon in New Salem and lived here the rest of his life. He lived on Fourth Div. # 3. (Probate records.)

Abishai Rice - son of Gershom and Elizabeth Balcom Rice, b. Oct. 16, 1701, md. Frances Rice, b. Mar. 6, 1703, dau. of James and Sarah Stone Rice. Ch. b. at Worcester:

Lucy - b. Oct. 2, 1724.

Nathan - b. Sept. 26, 1726, md. Mehitable Baldwin, 1751.

Phineas - b. Nov. 7, 1728.

James - b. Aug. 7, 1730.

Asa - b. Feb. 8, 1731/32.

Grace - b. Nov. 23, 1733.

Michah - b. July 21, 1735, md. Silence Rice?

Sarah - b. Apr. 1, 1739.

Abishai, Jr. - b. Oct. 14, 1740, md. Rebecca _____.

Derias - b. Mar. 20, 1745, Leicester.

Peter - b. July 7, 1748, Leicester.

He was of Leicester in 1755 when his brother, Gershom Rice, Jr. of Worcester sold (or mortgaged) to him Sec. Div. # 19 and #20, with buildings. (Gershom, Jr. had brought it in 1751.) He had three polls and property in 1759 assessment. He was of Greenwich with wife, Frances in 1770 and Gershom, Jr. had sold Sec. Div. # 19 to his grandson, Peter Boyden in 1768.

Asa Rice - son of Abishai and Frances Rice Rice, b. July 21, 1735, Worcester, d. c. 1804, md. Silence Rice ?, dau. of Jonas, Jr. and Jane Hall Rice. Ch. b. at Guilford, Vermont:

Sarah - b. Sept. 5, 1759, New Salem.

Molly - b. Sept. 2, 1761, Guilford.

Silence - b. June 1, 1763.

Betsey - b. July 29, 1765.

Nathan - b. July 6, 1767.

Asa - b. Oct. 24, 1769.

Hannah - b. Feb. 12, 1772.

Lydia - b. - Sept. 5, 1774.

He may have come to New Salem with his father's family from Leicester in 1755. A friend of Glazier Wheeler, he was a blacksmith and a radical. He was arrested for failure to pay poll tax in 1757 (The Constable being ordered to seize the body of the blacksmith). He deserted from Capt. John Burk's company in 1757 *also from Salah Barnard's company (with Glazier Wheeler) and was impressed. He had one poll and property in New Salem in 1759. In 1760, he became a first settler of Guilford, Vermont and was a Yorker in sympathy* that part not in the capitulation, but soon after it.

Jonas Rich - son of John ? and Sarah Walker Rich - b. Oct. 8, 1732?, Brookfield, md. Elizabeth Trask, 1760, New Salem. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Elizabeth - bp. Oct. 30, 1774.

John - bp. Oct. 30, 1774.

Read - bp. Oct. 30, 1774.

Sarah - bp. Oct. 30, 1774, md. John Putnam, 1789, New Salem.

Search for him reveals only that "Jonas Rich bought 1 jill Rum sit and drinking and tipling" in Shutesbury, 1771. (Hamp. court records).

Israel Richardson - son of Israel Richardson, b. Jan. 24, 1736, Brookfield (Spencer), d. May 8, 1799, Woodstock, Vermont, md. Susanna Forbush, 1757, Brookfield, b. Aug. 14, 1735, Hardwick. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Israel - b. Nov. 14, 1759, md. Hannah Kellogg, 1782.

Jason - b. Feb. 21, 1761, md. Mary Power.

Lysander - b. Mar. 30, 1763, Lois Ronson, 1787.

Seth - bp. 1765, d. ?

Noah - bp. 1767, d. ?

Susanna - bp. 1768, d. ?

He was in Capt. Edmund Bemus's* company at Crown Point in 1756. He bought First Div. # 40 with dwelling house (of William Carpenter) in 1759. He was assessed for two polls in 1759, one of which may have been Jesse Abott, a slave. In 1781, he moved to Woodstock, Vermont. His trade was blacksmithing and he became wealthy. The New Salem proprietor's sold him 11 acres of Common Land in 1769 (except one acre to John Pierce) north of Third Div. # 20. This had probably been kept "common" because of the brook on it that could be dammed. It was never his home property. *Bemus is called "his master".

Richard Rockwood - had two sons, Jonathan and Joseph baptized in New Salem; July 29, 1744 and May 28, 1749. Another child or wife, Nehemia appears in Dr. Crouch's account book. He was a member of the New Salem church in 1761 an lived in Roadtown (Wendall). His house, near New Salem line shows on the 1759 highway plan. He was a constable in Shutesbury, 1765. (Hamp. court records)

John Rugg - Of Nichawaug, in 1749 was also called "of New Salem" in 1749, when he bought Sec. Div. # 19 and # 20 and then First Div. # 35 and # 15. He also sold land in Nichawaug in 1749. He may have been brother to Joseph.

Joseph Rugg - son of David and Thankful _____Rugg, b. Oct. 28, 1733, d. Dec. 27, 1825, md. Elizabeth Meacham, 1761, New Salem, b. Oct. 12, 1735, Salem, d. Feb. 7, 1795, dau. of Jeremiah and Rebecca Hawkins Meacham. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Rebecca - b. June 20, 1762.

Joseph, Jr. - bp. May 6, 1764, md. Sarah *Evans, 1783.

Hawkins - bp. May 11, 1766.

Eli - bp. Oct. 11, 1767.

Matthew - bp. Nov. 10, 1771.

David - bp. May 15, 1774.

His mother was in Brookfield in 1735. He was a soldier in various enlistments prior to coming to New Salem in 1758, when he bought Third Div. # 124. The assessors added his name at the end of the alphabetical list in 1759; a poll but no real estate or personal estate. His father was the David Rugg killed by Indians in 1745 who Hoyt wrote about in his marvelous account. Joseph probably lived on Third Div. # 124. Jonathan Meacham lived on the other half of that lot and was probably his brother-in-law.

Daniel Shaw, Sr. - son of William? and Mary ____Shaw, b. Nov. 15, 1692 ?, md. Elizabeth ______. Ch.:

Daniel, Jr. - bp. Sept. 18, 1743, New Salem, md. Hannah Ballard, 1758, New Salem.

Hannah - bp. Feb. 27, 1759, md. Jonathan Hastings, 1778.

Ebenezer - bp. Sept. 18, 1743, New Salem.

The Shaws are difficult to identify and separate. The relationships given are only tentative. Daniel, Sr. is listed on the 1759 assessment and he had two polls. He was an original Proprietor. He signed the appraisal of Jonathan Southwick's estate in 1745. The location of the Shaw place is indicated in the 1763 petition to Hamp. court regarding roads. (Sec. Div. # 63) He came here about 1743 from Salem.

Daniel Shaw, Jr. - son of Daniel Sr., and ?, md. Hannah Ballard, 1758, dau. of Jeremiah and Mary Dane Ballard. Ch.:

Amos - b. ?. d. ?, md. Sarah Meacham, 1774.

Samuel - b. ?, d. ? (Father of William, Fear, Samuel and Mary)

Daniel - b. ?. d. ?, md. 1st - Abigail Foster, 1785, md. 2nd - Mary Berry, 1788.

Daniel, Jr. is also listed on the 1759 assessment with one poll and no real estate, probably living with his father and above the age of 21, while his brother was over 16.

Joseph Slarrow, Sr. - son of Mathers and Mary ______Slarrow, b. Mar. 31, 1731, Rutland, d. Aug. 18, 1784, Salem, N. Y., md. Mary Thomas, 1754, Worcester. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Samuel - b. Feb. 4, 1759, md. Nancy Marrison.

Joseph, Jr. - b. ?, d. ?

Betsey - b. ?, d. ?, md. John Conkey.

He probably came here from Pelham, via Leverett and was here only briefly. He was assessed for one poll and property in 1759. From here he apparently returned to Leverett and then about 1780 to Salem, N. Y. where he died.

John Slown - son of John Slown md. Mary Butler, 1761, Pelham. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Susanna - bp. July 21, 1763

Elizabeth - bp. Oct. 7, 1764.

Molly - June 29, 1766.

Rebecca - bp. Aug. 21, 1768.

James Wilson - bp. June 2, 1771.

Jonathan - bp. June 20, 1773.

He was "Of (New) Salem" in 1761. Mary Sloan, probably the widow lived here in 1780 on 80 acres.

Benjamin Small - son of Benjamin and Martha Fish Small, b. Nov. 15, 1672. was regarded by Perley to have removed from Salem to New Salem about 1739. Stephen and John Small, sons of Samuel Small (d. 1739, Salem) bought a fraction of Right # 9 here in 1739 from Benjamin Stacy.

Job Smith - b. c. 1740, md. 1st - Hannah Houlton, c. 1768, dau. of Joseph and Rebecca Felton Houlton, b. c. 1751, d. 1768; md. 2nd - Eunice McClure?. Job had a child:

Hannah - b. ?, d. ?

He was "of New Salem" in Capt. Salah Barnard's company in 1758. Hannah was living in 1775, shared in grandfather Joseph Houlton's estate. Job Smith owned several lands in New Salem from 1769 to the end of the century. It may have been he or his son who lived in Shutesbury, d. 1805. (Hamp. Probate)

Stephen Smith - 'Of New Salem, died in the French War, nothing left". (G. C. Kellogg's account book of debtors.)

Benjamin Southwick, Jr. - son of Benjamin, Sr. and Abigail Burt Southwick, b. Mar. 1723, d. 1787, md. Sarah Wheeler, 1749, Roadtown. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Abigail - bp. Oct. 26, 1756.

Samuel - b. Dec. 8, 1750, md. 1st - Elizabeth Waters, 1774, md. 2nd - Mary Powers, 1776, md. 3rd - Priscilla_____, 1824.

Sarah - bp. Oct. 26, 1756, md. 1st - Nathan Eaton, 1780, New Salem, md. 2nd - Nathan Daniels.

Hannah - bp. Apr. 23, 1758, md. Jonathan Meacham.

Mary - b. 1754, md. 1st - John Hemenway, 1784, New Salem, md. 2nd - Retire Trask, 1788.

Jeremiah - b. 1756, d. ?

Benjamin - b. 1760, md. Sally Fisk, 1787, New Salem.

Simon - bp. May 1766, md. Ruth Felton, 1785.

Rachel - b. 1768, md. Nathaniel Rust.

He was in Capt. John Stoddard's company in 1747. He had a poll but no real estate in 1759. He was Town Treasurer in 1769. He probably lived with his father on First Div.# 1,2,3,4 and 5 and part of Third Div. # 18. His first land transaction is in 1774.

Benjamin Southwick, Sr. - son of Samuel and Mary Ross Southwick, b. c. 1700, d. 1785?, New Salem, md. Abigail Burt, 1722, b. 1690?, Salem, d. 1774?, New Salem. Ch.:

Benjamin, Jr. - b. 1723, md. Sarah Wheeler, 1749.

Abigail - b. 1725, md. James Cook, 1748.

Hannah - b. 1727, md. Ezekiel Kellogg, 1750, New Salem.

Samuel - b. 1728, d. 1745, New Salem.

Sarah - b. 1729, md. James Wheeler, 1748, New Salem.

Rebecca - b. 1731, md. Joseph Ballard, 1755, New Salem.

Simeon - b. 1733?

He was an original proprietor but they didn't come here until 1742 or 1743 from Salem when they joined the New Salem church. He was in Capt. John Stoddard's company in 1747. He lived on First Div. # 1 or thereabouts. He had one poll and property on the 1759 assessment; was made Deacon the same year. The stone in the New Salem burying ground for Samuel who died in 1745 is the oldest date there but was probably put there some years after his death. Abigail signed with an "X".

David Southwick - son of Samuel ? and Mary Ross Southwick, b. 1701, d. 1792, md. Hannah Griggs, 1726, Roxbury, b. Oct. 22, 1702, dau. of Ichabod and Margaret Bishop Griggs. Ch. b. at Dudley:

Samuel - b. Nov. 19, 1736, md. Abigail Warner, 1761.

Hannah - b. Aug. 24, 1739.

Sarah - b. 1742, d. ?

Mary - b. ?, d. ?

He came to New Salem from Salem via Dudley in 1740. All of his children were baptized on Dec. 19, 1742. His land is mentioned as an abutter in 1741. He served in John Stoddard's company; three hitches in 1747. Dr. Crouch treated his daughter in June 1740. He was called Sgt. in 1748 in William William's company in 1748 and Lt. when he and his wife, Thankful* in New Salem in 1770. He was in New Salem in 1777 but in Williamstown in 1782. He had one poll and real estate in New Salem in 1759. *variant reading?

Ichabod Southwick - son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Dowty Southwick, b. 1730, md. Martha Giles, 1757, Danvers, b. c. 1738.

He was given parts of Sec. Div.# 9 and # 32 (62?) in his father's probate in 1745. He probably came here in 1739 with his father's family and was in military companies in 1755. He had a poll but no real estate in 1759. He moved to Williamstown in 1763.

Isaac Southwick - son of Benjamin and Sarah Southwick Southwick, b. 1720, Reading, d. 1756, New Salem, md. Esther Felton, 1741, Salem, b. 1727, Salem, dau. of Ebenezer and Jehoadan Ward Felton. (Not the Proprietor by same name, who was probably his uncle) Ch. b. at Salem:

Benjamin - bp. July 16, 1751.

Mehitable - b. ?, d. ?

Sarah - b. ?, d. ?

He bought First Div.# 59 in 1742 and was a Tanner. He served in Stoddard's company in 1747 and again at Crown Point in 1754. In 1756, he was impressed into Capt. Joseph Dwight's company and got sick at Fort Edwards, returned home and was under Dr. Crouch's care when he died in 1756. Benjamin Felton, Esther's brother, took care of the children and rented the house until Benjamin was of age.

Jesse Southwick - son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Dowty Southwick, b. 1728-1735, d. 1782, Williamstown, md. Copiah Wright/White*?, 1760, New Salem, b. Sept. 9, 1744, Leominster, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Broughton White. Ch.:

Jesse - b. 1758, md. Nancy Moore.

Lemuel - bp. Oct. 26, 1761, md. Mary Spencer, 1790.

Mary - bp. Nov. 29, 1762, d. 1830.

Sarah - b. 1766, md. ____Pierce.

Samuel - b. 1768, md. Submit West and/or Hannah Brown, 1800, 1804.

David - b. 1770, md. Eunice Deming, 1801.

Jonathan - b. 1772.

Brother of Ichabod, he came here with his father's family in 1739. He inherited part of Sec. Div. # 32 upon his father's death in 1745. He served in various military companies in 1756 and 1759 when 24 years old. He had a poll and real estate in 1759 in New Salem. He, like Ichabod settled in South Williamstown in 1763 when he sold his homestead.

Jonathan Southwick, Sr. - son of Samuel and Mary Ross Southwick, d. 1745, md. Elizabeth Dowty, 1729, Salem. Ch. b. at Salem:

Jessie - bp. July 22, 1739, b. 1728, md. Copiah Wright, 1757/1760?

Ichabod - b. 1730, md. Martha Giles, 1757.

Mary - b. 1732, md. Joseph Wheeler, 1751.

Rebecca - b. 1734, md. Joseph Ballard, 1755.

Samuel - b. ?, d. ?

Lemuel - b. 1738, d. ?

Jonathan, Jr. - b. 1740, d. ?

Elizabeth - b. 1741, d. ?

He came here in 1739 from Salem and was dead in 1745. The widow had no poll nor real estate on the 1759 assessment but did have personal estate. He possibly accompanied Jeremiah Meacham here as a "first settler" along with Ebenezer Felton, Sr., Isaac Goodale, David Southwick and probably carpenters like Mackentyer -and -his-man. His house may have been Sec. Div.# 9 or Sec. Div. # 32. Housewright in Old Salem.

Samuel Southwick - son of David and Hannah (Thankful?) Grigg Southwick, b. Nov. 19, 1736, md. Abigail Warner, c. 1761. Ch. b. at New Salem:

David - bp. Nov. 3*, 1762, md. 1762?

Samuel, Jr. - bp. 1756, d. 1756.?

Experience - bp May 16, 1762, New Salem.

Only one Samuel appears on the 1759 assessment and he had only one poll and no real estate or personal property indicating that he was probably older than the 16-21 bracket but still living with his father. After the death of (this?) Samuel in Capt. Doolittle's company in 1755, there was another Samuel who is listed in various muster rolls "of New Salem" (perhaps son of Jonathan?). Three Samuel Southwick's in early New Salem need further study. There are no Samuel Southwick's in the Registry of Deeds for New Salem until 1787.

Benjamin Stacy - son of John ?, d. 1776, md. 1st - Elizabeth Waters, md. 2nd - Sarah King, 1758, Salem, dau. of Zachariah King? Ch. b. at Gloucester:

Benjamin - b. ?, d. ?

He was an original proprietor, Joyner, and cousin of Timothy, Jr. and Benjamin Upton. (A Hannah Stacy md. Timothy Upton, Sr., 1740). He was "of New Salem" in 1745 when he bought First Div. # 12*. He served in Capt. Stoddard's company in 1747 and William William's company in 1748. He had one poll and real estate in 1759. With wife, church member in New Salem in 1761. His estate went to his Upton cousins in 1776. She was dismissed from Salem church and admitted to New Salem church in 1744. *Adjacent to First Div. # 9 which he already owned. His house is indicated on the 1763 petition concerning roads. Of New Salem in 1739.

William Stacy - son of Nymphas and Hannah Littlehale Stacy, b. 1734?, d.c. 1802, Marietta, Ohio, md. 1st - Sarah Day, 1750, Gloucester, d. Mar. 6, 1790, Marietta, Ohio, dau. of Samuel and Sarah _____Day. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Sarah L. - bp. Oct. 14, 1759, New Salem.

William, Jr. - b. ?, d. ?

Benjamin - bp. Nov. 15, 1761, New Salem.

Joseph - b. July 24, 1757, Gloucester.

Elizabeth - bp. May 11, 1766, New Salem.

John - bp. June 24, 1770, New Salem.

Nymphas - bp. Apr. 1, 1764, md. Sarah Gibbs, 1783, New Salem.

Philomon - bp. May 2, 1773, New Salem.

Abigail - bp. 1789.

Samuel - b. 1782.

Gideon - b. 1776, md. Martha Perry, 1781.

md. 2nd - Mrs. Hannah Sheffield, 1790.

He was a Cordwainer from Gloucester about whom several stories are spun. Nymphas Stacy sold him land* here in 1757 and he had a poll and real estate in 1759. His sister married here in 1753 to Ebenezer Felton. He was admitted to New Salem church with wife in 1760. He served as a Major and Lt. Colonel in the Revolutionary War. He was apparently a figure about whom legends, possibly apocryphal, cluster. The myth of his taking over Capt. Goodale's company of minutemen is an example. He was taken prisoner by Indians at Cherry Valley in 1777. He went to Marietta, Ohio in 1788 with most of his children, except Benjamin and Nymphas. (*Third Div. # 49) His shoemaker account book begins here in 1754.

He owned a Fulling Mill on Fourth Div. # 11 in 1789. In 1769, the Proprietors of New Salem sold him 55 acres of Common Land which was apparently on Moosehorn Brook, the wedge above which I have indicated Sec. Div. # 64 on his tentative plan.

Thomas Stoddard - was here in 1741. He, with Jonathan Southwick sold First Div. # 17 "on which Stoddard built". He was sued in Hampshire court three times that year for debts incurred to no lesser figure than Obadiah Dickinson and Samuel Barnard. He signed deeds with "his mark". It was undoubtedly the practice to hire carpenters, perhaps in return for land in order to have proprietary Rights confirmed. Mackentyer and Woodress may be other examples of this, as well as others who stayed and became settlers.

Obadiah Townsend - son Hezekiah and Sarah _________Townsend, b. Feb. 7, 1724/25, Lancaster, d. Oct. 16, 1798, New Salem, md. Hannah Trask, 1747, Salem, b. c. 1730, d. 1804. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Sarah - bp. July 13, 1755, md. _______Hendrick.

John - bp. Nov. 18, 1765, d. 1766, New Salem.

Isaac - bp. July 26, 1752.*, md. Rachel Crosby, 1773, New Salem?

Obadiah, Jr. - (Dr.), bp. Apr. 9, 1764, md. Pattie Hudson, 1791, New Salem, d. 1813, New Salem.

He bought First Div. # 48 and # 49 in 1747. He had a poll and real estate in 1759. He served in Lt. Foster's company in 1757; was admitted with wife to New Salem church in 1755.

John Trask, Jr. - (or Tertius), son of John and Hannah Osborn Trask, b. Oct. 10, 1704, d. Oct. 17, 1755, Crown Point, md. Elizabeth Reed, Dec. 19, 1727, b. Mar. 15, 1705, d. June 23, 1775, New Salem, dau. of Jacob and Elizabeth Green Reed. Ch. b. at New Salem:

John, 2nd - bp. Nov. 11, 1746, md. Sarah Owen, 1754, New Salem.

Mary - bp. Dec. 11, 1748.

Hannah - bp. Nov. 27, 1737, md. Daniel Foster, 1758?, New Salem.

Lydia - bp. Nov. 27, 1737, md. Amos Putnam*, 1753, New Salem.

Elizabeth - bp. Nov. 27, 1737, md. Jonas Rich, 1760, New Salem.

Sarah - bp. Aug. 6, 1738.

Eunice - b. c. 1742, md. Joshua Putnam, 1762, New Salem.

He was a blacksmith and son of the proprietor, John Trask, Sr. He sold land in Salem in 1745, "of New Salem". He died in Capt. Simeon Davis's company at Crown Point, 1755 and was mentioned in Nathaniel Dwight's journal there. His widow, Elizabeth was admitted to the New Salem church in 1756. She was assessed for no poll and small amount of real estate in 1759. *Both the genealogies and real estate of this name are difficult but one sale might hint of a homestead was the sale of Sec. Div. # 10 to Elizabeth Trask and son John in 1759 by Amos Foster. According to Crouch's account book, he was in New Salem in December, 1739 with children.

John Trask, Jr. - (or "Secundus") (4th?) son of John (Tertius) and Elizabeth Reed Trask, bp. Nov. 16, 1746 (as an adult), Salem, d. Apr. 17, 1822, md 1st - Sarah Owen, 1754, New Salem. Ch. b. at New Salem:

Susannah - bp. Nov. 9, 1755.

Jesse - *(Josfe) bp. Mar. 13, 1757*, md. Lucy_____.

Elias - bp. May 13, 1759.

John, 3rd - bp. May 13, 1759, md.1st - Hannah Page, md 2nd - Molly Reynolds.

Sarah - bp. Dec. 11, 1763, md. Benjamin Upton, 1787.

md. 2nd - Mary Wyer, 1771.

Israel - b. 1793, d. Nov. 11, 1794.

He came here with his father's family from Salem about 1745. He had a poll but no real estate in 1759, perhaps his family lived with his widowed mother. This John probably was a Lt. at Ticonderoga and also was in Daniel Shay's company in 1778.

Dorcas Upton - dau. of Timothy Upton, Sr. (b. 1718, d. 1758) who md. 1st - Hannah Stacy, apparent sister of Benjamin Stacy of New Salem. She came to New Salem and possibly lived with Benjamin Stacy and brought up two of Timothy's orphaned children: Timothy, Jr., b. 1750 and Benjamin, b. 1754 to whom Benjamin Stacy left his estate in 1776. Dorcas Upton Haven is probably she.

John Vicory - b. 1734

He served in various military companies, 1755 Ingersole's company, 1756 Clesson's, 1757 Burk's, 1758 Barnard's and 1759 Israel William's. He was assessed one poll but had no real estate in New Salem in 1759. He sold land* here in 1760 and figures in debtor's court in 1761. There was a man from Venice, Italy by this name in Deerfield in 1764 (Sheldon) -- which fact seems extraordinary in itself. *Probably First Div. # 27.

Glazier Wheeler - son of Ephraim and Mariah Glazier Wheeler, b. c. 1724, Lancaster, md. Betty Powers, Stow, b. Feb. 24, 1746, Stow, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Kidder Powers or Ezekiel and Elizabeth Trull Powers.

He is the famous counterfeiter about whom much has been written: G. Powers, Historical Sketches of ..., Coos County, N.H, Howe's Quabbin, Burrough's Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs, K. Scott's Counterfeiting in Colonial America, Bettinger's History of Haverhill, etc. His reputation was very high among those of his trade. He was convicted in 1755 and again in 1763. He was in Capt. Salah Barnard's company in 1760, "Of New Salem" and deserted. He was previously (1759) in Israel William's regiment "Of Greenwich". He owned First Div. # 86 in Shutesbury just south of Amos Felton in that section which eventually was annexed to New Salem. This was in the area now called Macedonia. He is supposed to have moved to Coos County, New Hampshire in 1762 but he or a son by that name is in the 1790 New Salem census and he was of New Salem when in 1785 at 69 years of age was sent to Hampshire Goal for "passing counterfeit money, 5'8", light, escaped from jail and was sent to the Castle" in Boston Harbour and by orders of the Superior Court had his ears "cropt". The notorious "imposter" minister of Pelham, Stephen Burroughs who was tried at the same time as Glazier described him in his amazing book:

"The speculators in government bounties had now taken Glazier Wheeler, who was likewise committed for trial. This man you will likely have a curiosity to be made more minutely acquainted with, as he will make somewhat of a figure in this narrative. He was a man tottering under the weight of years, having long since, to all appearance, been a presumptive candidate for the grave. He was a man of small mental abilities, but patient and persevering in any manual pursuit, to admiration. Credulous in the extreme, which subjected him to the duplicity of many who had resorted to his external appearance, and weak in his observation on men and manners. He had spent all his days in pursuit of the knowledge of counterfeiting silver, so as to bear the test of essays. He had always been unfortunate, and always lived poor. This was the man concerning whom the world had said so much, and who was to take his trial at the same time with me."

Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs, Dial Press, 1924, with an introduction by Robert Frost.

James Wheeler - son of James?, b. Sept. 5, 1716, d. c. 1757, md. Sarah Southwick, 1748, Hadley, b. 1729 (sister of Mary b. Mar. 24, 1719). Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Ann - bp. Nov. 12, 1749.

James, Jr. - bp. Sept. 20, 1752.

Thomas - bp. Feb. 23, 1755.

Jonas - bp. June 19, 1757, *d. Sept. 20, 1836, New Salem.

James, Sr. sold Sec. Div. #62 to James, Jr. in 1743; one or the other was of Quabbin in 1745 (Hamp. court records). James Wheeler was a grantee of Quabbin in 1736. This land was sold by him in 1757 at probably which time he was sick and being treated by Dr. Crouch. He and Joshua, probably his brother, sold First Div. # 19? in New Salem in 1749, "Of New Salem". He was in Capt. Stevens company in 1746 at the fight at No. 4 and in Lt. Foster's company as a corporal in 1757 and in John Burk's company in 1757 at Fort William Henry. He does not appear on the 1759 assessment, but Joshua does. He signed with his mark.

Joshua Wheeler, Sr. - md. ("Mary") Mehitable, b. Feb. 14, 1716/17, in 1737, dau. of Benjamin and Mehitable__________. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Benjamin - bp. Feb. 3, 1744, md. Phebe Thompson, 1779, New Salem.

Esther - bp. June 10, 1744, md Daniel Colby, 1767, New Salem.

Hannah - bp. Mar. 27, 1748.

Mary - bp. Nov. 5, 1749.

Joshua, Jr. - bp. Oct. 20, 1751, md. Mary Pulsifer, 1778, New Salem.

Mehitable - bp. May 13, 1753.

Susannah - bp. Apr. 6, 1755, md. James Day, *1779, New Salem.

Jeremiah - bp. Apr. 8, 1759.

He sold land in New Salem in 1746 and again in 1749 with (his brother, James). He served in John Stoddard's company in 1747 and William Williams company in 1748. He was assessed for one poll and real estate in 175_. His house is shown on a 1759 highway plan north of New Salem center and south of Ballard's mill on Moosehorn Brook. He died in 1764. Signed ______.

Joseph Wheeler - son of Ephraim and Meriah Glazier, bp. Sept. 24, 1727, d. c. 1804, Pittstown, N. Y., md. Mary Southwick, 1751, New Salem, b. 1732, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Dowty Southwick. Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Jerusha - bp. May 4, 1755.

Abigail - bp. May 23, 1756.

Silence - bp. May 31, 1761.

Joseph Dowty - bp. Nov. 27, 1763.

He bought Sec. Div. #57 in 1757 and sold it in 1760. He was of Roadtown in that section that eventually was annexed to New Salem, as was his father and brother, Glazier. They removed to Williamstown and then to Pittstown, N. Y. He was in Burk's company in 1757 with Ben Goodhue (who was killed) and bought land from Benj. Goodhue of Salem.

Samuel Wheeler - md. Ruth ______, 1738, Townsend, b. Lancaster? Ch. bp. at New Salem:

Abel - bp. June 29, 1746.

Ruth - bp. Mar. 28, 1748.

Mariah - bp. Oct. 28, 1750, md. Jonathan Holt, 1772, New Salem.

Jonathan - bp. Aug. 7, 1743.

Joel - bp. May 8, 1757, *d. Jan. 10, 1821, New Salem.

He exchanged lands with Nathan Graves in 1744 (Sec. Div. #6). In 1747, he was in John Stoddard's company, "Of New Salem" also in Salah Barnard's campaign in 1758. He had a poll and real estate in 1759. He is not listed as ch. of Ephraim and Mariah, but the spelling of his daughter's name is reminiscent. His land dealings are many and complex.

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