1797; Clara, born in 1799; Patience, born in
1801 ; Susanna, born in 1803 ; Nathan, born
in 1806 ; Sophronia, born in 1808 ; and Den-
nison, born in 1811. The father died in 1832,
aged sixty-six years, and his widow died in
1849, aged seventy-eight years.
(VI) Isaac Packard was born May 2, 1795.
in West Bridgewater, Mass., where he died at
the age of about thirty-three years. He was
a farmer and shoemaker. He married in 1816
Mary Jones Foster, of Whitman, Mass., and
after his death she married (second) Ezekiel
Ripley, of Plympton, Mass., where she died.
She was the mother of the following children :
Orlando H., who died at the age of nineteen
years; Japhet B., mentioned below; and Perez
(a /Shoemaker), who married Mercy Sherman,
of Plympton, and died in Rockland, Massachu-
setts.
(VII) Japhet Beals Packard, son of Isaac
and Mary J. (Foster) Packard, was born Sept.
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7, 1819, in Easton, Mass. He died June 2,
1909, at his home on North Ehn street in West
Bridgewater, in which town lie had resided for
over eighty years. While he was still very
young his parents removed to that part of
West Bridgewater known as Jerusalem, and he
was seven years old when they settled in the
more central part of the town, where he lived
upon a farm near the site of his late home.
He received his education in the public schools,
and among his classmates were Benjamin B.
Howard (founder of Howard Seminary),
Charles Howard, Horatio Howard, John Dun-
bar and Elihu Leonard, all of whom long pre-
ceded him in death. When sixteen years old he
went to Plympton, whence after a residence of
five j'ears he returned to West Bridgewater,
where he continued to make his home during
the remainder of his long life. He learned the
trade of shoemaker with his stepfather, Ezekiel
Ripley, at Plympton, remaining with him five
or six years ; and for fifty years in all followed
that calling. He began it in the primitive days
when shoes were made in small shops near the
home of the tradesman, and Mr. Packard em-
ployed several hands in his .shop. None of
the work was done by machine at that time.
When the various manufacturers began to do
business upon a larger scale and the smaller
business men were crowded out he became em-
ployed at the P. & N. Copeland factory, in
Campello, where he acted as superintendent.
About twenty years prior to his death he gave
up shoemaking in order to spend more time
in the open air, working considerably upon his
farm and carrying on a large garden. For
several years he also had charge of Pine Hill
cemetery, in West Bridgewater. In fact, he
continued to be active up to within a short
time before his decease, always finding some-
thing to do about the farm and home.
Mr. Packard's devotion to outdoor sports
continued to be one of his chief sources of en-
joyment until a few weeks before he died. He
was considered the best marksman with a rifle
in all the region, and except for the last five
years of his life never missed the annual fall
outing at Brant Rock, where with his gun and
his dog he went for several days' shooting
along the seashore. In 1895, at the age of
seventy-six, he purchased a bicycle, which he
rode for nearly ten years. He was always a
special favorite with children, and was in-
terested in watching young folks at their sports,
when they gathered at play near his home. He
was well known to old and young, and among
all classes, and had scores of friends and well
wishers wherever he went. He never took any
special part in public affairs and would never
accept office, though he was public-spirited and
attended town meetings regularly. His word
and opinion carried great weight, and he gave
his support to all enterprises intended for the
benefit of the public, and he was a regular
voter at local and national elections.
On Sept. 25, 1843, Mr. Packard married
Lucretia Parker Dunbar, daughter of Perez
and Nancy (Willis) Dunbar. She was born
in North Bridgewater, but at the time of her
marriage was living in West Bridgewater,
where the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr.
Cogswell. In 1844 they moved into the home
on North Elm street where they ever after-
ward resided, and there they celebrated the
silver and golden anniversaries of their wed-
ding. Their wedded life covered over sixty-
five years, Mrs. Packard passing away Feb. 32,
1910, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Six
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Packard:
Hattie married Edward C. Hall, of Freeport,
Maine, and is now a widow, residing in Whit-
man, Mass. ; Lucius Sumner, who resides in
Walpole, Mass., married Helen E. Ripley;
Fred Herbert is mentioned below; Charles
Everett married Eugenia Young and resides
in West Bridgewater; Ernest Lincoln died at
the age of thirty-two years ; Jennie Beals died
aged eighteen years.
(VIII) Fred Herbert Packard, son of
Japhet Beals and Lucretia Parker (Dunbar)
Packard, was born Feb. 2, 1854, in West
Bridgewater, Mass., and acquired his early
schooling in the common schools of his native
town. Leaving school when about sixteen years
of age, he took up shoemaking with his father,
continuing at home until he had reached the
age of twenty. He then came to Campello,
where he worked at shoemaking for Elmer L.
Keith, George E. Keith and C. W. Copeland
& Co., respectively, until Feb. 18, 1880, when
he entered the employ of Snell & Atherton, as
a machinist on the making of machine tools,
in which capacity he remained for about six
years. Later he was made bookkeeper and
salesman, as well as shipper, for the concern,
acting as such until about 1898, at which time
he became a partner in the business. On Jan.
1, 1903, he became sole ovraer of the business,
the founder, Mr. Snell, retiring. In January,
1907, the business was chartered as an in-
corporation under the Massachusetts laws as
Snell & Atherton, Incorporated, with Fred H.
Packard as president and treasurer, and War-
ren B. Packard (his son) as clerk of the
corporation. This well known concern is en-
gaged in the manufacture of hand tools of all
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kinds for shoe workers, and duplicate parts
for shoe machinery of various kinds, their
products having a world-wide reputation for
perfection and uniform quality. They are
used in every country where shoes are made.
The firm gives employment to about twenty
expert and skilled mechanics, several of whom
have been connected with this concern con-
tinuously for nearly fifty years.
Mr. Packard has also been successfully en-
gaged in the real estate business to some ex-
tent. In 1888-89 he opened up two tracts of
land on Herrod and Martland streets, and sev-
enty lots were disposed of. He also owns
various other plots in different parts of the
city.
Mr. Packard is of a musical turn of mind,
and for about twelve years was a member of
Martland's Band, in which he played first
clarinet; during four years of that time he
was secretary and treasurer of that well-known
musical organization. In politics he is a stanch
supported of the principles of the Republican
party, and he has always manifested a keen
interest in the affairs of his adopted city. In
1892 he served as a member of the common
council, and in 1896 and 1897 he was a mem-
ber of the board of aldermen, from Ward Seveji,
being president of the board the last year.
During the first year he was a member of the
latter board he was a member of the committees
on Finance, Accounts, Highways and Health,
and the last year was chairman of the above
committees, and also a member of the police
committee.
For a number of years Mr. Packard has been
prominently identified with various financial
institutions of Brockton, having served for
eleven years as a trustee of the People's Sav-
ings Bank, since which time he has been a
trustee of the Brockton Savings Bank, which
he has served several years as a member of the
board of investment, and in April, 1910, was
elected second vice president. He has also been
a director for a number of years of the Se-
curity Cooperative Bank of Brockton.
Fraternally Mr. Packard is an active and
prominent member of the Masonic organization
of many years' standing, holding membership
in St. George Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Cam-
pello, of which he became a member in 1877;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. (of which he has
been a member over twenty years) ; Brockton
Council, R. & S. M. ; and Bay State Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, of Brockton; he
also belongs to Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine,
of Boston, which he joined in 1889, and is a
life member of the lodge, chapter and com-
mandery. In 1874 he joined Massasoit Lodge,.
No. 69, I. 0. 0. F., and he has been a member
for many years of the Commercial Club of
Brockton, which is composed of the city's lead-
ing business and professional men.
On June 29, 1882, Mr. Packard was united
in marriage to Idella Abbiette Snell, daughter
of Varanus Snell, the founder of the Snell &
Atherton concern, and his wife, Emily Hewins
Gill, of Brockton, and this union has been
blessed with one son, Warren Belcher, bom
July 14, 1887. He graduated from the Brock-
ton high school in 1906, after which he at-
tended Phillips Exeter Academy. He then took
a business course at Bryant & Stratton's Busi-
ness College, Boston, and is now a member of
Snell & Atherton, Incorporated, to which he
was admitted as a partner early in 1909, hav-
ing started at the bench and forge in the tool
shop in 1908. He is also a member of St.
George Lorge, A. F. & A. M., of Campello;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. ; Brockton Council,
E. & S. M. ; and Bay State Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Brockton; holding a life
membership in the latter three bodies. He is
also a member of the Brockton Country Club
and the Commercial Club. He is unmarried,
and resides at home with his parents.
WALTER HAMLET FAUNCE, chairman
of the board of county commissioners of Ply-
mouth county, Mass., is a lineal descendant of
John Faunce, who was the progenitor of a large
and well established family in New England,
members of which have for generations made
their home in Kingston, Plymouth county.
(I) John Faunce came to Plymouth in the
"Ann" in August, 1633. He was, perhaps,
then a youth, as no wife or child is mentioned
for a decade. He was a freeman in 1633, in
which year he married Patience, daughter of
George Morton, and had : Priscilla, who mar-
ried Joseph, son of Richard Warren, of the
"Mayflower" ; Mary, who married July 15, 1658,
William Harlow ; Patience, who married Nov.
20, 1661, John Holmes; Sarah, who married
Feb. 26, 1663, Edward Doty, son of Edward
of the "Mayflower," and (second) John Buck;
Thomas, born about 1647; Elizabeth, bom
March 23, 1648; Mercy, born April 10, 1651,
who married in December, 1667, Nathaniel
Holmes; Joseph, born May 14, 1653; and John,
born Nov. 29, 1654 (probably died young).
(II) Joseph Faunce, son of John, bom May
14, 1653, married Jan. 3, 1677, Judith Rickard,
daughter of John and Judith Rickard. Their
children were: Hannah, born 1679; Mary,
born 1681 (married Nathaniel Morton) ; John,
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born 1683; Mary, born 1686; Mehitabel, born
1689 (married Judah Hill) ; Joseph, born
1693; Eleazer, born 1696; Thomas, born 1698
(married Hannah Damon) ; and Benjamin,
born 1703.
(III) John Faunce, son of Joseph, born
1683, married in 1710 Lydia, born in 1685,
daughter of Jacob Cooke, granddaughter of
Jacob and Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke (the lat-
ter a daughter of Stephen Hopkins, of the
"Mayflower," 1680), and great-granddaughter
of Francis Cooke, of the "Mayflower," 1620.
The children of John and Lydia (Cooke)
Faunce were: Judith, bom in 1711, who
married Jabez Washburn; Lydia, born in
1714, who married Ebenezer Washburn; John,
bom in 1716; Hannah, born in 1718, who mar-
ried Charles Cook; Mary, born in 1720;
Mehetabel, born in 1722, who married Thomas
Cushman; and Rebecca, born in 1724, who mar-
ried Tillson Ripley, of Plympton. The father
married (second) in 1733 Ruth Sampson, and
their only child was Mary, bom in 1734, who
married Amos Curtis, of Scituate. He mar-
ried (third) Lydia (Tilden) Cook, widow of
Simeon Cook, and by this union had a son
Benjamin, born in 1742.
(IV) John Faunce, son of John, was bom
in 1716, and was of Kingston. He married
Hannah, widow of Robert Cook, and daughter
of Elijah Bisbee. Their children were : Lydia,
bom in 1746, who married Josiah Cook ; John,
born in 1747; Hannah, bom in 1749; Eleazer,
born in 1751; Eleanor, born in 1753; Molly,
born in 1755, who married John Cook; Joanna,
born in 1757, who married Zenas Cook ; Elijah,
bom in 1759; Sarah, born in 1760; and Sarah
(2), bom in 1764.
(V) Elijah Faunce, of Kingston, son of
John and Hannah, born in March, 1759, mar-
ried in 1785 Lydia, daughter of Ichabod Water-
man, and their children were : Elijah, bom
in 1787, who died aged fifteen years; Kilborn,
bom in 1789; Nathaniel, born in 1791; Lydia,
born in 1793, who married Spencer Bradford ;
Sally (twin), born in 1793; and Charles Cook,
born May 21, 1801.
(VI) Charles Cook Faunce, son of Elijah
and Lydia (Waterman), was born in Kingston,
Mass., May 21, 1801. He was educated in the
local schools, and then learned the mason's
trade, which he followed nearly all his life,
being engaged as a builder in stone and brick.
His home was always in his native town, and
be became greatly interested in public affairs.
For fifteen years he held the office of town
clerk, and also filled several minor positions.
He died Oct. 26, 1878, and was buried in
Kingston. He married Amelia Washburn, who
was born in Kingston Jan. 7, 1807, daughter
of Seth and Sarah (Adams) Washburn, and
died Oct. 8, 1881 ; she was buried beside her
husband. Their children were: Walter Ham-
let, born Nov. 16, 1832; Amelia Washburn,
born March 1, 1834, who married George
McLaughlin (both are deceased) ; Charles
Thomas, born April 19, 1835, who lives at
Kingston; and Sewall Allen, born Feb. 9, 1841,
who resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
(VII) Walter Hamlet Faunce, son of Charles
Cook and Amelia (Washburn), was born in
Kingston, Mass., Nov. 16, 1832. He received'
a good education, first attending the public
schools in his home town, and then going to the
East Greenwich Academy, East Greenwich,
R. I. Returning to Kingston he began teach-
ing, and for fifteen years was thus engaged ini
the public schools of his native town. He then
began surveying and civil engineering, in which
he has since been more or less engaged in Kings-
ton and adjoining towns, but the best part of
his life has been given to public affairs. He
has served as selectman, overseer of the poor
and assessor for a number of years, during eight
years being chairman of the board of select-
men. In 1882 Mr. Faunce was elected county
commissioner of Plymouth county, and with
tlie exception of five years, from 1885 to 1890,
he has since served continuously in that office,
and for eight years has been chairman of the
board. During his long service many public
improvements have been effected — new build-
ings and bridges, including the fine courthouse
at Brockton, and the registry building at Ply-
mouth, both from an architectural standpoint
among the best in the State; the bridges at
Buzzard's Bay and over the North river in
the town of Hanson. At the present time there
is in coiirse of construction the new prison at
Plymouth, built of concrete, which contains
one h^indred and fifty-nine cells. Mr. Faunce
is conscientious in his work, and having, from
long experience, a general knowledge of all
matters pertaining to town or county affairs,
is able to see that the contracts are honestly
carried out. In 1880 he was elected to the
State Legislature, where he served as a mem-
ber of the committee on Insurance. He has
been active in work for the public schools, and
for a quarter of a century has been a member
of the school board, and many years its
chairman. In 1867 he was appointed by
Governor Ames a justice of the peace, and has
held that commission ever since, probably being
the oldest justice in point of service in the
State. He is a member of the State Board of
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Agriculture, and is vice president of the Marsh-
field Agricultural Society, and for a number
of years was vice president of the Plymouth
County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he
belongs to Corner Stone Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
of Duxbury; and Adams Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., of
Kingston. He attends the Unitarian Church.
In December, 1863, Mr. Faunce was married
to Arabella Ryder, daughter of Merrick and
Lucy Ryder, of Plymouth. She died in Kings-
ton in May, 1870, and was buried in the New
cemetery. They had two children: Lucy D.,
born July 28, 1865, who resides at home, un-
married ; and Charles M., mentioned below. Mr.
Faunce -married (second) in 1874 in Smith-
field, R. I., Elizabeth Brown, daughter of
Waterman Brown, of that town. No children
have been born of this marriage.
(VIII) Charles Merrick Faunce, son of
Walter Hamlet and Arabella (Ryder), was born
in Kingston, Aug. 2, 1868. He graduated from
the high school there, after which he entered
Exeter Academy, at Exeter, where he prepared
for college. He graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1892, with the degree of A. B., and
then became an instructor in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, where he re-
mained for three years. Failing health com-
pelled him to give up his profession, and he
went West, but all in vain. He returned home,
and died July 16, 1899. He was unmarried.
He was a young man of unusual ability and
promise, and his pleasant manners and sterling
character won him many friends who sincerely
mourned his taking away when seemingly on
the very threshold of a life of true usefulness.
Washbdkn. (I) John Washburn, of Kings-
ton, married Lydia Billington, and their
children were : John, born in 1699 ; Ichabod,
born in 1701; Mercy, born in 1702; Elisha,
born in U03; Ephraim, born in 1705; Barna-
bas, born in 1707; Jabez, born in 1708;
Ebenezer, born iji 1709; and Thankful, born in
1715. There was an earlier John Washburn,
of Duxbury, 1632, who, with his two sons, John
and Philip, was included with those able to
bear arms in the Colony in 1643, and his name
is also among the first freemen of Duxbury.
He and his son John were original proprietors
of Bridgewater, and they and Philip became
residents and settlers there in South Bridge-
water as early as 1665. The name was per-
petuated through the son John. Mitchell sup-
posed that all of the name in the Bridgewater
part of the country descended from John of
Duxbury. Davis gives no evidence of any con-
nection between the John of Duxbury and John
of Kingston. Savage and Pope make no men-
tion of John Washburn of Kingston.
(II) John Washburn (2), of Kingston, son
of John, of Kingston, married Abigail Johnson,
and their children were: John, born in 1730;
Abigail, born in 1732, who married Abner
Sylvester; Mary, born in 1734; Mercy, born
in 1736; Seth, born in 1738; Philip, bom in
1739 ; and Thankful, born in 1742.
(III) Seth Washburn, son of John (2), born
in 1738, in Kingston, married in 1765 Fear
Howard, and their children were: Fear, who
married John Foster ; Persis, who married John
Turner; Abigail, who married Zenas Churchill;
Seth; and Ichabod, who married Ann Fuller,
of Plymouth.
(IV) Seth Washburn, son of Seth and Fear
(Howard), born in 1769, married in 1792 Sarah
Adams, and had children; Marcia, born in
1793, who married Nathaniel Faunce ; Sally,
born in 1796, who married Solomon Davie;
Christiana Drew, born in 1799, who married
Nahum Bailey; Hannah, who married Sewall
Rice, of Worcester, Mass. ; Judith, who married
Francis Johnson ; and Amelia.
(V) Amelia Washburn, daughter of Seth and
Sarah (Adams), born Jan. 7, 1807, married
Charles Cook Faunce, and they became the
parents of Walter Hamlet Faunce.
Brown. Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Faunce be-
longs to one of the oldest and most prominent
families in Rhode Island history. The Browns
have been closely and conspicuously identified
with the history of Providence since the coming
of Chad Brown in 1638, a leader in the Colony,
one of the committee to formulate the first
written form of government for the town, and
the first settled pastor of the Baptist Church.
James and Obadiah Brown, of the fourth gen-
eration, were the founders of the extensive com-
mercial house of the Browns, which in the suc-
ceeding generations was conducted by the four
Brown Brothers — Nicholas, Moses, John and
Joseph of commercial note and wealth. In the
succeeding generation came Nicholas Brown
(2), an eminent merchant and philanthropist,
whose munificent gifts made possible the great
Brown University of to-day, as well as some of
the great public institutions of Providence, and
from whom the imiversity derived its name.
(I) Chad Brown, accompanied by his wife
Elizabeth, son John, then eight years of age,
and perhaps his younger sons, emigrated from
England in the ship "Martin," which arrived
at Boston, Mass., in July, 1638. He soon re-
moved to Providence, where he became at once
a leader in the Colony and one of the most
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valued citizens. In 1640 he was one of a com-
mittee who reported to Providence Colony the
first written form of government, which was
adopted and continued in force until 1644,
when Eoger Williams returned from England
with the first charter. In 1642 Chad Brown
was ordained as the first settled pastor of the
Baptist Church. His wife was Elizabeth, and
their children were: John, James, Jeremiah,
Judah and Daniel.
(II) John Brown, born in 1630, died about
1706. He married Mary, daughter of Rev.
Obadiah and Catherine Holmes, of Newport,
R. I., and resided in Providence, at the north
end, in a house near the one afterward occupied
by his son. Elder James, near the junction of
North Main and Randall streets. Like his
father he was a surveyor as well as a Baptist
elder. He served in various important capac-
ities, was moderator, member of the town
council, deputy in the Legislature, etc. His
children were: Sarah, James, John, Obadiah,
Martha, Mary and Deborah.
(III) James Brown, born in 1666, died Oct.
28, 1732. He married Dec. 17, 1691, Mary,
born Dec. 17, 1671, daughter of Andrew and
Mary (Tew) Harris. She died Aug. 18, 1736.
Mr. Brown served almost continuously as a
member of the town council from 1705 to 1725,
and was town treasurer from 1714 to 1718. He
was pastor or elder of the First Baptist Church,
succeeding Rev. Ebenezer Jenckes, and he re-
mained pastor until his death, in 1732. His
children were: John, James, Joseph, Martha,
Andrew (born Sept. 20, 1706), Mary, Anna,
Obadiah, Jeremiah and Elisha.
(IV) Joseph Brown, son of James, born
May 5, 1701, died May 8, 1778. He was a
farmer by occupation, and resided in North
Providence. He married (first) Martha Field,
daughter of William, of Field's Point ; she died
April 19, 1736, aged twenty-six years, leaving
one son, Gideon, born in 1726, who married
Ruth Rutenberg, daughter of David and
Hannah (Jenks) Rutenberg. Joseph Brown
married (second) Abigail Brown, who died
May 23, 1784, in her seventy-third year. Their
children were: Elisha, Andrew and Joseph.
(V) Elisha Brown, son of Joseph, of North
Providence, married Waite Waterman, of Crans-
ton, R. L, daughter of Thomas Waterman.
"Their children were: Welcome, ))orn May 12,
1777; Waterman, Jan. 7, 1779; Elizabeth, Aug.
23, 1780; Lydia, March 5, 1782; Philena, Sept.
19, 1784; Susanna, Nov. 3; 1787; Waite, March
13, 1789; and Catherine, Oct. 3, 1791.
(VI) Waterman Brown, son of Elisha, born
Jan. 7, 1779, married Hannah Congdon, and
they had children, Salmon, Waterman, Welcome
and Elisha.
(VII) Waterman Brown (2), son of Water-
man, married Eliza A. Highland, and their
daughter, Elizabeth, born in Smithfield, R. I.,
was engaged as a school teacher. In 1874 she
married Walter Hamlet Faunce, of Kingston,
Massachusetts.
CHARLES NELSON ATWOOD, the well
known box and lumber manufacturer of Rock,
Middleboro, Mass., wa,s born June 22, 1844,
son of Ichabod F. and Abigail T. (Thomas)
Atwood.
The Atwood family was one of some conse-
quence in Great Britain, no less than sixteen
families of the name having their arms entered
in the Herald's College. On each side of the
Atlantic it has been a prolific family. One