land, and after her decease Lydia Kelsey. Chil-
dren : Joseph, born February 29, 1666 ; Hurd ;
Hannah. December 16, 1668: Daniel. July 27,
1671 ; John, who is sketched later: Elizabeth,
January 31, 1676; Margaret, .August 25, 1679;
Rebecca, March 7, 1682 ; Jonathan. October
if\ i''>85; Mary, September 23, 1688.

ill) John, tifth of the ten children of Rob-
ert and Sarah f Pickett ) Lane, was lieutenant
in the Seventh Regiment, having enlisted
March 17, 1775. He was also in Captain Jon-
athan Johnson's com()any of the W'adsworth
brigade, having enlisted June 12 and discharged
November 16, 1775. He was made a prisoner
at Fort \\'ashington. He re-enlisted under
Captain Daniel .Allen in Colonel Samuel W'ylles
third regiment of the Continental line and was
transferred to the Ceorgia battalion in August,
1777. .Also he was a soldier at the East Haven
alarm, July 7, 1779, under Captain Bezaleel
P.ristol. lie enlisted again July i and wa^
discharged December 13 under Colonel Her-
man .Swift in the .Seventeenth Regiment,
thev being the short levies in Connecticut,
in 17S0. < )n Se])teml)er ifi. 1789, he was
pn minted tn he C(ir])i)rai and served several
years in La|)tain .Abraham Pierson's Seventh
Connecticut regiment. He was accidentally
killed while drilling his coiu])any on the square
in Killingworth. He luarried Experience
b'dgarton. Their children were: Jnhn. jede-
diah. -Sanuiel. Ilezekiah and Elisha.

I III) Samuel, third son of Ca])tain jdhii
and E.xperiencc ( Edgarton) Lane. married Abi-
gail Norton, July 2. 1757. and lived in Salis-
bury, Connecticut. Their children were: Sam-
uel, Elisha, .Abigail. Electa, Polly and Salome,

I I\' ) Elisha, second son of Samuel and Abi-
gail ( Norton I Lane, was born in .Salisbury,
Connecticut. He lived in Salisbury and P>ur-
lington, N'ermont. He lived in llurlington on
the farm afterward owned 1)\ the I.oomis
fann'ly above the high bridge nn the intervale.
He married Charitv lacobs. Their children



were: Lovey, deceased when young; Laura,
Seymour. Burrill, Harry, Elisha, Charity,
Mariah, Calista, Hyman and Hiram, twins, and
I forace.

(\ ) .Seymour, third child of the thirteen
children of Elisha and Charity (Jacobs) Lane,
was born in .Newport, February, 1788. He
was one of the organizers of the Congrega-
tional church at Newport and was clerk of
the same from 1831 to 1864. He was select-
man in 1828-29. He married, January i, 181 5,
Hetty Robinson. Their children were: George,
Henrv, Harriet. Cephas, Hiram P.., who is
sketched below : .Augusta and Elisha.

( \"I ) Hiram I!., fifth of the seven children
of Seymour aTid Hetty (Robinson) Lane, was
born in New])ort. August 17, 1824, died in
Springfield. November 15. 1901. He was
selectman of Newport in 1859. He married
Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Rowley. She
was born June 20, 1822. died September 4.
1862. He married (second) Maria J. Hitch-
cock, born March. 1834. Children I)y first
wife: Alarietta. born July 21. 1844. becatne
the wife of Oscar D. .Adams (see Adams).
Elma, October 31, 1848. Olin H.. February
21, 1855. Children by second marriage: Harry
P., September 13, 1865. Harriet B., January
27, 1875. '

John .Adams removed from P)OW-
.AD.AMS doin to Litchfield. Maine, in 1S13.
with his wife., whose maiden
name was Rebecca Tarr, and three sons. James,
Daniel and John. He died in Litchfield in 1830.
(II) James, son of John and Rebecca
(Tarr) .Adams, was born in P.owdoin, in 1787,
and died at the home of his son James, in
Iowa, May 8, i8()(), aged seventy-nine years. In
early life he followed the sea a part of the
time for some years, and being of a frugal
disposition he saved a portion of each year's
earnings. In 1813. with his father and brothers,
he went to Litchfield, and after preparing a
log cabin in the wilderness he took his family
there and instituted a home. He was soon able
ti) build comfortable buildings, and with the
efiicient and faithful aid of his good wife, in-
creased his estate uiuil he became one of the
most indei)endeut and successful farmers in
the tow n. I le succeeded by most rigid economy
and untiring industry, backed up by good judg-
ment and sound New I-'iigland sense. He was
deejily interested in |)ublic affairs, state and
national, and read much in the newsjiapers and
in such books as came intii his hands. Though
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vestigated the claims put furward in its favor,
and stfing its very beneficial eti'ects in the
community where he liveil, he gave it his un-
(|ualified support and became a "tetotaller,'"
and so remained the rest of his life. He was
one of the first to itlentify himself with the
political party which declared against the ex-
tension of slavery into free territory, and
assisted in the organization of the Republican
party in his town, lie was a man of intense
convictions, strong prejudices, active in mind,
and possessing courage at all hazards. He
was a good friend and an undesirable enemy ;
appreciating kindness, resenting injury with
fiery indignation: a man who without a dollar
to begin life with was ever able to command
credit to any auKJunt he desired. He married
Mary Williams, who died November 3, 1863,
aged seventy-one years. They had ten children
who grew up on the old homestead and then
scattered from Maine to California: 1. Daniel,
born December i, 1812, lived near his father,
and died December 5, 1852. He married Susan
llarrimaii. 2. Lettice, .April 13, 1814, married
William Hale and moved to l->esiio. California.
3. Mary .\nn, October 2"]. 1815. married Wil-
son .Sandford. of Cowckrin. 4. Rufus W., Sep-
tember 28. 1818, married Mary I. Clifford, is
a builder, and lives in Bath. 5. Aaron, see
below. 6. Margaret, .March 28, 1822, married
Dr. Isaac Rowell, lived first in (iardiner. Maine
and then in San Francisco. California. 7.
Janos L.. July 19, 1824, married Mary Gan-
non, and lived in ISoston, Massachusetts. 8.
Crial D., Sei)tember 6, 1826, married Love L.
lirackett and settled in Charlestown, Massa-
chu.setts, where he became a successful con-
tractor. 9. Melville W., .April 6. 1832, married
-Mary C. Smith, and owns and occupies the
homestead farm. 10. Franklin C, October 6,
1834. married I.ectina Lewis.

(HI ) .Aaron, third son of James and Mary
(Williams) .Adams, was born in Litchfiekl,
December 28. 1819, died in llarpswell in i860.
He carried on the lumber business in Litch-
field, and afterward conducted a hotel at I?runs-
wick, and later in Harpswell. In religious faith
he was a I'niversalist. and in politics a Whig.
He married, in IJrunswick. ]*>ances .Ann Xiles,
born in Topsham. July 27. 1821, and is .still
living (19OJ). She is the daughter of James
Erastus and Deborah (Gannon) Niles, of
Turner. James Krastus Xiles was a fifer at
the age of twelve in the war of 1812. IIi^
parents. James and Mercy Xiles, lived in
Turner. The children of .Aaron and Frances
.A. (Xiles) .Adams were: i. .Aaron .Alphrjnso.



2. (.leorgiana. who married George 11. Say-
ward, of Dt)ver, Xew Hampshire, and now
resides in W inchester, Alassachusetts. 3. Fd-
win Hoardman, ne.xt mentioned.

(I\) Dr. Fdwin Boardman, youngest child
of .Aaron and l-'rances Ann (XilcsJ Adams,
was born in Brunswick, Maine, October 20,
1851. He received his literary education in the
l)ublic schools, attending the high school of
liath from the age of twelve to fifteen. In
18W) he left Bath and went to W'allliam, Mass-
achusetts, where he was employed two years as
a dial-painter in a watch factory. The two or
tliree years ne.xt following he was employed in
a store in Boston. In 1872 he engaged at his
trade in the .Si)ringfield watch factory and was
employed there till 1879. In i87() he decided
to study medicine, and for that purj)ose entered
the office of Dr. (_ieorge F. I-'oster, of .Spring-
field, and read four years, as he had leisure, all
the time attending to his work in the factory.
In 1870 he left the factory and entered the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Xew
^'(lrk. ftjr his final course, from which he re-
ceived his degree .March 13, 1880. He im-
mediately engaged in the practice of medi-
cine and surgery in .Springfield, and by labor
and skill has secured an honorable position
and a large ])ractice. lie was visiting sur-
geon three years and did all the operating
at -Mercy Hospital for three months of each
year, and is now consulting surgeon in that
institution. He is a memljer of the .Springfield
.Academy of .Medicine, the .Massachusetts .Medi-
cal Society, and the .American .Medical .Asso-
ciation. In politics he is independent. He
married, .April 30, 1884. Mrs. Jane Kent, whose
maiden name was Kirby. .She was born in
Leeds, Fngland, and came to .America when
a small child in 18^7.



(II) Joseph .Adams, son of I lenry
,\l) \.\l.^ Adams ( <[. v.), born in Fngland,
1(126, died in Braintree, .Massa-
chusetts. December 6. i(>94. I le was a malster.
lie was admitted a freeman in 1(153 : was select-
luan 1673. Mis will was dated July 18, 1(194;
proved Jaiuiary ro, \(*)'^. I le married, in Brain-
tree, .Vovember 26. 1650, .Abigail B;i.\ter. died
in I'.oston. .August 2~ . i(w)2. aged fifty-eight,
daughter of (Gregory and .Margaret (I'addyj
Baxter, of Boston. Children, born in Brain-
tree: I. Ilannah, born .November 13, 1652;
married, .Ajiril 10, 1672, Deacon Samuel Savil ;
died Se|)teml)er 15. 1726. 2. Joseph, born Octo-
ber or December 24, 1654; mentioned below.
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27. i')57. 4. Abigail, born I'ebruary 2"] , 1658;
married John Bass ; died October 26, 1696. 5.
Captain John, born December 20, 1661 ; mar-
ried first. Hannah Webb ; second, October 19,
1694. Hannah Checkley ; was sea captain and
merciiant. 6. llethia (twin), born December

20, 1661 ; married. May, 1680, John Webb. 7.
Mary, born .September 8. \(ii2>- •'■'^'^ young. 8.
Samuel, born .September 3, 1665, died young.
9. Mary, born February 25, i6(j7-78; married
Deacon Samuel Bass; died March 9, 1706. 10.
Captain Peter, born February 7, 1669-70 ; mar-
ried, February 12, 1695, Mary Webb. 11. Jon-
athan, born January 31, 1671. 12. Mehitable,
born November 23, 1673; married, July 21,
1697, Thomas White, Jr. : died October 2, 1713.

( HI ) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1 ) .\daius,
born in Braintree, October or December 24,
[654, died there February 12, 1736-37. Ik-
resided ill l^)raintree, and was selectman in 1673
and 1698-99. Joseph .\dams and John Bass
were credited to iSraintree for services in the
war with the Indians in .August, 1676. He
married first, February 20, 1682, Mary Chapin,
born .\ugust 27, 1662, died June 14, 1687. He
married second, 1688, Hannah Bass, born June
22, 1667, died October 24, 1705, daughter of
John and Ruth (.Alden) Bass. He married
third. l''lizabeth Hobart, died February 13,
1739. aged seventy-one, daughter of Caleb
Hobart of Braintree. Children of first wife:
I. Mar_\-. born h'ebruary 6, 1683, died January
30, 1733-34; married, .April, 1714, Fphraim
Jones, Jr., of Braintree. 2. .Abigail, born Feb-
ruary 17, 1684, died .April 28, 1722; married,
February 5, 1713, Seth Chapin, Jr. Children
of second wife; 3. Rev. Joseph, born January
4, 1688; married first, October 13, 1720, Mrs.
FJizal)cth Janvrin ; second, January 3, 1760,
I'llizaljeth lirackett ; graduate of Harvard, 1710.
4. I^cacon Jolm, born February 8, 1691-92;
mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born January 28,
1694, died July 17, 1751 ; married, October 6,
1720, Sarah I'aine. 6. Josiah, born February
18, 1696, died July 30, 1802; married, Novem-
ber 25, 1 7 18, Bethia Thompson. 7. Hannah,
born February 21, 1698; married, February 4,
1725, Benjamin Owen. 8. Ruth, born March

21, 1700; married, November 21, 1 731, as sec-
ond wife. Rev. Natlian Welib ; resided at I'.x-
bridgc. <). r.ethia, born June 13, 1702 ; married,
.April 28. 1737, I-lbenezer Hunt, as second wife.
10. Ca])tain ICbenezer, born December 30, 1704,
died .August 6, 1769: married, 1728-29. .Anna
Boylston. Child of first wife : n. Caleb, born
May 26, 1710, died June 4, 1710.

(IV) Deacon John .Adams, son of Joseph



(2) Adams, born in l'.raintree_. i-'ebruary 8,-
1691-92. died May 25, 1761 ; married, October
31, 1734, Susanna Boylston, born March 5.
1699, died .April 17, 1797, daughter of Peter
and Ann (White) Boylston, of Brookline. He
was a cordwainer and farmer, and resided at
Braintree. Children, born in Braintree; I.
President John, born October 19, 1735; men-
tioned below. 2. Captain Peter Boylston, born
October lO, 1738: married, .August 20. I7<)8.
Mary Crosby ; died June 2, 1823. 3. CaiJtain
Elihu.born Mav29, 1741 ; married, 1765, Thank-
ful White.

( \' ) President John (2 j .Adams, son of Dea-
con John .Adams, was born in Liraintree, now
(Juincy, Massachusetts, October 19, 1735. He
gratluated at Harvard College in 1755. and
taught school and studied law at Worcester for
two years. He was admitted to the Suttolk
bar in 1758, and began practice in Boston, re-
siding at Braintree until I7('>8, when he removed
to Boston. He was employed as counsel, to-
gether with Jeremiah (iridley, the head of the
Boston bar, and James Otis, the orator, to pre-
sent a petition to the governor and ctnmcil that
the courts might proceed with business, though
no stamps were to be had, and he was chosen
one of a committee to draft instructions to the
representatives of the town. In 1770 he was
chosen a representative in the general court, a
position which he occupied for a number of
years, thougli his practice was larger than that
of any other lawyer in the province. He was
conspicuous as an adviser and leader of the
patriit party. He was one of five delegates
chosen by .\lassachusetts to the congress of
1774 at Philadelphia; was a member of the
I)rovincial congress on his return, and in 1775
was again chosen a delegate to the second con-
tinental congress. The war had alreaily begun,
and Washington was ciiosen commander-in-
chief. .Adams was a leading spirit, and upon
him devolved the presidency and the burden of
the board of war. which won for him the en-
comium of "the clearest head and firmest heart
of any man in Congress." He went abroad as
commissioner to France in I'ebruary. 1778, and
for the next ten years much of his time was
spent in the service of his countr}', as commis-
sioner to France, minister to England and to
Holland. Through his efforts a loan of two
million dollars was negotiated in Holland, which
proved of great value, lie was vice-president
with Washington from 1789 to 1797, and presi-
dent from 1797 to 1801. He then returned to
his large farm and home in Quincy, where he
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to writing. aii<l cliud July 4. 1826, a few hours
after the dcatli of his former associate and
friend. Thomas Jefferson. His son wrote of
him: "In figure, John .Adams was not tall,
scarcely exceeding middle height, but of stout,
well-knit frame, denoting vigor and long life,
yet as he grew old, inclining more and more to
corpulence. His head was large and round.
with a wide forehead and expanded eyebrows.
Mis eye was mild and Ijenignant. but when
e.vcited. e.\]3ressed the vehemence of his spirit."
He has been described as a man of greater
learning and force than any i>f his contempor-
aries, but of ungovernable temper and undue
self-e.steem. His services to his country were
of inestimable value. He married, February 24
((Jctobcr 25?), 1764, Abigail .'^mith, born No-
vember 23, 1744. died October 28. i8i8, daugh-
ter of Rev. William and Elizabeth ( Ouincy |
.Smith, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. She is
described as a woman of superior abilities and
great good sense. Her letters, written to her
husband during the revolution, are interesting
and valuable for the light they throw on the
life of that period. Children: i, Abigail, born
in ISraintree. July 14, 1765, died .August 15,
1S13; married Hon, Henry William .Smith, pri-
vate secretary of ['resident .Adams, and aj)-
poiuted by him surveyor of the port of New
^'ork. 2. Hon. John Ouincy, born July 11,
1767: mentioned below, 3, Susanna, born in
r.oston, December 28, 1768. died February 4,
1770. 4. Charles, born in Ho.ston, May 29,
1770, died November 30, 1800: married, .Au-
gust 29, 1795, Sarah Smith : graduated at Har-
vard. 1789; was a lawyer in New A'ork. 5.
lion. Thomas I'.oylston, born in Ouincy, Sep-
tember 15, 1772, (lied March 12, 1832 : married,
-May i(), 1805, .Ann I larrod : graduated at Har-
vard. 1790; was chief justice of sujireme court
of Massachusetts.

I \'I ) Hon. John Ouincy Adanis, I.L. l).,Min
of President John (2) .\dams. was born in the
south house on hranklin street, Ouincy, July
1 1, I7C)7. lie began his jiublic career in early
boyhood, going al)road with his father when
ten years old. lie served as jirivate secretary
to the minister to Russia when he was only fif-
teen years old. .Much of his education was
ohtainetl in Euro])ean courts and capitals. He
entered Harvard College in 1786 antl graduated
in 1788: studied law for three years in the
office of Chief Justice Theo|)hilus Parsons, at
.\ewl)iiry|)ort, and was admitted to the bar in
1791. He o])ened an otYice and began practice,
but in 17(^4 was a])])oiuted minister to the
Hague by Washington, and in I7<X' minister to



Portugal, By the written advice of Washing-
ton, his father, on becoming president, made
him minister to lierlin, whither he went soon
after being married in London, in the fall of
1797. He resided several years in Berlin, per-
fecting his knowle<lge of the German language,
negotiating treaties of commerce with Sweden
and Prussia, and travelling. .A volume of his
letters on Silesia, the New England of Europe,
written to his friends at home, was published
and extensively circulated. Returning to Bos-
ton he was elected a member of the Massachu-
setts senate in 1802, and to the United States
.senate in 1803. His ardent support of the meas-
ures of President Jefferson led to his defeat for
a second term. President Madison appointed
him ambassador to Russia, and while serving in
that capacity he was joined b)- Clay and Galla-
tin on the commission which negotiated the
treaty of peace at Ghent, December 24, 1814.
He reiuained in London as minister of the
United States, but returned to become secre-
tary of state to President Alonroe in 1817. He
w'as elected to the presidency in 1824 and
served one term. Upon his retirement he was
chosen to represent his district in congress,
which he entered in December, i83i,and where
he continued till his death. During his term as
president both senate and house were against
him. and no measures of importance were
enacted on that account. The best work of his
life was done after he was elected to congress,
where he stood as champion of his own inde-
pendent thought and the rights of the people.
1 le was heard. whene\er he s])oke in congress,
with res])ect and attention and exerted a ])ower-
ful inlluence. He was esiiecially distinguished
for his fearless and eloquent advocacy of the
right of petition for the abolition of slavery in
the District of Columbia, which had been denied
by the dominating ])oliticians, and which no
nther had the courage to defend. He continued
at his post till an advanced age. and became
known as "the (Jld .Man liloquent, " and died in
the ca])itol, suddenly, h'ebruary 23, 1848, and
his last words were "This is the last of earth ; I
am content."

I le married, in London. July 26, 1797, Louisa
Catherine John.son, died 1852, daughter of
Joshua Johnson, of .Maryland, who was at that
time .American Consul at London. Children:
I. George Washington, born in P.erlin, Prussia,
April 13. 1801 ; graduated irom Harvard 1821 ;
lawyer : unmarried : lost on a steamer off Long
Island .Sound, .A|iril 30. 1829. 2. John, born in
Boston, July 4, 1803. died October 23, 1834;
married, 182''). in the White I louse. Washing-



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ton. Iiis cousin, Mary llelcn Adams. 3. lion.
Charles Francis, born .August 18, 1807: men-
tioned below. 4. Louisa Catherine, born at .^t.
Petersburg. 181 1, died young.

(\'1I) Hon. Charles l-"rancis.\dams.LL. U.,
son of John Quincy .\dams. was born in
Hoston. .August 18. 1807. and died there No-
vember 21. 1886. lie resided much of his
earlier life with his parents in Kurt)pe, and
earlv became master of several of the modern
European languages. Me returned and grad-
uated at Harvard College in 1825. soon after
his father was inaugurated president. He
studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in
Floston, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk
county in 1828. He was a member of the
Whig party and of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture from 1831 to 1836. He was nominated
for the vice-presitlency by the Free Soil Re])ub-
licans on the ticket with Martin \an Ikiren in
1848 : elected to congress from the third district
of .Massachusetts in 1858. and re-elected in

1860. Fresi<lent Lincoln appointed him min-
ister to England in 1801. where he continued
till 1868. a position which his fatlier and grand-
father bad filled before him, and which now rc-
(|uired the highest order of diplomatic ability.
Mr. .-\dams acc|uitte<l himself with great firm-
ness and success through the most trying con-
ditions, and proved himself an .\merican of
great i)atrioti.sm and dii)loniatic ability. He
married. Seinember 3. 1829, .Abigail H. P.rooks,
born in Medford. .\pril 25. 1808, died June 6,
1889. youngest daughter of Peter C. lirooks, of
I'.oston. Children, all but the last born in Bos-
ton : I. L.oui.sa Catherine, born .August 13,
1831. died Julv 13, 1870: married. .April 13,
1854, Charles Kuhn. of Philadelphia. Pennsyl-
vania. 2. Hon. John Quincy, born September
22. 1833. died July if\ 1894: married. .A])ril 29.

1861, Fanny Cadwalader Crowninsbield, of
Boston: gra'duatetl at Harvard. 1853: lawyer;
member of corporation of Harvard College. 3.
Hon. Charles Francis. LL. D., born May 27,
1835 : married, November 8, 1864. Mary ( )gden ;
graduated at Harvard. 1856: in civil war : mem-
ber of corporation of Harvard College. 4.
Professor Henry, born February 16, 1838;
married, |une 27', i8'')2, Miriam Hooper ; grad-
uated at Harvard, 1858: became professor in
1 larvard ; author of historical works. 5. .Arthur,
born lulv 23. 1841. died February 9, 1846. 6.
.Mary', born February 19. 1846; married, June
20, 1877, Dr. Henry P. Quincy. 7. IJrooks,
born in Quincy. June 24. 1848: married Evelyn,
daughterof .Admiral Charles Henry Davis, U.



.^. .X. : graduated at Harvard 1870; jawver and
authiir : resides in \\ asliington, D. C. ; no issue.



lobn Whitcomb. immigrant
WIHTCOMP. ancestor of this family in
.\merica,was undoubtedly of
l-jiglish birth, and tlie name was originally
Wlietcombe. He was long supjiosed to be the
son of Symon Whetcombe. who was one of the
original patentees of the old Massachusetts P.ay
(."olony, but the ])ublication of the will of John
Whetcombe of Sherbnurne, Dorsetshire, Eng-
land, ]>rol)ate(l in 1598. shows that Symon was
then a minor, and that he could not have been
tile father of the .American progenitor, who
was born about 1588. Some authorities believe
that the .American John was brother of .Symon,
and the J<ihn Wlietcombe mentioned in the will
of Symon's father.

John Whitcomb sailed in Dorchester, .Mass-
aclnisetts. and was a cliurch member there in
1635: this and the birth of his youngest son
Josiah, in 1(138, are the only events of hi.s
family life recorded during the years he spent
in Dorchester. Later evidence shows him to
have been well-to-do for the times, a man of
inlelligeiice and cnter])rise, much given to buy-
ing and selling land. In ir>40 he removed to
Scituate, where he owned land, one piece being
a farm of one hundred and eight acres near
the mouth of the .North river, on the Marsh-
field side, and after 1646, when he became one
of the Conihassct partners, he owned the lands
which througJ! that transaction became his
^liare. While in Scituate he was constable,
then (iiie of the most important offices. He
was admitted a freeman June 3, i'')52. In 1^)44
he sold his farm on North river to Thomas
Micks: in 1654 he sold half his share in Coni-
hassct lands to John Williams. Jr., giving the
other half to his son Robert. In the same year
he removed to Lancaster, .Massachusetts, where
he had bcjught a share two years before, when
the town was laid out. Not all his children