the amount to be doubled if not then paid. In
January, 1636-37. he removed to Scituatc and
forfeited his lot at Plymouth, whereupon the
court ordered that "six acres where \\'illiam
Richards dwelt be granted to Nathaniel Low-
ther, to belong to his house at Plymouth."
This indicates that he perhaps had removed
to Scituate as early as 1635 or 1636. In 1635
a fresh recruit of planters with Rev. Mr. New-
man arrived at Weymouth. These, like the
company previously settled there, were also
no doubt from Weymouth, eight miles from
Dorchester in Dorsetshire. In this company
William Richards, of Scituate, and Thomas
Richards, of Dorchester, are supposed to have
had friends who attracted them, for both
joined them, Thomas within a few months and
William within a few years, and there both
spent the remainder of their days.
William Richards appears to have inherited
the traditional traits of his ancestors, was
tenacious of his rights, enterprising, given to
change and trade. In 1640 he had a dispute
with John Turner, of Scituate, and it became
necessary for the general court to appoint a
commission to settle it. Yet there is nothing
which appears to invalidate evidence of piety
and the most strict uprightness, and he is pre-
sumed to have been a member of the church
and a freeman, although no record of such
has been found. In 1645 he removed to Wey-
mouth, where a vote of the townsmen exempted
him from a certain town order. In 1650 he
sold a farm in Scituate to Gowen White for
seventy-five pounds. In 1659 he was con-
stable of ^\'cymouth, and as one of the pro-
prietors of tliat town received nineteen and
one-half acres of land, "bounded east by the
sea. and two acres of salt marsh in the neck ;
and soon after four acres of upland on the
neck." He married Grace , and in his
will, dated January 18, 1680, proved July 25,
1682, he gave her during her life, or widow-
hood, the income and improvement of "all his
houscing and out houscing. Orchard, lands,
chattels and moveables in \\'eymouth or else-
where, with power in case of need to sell any
jjart thereof for her comfortable subsistence."
William and Grace Richards had five children :
I. John, born probably at Plymouth or Scit-
uate, died 1695. 2. Joseph (see post). 3.
James, born jtrobably at W'eymouth, died
March 8, 171 1. 4. William, born 2 4mo. 1658,
at Weymouth, died 1683. 5. F>enjamin, born
May 19, i6(>o, died 1683.
(II) Joseph, son of William and Grace
Richards, was born probably in Plymouth or
Scituate, and died in 1695. In 1674 he be-
came one of the proprietors of Worcester, but
settled in Weymouth : took the freeman's oath
in i()8i, was fence viewer in 1692-93, and made
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his will February 24, 1695-96. His estate was
inventoried March 9, 1695-96. at one hundred
and fifty-six pounds, thirty shillings. He mar-
ried (first) Susan , and (second) Sarah
, who was executrix of his will and in
171 2- 1 3, on eight shares, drew one hundred
and thirty-five acres of the common lands in
Weymouth. His children: i. Joseph, born
May 7, 1675, lived in Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts. 2. Susanna, married, in 1720, John Bur-
rell. 3. Sarah, married, in 1730, William
Davenport, of Bridgewater. 4. James, born
September 28, 1680. 5. Deborah, October 19,
1684. 6. Benjamin, April 7, 1686 (see post).
7. William, April 12, 1688. removed to Con-
necticut. 8. Mary, March 6, 1689-90.
(HI) Benjamin, son of Joseph and Sarah
Richards, was born in \\'eymouth, Massachu-
setts, April 7, 1686, died April 12, 1741. He
settled in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
and spent his life there. He married (first)
in 171 1, Mehitable, daughter of Isaac Alden,
and a descendant of John Alden, the Pilgrim.
She died in 1720 and he married (second)
November 20. 1722, Lydia Faxon, who died
in 1788. aged ninety-two years. He had eleven
children: i. Mehitable, born 1712, married
David Packard Jr. 2. Joseph, 1714, died April,
1793: married Mary Hamlin. 3. Daniel, 1716,
died 1789: married Mary Packard. 4. James,
1718, died young. 5. Sarah, 1720, married,
1740. William Packard. 6. John, 1723 (see
post). 7. Deacon Josiah, 1724, died 1815;
married Anne Robinson. 8. Seth, 1726, died
young. 9. Ezra, 1728, died 1786. 10. Lydia,
1732, died 1823: married, 1757, Deacon
Xathan Alden. ir. Haimah, 1736, married
Philip Bryant, a physician.
(IV) John, son of Benjamin and Lydia
(Faxon) Richards, was born in West Bridge-
water, Massachusetts, in 1723, and spent his
life in that town and in the town of Bridge-
water. He was a farmer. lie married, in
1 75 1, Keziah, daughter of Captain Israel
Bailey, of Scituate, and by her had sixteen
children: i. John, a revolutionary soldier,
who died in the service. 2. Sarah, born 1752,
married (first) 1795, Joseph Thayer Jr., of
Stonington, Connecticut, (second) Deacon
Zachariah Thayer, of Randolph. 3. Keziah,
1755, married, 1778. James Ingalls. 4. lienja-
min. 1758, died 1812: married, 1783, Polly
Bartlett. 5. Seth. 1763, died 1837; married,
1791, Mehitable .Snow. 6. James, 1766 (.see
post). 7. Ezra, 1768, married Martha Nash.
8. Tamazin, 1770. married, 1795, Joseph .Snow.
9. Lydia, 1773. 10. Jennet, 1774. 11. Daniel.
12. John. 13. Luther. 14. Rhoda. Besides
these there were two other children who died
in infancy.
( V) James, son of John and Keziah (Bailey)
Richards, was born in Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts, in 1766. In 1796 he married Sarah,
daughter of Deacon Ebcnezer Rich, a pros-
perous mill owner of Enfield, Massachusetts,
and soon afterward removed to that town and
was a carpenter and builder there and also in
Greenwich. He built the Congregational
church in Greenwich and that ancient edifice
still stands as a monument of the substantial
character of the man and the work performed
by him. By wife Sarah he had eleven chil-
dren : I. Sidney, born 1797, lived on the home-
stead in Enfield. 2. Joab R., 1799, was a
physician and a man of high repute ; married
(first) Sarah Peak, of Virginia, (second)
Eliza Kempton, (third) Mrs. Ellen Simons.
Dr. Richards was a cotton planter near Yazoo,
Mississippi. 3. James, 1801 (see post). 4.
William, October 18, 1803, died 1833: A. M.,
Amherst; married Lydia, daughter of John
Gray, ' Esq., of Yarmouth, Mississippi. 5.
Luther, August 4, 1805, married Mary Pinny
and lived at Tariffville, Connecticut. 6. Ben-
jamin, July 14, 1807, died February 4, 1857,
at Council BlufYs, Iowa. 7. Melinda, Decem-
ber 31, 1808, died 1849; married Ichabod Pope.
8. Josiah, October 10, 1810, married Sarah
Jane Moore. 9. Seth, June 9, 1812, married
(first) Mary Turner Jones ; (second) Cornelia
Smith. 10. George Anson, July 14, 1814. 11.
Sarah Ann, July 19, 1816, married Charles
Lane.
(VI) James (2), son of James (i) and
Sarah (Rich) Richards, was born March 20,
1801, in Enfield, Massachusetts, died February
16, 1886. His young life was spent at home
on his father's farm in Enfield and he attended
the district school of that town. On attaining
his majority he purchased a farm and started
out to make his own way in business life, and
in this respect he was successful, for he was a
thrifty and industrious man and exercised con-
siderable influence among his fellow towns-
men. In politics he was a Whig and in relig-
ious preference Universalist. On August 27,
1822, ]\Tr. Richards married Priscilla C, daugh-
ter of Elisha and Rachel (Collins) Newcomb.
Nine children were born of this marriage: i.
Maria P., born March i, 1823. 2. Charles, No-
vember 18, 1824. 3. William, October 27,
1826. 4. George, January 27, 1829. 5. Jane,
May 25, 1831. 6. John, October i, 1833. 7.
Mary. March 7, 1836. 8. Louise F., .\|)ril 21,
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1838, married. October 25, 1859, Austin L.
Shumway (see Shumway). 9. Marshall N.,
November 26, 1840.
Edmund Gustin, the progenitor
GUSTIN of this family, lived at St.
Ouens, Isle of Jersey. He mar-
ried there, April 25, 1638, Esther le Rossignol.
The homestead at St. Ouens was sold by their
son in 1677 to John Brock, of Reading, Mass-
achusetts. The family name is something of a
puzzle, however. The son, who will be known
in this sketch as John Gustin, was originally
designated Augustine Jean in the records.
Savage implies that the name should have been
Jean or John Augustine, and it certainly took
that form after its owner came to America.
In a few years it was shortened to Gustine,
and eventually most of the family dipt ofif the
terminal also, making it Gustin. Esther, the
mother of Jean, had a brother, M. Augustine
Rossignol, of St. Ouens, and it is presumed
that both Jean and Augustine were given
names.
(II) John, son of Edmund and Esther (le
Rossignol) Gustin, was born in St. Ouens, Isle
of Jersey, Jaiuiary 9, 1647. He came to New
England' in 1675 with Pierre Baudoin, Bot-
nineau, Bayer and le Breton, all of these
names showing the French origin. He was a
sergeant in Captain Turner's company during
King Philip's war, 1676. He made his home
in Reading, Massachusetts, and was living
there in 1677 when he sold his English patri-
mony. In 1680 he received a grant of land at
vpalniouth from President Dan forth, the fourth
lot on what was Broad street, now India street,
Portland, Maine, with the privilege of con-
ducting a brick yard. He purchased a small
lot in Falmouth from Widow Housing, on the
west side of the Presumpscot river, and with
other settlers was driven from his home by
the Indians, but returned in 1719. lie was a
mariner a part of the time and was at one time
captain of a vessel. He bought land above the
falls on the Presumpscot in 1686 of Thomas
Cloice and made his home there until May 26,
1690, when the Indians destroyed Falmouth,
and all that Mr. Gustin saved of his household
effects was one chair. He married, at Water-
town, Massachusetts, January 10, 1678, Eliz-
abeth, daughter of John and Esther (Make-
peace) Brown, and was mentioned in the will
of his father-in-law. Some of his children did
not return to Maine, but went trt Pennsylvania,
Connecticut and elsewhere. His descendants
have been traced in \'irginia and Pennsylvania
among the well known families of Hamiltons,
Snowdons and Thompsons of Philadelphia;
Clews, Hunters and Greens of Virginia. He
left a widow and seven children: Samuel,
John Jr.. Thomas, mentioned below, Ebenezer,
David, Sarah and Abigail.
(Ill) Thomas, son of John and Elizabeth
(Brown) Gustin, was born about 1690. He set-
tled at Colchester, Connecticut, where June 7,
1722, he married Sarah, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Gates) Holmes, of Colchester. The
birth of the eldest son is recorded there. Their
children were: Thomas Jr., see forward;
Samuel settled at Marlow, New Hampshire,
about 1765; John, resided in Lyme, Connecti-
cut, and had a son, John Jr., born there Sep-
tember 27, 1768; Josiah, born 1749, also settled
at ^larlow.
(1\ ) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and
Sarah (Holmes) Gustin, was born in Col-
chester, Connecticut, July 19, 1725. About
1765 he and his brother Samuel settled among
the first seven in the grant of land at Marlow,
New Hampshire, made October 7, 1761, to
men of Lyme and Colchester. Samuel re-
mained there and was chaimian of the com-
mittee for the towns of Marlow, Alstead and
Surrey, New Hampshire, representing the
signers of a petition relative to a representative
to the legislature, December 11, 1776. Thomas
Gustin was an early settler at Claremont, New
Hampshire, where he was a farmer and raised
large numbers of cattle, sheep and swine. He
was a member of a committee to audit the
accounts of the selectmen in 1768-70; was
chosen town treasurer, March 13, 1770; mod-
erator in 1772; selectman, 1771-72-74-75, and
on the committee of safety in 1775. He took
the first steps to form the church in 1771 and
the first minister. Rev. George Wheaton, was
settled in February, 1772. He was a soldier
in the revolution in Captain \\'etherbee's com-
pany of militia from Claremont, Colonel Isaac
Wvman's regiment, roll dated at Mount Inde-
pendence. November 5, 1776. He was also in
Colonel P.cnjamin Bellow's regiment. New
Hampshire, stale militia, that went to reinforce
the northern continental army at Ticonderoga,
under General Gates, May 7, 1777, and was
discharged, June 14, 1777, the pay being five
pounds and fourteen shillings per mouth in-
cluding one hundred and three miles to travel.
His relatives, Joel. Amos and Walter Gustin,
were in Connecticut regiments during the revo-
lution. Josiah and others in New Hampshire
regiments. The wife of Thomas Gustin died
in Rockingham, \'ermont, where his son,
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Elisha, settled. Their children were: Edward,
see forward ; Polly, married Seth Deming, of
Cornish. New Hampshire ; Elisha, removed to
Rockingham. \'ermont. and was a soldier in
th.e revohitionar)' war ; Thomas Jr., also served
in Captain W'etherbee's company, Colonel Isaac
Wyman's regiment.
(V) Edward, son Thomas (2) Giistin, was
born probably in Colchester, Connecticut, in
1758, and died at an advanced age in Hinsdale,
Xew Hampshire. He made an application for
a pension, August 10, 1832, when he was sev-
enty-four years of age, showing a service of
fourteen months as a private and eight months
as a sergeant in the Xew Hampshire troops.
He served a part of this time under Captain
Jones, Colonel Troop. He was a petitioner
from Claremont for a lottery to defray the
expenses of needed roads connecting with
\\'inchester and other towns, after the revolu-
tion. Later he settled in Hinsdale. His chil-
dren were: Edward Jr., born November 12,
1786-87, married, in 181 1, Fanny Field, and
resided in AN'inchester ; Thomas, mentioned
below: John.
(VI) Thomas (3), son of Edward Gustin,
was born about 1790, probably in Claremont,
New Hampshire. He settled in Cornish, be-,
came a prosperous farmer, and was exten-
sively engaged in raising sheep and cattle. He
married Alice, daughter of John Vinton, and
had children : J\liranda, Elizabeth, Alice,
James Harvey and John.
fVII) James Harvey, son of Thomas (3)
and Alice (Vinton) Gustin, was born in Cor-
nish, New Hampshire, May 19, 1815, and
died at Winchester, Massachusetts, September
3, 1897. He was educated in the common
schools of his native town, working between
school terms on the farm of his father until
he was eleven years of age, when his father
died and he was "put out" to work until he
\yas twenty years old. He then came to Brook-
line, Massachusetts, where he entered the cm-
ploy of his brother John, who was a market
gardener. Later he worked for a farmer
named Derby whose produce he used to sell in
Boston. It is said that he was the first pro-
duce man to back up his wagon to the old
Quincy market. After a few years he went
Into business as the proprietor of a restaurant
in Boston but the venture proving unsuccess-
ful he abandoned it and went west. When
about twenty-eight years old he located in Fall
River, Massachusetts, and learned the trade
of mason, and worked on the construction of
many of the big cotton mills there. In 1853
he leased the Baldwin place, at Hyde Park,
Massachusetts, but subsequently became fore-
man on the Cheevcr Newhall farm at Milton,
where he remained for three years. He then
leased the Clark farm at Waltham, Massachu-
setts, and raised produce for the Boston
market. He had the Bright farm at Belmont
four years ; the Darling farm at Woburn five
years, selling the ten years" lease to go into
the meat and provision business in Joy street,
Boston. He worked afterward in VVinchester
at the mason's trade, and at length bought the
Eaton farm in that town and lived there until
his death, September 3, 1897. He was a Bap-
tist in religion, and a Republcan in politics.
He married, April 3, 1846. Susan Crane, born
November 3, 1826, died at Winchester, Decem-
ber 16, 1888, daughter of Ephraim and Olive
(Eaton) French, of Berkley, Alassachusetts,
where the former was a prominent citizen and
a representative to the general court. The
children of James Harvey and Susan Crane
(French) Gustin were: i. William Henry,
born August 15, 1847, died October 30, 1848.
2. Mary Adley, June 7, 1849, married, June i,
1879, Alvah B. Heald, of Woburn. They had
children: Alvah Frances, born October i,
1880, died February 24, 1886; Florence War-
ren, born June 17, 1883, died April 24, 1893;
Bertha May, born August 31, 1884. 3. Her-
bert Ervin, see forward. 4. Francis Edward,
see forward. 5. Clarence Harvey, born Au-
gust 12, 1857, married Annie F. 'Sinclair, of
Florida: has had children: M}Ttie, Harvey,
James, Eleanor, Jessie, Marion, Mary. 6.
Susan Amelia, born February 3, i860, mar-
ried, November 27, 1889, George H. New-
comb, of Woburn. 7. Charles Henry, Bel-
mont. December 30. 1861, died December 28,
1862. 8. James Ernest, Woburn. December
2, 1865, married, November 4, 1893, Lena
Ellis Thayer, of Taunton, Massachusetts, and
has had children : Mildred, Ernest, Raymond,
Marjorie. 9. George Oliver, March 3, 1868,
married, February 6. 1890. Augusta Branch,
of Charlestown: has one child, Chester Orville,
born March 23, 1891.
(VIII) Herbert Ervin, second son of James
Harvey and Susan Crane (French) Gustin,
was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, July
25, 1852. While still an infant he removed
with his parents to Milton, from thence to
Waltham, and still later to Belmont, where
he attended the public schools for about five
lycars, after which the family removed to
XVoburn. where he was a student at the west
side schools, anrl attended one course at the
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Warren Academy. He worked on his father's
farm and as a stone mason with his father
until about eighteen years old and then at the
latter trade for two years in Peabody for
Samuel Trask, a stone mason, contractor and
brick layer. He then came to Winchester and
entered the cmiiloy of Samuel Twombley as a
driver of the market team and seller in the
Boston market. In 1879 he accepted a posi-
tion in the produce store of A. L. Andrews,
at No. 104 Clinton street, and conducted the
place for a period of seven years for Mr.
Andrews under his name H. E. Gustin. He
was then admitted to partnership in the busi-
ness, the firm name remaining unchanged, and
at the expiration of three years purchased the
interest of Mr. Andrews, took Stedman W.
Fottler as partner, and changed the firm name
to H. E. Gustin & Company. At the end of
four years he sold out to Mr. Fottler and re-
moved to No. 112 Clinton street, where he
was in business four years, also buying the
produce business at No. no Clinton street and
admitting to partnership his brother, George
Oliver, under the firm name of H. E. Gustin
& Company. After two years he sold the busi-
ness at No. 1 10 to his brother George Oliver,
and has since conducted the one at No. 112
under his own name. He does a large and profit-
able wholesale i)roduce and commission trade
selling largely to the retail (jrovision merchants
in Boston and within fifty miles of the city.
Mr. Gustin is the proprietor of a sixty-two acre
"farm known as the E. S. Gray Scotland Hill
farm, and the greater amount of the products
of this place are sold from the Clinton street
store. He has about sixteen head of cattle,
mostly Jersey and Holstein breeds, and dur-
ing the summer resides on the farm. He has
owned a city residence at No. 27 Columbus
avenue, Somerville, since November 3, 1891.
He was educated in the Baptist denomination
but for many years has been a member of the
Prospect Hill Congregational Church. His
political affiliations are with the Republican
party. He is associated with the following
fraternal and other organizations : William
Parkman Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons,
of Winchester, since May 8, 1877; Somerville
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, .\pril 16, 1896;
Orient Council, Royal and Select Masters, of
Somerville, June 10. 1896; De Alolay Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, of Boston, July
I, 1R76; Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine: Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, No.
140, Scottish Rite; Charles F. Yates Council,
Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree : Mount
Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix, eighteenth de-
gree ; Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second
degree; the Boston Fruit and Produce Ex-
change. Mr. Gustin married, at Charlestown,
Massachusetts, October 25, 1881, Julia Liv-
ingston, born at Bangor, Maine, August 10,
1857, daughter of John and Nancy Ann
(Noyes) Carlisle, of Charlestown, the former
a cabinetmaker. Their children were : Her-
bert Irving, see forward; Ernest Sumner, born
February 2, 1888, died June 15. i88q; Lester
Carlisle, March 29, 1890. now a student in the
Somerville English high school; Ralph Liv-
ingston, November 27, 1891.
(IN) Herbert Irving, eldest child of Her-
bert Ervin and Julia Livingston (Carlisle)
Gustin, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
August 15, 1882. He was an infant when his
parents removed to Somerville. and received
his education in the public schools of that
town, was eight months in the Somerville high
school, and this was supplemented by a course
in Burdett's Commerical College. In 1899 he
entered the employ of his father in the pro-
duce business, with which he has since been
associated, having traveled extensively in the
interests of the business. He is a Republican
in politics and has served his party at conven-
tions from his district. He is associated with
the following organizations: King Solomon
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Som-
erville; Somerville Chapter. Royal Arch
Masons ; Orient Council. Royal and Select Mas-
ters, of Somerville; De Molay Commandery.
Knights Templar, of Boston. March 28. 1906:
Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite ;
Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem,
sixteenth degree ; Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose
Croix, eighteenth degree; Massachusetts Con-
sistory, thirty-second degree; .Aleppo Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. P.oston ; I'.oston
Fruit and Produce Exchange ; Cape Cod Com-
mercial Travelers. Mr. Gustin married. at Salis-
bury. Massachusetts, October 12. 1904, Mildred
Louise, born in Salisbury, October 26. 1884,
daughter of John Quincy Adams and Mary
Evans (Merrill) Pettengi'U, the first mentioned
a former school master and an cx-represcnta-
tive. They have one child, Bertram I'etten-
gill, born November 15. 1906.
(VHI) Francis Edward, third son and
fourth child of James Harvey and Susan
Crane (French) Gustin, was born in Milton,
Massachusetts. .-Xugust 28, 1855. His parents
removed to Waltham when he was an infant
and he began his education tliere in the public
schools. When he was seven years old his
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parents removed to Woburn, and he attended
the Woburn schools and the Warren Academy
and helped his father on the farm until he was
fourteen years old. He then learned the
mason's trade and worked at this until he was
seventeen years of age. His next employment
was for eighteen months on the farm of \'. P.
Locke, of "Winchester, then twenty months in
charge of the milk business of Henry Brick.
at Xewton, and later he was engaged in market
gardening for eighteen months for Samuel
Twombley. at \Vinchester. He leased the
Jacob Pierce place at Winchester for a period
of eight years and later the Hanson place for
market gardening and greenhouses. In 1890
he purchased a farm at Leominster. Massa-
chusetts, conducting it in addition to his other
business enterprises for four years, and also
owned and cultivated a farm in Maine for
eight years. In IQOO he bought his present
farm in Woburn, then known as the old EUard
place, consisting of twenty acres, to which
he has added about si.xteen acres by further
purchase. He has prospered in business and
found an excellent market for his produce in
Boston. He is a Baptist in religious faith, a
Republican in politics, but has held only one
public office, that of special police. He is
affiliated with the following fraternal organi-
zations: Mount Horeb Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, since May 17, 1882; Wo-
burn Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Novem-
ber II, 1892; Hugh de Payen's Commandery,
Knights Templar, June 24. 1894; Bethel
Lodge, No. 12, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, at .Arlington, November 9, 1881. He
is also a member of the Market (jardeners'
Association of Boston. Mr. Gustin married,
April 8, 1883. Ellen Maria, born July 25, 1851,
daughter of James and Ellen (Dudley) Wal-
ley, of Dedham, Massachu.setts, the former a
blacksmith by trade. Children : Francis Ed-
ward Jr.. born February 4, 1884; Susan .\nna,
December 24, 1886; Charles Alfred, July 3,