_____________________
|
_John BOOKER ________|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--William BOOKER
| (1717 - ....)
| _Thomas ADAMS _______
| |
|_Hester ADAMS _______|
|
|_Unknown ____________
_____________________
|
_James E BUNKER _____|
| (1832 - ....) m 1865|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--George BUNKER
| (1869 - ....)
| _Richard F EMERSON __+
| | (1789 - 1866) m 1823
|_Fannie G EMERSON ___|
(1842 - 1901) m 1865|
|_Delia H GOSS _______+
(1804 - 1883) m 1823
[293] George died young.
_Charles CHANDLER ________
|
_Harry Merton CHANDLER _|
| (1889 - 1920) m 1920 |
| |_Georgie PITMAN __________
|
|
|--Faith CHANDLER
| (1920 - ....)
| _Chester Clement EASTMAN _+
| | (1865 - 1953) m 1889
|_Fannie EASTMAN ________|
(1890 - 1915) m 1920 |
|_Sarah Maria TOWLE _______+
(1864 - 1941) m 1889
[191] Faith was stillborn.
_William Milton CONNER Sr._
| (1924 - 1948) m 1944
_William Milton CONNER Jr._|
| (1945 - ....) |
| |_Helene Esther WILSON _____+
| (1921 - ....) m 1944
|
|--Steven Wilbur John CONNER
| (19970 - ....)
| ___________________________
| |
|_Linda Sue BORRIE _________|
|
|___________________________
_Hellin marquis DE FRANCHIMONT ____________+
| (1225 - ....)
_Hellin II marquis DE FRANCHIMONT _|
| |
| |_daughter of Othon Agnes, duke of BAVARIA _
| (1229 - ....)
|
|--Jean DE FRANCHIMONT
|
| ___________________________________________
| |
|_Agnis DE DURAS ___________________|
|
|___________________________________________
_Richard HIGGINS ____
| m 1634
_Benjamin HIGGINS ___|
| (1640 - 1691) m 1661|
| |_Lydia CHANDLER _____
| m 1634
|
|--Richard HIGGINS
| (1664 - ....)
| _Edward BANGS _______
| |
|_Lydia BANGS ________|
m 1661 |
|_Unknown ____________
_Linley Dexter PEACO _+
| (1907 - ....) m 1927
_Gordon Linley PEACO __|
| (1932 - ....) m 1954 |
| |_Pearl Pearl HALEY ___+
| (1908 - ....) m 1927
|
|--Penelope June PEACO
| (1964 - ....)
| _Everett JOHNSON _____
| |
|_June Marilyn JOHNSON _|
(1931 - ....) m 1954 |
|_Frances ? ___________
__________________________
|
_Michael RIELLY _____|
| m 1973 |
| |__________________________
|
|
|--Jennifer Lynn RIELLY
| (1976 - ....)
| _Hubert Harlan WILSON Sr._+
| | (1922 - 1991) m 1948
|_Jo Ann WILSON ______|
(1949 - ....) m 1973|
|_Ruth TOWLE ______________+
(1927 - ....) m 1948
[79] ?? Is here middle name LYNE or LYNN?
__
|
_Richard SCHERER ____|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--Caroline Elsie SCHERER
| (1874 - 1962)
| __
| |
|_____________________|
|
|__
_Joseph TOWLE _______+
| (1669 - 1757) m 1693
_James TOWLE ________|
| (1698 - 1756) m 1725|
| |_Mehetabel HOBBS ____+
| (1673 - ....) m 1693
|
|--Jonathan TOWLE
| (1747 - 1822)
| _Abraham PERKINS ____+
| |
|_Kezia PERKINS ______|
(1709 - 1794) m 1725|
|_Mary ? _____________
[244] Jonathan and Miriam settled in Pittsfield, New Hampshire in 1781.
[245]
Jonathan Towle came to Pittsfield New Hampshire in 1780 and commenced
cleaving down forest on a lot about a mile west of Wild Goose pond. He bought
the land of Samuel Marston of Deerfield, who who had bought the property of
John Cram in 1774, prior to the Revolution, for twenty pounds. This was lot
No. 15 of the first range of the second division then of Chichoster. Two years
later, March 27, 1782 this part of Chichoster was set off and incorporated as
Pittsfield. Jonathan's lot contained fifty acres and extended to Barnstead
line. The date of the deed was July 7, 1779. The consideration was four
hundredpounds of continental currency. They were well exchanged for land as
they would have been for anything else that had any permanent value. Seven
years later he bought of Stephen Cross lot No. 14 of fifty acres which
adjoined on the west. The price of this was nine pounds, presumably of
something more precious than continental paper. Fifty acres more were
subsequently added.
The tradition is that the family moved the year after the Dark Day. That
would have been in 1781, as the Dark occurred May 19, 1780. The log house had
been built the year before. It was on a little knoll some twenty rods south of
where he afterwards built. The place is now marked by a large mound of stones.
There is a little hollow to the east in which built the first shelters for
cattle. Probably Miriam did not come till summer or fall, as James(824) was
baptized in Hampton on the third of June. We can see them in imagination
wending their way inland. Mariam and the youngest child on horseback, probably
stopping over night at her brother Simon's in Deerfield, the others with the
goods on such carts as could traverse the rough paths through the woods. The
change must of been hard from the sandy plains of Hampton, to the rocky hills
of Pittsfield, with their climate moderated by ocean breezes, to the rocky
hills of Pittsfield, with their greater extremes of temperature; from friends
and neighbors and a well-settled community to pioneering in the forest. They
did not record their emotions, but Miriam became noted for long journeys on
horseback to the old home in Hampton.
At the time of the removal the family consisted of Jonathan(803), thirty-four
years old, Miriam, thirty-two. Molly(820), seven, Huldah(821), six, Jonathan
Jr.(822), four, Daniel(823), two, and James(824), an infant. Of there personal
characteristics there is scant tradition. Jonathan(803) is said to have been a short
man of small head, small black eyes, black hair and dark complexion , who became
corpulent in old age. He was an honest, hearty, genial man, industrious and thrifty.
In Hampton both we members of the Congregational church. (both had united with the
church Oct 16, 1774) . In Pittsfield Jonathan(803) became a pioneer Free Baptist.
Mariam is said to have been a small women of light complexion, light hair and blue
eyes. There is a reason to think she adhered longer to the orthodox fellowship, for
she had a child baptized as late as fall of 1787 when on a visit to Hampton. She was
in Hampton at the births of Sally(825) and Abraham(826). Only Nancy(827) was born in
Pittsfield. They were people of strong constitutions, equal to the hardships they had
to endure. Jonathan(803) lived to be seventy-five, and Miriam to eighty-six. His
mother had lived to be eighty-five and hers to one hundred and one. This longevity
was continued in their daughters.
The family is understood to have lived in the little log house for over fifteen
years.--till the older boys could help build a new one. Tradition hands down no
important events in this period, so presumably they were prosperous and happy in
their modest circumstances. Jonathan(803) was in some respects a progressive farmer.
He set out an unusual number of fruit trees, especially cherry trees. He was one of
the first to raise potatoes in considerable quanity. He was one of the eight owners
of the sawmill at the outlet of the pond. With this mill goes a story, which has
evidently been considerably embellished since first told; but I will set it down for
the benefit of some future compiler of a book of fables.
Sawmills were run night and day during the short period of the spring floods, the
owners taking turns in attending them. One night when Jonathan was sawing alone a
bear came in and sat down on the log to meditate. Jonathan, being a prudent man, did
not disturb him. The bear became so absorbed in his reflections that he did not
notice that he was being drawn toward the saw till it began to scratch his side.
Roused suddenly, he turned upon to avenge the indignity., when Jonathan came up
behind him, and between the two he paid the penalty of too much thinking and too
little observing. Moral, do not get to dreaming in dangerous situations.
Jonathan's son James (824) married his mothers brothers daughter Polly, with the
result that there descendants are twice as much related to the early generations of
the Marstons as to those of the Towles. Also James son Robey Marston Towle (1289)
followed in his father's example, and married for his second wife his cousin, Sally
Marston.
_Ira Clark TOWLE ____+
| (1796 - 1873) m 1821
_Jason Whitman TOWLE __|
| (1834 - 1914) m 1863 |
| |_Sarah CLEMENT ______+
| (1801 - 1877) m 1821
|
|--Kate Wiley TOWLE
| (1885 - ....)
| _Adam SHORB _________
| |
|_Emma Elizabeth SHORB _|
(1846 - 1921) m 1863 |
|_Maria BOWEN ________
_Jonathan TOWLE _____+
| (1703 - 1791) m 1728
_Jonathan TOWLE _____|
| (1729 - ....) |
| |_Anna NORTON ________+
| (1708 - ....) m 1728
|
|--Simeon TOWLE
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Elizabeth JENNESS __|
(1734 - ....) |
|_____________________
[279] Simeon and Elizabeth settled in Epsom, New Hamshire about a mile northeast of the Yeaton place.