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Whiting.   Eunice m. Reuel Lincoln.   Nancy m. Reuel Dunbar.   Sally m. Oliver Dunbar.   Betsey m. a Barisford.   Isaac m. a Hubbard.   John m. a Howard.


   There was a family of Waldos among the first settlers in the North Parish; they were driven from Chelmsford by the Indians; they lived near where Gideon Howard, Esq. now lives; they staid there but a few years, and moved to Pomfret, Conn.

   Three of their daughters married in Bridgewater.   One m. Thomas Hayward, one m. Ephraim Cary, and one m. Richard Field.

   The late Rev. Mr. Weld, of Braintree, was son of another of the daughters.


   Robert Morrison, Alexander Wilson, David Brown, and Thomas Henry, came from Ireland about 1740.   The two first were married; the other two were single men.   They settled in the North Parish, and near together; the three first on land now owned by Howard Cary, Esq. and Thomas Henry where Theron Ames now lives; they were pious, industrious people.   Robert Morrison had two ss. William, and Alexander; they came from Ireland with him; he had one son John, born here.

   William m. a Strobridge; settled in Middleborough.   Alexander m. an Erskine; lived in Boston.   John m. a Giffin; settled in Connecticut.   He was the father of the Rev. Giffin Morrison, in the Isle of Saba, West-Indies.

   Robert Morrison died in 1764.   He was the first person the bell tolled for in the North-Parish.

   Alexander Wilson had one d. who m. John McBride.

   David Brown m. a Miller; had two ss. John, and James; and one d. Anna.   He died in the prime of life.

   Thomas Henry m. a Miller; had six ss. Thomas, James, John  David, Samuel, and William; and three ds. Jennet, Margaret and Nancy.   Jennet m. Hosea Dunbar of Halifax.   Two of her ds. m. in Bridgewater; one m. a Mitchell, and one Zephaniah Howard.

   About the year 1771, Thomas Henry and all his family, except Jennet, moved to Harpersfield, New York.   In 1775 or 6, Thomas and James were killed by the Indians and Tories, and John was taken prisoner and died in Canada.

 

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