HISTORY OF MARSHFIELD. 151

[Thanks to Linda Smith for transcribing the Ames family]

   Jedediah, their son, (Jonathan,3 Mark,2 Capt. Anthony,1) b. at Marshfield in 1685, d. about 1738.   Mar. Mary Oakman of Marshfield, dau. of Tobias.   She mar. 2nd husband, Robert Sherman.


   Jedediah, (Jedediah,4 Jonathan,3 Mark,2 Anthony,1)   Mar. in 1752, Bethia Tilden.


   John T. (Jedediah,5 Jedediah,4 Jonathan,3 Mark,2 Capt. Anthony,1)   Mar. Sarah Rogers, sister of Capt. Luther Rogers, and dau. of Simeon and Sarah (Clift) Rogers.
   Simeon was the grandfather of the late Clift Rodgers, the founder of the Clift Rodgers Free Library.
   Mary Eames,7 their daughter (John T.,6 Jedediah,5 Jedediah,4 Jonathan,3 Mark,2 Capt. Anthony,1) b. in 1798, d. 1881.   Mar. in 1820 at Marshfield, Col. Charles Hatch.   He was b. in 1793, d. 1870.   (Franklin W. Hatch, now living, was their son.   (See other children under Hatch family.)
   Tilden Ames,7 son of John T. and Sarah (Rogers) Eames, (John T.,6 Jedediah,5 Jedediah,4 Jonathan,3 Mark,2 Capt. Anthony,1) b. Dec 11, 1795, d. June 11, 1867. Mar. Betsey F. Hatch. He was a farmer and a great friend of the hon. Daniel Webster in Marshfield. On one occasion when Mr. Webster was at the Revere Hotel in Boston, attending to some important public duty, Mr. Ames called to see him, and on informing the hotel clerk that he wanted to see Mr. Webster, the clerk abruptly dismissed him by announcing that Mr. Webster wouldn't care to be disturbed, whereupon Mr. Webster being in a near by room, heard Mr. Ames inquiry, at once rushed into Mr. Ames presence, took his arm and walked up and down the corridor, with much cordiality, to the great discomforture of the clerk.

CHILDREN.

   I. Sarah E.,8 b. Nov. 9, 1819, d. 1853.

 

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