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2. David, s. of David (1), was early in Camb. and m. Lydia, sister of Deac. John Cooper, and dau. of Deac. Gregory Stone's second wife; she d. 29 Nov. 1654, and he m. Seaborn Wilson of Ipswich 6 Sept. 1655. His children were Sarah, b.——, d. 8 May 1647; Lydia, b. 29 Ap. 1647, m. Nicholas Wyeth 6 Sept. 1681, and d. without issue 10 Mar. 1697-8; David, b. 1 Sept. 1648, d. 20 Sept. 1649;David, b. 15 Ap. 1650; Ephraim, b. 13 Aug. 1653, d. 14 Sept. 1653; Elizabeth, bap. here, m. John Russell; Sarah, bap. here, probe. d. young; Hannah (or Anna), bap. 27 Nov. 1659, m. Timothy Carter of Woburn; Abigail, b. 1 Feb. 1674, m. Henry Baldwin of Woburn. David the f. rem. from Watertown to Camb. about 1646, and res. on the northerly side of Linnaean Street, near the Botanic Garden, which estate he sold to Joseph Daniel 12 Dec. 1660, and prob. rem. to the Farms (Lex.) about the same time. He was a wheelwright, but much employed in public service, especially as a surveyor of lands. He was Selectman 1688, and Representative in the critical period of 1689. He was one of the most prominent men in the settlement at the Farms; precinct clerk, and assessor; the first subscriber for erecting a meeting-house there, and the first named member of the Church. He d. 14 Feb. 1710-11, a. 87. His w. Seaborn d. prob. 1720.

3. David, s. of David (2), by w. Sarah, had David, b. 5 Jan. 1676-7; Jonathan, b. 19 May 1679; Robert, b. 8 May 1681, a physician, d. 18 Ap. 1753; Anna, b. 2 Ap. 1683; Lydia, b. 14 May 1685, m. Joseph Loring; Sarah, b. 16 June 1687; Abigail, b. 20 May 1689, d. 13 Aug. 1691; Ebeezer, b. 12 Sept. 1692. David the f. res. at the Farms (or Lex.), and d. 23 Oct. 1729; his w. Sarah d. 22 Ap. 1729. See Hudson's Hist. Lex.

4. Thaddeus, s. of Jonathan of Weston, a descendant from Nathan of Watertown, b. 22, June 1762, m. Lucy, dau. of Rev. Jonas Clark of Lex., 17 June 1789, and had Horatio Hancock,b. 22 June 1790, m. Letitia Whittemore 29 Mar. 1818, and d. 13 Sept. 1829; Elmira, b. 23 Ap. 1792, m. Joseph Adams, a lawyer, 19 Nov. 1811, and d. s. p. 13 June 1854. Thaddeus the f. grad. H. C. 1785, and received the degree of D. D. from Columbia College, N. Y., in 1821; he was ordained pastor of the Church in Menotomy 23 Ap. 1788, which office he resigned 23 Ap. 1828, and d. 14 Nov. 1855; his w. Lucy d. 9 Mar. 1855, a. 88.

5. Isaac, brother of Thaddeus (4), b. 4 Dec. 1778, m. Sukey Hobbs of Weston 7 Nov. 1802; and had Isaac, b.——, d. young; Augustus Hery, b. 19 Sept. 1805, H. C. 1825, a lawyer in Boston, d. 22 Mar. 1864; Isaac Lamson, b. 18 Mar. 1810; George, b. 19 Nov. 1813; Susan Ann, b. 22 Oct. 1815; Andrew, b. 8 May 1817; Edward, b. 17 Dec. 1819. Isaac the f. grad. II. C. 1798, was a lawyer in Weston, Register of Probate in Middlesex from 1817 to 1851, res. alternately at Weston and Cambridge, and d. 11 Mar. 1861.

6. Nathan, s. of Samuel of Waltham, a descendant from John of Watertown, b. 6 Dec. 1780 (according to the family record, or 1779, as Bond records it), settled early in Camb., m. Anna Livermore, dau. of Josiah Mason, 13 July 1805, and had Clementina, b. 12 Aug. 1805, d. young; Frederick William, b. Nov. 1806, d. young,; Sarah Russell Mason, b. 16 Dec. 1808, m. James Munroe, Jr , 8 Oct. 1834; Elijah, b. 1 Feb. 1811, m. Charlotte D. Endicott 5 Oct. 1837, a merchant in New York, where he d. 4 Dec. 1859; Mary Lois, b. 1 May 1813, m. Alexander H. Ramsay 8 Ap. 1835; Margaret, b. 1 April 1815, m. David Humphrey 15 Nov. 1837; Benjamin, b. 9 May 1817, d. young; Elbridge Gerry, b. 26 July 1819, m. Sarah P. Teele 24 Nov. 1842; Joseph Bradley Varnum, b. Aug. 1821, d. young; Josiah Mason, b. 23 Oct. 1823, m. Martha T. Smith; Anna Abigail, b. 10 July 1826, m. Nathaniel Prentiss 4 May 1844 ; Charles Carroll, b. 11 June 1828, grad. H. C. 1849. Nathan the f. was a grain dealer near West Boston Bridge, and afterwards Deputy Sheriff, and otherwise engaged in public business. Late in life he res. on Holyoke Place and on North Avenue, and d. 27 April 1868, his w. Anna L. d. 12 Sept. 1861, a. 77.

Fitt, Robert, owned an estate, 1638, on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, nearly opposite the southwesterly corner of Winthrop Square. Perhaps he was identical with Robert Fitts, who was at ‘Salisbury 1640; rem. to Ipswich, and d. about 1665, leaving a wife Grace, and son Abraham.’ Farmer.

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