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SARAH, b. April 23, 1734; m. at Woburn, July 9, 1767, to
Abiathar Johnson.

SUSANNA, b. July 24, 1737; at Woburn, m. Dec. 24, 1761,

to Simeon Blodgett, of Lexington.

ANNA, b. Jan. 3, 1736.

7. DAZE, b. Dec. 21, 1742; m. at Woburn, June 19, 1770, to Ruth Hartwell, of Bedford.

RUTH, b. Aug. 3, 1730.

8. JOHN, b. Dec. 31, 1744; m. at Woburn, Feb. 2, 1768, Joanna Johnson.

9. MATTHEW, b. June 19, 1746; m. at Woburn, Sept. 6, 1769, Sarah Wyman.

ANNA, b. June 19, 1750; m. at Woburn, March 7, 1782,

Edward Wood.

6. THOMAS (Thomas, Thomas, as before), b. at Woburn, Nov. 28, 1740; m. May 10, 1768, same place, Elizabeth Johnson; was exec. of his father's will, 1797. Ch. b. at Woburn :THOMAS, b. Feb. 8, 1782; m. at Burlington, March 7, 1804,

Nancy, dau. of Thomas Wyman, b. 1782 and d. June
25, 1870, aged 88. Child:-Samuel C., b. 1814.
ELIJAH, b. Jan. 25, 1784; m. at Burlington, April 7, 1812,
Sarah Skelton.

ELIZABETH, b. April 25, 1769; m. at Woburn, Feb. 27, 1794,
to Ishmael Munroe.

RUTH, b. Nov. 1, 1778; m. at Woburn, Nov. 6, 1804, Eben

ezer Cummings.

7. DAZE (as before), b. at Woburn, Dec. 21, 1742; m. same place, June 19, 1770, Ruth Hartwell, of Bedford. Children, born at Woburn :

DAZE, b. June 1, 1771; m. at Woburn, Feb. 12, 1792,
Keziah Simonds. Child, Horace, b. Nov. 21, 1793.

WILLIAM, b. April 21, 1773.

SAMUEL, b. June 25, 1775; d. same place, Sept. 8, 1778.

RUTH, b. Oct. 16, 1777; m. at Woburn, June 8, 1797, Wil

liam Kendall.

SAMUEL, b. Sept. 6, 1781; d. 1781.

STEPHEN, b. May 28, 1784; m. May 8, 1817, Phebe
Simonds.

REBECCA, b. July 9, 1786; d. Oct. 30, 1787.

REBECCA, b. Sept. 13, 1788; m. May 8, 1814, Benjamin

Shepherd.

DESIRE, b. Feb. 2, 1791.

Asa, b. Aug. 2, 1795.

8. JOHN, (as before), b. at Woburn, Dec. 31, 1744; m. there, Feb. 2, 1768, Joanna Johnson; of Billerica, 1797. Ch:JOHN, b. Feb. 4, 1771; m. May 14, 1809, Sally Jaques, of Wilmington; d. at Charlestown, Oct. 1, 1824. Children: John, b. 1810; George, b. 1812; Edward, b. 1813; Sarah, b. 1815; James, b. 1822.

ANN, b. [

ALFRED, b. [

]; m. Amos Haggett.

]; m. Martha [

]; d. before 1821.

Children :-4bigail, b. 1809; d. 1814; Alfred, b. Dec.

21, 1812.

10. MATTHEW, b. Oct. 26, 1773.

JOANNA, b. [

BENJAMIN, b. [

]; m. 1810, David Fosdick.
].

THOMAS, b. Dec. 16, 1779; m. Emma Willard.

9. MATTHEW (as before), b. at Woburn, June 19, 1746; m. Sept. 6, 1769, Sarah Wyman. 1797, of Woburn; 1815, of Burlington. Children :

MATTHEW, b. [

]; m. Sept. 30, 1798, Elizabeth Winn. SARAH, b. [ ] at Burlington; d. Dec. 31, 1873, at Woburn, aged 86 years, 11 mos. and 1 day.

10. MATTHEW (John, and as before) b. Oct. 26, 1773; m. 1st at Burlington, March 8, 1801, Pamelia Wyman, of that place, who died in 1834; m. 2dly, April, 1835, Mrs. Martha Skelton; d. at Charlestown, Oct. 10, 1842, aged 69. Children:

MATTHEW, b. 1806; d. 1831.

SAMUEL PUTNAM, b. 1808.
AUGUSTUS, b. 1810.

PAMELIA WYMAN, b. 1812; m. Hon. James Adams.

AUGUSTUS HENRY, b. 1823.

Not identified :-Edward Skelton, son of Thomas and Jane, b. at Dorchester, Oct. 25, 1698; d. same place, Oct. 18, 1699.

Mary Skelton, dau. of James and Jean, b. April 4, 1683, at Marblehead.

Books consulted: Essex Institute Hist. Coll.; Salem Int. of Mar.; Salem Births, Mar. and Deaths; same of Boston, Dorchester, Dedham, Woburn, Billerica; Dedham Ch. Rec.; Middlesex Probate and Deeds; Suffolk Probate; Hazen's Billerica; Wyman's Charlestown; Sewall's Woburn; Middlesex Co. Court Records.

DEDHAM MAIL-COACHES.

By C. W. ERNST.

THE Ames diary always brings postal information of value. The entries for April 7 and July 23, 1795, solve a question that was in need of solution. I think that the entry for April means that on the 7th day of the month, in 1795, the mail-coaches began service on the Boston-Dedham-Providence-New LondonNew Haven route. We know from Bradley's famous map of 1796 that the mail-coach went as indicated. It did not go in 1791, when the mail service between Boston, Providence and New Haven was performed by riders. We know, also, that in 1792 Connecticut provided for a turnpike road between Norwich and New London (it was the first charter of the kind issued by Connecticut). A year or more would be required to build the road; additional time would be needed to make the road from Providence to Norwich practicable, Rhode Island being a bad road builder. It is fairly safe to conclude that the mail-coach, three times a week, began to run on the Boston-Dedham-Providence-New Haven route on April 7, 1795, when a new quarter began in postal matters. In due time the route was extended to New York, giving Boston two mail-coach lines to New York, one via Dedham and Norwich, the other via Springfield.

The Boston-Dedham-Hartford stage-coach was not established in 1795, I think, for the reason that the road was not in suitable condition. The road from Hartford to Thompson was good; the turnpike road from the state line to Bellingham was not authorized until 1800 (9th Mass. turnpike); and the line thence

to Dedham was not authorized until 1804. The mail service Boston-New York is still a sharp problem. The problem first came up in 1714. The Springfield line was first tried in that year, but proved unsatisfactory. In time it became the rival of the Dedham route. During the Revolution it became the main line. In 1793 the Dedham line rose to importance, which became great when steamboats gave the Dedham line a certain. monopoly. The railroads changed things; but the old problem remains,—shall the mail go via Springfield, or via Providence? And travel follows the mail.

The year 1795, as the Ames diary reflects, was a year of extraordinary enterprise in stage coaching, road building, travel and mails. It appears that 1795 gave Dedham and New London the first mail-coach; stage-coaches came earlier. In 1765 four times a week the stage-coach made the Boston-Dedham-Providence trip. In 1769 it went six times a week. Then came the interruption of war; but in 1784, I think, the service was performed on every secular day, usually in nine hours. Dedham saw its first mail-coach on April 7, 1795, under a contract made by the Postmaster-General, thus giving Boston six mail-coaches a week to New Haven and New York, three going through Dedham, the others through Springfield. The stage-coaches from 1792 to 1795 carried the mail from Boston through Dedham to Providence, but stopped there, and were not mail-coaches in the full sense of the term. Much less were the stage-coaches of 1785 and 1786, though they carried the mail. Up to 1792, Peter and Benjamin Mumford, who began before the Revolution, supplied the mail service between Boston and Rhode Island, passing through Dedham, always on horseback, and always ready to deal with the public directly. In fact, they believed in free delivery, and incidentally did a thriving newspaper and express business. They were displaced late in 1792, or early in 1793, when the stage-coaches between Boston and Providence carried passengers for a dollar, and offered to carry the mail for nothing.

MOSES AND AARON LEWIS.

BY GEORGE H. LEWIS.

(Continued from Vol. VI., page 120.)

On Feb. 10, 1782, Aaron Lewis of Lyndeboro, yeoman, sells to Hezekiah Duncklee, yeoman of Lyndeboro, who was brotherin-law to Aaron Lewis, he having married Mehitable White, for £500, part of lot No. 120, in second division of lots of said town adjoining land of Lieut. Amos Whittemore. Also part of lot No. 121, adjoining land of Benjamin Dutton. (Deeds XXX, 376.) On August 25, 1784, Aaron Lewis sells to Simeon Fletcher of L., husbandman, part of Lot. No. 120, in the second division west of land of Hezekiah Duncklee. On June 20, 1802, the Town of Lyndeboro by a committee appointed March 22, 1802, sold to Aaron Lewis, gentleman, lands granted to the Town for the support of a minister, for $598.50. Said ministerial lands being in the north part of the town, north of lot 2, 63 acres. (Deeds LIX. 366.)

Aaron Lewis was Selectman of Lyndeboro in 1793 and 1794, and Town Clerk in 1809 and 1810; also a deacon of the church, a man of great piety, and an honored citizen for his integrity and uprightness of character. In the history of Hillsboro County, N. H., his name appears "among the few who did most during the trying times of the Revolution"; also as one of 33, who in July, 1776, went to Ticonderoga with Captain William Barton under Col. Isaac Wyman; with 19 others he went again July 1, 1777, under Lieut. Samuel Houston; also on Dec. 8, 1777, as Sergeant. He was a private August 17, 1778, under Capt. Lee, Col. Moses Kelley's Regiment, on the expedition to Rhode Island against the English forces. See Hammond's Revol. Rolls, Vol. II., in the New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. XV.

In the records of the church at Lyndeboro, is this record of a meeting held Oct. 30, 1806. "Voted that as there is not found any record of the vote of the Church whereas they made choice

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