Of Boston.

Gene Fern Noyes, the daughter of her sister, Gladys, came to live with Jenine and her husband, Edward Coye, after the death of Gene's father, Clarence F. Noyes in 1928.

Mrs. Olmsted was of "Mayflower" descent.

(Sketch" says Ruth, born 1893.)

Died single.

NEXUS: Probably attended Harvard College 1672-74. He was a merchant in Boston and then in 1689 he accepted a position as minister in Salem Village, Mass., where he was subsequently caught up in the witchcraft trials.

"'...From Mr. Paris' position, as pastor of the Salem Village Church, he may have come in contact with cases in a perfunctory way which gave him unpleasant publicity. In 1695 a council met at Salem Village to confer about the witchcraft matter as related to Mr. Paris and his people. Shortly after this he left the church and the place. He became a trader, went to Watertown, then Concord; but his stay in each place was short. He then went to Dunstable, where for a few months he preached. He at length went to Sudbury, and died there about 1720. Thus originated the Salem witchcraft, and thus passed away the man who received notoriety by it....

'Mr. Paris was the son of Thomas Paris of London. He went to Harvard College, but did not remain to graduate. Before preaching at Salem Village he preached at Stowe. He was twice married, his first wife dying in 1696, at about the age of forty-eight, his second wife in 1719. His first wife was buried at Danvers.

'Mrs. Paris, it is said, was a good woman. Mr. Paris left several children. His daughter Dorothy, born 1700, became the wife of Hopestill Brown of Sudbury. Another daughter married Peter Bent. His son Noyes Paris, born 1699, took his first degree at Harvard College, 1721. His other son, Samuel, was born 1702.

'After Mr. Paris came to Sudbury, we conclude that for a time he taught school there. The records state, that in 1717, Mr. Samuel Paris was to teach school four months of the year at the school-house on the west side of the river, and the rest of the year at his own house. If he was absent part of the time, he was to make it up the next year. In Book III, Sudbury Records, we have the following statement, witht eh date May 25, 1722:

'These may certify that ye 28 pounds that ye town of Sudbury agreed to give Mr. Samuel Paris late of Sudbury, for his last yeares keeping school in sd town, is by Mr. John Clapp treasurer for said town by his self and by his order all paid as witness my hand John Rice excuter of ye last will and Testament of ye sd Mr. Paris.'

'There are graves of the Paris family in the old burying ground at Wayland. Towards the southeast side of it stands a stone with the following inscription: "Here lyes ye Body of Samuel Paris, Who died July 27th 1742 in ye 8th year of his age." On another stone is marked: "Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Abigail Paris who departed this life February he 15th 1759 in ye 55th year of her age.' "

(History of Sudbury, pp.274-275)

Of London and Barbados.

Died young.

Revolutionary War Soldier.

Unmarried.

Major-General Samuel H. Parsons was the son of Rev. Jonathan Parsons. He graduated at Harvard College in 1756. He studied law with Gov. Matthew Griswold, his uncle; began practice in Lyme, 1759. He represented the town for many years in the Colonial Assembly; in 1774, was King's Attorney. In the Revolution he commanded the 6th Connecticut Regiment; was in the battle of Long Island and the siege of Boston, and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General; in 1779 became Putnam's successor. He also had other valuable appointments.

Died unmarried. She resided with her brother Daniel.

Died unmarried. Hannah Patten, of Cambridge, who died at the house of Abraham Hilland, made an oral will, viz., that her estate should "go to sister Russell and the two girls." When asked who she meant by the two girls she said Samuel Gooding's wife (Mary) and Sarah Swan, "and that Mary and Sarah should have all the clothes as sister Russell lives well and does not need them."

They are said to have resided on the south side of Brattle Street, between Ash and Sparks Streets. His wife was appointed administrator of his estate May 8, 1717.

In 1728 they were living in Stoughton. At the death of her husband Mary Patten was appointed administratrix, and on Mar. 7, 1769, filed an inventory of the estate. His property amounted to £246 6s Id. It consisted, besides personal property, in the shape of provisions, furniture, etc., of one dwelling-house and sixty-two acres of land, by estimation valued at £120, and cattle as follows: one horse, and yoke of oxen, one small heifer and one yoke small bulls, four cows, nine sheep, four lambs, two swine, and fowls and geese, the whole of them being valued at £29 18s 8d. When the estate was settled Mary Patten reports that she has on hand, after all debts are paid, the sum of £104 16s 5d. In the order for distribution of the estate she is allowed £34 15s 9d, and John, as the eldest son, is allowed a double portion, viz., £17 9s 5d, and the other six children are allowed £8 14s 8d each.

He was a blacksmith by trade, and settled in Norton. He was a private in Capt. George Makepeace's company, Col. John Daggett's regiment, in 1776, and served for twenty-five days. He was private in Capt. Samuel Robinson's company; enlisted June 21, 1778, and served twenty-two days at Rhode Island. Served in company raised to serve in Colonel Wade's regiment. He also served in Capt. Isaac Hodge's company, Colonel Carpenter's regiment; service from July 27, 1778, to Aug. 13, 1778; eighteen days at Rhode Island. This record is given for the father rather than the son, who was old enough to serve. As the son is reported to have been deformed and a hunchback, while the father was a strong, vigorous man, it has been generally supposed that the record belongs entirely to the father.

He was a blacksmith by trade, and removed to Westmoreland, N. H., some time after 1788.

She was a member of the Universalist church of Lewiston, and of Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Nathaniel Patten seems to have been very prominent in town affairs, holding different offices at various times, such as field-driver, hog-reeve, surveyor of highways, and fenceviewer for the "Menotomy feilds." In 1682 he was appointed town constable, and in 1683 was chosen tithing-man.

Like his father, he did not always ask permission when he wished for lumber, for we find that in 1671 John Adams, Nathaniel Patten, Jonathan Dunster and Joseph Holmes appeared before the selectmen and were convicted of felling wood on the Common, and were fined 10s each for their default.

In 1675 he was granted timber for a pair of wheels, and in 1677 he was granted liberty to fell two trees for rails, and a tree for posts and a tree for a ground sill; and again in 1682 he was granted six trees for ground sills for his house and barn, and a tree for clapboards for his barn, and two trees for his out fence. Several other times his name appears in this connection. In 1683 it is recorded that he went into the Common Swamp with others and found fifteen loads of wood cut without permit, and they brought the trespassers before the selectmen and they were fined.

April 20, 1685, Abraham Holman and Nathaniel Patten were chosen "overseers of the flocke of sheep, for the providing of a shepherd and foulding of the sheep and Carefully to Inspect them in all Consernes." He was again chosen to this duty in the following year.

At this time he was interested in the alewife fishery, for we find that on April 13, 1685, the selectmen voted to "lett the ware to nathaniel Patten, the ware & feild for 30s the yeare and if the fish doth not Come up according to expectation the Selectmen promise to abate him what they shall see cause." Evidently the fish were not running well that year, for at the latter end of the year they agree to abate him ten shillings; "& to pay twenty shillings for ye yeare past & twenty shilling for ye yeare befor."

In 1686 the selectmen made choice of him to look after the gate at Notomie Bridge and the cross fence for the ensuing year, and he was to have the rent of the "ware" allowed him and was ordered to hang the gate by the first day of May.

In 1693 it was voted to sell some of the Common lands to raise money to pay some debts due, and he was chosen one of a committee to attend to the sale.

He served in King Phillip's War, being in Capt. Nathaniel Davenport's company.

In the will of Nathaniel Patten, he speaks of his grandchildren John, Rebecca, and Sarah Squire, children of Rebecca Squire, deceased.

Sampson lived at Norton and Dedham, Mass., and Westmoreland, N. H. His occupation is given in deeds as clothier. He is said to have afterward removed to Maine, where he married a second wife. He died after 1850.

Conducted a dye shop in Somerset county, Maine. He was a member of the Church of England.

Died unmarried. Resided with her brother Daniel.

Died unmarried.

The first mention of William Patten to be found in this country is in the Cambridge Town Records under date of March 13, 1635-36, when the following vote was passed:

"Agreed Wth William Patten to kepe 100 Cattell one the otherside the Riuer for the space of seauen Mounthes to begine when the Towne shall appoint him and to haue Twenty pounds the one halfe paid him In Monny when he hath kept halfe his tyme and the other halfe In Corne when he hath done keeping at the price wch the Comon Rate of Corne goeth when he is to be paid and he is to haue a man to help him the first 14 days he payinge him for one weeke the Towne for the other alsoe he is to lodg ther exsept once a weeke and to haue a man to keepe them every other Saboth day and hee to pay xs a beast for every beast he shall loese and to keepe noe Cattell of anny man exsept the Townsmen give leaue vpon the forfetuer of 5s a head for every head he shall soe keepe."

In 1638 there appears the following record:

"Agreed with wm. Patten to keepe three score ( ) cowes more or lesse vnder 4 score att the direction of the Townsmen for all this sumr vntill they take them in att 10s a weeke the one halfe to be pd in the first weeke in July eithr in monie or good corne & thothr halfe when he leaveth of keeping them in monie & those that Refuse to paye in monie shall paye in corne att the price that it is att when it is merchantable he is to pay 3d for eur cowe he leaveth out a night & xs a cowe for eurie one that is lost through his Defaulte he is to take noe oth cattell without the townsmens consent he is to dryve them out by six of the clock in the morning & bring them home by sunn halfe an houre high att night at the latest & to bring them into the towne eure Evening he is to keepe them but eurie third Sabt & thoth to be prvided for as in former tyme & whoe eur shall bring in anie strange cattell shall synde a helpe for 2 or 3 dayes & the owners to bring them into the common eure morning by the tyme appoynted & his owne cow to be kept free as long as he keepeth them & he is to pay 6d damage for eurie morning that he is not gone out by the tyme appoynted."

In 1646 we find that Brother Patten was fined for one hog without keeper thrice 1s.

On the 20th day of the 3d month, 1649, we find that Andrew Stevenson and William Patten were appointed to execute the town order concerning hogs, and to levy on all such as shall be found breaking that order the just penalty of the same therein prescribed. In the same year liberty was granted some of the townsmen, among them William Patten, for the present hay time to mow the Common meadow at Shawshine, "prvided they intrench uppon noe prpriety."

On two or three different occasions we find him appointed as one of the surveyors of fences, his district being that about the Menotomy fields. He was also appointed surveyor of highways on one or two occasions.

The Common, as it was called, was well timbered, for we find that when any one wished for lumber he went to the selectmen for permission to get it from the Common. In 1660, at a meeting of the selectmen, several people, among them William Patten, were granted liberty to take timber to repair their fences and for "reparaccon" of their houses. In 1663 he was granted liberty to take timber from the Common for a cart, and at another time for a cow-house and half a hundred "rayles." In November, 1665, he was granted liberty to fell timber to build a lean-to and an end to his barn; and in 1668 to "repayre his old house at towne." He did not always ask for permission, for in 1662, we find that he was fined 20s for felling trees on the Common contrary to town orders. Fines levied by the selectmen were sometimes abated, for in 1663 we find that a fine imposed upon William Patten was abated 5s.

In 1642 we find William Patten enrolled as a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.

William Patten lived on what is now Massachusetts Avenue, opposite the Common. We find in the Proprietors Records that William Patten had "One house and garden. about halfe an Acre upon the Cow Common, John means East, Cow Common South, thomas Blogget west pine swampe North."

"In the new Lotts next Manotomie two Acres of planteing grounde Persivall Greene East, Willam Manning west Richard Champnies South, Gregory Stone North."

In 1645 forty-seven lots on west side of Menotomy River were granted to the several inhabitants of the Town. In this distribution William Patten had "Three Acr more or lesse, Richard francis East Daniell Kempster West, Charlestowne lyne north Comon south."

A reference to the accompanying plan will give an idea of the location of his place. In 1901 the City of Cambridge published their early town records and with them a plan of the place in 1635 which had been compiled from the best sources obtainable. By the courtesy of the City Clerk I am able to reproduce that plan here.

June 9, 1652, an agreement was made by the Church as to the division of Shawshine. In this William Patten was assigned Lot 87, containing ninety acres. Although by the generosity of the Church all the inhabitants received allotments of the Shawshine lands, comparatively few established a residence there. Although the name of William Patten appears often in the matters of land distribution in the settlement of Billerica, yet it is doubtful if he ever took up his residence there, but remained in Cambridge until his death. As early as 1655 there were so many house-holders there that they were incorporated as a distinct town named Billerica. The town records, January 29, 1654-55, show that, in answer to a letter sent them by their neighbors of Shawshine, alias Billerica, wherein they desire that the whole tract may be disengaged from this place and be one entire body by itself, a committee of five was appointed, who drew up an agreement for a separation, and this was consented to by William Patten and others present, inhabitants of Shawshine. This agreement, or Great Deed, as it is called, has been carefully preserved by the town of Billerica, and bound between two covers which bear the inscription: "The Great Deed from the Cambridge Proprietors to the Billerica Proprietors, 1654."

The body of the deed reads as follows:

"TO ALL PEOPLE to whome these prsents shall come Greeting KNOW YE that wee whose names are Subscribed FOR Sundry good consideracions us thereunto moving and for valluable consideracions to us respectively paid well & truly the recite whereof wee do by these prsents respectively acknowledge and therewth to be fully sattesfied & payd and thereof and of every part & parcell thereof do fully clearely and absolutely acquitt exonerate & discharge the Inhabitants of Billerica their heyres successors Ex'ors administratours and Assignees forever by their prsent HAVE given granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and confirmd unto & by these prsents do fully clearly and absolutely give grant bargain & sell alien enfeofe & confirme unto the Inhabitants of Billerica aforesaid their heyres assignes & such others as shall from time to time be by them admitted as free denizens of the said place & to the enjoyment of the priviledges thereof all our respective rights & interest therein unto any part or parcell of the said land now called by the said name of Billerica als Shawshine with all the priviledges & appurtenances to the same apperteyning or in any wise belonging (only excepting & reserving our Joynt & respective interest that any of us have in the farme wherein John Parker now dwelleth comonly called by the name of the Churches farme (i. e.) the church at Cambridge with free liberty on all the comons of the said place for the Inhabitants on the said farme from time to time for the herbage timber & firewood as any other of the Inhabitants and a joint interest therein together with ye said towne & inhabitants thereof.) TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said bargained prmises with all the priviledges & appurtenances (except before excepted) unto them the said Inhabitants their heyres assigns & successours for ever to their & their only propper use & behooffe. AND we whose names are subscribed for us our heyres exorrs & administrators do respectively covenant promise grant to and with the Inhabitants of the said place their heyres assignes & lawfull assosiates & successors that they the said Inhabitants their heyres assignes successours & lawfull associates shall or may at all times & from time to time for ever hereafter lawfully & peaceably have hold occupy possess & Injoy the said bargained & assigned prmises & every part & parcell thereof with all and singular priviledges & appurtenances thereof without the lawfull claims let hindrance contradiccon or denial of us or any of us whose names are subscribed our heyres executors administrators or assignes or any of them or of any other person or persons whatsoever claiming by from or under us or any of us pprovided always this instrument is to be understood of every mans engagement to be only for & in the behealfe of himself his owne heires executors & adm'strators &c and no further or other. IN WITNESS whereof we have put our hands & seales this 25th day of March Anno Dom 1654."

This is the foundation upon which the Town of Billerica was started, and to this document the name of William Patten with others was signed. I here reproduce the document, so that his descendants may see his name as he wrote it. The name may be seen in the fifth column, about half-way down.

He married before coming to this country Mary (???), who died Sept. 20, 1673.

William Patten died December 10, 1668. He left no will, but on April 2, 1669, his wife filed with the court the following inventory of his property:

He resided at Norton with his brother Daniel. He owned a farm in Westmoreland, N. H., but is thought never to have lived there.

Accidently killed while young.

John Andrews, who sold his house and lands to Daniel Paul and Bartholomew Smith, 21 March 1648, and moved to Braveboat Harbor. The deed mentions John Symonds on the north. The next year Paul bought a house and an acre of land of Richard Cutts, that had been owned and occupied by Stephen Sanborn, afterward of Hampton. It adjoined the land of Paul. His son, Stephen Paul, married a daughter of Antipas Maverick, who lived further up the river. Stephen inherited the homestead. Daniel Paul was a shipbuilder. He is first mentioned as a "mariner," which usually meant the master of a vessel, in Boston, 26 Aug. 1640. He declared himself from Ipswich, England, and gave a letter of attorney for the sale of lands in Ipswich and delivery of money to his wife, Elizabeth. He signed the submission of 1652 and had grants in 1653 and 1665. The last was "in the great cove below ye Boiling Rock," and he sold it to John Sloper, 14 Feb. 1679.

It seems that a portion of the lot bought by Paul and Smyth got into the possession of Joseph Alcock, Paul's son-in-law, for he sold it in 1662 to Weymouth Lydston, fisherman, and Gilbert Lugg. Lugg's half of the purchase passed to Charles Nelson, and was bought of his heirs by John Lydston. The Lydstons long lived here.
In 1659 Daniel Paul and Elizabeth, his wife, mortgaged to Richard Cutt, 66 acres "above ye boiling rock between Gabriel Tetherly on the south and Joseph Alcock on the north."

Grand jury 1650, 1651. Grants 1653, 1665.

He had large shipyards in Kittery.

In 1731 his home was half the Long Reach homestead; marked 'moved' on Eliot Ch. list of 1727. Lists 291, 296-7. 8 children.

Enlisted in Colebrook, NH on 11 Dec 1861 and mustered into the Union Army in Augusta, ME; private in 5th Battery, 1st Regiment Mounted Artillery, Maine Volunteers. Promoted to Corporal 10 Apr 1863; Sergeant 18 Apr 1864. Received musketball in his right thigh at the Battle of Cedar Creek, VA; hospitalized in Baltimore. Reduced from Sergeant at his own request 11 Apr 1865 and received honorable discharge from Army 6 Jul 1865. After marrying Francena in 1866, t