Chose his mother as guardian Aug. 8, 1755 when he was "aged above 15 years." In 1758 his uncle Rev. Thomas Prince the Annalist, bequeathed to him large amounts of land, of which some was in Hartford, Conn., some in Hampshire County, and some in Sheepscot County, or York. He joined in a deed of land with his two sisters at Rochester June 25, 1774, in which he is called "Samuel Prince merchant of Boston."

Unmarried. He was crippled but noted as an excellent penman.

Lived in Arkansas.

Died very young.

Served in War of 1812.

Died at sea, not married.

Drowned.

Sailed the Brig "Dolphin" of Boston.

Ship builder in Duxbury.

Kept the Grammar School at Sandwich and in 1708-9 went to Barbadoes and thence to England where he became acquainted with Dr. Watts. He returned to New England July 20, 1717. The following year he was settled as colleague, with Dr. Sewall, in the ministry, at the "Old South" Church, Boston, which position he filled for forty years. In his will, he bequeathed his books and manuscripts, which were deposited in the steeple-chamber of the church, to the "Old South" forever, on the condition that they should never be taken from the room. Many of them, however, were destroyed by the British soldiery, during the Revolution. A few found their way to England. Among these, a manuscript history of Plymouth, by Governor William Bradford, was discovered in 1855, in the Fullham Library, belonging to the Bishop of London. What remained in America of his collection was placed, soon after July, 1866 in the Public Library of Boston. The town of Princeton, Mass. was named for him. Author of the "Chronological History of New England" and "History of the Prince Family".

Married Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada where he lived most of his life.

Went to sea in the Navy and died in Cumberland, Maine. His widow moved to York County, Maine.

Lived in Arkansas.

Served in Union Army, Rebellion of 1861-5.

Lost at sea.

Was of the same class in college with his brother Newall, also at Bangor seminary at the same time, died unordained and unmarried.

"Royal River Families" says child of Paul & Abigail Wells.

Of Dodderidge in Sandford, co. Devon, who was in 1418 co-patron of Cruwys Morchard. He was quite possibly the son of an earlier John who is said to have married Maud Cruwys.

In 1509, by a marriage settlement, brought to her husband, John Gye, lands called "Upcott" in Cheriton FitzPaine, near Poughill. In 1516, she and her husband claimed the lands of Thomas Prowse (apparently her father) in Poughill, Dodderidge, Ilsington and elsewhere. Her husband was dead by 1554, perhaps as early as 1529.

Name occurs in 1494-1498.

In 1455 was a Prowse in Dodderidge, Sandford.

A knight of Gidleigh Castle, now a Norman ruin eleven miles southwest of Sandford, who was a thirteenth century magnate well known to students of mediaeval Devonshire.

He was a boatman, resided at Ship Cove, now Quincy Neck. Jabez Puffer, boatman, for œ 20 7s, sold to John Ruggles 4 acres of upland and meadow called the "great fence field" near the house of Ruggles. Bounded westerly on land of Samuel Newcome, deceased, easterly and northwesterly on land of Ruggles, southerly on the creek called the Sheep Cove." Deed signed by Jabez and wife Mary, May 29, 1712. In 1712, he bought land in Sudbury and came with his brother James to settle there. He died at Sudbury, Nov. 5, 1746. He was captain of the Sudbury company. His farm was in the northeast part of Sudbury in what is now Maynard, near Puffer's Pond, which took its name from the family.

He went to Sudbury with his father, and became a substantial citizen. He joined the Sudbury church July 12, 1727. He served in the French and Indian Wars, as private in Capt. Josiah Brown's Co. in 1739 and as ensign in Capt. Josiah Richardson's Co., in 1757. Later he was captain of a Sudbury company. He was on a town committee to widen the causeway at Ironworks meadow in 1771. He lived in the house, built by his father, enlarged by himself, and still standing in 1900. He and his brother Ephraim of Sudbury deeded to Ephraim Keith of Bridgewater land at Petersham, July 21, 1738 (W. D. 10-526) and also land bought of Thomas Baldwin at Petersham (Nichewaug) March 5, 1743-4 (W. D. 29-355). He deeded land to his son Jacob at Templeton, April 13, 1764 (W. D. 55-379).

He lived at Stow and acquired a large estate.

Paul Walker was appointed guardian of Daniel, Reuben and Phineas Puffer, sons of Simon, July 15, 1826, and Asahel Parmenter, guardian of the son Jonathan, April 14, 1838.

Was not living with Peter Weare in July 1675, but would if he would provide for her. In Dec. 1715, approximately 80, she deposed that approximately 66 years before she lived with her husband's first wife, being then approximately 14 years old.

Jonathan was a skilled blacksmith by trade and relocated his growing family to
Belfast, Maine in 1804. The original Quimby home was located on the current site of the Belfast Free Library on High Street. The Quimby blacksmith shop was situated directly across the road from their home and together they perched on Quimby Hill with a splendid view of Belfast Bay. After many changes and alterations the original Jonathan Quimby house was razed ca 1970.

He "experienced religion" at the age of twenty, and joined the Calvin Baptist Church at Weare, N. H., and was there married by Amos Wood, J. P., to Mehitable Kinson (or Keniston) of Weare. The United States census of 1790 gives Joshua as head of a family at Kearsarge Gore, Hillsborough County, N. H., consisting of himself and one boy under 16, and three females, one of whom was probably his wife. Hosea Quinby's MS. states that he moved to Landaff about 1793, thence to Lisbon. The Freewill Baptist Annual Register for 1845 contained a biographical sketch of him, of which the following is an abstract:

"In 1796, he removed to Lisbon, where there was a small Calvin Baptist Church. The country was then quite new and the people poor in this world's goods, and their religious privileges very small; in the midst of their sighing, brother Quinby went to their assistance. In the year 1800, he was set apart to the work of the ministry by a council of Calvin Baptist ministers. He had never been fully satisfied with the doctrine he preached and in the year 1811, he and eleven others came out from the Calvin Baptist Church, and were organized into a church by themselves, taking the word of God as the man of their counsel. From this small beginning, the Lisbon Quarterly meeting has arisen, numbering now about 1200 members. Brother Quinby was a man of good judgment, and a Christian of sincerity and honesty. He was one of the most faithful and capable men of his day in church labors and difficulties. He travelled extensively to sit on committees and councils. He closed his life with a good hope in the Savior, 31 Mar., 1844. His loss is severely felt and greatly lamented."

"In 1796 Rev. Joshua settled on lot 6 in the third range at Lisbon. He began to preach in 1792. He was ordained at Lisbon in 1800. He was at first a Baptist, and in 1811 he became a Free Baptist and was for more than thirty years pastor of that church on Sugar Hill and his pure Christian character and exemplary life carried an influence that can hardly be estimated. During his long ministry he doubtless officiated at more funerals and united more people in marriage than any other clergyman in town or who ever lived in town." (History of Lisbon, MS., by Guy S. Rix.)

The United States census of 1810 sets forth the family of Joshua and his wife at Concord, N. H., which was the centre of the region which contained Sanbornton. At that time were living with them a couple who very likely were one of his married daughters and her husband, who was over 26, she being under that age.

"The two new quarterly meetings were organized 19 Aug. 1812; the ten churches of Northern New Hampshire met at Wolfboro', where the Sandwich Quarterly Meeting was organized. Sermons were preached by Joshua Quinby and Mark Fernald." (History of the Freewill Baptists, I. 295.)

"In 1823 Brother Quinby visited Indian Settlement at the head of the Connecticut river, and such success attended his labors that new churches were organized in Canaan, Vt., and across the river in Stewartstown, N. H. He travelled considerably to sit on committees and councils. The young ministers found in him a friend. He was a man of superior judgment. He was a member of the second General Conference. He died, after an illness of three or four years, March 31, 1844. A large family and his aged wife survived him." (Free Baptist Cyclopedia, 553.)

"At the same meeting (Wheelock, Vt., Quarterly Meeting, 1823), Joshua Quinby from Lisbon, N. H., stated that he had recently visited the Indian Stream settlement, on the head waters of the Connecticut river, and such was the encouragement that he had appointed a general meeting on the second Saturday and Sunday in March. His appeal for help was effectual and six or eight volunteered to go. The meeting was successful, a revival followed, and churches were organized in Canaan, the northeast town in Vermont, and across the river in Stewartstown, the extreme northern settlement in New Hampshire." (History of the Freewill Baptists, I. 382.)

"The second General Conference of the Freewill Baptists, consisting of delegates from the yearly meetings, was held at Sandwich, N. H., 9 Oct. 1828. Among those present were Joshua Quinby of N. H., Daniel Quinby of Vermont." (History of the Freewill Baptists, I. 443. Note: This was 101Rev. Daniel6.)

In the year 1843, at Lisbon, N. H., under Elder Joshua's pastorate, one hundred and twenty two persons were added to the church by baptism and forty nine by letter; seven were dismissed from the Lisbon church to churches elsewhere; one was "excluded"; one died; and the total number of communicants was three hundred and forty. (Freewill Baptist Register, 1843.)

Rev. Joshua was pastor of the church at Sugar Hill for many years, says Maj. John Aldrich. His meeting house, built in 1832, was the largest in northern New Hampshire and numbered over 400 members, the largest in the Freewill Baptist denomination. The majority of the church going people of Lisbon and western Franconia were members of his congregation.

Judson M8. Quinby wrote me 30 Oct. 1908, from Littleton, N. H.:

"I had a brother who in 1880 and 1881 became interested in the genealogy of the Quinby family. This brother met my grandmother, whose memory was remarkable for a woman then eighty years old, and pen in hand took the names of Elder Joshua Quinby's large family, their companions, and children and grandchildren. This woman was 262Ira7 Quinby's wife, born in 1800; the brother of mine died two or three years after this interview and his papers fell into my hands. I prize them much. I should want good pay to copy so many pages."

He duly received his "good pay," and I received the pages. They contain the names of Elder Joshua's descendants to about 1850 in both male and female lines with few exceptions. No dates or localities whatever are given, but many relationships herein mentioned have been confirmed thereby.

He was a resident at Lisbon when Justice Thomas Montgomery at Whitefield married him, 29 Dec. 1825, to Phoebe Parker. Levi was killed by the explosion of a cannon at a muster, his brother William, Jr., being injured. Major John Aldrich says: "A fearful accident occurred to two brothers, citizens of Franconia and near neighbors of ours, named Levi and William Quimby, Jr. It happened at an annual muster of the Thirty-second regiment of New Hampshire militia in September, 1833, at the Cobleigh meadows, one mile north of Lisbon Village. The brothers were members of an artillery company assigned as gunners, and while loading their cannon during a sham battle, the cartridge exploded prematurely, killing Levi almost instantly, and wounding his brother William, Jr., so severely that he was a cripple during his life. Both of the victims were married, one having two children and the other four, all of whom were school mates of mine while I lived in Franconia. Levi who was killed left two daughters, Maria Noyes and Mary Parker." (Ancient Homes of Lakeport, p. 70). Administration on Levi's estate was granted in 1834 to his widow Phoebe (Probate records, Woodsville, N. H.). "Levi's widow outlived him one year and left the two orphan girls, the youngest only three years old, and they were adopted by my uncle Ezra Aldrich, whose wife

Born probably at Moultonborough, N. H. and accompanied his parents in the ཮'s to Michigan. He appears on the records of Ontwa, Mich., as Lee Quimby. He married Catherine Farnham, who was born in New Hampshire about 1825. We find her on her son Jesse's marriage record. Nehemiah Lee Quimby.

After his birth, his first appearance on the records is when, as a resident of Amesbury, he deeded land 27 Sept. 1739, to Jacob Currier (76 Deeds, 175). That year he went to Derryfield (i. e. Amoskeag, Tyngstown), N. H. There he became a farmer and got into debt to Samuel Ranken who sued him 2 Nov. 1741, for œ3:14:7 for "thread & Rum & pipes"; sundries; 4 yards of linnen, etc. The sheriff attached an "acx," value 5 shillings. He was sued 5 July, 1742 by John Clark of Methuen, Mass., for œ14 in bills of credit; and 25 Oct. of the same year Nicholas Perryman of Exeter, N. H., sued him for a debt of œ5. He (called "of Amesbury" in the deed) and Joseph Jewell of South Hampton bought land in South Hampton from Joseph Gould, 3 Mar. 1743-4 (53, Deeds, 90). He was described as "of South Hampton" in a petition of 1746 (V. N. H. State Papers, 15), referred to in the official journal of the New Hampshire House as follows:

"Wednesday, May 7th, 1746, a. m. The House met according to adjournment. Mr. Secretary bro't into ye House ye following Petitions. Vizt Sam'l. Kennistons, Benj. Kenning's, Mary Marston's & South Hamptons. Upon reading South Hamptons Petition signed John Page agent for South Hampton, Representing That it was inconvenient for sd Town to have two certain Highways in sd Town, and two Bridges over Powwow River & Praying a commee may be appointed to examine into ye matter &c. it is therefore Voted That ye Petitioners be heard on their Petition on Tuesday next ye 13th Instant at ten o'clock on sd Day, if ye Gen'l Assembly be then setting, & if not then on ye third Day of ye next setting of ye Gen'l Assembly afterwards, & yt ye sd John Paige forthwith serve ye Persons who are uneasy because ye way first voted was not laid out & apply'd to ye Gen'l Sessions of ye Peace (p. 324) thereon with a copy of sd Petition & this order thereon & notify them to appear & shew cause if any they have why ye Prayer of ye Petition should not be granted.

Sent up by Capt. Jennes. The house adjourned for two hours.

"Thursday, May 13th, 1746, a. m. The House met according to adjournment. This being ye Day appointed for ye Hearing of South Hampton Petition, John Paige Esq. agent for sd South Hampton & Joseph Jewell & Sam'l Quimby were admitted into ye House and the Petition being read ye sd, Jewell and Quimby gave in an answer to sd Petition in writing & after hearing ye Pleas & allegations of both Parties, sd Parties were dismiss'd. Mr. Jewell being called into ye House again was desir'd to ask Mr. Parker to attend ye House in ye afternoon, & then the House adjourned for two Hours. Post Meridiem, 1746. The House met according to adjournment. Wm. Parker Esq., John Paige Esq., Joseph Jewel & Sam'l Quimby being admitted & Mr. Parker being interrogated on sd Petition & ye sd Parties being farther heard on said Petition--The House took ye affair into Consideration & after much Debate thereon it was Voted, That ye sd Petition be dismiss'd. The House adjourned til tomorrow 9 o'clock."

A Quinby Deed
Samuel Quenby of Kingstown yeoman and Joseph Quenby of Kingstown tanner to Jacob Currier of Salisbury yeoman. Consideration œ100. (No wives. No marks.) Date 20 May, 1742; Ack. 23 Dec. 1745; Rec. 28 Sept. 1750, Bk. 95, page 225.

Samuel Quinby was married 20 (or 2nd) April, 1749, at South Hampton, by William Parsons, Esq., to Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Stevens of Stratham. They sold land in Stratham, 6 May, 1749, to Andrew Wiggin, 3d, of that place.

In the same year, 25 Aug., Samuel is called a resident of Kingston when he sold to Benjamin Hadley of "Salisbury and Amesbury District" land in "Tyng's Township" (59, Deeds, 521).

This probably marks the departure of Samuel from the vicinity of Amoskeag to Kingston, where he lived for ten years and then returned in 1759 to the Amoskeag, that is, to Derryfield, now Manchester, N. H., and there he lived for a few years, acquiring a saw mill. In 1763, however, he was back at Kingston, and sold his Derryfield mill July 1 of that year to Ebenezer Stevens of that place. (77, Deeds, 413, 282). In the same year, Feb. 1, he and Elizabeth his wife sold land in Stratham to Benjamin Jewitt of that place (75, Deeds, 77). As they were then called "of Derryfield" it seems that they returned to Kingston in the spring of that year. He seems to have been undecided in 1759-60 as to his future abode, for 25 May, 1759, he bought land in Kingston from Benjamin Webster of that place (87, Deeds, 247) and 4 July, 1760, he bought land in Derryfield from Theodore Atkinson (63, Deeds, 204). He and his brother Joseph are mentioned as residents of Derryfield in 1765 (VIII. Manchester Hist. Coll., p. 105).

The following record of a law suit against him in 1750 shows that he got into litigation over some of his real estate transactions. The record is from N. H. Archives, at Concord, N. H., Court files No. 9206.

1750, Sept. 26.

William Parsons of South Hampton, Clerk, "in an action of Trespass" v Joseph Jewel, Gent., Joseph Gould, yeoman, both of South Hampton, and Samuel Quinby yeoman, of Kingston.

The defendants "Come and Defend" and make two pleas "and of these Pleas the Defts Pray Judgment."

There are two writs of attachment dated Sept. 26, 1750, and (the following) February 11, 1750. At the Infer Court of Common Pleas March 7, 1750, "The Parties are Called and appear the Case is Committed to the Jury who bring in the following Verdict Viz: The Jury find for the Defts Cost of Court--It is Therefore Considered by the Court that the Defts Recover Against the Plat Cost of Court--The Plat Prays an Appeal to the Next Supr Court wch is granted he Recognizing to Prosecute according to Law" etc.

Several witnesses summoned and depositions taken which are on file. One, that of Ruth Getchel, mentions Quinby in particular and is as follows:

Province of|July the 30th, 1751
New Hampse |

The Deposition of Ruth Getchel of full age who Testifieth & saith that some time in the summer Last past she the Depont was walking along frome over the Bridge that is over Powow River (so Called) where Lieut. Jewels Griss Mill stands, & in her Travel she saw Samuel Quinbe & others near the Parsonage fence (so Called) in South Hampton in sd. Province, and that she the Depont saw the sd. Samuel Quinbe take down a Length of sd Parsonage fence & lay it aside which sd length of fence was at the Lower sied of the Parsonage fence near the River about that part of the dam which was made New

|Said Ruth "made oath" to the truth| her
|of the above before a justice. | Ruth X Getchel
Mark
William Parsons was successful on appeal against Jewell and Quinby, as appears from the following record:

Province of| Portsmo Feby 13th, 1752. Wm. Parsons Appellt
New Hampse | Joseph Jewell & Samuel Quinby Appellees--
No. 9206 |
We of the Jury find for the Appellt Seven Pounds New Tenor Bills of Credit damage & Cost of Courts--

WM. BENNETT, foreman.

Samuel Quinby's name appears in the list of inhabitants of Derryfield who contributed sums for building the Meeting House in Derryfield in 1759, ten pounds two shillings. (VIII. Manchester Hist. Co