church in Newark, New Jersey, president of a college, and author of the celebrated "Alden's Epitaphs." Mr. Fox during his pastorate of the Woburn church had two colleagues. The first, Edward Jackson, ordained August I. 1729, died in office, September 24, 1754. The second, Josiah Sherman, ordained at Woburn, January 28, 1756, was dismissed from his charge at his own request, April 11, 1775. The lack of harmony between Mr. Jackson and himself from the beginning of their connection resulted in a controversy, which for bitterness and hatred between the parties on both sides has rarely been equalled in New England. While its origin was accounted obscure, it is now plain from documents which we will not cite that Mr. Fox was not primarily to blame. The same troubles about his salary which had afflicted his father were his also, only worse. The community was oppressed by poverty, and had besides two ministers on its hands, when one was more than it could afford to support. One of them was elderly and ill, with a large family to provide for, and incapable of doing his full share of work. The other was young, unmarried, and ambitious, and not discreet with his tongue. The temperament of the in the town which desired the young minister latter was peculiar and he was also extravagant in his personal expenditure, and being single there were certain important families for a son-in-law. This added to the complications. Charles Walker, of Concord, New Hampshire, who made researches in Woburn. about 1830, has left on record the fact that Miss Esther Poole, the only daughter of Jonathan Poole, Esquire, of Woburn, whose wife (Mrs. Poole) was sole heiress of Colonel Eleazer Flagg, formed a "mutual attachment" for Joseph Burbeen, Mr. Walker's ancestor. The Pooles, however, disapproved of the match, wishing to have their daughter Esther married to Rev. Edward Jackson, who had then been settled about eight years as a colleague to the Rev. John Fox. The young couple finding their wishes likely to be thwarted, mounted their horses and fled to New Hampshire, where they were married October 8, 1736. So much for Mr. Walker. A very rare pamphlet published in 1750, and another still older printed in 1740, shows the bitterness of the long controversy which followed. In the former pamphlet is presented an exorbitant bill of Edward Jackson's against Jonathan Poole for sundries furnished during the period of his residence with the latter. This bill was aired in court. The Poole fam

ily were first on Jackson's side, and refused to receive Burbeen and their married daughter. But latterly affairs were turned around, and Burbeen and his wife were received, and the disappointed ministerial suitor retaliated on the Pooles by sending this bill to the family head. Of the justice of his claims no one at present knows, as only one side is heard from. The combat in town deepens. A third church (1746-1760) with another pastor is formed. Colonel Roland Cotton, a man of high position in Colonial affairs, comes to the front and under his leadership, apparently, Edward Jackson, by fair means and foul, is put to rout and dies in despair. President John Adams, who by some cause witnessed later some proceedings connected with certain of these parties in court, said, that he never in his life saw such acrimony between contestants, or such feelings of hatred.

Granted that Mr. Fox and his adherents were determined to keep him in his position during life, yet there are not wanting decisive indications that his ministry was a useful one, and that before the loss of his health and sight, it was for many years one of marked success. Two printed sermons of his give an idea of his style: They were preached on the subject of an earthquake, which occurred on October 29, 1727. The earthquake in his belief was "a work of God." His abilities were equal to the average of his time. His language is pure and simple, and his application of his theme direct. His sentences are short and his manner impressive. Considering the superstitious notions regarding earthquakes which prevailed at that time, even among the clergy, his conclusions concerning them appear sound and sensible. Children: 1. John, born February 13, 1704, in early life went to Ireland to live with a wealthy relative. 2. Jabez, born May 25, 1705, died at Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, April 7, 1755; married (first), at York, Maine, 1743. Ann Bradbury, daughter of Wymond and Maria (Cotton) Bradbury, who died August 5, 1746, aged forty-three years, gravestone at Woburn; married (second) Mrs. Ann (Hodge) Jones, widow of Phineas Jones, of Newbury. Mary, born October 26, 1706, married, October 17, 1728, Rev. Abijah Weld, of Attleborough. She died January 7, 1799, aged ninetythree years. 4. Edward, born October 26, 1708, lost at sea on his passage to England. 5. Thomas, born April 7, 1711, married, October 30, 1735, Elizabeth Fothergill, of Boston. He resided at Boston, occupation goldsmith. 6. Judith, born August 10, 1712, married,

3.

October 21, 1734, Rev. Nathan Stone, of Southborough, and died February 9, 1748-49. 7. Jonathan, born March 26, 1716, see forward.

His

(IV) Colonel Jonathan Fox, son of Rev. John Fox (3), born at Woburn, March 26, 1716, died there April 7, 1790, aged seventyfour years. Married, August 17, 1737, Ruth Carter, born April 8, 1720, died October 6, 1786, aged sixty-seven years, daughter of Captain Samuel and Margery (Dickson) Carter, of Woburn. Jonathan Fox first appeared prominently before the public in 1746, as a member of the Third Society in Woburn, distinguished at that day as the "Separatists' Society," formed by a secession from the First Parish in that town, because of the differences that had arisen years before, between his father and the other minister, Edward Jackson. His father, the aged minister, appears to have assembled with them, when able to come abroad. The grandfather of Jonathan Fox, Edward Tyng, was appointed governor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and when he was on his way there he was captured by the French and carried to France, and there died. great-uncle, Jonathan Tyng, known as colorel, died suddenly in Woburn, while in church, after walking there, January 19, 1724, and was universally known as a brave and active military officer in his younger life. Other members of the Tyng family were noted military men. Hence Jonathan Fox, their relative, inherited military talent, but his services as a young man have not been recorded in any list of names we have discovered. We find, however, that he was a captain of militia in Woburn from 1761 to 1774, and he was colonel of the local county regiment from 1775 to 1781. He did not receive so far as known a liberal education, and was probably a saddler by occupation. He inherited his father's estate in 1753, on which was standing a mansion house and a barn in 1772. In 1791 the property became that of the Trowbridge and Hasting families of Cambridge, and acquired for a time the name of the Hastings Place. The property was held in the Fox name for one hundred and twelve successive years. Colonel Fox, about 1762, owned a part of the mansion house of Gershom Flagg then directly behind the present edifice of the Unitarian Society, at the Common, where his son William Fox lived and owned from 1764 to 1785. Colonel Fox's contemporary, Major Josiah Johnson (1710-1784), in a letter dated September 9. 1775. gives him great credit for the important part he took in the

battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, previous. Major Johnson says: "The town of Woburn upon the shortest notice mustered and marched one hundred and eighty brave men, well equipped to the field, whose heroic deeds under the prudent conduct of Captain Jonathan Fox and others, greatly added to the glorious achievements of that memorable day." Johnson also credits Fox with the arrest of Count Rumford at Woburn, on the evening of that day. See sketch of Count Rumford in this work.

Fox was at this time about sixty-five years old. The rolls state that he, with his company, was present in the engagement. His company was the East Company that went he says: "on the alarm of 19 April, 1775, for the defense of the Colony and the rights of America, having marched from Woburn to Concord and thence to Cambridge on that day." He was in service for thirty-five days at this time. Captain of the train-band (Woburn second company) May 15, 1775. He was chosen by ballot February 8, 1776, by the house of representatives, colonel of a regiment of militia in Middlesex county, known as the second regiment, confirmed, February 12, and reported commissioned February 12, 1776. He was still the colonel of this regiment July 5, 1779, per a return of that date, and still the colonel in 1781. Children: 1. Mary, born March 27, 1738, married Nathaniel Brown. 2. Thomas, born December 16, 1739, see forward. 3. William, born February 24, 1742, married (first), June 6, 1765, Abigail Wyman, of Woburn, who died October 26, 1771, aged twenty-eight years; married (second), September 24, 1772, Mary Wright, of Woburn. She married (second), 1793, John Hutchinson, of Charlestown. 4. Ruth, born February 29, 1744, married, February 18, 1762, Jonathan Brooks, of Woburn. 5. Elizabeth, born January 17, 1746. 6. Jonathan, born March, 1748, married, April 18, 1769, Serviah Tidd, of Woburn, who died his widow, November 30, 1786. 7. Judith, born November 5, 1749, married, May 21, 1775, Josiah Wilkins, of Marlborough. 8. Margery, born May 20, 1752, married Jonathan Hunt. 9. Ann, born June 1, 1754. 10. John, born July 3, 1756. 11. Jabez, born May 11, 1758, died September 29, 1761. 12. Susanna, born August 3. 1760, and died September, 1761. 13. Susanna, born July 31, 1762, died May 14, 1793: married, September 16, 1782, Gideon Richardson, of Woburn.

(V) Thomas Fox, son of Colonel Jonathan Fox (4), born at Woburn, December 16,

1739, died May 7, 1815, aged seventy-five years. Married, March 31, 1763, Elizabeth Reed, of Woburn, daughter of Sweetern and Margery (Perry) Reed; she died his widow, December 9, 1818, aged seventy-seven. Thomas Fox resided at one time in Lexington and in the latter part of his life on the Locke place in Woburn, afterward his son William's. He enlisted during the French war on March 3, 1760, to serve to December 8, following, in the company in His Majesty's service, under William Barron, captain, his whole time of service being thirty-nine weeks, four days. What his hard experience was is shown in the draft of a petition of his father, Jonathan Fox, for help from the Province treasury. The son was an enlisted soldier in the expedition against Canada in the above company, and being taken sick at Crown Point was ordered to march homewards with the invalids, though very unable. He got through the woods to Number Four (Charlestown, New Hampshire), but with great diffiulty and expense. He was obliged to tarry at Number Four ten days, and he sent a man and horse to his father, to have the father send a man and horse from Woburn to help him home. This was done, and he remained sick for eight weeks after he returned home, and was unable to do any business. His Revolutionary service was as follows: He was of Lexington and a member of Captain Edmond Munroe's local company, May 16 to 20, 1775, four days, being then on duty at Cambridge, also of Captain John Bridge's company, stationed at Roxbury, for two days between March 4, and 8, 1776. Child: William, horn at Lexington, 1771, see forward.

(VI) William Fox, son of Thomas Fox (5), born at Lexington, 1771, died at Somerville, February 10, 1852, aged eighty-one years. Married, June 20, 1793, Arethusa Munroe, of Lexington, born March 10, 1773, died July 20, 1817, aged forty-four years, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Harrington) Munroe. Captain William Fox was a farmer and carried on an extensive butchering and tallow chandlering business, the latter extending as far as Portland, Maine. He was a man of wealth for his time and a prominent man in town affairs. He served in the militia in Woburn as ensign 1801, lieutenant, 1805, and captain, 1807-16. He lived in the house of William Locke, the immigrant of 1635. This house was situated on Lexington street near the corner of Cambridge street, about a mile and a half westerly of Woburn Center. was here as early as 1798, having bought the

place of Colonel Baldwin, of whom he hired other lands adjacent. Children: 1. William, born January 22, 1794, married December 6, 1815, Abigail Eaton, of Woburn, and died June 12, 1863. 2. Celinda, born November II, 1795, married, April 29, 1814, General Abijah Thompson, of Woburn, and died September 11, 1866, aged seventy-one years. 3. Infant, died September 1, 1797. 4. Samuel, born June 11, 1799, married, January II, 1827, Harriet Barrett, of Woburn, and died at Somerville, August 13, 1864, aged sixty-five years. 5. Elizabeth, born June 14, 1801, married, January 11, 1816, Dennis Munroe, of Woburn, and died his widow, January 1, 1887, aged eighty-six years. 6. Warren, born January 16, 1804, see forward. 7. Dorcas, born May 11, 1806, married, March 15, 1827, Stephen D. Center, of Woburn, and died August 14, 1859, aged fifty-three years. 8. Thomas, born May 14, 1808, died at Medford, March 22, 1830. 9. Martha, born April 22, 1810, married, December 29, 1835, Horace Conn, of Woburn, and died his widow, March 1, 1888, aged seventy-eight years. born July 29, 1812, married, at Concord, New Hampshire, Clara Eastman; resided at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. II. Fanny, died March 17, 1844, aged thirty years.

10. John,

(VII) Warren Fox, son of William Fox (6) born at Woburn, January 16, 1804, died January 22, 1887, aged eighty-three years. Married, May 14, 1827, Eliza Richardson Parker, born August 27, 1808, died October 21, 1886, aged seventy-eight years, daughter of Joseph and Betsey (Richardson) Parker, of Woburn. Children: 1. Warren Parker, born May 13, 1829, see forward. 2. Mary Eliza, born September 10, 1832, married, March 19, 1857, John S. Wheeler, of Woburn, and died April 9, 1889, aged fifty-six years. 3. Sarah Jane, born June 30, 1835, married (first), December 26, 1855, Silas N. Bedelle, of East Abington, and married (second), June 24. 1872, Moseley N. Brooks, of Woburn, who died October 15, 1884. She died his widow November 26, 1885, in her fifty-first year. Child by first husband: i. Joseph Warren Bedelle, born January 3, 1857, married, February 3, 1880, Louisa R. Fowle, of Woburn. Children by second husband: ii. Mary Brooks, born at Somerville, December 12, 1872, died July 20, 1873. iii. Winthrop Brooks, born at Woburn, September 3. 1874, died August 25, 1875. iv. Waldo Brooks, born at Woburn, September 3, 1874. 4. Celinda Thompson, born July 27, 1840, married, April 24, 1864, Jacob C. Whitcher, of Woburn, as his second

wife; he died January 17, 1878. Children: i. Arthur Warren, born October 3, 1865, married, June 17, 1896, Edith M. Nickerson, of Woburn. ii. Jacob Franklin, born March 31, 1869, died December 7, 1875. iii. Jennie Eliza, born December 13, 1870, died May 23, 1882. iv. Mary Celinda, born October 29, 1874, married, April 5, 1898, Henry A. T. Dow, of Woburn. v. Carrie Louise, born January 28, 1877, died March 10, 1900.

(VIII) Warren Parker Fox, son of Warren Fox (7), born at Woburn, May 13, 1829, died November 2, 1905. Married, June 16, 1853, Maria M. Newhall, of Woburn, born March 13, 1855. Children: 1. Clara Maria, born September 19, 1855. 2. Everett Parker, born September 10, 1860, see forward. 3. John William, born February 14, 1863, see forward.

(IX) John William Fox, son of Warren Parker Fox (8), born at Woburn, February 14, 1863, married, November 18, 1885, Carrie Belle Cook, born April 4, 1864, daughter of William Frederick and Arvilla (Fish) Cook, of Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Fox was educated in the Woburn public schools and was graduated from the high school in 1882. He then began work in his father's shop and learned the trade of tanner and currier. In 1902 h removed to Portville, New York, where he became superintendent of the leather finishing department of the Roulette Leather Company, and remained in that position until 1904. He then returned to Woburn and entered into business with his father and brother, and in 1904 was admitted to partnership in the concern and the name of the firm was changed to W. P. Fox & Sons. At present Mr. Fox is general superintendent of the manufacturing plant of the concern. He is a member and for a number of years deacon of the First Congregational Church in Woburn, has been treasurer of the church and has served as one of the parish committee. He is a Republican in politics and has served as delegate to numerous conventions of the party. He was an alderman of Woburn for one year, and was defeated the second year by only four votes. He is a member of the Towanda Club of Woburn. Child: 1. Mildred Arvilla, born September 15, 1887.

(IX) Everett Parker Fox, son of Warren Parker Fox (8), born at Woburn, September 10, 1860, married (first), November 29, 1882, Elona Sybil Dennis, of Boston, died at Woburn, August 22, 1892, daughter of Ward L. and Caroline (Parker) Dennis, of Boston; married (second), April 23, 1895, Mrs. Lizzie Katherine (Smith) Cummings, born July 28,

1862, died November 13, 1901, daughter of Charles A. and Elizabeth A. (Robertson) Smith, of Woburn.

Everett Parker Fox was educated in the public schools of Woburn, and graduated from the high school in 1878. He then entered the establishment of his father and learned the tanning and currying business, and continued in his father's employ until 1893, when he was admitted to partnership with his father and became general foreman of the plant and continued in that capacity until 1895, when he took the business entirely in his own hands, his father having retired, retaining the old firm name of W. P. Fox & Son. After 1895 the capacity of the plant was greatly increased, the output being more than doubled. In May, 1904, his brother, John William Fox, was admitted to partnership with him and the name of the firm was changed to W. P. Fox & Sons. The firm manufacture large quantities of patent and other upper leathers, disposing of their product in the home market and in England, Germany and Switzerland. Their selling agents are Converse & Company, 27 South street, Boston, where Mr. E. P. Fox has his office.

Mr. Fox is a member of the First Congregational Church in Woburn. Is a Republican in politics and served as a delegate to the Republican senatorial convention in 1906, and to various conventions the present year (1907). He has served in the city government of Woburn as a councilman for two years, and as alderman one year. He is a member and director of the Towanda Club of Woburn, and also of the Boston Shoe and Leather Association, and a director in the Woburn National Bank. Child by the first wife: Elona Sybil, born August 28, 1884, married, June 20, 1905, Dr. Joseph T. Callahan, of Woburn. Child: Thomas Jerome (Callahan), born June 21, 1906. Child by second wife: Catherine Marjorie, born November 2, 1901, died July 3, 1902.

William Hall (1), the immigrant HALL ancestor, was a son of Rev. William Hall, a clergyman, who is believed to be the William Hall who continued the "Fab you Chronical," begun by Sir Thomas More, and there is reason to believe that a connection existed between William Hall and the Lord Chancellor's family (See article in Harper's Magazine by Mrs. Hall, of Chelsea Church, England). William Hall of London

disappears from the London records in 1638, the year in which he appears in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Thomas Clement, who was a connection of the More family, was an original founder of Portsmouth; was a friend and neighbor of Hall's and administered his estate. The Hall coat-of-arms is: Three talbots' heads on a chevron sable. Crest: A griffin's head azure. He was one of the founders of Portsmouth, and one of the fifty-nine men who were admitted inhabitants of the island of Aquidneck, August 8, 1638. He was in Newport in 1639. A parcel of land at Portsmouth was granted to him May 27, 1644. His name appears on the list of freemen in 1655. He was a part owner of Canonicout Island and Dutch Island, and September 6. 1654, sold to Richard Sisson a one three-hundredth share of each. Hall was a commissioner to the general court from Portsmouth in 1654, 1656, 1660 and 1663; deputy to the general assembly in 1665, 1666, 1667, 1668, 1672 and 1673, and was on the town council in 1672. In 1673 he was on a very important committee to treat with the Indian chiefs about drunkenness and "seriously council them. and agree on some way to prevent extreme excess of Indian drunkenness." The five chiefs named in the order appointing the committee were: King Philip, of Mount Hope; Mawsup and Mirecraft: Weetano, of Pocasset, and Awasunk, of Seaconnet.

His will was dated February 20, 1673-4; proved April 19, 1676. His wife Mary was executor. She died in 1680. From his age at death, his birth is fixed at 1613 in England. Children: 1. Zuriel, mentioned below. 2. William, resided in Portsmouth; married January 26, 1671, Alice Tripp. 3. Benjamin, married July 27, 1676, Frances Parker, daughter of George. 4. Elizabeth, married April 13, 1676, Giles Pearce, son of Richard. 5. Rebecca. 6. Deliverance, married January 30, 1679, Abiel Tripp, son of Thomas Durfee.

(II) Zuriel Hall, son of William Hall (1), was born about 1645, in Portsmouth, and died in 1691. He was admitted a freeman of that town in 1677. He married Elizabeth Tripp, who was born in 1648 and died in 1701, daughter of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp. The inventory of his estate, dated September 14. 1694, amounted to eighty-four pounds five shillings. Children: 1. Mary, married September 16, 1686, Robert Fish. 2. Zuriel, Jr., born in 1677; mentioned below. 3. Joanna. 4. Benjamin, born April 13, 1692 (posthumous).

(III) Zuriel Hall, son of Zuriel Hall (2),

was born in Portsmouth in 1677-8, and died there April 3, 1765, in his eighty-eighth year. He married Susannah Sheffield, daughter of William Sheffield, of Sherborn and Hingham, Massachusetts, September, 1697. She was born in 1676 and died August 3, 1742. He married second, Jane Smith (intentions dated December 14, 1742, widow of Peletiah Smith. She was born in 1670, and died January 8, 1746-7. He settled in Bellingham, Massachusetts, though some of his children were born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children: I. Elizabeth, born June 8, 1698. 2. Mary, born July 24, 1700. 3. Susannah, born August 2, 1702. 4. Patience, born November 4, 1704. 5. Seth, born April 2, 1707; mentioned below. 6. Urania, born January 11, 1709; married June 26, 1729, Jabesh Lyon. 7. Abigail, born July 8, 1712. 8. Zuriel, born October 20, 1717. 9. Solomon, born May 6, 1719-20 (?). 10. Ruth, born July 21, 1720. 11. Elizabeth, born February 22, 1722. 12. John, born Feb

ruary 7, 1724.

(IV) Seth Hall, son of Zuriel Hall (3), was born in Bellingham, Massachusetts, April 2, 1707, and died there April 27, 1780, in his seventy-fourth year. He was prominent in military and town affairs. He married May 28, 1737, Abigail Albee, of an old Rhode Island family. and family. Children, born in Bellingham: 1. Zuriel, born March 23, 1738; died December 26, 1738. 2. Seth, born May 15, 1739; mentioned below. 3. Zuriel, July 1, 1741. 4. Deborah, born August 17, 174; married April 27, 1786, Daniel Shepard. 5. John, born June 18, 1747; married April 28, 1768, Joanna Cook; resided at Cumberland, Rhode Island; had daughter Lillas, September 26, 1768. 6. Marvellous, born November 26, 1752; married 1772, Esther Fuller, daughter of Peleg Fuller, at Cumberland.

(V) Seth Hall, son of Lieutenant Seth Hall (4), was born in Bellingham, May 15, 1739. He married first Martha Thompson (intentions dated April 22, 1757); married second, December 17, 1761, Elizabeth Spear, a widow, at Cumberland. Children, born at Bellingham: 1. George, born May 3, 1762. 2. William, born May 23, 1764. 3. Asa, born May 29, 1770; died January 3, 1841; married Selissa who was born September 21, 1789. 1789. 4. Lemuel, born April 24, 1768; mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, born July 9, 1770; married Sarah Bates, April 20, 1797, at Cumberland; she died at Bellingham. February 2, 1824. 6. Elizabeth, born November 26, 1772.

(VI) Lemuel Hall, son of Seth Hall (5). was born at Bellingham, April 24, 1768. He