6. John Jacob, born April 13, 1877, graduate of Reading high school, 1894. 7. Henry Ward, born March 24, 1879, died March 24, 1905. 8. Ernest Timothy, born June 9, 1882. 9. Paul Alva, born August 2, 1884, died February 23, 1886.

The Broad family is of ancient BROAD English origin, though the name seems not particularly widespread in England and still less in America. There is but one Broad coat-ofarms reported in Burke's General Armory, viz.: Argent a pale sable in fesse three lozenges counterchanged. Crest-A demisavage holding in the dexter hand three arrows and pointing with the sinister to an imperial crown.

(I) Hezekiah Broad, the immigrant ancestor, is the progenitor of all of the name known to the writer. He was the pioneer ancestor of the families of this surname in Dedham, Medway, Medfield, Sherborn, Needham and Natick. He was probably born about 1675, in England, coming when a young man to Dedham, Massachusetts. He was a taxpayer in Dedham, August 28, 1705, on the country rate, and in the two years following we find his name on the rate rolls. He married Abigail He lived in 1720 and earlier at or near Broad's Hill, in Needham Leg, now Natick. Morse's Pond between Natick and Wellesley was formerly called for him Broad's Pond. Hezekiah Broad was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the town of Needham in 1710, and was surveyor of highways in Needham in 1716. In July, 1733, Hezekiah Broad bought a mill privilege and other land in South Natick. He was a clothier or fuller by trade. This mill dam was built in 1720 by John Sawin. He built a dam in the Charles river in 1720 and erected a mill, but the dam flowed the meadows at Medfield too much, and the complaint that followed caused Sawin to remove his mill to a stream near his own house. Broad bought the dam built in 1720, an acre of land between the river and the road leading from South Natick to Southville in Natick. In July, 1733, Broad also bought other land in the vicinity of Rev. Oliver Peabody, and soon removed to Natick, occupying the Peabody house until his death May 18, 1752. He was a town officer in Natick in 1734. Children: Hezekiah, born in Dedham, March 21, 1708; mentioned below. 2. Thaddeus, born about 1710; resided in Sherborn and Medway, and had a large

family. 3. Thomas, married Rebecca resided in Needham; father of Timothy, born December 2, 1745, died December 13, 1811. 4. Jane, "of Needham," married January 5, 1747-8, Joseph Smalledge, at Grafton, Massachusetts.

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(II) Hezekiah Broad, son of Hezekiah Broad (1), was born in Dedham, March 21, 1708. He married first, March 5, 1753-4, Abigail Ware, daughter of Ebenezer Ware, of Needham, granddaughter of Robert Ware, the immigrant. Abigail (Ware) Broad died March 31, 1736. He married second, June I, 1741, at Natick, Rebecca Burrage. removed to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he was living in 1746, when his only son was born, though after the family returned to Natick the birth was also recorded at Natick. He died before 1755. His widow Rebecca married second, April 30, 1755, at Natick, Captain David Morse. Children of Hezekiah and Rebecca (Burrage) Broad: I. Rebecca, born at Natick July 6, 1743; married there January 12, 1762, Joseph Morse. 2. Hezekiah, born at Grafton, September 29, 1746; mentioned below.

(III) Major Hezekiah Broad, son of Hezekiah Broad (2), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, September 29, 1746. He returned to Natick with his parents, and his father died when he was a young child. He was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in Captain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment on the Lexington Alarm; also captain of the Fifth Company in Colonel Samuel Thatcher's regiment early in 1776; late in the year this regiment marched to Fairfield, Connecticut; also captain in Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment in 1777; first major in Colonel Abner Perry's regiment (Fifteenth Middlesex County); also major in Colonel Samuel Denny's regiment in 1779 and was at Claverack, New York, about three months; also in Colonel Abner Perry's regiment in the Rhode Island campaign in 1780. Others of this family, his cousins, in the revolution, were Timothy Broad, of Needham : Aaron Broad, of Holden; Amos Broad, of Medway; Corporal Seth Broad, of Needham; William Broad, of Holliston; and William Broad (perhaps the same), of Westborough, Massachusetts. He was prominent in town affairs, and a leading citizen for many years. At the age of thirty-six years, in 1787, he was delegate to the state convention to ratify the federal constitution, and voted against it, but when it became the law supported and defended it with the earnestness and heartiness

of a true patriot that always distinguished him. He was town clerk and selectman of Natick. In 1797, when a portion of Natick was set off to Needham, and Needham Leg ceded to Natick, his house came in the limit of Needham. He was on the precinct committee of the West precinct from 1800 to 1808; was moderator at seven or more meetings from 1799 to 1804. He died March 7, 1823, aged seventy-eight years, according to his gravestone in the graveyard at South Natick. His grave also has a marker of the Sons of the Revolution. He is mentioned in Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Oldtown Folks" (a story of South Natick). Major Broad married thrice. His first wife was Lydia Bacon, born June 6, 1751. He married second, and he married third, in Natick, December 1. 1814, Miriam Sawin. He had no children by his first two wives. Children of Major Hezekiah and Miriam Broad: I. Fannie, born at Natick, January 2, 1816, (baptized Jenny, June 2, 1816), died aged six years. 2. Hezekiah, born March 11, 1817: baptized May 4, 1817, at Needham; mentioned below.

(IV) Hezekiah Broad, son of Major Hezekiah Broad (3), was born in Natick, March II, 1817. He settled on the homestead of his father on Elliott street, and lived there until 1867. He died November 2, 1892. He married January 1, 1840, Sibyl Jennings Perry, who was born in West Natick, February 5, 1817. Children of Hezekiah and Sibyl Broad: 1. Dexter, born at Natick, September 16, 1840; educated in the common schools; farmer; died unmarried March 23, 1899. 2. Edward, born June 4, 1842, at Natick; died October, 1842. 3. Ede, born September 16, 1844: resides at Natick. 4. Hezekiah, born March 3, 1846; educated in the common schools, manufacturer of shoes in Natick; married January, 1875, Flora Corson; children: Edward, Mabel, James. 5. Horace, born March 11, 1848, unmarried. 6. Curtis, born September 11, 1850; mentioned below.

(V) Curtis Broad, son of Hezekiah Broad (4), was born in Natick, September 11, 1850. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. He was engaged in the ice business at Natick for twenty-five years. retiring in 1905. He attends the Unitarian church. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of Sincerity Lodge, No. 173, Independent Order Odd Fellows, of Wellesley, Massachusetts. He married February 18, 1892, Hanrah Louise Shumway, born August 28,

1849, daughter of Amos Wright and Hannah (Harding) Shumway, of Dover, Massachusetts. (See Shumway family).

(For early generations see Jeremiah Shumway 3).

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(IV) Solomon Shumway, son of Jeremiah Shumway (3), was born February 19. 1747, at Oxford, Massachusetts. He settled at Killingly, now Thompson, Connecticut. He seems to have been a soldier in the revolution from a Massachusetts town, a private in Captain Elijah Dwight's company, Colonel Elisha Elisha Porter's regiment of Hampshire county, 1777. This was a common occurence, though Shumway possibly lived over the line in Massachusetts at that time. He married November 17, 1768, Dorothy Howard, of Killingly. Killingly. Children: 1. William, settled in Genesee county, New York, where his descendants are living. 2. John, born 1788; mentioned below. 3. Dolly Timothy Vinton, settled in Woodstock, Connecticut, near Southbridge, Massachusetts. 4. Jeremiah, born 1780; married, 1803, Huldah Upham, daughter of Luke Upham of Thompson, Connecticut; he died November 10, 1825; she died February 7, 1824; children settled in Webster, Massachusetts, and vicinity; one of them was Solomon, deputy sheriff, who died recently at an advanced age.

(V) John Shumway, son of Solomon Shumway (4), was born in Thompson, Connecticut, 1788; died February 21, 1844, at Dover, Massachusetts. He married (intentions at Medford, Massachusetts, dated April 19. 1813), at Dover, May 30, 1813, Abigail Wight, of Dover, born December 21, 1792, daughter of Children: 1. Abigail, Wight, born September 21, 1814. 2. Elizabeth Morse, born September 4, 1816. 3. Amos Wight, born May 13, 1819; mentioned below. 4. John Worthington, born March 24, 1821. 5. Benjamin Franklin, born March 23, 1823. 6. George Howard, born February 11. 1825. 7. William Frederick, born January 16, 182. 8. Elbridge Eugene, born February 9. 1830. 9. Hannah Louise, born April 16, 1832. 10. Sarah Eudora, born October 21, 1841.

(VI) Amos Wight Shumway, son of John Shumway (5), was born in Dover, Massachusetts, May 13. 1819. He was a farmer in Dover. He married December 1, 1847, Hannah Harding, who was born in Medfield, February 28, 1820, and died December 25, 1897. He died February 27, 1893. He was promin

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ent in town affairs, assessor, member of the school committee and selectman many years. He was active in the militia in his youth, and rose to the rank of captain of his company, the Putnam Grays. He was an attendant of the Unitarian church at Medfield, and member of Dover Grange, Patrons of Husbandry of Dover. Children: I. Hannah Louise, born August 28, 1849; married February 18, 1892, Curtis Broad, of Natick. (See sketch). 2. Amos Wight, Jr., born August 16, 1851. 3. William Frederick, born October 10, 1853; died March 17, 1885.

The surname Felch is of Welsh FELCH origin, and in the early records is variously spelled Felt, Felch, Ffelsh, Falch, McFelch, Feltch. In Wales the spellings Felcks, Foulches and Foulvks are found. We are told that this family has the same lineage as the Hughes family, Barons of Edeirnion, county Merioneth, Wales, which derives its royal lineage through the ancient princes, Powys and monarchs of North and South Wales, from Roderick the Great, or Rhodri Maur.

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(I) Henry Felch, the immigrant ancestor, born in Wales as early as 1585, settled at Gloucester before it became a town. He owned six acres there in 1642, not among the early grants, indicating that he preceded the founders and proprietors of the town. was a proprietor in 1641. The earliest record of him is the date of his daughter's marriage, March 2, 1641-42, to Samuel Hayward at Gloucester. He had land in Watertown in 1642. He left Gloucester before 1649 and settled in Boston. Some authorities state that he went to Reading where his son located. He sold his land and house at Gloucester to James Avery. His will was made July 4, 1670; proved September 27, following, bequeathing to wife; to sons Henry Felch and Samuel Dunton; to each of his grandchildren. His daughter Mary and her husband, John Wilburn or Wilborne, deeded land August 2, 1671, to her mother, Elizabeth Felch, widow. Henry Felch married twice. His wife Margaret died June 23, 1655, and his second wife, Elizabeth, survived him. Children: Daughter married Samuel Hayward. Henry, Jr., of Reading, mentioned below. 3. Daughter married Samuel Dunton, of Reading. 4. Mary, married John Wilburn or Wilborne, mariner.

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(II) Henry Felch, Jr., son of Henry Felch (1), was born in Wales about 1610, and died

November 11, 1699, at Reading, Massachusetts. He probably came over with his father about 1640. Both he and his father were proprietors of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1647, the year he removed to Reading. He became a prominent citizen of that town; was selectman in 1647-48-51-81. He was sergeant of the military company. He drew many lots in Reading. He married Hannah probably in the old country. She died December 15, 1717, aged nearly one hundred, according to the records. The inventory of Felch's estate was dated December 13, 1699, and his son John was administrator. Children: 1. Hannah, born February 26, 1650, died April 23, 1668. 2. Mary, born July 31, 1653, married William Green. 3. Elizabeth, born July 15, 1655, died October 18, 1657. 4. Samuel, born July 12, 1662, died January 31, 1683. 1683. 7. Joseph, died May 31, 1727. 8. Elizabeth, born March 9, 1666, married, December 30, 1686, Thomas Cutler. 9. Daniel, mentioned below. 10. Hannah, born September 18, 1672, married Samuel Parker. 11. Ruth, born June 1, 1675.

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(III) Dr. Daniel Felch, son of Henry Felch (2), was born at Reading, Massachusetts, January 5, 1668, died at Seabrook (Hampton Falls), New Hampshire, October 5, 1752. He practiced many years at Seabrook, but very little in detail is known of his life. He doubtless studied medicine under some doctor near Reading. His estate was administered by his sons, Joseph and Daniel Felch. He married (first), May 6, 1702, Deborah Dean, of Charlestown, who died January 7, 1715. He married (second). Sarah who died prior to 1730. He married (third), Hepsibah who died at the homestead where her son Samuel resided. The only child of Daniel and Deborah Felch: 1. Daniel, born March 8, 1703, died September 13, 1713. Children of Daniel and Sarah Felch: 2. Daniel, born April 3. 1718, married, February 14, 1749, Jane Page. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. Sarah, born about 1727, died January 13, 1808, aged eighty-one; unmarried. 5. Samuel, born about 1729, died June 3, 1811: married, January 1, 1755. Jemima Cilley, who died in 1817. 6. Deborah, born January 12, 1730, married Abner Harris: removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Curtis, ancestor of many Seabrook families; resided at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. 8. Hannah, born October 24, 1731, died May 14, 1746. 9. Henry, born July 20, 1735, died June 27, 1807.

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Felch (3), was born in Hampton Falls or Seabrook, New Hampshire, about 1725, and died at Weare, New Hampshire, February 5, 1803. He bought the farm at Weare, of Stephen Russell, in 1779, and the place is still owned by the family. He showed his sympathy for the cause by signing the association test in 1776, in support of the Revolutionary war. He married, in 1756, Mary Hoyt, who was born January 6, 1739, and died April 4, 1804, aged sixty-five years. Children, born at Seabrook: I. Anne, born September, 1757. 2. Jabez, born February 14, 1759, died August 24, 1830; married, February 14, 1785, Patience Johnson. 3. Curtis, born January 3. Curtis, born January 23, 1761, died January 28, 1849, aged eightyeight years; married Sally Evans, who died December 30, 1846. 4. Molly, born May 12, 1764, died February 10, 1803; married Joseph Brown. 5. Joseph, born April 28, 1765 or 1766, died June, 1846; married, 1788-89, Sarah Ayer, who died September 23, 1797; married (second), July, 1799, Abigail Manchester, who died September 18, 1859. 6. Jonathan Hoyt, born May 29, 1768, died January 27, 1852; married Abigail Favor. 7. John, mentioned below. 8. Benjamin, born November 12, 1775, died April 10, 1848; married Polly Thompson, who was born December 27, 1779, and died December 24, 1837.

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(V) John Felch, son of Joseph Felch (4), was born at Seabrook, New Hampshire, July, 1773. He received a good education in the public schools and became a school teacher in Deering and Weare for several winter terms. He worked at farming during the summer seasons from early youth. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was said by a contemporary to have "had the best intellect in the family." All of his brothers located in Weare. He settled in Deering, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Orthodox church. politics he was a Democrat. He removed to Francestown to conduct the farm of his wife's parents and to care for them in their old age. When they died the farm came to him. He married, December 22, 1796, Olive Thompson, who was born August 7, 1778, at Dedham, Massachusetts, died November 24, 1860, at Francestown, daughter of Samuel and Olive (Felch) Thompson. Her mother, Olive, was daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Fisher) Felch, of Natick, and Walpole, Massachusetts. Her only sister, Mary Felch, born at Dedham, December 27, 1779, married Benjamin Felch, of Weare, brother of John, April 14, 1799. Samuel Thompson built and occupied a log house on what is known now

as the Bryant farm quite early. The present house was built for Mr. Thompson by Mr. Benjamin Deane. After working a year, clearing his farm, Thompson brought his family to Francestown about 1785. He was born May 26, 1749, and died January 30, 1825.

Children of John and Olive Felch, of Deering: 1. Olive, born March 7, 1798, married, May 1, 1823, Samuel Gould. 2. Asenath, born February 26, 1800, married, November 17, 1822, Daniel Hadley. 3. Mary, born January January 26, 1802, died January 29, 1890; married, March 11, 1824, Whitcomb May, of Hancock, New Hampshire; children: i. Mary E. May, born December 10, 1824; ii. Betsey F., December 12, 1826; iii. Charles P. O. May, February 22, 1829; iv. Nathaniel H., October 16, 1831, died March 19, 1854; v. Samuel May, February 18, 1835, died February 19, 1835; vi. Thomas M. May, June 1, 1836, vii. John E. May, April 30, 1841; viii. George D. May, September 22, 1843. 4. Irene, born June 9, 1804, died June, 1881; married, August 5, 1840, Rufus Moore. 5. Charlotte, born March 26, 1806, married, November 17, 1825, William Baldwin. 6. John Thompson, mentioned below. 7. Samuel, born March 24, 1810, died in Florida. Luke, born July 28, 1812, died August II, 1876; married (first), Mrs. Lucy Ann Burnham; (second), Elizabeth Wardwell; (third), Mrs. Elizabeth Mann. 9. Hill, born November 17, 1814, died at New Orleans, 1834, in

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(VI) John Thompson Felch, son of John Felch (5), was born in Deering, New Hampshire, March 13, 1808. When a boy he moved with his parents to Francestown and attended the public schools of that town. During his youth he removed to Concord, Vermont, living with Ezra Wilson, from whom he learned the trade of carpenter. He worked at this trade until he was twenty years old, attending the winter terms of the common schools at Concord. Then he returned to Francestown and bought the old Thompson farm, known as the Bryant place, inherited by his mother from her father. Later he bought the adjoining farm known as the Captain Martin place, making a total of three hundred acres. From the time of his marriage in 1838 to about 1859 he conducted general farming and traded in cattle, sheep and stock. He also followed his trade of carpenter and built many of the dwelling houses in that town. He sold his

place to Mr. Phelps, and in 1859 bought the James Quigley farm of about three hundred acres and conducted it successfully until his death, June 20, 1887. The farm is now owned and occupied by his son, Samuel Lewis Felch. Mr. Felch was a man of fine physique and personal appearance; six feet in height. He served in the militia in his younger days, was a member of the Congregational church of Francestown, and in politics was a Democrat. Both Mr. and Mrs. Felch were prudent, industrious and worthy. He married, June 4, 1833, Sarah Lewis, who was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire, February 23, 1804, and died at Francestown, April 6, 1889, the daughter of Captain Samuel and Betsey (Martin) Lewis, of Greenfield. Her father was a farmer. She was granddaughter of the first settler of the town, a woman of education, superior ability and excellent memory. Children, born in Francestown: I. John Thompson, Jr., born March 12, 1834, died March 5, 1835. 2. Samuel Lewis, born December 26, 1835, married, December 10, 1891, Georgiana Felch, of Weare, New Hampshire. 3. Sophronia Thompson, born March 1, 1837, married, October 27, 1858, Nathaniel C. Locke, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; resided later at Salem; children: i. Albert Nathan Locke, born November 4, 1865, married, April 28, 1896, Alice Griswold, of Salem; ii. Sally Abbie Locke, August 7, 1873, married, December 6, 1899, Charles A. Archer, of Salem, and have Phebe Waldo Archer, born November 7, 1902. 4. Elizabeth Irene, born January 27, 1839, died November 14, 1903; married, October 3, 1867, Alfred W. Savage, of Greenfield, New Hampshire; children, i. Ella Lizzie Savage, born May 10, 1869, married, April 16, 1889, Harvey W. Donaghy, of Halifax, Nova Scotia (children: Harold Alfred Donaghy, born July 16, 1890; Ruth Charlotte Donaghy, January 20, 1894; Karl William Donaghy, born March 1, 1896). 5. John Parker, born July 8, 1840, died January 2, 1896; married, January 30, 1866, Anna Maria Kendall, of Andover, Massachusetts, reside at Westford, Massachusetts; children: i. John Kendall, born October 27, 1866, married, July 4, 1897, Mary Abbie Day; ii. Charles Dutton, September 2, 1868, married, October 6, 1897, Martha Gleason Turner; iii. Lizzie Maria, January 23, 1870, married, September 18, 1900, Ralph Bridgeford; iv. Samuel Lewis, October 19, 1872, married, June 16, 1903. Estelle Gertrude Hutchins and have Lewis Hawthorne, born November 4, 1905; v.

Alfred Whittemore, February 24, 1874, married, October 12, 1898, Alice Arletta Mason; vi. Emma Florilla, December 16, 1875, married, March 27, 1902, Fred Austin Parker and have Florilla Bernice Parker, born September 12, 1902, and Albert Austin Parker, born September 9, 1903; vii. Frank Parker, September 22, 1876, married, June 26, 1895, Cora B. F. Wilson and have William Parker, born October 18, 1896, Minnie Fletcher, February 7, 1898, and Martha Beatrice, June 4, 1900; viii. Harry Curtis, March 10, 1878, married, November 3, 1900, Clara Ellen Turner and have Gladys Lucile, born January 4, 1902, and Marion Flavia, April 1, 1907; ix. Edward Arthur, April 14, 1882; x. Nellie Etta, October 17, 1883; xi. Grace May, September 2, 1885; married, June 5, 1906, Oscar Elmer Hodson. 6. Sarah Hannah, born January 6, 1846, married, September 22, 1867, David W. Kennedy, of Francestown; reside in Medford, Massachusetts; children: i. Geraldine Sophronia Kennedy, born August 10, 1870, married, October 22, 1889, Nathaniel H. Cushing, of Medford, and have Geraldine Laura Cushing, born October 28, 1890, and Marian Ellsworth Cushing, July, 1895; ii. Alfred Warren Kennedy, born July 16, 1872, married, June 23, 1902, Mary Winn Mansfield, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have Lewis Mansfield, born September 5, 1903, and Sarah Margaret, December 27, 1904; iii. Alice Josephine Kennedy, August 19, 1874; iv. Lewis Richardson Kennedy, July 13, 1876, died August 28, 1894. 7. Mark Curtis, mentioned below.

(VII) Mark Curtis Felch, son of John Thompson Felch (6), was born in Francestown, March 4, 1848. He received his education in the common schools of his native town and in the Francestown Academy. He then worked one year in Lowell as clerk for Daniel Gage, dealer in meats and provisions, returning home to work on the farm and deal in cattle. When he came of age he bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, adjoining that of his father and known as the Charles Quigley estate. He cut off much lumber to good advantage and in addition to his farming traded in horses and cattle. In August, 1872, he removed to Somerville, Massachusetts, where he spent three years building houses to sell. He then bought the plant of A. G. Carter, wholesale butcher, on Beech street, Woburn, built a new slaughter house and began business there. He built up a large trade in Woburn and adjoining towns. After six years in this business, he added a refrigerator to his