13, 1775, Solomon Prentice. 5. John, June 29, 1748, died August 9, 1749. 6. Martha, May 12, 1750, married Isaac Tufts, of Medford. 7. Sarah, June 10, 1752, married John Hutchinson, of Charlestown. 8. John, June 23, 1754. 9. Hannah, baptized May 21, 1758, married, April 13, 1780, Josiah Wilson. 10. Seth, born March 20, 1760, mentioned below. 11. William, baptized January 3, 1762. 12. Cooper, 12. Cooper, born March 20, 1764. 13. Lydia Harrington, born and baptized November 16, 1766, married Simon Crosby.

(V) Seth Frost, son of Samuel Frost (4), was born at Belmont, Massachusetts, March 20, 1760, and baptized March 23, 1760. He occupied the farm of his father and remained a farmer all his life. He was a kind-hearted man, and interested in town affairs. He served in the Revolution at Noddles Island in 1776, as a private in Captain John Walton's company; also in Captain Caleb Brook's company, Colonel Brook's regiment; also in Captain Walton's company in 1778, and in Captain William Tucker's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment, in the same year. He was a member of the precinct committee from 1794 to 1796, and was precinct assessor from 1797 to 1798. He and his wife were admitted to the precinct church, August 25, 1782. He married, November 20, 1781, Sarah Hill, born February 14, 1761, died January 27, 1848, daughter of Zachariah and Rebecca (Wellington) Hill, of West Cambridge. Children: I. Sarah, born September 11, 1782, married, September 2, 1804, James Winn. 2. Seth, born 1784, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born 1786, died August 21, 1838. 4. Abigail Butler, baptized November 2, 1788, married, October 2, 1828, Alfred Brown, of Coventry, Vermont; died February 11, 1842. 5. Patty (twin), baptized April 14, 1793, married

Horn. 6. Samuel (twin), baptized April 14, 1793, died July 25, 1822. 7. Rebecca Wellington, baptized June 5, 1795, died August 22, 1848; married, June 13, 1816, John J. Craft, of West Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(VI) Seth Frost, son of Seth Frost (5), was born in Belmont, then West Cambridge, in 1784. He was brought up on his father's farm, receiving a common school education. In his early days he pursued hunting and dealt in furs, selling furs at a good profit. Part of the old Frost farm came to him, the diagonal wall running through the farm separating the present Martha Frost and Charles A. Frost farms. He was the first man in Belmont to use hotbeds for the growth of market produce, doing a profitable business supplying the Bos

ton markets. He accumulated much wealth, and conducted the farm up to the time of his death, October 9, 1850. He built the homestead, where Miss Martha D. Frost now resides, in 1845, on his farm of twenty acres in the north part of Belmont. He was a man of medium height, upright and conscientious, quiet but firm. He was very constant in church attendance, going first to the Unitarian, later to the Arlington Baptist church, occupying pew number 44, in the second parish. He was a Whig in politics, and served in the militia. He married, October 5, 1823, Anstess Trow, died April 9, 1841, aged forty-six years, daughter of Jesse and Martha (Dodge) Trow, of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. Children: I. Infant, born and died June 5, 1824. 2. Francis Seth, born April 24, 1825, mentioned below. 3. Elvira Anstess, born October 2, 1827, married, October 9, 1859, David Fisher, of Londonderry, Nova Scotia; child, Ethel Eugenia, born June 26, 1861, married, December 22, 1884, Daniel Langdon Tappan, of Arlington, Massachusetts, and had Arthur Newell Tappan, born December 26, 1885. 4. Newell Charles, born December 20, 1830, mentioned below. 5. Martha Dodge, born August 20, 1836. He married (second), June 15, 1843, Mrs. Mary A. (Wyman) Hopkins, of Arlington, daughter of Samuel Frost and Polly (Palmer) Wyman, of West Cambridge.

(VII) Francis Seth Frost, son of Seth Frost (6), was born in Belmont, April 24, 1825. He attended the common schools and academy, and worked on the farm until 1849, when he, with others, shipped on the ship "Drummond" for California, going around the Horn. After remaining for two years he returned on the ship "Ohio," and the two years following he was incapacitated on account of illness. In early life he inclined toward the career of an artist, and for several years devoted himself to painting, producing some good work. Many of his paintings were scenes in the Rocky Mountains, where he spent some time with Bierstadt, the artist, with whom he studied. Coming later into the possession of considerable property, he entered the art business during the sixties with Edward Adams, under the firm name of Frost and Adams, continuing about a year, when Adams withdrew from the firm. Henry Lawrence, a clerk, was admitted to partnership and remained in the Firm several years, until he was killed at the Malden railroad station. It was shortly after this that the company was incorporated under the Massachusetts laws, Mr. Frost elected president and Herbert Gardner treasurer. The

firm of Frost and Adams Company still continues on Cornhill, where the business was originally started. Mr. Frost was at the head. of the firm until his death, December 26, 1902. The firm to-day is the most widely and favorably known of any in its class in New England. Though the business made demands on much of his time, he nevertheless executed a large amount of artistic work, especially in later years in the line of photography. In this branch he had few equals, perhaps no superiors. Many of his fine productions found their way as gifts to his most intimate friends. His art store was the rendezvous of the Boston Art Club artists, and his opinion was constantly sought on matters pertaining to the advancement of art in Boston. Big-hearted and generous to a fault, he had a pleasant word and a kindly smile for everyone. He attended the Unitarian church; was a Republican in politics; a member of Hiram Lodge of Masons; a trustee of the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank.

He married, January 30, 1849, Almira Jane Teel, of West Cambridge, born January 29, 1832, daughter of Joseph and Mary Lock (Frost) Teel, the former from Charlestown and the latter of Watertown, now Belmont. Children: 1. Louisa Whittemore, born December 31, 1852, married, November 11, 1874, Walter F. Lane, of West Medford, Massachusetts. 2. Annie Frances, born May 21, 1857, married, November 19, 1876, Charles Warren Cook, of Arlington, Massachusetts; children: i. Walter Frost Cook, born January 3, 1878, married, August 29, 1901, Florence Payne, of Arlington, Massachusetts; ii. Helen Adelaide Cook, born April 29, 1879; iii. Herbert Warren Cook, born September 24, 1880; iv. Frederick Russell Cook, born January 23, 1882. Georgianna Wilhelmina, born September 13, 1862, married, December 31, 1883, Horatio A. Phinney, of Yarmouth, Maine. 4. Maud Helen, born October 3, 1869, married, October 9, 1889, George Thompson Chubbuck, of Roxbury, Massachusetts; child, Marion Louise, born May 17, 1896. 5. Frank Pressy, born 5. Frank Pressy, born May 28, 1876, died September 7, 1895.

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(VII) Newell Charles Frost, son of Seth Frost (6), born December 20, 1830, at West Cambridge. He died at Belmont, August 10, 1879. He was reared to manhood under the parental roof, and at the age of eighteen took up the practical duties of life and became engaged in caring for the homestead farm; he conducted the farm up to the time of his death. He became well and favorably known; he was a quiet and unassuming man, kind and sympa

thetic, and many men from Boston attended his funeral.

The Frost homestead stood on what is now the Newell C. Frost estate, occupied by Miss M. D. Frost.

(For early generations see preceding sketch).

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(IV) Ephraim Frost, son of FROST Ephraim Frost (3), was born in Cambridge, July 10, 1715, died there March 5, 1799 (at Menotomy). He lived and died in that part of Cambridge called Menotomy. He married Mary Cutter (published March 16, 1739), daughter of Deacon John Cutter. She died October 20, 1805, aged eighty-nine years. Children: I. Anna, born October 22, 1740, died November 20, 1740. Ephraim, born September 29, 1742, mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, born December 15, 1744, graduate of Harvard in 1767, died April 25, 1771. 4. Stephen, born June 18, 1747. 5. Ruhamah, born November 4, 1749, married, August 3, 1769, John Russell. 6. Mary, born March 4, 1752, married, January 3, 1775, John Locke. 7. Anna, born October 3, 1754. Lydia, born October 21, 1756, died October 23, 1760. 9. John, born September 9, 1760. 10. Amos, born August 17, 1763.

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(V) Ephraim Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (4), was born in Menotomy, September 29, 1742, and died there April 4, 1833, aged nearly ninety-one years.* He was deacon for fortyone years of the church at Menotomy. Ephraim Frost, Jr., was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain William Adams's company, Colonel Thatcher's regiment, marching to the taking of Dorchester Heights in 1776. married (first), June 6, 1665, Lydia Perry, who died October 19, 1692. He married (second), June 3, 1694, Mary or Martha Boylston, who died November 10, 1824, aged sixty-eight years. Children of Ephraim and I.ydia Frost: 1. Ephraim, born April 7, 1766, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born January 30, 1768, married October 19, 1786, Jonas Cutter. 3. James, born January 31, 1770, married, February 1, 1795, Margaret Locke, who died September 10, 1803 he married (second), March 30, 1805, Susanna Fillebrown. 4. Jonathan, born March 2, 1772, died August, 1773. 5. Mary, born April 26, 1775, married, November 9, 1794, Spencer Buckman, of Medford. 6. Ruth, born April 22, 1777. 7. Isaac, born August 7, 1780, died February 14, 1804.

(VI) Ephraim Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (5), was born in West Cambridge, Massachusetts (Arlington). April 7. 1766, and died there