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Bostonian Society, and of the Trade Club of Boston. He is a charter member of the Newton Boat Club, and of the Brae Burn Country Club; and a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and of the Episcopalian Club of Eastern Massachusetts. He has been vestryman since 1890, and is now warden of the Church of the Messiah, Protestant Episcopal, of Auburndale. He is a trustee and a member of the executive committee of the Newton Hospital. His political affiliation has always been with the Republican party.

He was married in Tarrytown, New York, November 11, 1886, to his cousin, Marion Adelaide, daughter of Stephen H. Thayer, a New York banker and poet. She was a graduate of Smith College, and her family has a remarkable military record, as four of her uncles were members of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, one of these being surgeon of the regiment. Her grandfather was one of the members of the Home Guard of the same celebrated regiment. Their great-grandfather and greatgreat-grandfather were military men, one of them entering the ranks at the age of nineteen years, and was a captain of minute men at the Concord fight of April 19, 1775.__ The American immigrant, Thomas Tayer (or Thayer), came to Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with his wife, Marjorie Wheeler, to whom he was married April 13, 1618, and their three sons, Thomas, Ferdinando and Shadrach, from the parish of Thombury, Gloucestershire, England, and was one of the proprietors of Braintree, 1639, and was admitted as a freeman in 1647. The children of William Thayer and Marion Adelaide (Thayer) Farley are: Mortimer Thayer, born in Auburndale, Newton, Massachusetts, October 19, 1896; and Barbara, born in Auburndale, September 13, 1898. They reside with their parents at No. 330 Central street, Auburndale, Newton, Massachusetts.

There were several immiHOWARD grants of the surname Howard in New England before 1650. At least three of them were apparently brothers or closely related. Nathaniel Howard, of Dorchester, was admitted to the church as early as February 28, 1641, and admitted a freeman May 10, 1643; removed to Salem, Massachusetts. Robert Howard Robert Howard was a proprietor of Dorchester as early as 1639, and was admitted freeman in February,

1662; was a town officer of Dorchester, removing about 1668 to Boston; among other children he had a son, Nathaniel Howard, baptized February 6, 1641-42. The third of this family was William, who resided at Salem, Wenham and Topsfield, Massachusetts; signed as witness to an inventory of Samuel Smith in 1642; was admitted freeman May 13, 1640; deposed in 1661, aged about fifty-two, and in 1666, aged about fifty-seven years. Wife Rose was admitted to the church at Salem, May 10, 1640, and their son Nathaniel baptized November 13, 1642; probably the Nathaniel mentioned below. We find William Howard on record as an attorney for R. Bellingham and deputy marshal general in an action in the Essex court in 1666. He was probably at Ipswich, Massachusetts, also in 1649 and later.

(I) Nathaniel Howard, son of William Howard, was baptized in Salem, Massachusetts, May 10, 1640. In 1669 he was connected with the Baptist movement and as early as February 12, 1671, was a tenant on Winthrop's farm according to the selectmen's record; was an inhabitant on the list 1677-78, but not in 1680-81, having removed to Chelmsford with other Wenham men, and he lived the remainder of his days on his farm in Chelmsford where his descendants lived many years. He bought of J. Drinker rights in the cow common in 1674 and deeded it to Josiah Wood in 1678. He sold a tract of land in Stow in 1698. He bought a tract of land of J. Gooding in 1699. He died in the winter of 1709-10. His will is dated November 7, 1709, and was proved February 17, 1709-10. He married, July 2, 1666, Sarah Willard, daughter of Major Simon Willard, and his heirs inherited land in Rutland granted to heirs of Major Willard. His wife died January 22, 1677-78, and he married (second), July 1, 1678, Sarah Parker. The Parker family settled in Groton and vicinity; the Willards founded Lancaster, the town adjoining. Children: 1. Sarah, born September 30, 1667, married Benjamin Parker. 2. Nathaniel, born November 9, 1671. 3. Mary, born May 16, 1673, married Adams. 4.

Samuel, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin. 6. Jacob, born March 28, 1679-80. 7. Rebecca, unmarried in 1709. 8. Rachel, married Samuel Richardson. 9. Jonathan.

(II) Ensign Samuel Howard, son of Nathaniel Howard (1), was born in 1684 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and died at Dunstable, Massachusetts, now Nashua, New Hampshire, February 7, 1769, aged eighty

four years, ten months. He settled in Dunstable and owned a large tract of land on Howard's brook in the first parish. Samuel Howard, of Dunstable, bought the interests of his sister Sarah and her husband, Benjamin Parker, to a tract of land amounting to 103334 acres in Rutland owned by heirs of Major Simon Willard, granted in 1714, and also the rights of Jonathan Parker in the same tract. These deeds were in 1745, and he was then living in Dunstable, and did not resettle in Rutland. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, was a resident of Dunstable, 1733, taxpayer in 1744.

(III) Samuel Howard, son of Samuel Howard (2), was born about 1720 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. He located in Chelmsford, where his grandfather lived. He married Mary He deeded lands in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, October 16, 1784, to his son Timothy. Samuel Smith Howard, probably his son, was a soldier in the Revolution from Chelmsford in Colonel John Greaton's regiment. The Revolutionary rolls give his age as twenty-two in 1781; five feet seven and one-half inches tall, of dark complexion and hair. Another son Timothy is

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(IV) Timothy Howard, son of Samuel Howard (3), was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, about 1765. Married Dorcas Greene. He settled in Berlin, Massachusetts, in the old Fuller house in the village of Carterville. He had one son Timothy, mentioned below.

(V) Timothy Howard, son of Timothy Howard (4), was born in Chelmsford or Berlin about 1780, and died November, 1846, in Berlin, where he lived in various parts of the town. He married Abigail Temple, who died in August, 1842. Children, born in Berlin: 1. James. 2. Emmeline, married Gardner Jacobs. 3. Rufus, born May 18, 1805, mentioned below. 4. Lucinda Sophronia. 5. Dexter, died young. 6. George W., born September 27, 1819, at Northborough. 7. Sophronia.

(VI) Rufus Howard, son of Timothy Howard, Jr. (5), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, May 18, 1805, died July 23, 1865. He married Louisa Sawyer, who died March 18, 1886, daughter of Oliver Sawyer, of Heath, Massachusetts. They lived in Berlin on the south side of the road where Nelson Larkin lately lived. Children, born in Berlin: 1. Sarah P., born January 10, 1828, married (first) David A. Frye: (second) Joshua Walcott. 2. Elmira G., born February 19, 1829,

married William J. Davenport; parents of Hon. William N. Davenport, of Marlborough, Massachusetts. 3. Susan B., born June 14, 1831, died December 16, 1894; married Jonathan B. Ray. 4. Louisa S., born December 20, 1832, married Samuel N. Marsh. 5. Martha A., born August 4, 1834, married Abel G. Haynes: (See sketch of Haynes family herewith). with). 6. Mary W., born October 8, 1835, married Ralph Safford. 7. Adeliza J., born March 8, 1842, married, 1862, George H. Andrews. 8. Augusta M., born August 21, 1843, married William Smith.

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Walter Haynes, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Sutton Mandifield, Wiltshire, England, in 1583. He also owned a house and other buildings on the island of Purbeck in the southeast part of Dorsetshire. came to New England in the ship "Confidence," the same ship with Peter Noyes, yeoman, of Penton, Southampton, with his wife Elizabeth, sons under sixteen years of age, Thomas, John and Josias; daughters Suffrance and Mary; and servants John Blandford, John Rediat and Richard Biddlecome, arriving in Boston in 1638. His family and that of Peter Noyes intermarried. About a year after his arrival in this country Haynes removed from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Sudbury, having a grant of land December 22, 1639. He was one of the foremost citizens and was on the first board of selectmen in 1639, and served the town ten years altogether as selectman. He was one of the first, perhaps the very first, to build on the west side of the Sudbury river, and is believed to have built the Haynes garrison house, which was near the old Haynes home. The garrison house stood until the middle of the nineteenth century. The Haynes homestead was in the northeast section of the town in the section called the Pantry district. Hon. C. F. Gerry, a lineal descendant of Walter Haynes, has written a charming poem entitled "Pantry School." (See History of Sudbury, p. 510). Haynes was admitted a freeman May 13, 1641; deputy to the general court in 1641-4448-51. He was commissioner to end small causes 1645. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (See Whitman's history of the company, 1842, p. 97). Haynes had learned the trade of linen weaver. He died February 14, 1664-65. will is dated May 25, 1659, with codicil dated March 4, 1663-64, and proved April 4, 1665,

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bequeathing to wife Elizabeth; sons Thomas, John and Josiah; son-in-law Thomas Noyes; son-in-law Roger Gourd and "my daughter his wife" a tenement in Shaston, Dorsetshire, England. The will of Alice Haynes, his mother, is printed in the New England Genealogical Register (vol. XXXIX., p. 263). A Thomas Haynes died in Sudbury, July 28, 1640. The will of Walter Haynes states that his son Thomas was then away from home. Many of the facts for this sketch were preserved by John Haynes, born 1684, and written when he was nearly ninety years of age. The manuscript is now, or was lately, in possession of a descendant, Frederick Haynes Newell. The historian of Sudbury (Hudson) writes of the Haynes family: "The Haynes family is well known and quite numerous in Sudbury. Members have lived in various parts of the town, and have held prominent offices civil and military." Children of Walter and Elizabeth Haynes: 1. Thomas. John, born 1621, mentioned below. 3. Josiah, married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Noyes. 4. Suffrance, married Josiah Tredway, of Watertown. 5. Mary, married Thomas Noyes; no children. 6. Daughter mentioned in will, married Roger Gourd and remained in England.

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(II) John Haynes, son of Walter Haynes (1), was born in England in 1621. While he is named among the children coming with his father in 1638 he was in Watertown living with his cousin Reed or Rice in 1637, according to the old manuscript mentioned.

He was admitted a freeman in 1646, and was a deputy to the general court in 1668. He married, October 13, 1642, at Sudbury, Dorothy Noyes, born in England in 1620, daughter of Peter and Abigail Noyes. Her father was deputy to the general court in 1640-4150; was selectman of Sudbury twenty-one years; was admitted freeman May 13, 1640; was commissioner. John Haynes died in 1692, leaving a will dated that year. Children: 1. Elizabeth, born July 16, 1644, married. 1666, Henry Balcom. 2. Mary, born 1647, married Josiah How. 3. John, born May 4, 1649, married Ruth Roper. 4. Dorothy, born 1651-52, married Joseph Freeman, of Sudbury. 5. Peter, born April 7, 1654, married, January 2, 1677, Elizabeth Rice. 6. Joseph, born September 7, 1656, killed in youth by falling from a tree. 7. Thomas, born 1658. 8. James, born March 17, 1661, mentioned below. 9. Daniel, born May 16, 1663, impressed as a soldier in the campaign to the eastward, returned to Boston in 1687, and

died there next year. 10, Rachel, born February 12, 1665, married, January 6, 1704-05, John Loker. II. Ruth, born April 7, 1668, married, December 20, 1693, Joseph Noyes. 12. David, born May 4, 1671, married Tabitha Stone.

(III) James Haynes, son of John Haynes (2), was born in Sudbury, March 17, 1660-61, died October 15, 1732, aged seventy-two years. He married at Sudbury, November 4, 1689, Sarah Noyes, born September 28, 1669, died September 1756, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Darvell) Noyes, of Newbury and Sudbury. Her father was selectman of Sudbury, 1662; constable, 1667-68; justice of the peace. Rev. Noyes, father of Joseph Noyes, was born in Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1608; was brother of Rev. Nicholas Noyes, of Newbury, Massachusetts; settled in Newbury; old house still preserved there; married Sarah Brown. James Haynes resided in Sudbury and was a farmer. Children: I. James, born April 17, 1692, married Susannah Woodward; (second) Mary Ragg. Abraham, born September 24, 1696, died unmarried. 3. Sarah, born July 11, 1699, married Daniel Noyes. 4. Ahiga (or Ahijah), born October 16, 1701, mentioned below. 5. Rebecca, born August 20, 1705, married Samuel Willis; no children. 6. Thankful, born April 22, 1708, married Jabez Puffer. 7. Dorothy, born December 23, 1710. (See sketch of Puffer family).

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(IV) Ahiga Haynes, (spelled also Ahijah and misprinted Abijah in some records) son of James Haynes (3), was born in Sudbury, October 16, 1701. He married, January 18, 1726-27, Elizabeth Smith, who died January 2, 1778. They lived in Sudbury and children were born there: 1. Aaron, born December 25, 1727. 2. Israel, born December 11, 1728, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, born February 18, 1729-30, died January 20, 1730-31. Rebecca, born February 14, 1731-32. Mary, born May 20, 1733. 6. Mary, born. January 27, 1735-36. 7. Eunice, born February 10, 1737. 8. Moses, born February 5, 1741-42.

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(V) Israel Haynes, son of Ahiga Haynes (4), was born in Sudbury, December II, 1728. Married there January 10, 1754, Sarah Daby (or Derby), of Stow, descendant of a well-known Concord family. He was a soldier in the Revolution on the Lexington alarm in Captain Aaron Haynes's company. Children, born in Sudbury: 1. Reuben, born February 1, 1755, soldier in the Revolution from 1775 until 1783. 2. Anne, born April

II, 1757. 3. Jonas, born April 26, 1759, soldier in the Revolution, 1775 to 1780. 4. Rebecca, born July 15, 1761. 5. Ruth, born February 7, 1764. 6. Sarah, born July 22, 1766. 7. Ahiga or Ahijah, born April 10, 1768. 8. Keziah, born October 4, 1769. 9. Elizabeth, born 1773. 10. Israel, Jr., born July 10, 1777, mentioned below.

(VI) Captain Israel Haynes, son of Israel Haynes (5), was born in Sudbury, July 10, 1777. He became captain of his militia company, and was prominent in town affairs. He held various positions of trust and honor. He was a representative to the general court in April, 1851, when a successor to Daniel Webster was chosen in the general court. He had been an old line Democrat and voted with his party for a time. At first there was no choice, but finally, when but one vote was needed, Haynes joined the famous coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers, defeated the Whig party and elected Charles Sumner United States senator. "By this ballot," says Mr. Hudson in his history of Sudbury, "Sumner went to the United States senate where he championed liberty's cause, and stirred up those elements that burst forth in Civil war and made the whole land free. What an influence thus went out from this quiet place, and how changed our nation's history by this silent act." Mr. Haynes belonged to the old Haynes family and had a numerous progeny, some of whom still live on the old homestead. He married (first), December 19, 1798, at Sudbury, Dorcas Jewett, who was born April 12, 1782. He married (second), August 21, 1803, at Sudbury, Mary Gleason, who was born January 27, 1784. Children of Captain Israel and Dorcas Haynes: 1. Anna, born June 22, 1800. 2. Reuben, born June 26, 1802. Children of Captain Israel and Mary Haynes: 3. Reuben, born February 8, 1804. 4. Orisso, born November 27, 1805. 5. Leander, born December 25, 1807, mentioned below. 6. Israel, born January 22, 1810. 7. Mary, born February 22, 1812. 8. Dorcas, born February 18, 1813. 9. Zebediah, born April 10, 1815. IO. Eli, born July 12, 1817. 11. Sarah H., born August 14, 1819. 12. Warren H., born April 5, 1822. 13. Lucia, born November 8, 1824, died young. 14. Lucia Amanda, born October 23, 1827.

(VII) Leander Haynes, son of Captain Israel Haynes (6), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, December 25, 1807. He was a farmer in Sudbury. He was a member of the general court from Sudbury, and was ac

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tive in the promotion of the construction of the Hoosic tunnel. In religion he was a Unitarian, in politics a Democrat. He married Harriet Hunt, born in Sudbury, September 7, 1807, daughter of William and Esther (Brigham) Hunt. Children of Leander and Harriet Haynes, born in Sudbury: 1. Leander Anderson, born June 3, 1834. 2. Andrew Thomas, born December 2, 1835. 3. Abel G., born July 1, 1837, mentioned below. Harriet Amelia, born January 10, 1839. 5. Warren Addison, born September 1, 1840. He married Lucy A. Smith, daughter of Dexter and Sophia (Litchfield) Smith, and their children are: Carrie, Albert Warren, born 1873, and Leander R., born December, 1879. Albert Warren is a grain dealer in Maynard, having succeeded his father. Albert A., born April 19, 1842. 7. Frances A., born February 4, 1844. 8. Franklin A., born June 1, 1845. 9. Mary E., born December 10, 1847. 10. Asahel H., (twin) born August 15, 1848, was a merchant in Maynard for many years. II. Abigail H. (twin), born August 15, 1848. 12. George Franklin, born. August 4, 1850. 13. Lucia Amanda, born April 10, 1852. 14. Hattie Pratt, born January 2, 1855. 15. Alfred Thompson, born May 9, 1857, mentioned below. Leander Haynes, father of these children, died January 8, 1896. His wife was killed May 28, 1880, being thrown, accidentally, from a buggy.

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(VIII) Abel G. Haynes, son of Leander Haynes (7), was born in Sudbury, July 1, 1837. He attended the old Pantry School at North Sudbury in his youth. He began his mercantile career in South Acton in the general store of Tuttle, Jones & Weatherbee. 1864 he established a general store on his own account in the village of Assabet, now the town of Maynard, under the firm name of Haynes Brothers, his brother, Warren A. Haynes, being his partner. This partnership continued with the utmost harmony and success for a period of seventeen years, when his brother retired and he continued the business. alone until 1895, when he also retired. Mr. Haynes stood high in business circles. Upright and honorable in his dealings he won his success in life fairly and creditably. Since giving up active business he has continued to reside in his Maynard home. Mr. Haynes has been one of the most active and influential citizens in public life in the town of Maynard. He served three terms on the board of selectmen; twelve years on the board of assessors and was postmaster twenty years, from 1868

to 1880. He is a member of Charles A. Welch Lodge of Free Masons, Maynard. In religion Mr. Haynes attends the Congregational church. Politically a Republican. He married, March 22, 1859, Martha A. Howard, born in Berlin, Massachusetts, August 4, 1834, daughter of Rufus and Louise (Sawyer) Howard, of Heath, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Harry H., born in South Acton, May 7, 1862, died May 20, 1884. 2. Eva L., born June 7, 1867, educated in the public and high schools, a student for three years in the Concord high school; married, April 13, 1887, Arthur E. Walker, of Belchertown, Massachusetts. Children: i. Mildred Walker, born April 19, 1889, attended the Maynard public and high schools, Concord high school and is now a student in the class of 1910, Simmons College, Boston; ii. Lloyd M., born May 15, 1898.

(VIII) Alfred Thompson Haynes, son of Leander Haynes (7), was born at Sudbury, May 9, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and is engaged in department stores in Maynard and Marlboro. He married Emma Kendall Smith, daughter of Andrew J. and Mary E. (Porter) Smith, of Stow, Massachusetts. Her parents had also Henry Porter Smith, Frank Herbert Smith and May Louise Smith. Arad and Polly (Stowe) Smith, parents of Andrew J. Smith, had no other children. Arad had a brother, Micah Smith. Children of Alfred Thompson and Emma Kendall (Smith) Haynes, born at Maynard, Massachusetts: 1. Florence Frances, born July 22, 1884, educated in the public and high schools, graduating from the Maynard high school in 1901; student at Concord high school in 1902; graduated at Mt. Holyoke College in the class of 1907. 2. Marion Belle, born January 23, 1887, married, August 14, 1906, Charles Wilcox; she graduated from the Maynard high school in 1904, was a student at Simmons College one year and studied music in Boston one year before her marriage.

land and America. It appears to be evident that all of the name spring from the same stock, and a common origin. The island of Lewis, on the west coast of Scotland, is undoubtedly the place where the family originated, though its founder was probably of Norwegian origin. The family has two tartans -a beautiful red clan tartan and a green hunting tartan. While there is more than one coat of arms, that in most general use and presumed to be the most ancient is: Azure three Saracen heads conjoined in one neck, proper, the faces looking to the chief, dexter and sinister sides of the shield. This design is in general use as a crest and the three Moors' or Saracen heads in other designs are on the shields of other Morrison families. Motto: Pretio prudentia praestat. (Prudence excels reward. Or-Prudence is better than profit. Or-Longheadedness is above price). It is claimed that the arms and crest were bestowed upon a Morison during the Crusades for some deed of daring by Richard Coeur de Lion.

The name has been spelled variouslyMaryson, Moreson, Moryson, Morreson, Moorison, Morrisson, Morson, Morisown, Morisone, Morison, Morrison, Murison, and Morrowson. In early days the family in Scotland, England, Ireland and America almost invariably spelled the name Morison. About 1800 Morrison came into general use in Scotland, England, Ireland and America, and has continued to the present time. The family in New Hampshire followed the general practice. The best authority on the origin of the name states that it means the son of Mary Moore or Maurice, and the name as originally written in Saxon or in Saxon-English would be Moores-son or Mores-son, or if the Gaelic form were retained, Mhores-son. Norse the name would be Moors-son, Morssonm, Mhors-son, everything indicating a close connection between the Moore and Morrison families.

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(I) Robert Morrison, the immigrant ancestor, was born, according to family tradition, in 1700, in Scotland. The same authority states that he came to America in 1706. Very little is known of him or his family. He came earlier than the Scotch-Irish of this name at Londonderry. It should be stated too that one Robert Morrison died May 10, 1677, in the vicinity of the town where we find this Robert Morrison settled some years later, and a connection between the two men seems likely, but for the tradition cited.