More; to Harvard College and to Mr. Alcock's son there. The inventory of the widow's estate was dated January 3, 1675-76. Children: 1. John, born in England in 1634. 2. Thomas, born April, 1637, died young. 3. Samuel, born February, 1637-38. 4. Joseph, born January 13, 1638-39, lived in Charlestown; many descendants. 5. James, born April 9, 1640, lived in Billerica deacon. 6. Ephraim, born 1642, mentioned below. 7. Mary, born July 29, 1645. 8. Thomas, lived in Framingham, Massachusetts. 9. Sarah, born 1653.

(II) Ephraim Frost, son of Elder Edmund Frost (1), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1642, settled in that town, and died at Cambridge, January 2, 1717-18. He married Hepsibah Children: 1. Edmund, born March 14, 1679-80. 2. Ephraim, born September 23, 1682, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born 1688. 4. Ebenezer, baptized January 17, 1696-97. 5. Sarah, married, May 17, 1720, Nathaniel Patten.

(III) Ephraim Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (2), and grandson of Elder Edmund Frost (1), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 23, 1682, and died there June 26, 1769, aged eighty-seven. He was a planter, with a farm in Menotomy, now Arlington. His wife Sarah was admitted to the precinct church at the time of its organization, September 9, 1739. From a sketch of this family we quote: "He settled on the estate allotted to his father; he and his brother appear to have been the first of the family who settled in Belmont, at that time called Menotomy. It is probable that his house was in front of the one owned by the late Oliver Russell. Pleasant street was at that time but a cart path through the woods from Watertown to Cutter's Mill, which ground all the grain for miles around. He was a thrifty and energetic man. He cleared much of the woodland and built much of the stone wall with which the Frost estate is so well supplied; he also established a brickyard on land now owned by his descendant, your honored president (Frost Family). He married Sarah Cooper, September 19, 1714. She was daughter of Samuel Cooper, who was deacon of the church and selectman twelve years, and granddaughter of John Cooper, who was selectman thirtyeight years, town clerk thirteen years, and deacon of the church twenty-three years. Ephraim was selectman and assessor four years between 1724 and 1736. Cambridge at that time extended from the Merrimac river to Dedham. it having since been divided into seven towns. He died June 26, 1769, aged eighty-seven years; Sarah, his wife, died February 21, 1753,

aged sixty-six years. Their gravestones are standing in the old cemetery at Arlington." Children, born at Menotomy: 1. Ephraim, born July 10, 1715. 2. Samuel, born December 18, 1716, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, born January 2, 1718-19, died May 12, 1759; married Moses Harrington. 4. Anna, born December 15, 1720, married, September 22, 1737, Thomas Adams. 5. Martha, born August 4, 1722, married, January 10, 1740, Thomas Adams, Jr. 6. Eunice, born July 18, 1724, died April 10, 1739. 7. Abigail, born April 25, 1726, married Carter. 8. William, born November 13, 1727, died February 13, 1727-28. 9. Lydia, born August 8, 1729.

(IV) Samuel Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (3), was born in Menotomy, December 18, 1716. He resided in what is now Belmont, Massachusetts, then Menotomy and later Arlington or West Cambridge. He was a precinct committeeman and assessor in 1768-69. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was an ardent patriot, and though nearly sixty years old, having long white hair, he turned out with his neighbors and volunteered on the day of the battle of Lexington. During the retreat of the British, while he was firing from behind the stone walls along the road, he was captured and with his townsman, Seth Russell, was reported missing "supposed to be on board one of the men of war.' (See E. Russell's Salem Gazette of Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser for May 5, 1775). He narrowly escaped death from a British soldier. An officer stopped the soldier in his purpose to shoot Mr. Frost, saying: "Keep him to send home to King George to show him what a gray-haired old Rebel he was." He was sent aboard the British ship "Admiral," and discharged in exchange June 6, 1775. The Massachusetts records through some error make it appear that he was exchanged for two men-James Price, seaman, and John Gould, seaman. had been sent to New York in the cartel "Favorite;" was called a seaman on the exchange papers signed by Robert Pierpont, commissary of prisoners.

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He married, February 19, 1741, Abigail Cutter, daughter of Deacon John Cutter. She died March 10, 1796, aged seventy-four, according to her gravestone. He died October I, 1798, aged eighty-two, according to his gravestone. Children: I. Samuel, born December 7, 1741, died young. 2. Samuel, August 2, 1743. 3. Abigail, January 24, 1745, admitted to precinct church, March 30, 1766; married Hezekiah Wyman, of Weston. Rebecca, December 28. 1746, married, April

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