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born in 1810, died April 12, 1834; Betsey E., born in 1815, died April 19, 1834; David Tyler, born Sept. 24, 1817.

(VI) David Tyler Dudley, son of David and Phebe (Dudley) Dudley, was born in Sutton, Mass., Sept. 24, 1817. He married (first) Nov. 29, 1836, Lucy Larkin Wilder, and (second) June 1, 1869, Ann E. Leland. His children were: Henry Tyler, born April 27, 1841, married (first) Lucina H. Chase, and (second) Myra Hall; Augusta L., born Aug. 21, 1847, married William Hale; Frederick C., born Aug. 24, 1851, married Angie A. Anderson and is now deceased; Sumner Arthur was born March 15, 1854; Charles F. was born April 3, 1856; and Nettie P., born Feb. 13, 1859, married Charles H. Norcross.

Susan H. Boyd, who was born in Goshen, Conn., daughter of Hugh E. and Eliza (Carney) Boyd. To them were born nine children, viz.: David Tyler married Sadie Gross; Harold B. married Ethel Godfrey and they have two children, Harold G. and Clarence; Forrest A.; Martha H. married Frank Bennett, of New Bedford, and has two children, Dudley, and a daughter born in 1911; Beulah C. is a musician; Lyman P.; Ruth G.; and Sumner and Arthur died in infancy. The sons David T., Harold B. and Forrest A. are all employed in the shuttle manufactory of their father.

PARTRIDGE. The Partridge family of southeastern Massachusetts and represented in Whitman at the present time by Miss Deborah' Ann Partridge, long an efficient and dearly beloved teacher in the Whitman schools, is one of the oldest and most prominent in New England.

(VII) Sumner Arthur Dudley, son of David Tyler and Lucy Larkin (Wilder) Dudley, was born March 15, 1854, in the town of Sutton, Mass. He attended school in his native town and at an early age learned the trade of shut- (I) Rev. Ralph Partridge, who had been for tle-making under his father, with whom he many years a minister at Sutton, County of worked for a period of fourteen years. In Kent, England, came to New England in 1636, 1884 he moved to the town of Hopedale, the and settled at Duxbury, became the first minhome of Governor Draper, where he started ister there and practiced medicine besides into business for himself in the manufacture performing his pastoral duties. Both Rev. Mr. of shuttles, soon forming a partnership with Partridge and George Partridge were original George W. Knight, a cousin of Governor proprietors of Bridgewater; both were at DuxDraper. The business was then conducted bury in 1676. under the firm name of Dudley & Knight until 1888, when Mr. Dudley bought out the interest of his partner and came to Taunton, locating at Weir Junction, where he continued for three years, moving then to Court street. Here he established the business of manufacture of shuttles which he has built up to a most successful stage, and he continued in this location until 1909 when he moved to his present plant which he erected in the rear of his dwelling house on Dean street. Progressive and enterprising, he has with the aid of his sons become a prosperous business man, the product of his factory being sent all over the country, to Canada and Europe as well, where it finds a ready market.

Mr. Dudley takes a deep interest in the city of his adoption and served as member of the city council under the new charter in 1910, serving on the committees on finance, police license and streets and bridges. He is a stanch Republican in his political views. Fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F., being past deputy grandmaster, member of the Grand Lodge of State and Encampment; I. O. R. M., and A. O. U. W.; he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

On May 22, 1873, Mr. Dudley married

(II) George Partridge, son of Rev. Ralph (Savage says Ralph and George were perhaps brothers, but Pope makes George a son of Ralph), had a grant of land at Duxbury. He married in November, 1638, Sarah, daughter of Stephen Tracy, of Plymouth, and their children were: Sarah, born in 1639; Mercy; Tryphosa; Ruth; Lydia; John, born Nov. 29, 1657; and James.

(III) John Partridge, son of George, born Nov. 29, 1657, married (first) Dec. 24, 1684, Hannah Seabury, daughter of Samuel Sea+ bury, and (second) May 23, 1700, Mary Brewster, perhaps widow of Wrestling. John Partridge died in April, 1731, aged seventy-three years. His children were: Sarah, born Sept. 21, 1685 (died soon); Samuel, born March 10, 1687; George, born Aug. 17, 1690; Mary, born May 2, 1693; John, born Dec. 27, 1697; Benjamin, born March 5, 1701; and Isaac, born March 2, 1705.

(IV) Isaac Partridge, son of John, born March 2, 1705, married Grace Sylvester, born in November, 1706, daughter of Isaac and Ruth Sylvester. They lived in Duxbury. He died in 1794, aged eighty-eight years. wife Grace died April 2, 1768, aged sixty-one years.

His

(V) Calvin Partridge, son of Isaac, was born May 27, 1739, in Duxbury, where he made his home, and where he was a large land owner. He married Oct. 2, 1779, Mary (Wakefield), widow of Col. Ichabod Alden, who was killed during the Revolution at Cherry Valley, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1778. They had seven children: John, Ralph, Mary, Rebecca, Ruth, Hannah and Ichabod Alden. Capt. Calvin Partridge was quite active during the Revolution, as the following record shows: "Capt. Calvin Partridge, commander of the Ninth Duxbury company of the First Plymouth County regiment, Massachusetts militia; reported commissioned June 6, 1776. He was also captain in Col. John Cushing's regiment; drafted Sept. 23, 1776, service 58 days; com pany marched to Rhode Island. He was also captain in Col. Abijah Stearn's regiment, marched March 28, 1778; discharged July 2, 1778; service 3 months, 4 days; company raised in Plymouth county and stationed at Dorchester Heights. He was captain in Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment, marched July 29, 1778, discharged Sept. 13, 1778, service 1 month, 16 days, at Rhode Island; company raised in Plymouth county. He was captain of Ninth company, Col. Theophilus Cotton's First Plymouth County regiment of Massachusetts militia, commissioned Oct. 28, 1778, discharged July 2, 1779, service 1 month, 24 days, at Rhode Island; company raised in Plymouth county and stationed at Little Compton, Rhode Island."

(VI) Ichabod Alden Partridge, son of Capt. Calvin, was born in Duxbury, May 1, 1798, and was educated in his native town. When a young man he moved to East Abington, where he worked at shoemaking. In 1834 he came to South Abington, now Whitman, where he followed the shoemaking business, and also owned and operated a small farm. He spent the remaining years of his life in Whitman, where he built a home and died Dec. 21, 1864, at the age of sixty-six years. He was buried in Colebrook cemetery. In 1824 he married in East Abington, Mass., Deborah Noyes, who died March 19, 1891, and was buried in Colebrook cemetery. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Their children were: Almira T., who married Ephraim Cox, of Hanson, Mass., and both are deceased; Adoniram J., who died in Whitman; Deborah Ann; Hannah Soule; and Alden Wakefield, who died aged eleven years.

(VII) DEBORAH ANN PARTRIDGE, daughter of Ichabod Alden, was educated in the public schools of South Abington and at Peirce's

Academy, Middleboro, Mass. In 1855 she entered the teacher's profession, teaching her first school in Bridgewater. Later she taught at Weston, Rockland and Abington, Mass., after which she came to the Whitman high school. She was principal of the Hastings school for a number of years. Miss Partridge has given over half a century to school work, teaching three generations, and though she retired from active duty in 1905 still substitutes when required. She was chairman for many years of the board of trustees of the Whitman public library, and is ever interested in educational matters and the cultivation of a taste for the best in literature. She is a member of Deborah Sampson Chapter, D. A. R., Brockton. Her religious connection is with the Baptist Church, of Whitman. She is a charming, cultured woman, and has won and retained a host of friends.

(VII) HANNAH SOULE PARTRIDGE, daughter of Ichabod Alden, married Charles W. Cushing, of Whitman. She died the mother of four children: May Partridge, who married Marquis W. Josselyn, of Whitman, and has one child, Harold Clifton; Lucia Ann (Lulu), who married Archer L. Hood, and died in 1890, leaving one child, Lulu Mildred (born Feb. 17, 1890, now a student at Mount Holyoke College, and making her home with Miss Partridge); and Charles C. and William J., who both died young.

CHARLES HENRY PRATT, merchant at Mansfield, was born Sept. 17, 1857, at East Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass., son of Henry Loring Pratt. He is a descendant in the tenth generation of Matthew Pratt, of whom and his posterity we give some account.

(I) Matthew Pratt was an early settler of Weymouth, Mass., where land was granted to him Dec. 7, 1636. He was selectman in 1648, and had several other grants of land. He was a prominent man, frequently holding town offices. In his will, which was dated March 25, 1672, and proved April 30, 1673, he mentions Elizabeth (Bate ?), his children and grandchildren. He died Aug. 29, 1672. His children were: Thomas, born before 1628, died April 19, 1676; Matthew, born in 1628, died Jan. 12, 1713; John died Oct. 3, 1716; Samuel was born about 1633; Joseph, born June 10, 1637, died Dec. 24, 1720; Elizabeth died Feb. 26, 1726; and Mary.

(II) Samuel Pratt, born about 1633, married July 19, 1660, Hannah Rogers, who died Oct. 16, 1715. Mr. Pratt, like his brothers, was a large land owner in Weymouth, and a

town officer. His estate was valued at £275, 12 shillings. He died in 1678. His children were: Judith, born July 25, 1661; John, born Aug. 17, 1663 (died Feb. 8, 1744); Hannah, born Dec. 21, 1665; Mary, born March 3, 1668 (married William Dyer); Samuel, born Nov. 15, 1670; Experience, born Jan. 8, 1672; and Ebenezer, born in 1674 (died in 1752).

(III) Samuel Pratt (2), born Nov. 15, 1670, was engaged in the settlement of Mendon in 1663. He is said to have removed to Taunton, and is the ancestor of the Pratts of that locality.

(IV) Benjamin Pratt.

(V) Capt. Benjamin Pratt, of Mansfield. (VI) Solomon Pratt, of Mansfield, married Hannah, born Feb. 6, 1747, daughter of Lieut. Isaac and Hannah (Hewes) White, of the North Precinct of Norton. They lived in Mansfield, Mass., where their children were born. Mr. Pratt died Nov. 6, 1776. His widow remarried and died Feb. 2, 1790. Their children were: Benjamin, born Nov. 26, 1767; Solomon, born Feb. 26, 1771; Jonathan, born May 13, 1773; and Hannah, born May 27, 1775, who married Aug. 6, 1792, Joseph, son of Joseph and Judith (Williams) Blanchard. (VII) Solomon Pratt (2), born Feb. 26, 1771, married May 19, 1803, Polly Bates, of Mansfield, and they lived in that town, where their children were born. Mr. Pratt was very prominent among the business men of Mansfield. He possessed unusual business capacity, owned largely of real estate, and was in his day the most active and industrious man in the town. He opened the first store in the center village, and it was the favorite resort for all the local politicians and theologians. Mr. Pratt, too, was engaged in the iron business, and also in the straw business, buying straw braid from all the women within thirty miles, which he had sewed into bonnets. He was one of the company which in 1811 built the Middle Factory for the manufacture of woolen goods, and he later became owner of that business, conducting it with the assistance of his sons Charles and Harrison. Mr. Pratt, too, at one time was a partner of Elkanah Bates, another of the eminent men of Mansfield, and together they operated the factory known as the "Knife Shop." On the death of Mr. Bates he became sole owner of the business. He was also owner in the mill at East Mansfield owned by a corporation composed mostly of Boston parties.

in the General Court of Massachusetts. He died in 1848 in Mansfield. His children were: Harrison Billings, born March 3, 1804; Horatio, June 5, 1805; George E., July 4, 1809; Mary Bates, July 5, 1814 (who married Rev. J. H. Sayward); and Charles, June 2, 1818 (who married Caroline A. Pratt).

(VIII) Capt. Harrison Billings Pratt, born March 3, 1804, married Stella, daughter of Maj. Elkanah and Hannah (Copeland) Bates, and they lived in Mansfield. Mr. Pratt was town clerk in 1826. He died April 3, 1848. She died April 3, 1843. Their children, all born in Mansfield, were: Harrison Warren, born June 25, 1830, married Mary Davis Moore, and died of wounds received in the battle of Fisher's Hill, Va., during the Civil war; Charles Hamilton, born April 26, 1831, died Oct. 1, 1850; Henry Loring was born March 29, 1833; Delia A., born June 10, 1835, died Oct. 11, 1835; Francis Edward, born May 20, 1837, died in June, 1838; and Elizabeth A., born Jan. 19, 1840, married Nov. 15, 1871, Avery O. Dunham, of Mansfield.

(IX) Henry Loring Pratt, born in Mansfield March 29, 1833, began his life work in the jewelry business. Later he engaged in the meat business in Mansfield, and for several years was a resident of Taunton, where he was employed in a nail mill. During the last year of his life he was in the meat business. He died Jan. 17, 1878. On Oct. 19, 1856, Mr. Pratt married Olive M. Staples, daughter of Nathan and Olive (King) Staples, of Taunton, and they had one son, Charles Henry, now engaged in the grocery business at Mansfield. Mr. Pratt during the Civil war became a member of Company F, 4th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was in the service nine months, receiving an honorable discharge. In politics he was a Republican, and quite active in the party, and he was chosen to serve his district in the State Legislature for one term. In religious connection he was a member of the orthodox Congregational Church.

(X) Charles Henry Pratt, born Sept. 17, 1857, was reared in Mansfield from the age of seven years, and there received a high school education. Since attaining his majority he has been engaged in the present business, having a well-stocked grocery and general store, one of the principal mercantile establishments in Mansfield. He enjoys a large and steady trade, which he has built up by intelligent atMr. Pratt in person was tall and command- tention to the demands of his customers, and ing, in conversation rather dictatorial. He a sincere desire to accommodate them in every held many offices in the town, representing it possible way. Like his father, he is a Repub

lican in politics and a member of the orthodox Pain; Mehitable, who married Simeon Brett; Congregational Church.

ROBERT HENRY PACKARD, one of the honored and respected citizens of Brockton, where his long and useful life has been spent, is a worthy representative of a family members of which have been prominently identified with the growth and development of the community since its first settlement. Mr. Packard was born April 29, 1832, in North Bridgewater (now Brockton), on the same farm and in the same house in which he has since made his home, son of the late Robert and Betsey (Howard) Packard. The progenitors of both the Packard and Howard families were among the first settlers of the first interior settlement, which was made in Bridgewater, a portion of which original town now constitutes the city of Brockton, which prior to 1874 was known as North Bridgewater.

(I) Samuel Packard, his wife Elizabeth and one child, came from Windham, near Hingham, England, to America in the ship "Diligence," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, on which vessel there were 133 passengers. He first settled at Hingham, Mass., where he was a proprietor in 1638, and whence he removed to West Bridgewater, becoming one of the first settlers of that town; he was constable there in 1664, and licensed as a tavern-keeper in 1670. His children were: Elizabeth, Samuel, Zaccheus, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Mary, Hannah, Israel, Jael, Deborah and Deliver

ance.

(II) Zaccheus Packard, son of Samuel, married Sarah Howard, daughter of John Howard, and their children were: Israel, Sarah, Jonathan, David, Solomon, James, Zaccheus, Jr., John and Abiel, the six sons last named all settling in the North parish of Bridgewater, where many of their descendants are still living. The father died Aug. 3, 1723.

(III) David Packard, son of Zaccheus, was born Feb. 11, 1687, and died Nov. 3, 1755. He lived on what in the early years of the nineteenth century was the Capt. Robert Packard place, and a part of which now constitutes the farm of Robert Henry Packard, our subject. On Dec. 17, 1712, he married Hannah Ames, daughter of John Ames. She died Jan. 10, 1767. Their children were: David, Jr., who married Mehitable Richards; William, who married Sarah Richards; Hannah, who married Samuel Brett: Isaac, who married Abigail Porter; Mary, who married Daniel Richards; Ebenezer, who married Sarah Perkins; Abiah, who married Phebe

and Jane, who married Matthew Kingman.

(IV) Ebenezer Packard, son of David, was born Feb. 23, 1724. On Feb. 25, 1746, he married Sarah Perkins, daughter of Mark and Dorothy (Whipple) Perkins, who came to North Bridgewater from Ipswich, Mass., in 1741. Their children were: Alice, married to Eliab Packard; Ebenezer, Jr., who married Mary Reynolds; Eunice, who married William Jameson; Jonas, who married Mehitable Brett; Adin, who married Keziah Perkins; Eliphalet, married to Lydia Barrell; Robert, married to Ruth Barrell; Joel, who married Harmony Kingman; Lot, married to Mary Nelson (he removed to Maine); Noah, who married Polly Packard and moved to Maine; and Joseph, who married Susanna Bates. Ebenezer Packard died June 20, 1803, and his wife, Sarah March 12, 1810.

(V) Capt. Robert Packard, son of Ebenezer, was born Jan. 29, 1760, and was engaged in farming in the southeastern part of North Bridgewater, on the farm which is now owned by his grandson, Robert Henry Packard. He was active in military affairs, holding a commission as captain in the State militia. He died Feb. 10, 1844, aged eighty-four years. On Jan. 28, 1782, he married Ruth Barrell, daughter of William Barrell, of East Bridgewater. She died, and he married (second) Nov. 11, 1788, Sally Perkins. She died Dec. 31, 1797, the mother of children as follows: Ruth, born Sept. 9, 1789, married Martin Southworth; Huldah, born May 30, 1791, married Adam Capen; Patty, born Sept. 15, 1793, married Theron Ames; and Olive, born Sept. 18, 1795, married Newton Shaw. On May 27, 1798, Captain Packard married (third) Sarah Hayward, daughter of Joseph and Olive (Manley) Hayward, who came to the North parish from the West parish in 1768, and a descendant of Thomas Hayward, who came from England to America and settled in Duxbury, Mass., previous to 1638, later becoming an original proprietor and one of the first settlers in the old mother town of Bridgewater. To the third marriage of Captain Packard were born: Robert, Jr., mentioned below; Isaac, who married Jane B. Packard ; Ebenezer, who died Sept. 14, 1825, aged twenty-two years; Sally, who died unmarried; Sylvia, who married Cary Howard; Almira, who died June 26, 1822, aged nine years; and Mary, who married Spencer Noyes, of Abington. Mrs. Sarah (Hayward) Packard died Jan. 17, 1856, aged eighty years.

(VI) Robert Packard (2), eldest son of

Capt. Robert and Sarah (Hayward), was born March 27, 1799, in the southeastern part of North Bridgewater, on the same farm where his long and industrious life was spent, and where he died Oct. 5, 1880, aged eighty-one years. He owned and conducted a farm of about 120 acres, upon which he was engaged in general farming during the active years of his life. He was of an industrious nature, rugged in constitution, and never required the services of a physician until his last sickness. In his political views he early in life allied himself with the old-line Whig party, and after the organization of the Republican party became identified with the latter. He possessed a genial disposition, and was devoted to his home. Both he and his wife were members of the South Congregational Church of Campello, in the work of which they were both active. On Oct. 16, 1822, Mr. Packard was married to Betsey Howard, daughter of Oliver and Susanna (Reynolds) Howard, and a direct descendant in the sixth generation from John Howard, who came from England to America, and later became one of the first settlers of the West parish of Bridgewater. Mrs. Packard was born July 11, 1796, and died Jan. 30, 1875, after a happy wedded life of nearly fiftytwo years, the golden anniversary of which had been appropriately celebrated, upon which occasion the venerable couple were the recipients of many happy greetings. To Mr. and Mrs. Packard were born four children: A daughter died in infancy; Betsey Jane, born Oct. 16, 1825, married Sylvanus Keith, and died without issue Feb. 4, 1857, aged thirtytwo years; Ebenezer Howard, born July 11, 1829, died Jan. 21, 1831; Robert Henry was born April 29, 1832.

(VII) Robert Henry Packard, only surviving child of the late Robert and Betsey (Howard) Packard, was born April 29, 1832, on the same farm and in the same house which

has since been his home, in the southeastern part of North Bridgewater. Mr. Packard acquired his early educational training in the district schools of his neighborhood, after

which he became a student for several terms of the Adelphian Academy of his native town. Leaving school when about seventeen years of age, he took up farming with his father, which he has since made his life work. After his father's death the farm reverted to him, and with the assistance of his son he has continued to keep it in the high state of cultivation that his ancestors before him did. In his younger days, as was then the custom, during the winter months when the work of the farm did not

require all his time he was engaged in shoemaking, going to the factories where the stock for the shoes was obtained, and returning home with the same, making up the shoes, and returning the finished product to the factories ready for the market. In connection with general farming Mr. Packard is also extensively. engaged in dairying, keeping about thirty-five or forty cows, most of which are of the Holstein or Ayrshire breeds.

In political belief Mr. Packard is a Republican, casting his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont in 1856. Mr. Packard and his wife are both members of the South Congregational Church of Campello, Mrs. Packard being an active worker in the various societies of the church conducted by the women members. They are both members of the West Bridgewater Grange, No. 156, Patrons of Husbandry, in which they have been very active.

On Oct. 20, 1857, Mr. Packard was united in marriage with Ellen Augusta Howard, born June 8, 1836, daughter of the late Lewis and Eliza (Ford) Howard, the former of North Bridgewater and the latter of Abington. Mrs. Packard's father was the son of Daniel and Vesta (Howard) Howard, grandson of Capt. Robert and Abigail (Keith) Howard (the former one of the first settlers of the North parish), great-grandson of John and Sarah (Latham) Howard, and great-great-grandson of John Howard, who with his brother James came from England and settled in Duxbury (James going to Bermuda), later becoming one of the first settlers in the West parish of Bridgewater, where he became a man of great influence and was one of the first military officers of the town. To Mr. and Mrs. Packard have been born children as follows: Addie Frances, a teacher, who died Aug. 3, 1887, aged twenty-eight years; Lizzie Jane, born Jan. 25, 1863, who married Harry Dunbar, chasing department of the George E. Keith of West Bridgewater (connected with the purShoe Company), and they have two childrenRuth Packard and Howard Hunter; and Walter Tyler, born Sept. 24, 1870. The last named is manager of his father's farm and dairy; is a Republican, and has served as councilman of the city from Ward Four; is a member of St. George Lodge, A. F. & A. M., a member and past master of West Bridgewater Grange, No. 156, Patrons of Husbandry, a past master of the Pomona Grange, director and vice president of the Campello Coöperative Bank, and a deacon in the South Congregational Church; he married Jan. 16, 1911,

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