. The New England historical and genealogical register. roth-ers, managed the farm and tended store in the winter, in the attemptto keep the family together, but after a two years struggle gaveup the undertaking, sold the farm, and apprenticed himself to a con-tractor and builder in the neighboring town of Shrewsbury. Before hewas twenty-one he was put in charge of contracts, mostly of meeting-houses, receiving a share of the profits for his pay, and his indentureswere cancelled. He conducted his business with great energy untilhe was fifty years of age, when his health became precarious and h
. The New England historical and genealogical register. roth-ers, managed the farm and tended store in the winter, in the attemptto keep the family together, but after a two years struggle gaveup the undertaking, sold the farm, and apprenticed himself to a con-tractor and builder in the neighboring town of Shrewsbury. Before hewas twenty-one he was put in charge of contracts, mostly of meeting-houses, receiving a share of the profits for his pay, and his indentureswere cancelled. He conducted his business with great energy untilhe was fifty years of age, when his health became precarious and heretired from active work with a modest competency. He was a manwith the distinctive characteristics of so many of our New Englandmen of the descent and education which was common in the in-terior of ^Massachusetts, at least during the earlier part of the lastcentury—a man of very positive convictions, an early member ofthe Liberty party, although being by inheritance a Democrat, orRepublican as the party was called in the early days of the 1908.] Daniel Angell Gleason. 279 He afterwards became a strong Free-Soiler, and later a Republicanof the modern name. He took an active part in municipal affairsof the city of Worcester, was councilman and alderman, representedthe town for two years in the legislature, and was a member of thelegislature which elected Charles Sumner to the United States senatefor his first term. His wife, ]\Iaria Tourtelotte, was of French Huguenot extraction,descended from Abraham and Marie (Bernon) Tourtelotte, twoHuguenot refugees who came to this country in 1688, and marriedin Roxbury in 1692. For five years after the marriage of Marie Bernon to AbrahamTourtelotte, the young couple lived in Roxbury, then they removedwith the Bernon family to Newport, R. I. Here they resided until,according to family tradition, Abraham and his son Gabriel werelost at sea by the wrecking of their vessel. The widow continuedin the family of Gabriel Bernon until
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