Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . apacity for severalyears, then re-engaging in the shoe business up towithin a year of his decease, December 10, 1890. Hewas a member of the Masonic fraternity and T. O. 0. F., and for twenty years was a member of thevoKmteer fire company of Webster. On January 1, 187S, he married his cousin. Emily Lois Fitts,daughter of Asel and Harriet N. (Brown) Fitts,previously mentioned. Of this union there was onedaughter, who died at birth. ALVARADO
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . apacity for severalyears, then re-engaging in the shoe business up towithin a year of his decease, December 10, 1890. Hewas a member of the Masonic fraternity and T. O. 0. F., and for twenty years was a member of thevoKmteer fire company of Webster. On January 1, 187S, he married his cousin. Emily Lois Fitts,daughter of Asel and Harriet N. (Brown) Fitts,previously mentioned. Of this union there was onedaughter, who died at birth. ALVARADO ALONZO COBURN. EdwardCoburn (l), born in England. 1618, was the firstancestor of Alvarado .Monzo Coburn, of Worcester,to settle in this country, and he is the progenitor ofmost of the families of this surname. He came toNew England in the ship Defence in 1635, atthe age of seventeen, and settled in Ipswich. Massa-chusetts, thence removing to Chelmsford, Massachu-setts, lie was one of the first two settlers in whatis now the town of Dracut, near Chelmsford andLowell. He went there with Samuel Varnum. Thedescendants of these two men have from the first. ^^^^^L^^ WORCESTER COUNTY 325 been the most prominent men of the town. Coburnbought his first land there April 3, 1671, of ThomasHenchman, and part of it is now or was latelyowned by his descendants. He bought a tract of onethousand six hundred acres of land September 30,l688, on the Merrimac river. Coburn and Varnumwere, it is believed, neighbors in England as wellas in New England. They came over about thesame time, and were together all their lives at Ips-wich, Chelmsford and Dracut. Edward Coburn died before the new town wasincorporated in 1701, but his six sons were amongthe grantees in the Indian deed, April 4, l/or, whenfor three thousand pounds the township was boughtof John Sagamore, of Natick, Edward Coburn diedFebruary 17, 1700. The petition of the inhabitantsfor incorporation, dated February 26. 1701-2, wassigned by h
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