History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . evolution, when the summons came to takethe field he was plowing. Taking the harness from hishorse he at once made ready, and with his two eldestsons, Ralph and Samuel Ward, joined the army. Heserved in several campaigns, his sons acting as hisaids. His third son, Alexander, then but sixteen,fulfilled faithfully the task of carrying on the farmand supporting the family), Ralph (6) (he was bornin Stoughton, 1759, and died 1797. He servedthrough the Revolution; married Abigail, daught
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . evolution, when the summons came to takethe field he was plowing. Taking the harness from hishorse he at once made ready, and with his two eldestsons, Ralph and Samuel Ward, joined the army. Heserved in several campaigns, his sons acting as hisaids. His third son, Alexander, then but sixteen,fulfilled faithfully the task of carrying on the farmand supporting the family), Ralph (6) (he was bornin Stoughton, 1759, and died 1797. He servedthrough the Revolution; married Abigail, daughterof Maj. Robert and Rachel (Draper) Swan, born 1761,died 1852, aged ninety-one. Their daughter, Abigail(7), who married Samuel Atherton, was born inStoughton, Mass., Dec. 5, 1785, dying March 19,1868, aged eighty-two years, three and a half months).Samuel Atherton was of energetic temperament, cheer-ful disposition, eminently social, enjoying humor, andalways ready with some bright remark, pointed withfun. He was honest, straightforward, prudent, sav-ing, and perfectly just in all the relations of life. He. 7--4y^-2iii?
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