Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . street, Woburn, compris-ing twenty-two acres of excellent tillage he resided for the rest of his lite, carry-ing on general farming and making a speci-alty of market gardening. He was exceed-ingly industrious, devoting his time exclu-sively to his agricultural interests, and hestood high in the estimation of his fellow-townsmen as an honest, upright man and auseful citizen. In politics he acted with theRepublican party, and in his religious beliefhe was a Co
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . street, Woburn, compris-ing twenty-two acres of excellent tillage he resided for the rest of his lite, carry-ing on general farming and making a speci-alty of market gardening. He was exceed-ingly industrious, devoting his time exclu-sively to his agricultural interests, and hestood high in the estimation of his fellow-townsmen as an honest, upright man and auseful citizen. In politics he acted with theRepublican party, and in his religious beliefhe was a Congregationalist. His death oc-curred in Woburn October i, 1886. On January i, 1850, Mr. Heald marriedMaria Lee, who was born in Concord, Massa-chusetts, January 24, 1828, daughter of Will-iam and Dorcas (Wheeler) Lee. Maria Leeis a lineal descendant in the seventh genera-tion of John (i) Lee or Leigh, the immigrant,through Joseph (2), Woodis (3),Woodis (4),Isaac (5) and William (6). John Lee, the im-migrant, born about the year 1600 was anancient and honorable family of London, andtradition says that the name was written. ^. ^. ^^^^^ middljlsex county. 1407 Leigh. He was well educated, and probablyserved in the army before coming to NewEngland about 1635. He was granted landin Ipswich, Massachusetts, the same year,and resided there until his death, which oc-curred July 18, 1671. In 1638 he marriedAnne or (Joanne) Hungerford, who died afterSeptember 30, 1684, ^.nd his children were:John, Joseph, Sarah, Mary, Ann and anotherdaughter whose nanie does not appear in therecords. Joseph Lee, second son of John, was bornat Ipswich in October or November, is said to have changed the spelling ofhis name from Leigh to Lee. He resided inIpswich until 1695, when at the request of hisfather-in-law, Henry Woodis, of Concord,Massachusetts, he went there to take chargeof the Woodis farm and care for the owner inhis old age. Joseph Lee died in Concord,November 4, 1716. The elder Lee and
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