. The Hovey book, describing the English ancestry and American descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Their children were bom as follows:—1587—^L Frederick Freeman, bom Jan. 16, 1826, in Thetford. See family numbered —IL Harriet Maria, born Nov. 9, 1828, in Thetford; died May 25, —iiL Otis Ellis, born July 13, 1831; was graduated from Wabash college in 1856; was an attomey-at-law; died at Crawfords- ville, Ind., June 14, 1857, at the age of —IV. Jabez Wadsworth, born May 3, 1833, in Thetford. See family numbered Edward Payson, born
. The Hovey book, describing the English ancestry and American descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Their children were bom as follows:—1587—^L Frederick Freeman, bom Jan. 16, 1826, in Thetford. See family numbered —IL Harriet Maria, born Nov. 9, 1828, in Thetford; died May 25, —iiL Otis Ellis, born July 13, 1831; was graduated from Wabash college in 1856; was an attomey-at-law; died at Crawfords- ville, Ind., June 14, 1857, at the age of —IV. Jabez Wadsworth, born May 3, 1833, in Thetford. See family numbered Edward Payson, born June i, 1835. See family numbered —VI. Mary Edna , born Dec. 29, 1837. 1051 Rev. Edmund Otis Hovey, D. D., son of Roger Hovey(573) and Martha Freeman, was born July 15, 1801, at Hanover,N. H., the ninth in a family of ten, five of them dying in child-hood, and the other five living to be more than 70 years of of them were baptized by Dr. Eden Burroughs, pastor of thePresbyterian church in Hanover. The family removed to Thet-ford, Vt., in 1814, but Edmund remained a while longer at. Igor-1877 AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 307 Hanover as the pupil of his uncle Jonathan Freeman. When herejoined the family he found plenty to do on his fathers farm of160 acres; but time enough was taken for family worship, andafter six days of farm-work and shop-work always came a quietunbroken Sabbath. Much reading was done in the long winterevenings by the firelight or the dim illumination of dip works of history, travel and science were preferredto lighter literature. The American Journal of Science andArt found here a eager readers and gave to Edmundhis first a scientific career. For a while he wentto a school taught by a Mr. Hubbard; but later to the ThetfordAcademy, of which Rev. John Fitch was the principal. In 1821 Edmund joined the Congregational church of whichDr. Asa Burton was the pastor, who relied on him to help bringforward
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