Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ho is completing his course inthe high school: Roger W.; Dorothy W.: Edna L.;and two who died in infancy. HARRISON GRAY OTIS. The Otis familyhas had many men of distinction from colonial timesto the present and all are of the same family, alldescendants of the same progenitor, John Otis, oras the name is spelled otherwise Attis, Oates. English family has a coat of arms. (I) John Otis, the emigrant ancestor of Har-rison Gray Oti
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ho is completing his course inthe high school: Roger W.; Dorothy W.: Edna L.;and two who died in infancy. HARRISON GRAY OTIS. The Otis familyhas had many men of distinction from colonial timesto the present and all are of the same family, alldescendants of the same progenitor, John Otis, oras the name is spelled otherwise Attis, Oates. English family has a coat of arms. (I) John Otis, the emigrant ancestor of Har-rison Gray Otis, John P. K. Otis and Mary Eliza-beth Otis, of Worcester. Massachusetts, was bornin England, in 1581. He settled inHingham in New England. He was there at thetime of the first division and drew land in of the early settlers in Hingham. INIassachu-setts. were from Hingham. England, and it is thoughtthat Otis lived in Hingham for a time before com-ing to New- England. His homestead was on OtisHill in the southwest part of Hingham, Massachu-setts. He had numerous grants of land between1635 and 1647. He was admitted a freeman March. c7a^>^-^^^>6^^^^;.^>2^- WORCESTER COUNTY 207 3: 1635-6. He was a town officer. buildingsburned March 15, 1645-6. He removed about 1655to Weymouth, Massachusetts. He married (first) Margaret in England. She died in Hingham, June 28, 1653. He married(second) and his widow drew land in Weymouthin 1663. He died in Weymouth, May 31, 1657, agedseventy-six. His will was dated the day before hisdeath and was proved July 28, 1657. He bequeathedto his wife; to son John, who was made executor;to daughter Margaret Burton and her three chil-dren; to daughter Hannah Gile; to Mary andThomas Gile, Jr.; to daughters Anne and widow Elizabeth made will September 12, 1672,proved July 17, 1676, and bequeathed to son JohnStreme; daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law, Lieu-tenant John Holbrook. The children of John Otiswere: John, s
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