Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . rah Green. (III) Joseph Torrey, son of Captain WilliarTorrey (2), was a merchant at Weymouth. Hmarried Elizabeth .Symmes. (IV) Rev. Joseph Torrey, son of Joseph Torre(3), settled at South Kingston, Rhode Island. Hmarried Elizabeth Fiske. (V) Captain William Torrey, son of Rev. JosepTorrey (4). settled at Killingly. Connecticut. Hmarried Zilpah Davison, daughter of Daniel anCatherine (Davis) Davison. He was born in 176and died in 1847. His
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . rah Green. (III) Joseph Torrey, son of Captain WilliarTorrey (2), was a merchant at Weymouth. Hmarried Elizabeth .Symmes. (IV) Rev. Joseph Torrey, son of Joseph Torre(3), settled at South Kingston, Rhode Island. Hmarried Elizabeth Fiske. (V) Captain William Torrey, son of Rev. JosepTorrey (4). settled at Killingly. Connecticut. Hmarried Zilpah Davison, daughter of Daniel anCatherine (Davis) Davison. He was born in 176and died in 1847. His children were. i. Zilpamarried William Harris, of Scituate. Massachusettand one of her eight children is Dr. WilliamHarris, United States Commissioner of Educatio2. Catherine Davis Torrey, born in 1819, marrieDr. Fenner Harris Peckham. (VI) Catherine Davis Torrey. daughter of Catain Willinm Torrey (5), married Dr. Fenner 1Peckham. Thev had one son and five daughtei(See Peckham Family sketch). (VII) Ella Lois Torrey Peckham. daughterDr. Fenner H. Peckham, married Charles C. Baiwin. ANDREW HILL HAMMOND was bornAlton, New Hampshire, August 3, 1830. Duri. WORCESTER COUNTY 315 lis infancy his parents removed to Gilmanton, Newiampshire, where his early years were spent on aarm. His father was a Baptist minister, but coni-pined with his pastoral duties the occupation of aarmer, after the custom of the early days. He at-ended the district school in Gilmanton. At the ageif nine he went to live with his grandparents in theiore district of his native town, and while there wasor several years under the tuition of his maternalincle, Jonathan Prescott Hill, who was a surveyor,natheniatician and school teacher of note in thattgion. Air. Hill was grandson of Dr. Jonathan Hill,yho married Mercy Prescott. Mr. Hammonds experience as a pupil of Mr. HillVas of great benefit in after years, as it gave him alove of books and study that attended him throughife, and gave him a place among the stlf-edu
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