. Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine. ?sei3^ ^a«tg3tit^--ji!*ag^*^B- OLD JOHN ADAMS HOUSE, QUINCY, MASS, Residence of William Augustus Field. See page IIOKAIK) N. pa^e UKiO. FIELD GENEALOGY. 1031 Born at Peterboro, N. H., in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, on March 25,1813, he spent hi
. Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine. ?sei3^ ^a«tg3tit^--ji!*ag^*^B- OLD JOHN ADAMS HOUSE, QUINCY, MASS, Residence of William Augustus Field. See page IIOKAIK) N. pa^e UKiO. FIELD GENEALOGY. 1031 Born at Peterboro, N. H., in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, on March 25,1813, he spent his boyhood upon his fathers farm. He was one of a family oftourteen children, of Puritan New England stock. Going west in 1839, he settledin what was then Iowa Territory, at the little village of Denmark. Here he met hiswife. Miss Charity L. Taylor, to whom he was married by Father Asa Turner, wellknown in Congregational annals as a member of The Iowa Band. After ashort residence in Iowa, Mr. Field removed to Abingdon, 111.; thence subsequentlyto Farmington, 111. Shortly after his removal to Farmington, the little Presbyte-rian church at that place reorganized under Congregational auspices, and DeaconField acquired the title and office which he has held almost continually ever Field soon became activelj engaged in the Underground Railroad inthe work of assisting slaves northwest on*their way to freedom. In 1843 DeaconField moved to
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