Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . s born at Wilton, New Hampshire, January28, 1792; married, 1814, Betsey, daughter ofUriah Smith, of Wilton. He was for a timea carpenter,, then a proprietor of the first lineof stages running through Wilton, but for thegreater part of his life was an itinerant mer-chant. Children: i. Varnum Sawtelle, adopt-ed son, mentioned below. 2. Mary Elizabeth^born August 18, 1817; died September 26,.1837. 3. Olivia A., born February it, 1820;died March 7, 1820. 4. Joseph Smith,
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . s born at Wilton, New Hampshire, January28, 1792; married, 1814, Betsey, daughter ofUriah Smith, of Wilton. He was for a timea carpenter,, then a proprietor of the first lineof stages running through Wilton, but for thegreater part of his life was an itinerant mer-chant. Children: i. Varnum Sawtelle, adopt-ed son, mentioned below. 2. Mary Elizabeth^born August 18, 1817; died September 26,.1837. 3. Olivia A., born February it, 1820;died March 7, 1820. 4. Joseph Smith, born, atWilton, May 2], 1823; married July 31, 1853^Hannah Celestia, daughter of Moses Merriam,of Mason; resided at Keene. 5. Helen Jane,born July 16, 1829; married August 31, 1853,.Philander Ring. (VII) Varnum Sawtelle Holt, adopted son. of Joseph Holt (6), was born January 22, 1815. His parents were named Sawtelle. Helived at Henniker and Wilton, New Hampi-shire, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wasa well-to-do merchant. He died January 28,1869, at Vicksburg, now Lakewood, NewJersey. He married, May 5, 1837, Caroline ft. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 1501 Susan, third child of John and Susannah(Hale) Gibson. She was born in Henniker,New Hampshire, February 21, 1815. Herfather was born at Henniker, October 22, 1772;died there June 5, 1836. Captain Joseph Gibson, father of John Gib-son (6), was born at Stow, Massachusetts,July 8, 1750; died at Henniker, May 23, 1801 ;married, 1772, Olive Randall, of Stow, bornAugust 26, 1749, died December 30, Gibson was a settler in Henniker in1774; selectman there 90-91-96-97-99; captainfor Henniker alarm list 1776, later command-er of the town company, one of the so-calledslam-bang companies; but was preventedby disability from doing active service in thewar. Captain Timothy Gibson, father of CaptainJoseph, was born in Stow, January 20, 1702-3;died at Henniker, January 18, 1782; marriedDecember 29, 1725, Persis Rice, born in Sud-bury, Janua
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