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MOWER GENEALOGY.
1690 to 1897.
By Ephraim Mower, April 2, 1897.

Samuel Mower, my great-great-grandfather, born in
1690, died May 8th, 1760, with his brother Thomas and
sister Joanna, came from the west of England (understood
to be Devonshire), and settled in Maiden, Mass., about
1714 (Wall says 1708-1710). Jan. 4th, 1716, he married
Elizabeth Sprague, of Maiden, born , died
; moved to Worcester about
They had seven children, all but the first born in Worces
ter : Elizabeth, born Oct. 28th, 1716, died . She
married first, Jonathan Lynde, of Maiden, born
, died ; second, Jedediah Tucker, of
Shrewsbury, born , died
Second. Abigail, born May 8th, 1718, died
She married Jabez Sargent, of Maiden, born
, died
Third. Capt. Samuel, Jr., born Oct. 18th, 1720, died
Jan. 24th, 1784. He married
Fourth. Capt. Ephraim, my great-grandfather, born in
Maiden Feb. 9th, 1723, died in Leicester Nov. 23d, 1790.
He married first, Mary Belcher Wheeler, of Worcester,
born , died Feb. 23d, 1745 ; second, Eliza
beth Garfield, of Waltham, born , died Dec.
22d, 1790. Captain of militia under British Crown and
deputy sherifl'.
Fifth. John, born Dec. 18th, 1724, died April 30th,
1806. Married first, Hannah Moore, of Worcester, born
1725, died Sept. 24th, 1784; second, Mrs.
Thomas Brown, Jr., born _ 1742, died Feb. 12th,
1836. Left no children. Signer of the Koyalist protest of
1774. Numbered among the internal enemies of the com
mittee of correspondence in May, 1775, and disarmed.

Sixth. Lydia, born Sept. 15th, 1726, died
Married first, Henry Ward, of Worcester, son of Maj.
Daniel Ward, born , died ;
second, Trowbridge, left a child who married
Ward and was grandmother of Col. Samuel Ward.
Seventh. Jonathan, born April 23d, 1730, died
, 1813. Married Elizabeth Bemis, of Spencer,
born , died . Settled in
Charlton. In 1798 moved to town of Greene, Me.
My great-great-grandfather's sister Joanna moved to
Boston but never married.
His brother Thomas born , died
, married , born ,
died , moved to Topsfield, Essex Co., Mass.,
had 8 children. Mary, born Jan. 30th, 1753, died
. Abigail, born Nov. 18th, 1754, died
. Hannah, born Oct. 7th, 1756, died
Elizabeth, born Nov. 13th, 1758, died
Louis, born Feb. 24th, 1761, died . Debo
rah, born Dec. 22d, 1762, died . Thomas,
born Jan. 9th, 1765, died . Josiah, born
Nov. 27th, 1769, died
My great-grandfather's brother Jonathan, born April 23d,
1730, died 1813, had 9 children. 1st, Eliza
beth, born 1756, died ; 2d,
Jonathan, born 1757, died ,
had Mary, William, Sarah, Jonathan, Peter S., Deborah,
and Ammi.
Third. John, born 1759 (alive in 1852,
aged 92), had John, Elizabeth, Jabez, Pamelia, Martin,
Sewell, Leonard, Jemima, Calvin (he was at Worcester in
1851, aged 72), Cynthia, Oliver and Josiah.
Fourth. Samuel, born 1761, died
. He had Sally, Lewis, Ruth, Diodema, Samuel,
Luther, William, Pamelia, Polly, Temperance and Laura.
Fifth. Abigail, born 1763, died

Sixth. Sarah, born 1765, died
Seventh. William, born 1767 (alive in
1851, aged 88), had Jonathan, Aaron, Rachel and Lucy.
Eighth. Ebenezer, born 1769, died
, had Ebenezer, Henry, Isaac, Lucretia, Hiram,
Nancy, Charles, Dan, Loring, John, Bemis and Warren.
Ninth. Marshall, born 1773, died
, had Lucy, Polly, Nancy, John, Sophia, Laura,
Curtis, John Russell, Alfred, Nelson, Cyrus, Elizabeth,
Eleanor and Cynthia.
My great-grandfather's brother, Capt. Samuel, Jr., born
Oct. 18th, 1720, died Jan. 24th, 1784. Royalist Protest
er in 1774, Selectman in 1785. Married Comfort Larned,
of Oxford, Mass., born 1731, died May 11th,
1765, daughter of the celebrated General Ebenezer and
Deborah Larned of Revolutionary fame ; second, married
Sarah Leach, born 1725, died Oct. 10th, 1774;
third, married Mrs. Esther Locke. He had 7 children :
First. Martha, born , died ,
married Sam Watson, of Brookfield, born ,
died ; settled in western New York.
Second. Joanna, born , died
, married William Boyden, of Auburn, born
, died ; settled in Dummerston, Vt.
Third. Lucy, born , died ,
married Israel Barrett, of Paxton, born ,
died . Moved to Lexington, Me.
Fourth. Samuel, born , died ,
married Nancy Ann Leach, born , died
; had 11 children: 1st, Sarah, born 1771,
died 1801, married Maj. Charles Chandler, son of Judge
John Chandler. 2d, John, born , died
. 3d, Samuel, born , died
. 4th, Levi, born , died
. 5th, Nahum, born , died
. Printer and publisher of the Independent Gazetteer,

first issued as a weekly paper in 1800 by Nahum Mower
and Sam Greenleaf, and discontinued after two years. 6th,
Nancy, born , died . 7th,
Mary, born 1780, died March 29th, 1786. 8th.
Nathaniel, born , died . He was
a hatter at Worcester, where Waldo's granite block now is.
Hat shop was burned in 1805. Father of Genl. Joseph A-
Mower, in the war of the rebellion with Genl. Sherman and
afterwards commander of the city of New Orleans. 9th,
Ebenezer, born , died . 10th,
Lyman, born , died at Woodstock, Vt., in
1876. 11th, Benjamin F., born , died
Fifth. Ebenezer, born Oct. 10th, 1760, died Feb. 14th,
1861. Was a remarkable man to remember events, recol
lected the raising of the Old South Church in 1763, when
but a little over three years old. Recollected the marching
of the minute-men under Capt. Bigelow in 1775, and his
death in 1790. As his father was a loyalist he never
engaged in the struggle of the Revolution, although it was
his wish to do so. At the election of President, the
November before his death, when over 100 years old, he
attended meeting and voted for Abraham Lincoln. He
married Sally Curtiss, of Worcester, born Feb. 14th, 1761,
died March 30th, 1841. Had 10 children : 1st, Ebenezer
Larned, born Dec. 9th, 1790, died Nov. , 1814. 2d,
John, born Sept. 22d, 1792, died April 18th, 1828. 3d,
Ephraim Curtiss, born March 22d, 1794, died Dec, ,
1828. 4th, Sewell, born Dec. 21st, 1795, died March 22d,
1836. 5th, Charies, born Dec. 16th, 1797, died Sept. 7th,
1845. 6th, Sally, born Aug. 29th, 1800, died
, married Thos. Nichols; moved to Spencer. 7th,
Sam Flagg, born Nov. 16th, 1802, died Jan. 16th, 1856,
married Anna C. Litch, of Boston, Nov. 13th, 1839. 8th,
Geo. W., born May 26th, 1804, died April 1st, 1835. 9th,
Henry, born Dec. 9th, 1805, died June 29th, 1856. 10th,
Eliza, born Dec. 25th, 1808, died May 22d, 1869, married

Walter R. Bigelow, of Worcester, Dec. 2d, 1828 (or Dec.
22d, 1829), had children.
Sixth. Aaron, born , died ,
married , born died
Seventh. Henry, born , died
, married Hale, of Putney, Vt., born
, died March 14th, 1808, had 3 children :
1st, Henry, lived in Michigan in 1871. 2d, Adeline, mar
ried Genl. Justus Benedict, who founded Kalamazoo, Mich.,
died, aged 58, three weeks after her husband; left five
children, two in San Francisco and three in Kansas. 3d,
Samuel, born June , 1808, died March 14th, 1860, mar
ried , born , died
, had four children : 1st, Samuel B. 2d, Henry S.
3d, Mary, married Wills, now a widow in Wood
stock, Vt. 4th, Elizabeth, married John Shurtlefi", drug
gist in Bennington, Vt.
Ephraim, my great-grandfather, moved first in
to Worcester and then in to Leicester. He had
four children born in Worcester. Timothy, son of first
wife, born Feb. 11, 1745, died , married
Miss Warner, born , died ,
settled in Worthington, Mass. His widow married
Clark, and moved to Western New York. Had three
children : Elizabeth, born , died
. John, born , died
Timothy, born , died , lived
in Gorham, Ontario Co., N. Y., and was a supervisor.
Second. Major Ephraim, born June 15th, 1748, died
Dec. 22d, 1810, married Feb. 21st, 1721, Hulda Hersey,
of Leicester, born Nov. 16th, 1747, died March 10th, 1828,
left no children. Hotel-keeper and stage proprietor, corner
Main and Mechanic Streets, now Walker's block. One of the
original founders of the Second Parish Church, organized
in 1785, and elected collector at first meeting called to elect
officers in 1789. Selectman 1790 to 1810 inclusive, and

their chairman ; Representative to General Court 1806 to
1810 ; crier of courts 1800 to 1807 ; charter member of
Morning Star Lodge F. & A. M., chartered March 11th,
1793. Third. Thomas, my grandfather, born in Worcester, May
23d, 1750, died Sept. 14th, 1800; in 1760, when ten years
old, with his father he moved from Worcester to Leicester,
and in 1792 moved back to Worcester and lived west of
Tatnuck, on the old Mower homestead, near the Leicester
line. He married Anna Brown, daughter of James Brown,
of Worcester, born , died
She died at Oak Orchard, N. Y., Oct. 7th, 1822, aged 69.
They had six children : James Brown, born Nov. 26th,
1773, died June 9th, 1852. Elizabeth, born May 3d, 1776,
died May 22d, 1777. Ephraim, my father, born June 6th,
1778, died Jan. 19th, 1865. Sarah, born Aug. 5th, 1780,
died April 13th, 1855. Huldah, born Oct. 30th, 1784, died
Oct. 20th, 1826. Thomas Gardner, born Feb. 18th, 1790,
died Dec. 7th, 1853.
Fourth. William, born in Worcester Feb. 5th, .1753,
died Nov. 9, 1759.
Fifth. Elizabeth, born in Leicester July 28th, 1762,
died Jan. 29th, 1769.
James Brown (son of Nicholas and Rebecca), my great
grandfather, born March 23d, 1710, died Jan. 11th, 1778,
aged 67, leaving to his children an excellent reputation and
a handsome landed estate on the southwest side of Main
Street. He came from Reading, Middlesex County, to
Worcester about 1740. At Reading he married Miss
Eaton, born , died
They had six children : Lydia, born , died
, married Joshua Johnson ; 2d, Sarah, born
, died , married John White,
a graduate of Harvard College ; 3d, Mary, born
, died , married Nathan Hersey ; 4th,
Rebecca, born , died mar-

ried Gardner Earl, of Leicester ; 5th, Anna, born
, died Oct. 7th, 1822, married Thomas Mower, my
grandfather ; 6th, Thomas, born , died
, married Miss Hersey, of Leicester.
James B. Mower, my father's brother, born Nov. 26th,
1773, died June 9th, 1852, in New York; was clerk in
Dan'l Waldo's store in Worcester, moved to New York and
for many years, before mail-steamers were used, had charge
of the foreign mail in the New York Post-Office, when in
the rotunda in City Hall Park. He married first, Helen

Kip, born , died

, had three

children : John H., born , died

. Peter, born , died

.

Henry, born , died

. All

died young. In 1815 he married Mary Kip, born
, died May , 1854. They had two children.
Mary Elizabeth Kip, born , died May 9th,
1854. Catharine Ann, born , died
. Neither ever married.
Ephraim, my father, Aug. 19th, 1810, married Nancy Eliza
Lovell ; she was born in 1792 and died Feb. 18th, 1822 ; was
the daughter of Col. Ebenezer Lovell, of Worcester ; had one
child, Helen Kip, born , died
On Dec. 31st, 1822, he married Caroline Cutler, born Feb.
21st, 1791, died Feb. 24th, 1867, daughter of Gen. John
Cutler, of Brookfield. They had two children : Ephraim,
born April 8th, 1825, died . Caroline Cut
ler, born Nov. 27th, 1826, died April 9th, 1897, never mar
ried. Ephraim moved to New York in 1842. Nov. 23d,
1854, he married Margaret Sophia, daughter of John Laid-
law, of Brooklyn, born Dec. 28th, 1824, died Aug. 11th,
1881, where five children were born. Thomas Ephraim,
born Oct. 6th, 1855, died . Katharine Lef-
ferts, born Nov. 12th, 1857, died . John
Laidlaw, born Feb. 7th, 1859, died
William Cutler, born May 31st, 1864, died

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Robert Benson Lefferts, born May 31st, 1864, died April
9th, 1888. Ephraim, in 1872, moved from Brooklyn,
N. Y., to Litchfield, Conn., and became interested in the
very large deposit of stratified granite at Roxbury, Conn.
For the two terms of 1887-8 and 1889-90 he was the
Roxbury representative in the General Assembly of Con
necticut. Sarah, my father's sister, born Aug. 5th, 1780, died
April 13th, 1855, married, in 1805, John Thayer, of
Worcester County, born , died
, had five children. Harriet, born died
. Anna, born died
. Sarah, born , died
Mary, born died . Ephraim,
born 1815, died 1841, was an officer in the U. S. Army and
served in the Florida war. None of the five ever married
and are now all dead.
Huldah, my father's sister, born Oct. 30th, 1784, died
Oct. 18th, 1826. In 1817 she married Sherman Bills, of
Connecticut ; she left three daughters, the youngest married
David Lewis, of Scottsville, town of Wheatland, near
Rochester, N. Y.
Thomas Gardner, my father's brother, born Feb. 18th,
1790, died Dec. 7th, 1853. Dec. 30th, 1828, he married
Sarah Ann Entwistle, daughter of John Hardman, of New
York, born Feb. 9th, 1799, died Nov. 6th, 1870. They
had four children : Anna Josephine, born April 23d,
1832, died . Mandeville, Columbia College
185-, born Jan. 5th, 1836, died . Thomas
Lovell, born Aug. 22d, 1837, died Jan. 11th, 1841.
Sara Elizabeth, born Feb. 24th, 1840, died
Harvard College 1810, Surgeon U. S. Army, member
American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, Surgeon's
mate 9th Regiment U. S. Infantry Dec. 2d, 1812, when he
joined his regiment in winter quarters at Burlington, Vt.
Surgeon June 30th, 1814. At the end of the war retained

one among the ten out of forty for the peace establishment.
In the spring of 1813 went with his regiment to Sackett's
Harbor and afterwards to Niagara, N. Y., and participated in
the capture of Fort George and in the actions of Chrysler's
Fields. In the spring of 1814 he accompanied the Ninth from
its winter quarters at French Mills, now Fort Covington, to
the Niagara frontier. This regiment, forming a part of
Scott's brigade, was the first to land on the Canadian shore,
under the fire of the enemy, on the night of the 3d of July,
1814 ; and was in the leading boat conveying the regimental
field and staff, also Genl. Winfield Scott and staff, and was
on the New York frontier until the end of the war. He
participated in the entire campaign of 1814 on the Niagara
frontier, having been engaged in the battlesjt^f Chippewa,
Lundy's Lane, and the assault by the Brilis'h on Fort Erie.
After nine or ten years service on tlje frontier, the two last
on the upper Missouri, he was placed on special duty in the
harbor of New York, and charged with the various duties
pertaining to the station, i^vhere, with occasional absences
on duty, he continued until his death. In 1833 and 1834
he travelled under orders more than 12,000 miles as a
member of a medical board of examination and inspection,
visiting most of our military posts southw^est and northwest
of New York. Was a member of every medical board except
one that was convened from 1832 to 1851, and, with the
above exception and one other, was the presiding member.
To the operation of these boards the present efficiency and
high standing of the medical staff are mainly attributable.
In 1818 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City.
In 1844 he was elected a member of the American Philo
sophical Society of Philadelphia, over which in turn Frank
lin and Jefferson had presided. At his death and for many
years previous, he was the senior Surgeon U. S. Army and
chief Medical Purveyor in New York City. The largest
hospital erected during the civil war was at Chestnut Hill,

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Philadelphia, and was named after him. A model of
which, with his portrait, was exhibited at the Philadelphia
Centennial in 1876, and both are now in the U. S. Army
Medical Museum and Library in Washington, D. C.
Thomas Ephraim, graduated at Yale College in 1878,
lived in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Litchfield, Conn., until 1888,
when he, with his brothers John and William, also became
interested in the Mine Hill Stone Quarries at Roxbury,
Conn. In 1890-91 he was the Roxbury representative in
the General Assembly of Connecticut. Nov. 29th, 1892,
he married Jessie Frances Burritt, born July 10th, 1857,
died , daughter of Austin D. and Julia L.
Burritt, and has one child, Robert Lefferts, born April
24th, 1895.
Katherine Lefferts Mower, married June 23d, 1886,
Pringle Mitchell, born , died ,
son of Donald G. and Pringle, of New Haven,
Conn. John Laidlaw Mower, married Oct. 30th, 1895, Grace
A dele, born , died , daughter
of Almon D. and Adele Smith, of Bridgewater, Conn.

aENER^TIOI^S.

Elizabeth, 1716.
Abigail, 1718.
Samuel, Jr.,
1720.

imuel,i90-1760.

Ephraim, 1723-90.

lanna.
homas.

John, 1724-1806
Lydia, 1726.
Jonathan, 1730-1813.

Mary, 1753.
Abigail, 1754.
Hannah, 1756.
Elizabeth, 1758.
Louis, 1761.
Deborah, 1762.
Thomas, 1765.
Josiah, 1769.

Martha Watson.
Joanna Boyden.
Lucy Barrett.
Samuel.

Ebenezer, 1760-1861.

Aaron.Henry.Timothy, 1745.

Ephraim, 1748-1810.
Thomas, 1750-1800.

William, 1753-59.
Elizabeth, 1762-69.

Elizabeth, 1756.
Jonathan, 1757, 7 ch.
.John, 1759. 12 ch.
Samuel, 1761, 11 ch.
Abifrail, 1763.
Sarah, 1765.
William, 1767, 4 ch.
Ebenezer, 1769, 12 ch,
Marshall, 1773, 14 ch.

Sarah, 1771.
John.Samuel. Levi.
Nahum. Nancy or Anna.
Nathaniel. Ebenezer. Lyman. Benjamin F.
Ebenezer, 1790-1814.
John, 1792.
Ephraim, 1794.
Sewell, 1795.
Charles, 1797.
Sally, 1800.
Saml. Flagg, 1802.
George W. 1804.
Henry, 1805.
Eliza (Bigelow) ,1808,

Henry. Adeline, 5 ch.
Samuel, 4 ch.
Elizabeth.
John.Timothy..James Brown,
1773-1852.

Elizabeth, 1775-77.
Ephraim, 1778-1865

Sarah, 1780-1855.

Huldah, 1784-1826,
3ch.
Thomas G..
1790-1853.

Genl. Joseph A.

George C.
Sam Thomas.

John. Peter.Henry.
Mary Elizabeth.
Catharine.Helen Kip.
Ephraim.

Caroline C.
Harriet.Anna.
Sarah. Mary.
Ephraim.

Anne Josephine,
Mandeville.
Thomas L.
Sara Elizabeth.

Mary Eliza.
Geo. Cliff.
Grace Mower,

Thomas E.
Katharine L.
John L.
William C.
Robert B. L.

Robt. L.,
April 24,
1895.

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