History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

Family Records 147
(VI) Israel Brayton, son of John, was born in Somerset, Mass.,
July 29, 1792, and died there, Nov. 5, 1866. He married, Aug. 1813, Kezia
Anthony, who was born in Somerset, July 27, 1792, and died Oct. 24, 1880.
She, also, was a descendant of one of the early settlers of Rhode Island,
John Anthony, who came from England in 1634. Her line of descent is
John and Susanna (Potter) Anthony, Abraham and Alice (Wodell)
Anthony, William and Mary (Coggeshall) Anthony, Benjamin and Martha
(Luther) Anthony, David and Submit (Wheeler) Anthony, who were the
parents of Kezia.
Israel and Kezia (Anthony) Brayton had nine children, namely: (I)
Mary, who married, first, Major Bradford Durfee, second, Jeremiah S.
Young. Her only child, Bradford Matthew Chalonor Durfee, died Sept.
13, 1872, and in his memory she gave to the City of Fall River the B. M.
C. Durfee High School. (2) William Bowers, who married Hannah Turner
Lawton. (3) Nancy Jarrett Bowers, who married Daniel Chace. Their
only child died young. (4) Elizabeth Anthony, who married the Rev. Roswell
Dwight Hitchcock. Their children were: Roswell D., Mary B., Harriet B,,
and Bradford W. Hitchcock. (5) David Anthony who married Nancy R.
Jenckes. (6) John Summerfield, who married Sarah J. Tinkham. (7)
Israel Perry, who married Parthenia Gardner. (8) Hezekiah Anthony, who
married Caroline E. Slade. (9) Sarah S. Brayton, unmarried, who died in
Fall River September 5, 1915.
(VII) Mary Brayton, eldest daughter of Israel and Kezia (Anthony)
Brayton, was born at Foxboro, Mass., May 9, 1814, and for several years
previous to her marriage was engaged as a school teacher. In 1842 she
married Major Bradford Durfee of Fall River, who died in 1843. She w^s
again married, in 1851, to Hon. Jeremiah S. Yoimg, who died in 1861. To
the first marriage there was born one son, Bradford Matthew Chaloner,
on June 15, 1843, and he died unmarried in 1872. Mrs. Young died March
22, 1891. ^^ .
(VII) WiUiam Bowers Brayton, eldest son of Israel and Kezia
(Anthony) Brayton, was born April 6, 1816, in Swansea, Mass. He was
educated in the schools of Swansea, and spent one year at Wilbraham
Academy. He became a teacher, as did nearly all of his brothers and
sisters, and taught in Tiverton, Rhode Island, and elsewhere for two or
three years. In 1832 he came to Fall River. His first commercial venture
was in the grocery business, and he subsequently became a clerk on some
of the boats running to Wood's Hole, and finally engaged in the gram
business with his brother David. He continued in that business until his
retirement, in 1877. His home was where the Fall River public library now
stands. He was also engaged in farming in a limited way in the town of
Somerset; and he was identified with the life of Fall River in various
relations. In 1864 and 1865 he was a member of the common council; he
was chairman of the Republican Committee, and for some years served as
a justice of the peace. He was one of the incorporators of the First National
Bank, of which he was senior director from the time of its organization.
He was a man of keen intelligence and wide information. He attended the
First Congregational Church, of which Mrs. Brayton and daughters became
members.
Oct. 26, 1843, Mr. Brayton married Hannah Turner, daughter of Capt.
George and Patience (Turner) Lawton, and to them were born four children,
namely: Julia Washburn, of Fall River; George Anthony, who married
Sarah A. Smith and died in Fall River, without issue, Dec. 20, 1899; Mary,
of Fall River; and William Bowers, Jr., who died June 4, 1875. Mr
Brayton died in Fall River Aug. 21, 1887, and Mrs. Brayton passed away
July 4, 1898.
(VII) David Anthony Brayton, son of Israel and Kezia (Anthony)