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

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and James Fletcher, Jan. 19, 1916.
Warren Obadiah Chace, son of Charles Anthony and Adeline Frances
(Slade) Chace, was born June 12, 1882, married Oct. 2, 1907, Mary Flossie
Mosher adopted daughter of Edgar D. Mosher, and they have two children
Esther Freeborn, born Jan. 22, 1911: and Warren Fuller, Jan. 15, 1914.
Mr. Chace has charge of the factory of the New England Tank and Tower
Company, at Everett, Massachusetts.
Walter Freeborn Chace, son of Rev. Obadiah and Esther Taber
(Freeborn) Chace, born Feb. 28, 1858, resides at Redlands, Cal. He
married Dec. 24, 1880, Celia Perkins Emery, daughter of Elephalet Emery,
former superintendent of the Durfee Mills, Fall River. They have had
three children: Emery Perkins, born July 31, 1882, who married April 25,
1905, Elsie M. Herbst, born Aug. 30, 1882, and has had four children
Emery Philip (born Jan. 29, 1906, died Nov. 6, 1907) Ruth, (born July 8
1907,) Chester F. (born Aug. 29, 1908) and Gail P. (born Feb. 2, 1910)
Anthony F. born May 1, 1888; and Walter Freeborn, Jr., born June 27
1897.
George Mahlon Chace, son of Rev. Obadiah and Esther Taber (Freeborn)
Chace, born April 3, 1864, died Sept. 12, 1907. Sept. 7, 1887, he
married Emma F. Slade. He was foreman for Beattie & Cornell, contractors,
of Fedl River, Massachusetts.
The Cole Family
(I) James Cole, a resident of Highgate, a suburb of London, England,
in 1616, who married in 1624, Mary, daughter of the noted botanist and
physician, Mathieu Lovel, who was born in Lille, a son of Jean de LoveU
a distinguished lawyer. Mr. Cole and his wife, with their sons James and
Hugh, who were probably born in London, came to New England in 1632,
and were for a time at Saco, Maine. Mr. Cole located in Plymouth, Mass.,
in 1633, and was there made a freeman in the same year. He was known
as a sailor. His name appears on the tax list of Plymouth in 1634. He was
the first settler of, and lived upon what is still known as "Cole's Hill," the
first burial ground of the Pilgrims. This land probably included the
ground upon which rests Plymouth Rock. He had various grants of land.
He was surveyor of highways in 1641 and 1644. He was a volunteer in 1637
against the Pequot Indians. Mr. Cole kept perhaps the first public house
or inn in Plymouth, and one of the first in New England. This inn was
opened soon after Mr. Cole's arrival at Plymouth, and it was continued by
himself and son James, respectively, until 1698. The children of Mr. Cole
and his wife were: James, born in 1625; Hugh, in 1627; John, Nov. 21,
1637, in Plymouth; and Mary, in 1639.
(II) Hugh Cole, son of James, born in 1627, probably in London,
England, came to America with his parents in 1632, and with them probably
went to Plymouth, of which he was made a freeman in 1657. He
married (first) Jan. 8, 1654, Mary, born Aug. 17, 1635, in Scituate, daughter
of Richard and Ann (Shelly) Foxwell, of Barnstable, Mass., her father
having came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1631, and settled
in Scituate. Mr. Cole married (second) Jan. 1, 1668, Elizabeth, widow of
Jacob Cook, former widow of William Shurtliffe, and daughter of Thomas
and Ann Lettuce, of Plymouth. She died in Swansea, Mass., Oct. 31, 1693,
and he married (third) Jan. 30, 1694, Mary, widow of Deacon Ephraim
Morton, former widow of William Harlow, and daughter of Robert and
Judith SheUy.
At the opening of King Philip's war in 1675, two of the sons of Mr.
Cole were made prisoners by the Indians. Philip ordered them set at