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     He is the son of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. He married Rozubah Lee.

     She was born on 10 April 1825. She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She married Theodore Chapman on 26 September 1844. She married Rev. Norman W. Harris, son of Nathan Harris and Hulda Broga, in 1858. She died in September 1905 at age 80.

     She was born on 29 January 1810 at Becket, MA. She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She married Alvin Buck in 1827. She died on 12 September 1896 at La Porte, IN, at age 86.

     She was born on 6 July 1814. She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris.¹ She died on 3 October 1814 at Becket, Berkshire, MA, USA.^2,1 She was buried at Becket Center, Berkshire, MA, USA; tombstone shows name as Martha Celinda.^2,1

     She was born circa 1640 at Duxbury, Massachussetts.¹ She was the daughter of Christopher Wadsworth and Grace (?). She married Henry Andrews Jr., son of Henry Andrews, circa 1659.¹

     She is the daughter of Ebenezer Wadsworth and Mary (?). She married (?) Simpson.

     She is the daughter of Recompense Wadsworth and Sarah Morey [Mowry]. She married Jerimiah Tucker.

     She is the daughter of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. She married Amos Kingsley in 1757 at Becket, MA.

     She was born in 1822.¹ She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She died on 6 April 1835 at Becket, Berkshire, MA.^2,3 She was buried at Becket Center, Berkshire, MA, USA.^2,3
     Mary Anne Wadsworth was also known as Maryann.²

     She is the daughter of Benjamin Wadsworth and Olive Sharpley. She married Leonard Williams in 1799. She married William Pratt in 1803.

     She was born on 6 July 1814. She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She married Rev. Norman W. Harris, son of Nathan Harris and Hulda Broga, on 11 August 1844. She died in 1853.

     He is the son of John Wadsworth Jr. He married Lusanna Sampson.

     He was born on 6 May 1748 at Duxbury, MA. He was the son of Dea Peleg Wadsworth and Lusanna Sampson. He married Elizabeth Bartlett in 1772. He died on 12 November 1825 at Hiram, ME, at age 77.
     

WADSWORTH, Peleg, soldier, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1748; died in Hiram, Oxford County, Maine, 18 November, 1829. He was graduated at Harvard in 1769, taught in Plymouth with Alexander Scammell, and then engaged in commercial pursuits. Early in the Revolutionary struggle he entered the army as a captain of minute-men in Roxbury and became aide to Gem Artemas Ward. Afterward he was made adjutant-general for Massachusetts, and was present at the battle of Long Island, 1 August, 1776. He became brigadier-general of militia in 1777, and was second in command of the Penobscot expedition in 1779, on which occasion he displayed great courage and was taken prisoner. He was again captured in his house by a party of British soldiers in February, 1781, and imprisoned in the fort at Castine, whence he escaped in June. In 1784 he established himself in business in Portland, Maine, where he was much employed in surveying. In 1792 he was in the state senate, and was elected to congress, serving from 2 December, 1793, till 3 March, 1807. In the last-named year he removed to Oxford county, Maine, to improve a large tract of land that had been granted to him by the government for his services. He developed the resources of that region, and was appointed major-general of Maine militia.¹

     She is the daughter of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. She married Oliver Snow in 1771 at Becket, MA.

     He was born in 1688 at Milton, MA. He was the son of Ebenezer Wadsworth and Mary (?). He married Sarah Morey [Mowry] on 20 May 1714 at Milton?, MA. He died in 1729 at Milton, MA.
     

In the book," Wadsworth Family In America," his year of death is shown as 1729. N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg 7-90 states "decd Mar ye 15,1727/28, aged 39 yrs. 7 mo. 16 da."

     She is the daughter of Benjamin Wadsworth and Olive Sharpley. She married Timothy Snow in 1812.

     She is the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She married Rev. (?) Tuttle. She married Rev. William Simons.

     He was born circa 1636.¹ He was the son of Christopher Wadsworth and Grace (?).¹ He married Abigail Lindall, daughter of James Lindall and Mary (?), circa 1660.²

Capt. Samuel Wadsworth died on 21 April 1676 at Sudbury, MA, when, two and a half months after the attack on Lancaster, Capt. Wadsworth and his troops were ambushed and attacked near Sudbury by more than 500 Indians. "Our soldiers", Cotton Mather later wrote, "fought like men and more so. After a desperate struggle they retreated and succeeded in gaining the western side of Green Hill. There they gallantly defended themselves for four hours. The Indians set fire to the woods, so that our fathers were almost blinded and suffocated by the heat and smoke. They were forced to abandon their position, whereupon the Indians fell on them and the little band was literally cut to pieces." He and 30 of his men were slain.

The men were buried in a common grave in Sudbury. The first monument on the battlefield was placed there by Samuel's son Benjamin. In 1852, the state appropriated money for the erection of a monument on which the original slab is preserved, to the memory of Capt. Wadsworth and his officers and men.
     

When he was about two and a half years old, he came to America on the ship, "Lion," with his parents, and the family settled in Duxbury, just to the north of Plymouth Plantation.

The early records of Duxbury were destroyed by fire. The first recorded record of Samuel Wadsworth is in Bridgewater, then called Duxbury plantation, the first interior settlement of the old colony, incorporated in 1656. He was enrolled as a taxpayer from 1655-1665. The lands he owned were part of the grant of his father Christopher, who was a large proprietor there. He came into possession of it in 1644.



During King Philip's War, an 18 month conflict between colonial settlements and a group of disgruntled Indian tribes, Samuel served as a Captain in the militia. In his 2006 book, "Mayflower," Nathaniel Philbrick relates an incident involving our ancestor.

Two friendly Indians, James and Job, from a group of what were called "Praying Indians," were sent by the Massachusetts Bay authorities to spy on the hostile Nipmuck Indians.

James was the first to return, on January 24. He reported that with most of the English settlements along the Massachusetts portion of the Connecticut River abandoned because of Indian activity, the Nipmucks planned to attack villages to the east including Medfield, Marlborough, Sudbury, Groton, and Concord, and starting with Lancaster. But, despite other corroborating reports, the Massachusetts authorities chose to dismiss James' warnings as untrustworthy testimony from just another Indian.

But, at 10:00 pm on the evening of February 9, a Daniel Gookin, at his home in Cambridge, was awakened by an urgent pounding on his door. It was Job, starving and exhausted, having traveled on makeshift snowshoes through drifting snow from the western frontier. He had hurried to report that there were 400 Nipmuck and Narragansett Indian warriors about to descend on Lancaster and there was very little time-- they were set to attack the next morning at daybreak.

Gookin leaped out of bed and sent a dispatch to Marlborough, where Capt. Samuel Wadsworth and forty troops were stationed. The messenger rode all night and by morning Capt. Wadsworth and his men were riding furiously for Lancaster, about ten miles away.

The Indians had burned the bridge outside Lancaster, but Wadsworth and his troops were able to get their horses across the still-smoldering timbers. Up ahead, the soldiers could see smoke rising into the skies and hear the shouts of the Indians and firing of muskets. The attack had already begun.

The Indians had already killed many of the settlers and burned their houses. As Wadsworth arrived on the scene, the Indians thought it best to clear out, but not before they grabbed a number of settlers, some seriously injured, as hostages. One of the hostages, Mary Rowlandson, the wife of Landcaster's minister, later wrote an account of her tragic experiences, "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God," which became one of America's first best-sellers.³

     He was the son of Ebenezer Wadsworth and Mary (?). He married Ann Withington. He died in 1754.
     

Lt. in militia.

     She was born in 1776 at Becket, Berkshire Co., MA. She was the daughter of Benjamin Wadsworth and Olive Sharpley. She married Jesse Johnson, son of Deacon Jesse Johnson and Sarah Sperry, on 25 February 1795 at Becket, Berkshire Co., MA. She died on 22 July 1832.

     She was born in 1715. She was the daughter of Recompense Wadsworth and Sarah Morey [Mowry]. She died on 17 April 1738.

     She is the daughter of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. She married Amos Kingsley.

     She was born on 28 May 1812. She was the daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Lydia Harris. She married Rev. Horace Doolittle in 1835. She died in 1891.

     He was born in 1766. He was the son of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. He married Isabel Ferguson in 1792.¹ He married Miranda Mathews in 1811. He died in 1843.

     He was born circa 1752 at Milton, Berkshire Co., Massachussetts; tombstone shows he died in May 1829 at age 77.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Wadsworth and Rebecca Davenport. He married Hannah Baker.² He married Rachel Putnam in 1816. He died on 10 May 1829 at Becket, Berkshire Co., Massachussetts.¹

     He is the son of Deacon Stephen Wadsworth and Rachel Putnam.

     He is the son of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth and Abigail Lindall. He married Susana Cocke.

     She was born on 6 January 1778 at Duxbury, MA. She was the daughter of Gen Peleg Wadsworth and Elizabeth Bartlett. She married Hon Stephen Longfellow on 1 January 1804. She died on 12 March 1851 at Portland, ME, at age 73.

     She is the daughter of Robert Kenneth Wagner and Helen Margaret Dilts.