PUFFER, Alice Louisa

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He went to South Amherst when a young man and followed farming. In 1843-4 he settled on a farm at North Amherst and spent the rest of his days there.

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Reuben married JOHNSON, Clarissa Billings on 8 Dec 1842 in South Amherst, MA. Clarissa (daughter of JOHNSON, Earl and OLIVER, Nancy) was born on 10 Dec 1823 in Amherst, MA; died on 21 Nov 1898 in North Amherst, MA; was buried in Amherst, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a tanner at N. Amherst. He deeded land at Holden and West Boylston, a fifth of the real estate of Henry Bullard, devised to Silas Bullard, to James O. Bullard, May 3, 1829 (W.D. 347-140). He was drafted in the War of 1812.

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Stephen married FOSGATE, Sally E. on 5 Jul 1812 in Sutton, MA. Sally (daughter of FOSGATE, Joel and GILBERT, Naomi) was born on 2 Apr 1791 in Berlin, MA; died on 2 Feb 1871 in Amherst, MA; was buried in Amherst, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl married OLIVER, Nancy. Nancy was born on 4 Nov 1796 in Scotland; died on 28 Aug 1847 in MA; was buried in Amherst, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Ordained: 26 Sep 1781, Berlin, MA

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Graduated from Harvard College in 1778. In 1810 he received from Harvard the honorary degree of D.D. He was ordained in Berlin, November 26, 1781, the first minister, and continued pastor of the Congregational church there to the end of this life. He was a very useful and able minister. He delivered the Dudleian lecture at Harvard College, May 11, 1808, and preached a sermon at the annual convention of Congregational ministers at Boston May 30, 1811. Both of these sermons were published in pamphlets.

Rev. Dr. Puffer spoke at the inauguration of John Adams  to Massachusetts State Senate.


The late Rev. Dr. Allen of Northboro in an article in the Boston Advertiser gives the following incident among his Cambridge reminiscences of 1810.

"Quite a sensation was occasioned in June of this year by the delivery of the Dudleian lecture by a country minister, with whom many years afterwards I had pleasant intercourse as a neighbor and friend, Rev. Reuben Puffer, afterwards D.D., of Berlin. He had previously delivered the election sermon in Boston which first introduced him to notice, and probably led to his appointment as lecturer. We were given to understand that he was a poor country minister, with small salary and a large family, and our expectations on entering the Chapel and seeing an ordinary-looking man in the pulpit were not raised to a high pitch. But we were disappointed and we listened to the discourse with intense interest from first to last.

His text was "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, come and see." And so we found that a very sensible, rational, eloquent discourse could come from the minister of the obscure little town of Berlin. The result was that a meeting of the Students was called, a Committee chosen to request a copy for the press, and the profits of the pamphlet, amounting to about one hundred dollars, was given to the poor country minister."

Rev. Dr. Puffer left a large estate for his day. He made special bequests of Scott's Family Bible, Brown's Dictionary of the Bible, Burder's Village Sermons; Cowper's Poems; Newton's Letters; Memoirs of Mrs. Ramsay and some of his manuscripts. He had a large library. He gave his watch to his son Oliver and his clock to his son Henry; a gold necklace of his deceased daughter Sarah to his granddaughter Sarah Puffer Fay. Edward Baker was executor. His will was dated Sept. 3, 1828.

The widow Phebe Puffer remembered each of her husband's children in her will, which was dated March, 1851, and allowed February 5, 1856. She gave to Phebe Goodnow, granddaughter of her husband, her gold necklace. She gave Scott's Family Bible to Oliver Puffer; Barley's English Dictionary to Thomas Stone's wife; $30 each to her own sons, Truman, Freeman and William Stowe. Among other legacies to her granddaughters, Eugenia Stowe Gilbert and Phebe Morse Stowe, daughter of Truman Stowe, was "a large chest with one drawer" that "came from her ancestors," also wearing apparel, household goods, desk, papers, etc.

He married, first, Feb 9, 1779 or 1780 at Stow, Hannah Perry, who was born Sept 21, 1760, died Jan. 5, 1812.

He married, second, in 1814, Phebe (Morse) Stowe of Marlborough, daughter of William and Phebe Morse. By her first husband Truman Stowe, she had children William, Truman, Freeman and Eugenia Stowe. Eugenia Stowe married September 28, 1828, Rev. Lyman Gilbert of West Newton. Phebe died Jan. 12, 156, aged 84 y. 28 d.

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Reuben married PERRY, Hannah on 9 Feb 1779 in Stow, MA. Hannah (daughter of PERRY, Obadiah and KIMBALL, Elizabeth) was born on 21 Sep 1760 in Berlin, MA; died on 5 Jan 1812 in Berlin, MA; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joel married GILBERT, Naomi on 11 Dec 1777. Naomi was born on 14 Mar 1757 in Brookfield, MA; died on 1 Oct 1839 in Berlin, MA; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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