THURSTON, Judith

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Judith married TREADWAY, Jonathan on 1 Mar 1666 in Medfield, MA. Jonathan was born on 11 Oct 1640 in Sudbury, MA; died on 28 May 1710 in Sudbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benjamin married MAYNARD, Mary on 19 Apr 1714 in Framingham, MA. Mary (daughter of MAYNARD, Zachariah and GOODRICH, Hannah) was born on 2 Jan 1690 in Sudbury, MA; was christened on 10 Aug 1714 in Marlborough, MA; died on 27 Nov 1766 in Framingham, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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For eighteen months, she was kept a captive by the Indians. She was taken when eighteen years old, and finally ransomed for L50.

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Hannah married PUFFER, Capt. Jabez on 18 Oct 1738 in Framingham, MA. Jabez (son of PUFFER, Capt. Jabez and GLAZIER, Mary) was born about 1704 in Braintree, MA; died on 21 Jun 1789 in Sudbury, MA; was buried in Sudbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Abigail married PUFFER, William on 8 Jun 1742 in Sudbury, MA. William (son of PUFFER, Capt. Jabez and GLAZIER, Mary) was born on 25 Feb 1720 in Sudbury, MA; died on 11 Oct 1756 in Lake George, NY; was buried in Lake George, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary married MORSE, Capt. Thomas on 19 May 1736 in Framingham, MA. Thomas (son of MORSE, James and SAWIN, Ruth) was born on 5 Dec 1709 in Sherborn, MA; died on 7 Jan 1783 in Dublin, NH; was buried in Dublin, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died young

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• Residence: 1801, Chester, NY
• Death: Bef 1855, NY

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He settled early at Ashby, and became a very prominent citizen. He was elected assessor at the first town meeting and was selectman for many years. He lived for a time in Templeton before his marriage and sold land there Oct. 25, 1765, to Abel Hunt and, June 19,1766, to Jonathan Baldwin and, April 11, 1766, to Thomas Sawyer (W.D.54-642; 55-376, 642). He was in Fitchburg in 1766. He was soldier in the French and Indian War in the Canadian Expedition, 1758, in Capt. Cobb's company, Col. Preble's regt., as shown by Capt. Ezekiel How's bill for victualling the company; How kept the Wayside Inn.

He was also a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting Jan 29, 1776, for two months. His will was dated in 1774, bequeathing to wife Sarah and children. his wife was guardian of children Jacob, Sarah and Lucy, Sept. 19, 1780, and Samuel Gibson, her brother, was appointed their guardian afterwards.

He was selectman 1768, 1769 and 1771. Both he and Mrs Puffer were members of the First church (Congregational) in the adjoining town of Fitchburg; they, however, became dissatisfied with the "principles of the church in baptizing infants and in practicing the way they did to admit members," and the church record of Sept 6, 1776 shows that the the pastor and two brethren were appointed a committee "to discourse with Brothers Jacob Puffer and Stephen Gibson and their wives for absenting from our communion;" it further shows that "none of them could be recovered, and upon desire of said Puffer and his wife they were dismissed."

He and his family of 6 appear in the 1800 Federal Census in NY

On a NY Tax Assessment Roll, 1801, for Thurman, NY his surname is a strange combination of Pieffer or Puffer. However, the enumerator never misses dotting his 'i's in other names and no dot appears in the name.

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Jacob married GIBSON, Sarah on 12 Sep 1766 in Templeton, MA. Sarah (daughter of GIBSON, Deacon Stephen Sr. and GOSS, Sarah) was born on 8 Oct 1746 in Stow, MA; died on 18 Mar 1816 in MA; was buried in Ashby, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married BALCOM, Mary on 5 Jul 1790 in Sudbury, MA. Mary was born in CA 1745; died before 1845 in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He joined the Sudbury church, Nov 1 1770. He resided in what is known as the old Maynard house. He was a soldier (Pvt-Ed.) in the Revolution in Capt. Asahel Wheeler's company in 1778. In his will he bequeathed to his children Ezra, Jacob, Achsah Gibson, Anne Balcom and Daniel.

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Daniel married BALCOM, Mary on 5 Jul 1770 in Sudbury, MA. Mary (daughter of BALCOM, Lt. John and HAYNES, Susannah) was born on 6 Mar 1748 in Sudbury, MA; died on 10 Sep 1802 in Sudbury, MA; was buried in Sudbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BRINTNALL, Jerusha. Jerusha was born on 14 Jan 1749 in Sudbury, MA; died on 5 Jul 1840 in Sudbury, MA; was buried in Sudbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rebecca married GIBSON, Rev. Stephen Jr. on 15 Apr 1766 in Sudbury, MA. Stephen (son of GIBSON, Deacon Stephen Sr. and GOSS, Sarah) was born on 29 Mar 1745; died on 12 Feb 1812; was buried in Ashby, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah married RICE, Ithamar about 1770 in Sudbury, MA. Ithamar (son of RICE, Matthias Solomon and BOYDEN, Mary) was born on 25 Nov 1742 in Worcester, MA; died on 23 Oct 1824 in Sudbury, 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]

Reuben married MORSE, Phebe in 1814. Phebe (daughter of MORSE, William Sr. and STEVENS, Phebe) was born on 5 Dec 1771 in MA; died on 12 Jan 1856 in Berlin, MA; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1773, Dublin, NH

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He resided on the old Amasa Kendall farm in Framingham. About 1767 he removed to Dublin, NH. He was a taxpayer in 1773. In 1790 he was living in Dublin and had three children then living in his family. He was very poor. In 1786 the town built a house for him (Lot 10, range 4).

"Jabez Puffer was reckoned as one of the Revolutionary
soldiers of Dublin. His name is not discovered in the Revo-
lutionary Rolls. This may be due to a loss of some of the old
records, or to a defect in the index. The indexes to the Rolls
are far from complete. Jabez Puffer came to Dublin from Fram-
ingham, Mass., and married a daughter of Capt. Thomas
Morse. He had a large family of children, several of whom
were feeble-minded and eventually supported by the town.
We have found no record of his death. He lived at first on the
tenth lot of the eighth range, and later on the eleventh lot of
that range, on the Milliken place." History of Dublin, Centennial Celebration, 17 Jun 1852.

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Jabez married MORSE, Rachel on 13 Feb 1763 in Sherborn, MA. Rachel (daughter of MORSE, Capt. Thomas and TREADWAY, Mary) was born on 13 Feb 1743 in Framingham, MA; died on 6 Feb 1818 in Hinsdale, NH; was buried in Westmoreland, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thankful married MIXER, John in CA 1771 in Framingham, MA. John (son of MIXER, John and LYSCOM, Mary) was born on 10 Nov 1745 in Framingham, MA; died in 1819 in Forestville, NY; was buried in Forestville, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rachel married PUFFER, Jabez on 13 Feb 1763 in Sherborn, MA. Jabez (son of PUFFER, William and TREADWAY, Abigail) was born on 16 Jul 1743 in Sudbury, MA; died in 1790 in Dublin, NH; was buried in Chester, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]