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THE ASCENDANTS OF JOSEPH STICKNEY.
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husband's, were of high social standing.

105. Nathaniel Dane was born in Ipswich, 1645; married at Andover, Dec. 12. 1672; and died there, April 14, 1725.

106. Deliverance Hazeltine was born in Rowley, Mar. 21, 1651; and died in Andover. June 15. 1735. She was indicted for witchcraft in 1692.

107. Edward Hazen was born in England, perhaps Newcastle on the Tyne; and married first Elizabeth ———, who died in 1649; and second, in Rowley, Mar., 1650; and was buried there, July 22, 1683. A man of substance and influence; inventory, £404; selectman; ancestor of Brig. Gen. Moses Hazen. Chief Justice Ward Chipman, LL. D., and the wives of Baron Von Ende, chamberlain to the King of Saxony, Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot. and Col. Charles Drury, British navy.

108. Hannah Grant was born in England, and marriedd second, George Browne, of Haverhill; and died Feb. 1715 and '16.

109. Capt. John Peabody was born at Hampton. Mass., 1642; married in Topsfield, Nov. 23, 1665; selectman and town-clerk at Boxford, and died there, July 5, 1720; married second, Nov. 26, 1703, Sarah Mosely of Dorchester.

110. Hannah Andrew was born in England, about 1642; and buried in Malden, Dec. 4, 1702.

111. John Audley, a cutler, was born in England. 1602; emigrated before 1632; married in Boston prior to 1635; and died there, Dec. 18, 1685; lived on Washington street, east side, a little north of Essex street; may have been descended from Lord James Audley, one of the original 26 Knights of the Garter, and at Poitiers, 1356, called by the Prince of Wales "the bravest knight on our side;" was of no ordinary lineage, or his son could not have married a daughter of the Brights and Goldstones, and his daughter a son of Jeremy Clarke, president of the R. I. Assembly, 1648; may have lived in Boston before Winthrop; witnessed the deed which conveyed it to him and his colony, in 1634; disfranchised and disarmed in 1637 for being an Antinomian, a name applied to the followers of Mrs. Hutchinson, many of whom settled in Exeter; paid, in 1636, his share of the first school tax ever known to be levied in America. Name originally Audithley.

112. Margaret ———.

113. Dea. Henry Bright was baptized at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Dec. 29, 1602; emigrated 1630; married at Watertown, 1634; and died there, Oct. 7, 1686. His name was No. 48 on list of members of first church of Boston; had large estate; was selectman of Watertown.

114. Anne Goldstone was baptized at Wickham Skeith, May 16, 1615; and died at Watertown.

115. Rev. John Woodbridge was born in Stanton, Wiltshire, 1613; married, 1639; and died in Newbury, Mar. 17, 1694 and '95; went to Oxford, but obliged to leave because unwilling to take oath of conformity; emigrated to Newbury, 1634; first town-clerk, representative, commissioner to try small causes, purveyor of army, trader with Indians, physician, master Boston Latin school, purchased land for Andover of a sachem for £6, first minister there, and first to be ordained in Essex county, and second in New England, versatile in expedients, ready to lend a helping hand to every enterprise, accurate and methodical in every thing he undertook. Cotton Mather says: "His father was a minister, and a minister so able and faithful as to obtain a high esteem among those that at all knew the valuable worth of such a minister. His mother was daughter of Rev. Robert Parker, one of the greatest scholars of the English nation, and the father of all non-comformists of our day." In 1647 he was chaplain of commissioners to Charles I, when confined at Isle of Wight, afterward minister at Andover and Burford, St. Martin's, England. Returned to New England in 1663 and was one of the magistrates in 1683 and 1684; ancestor of Wm. Ellery Channing, Richard H. Dana, and Senator and Governor Woodbridge, of Michigan.

116. Mercy Dudley was born in England, Sept. 27, 1621, and died at Newbury, July 1, 1691. Her sister, the wife of Gov. Bradstreet, "was superior to any poet of her sex who wrote in the English language before the close of the seventeenth century."—Griswold. Pres. Rogers, of Harvard, said that "twice drinking of the nectar of her lines, left him weltering in delight;" a nephew of Milton said, "the tenth muse sprung up in America."

117. Rev. John Ward, A. M., was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, Nov. 6, 1606; Cambridge Univ., Eng., 1626; married in London, May 24. 1636; died in Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 27, 1693; was first minister there in 1641, and also an esteemed physician; 1642, committee with Robert Clements, Tristram Coffin, and Lieutenant John Carleton to buy Haverhill of the Indians.

118. Alice Edmunds was born in 1612, and died in Haverhill, March 24, 1679 and '80.