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2(ii). Samuel Shirley  born December
25, 1748. He inherited Lot 115 from his father and
sold it in 1813 after moving to Sanbornton Stafford Co NH. He
died 7 January 1832 at Sanbornton, ?Merrimack Co (which was later
Belknap) NH at his son John's home,
1813 Mar 15 DB 199/506 - Samuel
Shirley of Sanbornton gentleman [then Stafford Co, later Belknap]
to Daniel Atkinson of Sanbornton - "it being the one quarter
part quantity of that hundred acre lot the second part of the
second division that is No 115 in said Chester adn was laid out
to original right of John Cilley, laying in the 19th Range as
said lot is laid out meaning to convey the one quarter part of
said lot excepting ten acres which I have deeded to Joseph Blanchard
- also one fifth part of the remaining three quarters of the
aforesaid lot which fell to me by heirship in the Estate of
my Father Thomas Shirley deceased."
History - "After having
been an extensive business man in that part of Chester which
is now Auburn, owning mills at the upper end of Massabesic Lake,
building the first grist mill at Auburn Village, carrying on
large lumber operations with Haverhill, Newburyport, etc., and
running a well known country hotel at Auburn, he became the victim
of unjust litigation, which he fought against till his property
was much reduced. He then moved to Sanbornton with his oldest
son and most of his other children in 1801. He lived first in
Northfield then for three years, 1802-05 in what is now Franklin,
and finally at Union Bridge where he became known as the "reed
maker"
married 1st Margaret Graham in
1774. She died of cancer 1793,
married 2nd Anna Dearborn Oct
1793, daughter of Master James Hazard. She died at the birth
of her 3rd child (his 12th) Dec 9, 1798,
married 3rd Eliza McDuffee in
1799, daughter of Hugh McDuffee. She died in 1843 age 80.
children:
3(i). Ann Shirley born August 25, 1775 Chester. She
died Nov 29, 1860 aged 85, She married Daniel McDuffee. She
was referred to as "Queen Ann" because of her size
etc.
3(ii). Molly Shirley born September 8, 1777. She died 1826.
She married Alexander Donovan
3(iii). John Shirley born May 25, 1779 died 1780 (infant)
3(iv). John Shirley born May 25, 1781; Enumerated in the
1820 and 1830 Strafford Co NH census for Sanbornton township.
lived Belknap County in 1850 when the county was created from
Strafford Co; He died Feb 6, 1851 of dropsey and diseased liver,
He was a builder of wharves and Pile-bridges. They lived at Union
Bridge and a few years in Boston Mass.
married 1st Martha Gibson Mar
9, 1815 d. May 18, 1816 (of consumption),
married 2nd Joanna Gale in April
7, 1819. She was the dau of Major Steven Gale of Gilmanton,
a Rev. soldier
children:
4(i). Daniel Gale Shirley
born January 25, 1820.
He died young in 1834 of consumption, about age 14
4(ii). Sally Chittenden Shirley
born March 23, 1825.
She died young on June 22, 1826, age 1
4(iii). Sally Shirley born March 28, 1827. She died young,
age 2 weeks
4(iv). John Major Shirley
born November 16, 1831
at Andover. Died 21 May 1887 at Andover Merrimack Co NH. Buried
Proctor Cemetery
John Major Shirley - b Nov 16 1831, d at Andover May 21
1887. Had the educational advantages of the didstrict schools
of Sanbornton and Northfield and of a few terms at the academy
of Dyer H Sanborn at Sanbornton Bridge. he began the study of
law with Cate and Rogers at Sanbornton Bridge, May 1850 and was
admitted to the Belknap County Bar September 13 1854. In October
1855 he came to Andover and formed a partnership with Samuel
Butterfield which continued until the death of the latter in
1860. Mr Shirley soon established a large practice and became
and influential citizen in this section of the state. He was
postmaster 1855-59; representative 1859-60; superentendent of
schools most of the period from 1858 to 1865; agent of town for
enrollment of troops 1862-65; and delegate to the constitutional
convention of 1876. He was reporter of the NH Supreme Court 1871-76.
he receive the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College
in 1865. In 1879 he published a critical examination of the "Dartmouth
College Causes" in which he exhibted great power of analysis
and concentration. Mr Shirley's work as a lawyer was chiefly
notable for the care with which he prepared all his cases. While
much of his success was due undoubtedly to his remarkable diction,
sometimes rising to impressive elocution, his chief reliance
was in the preparation of his cases, with each important point
supported by numerous citations from the wisdom of the courts.
His facility in the use of sarcasm adn invective somtimes erude
and often employed to compel attention was almost always astoninshing
or impressive, and is nowhere better illustrated than in his
reports as superintendent of schools 1858-65. he had a cordial
hatred for all shams and lost few opportunities for expressing
his opinion in that connection. Mr Shirley's death before reaching
the probable height of his professional career was a distinct
loss to the community and to his state. History of Andover NH
- 1751-1906
John Major Shirley (Standing 3rd from left)
married Emroy Elizabeth Barron
on Feb 17, 1870. She died in 1893.
children:
5(i). Barron Shirley born
at Andover Dec 14 1870. He died in Franklin Falls July 1 1906
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Barron Shirley - son of Hon. John M. Shirley studied
at Proctor Academy and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1892.
he graduated at the Law School of Boston University and for a
short time practised his profession at Chattanooga Tenn. He returned
to Andover, where he resumed practice and was elected to the
legislature in 1897. He moved to Franklin in 1898 and began practice
in the office of Hon E.B.S. Sanborn where he continued until
Mr Sanborn's death. he was the city solicitor for Franklin in
1904 and representative from ward 2 in the legislature of 1905.
Mr Shirley was an active and zealous member of the Democratic
party and an effective campaign speaker. He was prominent in
Masonic circles and at the time of his death was high priest
of St Omer Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons at Franklin. He married
March 5 1894 Hattibel Smith of Andover who with three children
survives him. Mr Shirley died suddenly at Franklin July 1 1906.
married Hattibel (Harriet) Smith.
children:
6(i). Elizabeth Shirley
born Chattanooga Tenn April 13 1895
6(ii). John Major Shirley
born Andover Sept 11 1897. Lived at Merrimack Co NH in 1910 and
1920 census. He died 2 September 1974 at Hanover, Grafton Co
NH. Buried Proctor Cemetery, Andover Merrimack Co NH (findagrave)
married Rachel Palmer Smith on 24 June 1925 at Amherst NH
children:
7. Winifred Adams Shirley born about 1926. Married
Archie Patterson Bule Jr (parents named in marriage record)
6(iii). William Wayne Shirley
born at Franklin Falls Jan 12 1900. Lived at Merrimack Co NH
in 1910 and 1920 census. He died December 1973 at Strafford Co
NH
married Dorothy Martin Bruce on 1 September 1929 at Durham,
Strafford Co NH
5(ii). Caroline Emroy Shirley
born at Andover July 16 1872; m____
5(iii). Preston Shirley
born at Andover Aug 10 1875; Mr Shirley d Aug 11 1905 at
Boston Suffolk Co MA, about age 30. Buried Proctor Cemetery,
Andover Merrimack Co NH
married Minerva Ford on Sept 13 1904 dau of Azro and Marianne
P. W. Ford; She was born Granville VT Sept 26 1879.
3(v). Elizabeth "Betsy"
Shirley born April 11,
1783. She married Caleb H. Gibson
3(vi). James Shirley born
August 23, 1787 Chester NH. He died June 26, 1851 and buried
at Mattituck Presbyterian Cemetery at Mattituck Long Island NY
(Suffolk County)
He was a grocer in Boston; then
a merchant and hotel keeper in New York City, being there during
the yellow fever and cholera excitement of 1832, and having great
success as a nurse of the sick, His own health (always feeble)
finally gave way and he moved to Mattituck, Long Island, but
rallied again; there he kept hotel until his death.
1810: Liquor license in Boston
dealing in dry goods, fancy imports and staples.
1833: Purchased Mattituck
house, a hotel in Long Island, NY from Henry T. Penny. The hotel
was run by son John Shirley until 1869, when it was sold to Benjamin
F. Wells.
Photo of Mattituck House Hotel taken about 1910
married Ann Seaman on Dec 14,
1815. She was b. Jan 10, 1795 (tombstone: June 9, 1793) and died
Dec 3 1881 and was buried at Mattituck Presbyterian Cemetery,
Mattituck LI NY
children:
4(i). James William Shirley
born November 8, 1816
NY. He died Mar 25, 1823, about age 7.
4(ii). John Shirley born
August 26, 1818. He died April 18, 1900; He was a leading politician
and sheriff in Suffolk County NY; was a real-estate broker in
New York City as was his son, John L. who was a lawyer. John
owned and operated the Mattituck Hotel in Mattituck LI for another
15 years after the death of his father.
married Betsey Jones Conklin
Dec 3, 1843. She was b. Dec 18, 1822 d. Dec 4, 1896
children:
5(i). Hannah Reeve Shirley
born February 4, 1846
Mattituck, Long Island NY. She married Charles Wm. Cowtan Dec
19, 1871
5(ii). John Lewis Shirley
born February 25, 1848;
lawyer unmarried in 1880 Manhattan census; living with parents;
He died Sept 5, 1906
5(iii). Annie Seaman Shirley
born March 20, 1851;
living in Manhattan with parents in 1880; artist.
5(iv). George Vernon Shirley
born October 27, 1853. He died in Chicago IL 1900
married Ida Lilian Colby on April
13, 1882; she born 23 Mar 1861
5(v). Charles Fremont Shirley
born February 20, 1856;
lithographer in 1880; He died Jan 28, 1945 Topsfield, MA,
married 1st Isabel Myers Cooper,
(divorced),
married 2nd Elizabeth Hayward
Peterson May 12, 1889
children:
6(i). Natalie Shirley born May 1890. She married ___ Goodale
6(ii). John Newton Shirley
born Aug 21, 1891
married Clara Herbert Glover
Sept 23, 1916 Bellows Falls VT
children:
7(i). Charles Fremont Shirley
born April 19, 1917.
He died ca 1974
7(ii). Maurice Herbert Shirley
born July 30, 1919. he
married June Eldridge, NO children
7(iii). Marian Shirley born July 12, 1922. She married Albert
Lewis Wellman
7(iv). Phoebe Shirley born November 22, 1923 never married
7(v). Russell Shirley born February 25, 1930. He married Shirley
Trask
7(vi). George Raymond Shirley
born November 16, 1932.
He died young ca. 1937
6(iii). Ruth Shirley born May 25, 1893. She died Feb 28, 1977
never married
6(iv). Helen Shirley born November 28, 1894. She married Howe
Samuel Newell
6(v). Hayward Shirley born October 7, 1899. He died Dec 24,
1899
4(iii). Martha Ann Shirley
born July 31, 1820. She
died young on Aug 30, 1821
4(iv). Zebulon Shirley born August 3, 1822; lived Brooklyn,
nothing more known
4(v). James William Shirley
born July 31, 1824
Unmarried
4(vi). Samuel Shirley born January 26, 1827. He died young
on Oct 3, 1830, about age 3
4(vii). Martha Ann Shirley
born May 2, 1829. She
married 1st William H. Wood, real estate broker in NY who d.
of consumption in Florida in 1867, m. 2nd Mr. Terry in
1869 and they resided at River Head, Long Island
4(viii). Samuel Shirley born January 29, 1832 NY, lived in Brooklyn;
He died 31 Oct 1914 and is buried in Old Bethany (Presbyterian)
Cemetery at Mattituck LI NY
married Jennette _____ who was
born in Canada;
children
5(i). Jennette W. Shirley
age 17 enumerated in
1880 household in Brooklyn.
4(ix). Esther Elizabeth Shirley
born November 8, 1834
Mattituck. Married John B. Terry (3 children)
3(vii). Margaret Shirley born September 25, 1789. She married
Winthrop Watson late in life. (no children)
3(viii). Sarah Shirley born August 9, 1790. She died June 1834.
She married Jonathan Watson of Meredith, brother of Winthrop
3(ix). Lucretia Shirley born December 5, 1792. She married Christopher
Moulton
3(x). Samuel Shirley, Jr.
born September 25, 1794;
living at Sanbornton, Merrimack, (later Belknap) Co at time of
marriage; Enumerated at 1830 Strafford Co census for Gilmanton
township. He died Oct 20, 1837, age 43 at Lowell, Middlesex Co
Mass.
married 1st. Sarah Gilman of
Gilford Mar 23, 1820, by Rev.Wm Blaisdell. Lived with son Samuel
H. in 1850 census. She died 21 January 1882, widow age 80 at
Lowell Middlesex Massachusetts. Her death certificate names her
parents as Levi and Sarah Gilman
married 2nd unknown name. (don't
know the source for this claim)
children (by 2nd marriage )
4(i). Sarah A Shirley born about 1822 at Sanbornton Strafford
Co NH. She died 18 February 1893 at Waltham MA, widow (parents
named in death cert.). She married David W Cole.
4(ii). Samuel Harrison Shirley born about 1823 in NH, age 23 in
1850 census. Was a printer and editor. He died 29 May
1888 at Lowell Middlesex MA, buried Edson Cemetery. (death cert.)
married Mary Elizabeth Hill on
4 September 1859 at Lowell Middlesex Co MA
children
5(i). Samuel Clarence Shirley born 2 August 1861, age 19 in 1880 census.
He died 17 January 1896, about age 35. Buried at Lowell Middlesex
Co MA
married Harriet F Swan on 22
December 1886 at Lowell Middlesex Co MA
4(iii). Mary Lane Shirley born about 1834. She was unmarried. Died
4 February 1918 at Lowell Middlesex Co MA (death cert)
3(xi). William W. Shirley
born Aug 29, 1796 at
Guilford NH (death cert); farmer; Enumerated in the 1820 Strafford
Co NH census for Sanbornton township. He was living in Boston
Ward 12 Suffolk Co Mass in 1850; He died 13 Mar 1865 in South
Boston Mass, age 68 (death cert: son of Samuel and Annie Shirley,
father born Chester NH)
married Elizabeth Walton on 7
Mar 1825 at Roxbury, Suffolk Co Mass.
children:
4(i). Lucretia Shirley married ___ Bennett
4(ii). Elizabeth Shirley
married and lived in
Boston. NO children
4(iii). Katie Shirley
born about 1835; She
was a school teacher in Boston, did not marry
4(iv). Ephraim Shirley born about 1840 MA; living in the family
household in 1850 census; he died 17 Apr 1851 in Suffolk Co Mass,
age 11. Son of William and Elizabeth (death cert)
3(xii). Stephen Dearborn Shirley
born December 9, 1798;
lived Belknap County in 1850; d June 16 1889; lived Union Bridge
and Nortfield NH, was a tanner; moved to Littleton. (2
children)
Stephen Dearborn Shirley, b.
at Sanbornton Dec. 9, 1798, learned the tanner's trade, and came
from Littleton to Northfield about 1879 and bought the Cilley
farm on Bean Hill. Though past middle life, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley
brought with them the ambition and vigor of youth. After his
death, June 16, 1889, she continued to supervise the farm and
household duties with the same tireless energy-. She passed her
96th birthday on Aug. 5, 1904, and with her son, Andrew, still
resides on the farm. A dau., Jane, m. Thomas Smith and resides
at Uplands, Canterbury. History of Northfield NH
married Dolly Chandler, born
about 1802, she died 22 Jan 1907 at Northfield, NH
children:
4(i). Andrew J. Shirley born about 1835; died 7 Nov 1914, age
79 at Boscawen, Merrimack; unmarried
4(ii). Jane Shirley born about 1841; married Thomas C. Smith
7 Jan 1864 at Laconia, NH, This family lived Canterbury. No
children
3(xiii). Nancy Shirley m. Rodney Allen and went to Michigan
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