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eth Neal Ames, who was born August
3, 1815, in South Tamworth, New Hamp-
shire, and died in Boston, Massachusetts,
September 4, 1891, a daughter of John
and Sarah (Glidden) Ames. The former
was a native of Dublin, New Hampshire,
and the latter of Parsonfield, Maine. Mrs.
Fanny (Starkey) Crane, their daughter,
survives her husband, and now resides at
the Crane home, "Rock Acre," in Stamford.
She is a member of Mt. Vernon
Church, Boston, Massachusetts, and is
one of the executors of Mr. Crane's will.
POST, Robert Woodbridge,
Head of Great Paper Business.
The manufacturing world has claimed
many men of broad business calibre and
efficiency. One who has achieved well
deserved success in this line is Robert
Woodbridge Post, paper manufacturer of
Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Post is a
true son of Connecticut, and his family
has been prominent in that State for many
generations.
(I) The immigrant ancestor, Stephen
Post, was a first settler of the beautiful
Capital city. He was born in Chelmsford,
England, and crossed the Atlantic in 1663,
accompanied by his wife and four chil-
dren, in the ship "Griffin," landing in
Boston, Massachusetts. Stephen Post
became associated with a band of Puri-
tans and settled with them in Hartford,
Connecticut, as above stated, under the
Rev. Thomas Hooker. His name appears
on the Founder's Monument in the burial
ground of Hooker's church. Soon after
coming to Hartford, Mr. Post removed to
Saybrook, and settled in a section called
Oyster River, some two miles from the
fort where he died, August 16, 1659. His
wife, Eleanor, survived him more than
eleven years, and died November 13,
1670.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
(II) Abraham Post, son of Stephen and
Eleanor Post, was born in Hartford, Con-
necticut, 1640-41. He was made a freeman,
May II, 1665. He died in Saybrook,
about 1713-15- He was appointed to the
office of ensign of the Saybrook Train
Band, in 1667, and appointed lieutenant
in 1680. Lieutenant Post married, in
1663, Mary Chulker, and she died March
21, 1683.
(III) Gurdon Post, son of Abraham
and Mary (Chulker) Post, was born May
29, 1676. He married and had a son,
Jedediah, of whom further.
(IV) Jedediah Post, son of Gurdon
Post, lived all his life in Hebron, Connecticut.
He married and had a son, David,
of whom further.
(V) David Post, son of Jedediah Post,
was born in Hebron, Connecticut, November
25, 1752, and died October 5, 1840. He
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removed to Gilead ;
he was a farmer and
shipped beef and pork South. On May
20, 1784, he married Martha Warner,
daughter of Dr. A. I. Warner, of Bolton,
Connecticut, and she died August 14,
1846.
(VI) Elijah Post, son of David and
Martha (Warner) Post, was born July
31, 1792, and died April 20, 1869, in Gil-
ead, Connecticut. The whole of what is
now Gilead street was once owned by
the Post family. Elijah Post married
Anna Bissell, born April 30. 1795, in He-
bron, Connecticut.
(VII) Bissell Elijah Post, son of Elijah
and Anna (Bissell) Post, was born November
13, 1817, and died in Andover,
about 1909. He grew to manhood in
Gilead, and learned the tanner's trade,
which he followed many years. About
1855 he removed to Andover and bought
a farm and mill there. In this mill he
did sawing and wood-turning; he sawed
oak timber, which was used largely by
the New Bedford whalers. Until the late