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er from that town of the Free Soil party.
He was long a deacon of the Congrega-
tional church, active in town affairs, a
lover of nature, and spent the last half
of his life on a farm which he greatly improved.
On September 27, 1836, he mar-
ried Eliza Ann Southworth, daughter of
Ezra Southworth. She was born September
19, 1813, at Ashford, Connecticut,
and died August 28, 1891, in Hartford.
She was descended from Edward South-
worth, who was born about 1690, was a
silk maker, and died about 1621. He
married, May 28, 1613, Alice Carpenter,
of Wrentham, Somersetshire, England,
daughter of Alexander Carpenter, and
after his death she became the wife of
Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth.
With her two children, she came
to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the ship
"Ann" in 1623, and was soon after married
to Governor Bradford. The youngest
child, Constant Southworth, was born
in 1615, and was brought up in the family
of Governor Bradford, of Plymouth ;
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was
admitted a freeman in 1636-37, and in the
latter year engaged in the service against
the Indians. He was deputy to the General
Court, assistant to the Governor, and
treasurer of the Colony from 1659 to 1673.
Besides his lands in Duxbury, he was also
the owner of lands in Tiverton and Little
Compton, Rhode Island, then a part of
Massachusetts. He died March 10, 1679.
He married, November 2, 1637, Elizabeth
Collier, of Duxbury, daughter of William
Collier, a London merchant, who
assisted the Plymouth Colonies and came
over in 1633, residing at Plymouth until
his death in 1670. William Southworth,
youngest child of Constant Southworth,
was born in 1659, in Duxbury, and settled
in Little Compton, where he died June
25, 1719. He married, in 1680, Rebecca
Peabody, born October 16, 1660, in Dux-
bury, died December 3, 1702, in Little
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Compton, daughter of William and Eliz-
abeth (Alden) Peabody, granddaughter
of John Peabody. The last named was
born in 1590, and about 1635 ne settled in
the Plymouth Colony and spent most of
his life thereafter in Duxbury. He was
one of the original proprietors of Bridge-
water, Massachusetts, and died in that
town in 1667. His wife, Isabel, survived
him. Their third son, William Peabody,
was born 1619-20, in England, came with
his father, lived in Duxbury, was an orig-
inal proprietor of Bridgewater, and died
in Little Compton, December 13, 1707.
He married, December 26, 1644, Elizabeth
Alden, born 1623-25, the first white
woman born in New England, daughter
of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden,
died at Little Compton, May 31, 1717.
The house in Little Compton where they
lived was very lately in a good state of
preservation, as was their gravestones in
the old cemetery in Little Compton.
Steven Southworth, youngest child of
William and Rebecca (Peabody) South-
worth, was born March 3, 1696, in Little
Compton, and sold land there in 1727, at
that time removing to Freetown, Massachusetts,
where he sold land in 1733 and
again in 1738. In the deeds he calls him-
self of Little Compton, and he probably
returned there after selling his Freetown
property. He married in Little Compton,
January 27, 1726, Lydia Warren, who was
undoubtedly a descendant of Richard
Warren, of the "Mayflower." Their second
son, Steven Southworth, was born
January 12, 1732, in Freetown, Massachu-
setts, and was living in Douglass, in 1762,
with his wife, Hannah. On August 30 of
that year, two of his sons, Solomon and
Steven, were baptized in Douglass. Salmon
or Solomon Southworth, son of
Steven and Hannah Southworth, was
born in 1754, baptized August 30, 1761,
in Douglass, and lived in Pomfret, Con-