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in Mansfield July 28, 1809. He lived in the Abishai Smith, son of Seth (2) and Sarah
North Precinct of Norton, which is now Mans- (Cobb), was born May 8, 1761. He married
field. During the French and Indian war he Nov. 10, 1785, Phylene Morey, born May 24,
served as a soldier. He was among those de- 1763, daughter of Thomas and Bathsheba
tailed from the 3d Bristol County Regiment (Godfrey) Morey. She died Aug. 2, 1839. He
on Aug. 11, 1757, with orders to march and served in the Revolutionary war, having enreport
to Lieut. Gen. Sir William Pepperell. listed several times during the memorable con-
He also served in the Crown Point expedi- flict. His father-in-law, Maj. Thomas Morey,
tion from May 12, 1759, to Jan. 2, 1760, as was major in the 3d Bristol County Regiment,
second lieutenant under Capt. Nathan Hodges. He was at the siege and capture of Louisburg
On April 19, 1775, at the news of the battle and Cape Breton. Mr. Smith's death occurred
of Lexington, he volunteered as private al- in August, 1839, when he was aged seventythough
previously an officer, and served five eight.
days in the 7th '
(Col. John Daggett's) regi- Seth Smith, son of Abishai and Phylene,
ment, Mansfield company. In 1767 he was was born in Norton April 24, 1797. He marelected
on the committee chosen to apportion ried Feb. 15, 1826, Sarah Makepeace Wetherthe
school funds among school districts, and ell, who was born Nov. 19, 1803, daughter of
in 1786 he was elected treasurer of the par- William and Eunice Wetherell and g|randdaughish.
He married Elizabeth Reed, daughter ter of William and Hannah (Makepeace) Wethof
Thomas and Sarah (Tisdale) Reed, of erell. Their children were: Sarah Jane, born
Dighton, Mass., and she died Dec. 6, 1803. Dec. 12, 1831, married Washington L. New-
(V) John Hodges, son of Elijah, born Feb. comb; Mary Elizabeth, born April 1, 1839,
27, 1765, at the age of fifteen was fifer of married Jolin Stephen Wood; Marcus was
Capt. John Allen's company when it served fori born July 20, 1843.
a short time in Rhode Island, in July, 1780.
He was captain of the Mansfield Companions. THORNTON (New Bedford family). (I)
of an inter-
He followed the occupation of farmer and was John Thornton is the progenitor
quite prominent in his community. esting familv here in America, members of
(VI) Guilford Hodges, son of Capt. John, which have been valued and esteemed citizens
was born in Mansfield, Mass., April 22, 1800, of their communities, among them Elisha
and died there Feb. 5, 1882. He married in Thornton, the well-known druggist of New
1818 Betsey Brownell, born in 1796, in Rhode Bedford, and his sons, John Russell and Eli-
Island, daughter of George and Nancy Brown- sha, Jr. Jolm Thornton had ten acres of land
ell. She died in Mansfield Feb. 27, 1879. Mr. granted him in Newport, R. I., in 1639, he at
and Mrs. Hodges were the parents of ten chil- the time being in the employ of John Coggedren.
shall. On Oct. 12, 1648, he was one of the
(VII) Charles Maynard Hodges, son of twelve members of the First Baptist Church,
Guilford, born Nov. 8, 1834, made his home in full communion. He was a freeman of
in Mansfield. Mr. Hodges was a soldier in 1655. He removed from Newport and in
the Civil war. He married Dec. 14, 1856, 1679 was in Providence, R. I. He was taxed
Betsey White Tilson, born Oct. 24, 1837, in in 1679, and in 1680 was deputy, etc. The
Wrentham, Mass., daughter of William and Christian name of his wife was Saiah, and
Abby (Meserve) Tilson. Eight children were their children were: John; Thomas; Solobom
to this union, of whom, Blanche Brown- mon ; Elizabeth, who married Dec. 9, 1680,
ell, born Oct. 28, 1864, married Nov. 16, 1892, Edward Manton; Sarah, who married (first)
George Stephen Wood, of Norton.
Smith. The Smith family, of Norton,
Zachariah Field and (second) John Gurney;
of which the late Mrs. John Stephen Wood was
a descendant, have made Norton their home
for upward of two hundred years.
Seth Smith, who settled in the town of Nor-
James; Benjamin, and William,
(II) John Thornton (2), son ef John and
Sarah, married DinaR, daughter of John and
Hannah (Wickenden) Steere. Mr. Thornton
lived in Providence, R. I. He died Jan. 9,
ton, married in Weston, Middlesex Co., Mass., 1716, his wife dying before him. Their chil-
Sept. 30, 1725, Elizabeth Allen, of Weston,
She died Sept. 26, 1796, aged ninety-seven.
Seth Smith (2), son of Seth, was born in
dren were: John, Josiah, Dinah, Stephen,
Ruth, Daniel, Elihu and Ebenezer.
(III) Ebenezer Norton Sept. 13, 1734. lie married Oct. 10,
1754, Sarah Cobb, of Noi^on, and (second)
March 16, 1780, Rachel Newcomb.
Thornton, son of John and
Dinah, married Ruth Smith, and their children
of Smithfield town record were: Rachel, born
April 8, 1733; Stephen, July 7, 1735; Ruth,