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864: SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
Turner Dec. 8, 1768, and moved to Maine;
Bardin (2), baptized Nov. 9, 1755; Michael,
baptized Nov.- 9, 1755; Mary, baptized Nov.
9, 1755, who married Charles Tolman May
19, 1774; (by second marriage) Bathshua,
baptized Feb. 13, 1761, who died June 4,
1768; Eobert, baptized Oct. 19, 1766, who died
June 4, 1768; Lucinda, baptized April 10,
1768, who married Benjamin Bass Dec. 4,
1794; Juliette, baptized April 8, 1770, who
died unmarried Dec. 27, 1842; Robert, baptized
Aug. 9, 1772.
(V) Robert Sylvester, baptized Aug. 9,
1772, died Aug. 17, 1807. He built the house
in which William Dawes now resides and occupied
it until his father's decease, when he tore
down the old family homestead, replacing it
with the house in which his son Robert lived.
On Nov. 8, 1796, he married Lucy Bailey,
daughter of George and Rebecca (Ellis)
Bailey, of Hanover, born in 1781, died Oct. 7,
1840. Children: Lucy, born Sept. 1, 1797,
married July 29, 1821, William Church; Rebecca
E., born Nov. 27, 1799, died Dec. 1,
1847 (she married Dec. 15, 1819, Benjamin C.
Pratt) ; Michael was bom May 5, 1802; Robert
was born Oct. 19, 1805; Sarah E., born
March 21, 1808, married Dec. 14, 1828, Samuel
S. Church, and died Dec. 28, 1850.
(VI) Robert Sylvester (2), born Oct. 19,
1805, received his education in the district
schools of Hanover, leaving school at the age
of fifteen. He learned the trade of ship joiner
and carpenter, serving his apprenticeship on
the North river, in the town of Hanover, and
in the town of Hingham. After giving up
this kind of work he devoted all his time to
his fann, which comprised 160 acres of land,
all well cultivated. He carried on general
farming, but made a specialty of hay and
grain and garden truck. He was active in
local politics as a Republican and served the
community as road surveyor and member of
the school committee. He was an orthodo.x
church member. He died in March, 1899, in
Hanover.
On Nov. 28, 1828, Mr. Sylvester married
Sarah W. Burgess, who was born in August,
1807, daughter of Loammi Burgess, of Harvard,
Mass., and died No- 9, 1855. To this
union came the following i-hildren, all born
in Hanover: (1) Loammi ;, born March 18,
1832, was injured in the batiie o' Cedar Mountain
and died shortly afterward. He marrieii
Emeline (Pratt) Bartlett, a widow, and had
one child, Sarah, who married William P.
Steams and now resides in Wayland, Mass.
(2) Susanna F., be n April 5, 1834, married
William T. Lapham, of Norwell, and had William
and George, who reside in Ashmont,
Mass. (3) Belcher, born May 26, 1837, died
July 2, 1838. (4) Elizabeth B., born July
5, 1839, married Israel H. Macomber, of
Marshfield, and had Herbert I. and Walter S.,
the latter of whom died young. (5) Sarah
E., born Sept. 1, 1843, married Nov. 9, 1864,
George H. Allen, son of Zenas and Caroline
(Randall) Allen, of Boston, and they have
three children: Fannie, born Aug. 13, 1869;
Sadie, Sept. 17^ 1871 ; and Grace B., in June,
1874. (6) Juletta S., bom April 14, 1845,
married Frank A. Clapp, of Norwell, and had
Annie May and Carrie, who reside in Wakefield,
Mass. (7) Robert is the youngest of
the family.
(VII) Robert Sylvester (3), bom June
20, 1847, in Hanover, Mass., b&gan his education
there in the district schools, later attend-
ing Hanover Academy and the Assinippi Institute.
For a few years he acted as depot master
for the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railway Company
and then went into the
grain business in partnership with Mr. Church,
under the firm name of Sylvester & Church,
when he was twenty-two years old. He devoted
most of Ms energies to his and his father's
farms, engaging extensively in truck gardening,
and at the time of his father's death the
latter's farm, nearly 140 acres, was turned
over to him. His property is laid out as well
as any in this section and he is considered one
of the most intelligent farmers of the vicinity,
his work showing excellent results. Like
all of his familj', he is a good citizen as well as
an able business man. However, he has given
little time to public affairs.
On Nov. 22, 1868, Mr. Sylvester married
Mary Bailey Turner, daughter of Elijah B.
and Lucy (Standish) Turner, and they had
one child, Robert B., born April 10, 1871, who
died Jan. 30, 1896, in New York. Mr. Sylvester
is a Republican in politics. He belongs
to the Masonic fraternity, being a member of
Phoenix Lodge at Hanover, and is an orthodox
church member.
Turner. (I) Humphrey Turner, according
to Deane, arrived in Plymouth in 1628, and
had a house lot assigned him in 1629, upon
which he built a house in which he resided
some years. It is a family tradition that he
came from Essex in England. In 1633 he had
another house lot on Kent street. In 1636 he
had eighty acres at the place known in more
recent years as Union Bridge on the west side
of North river, which land for generations remained
in the possession of his descendants.