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Toby, and died Dec. 20, 1835) ; Abigail
(Nabby), Nov. 11, 1761 (married Capt. William
Gordon).
From Thomas Pope, the founder of the family
in New England, was also descended Thankful
Young Pope, who married Simeon Nash
(3), her line being through Capt. Seth.
Elnathan Pope, son of Capt. Seth, was born
Aug. 15, 1694, and died Feb. 8, 1735. He
lived in Dartmouth. On March 14, 1715, he
married Margaret Pope, born Jan. 30, 1690,
daughter of Isaac Pope, and died May 22,
1776. They had children as follows: Sarah,
born April 26, 1715 (married Moses Wash-
burn) ; Joanna, Feb. 20, 1717; Thomas, July
13, 1720 (died Nov. 19, 1732) ; Isaac, March
12, 1723 (died Dec. 9, 1793) ; Deborah, March
26, 1726; Seth. April 15, 1729; Hannah, May
20, 1732 (died July 24, 1802; married Isaac
Vincent) ; Margaret, June 13, 1735 (died July
8, 1793; married Chillingworth Foster).
Isaac Pope, bom March 12, 1723, died Dec.
9, 1793. He lived in Dartmouth. He married
Sarah, born in 1726, who died March 3, 1795,
and they had ten children, two sons— -Jonathan
and Worth (who was a captain) —and eight
daughters.
Jonathan Pope, son of Isaac, removed to
Strongsville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, in 1819, and
there spent the remainder of his days, dying
there. Some of his descendants are still living
in that section: He married Keziah Jenney,
born May 14, 1773, and they had children born
as follows: Margaret, born Jan. 10, 1795
(married Elijah Lyman and (second) Peter
D. Wellman) Ansel ; Jenney (married Lucinda
Britten); Thankful Young, Sept. 22, 1799;
Thomas, Oct. 17. 1801; Jonathan, April 3,
1805 ; Philander. April 12. 1807 ; Keziah, Sept.
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 923
James Atherton. The starting point of the
careers of both is in Dorchester. While the
name is peculiar to Lancashire, England, there
are traces of it in other counties. Still it is
probable that the New England emigrants came
from that county and not improbable that they
were offshoots of the Athertons of Atherton.
James Atherton, the founder of the Worcester
county family of this name, was a tanner.
He settled in that part of Dorchester now Milton,
but prior to 1653 was an inhabitant of
the territory called Nashaway. He was one of
the first to sign the orders adopted by the
grantees of the new town of Lancaster formed
of Nashaway plantation. There lie remained
until the sacking of the town by the Indians in
1676, when he returned to Dorchester. He removed
to Sherburn in 1703, where he died at
the age of eighty-six. Prior to his death he
conveyed
his estate in Lancaster to his sons
James and Joshua. Of these the latter, who
was born at Lancaster in 1656, removed with
his father in 1676 to Dorchester, where he
married Mary Gulliver. He returned to Lancaster
about 1687, and settled on a part of the
old homestead, where he followed the farming
and tanning business. His house, which he
built, stood under a great elm tree, and was
one of the familiar landmarks for nearly two
hundred years. He left a numerous family of
children. Of these Peter Atherton, the youngest
son, born in 1705, married Experience
Wright and occupied the house just alluded to.
He was a magistrate, colonel in the militia, and
represented the town of Harvard in the General
Court. Joshua, a son of this Peter and a graduate
of Harvard, was a Loyalist during the
Revolution, but did not remove. He became
15, 1809 (married A. Pomeroy, and one of
his sons, Dr. Harlan Pomeroy, is one of the
leading physicians of Cleveland, Ohio) ; Mary,
April 3, 1812; Narcissa, April 5, 1815.
LeBARON ATHERTON, one of the
founders and general manager of the Atherton
Furniture Company, which is one of the largest
complete house furnishing corporations in
•the New England States, where they operate
stores in various cities, is an enterprising and
progressive business man, who has by his force
and perseverance won for himself a place in the
front ranks in his line of business. Mr. Atherton
was born Oct. 1, 1863, in New Brunswick,
Canada.
There were two early settlers of New England
bearing this nam^ who left descendants.
These were Maj. Gen. attorney general
Humphrey Atherton and
of New Hampshire. Benjamin
Atherton, son of Dr. Benjamin and a
nephew of Col. Peter, and brought up by the
latter, enlisted in the French and Indian war,
and before the Revolution settled at ShefiBeld,
N. B., on the St. John river. He was the first
comer in that province, and register of wills
and deeds. He removed in 1780 to the site of
the city of Fredericton, and when that city
was laid out he was given by the government a
large farm in Prince William twenty-five miles
up the river. This Benjamin Atherton was
bom in 1736 and married in 1773 Abigail
Mores, and they had a son Israel and perhaps
other children.
Peter Atherton, grandfather of LeBaron
Atherton, was born in New Brunswick, Canada,
his ancestors having been formerly residents of
the United States who migrated to Canada
during the Revolutionary war.