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936 SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
Ann Frances, born Nov. 14, 1834; and Caroline
Cole, born Dec. 12,1839 (married Dec. 11,
1864, Henry Augustus Gardner).
HENRY MAYO PEECIVAL, who has been
sheriff of Barnstable county, Mass., since 1907,
was born in Orleans, that county, Nov. 4, 1855,
eon of James Warren and Chloe Anna (Mayo)
Percival, and grandscjn of James Percival.
James Warren Percival was also born in the
town of Orleans, was for some years a captain
in the coastwise trade, and later became a merchant
on his own account. He married Chloe
Anna Mayo, also a native of Orleans, daughter
of Joseph Collins Mayo, a farmer and United
States government contractor who carried the
mail to Provincetown her ; mother, Harriet
Snow, was a daughter of Gideon Snow, postmaster,
town clerk and merchant at Orleans.
Rev. Henry Mayo, of Eastham, Mass., a Methodist
minister, was Mrs. Percival's uncle.
Henry Mayo Percival, son of James Warren,
received his early education in the public schools
of Orleans and his later schooling in Boston.
After commencing work he became bookkeeper
for Batcheller & Co., wholesale dealers in fish
on Long wharf (now State street), Boston, remaining
with them in that capacity for four
of that place, daughter of John and Hannah
A. (Linnell) Hopkins, the former of whom
was captain of a packet boat in days past; he
is still living at Orleans, at the age of ninetyfour
years. Solomon Linnell, father of Mrs.
Hannah A. (Linnell) Hopkins, was a clock-
maker and jeweler of Orleans, where he lived
to the age of eighty-seven years. Mrs. Percival
died in December, 1887, leaving no children.
She was a member of the Universalist Church.
On Oct. 27, 1909, at Waltham, Mass., Mr. Percival
married Emma J. Linnell, daughter of
Solomon and Abigail (Smith) Linnell, of Orleans,
Massachusetts.
KEMPTON. The family of Kempton is an
old one in New Bedford, the first ancestor, (I)
Ephraim Kempton, appearing in Plymouth in
1643. He was included in the list of those
able to bear arms at that time, with Ephraim,.
Jr., but, says Savage, his name was erased because
no doubt, he was too old or infirm, and
I'e died May 5, 1645. It is not known when
he came, but it was after 1627, as his name is
not mentioned in the division of cattle of that
year.
(II) Ephraim Kempton (2), of Scituate^
son of Ephraim, born in England, married Jan.
28, 1646, Joanna Rawlins, daughter of
Thomas. Their children were : Joanna, bom
Sept. 29, 1647; Patience, born Oct. 2, 1648;
Ephraim, born Oct. 1, 1649 ; and Menasseh,
born Jan. 1, 1652, who died in 1655.
(III) Ephraim Kempton (3), son of
Ephraim (2), married Mary, daughter of
years, after which he was associated with a
publishing house in Boston for a year. He
then bought a grocery store at Orleans, Mass.,
which he conducted for only a couple of years,
taking a position with Cummings & Howes,
manufacturers of clothing at Orleans, with
whom he was engaged for the long period of
twenty years. Meantime he had served some
sixteen years as deputy sheriff of Barnstable
county. In the fall of 1907 he was elected
sheriff, which office he filled for three years
and in the fall of 1910 was reelected for a term
of five years. He also fills the position of jailer
and master of the House of Correction. Mr.
Percival has served as a member of the school
committee of Orleans, and was appointed notary
public, having at the same time also received
his commission as justice of the peace
under Governor Robinson; he has held these
offices for the last twenty years. He is a Republican
on political questions.
Mr. Percival is very well known socially, being
a member of Pilgrim Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., of Harwich, Barnstable county; of Fraternal
Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., of Orleans; of the Old
Colony Club, Buzzard's Bay and of the Satur-
;
day Night Club of Hyannis. He is a member
of the Universalist Church.
Mr. Percival was united in marriage
to Luella F. Hopkins,
(first)
of John Reeves, of Salem. Their children were:
Ephraim, born in 1674; Stephen, born in
1676; and Samuel, born in 1681.
(IV) Ephraim Kempton (4), son of
Ephraim (3), born in 1674, married in 1702
Patience, daughter of Elder Thomas Founce.
He had removed to Salem before 1677, and
perhaps
Orleans, a native
went to Plymouth late in life. His
widow lived to be much over one hundred years
old. She remembered having seen the head
of King Philip on a pole at Plymouth, whereit
had remained over twenty years. Ephraim
Kempton was a goldsmith at one time in Boston.
His children were : Ephraim (5), born
in 1703; Thomas, born in 1705; William, born
in 1707; and Joanna, born in 1710, who married
Joshua Drew.
(V) Thomas Kempton, son of Ephraim (4),
of Plymouth and Dartmouth, married in 1730'
Esther Troop, of Bristol, R. I., and had children
born as follows: Esther, 1736; Thomas,
1740; Hepsibah, 1743; Ephraim, 1746; Mary,
1750; David, 1753; and Jonathan, 1754.