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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 2: Ancestors.—parentage.—birth. (search)
e class. Tradition further hints that the name of the brother who found a home in Massachusetts was Benjamin, that he was a farmer, that he lived in Haveril, a township bordering on the south-eastern corner of New Hampshire, that he prospered there, and died respected by all who knew him at a good old age. So far, tradition. We now draw from the memory of individuals still living. The son of Benjamin Greeley was Ezekiel, old Captain Ezekiel, who lived and greatly flourished at Hudson, New Hampshire, and is well remembered there, and in all the region round about. The captain was not a military man. He was half lawyer, half farmer. He was a sharp, cunning, scheming, cool-headed, cold-hearted man, one who lived by his wits, who always got his cases, always succeeded in his plans, always prospered in his speculations, and grew rich without ever doing a day's work in his life. He is remembered by his grandsons, who saw him in their childhood, as a black-eyed, black-haired, heavy
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
e ch. 31 July, 1748. Had Thomas, b. 29 May, bap. 12 June, 1748; Ruhamah, b. 6, bap. 11 Mar. 1750; Kezia, b. 10, bap. 17 Nov. 1751; Hannah, b. 16, bap. 20 Jan. 1754; Richard, b. 25, bap. 28 Mar. 1756; Seth, b. (14), bap. 16 Apr. 1758; Susanna, b. 14, bap. 19 Oct. 1760; Rhoda, b. 4, bap. 5 Dec. 1762, m. Benjamin Teel; Lucy, b. 19, bap. 30 June, 1765; John, b. 14, bap. 19 Apr. 1767; Elizabeth, b. at Hudson 1771, d. 1795, at Pelham, a. 24. Richard the father rem. his family, about 1770, to Hudson, N. H., where his own and wife's gravestones are standing. 11. Ammi, s. of John (3), had w. Esther—maiden name Peirce—adm. with him to the Pct. ch. 15 Apr. 1753 (she baptized); shed. 8 Jan. 1772, a. 39 (38, g. s.), and he m. Abigail Holden, 12 Nov. 1772, who d. 29 June, 1773, a. 29 (28, g. s.); he then m. Hannah Holden (27 Oct. 1774), who was adm. Pct. ch. 7 Sept. 1783, and. 23 Aug. 1800, a. 48 (g. s.). Ammi was assessor 1779, and 1781 to 1786; selectman in 1779 and 1786; Pct. committeema