Generation 1
ROBERT EMMONS of Brookfield
Parents: Unknown [But perhaps the Robert who was in Brookfield in 1706]
Robert Emmons of Brookfield married Mary Petty after
13 July 1717, when their intention (10 Jul 1717) was posted in Springfield.
[Ref]
Robert was one of the inhabitants of Brookfield who signed a petition asking
for financial help in supporting a minister on 30 Oct 1706. [Ref]
He was taxed in Brookfield on 22 Apr 1717. [Ref]
On 31 May 1720 Robert was on a committee to lay out land in Brookfield. [Ref]
The Robert who was active in Brookfield in 1706 seems is old enough to be the
father of this Robert Emmons, but Temple suggests that there is only one. [Ref].
Children of Robert Emmons and Mary Petty:
- Son Emons was born in [1725?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Abel Emmons was born in [1727?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
He married the sister of Simon Davis and settled in Chesterfield in 1762.
[Ref] He moved to Woodstock in 1780.
[Ref]
- Solomon Emmons was born in [1729?] in Brookfield. [Ref][Ref
says about 1726] He died in "poor circumstances" in 1805. [Ref]
He married Mary Unknown. [Ref] Shed
died on 8 Nov 1825, age 94, in Windsor. [Ref]
He moved to Windsor, VT in 1763. [Ref]
He moved to Woodstock about 1768 and build a log house. [Ref]
- Noah Emmons was born in [1731?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Eunice Emmons was born in [1733?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Mary Emmons (twin) was born on 15 Aug 1735 in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Robert Emmons (twin) was born on 15 Aug 1735 in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Dea. Benjamin Emmons was born in [1737?]
in Brookfield. He died on or soon before 22 Apr 1811 in Hartford, Windsor
VT. He married Elizabeth Smith.
- Dyer Emmons [Ref] (Maybe he is the
son born in [1725?])
Generation
2
DEA. BENJAMIN EMMONS (abt 1737/9 - 1811) of Woodstock
Parents: Robert Emmons and Mary
Petty
Benjamin Emmons was born was born in [1737?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
He died on or shortly before 22 Apr 1811, age 72, in Hartford, Windsor, VT.
[Ref] He married Elizabeth Smith
on 18 Nov 1765 in Chesterfield, NH. [Ref]
Elizabeth may be the daughter of Ens. Moses Smith, the first settler of Chesterfield,
who was of Leicester, MA, and his wife Elizabeth. [Ref]
Moses died on 20 Jul 1777. [Ref] Elizabeth
died on 20 Jul 1777, age 61. [Ref] Randall
[Ref] says that Moses's daughter Elizabeth
probably married Abel Emmons. [Ref]
Benjamin was one of the founders of Woodstock. [Ref]
He moved from Chesterfield to Woodstock in Apr 1772. [Ref]
He bought 700 acres when he arrived. [Ref]
He left Woodstock about 1810. [Ref]
Benjamin was appointed supervisor, an overseer of the poor and a commissioner
of the highways on the third Tuesday in May 1773 in Woodstock. [Ref]
He was town representative in 1786-7, 1791 (for half the year), 1792 - 4, 1796
and 1800 - 1803. [Ref] He was selectman
in 1773, 1775, 1776, 1778, 1794 and 1802. [Ref]
He was "a political wire-puller of more than ordinary skill." [Ref]
In Apr 1798 Benjamin dug the cellar for the prison in Woodstock, stoned it
and underpinned the building. [Ref]
Benjamin was a deacon in the Congregational Church in Woodstock. [Ref]
There was a great disturbance when it was discovered that he had become an adherent
of the doctrine of Universalism. [Ref]
Children of Benjamin Emmons and Elizabeth Smith:
- Harriet Emmons was born in 1770. She died
on 8 May 1817 in Woodstock, VT. She married Seth
Howland.
- Bethany Emmons was born on 3 Jan 1772. [Ref]
Generation
3
HARRIET EMMONS (d 1847)
Parents: Benjamin Emmons and Elizabeth Smith
[Ref, p. 76]
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Harriet Emmons was born in 1770. [Ref]
She died 8 May 1847. [From her gravestone] She is buried in the Cushing
Cemetery in Woodstock. [Ref] She married
Seth Howland. [Ref,
p. 76]
During my apprenticeship to the printing trade at Woodstock, Vt., I
went fequently to see my grandmother Howland (nee Emmons). She lived
in the Howland house on a farm not quite a mile from the office where
I was engaged. I had often visited my grandmother before I went to Woodstock
to live, and my memory of the house and its surroundings is very clear.
It was for those days a rather large frame house with a front door in
the center, with a gambrel roof and dormer windows; it was built by
my great grandfather Nathan Howland (1742-1831), and was among the earliest
frame houses in the township. The town was settled, if I remember rightly,
in 1764. In this house, and one some distance farther along on he same
road, was reared a large family of Seth Howland, my grandfather, he
being the only son of Nathan Howland, who came from Middleboro', Mass.,
with other settlers; among them, I believe were the Hutchinsonss and
the Marshes and Benjamin Emmons, my Grandmother Howland's father. [Andrew
Jackson Aikens, quoted in Ref]
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References
Cemetery
Harriet Emmons' gravestone
Family Genealogies
Curfman, Robert Joseph, The Petty-Pettis Genealogy: Descendants of John
Petty of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1668, Kansas City, unknown, 1985.
Gates, Horatio, The Aikens Monograph, privately printed, no date.
Rhamy, Bonnelle William, The Remy Family in America, 1650-1942, Fort
Wayne, Ind., unknown, 1942.
Local Histories
Dana, Henry Swan, History of Woodstock, Vermont, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin,
1889.
Randall, Oran E., History of Chesterfield, Cheshire County, N.H.: From the
incorporation of "Township Number One" by Massachusetts in 1736, to
the year 1881: together with family histories and genealogies, Brattleboro,
Vt., D. Leonard, printer, 1882.
Temple, J. H., History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts: Preceded by an
account of Old Quabang, Indian and English occupation, 1647-1676, Brookfield
records, 1686-1783, North Brookfield, The town, 1887.
Newspapers
"Death Notices," Green Mountain Farmer, Bennington, VT, 22
Apr 1811.
Wardner, Henry Steele, The Birthplace of Vermont: A history of Windsor to
1781, New York, Priv. print. by C. Scribner's Sons, 1992.
Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org,
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.