A Sketch Of The Chandler Family In Worcester Massachusetts Classic Reprint

Author : Elizabeth Orne Paine Sturgis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330123935
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book A Sketch of the Chandler Family in Worcester, Massachusetts written by Elizabeth Orne Paine Sturgis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sketch of the Chandler Family in Worcester, Massachusetts "But for those lives, my life had never known This faded vesture which it calls its own." The founders of this family, so large and so influential before the Revolution, were of very obscure origin and in very humble circumstances when they landed on these shores. William Chandler and Annice his wife came from England in 1637 with their children and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The family seem to have been without any means of support, and during the long illness of Mr. Chandler they were cared for by their neighbors and friends, on account of their affection for him. He died in the year 1641, "having lived a very religious and godly life" and "leaving a sweet memory and savor behind him." Annice Chandler must have been an attractive woman, for she was not only soon married to a second husband, but to a third, and her last one evidently expected her to enter into matrimony a fourth time, for in his "Will," he provided that she shall have the use of his warming pan "only so long as she remained his widow." Goodwife Parmenter, however, died in 1683, in full possession of the warming pan, the widow of her third husband. John Chandler, a son of William, emigrated to Woodstock, and there became a farmer in a small way, or, to use his own words, a husbandman, for so he designates himself in his "Will," of Woodstock, in the County of Suffolk in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New' England. He was chosen a selectman and deacon of the church in Wood-sldek, and died in 1703, leaving a family, and property of the value of £512. 00. 6d. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.