The Partridge Genealogy – page 21

The Partridge Genealogy – page 21

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30. JOHN 4 PARTRIDGE (Jonathan, 3 John, 2 John 1 ) was born in Sherborn, Oct. 28, 1746. He married at Barre, Oct. 7, 1773, Mrs. Phebe Boyden, widow of Micah Boyden and daughter of Silas and Deborah (Buck) Sears, of Greenwich, Mass. They resided at Barre, where the births of four children are recorded. They may have removed from there after 1782.
Children:

i. SILAS, 6 b. June 5, 1774.

ii. RHODA, b. July 10, 1776; m. May 7, 1806, James Newcomb of Oakham.

iii. CHLOE, b. Sept. 20, 1779.

iv. JOHN, b. Mch. 27, 1782.

81. JABEZ 4 PARTRIDGE (Jonathan, 3 John, 2 John 1 ) was born in Sherborn, Dec 11, 1748. He married, May 19, 1772, Anna, born in Sherborn, May 24, 1751, daughter of Jonathan and Deborah (Bullard) Twitchell. They resided at Sherborn until about 1780, when they removed to Gardner, where they afterwards lived.
Children:

i. ADAM, 6 b. Jan. 2, 1773; d. in infancy.

ii. DEBORAH, b. Apr. 25, 1775; d. Oct. 22, 1846; m. Oct. 12, 1797, Elisha Pierce, who d. Apr. 1, 1858; resided in Westminster. Six children.

iii. ADAM, b. Mch. 11, 1778; d. May 22, 1855; m. Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1781, d. Mch. 22, 1869, dau. of Oliver and Mary (Pierce) Jackson, of Westminster; resided in Gardner. Children:

l. Asa, 6 b. Aug. 1, 1800; d. May 28, 1883; m. Anne Williams; resided in Gardner; no children. 2. Seneca, b. July 26, 1802; d. Aug. 4, 1879; m. (1) Nov. 15, 1827, Sarah, b. Gardner, Sept. 16, 1805, d. Oct. 21, 1842, dau. of Jonathan and Beulah (Jackson) Brown; m. (2) June 9, 1844, Sarah, b. Jaffrey, N. H., Sept. 12, 1815, d. Feb. 23, 1887, dau. of Jeremy and Sarah (Gage) Underwood; resided in Gardner; seven children, four by first wife. 3. Oran, b. June 30, 1806; d. Nov. 2, 1893; m. Fitchburg, Sept. 15, 1835, Mary B., b. Gardner, Nov. 4, 1809, d. Jan, 2, 1888, dau. of Jonathan and Betsey (Bancroft) Wood; resided in Fitchburg; four children. 4. Caroline, b. Nov. 13, 1809; d. Mch. 15, 1900; m. Apr. 15, 1830, Isaac P., b. Gardner, Sept. 6, 1801, d. Dec. 11, 1833, son of Martin and Prudence Kendall; resided in Templeton, Mass., Jamaica, Vt., and Gardner, Mass.; five children. 5. Loenza, b. June 27, 1814; d. Apr. 25, 1875; m. Nathan Henry. 6. Adam, b. June 14, 1817; m. Dec 25, 1848, Melissa, b. Jaffrey, N. H., Dec. 3, 1817, dau. of Jeremy and Sarah (Gage) Underwood; resided in New York City; two daughters. 7. Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1819; d. Dec. 29, 1876; m. Apr. 16, 1839, James C., b. Athol, July 10, 1817, son of Samuel and Lydia (Clements) Stearns; resided in Gardner and Millers Falls, Mass., and in 1855 settled in Hanno (now Sublette), Ills.; two children. 8. Louisa, b. May 3, 1822; m. Horatio Benton.

iv. HANNAH, b. Dec. 7, 1780; m. John Bigelow; resided in Sherborn.

v. ANNA, b. Nov. 4, 1783; d. in Gardner, June 24, 1861; m. Rufus Whitcomb, of Gardner; removed to Canada. No children.

vi. CYNTHIA, b. Dec. 1, 1785; d. July 1, 1860; m. Luke Whitney, b. Winchester, May 21, 1783, d. Gardner, Sept. 1, 1838; resided in Gardner. Eleven children.

vii. MIRIAM, b. Aug. 20, 1787; m. David, b. Gardner, Apr. 10, 1786, son of Allen and Juda (Chase) Perley; resided in Gardner. Eleven children.

viii. HENRY, b. June 5, 1791; d. Apr. 19, 1859; m. Anna Babcock; resided in Sherborn and Medfield. Children: 1. Anna, 6 m. _______ Bigelow. 2. Henry, m. _______ Leland. 3. Caroline, m. _______ Stevens.