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Subject: History Of Sudbury (1800's) part 7
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 11:40:42 -0500

Transcribed from: "The History Of Sudbury"
By: Alfred Serno Hudson
1638 - 1889
Published: 1889
Republished: 1969

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O'NEIL: JOHN O'NEIL attended St. Jarlaths College, Suam, Ireland, and
was a member of the government surveying party that surveyed England,
Ireland, and Scotland in 1845. He emigrated to America in 1849, and
settled in Concord. He married JULIA, daughter of THOMAS MCMAMUS of
Assabet. In 1863, he moved to the SAMUEL PUFFER farm in North Sudbury,
where he still resides. He has 4 sons, -THOMAS F., JOHN L., CHARLES
E., and JOSEPH M. Thomas F. was sent as Representative to the
Legislature in 1887. (page 446)

OSBORN: An early inhabitant by this name was SAMUEL. his father's name
was ANDREW, who with his wife came to this country from Annapolis,
Ireland. Samuel was born on the water. he married LYDIA GRIFFITH of
East Sudbury (Wayland), 1 Nov. 1732 and had 5 children, two of whom were
SAMUEL and DANIEL. Daniel married SARAH PERRY of Sudbury, 16 Nov.
1769. He lived south of Hart Pond, his house being but a short distance
from the County road. The Osborn place in the south part of the town
was the farm since owned by ISSAC CLARK. (page 446)

PERRY: The Perry family is descended from EBENEZER PERRY, who came from
Dedham, probably not far from the beginning of the 18th century. He
married MERCY BRIGHAM and lived on the farm now occupied by OBADIAH and
LEVI PERRY in the west part of town. He died in 1731. He had a son,
Obadiah M. whose son, JOHN, was the father of Obidiah, who was the
father of Obadiah and Levi E. Obadiah, the father of Obadiah and Levi
E. was born 25 March 1779. He had 8 children, -BETSY, JESSE, LYMAN,
JOHN, CHARLES, LUCY, OBDIAH, and LEVI E. OBDIAH was born 9 Oct.
1817; Levi E. was born 18 March 1820, and has 2 children, -ELLEN MARIA,
born 2 July 1847, and SYLVESTER DWIGHT, born 4 Jan. 1851. (pages 446 &
447)

POWERS: ABIJAH POWERS, first of the name in Sudbury, was a native of
Maine. He went from Stirling to Sudbury in 1841 and purchased a place
at the Centre where he still lives and carries on the blacksmith's
business. In 1838, he married DELIA MAYNARD, of North Sudbury, and has
4 children, -EMILY R., EDWIN A., (died in 1846), CLARA A. and EDWIN
A. Edwin A. married EMMA F., daughter of FRANCIS and SARAH GARFIELD, in
1869, and has one son, WILLARD M. (page 447)

PRATT: An early Sudbury resident of the name was EPHRAIM, who with
others in 1729 signed a petition asking that the subscribers who claimed
to be owners of the New Grant lots, might hold a legal meeting, "to be
in the house of JONATHAN RICE, (North West District) in said Sudbury
Innholder". The farm occupied by Ehriam Pratt was known as the
Wedge-Pratt farm, which was sold in 1743 to JABEZ PUFFER of Braintree,
and is now included in the town of Maynard. Mr. Pratt moved to
Shutesbury, where he died in 1804, at the age of 116 years. He was born
in Sudbury in 1687, Dr. Dwight, having visited him a short time before
his death in his "Travels" gives the following facts concerning him:
"He was of middle stature; firmly built; plump but not encumbered with
flesh; less weathered than multitudes at seventy; possessed of
considerable strength...and without amy marks of extreme age". But a
short time before, his sight and hearing had become impaired. He had
been a laborious man all his life; and had mown grass one hundred and
one years successively. The preceding summer he had been unable to
perform his labor; but in 1802 he walked without inconvenience, two
miles and mowed a small quantity of grass .... Throughout his life he
had been uniformly temperate..... In vigorous periods of his life , he
had accustomed himself to eat flesh, but more than most other people in
this country. Milk, which had always been a great part, was now the
whole part of his diet. He was never sick but once, and then with fever
and ague. NATHAN PRATT, one of the founders of the American Powder
Company, was a native of Fitchburg, came to Sudbury from Charlestown
about 1833, moved to Arlington about 1855 and left the powder business
in 1865. He had no children. Nathan, a nephew of Nathan and present
resident of the town, was a son of CAPT. LEVI PRATT. He was born in
Fitchburg in 1829 and came to Sudbury, 1 Jan 1849. He was 21 years in
the employ of the American Powder Co., and from 1860 to 1870,
superintendent of the property previously known as "Moore's Mills", in
the west part of town, which consists of a saw grist & planning mill.
Mr. Pratt is a Director in the American Powder Co. and the Hudson
National Bank and Trustee of the Hudson Savings Bank. He also held
various town offices and was chairman of the board of selectmen for 4
years. In 1855, he married HARRIET, daughter of AARON HUNT of Sudbury,
and has 3 children, -SARAH E., HARRIET M., & NATHAN R. Sarah E. has
for the past 9 years been a teacher in the State Normal Scholl,
Framingham. (pages 447 & 448)

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