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Subject: [MAMiddle] Early Physicians of Groton, Mass. Part 1.
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:04:41 EDT
An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts 1655-1890
by Dr. Samuel A. Green, Groton, 1894.
Early Physicians of Groton.
Dr. Ezekiel Chase.
p.95
Dr. Ezekiel Chase of Groton, was married at Newbury, May 20, 1729, to
Priscilla Merrill of that town.
She was the daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Kent) Merrill and born at Newbury
on October 16, 1703.
Dr. Benjamin Morse.
Dr. Benjamin Morse was a son of Dr. Benjamin and Abigail (Dudley) Morse and
born at Sutton on March
20, 1740. He was married on November 27, 1760 to Mary, dau. of Isaac and
Sarah Barnard, also born at
Sutton, on Sept. 13, 1741; and while living in that town they had a family
of six children.
Dr. Morse came to Groton probably during the Revolutionary period, and was a
Representative to the
General Court in the session of 1784, and several succeeding ones; and he
was also a delegate to the
Convention for adopting the Constitution of the United States, in the year
1788, where he opposed the
adoption. He lived in the south part of the town, near the present village
of Ayer; and the site of his
house is laid down on the map of Groton, published in 1832. He died on May
31, 1833, aged ninety-three
p.96
years and his widow on Dec 16, 1835 aged 94 years.
Dr. Ephraim Ware.
Dr. Ephraim Ware, a physician of Groton, was married at Cambridge, on
October 13, 1785, to Mrs. Abigail
Gamage. He was a native of Needham and born on January 14, 1725. His first
wife was Martha, dau. of
Josiah and Elizabeth Parker of Groton, where they were married on July 26,
1764. She was born on Jan. 7,
1737 and died at Groton on April 4, 1776. After their marriage they went to
Dedham to live, as the
records of that town say: "The Selectmen on the 2nd day of August 1765, gave
Orders to Israel Everett,
Constable, to warn Ephraim Ware, Martha Ware, and three others, to depart
this Town in 14 days, or give
security to indemnify the town." Such orders were in accordance with an old
practice, then common
throughout the Province, which aimed to prevent the permanent settlement of
families in towns where they
might become a public burden. Their two eldest children, both boys, were
born at Dedham; and three other
children, a daughter Sarah and two sons, who both died in infancy, were born
at Groton. Sarah, born on
September 18, 1769, was married to Richard Sawtell of Groton on March 10,
1796 and died on March 23, 1851 having been the mother of nine children.
Dr. Ephraim Woolson.
Dr. Ephraim Woolson was practicing medicine at Groton in the year 1766. He
was a son of Isaac & Sibyl
Woolson and born at Weston, Mass., on April 11, 1740. He graduated at
Harvard College in the class of
1760 and married Mary Richardson on July 29, 1765. Dr. Woolson appears to
have been living
p.97
at Weston just before his residence at Groton, and in the year 1767 he
bought land at Princeton, where
six of his children were born. He was Justice of the Peace. He died in the
year 1802 at Hanover, ___.
Dr. Jonathan Gove.
Dr. Jonathan Gove was a son of John & Tabitha (Livermore) Gove and born in
that part of Weston which
is now Lincoln, Mass., on Aug 22, 1746. He graduated Harvard College in the
class of 1768 and studied
medicine under the instruction of Dr. Oliver Prescott of Groton. About the
year 1770 he was married to
Mary, dau. of Nathan & Mary (Patterson) Hubbard of Groton and here John and
Lucinda their two eldest
children were born and baptized. This son graduated at Dartmouth College in
the class of 1793; studied
law and died at Chillicothe, Ohio, in the year 1802. From Groton, Dr. Gove
removed to New Boston, New
Hampshire, where three more children were born. His wife was born at Groton
on Jan 9, 1748 and died at
New Boston. He was married (2) on January 6, 1791 to Polly Dow, who became
the mother of three children.
Dr. Gove subsequently removed to Goffstown, New Hampshire, and died there on
March 24, 1818.
To be continued Part 2 - Physicians of Groton, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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