Pioneer Families - REMINGTON
Extracted From
Chapter XVII
Early history of the town of Hopkinton :
history of East Village (Nicholville) and vicinity,
diaries of Elisha Risdon and Artemas Kent,
soldiers of the Civil War,
genealogical record of sixty of the pioneer families

Carlton E. Sanford
Boston: Bartlett Press, 1903

[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]

IN this chapter is given the genealogical records of many of the pioneers of the town, of all that I have been able to gather sufficient data and information to make a fairly full record. The preparation of these records has required much time, labor, correspondence, persistence and patience. Had I had in the beginning a full comprehension of the tedious labor required, I now feel sure I should not have undertaken it. That there are some errors in dates and possibly a few in names I am quite satisfied, since considerable of my information came from elderly people who wrote feebly and indistinctly. I think it will be readily understood, if the reader will bear in mind that it is in continuous order; that the first, second, third and fourth generations are each carried slightly to the right, and that each generation always has the same indentation. THOMAS REMINGTON b. 1767; d. May 1, 1819; m. Martha Shepard, b. 1766; d. 1849. He was an acquaintance of the Goodells and came to town in 1804. The story of his settlement is given in the list of pioneers. Had five children: Stillman C., b. March 3, 1800, Kingsbury, N.Y.; d. August 23, 1892; m. Rosalinda Holman, January, 1823; b. May 10, 1802; d. August 2, 1880. Had eleven children: Julius T., b. December 7, 1823; 1. Rockford, Ill. He was twice married and was a major in the Civil War. Lost two children in infancy and has two living: Helen and Rose. Jason, b. August 27, 1825; d. September 30, 1894, Hopkinton; single. Edward, b. December 24, 1827; d. September, 1897, Hopkinton; single. Emily A., b. May 2, 1829; single; 1. Ypsilanti, Mich. Jackson, b. July 27, 1831; 1. New York City; m. Hannah Davis of Hopkinton; d. 1895. (Incomplete.) Achsa, b. July 2, 1833; d. February 26, 1870, in Hopkinton; m. Rufus Bastin. (Incomplete.) Marcia C., b. May 31, 1835; 1. Ypsilanti; m. Gilbert Brown. (Incomplete.) Stillman J., b. April 22, 1837; 1. Ypsilanti; m. Ellen Boyle, d. 1901. Had seven children, the last three died young: Blanche, William, May, Ralph, Freddie, Lee and Eddie. Two babes, b. in 1839 and 1841; d. in infancy. Clarinda, b. January 14, 1843; d. August 19, 1898; unmarried. Sally, b. August 31, 1802; d. February 2, 1842; m. Orin Andrews, December 25, 1823; b. March 8, 1801; d. September 17, 1884, Cresco, Iowa. He was a son of Roswell and Isabelle (Greene) Andrews. Isabelle Greene was the eldest of Elder Henry Greene's children, and Abigail, wife of Judge Sanford, was the youngest. His grandfather was a Baptist minister and escaped the Wyoming massacre in Pennyslvania by fleeing with his family. Orin was born at Wallingford, Vt., where his parents died when he was four years of age. He came to Hopkinton about 1822 and settled on what is known as the Captain Freeman farm. He m. 2d, Nancy Peck Moody, September 12, 1842; b. August 15, 1803, Cornwall, Vt.; d. at Hopkinton, November 19, 1857; m. 3d, Eliza Covey Menev, September 1, 1858; b. Cornwall, Vt., May 2, 1804; d. at Malone, N.Y. Had eight children by first marriage: Clarinda, b. January 20, 1825; m. George A. Harran, January 1, 1847. Had six children (incomplete): Celia, d. single. Martha, d. single. Alma, m. D. Travis, January 3, 1875. Had two children: Morton, b. 1880; d. 1880. Daughter, b. 1884. (Incomplete.) Fannie, m. Harvey Pratt, June, 1882. (Incomplete.) Freeman, d. aged twenty-two. Orin, d. aged one year. Roswell, b. September 29, 1826; 1. Hopkinton; m. Manila Cutler, March 7, 1855; b. November 24, 1732. Had three children (incomplete): Nettie, b. April 29, 1863. Augusta, b. July 29, 1868. Harlow, b. December 12, 1872. Martha Isabelle, b. April 29, 1828; 1. Fergus Falls, Minn.; m. Reuben H. Freeman, January 28, 1852; b. May 7, 1819; d. February 20, 1901. He was born at Cape Cod and was a sea captain, as were his four brothers. His first wife was Rebecca Young, by whom he had three children, two dying in infancy; the third, Otis, m. Ducar Doane and d. on the Pacific Ocean, 1851. His 2d wife was a school-teacher and missionary. They were m. in Mobile, Ala. Had two children: John H., b. March 16, 1857; 1. Fergus Falls, Minn.; m. Jennie Kelley. Had three children: Ella S., b. 1891. Edmund, b. 1896. Fae Francis, b. 1900. Edmund, b. Marrh 2, 1859; d. December 25, 1884. Mary S., b. March zi, 1830; d. April 21, 1871, Nevada, Iowa; m. Alpheus B. Mitchell, December 11, 1851. Had one child: Parker W. R., b. November, 1852; d. April 19, 1874. Sarah, b. May 10, 1832; m. Nehemiah Sheldon, May 29, 1861. Had three children (incomplete): Cordie, b. March 6, 1864. Milo, b. May 11, 1866. Martha, b. August 20, 1868. Henry Greene, b. June 28, 1836; 1. Ellsworth, Kan.; m. Susan Shock. Had five children (incomplete): Orin, Martha, Celia, Fanny and Alma. Josephine E., b. May 14, 1838; d. April 4, 1890, Ottumwa, Iowa; m. Sanford L. Burnham, September 6, 1864; b. May 23, 1835. Mr. Burnham was born at St. Albans, Vt., and was the son of Philander and Electa (Beals) Burnham. Had two children: Sanford A., b. October 5, 1868; 1. Chicago, Ill.; m. May Sarah Boulton, April 25, 1893; b. March 29, 1870. Had three children: Sanford B., b. February 12, 1894; d. April 22, 1899. Josephine May, b. July 13, 1899. Daughter, b. September 8, 1902. Frederick H., b. December 20, 1872; 1. Chicago, Ill. Messrs. Sanford A. and Frederick H. Burnham were born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and are wholesale manufacturers of gloves at 24 Market Street, Chicago. Emeline, b. May 14, 1838; d. December 24, 1838. Aurelius, b. April 25, 1805; d. July 17, 1894, in West Stockholm; m. Emily Greene of Cornwall, Vt., b. October 31, 1808; d. September 3, 1883. He lived for years on the "Peck road." Had five children: Rosella, b. August 13, 1832; 1. West Stockholm; m. William Clark, August 14, 1859. Had three children: Aurelius T., b. May 22, 1861; 1. West Stockholm; m. Edith Fletcher, December 24, 1888. Had one child: Son, b. September 22, 1902. Effie M., b. April 9, 1864; 1. West Stockholm; m. Walter T. Ide, October 14, 1886. No issue. Lillie M., b. August II, 1875; 1. West Stockholm; m. Ernest T. Greene, February 16, 1898. No issue. Melinda, b. February 4, 1837; d. April 22, 1893; m. Gilman Foster, March 20, 1866; b. October 26, 1831; 1.West Stockholm. Had five children: Orson R., b. January 1, 1867; d. January 23, 1876. Gilman D., b. October 7, 1868; d. January 24, 1876. Emily S., b. August 16, 1871; d. January 23, 1876. Benjamin G., b. June 19, 1876; 1. West Stockholm. Robert H., b. April 27, 1879; d. October 18, 1896. Sarah, b. March 30, 1842; d.; m. Orson Pelsue, 1868; 1. Stark, N.Y. Had one child: Frank, b. November 4, 1871;1. Tupper Lake, N.Y. Babe, died in infancy. Aurelius, Jr., b. May 5, 1847; d. May 4, 1859. Sophia, b. February 4, 1806; d. May 25, 1894; single. Sylvia, b. January 14, 1810; d. January 28, 1890, at Crary's Mills, N.Y.; m. John Lavery of Canton, N.Y., February 22, 1836; d. October 17, 1862. Had three children: Martha A., b. April 2, 1837; m. John F. Peck, April 4, 1869. She has taught school forty-six years, two of which in St. Lawrence University and for the last twenty-nine in a private normal school at Ottumwa, Iowa. Julius T., b. July 26, 1839; d. February 20, 1888, Canton, N.Y.; m. Lovisa M. Thomas, February 26, 1871; 1. Canton, N.Y. Had four children: Martha A., b. January 18, 1872; 1. Canton, N.Y.; m. Alpheus Baxter, December 29, 1897. Had two children: Illa E., b. February 2, 1899. Addie L., b. August 30, 1901. Warren J., b. April 13, 1879; 1. Cawker City, Kan. Francis J., b. May 20, 1884;1. Canton, N.Y. Addie L., b. February 25, 1886. Roswell C., b. May 7, 1844; 1. Crary's Mills, N.Y.; m. Elvira D. Hamilton, December 4, 1876. Had three children: Sylvia H., b. October 12, 1881. Anna M., b. October 4, 1885 d. March 4, 1887. Alfred E., b. September 12, 1887; d. April 28, 1888.     INDEX