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Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] John Livermore - Bond's Watertown - Vol. I -Part 3 - p.341
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:15:38 EDT


Subject: John Livermore
The Early History of Watertown, Massachusetts: Including Waltham and Weston.
Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of
Watertown,
Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston,
1860.

Volume I.
Part 3.
p.341

Daniel Livermore of Watertown, a potter, m. (1) May 28, 1697, Mary Cooledge.
She died in child-bed Dec 10, 1702 and he m. (2) Mary ____. He died Nov 16,
1720 and his widow m. Aug 17, 1724, John Goodenow of Sudbury. She died at
Watertown Oct 7, 1745 aged 66. Children:

1. Oliver Livermore b. Mar 11, 1697-8; died Nov 18, 1754.
2. Mary Livermore b. Jan. 26, 1700-1. Died.
3. Mary Livermore (again) b. Dec., 1702 m. May 31, 1726, Nathaniel Sherman.
4. Anna Livermore b. Jan 18, 1703-4; m. Jonathan Bemis.
5. Daniel Livermore b. Mar 18, 1704-5; died Sept 3, 1713.
6. Mercy Livermore.
7. David Livermore b. Mar 1, 1714-15; died 1756; was a blacksmith of
Watertown; m. Abigail
Kimball b. 1725, the 3rd child of Benjamin & Priscilla (Hazen) Kimball of
Bradford, Mass.
and the grandaughter of Richard & Mary (Peabody) Hazen of Boxford and of
Richard & Mehitable
(Day) Kimball and great grandaughter of Edward & Hannah (Grant) Hazen and
probably of Richard
and Ursula Kimball, first of Watertown and afterwards of Ipswich; the elder
sister of the late
Deacon John Kimball of Concord, & New Hampshire. Children:
1. Abigail Livermore b. Feb 29, 1745; m. a Scotchman and lived "very
handsomely" at
Halifax, Nova Scotia; had one dau. who married & lived in Frderickton, N.Y.
2. Priscilla Livermore b. Jan 11, 1747; m. Joseph Day of Bradford.
3. Daniel Livermore b. April 7, 1749. After the death of his father, he
lived some
years with his uncle, Deacon Obadiah Kimball of Bradford and about 1762 or
1763, be-
came an apprentice of his uncle Deacon John Kimball, a carpenter of Concord,
N.H.
"At the commencement of the Revolution, he entered the army as an Ensign in
Capt.
Woodbury's Co., in Col. John Stark's Regt., and served during the war. While
on an
expedition at the head of a company under General Sullivan (sent to chastise
the
British, Indians and Tories, for the horrible massacre and barbarous
atrocities
committed at Wyoming and Cherry Valley), in 1779, Capt. Livermore kept a
diary
from May 17 to Dec 7, 1779," which has been published in the 6th Vol. of the
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Oct. 10, 1783, he was
pro-
moted by Congress to the rank of Major, by Brevet. Dec 19, 1783 he was, at
his
own request, dismissed from the service, and returned to Concord. He built
in
1785 or 1786 the house now owned and occupied by Rev. Nathaniel Boulton. "He
was
an elegant man, a brave
p.342
officer and highly respected by the people of Concord." He was
Representative of
Concord, 1794. He died June 22, 1798.
4. Hannah Livermore b. Mar 23, 1754; m. W. Parker of Bradford, Mass and had
one
child, Mary Parker.
5. Lydia Livermore b. Jan 8, 1757; m. Nathaniel Kimball of Hopkinton, N.H.
Their
children all died except Nathaniel Kimball, Jr. who occupied his father's
homestead.
8. Susanna Livermore.
9. Prudence Livermore who died Aug 12, 1718, aged 7 weeks.

Deacon Thomas Livermore of West Precinct (Waltham, Mass.) m. Dec. 14, 1704,
Mary Bright, who died Sept 29, 1765. He held the office of Deacon from Oct 3,
1718 until his decease, 1761,and for a long time had an important share of
the municipal business of the West Precinct and of the town. He resided a few
years in Cambridge. Children:

1. Benjamin Livermore b. Nov 4, 1705; died 1724.
2. Ebenezer Livermore b. at Cambridge May 18, 1708; died Jan 2, 1724 aged 16
yrs.
3. Tabitha Livermore b. at Cambridge, Oct 11, 1711; m. Jan 27, 1737-8,
Deacon John Gove, of Weston.
4. Nathaniel Livermore b. at Watertown, April 13, 1713; died 1783.
5. Abijah Livermore b. May 21, 1715; died 1724.
6. Elisha Livermore b. Jan 9, 1720; died Feb 13, 1795.
7. Hulda Livermore b. Aug 7, 1722; m. May 4, 1748, Capt. Jonathan Bemis of
Watertown.
8. Benjamin Livermore b. Nov 3, 1726; d. Jan 4, 1748-9, unmarried.

Jonathan Livermore, a tanner of Watertown m. Nov 23, 1699, Rebecca Barns. He
d. November, 1705 and she died, a widow, Dec 9, 1765 aged 85 yrs. Children:
1. Jonathan Livermore b. Aug 16, 1700; died April 21, 1801.
2. Samuel Livermore b. Mar 14, 1701-2; died Aug 7, 1773.
3. Rebecca Livermore b. Dec 8, 1703; m. Oct 29, 1719, John Philips b. Dec
10, 1692. They
moved to Worcester. He d. July 20 and she died Dec 29, 1780.
4. Grace Livermore b. Mar 14, 1705-6; m. ____Hastings and settled in
Worcester.

To be continued Part 4 - p. 342 - Josiah Livermore of Weston & wife,
Thankful Harrington.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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