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Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] John Livermore - Bond's Watertown - Vol. I -Part 10 - p. 351.
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:18:33 EDT


Subject: John Livermore
The Early History of Watertown, Massachusetts: Including Waltham and Weston.
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 10.
p.351
Hon. Samuel Livermore m. 1759, Jane Brown, dau. of Rev. Arthur Brown of
Portsmouth, N.H.,
the first Episcopal clergyman settled in that state, and a missionary of
"The British
Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts." The descendants of Mr.
Brown are
very numerous and respectable in Ireland and England. Judge Livermore
settled in Holder-
ness, N.H., about 1780, where he had one of the largest and best farms in
New Hampshire.
Children:
1. George William Livermore b. at Portsmouth, June 1760; died 1763.
2. Edward St. Loe Livermore b. at Portsmouth, April 5, 1762; died at Lowell,
Sept 15, 1832.
He rec'd the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth Coll., 1800; was several
years Judge of
the Superior Court of New Hampshire, afterwards Representative in Congress
from Mass., and
was a zealous and leading Federalist in that State in the party contests
that preceded and
attended the last war with England. He m. (1) Mehitabel Harris, dau. of
Robert Harris,

Esq., of Concord, N.H. She d. Jan 30, 1793 aged 28 yrs., 1 mo., and he m.
(2) May 2, 1799,
Sarah C. Stackpole of Boston, b. Sept 11, 1778. Children:
1. Caroline Livermore who died aged 17 yrs.
2. Samuel Livermore, grad. Harvard Coll. 1804; died at Florence, Alabama,
July 11,
1833, unm., aged 47 yrs.
3. Harriet Livermore b. Apr 14, 1788; unm., very extensively known for her
earnest inculcation of her views of Christian life and doctrine.
4. Robert Harris Livermore, died at Guadaloupe, Sept. 17, 1822, aged 21 yrs.
5. Mehitabel Jane Livermore b. July 11, 1792; died Apr 25, 1837; m. June 25,
1815, Thomas Haven (a wid. with two children), a merchant of Portsmouth,
N.H.,
who moved to Philadelphia 1829; to Boston, 1835 and returned to Phila. 1841,
where he now resides. Children:
1. Elizabeth Hall Haven, b. Oct 13, 1816.
2. Caroline Livermore Haven, b. Mar 5, 1818; m. Dec. 5, 1838, Edward
Belknap of Boston, now (1851) of New York. Children:
1. Mary E. Belknap b. Sept 26, 1839.
2. Thomas H. Belknap b. Jan 12, 1841.
3. Anne Shapleigh Haven b. May 4, 1819; m. June 30, 1847, S. C. Thwing,
of Boston. Now (1851) residing in Roxbury. Children:
1. Elliot Thwing b. Apr. 27, 1848.
2. Florence Thwing b. Jan 30, 1850.
4. Edward St. Loe Livermore Haven, b. April 23, 1820; res. on a farm at
Dutch Neck, Mercer Co., New Jersey.
p.352
5. Mehitabel Jane Haven, b. Sept 4, 1822; m. Apr 3, 1845, Dudley Hall,
of Boston, now (1851) of Cincinnati. Children:
1. Anne H. Hall b. Jan 29, 1846.
2. Clara Hall, b. Apr 27, 1847.
3. Dudley Hall, b. Dec 12, 1850.

-first mention of California-

6. Samuel Livermore Haven, b. Oct 3, 1823; of San
Franscisco, Calif.
7. Frances Adelaide Haven, b. Feb 9, 1826.
8. Clarissa Haven, b. June 10, 1827.
9. Helen Eloise Haven b. Nov 11, 1828.
10. Nathaniel Appleton Haven, b. at Phila., Feb 9, 1830; was of Phila.
11. Helen Thomas Haven b. Oct 25, 1831.
12. Matilda Livermore Haven, b. Mar 16, 1834.
6. Edward St. Loe Livermore b. Feb 12, 1800; m. Hannah Brown and died Dec.,
1841.
7. Elizabeth B. Livermore b. June 2, 1804.
8. William Stackpole Livermore, b. June 24, 1805; died Feb 2, 1822.
9. George Williamson Livermore, b. Jan 17, 1807; d. Aug 26, 1830.
10. Ann Grace Livermore b. June 1, 1809; d. December, 1812.
11. Arthur Brown Livermore b. June 11, 1811; died April, 1825.
12. Ann Grace Livermore (again) b. Dec 24, 1812.
13. Caroline Livermore b. Oct 5, 1814; m. July, 1838, Josiah G. Abbot, Esq.,
of Lowell. Children:
1. Caroline Mercer Abbot, b. Apr 25, 1839.
2. Edward Gardner Abbot, b. Sept 18, 1840.
3. Henry Livermore Abbot, b. Jan 21, 1842.
4. Fletcher Morton Abbot, b. Feb 18, 1843.
5. William Stackpole Abbot, b. Nov 18, 1844; died May 6, 1846.
6. Samuel Appleton Brown Abbot, b. Mar. 6, 1846.
7. Sarah Livermore Abbot, b. May 14, 1850.
14. Henry Jackson Livermore b. June 5, 1816.
15. Sarah Stackpole Livermore b. July 12, 1819.
16. Mary Jane Livermore b. Aug 2, 1821; m. Oct 7, 1846, Daniel Saunders of
Andover. Children:
1. Charles Gurley Saunders b. Oct 3, 1847.
2. Mary Livermore Saunders b. June 19, 1849.

3. George William Livermore b. at Londonderry, N.H., April 7, 1764; died at
Concord, N.H.,
1805, unm.
4. Arthur Livermore b. at Londonderry, July 29, 1766; A.M., Dartmouth Coll.,
1802; Judge of
the Superior Court of N.H., 1798, and afterwards Chief Justice of the same
Court for 15
yrs. and was Chief Justice of the C.C.P. 1826 to 1832, Representative in
Congress, 1817 to
1821 and 1823 to 1825. He res. on the paternal homestead in Holderness. He
m. Mar 27, 1810,
Louisa Bliss, dau. of Capt. Joseph Bliss, of Haverhill, N.H., a Captain in
the
Revolutionary army and the grandaughter of Rev. Daniel Bliss of Concord,
Mass. Children:
1. Arthur Livermore b. Jan 7, 1811; grad. Dartmouth Coll. 1829; studied law
with
Hon. Jeremiah Mason of Boston, and was a counsellor-at-law at Bath, N.H.,
unm..
2. George Livermore b. Aug 10, 1813; grad. Dartmouth Coll. 1830; studied law
with Hon. Ira Perley (now, (1851), a Justice of the Supreme Court, N.H.) and
with
Mr. Lord of New York. He practised law in N.Y. until 1843 when he returned
to N.H.
by reason of ill health. unm.
3. Edward Livermore b. Mar 18, 1815; grad. Dartmouth Coll. 1833; studied
divinity
at the N.Y. Episcopal Theological Inst. and took holy orders. He res. until
1851,
at Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N.Y., and res. at Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y.
He m.
Dec 12, 1839, Elizabeth Greene Hubbard, dau. of the late Henry Hubbard,
merchant,
of N.Y., afterwards of Boston. She d. May 22, 1851. One child, Louisa
Livermore
b. April, 1841; d. Oct 22, 1845.
4. Samuel Livermore b. May 19, 1817; educated at Exeter Academy; served a
mercantile apprenticeship with J. D. Gardiner & Co., of Boston; res. two
years
at Savannah, Georgia and perished at sea by the wreck of the steamer,
Pulaski,
June 14, 1838; unm. [see newspaper reports of the wreck of the Pulaski -
altho
it lists Samuel as: "L. Livermore"
_http://members.aol.com/eleanorcol/Pulaski.html_
(http://members.aol.com/eleanorcol/Pulaski.html)
5. Louisa Livermore b. Dec 23, 1819; m. April 15, 1850, James F. Ford, Esq.
(son of Laurent Ford, Esq., of Little Falls, N.Y, counsellor-at-law) of the
civil engineer service. One child, Arthur Ford, b. Jan 3, 1851.
6. Caroline Livermore b. July 15, 1822, unm.
7. Horace Livermore b. Mar 1, 1829; died (struck by lightning) June 25,
1838.
8. Heber Livermore b. Apr 22, 1832; a merchant's clerk (1851) at Lowell.
5. Elizabeth Livermore b. at Londonderry, N.H., September, 1768; m. 1787,
Deacon William
Brown of Boston, where she died in childbed, Nov 20, 1795.

To be continued, Vol. II - Part 11 - p.852 - notes on immigrant, John
Livermore - who
settled at Watertown, thence to Connecticut with others of Watertown.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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