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Lewis Wilder Hicks
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the year 1925, Mr. Hicks, in a letter to the Council dated 6 Feb. 3 ruary 1925 and laid before that body at its meeting on 10 February 1925, stated that the work of Historian was making quite as heavy -demands upon his time and strength in that, the opening of hu eightieth year, as he was able to sustain, and that he thought it but fair to the Society as well as to himself, to retire from the p^'fina ?'? to which he had endeavored during the last eleven years to rendtf * some helpful service. Therefore he asked the Council not to an sider him a candidate for re-election. Thereupon it was voted:	*
?That the Council, with much regTet/acquiesces in the decision g| Rev. Lewis Wilder Hicks to withdraw /rom the office of Historian. ,?l "That the Council of the New England Historic Genealogical So* ciety enters in its records at this tinyT its appreciation of the services rendered by the retiring Historian,/llev. Lewis Wilder Hicks, 1(1 who for eleven years (1914-1924) nas faithfully discharged the dutM, of his office, and has deserved a/id now receives the thanks ofiE Council, with its best wishes for/his continued good health and h*ju piness.?	A /
Besides his membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Connecticut ^Historical Society, Mr. Hicks was % member of the Governor an<^ Cokipany of the Massachusetts Bay i? New England, a former member m the Society of Colonial Wan in the Commonwealth of Maisachusefts, and a member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution (of which he w?? Chaplain from 1905 to 1929 and thereafter Chaplain Emeritus), ant] the Bunker Hill Monunjfent Association^
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He married first, at Hartford, Conn., 2 JulV 1874, Kate Cuftk^ who died at Woodstock, Vt., 3 November 1876, daughter of Jonathan S. Curtis, M.Djt, of Hartford (a descendant of John Alden of tf Mayflower), and his wife, Lucy (Branscombe) Cmtis, formerly, Newmarket, N. H.; secondly, at Woodstock, Vt.\l8 June 187?' Elizabeth Hit bard Barrett, who died at Hartford, Conn., 18-Mat 1902, daughter of Hon. James and Maria Lord (Woodworth) 0*^ rett ;* and thirdly, at Barre, Mass., 19 September 1906, Haaoa^
?Hon. Ja&e* Barrett, of Woodstock and Rutland, Vt., A.B. (Dartmouth, J8J8) AU ' (ib., 1841), LL.D. (Middlebury, 1865), was born at Stratford, Vt., 31 May 1814, of Martin and Dorcaa (Patterson) Barrett, and died at Rutland 21 April 1900. A fm nent lawyer in Woodatock, a State acnator for two successive yeara, and later, aliq |q^ ^ successive yeara. State?s attorney for Windsor County, Vt., he was elected by the Or-Assembly of Vermont in the autumn of 1857 a judge of the Supreme Court of that and served aa one of the moat distinguished judges of that court for twenty?thr?a until his retirement In 1W0. At the annual meeting of the New EngUnd Historic Qg-ical Society, 2 January 1889, he was elected a resident member of the Society, w%| { life member in the same year, and, at the same annual meeting at which he waa rl resident member, waa elected Vice President of the Society for Vermont, an he held, by annual election, until his death. His wife, Maria Lord Woodworth #t Coventry, Conn., whom he married 23 September 1844, waa a descendant of tw i early Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, John Haynes and George Wytlys. (]r? j ancestry and lift of Judge Barrett see the memoir in the RiGirraa, vot 55,
Jttl 7 1901.)
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Louise Roper, daughter of John Smith and MarJha^Eva (Brigham) Roper, who sui*nves him, together with a sparlsy his first wife, Ed-frard Phillips HicMspf Newton, Mas^htifn 3 August 1875.
All those whose goodkfortune itwaito come into frequent association with Mr. Hicks, in Tiiawofk for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and^fcfrtha^arious other organizations with which he was connectedTrecall his landly-greeting, his scholarly bear* ing, his genial disposition, and the cheertuldesawhich he imparted to his fellow>rforkers by his well-nigh inexhaustible fund of entertaining stories and anecdotes.
ROBERT CARVER OF MARSHFIELD, MASS.,*
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS
Compiled by William Jones, A.B, of Browcrilk, N. Y.
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21. Caleb* Caxvek (John* William,* John^ Rabert1), of Marshfield, bom at Marshfield 5 Apr. 1715 (Marshfield vital records), died there probably early in 1786, as letters of administration on his estate were granted to hit widow, Abigail Carver, 1 Mar. 1786. He married Abigail Shuman, bora at Marshfield 26 Dec. 1710, died there 11 Apr. 1794, in the 84th year of her age (records of the Second Congregational Church at Marshfield), daughter of Ebooezer and Margaret (Decrow) Sherman. Ebenezer Shertoan v|i a son of William Sherman and his wife; Desire Doty.f daughter of Edward Doty of the Mayflower; *od in his will,' dated 10
Jan. and proved 14 Feb. 1759, Ebeqe^Shcnoan mentioned is daughter Abigail Carver.	t'"	1
Children, born at Marshfield (Marshfield vital records); Caleb/ b. 26 Apr. 1734.
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