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- GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.
PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.
Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Librarian of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington."
"Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc.
VOLUME III.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
.... 1908 ....
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Ebenezer Stocker married, July 15, 1674, Sarah Marshall, born February 14, 1655, daughter of Captain Thomas Marshall, who was one of the leading characters in early Lynn history. He came to Lynn in the ship "James" of London in 1635, and soon after ward was admitted freeman. Later he return
ed to England and fought under Cromwell, who made him captain. He served several years in the army and then returned to Lynn "laden with military glory," as Mr. Lewis says in his "Annals of Lynn." He was representative to the general court six times, and in Lynn kept tavern on the west side of Sawyers river, where "with all the frankness and hos
pitality of a firm old English gentleman he kept open doors for the accommodation of the travelling public for more than forty years." He died December 23, 1689, and his wife Rebecca died in August, 1693.
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