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Ref. T.W. Bicknell's 1913 Book page 4
Daughter of Richard Porter and Ruth
Page 5
Richard Porter's Will, dated Dec. 25, 1688, gave to his Daughter, Mary Bicknell, £10.
He devised land to his grandson, Thomas Porter, but in the event of his not reaching full age, then the same is to remain to his grandchild, Ruth Richards, and the heirs "borne"" of her body.
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He did service in the Revolutionary War.
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Jonathan Read was born at Wrentham, MA., Jan. 18, 1772. He learned the Cabinetmaker's trade
and went to New York City. About 1792 he married Catharine Cornwell, who died in two or
three years; they had one child, who died in infancy. After his wife's death, he went to Attleboro,
MA., where he married Nancy Bicknell in January 1799. Soon after his marriage he went to sea
as a passenger and to sell furniture, etc., that he took with him. He first landed at Concepcion,
Chile, and was there over a year. From there he went sealing to the Island of Massa Fuero, and
was there for some months; from there he went to Canton, China, and from there back to the
United States. He was gone three years. On his return home they settled in Cumberland, R.I., on a
farm, and he was chosen Deputy Sheriff of the County. About 1808 or 9 they removed to
Whittenton, Taunton Tp., and he engaged in manufacturing cotton yarns. From there, about 1812,
they went to Wareham, MA., and in connection with others built a cotton factory making cotton
goods. The factory was set on fire by the British when they took Wareham in 1814, but after they
left the fire was extinguished. In 1818 they removed to Columbus, Ohio, and bought a farm 10 or
12 miles from the town, but, the title proving bad, he abandoned that and bought 120 acres
adjoining Columbus. About 1824 they moved back to MA. and lived in Taunton; from there they
removed to Providence, R.I., where he kept a tavern. From there in 1837 they removed to New
York City, where he kept the Wall Street House. From there in 1841 they went, with their
daughter Susan, to Washington, D.C., where she opened a boarding house. From Washington
they went with their son-in-law, Samuel J. Burr, to Burlinton, Iowa, their daughter Susan
accompanying them. Uncle Burr had received the appointment of Territorial secretary under
President John Tyler. From there they went with James E. Starr (Aunt susan's son-in-law)to his
home near Alton, Ill., about 1845 or 6. They lived in Alton with James E. Starr and Wm. T.B.
Read until about 1858, and then went to Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived with S.J. Burr until Grandpa
died, March 27, 1859, aged 87 years. Grandpa Read's father emigrated from Scotland. He married
Susan Shepard in Wrentham, MA., about 1771, and was a Revolutionary Soldier.
Copied by Margaret Ophelia Milne Patterson. Original writer most likely was Eugene Bruce
Read.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 92 and 93
Rev. Samuel Watson, born in Barrington, R. I. a graduate
of Brown University, 1794, and ordained pastor of the Congre-
gational Church of his native town in 1798; was led to exchange
pulpits with his classmate, Rev. John Miles, at Attleboro, MA.
He noticed in his congregation a bright and an attractive young
lady, to whom he sought an introduction. It was love at sight
on the part of beth the young and talented minister and the
sweet-faced maiden, Martha Turpin Bicknell. The sequel of
mutual loves was a happy marriage Dec. 5, 1799, and a home in
Barrington, R. I. Six children were born in the ministerial
family, when death removed the mother, in 1813, at the age of
38, and the father in 1816, at the age of 43
He had been Town Clerk for thirteen years.
The oldest son, Hon. and Judge Matthew Watson, of
Nashville, Tenn., erected a monument in the
Watson Cemetery to the cherished memory of father and mother.
At the Princes Hill Cemetery, Barrington, another marble monu-
ment bears this record:
"Rev. Samuel Watson, A.M., pastor of the Church of Christ
in this town, died Jan. 14, 1816, in the forty-third year of his
age and the eighteenth of his ministry."
"He was the son of Mattthew Watson, Jr., and the grandson
of Matthew Watson, Sr., who died Jan. 17, 1803, at the age of
107 years. Possessed of good natural talents, well cultivated by
a liberal education and hopefully sanctified by divine grace, he
was a faithful and exemplary minister of the gospel. Meekness,
modesty, humility, patience and submission under the various
trials of life were striking traits in his character. He was a kind
and tender husband, a provident and affectionate parent, a
sincere and constant friend. He lived greatly beloved and died
deeply lamented, in the animating hope of a glorious immortality.
Firm faith, warm charity humble hope - these are the Christian
graces, these are the guides that lead to life eternal."
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 199
Emeline Inglis, was the daughter of
Joseph Lansing and Mary (Pintard) Inglis, married in Shrews-
bury, N. J., about 1790. Mary was a daughter of John Pintard.
Joseph L. Inglis was a prominent member of the Fourth Street
Methodist Church of Philadelphia. His remains rest in Wood-
land Cemetery, Philadelphia.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 197, 198 and 199
George Augustus Bicknell was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in
the house on South Front Street (his father, Bicknell & Bick-
nell, was in business on Market Street), where it was supposed
that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. It was
later changed into a bank building. His early education was ob-
tained in Philadelphia, and he graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania as B.A. July 30, 1831, be and W. T. Otto being
honor men of the class. He studied in the Yale Law School from
October, 1831, to October, 1832, and then, for a year, in the law
office of Samuel Watson, in Nashville, Tenn. From 1833 to 1836
he studied law and languages in New York, in the law office of
Seth P. Staples, when he began the practice of law. In March,
1836, he was admitted to the bar, and in 1839 was admitted as a
counselor in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and
became attorney for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.
He married in 1840 and lived in New York City five years,
when, having a call to Indiana to farm some lands in Scott
County, he was drawn into legal practice in that State, and was
admitted to the Indiana courts in October, 1846. In 1848 Mr.
Bicknell was made Prosecutor for Scott County for three years,
and in 1852 was commissioned as Prosecutor for the Second
Judicial District of Indiana, comprising eight counties. About
this time a home was made at New Albany, md., where he con-
tinued to live until his death, April II, 1891.
In October, 1852, he was commissioned as Circuit Judge of
the Second Judicial District for six years. In October, 1858, he
was commissioned President Judge of the Second Judicial Dis-
trict, holding that place until 1870, when he was commissioned
Circuit Judge of the Second District Court for six years.
In July, 1864, Mr. Bicknell received the degree of LL.D. from
Indiana University, and in July, 1873, was for a second time
chosen Professor of Law and Lecturer at the University.
In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives,
United States Congress, holding the position during the Forty-
fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses. In Congress, Mr. Bicknell was
an active and influential member of the Democratic party, served
on important committees, and made able speeches in many impor-
tant debates. Reference is made to the Congressional Record for
his work as a statesman. One of the most important matters
introduced by Mr. Bicknell, in which he had the full support of
his party, was the Bicknell amendment to the Constitution for
counting the electoral vote in Presidential elections.
Failing in a reelection to Congress in 1880, he was appointed
Commissioner of the Supreme Court for Appealed Cases, the
services ending in 1885. From this time till his death he acted
as City Attorney and County Judge, maintaining the high rank
he had attained by native ability, reinforced by an excellent edu-
cational training and legal and judicial experience.
Mr. Bicknell was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and held the office of Senior Warden of St. Paul's Epis-
copal Church of New Albany, succeeding to the office held by
his father, George Augustus, and succeeded by his son, George
Augustus, Rear Admiral U. S. N.
Mr. Bicknell was five feet, eleven and three-quarter inches
in height, of an erect and handsome figure, in face resembling
Gen. John C. Fremont or Garibaldi. He was an athlete in games,
and his son, George, says of him:
"The most attractive man I ever knew. I mean attractive to men, in
crowds or individually. Few men are both."
He was the author of "Bicknell's Civil Practice" and "Bicknell's
Criminal Practice." His address before the Bicknell Family
Association at Weymouth, MA., was published in the Family
Reunion, 1880. Some of his Congressional speeches are pre-
served in the Bicknell Archives, and his name will always be
held in high esteem by the Bicknell Family as well as by all who
knew him.
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Twin to Eliza Franklin
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Twin to Daniel Franklin
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Twin to James Wheeler
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Twin to Thomas Wheeler
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 96 and 97
There are real human touches in a letter from Mrs. Ellen
Sabra (Bicknell) Chilton concerning her father, Daniel Dexter:
"In my early childhood I scarcely knew my father, as I was left
with my grandparents in Philadelphia (my mother's relations)
until eight years old, when my father took us to Nashville, where
I was educated and married. My father was a merchant in Nash-
ville, but being separated from him all those years, I never felt
that careless care and freedom with him which children show
toward a parent. I can remember when I first knew him at eight
years old. I almost felt it an insult when he wished to take me
on his knee. My first great sorrow in life was his taking me
from my grandfather in Philadelphia, who had always been all
in all to me and I to him. He never recovered from the great
grief of our separation, but died soon after I left his home.
"Still, with all this, as the years rolled around I grew to
admire my father for his handsome personal appearance, which
he and his brothers and sisters possessed in an eminent degree.
He was called the handsomest man in Nashville, and I can re-
member with what a jealous eye I watched widow and maiden as
they approached him. He was truthfulness and uprightness, and
oh, how stinging his scorn was of anything mean or small. He
was always the life of social gatherings and dinner parties. His
rendering of a story was inimitable, and whilst others would be
convulsed with laughter, he was dignified, with a scarcely
perceptible smile on his face.
"He was 'Uncle Dan' to all the young people in Nashville.
Soon after his young nephews, the Watsons, moved there every-
body followed their example and called him 'Uncle Dan.' "
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Moved to Indiana
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WWII veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marine
Established Circle B Ranch 1950 following retirement as Vice President from the National Bank of Dangerfield.