ALLD FAMILY GENEALOGY PETERBOROUGH, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Peterborough/ On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and its counties TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: History of the town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire : with the report of the proceedings at the centennial celebration in 1839, an appendix containing the records of the original proprietors, and a genealogical and historical register, by Albert Smith; Boston: Press of G.H. Ellis, 1876, 753 pgs. THE ALLD FAMILY Page 7-8 WILLIAM ALLD (Capt.) was b. in Ireland, 1723, and was among the early settlers of the town. He came here from Merrimack [NH] in 1778, and purchased the farm on which the Bogle family lived, in the north part of the town, which descended to his son, Samuel Alld. He held many offices in town: Town Treasurer, 1783, 1784; Tithingman, 1785; and Surveyor a number of years; and on Committee for the Amendment of the Constitution, in 1782, with Samuel Cunningham, Joseph Hammill, Jeremiah Smith, and James Cunningham. He m. Lettuce ---, who was b. 1725, and d. March 5, 1807, ae 82. He d. Aug. 25, 1805, ae 82. Children: 1. John, b. 1756, d. July 14, 1790, ae. 34. 2. Benjamin, b. 1759, m. Nancy White. He d. Nov 4, 1823, ae 64. He Served three years in the Revolutionary War. 3. Jenny, b. --, 1762; m. Capt. Robert Swan, q.v. 4. +Samuel, b. --, 1766; m. Martha Swan and Lydia Perry, q.v. SAMUEL ALLD [son of William & Lettuce Alld] succeeded his father, and occupied the Bogle farm, so-called, where he resided nearly all his life. He m. 1st w., Martha Swan, who d. Oct. 23, 1821, ae 51; He m. 2d, w. Lydia Perry, of Rindge, Dec. 30, 1823. Two ch. by 1st w., one by 2d w. He d. Dec. 24, 1841. Children: 1. Hannah, b. --, 1795; m. John Metcalf, Nov. 18, 1816. Three ch. now living: viz., Samuel and John in San Jose, California. Mary Jane, m. Edwin P. Worcester, of Weymouth, Mass, a broker in Boston. Mrs. Metcalf d. May 13, 1832, ae 37. 2. Lettuce, b. --, 1797; m 1st h. Loren Way, of Lempster, Feb. 25, 1816. Ch. (1) Samuel S, b. Dec. 17, 1816; d. Jan. 4, 1872 ae. 55. He had been eminently successful in life, and d. with a property of about three millions; (2) William S., b. --, 1818, d in California in 1854; (3) Jasper F., b. --, 1820, r. in Boston; (4) Martha Jane, b. --, 1822, r. West Randolph Vt.; (5) Sarah Jane, b. 1824, d. 1840 ae 16; (6) Addison L., b. 1826 in Rochester, Vt., r. Warren, Vt; (7) John M., b. May 29, 1829, m. ---; a lawyer in Boston. Mrs. Way was divorced from Loren Way in 1829 and in 1830 m. John Whitten, of Rochester, Vt, by whom she had two ch., Charles F. and George S. Mr. Whitten d. 1846. 3. James Miller, by 2d w., b. Feb 4, 1829; d. April 2, 1829, ae 1 mo., 28 days. (end)