FINCH 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 page 83 THE FINCH FAMILY RICHARD FINCH was a British soldier. He came over early in the Revolutionary War, probably in 1775 or 1776, and deserted from the British ranks while in Boston, and went to Reading and worked for a Mr. Melendy, a shoemaker. He was a boot-maker by trade, and here first became acquainted with his wife, Hepzibeth Melendy. He married, and after a short residence in Amherst [NH] he removed to Peterborough, and bought land in this village, on site and north of the Unitarian Church where he built a house on the very ground on which the church now stands, and lived here until his death in 1797. No person now living remembers him, though many recollect the widow, who survived him many years. She d. at Waltham, Mass., Feb. 11, 1837, ae 83 yrs, 8 mos; b. May 27, 1753. Richard Finch's name appears last on the tax-list of 1797. Children: 1. William Finch , b. 1783, d. at Woodstock VT while away from home, about 1813 or 1814, ae 27 or 28 years. Taxed 1807, 1808, 1809 2. Fanny Finch, b. 1786; m. Charles Martin, a paper-maker, Feb. 1, 1803; two ch, William and Mary. Mary was b. in 1805, d. May 19, 1812 ae 7 yrs. The mother died Aug 29, 1810; in the church records no age, but it says of her, "a victim of intemperance"; ae about 24 years. 3. Sarah Finch, b. Nov 2, 1788; m. Francis Field, Oct 12 1812; d. Dec 9, 1858, ae 70 yrs. Three ch: (1) Francis ; (2) Joseph Badger; (3) Mary Gridley. Resided Waltham. 4. Harriet Finch, b. Feb 12, 1793; m. Zaccheus Farwell, March 4, 1810. He died April 15, 1861; ch: (1) Zaccheus, b. Oct 20, 1810, d. July 10, 1840; (2) Harriet, b. in Peterborough Nov 26, 1812, m. Jesse E. Farnsworth, resided Waltham MA; (3) Mary, b. in Peterborough May 3, 1815, m. Daniel Smith Baxer, resided Brighton; (4) Sarah, b. July 13, 1817, at Mount Tabor VT, m. Almon H. Hemenway, resided Waltham; (5) Lucy, b. March 29, 1820 at Mount Tabor VT, m. Nahum Chapin, resided Boston; (6) Frances, b. July 15, 1828, d. Oct 29, 1832; (7) Elizabeth, b. June 26, 1833; m. Noah W. Sanborn, resided Brighton. 5. Mary, b. Richard Moules; removed to North Carolina and d. there. (end)