Identifier: historichomespla04cutt4 (find matches)
Title: Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
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Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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New England involved him in pecuniary ruin,
but his integrity was untarnished, and from
the year 1828 to the time of his death he
passed a quiet life, going to his grave re-
spected by all. His memory is yet green in
the hearts of those who knew him, and his
name is a household word of respect and rev-
erence in the valley of the Blackstone. His
simple epitaph is this: "Mark the perfect man
and behold the upright, for the end of that
man is peace." Another writer said of him:
"He is described as a man of peculiarly even
temperament, who did not suffer prosperity or
adversity to throw him from his balance. An
upright christian gentleman, he did the duties
that lay near him, usefully serving the com-
munity in whatever way his hand found to do.
His attainments were a distinct contribution
to the welfare of his neighborhood. His tal-
ents were honestly put to their best use, so
that it could be said the world was better for
his life. In 1837, a few years after the late
Peter C. Bacon came to the bar, he died in
Uxbridge, where his active life had been
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CHARLES DAY ADAMS


MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 1641

spent." He died March 28, 1837, aged seven-
ty-two years.
He married (first) (published December 19,
1793), January 19, 1794, Betsey Cragin, who
was born in 1777, and died October 17, 1807,
aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Samuel
and Mercy (Chapin) Cragin, who were mar-
ried September 23, 1769. Samuel Cragin, her
father, was born November 5, 1739, the son
of Benjamin and Experience (Aldrich) Cra-
gin, who were married June 13, 1727. Benja-
min Cragin, her grandfather, was born No-
vember 27, 1702, the son of John and Debor-
ah (Skelton) Cragin, who were married April
13, 1700. John Cragin was son of the immi-
grant ancestors, John and Sarah (Dawes)
Cragin, who were married November 4, 1661.
Hon. Benjamin Adams married (second),
1809, Susannah Richmont Grout, of Provi-
dence, and she died without issue, October
13, 1840, aged seventy-three years. Children
of Benjamin and Betsey Adams: 1. Fanny,
bon at Uxbridge, November 12, 1794-95, died
March 9, 1797. 2. Josiah, born January 15,
1796, married. May 14, 1823, Harriet Dudley,

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