First Generation 1. Royal TWICHELL was born on 20 Nov 1801 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Second Generation 2. Lemuel TWICHELL was born on 12 Dec 1774 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died in 1856 in , Erie, New York. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 170. It seems that the family resided in New Salem, Mass, for in the records of Phillipston, Mass. we find the record of Lemuel's marriage to Esther Seaver. Lemuel and his oldest son, Lemuel Houghton Twichell, about the year 1816, with other member of the family, removed to Erie County, N.Y. Lemuel TWICHELL and Esther SEAVER were married on 6 Jan 1801 in Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts. 3. Esther SEAVER was born about 1777. She died in 1870. Lemuel TWICHELL and Esther SEAVER had the following children: 1 i. Royal TWICHELL. ii. Lemuel Houghton TWICHELL was born on 16 Mar 1803 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. He died before 31 Dec 1804 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. iii. Lemuel Houghton TWICHELL was born on 31 Dec 1804 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. iv. Joseph Seaver TWICHELL was born on 8 Oct 1806 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. v. Adaline TWICHELL was born on 24 Feb 1809 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts. vi. Lucy TWICHELL was born on 28 Mar 1811 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts. vii. Marian TWICHELL was born on 10 Jan 1813 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts. viii. Enos TWICHELL was born on 4 Dec 1814 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts. ix. William TWICHELL was born on 17 Dec 1816 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts. Third Generation 4. Enos TWICHELL was born on 1 Jan 1749 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. He was born on 1 Jan 1749 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. He died on 25 Jul 1812 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Enos TWICHELL and Relief FAIRBANKS were married on 1 Dec 1772 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. 5. Relief FAIRBANKS died on 16 Aug 1835 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Enos TWICHELL and Relief FAIRBANKS had the following children: i. Enos TWICHELL was born on 13 Nov 1773 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 170. Resided in Athol for a number of years, removing late in 1818, or early 1819 to Richmond, N.H., where he died in 1820. In Richmond he kept a store at what was known as the "Four Corners." 2 ii. Lemuel TWICHELL. iii. Miriam TWICHELL was born on 29 Mar 1777 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. iv. Samuel TWICHELL was born on 12 Apr 1779 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. v. Benoni TWICHELL was born on 25 Nov 1780 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Fourth Generation 8. Seth TWICHELL was born on 9 Nov 1711 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 45. He is the first one of the family to spell his name with only one "t," although, in the vital records of Medfield, his name appears with two. In the same records the speilling occurs in three or four different styles. The orthography of the name, then, is entirely as any one of the family may care to have it, and is not based upon any ancient spelling or for any other reason, other than the errors committed by some clerk or registry. As a child, he accompanied his father and mother to Oxford, Mass., where the family lived when that village was first settled by the English, after the dispersion of the Huguenot colony, owing to contiued raids by the Indains. He was a husbandman of Thompson Parish, Killingly, Conn., in 1747, where he purchased, for seven pounds, of Richard Morton, Lot Number 25, at Lyon's Hill, in the new town of Pequois, not Athol, Mass., on Miller's River. On Aug. 26, 1748, he bought, for three hundred and seventy-five pounds - old tenor - of John Vinton, seventy acres of Dudly, bounded on the south by Woodstock. He subsequently lived in Sturbridge, and afterward removed to Athol, Mass. Seth Twitchell was a man very prominent in the business and public afairs of the communitites in which he lived. Seth TWICHELL and Dorothy BISHOP were married on 7 Jan 1735. 9. Dorothy BISHOP was born. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 45. of Wrentham, Mass. Seth TWICHELL and Dorothy BISHOP had the following children: i. Jerusha TWICHELL was born on 11 Apr 1736 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. ii. Josiah TWICHELL was born on 15 May 1738 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. iii. Jeremiah TWICHELL was born in 1742 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 6 Oct 1810 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 103. They removed from Sturbridge to Athol, Mass., where he died. Five children were born to them in Sturbridge. iv. Benoni TWICHELL was born on 24 Mar 1745 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Aug 1819 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 101. He served in the Revolutionary War from Connecticut and drew a pension from the general government late in life on account of services rendered. So far as it has been possible to ascertain, it is belived that his first wife died and that he married 2nd, Zilpah Woodward. v. Enos TWICHELL was born on 12 Apr 1747 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. He died about 1847 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. 4 vi. Enos TWICHELL. vii. Abigail TWICHELL was born on 7 Jun 1752 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. She was born on 7 Jun 1752 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 25 Sep 1827. She was also known as Abigail TWITCHELL. viii. Abner TWICHELL was born on 4 Aug 1754. He died on 15 Feb 1825 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. ix. John TWICHELL was born in 1755. He died in 1802. x. Seth TWICHELL was born on 27 Mar 1757 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 7 Nov 1803 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 102. He fought at Bunker Hill and Ticonderoga. xi. Dorothy (Dolly) TWICHELL was born on 7 Feb 1759 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 8 Feb 1842 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. She was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. xii. John TWICHELL was born in 1760 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 1 Mar 1802 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. Genealogy of the Twitchell Family, Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell - Dorcester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632 - 1927. Compiled and Edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Private printing by Herbert K. Twitchell, New York, N.Y. 1929. p. 103. He was a farmer. He responded to the alarm of April 19, 1775, although less than sixteen years of age, and fought with the partiot armies during the war. He died unmarried so far as is known.