First Generation 1. Sally WARD was born on 26 Jun 1780 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. Second Generation 2. Edward WARD was born on 12 Jan 1744 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Marriage intention was recorded on 30 Nov 1778 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts He died on 2 Sep 1817 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. He was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. Edward WARD and Dorothy (Dolly) TWICHELL were married on 26 Nov 1778 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. 3. 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. Edward WARD and Dorothy (Dolly) TWICHELL had the following children: 1 i. Sally WARD. ii. Nathan WARD was born on 28 Mar 1782 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 9 Jan 1865 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. He was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. iii. Susannah WARD was born on 2 Feb 1787 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. She died on 8 May 1824. iv. Dolly WARD was born on 11 Feb 1785 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. She died on 19 Oct 1831 in North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. She was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. v. Rhoda WARD was born on 28 Oct 1788 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. She died on 25 Nov 1789 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. vi. Jonas WARD was born on 24 Oct 1790 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. vii. Royal WARD was born on 25 Sep 1792 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 17 Oct 1873 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. He was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. viii. Edward WARD was born on 15 Aug 1797 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. Third Generation 4. Timothy WARD was born on 17 Mar 1714 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died on 12 Nov 1757 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Timothy WARD and Margaret WOODWARD were married on 4 Nov 1741. 5. Margaret WOODWARD was born on 14 Jan 1715 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Timothy WARD and Margaret WOODWARD had the following children: 2 i. Edward WARD. ii. Jonathan WARD was born on 29 Oct 1748 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died on 6 Dec 1797 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. He was buried in North Orange Cemetery, North Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts. 6. 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. 7. 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. 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. iv. Enos TWICHELL was born on 12 Apr 1747 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. He died about 1847 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. v. 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. vi. Abigail TWICHELL was born on 7 Jun 1752 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. vii. Abner TWICHELL was born on 4 Aug 1754. He died on 15 Feb 1825 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. viii. John TWICHELL was born in 1755. He died in 1802. ix. 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. 3 x. Dorothy (Dolly) TWICHELL. xi. Jeremiah TWICHELL died on 6 Oct 1810. Fourth Generation 12. Benoni TWICHELL was born about 1682 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. He died in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut. 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. 13. & 21 - 23. In his History of the Town of Oxford, Mass., 1892, George F. Daniels says: "Twitchell, Benoni - born about 1684. Supposed son of Abiel, of Dorchester. Believed to thave been early left an orphan and adopted by John Rocket of Medfield, who married Bethia, sister of Abiel, Benoni's father." The Rockets at taht time werein very poor circumstances financially, and inasmuch as Benoni so soon after his majority was able to make purchase of a large tract of land (approximately 2,500 acres), a part of the old Huguenot holdings near Oxford, and inasmuch as it appears that Joseph Twitchell, eldest brother of Abiel, was instrumental in the purchase of these lands, it is not all improbabel that Benoni was the son of Joseph rather than of Abiel Be this as it may, Rev. Abner Morse and all writers of earlier and later periods state that the child of Abiel Twitchell was Benoni, of Oxford and Killingly." He was left an orphan and was adopted by Josiah Rocket (Rockwood), his relative by marriage, he became a proprietor of Oxford, Mass. In the records of Oxford, the name is spelled Twichel, and this orthography seems to have been adopted by almost all of his descendants. Together with his cousin Joseph Rocket (Rockwood), he was of the number of "sundry goode famylies of Her Majesty's subjecks within this Province who offer themselves to go out and re-settle ye sayed village of Oxford, Mass., which had been abandoned by certain Huguenots who had settled there in 1786. Isaac Bertand du Tuffeau was the director of the Huguenot colony, to who, as an encouragement the original grantees, Major Robert Thompson, William Stoughton, and Joseph Dudly, had given seven hundred and fifty acres of land. In the summer of 1694, the hostile Indians began making raids and the settlement declined. Little further is known of it until the "Johnson Massacre" in 169, when John Johnson and his children were murdered by the Indians. The settelement of the place by the English began in 1713, and in July of that year, a deed was made to the "representatives" of the thrity families by the proprietors of the grant. The first town meeting was held on July 22, 1713, at which the following officers were chosen: Selectmen: John Town, Benoni Twichell, Joseph Chamberlain; clerk, John Town; constable, Thomas Hunkins; highway surveyor, Oliver Coller; tythingman, Abiel Lamb. Benoni Twichel settled on the west side of 8-rod way between thet two commons; sold 1728 100 acres, bounded east on the 8-rod way;south on a 4-rod way (road over Camp Hill); north on John Wiley and Pete Shumway. On July 29, 1714, the town voted "to build a meeting-house thirty feet square and eighteen feet stud, and to set the house on the west side of the highway near Twichel Field," This palce was a few rods northwest of the site of an edifice later erected by the Congregational Society. Benoni Twichell was a large land-owner and ws engaged extensivley in real estat transfer in Oxford and vicinity. In 1727, he purchased of John Chandler, of Woodstock, one hundred acres, containg a mansion-house in Oxford village, which he had previously owned, and which, on May 10, 1733, at the time living on Mauchaug Farm, near Oxford, he sold to his son, Seth Twichell, of Oxford, for forty pounds, together with two lots, the one containing forty acres and the other twelve acres. He became the proprietor of lands at Pequoig, now Athol, Mass., and on July 16, 1740, "for the tender love he bore toward his son Jeremiah," he gave to him a deed to Lot Nunber 10 on the East side of the river and west side of a highway in Pequoig. On Mar. 8, 1744, being then "about 60 years of age," "Benoni Twichell, of Thompson's Parish, in Kellingly, Conn., being by divine Providence engaged in the preent expedition against Cape Britton," deed to his son Seth of Thompson, Conn., to his daugther, Hannah, wife of Phineas Dana, of Oxford, and Abigail Buship (Bishop), wife of John, of Attleboro, in case he should not return, as follows: to Seth, his husbandry toos, houshold goods, and notes and accounts, and to his daughters, all his lands in Oxford, equally. He returned from the expedition, and in 1749, was living in Oxford, enjoying the entire confidence of the public, having been employed by the proprietors in the final allotment of all lands remaining undivided in the town. On Sept. 18, 1749, the town voted six pounds to Captain Elijah Moore, innkeeper, for "dyeting Benoni Twichell" while in this service. The expedition referred to was against Louisburg, and Benoni Twichell served as commissary. It was very successful and was mde during the administration of William Shirley, who at one time was the commanding officer of the British forces in America. The expedition was under the immediate command of William Peperell, a Maine soldier. Joseph Twitchell, uncle of Benoni and Thomas Allerton, were witnesses to a contract in writing between Gabriel Bernon, of Newport, R.I, relative to a farm at "New Oxford, called ye olde mill," and Oliver Coller and Nathanil Coller also affixed their signatures. It was upon this farm that the town of Oxford was built. It contained about 2,500 acres. Benoni Twichell is supposed to have died at Killingly, Conn., the owner of large tract of lands. In the early history of Oxford, he was much in public life; in 1713-14, selectman; in 1714, town-clerk and later, constable, and to 1725, selectman and moderator repeatedly. He was a constituent member of the church, "evidently a man of enterprise and character and engaged somewhat in land speculation." Benoni TWICHELL and Hannah ALLEN were married on 18 Apr 1705. 13. Hannah ALLEN 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. 21. Name listed as Hannah Allen or Allyn. Benoni TWICHELL and Hannah ALLEN had the following children: i. David TWICHELL was born on 20 Jul 1706 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. He died on 20 Sep 1706 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. ii. Josiah TWICHELL was born on 10 Jul 1707 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. He died on 19 Oct 1707 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. iii. Nehemiah TWICHELL was born on 15 Aug 1708 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. He died on 4 Sep 1708 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. iv. Seth TWICHELL was born on 31 Jul 1710 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. He died on 7 Nov 1710 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. 6 v. Seth TWICHELL. vi. Hannah TWICHELL was born on 12 Feb 1713 in Medfield, , Massachusetts. vii. Jeremiah TWICHELL was born in 1715 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. 46. Whom he married is uncertain, although he may be the Jeremiah who married Rhoda Clark, although it is belived that the husband of Rhoda Clark was the son of Seth Twichell. viii. Abigail TWICHELL was born on 10 Mar 1718. ix. Sarah TWICHELL was born on 18 Apr 1721 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died on 17 Apr 1740 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died unmarried.