Ephraim Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth:
Baptism: 28 Aug 1692 - Topsfield, Massachusetts 1
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Parents
Father: John Curtis (1649-1739)
Mother: Mary Looke (1654-1745)
Francis Curtis
Sex: M
AKA: Francis Curtice
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1650 - England
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Death: 24 Apr 1717 - (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Burial: in Plympton Center, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Smith (23 Apr 1647 - 17 Jan 1723) 3
Marriage: 28 Dec 1671 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 4
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Children:
1. John Curtis (1673-After 1734) 2
2. Benjamin Curtis (1675-1727) 3
3. Francis Curtis (1679- ) 3
4. Elizabeth Curtis (1681- ) 3
5. Elisha Curtis (1683- ) 3
6. Ebenezer Curtis (1686- ) 3
Francis Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: 15 Apr 1679 - Plymouth Colony
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Father: Francis Curtis (Cir 1650-1717) 2
Mother: Hannah Smith (1647-1723) 3
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married Hannah Bosworth, 5 Nov 1700, Plymouth Co.
Francis Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 May 1696 - Plympton, Massachusetts 5
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Death: 18 May 1753 - Dudley, Massachusetts 6
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Father: John Curtis (1673-After 1734) 2
Mother: Charity May (Cir 1671-After 1720)
Spouses and Children
1. Sarah Ransom (Abt 1700 - Bef 1732) 7
Marriage: 12 May 1720 - Plympton, Massachusetts 8
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Children:
1. William Curtis (1721-1775) 9
2. Susannah Curtis (1723- ) 7
2. *Bethia Robinson (Abt 1715 - 22 Jan 1810)
Marriage: 1 May 1732 - Oxford, Massachusetts 10
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Children:
1. Ruth Curtis (1734- ) 7
2. Edward Curtis (1736-Bef 1801) 7
3. Sarah Curtis (1742- ) 7
4. Rhoda Curtis (1745-1788) 11
5. Mary Curtis (1749- ) 7
6. Japheth Curtis (1752-1821) 7
Notes
Marriage Notes (Bethia Robinson)
Reference [FC:26} located a division deed (Worcester Co. Registry of Deeds) relative to the estate of Francis Curtis in which the oldest son, W illiam, received no land, having received the sum of £75 previously. Land was set off to Susannah Williams, his daughter. David Burrill and his wife, Ruth, of Glocester, R.I., John Thompson and wife, Sarah, Thomas Truesdell and wife Rhoda, of Monson, Mass., and Mary, single, all received land which they deeded to Francis' son Edward Curtis. Japhet Curtis retained his divison of the land. The widow, Bethia Curtis sold her portion to Jacob Curtis in 1773.
Garey Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Jan 1813 - Buckstown, Maine
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Father: Asa Curtis (1773-1845)
Mother: Nancy Lewis (Abt 1779-Bef 1845)
George Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: 15 Mar 1804 - Bucksport, Maine
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Father: Seth Curtis (1769-1840)
Mother: Rebeckah Smith (Est 1780- )
George William Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: 24 Feb 1824 - Providence, Rhode Island
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Death: 1892
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This distinguished American author is a native of Providence R. I., where he was horn Feb. 24, 1824. He is a descendant on his mother's side, of Senator Burrill of Rhode Island, who made a well remembered speech in Congress on the Missouri Compromise Bill. George W. Curtis received his early education in a private school at Jamaica Plains, Mass. When he was fifteen he came to New York with his father and family, where for a year he was employed as a clerk in a mercantile house. At the end of that time he returned to his books, continuing his studies until he was eighteen, when he went with his brother to West Roxbury, Mass., where he spent a year and a half on a farm. After this he went to Concord, Mass., where he passed a similar period, engaged in agriculture and study, and enjoying the society of Emerson and Hawthorne. In 1846 Mr. Curtis sailed for Europe, spending a long time in travelling over the various portions of that Continent, and visiting Egypt and Syria before his return home. Upon his return to the United States in 1850, he published his first book, "Nile Notes of a Howadji." He soon after joined the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. During the following summer he wrote a series of letters to the Tribune from fashionable watering places, which were subsequently collected in a volume entitled "Lotus Eating." In 1852 Putnam's Monthly was commenced in New York, and Mr. Curtis became one of the original editors and was connected with it until the magazine ceased to exist, he sank his private fortune in attempting to save its creditors from loss by the failure of the publishers, and finally succeeded. Some of his contributions to the
magazine were published under the titles of "Potiphar Papers' and "Prue and I." In the winter of 1852 he entered the field as a lyceum lecturer and met with great success in different parts of the country, he has won and now holds a high rank as a popular orator ; having delivered several memorable orations and poems before various literary societies. In the presidential election of 1856 he enlisted with great zeal on behalf of the republican party, as a public speaker. Mr. Curtis was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1860 and of 1864, which nominated Mr. Lincoln; and in the latter year he became the republican candidate for Congress in the first district of New York, but was defeated. In the winter of 1858 he delivered a lecture entitled "Fair Play for Women," in which he advocated the rights of woman. During this year and the following he wrote "Trumps," a novel, for Harper's Weekly, which was afterwards published in a volume. This romance of the foibles and follies of fashionable life is a keen study of American society by a master of refined satire, rich in pure sentiment, and lacking, if at all, only in the power of passionate feeling he has been a constant contributor to the current literature of the day for almost a quarter of a century. In 1858 he began a series of "Lounger" papers in Harper's Weekly ; and six years later he became the political editor of that journal, he is the author of the "Easy Chair" in Harper's Monthly Magazine; and since the issue of Harper's Bazar he has written for it a series of papers on "Manners on the Road, by an Old Bachelor," which were continued weekly until the spring of 1873, a space of over six years. Mr. Curtis has been quite prominent in politics. In 1862 President Lincoln offered him the post of Consul General in Egypt, but he declined the position. Two years later he became one of the regents of the University of the State of New York. In 1867 he was elected one of the delegates at large to the constitutional convention of New York, in which he was chairman of the committee on education. The following year he was a republican presidential elector. In 1871 President Grant appointed him one of a commission to draw up rules for the regulation of the civil service; and he was elected chairman of the commission and of the advisory board in which it was subsequently merged. He resigned his position in March, 1873. Although Mr. Curtis has written comparatively little in book form of late years, his various contributions to the periodicals published by the Harpers would fill many a large volume.
Hannah Curtis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Jan 1686 - Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay 12
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Death: Bef 1715
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Parents
Father: John Curtis (1649-1739)
Mother: Mary Looke (1654-1745)
Spouses and Children
1. *John Gould (25 Aug 1687 - )
Marriage: 2 Feb 1708 - Topsfield, Massachusetts
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Notes
Marriage Notes (John Gould)
Children
Martha GOULD b: 6 Nov 1709
Mary GOULD b: 2 Jan 1711
John GOULD b: 9 Apr 1712
Hannah GOULD b: 9 Apr 1712
Hannah Curtis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Apr 1698 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Death: 8 Mar 1772 - Pembroke, Massachusetts
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Father: John Curtis (1673-After 1734) 2
Mother: Charity May (Cir 1671-After 1720)
Hannah Curtis
Sex: F
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Birth: 8 Jun 1712 - Topsfield, Massachusetts
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Death: 24 Oct 1712 - Topsfield, Massachusetts
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Father: John Curtis (1673-1732)
Mother: Priscilla Gould (1674-1715)
Harriet Sampson Curtis
Sex: F
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Birth: 8 Nov 1808 - Buckstown, Maine
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Father: Asa Curtis (1773-1845)
Mother: Nancy Lewis (Abt 1779-Bef 1845)
Harvey Adams Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1906
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Spouses and Children
1. *Evelyn Agnes Adams (16 Aug 1907 - 7 May 1957)
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1. Curtis (1941-1941) 14
Heman Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: Abt 1838 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15
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Father: Samuel Curtis (1806- )
Mother: Mary Parker Fish (1810- )
Hepzibah Curtis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Nov 1694 - Topsfield, Massachusetts 16
Baptism: 6 Jan 1695 - Topsfield, Massachusetts 1
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Father: John Curtis (1649-1739)
Mother: Mary Looke (1654-1745)
Jacob Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1807
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Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Sears Freeman (21 Nov 1810 - 28 Dec 1902)
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James Curtis
Sex: M
AKA: James Curtice 17
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Birth: 22 Aug 1850 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 17
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Father: Patrick Curtis (1826- )
Mother: Mary (1828- )
James Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Dec 1681 - Topsfield, Massachusetts 18
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Father: Zacheus Curtis (Cir 1646- )
Mother: Mary Bleake (Est 1650- )
James Harvey Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jun 1801 - Buckstown, Maine
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Father: Asa Curtis (1773-1845)
Mother: Nancy Lewis (Abt 1779-Bef 1845)
James Otis Curtis
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1810
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Major builder of clipper ships at a yard in Medford, Mass.
1851 Telegraph, 1078 tons OM. J.O. Curtis, Medford, MA.
1853 Eagle Wing, 1183 tons OM, James O. Curtis, Medford, MA
1853 WIld Ranger
1854 Ocean Express, 1697 tons OM, J.O. Curtis, Medford, MA.
1854 Ocean Telegraph, 1495 tons, J.O. Curtis, Medford, MA.
1856 Flying Mist, 1183 tons OM, James O. Curtis, Medford, MA. 19
Japheth Curtis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Jun 1752 - Dudley, Massachusetts 20
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Death: 16 Jun 1821 21
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Events
• Census, , Thompson, Connecticut in Thompson, Connecticut
At the 1790 census Zapheth was living in Thompson, Conn., the family co nsisting of one male of 16 years and upwards, three males under 16 year s, and six females.• Military, , Revolutionary War in Revolutionary War
Japheth served in the Revolutionary War, and his widow received Pension N o. W17649 for his service.
Parents
Father: Francis Curtis (1696-1753)
Mother: Bethia Robinson (Abt 1715-1810)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Upham (Est 1755 - )
Marriage: Apr 1774 - (Dudley, Massachusetts)
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Notes
Marriage Notes (Mary Upham)
Intentions for Japheth Cortiss and Mary Upham of Killingly were registered April 2, 1774.
Sources
1. Topsfield Massachusetts Vital Records, 32, C.R.
2. Harold E. Curtis, Genealogy of the Descendants of Francis Curtis of Plymouth, Mass. (Harold E. Curtis, Genealogy of the Descendants of Francis Curtis of Plymouth, Mass. (Curtis-Curtiss Society)).
3. Rootsweb.com.
4. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 9:315.
5. The Mayflower Descendant (Society of Mayflower Descendants in Massachusetts. Boston. 1901-1935, vols. I-XXXIV.)
6. Vital Records of Dudley, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (1908. Worcester, Mass. published by Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Systematic History Fund.)
7. Bud Curtis, Gencircles - budcurtis.
8. Harold E. Curtis, Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (1923. Boston: New England Historical Genealogy Society).
9. Bud Curtis, Gencircles - budcurtis. .... Harold E. Curtis, Genealogy of the Descendants of Francis Curtis of Plymouth, Mass. (Harold E. Curtis, Genealogy of the Descendants of Francis Curtis of Plymouth, Mass. (Curtis-Curtiss Society)).
10. Vital Records of Dudley, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (1908. Worcester, Mass. published by Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Systematic History Fund.), 160, noting that the wedding was in Oxford.
11. Bud Curtis, Gencircles - budcurtis. .... Paul E. Truesdell, Jr, Truesdell Genealogy (Gencircles, file petjr
and http://petjr.crosswinds.net/GENE).
12. Topsfield Massachusetts Vital Records, 32, CT.R.
13. Topsfield Massachusetts Vital Records, 1:215.
14. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1941.
15. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:163. The children of Samuel and Mary Curtis.
16. Topsfield Massachusetts Vital Records, 1:31.
17. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 25.
18. Topsfield Massachusetts Vital Records, 31, CT. R.
19. Lars Bruzelius, The Maritime History Virtual Archives (http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Nautica.html).
20. Vital Records of Dudley, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (1908. Worcester, Mass. published by Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Systematic History Fund.), 42, giving his name as Japhet.
21. Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock Connecticut. (Norwood, Mass. 1932. Vol 1: History; Vol 2-8: Genealogy).