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Edward, sixth son and ninth child of Nathaniel and Mary (Bachelder) Dearborn, was born February 13, 1749, and died in Deerfield, June 16, 1792. He settled in Deerfield, but married in Kensington, in 1770, Susanna Brown, who was born October 15, 1751, and died December 8, 1813. The names of the male children of this couple are: Sewall. Nathaniel, Samuel, Henry and Edward.

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Edward Dearborn, (1749-1809), was in Arnold's expedition and suffered untold hardship marching through the unbroken wilderness. He was captured and enfeebled by the epidemic of smallpox. He recovered to serve in the Burgoyne campaign and was at the surrender. The musket he carried is now in the possession of the family. He was born in Kensington; died in Deerfield, N. H.

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On May 1, 1851, Mr. Dyer was united in marriage with Miss Julia Knowlton, a native of Deerfield, N.H., daughter of Joseph and Susan (Dearborn) Knowlton.

The immigrant progenitor of the Knowlton family of New England, to which Mrs. Dyer's father belonged, was Captain William Knowlton, who died on the voyage from London to Nova Scotia, and whose sons a few years later settled at Ipswich, the earliest to arrive there, it is said, being John in 1639.

Through her maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Dearborn, who married Comfort Palmer, of Haverhill, N.H., Mrs. Dyer is descended from Godfrey Dearborn, who came from England and was one of the earliest settlers of Exeter, N.H., in 1639, later removing to Hampton, N.H. Mrs. Dyer is of Revolutionary ancestry on both sides, her great-grandfather, Edward Dearborn, and her grandfather, Thomas Knowlton, having both served, it is said, at Bunker Hill and at Dorchester Heights. In the revolutionary Rolls of New Hampshire, Volume II., Edward Dearborn is named as one of the enlisted soldiers in the militia now raising (September 7, 1777) to join General Stark at Bennington; also on the pay-roll of Captain Nathan Sanborn's company, Colonel Evans's regiment, which marched, September, 1777, from New Hampshire to re-enforce the Northern Continental army at Saratoga. Edward Dearborn married Susanna Brown, whom he left when he entered the Continental army, to carry on the farm and care for three small children, the nearest neighbor being ten miles away. Susanna Brown was a daughter of Nehemiah and Amy (Longfellow) Brown, of Kensington, N.H., and grand-daughter of Nathan Longfellow. The last-named ancestor of Mrs. Dyer was probably the Nathan born in 1690, son of William and Anne (Sewall) Longfellow, and brother to Stephen, born in 1681, from whom the poet Longfellow was descended. Joseph Knowlton, Mrs. Dyer's father, participated in the war of 1812-15; and Joseph H. Knowlton, her brother, served in the federal army from the commencement to the close of the Civil War.

Sewall, eldest son of Edward and SvJsanna (Brown) Dearborn, was born in Deerfield, February 26, 1773, and died March 9, 1854. He was a farmer, and a member of the Congregational Church. He married, April 14, 1801, Sarah Dow, who was born in Brentwood, April 22, 1781, and died in Deerfield, October 31, 1878. She was the daughter of Jabez and Anna (Jewell) Dow. of Kensington. Their children were: Melinda, Samuel, Mary, Joseph Jewell, and Edward Harrison.

Hon. Joseph J. Dearborn, whose portrait herewith appears, was the son of Sewall and Sarah Dow Dearborn, and was born March 8, 1818. He had the usual advantages of schooling then common to most country boys, and at an early age obtained employment in a country store. On attaining his majority he began business for himself at the old "Jenness store," at Deerfield South Road. When about twenty-five years of age he removed to Bangor, Me., where for a term of years he was engaged in the hardware trade, until on account of broken health he was compelled to retire from all active business. He finally returned to his native town, and soon after established a shoe-factory, and for more than twenty years pursued that business at South Deerfield, where he still resides. Mr. Dearborn is a man of positive convictions, active temperament, and great earnestness of purpose, and through many years of active life has borne among his neighbors a prominent part in all those questions that an eventful period has successively brought forward. He has from time to time held most of the offices within the gift of his townsmen, and in 1860 and 1861 represented his town in the General Court, and in 1865 and 1866 his district in the New Hampshire State Senate.
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Joseph Jewell, fourth child and second son of Sewall and Sarah (Dow) Dearborn, was born in Deerfield, March 18, 1818, and died there February 19, 1800, aged seventy-two years. He was a shoe dealer and did a prosperous business. He was a man of fine executive ability, and was elected to various positions of trust by the citizens of his town. He was a Republican in politics, and filled the offices of selectman, treasurer, and representative. In religious faith he adhered to the Congregational Church, to the support of which he was a liberal contributor. He married (first), September 4, 1843. Sarah Jenness, of Deerfield, who was born September 13, 1815. and died April 9, 1865. He married (second), October 3, 1867, Hannah Gookin Chadwick, who was born February 12. 1832, and died October 14, 1878. She was a daughter of Colonel Gilbert Chadwick, of Deerfield. He married (third), September 16, 1880. Phebe Libbey Mclntire, who was born March 16, 1841. The children by the first wife were: Isabel, Anna St. Clair, Joseph Henry, and Sarah Elizabeth Whitehouse. The children by the second wife were: Annie Josephine Chadwick, and Gilbert Chadwick.