William Melendy, #2, Jr.

Timeline

• Born: Boston, Suffolk, Ma. on January 4, 1703 to William Melendy and Sarah Standish? (Some question if Sarah's last name was Standish)
• Marriage: June 6, 1728 at Medford, Middlesex, Ma. to Elizabeth Lamson, daughter of Capt. Samual Lamson and Elizabeth Eaton
• Children: He and Elizabeth had 9 children as follows:

1. William; 2. Richard; 3. Sarah Bond; 4. Rebecca Damon; 5. Samuel; 6. Mary; 7. Thomas; 8. Hannah; 9. Unknown

• Occupation: Cooper
• Death: May 3, 1777 at Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Biography

As Written:

1. William Melendy. the third of the brothers. settied first in Medford, m. Elizabeth Lamson of Reading, 6 June, 1728 and afterward rem. to that town. She was a sister of Samuel Lamson, one of the two first settlers in Souhegan West and was b. in Reading, 21 August, 1709. They rem. to Amherst in 1761, where he d. early in 1778. His will was presented for probate 25 March of that year He was a cooper and for a long time engaged in the manufacture of of molasses hogsheads, the materials which he would prepare at home, and then go with them to the West Indies where he put them together. A wine gauge which he used about his business, bearing the date of 1727 was kept as a possession by his descendants.

Source: History of the Town Of Amherst,Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire: By Daniel E. Secomb; Printed by Evans, Sleeper and Woodbury. 1883; pg. 691

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