Francis Curtis

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• Records of some of the descendants of William Curtis, Roxbury, 1632 By Samuel Clarke Clarke, Catherine Parker Curtis
• Representative Women of New England (Google eBook) Julia Ward Howe, Mary Hannah Graves.  New England Historical Publishing Company, 1904 - New England - 499 pages. Pages 178-181.  "Anna Maria Miles Sprague." "Mrs. Lydia Gilbert Curtis, the mother of Mary Curtis, married for her second husband Mr. Hastings, of Princeton, Mass., the greatgrandfather of the late ex-Governor Russell. When seventy years old, she became the bride of Deacon Timothy Downes, of Fitchburg. She lived to the age of ninety."