John Averill Gould

From Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 4 Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Editor William Richard Cutter Publisher Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908 Original from Harvard University Digitized Sep 20, 2006. Page 1651

(XII) John Averill Gould, son of John Gould (n), was born in Topsfield, March 6, 1819. He was educated in the public scliools and Topsfield Academy, afterwards teaching school in North Reading, Manchester, and other towns of the vicinity. In 1853 he engaged in the manufacture of "Porter's Patent Burning Fluid," in partnership with his uncle under the firm name of John Porter & Company, and resided in Woburn from 1850 to 1863, and in Chelsea until 1894, when he removed to Boston. Subsequently he resided with his daughters in the Aberdeen district, where he died January 30, 1906.

He married, October 5, 1845, Elizabeth Cheever Leach, born January 7, 1825, died in Chelsea, November 17, 1893, daughter of Captain (7) Benjamin and Susan (Cheever) Leach, both of Manchester, Massachusetts. She was a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of Lawrence Leach (i) through Robert and Alice—Leach (2), Samuel (3) and Arabella (Norman) Leach, Richard (4) and Abigail (Wopdbury) Leach, Benjamin (5) and Emma (Knowlton) Leach, Captain Benjamin (6) and Sarah (Knowlton) Leach, and Captain Benjamin Leach (7). Captain Benjamin Leach (6), born 1749, served in the revolution with distinction; was captured by the British and confined several years in the Mill Prison. Mrs. Elizabeth C. (Leach) Gould is descended from Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous master of the Boston Latin School, through Rev. Samuel Cheever, first minister of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and his son Rev. Ames Cheever, first minister of Manchester, both graduates of Harvard College. Rev. Samuel Cheever married Ruth Angier, daughter of Edmond and Ruth (Ames) Angier of Cambridge. Ruth Ames was the daughter of Rev. Dr. William and Joanne (Fletcher) Ames, Dr. Ames was born in Ipswich, England in 1576, and was a noted clergyman of that time having been a "Fellow" of Christ College, Cambridge and B. A. in 1607. A portrait of him hangs in Memorial Hall, Harvard College. Rev. Ames Cheever married Sarah, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Varney) Choate, and their son Ezekiel married Susannah, daughter of William and Sarah (Marshall) Butler. Sarah was daughter of John Marshall. Ezekiel and Susannah (Butler) Cheever were the grandparents of Elizabeth Cheever (Leach) Gould.

Captain Thomas Choate was son of John Choate, first of the name in Essex county, and ancestor of Rufus Choate, the famous lawyer, of Joseph H. Choate, ambassador to England, and other distinguished men. Mary (Varney), Choate was granddaughter of William Varney and of John Proctor, both noted men. Susannah (Butler) Cheever was daughter of William Butler and granddaughter of William Butler Sr. and Susanna (Cogswell), who was a daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Wainwright) Cogswell, mentioned above. Captain John Cogswell was the son of William and grandson of John Cogswell, the immigrant. The two last mentioned were passengers on the ill-fated ship "Angel Gabriel," wrecked on the coast of Maine in 1635. William Cogswell (2) married Susannah, daughter* of Adam Hawkes (i).

Lieutenant William Butler, father of William, Sr., married Sarah Cross. John Marshall, father of Susan (Marshall) Butler, was a descendant of Edmond and Millicent Marshall. His parents 'were Benjamin and Prudence (Woodward) Marshall; his mother, daughter of Ezekiel and Anne (Beamsley) Woodward, and granddaughter of William Beamsley, an early benefactor of. Harvard College. Sarah Perkins (Marshall) was daughter of Isaac Perkins, granddaughter of John Perkins, and great-granddaughter of John Sr. and Judith Perkins, the immigrant ancestors. Isaac Perkins married Hannah Knight, daughter of Alexander Knight who died in 1664.

Children of John Averill and Elizabeth Cheever (Leach,) Gould:

1. John, born January 7, 1847, died September 2, 1848.

2. Elizabeth Porter, born June 8, 1848, died July 28. 1906, well-known writer.

3. Susan Cheever, born June 27, 1849.

4. George Lambert, born February 6. 1852; mentioned below.

5. Ada Pitman, born January 15, 1854, married Will E. Harding, of Newton, Massachusetts.

6. Hattie Florence, born March 15. 1858.

7. Anna Leach, born October 2, 1859, married Henry A. Jenks, of Melrose.

8. Mary Averill, born July 17, 1861; died September 10, 1902, married Ernest Mead, of Wellesley Farms.