1 68 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS. 



She remembers very clearly when her father started from home to join 

 our army in the War of the Revolution, and recollects that he some- 

 times came back to stay a day or two with his family and sometimes 

 sent back small presents to his little girl. 



This account shows that her father was a soldier in the Rev- 

 olution, which fact goes far to establish her parentage. Ac- 

 cording to a muster-roll among the Massachusetts Archives 

 (XII. 174) in the State House, Oliver Parker was a First 

 Lieutenant in Captain Asa Lawrence's company of minute- 

 men that marched from Groton to Cambridge, on April 19, 

 1775, after the Lexington alarm. 



Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, of Fitchburg, under date of April 11, 

 1907, writes me giving another instance of a Groton centena- 

 rian who was " Azubah Burt, born in Sudbury, May 13, 171 1, 

 daughter of John and Rebecca ^Burt (Burk). The family re- 

 moved to Groton, where she married Phineas Farnsworth, and 

 in 1776 married, secondly, Matthias Farnsworth. Matthias 

 Farnsworth died in 1796, and the Farnsworth Genealogy says 

 that she died in 1812, aged 100. If she died on May 13, 

 1 8 12, she was lOi. I fail to find any record of her death." 



Oliver Elliot was the third child of Elias and Ruth 

 (Lawrence) Elliot of Groton, where he was born on August 

 24, 1734. He was living at Mason, New Hampshire, as early 

 as the year 1753, and was married at Groton West Parish 

 (now Pepperell), on January 19, 1758, to Mary Fisk ; and 

 they were blessed with eight children. The following ac- 

 count of him is taken from the address delivered by John 

 Boynton Hill, Esq., at the Centennial Celebration of the In- 

 corporation of Mason, on August 26, 1868: — 



Oliver was an active, industrious man, and in the early period of the 

 settlement, both before and after the incorporation of the town, was 

 frequently employed in the public business, and elected to offices in 

 the affairs of the place and town. In the last years of his life he felt 

 the hard hand of poverty, but never wore the garments of a town 

 pauper. He also was a soldier of the Revolutionary army. He died 

 in September, 1836, aged one hundred and two years. He left numer- 

 ous descendants residing in the town, and many who have sought out 

 homes in other places (pp. 22, 23). 



