VII. 



Memoir of Daniel Treadwell. 



By MORRILL WYMAN, M.D 



Presented October 5, 1887. 



Daniel Treadwell was born on the 10th of October, 1791, in Ipswich, one of 

 the shire towns of Essex County, Massachusetts. His father, Captain Jabez Treadwell, 

 also born in Ipswich, was a descendant of one of the first settlers of the town, who 

 emigrated to it as early as 1637, from Oxford in England. His mother, Elizabeth 

 Dodge, was a descendant of Major Isaac Appleton of Ipswich and Priscilla Baker, 

 granddaughter of Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Symonds, — " a gentleman," says 

 Hubbard, " of an ancient and worshipful family, from Yeldham in Essex, England." 



In a short Autobiography written by Mr. Treadwell in 1854 is the following 

 account of his early life. 



" My father and all his predecessors to the first settler were farmers, — hard-working and 

 respectable men, none of whom have left any distinguishing mark either of their virtues or 

 vices upon the community in which they lived. My mother, Elizabeth Dodge, was the second 



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early years were therefore, no doubt, much neglected, as my father's housekeepers, however 

 well disposed, possessed neither the education nor the affection required to make the most 

 of a child, and my father, who was fifty-two years old at the time of my birth, was much 

 occupied in the care of his farm. My father — I can remember him well, although he died 

 when I was but eleven years old — was a staid and sensible man, — a model fanner, exact 

 and punctual in all his affairs. The active period of his life fell upon the hard times of 

 the Revolution, during the greater part of which his three brothers were engaged in the army. 



Of the bravery of one of these brothers, Captain 

 ber hearing many stories when I was a boy. My father by his industry and prudence, with 

 but little assistance from his sons, acquired a property in land which at the time of his 

 death was valued at about seven thousand dollars. I was placed at my father's death under 

 the guardianship of Colonel Nathaniel Wade, an old Revolutionary soldier, who was much es- 

 teemed in Ipswich for his honesty and good seuse, and went to board in his family." * 



The care and kindness of Colonel Wade were always held in grateful remembrance. In Mr. TreadwelPs 

 will, made in 1819 just before sailing for Europe, after a bequest to the daughter of Nathaniel Wade, is this 

 item : "To Nathaniel Wade, Esq. (as a token of my esteem fur this respectable man, who has so long extended 



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1897. 



