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Surname: MITCHELL
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 335-336

MITCHELL, WILLIAM.--The ancestors of the Mitchell family living in town were from Scotland, 
and John Mitchell, the father of William, for a while after coming to this country, lived in Malden, Mass., 
where he married Phoebe Lynde, of the same place, b. April 6, 1761, and died in Walpole, Nov. 4, 
1848. He died in Westmoreland Jan. 17, 1798. They were married June 6, 1779. William was born in 
Malden, April 28, 1788, and when he was quite young he removed, with his parents, to Westmoreland, 
and lived in the block house that once stood a few rods north of the cemetery, which was built for the 
protection of the people of Westmoreland against the butchery of the Indians. Most of the family of nine 
children were born in Westmoreland, and after the death of John, the father, his widow remained on the 
place a number of years.
William is the only surviving member of the family, and the oldest person living in town at the present 
time (l878). He married Rebecca Martin, April 15,1812, who was born Dec. 19, 1794, and died at 
Walpole, Sept. 13, 1860. He came to this town early in the present century and established the business 
of a harness maker, in connection with which he kept a barber’s shop. He followed the above-named 
business till he had to relinquish it on account of the infirmities of age. His children were as follow: viz.,
I. Charlotte, b. in Lancaster, N.H., Dec. 10, 1813; m. George Allen, of this town, Sept. 6, 1838; 
they have one child, Grace, b. in Walpole .March 13, 1846.
II. William, jr., b. in Walpole Sept. 17, 1815; d. unm. Apr. 10, 1840.
III. James Lynde, b. in Walpole, Aug. 5, 1817; m. first, Mary J. Coburn, of Lowell, Mass., and 
had four ch.: 1st, William. 2d, James, d. young. 3d, Eleanor Farnham, and 4th, Submit, who d. 
early. He m. second, Rebecca B. Coburn. James Mitchell is favorably known in New England 
and the city and state of New York as a hotel-keeper--a business he has followed some thirty 
or more years. When his parents became old and feeble he provided for them a comfortable 
home for their declining years,--a laudable exhibition of his generous character. He is now the 
proprietor of the Hotel Brunswick, New York.
IV. Phebe, b. Nov. 11, 1819; m. Ransom L. Ball, b June 28, 1848, and has three ch.: 1st, Ella 
Rebecca, b. Aug. 28, 1849. 2d, Jennie Mitchell, b. Aug. 3, 1851. 3d, Elnora Holland, b. Aug. 
1, 1859.
V. Sarah Louisa, b. Nov. 9, 1821; unm.
VI. Mary Abigail, b. Oct. 17, 1824; d., unm., Jan. 2, 1858
VII. Edward Courtland, b. Aug. 8, 1827; m. Emily Beals, Boston, June 25, 1854. Ch. 1st, 
Edward Courtland, b. May 4, 1855. 2d, James William, b. Sept. 4, 1857. 3d, Emily Louisa, b. 
Sept. 5, 1860. 4th, Cora, b. Feb. 6, 1861. 5th, Frank Kendall, b. June 25, 1866. 6th, 
Benjamin E. Bates, b. Sept. 21, 1868.
VIII. John Eaton, b. Feb. 3, 1830; m. Nancy O’Brien, Dec. 26, 1857; second wife’s name 
unknown. Ch. 1st, Mary Martin. 2d, William. 3d, Martha. (See Ap.) John enlisted into the 
United States service near the commencement of the late Rebellion, and served three years. 
(See His. of Reb.)
IX. Rebecca, b. June 26, 1833; m. George Huntington, June 3, 1858, and lives at the West.
X. Elnora, b. Aug. 9, 1835; m. Leonard Bisco Holland, Aug. 20, 1857, and has ten children.