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Surname: WIER
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 382-383

WIER. The history of this old family is involved in much obscurity, as there are no public nor private 
records extant. It appears, from what information can be gathered from the old citizens of the town and 
from distant relatives of the family, that one John Wier came to this town from Hampstead this state as 
early as 1780, or perhaps before, and that he had a family of four sons and one daughter certainly, and 
it is thought more than one. Ch.
I. Robert, who settled on the place now owned by John L. Houghton, and kept a public house 
there. He was a man of good natural abilities, but set the laws and customs of society wholly 
aside. He was convivial in his habits and his house was the rendezvous of men of his own stamp. 
Three of his guests are remembered Roll Hall, Pel Hall and Quinton, who, when together, were 
as happy as flip could make them.
II. John, an own brother, (John, sen., had two wives) m. Rebecca, dau. of John Livingston, sen., 
and lived on Boggy Meadow. He was known as Capt. John, and d. June 5,1837, aged 84. His 
wife’s age was 89 when she died. Ch. 1st, John, who never married but cared for his parents in 
their infirm years. He d. at the age of 62. 2nd, Rebecca, (see Watkin’s family.) 3d, Jane, m. 
Aaron Day of Gilsum. 4th, Mary, m. Theodore Phelps, and had three sons and three daughters. 
5th, Betsey, d. Nov. 13, 1815, aged 20. 6th, Ann, never married. 7th, Fanny, m. Benj. Bixby 
and had the following children; (1) Ellen, m. Samuel Spear (2) Frances, m. Henry Davis. (3) 
John, m. Cornelia, dau. of Asahel Hodgkins. (4) Jane, m. Benj. B. Royce. (5) Esther, m. Albro 
Bean. 8th, Almira, b. Jan. 21, 1805, and is the only member of the family now (1879) living.
III. William, a half brother of the above; m. first, a White of this town, and settled on the place now 
owned by Henry E. Houghton. His wife died and he married Betsey, a sister of Danforth Clark, 
to whom he sold his farm and removed to Vt., where he ran a grist mill. There was an 
incompatibility of feeling between himself and wife, she tantalizing him to such an extent that he 
ducked her in the mill-pond, when she left and he subsequently married again.
IV. James, m. Catherine White, and had two children. She d. and he m. Submit, dau. of Moses and 
Submit (Ross) Burt, and had the following children; 1st, Sarah W., b. July 15, 1823, m. Lewis 
Wilbur. 2d, Eliza S., b. Dec. 13, 1824; m. Nelson H. VanDriezen. 3d, Hannah, b. Sep. 25, 
1826; m. James Wilbur, and has 2 ch.
V. Betsey, d. unmarried.
Frederick A. Wier, of this town, the man who introduced the Morgan breed of horses here, was the 
grandson of John Wier sen., and was born Apr. 12, 1812; m. Almira R., d. of Asa and Rebecca 
(Graves) Titus. Ch. (1) Geo. A., d. 1845, aged 2 years. (2) Frances R. b. June 8, 1838; m. Palmer D. 
Brown, of Peterborough, N.H. (3) Alma A., b. Feb. 24, 1840; m. Wm. A. Craig, of Keene, N.H., 
Nov. 1869, 1 ch. (4) Mary K., b. Nov. 31, 1847. (5) Geo. F., b. Jan. 31, 1850: d. Sep. 23, 1878. (6) 
Fred A. jr, b. Feb. 26, 1852; m. widow Julia A. Lovell, dau. of Lyman Chandler of Alstead. (7) Rowe, 
b. July 7, 1844. (8) Edd., d. Oct. 20, 1873, aged 15 years.