LARCOM FAMILY LINEAGE

There are records of French Huguenots driven out of France in 1600 spelling the name Lacome, Latcome, Larkham, La Combe or Larcom. Records show that a Larcom left France for the Isle of Wight in 1600, and that a William Latcome sailed to America on the ship Hercules with John Kiddey as Master departing from London on March 24, 1633/34 and Southampton on April 18, 1634, for New England [THE PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH: 1620-1640 Passengers and Ships, by Charles Edward Banks.]

Records show that a William Latcome (M) was born in 1581, Ruddington, Nottingham, England and died on December 10, 1672 in Reading, Middlesex, Mass. Immigration June 1634 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Married Lydia Browne, daughter of Abraham Browne and (Mrs.) Lydia Browne about 1648 in Reading, Middlesex, Mass.

Ipswich records give a Mordicai Larcom who appeared in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1640. Note: This could possibly be a brother or son of William Latcome (Larcom).

“And then he was but a simple yeoman, a tiller of the soil; one who must have loved the sea, however, for he moved nearer and nearer towards it from Agawam through Wenham woods, until the close of the seventeenth century found his descendents – my own great-great-grandfather’s family – planted in a romantic homestead-nook on a hillside, overlooking wide gray spaces of the bay at the part of Beverly known as ‘The Farms.’” – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

Mordicai Larcom (M) b. ABT 1629 in England (Isle of Wight) d. January 4, 1712/13 in Beverly, Mass. (Mordicai derived from the name from the Babylonian god Marduke [the god of war] meaning "warrior, war like.")

Married Elizabeth Clark (Stone), a widow of William Clark, ABT. Mar 24, 1639/40 in Salem Essex, Mass.

Mordicai Larcom and Elizabeth Stone Clark's Children
1. Thomas Larcom (M) b. ABT 1651 d. March 30, 1718

Notes: Married Hannah Kettle (Father: John Kettle (Kittle) of England; Mother: Elizabeth Allen of Salem, Mass.)
He was a fisherman. He was married first to Hannah Kettle, by whom he had a son Thomas, recorded on the Manchester, Mass., records as born Feb. 16, 1694/5. He married second Abigail, widow of Thomas Woodbery, about 1699-1700. On March 24, 1714, he was appointed fence viewer, and on March 15, 1715/16, he was appointed to enforce the law relating to swine.

Thomas Larcom and Hannah Kettle’s Children:
a. Mary Larcom (F) b. ABT 1675
b. Samuel Larcom (M) b. ABT 1679 in Beverly, Essex, Mass.
c. Thomas Larcom (M) b. ABT February 16, 1678/79 in Beverly, Essex, Mass.
d. James Larcom (M) b. ABT 1688 in Beverly, Essex, Mass.
e. Hannah Larcom (F) b. ABT 1696
Children by second wife Abigail: Phebe, Jemina & Hannah.

2. Cornelius Larcom (M) b. ABT 1653-57 in Ipswich, Mass. d. January 9, 1747 (Cornelius derived from a Roman clan name which is derived from the Latin 'cornu' meaning horn.)

Notes: Married Abigail Balch (b. 1663-64 in Salem, Mass. d. April 30, 1706) of Beverly February 8, 1681 (1st wife) – Mother: Sarah Gardener (b. 1631 d. 1686) Father: Benjamin Balch (b. 1629 d. 1706). Married Margaret Low, March 28, 1707, Beverly, Essex, Mass. (2nd wife).

They settled at Wenham Neck and then came to Beverly Farms and bought the old John West estate, now known as Dexter Place in Prides Crossing.

On Nov. 28, 1684, he bought from Anthony Bennett, Jr. of Gloucester, “a parcel of land Containing five acres or less which I bought of John West late Deceased the said land being Situated & lying on ye back Side of ye great pond by ye long Beach between Manchester & Mackrell Cove butting upon ye pond On ye South Side & Joyning to ye Land of Nicholas Woodbery On ye West in Beverly aforesd.” This was not far from the present Pride’s Crossing Railroad Station. On Nov. 14, 1696, he bought from John Giles of Beverly, for “fourteen pounds in Silver Curant money of Newengland,” three and a quarter acres of salt marsh in that part of Ipswich called Chebacco. On May 28, 1697, he bought from Thomas West of Beverly, for twelve pounds and sixteen shillings, about three acres of meadow land adjoining his own property. On March 10, 1704/5, he bought from Thomas West, “for Eighteen pounds in Currant money,” ten acres of upland and meadow.

On March 2, 1718/19, he bought from Thomas West “one Stint and Half of Commonage in the Common Lands in ye said Town of Beverly–adjoining the Homestead the said Cornelius Larcom.” For the sum of fifteen pounds of bills of credit of the Province. On Oct. 26, 1719, he bought from Thomas West six acres of woodland for the sum of twenty-one pounds in bills of credit of the Province. On Sept. 17, 1721, be bought from Samuel West of Beverly about forty-four poles of land adjoining his own property, for three pounds of bills of credit of the Province. On March 16, 1696/7, at Town Meeting, “William Cleve was Chosen Constable [policeman] for Bass River ward and Cornelius Larkum for mackrel cove for ye year insueing.”

On March 15, 1697/8, the following receipt was handed to the selectmen: “Boston march ye 10th 1697/8. Recd of mr Cornelius Larkum Constable of Beverly by ye habd of me Wm Cleaues Thirty six pounds ten shillings. Recd–for mr James Taylor Treasr Per Jer Allen” On Feb. 26, 1698/9, the selectmen reckoned with Cornelius Larkum “who was Constable for ye year 1697 and hee the said Cornelius Larkum hath paid and Cleared for all the Rates Committed to him during the time of his Constableship and is hereby discharged of the same only mr Hales Rate for his sollery for that year being thirty two pounds the which he stands indebted tell he brings Receipt from mr Hale”

In 1699 Cornelius was a proprietor in the Common Lands. On Nov. 4, 1712, he was chosen a Grand Juror for the Superior Court. On March 24, 1713 and 14, he was chosen a Tything man. On Nov. 3, 1718, and Oct. 24, 1721, he was again chosen a Grand Juror for the Superior Court. On Nov. 17, 1724, his tax was abated. In 1732 Cornelius Larkum and his wife Maragret sold to Samuel Dodge the three and a quarter acres of salt marsh in that part of Ipswich called Chebacco which had been bought from John Giles in 1696.

Beverly Church Records state that on January 26, 1718, Cornelius Larcom, aged about sixty, was received to communion and baptized.

On Feb. 8, 1681, he married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin Balch, who died on April 20, 1706, aged about 43 years. On March 28, 1707, he married Margaret Low. She died Dec. 10, 1756, aged, according to Robert Hale’s list of Beverly deaths, 85 years. Cornelius Larcom died January 9, 1747, aged according to Robert Hale, “abt. 94.”

3. Mordecai Larcom, Jr. (M) b. September, 16, 1658 in Ipswich, Mass. d. November 1717 Wenham, Mass.

Came as a carpenter to Ipswich, Mass. in 1683/84. On Oct. 30, 1683, is named among those “not paying towards building the meeting house.” (Beverly Records) On Nov. 1, 1682 accepted as a townsman. On Nov. 7, 1682, at the annual town meeting, he was “granted Six poals of land where his house stands.” On Dec. 27, 1697, “at a town meeting of the selectmen for granting liberty to the inhabitants to get timber on the town common for their own use in the town,” he was granted “two hundred Rayles and fifty posts for fencing his land.” At a meeting of the selectmen on March 13, 1698/99, “for granting gitting of Timber to make Four Thousand of Shingles to Shingle his house.”

Married Abigail Solart (b. Aug 15, 1664) on November 10, 1681. Daughter of Jean (John) Solart Sr., a fisherman Huguenot originally of the Waldenses of Piedmont who came via England and his wife Elizabeth. After the death of John Solart, his widow Elizabeth married Ezekiel Woodberry. She died in 1678.

4. Daniel Larcom (M) b. ABT 1664-66 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. d. Feb. 15, 1750

Notes: Married Phoebe Stone (daughter of Nathaniel Stone of Beverly) May 29, 1693 at Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass. Their children were Joseph & Benjamin.

5. Rebecca Larcom (F) b. ABT 1667 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. d. between July and Dec. 12, 1734 in Beverly, Mass.

Notes: Married John Standley (M) b. Feb. 24, 1670/71 in Beverly, Mass. d. 1758, Beverly, Mass.

6. Elizabeth Larcom (F) b. ABT 1668 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. d. Dec., 1747

Notes: Married Isaac Whittier of Manchester

Cornelius Larcom (MordicaiI) married Abigail Balch
The mother Abigail and her fifteen-year-old son Jonathan dying within a short time of one another, and the sons Cornelius and Benjamin utterly disappearing from the records, would seem to indicate that some contagious disease had afflicted the family. Two original records on the town books account for the variant birth dates given below.

Cornelius Larcom and Abigail Balch's Children
1. Jonathan Larcom (M) b. March 8, 1689/90 bapt. Aug 6, 1693 d. May 7, 1706
2. Cornelius Larcom (M) b. Feb. 15, 1697 bapt. June 12, 1698
3. Benjamin Larcom (M) b. Feb. 6 or March 12, 1699/1700 bapt. May 31, 1702

4. David Larcom (M) b. October 9 or 28, 1701 bapt. May 31, 1702 buried April 25, 1775 in Beverly, Essex Co., Mass.

(David name derived from the meaning 'well-beloved, dear' from Biblical “Old Testament David.”)
Notes: Married Lucy Downing (b. November 29, 1706 in Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts d. Jan. 18, 1750) on January 22, 1723 in Beverly, Essex Co., Massachusetts.

David Larcom succeeded to his father’s estate. No record has been found of any deed between father and son, but David began early to purchase land, most of which would be of advantage to his father’s estate. He married, January 22, 1723, Lucy Downing who died Jan. 18, 1750. He purchased much land in Manchester, Beverly Commons (Mackaroll Cove Cow Pasture); some purchased from Benjamin Balch’s heirs.

He was chosen highway surveyor March 12, 1728/29, and also March 10, 1736/37. On Dec. 21, 1736/37, he was chosen Juror for the Interior Court. On March 11, 1746/47, he was chosen again Surveyor of Highways, with seven others, and on March 15, 1747/48, he was chosen Constable for Mackerel Cove Ward, one of three, to collect the Province tax assessed in Beverly, by commission from the “Treasurer & Receiver-General of His Majesty’s Province, William Foye, Esq.”

David Larcom’s sons Cornelius and Benjamin (below) were both lost at sea while on a voyage between Beverly and the West Indies, according to the Family tradition. Papers still preserved show that David had been surety for 120 pounds on loan made by Cornelius from the famous Thomas Hutchinson, and that this became a serious financial trouble for David (after the death of his son), as the piling up of the interest made repayment difficult. This may account for the sale of the two negro boys (below) and possible others, whose deeds of sale have not come to light. David died in April, 1775, intestate, and was buried on the 25 of the month.

David Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII) married Lucy Downing

David Larcom and Lucy Downing's Children
1. Abigail Larcom (F) b. November 26, 1724 d. 1771 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass.
Notes: Married Samuel Harris, Jr Oct 6, 1742

2. Margaret Larcom (F) b. July 4, 1726 d. May 5, 1748 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass.
Notes: Married John Morgan, Jr. Dec 25, 1746

3. Susanna Larcom (F) b. January 1, 1728 d. Oct 15, 1812 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass.
Notes: Married Malachi Woodberry Feb 27, 1752

4. Cornelius Larcom (M) b. January 21, 1729/30 d. March 1754/55 West Indies, Caribbean.
Notes: Lost at sea. Married Abigail Elliott June 19, 1752 in Beverly, Essex, Mass., and a son, Cornelius, was born May 6, 1754, who was known as the man with the wooden leg. His widow married again to Israel Dodge of Wenham, in 1758.

On the 29th of August, 1753, he bought from Peter Groves, Jr., for 120 pounds, “one third part of the Body or hull of the good Schooner called the Endeavour now riding at Anchor at the harbour of Beverly & whereof the sd Cornelius Larkum is at present Master, together with one third part of her masts, sails, yards, rigging, skiff & all other her tackle & appurtenances whatsoever, the sd Schooner being about the burthen of Sixty three Tuns.” He borrowed this sum of 120 pounds from Thomas Hutchinson of Milton in the County of Sufflok in New England, with his father David Larcom, as surety. In Robert Hale’s record of deaths he says, “Cornelius Larkum (and) his brother lost incoming from ye W. Indies March 1755.”

5. David Larcom (M) b. March 27, 1732 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. bapt. April 2, 1732 d. January 1760
Notes: Married Anna Batchelder, August 5, 1732, widow of John Bryant. After his wife’s death, he married again to Mary Herrick West, widow of Thomas West, daughter of Capt. Henry Herrick. Mary Herrick West brought into the family the first slave, Juno. Capt. Henry Herrick who, dying in 1755, left by will made in 1754 to “my daughter Mary Larcom Thirteen pounds six shillings & eight pence with a negro girl now living with her named Juno.” In 1756 Juno was married to Jethro, “servant” of Jeffrey Thistle, and had by him twelve children. Two deeds of sale of two of these children are preserved; one is printed in the Essex Institute of Historical Collections, vol. xxxiv, p. 205; the other is among the collections of the Beverly Historical Society. The first of these sales is dated July 30, 1757, and shows that “one Negro boy named Sesar aged about seven year” was sold for 30 pounds 6 shillings and 3 pence to Thomas Davis, shoreman of Beverly. The second records the sale of “Negro Boy named Reuben Aged about Twelve years” to James Thistle for 46 pounds 13 shillings and 4 pence on April 6, 1773.

6. Benjamin Larcom (M) b. April 7, 1735 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. d. March or June 16, 1776
Notes: Lost at sea

7. Lucy Larcom (F) b. April 5, 1737 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass.
Notes: Married James Cavanaugh on Nov. 30, 1760, who was drowned at Boston in 1763; Married 2nd to Robert Edwards, June 8, 1765.

8. Hannah Larcom (F) b. Dec. 15, 1739 bapt. March 18, 1738/39 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. d. November 4, 1832. Notes: Married Jacob Woodberry November 5, 1761

9. Jonathan Larcom (M) b. April 30, 1741/42 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. d. March 14, 1778 in Guadalupe, West Indies, at sea. (Jonathan name derived of meaning from Biblical “Given of God.”)
Notes: Married Abigail Ober b. March 31, 1744 d. May 1, 1815, daughter of Thomas and Abigail, on May 12, 1763 .

There are papers preserved which seem to indicate that in 1774 he was a sea captain and that in 1777 he was engaged in privateering. He was a private in Capt. Andrew Giddings’ company in Col. Jona. Bagly’s regiment; served 7 months 24 days (March 27-Nov. 1, 1759), for Gen. Amherst’s invasion of Canada (Mass. Archives). He was a Private in The War of the Revolution serving in Capt. Joseph Rea’s Co., enlisted July 25, 1776 – discharged October 28, 1776. Service was 3 mo./3 days in defense of Sea Coast. Company ordered to serve at the lines of Beverly. Jonathan met his death aboard a privateer in Our War for Independence.

“She [Abigail Ober] was an earnest Christian woman, of keen intelligence and unusual spiritual perception. She was supposed by her neighbors to have the gift of ‘second sight’; and some remarkable stories are told of her knowledge of distant events while they were occurring, or just before they took place. Her dignity of presence and character must have been noticeable.

A relative of mine, who was a very little child, was taken by her mother to visit my grandmother [Abigail Ober], told me that she had always remembered the aged woman’s solemnity of voice and bearing, and her mother’s deferential attitude towards her; and she was so profoundly impressed by it all at the time, that when they had left the house, and were on their homeward path through the woods, she looked up into her mother’s face and asked in a whisper, ‘Mother, was that God?’” – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

10. Thankful Larcom (F) b. April 1743 or 1745 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. d. August 20, 1825, aged 84 years.
Notes: Married Benjamin Preston, July 14, 1767 Wenahm, Mass.

11. Asa Larcom (M) bapt. March 23, 1745/46 in Beverly, Essex Co. Mass. d. Before 1779.
Notes: Married Sarah Hurlburt of Wenham, December 17, 1767. Occupation: Fisherman. Joined the Revolutionary War as a Private in Capt. Moses Brown's (7th) co., Col. John Glover's (14th) regt.; copies of pay abstracts for Feb., July, and Aug., 1776; enlisted Jan. 30, 1776.

Jonathan Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII) married Abigail Ober

Jonathan Larcom and Abigail Ober's Children
1. Anna Larcom (F) b. August 11, 1764 d. August 13, 1828
Notes: Married John Down, April 27, 1794 in Beverly, Mass.

2. Lucy Larcom (F) b. April 1, 1766 d. February 16, 1843
Notes: Married Richard Butman, January 2, 1794

“Uncles, Aunts, and cousins were plentiful in the family, but they did not live near enough for us to see them very often, excepting one aunt, my father’s sister, for whom I was named. She was fair, with large, clear eyes that seemed to look far into one’s heart, with an expression at once penetrating and benignant. To my childish imagination she was an embodiment of serene and lofty goodness. I wished and hoped that by bearing her baptismal name I might become like her; and when I found out its signification (I learned that ‘Lucy’ means ‘with light’), I wished it more earnestly still. For her beautiful character was just such an illumination to my young life as I should most desire mine to be to the lives of others.

My aunt, like my father, was always studying something. Some map or book always lay open before her, when I went to visit her, in her picturesque old house, with its sloping roof and tall well-sweep. And she always brought our some book or picture for me from her quaint old-fashioned chest of drawers. I still possess the, ‘Children in the Wood,’ which she gave me, as a keepsake, when I was about ten years old.” – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

3. Jonathan Larcom (M) b. September 15, 1768 bapt. Sept. 18, 1768 (Beverly, Mass., 1810 Census Records)

Notes: Married Mary Chamberlain, Oct. 3, 1790, who was bur. March 16, 1798. Married 2nd to Anna Ober, December 25, 1798. Children by first marriage: Polly (bapt. Sept 21, 1794), Lucy (bapt. Dec. 14, 1794), Jonathan (bapt. June 25, 1797 d. Feb 1, 1798). Children by second marriage: Mary Ann (b. May 6, 1800; m. June 6, 1819, George Perkins), Lucy (b. July 28, 1803), Jonathan (b. Sept 28, 1805), and Hannah (b. Aug. 17, 1809).

4. Abigail Larcom (F) b. August 7, 1770 d. December 18, 1824
Notes: Married Benjamin Knowlton, December 1, 1789

5. Francis Woodberry Larcom (M) b. August 11, 1772 d. January 1, 1801
Notes: Married (Nabby) Stanley, January 14, 1796, died at sea on January 1, 1801. His widow died Feb. 15, 1845, aged 72 years. (Beverly, Mass., 1810 Census Records)

6. David Larcom (M) b. September 17, 1774 d. August 23, 1840 (Beverly, Mass., 1810 Census Records) (Beverly, Mass 1830 Census Record) (Beverly, Mass 1850 Census Record)

Notes: Married Elisabeth “Betsey” Haskell, May 27, 1802. He was a cabinet maker and a deacon of the Dane Street Church. Both are buried in the Beverly Farms Cemetery. David’s gravestone reads “In Memory of DEA. David Larcom who died Aug 23, 1840. Aged 66. His life exhibited in rare combination and in an uncommon degree all the excellence of the Husband the Father the citizen and the Christian. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.”

“Farther down the road, where the cousins were all grown-up men and women, Aunt Betsey’s cordial, old-fashioned hospitality detained us a day or two. We watched the milking, and fed the chickens, and fared gloriously. Aunt Betsey could not have done more to entertain us, had we been the President’s children.

I have always cherished the memory of a certain pair of large-browed spectacles that she wore, and the green calash, held by a ribbon bridle, that sheltered her head, when she walked up from the shore to see us, as she often did. They announced to us the approach of inexhaustible kindliness and good cheer. We took in a home-feeling with the words ‘Aunt Betsey’ then and always. She had just the husband that belonged to her in my Uncle David, an upright man, frank-faced, large-hearted, and spiritually minded. He was my father’s favorite brother, and to our branch of the family ‘The Farms’ meant ‘Uncle David and Aunt Betsey." – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

7. Benjamin Larcom (M) b. August 20, 1776 d. Jan 10, 1830/31-32 (Beverly, Mass., 1810 Census Records)
Notes: Married Charlotte Ives (1st wife) on Jan 10, 1804 who died March 21, 1810. Married Lois Barrett (2nd wife b. 1795 – Father: Thomas Barrett – Served in the War of the Revolution ) on November 21, 1811.

A letter from him, dated Leghorn, June 9, 1800, to his brother David, says: “I embrace the present opportunity to inform you that I am well and all on Board and hope these lines will find you and all friends the same. I have had the Small-Pox and been well a month we have been here two Months and I expect we shall stay a month Longer we expect to come home from here and not to go to India Sugar and Coffee are very Low we have had one hand turned ashore for Stealing Genoa [Italy?] was taken by the English four Days ago No more at present.”

“He had been a deep-sea Master Mariner. Sailing the oceans of the world, the North and South Atlantic Oceans, the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. He was known as one of the East India Traders. His four mast full-rigged merchant ship would load up at the Beverly waterfront, with goods to be traded in the east. The cargo would consist of picks and shovels, hay-forks, spades, spike-toothed harrows, plows and wheelbarrows. Also high leather boots, lime, cement, hammers, nails, hand-saws, dried and salt fish. When fully loaded, they would sail southward hugging the coast of America. Just off the North Carolina coast, they would sail south east, pass easterly of the Bahamas and Puerto Rico and head for the eastern point of Brazil. In a few days Capt. Larcom through is binoculars would sight the point of Brazil. He knew exactly the position of his ship. He looked at his chart, glanced at the sun high over head, looked at his watch, waited until both hands were on twelve; called to the helmsman; “change course, southeast by east.” He put the chart away, heard the sails luff as the helmsman swung the ship slightly to windward. He felt the ship shiver as the sails filled again. They sailed across the equator, picked up the trade-wind and raced across the South Atlantic to Cape Town, Africa. They would trade at every seaport in the east. In four months the ship would be back in Beverly, her home port. Her holds filled with silks and satins, bales of hemp and cotton fibres, salted goat hides, flax, coconut oil, pepper and crates of gifts or trinkets from the Orient. Capt. Benjamin retired from the sea about 1820, for the next eleven years he operated an Orient Gift Shop, on the second floor of the block at the corner of Wallis and Cabot Street – the building is standing at the present time.

“A grave thoughtful face was his [Benjamin Larcom] lifted up so grandly amid that blooming semicircle of boys and girls, all gathered silently in the glow of the ruddy firelight! The great family Bible had the look upon its leathern covers of a book that had never been new, and we honored it the more for its apparent age. Its companion was the Westminster Assembly’s and Shorter Catechism, out of which my father asked us questions on Sabbath afternoons, when the tea-table had been cleared. He ended the exercise with a prayer, standing up with his face turned toward the wall. My most vivid recollection of his living face is as I saw it reflected in a mirror while he stood thus praying. His closed eyes, the paleness and seriousness of his countenance, awed me. I never forgot that look. I saw it but once again, when, a child of six or seven years, I was lifted to a footstool beside his coffin to gaze upon his face for the last time. It wore the same expression that it did in the prayer; paler, but no longer care-worn; so peaceful, so noble! They left me standing there a long time, and I could not take my eyes away. I had never thought my father’s face a beautiful one until then, but I believe it must have been so, always.

I know that he was a studious man, fond of what was called ‘solid reading.’ He delighted in problems of navigation (he was for many years the master of a merchant-vessel sailing to various European ports), in astronomical calculations and historical computations. A rhyming genius in the town, who undertook to hit off the peculiarities of well-known residents, characterized my father as ‘Philosophic Ben, Who, pointing to the stars, cries, Land ahead!’

His reserved, abstracted manner, – though his gravity concealed a fund of rare humor, – kept us children somewhat aloof from him; but my mother’s [Lois Barrett Larcom] temperament formed a complete contrast to his. She was chatty and social, rosy-cheeked and dimpled, with bright blue eyes and soft, dark, curling hair, which she kept pinned up under her white laced cap-border. Not even the eldest child remembered her without her cap, and when some of us asked her why she never let her pretty curls be visible, she said, –
‘Your father liked to see me in a cap. I put it on soon after we were married, to please him; I always have worn it, and I always shall wear it, for the same reason.’

My mother had that sort of sunshiny nature which easily shifts into shadow, like the atmosphere of an April day. Cheerfulness held sway with her, except occasionally, when her domestic cares grew too overwhelming; but her spirits rebounded quickly from discouragement.

Her father [Thomas Barrett] was the only one of our grandparents who had survived to my time, – of French descent, piquant, merry, exceedingly polite, and very fond of us children, whom he was always treating to raisins and peppermints and rules for good behavior. He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, – the greatest distinction we could imagine. And he was also the sexton of the oldest church in town, – the Old South, – and had charge of the winding-up of the town clock, and the ringing of the bell on week-days and Sundays, and the tolling for funerals, – into which mysteries he sometimes allowed us youngsters a furtive glimpse. I did not believe that there was another grandfather so delightful as ours in all the world." – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

8. Andrew Larcom (M) b. July 19, 1778 d. June 19, 1854
Notes: Married Molly Standley (b. Oct 13, 1783 Father: Jonathan Standley; Mother: Lydia Preston) on July 24, 1803. Andrew enlisted in War of 1812, 3rd Reg’t (Dodge’s) Massachusetts Militia. Rank–Induction: Private, Rank–Discharge : Private. Occupation: Farmer. Both are buried in the Beverly Farms cemetery. (Beverly, Mass, 22 Aug 1850 Census Record)

The old home of Cornelius and David Larcom had passed into the possession of Jonathan’s family, and by arrangement with the other heirs after Andrew’s mother’s death, it became the home of Andrew and his family. An interesting certificate, dated May 1810, made out by the Vice-Consul of the United States at Bergen, Norway, recounts an episode in the early life of Andrew. “This is to certify That the bearer hereof Andrew Larcom and American Seaman hath produced to me the requisite Documents to prove that he is a Citizen of the United States & lately belonged to the American Schooner called the Betsy of Beverly, Capt. Fielder, Master, taken by the French armed Brig Le Genie, commanded by Capt. Degrave & brought to this place as a prisoner and released. The said Andrew Larcom intends now to depart from hence as passenger with American Schooner Brig the Hunter, Nathanial Babson, Master, in order to return home with said Vessel when opportunity may serve. I therefore pray & request that the said Andrew Larcom may pass without hindrance or molestation so long as he doth nothing contrary to the interest hereof.”

David Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV) married Elizabeth “Betsey” Haskell

David Larcom and Betsy Haskell's Children
1. Elisabeth Larcom (F) b. Feb. 6, 1803/4 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. Feb 10, 1873
Notes: Married John Ober (b. 1800, Occupation: Carpenter ) on July 22, 1808. (Beverly, Mass., 21 Aug 1850 Census Record)

2. Abigail Larcom (F) b. May 3, 1806
Notes: Married Isaac Prince, Jan 9, 1826.

3. Jonathan Larcom (M) bapt. at Dane Street Church June 8, 1806

4. David Larcom (M) b. Aug. 9, 1808; d. Feb. 17, 1883. (Beverly, Mass., 9 June 1880 Census Records)
Notes: Married widow Mary L. Ober, Dec. 8, 1840

5. Francis Larcom (M) b. Sep. 10, 1810 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. July 1, 1883
Notes: Married Eliza Woodberry on Jan. 29, 1835. They lived on Hale St. in Beverly in 1884. This family is buried in the Beverly Farms cemetery. They had a daughter, Eliza Larcom who died Feb. 15, 1842, Aged 5 years and 3 months. Her grave stone reads “Rest lovely child, Still very dear, Fruit was thy life, Short thy career, Now far from grief, Forever blest; Thee, we resign, Saved spirit – rest.”

6. Joseph Larcom (M) b. Aug. 9, 1812

7. George T. Larcom (M) b. 1815 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 1905, Beverly Farms, Mass. Lived in a house on Hale St. in Beverly, near the beach in 1884.
Notes: Married Louisa Marshall (b. 1821 d. 1899). Occupation: Shoemaker. Both are buried in the Beverly Farms cemetery. (Beverly, Mass 21 Aug 1850 Census Record) (Beverly, Mass., 5 June 1900 Census Records)

8. Phoebe Larcom (F)
Notes: Married Joseph Ober

9. David Larcom (M) b. 1808 d. 1883 (Beverly, Mass., 17 July 1860 Census Records)
Notes: Married his cousin Mary (Molly) Larcom (b. 1809) in 1840, daughter of his Uncle Andrew & Aunt Molly Standley. Occupation: Farm Laborer.

David Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV, DavidV) married Mary (Molly) Larcom

David Larcom and Molly Standley's Children
1. David Larcom (M) b. July 5, 1841 Beverly, Essex, Mass.
Notes: Married Eva Haskell b. 1830. Servant: Ella Foster. Occupation: Mariner.

2. Lydia S. Larcom (F) b. October 8, 1842 Beverly, Essex, Mass.

3. Joseph Henry Larcom (M) b. May 25, 1845 Beverly, Essex, Mass. d. October, 10, 1899. Joseph name derived form Biblical Joseph whose brothers sold him into slavery and later rose to become supreme power in Egypt meaning “increase, addition.” Lived in a house on Hart St. near Haskell St. in Beverly in 1884.

Notes: Married Mary A. Morse (b. Nov 20, 1846 d. Oct 26, 1921). Enlisted as a private in the Union Army of the Civil War on August 3, 1864, in the 2nd co., Unattached Infantry Regiment, MA, at the age of 19. Mustered out company 2nd, Unattached Infantry Regiment, MA on November 15, 1864. Occupation: Farmer. Both are buried in the Beverly Farms cemetery.

4. Theodore Larcom (M) b. April 9, 1849 Beverly, Essex, Mass.

Joseph Henry Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV, DavidV, DavidVI) married Mary A. Morse (Beverly, Mass., 12 June 1880 Census Records) (Beverly, Mass., 10 January 1920 Census Records)

Joseph Henry Larcom and Mary A. Morse's Children (Beverly, Mass., 5 June 1900 Census Records)
1. Henry Downing Larcom (M) b. Dec 14, 1869, Beverly, Mass. d. July 14, 1907
Notes: Was drowned when he was quite young. He is buried with his parents in the Beverly Farms cemetery.

2. Mary Belle Larcom (F) b. 1872, Mass.
Notes: Married Fred Hodgkins (1st husband), Married Arthur McIntosh (2nd husband).

3. Bertha A. Larcom (F) b. 1874, Mass.
Notes: Married Arthur McIntosh (sister’s widower) She brought up the McIntosh family and had no children of her own.

4. Joseph S. Larcom (M) b. 1877, Mass.
Notes: Married Margaret Riley and had no children.

5. David Larcom (M) Mass.
Notes: Never married.

6. George West Larcom (M) b. 1883 d. 1944 Mass. (Wenham, Mass., 4 April 1930 Census Records)
Notes: Married Clara E. Williams (b. 1886 d. 1972). Lived in Wenham, Mass, 1930; Occupation: Carpenter. Lived on Hull street, Beverly Farms, Mass. All buried together in Beverly Farms cemetery.

George West Larcom and Clara Williams' Children
a. George B. Larcom (M) b. 1910 d. 1980
Notes: Married Ruth Grout.
b. Mary E. Larcom (F) b. 1911
Notes: Married Francis Brennan. Mary’s occupation: Stenographer. They had 6 children.

7. Theodore Larcom (M) b. Dec 30, 1885, Mass. Theodore name derived form Greek meaning “God given.”
Notes: Married Pearl Wyatt (b. 1890/91 d. 1943 Madeira, Pinellas, Florida) in 1921, and drove down to Maderia Beach, Florida in a 1915 Model “T” Ford with his wife, Pearl, and mother-in-law Louisa C. Wyatt (b. 1860/61 Maine) – Father: Gordon Bartlett, Esq. Mother: Mary A. (Lane?). Theodore is buried in the Seminole Cemetery. (Salem, Mass., 9 June 1870 Census Records)

Gordon Bartlett Esq. (b. June 8, 1834) of Maine. (Salem, Mass., 29, July 1860 Census Record)
Notes: Father: Stephen of Eastport, ME. Occupation: Senior warden of the Parish of St. Peters church until the time of his death – see attached letter dated January 15, 1865. Married Mary A. (Lane?) (b. 1842) of Louisiana (Father could be William A. Lane of Clinton, LA, East Feliciana Parish b. 1799, Maine. Occupation: Farmer) . See attached letter dated June 19, 1845, which could be written by Louisa Bartlett’s great aunt, also named Louisa, in Illinois, written to her sister, Mary’s mother M. W. Lane (b. 1814, Mass.) in Clinton, La. There is a William H. Lane in the Salem, Mass., 9 June 1870 Census Records, but I am not sure if this is the same person.

Gordon Bartlett and Mary A. (Lane’s?) Children (Salem, Mass., 9 June 1870 Census Records)
a. Louisa C. Bartlett b. 1860/61 Maine (Middlesex, Mass., 2 June 1880 Census Records)
Notes: Occupation: Servant for George H. Shirley in Wenham, Middlesex, MA in 1880. Married Edward E. Wyatt (b. 1858 d. 1899) of Wenham, Mass. - Occupation: Servant, hostler, for George Gardner, 1880. Father: Henry Wyatt (b. 1805 Occupation: Farmer) ; Mother: Fannie Wyatt (b. 1824). They had 8 children by 1860. (Wenham, Mass., 12 June 1860 Census Records) (Beverly, Mass., 8 June 1880 Census Records)

Louisa is buried in the Seminole Cemetery, Madeira Beach, Florida. Edward is buried in the Beverly Farms cemetery, Beverly Farms, Mass.

Louisa C. Bartlett (GordonI) and Edward Wyatt’s Children (Beverly, Mass., 10 January 1920 Census Records - Louisa and Pearl lived with Louisa's sister Jane after Edward died).
1. Pearl Wyatt b. 1890/91 d. 1943 Madeira, Pinellas, Florida. Pearl is buried in the Seminole Cemetery.

b. Gordon P. Bartlett b. 1863
c. Jane (Jennie?) Bartlett b. 1867 (Beverly, Mass., 5 June 1900 Census Records). Married Johnathan M. Younger. (Beverly, Mass., 10 January 1920 Census Records)

8. Sidney Larcom (M) b. 1889, Beverly, Mass.
Notes: Married Ingrid Svendson (a Norwegian girl) and had one child.

Sidney Larcom and Ingrid Svendson's Child
a. Paul Larcom

9. Dorothy Larcom (F) b. Jan 28, 1891, Beverly Mass. d. Dec 24, 1915
Notes: Committed suicide at the age of 24. She is buried with her parents & brother, Henry, in the Beverly Farms cemetery.

Theodore Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV, DavidV, DavidVI, JosephVII) married Pearl Wyatt

Theodore Larcom and Pearl Wyatt's Children (Pinellas, Florida 3 April 1930 Census Records)
1. Edward Joseph Larcom (M) b. March 19, 1927 Madeira, FL. Edward name derived from Anglo-Saxon and English meaning “wealthy guardian.” Occupation: Auto Mechanic.
Notes: Married Victorine Alice Dehoux “Vickie” (b. Jan 3, 1923 d. April 11, 1978) on August 20, 1948 – Vickie had two daughters from previous marriages – Erma Jean “Jean” b. 1940 & Gayette “Cookie” b. 1944. Vickie has a memorial on our family property in Sylva, North Carolina.

Emile Dehoux (b. 1853 Belgium)
Notes: Married Victorina Parmentier Dehoux (b. 1861 Belgium) of McDonald, PA.
Emile Dehoux and Victorina Parmentier’s Children
a. Jules Dehoux (M) b. 1894
b. Alfred Dehoux (M) b. October 25, 1894 d. July 30, 1966 Notes: Married Katherine Rego.

Alfred Dehoux (EmileI) and Katherine Rego’s Children
1. Alfred of Matthews, VA
2. Victorine Alice (b. Jan 3, 1923 d. April 11, 1978) of Tampa, FL.
3. Shirley (Mrs. William Smith) of Tampa, FL.

c. Rosie Dehoux (F) b. 1897
d. Victor Dehoux (M) b. 1899
e. Lucetta Dehoux (F) b. 1900

2. Mary Louise Larcom (F) (Mary Lou, “Aunt Boo”) b. November 1, 1928 Madeira, FL d. June 21, 2003, St. Petersburg, FL.
Notes: Never married. Aunt Boo is buried in the Seminole Cemetery.

Edward Joseph Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV, DavidV, DavidVI, JosephVII, TheodoreVIII) married Victorine Alice Dehoux

Edward Joseph Larcom and Victorine Dehoux's Children
1. Edward Theodore Larcom (M) b. Oct 20, 1948 Tampa, FL. Occupation: Auto Mechanic.
Notes: Married Wanda Fay Miller (b. Feb 15, 1954) on September 1, 1974 in Tampa, FL.

Edward Theodore Larcom and Wanda Fay Miller's Children
1. Jennifer Fay Larcom (F) b. January 14, 1977 Tampa, FL. Occupation: Graphic Designer.
Notes: Married Scott Allen Hunter (b. Nov 28, 1968) on March 19, 2005.

2. Alfred C. Larcom (M) b. Jan 9, 1954 Tampa, FL. Occupation: Auto Mechanic.
Notes: Married Nancy Harding (b. March 17, 1953).

Alfred Larcom and Nancy Harding's Children
1. Kyle David Larcom (M) b. August 11, 1978 Tampa, FL. Occupation: Auto Mechanic.

3. Richard Paul Larcom (M) b. Jan 29, 1959 Tampa, FL. Occupation: Auto Mechanic.
Notes: Married Beth McStowe (b. July 1961).

Richard Paul Larcom and Beth McStowe's Children
1. Paul Larcom (M) b. September 28, 1987 Tampa, FL.
2. Audrey Larcom (F) b. June 20, 1989 Tampa, FL.

----------- The Following is the decendency of Lucy Larcom, and how she fits into our family lineage:

Benjamin Larcom (MordicaiI, CorneliusII, DavidIII, JonathanIV) and Lois Barrett’s Children
1. Benjamin Larcom (M) b. January 30, 1814 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.
Notes: Married Abigail F. Hanson of Salem April 28, 1839. Children were Mary Abbie b. 1840

2. Louisa Barrett Larcom (F) b. October 14, 1815
Notes: Married Edward Harrington on Oct 1, 1837

3. Emeline Augusta Larcom (F) b. April 22, 1817 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. d. 1892
Notes: Married George Spaulding (b. May 15, 1817) on April 5, 1843

“Elves and gnomes and air-sprites and genii were no strangers to us, for my sister Emeline – she who heard me say my hymns, and taught me to write – was mistress of an almost limitless fund of imaginative lore. She was a very Scheherazade of story-tellers, so her younger sisters thought, who listened to her while twilight grew into moonlight, evening after evening, with fascinated wakefulness.

Her choice was usually judicious; she omitted the ghosts and goblins that would have haunted our dreams; although I was now and then visited by a nightmare-consciousness of being a bewitched princess who must perform some impossible task, such as turning the whole roomful of straws into gold, one by one, or else lose my head. But she blended the humorous with the romantic with her selections, so that we usually dropped to sleep in good spirits, if not with a laugh.

This sister, though only just entering her teens, was toughening herself by all sorts of unnecessary hardships for whatever might await her womanhood. She used frequently to sleep in the garret on a hard wooden sea-chest instead of in a bed. And she would get up before daylight and run over to the burying-ground, barefooted and white-robed (we lived for two or three years in another house than our own, where the oldest graveyard in town was only separated from us by our garden fence), ‘to see if there were any ghosts there,’ she told us. Returning noiselessly, – herself a smiling phantom, with long golden brown hair rippling over her shoulders, – she would drop a trophy over her little sisters’ pillow, in the shape of a big yellow apple that had dropped from ‘the Colonial’s’ ‘pumpkin sweeting’ tree into the graveyard, close to our fence.

She was fond of giving me surprises, of watching my wonder at seeing anything beautiful or strange for the first time. One when I was little, she made me supremely happy by rousing me before four o’clock in the morning, dressing me hurriedly, and taking me out for a walk across the graveyard and through the dewey fields. The birds were singing, and the sun was just rising, and we were walking toward the east, hand in hand, when suddenly there appeared before us what looked to me like an immense blue wall, stretching right and left as far as we could see. ‘Oh, what is it the wall of?’ I cried. It was a revelation she had meant for me. ‘So you did not know it was the sea, little girl!’ she said." – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

4. Jonathan Larcom (M) b. August 3, 1818 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.

“My brother John’s plans for my entertainment did not always harmonize entirely with my own ideas. He had an inventive mind, and wanted me to share his boyish sports. But I did not like to ride in a wheelbarrow, nor to walk on stilts, nor even to coast down the hill on his sled; and I always got a tumble, if I tried, for I was a rather clumsy child; besides I much preferred girls’ quieter games.” – Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood.

5. Abigail Ober Larcom (F) b. May 22, 1820 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.
Notes: Married Luther Haskell of Rowley on June 20, 1844 who was a blacksmith.

6. Lydia Smith Larcom (F) b. March 5, 1822 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.
Notes: Married Isaac W. Baker April 9 or 19, 1844 who was both a seaman and businessman and came from a good Beverly family. Lucy Larcom was particularly delighted with Isaac’s good humor and warm, lively personality.

7. Lucy Larcom (F) b. March 5, 1824 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. d. April 17, 1893, Boston.
Notes: The poetess and author. Never married.

8. Octavia Larcom (F) b. June 8, 1827 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.