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- An Account of Some of the Early Settlers of West Dunstable, Monson
and Hollis, N. H., by Charles S. Spaulding, published in Nashua, N. H.
: The Telegraph Press, 1915.
p. 21
Thomas Nevins, of Scotch-Irish descent, whose ancestors fought at
the siege of Londonderry, married Margaret________ about 1710. They
migrated from the North of Ireland in 1711, and settled in Nova
Scotia. Some time between the years of 1718 and 1735, Mr. Nevins had
occasion to return to Ireland on business. The ship on which he
sailed was lost at sea and all on board perished.
The widow, Margaret Nevins, with her three sons, removed to
Newton, Mass., prior to 1735, as on July 27, 1735, they purchased land
in West Dunstable of Joseph Blanchard, situated in what was afterwards
Monson village, and removed here some time between 1735 and the spring
of 1738.
All that is known of Mr. Nevins' family is as follows: Thomas,
Jr., born on the Atlantic Ocean, March, 1711; married Bridget Snow,
January 1, 1745; died at Hanover, N. Y., in March, 1804, age 93.
David, born at Nova Scotia, about 1814, married Lois Patch, March 3,
1746; died in Plymouth, N. H., in 1779. William, born in Nova Scotia,
in 1718, married Mary Hastings, November, 8, 1746. The widow,
Margaret Nevins, with her three sons, engaged in clearing off the
forests, building log huts, making paths, etc. She is taxed regularly
until 1743, at which time her name disappears from the records, and we
have no further knowledge of her.
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