Ephraim lived in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for many years.
     He married Sarah Pattee, mother of Mrs. Laura Sleeper of Concord, New Hampshire.
     Levi, Junior, married Jawsia Edmonds of Bristol, New Hampshire.
     Mahala married Ephraim Morrill (father of Charles Henry Morrill).
     J. J. Lampery of London, England, in a letter recently written to M. C. Lampery of Concord, New Hampshire, says, "The Lamperys were a family of great antiquity in the west of England, and their earlier abodes were at Branton, Tamton, Barnstable, and Exeter, and mention is made of them in deeds, documents, Feudal aids, and Hundred rolls. The Men of Devon served in Scotland, Wales, and France under the standards of the Henrys and Edwards of England, A. D. 1100 to 1346. Lampery Court was one of the seven palaces attached to the See of St. David in A. D. 1778. Here the Earl of Richards, afterwards Henry VII, was entertained on his way from Milford Haven to Bosworth Field. The remarkable Bishop's Palace, St. David's, is somewhat similar to that of Lampery Court and the Castle of Swansea, Wales."
     Lieut. Ephraim Locke, REV. SOLDIER, born Feb. 4 or 10, 1730; died March or May 7, 1798; married May 14, 1752, to Comfort Dow, se dau. of OZEM DOW, SE. She was born Aug. 21, 1731.
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born July 18, 1694; died about 1754. He married first Deliverance Brookin. He married second Sarah Moulton, on March II, 1733.
     Hannah Locke was married to Aaron Lampery. He was born in 1746. Hannah was a sister of Edward Locke.
     Edward Locke was the son of John Locke.
     "Captain Locke," who, according to tradition, came from Yorkshire, England, settled first in Dover, N. H. He was granted a house lot in Portsmouth, N. H., 1565. He settled without permission in the spring of '666 on land belonging to the town of Hampton, N. H., on JOCELYN'S NECK. He was, about a year and a half later, admitted as an inhabitant, by vote of the town.
     He married about 1652, Elizabeth Berry, daughter of William Berry. HE WAS KILLED by the INDIANS August 26, 1696, aged, it is supposed, about 70 years. His widow was living in February, 1707. The tragedy of Captain Locke's death occurred during KING WILLIAM'S war, when men went armed to their daily work. It is said that, having stood his gun against a rock, he was reaping grain, when several Indians crept stealthily up behind him, and shot him with his own weapon. Supposing him dead, they rushed upon him for his scalp, when he revived, struck out with his sickle and cut off the nose of one of the Indians. Years afterward a son of his met the noseless Indian in Portsmouth. (From page 822--History of Hampton, New Hampshire.)

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Mrs. Harriet Currier Morrill,
     Lincoln, Nebraska.
My dear Madam: I have the honor to advise you that your application for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was answered by the Board of Management, June 3d, 1914, and that your name has been placed upon the list of members.

REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE CURRIERS

     A complete record and history of the Currier family can be found in the Lowell, Massachusetts, Historical Society Records placed there by Jacob Currier of Lowell, Massachusetts, before he died.
     "At the time of the Revolution there were four Currier brothers of fighting age, one of whom was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill. At that time there were many Curriers in this country. There is a deed of record signed by one of the Curriers in A. D. 1642, conveying property in Amsbury, Massachusetts. At that time there were three Curriers in Massachusetts, two lived near Amsbury and one on the "Isle of Shoals." The Curriers in New England were from the oldest of the three brothers, through a line of descendants of which the oldest son was always called "Challis," down to the time of our Grandfather, who spelled the name "Chellis." Chellis, the

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eldest of the brothers, settled in Canain some time after the Revolution."
     The historical records read as follows.
     "The name Currier is French. My brother, Jacob Currier, looked for them in Scotland, where he did not find them. The name used to be pronounced as though it were spelled 'Kier,' and my brother likely confused it with the Scotch family named 'Kirer' of the clan of McGregor.
     "The Curriers are all French Huguenots, and they left France for the peace of the country and to save their own necks; some of them passed through two generations in Holland and Scotland. The French spelling of the name is 'Courier,' and was derived from Messenger, or one sent with a message."
     Chellis married an Abigail Stevens, her mother's maiden name was Harriman; they are connected with the Dyers and the Putnams of Connecticut.

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Miss Minnie Harriet Morrill,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
     My dear Madam: I have the honor to advise you that your application for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was answered by the Board of Management, June 3d, 1914, and that your name has been placed upon the list of members.
     Your national number is 105302.