my children's seize quartiers: quarter 13: Fitts

Harry Wilfred⁹ Fitts (Nathan Corydon⁸, Jesse Remington⁷, Abraham^6-5, Daniel⁴, Richard³, Abraham², Robert¹), 1876-1940, of Lowell, MA & Nashua, NH. Descended from Robert Fitts (d. 1665), early settler in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and a host of other Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts families. On the Fitts family see Sylvia Fitts Getchell, Fitts Families: A Genealogy (Newmarket, N.H., 1989), which is encyclopedic. Harry Wilfred Fitts' parents were first cousins once removed, both descended from Abraham⁶ Fitts.

There is a Fitts Museum in Candia, New Hampshire, the former home of Rev. James Hill Fitts, of this family, author of good Fitts and Lane genealogies at the end of the nineteenth century. Rev. Fitts wrote three volumes on unrelated Lane families, the third of which treats my Lane family, of Cape Ann (quarter 6 in these seize quartiers).

At left, Howard Porter¹⁰ Fitts, Williams College graduation photo ('28); at right, his sister Margaret¹⁰ ('Miggie') Fitts, later Margaret Fitts Currier

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