An American Family History

Increase Powers was born on July 16, 1671 in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. His parents were Walter Powers and Trial Shepard.

He married Hepzibah Sawyer. Hepzibah was born in 1673 and was the daughter of William Sawyer and Hannah Houghton, of Bolton.

Increase did not have any children.

Afther his death, Hepzibah married Thankful Fairbanks.

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Volume 2 edited by William Richard Cutter

John [Houghton] (4), son of John (3) Houghton, was born in Dedham, died February 3, 1737, aged eighty-six years. During King Philip's war, after the massacre, he, his wife and her parents fled to Woburn, Massachusetts, where Jacob Farrar, her father, died August 14, 1677, and in 1700 John bought his father-in-law's lands. In the division of his father's estate, he kept the homestead on the Common and gave land for a meetinghouse there. He and his brother Jonas signed the petitions from the town to the legislature during Queen Anne's war. He was a fine penman, and was a prominent man in Lancaster. For fourteen years, between 1693 and 1724, he was deputy to the general court, and he was often called Justice Houghton. He was a skilled conveyancer and writer of legal papers. In 1704 he commanded a garrison house on the east side of Nashua river, in Lancaster. For the last twelve years of his life he was blind.

He married (first) January 22, 1671, Mary Farrar, born in England in 1648, died April 7, 1724, daughter of Jacob and Ann Farrar. He married (second) at the age of seventy-five, Hannah Wilder, who was seventy-two years old.

Children, born in Lancaster:
John, December 13, 1672;
Jacob, February 17, 1674;
Henry, February 23, 1675;
Joseph, February 26, 1678;
Benjamin,
Mary, June 18, 1680;
Mercy, 1682;
Anna, May 8, 1684;
Jonathan, February 20, 1685;
Hepsibah;
Rebecca;
Beatrix;
William, 1695.