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     Nathaniel Appleton was born in 1731. He was the son of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton D. D. and Margaret Gibbs.

Nathaniel Appleton was a merchant at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.¹

He married Mary Walker, as his first wife.²

He was a member of the first Committee of Correspondence, and a zealous patriot during the revolutionary struggle. From an early period of the revolution until his death, he held the office of Commissioner of Loans. He corresponded with most of the eminent men of his day, and, with James Swan, distinguished himself in writing against the slave trade, from 1766 to 1773.¹

He married Rachel Henderson, as his second wife.²

He died in 1798 in Boston.

     Nathaniel Appleton was born in 1721.¹ He was the son of Oliver Appleton and Sarah Perkins.¹

He died in 1798.¹

     Nathaniel Appleton was born in 1779.¹ He was the son of John Appleton.¹

He married Elizabeth Ward.¹

He died on 21 December 1818.¹

     Rev. Nathaniel Appleton D. D. was born on 9 December 1693 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of John Appleton and Elizabeth Rogers.

He married Margaret Gibbs. He was graduated in 1712 from Harvard College . In 1717 he was ordained at Cambridge, and continued in the ministry there sixty-six years. He exercised a powerful influence in the church, the college, and also in the state, having been a strenuous whig during the Revolution. For more than sixty years, he was a fellow of Harvard College, and in 1771, received from that institution a diploma of D.D., an honor which it had never conferred except on Increase Mather, eighty years before.¹

The following notice of him, is from Holmes's History of Cambridge:

'Dr. Appleton, if venerable for is age, was more venerable for his piety. His religion, like his whole character, was patriarchal. Born in the last century, and living till nearly the close of this, he brought down with him the habits of 'early times.' In his dress, in his manners, in his conversation, in his ministry, he may be classed with the Puritan ministers of revered memory, who first came to New England. His natural temper was cheerful, but his habitual deportment was grave. Early consecrated to God, and having a fixed predilection for the ministry, he was happily formed, by the union of good sense with deep seriousness, of enlightened zeal with consummate prudence, for the pastoral office.

'He preached the gospel with great plainness of speech, and with primitive simplicity; less concerned to please than to instruct and edify, he studiously accommodated his discourses to the meanest capacity. To this end he frequently borrowed similitudes from familiar, sometimes from vulgar, objects; but his application of them was so pertinent, and his utterance and his air were so soemn, as to suppress levity, and silence criticism.

'So great was the ascendancy which he gained over his people, by his discretion and moderation, by his condescension and benevolence, by his fidelity and piety, that while he lived, they regarded his counsels as oracular, and since his death, they mention not his name but with profound regard and veneration. His praise, not confined to his own society, is in all the churches of New England. In controversial and difficult cases, he was often applied to for advice at Ecclesiastical Councils. Impartial yet pacific, firm yet conciliatory, he was specially qualified for a counsellor, and in that character he materially contributed to the unity, the peace, and order of the churches. With the wisdom of the serpent, he happily united the innocence of the dove. In his religious principles he was, like all his predecessors in the ministry, a Calvinist. Towards persons, however, who were of different principles, he was candid and catholic. Orthodoxy and charity were his motto, and he happily exemplified the union of both, in his ministry and in his life.'

The following is from Eliot's Biographical Dictionary:

"He was as firm a Whig in his political, as he was a Calvinist in his religious, principles. But several of his hearers were on the other side of the question, and had rendered themselves very unpopular in their public stations; they had been among his particular friends, and while they blamed him for his opposition to the government, others who were with him in his politics made severe remarks upon his complaisance to Tories. None, however, could ever accuse him of 'speaking unadvisedly with his lips.'"

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He died on 9 February 1784 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 90.²

     Nathaniel W. Appleton is the son of Nathaniel Walker Appleton and Sarah Greenleaf.¹

He married Sarah Tilden.¹

     Nathaniel Walker Appleton was born in 1755.¹ He was the son of Nathaniel Appleton and Mary Walker. He was graduated from Harvard College.¹

Nathaniel Walker Appleton was a physician at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.¹

He married Sarah Greenleaf.¹

He died in 1795.¹

     Oliver Appleton was born in 1677 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Major Samuel Appleton and Mary Oliver.

He married Sarah Perkins on 17 December 1701 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹

He died on 19 January 1760.¹

     Oliver Appleton was born in 1677 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Major Samuel Appleton and Mary Oliver.

     Oliver Appleton was born in 1712.¹ He was the son of Oliver Appleton and Sarah Perkins.¹

He died in 1787.¹

     Phineas Appleton was born in 1779.¹ He was the son of Rev. Joseph Appleton of North Brookfield and Mary Hook.¹

He died in 1800.¹

     Priscilla Appleton was born in 1657.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. John Appleton and Priscilla Glover.

She married Joseph Capen of Topsfield.¹

     Priscilla Appleton was born in 1697. She was the daughter of John Appleton and Elizabeth Rogers.

     Priscilla Appleton was born on 16 March 1697.¹ She was the daughter of Major Isaac Appleton and Priscilla Baker.¹

She married Thomas Burnham of Ipswich.¹