OBITUARY---Dr. Thomas Kittredge
1818, Oct. 21. Essex Register (Salem):
We have received the afflictive news of the death of the Hon. Thomas Kittredge of Andover, one of the
Councellors of the Mass. Medical Society, and often in the different branches of our Legislature, aged 72.
He was soon distinguished among the members of his family by his great success in Surgical operations,
and in his treatment of such cases of insanity as were committed to him, as well as in the general practice
of physic, in which he was as often consulted as any man in this part of the State. His very agreeable and
mild manners, and his style of life and hospitality, gave every aid to his talents and usefulness; so that as a
citizen, a magistrate, a physician and friend, he had an uncommon share of the public confidence. No
citizen was unable to find the point at which he must discover something to esteem and commend. In a
uniform and pure character, and by his extensive acquaintance, he had acquired a value which few men
have the opportunities to possess from the favorable opinion they can obtain, or from the general belief that
their advice will command all the relief they are to hope from the medical art. The suavity of manners was
never lessened by the flattery he received, and he never was in higher reputation than at the hour of his
death. The nature of his affliction had long given him notice that his malady was at the seat of life, and after
several narrow escapes, without much warning, he left life, when apparently ready for all his usual duties in
it. His death will be felt in Andover, and in the county, and the loss will be that of a friend, a good citizen,
and most useful man.
(The above notice was reprinted in the Salem Gazette of Oct. 23, and in the Independent Chronicle
(Boston) of Oct. 24.)
From the Columbian Centinel, Boston, Oct. 24, 1818:
In Andover, the Hon. Thomas Kittredge, aged 72, the Representative of that town in the General Court,
and one of the Counsellors of the Mass. Medical Society. His fame in successful chirurgical operations, and
treatment of cases of insanity, was extensive and well founded. In political life, he united firmness of principles to great suavity of manners and candour of discussion, and was equally respected for integrity by
political foes and friends.
When Dr. Thomas Kittredge died in 1818, he had made no will, and William Johnson 3rd. was appointed
by the court as administrator, with the consent of the heirs. Their names are all signed to the paper: Date:
Dec. 4th, 1818:
Susan Kittredge
John Kittredge
Martha 0. LeBaron
Lemual LeBaron
Catharine Cummins
D. Cummins
Maria F. Kittredge
Joseph Kittredge
Susannah Kittredge, the widow, signed lower down.
The committee appointed for appraisal was Stephen Barker, Joseph Peters, and John Peters. The
inventory follows:
House with outbuildings, 20 acres.
$1,500.
Tavern house & buildings, 5 acres.
3,000.
Old house, so-called, 6 acres.
850.
Mill house & barn with pasture.
650.
Great piece lot so-called, 8 acres.
550.
Training field piece with the small house
on the same, 41/i acres.
Meadow piece, 7 acres.
Symmes pasture, 32 acres.
Pond pasture, 30 acres.
275.
200.
600.
1,000.
Shattuck piece, 43 acres.
Stevens piece, woodland, 18 acres.
Granger piece, 35 acres.
Austin piece, 2 acres.
Sam’l. Shattuck piece, 9 acres.
Abbot house & Garden Spot.
Two pews in Rev’d. Bailey Loring’s
Meeting house.
$16,028.
4 oxen
8 cows
2 horses
2 chaises
Ox wagon
Ox cart
20 tons hay
Household furniture and wearing apparel.
Bank Stock
State Bank, 35 shares
Union Bank, 13 shares
Haverhill Bank, 3 shares
Union Marine Ins. Co., 10 shares
Notes of hand
Dr. Lemuel LeBaron.
David Cummings Esq.
Peter G. Robbins.
Ezekiel Canton.
Cyrus B. Wilson.
Isaac Farnum.
Ebenezer Dale.
Dudley Folsom.
Benjamin Ames Esq.
Josiah Lamson.
Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Thoman Gage Esq.
Asa Johnson.
Dr. Isaac Tewksbury.
Dr. Moses H. Elliot.
Dr. Ebenezer Dearborn.
Dr. Dean Robinson.
William Vance Esq.
Elijah Long.
Daniel Chickering.
Enoch Canton.
William Rea
Jonathan How
John Farnum
Dr. Joseph H. White.
David Barnard.
Dean Chickering.
1,200.
540.
450.
75.
63.
75.
180.
160.
176
100.
200.
30.
10.
200.
$1500.
$2,100.
1,300.
450.
4,650.
1,850.
900.
510.
290.
200.
130.
200.
235.
250.
200.
200.
50.
90.
100.
200.
100.
200.
100.
141.
195.
126.
55.
26.
165.
95.
155.
230.
There are loans to 103 others mentioned in small amounts. The total estate according to the
inventory amounted to $33,429.35.
Medical students under Dr. Thomas Kittredge:
Aaron Porter
Amos Spafford
John Whittier
Andrew Bowman
Samuel Tenney
Aaron Putnam
Martin Herrick
Benjamin Putnam
Timothy Trumbull
Daniel Fogg
Jacob Kittredge
Aaron Lummas
Ebenezer Hills
Luke Drury
John Fogg
Levi Bartlett
Tapley Wyeth
Nathaniel Bowman
William Abbot
Theodore Symmes
Josiah Bartlett
Enoch Faulkner
Daniel Berry
Benjamin W. Hildreth
Ebenezer Dale
Daniel Wardwell
Dean Robinson
Joseph Kittredge
Moses H. Elliott
Joseph L. Stevens
Nathaniel Swift
John Gale
Joel Wardwell
Benjamin Page
William Sanborn
Nathan Lakeman
Elias Weld
Joshua Symmes
Jeddediah Ingalls
Joseph White
Joseph Chickering
Dudley Folsom
Josiah Bachelder
John Kittredge
John L. Sparhawk
Timothy Waidron
William Ferson
Silas Brown
Ebenezer Poor
Lemual LeBaron
Gideon Barstow
William Gardner
John W. Parsons
Samuel P. Hhldreth
Peter G. Robbins
Moses Gage
Ezra Nichols
Ebenezer Dearborn
John I. Canton
Samuel Johnson
J. Lamson
Jacob Kittredge
William Vance
Isaac Tewksbury
Hon. Daniel J. Perley
Peter T. Gray
Home of Dr. Thomas Kittredge
Of Andover, Massachusetts